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There is a proposal by a UKIP Peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch to set up a House of Lords Committee to examine the value of the UK belonging to the European Union. It is envisaged that the membership of this committee would be made up of seven people, two “For”, two “Against”, two of no strong view on the matter and, an independent chairman.

The idea would be by diligent examination of the issues, it must be possible to arrive at a firm view, backed with facts that says that it is either “In” or “Against” the UK’s interests to be a member of the European Union. This is a fine ambition I might suggest but there are quite a number of obvious problems with the whole idea…

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For all the fuss over the EU, we really must concentrate on more important things like Christmas because the farce over last Friday, is emerging into a Pantomime in it’s own right. There was a LibDem MEP called Sharon Bowles who is chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, declaring that she wished she could change her nationality to Irish to show support for the Euro – daft cow !

What made it all the funnier was she both looked and sounded like Julie Walters playing her role as “Mrs Overall” in the mock soap “Acorn Antiques”, I almost wet my pants watching the woman being interviewed, it was hilarious…if also slightly sad too.

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I really do find John Rentoul who writes for The Independent, a great read even when I disagree with him and today, fell about laughing with the opening paragraph of his article:

“If we are isolated and we are in the right, then that’s the correct position.” The Prime Minister was emphatic. Just because he had used Britain’s veto, he said, did not mean that he, or the British, were anti-European.” It was apparently what Tony Blair said after using a British Veto in Helsinki back in December 1999.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/john-rentoul/john-rentoul-any-pm-would-have-done-as-cameron-did-6275402.html#disqus_thread

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As a sign that this Country is on the verge of terminal insanity, there can be no clearer indication than the nonsense and furore surrounding an appearance by Jeremy Clarkson on the “One Show”.

The “One Show” is an indifferent “chat show” BBC TV programme that goes out around 19:00 in the evening and is fronted by a couple of totally colourless people who clearly have had their brains sucked out through their bottoms before being given the ‘gig’. What followed was embarrassing, if the chat show host had even been ‘Parky’ who was never the sharpest tool in the box, the result might have been different but with this simpering pair of nobodies…

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As someone who updates this personal blog fairly frequently and “follows the news”, I can understand to some extent, just how difficult life must be for a professional journalist tasked to deliver “opinion pieces” for the national dailies at set intervals. But all that said, sometimes it might be better to ‘not deliver’ than to deliver half baked tripe as Peter Oborne did today in The Telegraph, check it out for yourself: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100120951/george-osborne-should-be-looking-after-the-purse-strings-not-the-politics/

My ‘objection’ to this piece was nothing to do with whether or not I agreed with the author, it was quite simply down to what in substance was a really stupid stance to take so for me, it was not one to ‘let pass’…as it were.

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I must start by declaring that I am a thief of other’s intellectual property but whilst I do not know the photographer of the above picture I give full honour to them. However,  in ‘mitigation’ of my offence, I offer the following: It is a brilliant picture and whether intended or not, achieves a similar level in its own right because of the detail in the characters to the best of the Hogarth prints and as a statement on our current society.

Obviously the topic is the Public Sector strikes over changes to their pension ‘entitlements’ and as someone who sold pensions during the 1980s in the private sector when only people well beyond 40 could “envisage the whole idea”, I can hardly believe in this strike. This strike is not about pensions, it is about FEAR of the immediate, not the long term future !

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The Daily Telegraph has become, by and large, a bit of a ‘no go area’ for me, far too many moaning old duffers in the comments section to bother with, I personally suspect that it ought to be renamed, “The Daily Whineograph”. But if ‘politics’ on there is bad, the ‘motoring’ section is even worse…

Land Rover has a ‘concept’ vehicle which could form the basis of a ‘Defender’ (think original Land Rover, mud, farms etc.), replacement at a show in California and a DT journalist got to drive it and take pictures, the reader’s feedback was little short of hilarious and most of it seemed so totally out of touch with reality, I did have to have a pop ! However, what really engaged me was the whole issue of building upon a brand success without becoming tied into a long gone past.

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With the fall of Sirte and more importantly the death of Gaddafi, this phase of Libya’s past ends and a promising if difficult future beckons. Yes, it could all go horribly wrong but providing the Libyans keep their heads cool, a small population of 6 million, substantial oil based income and therefore the money to rebuild their infrastructure, if corruption can be avoided, their future will be very bright indeed.

David Cameron was quite rightly very businesslike in what he said following the news concerning the death of Gaddafi but I have been quite amused by some of the comments and their undertones which have been made by some that can be summed up as: “Now like Tony Blair, he has got a successful war under his belt, he might get a taste for it…” I have to wonder just how perceptive or sober some of these people are, these are very silly words.

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I have read various articles concerning the various protest campaigns on Wall Street, in London and so on but haven’t rushed to write about them as they seem to be all rather soft, confused, lacking in focus or with any particular goals in mind. In simple terms they are best summed up with a statement like; “We don’t like this and it isn’t fair…”

What no one has seemed to grasped and in this I include the Bankers, Industrialists and Politicians too, is the exact nature of the problem let alone, what kind of solutions may be applicable. In a sense, we all seem similarly as frozen and devoid of ideas as the Generals were when faced with trench warfare in WWI and the significance of including the statue of Cromwell in the graphic will I hope become clearer in due course.

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The resignation of Liam Fox was inevitable given the time the ‘scandal’ had run, the ‘common wisdom’ being that if you can’t kill it within 2-3 news cycles, you are in trouble, longer and you are ‘Toast’ and 10 days or so in, the consequences were obvious especially as more “revelations” came out.

In addition, his personal ‘connections’ and relationships, were not ‘above suspicion’ as “Caesar’s Wife” must always be… However, from the beginning and whilst acknowledging that Dr Liam Fox was very foolish in all this and therefore deserves the outcome, at the same time I was very amused by just how this played out and how many people may well have shot themselves in the foot in the process of “shooting their Fox”. Be very careful what you wish for in this Life comes to mind…just in case it comes to pass…

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