FT finally raises its eyes from the sewer rat activities of the European Union!

No less a personage than the editor of the FT himself, Lionel Barker, has actually spent twelve days concentrating on something beyond the closed minds of his newspaper's normal EUcentric coverage and visited West Africa for something longer than a cursory look. Link here!

Following the track once beaten by Margery Perham, he has perhaps glimpsed the opportunities and rich heritage potentially lossed by Britain in its Pearson prodded obsession with the ever corrupt EU and its earlier constructs. About ten years ago I spent many hours contributing to the FT Forums on a wide range of subjects, writing as "NM" while hoping for some policy changes from what was at one time a fine newspaper. Is my ten year wait in hopelessness about to see results?

Who knows, perhaps this weekend it might be worthwhile spending a lot of of your badly depreciated pennies on what has become a shameless pink propaganda sheet for the thoroughly odious EU, perhaps a change of views is potentially in sight?

The menace of the Financial Times - Martin Wolf

As Peter Oborne has lately and very publicly revealed, what this blog has long asserted, the Financial Times shares a large part of the blame for Britain's involvement in the disaster that is the EU.

Martin Wolf, one of the paper's leading columnists, read here, is brilliantly torn to shreds in the Acting Man blog today, in an item titled "Establishment Quacks Call for more money printing" it is linked here, long but tellingly accurate and ruthless!

"Markets rocked"- "Crisis deepens" - FT abandons its EU complacency!

The report is here, filed this evening. Some more telling quotes:

Spain and Italy could be sucked under.

Market developments spinning out of control and risk contagion accelerating

Wow! Does this mean the once respected, Financial Times, which I gave up reading some twenty odd years ago, because it became so misguided, is finally about to admit that the EU is not everything, to all men, for all time?

FT hides Ward's Stockholm report on unanimity on new EFSF loans. Now behind its firewall.

Knowing how determined the Financial Times is to hide whatever it says from those unwilling to pay for its normal pro-EU garbage output, I took the precaution of copying the report that forms the basis of my two postings immediately beneath this.

I have already been proved right so to do, the normal block now appearing when trying to access the link   provided in my post below, appeared within minutes. I did however take the precaution of recording the details of the web page on which it appeared, which are as follows:

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Finns vote amid wave of euro-scepticism

By Andrew Ward in Stockholm
Published: April 17 2011 11:11 | Last updated: April 17 2011 11:11
Finnish voters went to the polls on Sunday in a closely-fought general election expected to result in big gains for a populist party riding a wave of public resentment over bail-outs for Portugal and other crisis-hit eurozone members.

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This gives Finnish lawmakers a de facto veto because each use of bail-out funds requires unanimous EU approval.