New Labour smears!

Another New Labour prig! Phil Woolas is typically New Labour. All smeary talk and innuendo. Conservative community cohesion spokesman Lady Warsi has described claims she is pandering to the BNP on immigration as "ludicrous". The Muslim peer is under fire after telling the Independent on Sunday immigration had been out of control and was making people "uneasy". Woolas is implying in some crazy way that she is giving succour to the BNP. It's all nasty mischief-making on his part.

To think that a Muslim woman who is part of David Cameron's inner circle would even have any comfort for the BNP is laughable. They would not be looking for such comfort. What she is saying is that views of BNP voters need to be addressed, NOT that she agrees with the likes of Nick Griffin.

It is all part of the New Labour way of trying to get anything to stick on opponents. It's very distasteful.

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The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76

The Daily Telegraph has come up with a list of 100 influential types on the Right of British politics. Always assuming we know what right means these days. Tony Blair could possibly be on the list by some people's description of the meaning of "on the right". Maybe he will turn up in pole position!

The list from 100 to 76 is:-

76. LADY SHEPHARD Chairman, Association of Conservative Peers
77. TIMOTHY KIRKHOPE MEP Leader of Conservative MEPs
78. JEREMY HUNT MP Shadow Secretary of State for Culture Media & Sport
79. DOUGLAS MURRAY Director, Centre for Social Cohesion
80. THERESA MAY MP Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
81. ANDREW FELDMAN Deputy Treasurer of the Conservative Party
82. JOHN BLUNDELL Director, Institute of Economic Affairs
83. MARGOT JAMES Vice Chairman of the Conservative Party (Women)
84. ANNABEL GOLDIE Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party
85. GUIDO FAWKES Blogger: www.order-order.com
86. LORD PEARSON OF RANNOCH UKIP Peer
87. SAYEEDA WARSI Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion
88. ANDREW ROBERTS Historian
89. JAMES O'SHAUGHNESSY Director of Policy & Research, Conservative Party
90. MARGARET EATON Chairman, Conservative Councillors' Association
91. RICHARD NORTH & HELEN SZAMUELY Bloggers, EU Referendum blog
92. EDWARD LISTER Leader, London Borough of Wandsworth
93. EDWARD LEIGH MP Chairman, Public Accounts Committee
94. STEPHEN GREENHALGH Leader, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
95. DESMOND SWAYNE MP Conservative MP for New Forest West
96. MIKE WHITBY Leader, Birmingham City Council
97. TIM CONGDON Founder, Lombard Street Research
98. CHRISTINE CONSTABLE Deputy Leader, English Democrats
99. PETER BAZALGETTE Entrepreneur
100. ZAC GOLDSMITH Conservative Candidate for Richmond

The list is here. The 25 influential types (or 26 actually, as #91 is a "William and Mary" entry!) are very much in the mind of the beholder. Interesting that Christine Constable of the English Democrats is in there. She can ring a few bells!

The Telegraph describes Peter Bazalgette, at #99, as "the inspiration behind Endemol, Britain's most successful independent TV production company". That's poetic licence indeed! The more accurate description is that he has been and is a successful TV producer/executive with his own production company mainly producing cookery programmes. His business became part of Endemol UK which in turn is part of the Dutch Endemol Group. The real inspiration behind all this was Joop van den Ende and John de Mol, hence EndeMol.

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Marriage of...........?

I have no problem in people getting married when there is an age difference. I come from a family where several have had significant age gaps in their marriages. But the 24-year old Argentinian taking a bride of 82 years of age makes for some leap of imagination. He says "I've always liked mature ladies." Mature? The wicked in me thinks it's more like a Stilton cheese from last Christmas!

But if they're happy, who am I to gainsay their happiness.

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Little Miss Nice?

Harriet Harman has opened her mouth to say that she thinks the Conservative Party is still "the nasty party". She has some brass neck, doesn't she? Actually, rather posh brass neck, but then she has always tried to live this down.

Again hypocrisy arises. If she really knows what being nasty is, then she has only to look across the Cabinet table at the self-serving creeps who have have connived to bring Britain to the point where indebtedness could engulf the nation any minute. And you can bet your bottom dollar, or Scottish Pound, that they will have got their own nest eggs nicely warmed up.

Whether New Labour or Old Labour, they always puff themselves up to suggest they care for the poor, when in actual fact they don't.

It used to be said that the achilles heel for Tories was sex and for Labour money! With New Labour it's both SEX AND MONEY! The philandering John Prescott is a prime example. Boy! We need to get rid of them. They really are the nasty party!

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Burma on the move

Burma may yet be on the move to democracy. Or it may be subjected to weeks of bloodshed. It tells us all that, even in the 21st Century, there are leaders who are prepared to continue with evil regimes. Thankfully now there is worldwide knowledge of the decidedly nasty little empire being run by these fat generals. They may be well educated, speak good English (as General Cordingly remarked after visiting them) but they are definitely not suited to the wants and desires of democratic peoples.

It may end like Caeucescu and his wife, with bullets in the back of their heads, but I hope the Buddhist monks will allow, on eventual victory, for these bullyboys to be handed over to the International Court in the Hague.

We've seen quite a few tyrannies go in the last few years. The Burmese generals are living on borrowed time.

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It's All Balls and Cooper!

Don't you just love New Labour. Full of sanctimonious hypocrites. Ed Balls, the guy who kept encouraging Gordon Brown to have a bop at Tony, is up to his neck in sleezy monetary greed. No longer a socialist, if he ever was one, this guy, along with his wife, Yvette Cooper, is exploiting Commons expenses rules to buy a £655,000 home and get their children into a top state school. And only a few days ago he had the brass whatsits to claim David Cameron was so much the toff he was out of touch.

Get real, Ed! You and your missus have been found out abusing the system for your own selfish ends.

The pair, who were both promoted by Gordon Brown, have registered their four-bedroom North London house as a 'second home' under parliamentary rules, which entitles them to allowances of up to £44,000 a year to subsidise their £438,000 mortgage. As Channel Four Despatches programme said "Nice Work If You can get It".

No wonder the New Labour lot got rid of socialism. Their form of pecuniary gain is both sly and cynical. Any self-respecting socialist would have seen them for what they are - POLITICAL HYPOCRITES!

It is up to all candidates in opposition parties to expose the New Labour greed at the forthcoming general election. It is only a pity that there are Conservative MPs (such as David Maclean, who disreputably brought in a Bill that would keep public scrutiny of MPs expenses at bay!) and Liberal Democrat MPs who go along with this abuse.

We need reform of the House of Commons not the House of Lords. What is honourable about using large quantities of taxpayers money to feather one's own nest? All voters should quiz their MPs vigorously and demand answers.

I hope those electors considering voting for Ed Balls or Yvette Cooper at the election grill them INTENSIVELY about these abuses.

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Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies!

Well, on this occasion it was not Matilda, but a newly elected Labour Councillor whilst out campaigning at the last local elections. Miranda Grell has been found guilty of falsely branding a Liberal Democrat rival a paedophile and telling electors he had sex with teenage boys. All strong stuff. The judge told her, "In furthering the interests of your community you fell into an error on two occasions in making statements that were untrue and damaging to one of your fellow candidates." She will now have to leave office as a councillor.

Why mention this? Well, Ms Grell implied that her opponent had "claimed to be married despite having a 19-year-old Thai boyfriend." It seems to me perfectly reasonable to highlight a deception, such as those who suggest happy marital bliss whilst engaging in sexual activity that is nothing of the kind. But to brand someone as "having sex with teenage boys", with a view to misleading the voters, is not right.

The great problem in society today is that the New Labour regime has allowed the goalposts to be moved so much in this regard that they are almost off the pitch entirely. It is now deemed perfectly legal to have a teenage boyfriend if you are an older man so long as the boy is over 16. But you have to be careful what you say. Ms Grell appears to have got her words mixed up a bit like Mrs Malaprop in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals. She would have been better off leaving well alone and let the electorate decide in their own time. She may well have won without resorting to such gossip.

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Farming Today

Yet another Surrey farm has yielded to the foot and mouth disease. The farmer sees his herd culled. The ever-knowing Debbie Reynolds, Chief Veterinary Officer, carries on in her official capacity discussing how farmers "should check their herds" etc, etc.

What about the professor back at his government sponsored laboratory? Has he mended that pipe yet? I bet he's not said sorry. No, can't say that! He might land himself up before the Never Apologise Adjudication Committee, which oversees those who may admit to something and cause "responsibility" to kick in.

Funny how the Chancellor is desperately trying to curry favour with bank depositors. Why can't Hilary Benn get his act together and give the farmers FULL COMPENSATION for this horrendous outbreak of negligence by scientific people who saw this coming?

Maybe he's been leant on, like the Governor of the Bank of England. The latest opinion poll suggests the people of Britain are quite happy with the economic stewardship of the New Labour machine. Perhaps these pollsters ask those who are definitely NOT farmers, flood victims, bank depositors, pension victims, and a whole host of others being subjected to the crazy form filling and ludicrous targets of one Gordon Brown!

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Nee! Nee! Thrice Nee!

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, otherwise known as Harry Potter, has decided, along with his cabinet, not to hold a referendum. The reason? He thinks the Dutch people would vote NEE again!

He thinks the new treaty does not propose constitutional changes and therefore does not require a referendum. "This is a normal change of treaty and only needs a normal procedure to approve it," he said.

Funny how Angela Merkel thinks there's only about a 5% difference between the Constitution, which the Dutch rejected and this Treaty. What language does Balkenende speak when chatting to the knowledgeable Angela? Dare I ask?


DON'T YOU JUST LOVE DEMOCRACY?

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Villagers back EU referendum call

So it's democracy, but not as we know it! According to Simon Cross, chairman of East Stoke Parish Council, where a referendum has been held to ascertain whether another national referendum on the EU Treaty/Constitution should be held, democracy has been usurped. "The parish is being used to bring publicity to this politically-motivated procedure", he bemoans. Blimey! Where's he been in the last ten years. If he wants politically-motivated procedures, he need look no further than the Blair Years.

When the Great Grocer devised the Local Government Act of 1972 (an act that butchered half of England's historic counties for no other purpose than to satisfy the desires of big-brother government), he probably never thought this piece of legislation, offering referendums to electors in parish councils, would be used to derail his vision of a European utopia. But 80 of 333 on the electoral roll turned out - 72 voted yes and eight no. Overwhelming, I'd say. The poll was instigated by UKIP, taking up their democratic rights. What's wrong with that?

And before Mr. Cross, or any other politico complains, let's all remember that Gordon Bean and his lot are in with only 20% of the total UK electorate's support. This poll was a 24% turnout. I've seen similar turnouts in local elections, and the big chiefs never said they wouldn't accept the result!

Of the people who did vote, 90% said yes to a referendum. No wonder Brown is sitting tight, mumbling about the right of the House of Commons to determine such questions. Nice coming from a part-time MP with a dodgy mandate!

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Tradition gets in the way

It is not only the Anglican Church that is wrestling with traditional values and rock-solid beliefs. The Conservative Party is also taking up the "change agenda" for all it is worth. David Cameron saw Tony Blair's hatchet job on the Labour Party as something to be emulated. Not exactly a root and branch approach, more an attempt to remove it's heart and soul.

I did not agree with the late Eric Heffer's view on politics, but I had a great admiration for his tenacity and standing up for what he believed in. He once said that, as he was a carpenter by trade, the House of Commons could do with someone of his background. He also quipped that he was in good company as this was also the trade that Jesus was born into. Eric Heffer was raised in an Angl0-Catholic family. I wonder what he would have made of Tony Blair's time in office.

The Conservative Party is definitely a changed outfit. The Promotional Candy Company was hoping to supply sticks of rock with David Cameron's name through it. Indeed an order had been placed, but someone phoned them to say "it's not that type of conference". Pity!

Seems it's not that type of party, either.

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It's All Balls!

My wife's in Denver at the moment. I've just been speaking on the phone with her. Last night she went to a fantastic restaurant downtown. It's the Buckhorn Exchange. She had a fine old time, apparently, enjoying the culinary delights on offer. As she raved on about the meal, I looked up the website. "What are Rocky Mountain Oysters?" I enquired, thinking that fish and the middle of America don't always mix. "Oh!" she said, laughing, "It's buffalo balls". Ah, buffalo balls! Now why didn't I think of that. Euphemism indeed.

Bruce's Bar*, the rural roadhouse renowned for Rocky Mountain Oysters, served about 20 tons a year! Wow. Now that's a helluva lot of testicular tuck!

This reminded me of a school trip to Switzerland back in the 60's. On the menu of the hotel (packed full of boys from boarding schools in England!) was a dish which one boy found out was reindeer balls. "What's that you're eating?" a master inquisitively asked. "Balls, sir!" "Uh!" "Yes, reindeer balls" The poor man blushed a bit and changed the subject.

* = Bruce's Bar closed down this year. Rocky Mountain News.

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Don't Panic!

I wonder if there would have been any panic in the Walmington-on-Sea branch of Swallows Bank. Apparently not if the townsfolk were like those in Bournemouth, Swindon or Belfast. In these cities not one person turned up at the local branch of Northern Rock. In Kingston-upon-Thames, Birmingham and Leeds queues have been extremely long, with customers expressing all manner of concerns about the banking system.

My curiosity is getting to me. Is there a regional thing to all this? Does living in Bournemouth make one less panicky? Is Leeds home to people who panic at the drop of a hat (or pound coin)? Maybe some erudite professor type could conduct an enquiry. Knowing why there is such a divergence of personal panic button use in the UK would assist the Bank of England no end!

Don't panic, Mr.Mainwaring!

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BNP website is the most popular in politics

Before Nick Griffin starts to think that he has a chance of taking over from Gordon Brown, many people look at the BNP website. I do. But I wouldn't vote for them in a month of Sundays.

Most people, I would guess, visit this site because they want to see one or more of - What the BNP is up to. Who is being talked about. What issues are being flagged up. Where is the BNP operating.

It is not to find out how to join this party. The BNP is a factor in British politics. It is not the main factor and will only ever attract a minority. Nick Griffin is able to dream on...........................

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Rock of the North!

Northern Rock is a bank that was once a building society. As a bank they can borrow large sums of money to bolster their liquidity. But just now, there is a problem in world banking. Some American banks have been flashing their cash in front of the noses of the less fortunate. All of a sudden the so-called Sub-prime Market has imploded in parts. Now banks don't want to lend to other banks.

Thankfully, the Bank of England has seen fit to assist Northern Rock. As the Chancellor of the Exchequor, Alastair Darling says, Northern Rock is a sound business that got caught up in the problems of the global banking industry. Pity, though, that this only applies to banks with a problem and not the rest of us!

A little curiosity in all this. Apparently these banks, having been used to taking in each others laundry, so to speak, have suddenly got a pile of dirty washing that they can't identify! I find it amazing that they can lend all this money in a cobweb of transactions, a few bad apples are thrown up, and they have to go back trying to find the lending routes.

Now if I told my bank, that I lent money to someone, that they lent it to someone else but that I didn't know who or where, would they give me a second chance to pay THEM back?

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Foot in Mouth Disease?

The current foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey is a tragedy. The virus almost certainly got into the farming community because of an error in a government laboratory. Accidents happen. Of course they do. But inept covering up? That's a different matter.

When the first set of infections was discovered, and it was eventually tracked down to a leaking waste pipe as the most likely cause of it all, the National Farmers Union was calling for class action suits against the perpetrators. Now with this latest outbreak, not a dicky bird from them. Why? Have they been leant on by somebody?

Hilary Benn is the minister in charge of Defra. Yesterday he was on BBC Breakfast sounding most surprised that this latest infection had happened. "The puzzling thing is it's more than 30 days since the last confirmed outbreak. The incubation period for foot and mouth is 2 to 14 days," he said. Well, well.

The inference here is that the Pirbright Perpetrators were definitely not to blame this time. But wait. Later in the day we are told that scientists are informing the BBC that the virus can live up to a month in the soil and up to 50 days in water! Apparently lorries and vans were in and out of the Pirbright plant, all the while this virus was on the loose. This scientific evidence suggests a possibility of a continuation from the initial infection.

When the professor in charge of the laboratory eventually came out to the awaiting press, he burbled about having "robust bio-security measures in place". Well, I never take anybody telling us about "robust" anything at face value. It's normally used in major cock-up incidents! Now we are told that the professor's team and that from Meriel, the American bio-tech company on the same site, were arguing over who should foot a £50,000 bill for rectifying faults in the drainage system.

Bit of a stink, don't you think?

Farmers all over the country are being put into a very nervous position. Hilary Benn sounds as if nothing really dramatic has happened. If I was a farmer, I'd be wanting the covering-up culprits rounded up and told they will be held responsible. BIG TIME!!

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The Finger of Suspicion

Lord Justice Sedley last week called for the composition of a national DNA database where EVERY person's DNA would be included. He also suggested that EVERY visitor coming to the UK should submit a sample for the apparatchiks to sort and store.

The learned gentleman sees no problem in this. Even though he is an Appeal Court Judge he thinks "the risks, so long as they are confronted, are controllable", but the problem he fails to address is who should do the controlling. When he was a member of the British Communist Party, no doubt he had long detailed discussions with his comrades about state control and alleviating the citizen of personal choice. Maybe old habits die hard?

Soon after the judge popped up with his views on the subject, then Lord MacKenzie, the policeman turned Labour Peer, was outlining similar thoughts to Jon Snow on Channel 4. MacKenzie thought it a brilliant idea. He had no qualms. Rather pompously (typical New Labour stuff!) he dismissed the civil liberties arguments and waffled on, saying "when I go to the United States I get finger-printed, checked, etc. I don't complain, cos I've got nothing to hide."

The sly dig here is that anyone gainsaying his talk HAS! It's rubbish, of course. The United states is NOT taking DNA from all and sundry. Their checks at the border are to weed out known troublemakers or those on a wanted list. A compulsory DNA list is certainly not the same, but this was lost on MacKenzie (perhaps intentionally).

Where this DNA database is leading us (if it ever got off the ground) is for us all to be in a potential situation of having to defend ourselves from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Currently the parents of Madeleine McCann are going through such hell over DNA. According to Allan Scott, a lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire's School of Forensic and Investigative Sciences, DNA is "so sensitive" that if two people met in the street and shook hands and then one committed a crime, they could possibly leave the other person's DNA at the scene. How many criminals' hands has Lord MacKenzie shaken? Does he know who will be a criminal? Has he supped with any?

Lord Archer was Chairman of the Tory Party. He spent time in jail. He shook nearly every Tory's hand in the country! All sorts of murderers, rapists and conmen have moved in and out of peoples lives. Mixing with people who have "nothing to hide". Wouldn't it be great if (and I hope it is never put in place) the DNA database threw up the names of Sedley and MacKenzie? They had to account for the fact that their DNA was somehow found at the scene of a terrible crime. But before they could babble about freedoms, their names were plastered all over the tabloids giving rise to febrile suspicion.

You can bet your bottom dollar they would be huffing and puffing and protesting vigorously!

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9/11 Remembered

Tomorrow is the anniversary of 9/11. The atrocity that rocked America and the world. Gradually the truth is coming out, but wow have a lot of people suffered since then.

Donald Rumsfeld is a man with a good bit of talking still to do. He's got a big rap sheet to explain. George Bush dining at the White House two days later with the Saudi Ambassador. And the Pentagon still smoking away in the distance! What does he know that we should all know?

Bin Laden is still doing his amateur movie stuff. Little children with wounds too sickening to think about. And Middle America carries on seemingly oblivious to the fact that George Bush had some very murky dealings with the Bin Laden family.

In this world there are some great people. Such as those that laid down their lives to save others so that they could get out of the twin towers. And then there are those who cynically exploit the world's problems for gain and power.

Saddam Hussain had people shot, gassed, strung up, and blown up. Is there any difference between a man who obtains such weaponry and equipment to carry out these deeds and those who supply the stuff for what Donald Rumsfeld so neatly describes as "clinical and humane" bombing?

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Queen may be scrapped from UK passports

If you ever thought that the EU was NOT an interferring organisation, then think again! Those meddling pointy-heads, sitting in Brussels offices funded by money that they can't account for in any shape or form that would pass basic accountancy rules, have decided to mess with our passports!

Under new changes inserted into the new-fangled version of the Constitution already rejected by both France and the Netherlands in referendums, it has been suggested that the coat of arms is scrapped and replaced by the EU emblem of 12 stars with the message underneath reading - "Every citizen of the Union".

The idea being that if people from other EU countries come to Britain, the passport tells them that they will be looked after as if they were British. Has it occurred to these marbles-free brainheads that the obvious conclusion to all this is that national embassies would therefore be REDUNDANT? What would an embassy do if its nationals' interests were being looked after by the host country with all the care and attention of the natives? "Don't worry Mr. Ambassador Sir! Senor This, Messieur That, Herr There, Signor Here, is being assisted admirably by our highly-trained EU visitor hosts. Nothing to concern yourself with."

Embassies would be nothing more than trade contact units! Sounds to me like yet more ratcheting of the Superstate noose.

More reasons to have a referendum ourselves.

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I Want A Referendum

Talking of referendums, this is the site for all those wanting to put pressure on a stubborn Brown!

http://www.iwantareferendum.com/

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Miliband Madness?

David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, thinks the new Treaty for the EU is completely different from the previous Constitution, which the Dutch and the French rejected in referendums. Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, thinks it's only about 5% changed, as do other EU leaders.

What does Miliband know that they don't? Here's his comment via the BBC! Do you trust him to know what's what?

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Muslim Madness?

I've known some, and know some, very peaceful Muslims. They've always said "As-Salāmu `Alaykum" and I know they meant it. But just as there are some people who have let Christianity down, there are hotheads in the Islamic world who believe in separateness and sectarianism. The Times says that a leading preacher of a hardline Islamic sect, which controls almost half of British mosques, has delivered a message filled with anger at non-Muslims. Not a very peaceful man, for sure!

The Sermon on the Mount was when Jesus said "Blessed are the Peacemakers". All three religions emanating from Abraham's time profess peace. The Christian message also lays great stress on love as well. This cleric would do well to consider loving his enemies, doing good to those that abuse him, rather than ranting at all and sundry.

The man appears to be a bitter and twisted person. Yes, there are horrors in the world. But lumping rape and opera together in order to have a go at the "West" is imbecilic. Pavorotti has just died. His contribution to this world was far greater than this imam's thoughts will ever be. As if opera is evil! The thinking is corrupt.

The imam says of Christmas - "“Muslims celebrating Christmas! It’s amazing. We think that it's innocent. It’s not innocent. The Christmas Eve masses held in their churches. What do they do? They take bread and they take wine in a very formal, customary way . . . They believe they are eating the flesh of Issa [Jesus]. When they drink the wine, they believe they are consuming the blood of Issa, ie the flesh and the blood of his sacrifice. Of course, it’s all mumbo-jumbo.”

I'd be the first to say he has a right to say this stuff. I believe in free speech. But what about my right, if I wanted it, to say anything about Mohammed's ideas in a public place in Riyadh? Not much chance, I think. A pork butcher may do better setting up shop!

The cleric should thank his lucky stars he's here in Britain where his ramblings are tolerated (so long as they are legal!) and not in some frightful Taliban town, where he would definitely have to mind his P's and Q's!!!

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PC Plod and the PC Police!

The old policing skills are gone, it seems. These days, you'd have a hard time making up stuff more ridiculous than that which comes back from the Police . Superintendent Keith Lumley of South Yorkshire Police has just written to a complainant complaining about the content of a letter. Mr Alastair Oram, 32, from Rotherham, wrote to his local police complaining, "Do we take it that Thurcroft is a no-go zone, run by mob rule into which the police are afraid to venture or was it too difficult for you to deal with? What can only be described as a gang of around ten hoodie scum aged about 14 jumped out in front and behind her car with traffic cones and blocked her." Obviously, Mr Oram was annoyed, to say the least, that his partner was put through such an ordeal. Before Keith Lumley thought about hoodies hurling traffic cones at cars, he went into serious PC-mode!

"You can't go branding youths 'hoodie scum' - that doesn't give off the right impression," he wrote, in a letter that must have sounded ghastly indeed. What exactly does this superior superindent think is the right impression? David Cameron talks about hugging hoodies, but I'm really not impressed. Wrongdoing is wrongdoing. If the police are going to be more concerned with the feelings of hoodies than with dealing with blatant criminality, then we are really going to hell in a handbasket!

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Agency for Flying Saucers More Like!

I hadn't heard of this European Union quango before. It's called the European Aviation Safety Agency and is hotly seen by the pointy-heads in Brussels as the be-all and end-all of air traffic control. Another British independent policy doomed to quango-land!

This agency was deemed not fit for purpose by Ms Karen Buck, when giving evidence to the Select Committee on Transport. She seems to live up to her name by wishing to pass the buck over this issue. Let's put her on the dodgy list, as it seems she is perfectly capable of signing up to all sorts.

Conservative MEP Philip Bradbourn, the Transport Spokesman for the Conservatives in the European Parliament, has opposed proposals to extend the mandate of EASA. He will vigorously challenge the EU chancers who want to usurp the authority of the CAA in this country.

All these quangos assure us that we are heading without doubt towards a superstate. Gordon Brown can gainsay it as much as he likes, but it's coming at him (and all of us!!) like that new Eurostar train!

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