Showing posts with label Westminster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Westminster. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Enough is enough!

Readers of a sensitive or liberal disposition should read no further.  This won’t be to your liking.

I have asked before, on these pages, when is enough, enough?  How many Europeans (or Americans for that matter) must die under the knife, bomb or gun of radical Islam before the quiescent politicians decide that they must finally protect the host population – their electorate – and the host culture? 

The following apply particularly to the United Kingdom, the country with which I am most familiar but could equally be adapted and adopted for other Western nations.  The will likely be seen as anti-Muslim and some might call them racist or even Nazi.  Since Islam isn’t a ‘race’ that charge would be grossly inaccurate and calling everyone with whom you disagree, a Nazi shows only a blind ignorance of what Nazism was about.  This piece also cannot be considered as a ‘hate crime’, since all it advocates is that Muslims - refugees and immigrants and indigenous – comply with the same laws that are applied to others.

In the UK, there are said to be around 3,000 individuals that are under terror watch.  That is these individuals have been identified by the security services as being somewhat active and a potential danger to UK society.  It is not clear how many of this 3,000 are returning ‘jihadis’ of which there are estimated to be around 500 in number. 

Let’s say the total number of people that represent a security threat to Britain are around 3,500.  I would propose that internment camps be established, guarded by the military, and these people interred.  The initial term of internment to be between 3-5-10 years depending upon the weight of evidence, however such evidence has been obtained – illegal wiretaps, informers, etc.,   The term to be decided by a panel of judges. 

Yes, that’s right.  Britain should establish and house its very own Guantanamo. 

OK, so those liberals that have read this far are now foaming at the mouth.  However, it is crystal clear that the security services have neither the manpower numbers nor the ethnic mix of manpower to enable them to adequately monitor the threat posed by these potentially dangerous individuals.  We need these people off of our streets.  I accept that some innocents may be swept up as part of this but believe that the greater good is served by taking these people out of circulation.   Yes, in some respects we must suspend some of our cherished civil liberties, for a time, to preserve them.  Those that seek the overthrow of our societies are no civil libertarians!

Allied to the above measure, the families of those individuals would, where possible, be deported to their home countries.  That is, if the spouse was not born in Britain, then they and their children would be sent to their home country.  Those that were born in Britain would be allowed to remain but would be ineligible to receive any state benefits.  Not receive any – so no free housing, no welfare, no child benefit, no working tax credit, no free NHS – nothing.

Talking of state benefits, they should be withdrawn, with no right of appeal, from any family where a child has been found to have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).   Again, in such cases, where one of the parents was non-UK born, then the family to be deported.  No right of appeal.  FGM is a barbaric custom which adds to the subjugation of women and has no place in civilised society (or indeed in any society).  I would go one step further and require that all girls in the UK, under the age of 16, undergo a medical examination, every two years and those who have suffered FGM be thus identified.

I am not a lawyer but to me it seems to be bordering on treason to want to overthrow the legal system of the United Kingdom and replace this with the completely alien, Sharia Law.  Therefore, I believe that the promotion of such a law should, if not already a crime, be made so.  The UK legal system has evolved over more than a thousand years and is widely respected (and often emulated) around the world.  We need to retain this system and importantly under no circumstances allow any kind of parallel system to be present or have any standing in the UK.  Yes, I know that UK law is largely liberal and much of what I am proposing goes against the deeply ingrained traditions but desperate times call for desperate measures.

I don’t know about you but the overly public displays by Muslims of their religion also need to cease.  So, no more blocking of streets while people kneel and pray.  There are more than sufficient numbers of mosques.  So, no more calls to prayer.  The minarets should be silenced.  To me these speak of an arrogant demonstration of a ‘holier than thou’ domination of areas. 

On the subject of overly public displays, I do not find the hijab objectionable but the full burqa and the niqab should be banned as they hide so much that one wouldn’t know if the hidden individual is a woman or a man nor if the person was a wanted individual.

Speaking of mosques, do not allow the building of a single new mosque – not one.  In the West, we have a tolerance towards Islam which is not in any way reciprocated in countries like Saudi Arabia.  There is not one single Christian church in Saudi Arabia, indeed one is not even allowed to bring a bible into the country!

Sticking with Islamic ‘customs’ – just as we cannot allow Sharia Law to be practised in the UK, neither can we allow polygamy.  Our custom in the UK is one marriage and our law is one marriage and that must apply equally, to all.

Going back to benefits - and this to apply to all – any benefits paid to be restricted to four children.

Again, applying to all immigrants and refugees – any conviction for a crime of violence, for rape, for trafficking, for drugs or child sex offences would result in automatic deportation for the perpetrator and his/her immediate family upon completion of prison sentence. 

Staying with immigrants and refugees, any employer that utilises an illegal immigrant or refugee should be fined £100,000 per illegal employee and serve a minimum 6-month prison sentence.

It is important also that the failed policy of ‘multi-culturalism’ be abandoned.  All immigrants and refugees need to learn how to speak, read and write English.  All organisations should cease publishing documents in multiple languages – be it Urdu, Arabic, Polish or Tagalog, we should only be using the English language.

So, overall, the message is that enough is enough.  We in the West can simply no longer be our naturally tolerant selves.  We need to change.  We need to change so as to preserve our culture and society.  If we don’t change, then we will perish and become subject to and dominated by an alien religion and alien ways.  Much of the foregoing is naturally focussed on Islam and its adherents – principally because it is they that, having seen how good life is in the West, then want to change it to reflect what they have left behind. 

Think about that.  They want to come to the West because we have developed societies that are open and successful.  Then, when they get here, they want to change those societies to reflect life and conditions in unsuccessful countries like Pakistan or Syria or Somalia.  If life is so good in those countries, why not stay there?  Ever wonder why the refugees from the Middle East and Africa all flock to Europe?  Surely those from Syria could flee to Saudi Arabia or Qatar or UAE?  Saudi Arabia even  has a tent city with 100,000 air-conditioned tents!  Trouble is though, those countries have taken no refugees, not one!

If we don’t stand-up for our Western societies – which I admit are not heavenly utopias – then they will fall.  If not now, when?  How many must die in Paris Nice, Berlin, Brussels or Westminster before we say enough and start to fight back.  We need to fight back now, using our laws and legal systems and parliamentary majorities.  If we don’t, then the populists, so reviled by the media and, let’s face it, politicians, will start to take the law into their own hands.




Monday, March 14, 2016

Scottish life expectancy

What do you think is the life expectancy for a 21st century Scot?  According to official statistics,  the latest averages are 77.1 years for a man and 81.1 years for a woman.


What about a 'generation'.  How many years do you think that might be?  I reckon somewhere between 25 to 30 years.

The reason for these questions is that I am trying to understand why you or I might understand what a 'lifetime' or a 'generation' means and yet this can so escape the mind of Nicola Sturgeon - First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party and indeed, of all those SNP delegates at a conference, last Saturday, who rose as one to applaud Sturgeon's speech.

Sturgeon has said that later this Summer, presumably after the Euro Referendum, the Scots will undertake an exercise to kick-off a process which would lead to another Scottish 'independence' referendum being held.

What are we to make of this?

When the last referendum was held, the people of Scotland voted by 55% to 45% to remain part of the United Kingdom.  During that referendum campaign and in the aftermath of the result, politicians of all hues and persuasion,  including Nicola Sturgeon and her predecessor, Alex Salmond made clear that this was a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'.

The referendum was held in September 2014, as in 18 months ago.  On what possible measurement can such a short period be considered a 'lifetime' or even a 'generation'?

Wags now dub this the 'neverendum'.  Sturgeon and the SNP have learnt well the lessons of European referendums. If you don't get the answer you want, ask again and keep asking until you do get the answer you want.  Yes it is a very warped version of representative democracy but it really is all of one with socialist politicking.  It is the political elite that knows best.  Those privy to the mind and musings of the leader and her cabal, must be right.

Consider though, what has transpired since that September 2014 referendum.  The SNP made so very much of the very positive impact that 'Scottish oil' would have on the Scottish economy.  At the time, Brent Crude was trading just north of $100 a barrel.  Since that time, oil prices have plummeted and, even though they have recently recovered a bit, now sit around $40 a barrel.  To say that this blows a hole in the sustainability of the finances of an independent Scotland would be an understatement of titanic proportions.

I don't want to bore you with statistics but consider the following:

                                                     £BN           % of UK GDP

Public Revenues                          51.6                 8.0

Public Revenue incl. Oil             53.4                 8.2

Public Expenditure                     68.4                 9.3
               
Deficit                                         13.7                 9.8

Deficit incl. Oil                           11.9                 7.8

The overall UK deficit was 3.3% of GDP

(source GERS 2016)

These figures show one of the greatest benefits of the Union.  Public spending in Scotland, at the above levels, was made possible because people in other parts of the United Kingdom, financed it. Remember too, that these Scottish Public Expenditure figures do not include any allocation of the financing costs for the UK's debt mountain.

The people of Scotland voted, in 2014, to remain part of the United Kingdom.  I believe that the economic uncertainty was a very large influencing factor.  In addition to the precarious nature of 'leaping into the dark' largely based on a single commodity, the other major factor was the post-independence currency.  The UK government had made clear that an independent Scotland could not expect to enjoy a currency union and the SNP could not answer what currency they would use.  There was undoubted fear among the Scottish electorate, that the only choice would be for an independent Scotland to join the Euro.  Sensible Scots had seen, time after time, the failings of this flawed currency and chose to have no part of it.

Nothing about this currency question has changed.

Any future independence referendum, in Scotland, requires an Act of Parliament, passed by the UK parliament.  The one at Westminster.  Nicola Sturgeon and many of those in the SNP, know this. They know that even their 50 Westminster MPs cannot force another referendum through Westminster.  If there was any residual sympathy for another referendum, then this will surely have been discarded when the recent activity of the SNP, at Westminster, has been considered.

I refer to the changes that were proposed to Sunday Trading laws.  These would only affect England and Wales.  They would bring the Sunday Trading laws, in England and Wales, into line that already prevail in Scotland.  Yet, the SNP decided to join with the Labour Party and others, including some Conservative dissenters and so voted out the opportunity.  They came up with the most spurious claim to defend their action but, at the end of the day, they voted on matters that, being an issue that is devolved to the Holyrood parliament, would have absolutely no impact in Scotland.  This was bare-faced political opportunism.

For me the position is crystal clear.  David Cameron should use the next available occasion (Wednesday's Prime Minister's questions?) to make clear that we will not allow a new Scottish  referendum to be on the legislative agenda during the lifetime of this parliament - so not before 2020 -  and that if the Conservatives are re-elected, in 2020, then it would not appear on future legislative programmes.

Knowing that Cameron and Osborne are highly political animals, I think this is a win-win for the Conservatives.  They take this issue off of the table for the immediate future and, more importantly, it will force Scottish electors to focus instead on the appallingly inept management of Scotland that the SNP exercise. The SNP, at Holyrood are failing the Scottish people.  They are failing on health, failing on education, failing on social care and failing the poor and the disadvantaged.

It doesn't take a cynic to suggest that this renewed enthusiasm for a referendum is a classic exercise in deflection.  The SNP don't want the Scots to look at their appalling record in Holyrood because it doesn't stand up to scrutiny.   The SNP want the Scots to go off on some kind of 'Braveheart' fantasy and ignore the wasted last 5 years.

Over to David Cameron.

Oh, and to the people of Scotland, so that they can give Sturgeon and her SNP bigots a very bloody nose.





Friday, May 11, 2012

Give MPs more time off!

Or, more accurately, let them spend more time in their constituencies, attending to local issues.

Why?

Well, when MPs sit in Westminster that chatter and plot about this and that - which wouldn't be a problem but then the media play one off against another and create news that is only news in the Westminster bubble.  This febrile environment serves no real purpose but, as always, the taxpayer pays!

More worryingly though, when MPs are at Westminster, they want to debate and then pass laws.  Does anyone think we really need more laws?

During the 13 years of Labour mis-rule, they created over 3,000 new offences and who knows how many new laws.

The focus of the Coalition government shouldn't be ANY new laws unless they are to repeal the tangle of red tape that strangles business and removes personal responsibility from people.

The focus should be two-fold.

First, promoting economic growth - That might include removing barriers (see red tape above) or it might just mean, getting out of the way.

Second, implement the Welfare, Education and Health reforms that have been enacted.  Oh! and enforce those laws that are actually on the statute book!

That's it. 

After the next election, if growth has returned, maybe we can consider a return to having MPs sitting in the house - though having done without them there, for a while...............


The recent Queen's Speech could have been a whole lot shorter and better for it!.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Can Scots count and/or consider?

In respect of the subject of Scottish Independence, a consultation exercise was launched by the UK Government.  Presumably on the basis that this being a subject the power over which is reserved to Westminster.

At the same time, the Scottish Parliament initiated a consultation exercise.  Presumably because Alex Salmond and the SNP thought they should have some say.  Or perhaps this was just an exercise in more mischief making?

Anyway, the exercise by the UK government ended in March and the results have been analyzed and issued.

The Scottish Parliament consultation ends in May 2012 and unbelievably it will then take 4 months for the underwhelming volume of responses to be counted and analyzed.

  • We know that the Scots can count.
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  • We know that they can read
  • We know, from history, that they can analyze data

So, why will it take four months?

Okay, so part of the time will be spent eliminating the comments of Anonymous  responders.  These were not allowed under the UK consultation as this could open the way to abuse and an unreflective view.  Belatedly, the Scottish Government agreed to eliminate these 'anon' responses amid accusations of such abuse and possible multiple responses by over-zealous Nationalists.  I know such abuse couldn't happen but better to be safe than sorry!

The total level of responses, including 'anons', is so far around 12,000.  Let's say that in the remaining 6 weeks or so, this gets a spurt on and the number rises to 50,000 or Scotland goes consultation-crazy and there are 100,000 responses, surely, these could be counted and analyzed within a month?

One gets the idea, that this is yet another delaying tactic from Alex Salmond to delay the question being posed until it meets a timeline that the SNP are pushing.

Time then for the UK Government to intervene.  After all, only Westminster has the actual legal authority to initiate a referendum.  Indeed, if they did so swiftly, they could save the Scottish people the unlikely to be inexpensive cost of this 'counting exercise'  which we are told will be contracted out.

I have yet to hear from any supporter of the SNP, any valid reason why, it takes less than 5 months to establish the rules for a referendum on the Scottish Parliament and conduct the exercise and then the count yet, the SNP, a party that has been craving a vote on Scottish independence for 40+ yeas (maybe longer), is so unprepared for it, that they want to wait 30 months before asking the people of Scotland.