Comments on The Pensive Quill: Biffing Biffo

We did our bit campaigning for NO2EU and got 1% of...

2010-12-17T21:53:39.220Z

We did our bit campaigning for NO2EU and got 1% of the UK vote in the European Parliament elections but we failed to put up an MEP unlike Sinn Féin and BNP.
Definately an air of discontent abounds especially post Wikileaks.
The pundits are predicting the fall of Spain next.From another article this week...
"The Spanish government says it won't happen. And to further reassure the financial markets, it is pushing ahead with a massive austerity programme aimed at halving the public deficit - Europe's third largest - to 6 per cent of GDP within two years.Faced with the massive thumbs down by his Socialist party's natural supporters, Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero appeared to take stock. Some hoped that he was about to do a second U-turn from the man who swapped expansionary economic policies for austerity in May. But the hope didn't last.The trigger was another wave of panic in financial markets. Investors holding Spanish government bonds - sovereign debt - were worried about the ability of Europe's fourth-largest economy to service its debts in the wake of the crisis in Ireland, which also said that it didn't need a bailout. The price Spain paid to service its debts went up, putting up the cost of borrowing for Madrid."
article link...
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/98886

Stefan, It's all good. I busted a gut campaig...

2010-12-17T01:17:17.155Z

Stefan,

It's all good. I busted a gut campaigning against Lisbon and Lisbon 2.

This kind of skullduggery will provoke revolutions all across Western Europe.

Bring it on,

Rory

Editor of Spectrezine Steve McGiffen had ba very g...

2010-12-16T20:54:32.876Z

Editor of Spectrezine Steve McGiffen had ba very good article in the Morningstar on Tue.
He commented the reality was that Europe was not creating a new currency at all with the Euro."Instead, those countries which joined the eurozone were adopting the deutschmark."
On the ammendments of the Lisbon Treaty and its emerging Federal nature he said this...
"It is already clear that the billions committed to the emergency fund will prove inadequate. Under such circumstances, it seems certain that the €440 billion European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) which the EU established in May will evolve into a fully-fledged lending institution which will play the role of both doctor and policeman when a member state's economy suffers a major collision or swerves of the road.
This week, EU leaders will be discussing amending the Lisbon Treaty to allow the EFSF to be transformed into a just such a permanent instrument.
As the EU is about to issue its first criminal law, as the same Lisbon Treaty which enables it to do so also empowers it to establish armed forces, the idea that we are heading for a federal union - one slipped in through the back door rather than openly discussed and voted upon by the peoples of the 27 member states - seems now more fact than suspicion.
Eurozone leaders are determined to find a form of words which would avoid the need for a referendum. This is in keeping with the entire project, the purpose of which is to remove any democratic influence on macroeconomic policy."
An altogether very good analysis.
Full article here...
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/98803

Fionnuala Perry thats the reason why i said that.....

2010-12-12T19:05:17.267Z

Fionnuala Perry thats the reason why i said that..

He's not that high and mighty when he cant even vote for himself!

Ruairi, someone should be house sitting for him, a...

2010-12-12T16:07:18.021Z

Ruairi, someone should be house sitting for him, as apparently he got into diffs for never being at the address in Louth that he registered as his home. Too many houses and then it all gets confusing, just like all the masks he slides in and out of sometimes he isn't quite sure which face should be on display and to whom!

"He is much better on the economic question t...

2010-12-11T23:33:40.144Z

"He is much better on the economic question than his party Master whose concept of economics is one plus one equals three and if you disagree you pose a threat to the peace process."

Great line Anthony.. funny because its true!

Im surprised thats all michaelhenry had to say. In saying that, he's probably housesitting in Louth for the Master!

2010-12-11T14:57:30.497Z