Tuesday, November 20, 2007

[evening report] as threatened earlier today [or was that last evening]

Blogfocus

Haven't forgotten but too tired and ready to crash. Tomorrow morning.

Snow

Well, it turned out to be much warmer today and so I donned the light gear. Unfortunate because on the way to the tram, I was scooting past two girls on the path when my right toe hit a raised piece of concrete, my left them hit a raised piece of metal and down went Higham, sprawled over the gravel and ice path.

The two girls sidestepped me and carried on as I tended to the grazed paws and tried to rearrange the attire a trifle less deshabille and to carry on myself as if nothing had happened. Alas the clothes were too filthy but the ride home was nice and fortunately I was there with the class of passenger where such things go scarcely without comment.

CP developments

Where to start? Maybe with the response of the blogosphere.

With the exception of the Devil's Kitchen and Toque, bless their cotton socks, fine gentlemen both, the response has been polite [they posted my comments] and to the point [they ignored them entirely and carried on as if I hadn't commented].

Far from upsetting me, it is such a British thing to do and as that's the type of thing we're fighting to protect – the right to ignore pressure brought to bear on us – then I'm actually smiling at the non-response.

Dear old England, dear old sleepy England – you'll sleep your way through the CP takeover and then past it and then, having somehow got the idea months too late to do any good against the EU monster, you'll stir and throw off the shackles in your own way.

I know you, England – you've always been frustratingly like this. We come storming in and demand you man the battlements and you politely ask if we've taken our tablets yet. I sometimes think this quiet, stonewalling response will do more to defeat Europpression than any amount of mobilization.

Some quotes, with the obvious one first:
And then England--southern England, probably the sleekest landscape in the world. It is difficult when you pass that way, especially when you are peacefully recovering from sea sickness with the plush cushions of a boat-train carriage under your bum, to believe that anything is really happening anywhere.

Earthquakes in Japan, famines in China, revolutions in Mexico? Don't worry, the milk will be on the doorstep tomorrow morning, the New Statesman will come out on Friday. The industrial towns were far away, a smudge of smoke and misery hidden by the curve of the earth's surface.


Down here it was still the England I had known in my childhood: the railway-cuttings smothered in wild flowers, the deep meadows where the great shining horses browse and meditate, the slow-moving streams bordered by willows, the green bosoms of the elms, the larkspurs in the cottage gardens; and then the huge peaceful wilderness of outer London, the barges on the miry river, the familiar streets, the posters telling of cricket matches and Royal weddings, the men in bowler hats, the pigeons in Trafalgar Square, the red buses, the blue policemen--all sleeping the deep, deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.

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George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia Ch 14]
The Deep Unpleasantness of Them

From Wolfie, who should know:
I don’t have documentation and I don’t have a collection of links but I've got drunk with some of the people on the inside. Their selfishness and arrogance knows no bounds (amazing how champagne loosens the tongue) but the only thing that threatens their march to power is nationalism.
These are deeply unpleasant people we're up against, as you saw in today's post and they seem to be bereft of any sort of moral framework. Here is what they say to the students directly:
I want to tell you about another space and I want you all to be school governors by the time you are 25. No, that does not mean that you are going to sit on a board, with the emphasis on your arse sitting heavily on a board. You are going to be part of the leadership of an organisation that will set the standards that your brothers and sisters are currently receiving in schools.
Anon [one of them] says, in reference to both this and to the Campaign in Schools material:
I believe this exploitation of the children, copied from both communism and hitler, is their Achilles heel, if it is exploited correctly, plus the finger printing and DNA testing at 6 years old.
Devil's Kitchen says they're a bunch of amateurs and he's right – just like everyone employed to run a department – DEFRA, NHS, take your pick. Look at the lost records today. This was also the trouble with the Germans who, contrary to popular lore, made many, many errors whilst decrying any errors whatsoever.

So not only are they really nasty but they're also incompetent in their cleverness. What a combination! John Trenchard made me smile:
I'm reminded, in a way, of what the Jedi master Yoda once said: “Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they."
Then there is the definitive John Redwood statement which only misses one point – it is Their agenda to debilitate England so that the people cry out for intervention. Oldest trick in the book. It's no point asking them to come to their senses because they're beyond that now.

Conclusion

So nice to see so many real human beings out there still in the blogosphere who like a beer and a laugh, maybe even a smoke and have no desire whatsoever to take over the world and change it.

What say we don't let Them drag us down into their deeply and depressingly cold world of “the talented” ruling over us “yahoos”. What say we just muddle on as we've always done?

Either way, I'm going to bed. Nigh-nigh, readers.

6 comments:

  1. Sorry about the fall and hope you're not sore. I do sympathise. Your CP posts are excellent, even though I can't agree with a lot of what you say. Can't stand John Redwood, btw - I have not forgiven certain things he did or did not do as education minister. Sogni d'oro.

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  2. not related to CP - but maybe - i dug up a lot of info on something called the "New Economics Foundation"

    I blogged it here

    Turns out that they are being commissioned to do lots of "research", not by government departments - but by those EU regional authorities, like SEEDA and EMDA.

    interesting...

    ( one thing to note is - why are NGOs like NEF doing "research" - isnt that the job of our universities???)

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  3. :)
    While you are sleeping
    and just in between:
    Interesting posts, Lord Jerk-Higham, and interesting comments.
    The peace of the night.

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  4. John T.
    At the Oil and Money Conference in London two weeks ago, Dr. Sadad Al-Husseini spoke. Now, he’s not a household name unless you know anything about Saudi Arabia, but he was until three years ago the executive vice-president in charge of oil and gas for Saudi Aramco, and he’s got his PhD in geology from Brown University. And his talk basically laid out area-by-area of the world, and then finally the Middle East, and he showed the $54 billion of projects that are being done in his kingdom he used to be in control of and what their production targets were. And then he finally added up and showed if everything works we are basically now at an undulating plateau of oil production for 10 years before we go into a very steep decline. Someone afterwards commented about what a pessimistic analysis that Dr. Husseini gave and he took the microphone and he said, “Excuse me, this is best case!”

    These illiterate, non scientific/economics morons mentioned in your blog, are fighting the wrong battle, and for the introduction of what?
    A central command control, Marxist economy, that fails every time it is introduced, because its principles have too many internal inconsistencies.

    The wolf in the lounge is not global warming, (which mostly relates to sunspots at present, - caused by the magnetic field of the sun being somewhat stretched out of shape at present, - - but there's also a complex matrix of global dimming, and CO2, balance), - it's peak energy, here, now, and these ideological fuckwits don't understand either magnetic fields, sunspot activity, global dimming, or CO2 concentrations.
    If they were really seeking to solve global warming, every residence would have an array of solar panels, and those that could would have small wind turbines. And that's a start, inefficient it may be, but nationally the effect would be large. The Nat Grid would need adaptations for dispersed generation, and electric, home charging cars would be the norm.

    They are not fighting global warming, they just want control.

    On the economic front they don't see M3, or any-other type of M, growth, and its consequences, together with hot money flows, to societies. They parade a nonsense utopia that carries so many overheads that any measure of M in that environment would need to be off the graph, and would last maybe a few years before it imploded into civil war, and god knows what else.
    Their "research" is infantile, and its results politically biased insanity.
    And we pay for it!
    And Gordon funded CP has now reached critical mass, and expands its crap internationally.
    So why did al gore get a Nobel?
    Why did arafat?
    Everything of value is being de-based.
    There are messages, billions of years old, all around us, and we ignore them.
    Attention spans diminish, banal entertainment sought, and praised.
    Power is sought before knowledge, and facts and experience ignored.
    Western society is at a crossroads.
    The inmates are in charge, and the public cheer them on.

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  5. James,

    great posting this evening. Sorry I cant add to the debate for the next few weeks, but will follow whenever possible.

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  6. What part of The South do you come from James? I should post pictures to remind you of home.

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