tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495971764170848323.post2823436455810524394..comments2024-03-18T09:23:27.626+00:00Comments on When I'm King: LoopholesBatsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06426643733506493701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495971764170848323.post-47840535691533561292016-07-25T07:25:27.597+01:002016-07-25T07:25:27.597+01:00Reading your post, Batsby, reminds me of how my la...Reading your post, Batsby, reminds me of how my late father would always sing out, "The working class, can kiss ass, I've got the foreman's job at last" whenever the TUC was on the news. To the tune of Le Internationale, of course.Timbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495971764170848323.post-34743825340073365442016-07-25T00:06:59.955+01:002016-07-25T00:06:59.955+01:00I must agree with what David has stated in his com...I must agree with what David has stated in his comment re Mr Corbyn. The highs of labour's achievements from the Welfare state and joining NATO are long since forgotten since their several party splits (SLP & SDP). The 'winter of discontent' has stretched out into an 'Ice-Age of discontent' with a lot of it seemingly being internal. Even New labour of the 1980's had grass-root members leaving to join the a fore mentioned split off parties and the recent resignations en-mass and the drama of leadership bids just seems to paint the picture that labour can't seem to agree on how far left they want to be or even what type of socialist ambition they wish to pursue. The introduction over the years of many welcome and positive policies by labour seem lost amongst the almost constant but very consistent banal internal bickerings all of which adds up to a party that must give members and supporters alike a genuine worry for its future or indeed its new direction.<br /><br />I am, I must admit, disillusioned with most of the major parties and most certainly & adamantly with the dictates that we have to bow down to from the Brussels Oligarchy. The positive vote to break from them via the June 23rd referendum has given me much confidence that we can move past these dark days, that look even darker gazing out from the White cliffs of Dover towards Europe and the migrant fiasco. I feel sure that this is one of several Bilderberg strategies of culture reshaping leading to their envisaged future. Perhaps you can dismiss that thought of mine as some wildly inane conspiracy theory but please ask yourself why some European member leaders are beginning to resent this open border policy, why are some leaders under so much pressure from their own people who are crying out for safety and reason even at the expense of losing their national identity into the supersatate, seem powerless to act. Why are we becoming unbelieving of main stream media that seemingly refuses to tell the truth and offers naught but Brussels propaganda and trying vainly to sway opinion towards E.U positives and succeeding only in alienating those to whom they are supposed to bring impartiality and unbiased facts. Why all of this if there is indeed no game a-foot!<br /><br />The confidence I feel at present is that the Conservatives appear to be conforming to what the public majority voted for despite negative media and suggestions of alternative scenarios being played out.<br />Over and above that, my confidence continues with the fact that we could be on the dawn of a new and exciting style of politics. I am talking about UKIP and yes, I understand the left leaning, EU supporting establishment types want to class them as right wing extremists, Fascists, racists, and a plethora of other negative terms but UKIP appear to be the ones that really do listen to the people and UKIP really are the party that helped us in our first step of escape from the clutches of the Dictatorial EU. Looking around the world it seems right wing politics are the way to escape this present madness that we endure. Mr Trump in the USA, Marine Le Pen in France, the German AfD, Italy's 5-Star Movement and the Golden dawn of Greece. These parties must look extremest to those who have complacently fallen into the blinkered zone of leftist dominated society, but for the ordinary masses of people they are beginning to look like a beacon of hope.<br />Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03331380635760752089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2495971764170848323.post-52324385154609097352016-07-24T08:47:49.833+01:002016-07-24T08:47:49.833+01:00Corbyn strikes me as something of a contradiction ...Corbyn strikes me as something of a contradiction in terms. He seems on the face of it, a decent, well meaning albeit stupid bloke. But he does love causes which at every turn would (and have) wreaked extreme violence on Joe Public - the IRA, Hammas, anybody who hates Isreal or us or the US. And for a man who espouses a gentler, nicer sort of politics, he seems to have acquired a Praetorian Guard of quite the nastiest and most intolerant people in Britain. These are deeply nasty and violent people, brimming with self righteous hate of anyone who commits, for example, a hate crime (like wolf whistling) whilst carefully avoiding topics like armed nut jobs driving heavy trucks into crowds of erstwhile happy men, women and children. Somehow, this sums up the response of our Establishment to the existential threat which European civilisation - what is left of it anyway - now faces. Gildas the Monkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08457469623967074327noreply@blogger.com