The Usual Suspects

OK, enough. TMP has watched the UK party conferences (God Help Us) and here's the deal:

Together with the embedded financial system and the civil service, this is "the establishment" and these are the people that have "run" the country since WW2, and they have dumped the UK in the biggest financial crisis of all time. They chose to ignore many warnings, obvious precedents and stark reality in pursuit of political power above all else.

Why on earth should we believe that will not continue to do just the same for as long as we, the majority of the people, are willing to let them?

Thanks to the coalition shambles, David Cameron has been obliged to become barely any different to Gordon Brown - his policies aren't very different although since he has PR training and is not a raving sociopath, it will take us all a litle longer to catch on to the fact he his running this country for the benefit of the Establishment, not the people.

Cameron's refusal to hold the promised referendum was the first and biggest clue that he was already a victim of the "Bildeberg" establishment - big multinational businesses and the banks are still all fundamentally in love with the EU and Euro - why would they not be? Remember that the FT was once the most vehement supporter of Britain entering the Euro (along with the BBC, of course) .

Cameron's recent Internet porn filtering announcement may well be a smokescreen to try and bury the fact that the systems are now in place to filter anything out that Big Brother does not want us to see. And maybe the Blackberry crumble was a result of RIM being obliged to test schemes to blackout its userbase "under orders". After all, the BBM is probably "terrorism's" communication method of choice.

TMP didn't ever really expect to find itself in a position of feeling that the only way out of the mess that we find ourselves mired in is a major change in the world order, but the vested interests of the "Bildeberg community" need to be made far more (?democratically) accountable to the people whose lives they affect - and latterly - wreck.

Grrr...

The EU: millstones for all

Whilst TMP is happy with the idea of a free trade zone, TMP is increasingly convinced that EU social engineering is a thoroughly bad thing, because as the recent Eurovision song contest proved yet again, the notion of any sort of European social unity is a dangerous farce amongst the tribal fiefdoms of the new Eastern states.

These Baltic and Balkan states will understandably extract the bits that suit them, and ignore the rest - like any sensible self-interested nation would. In fact, pretty much like all EU states but the naive UK have managed to do over the years.

The EU appears to be a completely outdated idea that was cooked up by the French and Germans to force their trading partners to suffer the same social costs as themselves, and thus reduce the competitiveness of all member nations. The motto might well have been "let my millstone be your millstone"

A level playing field for the "advanced nations of the West" to gang up on the USA might have made some sort of sense in the 60s when Europe and the US was some 10 years ahead of the rest of the world in most economic respects, and 20 years ahead of China and India, but the rest of the world now laughs at EU employment law and Health and Safety impositions, while piling up foreign currency reserves that could topple any economy of their choosing overnight.