No Cameron, not all of us voted #Brexit in the #EUReferendum because of immigration policies...........

Some of us voted to leave because we believe that this country should never have abandoned the Commonwealth in the first place. Those were countries that supported us throughout both world wars and our economy was in better shape when they were our trading partners - the clue is in the name - Commonwealth. Geddit?

Personally I hate the implication that our reasons for wanting to leave are solely based on immigration policies. You are responsible for the upsurge in racial tension that is happening now.

Some of us also voted to leave the EU because we hoped it would mean an end to the parasitic sponging of people like Neil Kinnock and his wife. However now it seems that the UK taxpayer will still be responsible for their enormous pensions.

And no, no one with any sense believed all that tarradiddle about the EU payments of £350 million per week being redirected to the NHS. We know that politicians always lie and we voted out because we thought it might, just might, get rid of you - one of the biggest liars of them all.

#EUReferendum #VoteLeave My two pennies worth on the EU referendum

For the benefit of anyone who may be influenced by the opinions I express here, I must point out that I am well aware that I will be dead before the worst results of this country leaving or remaining in the EU become apparent. It's a factor which influences my vote in only a minor way but one that is only fair to point out. One further, slightly anarchic, influence is that I would dearly love to see this country's reaction to MPs should they refuse to enact the bills necessary to enable a departure. There is a faction within Westminster which is threatening to do exactly that, believe it or not.

Should it not already be obvious I shall be voting to leave the EU. I voted against joining in the first place and nothing I have seen since has altered my opinion one single iota. It always gave me an uneasy feeling about joining an organisation which was the concept of the pre-war Nazi party. A feeling that Angela Merkel has signally failed to dispel.

I have said elsewhere that I simply do not see the point in forming a small club wherein the benefit lies in exclusivity and then inviting every Tom, Dick and Harry to join as well. Particularly when Tom, Dick and Harry are unwell and wholly unable to pay their way. I am always willing to hear another opinion on this and if anyone can assure me that Albania, Serbia and the other East European proposed entrants will be able to pay the £350 million per week that we pay then I might change my vote. But nobody that I've heard can do that and so those countries and Turkey will be a constant drain on EU resources. There will be bailouts and then refusal to accept the fiscal measures required by the bailouts and then further bailouts to fund the original bailout terms. We've seen it all before with Cyprus and Greece - the figures these countries now owe the EU are astronomical. Anyone with the slightest common sense could have foreseen this happening and surely must question the wisdom of remaining in an organisation run by the kind of people who could not. I have always said that the key factor for assessing the viability of a country is whether it has a sound industrial or commercial base. Granted when Greece was a major shipbuilding country you might have made a case for its membership but it had lost that status to the Pacific rim countries long before joining and Cyprus never had any real economic basis for membership in its entire history. It may grow a decent grape, olive and citrus fruit but this even in conjunction with tourism is hardly a sound commercial justification.

It isn't long ago that Cameron (the lying git) told us that he had obtained an agreement from the EU that we should no longer have to contribute to a bailout fund for any member state if we had vetoed it. Then along came the Greek economic disaster and the next thing is - we are forking out £600 million without the option. Now there are are currently five further countries being talked about as new EU members - Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Albania - of which four are already economically unsound or in no position to become so. The fifth, Turkey, is an undesirable member for other reasons. So when those four go belly up you can multiply that £600 million by four which is, of course, £2400 million or nearly 2.5 billion squids. Can we afford that kind of outgoing when there will not be any kind of benefit in return? No we cannot, and there is no possible argument about it.

I say there is no argument but I suppose some would say that other East European entrants such as Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia have not had any kind of disaster but my response to that is that it is only a matter of time. And you can add Portugal, Malta and Poland to the list of possible defaulters while you're about it. Even if I'm wrong we will still have to fork out hundreds of millions in those ludicrous pre-accession assistance agreements and £640 million for Turkey under a recent deal.

In short I think that the economic prognosis for the EU in the coming years is pretty dismal and I haven't even mentioned the flood of immigrants/economic refugees/asylum seekers which will place a further burden on our dwindling national resources.

Yes I know my reasonings are oversimplified and unsophisticated but they really are all I have to go on. Not much less, in fact, than the majority of the other voters have I suspect.

Now we get to my more personal and esoteric reasons for wanting to get out.
The first of these is that I am instinctively repulsed by any cause supported by David Cameron. I think he is a greedy, self-serving mountebank of the very worst kind. He doesn't even have a nodding acquaintanceship with the truth and the further away from his influence the better this country will be. The fact that his cronies who have supported him with the REMAIN faction have been rewarded in the Queen's Birthday honours list makes me feel infinitely depressed. It devalues the awards given to those people who have actually earned them and is an insult to Her Majesty and this country.

The second reason I have for leaving is that most of those I have seen encouraging and supporting the REMAIN side seem to have personal or business reasons for doing so. I mean if you run a business which depends on European co-operation for its day to day running and commercial success then you might well vote to stay within the Union. But don't write articles in the press or appear on television declaring to one and all that staying in the EU is beneficial for everybody else. This country has stagnated industrially since joining. We've lost coal mining, shipbuilding, motor manufacturing and the steel industry. And this wasn't entirely the fault of the trades union or politicians as a substantial portion of the blame must be laid at the doors of feckless 'captains of industry' who put short term profiteering ahead of the best interests of the workers and of the country as a whole. Why should we believe them now?

The next reason for am immediate exit from the EU can be seen on the left. Yes, Neil Kinnock the dismal Labour Party leader who failed twice in succession to be Prime Minister. All the time as Labour leader he was vociferously against EU membership but he changed his tune when he was unaccountably offered a role as an MEP and he and his wife Glenys, who also took a role, have milked the system ever since. Between them they are reckoned to have amassed £250 million in pensions and other benefits mostly funded by us the taxpayer. When Glenys retired as an MEP she was elevated to the House of Lords where she immediately became one of those peers who enter the house by one door claiming their £350 payment, and straight away exit by another door.
I won't bore you with the activities of their son Stephen and his strange marriage to a former Danish MP who fiddled the Danish taxpayer with the same criminally deluded sense of entitlement as her parents-in-law.

Another personal reason can be seen to the left. How Obama had the cheek and audacity to come here 'advising' the British public to vote to remain in the EU is a mystery and source of constant peevishness to me. And then to threaten us with becoming a back number on America's list of trading partners. It is blatantly obvious that his real reason, far from any economic grounds, was to keep us in partnership with the European Defence Force and thus maintaining the power and influence of NATO.

One final point to consider is that George Osborne (a man whom I put in almost the same league of mendaciousness as David Cameron) has said today that in his first budget after a Brexit vote he will put 2p on the income tax and impose austerity spending cuts. I don't know what makes him think he will have the authority to do that after an exit vote. MPs will probably force a vote of 'no confidence' in Cameron which will mean a general election. In any case a true Brit would never give in to that kind of blackmail - we leave that to the French, Spanish and Italians.

Well that's about it really. As I said before, my ashes will have long been blowing in the four winds before the worst effects of a vote either way will become apparent (I hope). But I shall just add that if the country votes to stay within the EU and when people are queueing for basic supplies, having to wait months for a doctor's appointment and having their state pensions unpaid, you won't be able to say no one warned you.

The feckless Theresa May's answer to terrorism - Asbos

Theresa May's tenure as Home Secretary has already seen immigration spiral out of control while her successes at deporting foreign criminals can be counted on the fingers of a rude gesture. And now her puerile and appallingly naive answer to the evil of ISIS is an ASBO!

While these people murder without the slightest shred of conscience and make videos of their vile acts Theresa May thinks that the solution is a kind of legal social restriction created to be applied to vandals and noisy neighbours.

ISIS will just laugh at this as well they might and will do nothing else until the authorities in the West accept that the response to evil should be considerably more draconian.

Even Cameron, whose answer to the increasing security problem, is to stay on holiday, agrees that ISIS is a plague. But you can't cure a plague by dabbing at its sores with cotton wool.

The way to prevent the so-called 'British' jihadis from spreading their evil in this country is to stop them from re-entering in the first place. Something that Theresa May has shown herself (and the useless Border Agency) to be utterly incompetent of doing. And if that involves some kind of discrimination based on racial appearance - then so be it.

As for the ones that are already here (the 'hate preachers') they should be interned immediately without trial or access to 'yuman' rights lawyers.

But of course the very first measure must be to dispose of Theresa May and give us someone more able as Home Secretary.

Anybody who believes that John Downey's release was a blunder by the Police Service Of Northern Ireland needs their head examined

I feel sick every time I listen to a news broadcast saying that John Downey is walking free from charges that he was responsible for the vile attack on the Household cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982. I feel sick not only because I was in Hyde Park myself on that horrible day and saw the aftermath. I will never forget the tragic sight of those magnificent horses lying in the road in pools of blood - the four cavalry men who were murdered had been removed or their bodies covered by the time I reached the scene while the injured were being taken away in ambulances.
I also feel sick because I know with absolute certainty that the letter which was sent to Downey was a direct result of Tony Blair's treacherous and cowardly Good Friday agreement rather than merely another blunder by the Sinn Fein infiltrated PSNI or the feckless CPS. And the fact that David Cameron is unwilling to take the matter further proves it as far as I'm concerned because there is very little to choose between him and Blair in the treachery stakes.

The one good thing that might come of the #Syria vote in the Commons.........

.... is that we might at long last get rid of the vainglorious, pompous and posturing turd that is David Cameron MP. For surely, a prime minister who has been so soundly defeated in the kind of vote where he might have expected almost total support, can have no possible mandate to continue in power. And I'm very surprised he has not already gone. As for the snivelling hypocrisy being spouted in the media and in Parliament - well I have to laugh.
Paddy Ashdown must surely have blushed when he said last week that he has never felt so ashamed and his wife's blood pressure must have increased a point or two. And all that garbage about the 'special relationship' As far as I'm concerned the 'special relationship' if it ever existed ended with the support given by Americans to the IRA and that's not to mention the Falklands or even Suez. Perhaps now we'll be able to quit this absurd notion that has been a laughing stock for years and stop being regarded as the American poodle. We have not held a position of authority in world affairs for a long time now and we might as well get used to it. We don't have the troops or the finance to back it up.

As for the so-called justification for the moral bombing of the Syrian regime. Where is the evidence that it was Assad and not the rebels who committed the attrocity. The UN inspectors have been typically useless and as for the alleged intelligence documents - well we've been there before have we not? I've seen stuff on the internet that purports to be 'intelligence' and you wouldn't want to base a military campaign on it. Oh no wait, Tony Blair did, didn't he?

And lastly there is the feeling that any support for the rebels is support for Islamic fundamentalism and we certainly won't get any thanks from those bastards. No we're well out of it and we'll be even better if Cameron goes.

#News - Cowardly Cameron shutting the door to internet porn and opens one to internet crime

It is quite obvious that Cameron needs sme kind of populist target now that he has failed to get any significant legislation introduced regarding tobacco and alcohol. I say he failed but the fact that there is tax income on both begs the question of the sincerity of his efforts to bring about plain packaging and minimum pricing.

There is no tax income from internet usage YET so Cameron obviously feels on safer ground. Also, of course, he can pass on responsibility for curbs to the providers rather than have the expenses involved come out of government sources.

However, he has plainly failed to take into account a couple of the inevitable consequences of internet restrictions.
Firstly any filtering will slow down internet speeds to something akin to pre broadband days. It will nullify all the efforts to increase broadband speeds throughout the country.
Secondly it will open the door to a wave of internet crime hitherto unseen in Britain. Very few people will have ever seen an email from their internet provider before and therefore will have no idea what one should look like. So emails will arrive in the inboxes of the technically befuddled public instructing them to do whatever to their computers. Joe Bloggs, in his attempts to keep viewing his favourite porn sites, will be told that if he downloads this or that software he will be able to get round any kind of ISP controls. Of course all his personal information will be hoovered up by some kind of phishing malware.

And the worst thing about the idiot Cameron's foolish scheme, supported by the increasingly rabid Daily Mail, is that it is literally the thin end of a totalitarian wedge. Once the basic mechanism for controlling internet freedom is in place, it could be easily adjusted for any political or social purpose whatsoever.

#Syria - For all our sakes, Cameron should lock his wife in a dark cellar........

......and keep her away from politics and out of the media. It's an understandable kneejerk reaction, of course, if one sees children suffering to want something done to end it. But SamCam, as Samantha Cameron is known in the press, really needs to have the facts explained to her.

Arming those particular rebels will do nothing whatever to end the long term malaise in Syria and would even make it worse. Whatever Assad's faults (and he has many) at least his country had religious freedom. If the factions behind virtually any of the rebel groups ever came to power, Syria would be thrust back instantly into the dark ages of Islamic fundamentalism with all the evils of persecution, inequality and terrorism that it implies.

The simple truth is that it would be better for Syria if the UN helped President Assad put down the various rebel groups and bring an end to the violence in that way.

Today we have lost a part of our national identity with the death of Baroness Thatcher

I often think that you can judge a person by the people who dislike them just as well, if not better than, by judging them by their friends.

Consider, for example, what was said by Sinn Féin politician Danny Morrison in 1982:
"Margaret Thatcher is the biggest bastard we have ever known"
To be hated and feared by scum like the IRA is praise enough by any standard.

Nor was she a friend of the E.U. She believed that the role of the European Union (then the European Community) should be limited to ensuring free trade and effective competition and not as a means of centralising government. I cannot imagine that we would have anything like the problems we currently have with the European court of human rights were she still in power. Abu Qatada and his ilk would be long gone. She was certainly no friend of terrorists whatever their nationality or religion.

I cannot imagine the kind of mess that David Cameron and his bunch of milk sop, u-turning and half witted cronies would have made of the Falklands invasion in 1982. Margaret Thatcher was no friend of aggressive, bully boy tactics.

I have always considered that the increasing power and consequent demands of the trades union has played no small part in this country's economic decline. And Maggie was certainly no friend of unions. When she came to power 1979 29 million working days had been lost due to stoppages and strikes. By the time she left office in 1990 the number of days lost were fewer than 2 million. It is also significant that union membership fell by 25% in the same period.

Of course her support of the highly unpopular community tax was a mistake but, what the hell, nobody's perfect!

All said and done, I would say that Margaret Thatcher had a lot in common with Winston Churchill as Prime Minister. She was certainly someone you would want on your side in a crisis.

RIP Baroness Thatcher - much admired and already greatly missed.

Cameron's reaction to Hilary Mantel's comments about Kate Middleton.......

....show just how stupid he really is.

Just to recap; Mantel (Booker prize winning author) stated that Kate Middleton was a ‘machine-made’ princess and had been ‘designed by committee’ and that she had less personality than Princess Diana

By the way, remind me not to read any of her books - it seems that the Booker Prize is now on the same level as the Turner Prize for so-called art.

David Cameron's feeble response was to say that:
Hilary Martel is 'a great writer' but her comments on Kate were 'a hurtful thing to say'
He further described the comments about the Duchess of Cambridge as 'completely misguided and completely wrong'.

Well listen, you arrogant, lying piece of useless shit, Mantel's comments were her own opinion and therefore neither misguided nor completely wrong.
Any more than I am misguided or wrong in saying that David Cameron is a lying, useless piece of shit.

Maybe Cameron wants everyone to run their opinions past him before publication.

My own opinion about Kate Middleton is that she may be a bit plastic BUT I think we had quite enough of personality with Princess Diana. Let's have some bland for a change and skip the scandals and melodramas.

In or out of Europe, neither makes much difference to an old fart like me

The single benefit about being old is that I am free to express nearly any opinion while safe in the knowledge that I'll never have to live with the consequences of being wrong. Which is possibly the way that Cameron feels about promising an in/out referendum on the EU. Maybe he anticipates losing the next election and will never have to comply with yesterday's promise.

I have never been in favour of EU membership. I simply cannot see the point of an exclusive trading club which permits membership to virtually all comers. My EU would never have permitted Greece to join nor indeed Spain and Portugal. Nor Cyprus. And it would have also been a definite NO to any of those East European financial disaster areas. Any country whose economy is based on tourism, service industries or winegrowing would have been precluded.

Nor indeed do I see the point of joining any organisation in which we would be the only member making the slightest attempt to stick to the rules. Just look at what has happened to the fishing and farming industries. Only a fool would not have seen that Spain would totally ignore any rules on fishing and that France would try to destroy British farming.

Whatever! It's too late now. And I suspect it's too late to contemplate withdrawal. Nor do I think that it is a particularly good idea to place such an important matter in the hands of Sun and Daily Mail readers.

However I wish that Cameron had based his promise on what's best for the country rather than on fear of UKIP and his own backbenchers.

I think Miliband has been rather cunning by coming out against a referendum because someone had to take that stance. He would have gained nothing at all by being in favour and at least he has provided those against with a party for whom to vote in the next election.

With any luck I won't have to decide which way to vote as I might well have croaked my last before 2017.

There is one man responsible for the riots in Belfast

One man is keeping very silent about the current rioting in Belfast in spite of his expressed wish to return to mainstream politics (god forbid). That man is Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, whose cowardly policy of appeasement with the terrorists and murderers of the IRA has inevitably resulted in the loyalist population feeling marginalised. Rioting is the only form of protest left to them since there are so many previously active IRA members in parliament and other political offices.

Even with Tony Blair out of office they cannot pin any hopes on David Cameron since he seems determined to follow the same naive policies.

When Cameron says we would defend the Falklands, who does he mean by 'we'?

Once upon a time joining the armed forces meant joining a huge extended family which would look after you at all times. That meant, not only the guys around you in a hostile area but also the more senior members of the family in positions of power and authority. As the report in my previous post indicates this is no longer the case; at least as far as those senior family members are concerned.

Now it seems that a soldier must go into battle, be prepared to endanger his life in that battle, just so the politicians can argue afterwards what kind of battle it was and whether any of the opposing forces had their 'yuman rights' violated.

Well the plain truth is that it really doesn't matter what kind of battle it was you can still end up the same kind of dead.

Let me put it another way. A platoon of British soldiers in an advance recconnaisance party come across a squad of hostiles (it doesn't matter whether they are IRA terrorists, insurgents in Afghanistan or Argentinians). A firefight ensues and our guys prevail with several hostiles being catured alive.

A few miles back down the road more of our guys are advancing in battalion strength. It is obviously a priority to discover any fortified or entrenched positions, armoured vehicles, mined areas or IEDs may lie ahead.

Time is of the essence. So would our soldiers be justified in using robust interrogation methods to gain information which might save the lives of their advancing comrades and further the aims of the politicians back in Whitehall?

But it's not really a question a soldier has time to indulgently ask himself. The guys down the road are fellows he eats with, drinks with and who would unquestionly support him in the same circumstances. So he does what he has to do knowing that the enemy would not hesitate to do the same.

When he picks up his gun again to resume the patrol in ever more hostile country, he needs to know that his actions are not going to be picked over by politicians whose political aims are totally different from the ones who started the military action in the first place and 'yuman rights' lawyers whose only aims are the pursuit of personal wealth. It is simply not fair on him, or justifiable to his family, to ask him to ask it of him without that political and legal support.

However it seems that David Cameron expects our troops to go into action again at his request over the Falkland Islands. Of course it may just be sabre rattling by both sides. But this is what Cameron said yesterday to Andrew Marr when asked if the UK would fight to keep the Falklands:

Of course we would

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By 'we' of course he does not mean himself or any of his cronies. He means a number of underpaid and under equipped service men and women whose jobs are utterly insecure and who he will stab in the back at the first hint of legal action in Strasbourg.

So I say, in the light of the way the UK government is treating former paras who fought in No. Ireland and his mistreatment of the soldiers enquiring into the deaths of six military policemen in Afghanistan, bollocks to the Falkland Islanders. If they are so important to Cameron he can bloody well fight for them himself.

The dishonest letter from the MOD to former paratroopers

If I had been a member of 1 Para on duty in Londonderry during 'Bloody Sunday' in 1972, I would be considering emigration right now because it is obvious that the anonimity offered by previous inquiries is not worth the paper upon which it was written.

A letter recently sent to veterans from the MOD, with regard to the latest inquiry by the PSNI into the events of 30th January 1972, states:

The purpose of this letter is to reassure you of the MoD’s policy to support its people, whether serving or veterans, in circumstances when their actions, conducted in good faith whilst on operations, come under judicial scrutiny.

But an MOD spokesman has said:

We may be obliged to provide the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) with details of former soldiers. We will take great care to identify the names that are subject to an anonymity order clearly so that they continue to be protected.

But this is as dangerous as it is treacherous because the minute the names are identified to the PSNI the former terrorists in Westminster will get to work researching the current addresses of each one and those of their families.

It seems that the MOD intend to release the names if former troopers do not volunteer to come forward themselves.

And it will be no use appealing to David Cameron for help as he is every bit as cowardly as Tony Blair.

Note: The PSNI was the outfit set up by Blairs cowardly peace process to replace the Royal Ulster Constabulary and is infiltrated with IRA sympathisers.

Germany's new masterplan

I certainly hope David Cameron doesn't get wind of this as I suspect it is something that would appeal to his "caring" nature.

In fact I don't know why he hasn't already thought of deporting the elderly himself because there are only so many spaces available on his NHS care pathways (a dying person still occupies a bed) and he'll need something to do with the surplus.

Apparently researchers have found that an estimated 7,146 German pensioners are living in retirement homes in Hungary in 2011.

More than 3,000 were in the Czech Republic and more than 600 in Slovakia. There were also unknown numbers in Spain, Greece and the Ukraine, as well as Thailand and the Philippines.

They cannot afford the cost of retirement in Germany - a situation which also applies to pensioners in this country thanks to Cameron and his cronies.

It also seems that it is not only politicians in this country who are incapable of simple mathematics and logic.

Artur Frank, the owner of Senior Palace – which finds care homes for Germans in Slovakia – said:

It was wrong to suggest senior citizens were being ‘deported’.

Many are here of their own free will, the results of sensible decisions by their families who know they will be better off

Well when I was at school:
All - many = some
Therefore some Germans are not abroad of their own free will
And if not of their own free will then what? I can maybe understand going to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia because the beer is strong and cheap and the girls are extremely pretty. I can also understand Spain and Greece because of the weather. Maybe also Thailand and the Philipines for the warm climate although the food is abominable.

But who on earth would "voluntarily" go to the Ukraine? That sounds far more like being put on a train with a suitcase and prevented from getting off before your allotted destination.

More evidence that David Cameron lives in a world of his own

He went on a so called 'morale boosting' visit to the troops in Afghanistan the other day.
You miserable deluded cretin Cameron! The only things guaranteed to boost their morale at this or any other time of year is
a) A decent bit of scoff
b) Letters and parcels from their families
c) A visit from a page three stunnah
And in their Christmas stockings; some weapons and vehicles that actually function as they should so they can go out and kill more frogs, boers,huns, rag heads.

I rather wish one of those squaddies had revisited the old military custom of 'fragging' - an opportunity missed.

And while I'm on the subject of stupidity:

This picture in the Mail Online was captioned:
'David Cameron sings carols alongside soldiers on the front line in Afghanistan yesterday'
If he had really been alongside soldiers on the front line he would have had his head down.
He was actually alongside front line soldiers. Slight difference.

I would like David Cameron to withdraw his apology on behalf of the nation.

In the House of Commons this afternoon Cameron apologised on 'behalf of the nation'
for the murder of Pat Finucane in Belfast in 1989. Well I'd just like to make it clear that he does not need to apologise on my behalf.

As far as I'm concerned Finucane was colluding with the murdering bastards of the IRA and fully deserved to die.

Another Cameron policy which will penalise the elderly

First of all I have to admit that I know bugger all about the 'Sheffield Alcohol Policy Model' upon which his decision to increase the minimum price of alcohol is based.

But I do know a load of bullshit when I see it.
For instance Cameron says that:

a 40p minimum unit price could result in 50,000 fewer crimes a year and 900 fewer alcohol-related deaths per year by the end of the decade.
Binge-drinking isn’t some fringe issue, it accounts for half of all alcohol consumed in this country.

Firstly; won't there be a corresponding increase in alcohol theft from supermarkets and off-licenses?
Secondly; is he seriously suggesting that those 900 deaths are only of people who could not afford to pay an extra 40 pence for 4 cans of supermarket lager? Were the corpses means tested?
Thirdly; the last part of this ludicrous statement implies that half of all the people you see drinking in an average pub on a Saturday night are binge drinking.

It's just crap. And the people it will affect most, once again, are the elderly on miserable pensions. The only thing we have to look forward to is a drink to help us through the night. That and death of course.

Angela Merkel's comments as wildly inappropriate as the kiss she gave Cameron

This unfortunate greeting between the German chancellor and David Cameron was as inappropriate as the remarks she made in the talks about the EU budgets that followed.

On Cameron's alleged intention to hold a referendum on EU membership, she said:

'You can be very happy on an island – but alone they would not be happy in this world.'

Conveniently forgetting that 70 years ago we did just that in opposing her own forebears.

Notwithstanding the crass stupidity of her remark, it might be more valid if some effort were made within the EU to halt the almost criminal mismanagement of its funds.

There is something horribly familiar about the NHS Care Pathway

Especially when you consider it in tandem with David Cameron's new fast track dementia diagnosis plan announced last week.

How long will it be before elderly people are diagnosed with dementia and fast tracked onto a care pathway to death? Will we have yellow stars sewn onto our clothing so that we can be easily identified as candidates for fast tracking?

It's all part of Dr. Cameron's masterplan for profitability and efficiency within the NHS.

Do you believe the police or the appalling Andrew Mitchell MP

Of course we know who David Cameron believes because they are both toffees out of exactly the same bag. But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, can you seriously imagine a copper inventing a verbal that would include the word pleb. It's the kind of word used by prep school boys during their first year of classics when referring to those less gifted and less fortunate than themselves. Not the kind of word that would be thought of by a down-to-earth bobby while licking his pencil and making a note of the verbals.

If you or me had sworn at a policeman on duty we would find ourselves under arrest and taken down to the nick facing a charge under section 5 of the Public Order Act and a fine not exceeding £1000.

But then we are not members of Cameron's club of toffs otherwise known as the Tory party, are we?.

Apparently Mitchell's long and frustrating day included lunch at the Cinnamon Club, where some dishes cost £95.00 per person.

I think he should seriously consider getting back on his bike and finding another job.