The nation that supplied Baroness Ashton to head EU foreign policy describes Juncker as a non-entity. This causes much mirth in Brussels. One fact that the British media have singularly failed to address is that UKREP Brussels (the UK’s Embassy to the EU) has reported that Juncker is believed to be sympathetic to the idea of continuing Scottish membership of the EU after independence. That makes sense given his record as an EU expansionist and his own background from the small independent state of Luxembourg. It helps explain Cameron’s furious opposition.
The Tories’ frenetic attempts to find an alternative candidate to Juncker are floundering. This is in part because of a fundamental illogicality in the British position. Cameron claims that he wants to reform the EU in part to address its “democratic deficit”. But he wants to start by cancelling the most important democratic advance the EU has made – that the Commission President should be nominated by the winning party in the European Parliament elections. On top of which, in 2010 Cameron pulled the Conservatives out of that winning party in order to form an alliance with the anti-semites of Poland’s Law and Justice party. He now wants this losing party to choose the Commission President.
The Tories are hoping Merkel can produce an alternative candidate from Central and Eastern Europe. The problem is that the parties like Civic Platform in Poland which are in the winning European People’s Party in the European Parliament and in government, are anathema to the right wing loonies with whom the British Tories are grouped. As a result the names being canvassed by UKREP Brussels are now so obscure as to make Junckers look like Ronaldo, and British diplomats are being obliged to extol the virtues of obscure Czech politicians that they have never heard of. Meanwhile Carl Bildt is quietly involved in pushing on Merkel a candidate directly involved in the persecution of Julian Assange. My money is still on Juncker.
Technicolour. Yes Ofsted is now under the direct control of Gove. No longer independent or autonomous. You should have heard his supporters baying and baaing as he spoke a little earlier. Same for St Theresa. She was putting all the blame for her leaked letter placed on the Home Office website on her SPAD, Fiona Cunningham. And because Heywood vetted the antics and Agent Cameron approved (he has nipped off to Sweden which is handy so he didn’t have to sit alongside looking innocent) everything is absolutely fine.
Baroness Ashton and EU are both anti-Semites.
http://rehmat1.com/2012/03/22/comparison-of-gaza-and-french-school-attack-irks-israel/
“The US, chief guarantor for the Israeli-Palestinian talks for decades, is so habitually and instinctually pro-Israel that it can’t understand that the Palestinians even have a viewpoint, let alone what it is.”
http://mondediplo.com/2014/06/02israel-palestine
If Cameron is trying to persuade Fredrik Reinfeldt ( a pro US enthusiast ) to apply for the EU presidency, perhaps he is merely returning the “favour” Obama did for him in supporting the NO vote in Scotland.
Barak Obama:
“I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being…because of American diplomacy and foreign assistance, as well as the sacrifices of our military — more people live under elected governments today than at any time in human history.”
Ron Paul:
“Last week the Syrians held their first multi-candidate presidential election in 50 years. Almost three-quarters of Syrian voters participated, giving President Assad 88 percent of the vote. After three years fighting a foreign-backed insurgency, voting conditions were not optimal.”
“But the US government completely rejected the vote in Syria, with Secretary of State John Kerry calling it “a great big zero,” because, as he put it, “you can’t have an election where millions of your people don’t even have an ability to vote.”
“That is just what happened last month in Ukraine, however, where the US-backed oligarch Petro Poroshenko won with just over 50 percent of the vote in an election where millions in the eastern part of the country did not have the ability to vote. That election, however, John Kerry declared a “victory for democracy.”
“Similarly, John Kerry described the 2013 coup against the democratically-elected President Morsi in Egypt as a “return to democracy,” while approving the election last month – with 96 percent of the vote — of the man who led that coup.”
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/june/08/obama%E2%80%99s-foreign-policy-rhetoric-does-not-match-us-actions.aspx
Technicolour
The high ambitions and achievements of schools does not mean that intimidation of staff has not taken place. I work as an electrician and I recently went to look at a local job. I saw one of the slimier members of the inner circle of mosque politicos creeping out of the premises.
These guys and the Deobandi mosques are very closely connected to the government’s Prevent strategy which monitors tendencies towards extremism. They have funds from government and the government’s main agenda is to prevent the spread of Islam to the indigenous UK population. They participate in the eavesdropping regime in GCHQ.
As a result, I have not gone back to do the job, because this government sponsored mafia are tasked to make life difficult for converts to Islam. As to the schools, the teachers are tasked with presenting the British values, even if they contradict Islamic values. Instead of going to government minister and demanding that the school teaches Islamic values, which would lose them their nice little earners in Prevent, they intimidate staff who are carrying out government values policy.
Why am I writing this? Because unless you have lived in this Muslim community you would not know the extent of their deviousness in working for agencies such as Prevent, while simultaneously presenting themselves as humble Muslim worshippers. Have you ever heard a Muslim criticise UK Foreign Policy? You don’t get on the Prevent gravy train if you speak out against Rendition to Syria. in fact you get locked up like Moazzam Begg.
If you keep up the pressure on the converts/reverts to Islam by a whispering campaign of disinformation about us, you end up almost being shunned from the mosque. All the bad things the government spy agencies can stick on you from your past and all the prejudices of the Pakistani/Indian Scholars against the British make a very toxic mix.
I have no doubt that the reports about non-Muslim teachers being intimidated by these slime-bag collaborator Muslims in the schools are 100% correct. Those teachers have crossed the ethnic divide to teach children from a completely different culture. they are then pressurised by mosque, government funded ( Prevent ) activists into promoting Islamic values because the activists would lose power if they challenged the British values promoted by their paymasters with the paymasters themselves.
I have no doubt that there has been bullying and intimidation. schools is not the place for bullying of either pupils or staff. Bullied staff do not transmit confidence to their pupils.
Who is doing the bullying? Paid Agents of the state.
Hello Nevermind
Yes the Green party abandoned core principles before it got one MP. Laughable.
Yes the NGO’s openly collude with the Police to ensure public safety (i.e. zero impact). Shami Chakrabarti sips tea with gold command watching live helicopter, drone and fit video feeds.
Funny enough kettling is out of favour. Something to do with it being demeaning, anti-democratic, illegal and dangerous. No matter, for with rozzer tactics, like financial crime, as one door closes another opens. Presenting the Ziegler Wasserwerfer 9000. Not sure if I believe it but rumour has it that the customer requested “special equipment” includes electrical repulsion system as standard. So no sticking spuds in the exhaust pipe kids.
The shut down of Westminster last week was unprecedented. FIVE days of road blocks. On the day itself there were cops on every friggin corner for miles. People were being hauled over left right and centre for crossing a line. Literally. Commuters being read the riot act for walking across the wrong bit of pavement. Roads in Lambeth (other side of the river) were closed. Intimidating stuff. A show of power.
There is something remote and unaccountable about our politicians that should temper our calls for even more remote and unaccountable government. Big centralised government can only be more remote and less accountable. This is a bad thing. Democracy works better on your doorstep.
Down with the EU! Radical decentralisation now!
Carl Bildt is poison. Best kept in strict quarantine.
Doug Scorbie: John Kerry:
“you can’t have an election where millions of your people don’t even have an ability to vote.”
We all know that our Polling card can be cross-referenced using the number on the card and that the government is able to monitor its citizen’s votes.
A nutter like Assad who has bombed his own people and tortured hundreds of thousands who dared to criticise him, can drive freely in his own car from his flat to his office, or hold an election, knowing that most of the adult population who are able to vote will register their support for the dictator in order to avoid being dragged out of their beds and sent for torture.
In short, Assad now has a list of who didn’t vote for him.
John Kerry is 100% correct that the result of the election is zero. In fact it is a massive minus, because the madman has now got a fresh list of his opponents… as if bombing them wasn’t enough.
Phil ‘The shut down of Westminster last week was unprecedented. FIVE days of road blocks. On the day itself there were cops on every friggin corner for miles. People were being hauled over left right and centre for crossing a line. Literally. Commuters being read the riot act for walking across the wrong bit of pavement. Roads in Lambeth (other side of the river) were closed. Intimidating stuff. A show of power.’
I assume you mean that anti climax of the state opening of the Zombie parliament using the new gilded coach. I saw none of it thank goodness.
Guano: I think, knowing friends who work in similar areas, I’ll say ‘nonsense’ and stick with the governor’s stout and brave defence, rather than a Daily Mail evil Muslim agenda, or even a government-sponsored evil Muslim spy agenda. But thanks.
Mary: glad I didn’t see it; Gove’s behaviour after the Syria vote was enough.
Technicolour
Governor’s puff.
What is meant when Gove refers to ‘British values’? Is there a manual to which teachers can refer?
‘Technicolour: I was focusing on other things when the Syria vote took place, so picked out this excellent coverage:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10275441/Syria-conflict-and-Commons-vote-as-it-happened.html
Michael Gove called it a disgrace that 30 Tory MPs dared to listen to their constituents and voted against. Says a lot about his values I think.
Recalling this moment brings another disgrace to light… only 9 members of the supposedly anti-war Libdems voted against. These will probably be the only 9 who will retain their seats when the election is finally called.
“I assume you mean that anti climax of the state opening of the Zombie parliament using the new gilded coach.”
Yes I was. Meantime
spikes are laid in the corners of Westminster where the homeless used to kip.
No, it is probably Merkel pulling the strings. The EU is where the real power comes from, and it may well even have been they who pushed Cameron into suddenly agreeing to the referendum on Scottish independence. It is a way to divide and rule the troublesome British.
You think you’re voting on independence away from the horrible Tories but you’re actually deciding whether to join the eurozone empire under the Germans – and, as Cyprus and Greece shows, there is no get-out once the economy implodes under interest rates set by Berlin.
Tom (9 Jun, 2014 – 11:16 pm)
Another disinfo attempt. It was Scotland’s people who decided on a referendum for Scotland’s Independence, by electing with an overwhelming majority, a party which has independence as its principal goal, not something Cameron, Merkel or any one else can or did ‘allow’. Another variant of the too poor, too wee, too stupid line. Another joker on the previous thread, thinks Scotland’s people a burden the UK wishes to unload.
The arrogance, the condescension the supremacist almost racist principle shines through.
There’s more sense, intelligence and important strategic information in this short interview than in the whole output of BBC News over the past 10 years:
“The EU has contributed to the development of the Ukraine crisis and has done little to resolve it, says Peace Report 2014 published by five leading German research institutes last week. Does it point to mistakes, or rather – a strategy aimed at creating the crisis? Radio VR discussed it with Dr. Dushan Janjic, Senior Researcher of the Institute for Social Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, and Dr. Tatiana Romanova , Associate professor at the School of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University.”
http://voiceofrussia.com/radio_broadcast/25298789/273347192/
Guano: “Technicolour
Governor’s puff.”
Can you substantiate this?
by the way:
saw one of the slimier members of the inner circle of mosque politicos creeping out of the premises.
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Apparently Karl Rove has been advising in Sweden. Carl Bildt will doubtless have listened to this advice. I feel sorry for Assange, with these two on his case.
I have concerns about the EU, too. If, for example, it became basically a neoliberal hell, taking it’s policies from the US, I’d argue for withdrawal. I don’t think it’s gone that far, though as always there is a neocon element up to bad things, so I’m not a separationist quite yet. And it’s hard to tell, politicians always trot of the line ‘it’s EU regulations’, but I suspect they may be talking nonsense. I’m thinking of the privatisation mania, which is often blamed on the EU, spuriously.
Anyway, Cameron is an idiot. And we’re stuck with him. Nu Lab will have their meltdown soon, replace Ed, and look to the following election, allowing an idiot to remain in charge. Politics, eh? Stalin had the right idea (well, ok maybe not).
Our leaders in US/EU seem to think that the coup-installed government is behaving appropriately, even with “restraint” (Obama).
Here’s a short clip of video for those who remain blindly loyal to the mandated narrative that our newly reconstituted enemies “The Russians” are causing all the trouble in Ukraine. It’s only four and a half minutes long.
https://www.yotube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=flq0W4UzR00
If you can bear to watch it, see if you can explain how actions and outcomes such as these could be justified either legally or ethically?
Here’s what it looked like for some people returning to their home in Semenivka after Kiev’s ATO had been through,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vETROd-Y3I&feature=youtu.be
Technicolour
If you want to know how mosque politics work,watch a Turkish soap.
The story is set in a Muslim rural village. There are set character-stereotypes:
Calculating matriarchal widows who drive the young men to murder for family honour, emotionally frustrated mad females who throw themselves off waterfalls, bald. powerless gaffers wired up to life-support machines and leather-jacketed men who psychologically bully all the other men with threats of violence. Over them all rule deeply corrupt, urban spies from central government.
This world of remote Muslim village politics has now been transposed to central Birmingham. The matriarchs are replaced by feminist, anti-Islam, female teachers and council administrators. The mad females are given jobs where they can flirt to their hearts content. The fogeys no longer need loyalty from their heirs because they are cared for by the welfare state and the young men concentrate on either business or lucrative political work from government agencies like the Prevent program.
Michael Gove knows that the majority of English people are politically asleep, compared with immigrant populations who are very alive to political black arts. He wants to place the Birmingham schools under special measures so that he can draw talent from the politically aware minority groups.
The governor has been supplied with the beautiful idealogically and politically correct script. But if you think that life in Alum Rock is like the script, then you must be part of the great British yawn about politics. Go back to sleep.
Did anyone see the photo of Hague rowing a boat with Mrs Merkel in the middle and Agent Cameron in the stern? Hilarious. Air Sea rescue was not called out.
Correction. Reinfeldt was rowing the boat not Hague. That’s what comes of peering at a tablet at 7am.
Three men in a boat (and a very powerful woman): Cameron goes rowing in Sweden with Merkel and other EU leaders in latest bid to block Juncker getting Brussels’ top job.
Cameron joins Merkel, Dutch PM Rutte and Sweden’s Reinfeldt at summit.
Four leaders holding talks over EU reform at Swedish PM’s summer home.
PM at odds with German Chancellor over appointment of next EU President
Cameron said he and other leaders should pick who gets top EU jobs.
Summit comes after Boris Johnson mocked PM’s attempt to veto favourite.
Jean-Claude Juncker is the front runner, but UK thinks he is too pro-EU.
Downing Street wants to protect plan to claw back powers from Brussels.
Labour announced today that they backed the PM’s bid to block Mr Juncker.
But Johnson says: ‘You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a cochon’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2652671/Cameron-interfering-Brussels-jobs-quintessence-turd-polishing-pointlessness-claims-Boris-Johnson.html
Cameron is an idiot. But what he’s doing with his hysterical opposition to Juncker is not, in his own frame of reference, idiocy. The “reform” of the EU he is banging his little pink fist for is precisely the ‘neoliberal hell’ you and I would like to avoid. On the slightly bright side, I think it is now a truism in mainland Europe that the Brits will push for the Atlanticist option at every possible opportunity and that we are a Trojan horse for the Americans.
Confirmation of this from William Jefferson Bastard Hague –
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/481021/William-Hague-says-it-cannot-be-business-with-usual-with-EU-as-he-urges-reform
The right people in the right jobs. I think we know how that works. Let’s call it democracy. Someone has to.
Spot on Ba’al. I would not like to be part of a US dominated EU and their spying on us all has already soured many relations Obama had in Europe.
Camerons talk of reform is the reform that enables the establishment and vested interests, not that of EU citizens/taxpayers.
The current spat shows us that appointed Commissioners were never a good idea, they should be elected by us.
I say it again, visavis Scotlands considerate thoughts of staying in the EU, Camerons vision of Britain is one big heap of toys and an empty pram.
Please, can some cartoonist pick up this idea and draw Cameron as the screaming child, in the pram, sailing out into the Atlantic, toys floating behind…….
Apologies for being off topic, but I am responding to what has been written by Guano and Technicolour above on what I think is an important issue.
I have been very surprised recently to find I have a certain admiration for some aspects of what Michael Gove is doing. I hasten to add that this admiration is entirely based on what I have read in the press which I know I cannot necessarily trust. Hence my interest in the above debate.
I am not quite sure that I fully understand what Guano is saying but I don’t want schools in this country to be taken over by people putting forward an extremist Islamic agenda.
It seems as if Ofsted and Gove think this is going on and if it is going on I think they are quite right to fight back.
We have an imperialist past which our empire and civilisation is based on. I have all kinds of issues about that but to deny it happened or simply rubbish it is not good enough. It should be studied in a proper way and to teach soundbite history and literature which is what so much of modern education is based on is simply evading the issue.
I was looking at university history courses not long ago and more and more, including even the OU now teach history as a series of snapshots with no attempt to teach linear history. These are university BA courses I am talking about.
Tolerance should not go so far as to completely lose any sense of historical development.
Conjunction.
I hate politics, because it is devious and often dirty.
People who work in offices have to deal with a lot of politics. There is sexual politics. And there is also this curious brand of Asian politics which you have to deal with if you are a Muslim. There is also UK status quo anti-Islam politics trying to maintain Christianity and Queen as rulers in a changing world.
My only point was that it was inevitable that where government thinks it can play its Prevent politics, i.e.false flag politics, in schools and the Muslims think they can play this Asian village mentality politics with people jockeying for power in the pecking order of their group, in schools, there is bound to be friction.
The government wants to portray teaching Islamic values as radicalisation which is absolute rubbish, the Asians try to present themselves as deprived, which is also absolute rubbish. The school is trying to do an excellent job of education with all this politics going on.
Government should know better than to play politics with education and so should the Muslims. Let’s have on the spot government inspections, where if the Minister for Education is found to be playing politics with education he is sacked and replaced with someone whose emphasis and experience is in education.
Gove is a neo-con liar on the level of Rifkind. I can’t say he’s worse that his New Labour equivalents. They are all the same.