It is reported in today's Daily Telegraph that Surrey police are to make serving the public - with common sense - the priority over achieving government targets. ( A practice that was exposed in the press yesterday as leading to harassment of relatively law abiding people and ignoring hard to deal with crimes). Surrey Police's Acting Chief Constable Mark Rowley perhaps sees the change in the wind of public mode, and soon political masters.   more »

The following is republished from EU Referendum, a blog that I fear we will be losing over the next few days. I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to that blog, and especially Richard North, for their tireless work in exposing the lies, deceit and corruption that is the EU. The parallels drawn between the events in Europe today and those of nearly 70 years ago are not lost on everyone, and I for one will not forget those who fought and died in those dark years so that we could enjoy our Sovereign rights and freedoms that no politician has the right to surrender.   more »

Between Richard North's scholarly mini-essays and Open Europe's blogs of media coverage there is very little for the ordinary blogger to add. This doesn't mean I acquiesce in the EU. But government carefully denies us the chance to vote against the Lisbon treaty, merely because Herr Brownmeister is sure we will reject it. Nor will the country will ever vote in numbers for the inadequate clowns who have a stranglehold on UKIP. But that doesn't mean voters want more integration with the EU and the government knows it.   more »

To the secret horror of the real rulers of Europe, one tiny country is letting its people vote on whether it should give up its independence for ever. The other 26 members of the Franco-German Empire have meekly agreed to accept their new status as provinces. Peter Hitchens writes in the Daily Mail.   more »

Here we go again. Another scam for raising more tax from already hard pressed over taxed Britons. Tim Yeo, the Tory Chairman of The Environmental Audit Committee has suggested that the Government introduce Personal 'Carbon Credits'.   more »

It estimates that the number of people suffering from dementia – which includes several brain and body-wasting conditions – will rise more than 60 per cent by 2026, from 582,827 to 937,636. However, that is dwarfed by the 135 per cent rise in the predicted total care bill, from £14.8 billion to £34.8 billion. No explanation as to why!   more »

There is far too much emphasis on testing and targets and not enough emphasis of the development of thinking, creativity and character in the education system, largely due to the stranglehold of central government who have imposed a system that has been narrow and inflexible. I want an education system that allows people to develop as individuals, with a completely free choice of where and how children are educated.   more »

Modern policing has just become an illusionary PR stunt based upon the political creation of over 3000 new criminal offences in the past 10 years. Police are continually under Home Office pressure to reduce the amount of 'crime' in their areas and to create stats to prove it. By making non events as the dropping of an apple core in a public place a 'criminal' offence, the police can now score easy points by reporting that apple core dropping has been massively reduced in their area, whilst the real crime of burglary mugging and theft goes on unabated.. That is the modern way of showing crime reduction.   more »

The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) today announced that all five of the suppliers still left in the procurement race are to form a "Strategic Supplier Group" to deliver the UK's National Identity Scheme. Privacy and civil liberties campaigners NO2ID [2] called the move “the set-up for a carve-up” and demanded the immediate publication of all documents the government has kept secret, using the excuse that it needed to do so to get "best value" from the market.   more »

In what will be their first public showing in an election, the Libertarian Party announced yesterday at Oxford University that they will be contesting the Henley-on-Thames by-election just as soon as Boris Johnson fulfils his promise and resigns his seat as an MP. And the candidate? Well that would be me, Ian Parker-Joseph. I have been running this blog now since November 2006, and took a decision some time ago that it was about time that I stopped just talking and writing about the problems that face this country, and do something positive about it.   more »

Libertarians at Oxford University

Today the Libertarian Party leadership team set off to Trinity College Oxford to talk to some of our future 'leaders' along with some of the leading lights of the Libertarian Party, in the hope that we can persuade at least some of them that the path to national contentment is not an ever increasing State and political class.



On reflection our decision not to contest Crewe & Nantwich was the right one- The media are just focussing on the three main statist parties and the standard of political debate is as Iain Dale said on Radio four last night,lamentable. If all that NuLab can come up with is Toffs and keeping Brown away from the place they deserve to lose.

HatTip Guthrum

Jan Berry is the Chairman of the Police Federation, or was. She is stepping down at the end of the conference this year. She has always put the interests of the Police officers that she represents before any political correctness and has proved that her tenure of the post has been one of honour and courage. The conference this year has been no different, and in her opening speech, introducing the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, suggested that the Home Secretary's actions are all but criminal.   more »

A massive government database holding details of every phone call, e-mail and time spent on the internet by the public is being planned as part of the fight against crime and terrorism. Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecoms companies would hand over the records to the Home Office under plans put forward by officials.   more »

John Harris read the Magna Carta and saw that it was good. So good in fact that he decided to make honest use of it. Particularly article 61. I hereby place on record of all persons that after said 40 days have expired, being the 1st day of May 2008 and the corrections I seek have not been made, by way of the dismissal of the Traitors in the House of Commons, then I John James Harris, will enter into Lawful rebellion under article 61 of Magna Carta 1215 and therefore will become a Freeman of England within the Freedom of Common Law.   more »

This article is aimed mainly at the voters in Crewe and Nantwich, simply because you are the only people in the UK who have a voice right now to let our politicians know exactly what you think. Are you getting sick of the vulgar campaigning going on, the negative messages, the depths to which politicians are willing to sink in order to win a seat. Then this site is for you. Its called Make Your Vote Talk.   more »

This morning, in a speech in Birmingham, David Cameron will give voice to concerns over the levels of taxation, which will resonate around the country. But more important than that, for the first time he will signal that he believes goverment spending and borrowing are out of control. It is relevant that he does not abandon George Osborne's pledge to match Labour spending for two years, a pledge still very much firmly in place.   more »

The Association of British Drivers (ABD) has discovered that fifteen UK councils are implicated with an EU funded project which advocates underhand and undemocratic means to railroad through urban road pricing schemes in the face of massive public opposition. The CURACAO 1 project states that its aim is "to create the conditions for reaching the tipping point for the widespread adoption of road pricing in European Urban Cities."   more »

One of the flagship policies of the Libertarian Party is to scrap income tax, to be paid for by scrapping the majority of Britains worthless Quango's.. Our critics say that this is an uncosted policy, would be impossible, would hit front line services and would create an unstable economy. I say that is Bunkum. When NuLab came to power in 1999 there were a total of 135 Quango's, and in the first manifesto they promised to reduce that number and make government smaller. There are now 1162.   more »

The decision has been made that the third tranche of the Typhoon will not be going ahead and one of the planned aircraft carriers will be scrapped.... or at least introduction delayed ...er .... indefinitely. This will be announced next Friday, the day the Crewe and Nantwich results are announced.   more »

A guidance document put out this week by Hazel Blears' Department of Communities has laid out plans for community "tension monitoring", entailing snooping on neighbours and political activists, restrictions on the media, and large-scale data sharing.   more »

Britons are to be asked to put a sticker proclaiming the rights of European Union "nationals" on the back cover of their passports. From 1 July next year, all new passports issued in the UK and other member countries will quote Article 20 of the EU's founding treaty. But in the meantime, the paper says, the EU commission has also told the British government to produce stickers quoting the article and encourage as many people as possible to put them on their passports.   more »

Less than 2 weeks after loosing an unprecedented number of local councils, the Labour party who has promised to listen and learn still proves that its rejected ideology is more important than the voters or their wishes.   more »

But if I was, I think I would be more than a little angry at the Government.   more »

This anonymous comment from a Dizzy posting about rubbish-tax.

Hehehe Gordon's been spinning and u-turning so much recently we should wrap him in copper wire and mount him between some permanent magnets (his Moral compass is fucked anyway, so that wouldn't be a problem) - and we could use him as renewable energy.

“… it is of utmost importance that an equilibrium be established between the world’s total population and the capacity of ’spaceship earth’…” - RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p124)   more »

The number of people affected by the deadly EV-71 virus has risen to more than 9,000, including people in Beijing, Chinese officials have said. Beijing health officials said on Monday that there were 1,482 reported cases of the infection in the capital. At least 26 children have died so far from the severe form of foot and mouth disease.   more »

The Local elections held on May 1st across the UK are now over. The result are in, and people have overwhelmingly rejected the policies of our incumbent NuLab Government. So what exactly where they rejecting?.   more »

The Government change programme that Gordon Brown keeps talking about, but never gives any details on is part of the larger European project. One of its aims is to break down and make worthless every form of identification that you currently hold, forcing you to take the government issued and run ID Card. The constant and repeated release of your personal information by Government and big business is not down to ineptitude, it is by design.   more »

The abolition of the 10p tax band, which previously meant that the first £2,230 of income above the personal allowance (£5,225 up until April 6) was taxed at 10% (HMRC) has met with some justified criticism from politicians and commentators pointing out that, in spite of the Government's rhetoric, the move will make the poorest workers worse off. The Libertarian Party, of which I am a member, are of the view that a great improvement would be made to this policy by going two steps further. Specifically, what is needed to put things right is for the 20p and 40p bands to be abolished as well.   more »

“Atomic and political scientists from Harvard University and MIT meeting in November 1975 concluded that an atomic war will certainly occur before the year 2000. This, they believed, could only be prevented by the decision of all nation-states to surrender their sovereignty to an authoritarian world government, a possibility they viewed as unlikely.” - RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p46)   more »

The ultimate capitalists ultimately back communism. They ought to, they paid for it (using money stolen from the masses via usury based central banking systems) and want it above all other things. It lays the foundation for the globalist feudal society they are seeking to bring about via their useful idiots in the EU and soon, no doubt, the NAU (North American Union). The following article by Lord Christoper Monckton, former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher, recently appeared in Executive Intelligence Review. It clearly articulates some of the key aspects of the erosion of Britain under the retarded ideology that is socialism.   more »

“The achievement of this global planning and management system calls for the conscious transfer of power - a gradual transfer to be sure - from the nation State to the world organization. Only when this transfer takes place can the organization become effective and purposeful.” - RIO: Reshaping the International Order, 1976 (p185)   more »

Over on Labour's website, there is a message from Gordon Brown (listen and lead). Unfortunately for Gordon, someone forgot to turn the comments off. He's getting it right in the neck from the (ex) party faithful. Warning it is not pretty.   more »

Henry Nitzsche explains the drawbacks of the Lisbon (Reform) Treaty to the German Bundestag. How the EU got it in the back door without the people’s permission and by ignoring the French and Dutch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21MlrowJqqc