Is it just me, or is this uncharacteristically dark and gloomy summer feeling like a rather apt metaphor for the dismal state of our nation? Just this past week alone, we have been subjected to a constant stream of ever more ominous and depressing news than I can recall in several years of life in this increasingly desperate Island.
For example, yesterday, we were treated to this happy picture by Chief European Economist Jonathan Loynes at Capital Economics:
“We have long been more concerned than most other forecasters over the outlook for the UK economy. But three developments in particular have made us even more worried.
“First, the news on the domestic economy has been worse than we anticipated…
“Second, the economy now looks set to receive less support from overseas than we had hoped… third, there is a growing danger that the downturn will be exacerbated by a contraction in bank lending to households and companies.”
Well stone my crows, the man must be a prophet. How does he do it? People usually pay good money for tarot cards this good.
Today we hear from John Hutton (principal architect of the increasingly spectacular New Labour “full spectrum economic fiasco”), that we will just have to live with the high cost of energy because any attempt to “windfall tax” the providers will simply be passed onto consumers in higher prices. Does anyone here even remember the good old days when our energy markets were regulated and prices therefore based on actual supply and demand, rather than the increasingly obscene profits of a few greedy financial speculators?
(Un)naturally, as always, the free market is as the free market does, and since we have created a politically sacrosanct system based on the notion of the survival of the fittest, we will now witness the consequences of these choices in the impoverishment and even death of our most vulnerable members of society this coming winter. But don’t worry, this “painful adjustment” is all part of the happy upward progress of the economy as the “stimulus of higher prices” translates into political action to increase supplies at an affordable rate. Us stout and hardy Brits will just have to take it with a stiff upper lip and a slightly bent posture, as always…
Well forgive my cynicism, but didn’t we already know we would be facing massive energy shortages over ten years ago and still nothing was done about it? And don’t “unforseen shortages” happily (for some) equate to massive profit gouging? And don’t the corporate energy lobbies play a major role in setting the relevant policy, along with their monolithic debt harvester banker chums and their allies in the raving mass of peat bog scientific luddites who insist that windmills and compost are the way of the future?
But all of this pales rapidly into insignificance when one takes a good look at the out-of-control clown show that is running our foreign policy. Spotty Marxist Miliband, permanently vacillating between an expression best described as shitting razorblades and the “swot at the back of the class who got promoted to prefect by snitching on all his classmates,” seems to have taken it upon himself (on behalf of millions of British people who have no idea where he and his particular brand of smarmy, self satisfied arrogance came from in the first place) to stick his grubby little fingers in the eye of a nuclear armed superpower, for daring to have the gall, the bald faced, outrageous temerity, to defend their citizens from mass genocide.
Excuse me, did I just wake up several miles above the earth, twisting and spinning in Dorothy’s nightmare, or has Alice’s mad hatter just run out of tea?
In truth, while madness and chaos envelops us all with the growing force of a hurricane, the ruling classes only seem to revel in the destruction and mayhem around them, the suffering and devastation that their decisions and policies are causing for decent, ordinary people. Make no mistake: we are witnessing the greatest phase change in economic and political affairs in living memory, as democracy and the rule of law are abrogated in favour of the outright tyranny of the privileged few.
Something can, and must be done about this. There is simply no further room for discussion or negotiation with deluded, megalomaniacal warmongers, intent on bankrupting our nation and thrusting us into perhaps the final, nuclear and biological hell of WW3. They must be confronted and humiliated at every possible opportunity and in every place throughout this nation. The time for talk is now over, the time for action here with a vengeance.
Over the coming weeks, the team at the UK Column will begin an organizing drive to marshal our forces for the political fight that we can and must now engage in with each and all of our elected, and non elected political figures.
No quarter will be asked or given in this war since civilisation and our very lives hang in the balance.
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Sigh,
I always liked the U.K. Even when I realized they too were more than happy to go along with lies bred in Washington. Enough so to slaughter over a million humans with Girly-man Bush.
Oddly, I have posted my typing fingers SORE suggesting this land-o-lemmings NATIONALIZE ENERGY and COMMUNICATIONS to halt the rape of nations by private oil and the silence and lies of Zionist media. It’s almost as though the suggestion was invisible, so deep the ignorance is in this country. So, although it’ll fall upon deaf ears in your country too, I’ll make the suggestion anyway….NATIONALIZE IT!!
Good day CIA,FBI,MI5,and 6.I hope you are having
a nice day? Why dont you join forces with us or
do your MASTERS PAY YOU TO MUCH MONEY?or is it
that you have all been brainwashed,or do you not
care that your Governments are commiting treason
and are so currupt that you turn a blind eye to
it all? When in fact you are suposed to protect
your own PEOPLE TO WITCH YOU BELONG.
THESE ARE THE REAL DARK SKIES–THE ONES OF DISUNITY—–
Seems a some people disagree with what I post in that I call for unity in organising and form a brand new concept political party. I get the impression that some people simply want to “freed†under common law (which in my opinion they know the least about) and carry on life as “hippies†with no thought for an on going infrastructure that will support social service for the elderly, sick and needed, no schools, roads, trains bridges etc, which I think they believe will all maintain themselves.
Unless the people of Britain can organise en-mass, to oppose the current obvious constitutional abuses, and the dread of Common Law, and even the EU (if you don’t want to be in it), the government will continue to walk all over you as it did in the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon.
Sure we have one or two voice crying in the wilderness, and few seminars here and there, but seriously do you think the government will take that as a serious threat to their policies?–-Like hell they will–-there have been minority objectors as long as there have been governments.
And don’t think for one moment that you will bring about change through showing how naughty government has been in not applying constitutional law as they should have, give them a smack on the wrist and hope all will be well tomorrow––- as it bloody well wont be. They have abused constitutional law because it suits them to do so and they now they are not accountable.––When John Harries took his affidavits to the House of Lords, as is his constitutional right to do so, they literally laughed at him as they showed him the door that the contempt the power based in this country has for the people of the nation!
Anyhow over on the “T†shirt peddling Public Defender site http://tpuc.org/node/294#comment-800
Darren who posts here took offensive probably over my crass “T†shirt comments and here is my reply thereto. Please have a look and please people remember I have my views and my way to deal with the grave economic, social and moral problems we all face. I believe my views are well thought out and structured for a brand new society. One based of love respect and integrity for all. If enough of you don’t like what I say, simply say so, I can assure you all my garden, prize cabbages and chickens need me! Good luck one and all.
My Reply to Darren.
Great at last a bit of fire from the ranks. I welcome the opportunity to set you right.
So lets get this straight from now. I don’t need friends or influence, but I must be doing something right judging by the emails of thanks and support I get!
Darren, you obviously know little of me, and still have a long way to run to get to maturity, as if you did you would know what a complete clown you just made of yourself in stating. “Just do it, don’t talk it to death.†I do it every day without fail, each day I breath I attack the establish in some form or other and do so in my own name one my own with none holding my hand. And I make progress!
Which I why I can honestly post here––- “Me I am just fed up with all this mindless talk and diversion into selling crass “T†shirts! Is this is what the Public Defenders have come to?â€
I don’t need anyone! You lot do. I certainly don’t need a Brand new Political Party–You do. But like most here your heads are in clouds if you think Party Politics is dead. Party politics will survive as long as mankind does and as long as there are two people left standing.
Show solidary with “T†shirts is cheap common and crass and will be just another joke like the Big Dick “T†shirts if you claim its effective then I can understand why.
I don’t expect anyone to follow me, in fact I would walk away from that idea as John Harris knows. But there are people here who expect others to follow them, and to date little of significance is happening!
Nor will it while you mistakenly think that people simply freeing themselves under Common Law and promoting lawful non-cooperation is the answer to this country’s ill––-as all you are promoting is the hippy philosophy that will dictate than the majority who free themselves ( which is not viable in any event) end up living in Hippy styled communes and that a fact!
God your dead right about one thing Darren why you say–– I hope other new comers like me do not make the mistake of thinking you represent TPUC or the UK Column in any way whatsoever.
Because I don’t I just use my common sense and free will to post as I see it.
Now I will go one further with you and anyone else here with their heads in the clouds.
Lets us assume that all good and true blue British people, that’s around 60,776,238 free themselves, as you say, and live under Common Law (I don’t think you can even tell me what that means), please indicate your structured model of what your new society would be like, and how it would support itself economically?
And how it would fair with its international trading partners who might even apply sanctions for what they would see as your treasons action against a sovereign nation.
For like it or lump it, Britain now is clearly a sovereign nation and will remain so as John Harris found out when he went to the LORDS as without the unity of the people you are just pie in the sky.
But I will give you opportunity to give your version of life under Common Law–-its about time your flaws were revealed–– AS YOU JUST TALK AROUND IN CIRCLES.
I REALLY THINK THAT MOST HERE NEED TO STOP DREAMING AND GET REAL.
This is what I have been looking for from the beginning.
There is a very simple answer to this problem, and that is for every working Taxpayer to change the way they agree to work and be paid. There is nothing to stop employers becoming a Holding Company with the business and the staff being registered offshore and that includes the financial arrangements as well.
I have spoken to one or two members of the Norfolk County Council about this, also the South Norfolk District Council. You couldn’t just abandon Taxation. Public Services will still have to be paid for. But I propose that the Taxpayer takes complete control of a new system of Taxation. It needs to be set up like this because of legal requirements. And it is my intention that the whole system should be on a County by County basis.
I see no reason why counties can’t work togethe on providing some services, but the NHS must be reduced to 43 seperate services. That way the enormous wasteage and costs can be dealt with.
Enough for now. Kind Regards, ATFlynn, “Norfolk’s Mutineer”
David you have a good handle on the details of history and have, indeed, opened my eyes as to the historical relationships that existed and still do exist between Britain, Canada and the USA. While I may agree there have been high points and low points between our governments, I do not think such tension presently exists between the average ordinary American man on the street and our counterpart in Britain. We share much more than a common language.
Yes we were late to enter WWII…but we did. Had we not, that maniac Hitler would have driven his forces into England in one way or another as he did to Norway in the north. I think many countries have the British to be thankful for you brought a higher standard of living and culture to every colony. What is more, Britain brought us the Industrial Revolution but at the same time a movement from the farm into the city. These motions were soundly condemned and your own well known writers Chesterton, Belloc and McNabb who called for a return to the land and sanity. Despite all that, you did bring us substantial improvements in the quality of life.
As for no one knowing where London was located, it seems you unknowingly encountered the standard deviation those of us living in the USA the entirety of our lives have long known. The south is tremendously uneducated in the USA. Ask the very same question in the north and you would get a sound stare of disdain for questioning someone’s basic intelligence.
We do know your concerns for the world government you alledge. To ignore such obvious and mounting evidence is tantamount to malignant ignorance. Yes the very real fear of nations losing their sovereignty is, albeit, a given. One need only investigate the Bilderbergers, Freemasonry, and Zionist goals to realize we march steadfastly forth to a one world religion and government. I do not think anyone could ignore the systematic approach of intelligence gathering all under the pretext of terrorism in every country. If one were to believe my own contacts within the UN and Vatican…you would not doubt this character who calls himself “Lord Maitreya” is the one orchestrating this entire race to world governance.
As for your admonitions to death and destruction, it will be a whole lot worse than you fear. Civil Wars in France and England, global flooding that manifests itself particularly through out Europe and specifically in England…but that topic is far from our initial point and of little consequence to our original premise. You would have to honor the likes of the Virgin Mary and St. Hildegaard to request those be further elucidated. Even now the Large Bomb to be dropped in Persia (modern day Iran) bodes fiercely poor…..St. Bernadette at Lourdes).
But back to the original point….maybe there were trysts with native enemies and incursions into each other’s territories and maybe even the boarding of each other’s ships…but those are things of the past….and…I do not think you will find any American who presently harbors any ill will to the Brits and their colonies. Even the most crass, most deviant and uneducated of us do appreciate what you have done for the world. I STILL contend we wouid ever come to your aid and welcome you to ours. Please, however, do not judge the average American by the government we elect. Who can ever predict what schizophrenic politicians will do despite their campaign promises.
We need you Brits and Canadians as much as air. I am so real about this…I am about to marry a beautiful English Rose…and that is another thing we like about you Brits…. your women are beautiful!…and we like their accents!!
Right again…I am probably too romantic and a Brtitish woman noticed.
Jesse jr.
Finally,good people taking a stand against oppresion.If we foolish americans would follow,maybe there would be a chance for mankind
Good morning Jesse Jr.
First off good luck with you impending marriage.
I regret to inform you, and do so with a heavy heart that today’s Britain is not the one you seem to think it is.
You would be horrified to see some of our zones, they are indeed part of the third world.
Every zone has to have its sewage works and for London ours is the Palace of Westminster. It really is quite surprising how quickly a nation can degenerate when the people let the idiots run riots.
I trust web sites like these can eventually bring back a noble sense of pride decency, and common sense to the people and be able to herald a positive change for the better.
I fear the people both sides of the Atlantic, as there is still to much crap in the world! We have Charles and you have Sarah Palin, which screams to me so much for fine traditional Republican Christian values ————–YOUR SIDE, AND SO MUCH FOR CHRISTIAN VALUES OUR SIDE OF THE POND.
As you guys say–-have a great day!
Hi everyone these are really encouraging comments.
I would like to thank Jesse Jnr for your comment on our two great nations being friends. I have to tell you over 10 years ago I said I would rather Britain became the 51st state of america than a region of the E.U.
The E.U. have been determined to destroy Britain ever since it was first set up, and they have been so sly and covert with their instigation that the people are only just waking up.BUT THEY ARE WAKING UP.
Keep reading our site please and making suggestions, we have to fight together and pray together if we are going to defeat the evil sweeping the world.
The Illumimati and the Bilderburgers are driving this evil and we have to expose them all for the satanists they are.
God bless Britain, America, Australia, Canada, New zealand and every country who believes in FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.
No Carol you are so very wroung!
Its not the EU that is destroying Britain—its us, yes us—we the people!
It was we the people who had the fighting spirit to replel the Nazis and it was only we the people that stoof alone in our darkest hour.
Those brave men, boys, and womens who fought so hard many dying, giving up their greatest scarifice in order to preserve our great cultural hertitage and freedom, would turn in their graves to see the weak meally minded crass bunch that we have become today.
Stop looking for excuses and get of your butts, all of you and do something to save yourselves—we are all in a democracy and people power is still the most powerful weapon of all time.
Sure big bad Europe will get you—BUT ONLY IF YOU LET IT!.
Sorry David but I don’t think you are correct, with respect—- We all live in a CORRUTED, DEBASED and DUMBED DOWN “democracy” and it is not the all powerful weapon as you might like to suppose. We would not have the need for Websites such as this one if that was the case. It looks to me as if big bad Europe has already got us…if we had this all powerful democracy….it would never have got this far.
David we have gotten off our butts and produced the UK. COLUMN, and Brian goes all over the country giving the facts to groups of people, each time waking up more and more of the public. The paper now goes all over the country and even to America, Australia, Canada, Germany, Jersey, North and South Ireland, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, and even the Hebrides, each paper wakes up more people. What have you done?
What should be made clear is that whilst many countries are demanding their independence, e.g. from Russia (once the USSR), the cou ntries of Europe AND BEYOND, are being encouraged, nay forced, into the totalitarian monolithic state called the European Union.
All 3 main parties refuse to come out of the EU – so we only have UKIP and the BNP – take your pick !!
Hello to all at UK column. I have been following keenly the compelling Odessy of Brian Gerrish highlighting common purpose. The long march through the institutions has indeed become a quickstep. I fear cp will go public before long possibly after next years euro elections. The cultural marxists and their critical theory have infiltrated much of our institutions if not all of them by now. How to stop them? Is it true cp are calling the shots at ukip?
True enough Carol, the ball has started to roll, but this is not the time to rest upon our laurels as, as admirable as Brian’s work is to date it is still a ripple upon the waters.
Nor is this the place for an I did. you did, he did, what did you do discord.
This is a time for building bridges.
Browse through my posts and you will find I have been at this struggle and in a lonely fight, long before we had the internet.
I know the paper goes far and wide, however the problems we need to initially address are those within our own shores as Britain holds the keys to many a closed door.
I keep up a constant attack, within what we call the labour party on the deficiencies of Daisy Brown, as I think the man is a danger to all.
Who knows the impact but there are signs of a desperate man fumbling along in the dark———
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Gordon sought to stamp his authority on an increasingly fractious ruling party on Saturday when he sacked another top Labour member for saying he should face a leadership challenge.
It was the second dismissal for disloyalty in two days, as party dissidents piled more pressure on a premier struggling to stave off economic recession and lift his party’s weak poll ratings.
Joan Ryan, a Labour MP and vice chairwoman of the party, had said Brown’s future as leader was being discussed privately at all levels of the party and it was time for a leadership election. Brown swiftly sacked Ryan from her party position and also fired her as his special representative to Cyprus
So you see Carol a few of us may indeed have gotten off our butts, but there are still the majority in the UK who will disastrously vote Labour, Conservative or Lib Dem in the next election, and that means further misery all round.
A general comment with regard to UKIP and the BNP.
I would suggest that for those who think UKIP is good party to support, that they should read the article about UKIP on page 3 of the June 2007 edition of the UK Column, which can be read on this website.
With regard the BNP I think they can be described as being similar to UKIP i.e. a bit of a Honey Trap, for like minded thinkers, but it’s leaders appear to do nothing much. That is not to say that some of its member, are not genuine people. Also they seem to have far to much hate for Muslim in there veins for any confort. Don’t read that, as my support for immigration, because I do feel we have a major problem in that respect. There is also a serious “conspiracy theory” which suggests that Griffin is actually a MI5 plant. Yes, that may seem OTT to some, BUT never totally dismiss that possibility.
@david.grothier
So, who are we to vote for then? I don’t think it will make much difference who anyone votes for but please, enlighten me.
Well Tom what do I say, if you read what I posted, I have said often enough that its time to empty Westminster and try the lot there for treason and start again but on a much higher level of intellectual political thought.
I have not voted for over 30 years, such has been my disgust over UK politics. Now we need to clear out all the current political parties as they all have a touch of the same brush about them-
I am currently trying to get to grips with Adam Ferguson’s great works, Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) and Principles of Moral and Political Science (1792), as I am ever searching for an understanding of human nature. Ferguson surely contributed to the “ Golden Age of Enlightenment” and there is no doubt that such enlightenment positively contributed to both the American and French Revolutions.
I wonder if we shall ever find such an enlightenment–then we would all be free–-would we not?
We share some similar thoughts but my feet on the ground tell me these things shall not come to pass, i try and do my bit when i get the chance but it all feels like too little too late.
The gravy train is speeding full on and unless we manage to derail it we will all be sharing a darker future i feel.
Common Purpose is alive and kicking in Gwynedd, their influence was in Deudraeth cyf, [the digital vale]. Members on the objective one team within the council were also on the board of Deudraeth cyf, a local regeneration ‘enterprise’. Said objective one team decided Deudraeth cyf needed all the regional development fund, to the detriment of the rest of Gwynedd, they managed to divert the whole rdf for a fair few years and now they are trying to sell it off as a private concern! sounds like CP in full effect to me.
P.S. I only just came across this place.
Tom what you do you must do. I long decided that most Brits were idiots in putting up with what thy do, and therefore best left to their own devices.
I seek to align with none, not friend nor foe neither political parties.
In taking my own council I am supreme and secure in the thought that in my world, none of which you Brits endure to today would ever be tolerated.
Having taken up Peter’s suggestion and read page 3 of the June edition of The Column,
I have a funny feeling that the author is not really anti-EU. At least Nigel Farage APPEARS to want withdrawal from the EU, which is more than be said for Labour, Tory and the Lib=-Dem crowds.
It’s easy to throw stones and if UKIP is the only party to advocate leaving the monstrous EU, then there is really no alternative.
Instead of rubbishing the party, anti-EU activists should JOIN the party and seek to reform it from within. That is the ONLY way to go. Abuse and crticism of UKIP can only destroy the only hope of us leaving the EU.
Commonsense should really prevail, not sniping and carving up the only party we have to give us the last chance of withdrawal !
Tom, you are in danger of losing the plot here, we are in the EU simply because in 1975 the UK embraced Europe in referendum in which just over 67% of voters supported the Labour government’s campaign to stay in the EEC, this was a large majority in the country’s first nationwide referendum.
Now it appears that the UK Independence Party (UKIP), has launched its “let the people decide” campaign. They claim that if such a referendum were arranged today Britons would vote to leave the EU. In my opinion this is possible without losing the majority of our trading interest with the EU as Greenland went from being a full member of the EU as part of the Danish commonwealth to becoming a part of the Overseas Lands and Territories (OLT) grouping in 1985. Greenland’s withdrawal meant no more EU access to Greenland’s immense fishing territories but that it still retains favourable EU trading conditions.
What surprises me, and I still get surprises by the indolence of most people, is that even though the European Union has grown over the past 30 years and has widened and deepened to the point that no one could ever have expected at the time of the previous referendum in 1975 the British voters who obviously deserve a chance to reject or accept the continued Membership of the EU have not been allowed the opportunity to voice and opinion, despite Daisy Brown’s General Election Manifesto, in 2005 that, “We will put it to the British people in a referendum.” Could this be the same person who opened the back door to signing the Treaty of Lisbon?
The very same Daisy Brown who should have been publicly targeted by the UKIP, under its, “let the people decide” campaign. But as usually the signing away of our ancient rights passed us all bye like a damp squib in the night and New Labour were able to deceive us one more time. This should have been a golden opportunity for the UKIP, but merely demonstrated the extent of their commitment. As for the protestations of a fouled mouth, ever internally squabbling BNP, I ponder if they even knew to this day what Daisy did to the country while Griffin could have been on another champers street binge!
Just to rub it in a little but more how you were all caught with your pants down by Daisy Brown. “If we needed a referendum we would have one. But I think most people recognise that there is not a fundamental change taking place as a result of this amended treaty.” — Gordon Brown, The UK Prime Minister, interviewed by the BBC, 24th September 2007
However I believe that we all need to stand form on this issue as EU leaders are terrified that the new treaty would be rejected by many EU states if they allowed their electorates a say, and that is why they are opposed to holding referendums and listening to the voice of the people. French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, said in Strasbourg on 14 November, “France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting no. It would happen in all member states if they had a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments.”
That sums it up precisely. EU leaders have met in secret like conspirators. They have not issued completed texts of the final documents for the public to see and consider, even though this transfer of sovereignty is of fundamental importance to every European. They know that Europeans will not accept something that has not been properly presented to them, and yet they are determined to go against the known wishes of the people of Europe.
What we are all faced with is the medieval practice of European legislation being decided behind closed doors, by the Council of Ministers, which are the EU’s supreme law-making body, and now which decides two thirds of all Britain’s laws Please people be aware that this is the only legislature outside the Communist dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba to pass laws in secret. WHY WHAT EXACTLY IS THE SINISTER PLOT THEY ARE HATCHING FOR US ALL TO SUFFER.
On 13 December 2007 all 27 EU leaders signed what was described as The Treaty of Lisbon. On 17 December the final text was published with the title, “Treaty of Lisbon amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community.”
Could they have been more unhelpful? Of course, this is not the final change of name in this series. The Treaty of Lisbon itself changes the name of the Treaty Establishing the European Community to “Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union”.
Never lose sight that if ratified, the Treaty of Lisbon will become the decisive act in this creation of a federal European superstate with its capital in Brussels. We in Britain would become a province and our great, “Mother of Parliaments,” a regional assembly. And that’s humiliation for us British the final straw to break the back of this once proud nation. that gave the world English, the Magna Carta and our sacred Common Law, not forgetting standing alone and saving Western civilization in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
The admirable work of Brian Garrish, John Harries and Albert Burgess will simply be a puff of smoke, and we cannot allow that to happen and these men are our backbone!
Yet we still have time and we can make a difference by forcing parliament into amending the 1972 European Communities Act, the law under which Britain entered the community and its as simple as that! No more ifs and buts and huffing and puffing…just do it!
Before I finish ranting and rambling on, please let me give you an idea of how you have all sat back smuggling and been conned, openly and deliberately conned by your very own elected representatives whom you never even bothered to take to task!
Some quotes:
“There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears, I need hardly say, are completely unjustified.”–––––Prime Minister Edward Heath, television broadcast on Britain’s entry into the Common Market, January 1973
This country quite voluntarily surrendered the once seemingly immortal concept of the sovereignty of parliament and legislative freedom by membership of the European Union … as a once sovereign power, we have said we want to be bound by Community law.––––Judge Bruce Morgan, judgement in Sunderland metrication case April 9, 2001
The moment when our political leaders first took this fateful decision to conceal the real purpose of the European project from the British people was not, in fact, 1970 but ten years earlier when, in 1960, Harold Macmillan’s Government began discussing the dramatic reversal of national policy which was to lead to our first abortive application to join the Common Market.
This we can see from an illuminating book published in 1995 by Lionel Bell, The Throw That Failed, based on studying the Cabinet papers which reflected those discussions in the months leading up to our application in the summer of 1961. What was striking about the documents Bell uncovered was just how frank Macmillan and his colleagues had been in private, even at that early stage, over where the Common Market was heading. They were in little doubt it was intended to be just a first step towards eventual political and economic union. Yet this, they decided, should be kept hidden from the British people, because otherwise it would not be acceptable. The Common Market had to be presented as no more than a trading arrangement.
Even before the Treaty of Rome had been signed in 1957, the Foreign Office had been briefed to the effect that its six original signatories wanted:
“to achieve tighter European integration through the creation of European institutions with supranational powers, beginning in the economic field … the underlying motive of the Six is, however, essentially political”
The EU was never designed to be anything else other than just one of the building blocks for a World Government .
Again seeing as there are more of us than them–it has to be a question of ONLY IF WE LET THEM!
Tom almost all of the group that started the U.K.Column were memebers of UKIP>
I was the vice chair of the Plymouth branch. I spoke to Roger Knapman, and Nigel Farage personally and asked them to use the money that was paying for their ridiculous quarterly magazine, which only goes to the members (who are already converted) to produce a newspaper which we could distribute to the general public, with the truth of everything that the E.U. were doing. Their reply “You can’t do that.the truth would frighten everyone to death”
UKIP can no more be changed from inside than the E.U. can.
Incidentally, did you know that in one of his speaches Farage actually said “WE HAVE TO TRY TO CHANGE THE E.U. FROM INSIDE” Which is exactly what the Tories say.
The members of UKIP are brilliant, but the only time you hear anything from the leadership is when there is an election pending.
What we need is to do away with the party system and elect independants who want to do what they are paid for, namely what the British people elect them to do.
OF CAUSE WE ARE GOING TO LET THEM…The Sheeple in this country don’t even know what is going on. The problem is telling them and then making them believe that this is really the intention. In effect … there is MORE of them than US, because US is a very small, the majority are completely in the dark.
Read what I say Peter, my position has never altered from getting the message out to the people.
Most if these issues, in any event are way above the average Joe Public and are so for a variety of reasons which are not important for this discussion but it is certainly in the government’s interest to keep people in ignorance.
What is though is that the public simply do not understand what is going on. Fortunately we have people like Brian Garrish and Albert Burgess devoting their time to try and arrest that situation.
We have little chance of changing Europe from the INSIDE, as the clout of the EU is within Europe and we Brits have so typically chosen a sort of half in half out stance of Europe in keeping the pound etc, and are not trusted by many EU Member States. The only hope we have is to amend the 1972 European Communities Act which Parliament can do at any time it wishes to do.
However both the EU and its agent provocateur Common Purpose, are doing a fine job of brainwashing many young people who know nothing of the EU evolution and only see its benefits through many purposely designed EU youth programs and job opportunities.
Time is running out people as any action we start in Britain may well meet with oppositions from within Britain–such is the power of the 1984 syndrome.
As for political parties the thing they are all sacred about is the plain honest and simple truth–they love deception all of then and that is why we should consider abandoning all political parties of the low standard types that we have become accustomed to.
I understand, and perhaps even accept, that things could be better at UKIP. But, frankly, what is the alternative? It is no use whatsoever, rejecting UKIP and even abusing them etc. UNLESS you have something to replace them which is better.
After all, if you have a dodgy arm or leg, you don’t cut them off – you repair them !
If you are saying that UKIP is beyond repair then please suggest a strong and viable alternative. Otherwise you join the pessimists!
Positive thinking and action is the only way out I’m afraid but the problem is HOW, WHEN and WHO WILL LEAD ? Big questions – very little answers.
David, I thought I did read what you say!…but I agree 100% with the remainder of you comments.
Tom…we have much more than a dodgy arm or leg in this country..we have a a full blown Malignant Cancer.. and like all Cancers nobody seems certain how to deal with it.
At the moment I do not see a viable alternative…which is why I don’t vote, or at least I should say I spoil my Ballet paper by writing accross it: Non of These.
It is why I contribute to the UK Column and read this website, hopeing to find advice and inspiration.
As a side note, I also do not buy any of the main newspapers as they are all part of the cancer..I wish more people would follow me doing that.
Tom:
It’s my personal view that UKIP is beyond repair, and should be amputated.
The strong and viable alternative is to organise people to act, not talk. That won’t be done within a party such as UKIP, but at a local level by distributing papers such as the UK Column. Or write your own leaflets and have them distributed. Or organise a public local event and pass on your knowledge.
Its a mistake, I believe, the expect any kind of national leadership in these times. There aren’t many qualified to do that, and those that are, wouldn’t want to.
So the key action for us all, is to shine a great big light on the activities of the corrupt, and give as many people as possible the chance to hold the torch and recognise what they are seeing. We need to build a mass effect – not a political party.
Remember, we are a society – a society of individuals. Until we are willing to act individually, rather than waiting for some great leadership event to come from on high, we have no hope of getting through the next few years.
These times, by the way, are not sad or depressing. They are dangerous, yes. But the fact is that the system is collapsing faster than totalitarianism can be implemented. That’s the perfect time for action, and the greatest opportunity if we are willing to act in generally the same direction.
Going to UKIP meetings is not action. Getting out there, passing on what we know, encouraging others to do the same, is.
Hi Ed you are of course right, but please why stop there for my money the whole sordid bunch of parties that we have to day should be as you rightly say–-amputated.
You are also right when you state that––- “The strong and viable alternative is to organise people to act, not talk.” And believe me I am all for acting as the talk has run out of both steam and ears.
However when we start organising people we are in danger of creating the very same monster that we seek to destroy–that is of course, if we are not careful. Brits being Brits, we love our groups, clubs and political parties, and the next thing you know our love of committees will come into play.
Not only that, with deep reverence to GOD all men may well be equal in His eyes, but when HE is not looking clearly we are not. There are leaders and followers by choice or disposition. There are men of Stature and our diminutive cousins, there are those who feel a sense of superiority and those inferiority. There are men of GOD and men who kill in GOD’s name–the inequalities amongst us mere mortals in endless.
I believe that what we all need to do is to get our heads together and come up with a cast iron constitution for all time. A constitution based upon all the best concepts for decent, moral civilised living ever. One that once written will be our true code for living on this planet with integrity and honour, nobly amongst our fellow men.
Once agreed upon our new constitution would be as enduring as the Bible has been over the past 2000 years and consequently any violations thereof, which could put us back to where we are today, would been seem as a capital offence.
All people living in harmony under an unbreakable code of constitutional rights written down and preserved forever.
With dedicate work and much effort we could all accomplish such a wondrous document which would ensure our continued economic, social and moral existence on perpetuity, with one and all retaining their personal sovereign rights untacked dedicate to a oath of allegiance to a well thought out inaugurated constitution that preserves everyone’s rights for ever, much like the Magna Carta was supposed to do, only this time we are a much more enlightened proletariate.
We would be a society of equals with those elected to carry out the necessary administrative functions being seem as principle equals elected for one year only.
Food for thought I think, as, as you rightly state ED, “These times, by the way, are not sad or depressing. They are dangerous.” And this can clearly be seen by the desperation swing to the BNP, fortunately only on a local lever, as we may as well plug the plug should the BNP ever get an MP!
I should like to interject a few remarks here as I believe that contrary to the opinions of some, many politicians are in fact decent people, but simply either unqualified for the offices they hold, or more often than not just “going along to get along”.
The crisis we are now confronted with will indeed “sort the men out from the boys”, and draw some very clear lines as to on which side our elected officials sit. We MUST now take it upon ourselves now to FORCE each and every one of them to go public on the issues on which our website and newspaper are making absolutely crystal clear.
Either they are FOR doing nothing about the police state and the economic crisis, or they are AGAINST it. Simple and inescapable.
We must hold their feet to the fire and make sure they know that they will be exposed and held accountable in the court of public opinion for failure to take effective action to defend this nation and its people from tyranny.
Absolutely right on JM.
THERE ARE MANY TIMES I HAVE CUT OFF MY NOSE TO SPITE MY FACE AS THEY SAY IN DOING WHAT I THOUGHT WAS RIGHT. IF FOR EXAMPLE I WAS AN MP I could never live with myself to see the state of our nation today and the backhanded way we signed into Europe—I would have had have confronted Daisy Brown directly.––
That may help some here to understand where I am coming from
The Editor is obviously anti-UKIP, for whatever reason ”
We must realise that “there is strength in numbers” The State knows that individuals are weak, why do you think they are busy destroying marriage, increasing benefits. encouraging immigration and building social housing ? I will tell you,’cos that makes more people depend on the state, hence the vast increase in the civil service staff.
When every individual has an identity card and/or a microchip implanted then the game is up and no one, but no one, will be able to protest or else………..
Tom:
The “editor” is Mike Robinson, by the way.
I do have a low opinion of UKIP at this point in time – for one reason alone … any time I speak to a UKIP MEP, I get much agreement about the state of the world, and then no action. I’m told that there’s really nothing can be done to stop the great EU machine. I don’t believe that, and I get the feeling I am being encouraged into inactivity.
I’m sure there are good people within UKIP. I’m very concerned that they are being hamstrung by the same attitudes I have experienced.
“When every individual has an identity card and/or a microchip implanted then the game is up and no one, but no one, will be able to protest or else………..”
Not so. It’ll just be harder. That’s why we need to act. Now.
Mike,
You MAY be right that more “action” is required from UKIP.
Firstly, the media is almost impenetrable, as I have found out !
Most of the media is pro-EU anyway.
MEP’s, especially UKIP MEP’s, are not magicians and perhaps you gained the wrong impression from your discussions with them. What about a face-to-face with Nigel Farage and publish the results ?
UKIP could do with you on their side, bearing in mind they share your views on the EU.
On YOUR part, shouldn’t you be promoting books such as the latest from Dan Brown “The End of the English” /
The above seem to be positiive suggestions , which is all I am saying is essential.
For my part I have an open mind about UKIP and will work with them if they are willing to listen to us and change their policies and tactics accordingly.
Certainly, we are not enemies, however we harbour deep concerns about the lack of real action coming from that party. Their excuse seems to be lack of resources, but that just seems like a way to avoid getting their hands dirty to me.
I have decided to join UKIP as a personal mission to see what, if anything, can be done from the inside. This may well be a waste of my time and effort, but the more people we have on the inside, the better anyway…
Th really first positive action to-date, being taken by John Morton ! Congratulations.
Publish your ongoing views and let us have full debate on the anti-EU parties, organisations etc. to bring EVERYTHING out into the open.
Let’s see what YOU can achieve inside UKIP.
At least it’s a step forward and not just hurling stones !
Good morning all.
You know we are so lucky to have so many talented dedicated people here and in general we all share the same objectives, at least long term objectives which will undoubtedly benefit all of mankind.
However I have to come back to the basic fact in all military strategies that no fight can be fought, let alone won if there is no secure base to operate from.
Our base in Britain and for me at this stage my fight is for Britain, and I can help defeat the enemies, both internal and external, of Britain, but there is nowt I can do about Pearl Harbour etc.
If former EU President Barroso and his cronies have their way the Treaty of Lisbon will be ratified and entered into EU no matter what the Irish have democratically voted for, then it will all be too late as Britain will be just another administrative district of the EU.
THIS MORNING FOUND FIVE MORE EMAILS IN MY IN BOX FROM ORDINARY BRITISH CITIZENS WHO ARE EXASPERATED BY THE SHEAR INDOLENCE OF BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS.—
The reasons these poor quality civil servants are getting away with such abuses of innocent members of the public are quite simple—-THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO NONE!!!!!!—but the dictates of Common Purpose
Its time to start reclaims what is ours to reclaim—let America do the same and we can once again meet as unfettered equals on the world stage which each of our house firmly in order.
Sadly, the majority of our civil servants work for the EU. We pay them but their masters are in Brussels.
Every Directive emanating from Brussels is seized upon enthusiastically by our civil servants, gold-plated, and inflicted upon the long-suffering public.
You can’t even throw an apple core away without facing the risk of prosecution. I cannot quote the number of laws, rules, regulations, penalties, fines, prison ,which apply to this once free land. Example; only recently our Scottish fishermen had to throw some £25,000 of dead fish back into the sea because they had allegedly exceeded their quota.
What utter nonsense. It’s worse than “Alice in Wonderland”. A Billion Pounds A Week to be a member of this club – which we never asked to join in the first place ! Democracy ? There MUST be something better..
TOM, THESE THINGS ARE ONLY SO BECAUSE WE LET THEM BE.
The people are still the majority in the UK and where there is a majority to be found–so too will you find the true power of this nation.
The trick is to arouse the people in their best interests, when is the person we seek?
I am sure that if Genghis Khan then we Khan too.