Powerful friends.

Facts, like the fact that the EU has never submitted a set of accounts? How can a supposedly democratic organisation get away with that when there are such huge sums of money involved?

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/2014/2014_en.cfm

It’s all a socialist con. The EU doesn’t even slightly reflect the politics of the UK, and for that reason alone we should leave.

FGM Failure a national scandal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28127678

It seems to me that we’re not going to get a grip on this issue until our politicians have the balls (no pun intended) to actually say which group in our society this practice is accepted in. Sadly, as with other issues such as ritual slaughter and certain facial garments, the politicians are too afraid of speaking up.

Without the “massive leaden bureaucracy” most EU states would also vastly accelerate the destruction of their environment and wildlife, as well as revert to poorer or even zero standards of food hygiene laws, human rights, health and safety, road safety standards, etc etc.
Sure, there are some pretty major problems to be overcome, and this week’s presidential election has added to them.
But the essential point is that the EU is the only body able to over-ride the petty short-termism and greed inherent in ours, and indeed pretty much every country’s national governments, and pass legislation supports a less myopic outlook.
It’s dissolution, or even our secession from it, would essentially let the current government, already a total disaster for the UK, do what it likes. More cuts. More wreckage of the environment. More relentless victimisation of the poor to benefit the rich.
On a European scale, I can’t help thinking EU dissolution would also be a massive step backward toward the belligerent international politics of the early 20th century, and away from the post-1945 spirit of cooperation and tolerance.

I do agree in principal.

Sadly, in practice it has been defiled by a succession of greedy, incompetent bureaucrats. It has bloated out of all proportion, and the people who hold all the power in the EU want more of the same – they’re not interested in reducing their influence. I suspect that they will continually try to create a single European republic, and all notion of national democracy will be dead.

Their power play in the ex Soviet state is a sign of their intentions. It’s just a good job that they don’t have an army, though I suspect it is only a matter of time until they want to assume control of the defense forces of all European nations.

Christians have been ethnically cleansed from Mosul by Isis, and they’ve burned down an 1800 year old church. 🙁

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/last-few-iraqi-christians-flee-violence-and-threats-in-mosul-as-isis-continues-its-takeover-9622541.html

British Gas profits hit by warmer weather

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28579589

No doubt another excuse to bump prices up. 🙁

indiscriminate slaughter of civilians is a step to far in my book.

For which Hamas shares the blame. They use hospitals, schools, shelters etc to hide weapons.

The only way to resolve this is for both sides to stop the finger pointing, and acknowledge and respect the existence of the other. Personally, I can’t see this ever happening. If we have to choose a side, I would much prefer to side with the Zionists than the Sunni extremists.

The cultural differences between the North and the South of England are miniscule when compared to their EU counterparts.

Do the people of Portsmouth retire a good 10 years earlier than those in Blythe? Then expect a full state pension, even though their populations are aging?

When did the people of Leamington Spa start taking 2 hour siestas during the middle of the day?

The Euro is strangling these Southern states, had they separate national currencies, they would naturally devalue. I won’t subscribe to the notion that a ‘one size fits all’ system can be applied to such a broad variety of cultures. Perhaps the economies of the Southern European states are fine though, and I’m simply misreading all of the signs?

Perhaps we should try celebrating the things that make us all different, instead of having to apologize for them all of the time?