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Wednesday, 29 March 2006
Disjointed blogging
As you will have noticed this site has not been updated for over a week and before that update there had been another sgnificant gap. This is mainly due to the fact that I am in the shit at Uni and trying to climb out of a Gert big hole I've dug for myself, on top of this the council elections are on the horizon so I will be campaigning for the next 5 weeks to try and get onto Bradford City council.
I am updating this site this week which will allow other members of the team both old and new to post articles at their own discretion. This will hopefully get the whole site moving again, but until then you will all just have to hang on in there for a while longer. I do hope you like the new-look site, please remember, comments in the forum area of the new site.
Dan
Tuesday, 21 March 2006
Labour: Shooting itself in both feet with a double barreled shotgun.
The so called "scandal" of undeclared loans made to political parties at the last General electon has gripped the media for well over a week now and it doesnt show much sign of letting up. Everytime something new comes out the press and guttermedia jump all over it. It's not that I don't care, i do. It's not that I don't think it's important, I do.
My problem with the massive media hype that has surrounded the entire affair, it's the typical "burn the buggers at the stake" mentality that Fleet street has adopted over the past few year. In all honesty I can't remember when it wasn;t lime this, but looking at the history books it certainly wasn't. There has generally been an Entente Cordiale between Politicians and the pressman, where has this gone? Why has it been thrown out?
Monday, 20 March 2006
Yellow Ken
Considering he has been the best Chancellor of the Exchequer during my (admittedly short) life-time, Ken Clarke really can get up one's nose.
In last Thursday's Spectator, Ken Clarke argues that a coalition with the Lib Dems after the next election would be rather a good idea. He seems not to properly consider the possibility of actually winning outright, which I consider to be the preferable option at this stage.
None-the-less, what really irked me was reading this item:
"I'm sure the undesirability of linking ourselves with small, very embarrassing allies, who will keep taking up positions which are quite unacceptable, will persuade him."
He was, of course, talking down Cameron's chances of forming a new alliance in the European Parliament and is confident that it will not be achieved.
I suppose we should not be surprised that the exact same argument is being used with equal confidence by those who believe that Cameron cannot stay within the EPP and with greater validity too. As Roger Helmer MEP has pointed out, our EPP partners are pretty extreme folk as it is. The EPP's resident consigliere, Silvio Berlusconi, as if not in himself a good enough reason for us to leave the group, is now politically linked with Signora Mussolini, heiress to the fascist wing of Italian politics.
This would not be too dissimilar to a Tory London councillor joining a group that comprised of crooked Ken Livingstone and Little Miss Mosley.
This is to compound the fact that our German EPP buddies, the Christian Democratic Union, ran a fairly nasty anti-immigration campaign recently and that our Austrian couterparts, the Austrian People's Party, are in coalition with a far-right party that goes by the name of the Freedom Party. Set up by former Nazis, these are the sort that give nationalism a very bad name.
I wonder why Ken is so keen for us to continue to sit with them? Perhaps our local MEPs here in Yorkshire have an explanation.
In last Thursday's Spectator, Ken Clarke argues that a coalition with the Lib Dems after the next election would be rather a good idea. He seems not to properly consider the possibility of actually winning outright, which I consider to be the preferable option at this stage.
None-the-less, what really irked me was reading this item:
"I'm sure the undesirability of linking ourselves with small, very embarrassing allies, who will keep taking up positions which are quite unacceptable, will persuade him."
He was, of course, talking down Cameron's chances of forming a new alliance in the European Parliament and is confident that it will not be achieved.
I suppose we should not be surprised that the exact same argument is being used with equal confidence by those who believe that Cameron cannot stay within the EPP and with greater validity too. As Roger Helmer MEP has pointed out, our EPP partners are pretty extreme folk as it is. The EPP's resident consigliere, Silvio Berlusconi, as if not in himself a good enough reason for us to leave the group, is now politically linked with Signora Mussolini, heiress to the fascist wing of Italian politics.
This would not be too dissimilar to a Tory London councillor joining a group that comprised of crooked Ken Livingstone and Little Miss Mosley.
This is to compound the fact that our German EPP buddies, the Christian Democratic Union, ran a fairly nasty anti-immigration campaign recently and that our Austrian couterparts, the Austrian People's Party, are in coalition with a far-right party that goes by the name of the Freedom Party. Set up by former Nazis, these are the sort that give nationalism a very bad name.
I wonder why Ken is so keen for us to continue to sit with them? Perhaps our local MEPs here in Yorkshire have an explanation.
By Al Gunn
LUUCF President
Candidate for Leeds City Council
Monday, 13 March 2006
Epidemic of wingless Para's
A shocking insight of the British military capabilities has been exposed today. Since going to war in Iraq the R.A.F. has been unable to supply enough aircraft for Parachute regiment soldiers to gain their wings. The number has dropped from 92% before the war in Iraq to just under 25% at the present time.
The full story is in todays Telegraph or at their website here.
Sunday, 12 March 2006
Butcher of the Balkans found dead
Slobodan Milosevic has been found dead in his cell in the Hague only months before his trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity was set to conclude. It is reported that he died of natural causes.
Saturday, 11 March 2006
Now is the winter of our discontent...
Over at BigDaddys blog the campaign against the despotic Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill continues. As is pointed out, if the bill is allowed to pass it would mean that individuals or Government departments would be able to amend bills without having to go through the whole faff of Parliament, afterall it's only our ancient democratic system which was fought for throughout the civil war and that has prevented such dictatorial powers being instilled upon any one person at any time since.
Friday, 10 March 2006
Where the other 6.6% has gone?
I noticed this in the Guardian.
Guardian (leader) “Gordon Brown has been one of the most redistributive
Chancellors of modern times; cutting 11 per cent off the income of the top
10 per cent and giving the poorest 10 per cent some 4.4 per cent more."
It observes that Gordon Brown has taken an extra 11% from the rich, but
only given the poor 4.4% more. I wonder where the other 6.6% has gone?
Perhaps on an extra 784,000 civil servants since 1997.
Once again, socialism's mantra proves itself to be "from each according to
his abilities, to each according to their generous civil servant's pension
plan".
I bet Gordon is wondering how on earth Robin Hood kept his administration
costs down, what with Friar Tuck's incapacity benefits, rooting out Little
John's undeclared second tree not the mention the child support payments
to Maid Marian...
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Al Gunn
LUU CF President
www.luucf.com
Thursday, 09 March 2006
The Goliaths of grocery are brought to account.
An interesting point on todays Daily Politics, the big four supermarket chains - Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury and Wallmart ASDA - are to be subject to a full investigation into their affairs and how they deal with farm suppliers.
Wednesday, 08 March 2006
Woodruff Awakes From Coma
Bob Woodruff, ABC World News Tonight anchor who suffered serious head and brain injuries when the vehicle he was travelling in was attacked by a roadside bomb in January has been able to start talking to his family and has taken his first steps since the attack which left him in a coma with his family, friends and audience fearing the worst. Woodruff has apparently been joking around since he awoke on Monday and his first words when he woke were to his wife.
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