Monday, January 21, 2013

MY POINT OF VIEW : David Cameron is now speaking more like the type of person of Scots ancestry, whom I’ve known throughout my life, in four different countries. I, too, was named after the Old Testament legend. Let us hope this David is able to skilfully negotiate, with his slingshot, an escape from the crushing, networking giant of the Continent, knowing euphorically as the ‘Guy Fawkes Club’ – to put it into context. As every attempt has been made to make the bible look irrelevant in today’s world (just see what Romans Ch1v22-32 says of homosexuality), those directing the course for British governments seemingly more concerned to make it easier for the Anglican church to be gobbled up by the Guy Fawkes Club – which long ago gave up any pretence of following Scripture (apart from the subject of marriage – talk of straining at a gnat...swallowing a camel)! Perhaps David has done a crash course in Comparative Religion, and has noticed how undemocratic it has been, for mostly Romans to have held key positions in government & quasi government organisations since UK membership of the Common Market – if only because no decent, self respecting Protestant could bring his/herself to be involved in the systematic destruction of the English Speaking peoples, to advantage that jealous rabble on the Continent. Which Cardinal was it who said, ‘Secret mines may take the town when open batteries fail,’ – on the very same subject ! At last, David Cameron is speaking like a Prime Minister of the Greatest little Britain of all time! UK only started to prosper, to the benefit of the rest of the world, also, when Henry VIII cut the haemorrhage of resources to Italy, & UK began to stand on her own two feet, trusting only in holy scripture, & herself. Mussolini’s mentoring Hitler was meant to reverse all that, & when it didn’t, citizens steeped in Mussolini’s theory & logic began settling in the nations of the victors after cessation of WW2 hostilities, with Mussolini’s Plan B. Part of that was Franca Arena’s setting up our first ever republican movement in Australia, & Ray Bellisario, family also from Italy, setting up England’s first republican movement since Cromwell, to discredit the leadership which caused Mussolini to lose, while other aspects of his culture were trumpeted as superior both directly & subliminally in influential nations, so that, for instance, cat spew chino & pissa (my spelling) became something considered superior, & with an arrogantly assumed dash of romance attached to it. A sense of inferiority amongst the nationals of some other countries, about their own cultures, only helped feed the appetite for self aggrandisement, of those keen to rebuild a new Roman Empire. To assist in this plan the IRA were entrusted with the removal of those who could have warned Great Britain’s leadership what was really going on: battle experienced heroes like the Queen’s relative, Earl Mountbatten, & Airey Neave, MP. I fear, though, that Cameron’s telling the nation how he would vote in any referendum, will tend to make it a foregone conclusion, as voters seem to follow what is seen as the ‘party line.’ Even the Soviet Union discovered that ‘individualism’ whether as nations or as persons, do far better when left to find their own level, instead of being part of some vast metaphorical farm growing peanuts, with individual humans’ means of self expression being emasculated – as though ‘bigger’ is ‘better !’ The communist experiment failed, so why allow catholic activists promote the lie that the British were better off under the Treaty of Rome? It has been an entirely religion driven exercise, cynically aimed at achieving what Mussolini failed to during WW2.

6 comments:

jiji said...

A weakening in the pound may be welcomed by the government and the Bank of England, which are hoping that a weaker currency will help drive the country's exports this year. However, authorities will not want to see concern over the uncertainty surrounding Britain's future in EU trigger a sell-off in UK government bonds. Such a move would force up the Treasury's borrowing costs even as the recovery remains fragile.

Anonymous said...

Here we go again. This time last year the pound bought you $1.558 today it will get you $1.584.
This time last year the pound would have bought you 1.205 euros it will now buy you 1.185 euros.
Next month it could be up 3%. Especially if we stop throwing money around like a drunk on a Saturday night.
Where will dollar be come March when the US face fiscal cliff II?
All in all, the ECB has failed to correct or really to even amerliorate the deep, persistent imbalances that are so pervasive across the currency union. Don't expect this situation to improve anytime in the near future. It would seem that a broken monetary policy transmission channel may turn into an EMU mainstay, hindering credit expansion and generally curtailing Mario Draghi's ability to effectively arrest the crisis for the foreseeable future. If you still have doubts as to the intractable nature of the crisis, just look at Goldman's projections for GDP contraction in Spain and Italy in 2013: -1.7% and -.08% respectively. Ignore the parroting of the mainstream financial media... nothing is fixed in Europe.

Anonymous said...

Not long ago we were told that weakness in the eu/euro area was causing the markets to worry over sterling too as we were so exposed to the failings in the eu finances. Yet now we are a safe haven from the eu, because we do not have the euro- but in order to stay safe, have to remain in the eu too. Great logic.

Oh well, if the markets thrash us- we will have to sell the crown jewels or a few picassos or let the imf bail us out. Time us brits sat back, put our feet up and let others foot the bill, fight the wars and take the flack. That way, we can get rid of our aggressive empire building and terrible evil westminster government and all the other insults the british and english especially have been called and had thrown at us for years.

Yes we are all little englanders and poor and useless and cruel to every nation on the planet. We number about 5 now as a minority and live in midsomer murders with our tea cups. Now you can all go home and be fantastically successful with your massive export empires and wonderfully strong currencies. Us five english people left will sit with our teacups and self flagellate for all our evil doing over the years of paying tax and breathing. Apologies for being english and not in the eu. I don' know if that is punishable by death. Perhaps van rompuy or alex salmond could have us shot midsommer murder style by a flourish of arrows or something.

Anonymous said...

This seems to be an odd piece of analysis. Nothing in the EZ has changed. The underlying competitiveness issue remains and so will the effects until there is political union. Achieving political union will require the relinquishment of sovereignty in the EZ countries, then we will see whether the political problems of the EZ have gone away.

Anonymous said...

Mr Jalinoos said that traders and investors have begun 2013 looking for new trends to bet on.

unecessary jackals, like the foxes that Labour luvvies adore,

the sort that will kill all the chickens in a shed,

the sort who plundered Asia in the 1990s.

Such is the inevitable law of the globalised jungle

They will always hunt what they can eat well on
Don't mistake their actions for intelligence.

And dont be driven by them either.

They can be rounded up later. And I do hope I wont need to even be there now that we have mob-rule in the UK.
It could be ugly

Anonymous said...

Sterling has fallen more than 2pc against the dollar and 3pc against the euro already this year, marking a departure from 2012 when it was one of the most stable major currencies.

Prime Minister David Cameron is under intense pressure from Conservative MPs to renegotiate Britain's 40-year old membership of the EU, as the 17 countries that use the euro move towards closer political union.

In a major speech expected this week, Mr Cameron is expected to stress that he would prefer Britain stays in the EU but will raise the prospect of the country exiting without significant changes.

"The pound ended up with a safe-haven status last year given Europe's problems were bigger than the UK's," said Shahab Jalinoos, an analyst at UBS, one of three largest currency trading banks in the world. "What's different this year, is that just as Europe's political risk is starting to fade, the UK's is rising."

After two years in which trading in the foreign-exchange markets were dominated by the potential break-up of European Monetary Union, Mr Jalinoos said that traders and investors have begun 2013 looking for new trends to bet on.