Jan
26
Two New Books Available on Amazon
January 26, 2012 | Comments Off
20% of Profits go to the Party of your Choice Britannia Rules is being upgraded with the launch of two new books by Ashley Mote. They will be available only to on-line subscribers to this website. Available nowhere else, a one-off subscription of £25 buys immediate unlimited access to both books, including each of the [...]
Sep
12
A Musical Message for Brussels
September 12, 2011 | Comments Off
Eat your heart out Brussels! How embarrassing! How frustrating! How delicious! Not a single EU banner (the ring of thorns) appeared anywhere at any venue featured in The Last Night of the Proms, and broadcast around the world by the BBC yesterday evening. If any organisation could have been relied on to find one amongst [...]
Sep
7
Dialogue with John Redwood Goes On
September 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Since my original posting of email exchanges with the Tory MP John Redwood those exchanges have continued. Probably now at an end. To bring you up-to-date, and in reverse order, these are the last few : AM to JR 7 September What is unreasonable about a responsible government instituting a cost:benefit analysis of any major [...]
Sep
1
Immigration Drives the Call for More Housing
September 1, 2011 | Comments Off
Why do we need more housing when our population is not growing? According to Cameron’s government the percentage of house-owners is falling and we need to free up the planning process. In future, he wants an assumption of approval for what he calls ‘sustainable’ development. (Quite what makes housing sustainable remains a mystery.) According to [...]
Aug
30
Dialogue with Redwood opens up over leaving EU
August 30, 2011 | Comments Off
My initial response to John Redwood’s blog drew a reaction. As you will see below, he has now asked for ideas! 31 Aug 2011 Good to know we have a dialogue on this issue. I will be brief – initial thoughts, and all deadly serious 1. Repeal of the 1972 Act requires a majority of [...]
Aug
29
EU Supporters Still Don’t Get It
August 29, 2011 | Comments Off
We Won In The End – German MEP Recently, my good friend Idris Francis has engaged in a series of vigorous email exchanges with Open Europe, which – over the years – has generally expressed serious doubts about the EU and the UK’s place in it. But recently it has appeared to be increasingly in [...]
Aug
25
EU’s 500 million euro scheme to interfere with UK justice
August 25, 2011 | Comments Off
The EU has been funding a programme in the UK since 2007 which is specifically aimed at interfering with the British legal system. The current UK government is administering the scheme, as did the last one. The EU has been offering more than 500 million euros to non-profit organisations (NGOs) since 2007. The programme is [...]
Aug
23
Letter in Daily Telegraph
August 23, 2011 | Comments Off
The Daily Telegraph today (22nd August 2011) published almost all of the following letter which was in response to a reader’s complaint that the Sarkozy/Merkel meeting last week was “undemocratic” and “dictatorial” Sir Philip Payne (letters 19 August) complains about Merkel and Sarkozy meeting separately to discuss EU policy. But that was precisely what Chancellor [...]
Jul
10
Utter Humbug
July 10, 2011 | Comments Off
Much of the righteous indignation about hacking is utter humbug… A letter in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph (9 July) put it very well : ”New Labour’s control freaks allowed many agencies, not just government one’s, to hack into individuals’ phone and email communications….personal privacy was consigned to history by the last government with its abysmal record [...]
Jun
25
Greece is Bust Already
June 25, 2011 | Comments Off
The proposition that Greece cannot be allowed to go bust, or default, is absurd. It is already bust. The fact that the Brussels elite won’t face this inescapable fact not only proves they are spectacularly out of their depth. It also demonstrates beyond doubt that they are allowing politics to dominate the financial facts of [...]







