My reply to John Redwood today - Playing fields

Martin Cole

Posted August 19, 2012 at 5:54 am | Permalink

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Use Google Earth, check out the shortage of space all across the country, particularly in already congested urban areas.
It is decades long, nearly criminal, immigration policies of recent governments and surely criminal existing unrestricted EU immigration that makes nearly all government policies and politicians’ shibboleths, such as the present furore over playing fields, appear absolutely absurd to the long suffering electorate.

(Update 0810/ the Sunday Telegraph, fittingly has an article on Governement's latest anticipated planning attacks on the Green Belt from here).

My reply to John Redwood today - Westminster's uselessness.

Martin Cole

Posted August 4, 2012 at 7:20 am | Permalink

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I believe that looking to the institutions that have delivered us into the EU, to now remove us, given that THEY have thus gained POWER and WEALTH from complete and non-democratically removable absolute power over 27 once democratic and former independent states, verges well towards the wishful thinking.
Self-congratulation on our nation not having joined the Euro, (one small part of the giant conspiracy whose collapse is now driving us towards economic wipeout, while having no say in the direction of travel – but an almost full share of the consequential heavy costs), is similarly misplaced.
The EU is divided between those with the power, mostly unknown individuals and multinational corporations, hiding behind their placemen in the EU institutions, and those who are paying the bills in the EU Regions which control the much reduced expenditure which is fed back via EU approved projects in the areas we all live, via EU Committees whose members also remain largely unknown and also operate in secret. A real absolute tyranny at work!
The protests presently underway in the origional and historic people’s regions of Spain bear watching, perhaps becoming a blueprint as to how we may remove this horror from our own lives. There in Spain, it is becoming a battle between those who in reality hold the purse strings on the remaining real proceeds of production against the treacherous national elected politicians who have betrayed the trust of their electorates with (the) integrity of their national currencies together with that of their central banks and indeed individual freedom itself.
The post you put up here this morning makes it very clear that we would be mad to expect our own elected MPs to do anything helpful in removing this monstrosity from our lives. Where I do agree with you is that elected UKIP MPs in Westminster would prove equally pathetic in achieving that end, they would merely also have a seat on another gravy train, just as happened with their MEPs.

My comment to John Redwood today on new BBC DG

I must admit to being surprised that my comment to MP John Redwood's post of this morning made it on to his website in its entirety, thanks Mr Redwood! It is in any event repeated below for my own record:

Martin Cole

Posted July 6, 2012 at 8:32 am | Permalink

The question of the long term misinformation on the EU broadcast by the BBC over many years combined with the pro-EU slant of its widely-read website is indeed a major concern.
I praised Stacey Dooley’s programme on Greece a week ago on my own blog, and her report also on BBC Three TV last evening, this time on Ireland, added to my respect for her obviously inquiring mind and refreshing ability to engage with complete strangers, particularly those of her own age group.
Both programmes show that something is still seriously amiss in the BBC Vision management structure which the new DG has up to now led, when any but the slightest passing mention of the EU seems to have been censored from these two programmes, let alone any blame being properly assigned for these present human tragedies now being daily played out in both Greece and Ireland, elsewhere almost entirely ignored by Britain’s licence funded, state propaganda mouthpiece.
I must presume from that Dooley reporting remaining away from the cutting room floor that at some point the responsibility of the EU and the Troika was made clear for the viewers, its absence from the final programmes is worrying proof that the EU propaganda programme which has distinguished the BBC over recent years, is set to continue.
What else could I have expected looking at the man, together with recalling his background and career, who made and announced the appointment, in slug-like slouch and eyes almost completely obscured by the puffiness of many decades of high living? I fear the new DG will prove a creature of Patten, who has become a prime exhibit of the kind of man who has delivered Britain and Europe to its present lamentable state

My comment to John Redwood's "MUST READ" posting today

Martin Cole

Posted June 27, 2012 at 5:32 am | Permalink

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HEAR HEAR!
A hugely important post to be ignored at our peril, especially for the City of London, (see my blog post of yesterday and Pan-European Totalitarianism from 2003 on Samizdata).

My post to Samizdata on Pan-European Totalitarianism from 9th February 2003 is linked here.

My reply to John Redwood - Act on Cameron and the EU today!

Martin Cole

Posted May 18, 2012 at 8:30 am | Permalink

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There is a dilemma that arises from what you have written, particularly as it relates to Britain and its place within the EU. The section I refer to is the following statement:

It was the political class who drove them into the Euro, and the political class who told them it would work just fine. In another sense they are victims of their neighbours. If you vote for the vision of the Euro, you have to live with its many problems and imperfections, and do your bit to help offset them.

We in Britain were spared the Euro but driven in to the EU by our political class, grouped within the three main parties, which with our first past the post electoral system and refusal of meaningful recent referendum, made any alternative an impossibility.

Now even a supposed opponent of our EU membership, in the party supposedly containing most such insightful individuals, gives continued support to a completely EU subjugated executive, even when the fact of a Coalition has finally empowered such small group of rebels to force a re-appraisal at the very moment when the whole EU edifice is clearly collapsing.

What value may we thus place on your written blogged words, you are in Parliament, you have the mandated power, please, please do something, the entire world sees Cameron and Osborne for what they are, they must be neutered!

My reply to John Redwood this morning - Centre-ground parties

Martin Cole

Posted May 9, 2012 at 6:54 am | Permalink

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In Greece this weekend we have witnessed the start of the destruction of a typical two centre-ground party, alternating power system being destroyed by the inevitable result of a misinformed electorate clinging to two opposite and conflicting concepts at the same time. In Greece it is staying in the Euro and ending austerity while in Britain it seems mainly the belief that a mixed economy is feasible.

The real failure in Britain is in our education system, particularly the universities, which have failed to produce an educated, rounded or matured grauduate body. Increasing the number of grauduates as has recently occurred has naturally driven society to this point of collapse.

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand provides reading matter with an opportunity for the speediest therapy!

My reply to John Redwood today - Spanish property prices.

Martin Cole

Posted April 11, 2012 at 6:40 am | Permalink

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Much of the self-delusion in Spain, as in the USA and Britain, has centred around the fiction of a cushioned fall in property values being achievable by government policy.
I linked a March property price report for Spain last evening from my blog. Your readers may find it on the following link:
http://news.kyero.com/2012/04/10/spanish-house-prices-fall-28-6-since-2007/

My reply to John Redwood's post today on Euro exits.

Martin Cole

Posted April 6, 2012 at 6:44 am | Permalink

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I look forward to your follow-up postings. Perhaps you would also consider addressing the intensification of the crisis in the stronger Euro member states, France in light of the upcoming elections, Holland and Finland with their fracturing coalitions and Germany itself with the newly re-empowered Bundestag having a growing say over the disbursement of funds.
Even more importantly perhaps, as a member of the UK Governing Coaltion Government back benches, perhaps you could suggest some policy directions for the aimless UK administration, which acts as though none of these events is any concern of theirs!

John Redwood's Fiscal Treaty speech on Video!

Democracy across Europe is in danger, it has been at risk for some time. What those in charge of the EU are now about is nothing short of tyranny!

My reply to John Redwood 3/12/11

Martin Cole

Posted December 3, 2011 at 3:48 pm | Permalink

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Is what is happening to the euro currency cock-up or cospiracy? Whatever your answer to that question may be, then you will most probably answer the following in the same way – Is what is about to happen in the EU cock-up or cospiracy?

My response to both is that it is a carefully planned cospiracy which is proceeding exactly according to plan and on schedule. Unless some politicians develop some backbone, or something to produce some testosterone pretty damn quick, then freedom, democracy, self-governance and prosperity are all done for.

More debate on the same topic is linked here. Bo Peng "The Dawn of the Franco-German Empire".