Cameron rules out EU referendum

John Baron MP explains why 100 Conservative MPs want a Europe Union referendum



"I completely understand why some people want an in/out referendum. Some people just want to get out: stop the bus, I want to get off."But I don't share that view. That is not the right thing to do. The problem with an in/out referendum is that it only gives people those two choices. You can stay either in with all the status quo or you can get out."  David Cameron 29-6-12

Time for a Party in/out leadership vote eh

Heads of State meeting

Apparently Germany has caved into demands made by Italy and Spain for immediate eurozone aid to bring down their soaring borrowing costs, boosting the euro and stocks markets.



 “We affirm that it is imperative to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns,” said a European Council statement.

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Environmentalism is a Religion

Environmentalism, in the form of Climate Change Alarmism, is a religion.

Note the structural and behavioral similarities:

Monk = Scientist - They provide the articles of the faith

Priest = Journalist - They spread the faith and convert the faithful

Sin = Carbon Emissions - How an individual's acts hurt the community

Salvation = Energy Reduction - How an individual can redeem oneself

Indulgences = Carbon Credits - Buying forgiveness

Church = IPCC - Organisation in charge of the faith

Bible = IPCC Reports - the official guidebook to the faith

Evangelists = Activists - aggressive promoters of the faith

God = Gaia - the "superhuman" who will "judge" us

Lovelock = Judas - the betrayer of the faith, the apostate

Hell = 2 degree temperature rise - hot/cold/dry/wet whatever is bad will be worse

Signs from God = Any Storm or Drought

Tithes = Carbon Taxes - every religion needs money

Hat tip naidruag

Enosis

Where Georgios Grivas and Nikos Sampson totally failed, President Demetris Christofias has partially achieved.

Cyprus, union with Greece in an EU bailout
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Enosis refers to the movement of the Greek-Cypriot population to incorporate the island of Cyprus into Greece.
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Mystic Met

Met Office 3-month Outlook Period: April – June 2012 Issue date: 23.03.12

SUMMARY – PRECIPITATION: The forecast for average UK rainfall slightly favours drier than average conditions for April-May-June as a whole, and also slightly favours April being the driest of the 3 months. With this forecast, the water resources situation in southern, eastern and central England is likely to deteriorate further during the April-May-June period. The probability that UK precipitation for April-May-June will fall into the driest of our five categories is 20-25% whilst the probability that it will fall into the wettest of our five categories is 10-15% (the 197-2000 climatological probability for each of these categories is 20%).

 http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/p/i/A3-layout-precip-AMJ.pdf

Cameron should know his place

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle has learned that Tony Blair has said that it is "critical" that the UK helps to shape the political reconstruction of Europe in the wake of the eurozone crisis.



The ex-Labour leader was speaking to the BBC this Weekend. Asked if he would take a leading role in the reconstruction as an elected president, Blair said: "That's way, way down the line. When the European presidency came up last time I would have taken it if the job had been offered."

The Fork in the Road Riddle? (EU version)

An international investment banker with Billions in ‘foreign currency’ comes to a ‘fork in the road’ and doesn't know which way to go to reach the place where he has chosen to make his European Union investments.

There are two men at the fork (Herman Achille Van Rompuy & José Manuel Durão Barroso), one of whom always tells the EU truth while the other always tells EU lies.

The investment banker doesn't know which is which, though. He may ask one of the men only one question to find his way.

Which man does he ask, and what is the question?

My two penny worth

Argyll and Bute council, were forced into a U-turn after ordering school girl Martha Payne to stop her Neverseconds blog detailing her school meals because her comments were upsetting catering staff.



The SNP leader of Argyll and Bute Council, appeared on BBC Radio Four’s World at One to announce a hurried about-turn.

 

No more lifeboats

diamond jubilee

The European Coal and Steel Community Treaty (ECSC) enters into force. Jean Monnet is appointed president of the High Authority and Paul-Henri Spaak is president of the Common Assembly. 23/7/52

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) decides to grant Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands a derogation from the most-favoured-nation treatment, to allow them to fulfil their ECSC obligations. 10/11/52