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impressive money management by ‘new’ labour
“We can’t even run a party piss-up”,
said a high-level socialist spokesman.
No comment on whether Tony the Bliar is liable now he’s
skipped town!
“Senior officials in the Labour party, including Gordon Brown,
could become personally liable for millions of pounds in debt unless
new donors can be found within weeks, the Guardian has learned.
“The party has five weeks to find £7.45m to pay off loans
to banks and wealthy donors recruited by Lord Levy, Tony Blair's former
chief fundraiser, or become insolvent. A further £6.2m will have
to be repaid by Christmas - making £13.65m in all. The sum amounts
to two-thirds of the party's annual income from donations.
“The figures are a conservative estimate as they do not include
interest that will also have to be paid. A Labour source said that although
the total debt was listed as £17.8m on the Electoral Commission
website, the true level, with interest, was nearer to £24m.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#money_management_290508
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incredible!
a labour socialist suggests the unthinkable - cut government spending
and cut taxation
That’ll go down well with Gordon Brown the Clown
and his merry monkeys.
Obviously, ‘New’ Labour is getting
so scared of David Cameron, they’re even considering trying to outmaneuver
him by running a Tory administration.
“Politics is about both measures and men. Labour is over-obsessing
about one man instead of asking whether our measures make sense. Any
prime minister in office today would feel the voters' anger as they
see their cherished plans to spend their own money as they see fit destroyed
by rising prices combined with the insatiable greed of the state in
all its manifestations to take the people's money for its own, often
incompetent and counter-productive ends.”
To paraphrase Abba Eban [1915 - 2002]:
“History teaches us that socialist parties do not behave wisely
even after they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#spending_cuts_280508
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on
attempts by congress to evade reality
“I was watching the Big Oil execs testifying before Congress.
That was my first mistake. If memory serves, there was lesbian mud wrestling
over on Channel 137, and on the whole that's less rigged. Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz knew the routine: "I can't say that there is
evidence that you are manipulating the price, but I believe that you
probably are. So prove to me that you are not."
“Had I been in the hapless oil man's expensive shoes, I'd have
answered, "Hey, you first. I can't say that there is evidence that
you're sleeping with barnyard animals, but I believe that you probably
are. So prove to me that you are not. Whatever happened to the presumption
of innocence and prima facie evidence, lady? Do I have to file a U.N.
complaint in Geneva that the House of Representatives is in breach of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?" ”
From Mark Steyn
Mark
Steyn 2
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#political_hot_air_250508
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‘new’ labour ‘eu’ database for ‘everything’ and everybody
Socialist Labour wants to track every action
of every citizen.
Socialist Labour are attributing their action
to the ‘EU’.
Tories suggest they don’t agree.
“A massive government database holding details of every phone
call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned
as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers
(ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home
Office under plans put forward by officials.”
—
“ The proposal has emerged as part of plans to implement an EU
directive developed after the July 7 bombings to bring uniformity of
record-keeping. Since last October telecoms companies have been required
to keep records of phone calls and text messages for 12 months. That
requirement is to be extended to internet, e-mail and voice-over-internet
use and included in a Communications Data Bill."
—
“ David Davis, the Shadow [Tory/Conservative] Home Secretary,
said: "Given [ministers’] appalling record at maintaining
the integrity of databases holding people’s sensitive data, this
could well be more of a threat to our security, than a support.”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#electronic_snooping_240508
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vile
child treatment and the lame reponse of socialist government employees
“A seven-year-old girl has died after apparently suffering starvation.
Neighbours claim to have seen Khyra Ishaq with other children grabbing
at bread that had been thrown out for birds.”
—
“ A Birmingham City Council spokesman said: "We are deeply
saddened by the death of this child and our sympathies go to the child's
family and friends at this difficult time.”
The social workers vote socialist Labour, and they
really really care. The only problem is they are mostly useless or worse.
Once upon a time, socialist Labour convinced non-thinking people
that they should vote Labour, and that Labour would play Robin the Hood
and steal from the ‘rich’ and give it to the ‘poor’.
And so the gullible voters gave them a chance and, just like the present
government circus, they sure stole from the ‘rich’. Only trouble
is, that as ever, they wasted and wasted and wasted. And as usual, the
poor lost out.
There was a Tory [Conservative] poster in those days
- “Labour cares, but cannot afford to help the poor”.
The ‘social’ ‘workers’ ‘care’,
but just like ever, socialist Labour is incompetent. Likewise, the socialist
‘workers’ ‘care’, but they don’t deliver.
As usual, Labour is wasting on a monumental scale.
And still they cannot actually help. They do not ‘help’.
As Ronald Reagan said,
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are,
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help.” 1976
Socialism
is a serious mental disease. It is based in wishful thinking and false
psycho-logic. Socialism creates dependents, not adults. It is in its nature.
Labour cares, but it never ever delivers.
If you want a caring surgeon, vote Labour. If you want
a competent surgeon, avoid Labour as you would avoid a poisoned well.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#child_non_care_210508
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‘new’ labour still going even further into the tank - latest poll
“The Tories had 45% of the poll, up one on last month, with
Labour on just 25%, down three, and the Liberal Democrats on 18%, up
one. If repeated at a general election, this pattern would give Cameron
more than 400 seats in the House of Commons and a majority of about
150 over all other parties.”
The
results of the poll in detail [7-page .pdf] makes
utterly dismal reading for socialist Labour, but brings hope to the UK.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#nu_labour_poll_180508
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obarma
radically changes his stance on iran to get closer to the bush position
A clear change, despite surrounding his change of stance
with tap dancing, a slew of fancy steps, and arm waving to distract from
his radical sideslip. This is the critical sentence :-
“It's time to present Iran with a clear choice. If it abandons
its nuclear program, support for terror, and threats to Israel, then
Iran can rejoin the community of nations. If not, Iran will face deeper
isolation and steeper sanctions.” [Quoted from msn.com]
Of course he has, as a coward, left out any
definition of just what he means in the real world by “steeper sanctions”.
Does Obama mean that he will speak severely to Iran when
he sits down with the lunatics in Iran? Or will he go even further and
raise his voice?
Of course, he could mean he’ll nuke Tehran if
they do not stop acting as a rogue state.
Typical of the dishonest politician that he is, Obama
makes vague noises which fools will read whatever way they wish.
The moonbat Left will doubtless be ‘thinking’
in terms of a gentle “speaking to”.
Whereas gung-ho hawks will be more inclined to think
in terms of a severe “seeing to”.
Perhaps, someone, one day, will ask him to be specific.
Then Moveon.com and the rest of the moonbats will doubtless raise their
usual cackle about ‘racism’ and demand that the questioner
shut up and worship the Obarmy rhetoric instead.
And Obarmy will give the world another rousing
chorus of:
Yes, we can - yes, we can - yes, we can.
related material
who is obama?
obama
- judgment and experience
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#obama_iran_bush_160508
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on selecting a viable democrat candidate,
continued
[following on from will
hillary stand against obarma as a patriotic duty?]
- In West Virginia, Hillary won 2.57 votes to 1 against Obama.
- “However, if Clinton does not win the Democratic Party nomination,
29% of Democrats say she should run an Independent campaign for the
White House [...].” [Quoted from rasmussenreports.com]
- Hillary currently has more popular votes than
Obarma:
Popular Vote (with Florida [FL] & Michigan [MI])
Obarma: 16,680,827 47.6%
Hillary: 16,710,298 47.7%
[Quoted from realclearpolitics.com]
Thus, Clinton is ahead by 29,471; +0.08%
No wonder the Obarmy camp is in increasing panic, wanting
her out.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#democrat_candidates_140508
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by the colour of their skin
Obarma’s
mentor:
27 April, 2008
“ Last week, Rev. Jeremiah Wright told the NAACP that "European
and European-American children have a left-brained, cognitive, object-oriented
learning style" whereas "African and African-American children...are
right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style."
“Before making such generalizations, ask yourself whether you
want even four little children to live in a nation where their brains
will be judged by the color of their skin.” [Quoted from slate.com]
And then there is Martin Luther King:
28 August, 1963
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live
in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin
but by the content of their character.”
related material
who is obama?
obama
- judgment and experience
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#skin_colour_140508
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will
hillary stand against obarmy as a patriotic duty?
In view of the obvious problems with Obarma’s
judgement and dubious values, is it possible that Hillary is continuing
to oppose Obama as a patriotic duty?
Will she see it as her duty to endorse McCain, rather
than letting Obarma into the White House, or perhaps to stand against
McCain, as an independent, in the last analysis?
The idea that Obarma could be an able president is
quite ludicrous when he has ‘policies’ as follows:
- abandon our friends in Iraq,
- attack our allies in Pakistan, and
- appease our enemies in Iran.
The idea that a president could have heavy attachments
to a black power ‘church’, friendship with an unrepentant
terrorist, and involvement with Rezko (presently on trial for corruption)
is the stuff of fiction, not of serious politics.
Is Hillary, as a patriot, perhaps putting her country
above her party and above her attachments as a socialist?
As the great statesman, Churchill,
said, his loyalty was first to his country, secondly to his constituents
and thirdly to his party.
In the UK, much of the socialist Labour Party used
to be patriotic, despite many of them being card-carrying reds; whereas
now, they are interested only in getting to the trough.
Are things still better than that in the USA?
Or is it just a dream to hope that the socialist
Hillary will have such high ethical standards, and surprise the country
by proving herself a principled patriot?
“Of Clinton’s West Virginia supporters, only 36 percent
said they would vote for Obama if he is the Democratic nominee. Thirty-five
percent said they would vote for presumptive GOP nominee John McCain,
and 24 percent said they would stay home.” [Quoted from foxnews.com]
related material
who is obama?
obama
- judgment and experience
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#patriotic_clinton_130508
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quote of the day: on the bitterness of the obamas
“By her husband's logic, Michelle Obama must be a heavily armed
xenophobic religious zealot, because boy is she bitter.”
[Note, the article is not much use.]
context for any who live with osama in a cave
Quote from Senator Obama
“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot
of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years
and nothing's replaced them.And they fell through the Clinton Administration,
and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has
said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have
not.
“And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to
guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant
sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
related material
who is obama?
obama
- judgment and experience
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#bitter_obamas_120508
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government
figures: uk method of calculation
It is government, or Prime Minister and ex-Chancellor
Gordon Brown the Clown, who rules the fake definitions of the various
financial indicators, such as that for inflation. The statisticians merely
run the numbers.
Here is a simple analogy of government calculations:
“We need a measure of temperature, but it must look good and
put us in a good light.”
“Well minister, do you want it to show a high or low temperature
for Britain?”
“Oh, a high one, of course I want people to come to Britain
on their hols and spend lots of money here.”
“Alright, minister. How will it do if we measure the temperature
at 14.00 each day and call it ‘The British temperature’.”
“Yes, that sounds fine to me. Get to it.”
10 years later....
“People are not coming and spending here any more. AGW
has driven up ‘The British temperature’ to an average
45°C. What can I do?”
“Oh, that’s easy, minister. We change the definition
time to 18.00 each day and call it the “British Holiday Temperature.
Oh, and by the way, I’ll need a thousand more staff and a juicy
rise. Is that alright?”
“Certainly old chap. You’re worth every penny. Perhaps your
wife would like us to throw in a knighthood.”
related material
the mechanics of inflation:
The great government swindle and how it works
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#uk_numbers_120508
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barack
v. hillary, democrats v. republicans - compare and contrast
Hillary Clinton is offering coherent policies
for which she is arguing cogently. That readers or myself may regard
those policies as less than long-term sensible is not the point.
I do not want to see Republicans getting a free ride,
as they will do with another joke candidate like Barack Obarmy.
There are fundamentalist elements in the Republican
Party, just as there are in the Demogocrats (in the latter group to an
extreme, almost deranged, extent). Obarma has only one hope - to gain
the presidency as a rabble rouser on a wave of mindless emotion.
A Hillary presidency would be essentially sane, even
if you may regard it as misguided. An Obarma presidency would be a setback
for civilisation.
The United States of America is no ordinary country.
Clinton One did much good for America, even if he was
weak on international policy. Bush Two, in my view, will be regarded by
history as a great president and a great man.
The tension between the two visions, Republican and
Democrat, bring a balance which is productive for all.
The disgusting prurience that is endemic among the
Republican Party in the likes of Keyhole Ken [Starr] and Bill
O’Reilly is offset by the extremes of political correctness
and mental superficiality in the left wing. Neither party are wondrously
sane at the edges.
It is only the conflictual tension that improves America
and the planet.
All Obarma can offer is “Yes,
we can” and
much other empty cant.
That Obarmy is much far down the Leftist road is very
sad. Leftism is a slippery slope, it is intellectual tripe, it has no
serious grasp on reality. His candidacy is doing much harm to America
and particularly to ‘blacks’, while he is an intellectual
cypher. He is a creature of Wright and the rest of the moonbat shambles.
Obama has very little independence of mind. He is a
groupie with a big mouth, not an independent thinker. That is part of
what makes him such a political naïf and nuisance. He is hardly to
be listed as a responsible adult.
Some may (and indeed do) even regard him as a sweet
boy, but that is not a description of presidential material in a difficult
world. As said above, his candidacy is doing great harm to ‘blacks’,
and I fear that harm will not easily be mended.
In the presidential election campaign, I would
prefer a real contest of points of view. Obarma cannot provide that. Hillary
can. Obarma only offers vacuous idiocy, an idiocy that appeals to children
and ivory tower faux-intellectuals.
As long as America remains essentially sane,
Obarma will be washed away in a tidal wave, just as previous foolish candidates
proposed by the Demogocrats.
The Republicans voters had the
sense to winnow out their own extremist and dopey candidates, despite
the whining of the likes of Ann
Coulter and Sean
Hannity.
The Demogocrat Party appears to be, at present, in hock to fools on the
extreme left. For all the babble, the Republican Party is still sane at
the roots.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#hillary_barack_100508
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a heavy attack on iran should be carried out this year
I have many times been asked if we should attack Iran.
Until now, I have said that I think the time is not yet ripe. My position
is now changed.
A long, heavy bombing attack should be in the pipeline
to smash the Iranian military capacity during this year.
A strong warning through back channels may be a precursor,
but I am not much concerned with that. In reality, plenty of warning has
been given in responses to the continuing contempt and foolishness from
the nutcases in Tehran.
Clearly, they are daft enough to try to play the fool
right down the line. So it is time for a serious ‘message’
not subject to their takeyya
and playing the innocent!
“Recent British and American intelligence suggests that Iran
has exported Hizbollah's technology to Iraq and Afghanistan, where it
has been responsible for the upsurge in roadside bombs. (Most of the
51 American fatalities in Iraq last month were victims of such devices.)
“Last year, British special forces intercepted two lorries crossing
from Iran into Afghanistan that contained 50 such bombs and timers;
last week a senior US military official said that the Revolutionary
Guards' elite Quds Force had recruited Hizbollah experts to train Iraq's
Shia militias at camps inside Iran.
“Intelligence estimates suggest as much as 90 per cent of the
hardware being used by insurgents in southern Iraq originates from Iran.
Iran's escalating involvement in confronting coalition forces has prompted
John Bolton, America's former UN ambassador, to call for US air strikes
on Iranian camps training and equipping insurgent groups.
“With American troops now fighting alongside British forces based
in southern Iraq, the prospect of the coalition becoming involved in
direct military confrontation with Iran becomes more likely by the day.
The Iranians are terrified the US-led coalition might turn Iraq into
a success story, and are doing everything in their power to prevent
it. Coalition commanders are convinced the only way to prevent the Iranians
from undermining the coalition's hard-won gains is through direct military
confrontation.” [Quoted from telegraph.co.uk]
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#controlling_iran_090508
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north korea: bush administration cleaning the mess left by demogocrat appeasement
After freeing maybe 100 million from dictatorships
and steadily rolling back the dictators Bill Clinton appeased,
another step forward:
“North Korea turned over key nuclear weapons documents to a
visiting U.S. diplomat Thursday, a senior State Department official
said. It was a step toward the Bush administration's goal of a full
accounting of the isolated regime's nuclear past.”
Now Barack Obarma wants to go back to Demogocrat business-as-usual.
So let’s summarise Obarma’s brilliant
foreign strategy. It amounts to:
- abandon our friends in Iraq,
- attack our allies in Pakistan, and
- appease our enemies in Iran.
related material
who is obama?
obama
- judgment and experience
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#korea_usa_080508
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socialist labour in a half-blind panic as they scrabble around for a third target for cameron
As I have long stated, removing the socialist coup
in the Tory party will make defeating ‘new’ Labour a pushover.
That change is now becoming well established.
Naturally that is now the end of socialist Labour.
“The most devastating finding of the poll is that 55 per cent
of Labour voters believe that the party would be more likely to win
the next general election if Mr Brown resigned "to make way for
a younger, fresher, more charismatic alternative." ”
—
“The number who trust Mr Brown and Alistair Darling most to deal
with economic problems has fallen to 30 per cent, down from 43 per cent
in mid-March and 61 per cent in early September.” [Quoted from
timesonline.co.uk]
Meanwhile ‘new’ Labour will try to
plaster over the cracks. Here, Matthew
Parris on the ‘new’ Labour ‘message’:
- wake-up call
- message from the electorate
- take it on the chin
- listen to voters
- learn lessons
- heed concerns
- need for change
- get back in touch
- sharpen up the act
- show contrition
- find a new narrative
- feel their pain
- show humility
- understand more
- blitz of initiatives
- sense of purpose
- simpler messages
- sharpen the argument
- clearer sense of direction
- relaunch/refocus/rediscover/
- redefine/repair/refresh/reshuffle/rethink/renew
- begin fightback
- still two years left
And what about David Cameron? How is he measuring up?
David Cameron is brighter than Margaret Thatcher, but
has a somewhat lesser mess to clean up because of Maggie Thatcher’s
earlier work. He will be more than 10 years younger than Maggie was when
he enters no. 10.
Cameron is educated more than 30 years later, in an
era of ginormous progress.
I would expect him to have a more steady judgement
and a greater ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Because of this,
he has a more complex and, thereby, much better grasp of the modern world.
He has very great potential to improve Britain.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#nu_labour_leader_060508
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the
setting of energy policy - biofuels: a study in politics as usual
“Soaring food prices and starving children provide a stirring
backdrop to Europe's debate on its biofuels targets, but the big businesses
of farming, forestry and automotive could have a heavier influence on
policy.”
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“Densely-forested Scandinavia could then take the lead, providing
Europe's greenest transport fuels, with typical carbon savings of around
80 percent.”
See also another
step toward cellulosic ethanol production
related material
biofuels
comparing fertility rates and populations in europe and beyond
land conservation
and food production
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#biofuel_politics_050508
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clown
now stealing more for his clients’ pensions than the payers can
afford for their own pensions
“For 11 years, Labour has sucked revenue from the productive
part of the economy so as to engorge the unproductive part. Now, it
has reached the dregs.
“In his recent book, David Craig has calculated the amount of
extra tax raised by this government since 1997: an almost unbelievable
£1,229,100,000,000."
“There is, as those oriental religions would recognise, karma
in all this. Brown is chiefly responsible for the shift from the entrepreneurial
to the state sector. Private sector workers are now paying less into
their own pension funds than they are paying in tax to guarantee the
pensions of public sector workers who have already retired: £17
billion a year as against £20 billion.”
‘New’ Labour’s real priorities
- tax, tax and tax.
“Tens of thousands of families will have to pay up to £245
extra a year under new road tax rules after a covert government decision
to include cars up to seven years old.
“The Treasury admitted to The Times last night that it was quietly
abolishing the exemption for older cars from the highest rates of vehicle
excise duty. This means that owners of larger cars bought since March
2001 will find that their road tax will rise steeply from next April.
“The increases are being introduced in two stages, with many
owners who are now paying £210 a year being charged £300
in 2009 and up to £455 in 2010.” [Quoted from timesonline.co.uk]
Hey, why does anyone believe it was an accident that
the Clown increased tax by removing the 10p tax rate?
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics0805.php#clown_pensions_030508
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