fahrenheit451:175

Jeremy Corbyn used his appearance on the Andrew Marr show Sunday morning to pledge that any new policy would stop the “ wholesale importation of underpaid workers from Central Europe ”. This elicited a wave of hostile reactions particularly from the anti-brexit Remoaner dim witted Leftists who actually,contrary to accepted economic science, insist and promulgate their flat earth style theory that increased labour market competition increases wages.
The usual inquisitorial litany of charges they level at anyone advocating the end of the neoliberal EU's  unrestricted freedom of movement consists of but isn't limited to , xenophobia, racism, scapegoating of immigrants.
" Remoaners " - whether of the left or right  -never even attempt to explain how increased labour market competition does actually drive up the general level of wages. The insidious and genuinely disturbing authoritarian rhetoric of the Remain campaign precludes dissent from their received wisdom.
A typical Trades Union constitution such as the UNITE Trade Union constitution ( 2011 ) is self-evidently in breach of the Leftoid/marxoid flat earthers' fundamental principles. After all, how can any Trade union defend let alone improve wages and working conditions under the remorseless onslaught of unfettered unlimited immigration numbers? Real wages have been eroded these past 40 years and UK GDP has lain dormant since the crash of 2007/08.
2.1 The objects of the Union shall, so far as may be lawful, be:
2.1.1 To organise, recruit and represent workers, and strengthen workplace organisation to
achieve real union power for its members.
2.1.2 To defend and improve its members’ wages and working conditions...
2.1.3 To defend and improve the social and economic well-being of members and their
families...
On that basis alone, Trades Unions have failed utterly and have became moribund and historically redundant since they demonstrably cannot or are unwilling to fulfill their own primary functions.
On a wider perspective, the national infrastructure of schools,hospitals and housing have all undergone unprecedented  additional pressures and subsequent shortages of availability. How can the authorities  either centrally or locally plan for and make adequate provision for their citizens if the authorities have absolutely no idea how many more people will  keep arriving.
Acknowledgement alone of these problems has for decades now been denounced as racist scapegoating of migrants. The bien pensants of metropolitan domiciled, Oxbridge doctrinaire elites and their subservient political class hirelings have dragged Society to the very edge of an unprecedented cataclysm,one that they appear to have every intention of triggering - the annulment of the EU Referendum Result ,the betrayal of Brexit.

fahrenheit451:174

For the past twelve months and more, the anti-brexit,seditionist EU Remain Campaign has stressed how much better educated,intellectually superior,cultured,inclusive,progressive,informed,enlightened,socially liberal/tolerant of degenerate sexual practices they as a Tribe are compared to the 52% of the British electorate that voted to Leave in the binding EU referendum.The Social Class breakdown for those voting in the Referendum was:-
The report from the Centre for Social Justice and Legatum Institute found that people in the “AB” class – the middle and upper classes - were the only group which had a majority voting to Remain at the June 23 referendum.
The majority of people in all the other income groups - described as C1, C2, D and E - all voted to leave, the report said. While 57 per cent of voters in the more affluent AB group voted to remain, the proportion in the other four groups was 36 per cent.
It said: "At every level of earning there is a direct correlation between household income and your likelihood to vote for leaving the EU — 62 per cent of those with income of less than £20,000 voted to leave, but that percentage falls in steady increments until, by an income of £60,000, that percentage was just 35 per cent."
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Which brings me to WTF,if anything, do our social superiors really know about and can demonstrate a depth of knowledge and understanding of the most intrinsic operations of the EU? For instance, its basic bureaucratic mechanism. The comitology process :-

The comitology process is not well-known outside of Brussels, it is the way the EU adopts most legal acts. It involves a committee of member state experts or representatives, who meet outside the public limelight.
The comitology process was “born out of necessity” in the 1960s, in the early years of the European Economic Community.
The Council of the EU, which represents member state governments, decided to delegate powers to the commission.
“Ministers did not want to convene for all sorts of ad hoc decisions on, for example, milk prices,” said Vos.
“However, they also did not want to give the commission a carte blanche. The commission was given the authority to take decisions, but only after it consulted a committee of representatives of member states.”
That system worked fairly well, according to Ellen Vos, professor of European Union Law at the Maastricht University, but then it was overhauled with the adoption of the Lisbon treaty, which entered into force in 2009.
The Lisbon treaty introduced a division between implementing acts and delegated acts.
Implementing acts involve a committee of member state government representatives, which take the decision, with no involvement from the EU parliament.
Delegated acts are adopted by the commission, after taking advice from a committee of member state experts. The latter can be vetoed by the EU parliament.
“The irony is that the idea behind the changes adopted in the Lisbon treaty, was to simplify things,” said Vos.
“However, the situation has become more complicated. I have never really welcomed this development and think comitology should be simplified.”
During negotiations on general regulations or directives, which are adopted by parliament and council, a contentious issue is often one where detailed rules should be adopted by means of implementing act or delegated act.
“There is a lot of case law emerging about what the difference is between a delegated act and an implementing act,” said Vos.
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Thought as much. Fuck all.Which is precisely what the 48% Campaign, Remoaner seditionist EU metropolitan elitist shills will achieve.

fahrenheit451:173

Here's an interesting " fact " of the day from Brendan Chilton ,Director Labour Future UK :-

" 2017 Party Membership Project finds 77% of Labour's 560,000 members come from ABC1 social group and only 23% working class. Interesting."

Approximately two-thirds of Labour voters backed Remain and about the same proportion of Conservative voters backed Leave. The problem as seen by Labour, is that one third of the electorate that Labour have always haughtily assumed are " their " voters.

That's why the likes of Wakefield MP Mary Creagh along with 200 other pro-Remain Labour MPs ,even before the EU Referendum was announced early on June 24,2016,  fabricated the narrative that those voting Leave are in varying degrees -racist,xenophobic,ignorant,insular,stupid,backward,unsophisticated.uneducated. Not a solitary MP among that 200+ #LabourIn seditionist detritus has ever recanted those views.Not a single one of them.

It was only the gratuitously politically inept, organisationally incompetent,hare brained delusional half witttedness of Theresa May and her barmy Tory central office acolytes that in effect saved the careers of those 200+ #LabourIn metropolitan elitist EU shills from the proverbial well deserved Guillotine by calling for an unnecessary General Election  on June 8 2017.

From the son of Jack Straw callously weaponising the murder of their own colleague Jo Cox,to David Lammy inciting sedition and mob violence against the government from anti- brexit platforms; there is no murky recess of the political gutter that the Labour Party won't stoop to in order to frustrate,sabotage,postpone or annul the sovereign and inalienable Will of the British Electorate as constitutionally expressed in the EU Referendum of 23 June 2016.

And I haven't even mentioned the shill of shills Gina Miller who with the backing of International City legal shysterdom has also been instrumental in promoting the anti democratic seditionist schemes of the Labour Party.

#Brexit shall, on the balance of a very and increasingly precarious probability,succeed. Or maybe its Sans Culottes time after all.

fahrenheit451:164

There is no need to recapitulate the details of what, has now  become known as the Grenfell Tower disaster in Kensington. There is no need to delve speculatively into the whys and wherefores and who might be held accountable.All of that will emerge as invariably such matters do via due process of whatever inquiries and commissions and inquests that will,no doubt be instigated and held shortly. Events of such gravity and magnitude get bound up with the politics of their time. That doesn't make them any more palatable or their aftermath somehow more manageable.  Righteous and wholly understandable popular anger and resentment are never the actual problem in any such events. It's the accompanying squalid,vituperative internecine and factional partisan politicking that really pisses everyone off. Barely one week after an over heated and indecisive general election off they bloody well go again. The Labour Party ( now enjoying an illicit ideological armistice  between Corbyn's Momentum and what they refer to as the Blairites,but basically anyone who dislikes the Left) truly are the most mendacious cynical set of contemptible bastards imaginable. Fact :- Labour punishes and suspends all of its Councillors who dare to speak out against let alone oppose the implementation of local austerity budget cuts. The actual number of such brave individual councillors right across the UK who have spoken out and refused to agree to implementing cuts probably numbers less than 20,if that. It is clear therefore that the Labour Party never stand up or with the many,ever. Nevertheless, Grenfell Tower,in the space of just a few days degenerated into a faux-ideological school playground fight,with all the attendant loss of sobriety,reason,common sense and dignity that such displays of immaturity and petulance always entail. Corbyn- the demagogue-manque and his acolytes resorted to calling for the immediate expropriation by state authorities of private property that might ,a) exist and b) be suitable for immediate occupation by those rendered homeless by the fire.The fevered sub- standard rhetoric of conspiracy theories became the norm. From " May must go!" and the evils of private enterprise on Friday through into of all things the annual "Al Quds Day" march by Hezbollah and their zealots in London whose  public speakers explicitly said that it was the Zionist Corporations supporting May that were responsible for the Grenfell Tower fire. This is Britain,2017 and you're welcome to it.

fahrenheit451:162

From to-day's Metro newspaper :-
The EU has issued a 24-hour warning to Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland saying that they have to start taking in refugees under an EU migrant-sharing plan.
The three countries immediately rebuffed the threat and appeared ready to go to court.
The European Commission said in a statement that it has repeatedly urged them to relocate refugees or at least pledge to do so under the legally-binding refugee plan agreed two years ago.
It said they have failed to take action ‘in breach of their legal obligations,’ and that it “has decided to launch infringement procedures.” The plan to share 160,000 refugees in overwhelmed Italy and Greece among other European countries over two years was endorsed in September 2015 by a qualified majority vote.
Clearly what the three  " accused " failed to understand when they were originally applying to join the EU,was quite how much of their own individual nation's sovereignty would disappear. All of it . National sovereignty is like pregnancy, you just can't be a little bit pregnant. Countries joining the EU opt,whether they fully appreciate at the time or not, for an abortion of their own god given sovereignty.  It is futile to rehearse all the very many complex arguments already explored ad nauseum for and against the very concept of a Supranational State. We know its dark history,we know the forces and Class interests behind its foundation and development. That's why the  vote for national emancipation via #brexit from the EU by the British electorate was so truly historically significant when it happened last year. And that's why globalist/neoliberal metropolitan elites in their various national guises are so zealously committed to thwarting the Will of the People across the EU dominated parts of the Continent of Europe. The refugee/migrant crises are merely a mechanism, a pretext for the imposition of the EU's socio-economic/political hegemony over its satrapies. Whilst the resistance shown to the Final Implementation of these nefarious designs among diverse, yet still reasonably coherent national polities, such as France and the Netherlands and Austria for example gives hope to others, the aftermath of our own June 8 #GE17 , shows the forces of  metropolitan elitist led Sedition once again emboldened to threaten our Nation's very existence.

fahrenheit451:161

Barely 72 hours on from the conclusion of counting the votes for #GE2017 and the UK polity is alive and well and full of vigour! The few sober minded Labour strategists who do actually know just WTF they're talking about, ( as opposed to the many ,000s of wannabe socialist/Leftist placardwavers and spouters of vacuous platitudes who never do ) Labour is a long, long way from achieving even the merest semblance of a victory over the used-to-be Conservatives. From the LabourList official internal email is the following analysis :-
We need to temper our relief and elation about these unexpected gains with awareness that there was a swing against us in many Midlands and Northern industrial heartland seats.   Our votes are not efficiently distributed around the country compared to the Tories because we stacked up “super majorities” in London and university town seats; and we need to gain at least 64 more seats, more than twice what we achieved on Thursday, to get a Labour Government with a majority of one.   A good case study of where the current strategy triumphed and its limitations is the Kent and Essex Estuary seats. Canterbury, with its many students, was a stunning gain, but the 11 more working class seats on both sides of the Thames that had been Labour in 1997 and in many cases 2001 and 2005 as well were not gained, and in most cases have Tory majorities of about 10,000.   We have to gain some of them to get a majority Labour government, and that will require a strategy that goes beyond the groups of voters appealed to this time.
Meanwhile,  the May Regime is cobbling together a de-facto alliance with the DUP. A putative arrangement that has drawn the ire of every conceivable Social democrat,socialist,marxoid,liberal,green,feminist,atheist,secularist,anti-Christian,advocate of sodomy and pre-birth human child exterminator under the sun. The full panoply in fact, of the PC,multicultural metropolitan elitist entourage that has poisoned and debilitated western societies for the last 60 years. Now there's a surprise.

fahrenheit451:160

Phew..! All not done and certainly not dusted, not by a long chalk. #GE2017 finally came to a rest earlier today, Friday 9 June 2016. The Party that had started the campaign in second place ended up finishing in..second place,albeit with an additional 31 seats. This has now been spun as a " triumph ".Corbyn has achieved,succeeded,mobilised and energised the Labour Party firmly into..second place.  With the gloriously byzantine and inherently capricious FPTP system still in operation, Parties can gain in aggregate votes and lose seats or lose aggregate votes and gain seats or neither or both at the same time.The British Parliamentary system uses the world's only Quantum  Mathematical Voting system. Clearly the government calling for an early election - the motion for which was supported through the lobbies by the PLP - was wholly unnecessary as they had a majority and their strategic aim of garnering an increased majority in a premature election proved to be the height of hubristic folly. The fracturing of what were still assumed to be fairly static and predictable voter demographics happened back on June 23 2016 in the EU referendum and its tectonic aftershocks are still reverberating,as parties and pundits alike came to fully realise earlier today. On the whole this is invariably good as regards the overall poor health and vibrancy of our common polity. The usual ephemeral details and MSM shamanic interpretations of voting patterns has been trotted out.But at just over 68% this time,the UK turnout was still shy of the 71% recorded in 1997 which itself was the nadir for Post -1945 general elections. An additional boost in turn out for the 18 -24 age demographic was hailed as the highest since 1992.The more significant combined total % vote attained by Con/Lab at around 85% was at its highest since 1970. Blah,blah. Brexit remains on tenterhooks, the Tories 8 seats short of a parliamentary majority will rely on the regionalist DUP with its 10 seats to stave off what might otherwise be a premature vote of no confidence and triggering of a second general election. On a minor note,the regionalist SNP lost one third of its seats including that of their former Party leader Salmond and HoC leader Robertson. SinnFein's abstentionism with 7 seats continues their heroic struggle in an alternate reality where they presumably get to reunify Ireland,somehow. And finally,despite much fervent effort on the part of many good people, Mary Creagh retained her Wakefield seat. Damn.

fahrenheit451:159

June 6 used to be most commonly associated with and commemorated as the anniversary date of D-Day,the Normandy Landings of 1944.  And indeed it still is by very many,but certainly not as widespread as once was the case. Instead today,for example, there is to be a minute's silence which the authorities insist people will observe at 11 O'Clock to commemorate the victims of the latest Islamic terrorist atrocity to have been carried out in London; Saturday night a little after 10pm June 3. Given the, at present seemingly increased frequency of such outrages,it would be naive to assume that they won't be stopping any time soon.We are at this point in time less than 48 hours away from Polling day for #GE2017. These Islamic terrorist outrages have now clearly and decisively capsized the entire general election debate and discourse. That's why I don't even bother or pretend to bother to observe minutes of silence in tribute to anything any more. The moribund, failed Western decrepitcracies are now watching all their chickens come home to roost. Apart from a handful of knowledgeable and astute experts and former senior security/Police officers, the public debate and factional party political diatribes have not only been unedifying but also generally futile and unproductive.  Only last week, in response to the Manchester Arena atrocity, Tarique Ghaffur cogently and concisely set out what it is necessary for the State to do in order to grasp and effectively deal with the Islamic terrorist problem. I anticipate that no one in the entire political class, let alone in any other position of power and influence amongst the entire ruling elites will ever be likely to implement let alone dare to even consider implementing any measures as those deemed necessary and adequate to the task in hand by Sadique Ghaffur or any other competent Security / Police Officer. Other sovereign nation States, for example, China, Russia ,India, would of course ,as indeed they in practice already are no doubt,be getting on with implementing appropriate measures and solutions to Islamic terrorist threat.Then again China, Russia and India are amongst those most fortunate of all sovereign nation states in not being hobbled and emasculated by the vile liberal doctrines of PC multiculturalism and otiose cant of so-called tolerance and inclusion. Alas if we too would only uphold our ancient freedoms and liberties and rather target that relevant demographic associated with the problem itself and shred their so called liberties and freedoms exclusively.

fahrenheit451:158

We're nearly there! today is June 2, by this time next week we'll all know quite how deep an ocean of faeces we'll find ourselves in politically. Prepare for a spectacular Dans La Merde. The plethora of putative MPs somehow managed to conduct their myriad #GE2017  campaigns without the slightest shred of gravitas or sincerity.Vacuous platitudes,even at this late stage are still out in force as is the unmistakable,cloying miasma of otiose cant being generated by all and sundry participants. And yet somehow a verdict will be delivered and announced on the morning of the 9th. All opinion polls are invariably wrong except that some polls are more wrong than others. A last frenetic burst of activity from the MSM thaumaturgists posing as modern day Commentators and political pundits passes these days for what little genuine excitement and existential angst that there used to be in politics and general elections in a distant golden age of the past. What we've witnessed over these last few weeks in Britain isn't the steady resurgent heartbeat of a healthy democratic polity but a comatose patient having a series of strokes whilst the ECG cries out to an empty unattended hospital ward. I'm afraid the grave news is that the Political class acting as pimps and shills for the metropolitan ruling elites were never ever going to abide by let alone grant the electorate's express wishes made on June 23 2016.  We've all been fooled again.

fahrenheit451:157

Just for a few brief hours during last week's commotion prompted by the latest Islamic terrorist outrage, reason and common sense enjoyed fleeting hegemony in the nation's political discourse:-

www.standard.co.uk › News › UK 2 days ago - A former high-ranking Met Police officer has called for extremists to be locked away at internment camps to protect the country. Tarique Ghaffur said taking up to 3,000 extremists off the streets would keep stop attacks and allow detainees to undergo de-radicalisation programmes.

Ghaffur's forthright and incisive analysis was in stark contrast to the otiose PC multiculti verbiage of appeasement uttered by former Met.Pol Kommissar Blair the previous day. Alas Great Britain intrinsically lacks the kind of gutsy, robust and politically savvy, ideologically committed populist political leadership and cadre of political agitators necessary to envisage and enable a thorough going renaissance of this nation's polity in general. Like all the other advanced ,i.e. decaying and increasingly moribund western industrialised democracies, the political class is in effect a carbon copy of the lickspittle disingenuous vapid managerial class-the kind who do group hugs at Asda and are your " Colleagues" and you call them by their first-can't say Christian- names. The sovereign electorate aren't called upon with the uttermost solemnity and existential foreboding to exercise their inviolable judgement regarding distinctive and incompatible ideologies embodied by rival  parties.They're instead called upon to exercise a largely fatuous and ephemeral choice between the latest mass consumerist rival bargain offers from Asda and Aldi. The existential point of any "problem" is to deal with it and solve it. It is not supposed to be something to "manage". Which of course is what regressive,backward looking ideologically vacuous senile democracies do, they attempt  to manage. They inexorably and invariably infantalise and commodify all political activity and all forms of communal interactions of Civil Society.They emasculate History itself. Whatever the World's future is going to be, it sure as hell isn't going to be written up as History by anyone in this grubby little corner of the globe.

fahrenheit451:156

It's Saturday 27 May and the seemingly interminable British #GE2017 campaign trundles on.The last 48 hours have been notable in so far as the corporate MSM and social media spotlights have concentrated on the utterances of one J.Corbyn, putative leader of the opposition Labour Party, who apparently have aspirations of forming the next government of the UK. The PC metropolitan hipster in-house journal ,aka The Guardian published this astonishing item.

Jeremy Corbyn has been on the right side of history for 30 years. That’s real leadership

What does it mean,exactly, to be on the " right side " of history? Which ideological views do you have to have in order to be adjudged as being on that particular side and indeed, who does the judging on whether or not you are on,to use their term, the right side? All these questions of course will not receive an answer let alone any acknowledgement that they had even asked in the first place. It's all a bit Marxist-manque ; all overly deterministic in the manner of a poor and unsophisticated understanding of dialectical and historical materialism.It is an absurdist notion that if an individual or group or party would somehow be able to " correctly " interpret the movement ( or the laws of motion ) of history then they could formulate,campaign for and and at some nebulous future point in time implement the policies of the collective demands of the organised forces of the proletarian vanguard to the benefit of the exploited working masses . It is possible and it has been put into practice before.The experiment was deemed a success,but alas the subjects of that experiment either died horribly or were left severely traumatised. The grotesque insanity of any such claim as to being on the right side of history is so monumentally preposterous that there is no rational philosophical basis on which to even begin to make a reasoned or informed judgement. Labour whether of the Left or Right both equally are, just as the clowns of 1917 were, the direct progeny of 1789.They are the headchoppers.

fahrenheit451:152

For quite some time now,the intellectual capacity of the individual UK citizen to express their political preferences via the ballot box, has been called into question. Last year's EU Referendum campaign became characterised by the increasingly strident and intolerant discourse of the Remain campaign,that in effect labelled all those that voted Leave as amongst other epithets ,variously- ignorant/uneducated/racist/xenophobic/reactionary /little englanders/stupid/elderly/working class. Nearly a year on from the triumph of #brexit, and the very bodies,parties,prominent individuals and commentariat who engineered and drove that particular vehicle of vituperative mass slander and defamation are still about their nefarious business. It is therefore somewhat,but not altogether disquieting when the twisted Inquisitorial logic of the failed Remoaner campaign is employed within the context of this General Election campaign.

McCluskey said working class voters who say they are going to vote Tory for the first time are doing so “because their mind is being turned by the constant attack of the media on Jeremy Corbyn and the image that they’ve pinned on Jeremy.”

It is eminently fair and reasonable to assert that, a working class voter who might vote Tory will be doing so because they are exercising, of their own free will and volition, their inalienable democratic rights to express their own individual political preferences-for which no prior explanation needs to be given to anyone else as to why they voted the way they did. The likes of McCluskey assert that such a working class voter would only vote Tory because, as I am Len knows, it is because their mind is being turned by the media. This virtuous and far-sighted leader of the heroic proletarian vanguard doesn't digress and try to apply a similar analysis as to why a middle class or upper class voter might vote Tory or Labour or whatever. Their minds presumably are of an altogether different nature from those of the archetypal working class voter who needs to explain their motives to McCluskey's Stasi. Len knows all and cares fuck all about democracy.

Len - " I am Len " McCluskey was recently re-elected as UNITE union General Secretary on a membership ballot turn out of 12% .Wherein a three way contest he garnered less than half the votes cast; e.g the active consent equal to around 5% of the union's total membership.

fahrenheit451:151

I'm writing this blog post on May 16, that's 23 days shy of General Election Day here in the UK. And that is an awful lot of Mainstream Media ( MSM ) filler. The contrived controversies over minor variations in otiose and largely ephemeral policy differences between the respective contending major parties will, as is usual pass for what is and has been for generations now, political discourse. A phony significance is accorded to the ritualistic mummery of their manifesto launches. As if no-one could've possibly intuitively guessed at just what pretentious and unattainable gob-shitery would emerge from the various ideological orifices or how badly it would all just smell. I take a certain comfort from imagining just how much more febrile the atmosphere must have been like here in England during the Reformation or the Civil War. We could sure use some of that visceral,no holds barred genuinely contentious battle of ideas and clash of ideologies right now. Perhaps we have to make do with the lingering temper tantrums and threats to eject the few remaining toys from the Remoaner prams of the #brexit debate. Boring.

fahrenheit451:150

When the fire alarm goes off and you know that there isn't a fire it sets your expectations for the next time.And then the fire alarm goes off and there still isn't a fire. It's a faulty alarm system that no one responsible for its maintenance can be arsed to look at and try and correct whatever is wrong with it.And the fire alarm goes off..It's exasperating.  Chuka Umunna, whom some of the corporate MSM Commentariat reckon is a putative future leader of the Labour party is the faulty fire alarm. When the rest of the people of Great Britain woke up to the EU Referendum verdict on June 24 2016, 200+ Labour MPs with Umunna to the fore weren't best pleased. He and his fellow seditionist EU shills had recklessly wagered all their pathetic little Westminster political careers on the British people choosing to remain eternally servile to the EU and they had lost that wager. Nearly one year on and the Remain Campaign aka Remoaners are still in the midst of their mean little temper tantrum.This is infantile foot stomping on an epic scale.  BBC Radio 4's morning flagship news program this Saturday 13 May had Umunna sound his shrill fire alarm yet again. Umunna and 15 other truly metropolitan elitist seditionist EU shills seeking election as Labour MPs in 16 Greater London constituencies have openly castigated their own party leadership's agreed election manifesto stance on the #brexit negotiations!! Clearly repudiating every single statement they'd previously made as to their acceptance of the British People's verdict on leaving the EU is going some even for cynical  24/7 mendacious hypocrites such as Umunna & His Gang.

Should such matters have needed any further clarification,then matters have indeed been clarified. Stop Labour save #brexit.

Not that 200+ EU seditionist shills masquerading as #Labour MPs are anything new under the sun.

Book of Isaiah Ch.59 v.3-4

3...your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

AMEN.

fahrenheit451:149

Now that Right and Left - those moribund descriptors of late 18th.century French revolutionary politics- are no longer relevant or applicable, it is invariably those who were once identified with the " Right " that are increasingly Right on economic questions and by far the most cogent and interesting. As opposed to the what was the " Left " who maintain ( and shout very loudly about) that increased labour market competition actually leads to an increase in the general level of wages especially in the massive unskilled sector of the economy! Furthermore the Left as was, insist that continued and expanded unrestricted labour market competition will by itself lead to an increase in national GDP and therefore an increase in state revenues that can be spent on building more schools,hospitals and houses to accommodate the ever increasing numbers who provide the competition in the labour market.The used to be the Left don't actually resort to the use of empirical proof to substantiate this, other than by their default position of ignoring any such data. it takes the Right to dispel myths and expose lies these days.

Matthew Taylor, Chair of the government's Social Integration Commission and the former policy chief to Tony Blair,  in his tenth annual lecture as the chief executive of the RSA, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, said “Bad work impacts directly on workers but also on the rest of us through greater pressure on our welfare and healthcare systems.”

Stressful, dead-end jobs are making some Britons so sick they end up on disability benefits, according to the man reviewing the world of work for the government. the quality of work in Britain had worsened “in certain respects”, with some workers treated like “cogs in a machine”. He said this was bad for economic productivity and piled pressure on the health and welfare systems. “Stressful work with low levels of flexibility and autonomy is a critical factor leading to hundreds of thousands of workers dropping out of employment every year into disability,”

And there you have it. The #EU neoliberal otiose cant of freedom of movement that has driven millions of economic parasites into the UK national labour market, fuelled agency zero hours contracts and has lowered wages and virtually annihilated the Uk's already parlous social infrastructure in Housing, Schools and Health provision across the board. National GDP is still below the pre-crash level of 2007 despite many more workers albeit in the largely unproductive low skilled box-filling sector of the service economy. The idiots on what was the Left insist that it's racist scapegoating of immigrants to point any of these facts out. They claim,erroneously, that what is needed is greater state investment in social infrastructure to accommodate all the additional demands placed upon it by the calamitous unregulated competition in the labour marklet.  In other words for those who need dots joining up for them , The Labour & Trades Union movement as a whole support neoliberal free market capitalism. Presumably just like Lenin did. #brexit #EndFreedomofMovement

fahrenheit451:148

The trouble with obituaries is that if you write them too early you end up looking a right prat should the putative deceased not actually then go ahead and pop their clogs.  That said, in the wake of May 4/5th's various English and Welsh local county council and Scottish  city and district elections, it is as certain as certain can be that Labour's death notice isn't in any danger of being even a tad premature. They're dead and gone and good bloody riddance. Of course it ought to have happened to the Conservatives as well, but they still possess and know how to make use of,  a certain machiavellian  political street cunning, at least enough to get by on as opposed to Labour. Alas the Party of Labour ; of over rated cheap suited zealots and crypto fascists masquerading as liberals, who were seriously way past being fit for any purpose other than being tossed into an unmarked grave and having the gravediggers relieve themselves over it after they've filled the waste of space back in again. And that is getting terribly close to peak Schadenfreude and June 8 is still a way off. But, heck even the dumb and dumber SNP and LibDems proclaimed heroic,epoch busting victories on days where they both actually made nett losses on council seats! Labour on the other hand experienced a full on sensuround premonition, a sort of anti-epiphany of  their public crucifixion on June 8 ; their PC multiculturalist atheist sack of putrifying 19th century ideological garbage devoured by time,space and history. Amen.

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The historically moribund European Union  can be viewed as a sleazy,corrupt,kleptocratic hellhole of outright fraud and embezzlement. Amid all the venal hubristic posturing surrounding #Brexit ,once all the vacuous platitudes have been aired and philosophical points have been examined it all comes back down to money.Who pays what to whom and for what and how long for. The current article from the euro observer is particularly instructive on this matter :-

Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, in exchange for their access to the EU single market, fund initiatives aimed at reducing social and economic disparities in poorer EU member states.

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Hungary and Poland risk losing €1bn in Norway aid row

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  Girl visiting the Museum on Wheels, a mobile educational exhibition presenting the history and culture of Polish Jews. The exhibition travelled around Poland as part of an EEA grants funded project. (Photo: EEA and Norway grants)

By ALEKSANDRA ERIKSSON

OSLO, 3. MAY, 09:20

Efforts by Hungary and Poland to control funds directed to NGOs are blocking negotiations over the renewal of a €1 billion Norwegian scheme to support civil society.
The Central European governments want to take funds from organisations supporting women, gay people and the homeless, among others.

Norway has refused to give in to such demands, meaning that negotiations are stuck.
"The situation is very unclear. In the worst case, the whole support scheme could be blocked," said Vera Mora from the NGO Okotars, which administered the last Norway grant scheme in Hungary.
Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, in exchange for their access to the EU single market, fund initiatives aimed at reducing social and economic disparities in poorer EU member states.
Norway is by far the biggest donor of the so-called EEA funds, doling out some 96 percent of the money.
Poland is the largest beneficiary, followed by Romania and Hungary.
Under the next scheme, which runs until 2021, Poland stands to receive €809 million, Hungary €215 million.

The funds cover some shortfalls in healthcare budgets and help companies to adopt green technologies. They pay for the upkeep of cultural heritage sites and fund research projects.
Roughly 10 percent of the cash is dedicated to independent support of civic society, a mandatory part of programme.
In Poland, the Law and Justice (PiS) government has formally announced that it would like the money to be channelled through a government body - although they have yet to establish the body.

And frankly my dear that is quite outrageous! especially given that a strand of contentious opinion on #Brexit recommends that the UK go the EEA route to maintaining Single market access once we have actually exited the EU !! As a rule of thumb, the further east and south you go across the continent of europe the greater the incidence of systemic corruption within EU member states. The scale of it beggars rational belief.It makes the Danegeld tribute paid by 10th.Century  English Kings to keep the foreign invaders quiet seem like spare pocket change. Brexit needs to be done asap, no further negotiations whatsoever, no compromise transitional EEA membership.

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To-day is May 3rd. The British Electorate goes to the polls on June 8th. The cretinous, the stupid and the woefully incompetent are all set to continue engaging in a hugely meaningless spat and exchange of vacuous platitudes for quite some time yet. Everyone else is lying, twisting the facts and in the pockets of whatever socio-economic group the others are currently expressing distrust over. Meanwhile in the real world, the Sovereign Electorate, has I believe, not forgiven the vituperative slander and defamation heaped upon them by the various parties,politicians,experts and commentators in the wake of the #Brexit victory in the EU Referendum 2016.  And irrespective of the many pressing issues and concerns confronting the UK today, the Parties one way or another are investing their #GE2017 campaigns heavily in a de-facto restaging of last June's plebiscite. Labour posing as #LabourIn for example, wagered everything on a Remain outcome last June and lost badly handing all immediate political benefit and control over the #brexit process to, albeit largely clueless, Tory control. An exquisitely excruciating existential dilemma now confronts the party of Blair & Kinnock. 70% of the electorate in Labour held parliamentary constituencies favoured Leave whilst roughly the same percentage of Labour voters favoured Remain. Perhaps the Leave voters aren't the stupid,illiterate,racist,xenophobic little englander bigots and malcontents all 200+ #LabourIn MPs said that they were after all?  For my part, Schadenfreude is so worth looking forward to with eager anticipation on the morning of June 9th. I can barely contain myself.