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I know this isn't a shock (the shock is, that with legal obligations the BBC are allowed to ignore them), but BBC News is actually just opinion through Left wing ideologically tinted glasses.

This morning Teresa may was 'interviewed' on Breakfast TV. The interview pretty much consisted of trying to trip her up on her Brexit talks or get her to say something negative about Boris Johnson. You know, stuff that only really matters to Leftie journalists and no-one else. It failed.

So then they went over to one of their own journalists and asked his opinion of what she had said. Why? Who cares? But of course, it looks like independent verification of Leftie ideas.

There is plenty of scope for a truly independent journalist to tear into the Conservatives and their, so far, bland conference. Conservatives (at least, traditionally) are about small government, individual liberty, freedom of opportunity and equality before the law.

What we currently have is a high spending looks-like-Labour Tory party that is in danger of appealing to absolutely no-one.

The still in sixth form journalists posing as adults on the BBC could just ask May "why don't you massively shrink the bloated state sector? Tony Blair, a man of no use or utility, hugely increased the state payroll to acquire client voters, so why not reverse it and close down the ever-increasing debt mountain?

Why not point out the damage not only the Labour actions of the Seventies did to Britain, but the current mess left by the policies and action of Blair and Brown? Having done so, you can then move on to the painful process of dealing with it. It is not the fault of those employed in the pointless bureaucracies and quangos dreamed up by Blair, that they are so employed. But for the sake of the country these constructs and their jobs need to go.

By being honest and up-front we can perhaps give them time to find alternative employment (though people like Shami Chakrabarti need a special kind of employer), before shutting the doors.

Why not change the school curriculum to include education on the agenda instead of endless Marxist propaganda. Then the future won't consist of emotionally weak, under educated snowflakes, but with people of drive, skilled and imaginative.

Hell, even without a proper education, how about an open science lesson about Climate Change; it would be an hour well spent and then the day after we can withdraw all the green-scam subsidies and reduce everyone's energy bills. The shock may melt some snowflakes and cause the rent-seekers to squeal like stuck pigs, but it would also save the lives of the pensioners condemned to die of cold this winter, because they can't afford to pay to heat their homes and enrich charlatans.

Lies, Damned Lies And Water Shortages

Because, I presume, all this water that is cascading from the sky may be giving us the impression that the drought might be over, the usual thing happens. The BBC, the nations' broadcaster on behalf of their own ideology, trot out a reporter to a reservoir on the day of the heaviest rain. 'The water here', he intones, 'would normally be way over my head at this time of year'. He carried on to say that the rain just wasn't enough. But, forgive me if I am wrong, but I don't think reservoirs fill up exclusively with rain that falls directly on to them. I think they have rivers and possibly other water courses feeding into them.

This water doesn't arrive on the same day as the rain of course. Which is why the BBC rush someone out, with downpours fresh on your mind and raincoat and tell you it isn't enough, because there is a drought story running, which very possibly may allow a 'Climate Change' angle to be worked in at some point. Anyway, us plebs get a 'narrative' not the news and certainly not the truth. And still no need for water companies to repair leaks, even with the 'drought'.

Lordy, lordy Brown is getting a kicking he richly deserves via Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson enquiry. Don't overdo it Rupert, just a decent hint that the man was completely unhinged will do, bearing in mind we have seen plenty of evidence of that ourselves! And fancy Brown getting Lord Mandelson to tell lies, I mean, why him? Oh yes, because he doesn't do anything else!

I saw two swallows this morning. I am well aware that this still does not qualify as a summer prediction, but my optimism shall not be thwarted, or the nation's done for.

Pot, Kettle

Well, unbelievably the headline in today's Telegraph online is that Dave Hartnett, head of HMRC wants us to understand that paying tradesmen in cash is 'diddling the country'. Firstly, to be true it requires every tradesman to be a liar, inasmuch that he is saying they all don't pay their taxes, which I don't doubt is largely true but still potentially libellous.

Secondly and much more importantly, I think the head of the tax office letting large companies off billions of pounds of tax (and interest) owed is a far more serious situation, perhaps requiring a slightly more serious word than diddling to describe. There has been some talk recently about the decline in moral standards in Britain (with some correctly understanding this is directly connected to the overt corruption of Tony Blair's gang) and I think this clearly fits into it.

Economically literate types (e.g. not Labour) understand the Laffler curve effect on taxation. If you tax highly, people look for ways to avoid paying it. At a lower level everyone pretty much agrees it is something they should pay and also low enough that they can't be bothered to see if they can avoid any of it. So you get more by lowering the rate of tax (as long as you don't have someone lunching with big company bosses from the tax office).

The kind of deceit Hartnett refers to has always been tacitly accepted, but much of the moral decline is due to more unsavoury behaviour by New Labour than just their incessant raising of taxes. The lying (and obvious lying) by the PM and his MP's sent a message that it was OK for everyone to do it. And with binge drinking, which is also part of the NL culture a little lying fits in pretty well. No personal responsibility, you see.

There was a comedian (I believe) on QT last night who was quite brilliant with his left liberal deceit. He started off by saying that the top 1 percent of Footsie 100 executives had increased their pay recently (during a recession) by 49%. He then contrived to link this to the £26,000 benefit cap, proposed by the coalition government and then had a stab at Melanie Phillips for being concerned about the 'working poor'. He was applauded well for this diatribe by the audience.

I wonder though, if they listened to the words and not the delivery they would have thought 'hang on, that doesn't make sense'. The working poor do get a bad deal. If you can't afford another child on your wages you don't have one. The state doesn't find you a nice, larger house, because you have decided you need ten child benefit payments, to meet your needs. More should be done for those that help themselves. Similarly, the well paid executives wouldn't offend me if they earned it, but too often they are paid highly 'by arrangement'.

One set of executives sit on a remuneration committee for another set and award generous salaries and bonuses for success or failure. The favour of course, is returned. This is what we must stop.

It is rich however (no pun intended) to watch politicians spout on about nasty bankers when a) the bankers did what they did following the leadership of Blair and the financial pushing from Brown -two particular idiots, a perfect storm of politicians. And b) the MP's were finding ever more openly criminal ways to enhance their salaries, but how many of them paid a price for their behaviour? The message over MP's expenses was writ large and clear; we are corrupt, we acknowledge that we have been caught, but we don't really care what you think, we will carry on doing whatever we want and only the small will go to jail, if anyone must.

There should have been serious police intervention, with large scale arrests and, from what we know quite a lot of imprisonments. However, when one force cannot decide what happened when the Deputy PM was filmed assaulting a member of the public and when another force agonises over what to do, when presented with clear testimony supporting a charge of perverting the course of justice against a Cabinet Minister, then I guess we couldn't expect much from the Constabularies, who are clearly corrupted themselves.

If we think a political party of any colour will offer a fair system of taxation and do substantive good to support the working poor, when senior members of their ranks are not prosecuted for lying in their declarations to the tax office and parliamentary officials, then we are deluding ourselves.

How Ideology Destroys

Ideology is the dangerous moment someone decides that their idea is correct, in every way, perfect. There is no shifting them and yet it is still only an idea. A way of thinking or of doing things. For instance, ideology told Gordon Brown that he should sell much of the UK's gold reserve. Gold was he said, old hat. This notion that wealth runs to gold in times of crisis was an ancient and out of date concept.

Not only had Brown ended the boom and bust cycle, his ideology told him, thus making crises a thing of the past, but also economic theories such as he cleaved to, proved that currency not gold provided stability. So, after announcing the sale in advance, thus driving down the price of gold, Brown achieved a remarkably small price for a large slice of the nation's treasure. With the proceeds he bought bits of paper, mainly Euro's. Brown had passed 'Go'.

It is of course difficult to think of a single thing on which Brown was correct, but allied to his own limited abilities was the fact that he based everything around a misguided ideology. Reality had to fit around what he thought should happen. Which is why gold stands at $1,777 an ounce and the Eurozone looks like a game of Monopoly and Brown says nothing in public, just sitting at home in a chair, I should imagine, rocking back and forth saying 'I'm right you know, I'm right'.

In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweiss told surgeons in Vienna that they should wash their hands before treating patients. They were outraged. This had never been forced on them before and they could see no reason to do it now. While the experiment lasted though, mortality rates dropped like a stone. But they still got rid of the upstart. Ideology rules.

For people who would have been hippies in the 1960's, the idea that humans are destroying the planet is a powerful and beautiful idea (most forcefully displayed in all its stupid inelegance, in the monster waste of time and effort that is the film Avatar).It didn't matter if it was true or not, it fitted want they wanted to believe, their prejudices. It was an ideology. The irony is though, that they think humans can solve the planet's ills. Some even believe that we should use our technology to actually change the world's weather, to counter the affects their ideology (and nothing much else) tells them we are causing.

Ideology has the (usually quite well off, Western) hero wistfully observing, maybe from a train whilst enjoying a slice of Black Forest gateau, a peasant in a paddy field, bent over pushing rice plants into the ground, ankle deep in muddy water. Here, our sated saint feels, is the 'noble peasant' asking for nothing more than a small plot on which to grow a meagre supply of rice to feed his family. He has honour in the way his toil provides for his family.

The peasant of course, glances up as the train clatters by and answers 'piss off you bastard, this is back breaking work that barely keeps us alive. I want what you have'.

Government Inquiries

Anybody else a little cynical about the inquiries announced by the government into the phone hacking scandal? It seems that it will investigate the actualities, the police involvement and that of politicians, all under oath. Why this sudden 'no limits' approach to investigation? The last time we had such noble openness was when Blair launched an inquiry, as soon as he came to power in 1997, into events that only involved the previous, Tory, government. Well, I think that with all the parties agreeing at the moment we can be fairly sure no political shenanigans will find their way into the spotlight.

Of course, there could be the odd wild card. They may have overlooked the media's ability to drag others into their world. And then there is Gordon Brown. His deranged statement in the House yesterday, lapped up by the dimwit Speaker is probably a sign of things to come. Brown claims not least, to be speaking for those 'without a voice', victims of phone hacking, but not for himself. When did Brown think past his own concerns? If he had any actual moral fibre, he would have turned up a few more times in the House, for which he is paid. He is the best loose cannon we could hope for in all this. Though I dream of the moment someone says, 'yes but we did this on behalf/at the behest of the Prime Minister or his Director of Communications'. You know I don't mean Andy Coulson....

Brown 'In Tears'

More mysterious mutterings about what people know (touch side of nose) of the hacking scandal at News International (now that the Sun and Sunday Times have had fingers pointed at them we can no longer call it the NotW scandal). Policemen knew they were hacked but felt churlish about mentioning it before apparently and Gordon Brown knows about his son's medical records being hacked, his own bank accounts and that this was done by criminals. The police investigation continues in slow motion it seems and Robert Peston (who should have been imprisoned previously) may be 'too close' to a NI person.

In fact the investigation has all the makings of a Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The politicians will hope so no doubt. And with rumours as to who is to look into police conduct it is like asking a paedophile to run a school. Proof if ever you needed it that the politicians never, ever learn anything. They are persisting with moving inappropriate people around, into inappropriate jobs, just to repay old debts and keep in with the right people. Remember, there are allegations of murder floating around regarding the very strange death of Dr David Kelly and yet we mustn't have an inquest, with all its legal powers and responsibilities. What hope that the smoke canisters are not as yet being deployed around this unholy and entirely self inflicted mess from News International and politicians and favours.

The New Labour Project

The global nature of the financial crisis was really bad news for New Labour. Harking back for many of their policies to the Labour Party of the immediate post WW2 years, the New Labour Project had two objectives. The first was to seize power by any means. As I have pointed out before, Blair noticed that there are no actual checks on the abuse of Executive power and so based his political strategy on lying. He would be all things to all men and say exactly what anyone wanted to hear. Once in power he would do what he wanted not what he had promised unless there was some purely circumstantial overlap.

The second stage was the actual policies he would enact once in power (bearing in mind personal enrichment was a powerful driver too). These policies were based around holding on to power long enough that they could change Britain irreversibly in directions of their choosing. Believing they were carrying through the promise of earlier Labour, class warfare was promulgated and supported, housing was pushed whether required or not (though with unchecked immigration, they probably knew the need would be high), rewarding those who support them and gerrymandering elections as if by right and doing everything possible to destroy traditional Britain.

Despite the clear evidence that the Welfare State has manifestly failed and caused a great many problems, Labour feel that a big state, running everything and bestowing favours on any part of the populace that pleases them is the natural order of things. Labour (whether New Lying or not) have always stood first and foremost for the destruction of Britain. The proof is everywhere; the break up of the UK, the lack of respect for the Queen, that Blair was the Head of State and the closeness to the EU. This latter of course is also a Marxist construct, to hide the real purpose whilst democracy is still allowed to 'interfere', so they are natural partners.

When Labour say they want to be in power for long enough to make real change in Britain, what they mean explicitly is that they will change things not for the better, not for the benefit of the people or economic advancement, but only in the interests of Labour and a big state. Also, the objective is to make such big changes that they become irreversible and Britain becomes the Marxist state they desire. In the Forties, some of the Labour politicians worried that some of what was proposed was not democratic. That was the idea though, Labour are anti-democratic and now don't even have the worriers in their midst. They are also not Socialists.

That this destruction of a traditional nation was coming along nicely when a financial crisis came knocking, brought out into the open what Blair and his henchmen (principally Brown who was 'recklessly' borrowing on purpose as part of the policy) were up to. Labour have had two goes at turning this country into Soviet Russia, will will let them try again?

Gone, Gone and Gone

Brown is no longer, the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Labour Party or an MP. Like a child having a tantrum he has, in effect stormed off. Forget the words, look at the act. He really is an unpleasant piece of work through and through. Now the insane harridan, Harman is the Leader so the Labour tradition of someone madder than the last one goes on.

Clegg will be looking to stuff up big style while in the full glare and the Unions will be desperately trying to impose their own candidate as Leader of a bastard Labour party. Which should give a big shove for Labour in the direction of being the third party (despite the weirdos in the LibDems doing a thoroughly good job of proving your kids wouldn't be safe with them).

Cameron should hold his nerve, stay as a nice bloke but definitely read some history of the Conservative party and find out a) why the country flourishes under one and b) why he currently sounds like a Lib Dem.

Still for now lets see how it turns out and just when that next election will be. Cameron has some real building to do if he is to understand what this country needs. And Dave, can I call you Dave? Tell the world what you find when you have access to the full horrors of 13 years of New Labour.

As a big, big personal favour you could repeal that atrocious animal bill Blair passed, you know the one in which he retrospectively forgave himself for breaking the law. Then we can lock him up if he sets foot in this country again (for something at last!) and all those political policemen who thought themselves so clever, so powerful and so above the law under our own little Ceausescu.

A Question For The PM (While He Still Is)

Mr. Brown, you have been caught lying a great many times. Why do you need to lie quite so much?It isn't helped of course, that you are so spectacularly bad at it.

What Did They Do To You?

I know I should expect Labour to say 'you don't want to go back to the Tories' but it is a refrain the Left repeat and I got to thinking, why? What exactly are they referring to as the reason not to 'go back to the Tories'? All I can think of is the Poll Tax, which seems to have brought sensible people out onto the streets to smash up buildings, set fire to things and attack the police, because they would now have to pay tax that they had successfully avoided in the past. I suppose if you didn't mind the destruction of major industry, you would mourn the passing of the power of the Unions. But otherwise, the last time the Conservatives were in, we recovered from a recession caused by a Labour government, we lived through a recession caused by aligning with the Euro (which all parties supported) and finally got the country booming again just in time for a Labour government to live on the reflected glory.

I suppose it is a bit like those you see on the TV sneering at the mere mention of Thatcher, yet they are careful not to have to substantiate exactly what their problem is. But if you want blatant stupidity, look no further than Ross Kemp. Here was a man who genuinely risked his life and earned the respect of the soldiers around him, whilst making a TV series. Yet at its end, he made a really weak statement of support for the soldiers and now is supporting the man who made all their lives so much more dangerous, a man who grins as he lies about his role in denying them equipment, and has directly led to loss of life. The proof was before his very eyes and yet has not seen.

Labour Manifesto

Much as they have hated having to do it, Labour have put down on paper a manifesto to hold on to power, which is very different from a manifesto to govern. You can tell that Labour do not intend these words to last beyond May 6th, even if they win, in the way they have left so much out. Launching this fabrication, Brown talked extensively about what he speculates a Conservative government would do. Naturally for a fiscal incompetent, he is also happy to lie where need be. What he wont address, even when asked, is what he will actually do to get the finances straight (something he still says he can do in the short term, taking only 4 years to halve the deficit). Alan Johnson was asked about why he wont guarantee not to raise VAT , despite vilifying the Tories. All he could say was that the Tories were the party of raising VAT. Does that mean Labour wont? He wouldn't say, so that's a yes they will raise it.

Brown talked about the future, emphasising that looking back is a bad idea. Well, yes because if you do you realise the person telling you the country is safe in his hands, spent the last 13 wrecking it. Darling gives the impression of being the only one who recognises reality when he sees it, but has been seriously gagged. He let slip earlier that, basically it will be the private sector and its taxes that will get us out of the mire. Brown says the economy is the public sector so he mustn't stop spending on his client voters (well, not before May 6th). Remember, Brown said no increases in income tax, then raised NI, followed by the 50p rate and now he is back for more NI.

For 13 years we haven't had a government. New Labour came to power to enrich themselves and to impose central control over everything. We now have thought crimes and extensive criminalisation of people who should be seen as bulwarks of society. Difficult to avoid the (often wrong) attentions of the state these days and almost no way to correct them. It sounds dramatic, but Britain has become a nation of oppressed people.