The Coffee House Wall – 17th/23rd March

Posted on March 17, 2014

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169 thoughts on “The Coffee House Wall – 17th/23rd March”

  2. I urge you all to follow the link above provided for us by EC at 10:42.

    A superb read.

  3. Last night’s television news spent much time on reporting a march in Yorkshire by ex-miners and fellow travellers who were celebrating the start of the miners’ strike thirty years ago.

    The camera lingered on an old lady who said “Margaret Thatcher’s intention was to break our community and look at this solidarity, she failed”.

    You can hear this sort of nonsense wherever socialists congregate or it can be read in all of the left wing press.

    The illegal miners’ strike (no ballot) was called by a very stupid corrupt evil man Arthur Scargill whose main intention was to bring down the government at any cost.

    The fact that his own union have had to take him to court of late on a number of occasions in attempts to stop him pilfering and living off his union’s money, has not removed the blind-fold from eyes unwilling to see that they were all duped.

    One chap on camera an ex-miner repeated the soliloquy that my father would mock all socialists with ‘if it were good enough for granddad and my father it is good enough for me’ or to put it another way ‘I can’t and will not think for myself’.

  4. David Ossitt – 12:08 “Scargill”

    I think there is even more to it than bringing down the government. He wanted to out do Joe Gormley.

    In 1972 Joe Gormley led a miners’ strike that led to a 21% increase in pay and concessions for miners and, later, in 1974, after going on strike on 4 February and Ted Heath going to the country and asking “Who governs Britain”, we found out that the electorate thought is was the miners! Then, in 1981, Mrs T backed down from breaking the Plan for Coal agreement.
    Soon afterwards Joe Gormley was replaced by Arthur Scargill, and History showed Scargill to be a traitor to his own people as well as to the country.

  6. The non-elected President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the rest of Europe proclaim that a referenda in the Crimea is an illegal illegitimate election.

    This plebiscite has 97% of the votes cast, all in agreement to align themselves as a new free independent Crimea with mother Russia, what Rumpy Von Pumpy cannot abide is to see true democratic people power in action, it frightens him to think of other European countries expressing their opinions and wishes.

  7. Does anyone know of an airling that lets cats travel with you in the cabin. I have heard from various sources that they don’t let them in the cabin in the most biterly cold nights, and the cabins are unheated ¡n case they damage some of the merchandise the plane is shipping in the hold.

    What about Mexico to the West Indies then? The WI isn’t a big exporter of high teck goods and may not need the hold to be held throughtout the flight at a more chilling deggree?

    Anyone with any ideas, or experiences recounted from friends?

  8. David Ossitt (17 March @ 14:55)

    Agreed. It leads, I suggest to the question – what are the real natures of the world’s leading powers?

    China for example isn’t democratic, but it is no longer Marxist. It’s certainly a one-party state – but a very successful one – and moreover, one that encourages enterprise and capitalism. “Fascist” is a pejorative word to most people, but just as there have been various sorts of despotisms in history and some are acknowledged to have been benevolent, is it accurate to say that China has more or less a benevolent form of Benevolent Fascism? I incline to think so.

    Is the E.U. a democratic organisation? A great many people would now say – clearly not. So. is it fascist and if it is, how does it compare with China?

    For a start, it seems to me that the people in charge in Europe have a fundamentally different character from those in charge in China. The European version seem to be far more bureaucratic – dedicated to exercising their power not so much for the benefit of the population as for increasing the size of the bureaucracy and giving themselves the pleasure of constantly exercising power as an end in itself, combined with lining their own pockets. So is the E.U. Fascist? Yes – a parasitic Fascism too, pretending to be benevolent.

    The USA? After considering the recent article in the Economist, I think that an accurate description of the USA is – ‘an increasingly dilapidated democracy where even the admirable rule of law has become threadbare’. How else can the virtually complete U.S. inaction about the constant flood of illegal immigration into the U.S., the immoral prosecution and unjust conviction of people like Martha Stewart and Conrad Black, not to mention the stranglehold that Political Correctness has over the education system be explained?

    Russia? It doesn’t appear to be a one-party state like China, but nonetheless, some have suggested that the Russian form of government is nearer to being a genuine democracy and with a growing application of the rule of law, combined with a proud & justified nationalism than is Britain which suffers from a deterioration similar to that of the USA. And moreover, Russian descriptions of the coup in Kiev and of Ukraine’s new, unelected government as illegal and ‘fascist’ are very close to the truth.

  10. Verity Peter from Maidstone March 17th, 2014 – 17:02.

    Has supplied you with a link that should answer your needs, I have just taken a cursory look and it does appear to provide you with the service that you are looking for.

  11. I trust if Scotland votes to leave the UK, von Rumpuy will refuse to accept their decision.

  13. With all the horrible things happening in the world today, one item saddened me because of the waste of a potentially brilliant life. Clarissa Dickson Wright died today, and her passing truly is tragic. Born to a highly educated and upper class family didn’t stop her being subject to abuse and violence from a drunken father. She had a few happy years when the father took off and studied Law. A barrister at the age of 21, the world could have been her oyster, but drink, the curse of her family, destroyed her legal career. Her TV appearances were a delight, and whilst I never followed her recipes, I was a great fan of her “Two Fat Women” series. May she find a heaven filled with laughter and love.

  14. Herbert Thornton @ 17:00

    Excellent points, Herbert.

    Baron had lived under the tyranny both in the former USSR, and one of its satellites, knows a thing or two of the conditions today, he visits often, travels there extensively, has friends who talk without inhibition.

    It may be arguable, but the barbarian reckons Russia has moved towards democracy whilst we have moved away from it. It’s certainly not arguable when it comes to the Czech Republic. The diversity of parties, the space each of them gets in the media, the representation of any party polling over 5% of the vote, the freedom of the press is greater than what we enjoy here, for inst. the papers there publicised the call between the two EU bosses, have carried articles for and against Russia under Putin.

    You recall Charter 77, (you can google it)? it was signed by 1300 people, some well known, all opponents of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, many others opposed, stood up against the regime, too, from university professors to ordinary shop workers, people from all walks of life. They got picked on, ostracised, lost their jobs, many lost their liberty, some fled (like Baron).

    Why aren’t any of them in the governance of the country? Not one of the signatories, not one of those kicked when the bolsheviks ran things is in any position of power. (Havel, the former president, now dead, is a suspect, it’s a story for another time).

    Those in power now are still by and large the remnants of the old, but forced to governed by new rules, rules that should ensure shifting towards greater democracy, not at a stroke, but slowly, painstakingly, with many a setback. Putin, Yanukovich or whoever are far from perfect, they are, however, probably the best one can get given the nature of the regime before, the weaknesses of the transitional phase.

    Just this to finish the ranting: If the Russian unwashed had it their way, gays in Russia wold be treated probably as badly as the are treated in some of the ROP countries. If Putin were to push for gay laws similar to ours, he wouldn’t get 63% of the popular vote, he would be toast on this one issue alone.

  17. This is the 2nd hour. Truth can be taken in shorter versions, so as not to disrupt normal activities.

  18. Recessional by Rudyard Kipling

    God of our fathers, known of old—
    Lord of our far-flung battle line—
    Beneath whose awful hand we hold
    Dominion over palm and pine—
    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
    Lest we forget—lest we forget!

    The tumult and the shouting dies—
    The Captains and the Kings depart—
    Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
    An humble and a contrite heart.
    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
    Lest we forget—lest we forget!

    Far-called our navies melt away—
    On dune and headland sinks the fire—
    Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
    Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
    Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
    Lest we forget—lest we forget!

    If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
    Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe—
    Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
    Or lesser breeds without the Law—
    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
    Lest we forget—lest we forget!

    For heathen heart that puts her trust
    In reeking tube and iron shard—
    All valiant dust that builds on dust,
    And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
    For frantic boast and foolish word,
    Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!

  19. Peter from Maidstone March 18th, 2014 – 08:09

    Recessional by Rudyard Kipling

    Splendid, I treasure an old copy that I have of his Barrack Room Ballads.

  20. So far nobody seems to have asked whether either pilot of MH 370 had made a will, when, and what the provisions are in any such wills. Could be revealing.

  21. Peter, your friend Alexander Boot has gone into an overdrive, sticking it to Frau Merkel, Hollande, too.

    In parts, Baron shares his views, for inst. on our need to discard the yoke of oil dependancy that would indeed cut the flow of money both into Kremlin’s, Arab’s coffers. The thing is, it isn’t doable without a serious alternative to fossil fuels, alternatives we haven’t yet developed, we have to be pragmatic, those who may do us harm live in the same planet as we do, we have to find an accommodation with them.

    Why does he think Putin wants to go back to the tyranny of the bolsheviks puzzles Baron because it assumes both that the KGB man is a lunatic, and that the opposition to him is totally suppressed. Neither is true, there were massive demonstration against his move in Crimea, but the fact remains the majority of the Russians back the move the get the peninsula back, and not because Putin tells them so. The piece of land was Russian for much longer that it was under the control of any other power.

    His behaviour, too, suggests he at least in words shares the feelings of ordinary people, his take on the family, the Judeo-Christian traditions, homosexuality resonate with the unwashed. Nobody wants to send gays down, but not many want them to be a untouchable phylum, their grievances triumphing those of other sections of the society.

  22. Gerard Van der Leun’s periodical recycling of his “While You Were Out” essay from 2005 is always worth another read: amusing, perceptive and mischievous, whether the reader is a God botherer, atheist or any permutation of puzzlements between.

    See American Digest on our blog roll – the latest post.

  23. Whatever one thinks about the ultimate ambition of Vlad, his performance today emphasizes that his grasp of history, his ability to synthesize it and propagandize it for what he sees the greater good of his people (not to mention his own grasp of power) puts him head and shoulders above the wankers who currently ‘lead’ the West, despite his diminutive height.

    Today’s smooth performance was akin to Barcelona playing South Mimms Reserves – at Camp Nou, to boot.

  24. One is forced to the question: is Putin, ‘evil’ or otherwise,the best possibility that currently exists to withstand Islamic creep?

  25. Baron – 13:05

    Fracking oil/gas would discard the yoke of oil dependency. It would at least give us time to develop other methods to solve our problems. What hit us was the foreign CDO’s coupled with the debt, left by Brown et al, and then the gradual degradation of the education system so that the masses have been attracted to the global windmill cult! Throwing hard earned wealth into a bottomless pit!
    When I was at school, in the 1960’s, Harold Wilson talked about the ‘white heat of technology’, yet it never arrived, apart from the advances in computer technology. We need it now! Talking about it will do little. School leavers need to see that research, development in that area can be a worthwhile career, including financially, for the successful!

  26. Frank P @ 13:28

    Spot on, Frank, who else but you would put it so succinctly. In particular, the barbarian enjoyed your connoisseur choice of the w word, which fits the current political leadership so well.

    A;so, it’s beginning to trouble Baron that he seems to agree with the KGB colonel so often.

  27. RobertC @ 13:41

    Baron isn’t certain fracking will do it all, Robert, but it would certainly cut our reliance on the nasty parts of the world substantially, agreed. Will it ever happen in size though? Reading some of the objections to it makes one despair, and the threatened violence of some of the opposition frightens, too, what with the judiciary so often taking the protesters side e.g. the destruction of GM crops.

    This is one area where Baron cannot but admire the Yanks, if it’s good for business they’ll sell the grandmothers with ease, and the Germans, who shut down their nuclear plants, started seriously burning brown coal, the biggest pollutant of them all.

    What’s bloody wrong with us, why cannot we figure that in today’s world one often has to be bold and brutal if one wants to survive? All this pussyfooting about ideas that have proved a winner elsewhere, yapping about conserving, shielding, insulating a couple a squirrels when hundreds habitate elsewhere …

  28. Baron

    Meanwhile, while you are fretting over fracking, the Judge and Jury at Southwark Crown Court are ruminating on the discrepancy of differing evidence on the size of Max Clifford’s todger. One wonders how that will be resolved? I would suggest a Stanley measuring tape (mine is 10 meters – the tape that is) but as we all know the length of the todger can vary according to the stimulus of the moment. Forget about the comparatively minors dilemmas of a rampant Vlad or possible sources of alternative energy – let’s measure Max’s member and

  30. Verity @ 16:47

    Are you that deadly certain bringing your cats to Britain? Let Baron warn you, back in the 17th century the unwashed here stuffed the effigies of Guy Fawkes with cats, their screaming made the spectacle more real. Some of the same take on the fluffy creatures seems to survive. A neighbour of Baron’s lost George, her favorite pussy, few days later the poor creature was found hanging by a wire on the hedge. The whole village abhorred what happened, no culprit has yet been found.

  31. Frank P @ 14:05

    Is there anything that can beat a close examination of the tool in question? There may even be some members of the jury who will go beyond the see, feel and touch, who knows, in the enlightened Britain everything goes.

    Baron’s guess: three inches, give or take a couple of inches either way, when fully up.

  32. From the DM: “The size of Clifford’s penis was discussed today after a former model giving evidence last week claimed he had showed her his genitals and said: ‘How can I satisfy a woman with this?”

    Baron’s new guess: an inch, give or take a couple of inches ….

  33. Frank P – 13:28 ‘Vlad’

    Unfortunately, I don’t think his superiority, which he has, is due to having any excess of skills! He is just exhibiting competence, and I think the pass mark has been lowered, in the West at least.

    What is disappointing is that, as has been said, he should be an ally. An ally does not have to be completely embraced, and we have so much in common when compared with what will confront us in the future. Our ‘leaders’ are still fighting the cold war – which it will be for the Germans, without Russian gas. How ironic!
    Our weapons should be ‘Common Sense’, knowing where to draw the line: letting the Crimea return from whence it came and encouraging the Ukraine becomes self supporting! I am sure both sides could have a good laugh discussing that over a few glasses of vodka.

    I have just read A.Boot’s piece. I think that we see the EU as power grabbing, dysfunctional and not reflecting the wishes of the people, so we don’t want it to ‘win’, while AB seeing Russia as ‘quite functional’ and, internationally at least, does reflect the wishes of the people, which is a bit scary for those who know where it has led in the past.

    Part of my fear is that our ‘leaders’ are so incompetent! We are still building windmills, hindering fracking, reducing our armed services, welcoming the unskilled, encouraging school leavers to study journalism where they think that state run newspapers will improve matters. (I kid you not!)

    No wonder Putin thinks his actions are low risk!

  34. Anne Wotana Kaye 1 March 17th, 2014 – 21:42

    “Clarissa Dickson Wright died today”

    A truly wonderful woman and a very clever lady to boot.

    Of the many sensible things that she thought of would improve our world was her wish for ‘Badger’ to be back on the West Country menu, she claimed to remember ‘badger ham’s sitting on the bars of West Country Public houses.

    A sad loss to those of us who actively try each and every day to be non-PC.

  36. I see that our revered Foreign Secretary, whose brains, like his head are as bald as a badgers arse, is talking of deploying British aircraft to Ukraine. I did not know we had any aircraft left. There is talk of a new cold war approaching. Nonsense, it is being encouraged by witless fools whose lack of historical knowledge in nothing short of criminal. A century ago a cataclysmic war broke out over events in that neck of the woods, partially as a result of mindless sabre rattling. Britain had no need to join in, unfortunately it’s ruling class was struck by one of those attacks of suffocating morality which strikes us periodically, and is always detrimental to our
    interests

    Then as now we were saddled with the interference of a pig ignorant, self-regarding prig in the White House. Plus ca change, plus ca la meme chose.

  38. Frank P, March 18th, 2014 – 13:32

    “One is forced to the question: is Putin, ‘evil’ or otherwise,the best possibility that currently exists to withstand Islamic creep?”

    Speaking of Anjem Choudary, I reckon that Vlad could wipe the floor with him even with both arms tied behind his back!
    🙂

  39. David Ossitt
    March 18th, 2014 – 14:56
    Yes, David, it was her distain for PC nonsense that was the very essence of this dear woman’s soul. I am teetotal, practically vegetarian, anti-hunting, and against culling, yet I felt close to her despite our so different life styles. She was a free spirit, something our modern governments cannot tolerate.

  40. Frank P @14:05

    When making an allegation about Clifford’s cock, surely the CPS has to ask, “Will it stand up it court?”

    “I would suggest a Stanley measuring tape …”
    Yes, and in addition, very handy for measuring the column inches that the press will devote to Max’s traduced todger. 🙂

  41. EC

    “Will it stand up in Court?” 🙂
    Probably no coincidence that the QC for the prosecution is ‘Rosina Cottage’. You couldn’t make it up!!

  42. Baron (18 March @ 14:56)

    You wrote –

    “Latest on the lost plane: http://www.haveeru.com.mv/news/54062
    The question is can the locals be trusted……?

    That makes me ask – why would the pilot(s) waste fuel flying low over the Maldives if they were heading for Diego Garcia? And if any of us was in charge of the military facilities at Diego Garcia, and our radar detected a completely unexpected jumbo jet coming in low towards us, what would we do? Take the risk that it was lost and welcome it, or believe that it was intending to do a 9/11 – and act accordingly?

    I incline to think that as you suggest, the Maldives locals concocted their story to attract tourists.

  43. Verity

    I understand how attached you must feel towards your cats, but my own experience of cats is that they find it very difficult when they are moved to a new home. They seldom develop any attachment to their new location and very often wander off and can’t find their way back.

    Have you considered leaving them with a neighbour so that they can stay in a more or less familiar environment?

  46. “European Council President Herman Van Rompuy will not travel to Moscow to meet with President Putin tomorrow”, Reuters reports.

    If anything that will make Putin turn, why hasn’t anyone thought about it before.

  47. Baron
    March 18th, 2014 – 19:52
    It’s a hard choice one has to make, what sickens and horrifies more, the pervert or the sentence.
    Many of the judiciary are perverts.

  48. The history of Indonesia over the past 50 years is very murky, but I suspect that the relationship between China and Indonesia is not much more comfortable than that between China and Japan.

    Consider too the close ethnic and religious connections between the Malaysian and Indonesian populations.

    Next read this –

    http://www.chinasmack.com/2014/stories/indonesian-massacre-of-ethnic-chinese-documentary-reactions.html

    And now consider a Malaysian plane with Muslim pilots and and carrying mostly Chinese passengers.

    Is perhaps a motive lurking in there somewhere?

  49. It has been asked as to why in this sensitive area of the world FLIGHT MH 370 did not come up on Defence radar in (maybe) China or India;are any of these countries hiding their failure?

    There is the case of the Korean airliner shot down by the Soviets.Flying from the USA to South Korea the crew typed their destination into the inflight computer and ,reaching cruise height,switched on the auto-pilot.The computer then merrily flew the plane along the shortest course to Seoul.This took it over some of the most sensitive areas of the Soviet Far East.

    Soviet Air Defences missed it. It flew into their air space over the Kamchatka Peninsula and out to sea again.Then it violated Soviet air space again over Sakhalin.It was shot down by a Soviet fighter just before leaving Soviet airspace.I saw it as a panic measure to cover-up their failing to challenge the flight.

    If the Soviet Defences failed so badly at the height of the Cold War,then what is to be expected from India,Bengladesh and China in the present situation?

  51. Baron (18 March @ 19:55)

    I can’t imagine that Putin would turn, but I should think he might have difficulty preventing his stomach from turning.

    Indeed, I think that Herman Van Rompuy’s arrival anywhere would cause a great many stomachs to turn.

    Even seeing Herman Van Rompuy’s picture make me feel I need to throw up.

  52. Baron (20:45)

    Great link! Should be on our blog roll. He writes very well and sings from the same hymn sheet. Thank you.

  54. Herbert Thornton @ 20:32

    Baron was totally unaware of the slaughter by the Suharto units way back in 1965, it was a revelation to him, Herbert, but just the one picture in the link was gruesome enough for the barbarian not to watch the video. He must confess, the older he gets the more abhorrent he finds any violence, even to animals. He’s turned soft in his old age, far beyond the demands of sentimentality.

  55. Radford NG 18th, – 20:36

    So, the conspiracy theory, that a U.S. ‘spy plane’ had matched it’s position, course and speed with the Korean airliner, but at a 500ft difference in height, yet was spotted by the Soviets, who held fire until it pulled away to let the airliner continue on its own, only for them to target the wrong one, has been discounted, then?

  57. Herbert Thornton 18 Mch at 20-32
    Baron……………………………..23-05

    There is a very different story to the one claimed by the Chinese.

    President Sukarno (the `President Tito`of Indonesia) died of an heart attack on state TV at the national stadium.The communists saw this as a signal to take power and first murdered the army leaders they could find.

    Later;General Suharto told his story.He said his spiritual adviser had told him he should meditate that night `where the waters meet`;where the river enters the sea.Returning home he saw his house surrounded by armed men,so went to army HQ.There he organised a resistance (many of his fellows having been killed by the communists).

    An `amusing` story is told.An army squad,hunting down the Communist Party leader raided a house which they found empty:then they burst into laughter when they noticed a pair of shoes neatly lined-up by a wall.Behind them they found a closet in which he was hidding,having first politely taken off his shoes.

    [Sources:`The Australian`(Murdoch Press)1967]

    This seems a fairly reasonable story;it having kicked of with the public collapse of Sukarno.The Communists were an ethnic Chinese movement (just as they had been in Malaya during `The Emergency`).So the Army managed to get their counter-coup in and come out on top.No doubt it also lead to ethnic attacks against the rest of the Chinese who were the `Jews` of S.E. Asia as the merchantile class.

  58. Radford NG (19 March @ 02:00)

    I don’t dispute that there are many different versions of what happened. But I remember clearly that there were at the time many reports of very large numbers of people in Indonesia being killed and that the victims were generally reported in the media to be Communists and Chinese.

    However, whether or not there is any connection between that, and the disappearance of Flight MH370 and this Muslim cleric Abdullah Mansour holed up in Pakistan, the fact that he is declaring that it is the duty of all Muslims to attack China, and that they have many plans for it, can hardly encourage China to look on Pakistan’s government (a government renowned for its duplicity and that sheltered Osama bin Laden) as a civilised and reliable friend.

  59. Since my posting (19 March @ 03.01) I’ve found this –

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/465523/Taliban-We-wish-we-had-hijacked-missing-Malaysia-Airlines-plane-but-we-didn-t

    It seems to me that Muslim extremists are now doing their utmost to provoke China.

    Surely, if there is any issue that should give the U.S.A., Russia and China a common cause, it is this problem of Islam?

    I deliberately leave out any reference to the E.U. and the British government because their policies are so submissive towards Islam that it is hard to think of any terrorist outrage that will ever move them to do anything effective to save themselves from the fate of being, within a decade or two, over-run by Muslim immigrants and their progeny and subjected to Muslim rule.

  60. Maintaining the fiction:

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/19/obama-administration-unveils-climate-change-data-initiative/

    “The federal government plans a clearinghouse website for climate data at:

    http://climate.data.gov

    A quick look at the above website will confirm that this is the last place on the internet that you will find any actual data – particularly anything that conflicts with “the message” !

    This is the last place you’ll find any actual data:

  61. Today, from his padded cell in the Westminster asylum, Burgomeister Boris has been touting “Safer Urban Driving” courses ……

    Run by this lot:
    http://www.cycleconfident.com/about-us/

    On behalf of this lot: (an appendage of TFL?)
    http://www.fors-online.org.uk/index.php?page=SAFE_URBAN_DRIVING&return=P_CONTRACTORS

    Nooooo. These courses are not a pointless waste of time or money as they can count towards your CPC!!!

    “What’s a “CPC?” I hear you ask.
    The Certificate of Professional Competence is an additional licence – a compulsory registration scheme – that HGV/PSV drivers must have in addition to their regular driving licences and specific HGV / PSV qualifications! The CPC was introduced in 2009/10 as part of an EU Directive. (One can only watch in wonder at the dazzling competence that we see displayed, on a daily basis,by the drivers of the continental HGVs emerging from the Channel Tunnel & Ports)

    Dear Boris,

    Want to save lives, make money AND create more jobs?

    1. Recognise that cycling on roads is an inherently dangerous activity.
    2. Recognise that the majority of cyclists are either untrained, or ride in an undisciplined and therefore unsafe manner.
    3. For those wishing to operate cycles within London introduce the following compulsory requirements:
    a) Cycle training; b) Cycle licences; c) Cycle insurance.
    4. Steal a march on the “progressives” and introduce female only bike lanes for the muslims – before there are any complaints!

  63. I suppose there’ll be some who say the new poond coin’ll only buy what a fripenny bit did 50 years ago! (when a Mars was 6d and a Milky Way 3d!)

  67. EC @ 09:08

    Baron backs your suggestions what the blond wonder should do in regards the bloody cyclists more than hiyaku per cent, EC.

    Baron had more than few words, almost few blows, too, with a Lycra cladded moron who hit Baron at some speed on a pavement, then shouted at Baron ‘move, you fu*ker’. How that made the barbarian react you can well imagine.

    Some, and that’s quite a number, are a real menace to people, and should be stopped.

  68. Nobody here has picked up on the story in yesterday Daily Mail regarding a Muslim teacher.

    Apparently living on benefits yet giving private tuition in Arabic and the Koran to small groups of children at which he persisted in fondling a young girls breasts placing his hand under her outer clothing.

    The paper showed a photograph of a huge man in eastern clothing set free at his trial after being found guilty but the judge suspended sentence because his wife cannot speak English.

    Had this been a WASP language teacher he would have got and deserved a five year sentence.

    We see this far too often, where followers of the paedophile prophet are given licence and special favours, it is high time the west recognised the fact that there is an evil 5th column in our midst that must be squashed

  69. David Ossitt
    March 19th, 2014 – 12:32
    David, I do not mention these cases anymore as they are the rule rather than the exception. I believe I stated earlier here, that many if not most of the judiciary are perverts.

  70. Anne Wotana Kaye 1 March 19th, 2014 – 13:30

    “David, I do not mention these cases anymore as they are the rule rather than the exception. I believe I stated earlier here, that many if not most of the judiciary are perverts.”

    Hello Anne there was a time when I might have disagreed with you on this but we are now seeing daily examples to support your supposition that our judiciary are perverts or do increasingly treat those who commit perversions with undue leniency.

    My main gripe is how so many crimes, proportionate to ethnic numbers, are committed by those who follow the pervert prophet.

    To suggest or even hint that steps should be taken to rectify this by stopping all of their immigration and also setting up a planned programed of deportation of all of those who are convicted criminals together with their extended families, would in my opinion bring down the wrath of the wet-left who I am certain would try to compare it (quite erroneously) to the 1941-1945 holocaust.

    I do not have any answers but the education of the second and third generation English Muslims to teach the benefits of western tolerant values might well be a start, if at the same time all of the madrassa’s were closed down we might well in a few generations have them all assimilated with the main stream English.

  71. If you can’t make copy’s of the new 1£ coin it’s going to destroy the economy of Liverpool . !!!!

  72. David Ossitt @ 12:32

    You’ve misssed Baron’s posting on the story, David.

    The sentence was what it was because the cleric is well regarded in the Muslim community, has many followers. If the judge did what you suggest, and what the pervert fully deserves, who knows, a friendly mullah may have issued a fatwa on the judge. Self preservation trumps justice, hard to blame the judge, the fault lies with those statutes that prevent perverts, those who issue or carry out fatwas to be kicked out from the country.

  73. EC 19th, – 10:32

    “This is the whopper that started it all !”

    We-ell, I suppose…

    Seems to me the instant introduction of a 15% import surcharge, before the Chancellor had even got down to ‘looking at the books’ had a lot to do with it.

    But even that was insufficient to convince the brain-dead that Wilson was no better than any one of them, so they voted him in again, after two years of his blatant vote-buying handouts.

    Until then, I’d never believed how malign socialists could be in their greed for power…or how stupid the electorate could be…a lot of scales fell from my eyes in 1966!

  74. David Ossitt
    March 19th, 2014 – 14:39
    David, I do agree with you. Unfortunately what I am about to say will bring wrath down upon my head and no doubt I will be reviled as a bigot, etc. etc. Th muslims have no respect for women and a completely medieval ethos concerning human rights. If this was the problem, I would say kick the bastards out! But the real problem lies within the lack of decency, the destruction of moral values and Christian ethos and State mockery at marriage and family life. Britain is blighted by an Establishment which has no guiding values and is cursed by self-hatred. Just consider the members of the New Labour and NatLib parties, and unfortunately many of the perverts in the Tory ranks. It would not be viable to deport aliens who behave no worse than many of those of the host country, and it would be ridiculous to try and expect muslims to adapt to the immoral standards which are barely better than those which have been imported. Any early evening sees the half-naked, drunken women starting yet another night of clubbing with all the depravities possible. Would any moslem parent, one who is far from being a fanatic, want their daughter to emulate the western mode? No, I am afraid, the danger lies in the complete destruction of the high principles which once represented western civilization.

  75. I am presently in conversation with Alex Boot to organise An Evening with Alex Boot in central London later in the year. I’ll provide more details in die course and the means of ordering a ticket. I think the price will include a drink and something buffet-like to eat.

    Alex is speaking at the Freedom Association next Wednesday and I intend to be there and support him. I’ll add details of this event to the site shortly.

  76. Judging by sauer expressions on the faces of the beeboids on the BBC News tonight George Osborne’s latest budget must have been quite good!

  78. Peter from Maidstone @ 17:11

    Peter, when and where exactly next Wednesday? Does one need tickets?

  79. Sorry Baron, I got distracted cooking tea….

    http://www.tfa.net/events/event/freedom-in-the-city-event-with-special-guest-alexander-bolt/

    I don’t think tickets are required

    We are delighted to announce that Alexander Boot, author of How the Future Worked: Russia through the eyes of a young non-person (RoperPenberthy £12.99 ISBN 978-1-903905-82-1), will be our special guest speaker at this month’s Freedom in the City event.

    The event will be held in the Griffin Room at the Counting House on Cornhill, City of London, from 12.45 for 1pm on 26 March where Alexander will talk about how to understand Putin’s Russia.

    For more on Alexander’s background and his thoughts on the subject, go to alexanderboot.com
    Time and Date
    12.45pm, Wednesday 26th March
    Venue
    The Counting House
    50 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3PD

  80. I listened to almost all of George Osborn’s Budget speech which I think went very well and on the whole given the state the country is in, it had many very positive points and he should be congratulated.

    The Labour reply (not given by the shadow chancellor I wonder why?) was given by the Labour leader Ed Miliband, he quite frankly showed himself up as a winging wining class warier of the old school, he was a disgrace to his office.

    But then he always is.

  81. D.O. @ 19:17

    Our local Conservatives are using Gastricband’s speech on their website…it was THAT bad!

  82. David Ossitt @19:17

    I agree. At last an encouraging light at the end of the tunnel as George Osborne announced some very positive changes to the tax and pension system. By contrast, with his rather pathetic whinging rant, Miliband showed himself up to be a nasty, taxing, vicious little shit.

    I think that Farage and UKIP will do OK in the Euro elections in May, but they might now struggle in the May 2015 GE – particularly if George Osborne continues with policies that will reclaim the Conservatives’ core voters.

  83. Peter from Maidstone @ 18:44

    Thank you, Peter, sorry for the delay, a concert of gypsy music was to blame.

    Baron will try to make it, if you spot a bald, bewildered, over aged individual staggering around in utter confusion of mind, that’s him, Peter.

  85. I shall be there bewildered but hairier than most. Despite the recent good weather it’s far too early for my spring clip out!

  88. EC 20th, – 07:47

    “Senior Saudi Cleric Al-Fawzan: The Sun Revolves around the Earth”

    Of course it does. When you’re navigating with a sextant and chronometer it’s the motion of celestial bodies relative to a fixed datum on the Earth that’s important.

    🙂

  89. Ostrich (occasionally)

    Indeed. Not only that, but the Earth is also flat! It’s a disc resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named the Great A’Tuin as it slowly swims through space.

    Nurse, N-U-R-S-E !! The curtains…….

  90. EC @ 07:47

    This belief of his that’s good for a a laugh, EC, Baron forgives, he’s entitled to it, what worries more, much more is that these tossers insist governing societies by the same book. And what takes the worry beyond the ‘much more’ is those in charge seem to take a rather nonchalant view of it.

  91. Peter, a leather jacket, darkish brown should be of help locating the barbarian. Is it allowed? Please advise. (It’s not that often thses days Baron attends a gathering in the City. The era of Leigh-Pemberton was a different matter, and he was a guv to look up to, a banker and not just someone who talks banking).

  92. Anne,
    You are not a bigot, far from it. You have put the case with perfect clarity, I speak as one who knows what he is talking about having spent half his working life in the Middle East, and unless these people are turfed out of our country, they will eventually destroy us. As for that Saudi clown claiming the Sun revolves around the earth, well, he is typical of the genre, not unusual at all, and these people are in charge of Saudi education, they say what is taught in the Schools.

    The ignorance of these medieval witch doctors spreads far and wide, they have a stranglehold on Pakistani education, courtesy of that darling of the liberal West, Benazir Bhutto, and through Pakistan to here. No Anne, you are not a bigot, you speak the plain truth, and God willing you will continue to do so for many a year to come.

  93. Probably the most important motive for Putin’s takeover of the Crimea was his fear the new provisional government will annul the lease deal for the naval facilities in the peninsula, the only facilities this side of Russia that don’t freeze. If the Russian Navy were to be kicked out from the base they would have nowhere to go.

  94. Anne Wotana Kaye 1 @ 16:00

    How Baron missed it he’ll never know, it was stephen’s posting that led him to your musings, Anne, and Baron backs you fully, no bigot you, far from it.

    Why indeed should anyone, Muslim or not, be eager to join a culture that’s destroying the family unit, the basic block of any society known to man, a culture the leaders of which deride it, perceive it as one that has done more harm than good, a culture whose past has be apologised for, its victims compensated for?

    You may recall, Anne, Baron has expressed a similar view pointing out the fault is largely with us, it’s of our own doing, it’s within our control, If only we could wake up from this self-destructive, delusional imbecilic dream of the rainbow PC moral equivalence society things would get better, the ROP would know its place better, too.

  95. stephen maybery
    March 20th, 2014 – 12:07
    Stephen, many thanks for yoru good wishes.

  96. Baron
    March 20th, 2014 – 12:42
    Baron, excuse my ignorance, but what does ROP mean?

  97. EC@March 19th, 2014 – 22:04

    Do you really think the kippers will be bough off that cheaply? They hate the metropolitan elite, and the cynical way liblabcon run politics.

  99. Alexsandr @13:03

    I wasn’t thinking about committed UKIP-ers, but rather the disaffected voters in their 60s/70s who felt that they had been marginalised, over taxed and ignored for far too long. It’s a large potential voting block (growing larger each year) and any party would be foolish not to seek and reward their votes.

  100. Clear Memories

    C’mon. Get out your rowing boat and bring this log running mystery to an end!

  101. Anne, the ROP stands for the religion of peace, an aptly name movement of people who have both penchant for dressing up in tents and designs on running the planet, the one around which the sun turns.

  102. If the Scots vote ‘Yes’ to independence in September then how soon will MPs representing Scottish constituencies be barred from sitting in the Westminster parliament? Would they be allowed to stand in the UK GE in May 2015 ?
    As the song goes “There may be trouble ahead ……”

    My MP is currently one Rt. Hon.Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt and he has, imo, an unassailable majority. (baa-ing being caught and filmed shagging a dead goat, that is)

    Hopefully the LibDems will disappear from the equation but isn’t it most important that Labour don’t get back in in 2015?

  103. Peter from Maidstone @ 13:36

    Baron has decided on the same course of action, Peter. It’s pretty cynical of the Tories, and fits well with the destruction of democracy prophesied by the great men of the past:

    Tocqueville: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

  105. Baron @14:27

    Re: “candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury.”

    Please tell me what is wrong with “candidates” offering to reduce taxes?
    How is democracy threatened by that?

  106. Giving benefits from the public treasury is not the same as reducing taxation at all, EC. It means being where we are now, which is where a minority are now supporting a majority through their taxes. And being a majority it is ‘democratic’ for them to continue to take money off the minority.

  107. The Scots go to the polls in September and the powers that be, have, (if not welcoming the fact) at the very least acquiesced with their right to do so, whatever the outcome the democratic process will have been seen to be done.

    When the mad bad Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown by his people (with a little help from us and the French) the western world rejoiced and there was little mention and no criticism of the manner of his unseemly death, (buggered by dozens before being shot), the popular uprisings in Egypt first and second time round were broadly welcomed by the west, more so the first time round.

    There have been others of late.

    We as a country go out of our way to try to bring democracy to countries and regions that have no concept of, nor wish for a democratic government, where we succeed we do so in name only, take Zimbabwe as but one example, there are many more countries in Africa and around the world where their versions of democracy result in a corrupt dictatorship.

    And yet when a referendum on the status of Crimea was held on March 16, 2014, was called by the legislature of Crimea as well as by the local government of Sevastopol, both subdivisions of Ukraine.

    The referendum asked the people of these regions whether they wanted to join Russia as a federal subject, or if they wanted to restore the 1992 Crimean constitution and Crimea’s status as a part of Ukraine. It did not include the option for Crimea to become an independent state.

    The 1992 constitution accords greater powers to the Crimean parliament including full sovereign powers to establish relations with other states.

    The results were as follows.

    Join the Russian Federation 96.77%
    Restore 1992 constitution… 2.51%
    Invalid votes 0.72%
    Voter turnout: 83.1%

    How can we as a country demonstrate such double-standards by criticising both the plebiscite and the resulting overwhelming vote to return to mother Russia?

    This was true democracy in action, whilst we sit under the non-democratic rule of Brussels.

  108. “Giving benefits from the public treasury is not the same as reducing taxation at all, EC.”

    Did I say it was? You misunderstand me, and you are preaching to the converted!

  109. EC @15:46

    Nothing’s wrong with the reduction of taxes, EC, the things that’s wrong is bribing segments of the population with Treasury handouts. This isn’t the Tories only habit, Labour are much better at it.

    The reason Baron’s saying it is in that if you look at the Government budget over thelong term, the underlying trend is unarguably upwards, with small swings up and down around the trend. The State spends more and more of the national income, and it can do so only by taxing us (or borrowing which is even worse because it amounts to spending the income of the generations to come).

    You look at the chart of government spend (and borrowing) in the Fraser Nelson’s piece on the budget, it’s all there.

  110. We can blame Khrushchev, the crafty peasant whose brains were curdled by Marilyn Monroe for giving away the Ukraine. Can we blame Great Britain for having its head turned by Baroness Ashton? YES, if all our leaders involved with the EU are bent!

  111. Anne Wotana Kaye 1 March 20th, 2014 – 16:34

    “We can blame Khrushchev, the crafty peasant whose brains were curdled by Marilyn Monroe for giving away the Ukraine.”

    Anne he gave the Crimea to the Ukraine but at that time under the USSR it was but a slight of hand, it was a silly thing to do and should never have been done in the first place.

    The look of sheer joy on the faces of the revellers after the election was wonderful to see.

  112. David Ossitt @ 16:00

    Baron couldn’t put it any better, and not only because of his substandard English. You’re right, David, but it’s all a game for the elites, both ours and the Russian’s.

    The thing they’re fighting for is first oil and gas. Crimea has both, most of the fields yet unexplored, it has supplied around 40% of Ukrainian needs (Russia pumps in the other 60%). Also, the strategic importance of the Crimean ports to the Russian naval forces (or NATO if the peninsula were to change side). Baron reckons the turmoil in Kiev, the setting up of the anti-Russian government, may have clinched it for Putin, he didn’t want to wait until the Svoboda/Right Sector infiltrated new government lot in Kiev tore the treaty up, invited NATO boats instead. As Baron said before it’s the only deep water port facility that doesn’t freeze Russia has, Putin’s bating for Russia, hence the pouncing on the peninsula when we gave him a pretext he couldn’t dream he could ever get.

    Baron’s been on the side of the Russians on Crimea because he believes on this issue we are in the wrong. But also because the incident underscores how important it is for those who govern us to submit to the judgment of the ballot box regularly. It’s inconceivable an elected politician would have behaved as recklessly as the ghastly Baroness did. She may have had a 20-year plan for Ukraine, but she had no idea what to do next when the armed thugs carried out the putsch. (Baron hears an enormous pressure was put on the non-right parties in the government to get rid of the Sloboa, Right Sector lot, but they cannot, they and we are stuck with them).

    Let Baron, who reads some of the stuff these guys are putting out, tell you we are in for a shock of the millennium. Not only are the Nazi fanciers against the Russians, Jews, that’s given, they also cannot stand the ‘decadent West run by ‘the gays (they call them something else, Baron couldn’t possibly type it), lawyers, child molesters and bankers’.

    Something tells Baron it ain’t over yet, the loss may be too big for the Yanks and the EU since it’s us who will have to foot the bill, an it won’t be just the immediate need of $35bn.

  113. Baron March 20th, 2014 – 17:01

    The sad thing is that we are missing a golden opportunity to show friendship and understanding with the Crimean people, whilst at the same time letting Putin know that we are aware of the needs of the Russian people.

    We were once the world leader in diplomacy no country could outdo our Foreign Office when it came down being on the right and proper side of the argument.

    We should congratulate the people of the Crimea for holding their plebiscite and should let Putin know that we for one bear him no ill will.

  115. Baron –

    You can’t possibly type the Russian for it?

    Is it пидор? Козёл?  го́мик? (I found those words via the Internet today). Or is it something else?

    Come on, we’d like to know.

    My Russian vocabulary was a few thousand back in 1954 and definitely didn’t didn’t include those three words, but I now I doubt I can remember even a few hundred words.

  116. The biggest structural defects identified by John Hawkins are education and immigration, both of which are discussed at length in my book After America (personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available at the SteynOnline bookstore and whose revenue is much needed for my legal battle, he whines pitifully). But John puts it very well:

    An ideal immigration policy would be based on merit, would focus on adding highly skilled immigrants, would be easily adjustable, wouldn’t change the demographics of our country and would be simple and inexpensive for law-abiding immigrants. Our current system meets none of these requirements.

    Again, the national mythology – “nation of immigrants”, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, shining city on a hill – is an obstacle to the rational self-interest displayed by, say, Australia or (by comparison with America) Canada. Americans sincerely think that anyone can come here and become American, but, when the huddled masses are tens of millions of low-skilled, uneducated Latin-American scofflaws and the shining city is broker and more redistributive than Europe, the chasm between national ideology and reality is all but unbridgeable.

    The USA And us have one thing in common. !!!

  117. Re: Russia/Putin/Crimea/USA out of touch etc.

    There was an “Intelligence Square” debate held in the USA last week where the motion, “Russia Is A Marginal Power” was proposed. Peter Hitchens spoke against the motion and and wiped the floor with the opposition.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8zxCGhRLYc (23:54 mins)

    NB. For our enjoyment the “ukipwebmaster” has edited out all the non Hitchens bits. Peter’s comments are excellent.

    For anybody with 1hr40:52mins to spare, probably only Malfleur, the full debate is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy2YnAYn08Q

  118. Baron , March 20th, 2014 – 16:27

    “Nothing’s wrong with the reduction of taxes, EC, the things that’s wrong is bribing segments of the population with Treasury handouts.”

    We agree! Reduction of taxes MUST be accompanied by reduction in “benefits” and NOT increased Govt. borrowing! Taxation is legalised extortion. i.e.Theft! (“He Who Robs Peter To Pay Paul Can Always Rely On The Vote Of Paul” – ’twas ever thus, I suppose.)

    My modest proposal yesterday was that George Osborne’s budget had wrong-footed Labour and may have made it a little more difficult for UKIP to gather votes (of those +60) in the May 2015 GE. That’s all!

    Of course, a “YES” vote in the Scottish Indy Referendum in September will throw a whole bag of spanners into the works of next year’s UK GE. The upside of a “YES” vote would be that would be that, going forward, England would be free of the malign influence of Scottish socialists in the HoC.

  119. EC (08:07)

    Thanks for that link: I watched it patiently from beginning to end. Thought the premise was fatuous and events that have unfolded since the discussion have shown it be so, as ‘The West’ (whatever that might now comprise) has been scuttling around in the wake of Putin’s initiatives. Btw UKIP will become increasingly ‘marginalised’ if it censors the views of its detractors; they need to be heard and addressed (as Hitchens did, with his usual panache). Hitchens’ case would have been less potent , imho, had it just been assertion rather than refutation of a puerile proposition. All in all the idea that ‘soft power’ trumps blut und eisen is both wrong and wet. Speak softly, by all means, but unless the big stick is available and manifest, the words go unheeded in geopolitical terms. Obama’s big stick is somewhat flaccid, to put it mildly and Cameron’s little todger is reserved for onanistic pleasure, apparently. Or at best for pissing up the back of our electorate and suggesting its a short sharp shower over Somerset.
    Putin, sadly, has blut, eisen and cojones like cantaloupes. No contest, I’ m afraid. ‘Marginal power’ my arse’.

  120. Frank P – 13:00 ‘fatuous premise?’

    Thank you for saving me over an hour of my life!

    I watch the first ten minutes or so, from the introductions, until the first speaker started his speech. I then saw your post and thought it had ‘more content in a shorter time’ ….. in fact your outburst, (fatuous premise,) had more content than what I heard of the discussion!

    For Putin to win a referendum, at the first attempt, and for it to be ‘what the people want’, is foreign to the EU mind.

    At least Putin was elected by the people, sort of, and he looks after his own people. Isn’t that what a leader is for? If we were blessed with such leaders, discussing the finer points of Russian actions might be productive. But since we do not, what a waste of good intentions! Or are they well planned distractions?

  122. The naughty niece announces her travel plans:

    My Travel Plans for 2014

    I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently,
    you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.

    I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.

    I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport; you have to be
    driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family
    and work.

    I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I’m not too
    much on physical activity anymore.

    I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to
    visit there too often.

    I’ve been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm.

    Sometimes I’m in Capable, and I go there more often as I’m getting older.

    One of my favourite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the
    adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the
    stimuli I can get!

    I may have been in Continent, and I don’t remember what country I was in.
    It’s an age thing. They tell me it is very wet and damp there.

    PLEASE DO YOUR PART!
    Today is one of the many National Mental Health Days throughout the year.
    You can do your bit by remembering to send this email to at least one
    unstable person.
    My job is done!

  123. A question about flight MH370.

    It seems reasonably clear that the plane was flown very skillfully indeed in order to avoid being detected.

    So, is it plausible to think that the pilot’s only aim was to crash into a remote part of an ocean? I think it’s highly implausible.

  124. Does anyone know if rents of small flats or bunalows are cheaper than US?

    I want to get out Mexico but can’t aford the twelve hour flight plus travelling with three cats who wiould be forced to stay in the hold, sometimes unheated …. or a

    I like Canada, and think the medicine is at least as good as the US. The key is low rents.

    Anyone with any ideas? Waiting lists? Any waiiting lists anyone knows of? Ane how to apply’

    Who does one anyone have reagarding this?

  125. How would one get on a subsidised rent list of places to approach?

    How would I find a hotel that would take a person with three cats with officially operating cat passports, cetifying no rabies or leukemia expossure?

    Anyone got any ideas for a cheap flight?

    What aout through Barbados? How long is the fllight from Jamaica?

  127. Yes, Alexander, indeed I have started investigating. In fact you are the Number One investigee. As it happens, I long distance sea travel myself. I was wondering about ship (just a starter idea) to Barbados, say, then pick up a long distance carrier with room a comfortable climate for the cats. What say?

    I am just about to investigate your link!

  128. Well, your link was mainly negative so I am not going to pay any attention to it. Don’t you know any better links?

  129. Herbert Thornton @ 22:50

    You are determined to get Baron into trouble, Herbert, aren’t you. This blog is almost certainly monitored, the barbarian has to be careful, so no, he cannot say what it was. but a hint: it’s what they actually do.

  130. EC @ 08:07

    Baron has always had a soft spot for Peter Hitchens even if he has disagreed with him. Watching him in the clip enhances the level of admiration still.

    The performance was awesome, the knowledge of history overpowering, the articulateness unbeatable. Why cannot we have someone like him in power? Why do we have to put up with the boy who only today kept saying “the international community condemns Putin …’.

    Has Baron missed the election in the international community? Has he been elected o represent it? Baron was under the impression he was our PM, and even then his condemning Putin on our behalf would be stretching it. Baron for one doesn’t condemn the KGB colonel for Crimea, he may oppose other things he does, but in this instance the blame for the misery the Ukrainian unwashed are likely to encounter from now on rests largely with us, well, to be more accurate, the unelected Brussels diplomatic dilettantes mostly.

    Thanks for the link, EC.

  131. Baron –

    Your apprehension of getting into trouble reminds me powerfully of the months in 1964 before I finished my employment contract in East Africa and we were entertaining some visitors from Britain. Suddenly I heard this exchange –

    “Good heavens, it’s true.”

    “What’s true?”

    “People here look over their shoulders before they say what they think.”

    And it certainly was true. We did look over our shoulders. It had become a necessary habit.

    It sounds like that’s what it’s now like in Britain. I’ve been suspecting it, but what you write seems to confirm it. Britain must now have its very own version of the Gestapo and of the 1930s Japanese Thought Police.

    However since I don’t live there I’m going to take the risk of Britain trying to extradite me. Are these are near to the words that you have in mind?

    “заниматься муж…..ством.”; “заниматься сод….ией.”?

  132. RobertC @ 13:18

    Putin in his press conference made no reference to international community, he spoke on behalf of Russia, did acknowledge not everyone in Russia agreed with him, but the majority did, and said he was going o prove the doubters the move was the right one.

    How Baron wished the boy could talk in the same manner. Peter Hitchens was right, it is a clash between the internationalists, the no border elite, and those who believe the best arrangement is the one we’ve had for centuries, individual countries where people live as they wish, pay taxes that should be spent on things that benefit all, or on the lesser able.

    Any time there is a natural disaster somewhere, usually in the lands governed by the ROP worshippers, the boy responds within hours promising assistance, money, It took him almost three weeks to respond to the Somerset flooding disaster, and even then the money wasn’t particularly impressive. Hasn’t he figured yet people notice it?

  133. Herbert Thornton @ 23:40

    Baron takes it you live in the Republic. If so, find any Russian male, ask him, he must know. And yup, you close.

  134. TO VERITY
    Dear Verity, I wish I could help/advise you as I was in a similar position to you ten years ago. First, subsidised housing by local council or housing association, to which local councils send applicants is not only very hard to obtain, but nearly all will not accept pets. Cats are a no-no! Of course, certain classes get away with bull pit dogs and other dangerous curs on the estates where they roam. I assume you are a white, British-born educated lady, and that will not help you one bit. I also assume you have no behaviour problems, are not a substance addict and have no criminal record. The Bolshie establishment will therefore not be over-inclined to assist you. I doubt that a decent hotel which would (doubtful) accept 3 cats would be affordable. It sounds harsh, but I would advise forgetting about the UK. Surely Canada would be a more viable place. Are you a car driver? If yes, then perhaps the journey from Mexico to Canada could be staggered, crossing into the USA by car and cutting the air travel to a minimum.

  136. Verity @ 19:59

    Baron cannot help either, he doesn’t really know what your intentions are? Are you trying to get out of Mexico and looking for countries you may settle in? Or are you trying to get to tthe UK? If you have British citizenship you should be able to come back here, a chap involved in a train robbery decades ago did because of NHS, but he had friends here.

    There may be a charity in Britain that helps English people who want to return to the UK, you may try to google to find out. But you should make up your mind what it is you want first.

    Have a look here, it’s for British expats returning back to Britain, the first item is about housing:

    http://www.britsabroad.com/f4/

  138. Verity, I’ve said several times that you need to go through the benefit forms and see what housing benefit you would be entitled to. Only you know your financial circumstances.

  140. Verity@March 21st, 2014 – 21:21

    re shipping – dunno. try googling it.

    re housing. subsidised housing has gone in the UK. You pay the full cost and claim housing benefit from the local council. They will asses your income and assets according to national regulations and pay you.

  141. Verity you have for quite some time been asking for help on this site on how best you can find housing/mode of travel and help with your cats on your proposed return to the UK.

    Quite a few of us have been happy to provide you with links to various web sites that might be of help to you and also give you some advice, I myself researched housing associations on your behalf and provided you with a couple of links.

    You are now considering other countries such as Canada, I strongly suspect that this is because you could actually drive there or go by bus or train these being less arduous means of transport for your cats.

    I suspect that I am not alone in my opinion that you basing a decision on where to live and possibly where you spend the rest of your life, on the immediate and future comfort of your three cats, is not very rational.

    If you were to putt your emotions to one side and look at the problem from a purely practical point of view, you might well come up with the opinion that your cats would be best served if you were to find new homes for them in Mexico, this would allow you the freedom to move wherever you might wish.

    Let me state that I have loved and cared for many cats in my lifetime and do consider myself and myself as both a cat and a dog lovers.

  142. David – Thank you for your thoguhtful reply and in a sense you are right.

    But everyone has been so discouraging about finding accommodation for cats in Britain, and the whole process seems to be a tangled web of one-upmanship and a desire to put other people down (except muslims) that I don’t even know where to begin looking, or how. I want to be back in my own country but every idea I have is slapped down. I don’t have enough money to buy a flat of own which we could just walk into, and I don’t know how to find a rental flat.

    I am utterly miserable and have no help because around 90% of the expats here are American or Canadian and they all have their own properties in the US oor can stay with family.

    Re new homes for them, the Mexicans don’t like cas. I have been interested to see over the past couple of years that they seem to be developing an interest in dogs which they used to treat, within a few years ago, foully. Now (this is after 20 years of visiting Mexico. It’s not going to happen over night.)

    It is a horrible, horrible, sickening dilemma and I don’t know how to to cope with it. That is why I thought of Canada.

    My British pension is a mess, as welll. Never leave people of this ilk to themselves.

    Does anyone know of an MP who likes cats?

    Thank you for any ideas you may have. I will follow through.

  143. Verity, if you wish to know what benefits you might be entitled to you really must sit down and fill in the online form to calculate what they might be. That will tell you how much housing benefit you might be entitled to and therefore where you might be able yo live. Lots of places will allow cats but the first question must surely be what you can afford right rent and what subsidy you would receive.

  144. Verity @ 14:59

    It never helps anything if one mentally panics. It;s easier said than done, Baron admits, nevertheless it must be said. One doesn’t help oneself thinking ‘all’s black, there isn’t a way out, and if there’s it’s no good anyway ….. ‘ You recall the good old English ‘will, there is, way, there is, too’?

    Have you been in touch with the British Consulate in Mexico? Here’s the website that gives the address. You should write to them, Verity, do not send an e-mail. Tell them about your predicament, you want to get back, any detail you may feel is relevant. If you were to tell Baron where you lived here in Britain before you decamped offshore, the barbarian will get the name of the MP, you may write to him, too, ask him to help you with your pension. The more doors you knock on, the greater the chance one will open.

    The cats however are a massive problem, Verity, Baron’s sorry for making jokes about it earlier, but the cats are making the whole thing far more difficult if you were to decide on Britain. Private property owners here by and large don’t like any animals, many councils have restrictions, too, and housing associations aren’t far behind. David Ossitt has a very valid point.

    Verity, life’s tough, one has to look after number one, you stick with your cats, the end outcome may not be to the liking of both you and the cats.

    Britain is full of the furry animals, you can get as many cats as you like after you’ve sussed up what you can and cannot do away with. It cannot be you are the only cat lover in Mexico, there must be others, advertise, put a little note in the window of a local shop, give the people who take them some cash even. Trust those who keep telling you the cats are near unsurmountable hindrance for your move.

    It may of course be a different matter if you want to relocate to Canada, Baron has no idea whether one can bring cats there, but as far as Britain goes even if you ship the cats OK, finding somewhere to live will be very much harder, it will restrict your choice substantially.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/world/organisations/british-embassy-mexico-city

    And another thing: you may also like to ask the Embassy people in Mexico whether they have had someone who also decided to return to Britain, they may even tell you who, you may contact them, ask them for advice.

    You keep your chin up, Verity, things may turn better than you think.

  145. Roman Abramovich today seems to have delivered the perfect answer to David Cameron, who threatened to add him to the list of Russians due to be sanctioned because Vlad The Destroyer has been flexing his muscles and warding off the advances of EUSSR (unlike our own ‘leader’).

    Chelski beat The Gunners 6 – 0.

    Up your Arsenal, Prime Minister!

  146. verity
    if you do decide to come to the UK and need new cats, there are cat rescues that look to rehome cats, either kittens or adults
    we got an adolescent female, about 6 months old whos owner had become too old to look after her. she has an eyesight problem but does just fine.
    we used the blue cross but other cats homes exist.

  148. Alexandr – Thanks but I love my cats too much to shake their lives by walking away from them. Two of them were born from their mother’s vulva into my hand. As they slid out of her into my hand, my heart was tied for life.

  150. Frank P @ 16:59

    A sad, sad day for Baron, Frank, it’s his team that got embarrassed, and by Chelsea out of all teams.

    The fate of Arsenal only confirms Baron’s pet theory of the importance of money in today’s world more than before, for inst. as sickening salaries for the boys who kick the ball, and as bonuses for another bunch of boys in banking.

    Wenger did well for the club before the big money brought into the game began changing the hiring od ‘stars’. The British banking ‘stars” did well, too, when the big money flew.

    Wenger as a manager is top class, sadly he doesn’t have the class of players to match because he refuses to pay the going rate, van Persie, Nasri, others are getting now three times the cash they got at Arsenal. This and the behaviour of some of the Arsenal’s stars, like the wunder boy Wiltshire: An opponent takes the ball from him, as happens often, he gets down, looks hurt, short of kicking and shouting ‘mummy, mummy they’ve taken the ball from me’. These two things did it for the club, Baron fears Arsenal won’t make it into Europe next year.

    And in banking? Well, before and two years after the insanity that nearly buries us all, Goldmans and Barclays made roughly the same pile of money. The latest result: Goldmans around £5bn, Barclays about £0.5bn, and the bean counter who runs the British outfit says he’ll not pay any bonuses next year.

    The big money in banking isn’t made in retail side of the business, but in the investment area, companies taking over rivals, IPOs, re-financing, advisory and stuff like that. In retail, it’s lending to us, not much profit in it, but the Treasury remains as keen as ever to get their coffers full. So what will they do?

    The answer is in today’s DT. The mansion tax is coming next year, only for the super rich, of course, and everyone’s happy. If one has £35mn to buy a pile one cannot find it hard to please the taxman with £350,000 each year.

    How long will it take for the tax to be levied on everyone with those who rent applauding such move? Baron reckons five years, give or take a year or two. Instead of the banks earning, and paying a massive tax on, what the likes of Goldmans will earn in the future, the millions of burghers will pay in the mansion tax. Lunacy.

  152. Those Wallsters who have been waiting impatiently to hear George Galloway’s most recent views on some current events will find him interviewed by Alex Jones about – emphasising “about” – 1.30hrs into the following posting of Friday’s Alex Jones Show – interesting in particular for Galloway’s on the mysterious death or disappearance of Kenneth Lay of Enron:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OWU2Kd5Tu8

  153. Good too on the “delayed payoffs” made to, for example, Tony Blair for serving the interests of the payers while in office.

  154. EC@March 23rd, 2014 – 08:42

    I bet the Chinese are delighted to send over some of their spy planes. One bets their electronic warfare kit is running at full tilt gathering evidence of stuff in Australia, and in the countries they overflew from China to Perth.

  156. Baron (16.59)

    Yes, I follow the Gunners myself, but I wasn’t really addressing the big dipper form of Arsenal in particular and the EPL in particular; as I’m sure you know, I was trying to be cynical, satirical and provocative in equal measure about the idiocy of the current E v W counter-propaganda, which is about as risible as Arsenal’s performance on Saturday and as oboxious as the strutting of the dago who currently manages the team of yobs that comprised their opposition.

    BTW – I’ll attempt to address the question your raised in your comment (08:42 yesterday) in a serious post later today. I may not succeed – as with many previous attemps; it is all too easy to blame sub-groups within homo sapiens for the human frailty that defines us all , as evidenced by the sad chronicle of human interaction since our ancestors crawled from the sea and evolved in the slime ( much of which resiliently continues to stick to our pouting posteriors as we pretend, prance and pontificate).

  157. Robert C (16:46)
    🙂 You’re obviously one of my Naughty Niece’s script writers.

  158. Frank P – 13:48

    If only! But I think the Telegraph headline writers should get some sort of accolade, even though it isn’t Christmas:

    “Syrian jet shot down by Turkey”

  159. Frank P @ 13:46

    Come on, Frank, of course, the barbarian knows, if fact, a tiny bug of enviousness surfaced, crawled in his heart, how come you’ve come up with this association, why cannot he.

    Still, anything you furnish will be gladly received, and not only by the poorly educated Slav, he reckons.

    Weird as it may be, Baron ranks the police at the top of the institutions he trusts here. Admittedly, he only has had dealings with th e uniformed branch, but living (the stress is on living, not visiting, reading about) in half a dozen countries, the British bobby beats hands down every other equivalent for him. No argument here.

    On nights the moon is out, and no winds, Baron goes often for a walk. On asphalted roads, cars are rare an hour or so before midnight, well, one or two at most pass him probably amazed someone can walk at this hour, it’s safe because one can spot them coming from miles away. It’s a heart uplifting experience, the walk.

    Who says Suffolk is flat? Around here the land is either adulating, or sits on gentle slopes, easy to conquer even for the half dead Slav, pleasingly cut hedges around, old oaks line the roads, the occasional hooting of an owl, an even rarer crossing of the road by the deer. We have over two hundred of them, someone is culling the creatures, in the fields Baron often spots SUVs moving around, strange orange lights then pop, pop. Are they allowed shooting at night?

    On two of such excursions Baron got stopped by a police car. Once two policewomen who chatted for some time, mostly nonsense, Baron asking to join them, they saying ‘you think you could do us both, do you?’, that’s sort of banter. The point is though, they must have picked Baron’s accent, yet they believed him when he said where he lived. A true community policing, and lets hope it survives.

  161. To follow on Baron at 16.54:

    Are you aware that the CPS has dropped a case against a man who contacted an FGM (female genital mutilation) helpline to request the procedure for his two daughters after misunderstanding the purpose of the service for victims.

    Mark Steyn comments: “Oh, dear. What an unfortunate “misunderstanding”. The gentleman had called the Female Genital Mutilation Helpline thinking it was a helpline set up by Her Majesty’s Government to help you find someone to genitally mutilate your daughters. In the rich, vibrant diversity of the modern multicultural state, it’s easy to see why the poor fellow might make that assumption. Just give it a couple more years, sir”.

    We must be truly mad.

  162. EC (23 March 08:42)

    You wrote –

    “Cutting through the misdirection surrounding the flight of MH370:

    US Gen. McInerney says the plane is Pakistan.

    This video explains how it got there avoiding the Indian Air Force.

    http://video.foxnews.com/v/3374590856001/closer-look-at-gen-mcinerneys-missing-plane-theory/#sp=show-clips

    I think that he’s got it about right.” So do I.

    I see too that Lt. General McInerney has since received some more information and continues to come to the same conclusion –

    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/03/breaking-lt-gen-mcinerney-says-mh370-in-pakistan-i-got-a-source-at-lignet-that-confirmed-it-yesterday-video/

    It seems to me that the U.S. and Europe ought to stop their fatuous obsession with Crimea and Ukraine and instead seek to form an alliance with both Russia and China to deal with the far more serious, actual war being constantly waged against all of them and on the rest of the civilised world by Islam.

  164. I can’t hep thinking the furore (eg, on Breitbart) over Sharia compliant wills is hot air over nothing in particular. English law has never prevented anyone making a will that complies with Sharia or any other religious principles, provided it doesn’t infringe the Wills Act.

  166. Baron @ 16:19

    You were lucky – or possibly unlucky – that they didn’t ask you to show them your genitals.

  167. Malfleur
    March 24th, 2014 – 00:16
    ‘Rubber-stamp’ prescribing of statins is a combination of professional laziness and possible corruption by the upper echelons of health service management.

  168. “A woman left scarred when her friend attacked her with acid accuses Scotland Yard of incompetence, saying they initially claimed she had done it to herself.
    (ON BBC News web)
    We should not be surprised by this Scotland Yard inaction. It is not incompetence, but rather the disinclination to investigate and prosecute anybody wearing the obscene dress of a moslem female. The criminal was not a moslem, but just the fact that she was clad as one gave her protection in this mad country.

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