Notwithstanding DUP attempts to pull off a con-trick of Del Boy proportions, it seems a sizeable chunk of the party faithful (and not only those who are part of the Free Presbyterian movement) are distinctly upset at the idea of Paisley entertaining the idea of joint governance with a Provo heavy.  The website, Burning Bush has been awash with cries of ‘sell out!’ since the DUP disappointed all those who believed it would hold the line in the environment of prostituted principles.  I even have it on good authority that DUP members opposed to the St Andrews Agreement were denied the chance to ask questions to the panel at the recent gathering in East Belfast.

Some argue that the appeasement process has a script.  I say it has a palimpsest.  The original script used by Trimble back in 1998 may have been erased, but what you have in its place is an identical format describing identical machinations, albeit with different Unionist players.  I couldn’t care less about the religion of the power sharing participants (give me a loyal Catholic over a separatist Protestant every time).  What incenses me is that Paisley is about to submit his entire past life into a folder marked ‘Fraud’!  He resisted power sharing before; why is he sullying his principles now?  Sharing power with people dedicated to the constitutional abolition of Northern Ireland is as wrong with Martin McGuinness as it was with others back in the 1960s and the 1970s.

Whatever difficulties republicans have in selling the idea of PSNI loyalty to their grassroots is of no interest.  It does not detract from the terrorist past and present of the IRA, nor does it change what Sinn Fein voters are!  What we are concerned with here are not the problems associated with a terrorist party and a base of terrorist-approving low-lifes.  We (and the DUP in particular) should be more preoccupied with the concerns of decent people who suffered (and still suffer) as a consequence of what the Provisionals did.  Allowing them into government destroys the integrity of all who would contemplate such a scenario.

We are already one of the most overcrowded countries in the world.  Thanks to the open-door, ‘let any old rubbish that wants to come here settle and  grow wood’  policy of this Labour government, we now have a staggering 1,500 people arriving on our shores every damn day!!  Since this collective monstrosity assumed power nearly ten years ago, immigration has taken place on a scale never before seen.  Simultaneously, indigenous Britons, utterly sick and tired of having to contemplate a country ethnically changing beyond recognition in addition to the appalling weather, are departing in droves. 

Put in simple terms, at the rate of current migration, 10% of the total UK population could be altered in the space of a tad over 5 years.  For Lefties, who love to see the face of our cities littered with every creed and culture you could think of, the idea of the swift death of the UK of old must be a thought guaranteed to warm them through to their toes.  For the rest of us, who totally despise the fact that swathes of our country are now dominated by a mish-mash of different human backgrounds, who can scarcely stand each other let alone the indigenous population, the future is a frightening ethno-vista of ethnic saturation.

For me, this is not about colour, it is about alien culture.  As I’ve said before, you cannot pee in a glass of champagne and still expect it to taste of champagne.  A migratory oversubscription of any group of people will lead to the diminution of a host culture, values and way of life – be it in a swift manner by the stubborn refusal of minorities such as Muslims to integrate, or by the more gradual method of native values diluted by the sheer scale of others who choose to migrate in huge numbers.  A true Conservative opposition would pounce on the facts and pledge to do something about them.  Unfortunately, all three main parties pee in the same bottle of champagne when it comes to dealing with immigration.

Gud to cee that the US Soldiers serving their kountry in Iraq have nailed Senator Kerry – following his most recent military-bashing comments!

1871 – British police begin their policy of a ‘rogues gallery’, taking photographs of convicted prisoners.

1917 – The UK issues the Balfour Declaration on the future of Palestine, which promotes the idea of a national Jewish homeland in the Middle East.

1950 – Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, who penned classics such as Pygmalion and Saint Joan, dies at the age of 94.

1954 – The first radio episode of Hancock’ Half Hour is broadcast by the BBC.

1960 – In Britain, Penguin publishers are cleared of obscenity for printing the D.H.Lawrence novel ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’.

1964 – The first episode of Crossroads in broadcast on ITV.

OK – I’m still sorting out techi issues at this end and one thing that I have discovered is that up to 50 people can become members of the ATW registered commentators group. If you email me your email address, I will in send you an invitation to join up. This means means you will be able to amend your own posts etc if you make a typo, and I guess it makes you part of the central tangled web.

If you would like to register, email me today- first 50 places ….going going……

Well, we survived day one of the site changeover – hope the trauma wasn’t too bad for you. It was HECTIC at this end, as I expected, with several things not quite right.

I wanted to THANK everybody who made helpful suggestions and I have tried to implement some of these immediately.

For a start, I have increased the font size on all my posts – hope this makes it easier for you to read.

Second, I have now made it possible for everyone to post a comment straightaway and for it to appear without moderation. Sorry for the problem encountered there yesterday, I didn’t realise that moderation had been enabled!

Third, registration is not required. Yet. So relax about that.

Finally, hope you approve of the changes. Nothing is perfect and Squarespace will take some getting used to but it is clean, it is spacey, and I think after a while we will think we’ve always been here!

Thanks for your patience folks!

Did you see that pathetic sight of Northern Ireland politicians trooping into Downing Street yesterday for "talks" with Gordon Brown – the wannabe PM in waiting – as  to what scale of financial package they could wring out of him in exchange for their complicity in bringing about a devolved administration in Ulster? As if they has ANY chance of gaining major economic concessions from dear Prudence! It shows how puffed up with self-importance this crew really is.

Brown made predictable noises about a …GASP …£50BN financial package over10 years. Most of the money is linked to the public sector (gotta feed the natives, eh?) and Brown was careful not to point out how much would have been invested anyway. The DUP’s  key request for a lower corporation tax rate for NI was booted into touch by Brown, unsurprisingly.

Once upon a time, 30 pieces of silver was the going rate for betrayal – now, thanks to inflation, it is £50bn.

I trust Dr. Paisley re-reads the relevant passages from the Bible before proceeding with this folly.

Interesting to read the Governor of the Bank of England criticise Government for its failure to accurately estimate immigrant numbers in the UK. Mervyn King, a relatively mild-mannered man (Who I had the pleasure of meeting some years ago back when he was the Deputy Governor) has warned that the Government’s inability to say exactly how many immigrants are living here is even hindering the Bank’s ability to set interest rates. King is right – there are obvious economic consequences for a nation which either covers up/ denies/  doesn’t know how many people are pouring through its borders. But Labour have proven consistently evasive on this issue – in pursuance of it’s own political agenda of multiculturalism at any price.

The danger is clear.  Starting with the bungled 2001 Census, which is believed to have under-estimated the population by around one million, problems have been compounded by the huge influx of eastern Europeans since the controversial expansion of the EU on May 1, 2004. The Government believes around 600,000 have flooded in – more than 25 times its original estimate – but there is no accurate figure. Ministers also do not know how many are unemployed, as most of the eastern Europeans are not entitled to claim benefits. As a result, the Bank has been left with no idea how many people are living in the country. And, because this means it does not know how many are out of work, this makes it far harder to set interest rates.

And this is what may eventually yet banish these Labour parasites from power. The UK electorate seems lazy on so many big issues, virtually sedated, one could say. And one major reason for this is the superb job the Bank of England has done in controlling interest rates and inflation. That was the one good decision Labour took when it came to power. This resulting economic stability has tended to dominate all other issues.

But thanks to uncontrolled immigration, the economic consequences are now threatening the very effectiveness of the BOE to do its job. Mervyn King makes a timely intervention – but with another wave of Romanian/Bulgarian immigration on the horizon, perhaps it is too late for Labour to solve the huge problem it has brought about?