RAF Typhoons at risk for nothing!

On 28th February a mere three weeks ago, this blog asked "Where is HMS Ark Royal NOW? You scumbag politicians" as David Cameron announced the case for a Libyan 'No Fly Zone'.

Did the spendthrift numbskulls leading this Coalition Government, Cameron, Clegg, Hague and Fox then pause and re-commission and re-deploy our then one remaining aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal to the Mediterranean, complete with its operational Harrier fighter jets, ideal for enforcement of a 'no fly zone'.  The ship, its planes and their pilots, had only just then been declared as fit for nothing else but the scrap heap? But No! Of course they did not! Such a reversal would have required a public admission of error and a speedy volte face. Something shirts stuffed only with pride could never contemplate! Yet it may well have saved the nation many millions of pounds!

Yesterday on Sky News TV, Dermot Murnaghan, (IMO one of the few intelligent broadcasters nowadays on British TV) asked General Lord Dannet about the HMS Ark Royal and the reply was clear, that even today that decision should be reviewed. Sky News, as usual continuing their own interests in driving British policy decisions, later edited out the references to the Ark Royal, re-playing Dannet's comments in subsequent news bulletins, as if no mention of HMS Ark Royal and its Harriers had ever been made.

Meantime, this same news broadcasting organisation showed three RAF Typhoons taking off from RAF Coningsby, reportedly to bomb Libya, in fact merely for Gioia del Colle airbase in southern Italy. The full sorry story of this plane, once known as the Eurofighter, may be read from here. Put simply, this plane, is an EU project and therefore, like all such expenditures, nothing but an expensive joke and confidence trick perpetrated against the people of Europe.

Putting such a piece of kit (which if the nation is to continue its present National Health Service and Foreign Aid programme, cannot possibly be afforded or justified) is political negligence of the highest order, when the HMS Ark Royal and its Harriers, already written off costwise, could have so easily been equipped and deployed!

Anti-Gadhafi Coalition faces Yemeni sniper crisis!

There seems little doubt that roof top snipers who shot protesters through the head and neck in the Yemen appear to have been operating with some form of official sanction. Press reports are widespread as may be read by clicking on the following publications titles; Telegraph, New York Post, Seattle Times, and a PBS video:



The situation in Bahrain is also one that the UN Security Council also seems in need of addressing if any consistency is to be applied in the growing Middle-East crisis. Another video illustrating this point is here:



A debate on Vermont Public Radio on the difficulties all this presents the West may be heard (or a transcript read) from this link.

Unconscionable Germany, and the obscene waste by Baroness Ashton and the EEAS.

Every individual employed by the EEAS should tender their resignations this weekend. One parliamentary question indicating the blind and reckless spending of that organisation, tabled last December, is linked here.

The Globe and Mail from Canada this morning publishes an article highlighting the farce that a common EU foreign policy is seen as in the saner world, read here.

Last September the UK Civitas organisation published a report calculating that the costs of the EEAS had by then reached 399 million pounds sterling and that the organisation was mainly engaged in 'spin' a euphemism for lies in post-Blair Britain.

Germany is presently holding a two year seat on the UN Security Council, yet in spite of their Foreign Minister promising that "Germany will be a reliable, responsible and engaged partner....We will do our part to ensure that the world continues to see the council as the central body for peace and security in the world." that country abstained in the vote aimed at putting a halt to the murderous Colonel Gadaffi having a free hand from the international community to carry on recklessly slaughtering his own citizens.

Which EU citizens wish to associate themselves with such an abstention, and what values are thus accepted, effectively stating "our neighbours may do as they wish, as long as we are free to tell all in the EU how to run their societies, while we continue getting ever richer, no matter what bestiality occurs beyond our immediate zone of control!"

What value do EU citizens gain from the hundreds of millions now being squandered by the EEAS? Is such arrogant carelessness what our hundreds of millions of pounds is being spent to promote, while our own aircraft carriers and fighter jets are prematurely scrapped?

Worse still, next week the 26 other nations plan to hand control of the economic governance of the EU to this same Germany. In Britain's case in a manner, sneaked before Parliament, in a grotesque mockery of what was once our democracy.

It is not even as if the events in Libya are happening in some far off corner of the world far from the EU. Malta, an EU member lies close by the Libyan coast less than half an hour flight away.

If this is not a defining crisis for the EU, then what else will ever be? The corrupt, mad and useless spending on the worthless and uselss EU must be brought to an end once and for all! Europeans must be free to consult their own  individual consciences in determining who might govern them. In such a manner do national consciences take form, this process cannot occur within the EU.

Cowardly Germany and Gadaffi!

Germany abstained in the UN Security Council vote at the UN last evening. Libya's Gadaffi has declared a ceasefire even before one military flight had been launched to enforce the UN no flight order against his murderous regime. Norway, meanwhile  a non-EU country, had already declared it would contribute to the actions against Gadaffi.

Yet France and Britain are prepared to countenance Germany becoming the effective sole driving force of the EU at a Council meeting next week. For more on that topic, read my first post of today, immediately below.

Britain and France MUST halt any futher moves towards an EU foreign policy or further EU integration. Surely the events of the past 24 hours prove the warnings of this blog over many years to be absolutely correct?

Cameron should pay for Tunisian charter flights to Egypt himself!

Cameron's Libyan policy is a complete joke, as pointed out by FT Com  from this evening.

The PM is pretty well off himself and his wife reportedly more so, therefore if they, as a couple, choose to send planes to the Libyan/Tunisian border to transport people who may never be accepted at the plane's eventual place of arrival, then the costs and risks should be down to them.

After all, if the nation now cannot afford the cost of completing RAF air crews training, how the hell can we pay for fantasy flights around the Saharan desert? The completely bizarre Downing Street announcement is in this link.