[juggernaut] roll on february

Some of you might recall, two years or so ago, when Martine Martin and I went a bit OTT and started claiming here, here, here and here that the meddling with the Lords was the road to Blairite and Brownian autocracy.

Well? Look at it now. Look at the arrogance with which he deals with parliament during PMQ time, which he could not possibly get away with unless he knew he was now unassailable within parliament ... plus the other things he knows are coming up.

Some time later, Ian Parker Joseph wrote, on EU policy:

The headlong rush to get the Reform Treaty ratified by 1st January 2009 is so that there can be ‘elections’ on a regional basis to the European Parliament later in the year, which under the EU Constitution will be a rubber stamp parliament ruled over by the European Commission and the Council of Europe, run by EU commission president Jose Manuel Barroso until the new Presidential office is set up.

Scotland and Wales are safe, and will remain as they are, with their own new parliaments, each being a region to remain intact, but they will lose national status, and be downgraded by our new master in Europe to regional status. England will no longer exist as a country, just 9 regions. The UK as represented in Europe will be known as the 11 regions of the UK.

At the same time, Party Politics will also be abolished. Westminster will be closed as a debating chamber and will become the headquarters of the London Region, the South East Region, and the Governor of the UK. There will no longer be a Conservative, LibDem or Labour Party. Never again will there be a democratically elected UK government, an opposition and democratic debate.

I posted the following in 2006, based on a year 2000 document I'd saved, giving this version of events of the next two decades, as distributed by people I'd prefer not to name:

An economic collapse that will devastate the economy of the US and Europe, much like the great depression. One reason that our economy continues limping along is the artificial support that the Federal Reserve had given it, manipulating interest rates, etc. But one day, this won't work (or this leverage will be withdrawn on purpose) and the next great depression will hit.

The government will call in its bonds and loans, and credit card debts will be called in. There will be massive bankruptcies nationwide. Europe will stabilize first and then Germany, France and England will have the strongest economies, and will institute, through the UN, an international currency. Japan will also pull out, although their economy will be weakened. Peacekeeping forces will be sent out by the UN and local bases to prevent riots.

The leaders will reveal themselves, and people will be asked to make a pledge of loyalty during a time of chaos and financial devastation. Doesn't sound pleasant, does it?

I see no reason to backtrack on any of those assertions above, give or take some details here, some dates there. The itinerary is the same and is becoming more and more likely as we head closer to it. The UK election must come within 18 months but by then, there's an even money chance there's not going to be any more parliamentary democracy, for a number of reasons:

1. Ireland will pass Lisbon second time round [look at the sweeteners now being offered if Ireland gives the correct answer, especially in recession];

2. The EU will implement the above Parker Joseph quote. I'm not sure of the chronology of the thing and which comes first but that's what is in the pipeline. They're only awaiting the Irish ratification.

Already 80% under EU law, with a crippled pound against the euro, bankrupt Britain and in particular, England, is down for the count.

Watch next February closely but better still, wait for the call for all of us to pull together in the coming time of extraordinary necessity. A Churchill will appear but I don't think it's going to be Gordon Brown.

Brown has claimed to save the world and in the twisted, rarified atmosphere he cavorts about in, he could well have a point - he may well have, in their terms, saved the world. In our terms, he has helped devastate it.