CLEGGIE THINKS WE BRITS NEED TO BE PUT IN OUR PLACE | CYBERBORISjohnson

'No other culture in Europe is quite so enamoured by such a false notion of difference".'

Is Nick Clegg more loyal to EU than UK? If so is that because of his EU pension?

http://cyberboris.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/cleggie-thinks-we-brits-need-to-be-put-in-our-place/

How relentless Andrew Neil carved up Ed Davey on the Sunday Politics show | CYBERBORISjohnson

What is it with some LibDem MPs?

Today David Ward, here giving a car crash interview on Sky following his comments from earlier today




David Ward's political career should be toast, but will Nick Clegg have the cajones to take action?


Yesterday a previous LibDem Baroness Jenny Tonge, attacking Zionism



"It will not go on forever, it will not go on forever and Israel will lose its support, then they will reap what they have sown,"

The Liberal Democrats, the true nasty party.

A general election within 12 months?

I know the Barnsley by-election was just one result but it was a dreadful one for the Lib Dems and there are going to be hundreds of nervous Lib Dem councillors dreading the May local elections. The coalition is unpopular and will get more unpopular as the, necessary because of Labour profligacy, cuts start to bite. The Conservative vote will diminish but the core vote will stay, unless that increase in the UKIP vote does indicate that many real Conservatives fear that David Cameron is too happy being a Liberal conservative and want some real bite to their Conservatism. The issue of the EU may also be moving from way down the list for most people to nearer the top and as such UKIP's appeal will grow. Pre the 2010 general election I called for a Conservative/UKIP alliance as the best way to ensure a proper right of centre government in the UK and who can really argue that the Conservative LibDem coalition is more coherent than a Conservative UKIP government would have been? David Cameron has a problem with the rise of UKIP in that he cannot become more EUsceptic without alienating his 'partners' in the coalition who are mostly EUphiles. I foresee trouble ahead for David Cameron from his EUsceptic wing and for the LibDem leadership from their non-Orange Book members. I think that traditional Tory loyalty will allow David Cameron some more breathing space but Nick Cleg will not be so fortunate. I give it until the day after the local elections before Nick Clegg faces open revolt from large parts of his party and not too much longer before he will have to decide whether to withdraw from the coalition and so precipitate a general election of split his party.

Interesting times lie ahead and it could mean that the party whose reckless spending and incompetence in government caused the economic crisis that we are embroiled in could be back in power before the second anniversary of losing it; scary thought!

Friday afternoon catch-up

Once again I have too many Firefox tabs and not enough time, so here we go:

1) Politics Home reveal why the LibDems control the coalition government.

2) The Telegraph reports that the Crown Prince of Iran is calling for aid for the demonstrators but unlike in Egypt Barack Obama and the western media are just not interested. Why the double standards Barack Obama? It is almost as though you want Islamists to keep and gain power in the Middle East.

3) The Blaze think that they may have video proof that Mexican authorities are operating inside of the USA.

4) Harry Phibbs in The Mail thinks that we should not get rid of the First Past The Post voting system.

5) Devils Kitchen agrees with me that National Insurance is a ponzi scheme and just as out of control as Bernie Madoff's and that the government's response will make us all poorer (except for the unemployed).

6) Gates of Vienna thinks that the BBC has broken its charter and explains at length why - all relating to Geert Wilders and radical Islam.

7)The Mail reports that the Royal Society has realised that 'A'Levels are now not fit for purpose - That's the comprehensive education system and 13 years of a Labour government dumbing down exams for you.

8) OyVaGoy has 10 facts that 'they' don't want you to know about the evil right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

9) CIF Watch have spotted that even The Guardian's travel section is influenced by the newspaper's anti-Israel agenda.

10) Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph thinks that the state can be successfully shrunk and that Ronald Reagan US Presidency should be the model.

11) The BBC report on a rather nasty comment made by one of their heroes - the Irish tax avoider Bono.

12) Harry's Place explains why iEngage should not be allowed to serve as the secretariat to the all party parliamentary group on Islamaphobia. Very sound stuff as always from Harry's Place now one of my favourite blogs.

13) The Mail managed to report the interesting fact that 'Road deaths dropped 14 per cent in three months while speed cameras were being axed or switched off.  Fatalities over a year fell 21 per cent to a record low, Department for Transport figures show.'

14) Finally The Mail reports on the Indian inventor who claims to have invented the flying car - unfortunately its a flying 1980s Maruti.

Could a Liberal Democrat be elected leader of the youth wing of the Conservative party?

Tory Bear thinks it a distinct possibility that LibDem Sara Scarlett could become Chairman of Conservative Future... strange days indeed.

The Guardian come out for the LibDems

'If the Guardian had a vote it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats. But under our discredited electoral system some people may – hopefully for the last time – be forced to vote tactically'

Two thoughts, one Labour are truly sunk if even The Guardian have deserted them but also read The Guardian muddled article and despair that people read and believe such rubbish. Sorry I really cannot be bothered to 'Fisk' the CIF article referenced, life is too short.