Whatever Happened To The Heroes?

Well, that is that then. Not even close. 248 voted for a Referendum and to keep their promise. 311 did not. Quite simple really, if very unfortunate.

Whatever happened to the heroes? And I am of course not referring to Leon Trotsky, Lenny, The Great Elmyra or Sancho Panza. What of all those supposed one hundred plus Labour MPs who it was originally claimed would rebel and vote for a referendum?

In reality they probably never existed. When it came to the crunch, the vote and the heavy hand of the party whip, they were found severely wanting. Even so, I suspect that in their heart of hearts a few Labour MPs know that voting down a Referendum was both wrong and completely dishonest. Perhaps they may well live to regret their decision – or not.

Still, at the end of the day who cares, right? The British public are not intelligent enough to understand such a complex Treaty and set of documents even if they tried – or so was insinuated by many Government Ministers throughout Parliamentary discussion in the Commons today. And really, why would the political class care? Their MPs gold plated pensions, perks and salaries will be there tomorrow and long after this EU Constitution has disappeared from the political horizon.

Judgement Day

This evening MPs in the House of Commons will convene to effectively pass judgement on Britain’s adoption of the Lisbon Treaty.

The majority of Liberal Democrat MPs will negate on their election promise by abstaining in this crucial vote on a referendum amendment. Thus even when a small few more honest Labour MPs rebel against their party whip and attempt to uphold their own manifesto commitment, the Government will easily have its majority.

There will therefore be no referendum. The amendment will be struck down and the life-changing Lisbon Treaty which cannot even be altered by our own Parliament will continue on its rubberstamping journey towards the Lords.

And so it shall likely come to pass that in ratifying this treaty; this EU Constitution; this document cloaked in lies and deception; our Parliament and Government will with willingness and arrogance have broken its promise to the people of Britain.

In no more than a moment, hundreds of years of history will be undone. After two horrific World Wars in which millions died defending freedom and democracy, their sacrifice will have ultimately been in vain. By next week the event and the vote will be forgotten. Lost in time, like tears in rain.

Expanding Horizons

The BBC is set to spend £25m of taxpayers’ money every year on funding the creation of a new Arabic television station which it claims will provide news ‘without fear or favour’. Yeah right.

If the BBC’s own domestic coverage is anything to go by, the new Middle East station will not be impartial, independent or authoritative. Instead it will be instilled with the BBC’s usual anti-Israeli, anti-Western sentiments.

Only the BBC and those that support its liberal-left, politically correct worldview desperately continue to claim that the corporation is without bias. Surely if the BBC were so impartial they would have had no reason to spent £200,000 of license fee money last year in an attempt to suppress an internal report on bias against Israel?

At the time as the BBC attempted to deny public access to the report through the courts, Labour MP Louise Ellman commented:

There has been a bias and lack of context with the BBC reporting of Israel. Problems are related to citing individual acts of Israeli aggression by failing to put them into context or explaining the reasons. It makes them look like unprovoked acts, when in fact they were reaction to a terrorist act. I would certainly like to see what’s in the report.

Much like the BBC’s coverage of the European Union, this is an example of what Lord Pearson of Rannoch recently referred to as ‘bias by omission’. Does the Middle East really need yet another news network when it already has so many other commercial broadcasters? Should the Foreign Office really be funding this undertaking? Of course not, but this Middle Eastern adventure will still go ahead nonetheless.