http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/britain-votes-for-brexit-eu-referendum-david-cameron UK votes to leave EU after dramatic night divides nation It has started already. Laura Kuensberg and the BBC, quoting unnamed sources stating that it is all Jeremy Corbyn's fault (Brexit) as he "failed to mobilise all those thousands of new members that joined the Labour party since last year" and the same unnamed sources stating that there will be a leadership challenge in the Labour party soon. It will not be too long, perhaps within the next few hours, till the rest of the media circus join in this hysterical nonsense.The media have been seeking to undermine Corbyn for many months and now will become even more determined in their scurrilous, anti democratic efforts to manipulate the people of this country. I repeat what I said earlier. We of the Labour party "have to position ourselves as the only party which can lead this country through the dif...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum-live-latest-poll-news-brexit-results-leave-remain-when-date-vote-odds-uk-britain-a7094741.html Broadcasters call result for Brexit as pound value crashes It now appears that the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union. The question as to what happens in Scotland remains to be resolved. However, what course the Labour party now adopts is fundamentally clear. There is no time for a navel gazing exercise in the "Blame game", the who said what to whom and when or who's fault is a Brexit result. Comrades, we now have to position ourselves as the only party which can lead this country through the difficulties of a nation no longer part of the EU. The Conservatives are a fragmented collection of self serving opportunists who are not fit to run a whelk stall in Southend let alone a country. We must seek to reconcile those who voted "Remain" with those who voted "Leave...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/barack-obama-brexit-uk-back-of-queue-for-trade-talks “The UK is going to be in the back of the queue.” "go to the back of the queue" Barack Obama, has gone too far in this latest outpouring of support for Cameron and the "Remain in the EU" campaign. There is a very fine line between a Presidential personal opinion and a United States Presidential instruction to the people of another country to "do the right thing" and vote in a particular way. Coupled with the threat that the United Kingdom would "go to the back of the queue" (a strangely "English" word not usually used by Americans who prefer "the line"), Obama has thrown his weight into the into the remain lobby, with a script which could and probably was influenced if not written, by Cameron and his team. The British people do not respond well to threats and intimidation from what ever source, but the e...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/04/alexis-tsipras-antonis-samaras-greece-syriza-election Alexis Tsipras or Antonis Samaras? Greece begins to weigh up the options Antonis Samaras SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras On Sunday, 17 June 2012, in response to a Daily Mail article, I wrote the following comment in the news paper, and posted it on the pages of my Blog, Hew Agenda”. “When fear is employed as a weapon to influence voters, it is obvious that the scaremongers are very worried. European leaders yesterday piled pressure on Greek voters to reject Left-wing parties threatening to rip up the country’s bailout deal – a move that could leave the euro on the brink of collapse." They now use fear as a weapon to conserve their untenable positions. The "European leaders" who in collaboration with the banks,the IMF, the speculators of the markets, caused and perpetuated this whole mess in the first place, and incidentally got ver...
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/28/bank-of-england-lloyds-bailout-funding Lloyds fined £217 million over Libor rigging Lloyds Bank The bankers should be subject to criminal law the same as everyone else. It was not "the bank" which corrupted the Libor rates and made huge profit from the speculation. It was specific individuals within the banks who conspired together and committed a crime. They went on to re introduce the obscenity of awarding themselves large bonuses and at the same time, carried on receiving payouts from the British tax payers. A benefit claimant would be hounded and persecuted for wrongly claiming a few pounds in benefits and yet "the bank" can receive £ millions and nobody says a word. These corrupt fraudsters, must be prosecuted and jailed if trust in our banks is to be restored.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/uk-edges-closer-to-an-eu-exit-as-cameron-crushed-in-bid-to-block-jeanclaude-junckers-leadership-9568749.html Britain closer to EU exit after Jean-Claude Juncker vote. Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb Alexander Stubb, the Finnish Prime Minister, said British voters should "wake up and smell the coffee" Patronising Bastard. No matter what side of the pro or anti EU membership argument you happen to be on, we do not need lessons on how we should think from the Finnish Prime minister who in fact has only been the Finnish PM since the 24th June in any case! Only 4 days into the job and he is telling us to smell the coffee. . He would be better employed getting used to enjoying the "freebie" lunches and "working" dinners of the of the EU (of which there are many)
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/31/tony-blair-europe-ukip_n_5422562.html?1401530823&utm_hp_ref=uk The Saviour of Europe? Tony Blair. Tony Blair, the former prime minister has apparently announced he is looking for a prominent pan-European role in the fight against euroscepticism. Blair has always wanted to be the first president of a "United States of Europe". His personal ambitions and arrogant conceit, destroyed the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, took this country in to (at least) one illegal war, betrayed colleagues and friends in government and party and has shown bias towards Israel in his dealings as "Middle East Peace Envoy". His credibility lies in tatters and he now offers advice (or as he would prefer, instructions) to the people of this country on membership of and its relationship with,the European Union. Blair's "advice", as with his perception of history, should be treated as self serving ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-uprising-eu-aims-to-woo-new-leadership-with-aid-deal-9147803.html EU aims to woo new leadership in Ukraine with aid deal Vitali Klitschko, talks to members in the parliament session hall, in Kiev Just like the United States in countless countries around the world, the European Union seeks to buy influence and control outside their own borders with promises of huge sums of money, no doubt to be followed shortly by further promises of military aid, equipment and special economic deals. All this bribery, and no doubt the associated corruption when the "defence equipment" dealers begin to ply their trade in the Ukraine, or whatever remains of that wretched nation at that time, geared to buy influence and further marginalise Putin generally and Russia specifically. The British government of course, is eager to jump on the bandwagon, and promise £millions from our own treasury, not withstanding the fa...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/28/syria-arms-embargo-lifted-mps_n_3345281.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Any move to arm the Syrian opposition would dangerously escalate the violence in the region "Free Syrian Army" fighters In another example of extreme hypocrisy, the British, the French, the Americans all jump up and down screaming "Support the rebels, provide weapons, Assad must go", while the Israeli's lurk on the margins giving little prods to McCain and Kerry, awaiting the right moment to fully intervene and occupy more territory. S300 missile defence systems However, when another player in this tragedy announces that it will honour its current, legal contracts with a foreign government and supply a quantity of S300 missile defence systems, the "western powers" immediately scream "FOUL" and criticise the decision as inflaming the situation, as the White house announces that they are instructing the Pentagon to draw...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/27/william-syria-arms-embargo_n_3343336.html?utm_hp_ref=uk The UK and France have led calls for the embargo to be relaxed. France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, left, Britain's Foreign Minister William Hague The British and the French have done more than enough damage in Syria already, dating back as far as 1917. Now this inept Foreign Secretary, in cahoots with French, is itching to get British weapons into the hands of one, or more, of the fragmented elements of the "rebels" fighting Bashar Al-Assad. As is invariably the case with British foreign policy in the Middle east, Britain, (Mr. Hague) has no idea who to give the weapons to or which section, or sections, of the "Opposition", Britain should support. British and French involvement in the Middle East generally is littered with bad judgement leading to bad decisions. The provision of weapons to any component of the Syrian opposition, would b...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10064787/EU-to-ban-olive-oil-jugs-from-restaurants.html The small glass jugs filled with green or gold coloured extra virgin olive oil are familiar and traditional for restaurant goers across Europe but they will be banned from 1 January 2014 The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables. "From next year olive oil "presented at a restaurant table" must be in pre-packaged, factory bottles with a tamper-proof dispensing nozzle and labelling in line with EU industrial standards." Lunacy, sheer bloody lunacy. We should get out of this mad house of European ultra bureaucratic committees before we are all running around in circles screaming "Ban it ! Ban it !" Unless of course running around in circles has been banned by some European ultra bureaucratic committee.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/07/european-union-exit-_n_3227972.html?utm_hp_ref=uk#slide=more295952 European Union Exit: Who Else Wants Britain To Leave? (Other Than Nigel Farage) The question headline to this article is: "European Union Exit: Who Else Wants Britain To Leave? (Other Than Nigel Farage)" Simple response.....me. I am no supporter of UKIP or any of the other "celebs" in the photo montage (in the main article) and as for Murdoch, the wheels of justice seem to have missed him. The EU, the Eurozone and all the paraphernalia associated with Brussels, is and always has been a disaster for this country both economically and socially. Too many people it seems (as shown in many of the posts in the comments section of the article), have accepted the propaganda and distortions of the pro European Union lobby and the scare mongering perversions of the, "leaving the EU will cost millions o...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/02/hsbc-chief-executive-stuart-gulliver-bonus_n_2797532.html?utm_hp_ref=uk HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver To Receive '£2 Million Bonus' HSBC Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver Almost every day, there is an announcement somewhere of banking CEO,s or other senior management, receiving huge bonus payouts. In most cases, the banks concerned have been involved in some questionable practices, or even criminal activity. In this instance, it is money laundering and mis-selling. In any other situation, the people responsible would have been charged and most likely imprisoned for such crimes. When it comes to the banks however, the people in charge take the bonus, and the corporation "takes the rap".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/13/iran-lifesaving-drugs-international-sanctions Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with serious illnesses have been put at imminent risk by the consequences of international sanctions. Iran unable to get life-saving drugs Sanctions imposed on Iran and instigated by Israel and the United states, are without doubt the greatest act of hypocrisy that the western world has indulged in for decades. Lacking proof or justification, Israel, who has never signed the non proliferation treaty despite having a significant arsenal of nuclear weapons, and the United States, which has a nuclear capability sufficient to destroy this planet hundreds of times over, are inflicting pain and hardships on the ordinary people of Iran, and the rest of the "International Community" is blindly joining in this barbaric infliction of collective punishment. The propaganda, dis information and blatant lies of Israel a...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/28/greeks-forests-fuel-winter-nears Greeks turn to the forests for fuel as winter nears A wood poacher's warehouse near Mount Pelion, Greece. When Merkel, Lagarde, the Eurozone finance ministers and IMF sit down to yet another lavish 2 Micheline star banquet (paid for of course by taxpayers), to discuss for the umpteenth time the never ending economic crisis in Greece, and the plan of how they can extort even more money in exchange for another "bail out", do they ever consider the effect that their policies have on the ordinary people of Greece? I think not. Their first consideration is and has always been, ensuring the continued dominance of the IMF and the European Central banks in Europe. (Closely followed of course by the quality of the Filet de veau rôti, girolles d’Écosse et purée de cresson at the evenings nine course meal.) Meanwhile, back in the real world, the Greek people face even more severe austerity, ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/25/tony-blair-the-uk-cant-af_n_2188328.html?ir=UK+Politics#postComment Tony Blair will warn this week that Britain's future prosperity relies on the country remaining a committed member of a strong European Union. Huffington Post Tony Blair Why the Huffington Post should choose to delete or otherwise not publish my comment to this article, is a mystery known only to the back room, anonymous editors and censors of the Huff Post. In comparison to some of the other remarks on this page, mine is no worse than others in its criticism of Blair, and reflects, in my view, "fair comment on a matter of public interest". The reader is invited to make their own judgement at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/blairs-personal-agenda-remais-as-it.html (Also available on Facebook, Twitter and New Agenda)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/24/tony-blair-uk-eu-membership Blair still seeks prominent role in European politics. Tony Blair Blair has always wanted to be the first president of a "United States of Europe". His personal ambitions and arrogant conceit, destroyed the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, took this country in to (at least) one illegal war, betrayed colleagues and friends in government and party and has shown bias towards Israel in his dealings as "Middle East Peace Envoy". His credibility lies in tatters and he now offers advice (or as he would prefer, instructions) to the people of this country on membership of and its relationship with,the European Union. Blair's "advice", as with his perception of history, should be treated as self serving rhetoric, designed to promote Blair and his egotistical vision of his desired role on the world stage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/12/greece-eu-nobel-peace-prize-war Awarding the "Peace Prize" to the EU is lunacy.The actual wording of the section of Alfred Nobel's will reads ".....and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Note the words "to the person". Thus, the EU does not qualify on any count to be eligible to receive the prize! Think again Nobel prize committee, and then award the prize to someone who actually deserves it.
http://wideshut.co.uk/imf-chief-christine-lagarde-calls-for-further-loss-of-national-sovereignty/ International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Christine Lagarde, has called for Eurozone countries to hand over more of their sovereignty to the European Union Superstate and the international banking system. Lagarde has been quiet for a while. Now she crawls out from the woodwork with the latest scheme to prop up inept politicians in the EU, and the duplicitous banks who collectively caused this economic crisis in the first place. As usual, there is no consideration for the people of those countries who are being subjected to the evils of "austerity" in order to pay for the negligence and greed of others. Christine Lagarde, the self appointed "World Protector", and leader of the unelected "IMF Supreme Council" again bidding for the dominant role on the world stage.