Saturday, 3 December 2011

Tricolore

Political correctness has gone too far. The fuss over the remarks made by Clarkson about the striking Civil Servants are not only offensive but another nail in the coffin of freedom of speech. The Leveson Inquiry is fast becoming another nail in that coffin too. The odious Alistair Campbell, who many think was the cause of the death of Dr David Kelly, screamed when supposedly the press had underhandedly got hold of his evidence to the Inquiry and published it before he was due to present it - the main 'publisher' being Guido Fawkes. Leveson supported Campbell and ordered Guido Fawkes to appear before him to give an explanation of this dastardly deed. It then came to light that Campbell had sent copies of the draft to a number of people including journalists. Guido Fawkes was then told his presence was no longer required. This though did not stop Leveson from issuing some kind of gagging order against Guido Fawkes about the whole affair. Why? To save embarrassment? We should know, it is a question of public interest. These gagging orders have to go and whilst they're at it the laws of libel need changing so that all that can be awarded to the claimant is costs and a nominal sum - no more of the large damages awards.

Talking about odious people, Jacques Delors has been in the news today giving an interview to the Telegraph. Apparently he now admits that when we pointed out at the euro's inception that a currency without a state would be unstable we were right. The view over coffee this morning at the Golf Club was that we must leave the EU as we can no longer remain a party to an entity that has such different views from ourselves on free trade and competition. There was a desire to have an arrangement with the EU similar to the Swiss and to join an anglosphere free trade area as well. If the EU were to impose tariffs on us though by way of some form of punishment we should immediately impose huge tariffs on both the import of German cars and French wine.

One of the Golf Club members had just come back from India where he had been with a European Export Association. He found the Germans were the undeniable stars in the particular export field the Association supports. Another member who works in the defence industry though was not at all impressed by the export skills of the Germans. His company has been buying certain parts from Germany to incorporate in their products, a number of which they build for stock. My friend's firm ABC now has to have the parts made in China as the Germans require end user certificates from the ultimate customer before they will sell their parts to ABC. Not surprisingly when building the products for stock ABC has no idea who the end user is going to be.    
 

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