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US trade bodies tell UK to back off from destroying Trademarks and Branding in tobacco sector

Posted on April 14, 2012 by IanPJ


The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, the Emergency Committee for American Trade, the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Council for International Business and the National Foreign Trade Council issued the following statement in light of the U.K. announcement that it was pursuing a public consultation regarding plain packaging for tobacco products:

….. It is our hope that through this consultation and subsequent somber reflection the U.K. government will put this exercise aside.

As leading representatives of business, we rely on the rules-based international trade framework and its supporters to sustain economic growth, employment, innovation and prosperity.   We will work hard to encourage governments, including the U.K. government, to reflect in what they do the importance of the rules based international system."

OK, the Yanks have just told Cameron to back off regarding plain packaging for cigarettes. Will he listen to this wise advise from these trade bodies, or will he back the loony bansterbaters at ASH and start a trade war. Really good idea that would be in a recession – not.





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I do love a good fairy tale

Posted on February 3, 2012 by IanPJ


and that is just what this piece in the Spectator by Daniel Korski is.

Once upon a time when David Cameron wielded his veto that was not a veto against a treaty that wasn’t a treaty, many gullible people thought this was the beginning of a process of repatriation of powers from the EU.

They even thought that this would be the highlight, the high water mark of this government’s Euro-scepticism unfortunately, just like the water mark on the Costa Concordia it still lays well below water.

Someone had a word in David’s shell-like and now he thinks he may have to wait because they, the EU, are too busy, despite the fact that he keeps putting his hand up and calling teacher, teacher isn’t listening and he isn’t reading the bits of paper he keeps sending.

Another boy in the class Bill Cash is going to try to upset David and cause as much noise as possible especially when David has to read his essay about the Coatia Accession Bill, but David is going to be a bastard and not listen, having learned a lot from the teachers.

That might cause Bill and his mates to get David in the corner of the playground and make him promise that he will make the teacher listen, or they will make life tough for him, take his dinner money and then go and ask the grown-ups what they think in a referendum. They think David will be really frightened and might wet himself because there are so many of them and will have to do what they say, or else.

Meanwhile on Tracy Island the supramarionation puppets continue with the next thrilling episode….



Listen people, Cameron knows, the Tory party knows and most of the voters know that once powers are ceded to the EU they never, ever come back. The EU has never, ever returned anything to any country, and they certainly won’t be returning anything to Cameron or anyone else in the UK.

It really is a fairy tale to think otherwise. A totally vacuous storyline to get re-elected.

So stop voting for them and their stupid fairy tales. All of them.







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More playground dramatics, how pathetic

Posted on January 30, 2012 by IanPJ



French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ridiculed Britain once again by saying that “the United Kingdom has no industry any more”, media reports said.

The recent spat was made during a prime time national TV broadcast, in which Sarkozy was trying to defend his decision to introduce an increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) in an attempt to boost France’s failing economy.

By enforcing the 1.6 percent VAT rise, ordinary people will have to pay for social charges too.

The French President, who has admitted for the first time that he may lose upcoming elections in the Spring, also admitted that he was borrowing the measure from Germany, arguing that it had ‘helped to boost German competitiveness’ and had not led to a rise in prices.

But, when a journalist noted that Britain had experienced a rise in prices after increasing its VAT contributions, Sarkozy spat out the words: ‘The United Kingdom has no industry any more’.

His comments came as earlier in 2009, Sarkozy actually attacked a VAT rise in Britain, saying it had ‘absolutely failed’ to stimulate the economy.

Forget that Sarkozy is little more than a pint size Napoleon wannabe, or that Cameron thinks he is some kind of popular Churchillian masthead (not), these arrogant politicos actually believe that ‘the economy’ is what the government can screw out of the rest of us. Its takes no account of hard work and profits raised by the private sector, and is the keystone of Keynesian economics, i.e. that the State IS the economy.

Until all political parties realise and change their policy, that without private business, without the SME’s that drive growth, drive investment, drive employment and therefore tax revenues there will never, ever be any growth in the UK. The UK government must back off and give those private businesses the ability to thrive after more than 30 years of concerted effort by the EU to destroy every vestige of UK industry.

What we have today is diminishing capital, diminishing tax revenues and the ever tighter spiral of state employment and state interference. Until that changes things will only get worse.

The sooner we get rid of the EU and its communist ideology the better, the sooner we get rid of these UK politicians who believe all that East German political science they were taught in their PPE degree courses, the better off we will all be.



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When is a communist not a communist?

Posted on January 28, 2012 by IanPJ

When is a communist not a communist? When he’s pretending to be a UK parliamentarian.

Trouble is, even though history tells us that no matter how many times it is tried, Communism just doesn’t work, never will, never can, but they still keep trying under different brand names. But shit is shit, no matter how you package it.

When Vince Cable said the coalition had “Maoist tendencies”, did you believe him?

When David Cameron said "We have much to learn from the Chinese", what did you make of that?

Well the FT of all places tells us:

It has emerged that the coalition’s “Big Society not Big Government” was originally devised by the heirs to Chairman Mao over a decade ago.

The initiative by the Communist Party of China in 1997 even echoed Mr Cameron’s Big Society flagship theme in its promise to encourage civil society and cut back the role of the state.

Chinese officials said their desire for “small government and big society” should mean less bureaucracy, with civic organisations taking a bigger role in society as the “bridges and belts linking the party and government with the mass”.

Steve Hilton, the Downing Street blue-sky thinker credited with coining the Big Society concept, is treated with suspicion by many on the right of the Tory party given his small-l liberal tendencies.

Now what do you make of that! 1997, the year that ‘New Labour’ really got its act together, and the year that William Hague was elected as a disastrous Tory leader, followed in the same mould by IDS until the Heir to Blair, now heading this coalition with Maoist tendency, a common purpose, arrived on the scene.

The Liberals at least had a classical path to follow, but with the formation of the LibDems, what emerged was a fully fledged bunch of watermellons, red on the inside with green ecoHuhnes on the outside, led by the man child of the maoist run EU under Barosso.

So when Britain becomes a fully fledged communist state, just look in the mirror, because you morons keep voting for them.



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Defining Socialism

Posted on January 26, 2012 by IanPJ


From our fellow blogger 13th Spitfire comes this enlightening definition:

Socialism

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama’s plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A…. (substituting grades for dollars – something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..

The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.

Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you’ll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

.. and that Mr Cameron is why every Socialist state in history has failed. No matter that You choose to call it The Big Society, what You and the EU are selling forcing down our throats is socialist communitarianism, and it too will fail.
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Scottish Independence, bring it on

Posted on January 15, 2012 by IanPJ


This report from AFP has just made my day.. bring it on..

There is no doubt within the EU, however, that if Salmond secures a ‘yes’ vote, complex three-way negotiations between London, Edinburgh and Brussels will be triggered — altering Britain’s voting clout and financial relations with the EU.

"There is a valid legal question about what ‘rUK’ (what remains of the United Kingdom) would have to renegotiate," said one senior EU source.

An exit from the UK for Scotland would reduce London’s EU budget contributions, but also re-allocate billions of euros in a rebate London gets each year in lieu of French and German farm aid or grants for regional development and social projects.

"All sorts of allocations that are country-based" would change, the source said. "We’re not talking about policy renegotiation — but a rewrite of Britain’s membership."

This is the point at which the public of the UK minus Scotland gets to say NO, NO thrice NO to EU membership. We can use the spare cash to rebuild Hadrian’s Wall.






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The Gravitas of Cabinet

Posted on January 9, 2012 by IanPJ

If this is intended to impress, it is just another miserable failure that Cameron & Clegg can rack up.



If you have ever been to Munich as the Beer Festival halls are being set up, this looks like table #1, the only thing missing from the above are the beer mugs and the serving wenches. I can imagine the conversation around this table to suit.

These people have no shame, no backbone, no decorum and are totally without the gravitas required to run a muppet show let alone a country.

h/t Richard North, EU Referendum, (from whom I have nicked the pic)




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Ok Cameron, it’s time to fess up

Posted on January 3, 2012 by IanPJ

Now then Mr Cameron,

Here is your 2012 EU implementation work programme courtesy of the EU Commission. In case you may have misunderstood any of the original French and German instructions that you would have received in Brussels last month, I have copied below the full list. This follows on and is in addition to the VAT plans mentioned in my previous post.

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do the UK public eat or not?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by IanPJ


When VAT (the EU Sales Tax) was first introduced into the UK as part of its EU treaty obligations in 1973, at a standard rate of 10 per cent, it was done so with certain ‘cast iron’ promises. Edward Heath’s government promised that Food, Childrens Clothes, Energy and domestic fuel as essentials to living would never have VAT levied.

In July 1974, the standard rate was reduced to 8 per cent, and four months later a higher rate – 25 per cent – was introduced on petrol. Two years later, this rate was reduced to 12.5 per cent.

The higher rate was abolished in 1979 and a unified rate of 15 per cent introduced. Since then it has been continually extended.

In 1991 the standard rate increased to 17.5 per cent, and in 1994, in one of the most controversial VAT decisions ever taken, it was charged at 8 per cent on domestic fuel and power.

Promises over VAT have continually been broken, but now, the time has come for the UK government to draw another line in the sand, as they no longer have the ability to be flexible with VAT, having given away that competency to the EU.

"Value Added Tax (VAT) is paid for by citizens, collected by businesses and accounts for over 20% of national revenues. It therefore has a significant impact on every single EU citizen. However, it is now 40 years since the EU VAT system was first set up, and the regime no longer fits with our service-driven, technology-based economy. The time has come for an ambitious VAT reform." said Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner for Taxation, Customs, Anti-fraud and Audit.

On the 6 December 2011 the EU Commission adopted a Communication on the future of VAT. They say this sets out the fundamental characteristics that must underlie the new VAT regime, and priority actions needed to create a simpler, more efficient and more robust VAT system in the EU.

Our Government must look long and hard at this, because one of the proposals is to insist that VAT be charged on all food items, food raw materials as well as the existing processed output. This will immediately put 20% on all UK household food bills.

Currently in the UK unprocessed food stuffs such as raw meat, vegetables, flour, nuts (in their shells), pulses and some bakery products such as cake and certain breads, including McVitie’s Jaffa Cakes which were the subject of a landmark VAT ruling in 1991, are zero-rated. Processed foods such as ready-made meals, snack-type foods such as potato crisps and roasted peanuts, ice cream and hot take-away meals are subject to the standard rate of VAT which is currently 20 percent.

But after 15 years of waste, corruption, keynesian economics and government stupidity the British people are broke, Britain is broke, there is no more to give, to taxation or anything else. So the conundrum. Does Cameron support the EU and force his own people into food poverty, or will he find the balls to stand up and really fight for Britain.

Mind you, after seeing the New Years honours list where he has already rewarded the Traitors and Collaborators with honours, I am not holding my breath over VAT.

For the full text of the Communication and more details on VAT, see:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/vat/key_documents/communications/index_en.htm






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Yes it is a nightmare, but you cannot wake up

Posted on December 18, 2011 by ianpj

The video explains the causal links between OTC derivatives, the financial crisis of 2008, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Jon Corzine and MF Global.  All these people are now exceptionally wealthy and it must be difficult for the average American to accept that Alan Greenspan – one of those who is responsible for the crisis- is now an advisor to the US government.

There is a whole range of these videos explaining the financial crisis so do look them out, but strangely, or not… all roads always lead back to Goldman Sachs.

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