Meantime, Ah’ve bin thinking (again)

Centre of the Universe, 23 September 2017 – In the words of another song ’I woke up this morning and . . .’ wondered where Treason May has stashed

£20,000,000,000?

In plain English: That represents 20 Billion Pounds! Or, for that matter Euros 20,000,000,000?

Not wanting to labour the point too much, that represents 

£20 billion = 20,000 x £50 million (I think)

Or 2.00E+10 (2.00 x 10¹⁰) if we want to clever about it.

The news this morning that she is willing to part with that amount of cash to smooth the way for UK to remain tied to EU is nothing short of incredible! 

Bless me. When settlers arrived in America, Australia and New Zealand they bought peace with locals by handing out a handful of beads and blankets . . . . and that was when their intention was to move in, not (as she would have us believe) to move out. Makes you wonder, don’t it? 

Putting it in terms that even simple minds like mine can understand – if you could live for 20 billion minutes, you would be 38,052 years old before you keeled over. 

If you could save £100,000/year, it would take you 200,000 years to save 20 billion Pounds. If you could save £10,000 every single day, then it would only take you 5,479 years to save 20 billion.

But, the question is: where is it stashed? Somebody worked out that if we used £50 notes and stacked them, the stack would be somewhere in the region of 250,000 feet high. Could G4S handle that, do you suppose?

Forgive my nonsense but it just goes to show that we are living in an illusion. WAKE UP and smell the coffee.

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Quote of the Day

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared to the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are 25 or 30 years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. 

But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

- John Maynard Keynes

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DEXEU’S DEFENCE PARTNERSHIP PAPER IS A GRAVE MISTAKE AND GIVES THE EU CONTROL

carol Sep 22, 2017

“The paper will talk about a defence relationship ‘closer than any third country’. BUT IN PLAIN WORDS THAT amounts to the UK staying in the recently agreed EU Defence Union agreements just as Norway has agreed to do. Also, just like Norway, it means the UK submitting to EU common defence policy, EU defence directives and European Defence Agency membership, which are all conditions the EU has placed on the UK for this kind of arrangement. This is all dangerous and puts the UK on a trajectory to EU defence union.
“It puts control of our future direction, strategy and even foreign policy squarely into the hands of the EU. This is in any case unnecessary because our defence relationship with EU member states should instead be conducted via NATO. The EU has declared defence autonomy from NATO.

“UK ministers consented to defence union agreements after the Brexit vote and we were told that it was because the UK would have no part in them. Yet the government is now allowing these gradual and erosive commitments to the EU to stand. It means a hollowing out of UK Parliamentary authority over UK defence particularly BY STEALTH where defence procurement and the collective ownership of assets are concerned. 

The EU has put in place policy which dictates that collectively-owned assets on land, air, sea and space are also subject collective policy. The collective nature of defence assets and policy is at present only conceptual but it is agreed and is timetabled to be vast within just a few years.” – Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British Forces, Afghanistan

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I’ve just now seen The Times headline this morning. The front page headline reads: May agrees £40bn bill for Brexit. Good grief! I’ll leave you to do the sums this time. But I have to admit that she takes first prize for audacity. Seemingly, she can’t memorise her lines or speak with internal passion, but she sure is audacious.

The opening paragraph claimed: “Theresa May conceded yesterday that she is prepared to pay up to £40 billion in return for a Brexit transition deal that means Britain will as good as remain in the European Union until 2021.”

Note: The next general election in the United Kingdom is scheduled to be held on 5 May 2022 under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. (Provided the Act isn’t repealed or ignored before that time; and provided Mrs May is still the Prime Minister; and provided HM Queen is still Queen. And there are a number of other provisos that I shan’t mention here that you can think about for yourself. It doesn’t require a great deal of imagination.)  Speaking in the vernacular: ‘I think we are being shafted.’

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The BIG question is: ‘Can UK, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the rest of the World wait that long?’

Oh, I almost forgot. There is also to be another presidential election in the U.S. in 2020. And a German election tomorrow! I can’t bear it.

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I stand by the four secular principles that determine how some of us address our national problems. They are not signs of weakness.

Cause no harm

Be honest

Be peaceful

Be responsible

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It is Time!

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