Unhelpful

Deputy Prime Minister Nicholas "Nick" Clegg says that talk about hordes of refugees swarming from the Continent in the event of the Euro collapsing is "deeply unhelpful".

If you're part of a government that allows 250,000 immigrants, mostly illegal, swarming into Britain every year, then the prospect of facing an even larger wave due to your continued support the entire European Empire project that any sane person can't see as anything less than barking mad, then someone pointing out your utter uselessness might be "deeply unhelpful".

But that depends on to whom it's unhelpful.  For the rest of us, it's as helpful as raising the alarm on the eve of invasion.

The gauntlet is thrown down

From the Metro:

Six-month deadline for UK to grant prisoners right to vote 

The government has been given a six-month deadline to enfranchise some prisoners after a landmark ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.

Or the government could simply say that Britain is a sovereign state, that English Common Law is supreme and the ECHR can go chase itself.

Euros disintegrating in sunlight

This is satire.  I pretty sure it is.  I think.

The future of Europe

Nigel Farage once again tells the Eurocrats some home truths they'd rather not hear.

I never thought I'd see so many grown men stuffing cheese in their ears at one time.

Adding a touch of realism

You wanted Martians, you've got 'em, mate.

British, French and Italian scientists will travel to Antarctica so they can waste money pretending they're at a Mars base.

Someone should remind them that it gets boring down there and their fellow, more terrestrial-minded colleagues may not be above a joke, so be prepared when answering the door.

Time to go?

The European Empire is cracking wide. Is this the time to go?

Pat Condell: The Gathering Storm

Some reports have the Euro collapsing by Christmas and the Foreign Office seems to be of a similar opinion.  If it goes, then the whole rotten Empire comes down shortly afterwards.  Five years ago, I gave the EU 15 years to go.  Looks like I was off by 10.

Decline is a choice

Proof from the Telegraph that the EU is a dead tyranny walking:

Beekeepers face being driven out of business by a European court ruling that pollen must be listed as an ingredient of honey.

No wonder the Empire has to go cap in hand to the Chicoms!

Faking it

How they shipped all this to Mars dominates the first third of the film.

I see that the European Space Agency's fake Mars mission is about to end.  That means it's time to dust off that screenplay I've been working on.

The premise is that just before the fake mission to Mars was about to begin, the Mars simulation gear develops a glitch that would have meant scrubbing the mission.  Fearing embarrassment and  a loss of credibility, ESA tries to cover up for the failure of the fake mission by actually sending the team to Mars to send back videos from the "fake" red planet.  Unfortunately, now that the "mission" is over, the crew knows too much and has to be shut up.  Permanently.

I think it's got box office potential.

Misfortune cookie

Demonstrating how valuable the European Empire is, the German finance minister recently doled out 16,000 fortune cookies containing stirring pro-EU slogans that would have made a Soviet Commissar proud.

The cookies cost €4,000.  That's €4 a cookie or £3.53 in real money.

The EU: Inventors of the solid-gold life belt.

ZEHST

A seaweed-based fuel economy?  I don't think so.

EADS unveils its Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation hypersonic airliner of 2040.

Interesting, but when did hydrogen become a "biofuel"?

The EU as King Canute

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a G-Wiz banging into a human shin— forever.

They may as well call for an end to wars and large subsidised chocolate cakes for pre-school infants.

Christopher Monckton

The European Commission, who are the real rulers of the European Empire Union, has issued a proclamation that all diesel and petrol powered vehicles are to be banned from EU city centres by 2050.  And that's just the tip of the ice berg.

They might as well just issue internal passports and be done with it.  I don't know what is more daft about this insane proposal; its grovelling before Lord Summerisle and his ilk, the phenomenal arrogance,  its vile imposition on human freedom, the utter cluelessness as to its feasibility or its impact, that its bloody obvious that the restrictions won't apply to the Inner Party, the fact that it just begs to be ignored, that if successful it will reduce the capitals of Europe to abandoned ruins, the lack of priorities in pushing "green" agendas in the face of economic ruin and looming civil war with the Jihadists, or the profound absurdity of a load of self-appointed Solons issuing decrees in the name of a bankrupt empire that won't even exist by a quarter to the due date. 

When reality thumps this lot, it'll hit hard.

"Who the Hell do you people think you are?"

Rattle rattle

The BBC looks at the £113 million up for grabs from Euromillions lottery and suggests all sorts of "philanthropic" ways in which the altruistic winner could use such a some.  Not surprisingly, it's a wish list of every left wing, statist cause with its hand out.  There's lots of stuff about Oxfam, "green" technologies, sport for the disabled, and such like, but nothing about donating to the church of one's choice or starting a scholarship fund for nuclear engineers.

Personally, if I had such a slice of dosh fall in my lap, I would (after paying off my debts, having one hell of a party and getting started on that orbital death ray) give back to society by investing the money in my business so I could make many times over that £113 million in profit, employ loads of people, and provide the general public with goods and services that would enrich their lives–at least, until the orbital death ray is up and running.

But that seems a bit too capitalistic for Auntie.

Wonder Woman, call your service

Airbus designers predict that aeroplanes of the future will have totally transparent ceramic hulls that remove the need for windows while giving passengers unparalleled views of the outside world.

It sounds very nice (aside from the prospect of a case of the screaming meemies when looking straight down), but I'd be willing to pass on a flying goldfish bowl if the airliners would bring back seats designed for full-grown human beings, decent cabin service, schedules that aren't works of fiction, and airports that are comfortable starting places for pleasant journeys instead of a hellish cross between a coach station and a POW camp designed to pick your pocket.

The shakedown

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi tells Europe to pay him €5 billion a year to stop "illegal immigration".

Translation: Pay the Danegeld or I invade.

I seem to recall Gaddafi behaving himself after a few bombs were dropped on his house and when a brother dictator was toppled from power and he thought he was next on the list.

Maybe it's time he was given another little lesson.

Free speech down the memory hole

The lights go out in Europe.

Making an ash of themselves

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If you're one of the millions of people who've been stranded, inconvenienced, impoverished or just plain annoyed by the air travel ban imposed on Europe after the Icelandic volcanic eruption, you're probably aware of all the trouble and expense that ban has caused. What you may not be aware of is how pointless the ban turned out to be.

When Eyjafjallajokull blew its top, we were all assured that aircraft across the continent had to be grounded because a vast could of engine-destroying ash was bearing down on the continent like Godzilla dropping in for some sushi. For nearly a week one of civilisation's main transportation systems has been unavailable and travellers are falling back on everything from duck punts to pogo sticks to get home, yet that ash cloud has proven suspiciously invisible. Then the airlines, losing money like water stored in a brown paper bag, sent up test flights and couldn't find any sign of those destructive ash concentrations.

What happened? The EU, the real government of Europe whatever the provincial governors like Mr Brown may claim, decided that using actual science involved all sorts of messy things like sending up aircraft and taking air samples, so they fell back on Met Office (Met Office?!?) computer models that predicted that the air over Europe would soon have the consistency of a breeze block. That was bad enough, but then the Eurocrats decided to adopt the dreaded "zero-tolerance" policy on ash that basically meant that if a housewife in Strasbourg cleaned out the fireplace every jet liner between Edinburgh and Ankara would be left to rust on the tarmac.

Sound familiar? It's the same logic and methods (or lack thereof) used with swine flu and pretty much every other baseless scare that has provoked so much knee-jerk reaction and cynical power grabbing over the past couple of decades. Cost benefit analysis? Risk assessment? Common sense? The brains God gave a duck? Why bother when the Precautionary Principle reigns supreme and there are so many diktats to be imposed? Besides, there are more important things to attend to, like making holidays a "human right". The EU did slip up this time, though. I can't understand how they overlooked passing laws against secondhand ash and taxing the airlines to death for the privilege of being grounded. We did, however, have the amusing subplot of "scientists" who seem incapable of doing the maths, but didn't stop them from making a spurious connection between the Iceland volcano and global warming.

This is what life is like under the heel of the self-annointed Solons who claim to be more competent to rule the tiniest aspects of the serfs people's lives without all that messy democracy getting in the way. Or maybe, just maybe, this will act as a wake up call and the nations of Europe, or at least Britain, will take control of their own skies again.

Update: Fool me once...

Malmo: Judenrien

It's been said that the Jews are the canaries in the coal mine of Europe, in which case it's time to start running for the exits. If anyone had told me thirty years ago that Jews would be fleeing from Malmo in fear of their lives, I'd have told him to stop smoking the cheap stuff they sell down the docks.

Sweden becomes a dangerous place for Jews thanks to open collaboration between Jihadists and Leftists, Norwegian women are urged to wear hijabs "for their own protection", gangs of "youths" turn car burning into a French pastime, self-censorship is the order of the day across the Continent, and a member of the Dutch parliament is on trial for what amounts to violating Sharia. And in the middle of all this, the common message of government and media is, "Move along; nothing to see here." I've been saying for years that the longer we leave the problem of Jihadism in Europe and keep pretending that multiculturalism and unrestricted immigration will do nothing but provide exciting cuisine, then bad choices will only give way to intolerable choices, and then having impossible choices thrust upon us. After that, the only choice left will be stand or run–and that applies to moderate Muslims who wish to remain free as well as Infidels.

Welcome to the road to civil war.

Partying like it's 9/10

Move along, people. Nothing to see here.

Update: On the other hand, New Labour gets a well-deserved thumb in the eye.