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May 15, 2012
Filthy Poor, Make Them Pay!

For anyone in doubt that it is the "lower classes" that should pay for the excesses of the last forty years, a new report authored by the National Institute for Economic & Social Research for the Resolution Foundation shows that it was the poor who drove the pre-crisis debt boom.

Yes indeed, the poor are to blame. We all knew it.

May 9, 2012
The Queen's Speech

Today the Queen gave her speech to both houses of parliament, setting out the forthcoming plans of the Coalition for the year ahead. 

As expected, reform of the House of Lords was on the list.

This bill is being hailed as a 'power to the people' type of legislation, but nothing could be further from the truth, as this bill will allow the speakers of both houses to select a private committee that would "elect" part of the house of Lords.

April 16, 2012
Firemen Seagulls and Behavioural Change

On 13 April 2012 Daily Mail Columnist Richard Littlejohn scornfully reported that aside from an incredible 5 fire appliances attending the scene, 25 Firemen were stopped from entering a 3 feet deep pond to rescue a Seagull in distress because of "elf'n'safety" rules.

Littlejohn commented that:

The relentless march of political interference and the institutionalised insanity of elf’n’safety has turned firefighters into figures of ridicule and derision.

March 14, 2012
A Dark Age Lights the Way

In the first decade of the 5th century AD, in the years before Alaric marched his Visigoth horde into Rome and sacked the city, Britannia was, albeit temporarily, at peace. In the four hundred years since the first Roman invasion, tyrannical military force had largely tamed the native Celtic population, bringing classical education, economic stability, and ultimately, even Christianity to the Islands, following its adoption as the official religion of the Empire in 313 AD. 

We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage – almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recounting of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance ...

February 2, 2012
Britain Would Be Much Worse Off Without Quantitative Easing

So says Adam Posen, of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.

What he really means is that the City of London would be much worse off, of course. Britain could not really be much worse off, after all. Increasing unemployment, a demoralised youth, collapsing social and health care, collapsing education, collapsing manufacturing, collapsing infrastructure and an inexorable descent into full scale dictatorship - the list is unending.

January 31, 2012
Behind The Oxford & Cherwell Valley College Threat of "Action" Against The UK Column

Investigations into abuse, racism, pornographic videos, abuse of trust and neglect at Oxford and Cherwell Valley College have now restarted following exposure by the UK Column. But victims remain concerned that those who failed to protect them originally are again leading the investigation, and there will be a cover-up.

Photographed below holding a letter of support from his MP Andrew Smith, Daniel Arnold is just one brave victim who is now determined to help other victims and bring perpetrators to justice.

Daniel Arnold
Daniel Arnold

January 21, 2012
The Gates of Hell

Who is promoting the introduction of a financial transactions tax, and, for what purpose will any collected revenue be applied?

Tim Montgomerie, Conservative Home, recently blogged that his readers had voted 'David Cameron's veto of the EU Treaty' as the political event of 2011. 'Proposals for a Europe-only financial transactions tax are a bullet aimed at the heart of London', George Osbourne said in an article for the Evening Standard prior to the EU Cou

January 17, 2012
Inflation Falls To 4.2% - Where's The Hyperinflation, Then?

The main cause of hyperinflation is a massive and rapid increase in the amount of money which is not supported by growth in the output of goods and services. The UK Column has been warning for a number of years now that we are staring hyperinflation in the face. So where is it?

It's there.

It's there in the half trillion Euros pumped into an already dead European financial system at Christmas by the European Central Bank. It's there in the half trillion Euros that the ECB is going to pump in next month. It's there in the trillions upon trillions of dollars pumped into the system by the Fed, and the hundreds of billions of pounds pumped into system by the Bank of England.

January 11, 2012
GOP Gets Ready To Asset Strip America

The Republican Party Presidential campaign could well be described as the best street theater since Punch and Judy.

As ever, it is a mixed bag of outright racists, homophobes, warmongers, religious demagogues and, last but not least, private equity carpetbaggers. Only libertarian leaning Dr Ron Paul, who is enjoying solid and surging support amongst young and independent voters, could be described as a remotely honest and genuine candidate for what is otherwise a pretty good advertisement for national suicide.

January 10, 2012
You Think Britain Has A Pensions Problem?

While we wrangle with our respective public or private employers about what pensions we might receive in the future, French pensioners are already having payments withheld.

At the end of December, almost 300,000 retired employees of SNCF, the French railway company, discovered that they had only been paid a third of their normal amount. The remainder was due to be paid yesterday.

The rather worrying reason for this, was that Credit Agricole, one of France's top three banks, which has responsibility for passing the necessary cash to the agency that distributes it, refused to do so.

December 2, 2011
The Problem With Positive Money

Positive Money bills itself as “a simple solution to the debt crisis”. With a cursory glance, it might appear to be making some of the right noises. On closer inspection, however, there’s just nothing there.

Positive Money states that it wants three things:

1. Make banks ask our permission before they gamble with our money.

August 14, 2011
Cameron's Dangerous Private Armies & Foreign Police On Our Streets

But the real plan is this - Cameron cynically understands that the British public is not yet ready, and in many places, very wary of European Police Officers coming on to British Streets.

Dear All

I would like to alert the UK public to dangerous moves by Cameron to establish 'private armies' and foreign police on our streets. The story begins with Cameron pressing for the American 'super-cop' Bill Bratton to become a senior police officer. Cameron is thrusting his US mate forward, knowing that Bratton has been collaborating with British police over many years, and thus knows the system. 

June 10, 2011
No Magic at Suffolk County Council

If we were awarding prizes for Councils hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons then Suffolk County Council would be a strong contender for the first prize.

In June, 2010 it was revealed that the Conservative controlled Council had engaged a spin doctor on £182,000 a year who would 'involve a pro-active approach to communications, particularly in media management, including campaigns, media public relations, marketing events, branding and web'. They had also hired a teletubbies expert to speak at a motivational event for staff.

February 28, 2011
Exploring Euthanasia - Government Destruction Of The NHS

The Coalition government's plans for the NHS are revealed in the Health and Social Care Bill now before Parliament.

We, the electorate however have not had a chance to say yea or nay to these drastic changes as neither the Tories or LibDems saw fit to put them in their manifestoes.

Even after the election, their Coalition Programme, published on May 20th 2010, foresaw a gradual evolution of existing structures for the NHS, rather than drastic upheaval, but by the time of The White Paper in July 2010, there had been a significant change of plan.

February 11, 2011
Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) the English utilitarian and philosopher was ‘present but not voting’ for more than a century after his death at meetings of the worthies of the University of London. His embalmed body known as the ‘Auto-Icon’ still resides in a glass case at UCL. Its head is of wax but the real one is brought out for ceremonial dinners.

Child prodigy Bentham was a pupil of Blackstone at Oxford. Historian GM Trevelyan wrote that Bentham, the father of English law reform, regarded Blackstone as the arch-enemy, ‘who stood in the way of change by teaching people to make a fetish of the laws of England in the form they actually bore at the moment, a form dictated by the needs not of the present age but of ages past’. Bentham advocated a centralising legal positivism. The evolution of this was described in Lord Hewart’s 1929 book ’The New Despotism’.

October 25, 2010
British Media: Bending The Truth?

Despite the volume of evidence that I have already presented in relation to the organisation, Common Purpose, one issue is becoming increasingly clear - The British Media generally neglects to inform the British public of its' activities and has also failed to educate its' readership in relation to the the United Nations Agenda 21 programme.

Remember this?

A tiny fraction of media coverage, mostly postings on online discussion boards, blogs and websites, is making highly offensive and untrue claims about Common Purpose.

- Sir David Bell, Director for People, Pearson plc and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Common Purpose International

October 25, 2010
Council Tax & Lawful Rebellion

For those who wonder what they can do as individuals to resist encroachment on their common law rights, withholding Council Tax (CT) is a lawful option. It is also, as I will show below, a legal obligation. I would not wish to encourage anyone to cause problems for the state without justification. The Powers That Be, for reasons which we can only speculate about, repealed the statutory offence of sedition early in 2010 so perhaps I can speak freely.

A bit of background first. For those of us who are old enough to remember Mrs Thatcher (who was Prime Minister in the late 1980’s) will know that she had a bit of a problem with a Poll Tax which was levied on all adults to fund local authorities. This did not go down well and resulted in one of the biggest incidents of disorder in central London for many years. It was not officially a riot. The Metropolitan Police never admit that a riot has occurred because they will be financially liable, by the way.

October 25, 2010
To Reduce Carbon, You Will Be Killed

Kyoto is dead. Copenhagen has fizzled into nothingness. if you read the comments people are posting on the maintream media websites when they publish "climate change" articles, it's clear that Cancun will go the same way.

No-one believes in Global Warming anymore, which, I guess, is why the Bilderberg Group wants to begin pushing "Global Cooling," and why we are encouraged to call it "Global Climate Discruption," from now on.

So I've been wondering for some time now, how would the green lobby respond?

Would they ramp up a massive advertising campaign? Would they strike back with some fantastic new scientific "evidence?"

Well, no, actually.

They have responded by threatening to blow up anyone who disagrees with them.

August 9, 2010
Surviving The Perfect Storm

Britain is bankrupt. There's no getting around that fact. We have a national debt of over £900 billion and rising. We have a massive black hole in the public pension pot of £1.2 trillion. We have personal debt of £1.5 trillion.

That is a total shortfall, today, of £3.6 trillion.

£6 Trillion - £188,000 Each

If we add corporate debt onto this figure, then the nation, its people and its employers owe somewhere in the region of £6 trillion to bankers in one form or another, complete with its burden of interest. And we are told we can solve this debt problem by creating more debt.

July 3, 2010
Lifting the Veil of Secrecy 2

In previous parts of this article we have explored the architecture of the new system of Global Governance and the importance to that system of networked civil society NGO's and Partnerships. Funding for such networks being conditional upon them collectively pursuing  policies linked to Agenda 21.

The only other thing that I will eternally thank you for in the South West, is that one of you gave me the definition of the word Partnerships. 'The sublimation or the suppression of loathing in the pursuit of funding'. An expression that I am eternally grateful to you for, quite wonderful.

- Common Purpose leader Julia Middleton speech, given in the South West England Region, 2007

June 19, 2010
Lifting the Veil Of Secrecy

... Communitarianism is a political system that gives authority over individuals to unelected community "stakeholder" councils. A stakeholder is defined as a "group, person, organization or system" which can be just about anybody or anything. You'll find the term used in just about every government and grant funded project in existence today ... Forming partnerships with stakeholders is an effective way to bypass voters and taxpayers.

Our Common Community  - Niki Raapana.

Does the following extract from Maryette Ables excellant article suggest the possible areas in which 'Graduates' of International Leadership organisation Common Purpose might be found?

June 14, 2010
Abusing The System Through NGOs & CSOs

Everyone knows what a lobbyist is, but do you know what an "Adviser" is in Washington, D.C.?

Editor's note: although the following comes from the USA, it is presented here in support of Martin Edward's One World Governance series. This article is published with permission, and copyright remains with the author.

May 4, 2010
The Lima Declaration - Foundation Of Globalisation

On the 22nd of February, the Register, a UK technology website, published an article entitled "The Myth Of Britain's Manufacturing Decline." What, I wondered, could a publication that focusses on IT and finds "amusing" positions to place Playmobil plastic characters know about British Manufacturing? As I read the article, I realised the answer is, nothing.

The author makes one fundamental mistake. Its not his fault - its the same mistake just about every modern economic commentator makes when discussing economy - to assume that economic value and monetary value are the same thing.

The author of the Register article begins with a graph (below).

Index Of Production

The author of The Register article wrote:

January 22, 2010
EU Marxists Penetrate Westminster

Whilst British troops die and are maimed in the wastes of Afghanistan, supposedly protecting their families and country from ‘international terrorists’, the very people who created the world wide terror programme are hollowing out democracy at home. Marxists have penetrated the EU and Westminster, and they are building a dictatorship in Britain and Europe.

August 31, 2009
Rebuilding A Nation

Britain is in a state of collapse. That must seem like a redundant statement, since just about everyone recognises it. Things are getting bad enough that even our immigration "problem" seems to be solving itself.