I see no cuts

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I’m going to be banging on about our supposed cuts yet again and the rather troublesome financial mess we may be in, and I suspect I’m going to keep doing so at least until we stop digging. All those terribly terribly harsh cuts didn’t stop our net deficit growing to 10 billion last month, nor is it stopping the EU giving away another billion (just Euro’s this time) for people to build robot pets and nagware. Thankfully it’s not all gloom* one of our elected troughers has brought forward a motion that we shouldn’t illegally bail out the Eurozone , but fear not just when we might hope for some sense the Government rides to the rescue with a wrecking bill (Hat tip Penny Dreadful). That’s right just when some says maybe we must not piss away more money illegally propping up the Eurozone the government (with the whips) amends it to say that we should maybe thing about not doing it. Ah that ever important difference between must and should.

If you’re still not convinced how bad a situation we’re in then you’re really not paying attention, even the left have realised that Labour must stop fighting the cuts (OK I admit they only realise this because they think it’s hurting their chance of getting back to power not for any principled reason – like say we’re broke, but still it’s progress of sorts). For a plausible look at what will happen if EU countries start to default on their debt, and thus what we could be sucked into if our Government continues to illegally fund Eurozone bailouts Andrew Lilico’s Telegraph article makes grim reading.

The alternative at least for the UK, as we’re not part of the EuroZone is to get our house in order, get the debt down to somewhere less eye gougingly painful, leave the Euro to sort out it’s own mess – and if we manage to not get sucked into it if we’re very lucky make a profit off the collapse. Someone somewhere will definitely make a profit out of the seemingly inevitable economic turmoil, even if it’s just the makers of tumbrils.

* I lied sorry.

Update A glimmer of good news after all it seems a whole 46 MPs had the courage to vote to prevent the government handing over our money to bailout the Eurozone.

Update 2 Almost forgot about this, if Andrew Lilico didn’t worry you how about a former head of the IMF who describes the EU bailouts as a Ponzi scheme?

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The rule of law

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Hat tip to the good Captain Ranty for the following two videos. This is a very interesting development by The Runnymede Institute to address the constitutional fuck up that the last couple of Governments have made by tinkering badly with how parliament and the union are formed.

The Videos cover their cahllenge to the illegal (or possibly unlawful) reformation of the house of Lords, do spend the 10 minutes it takes to watch the videos, they’re really terribly enlightening:

The likelihood of them succeeding is I fear very low, because of the law is actually upheld then an awful lot (where by an awful lot I mean all) of the laws “passed” since 1999 haven’t been done so in a valid fashion, so at the very least are subject to challenge. I suspect the same would hold true for many other actions the state has taken during that time.

I’m going to pretty much leave it there except to say that again and again despite what nay sayers claim it looks as though Magna Carta is actually alive and well – and the government would very much like us to forget that. To forget where their power stems from and that there are limits upon it, and that they can still be held accountable for exceeding those limits.

Just one final topical item before I shut up, the act of Union says that we should all be subject to the same laws and yet once more we see a difference between English and Scottish law in the case of Mr Giggs. Now if the act of Union has been breached, and our Parliament in Westminster is the Government of the United Kingdom where has it left itself by wilfully breaking that union?

That’s a whole different question, but do watch the videos.

Update From the Runnymede institute – the high court has ruled against them, but also stated that the 1999 act didn’t amend the letters patent . So this fight may go on.

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Rally against debt round up

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Just a quick round up of further posts I’ve come across regarding the rally against debt, in particular order and without rhyme or reason.

Angry Exile over on Orphans of Liberty has a round up of where it’s being largely ignored by the main stream media and lists the ways to get out of the debt.

Brian Micklethwait has a lovely collection of photo’s of the various signs at the rally (hat tip Samizdata).

There’s a guest post over at Old Holborns wondering when wanting private enterprise and individual responsibility become a radical view point in this country.

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