Western Daily Press 27th. September 2006

The Bank of England raised interest rates last month partly because of a welcome upturn in investment by UK firms, deputy governor Sir John Gieve admitted last night.While the Bank’s rate-setting monetary policy committee (MPC) considers a range of factors such as the UK labour market and the global economic outlook, Sir John said the MPC was concerned that higher business spending could have a knock-on effect on inflation.

And he added that if the trend - though welcome after many years of under-investment - continues it could add to pressure on the MPC to raise rates again.

Most economists expect the cost of borrowing to rise again before the end of the year, taking rates to five per cent.

The Bank’s last inflation projection, made in August, showed it rising from its current 2.5 per cent at the end of this year and not falling back to the Bank’s two per cent target until 2008.

But Sir John, who became deputy governor in January, told an audience of business leaders and academics: “In practice the real world rarely does follow the central forecast precisely.”

He said the decision was taken one month at a time on the data available.

Sir John, speaking at the University of the West of England in Bristol, said business investment had lagged other advanced countries for decades and had been the victim of the UK’s boom-and-bust economics.

But stability since 1992, when the Bank was first set an inflation target, “looked like a golden age” for anyone who had lived through the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s, he added.

Earlier Sir John, a former high ranking civil servant, visited the Airbus plant at Filton and brewer Courage’s Avonmouth depot.

Your Views

Dear Editor,

This is clearly a ‘Political’ Statement from a Civil Servant with an ‘Agenda’. The Golden Age was forcast by Michael Hestltine long before the Labour Party came to power, or the Bank of England was given independence. They all CONVENIENTLY FORGET, the FTSE was at nearly 7000 ALL THOSE YEARS AGO. We still had an Industrial Base, and the population wasn’t in debt up to their eyeballs. AND THE BANKS WEREN’T MAKING AS MUCH MONEY OUT OF US. The party isn’t over until the Fat Lady Sings.

Yours

Charles Henry

No well he wouldn’t would he ‘Errol’. . . You can’t get blood from a stone !! . . . But as unemployment begins to rise, and the debt levels are increasingly exposed. . . . Gordon Brown will be like a wounded animal taking ‘food’ from the very weakest in our society who would never vote for him anyway; then giving it to those who he thinks will. . . . The time is coming. . . The ‘piper’ has to be paid and hospitals are closing. . .

Gordon’s chickens are coming home to roost!!

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

We should all be rejoicing I feel. . . Having already lost one ‘lovable larrikin’ this month with the untimely death of Steve Irwin; to suddenly have thrust upon us the situation where Richard Hammond; ‘Hamster’ to his friends; seemed he may also have taken a chance too many in the Jet powered dragster, was very disturbing. . . . Without men of their calibre, challenging orthodoxies and pushing boundaries, the world would be a poorer place. . . If I hear anyone mention ‘Health and Safety’ once more, I shall start campaigning for Brits to drive on the RIGHT so we are in line with Europe.

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

Wake up and Smell The Coffee every one!!!!!!

If George Bush ruled the world we could still get pissed on Saturday night and go to Church on Sundays.

But if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruled the world we would probably be subdued, subjugated and put to death.

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

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‘Who is looking out for England?’

. . . . . . . by R.A.Hopkins of Cheltenham.UK.

Published 19th. September 2006

Dear Editor,

For more than 50 years, successive Westminster Governments have perpetrated the continuing untruth that immigrants come to “Britain", when it is obvious to all who care to see that nearly all mass immigration - more than 95 per cent - comes to England. Since 1997, New Labour has elevated such monumental deceit to new heights. It is able to get away with such fraud because the inhabitants of England, unlike all other democracies, have no dedicated and patriotic self-governance that puts our interests first.

British Westminster has no primary allegiance or any accountability to the inhabitants of England, and it weakly dumps all its problems on England, in the name of Britain.

The population of England is now near 52million, a density of 1,040 people per square mile. England is now the third most densely populated country on Earth, after Bangladesh and South Korea.

The difference is that these countries are full of indigenous people, but England is overrun with worldwide foreigners - our lives are being run as a failed Westminster experiment in “integration".

Even the devolved countries, almost untouched by mass immigration, are now further insulated by their own Celtic governments, who rightly put their own people first as every proper government is supposed to do - but England has no such defender.

To put population figures in perspective, France, for example, could take 150million immigrants before reaching England’s density.

Typical national densities per square mile are: France, 225; USA, 70; Canada, 20; Spain, 200; Sweden, 51; Italy, 496; Eire, 132; Germany, 590. Other UK densities are: Scotland, 170; Wales, 362; and Northern Ireland, 293.

Post-devolution UK Westminster still has 529 England MPs who are supposedly elected to look after our interests and to put us first.

Their sole concerns are the well-being of their self-interest - they couldn’t care less about England’s inhabitants, who elected them.

Recently, even the Prime Minister of little Malta, being flooded with immigrants, said: “We will not hesitate to put our country’s inhabitants first.”

Has anyone ever heard any England MP utter such a patriotic sentiment?

Yours

R A Hopkins. Leckhampton Cheltenham

Why do we elect these people ‘Errol’? . . . It may be too late, but it’s time for a change.

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

Now that would be utter madness ‘Errol’. . . . What need do you have for a telephone? . . . Everyone knows where you’ll be if you are not in bed. . . . . . And anyway who would you talk to apart from Social Services?. . . . Sensible people switch them off and only use them for work or emergencies. . . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

Yes it is unfortunate ‘Errol’. . . And once again; sensible Muslims refuse to criticise the Mad Mullahs who are bent on conflict. . . Where it will all end I am not sure. . . . .The 21st. Century seems to be at War with relics of the Middle Ages. . . The World’s melting pot is more like a boiling cauldron. . . ‘Chalk and Cheese’, and ‘Birds of a Feather’ spring to mind. . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

THE PERILS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. a modern fable.

Source unknown.

REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:

The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

THE END

THE BRITISH VERSION:

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‘There will probably have to be a Civil War; or a Revolution even, before things change ‘Errol’. . .The Gravy train is serving them all too well. . Royalty were pet poodles compared to these freeloaders. . . . Peter Mandelson ! . . . European Trade Commissioner ! . . . What an insult ! . . . Not just a freeloader. . . but we have to keep his boyfriend aswell ! . . . . You couldn’t make it up! . . .’

Yes ‘Errol’. . . Those were my thoughts in June! . . . . But in truth I was thinking of a civil war in the Country; not in the Labour Party. If I was Blair I would sack Gordon Brown and stay till the End! . Things can’t get any worse, and they might just start looking up! . .

Apart from giving the Bank of England Independence; which may still yet prove to be a big mistake; Gordon Brown has taken all the credit for improved circumstances that were not of his making. . But it is he who is the one responsible for the Pensions Crisis. . . . .

A Prime Minister in waiting?. . . I don’t think so. . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

‘Greer’s snipes can’t diminish’. By Luke McIlveen.

From: The Daily Telegraph Sydney. . . Sept. 7th. 2006

‘GERMAINE GREER, the sniping harridan whose credibility in this country ran out years ago, has done it again’.

As the world mourns the loss of Steve Irwin, the lovable larrikin who made a greater contribution to conservation than any other Australian, Greer saw a chance to kick him in the guts.

“The animal world has finally taken its revenge on Irwin,'’ she howled in her UK paper column the day after Irwin’s death.

Greer’s conclusion about the manner of Irwin’s death was as vicious as it was stupid.

With her usual disregard for the facts, she dreamed up a scenario in which Irwin leapt on to the huge stingray and screamed: “Crikey! With those barbs a stingray can kill a horse.'’

This idiot savant then decided to give sneering readers of The Guardian a lecture on the lethal nature of stingrays, based on her experience at Melbourne’s Brighton Baths as a schoolgirl in the late 1940s.

“As a Melbourne boy, Irwin should have had a healthy respect for stingrays, which are actually commoner, and bigger, in southern waters than they are near Port Douglas,'’ she wrote.

Talk about scientific. Germaine, Steve Irwin specialised in getting up close to dangerous animals. The point of his work was to show the world these creatures in their own habitat.

This week his luck ran out - trust Greer to be the first to tread his memory into the dirt.

Irwin’s wife Terri and two children Bindi and Bob have enough to deal with at this difficult time. But Greer, who has only ever lived for herself, wouldn’t understand that.

We have come to expect this ludicrous logic from a woman who has done nothing for Australia, the country which raised her but which she has embarrassed on the world stage for the best part of 40 years.

Since fleeing this country in the 1960s in pursuit of something less suburban, Greer has not made a single constructive statement about anyone or anything in Australia.

“I was 12 years old when I decided that I had to get out of Australia if my life was to begin. I had been bored ever since I could remember,'’ she wrote in 2004.

“If your ambition is to live on Ramsay St, where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.'’

Greer’s greatest contribution to the world was her attempt - through The Female Eunuch - to make a whole generation of women feel ashamed for getting married and having children.

Thankfully, most women learned to ignore the shrill bore and made up their own minds about whether to have a family, career, neither or both.

Steve Irwin devoted his life to promoting his country. He didn’t need a Cambridge degree to show millions how to interact with the natural environment.

I suspect what irks Greer is Irwin was an Aussie who conquered the world but never forgot where he came from. Australians loved him.

Who will mourn Germaine Greer when she keels over and dies in her mud-brick cottage in West Buggeryshire?

Greer Poisonous preacher … Germaine Greer is as tired as she is tasteless.

‘And so say all of us’ . . . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

A very interestesting point ‘Errol’ . . . . I think she is probably right. . . . . And many of today’s problems may well never have occured had she stayed longer. . But I don’t suppose we shall ever know for sure . . . Plenty can still go wrong before Mr Cameron’s team get a turn at the helm though. . . Brown and Blair are very dangerous men I believe. . . . They have given new meaning to the phrase. . ‘Lies. . Damned Lies. . . and Statistics’ . . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)

That’s a very good question ‘Errol’. . . Tony you mean of course! . . . The trouble is political power is highly addictive. . . . He is not regarded well by many now; . . but when he is no longer in office; if his party is still in power he will become a ‘nothing man’. . . . . ‘Cold Turkey’ on the back benches is not a pleasant experience for anyone; as many can testify. . . But for someone who had so much ambition and expectation; . . it may be seen as unbearable. . . . He may well just resign his seat and retire to far off climes to avoid the ignominy! . . .

. . Charles Henry 1945-(diuturnity)