Copenhagen « Dr Alf's Blog

English: First Minister Alex Salmond and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the launch of A National Conversation, August 14, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Dr Alf asks is it right that a minority decide’s the UK’s fate.

The answer is “no” but not in the way he means.

The UK’s fate is decided by 120 people in Bilderberg meetings, the last of which was held in Copenhagen earlier this summer.

Scotland and Alex Salmond are pawns in that game, made to look as though they are deciding, whilst their strings are being pulled to create the perfect storm of DEVO MAX which was never on the Referendum ballot paper in the first place.

Secondly, it was not David Cameron’s judgement because the real power does not lie with him, it lies with those who issue his instructions and who instructed all three party leaders plus George Osborne to go north and campaign for the desired result.

People from my own experience of corporate life, who have real power, make people come to them.

Dr Alf will recall this phenomenon from his days in corporate life as well.

Yet Prime Ministers all have to have a weekly audience with the Queen, wherever she happens to be. Supposedly this stems back to an ancient duty of Prime Ministers to meekly inform the monarch about what the Government is planning to do next. This could be done by bulletin or memo if matters were already decided and there was no requirement to discuss, consult or seek approval, yet we are told that the monarch has no power.

Clearly the power does lie with the monarch, which is why the Royal Mace sits on top of the dispatch box in the House of Commons as a powerful symbol in plain sight.

The BBC which pretends to be even handed gave prominence to statements by business leaders of the threat to move their operations southwards without exploring what this would really mean.

The people of England are once again being tricked and then being made to pay.

John Gelmini

I thank Dr Alf for sharing the Global Times article.

This visit by the Chinese Prime Minister to the UK is an exercise in power.

At first, the Foreign Office and the cabinet did not want the Chinese Prime Minister visiting the Queen but the Chinese would have none of it, such is their power.

They want to deal with the person who really calls the shots (the organ grinder as opposed to the monkey), not least because we need them and their money a lot more than they need us.

This is true of the money, we need to rebuild our outdated infrastructure and businesses, too much of which has been wasted, siphoned off, or worse.

This argument about access to the Queen was denied by the Government and played down by the UK press.
The reality is that the UK is of importance to the Chinese as a springboard into Europe and via the Queen and the City a new route into the Commonwealth and the power structure.

David Cameron and his ministers are pretty much an irrelevance to the Chinese because they represent a lame duck government, which may not be around in 11 months time.

Who the NEXT Prime Minister will be is of interest to them so since the choice has already been made in Copenhagen by the Bilderberg steering committee, the Chinese Prime Minister needs to hear the choice from the horses mouth.

The newspaper coverage of the visit, here in the UK, was poor, designed to mislead, and fails to acknowledge any of these realities.

When the Chinese say, for example, that they wish to “clear up misconceptions” about themselves that is their polite and face saving way of telling our politicians and civil servants that they are increasingly in the driving seat and must be taken seriously.

There will be more of this as time goes on, especially as we run down our forces to the point where we cannot project power overseas and only have 17 maritime escort vessels to protect our shipping when we supposedly have an export target of £1 trillion gbp by 2020, much of which will not be “invisibles” from the City of London.

Our situation is made more precarious by our failure to build generating capacity and our inability to grow enough food for ourselves.

The referendum about Scottish independence is an irrelevance in this regard because like me they think that the Scots will not want to give up the £6000 gbp a head they receive via the combination of the Barnett Formula, free tuition fees, free Adult Social Care, no prescription charges and a disproportionate share of EU rebates, petroleum tax revenues sent northwards to buy votes etc.

If they were to have a mental block caused by “Braveheart Syndrome” then the UK would lose its place on the Security Council making the UK even less important than it has become already.

The £32 billion NHS time bomb caused by obesity, elderly dementia sufferers and diabetes will explode with great ferocity in the next decade unless UK productivity rises in the working population to enable us to pay our way.

John Gelmini