Stop the Occupation of Europe by the EU

Wednesday 30th September 2020
 

Enough is Enough

We have just been through the Hell of the first wave of a worldwide pandemic known as Covid-19 with hardly a murmur - so to speak. The virus was subdued, and the precious NHS saved - but at some cost the lives of others who did not succumb to the virus itself but to the lack of alternative provision for those with other deadly diseases and/or disabilities excluded from the NHS. 

Our Care Homes where the most vulnerable reside were used for hospital bed occupants to make room for Covid-19 patients - thus spreading the virus outside the confines of the hospitals through untested patients. 

Similar problems occurred within the most affected countries in Europe according to the EU’s own centre for disease control.

Later NHS facilities were increased via the Army as “Nightingale Hospitals” but, fortunately, they were not used as the infections subsided.

It was always likely that a second wave of the virus would emerge, and it did, in Europe so we were given warnings to prepare - but we do not seem to have learned the lesson that the NHS must function across the board, not just for the care of patients infected with Covid-19. 

We were also aware that the government did have the powers to drive the population to its will - even with laws that should never have been enacted by any British Parliament 

- the laws of a Police State. 

(Theresa May was even worse - she even insisted (in 2011) that she would enlist help from the EU in the case of public disturbance in the UK)

Even with that knowledge we did not believe that they would ever be used against us, now we see that they will be used against us even without Parliamentary oversight. 

We fought wars to make sure we kept our freedom. With our Allies we defeated Nazism in Europe and defeated Imperialism in the Far East. The British people will not be cowed now by a deliberately distributed virus.

There is a clear minority out to create mischief for the government - those in some of the Unions, those in the Labour Party and other opposition Parties who want to remove Boris and the Conservatives government from power. Those who are more loyal to Marxism than to the UK - working to protect the EU and keep the UK trapped. 

They have no concern for those who are subsequently infected as a result of their actions... 

One of the main reasons for leaving the European Union was because it was clear that the EU would instigate a Totalitarian Police State in Europe, as prescribed in the Lisbon Treaty (2007); in addition to commandeering our military and civilian assets to fight wars on behalf of the EU - requiring that our troops should swear allegiance to its leaders and obey its orders.

The Lisbon Treaty (2007) declared that the EU’s laws would take precedence over the laws of its member states and was subsequently adopted as the new EU Constitution - which overrides the Constitutions of its member states - including our Common Law.

Surely, no-one would have anticipated that a British Prime Minister - who was a leading light in the 2016 EU Referendum Campaign - would turn out to be a Dictator in disguise.

It is time to stop the top-down stance and work with and trust the British people.

Get rid of the ridiculous 10.00PM pub closing regulation and allow the restaurants and pubs to ensure the safety of their patrons and extend it until 11.00PM.

Protect the vulnerable - all of them - not just the virus infected ones but let businesses build up their reserves.

EU 2nd Wave Lockdown

Sad to report that in total Europe has had ~2.9 million cases, and ~187,000 deaths - according to data from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. (ECDCP).

The UK is following the patterns seen in our near neighbours in the EU, notably France and Spain - except our experts seem to have added a “hockey stick” to indicate an exponential rise. But they don’t even suggest that the outcome is speculative. 

Even Sweden, which relied upon population restraint and good behaviour was recording 100 deaths per day at the peak of the crisis (according to the Mail online report (24th September 2020)).

Claims that Sweden should be a model for other countries to follow bely the fact the surrounding states faired much better, and even without an apparent “lockdown”, but Sweden is facing its biggest recession since WWII its economy predicted to decline by 7%, this year; a 30 - fold spike in  borrowing and 40% of businesses now fear bankruptcy (Bloomberg). Sweden is now contemplating a second wave “lockdown”. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-19/sweden-in-very-deep-economic-crisis-despite-soft-lockdown

EU Snapshot

A quick look at some of the recent figures is shown

UK (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths peer 100,000 is 0.4)

Reported 406,058 Covid-19 cases and 41,951 deaths and Boris has called on people to work from home if they can and the closure of pubs and restaurants at 10PM. These measures could last for six months. Groups of more than six people are already not allowed to mix.

The government’s chief medical and scientific advisors warned on Monday that without action the UK could see up to 50,000 cases per day by mid-October, and 200+ deaths each day in November.

France (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 1.0)

Reported a total of 507,150 cases with 31,426 deaths limitations on public gatherings and banning the sale of alcohol and drinking after 8PM, in some areas. Visits to care homes limited to two per week. 

Germany (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.1)

Has reported 277, 412 cases and fewer than 10,000 deaths. A total of 1,821 cases were recorded on Tuesday. Chancellor Merkel has called a crisis summit for next week. Rules on face-mask usage in public have been tightened as well as contact restrictions brought in.

Italy (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.3)

Reported 300,000 cases and 35,738 deaths, 1,392 new cases were reported yesterday. Italy has not reimposed sever lockdown restriction seen during the first wave but has stepped up mandatory testing of new arrivals from known infected areas, particularly from Paris which has “a significant Covid-19 circulation”

Spain (14-day cumulative deaths per 100,000 is 2.8)

A total of 682,267 cases, 30,904 deaths. 10,000 new cases were reported yesterday. Madrid’s regional government has requested help from the army to contain the virus, amid protests following local lockdowns in parts of the city; which has an infection rate double the national level.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/what-europe-is-doing-to-tackle-its-coronavirus-surge-.html

By contrast

Sweden - 89,000 cases, 5870 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.2)

Romania - 114,648 cases, 4503 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 2.8)

Portugal - 69.633 cases, 1,925 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.8)

Greece - 15,928 cases, 352 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.6)

Malta - 2,814 cases, 23 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 1.8)

Lithuania - 3,859 cases, 87 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.0)

Iceland - 2,419 cases, 10 deaths (14-day cumulative (CV-19) deaths per 100,000 is 0.0)

For the complete  https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea

Perspectives:

Italy was the epicentre of the Covid-19 in Europe, facilitated by the Chinese Diaspora, as the Mayor of Wuhan, China allowed its international airport to remain open for about a month after the epidemic was announced in China. 

Chinese workers were employed in northern Italy in the leather industry and brought the virus with them from China - it quickly took hold. The rapid dispersion was thought to be related to the traditional Italian multi-generational family units mixing socially.

In response to Italy’s  crisis Germany blocked  the  export of  vital  PPE  and  closed its  border.   Germany was probably better placed than any other country in Europe to fight Covid-19 - simply because produced its own PPE and manufactured the necessary reagents for viral test equipment.

In addition, Germany may have had an earlier warning than the rest of Europe since Angela Merkel had made numerous visits to Wuhan prior to the outbreak, as Germany sought to expand German car sales outside of Europe into China. 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also funds German political parties and is therefore less likely to condemn China for any of its actions.

Britain by contrast was probably one of the worst prepared because of lack of manufacturing capacity, following its association with the EU and its romance with Globalism. The addiction to the exploitation of the disadvantaged around the worldby the west has led to this current response to the crisis - together with poor management by its health service equipment providers, relying upon supplies from overseas (China).

China supplied faulty PPE equipment to countries throughout the world at the outset of the crisis.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to hide the seriousness of the virus and encouraged other countries to keep open their borders based upon knowingly false claims that it could not be passed through human transmission.

In a major publicity coup for the Chinese they sent specialist doctors from China, Russia and Cuba to Italy, ostensibly to help fight the disease, in contrast to the EU which had left Italy “high-and-dry” in a spectacular faux pas - by isolating Italy from its neighbours. So much for EU solidarity, the reality is that it is everyone for themselves.

China left behind faulty PPE in Italy and walked away with high praise for their offers of help when the EU ignored requests for help from Italy - although, in reality the Communist doctors were probably in Italy to see how effectively the virus had been spreading amongst the European populations- i.e. a scientific field trip.

Political Left Agenda

Probably in the UK rather than any other country (apart from the USA - China’s main target) the evolving Pandemic is being used by the political left EU supporters to undermine the government of Boris Johnson and have him removed from power - in order prevent the UK leaving on the 1st January 2021. 

This same agenda is also being played out in the USA with attempts to undermine Donald Trump (who is a critic of the EU and China) and bring into power the Communist friendly US  Democrats.

Even the publicity hungry Harry and Meghan have laid out their own interference agenda in American politics - and both seem to be supporting the Marxist BLM/Antifa actions. BLM have publicly announced that their primary objective is the removal of President Donald Trump - even before the election - so they will probably go into overdrive in October 2020.

BLM in the USA and UK are part of the same movement and have been activated during the US Presidential year and the end of the UK-EU Transition period for a common purpose - to protect the EU.

The protests and cultural vandalism are part of an attempt to destroy the identity of the Capitalist/Christian west - and install Communists replacements (or its supporters) who will work with China as it seeks to replace the US $ with the Chinese Yuan, in order to bring about a Chinese hegemony.

The worst of it all though is the infiltration into the UK and US government institutions, Public Services and Civil Society by “Cultural Marxism” re-programming of those in positions of power - on the false pretext of institutional racism - under the cover of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Effectively, even though the political left (Communists by any other name) lost the democratic vote in the UK (to Johnson) and in the USA (to Trump) - they have never accepted the results and instead embarked upon a programme of mass subversion, protests and shaming - Maoist style. 

BLM even uses the same clenched fist symbol of Communism (which was ubiquitous on Chinese posters during Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (1966-1976)). BLM also boasts its own black-shirted militia, waiting in the wings. 

What happens next depends upon who wins the US Presidential election in November, though it might not end in a clear resolution and instead revert to litigation which could overrun the end of the UK-EU Transition. 

Meanwhile, the UK opposition political parties and the UK establishment more generally will do all they can to undermine the efforts of the elected government to keep Covid-19 under control and manoeuvre to force Johnson to capitulate to the EU.

Conclusion

Covid-19 was clearly the responsibility of the Chinese and it is using it to extend its territories, while other countries are trying to cope with its economic consequences. Initially, China is bullying the populations in its areas of influence, but it is also involved in a campaign of Colonialisation around the world. 

China has support from other Communist countries, as would be expected, but worryingly that support extends to within the political left in the West, and China plans to control the entire world - which it believes is its destiny. 

Unfortunately, Donald Trumps and his administration appear to be the only ones to recognise the danger that China represents to freedom in the world and how foolishly the West has behaved in response to China’s slave industries that are providing electronic trinkets and more importantly, essential drugs, medicines and a myriad of strategic materials once available at home.

The West has walked blindfolded into a world of misery that awaits it unless it confronts China and re-establishes its own manufacturing prowess in the world.

Getting rid of Donald Trump will not help America if it falls back into a total dependency on China for all its basic and vital needs.

China needs to pay compensation for the damage caused and its ambitions must be contained - we all need to become more self -reliant.

Saturday 12th September 2020

“Cat amongst the Pigeons”

Boris has certainly caused a storm in Parliament, the EU and elsewhere. Mostly though he has flushed out those would sell out the UK population to the highest bidder - the EUphiles in the UK establishment and elsewhere.

The EU are desperate for the Withdrawal Agreement to be accepted by the UK without question. But the real world does not work like that and the insertion of Section 38 into the Bill by Sir Bill Cash and passed by Parliament gives the UK the final say:

Section 38 - European Union(Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020

(1) It is recognised that the Parliament of the UK is sovereign ...

(2) Accordingly, nothing in this Act derogates from the sovereignty of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Essentially, even though the WA is an international treaty it does not come into effect until it has been voted into a Bill by the UK Parliament!

As pointed out by former Diplomat, Adrian Hill : 

“Under the Vienna Convention on International Treaties if circumstances change and to abide by a treaty is not in the national interest, a signatory nation may revoke the treaty”

As Mr Hill also points out “As the EU made no attempt to reach an agreement with us other than to threaten and stall until we caved in and accepted the status quo, which is not in our interest as it cancels at least three national votes, including two elections, let us follow international law to the letter and revoke the Withdrawal Agreement”.  Regarding the Political Declaration, it is not binding in international law.

It does not matter what the UK does it was always going with threats of some kind of “war” with the EU. Simply because the EU cannot allow any substantial member state to leave on good terms - even more so with the UK.

Merkel and Von der Leyen are planning to take over negations directly with Boris and side - line David Frost - this must not happen. 

Boris must not allow himself to be brow beaten by these two females on a mission - we are in the last "chance saloon" regarding escape from the EU. For more see https://www.conservative woman.co.uk/tcws- brexit-watch-Johnson-can-indeed-rip-up-the-withdrawal-agreement/

Please pass this information to your MP - to ensure that Boris is warned about the EU plot.

Tuesday 1st September 2020

BLM’s Inner Maoist Instinct

In a prelude to what the UK establishment, its institutions and organisations are about to experience, there was a display of what to expect with a BLM/Antifa takeover in the UK unless it is stopped - it is already happening - even in our Parliament.

On the 1s tof June 2020 BLM/Antifa associates took over part of the City of Seattle, Washington, USA with the acquiescence of those in office, and on the 8thJuly an investigative journalist Christopher F Rufo was able to obtain copies of handouts from a public records request of a BLM training session. 

“… the city decided upon a special way for its white employees to reflect: it emailed employees informing them that there would be "a training on Internalized Racial Superiority tomorrow morning, specifically targeting white employees.”

“The basis for the accusation of Racism was simply because they were white - (which include being Arab, Jewish, Finnish, German, Italian, Armenian or Irish)”

“Indeed, one handout explicitly states that almost all human emotions or beliefs are proof that a white person is either elevating his whiteness or denigrating other races:” 

“A Maoist cultural revolution comes for Seattle's white employees By Andrea Widburg July 8, 2020” 

The cited twitter feed: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280282780555829248

EU Exit Comment

BLM Wales (yes, really) published a Manifesto outlining the plans by BLM to take over all the public institutions in the UK - this is Marxist/Leninist/Maoist infiltration and control of the UK - out in the open. It is pretty much the same programmes as they are carrying out in the USA.

It is an extended version of what was taking place by New Labour (1997-2010 - and continued up until 13th Dec 2019) which constructed a “a Marxist Blair Government in Exile” - which is what we have currently within our society - undermining our current government - on behalf of the EU.

Anyone who can think for themselves is going to be suppressed, coerced and subjugated, as, if the UK was under the control of a Communist State - unless they object and stand up for the future of their families, friends and children. 

This population reprogramming is a replica of what happened in China under Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” (1966-1976 (Mao's death)), and continues today in all Communist states - welcome to the projection of what the China/UN has planned for Europe and the USA, a single world Communist government, based upon the Chinese (Maoist) model. 

See blm.wales/manifesto/

See also https://conservativewoman.co.uk/the-idiocy-of-woke-companies-supporting-blm/

Monday 31stAugust 2020

BBC - Big Bad Corporation

The BBC has come into some criticism recently for its attack on the much loved “Last Night of the Proms”, more specifically its playlist and in particular “Rule Britannia” and Land of “Hope and Glory”. 

This is not the first time that the BBC has taken upon itself the role of demeaning and dismissing our traditions, culture and history - this time it is on behalf of a subversive organisation by the name of Black Lives Matter - funded by the George Soros’s “Open Borders Foundation”, among others. - 

BLM is a group of Marxist thugs’ intent on causing destruction and chaos on British Society based upon a false narrative that the UK and its population are institutionally racist. 

This was instigated in the UK following rioting and looting in the USA by BLM and its associates which includes Antifa, a Fascist organisation claiming to be anti-Fascist, when, in fact, it is politically extreme left - an anti-Christianity and anti-Capitalist movement (Marxist/Leninist/Maoist). 

Ostensibly, these movements are reacting to the death of Floyd George by US police, but that is a cover for their wider agenda - which the BBC seems to embrace - the destruction of British (English) identity. 

In this article the history of the BBC is briefly outlined and examples of anti-British (Pro-EU) activity is exposed - behaviour which should require the BBC to lose its licence to broadcast.

Very Brief BBC History ( https://h2g2.com/entry/A30044459)

The Company was created in October 1922, as a commercial enterprise by radio manufacturers including Marconi. The first daily broadcast started on the 14th November from the Marconi studio in London, followed by broadcasts from Birmingham and Manchester. The BBC could be received throughout the UK by the end of 1925.

The general manager was a Scot called John Reith, who wanted more than just selling radios; something to educate, inform and entertain - without government interference or commercial pressure dictating what was broadcast.

The BBC’s first brush with the government over its independence was during the General Strike of 1926 Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, tried to get the government to take over the BBC, in order to control its output - Reith interceded through the then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the BBC was left in peace. It gradually gained a reputation for its integrity and independence. 

In 1927 it gained a Royal Charter and changed from a company to a corporation and was classed as a public broadcasting organisation. The original “broadcast receiving licence” became the radio licence in 1922. The TV licence was introduced in June 1946 and in 1968 it was amended to cover black and white and colour - the radio license was abolished in 1971. 

In November 1936 the BBC began the world’s first television service based at Alexandra Palace in London, and in May 1937 its outside broadcasting units covered the coronation of King George VI; the Wimbledon tennis Championships in June 1937 and the first FA Cup Final in April 1938.

During the 1980’s the BBC faced increased pressure from added competition (satellite TV, more commercial radio) and the government. This latter was political interference - about a programme called Real Lives, which Home Secretary Leon Brittan asked the BBC governors to stop the edition from being broadcast.

The furore about changing the content led the BBC staff to go on strike over what they deemed to be political interference in the BBC’s independence and impartiality.

In 1996 the BBC had to acquire a new charter which required the BBC to produce content that commercial networks would not provide (One foot in the Grave and Have I got news for you). In addition, costume dramas were made and well received (Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch in particular). Science programmes offered new approaches towards the end of the 1900s (The Human Body, Walking with Dinosaurs).

In the 2000s the BBC introduced a new digital service called “Freeview”, allowing digital and analogue signals through a normal TV aerial. Freeview also facilitated interaction via the ‘red Button’ and digital teletext. In 2001 the BBC expanded bbc.co.uk with h2g2.com by Douglas Adams; new digital Radio Channels via Freeview and new stations such as 1 Xtra, 5Live and BB7.

The Changing BBC

In 2007 a new 10-year contract was negotiated with the Government; the Board of Governors were replaced, and the BBC Trust took over as the governing body of the BBC, the following debate took place in the House of Commons. 

“2007-08 Session
That this House notes that soft loans and payments amounting to 258 million euros over the last five years were paid by the EU to the BBC; believes that such payments compromise the independence and objectivity of the BBC on EU issues; further notes that the BBC benefited by a cash-equivalent of approximately 39 million euros which is made up of 20.4 million actual saved interest on loan facilities of 240 million, 2.5 million in grants, 14.6 million to BBC World and 1.7 million euros in indirect payments; further notes that there are, in addition, undisclosed sums in respect of joint projects; further believes that these substantial benefits may offend against the BBC’s Royal Charter, which demands independence, and also its editorial guidelines which state that the BBC should not `accept funds from any organisation whose interests or actions could raise doubts about the objectivity of programming’; and cites, as continuing evidence of BBC bias in its coverage of EU affairs, the BBC’s refusal to broadcast coverage of the National Pro-Referendum Rally at Westminster on 27th October 2007; therefore calls on the Government to establish an independent inquiry into EU funding of the BBC and its impact on the BBC’s objectivity on European matters and current debate over a referendum on the EU Constitution; and congratulates the Campaign for an Independent Britain for its initiative in uncovering this information.”

“Tabled 28 January 2008. How much more since? Nothing has been done about it. If it walks like a bribe, swims like a bribe and quacks like a bribe I think we can call it a bribe to continually support the EU with positive only reports.” (see theeuroprobe.org 2019 – 014 EU funding of the BBC) 

As usual, the UK was changed by “New” Labour against its best interests, essentially filling the UK establishment with EU supporting place-men and women - leaving a legacy of anti-English propagandists, intent on destroying British identity, traditions, culture and history; on the altar of Marxist dogma. (part of Blair’s government in exile)

But nothing ever comes of the criticisms of the BBC or any other EU supporting sector of the British establishment

For more see: theeuroprobe.org 2012-011 The BBC’s Involvement with the EU; 2012-017 The BBC and its bias; 2014-043 BBC receives funding of €6,100,987 from EU in breach of its Royal Charter; 2020-006 Not the Fake News Feb 2020 no 7

Not forgetting: “The Millions in EU funding that the BBC tried to hide” The Spectator 28 February 2014.

Here is one quote:

‘The whole point of the licence fee is to protect the BBC’s political independence and impartiality by providing it with a source of funding that is outside the hands of governments and politicians. Thanks to this FoI response, we now learn that it has been going cap in hand to the EU for millions of pounds on the quiet over the last few years. Such outrageous flouting of the principles on which the BBC is based and funded will only promote cynicism about its political impartiality and lead to a loss of trust in the BBC’s independence.’ (Rob Wilson MP an aide to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne) 

When the BBC then starts to harass and threaten pensioners over 75-year of age with prison for non-payment of its UK licence fee - which is used to fund its profligacy - it has crossed the line from being a decent, impartial and independent organisation into a monstrous money grabbing machine, acting as a propaganda service for a foreign master in Brussels (Berlin). 

When it also seeks to denigrate the very country and population which provides the vast bulk of its funding then it needs to be defunded, its licence removed and its facilities sold-off. To be replaced by a more deserving and broadcast media provider - loyal to all its subscribers not just those of the most vocal minorities.

BBC subversive activity

Not content with the abuse of pensioners the BBC is also at it again, undermining the duly elected government, for example. Guido Fawkes discovered recently:

“BBC News viewers watched a debate between former Tory MP Justine Greening and two concerned mums this morning who are so worried they want the government to abandon its plans to get kids back to school next month. Guido’s eyebrows were yet again raised as the two ordinary mums were given eight minutes to tear lumps out of the Government. After a couple of minutes research readers will be shocked to learn that BBC once again failed to highlight their guest’s party political biases…”

“Corinne Pearson, who described the government as “reckless” and “callous”, might be hell-bent on not catching Coronavirus at school, is however happy to organise and attend an Extinction Rebellion rally in York where there “will be games and possibility to get block prints on your clothes!!” and will be “a great opportunity to see everyone again!”. Corinne is also, unsurprisingly, a left-wing Labour Party activist…”

“Jennifer Dunstan, who boldly described the assurances on the safety of schools from the country’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Witty as “not good enough I’m afraid” is a long-term Socialist Worker writer as well as a supporter of the disgraced former MP Chris Williamson, who was expelled from the Labour Party. No wonder she is cranky enough to not take Chris Witty’s advice seriously…”

“If the BBC is intent on having a debate over whether we should trust the top medical and scientific brains this country has to offer, they could at least flag to viewers the party-political motives that drive their guests – as they did with Justine Greening. Guido can’t imagine the BBC’s press office welcoming this today… 

”https://order-order.com/2020/08/25/revealed-bbcs-far-left-anti-school-mum-campaigners”

Of course, this kind of subterfuge has been endemic within the BBC at least since it was turned into BBC Trust (2007-2017), with politically appointed Chairmen, including arch-Europhile Chris Patten. The BBC then came under the remit of Ofcom:

"The Office of Communications, commonly  known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition  authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries  of the United Kingdom. Ofcom has wide-ranging powers across the  television, radio, telecoms and postal sectors."

Wednesday 26th August 2020

UK Defence under Threat?

Yesterday it was announced that the UK plans to mothball its entire Challenger 2 tank and Warrior armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) capability without any replacement. 

Tobias Ellwood, in the Guardian, Chairman of the defence select committee accused Downing Street of doing so without an overarching defence strategy. He also complained about the lack of transparency “at the heart of decision- making as the defence and foreign policy review gears up towards its conclusion in November.” 

Last year the 227 Challenger 2 tanks were declared obsolete and the British army was considering changing tack and investing away from “heavy armour to more reliance upon “cyber-warfare, information systems and attack helicopters”- perhaps the latter one might entice Harry back to the fold!

One other option was to replace the Challenger 2 with off-the-shelf German Leopard 2 tanks - irony of ironies.

The controversial nature on the current defence review is the involvement of Boris Johnson’s senior advisor Dominic Cummings in the discussions - Cummings is known to favour the UK focusing on drone and cyber warfare. 

“From a report in the Sunday Telegraph on the 26th July 2020 that China is also 'developing offensive space weapons', a move which has prompted the most comprehensive review of Britain's defence capabilities since the Cold War.”

In an extraordinary move Cummings was given access to our intelligence services, SAS and SBS facilities, as well as other military areas as advisor to the Prime Minister.

Ellwood was concerned that Britain “risked damaging its standing in NATO if it stepped back from heavy armour, some of which was deployed on the Russian border in Estonia to protect the Baltic States from Russian incursion.” 

To put things into perspective mothballing Challenger 2 tanks “would mean the UK’s mothballing of tanks would make it smaller than Burma, Serbia and Cambodia.” (according to a report in the Daily Express) 

Tanks and armoured personnel carriers are also useful in areas of instability, even outside major conflicts, representing a force to contain terrorist threats and help maintain order in times of instability in various parts of the world. 

In 1990 the UK had about 800 tanks, “now a maximum of 227 with only about a half of those available as a deployable force at the current time, it is believed.”  Russia meanwhile has 12,950 and “military experts fear that Russian tanks may be impervious to British guns because of armour upgrades”.

“Trade unions said they were concerned that a decision to abandon tanks would be a blow to the Rheinmetall BAE Systems factory in Telford, Shropshire, where it was expected any Challenger 3 would be built.”

The defence review will not be published until November, so the final manifestation will not be known until then, but it will also include a decision on how many F35B lighting II combat jets the UK buys and whether some investment will include other aircraft / drone systems.  

Our politicians have much to answer for by allowing our national defence to develop into such a parlous state - while we spent money on the EU instead of looking after our own interests. 

That is not the case in the rest of the EU where each member state has looked after its own interests, regardless of “State Aid” restrictions or any other real or imaginary barriers, most notably “Germany and France who have used defence spending as a means of supporting manufacturing to recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

As a matter of priority relying upon “Blue Sky” thinking should go hand-in-hand with  ensuring that our taxpayer’s money is spent on our priorities - not on the priorities of others overseas. 

Develop the technology, expertise and investment in the UK and have others dependent upon our efforts not us relying on others (particularly those who would do us harm) to innovate, manufacture and develop on our behalf.

Monday 24th August 2020

EU Transition Punishment 

As part of the processes of  leaving the EU the UK must go through the procedures of attempting to close a satisfactory withdrawal agreement deal with the EU - as part of the Article 50 rules. 

The alternative is to leave without any formal agreement and trade under WTO rules, which has drawbacks and benefits. 

Staying in the EU has more negatives than positives, for any country that does not wish to be occupied by another country.

Article 50 was designed by the UK’s Lord Kerr on behalf of the EU, not for the benefit of the UK, or any other member state.

Article 50 was placed into the Lisbon Treaty (2007) - which was supposed to be the final EU treaty. That is the treaty that contains the EU’s own Constitution (the rejected “Constitution for Europe (2004)”) hidden within its texts. 

This treaty gave the EU primacy over the Constitutions and the Laws of the member states - thus side-lining English Common Law and its protections (e.g. Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury)  

No previous treaty had offered any “Escape Clause”, so it is a novelty, which was designed to bring this last treaty into line with other International treaties. 

It was also included to deter any member from leaving - the EU was aware of such a possibility, however unlikely, as it proceeded to further integrate the member states into a Federal System run by the EU Commission. 

Article 50 was written to ensure that no member state could ever be allowed leave the EU - it was loaded in favour of the remaining member states.

Worse though was the transition period. During which the “leaving” member state would not be allowed to have any input into the EU: must continue to pay into the EU, accept all EU laws (over 120,000 were transferred under Theresa May); accept any new laws enacted during the transition period. 

Essentially, the transition period is nothing less than holding the UK to a regime of “Taxation without Representation” while faux negotiations take place under the “carrot” of a Free Trade Agreement between the two parties - the UK and 27 other Member States.

There are no “Carrots” on offer though, in fact, nothing at all. The EU cannot be seen to offer anything of substance to the UK - or the rest of the EU members will start to ask for favours.

Why is the EU playing Games?

The EU Referendum result was met with a mixture of bewilderment, hostility, a steely determination to “not give an inch” in any areas of importance and an overwhelming desire to punish the population of the “UK” - partly out of revenge and partly to warn others against such anti-Federalist action. 

It also includes less than subtle warning to the rest of the populations of Europe of punishment if they do not submit to the EU.

Bewilderment

The bewilderment stems from the fact that those in positions of power in the EU cannot understand how those in positions of power in the UK - who have so handsomely profited from the EU - were unable to put down the rebellious English. 

Because the EU was developed by deception over the last 46 years and the UK’s establishment was a large part of that deception - against the population’s interests - it does seem bizarre that the result was not simply ignored or ruled against in parliament.

In the event it was not quashed, the UK establishment just adopted a different strategy to thwart the Referendum - a more insidious deception in connivance with the EU. 

Rather than direct confrontation. Theresa May set about deceiving the UK population, back into the arms of the EU, by leading the country into a worse arrangement than the ECA (1972), which was abolished at the end of January 2020. 

It is very different lived experience for the ordinary people of the UK - we have only superficially benefitted - cheaper holidays, no mobile roaming charges etc. 

Freedom of movement of people led to an overwhelming increase in the population of the UK. “It is effectively a one-way street” where the number of people from the EU moving to England compared English people moving to the EU was in the ratio at least 3:1. 

The other difference being that the English tended to go most often to places in the EU where they had always traditionally visited - Spain, Italy, France - taking their cash, pensions etc with them, so free movement made little difference to them and the EU countries benefitted from incoming cash.

It is very different in the UK for those from EU countries, and from further afield transiting through the EU, benefitted from subsidised wages, working and child tax credits and free healthcare. Elsewhere, our taxes are redistributed throughout the EU populations and around the world while areas of the UK are left to fall into disrepair, and our ex-military personal are homeless through no fault of their own. 

The reality of austerity in the UK from 2009 was that it was EU austerity - resulting from the 2008 Financial Crash, which was forced upon its member states, including the UK and the Tories were required to take the blame for austerity to protect the EU from criticism.

Free movement to and from the EU, privatisation of our public services, overarching political control and changes to our Constitution and Laws have altered our country beyond recognition. 

Hostility - It has long been clear that the EU is hostile to any attempt by any member state to leave the so-called club, but in the case of the UK the EU has much more to lose in terms of credibility, status, influence, military prowess, research and development as well as stature on the world stage.

Steely determination - the EU has far too much to lose from letting the UK escape from its legal control  - but the EU is also a "Control Freak" organisation.

By now the EU project is so well developed that it is embedded within every aspect of society of every member state - so well established in fact, that the EU can call upon and solicit support from many minor officials of the populations of Europe.

As such the EU has a free hand to do whatever it wants to punish the UK by any and all means.

During these remaining months the EU will continue to ramp-up mass migration into the UK across the English Channel and thwart every attempt to return anyone not deemed eligible to stay in the UK. 

We will see an increase in the ramping-up of “project fear” and anti-English rhetoric as our country is subverted and changed to suit the EU’s aspirations through “Blair’s government in exile”. 

Blair loyalists on huge salaries and expenses, paid for by the unwitting taxpayers, are hiding within the UK Quangos, NGOs, Charities, Trusts, the Media (BBC), Universities, Colleges, Civil Service, Local and Regional (Devolved) governments, Town Councils, Unions, Opposition Parties, NHS, Police and all other Public Services. 

All of which were established under “New” Labour (1997-2010) and largely continued by Cameron / Clegg, Cameron and Theresa May. 

Blair continues to sell-out the UK to the EU and is the “puppet-master” behind Starmer in the Labour Party, where he also controls the PLP and he is influential through Adonis in the Lords - now joined by Hammond and Clark, courtesy of Boris Johnson!

Boris Johnson through Dominic Cummings is supposed to be ridding the UK establishment of this Marxist-Leninist-Maoist 5th Column once and for all - as far as we know. 

Reality

The EU has never been a friend to any of its member states. In fact, the EU’s stated aim is to destroy the Nation States of Europe - as it proudly displays on a plaque in its visitor centre.

On route to the final destruction of the European Nation States the EU takes money from them, gives some back as EU grants to buy influence and loyalty, skims from the top to fund its profligacy and keeps all of the EU’s assets under its control. 

The EU is a gigantic Ponzi Scheme making people in power, and supporters, very rich at the expense of their taxpayers.

The taxpayers who fund the EU will be subjugated on the altar of Marxist dogma - in a replica compilation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984”.

Currently we are approaching the stage described by Orwell as:

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell "1984"

What is the most likely outcome?

The EU cannot change its stance without losing its credibility, therefore it cannot offer the UK a Free Trade Deal, so nothing will change unless the UK capitulates. 

There is no such thing as a “No Deal” because the EU and UK are members of WTO and are bound by its rules.

We were always heading for trading under WTO rules. The UK already trades under WTO rules, but the EU adds layers on top of the WTO framework to keep out cheaper competition. 

After three years since the EU Referendum the result was this one extra year Transition Period which could only have ever been meant to be a punishment for the UK population - with the hope of forcing the UK to give in.

Boris should know better than to even think about giving in to the EU.

See https://briefingsforbritain.co.uk/no-deal-is-no-nightmare-facts-about-eu-trade-after-brexit/