Yes just that, the Camerloons have no spine and certainly do not want to vex the Brussels mafia in any serious way, therefore the lie is 'put out there' and the bird choppers will continue to be built. We have, a piddling consolation, at least some of Blue Labour/Red Tory are beginning to see the light, it's a big tanker though.

Usually your images of Booker's column can be enlarged to read them.

This doesn't appear to be the case this time.

Cameron 'striking a Thatcher-like pose'. I see it more as an image of Paul Eddington, head back, hand grasping his lapel, sonorous tones. Hacker striking a hacker-like pose, in fact.

Dr. N ... that's wonderfully apt imagery by Mr. Booker: I think it extends to cover the electorate too -- whose "consensus" our 'pretend' governments have been fracking and suffocating since WWII at least.
This isn't half bad, either:


I tend to the alternate view that it is the British electorate who are imprisoned. That is, we are the national interest; in addition, our view is commonsensical. Both view and interest, however, are struggling for expression and for freedom.

As for Shameron --- he's a form of jellyfish whose sting works to anaesthetise his victims. Not that I mean to insult most jellyfish, of course. Most of them are better-looking than he is.
[[I used to wonder if he might be descended from Ivar the Boneless (you'll recall he floated up the Ouse in 867). That would cast aspersions on the Viking, however: I've read that he was a brilliant miltary strategist]].

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School test on the weather followed by the "staff answers":

Q - How do eco-facists reconcile the snow that has fallen in southern England?
A - Global warming.

Q - How do eco-facists reconcile rain falling a few miles away from the places that had snow?
A - Global warming.

Q - How do eco-facists reconcile that some places a few miles away from the places that had snow and rain had neither?
A - Global warming.

Q - What can be done to prevent your nan and grandad being cold in the winter because bills are too high?
A - Build more windmills to provide an efficient cheap form of energy......oh wait!

Richard, a thought - the Liberals were sidelined in the C20th. In the C21st. the Conservatives. If so, then a new movement is in the offing to counter the socialists who are, or purport to be, the Labour Party. Maybe the Harrogate Agenda will be the catalyst for this new party.

I'd say Cameron's main priority is to park the question of 'Europe' until after the next GE.

If it's a Conservative victory, he'll still want to park the issue but for slightly different reasons.

If it's a Labour victory, he'll likely get the boot, but the Conservatives will have done enough to claim in opposition they were tougher on 'Europe' than Labour and they can keep playing their fence sitting game.

I'm not so sure about Cameron's Europhilia, in that I don't think it's motivated by any sort of belief, so much as not wanting to take the responsibility and risk of making a decision and dealing with something divisive to the party. The effect is that we stay in and drift along, which in practical terms is Europhilia.

I keep coming back to the idea that the political parties are just the surface show and there's a whole permanent administrative establishment which finds the EU very much to its taste. Governments find it very easy to allow that establishment to grow, but near impossible to shrink.