The Bramble Bush recently posted a piece critical of the Labour Party for it's betrayal of it's core values, core mission and core support in pursuit of power at all costs. This has led in some areas of our country, directly or indirectly to an ebbing away of support from Labour to mainly, though not exclusively the BNP. Spin meisters feverishly toiled, long into the night to find ever more weak and inept reasons for their disastrous showing. Reasons of course which largely excluded anything approaching the truth. But then we are talking NuLav what else do you expect.
Unless NuLav is capable or willing to examine questions of why the traditional working classes are deserting them in their droves, then it will remain a discredited and disreputable organisation, more interested in remaining in power than being powerful. After all you cannot fix a punctured tyre by fiddling with the spark plugs.
One would have thought that these lessons would have been learned by the other main political parties in our once great country, or rather, one would have hoped that the right lessons would have been learned. Sadly this doesnt seem to be the case. In announcing his rather meaningless new policy on Europe, David Cameron (or should that now be Cast-Iron Dave?) stood shoulder to shoulder with each and every deceiver and betrayer of our country's sovereignty who has gone before him. The lesson he learned is that it is better to pursue power no matter the cost (integrity, honesty, credibility) than to make good on promises, pledges and yes "cast iron guarantees". He has now painted a glowing, neon lit sign on his back saying "KICK ME" and boy oh boy has the despicable Broon and his pack of lickspittles enjoyed the last few days. Well, Kick Me Dave has brought this upon himself, has only himself to blame and deserves everything coming to him. Sympathy meter at 0.
We at the Bramble Bush accept that, in the light of the Czechs signing off on the European Constitution (for that is exactly what it is, regardless of what the swivvle eyed Europhiles and semanticists would have you believe) any referendum on it would be rather meaningless and a huge waste of time, effort and money. However, what we do not accept is this argument that somehow the case for any referendum is now dead. Of course we would have preferred a simple yes/no, in/out question in the first place. However, having given a "cast iron guarantee" on a referendum he could have, no, SHOULD HAVE gone ahead with "plan A" but merely altered the question to take into account the change of reality on the ground. Imagine the headlines the following day "SHOCK HORROR PROBE: Politician Is A Man Of His Word" and so on, it would have been a vote winner, in fact it would have probably given DC an absolute landslide victory at the next GE and probaly have caused Michael White over at the Grauniad to choke on his muesli. Instead of which, this inept and wishy washy wish list of a policy has probably handed the keys to No10 to a rag tag coalition of NuLav and the Clegganistas NOT because the issue of Europe dominates the day (although it probably should) but because the issue of integrity and trust in our politicians does.
Nor do we accept the facile argument that it's the economy stupid. On the one hand Kick Me Dave stood there and said he would have found the money to ask the people a question on Lisbon BUT he wouldnt be able to find the money to ask the people a different question...?? But then we are idiots, stupidistas, vote cows, we arent supposed to notice such flummery, such clumsy sleights of hand. Oops.
Nor do we accept that just because Broon & Co have sent this country's economy to hell in a hand basket (we couldnt afford the hand cart) that this supercedes any and all other issues. Rubbish! Without our sovereignty we are nothing, it is from our sovereignty that all else flows NOT the other way round and if Kick Me Dave cannot understand that his prime responsibility as PM would be its protection and preservation then he truly is lost.
Cameron is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks he can deliver on any of his new raft of cast iron guarantees. I'll put it simply, there will be no new treaties passing power and sovereignty to the EUSSR, there will be no new treaties passing power and sovereignty to the EUSSR because there is no need for any new treaty to pass power and sovereignty to the EUSSR, there is no need for any new treaty to pass power and sovereignty to the EUSSR because Lisbon is self amending. IT DOES NOT NEED any new powers, it has all the power it needs to grab all the power it wants. Seemples. And if he thinks for a single second that any of our compatriots in the EUSSR will allow any repatriation of any power to the UK well... the poor lad is frankly delusional. As you will be able to see from the following paste from todays Guardian.
Europe ministers from Poland, the Netherlands and the Irish Republic – historically among the friendliest to Britain in the EU – as well as Spain, said Cameron would not achieve his demand to repatriate social and employment laws to Britain. His plans would need the agreement of all 27 leaders of the EU because they would involve rewriting the union's treaties.
Frans Timmermans, the Dutch centre- left Europe minister, told the Guardian the Tory plans would have a "paralysing effect on Europe … There is more chance of a snowball surviving hell than the EU restarting debates on treaty change."
Timmermans said no EU leader would want to reopen treaties to accommodate the Tories. "You can still hear the sigh of relief across Europe that we have finally finished with treaty change. Everyone is so relieved that we can finally stop talking about the internal rules of the EU and start doing something about the crisis, something about the climate change issues and about international affairs. There is no member state that wants another round of debate about the rules of the game."
BUT let us never forget who has got us here, Broon and Bliar before him are directly responsible for this. THEY are the ones who truly deserve our most vicious bile for their betrayals and lies but Cameron, faced with (so far) his only statesman like moment completely blew it and became an enabler post facto.
Thanks only to the Daily Telegraph, to whom we all owe a huge debt of gratitude, we have had to endure months of sleaze, and lurid tales of trough snufflers gorging themselves at tax payers expense while millions lost their jobs, bankers, richer than Cresus, fleecing the tax payer for every panny their ludicrously overpaid and laughably incompetent hands could grasp because the regulations put in place by those very same trough snufflers were so weak and ineffctual that they were ripe for abuse, and Boy Oh Boy were they abused. Green Book anyone?
Against this backdrop politician after politician has promised to clean up politics and reduce the democratic defecit that this country has in spades. But how can you do either of those things, how can you even attempt to restore faith in politics if politicians continue to treat those they hope will lend them their democratic madate like total fools? An accusation Cameron himself has used time and time again against Golden Gordon, how hollow it now sounds, and I suspect we will not be hearing it again any time soon. In this respect Cameron has now conjoined himself as the siamese sibling to Bliar, Broon, Clegg et al, he has firmly cemented another brick in the "They're all the same" wall.
Fortunately they are not all the same. Fortunately we do have a choice away from the three main parties who have all betrayed us to an ever encroaching Euro Federalist future for let us not be under any illusion, this is the future that others have marked out for us never once giving us the opportunity to decide our own future for ourselves. Luckily, those nice people at UKIP have decided that the British electorate are not children, or fools to be brow beaten and frightened into meek acquiesence. Almost alone now, UKIP stands not only for the (forced if necessary) repatriation of power and sovereignty ceded to an unelected and fundamentally corrupt monolith but for a return to honesty and integrity not only in politics but also in politicians themselves. It is easy for detractors and fear mongers to spout lines like "a vote for UKIP is a wasted vote" or make accusations of UKIP being a one trick pony. Neither are true, and the fact that so many try to make this kind of mud stick is testament to the fear that honesty causes in politics and politicians. Contrary however, it is becoming increasingly obvious that a vote for any member of the LibLabCon Alliance will be a wasted vote. None of the main three parties are offering anything near the radical and fundamental changes our society so desperately needs and deserves. Vote for any of them and you will get a continuation of the status quo, some window dressing maybe, some tinkering at the edges of course but meaningful? Not on your life!
The senseless misadventures in foreign lands will still continue, the sight of our young men and women sent to die ill-equipped in the deserts and oil fields of foreign lands to prop up despicable and corrupt regimes will continue. The weekly heartbreak at Wooton Basset will continue, the breaking of the military covenant will continue, the ceding of what is left of our sovereignty to those who care naught for it will continue, the depravation prevalent in large swathes of our country will continue, the drunken mob rule in most of our towns will continue, the mindless thuggery perpertrated against the weak and innocent will continue, the inability of our police, our teachers, our parents to do anything meaningful against the rising tide of yobbery perpertrated by a generation well versed in their rights but ignorant of their obligations will continue. The rape of our seas, the destruction of our sea-beds and the marginalisation of our farmers will continue. The bonuses will continue, the propping up and bailing out of an inept banking system will continue while the bankruptcies and hardships suffered by solid, honest, going concerns will continue. The spin, the lies, the deceit and betrayals WILL continue.
All of the above and much much more will continue if you dear voter persist in the blind tribalism that brought us here in the first place and press the "business as usual" button at the next General Election.
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