Double bluff on the rocks

David Cameron plans minimum alcohol price in England



However, the European Court of Justice has already stated that: imposing a minimum price is incompatible with the current legal framework (Directive 95/59/EC), since the setting of a minimum price by public authorities inevitably has the effect of limiting the freedom of producers and importers to determine their selling price (see also, Case C-302/00 Commission/France) minimum prices are not necessary, since the health objectives may be attained by increased taxation of tobacco products. (Case C-216/98) Commission/Greece

Questions for ministers at DECC & DEFRA

What is the Carbon Footprint for the following

A 7.62mm round of ammunition is issued in the form of a complete package, A complete round (cartridge) consists of all the components (cartridge case, bullet or shot, propellant powder, and primer) necessary to fire once. The bullet consists of a gilding-metal steel jacket with a lead-antimony slug. The cartridge case is brass and the bullet is unpainted.

a) Unused?

b) Used?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/28/uk-switch-low-carbon-energy

Yuletide Felicitations

Melty Christmas

Seasonal Felicitations
Waes Hael

Feed-In tariff

Rampant Rabbit Tax

Herman Van Ronery

Herman Van Ronery from ukippy on Vimeo.

Easing the Verbiage (that new EU Treaty)

The Contracting Parties

Conscious of the fact we screwed up in the first place.

Desiring to avoid screwing it up again…

Bearing in Mind that we couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery….

Recalling that we have been to many brewery get together's…

Bearing in Mind all of the above facts…

Taking Note of the fact that we have to avoid the democratic process.

Recalling what happened in 2005

Taking Note that the bastards in Ireland have a referendum clause in their constitution.

Stressing we don't give a shit…

Without Prejudice to Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

Having agreed upon the following provisions.

Article 1.

"We is the European Union. Existence, as you know it, is over. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile."

New Treaty (international agreement)

Conscious of...Desiring to...Bearing in Mind that....Recalling that...More Bearing in Mind of...Taking Note of...a lot more Recalling and Noting and then a bit of Stressing...without Prejudice to .. http://www.scribd.com/doc/75877614/New-Treaty

Pulling Together

The Euro Cistern




By going alone, we don't need the help of France or the other 16 to flush our shit.

Post Olympic Stress Disorder

London will be protected by a consignment of 13,500 military personnel during the Olympic Games next year after a recalculation of security needs.



That means the military presence for the Olympic games will now be bigger than our current troop deployment in Afghanistan, where there are about 9500 British troops.

That means hosting the Olympic games is a bigger threat to our security than the Taliban being democratically elected in Afghanistan.

The 'bolt on' 1 million

The latest unemployment figures from the Office of National Statistics, show that the number of people claiming jobseekers' allowance last month increased, by 3,000 to 1.6 million.

But who are the 'bolt on' 1 million not claiming jobseeker's allowance?

Before



Lowery's Britain

After



Cameron's Britain

coalition agreement

One day, a yellow scorpion was walking along a river bank, wondering how to get to the other side.

All of a sudden the yellow scorpion saw a toad.

He asked the toad to take him on his back across the river.
The toad said, “No, If I do that, you'll sting me and I will drown.”

The scorpion assured the toad, “If I was to sting you, we would both drown.”

The toad thought about it and finally agreed and the yellow scorpion climbed up on the toads back. The toad began to swim... but.... halfway across the river, the yellow scorpion stung the toad.

As the poison filled his veins, the toad turned to the scorpion and said, “Why did you do that? You know that we will both drown.”

“I couldn't help it,” said the yellow scorpion. “It is my nature.” I am a Liberal Democrat and that's what us Liberal Democrats do.

Where was Killjoy

Where’s Clegg?



The cry rose from the Labour benches, the Deputy Prime Minister was in his office, having a security briefing and catching up with phone calls from his pay masters in Brussels.

Fiscal Union (FU)

pacta sunt servanda

Initially the LibDem leader Nick Clegg said the Lib/Dems were united with the Tory's in its stance over changes to the European Union Treaties.



Today we learn that Nick Clegg has launched an attack on David Cameron for "isolating" the UK in Europe with his veto against changes to the EU treaty.

No good faith there then!

Just what does that mean?

Lord Pearson of Rannoch asked HMG in a Written Question:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord McNally on 15 November (WA 140), whether the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Nick Clegg, is eligible to receive a pension from the European Commission; if so, when that pension will become payable; what will be its annual amount; and whether the terms of that pension constrain his actions.

HMG's response was a little odd:

The Deputy Prime Minister is no longer eligible to receive a pension from the European Commission.

Helen Szamuely asks, No longer? What does that mean? Was he at any time and why is he not so any longer?

European Council 2011 (group photo)

50 Countries not in the European Union

and don't use the Euro

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Bostwana
Brunei
Cameroon
Canada
Dominica
Gambia
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Island
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Swaziland
Tanzania
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu
zambia

Euro Downfall

Cameron Feints, EU Swoons

So far it's all bollocks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16104275

fonics

phuck off

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16091737

What the Dickens

Tinkered, Tailored, Soldout, Sly

They tinkered with data and paleoclimate proxies..

..tailored the message to what was required by their political masters…

..to the extent that they soldout to political advocacy and lost their integrity as scientists…

..but most of all it showed them as sly and conniving, plotting and manipulating their field to ensure their own position was unassailable.

Digging in the Clay

jolly hockey sticks

Michael Mann has written a response to James Delingpole's article about Climategate 2.0 in the Wall Street Journal.



It's certainly worth reading the comments, this one amused me.

10 years of the Euro

A film, published by the European Central Bank, claims that the people of Europe can look forward to the future with “hope” and “confidence”. It also says the euro has “become a symbol of integration and co-operation”.

http://englandexpects.blogspot.com/2011/12/ecb-glorifies-10-years-of-euro-timing.html

You really couldn't make this stuff up, it is practically beyond parody. BUT

Here's one that I prepared earlier

A guide dog for the sighted

Mervyn King has said, "What we have to do is to be ready and prepared with contingency plans and to make sure that as far as possible our banking system is as robust as possible to withstand whatever shocks that come from the eurozone,”