Although Germany apparently abjured dispensing itself of useless ClubMed, there were increasing signs that it intended to provide all the “discipline, extreme surveillance and enforcement” (the latest Brussels buzzwords) that were required for indebted southerners. (As this blog can attest, having its own observer on the Athens scene – working for the Gauleiters in an unwindowed and unmarked room – harried by Greek trade unionists demanding the ‘right’ to retire with full state-supplied pensions at age 52!)
For the Guardian, Julian Coman (20 xi) specially remarked the eclipse of France:
Even the French, who for decades ran the EU as equal partners with the Germans, are acquiring something of an inferiority complex. As bond yields on French sovereign debt began to rise alarmingly, the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a gently condescending feature on the French economy, entitled "Bonjour Tristesse" (Hello, sadness). It observed that France had been "living beyond its means for 37 years [since] the last balanced budget in 1974".
On French TV, Opel car adverts are now broadcast with the voiceover in German, now a signifier of efficiency even in Paris. "No need to be ashamed of speaking German abroad any more," chortled the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Likewise, there were remarks from top German politicians that Britain would soon have to speak German and join the eurozone – not least because the UK had unhelpfully failed to come up with any funds to help Germany deal with the naughty boys at the back of the EU class.
Unelected power was necessary to whip Italy into shape, Brussels’ not-so-democratic elitist Herman Rumpy-Pumpy told Italians. Their "country needs reforms, not elections". German determination to stamp on ClubMed – even at the risk of breaking up the eurozone – was doubtless reinforced as Italian ‘bunga bunga partying’ PM Berlusconi was overheard saying that Reichskanzlerin Angela ‘Mutti’ Merkel was “an unf*ckable tub of lard”: within two days he was gone.
* Though Mighty Mac’s writings backed the Nords, he had done his UK patriotic duty of the time and fought with the French against Germany in WWI, and – emulating their father’s wartime heroism -- two of his sons were killed flying with the French Air Force in the 1930s.
IDEALISTS ANSWERED
Western multicultural enthusiasts, all believers in the ‘Arab Spring,’ got their answer as Egypt reverted to chaos (with Cairo city centre an ongoing battleground), Tunisia installed Sharia law, Syria headed into civil war, and Nato-‘liberated’ Libya was tyrannized by its tribes and factions (each holding and torturing its own hostages).
Meanwhile, West-funded central Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Somalia) was in flames of Muesli vs Christian conflict; America felt it needed to send a thousand troops and scores of warplanes to defend Oz against Chinks; and, unsurprisingly, the Chinese were not inclined to lend Euroland the readies to help it out of its state-welfare debts (which even threatened the bond values of mighty Deutschland itself).
Where was the multiculti spirit when you needed it? Certainly not in America, busy scrambling Vietnam-style from its previously chosen playgrounds of Eyerak and Afghooniland.
In Norwich, one headmistress, Ms Rachel de Souza, arranged to bring in the British Army to supply (on Nov. 30, the day of the public-‘service’ ‘union’-called General Strike) the babysitting services that her school – as others -- normally supplied as part of Britain’s useless dysgenic operation of welfare for the world (Sun, 24 xi).
MORE IGNORAMIC IDEALISM
Evidently uninstructed that the West’s financial bubble&crunch had originated in reckless multiculti lending to ‘subprimes’ (i.e. US Blacks and Hispanics – see previous), HMG proposed to underwrite by 15% housing loans to sad-sack ‘first time borrowers’ who could not afford the 20% deposits latterly being required by banks.
Not to be outdone by his CamCo colleagues’ stimulating dispensation of risky largesse, Deputy PM billionaire ‘Nice’ Nick Clegg announced (Guardian, 24 xi) he would be obliging British banks to lend to Black ‘entrepreneurs’ – apparently one of the few groups omitted from the banks’ mindless handouts of 1998-2008.
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS, HOPEFULLY – H.M.G.
After eighteen months of CamCo declining to provide any actual arguments as to why Britain should not be bullied by human rights maniacs, educational egalitarians and penological permissives, the UK found itself coasting towards its first General Strike since 1926, headed up by ‘public service’ ‘workers’ wanting gold-plated pensions for dinner ladies.
CamCo evidently took the view that the trade unions’ ‘day of [in]action’ (Nov. 30th) – cancelling babysitting services (aka schools) for millions of parents -- would prove disastrous for the unions and for the 90%-union-funded ‘Labour’ Party.
Supposedly, victims of the strike would not ask why CamCo had not cancelled strike rights except when 67% of a workforce voted (by entirely secret, independently monitored ballot) for a temporary job-secure walkout....
{Ah, well: no politician lost office by underestimating the stupidity of the British public – a stupidity cultivated by politicians’ reducing the number of England’s grammar schools to 164 (despite whizzkid Michael Gove, Education Minister, claiming his 18-month policies were “shamelessly elitist”).
At least, as the great strike loomed, the wretched Liberal Dimocrats were passably onside – never having enjoyed union funding. And the strike – taking out ‘border agents’ as it would do -- seemed likely to achieve an unprecedented reduction in the inflow of Af/Pak immigrants, by some 12-15 hours....}
HOLY REPUBLICAN RACE REALISM
The 2011 McDougall Prize for race realism was won hands down by Darren Scully, the Mayor of the Éirish commuter town of Naas (near Dublin, in Co. Kildare), who took some trouble to spell out that he was fed up with Blacks. The ambitious 38-yr-old mayor of Naas went on radio to talk about his views (Guardian, 24 xi; Independent, 24 xi).
In case anyone had misunderstood, the father-of-two (by a policewoman wife) did a second interview to ram home his message: he would no longer represent Black Africans in his town. They were too aggressive, he said. Too bad-mannered. Often they played the race card to force him to do things like arrange social housing for them. So that was that. Scully had had enough.
A 44-yr Nigerian taxi driver who had lived in Naas since 2001 said: “What’s happening in Naas are discussions about what the Black community is doing to the town. For instance, some people say we are taking their jobs and taking over the place.”
{Needless to say, Scully’s national ‘centre right’ ‘Fine Gael’ party [Family of the Irish, furnishing Teashoppe PM Enda Kenny] promptly distanced itself from him and, faced with a torrent of abuse, Scully agreed to grovel a bit and stand down as mayor – while remaining, as elected, a town councillor.}
By 2011, most of the Éirish political class believed Ireland had ‘made the transition’ from a monocultural to a multicultural society with reasonable success. Four years previously, the Nigerian-born Rotimi Adebari had been elected as once devoutly Catholic Ireland's first Black Mayor in the nearby county of Laois.
Mr Scully's remarks were reported to police under incitement-to-hatred legislation by one Aodhan O'Riordain, a member of the Dublin parliament. She said: "He made really stupid, racist comments. In a country like ours, that's not good enough anymore." The organisation ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ said there was no place for racism in politics and the Integration Centre described the comments as "truly idiotic".
HISTORIAN TO FIGHT ‘RACISM’ CHARGE
Fed up with the snide accusations of antediluvian imperialist racism (made in the London Review of Books) by Conservative-connected Indian essayist Pankaj Mishra, top British historian Niall Ferguson (U. Harvard; best known for his Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World) declared he would take legal action unless Mishra issued a full apology (Observer, 27 xi).
{Ever since my own persecution for ‘scientific racism’ in 1996, there had been a question of whether anyone else would stand up to the insane ‘anti-racism’ that had become the hysterical piety of the West’s political class.}
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