Monday shorts

I was going to post about something else but then I watched The Wonderful World of Tony Blair – which reminded me of just what a total smegging cock that waste of skin actually is, and we’re still bloody paying for him! “Dispatches shows that at the same time as Blair is visiting Middle East leaders in his Quartet role he is receiving vast sums from some of them. If Blair represented the UK government, the EU, the IMF, the UN or the World Bank, this would not be permitted. He would also have to declare his financial interests and … Continue reading

Meanwhile economics rolls on

I’ll return to wittering about the riots from my armchair out in the leafy suburbs before too long. Meanwhile I thought it might be worth having a quick look at a few economic tidbits that may have been over looked during all the local fun and games. The big bit of news is probably that Standards and poor have downgraded the USA’s credit rating. They’re no longer AAA rated but AA+, only one rating agency so far though others have changed their outlook to negative. Though as has been pointed out to me for those that keep a closer eye … Continue reading

For the removal of doubt

For a while now many people have been talking about the inexorable drive by our political elites to form a united states of Europe. We have of course often been rebuffed as being a bit tin-hat and of course that’s not what’s happening. Well a bit of video over at Archbishop Cranmers rather lets the cat out of the bag. As Captain Ranty has observed on many occasion if the EU controls the finances, then everything else effectively follows. Mind he does today also offer the hope that forcing fiscal unity will render the implosion of the EU project inevitable … Continue reading