AT THE END OF THE WEEK

The Lyndon House Hotel, Walsall, where a beer awaits.

Friday, and as the weekend beckons with its promises of a lie in bed on Sunday morning, a visit to the barber to get my ears lowered and most vital of all, a beer or two in the Lyndon House Hotel, especially my early doors Friday beer, I have been reflecting and looking at a few snippets from the past week.

Wednesday proved to be an interesting day, I was invited down to Hereford to a freshers day at the college and met a number of students and gave them our point of view on the EU, which as you can gather is not a favourable one as there is nothing good to say about this defunct artificial, pretend nation in the making. The local Tories were there to and we got into conversation with a younger member of their team about the EU and his the Conservative Party stance on it, ie totally subordinate to it. To get one over on us he made the point, well who is the Government? He looked a bit crestfallen when I said: “The European Union”.

The good thing I did encounter was the number of young students who are in total agreement with UKIP regarding the EU problem, the majority back the idea that the EU is not good for us and we should quit. However, that was not the view of all and I had quite a long debate with one young man who was forced to admit the EU was not perfect, but would not relent his misconceived view that EU membership was good for us. He seemed to think that us handing over our wealth to the EU was a good thing as we may need to be helped by the EU one day. I had to comment with the fact that to benefit from EU membership we would have to let it make us destitute first then ask for help after. I failed to make the point that if we do become impoverished as a nation due to EU membership, which is the only outcome eventually, then without us putting money in there will be no other EU country with any money to bail us out as Germany, the only other real net contributor to EU funds, will most probably be broke too.

Wednesday night found me in Dudley with a desperate UKIP group of activists, they are truly frustrated with the plans to build an out of keeping mega mosque in a prominent part of the town. The local UKIP group in Dudley have been the driving force against the mosque all along. UKIP Councillor Malcolm Davis has worked tirelessly to represent the views of the majority of the Dudley residents who are all up in arms against it. UKIP organised a massive petition against the mosque, even the local council tried to stop it after they had virtually given the land to the local Muslim Association, but the courts and planning inspectorate in Bristol have constantly overridden the views of the majority – hence the group feeling desperate and a bit gloomy, although they were not at the stage of crying in their beer yet.

Wednesday also saw a snippet in the Daily Telegraph headed ‘EU policy ‘shambles’ as leaders squabble’. I do like to see this lot bickering like thieves fighting over their ill gotten gains. It seems there is a three way power struggle between EU Commission President Manuel Barroso, EU President Herman Van Rompuy (the damp rag) and the EU Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Ashton. All three want to be in charge of foreign policy, it seems there is a lack of focus from Batty Ashston when the EU is trying to be an equal player on the global stage with the USA – which it it hasn’t a hope in hell of achieving.

The EU’s plans for its own grandeur were also given a set-back this week too. It wanted to take a more prominent role in the United Nations with Old Rumpy Pumpy being the spokesman for the EU, he and Batty Ashton wanted the same speaking rights as President Obama and Hilary Clinton (I did mention grandeur!). They, however, were thwarted by several developing nations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, who voted to postpone the proposal.

So, another week over, a fair bit has gone on, now a pint at the end of the week awaits. Let battle commence again next week.