Death in the UK - Afghan Theatre

MOD: Reports that a UK Soldier has died in the UK of wounds sustained in Afghanistan, the Soldier was from the “ 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 409 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 369 in combat/hostile action and 40 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.

New Labour and Rendition

Guardian: Reports the following on the links between rendition and the Blair Government, “ ..It is possible that the Blair government's collective judgment was twisted by a desire to ingratiate itself with Gaddaf.. ”. One can argue between Iraq, Afghanistan the anti terror polices of the Blair Government and the threat to the Union by giving Scotland a Parliament that the Blair Government will go down in history as the worst in history, all that New Labour PR has been shown to be hollow shallow rubbish. Lets be clear this blog on the whole has no great problem with rendition, but when you play that game, there are consequences if it goes wrong. The Blair Government allowed itself to be seduced by the PR reformed Colonel Gaddafi, the African/Middle East Spring that saw the toppling of Regimes from Tunisia to Egypt, at end of the of day Gaddafi showed he had not changed, he was quite happy to kill his own people before the UK and France said NO and removed the Gaddafi Regime. As the Coalition Government had no part in the rendition process they can hang the Blair Government out to dry, that does give this blog some pleasure.

Spanish Banking Woes - Next Chapter

Telegraph Live - Spain: Reports that bad Banking loans in Spain have reached a 18 year high, and as a result the Spanish Stock Market has lost 3%. Folks this is simple, Spain the next shoe to fall after Greece its to big to bailout, the banks have not really looked at the effects of their property boom going bust, the Government is trying to push through eye watering austerity measures, thus a cut in Government spending, thus more cuts in the public sector, this leads to more welfare, thus more Government spending, thus you have a developing banking crisis and a Central Spanish Government that does not have full control of Regional Spending. The Telegraph notes that the Germans have stated that there have been no discussion in Berlin over a Spanish bailout, that folks is BS, if they have not made back up plans they are fools, because Spain is the next economic bomb to go off folks, its like a Shark, it slowly coming to the surface, think JAWS, and its going to bite the EU and the Euro.

UK Unemployment Falls

BBC News: Reports on a drop in UK Unemployment, last month thirty five thousand people left the Unemployment roll. Thus the UK rate fell from 8.4% to 8.3%. This is good news for the Coalition Government and will take the wind out of Labour, one could see the effect it had on the Guardian BBC News readers, by their tone, which was negative you would think we had become another Greece. One wonders if the rate of Unemployment had gone up if they would have been more cheery, lets face it the BBC, Guardian, Daily Mirror are no friends of the Coalition Government, they are left and see things only from a left point of view, that’s life folks.

Obama vs. Romney, TIED - NYT/CBS Poll

The New York Times: Reports on NYT/CBS Poll that finds President Obama and Governor Romney tied at 46% support among registered voters. This should worry the Chicago Re-Elect Committee, POTUS needs to be over 50% with a chance of getting re-elected. Also lets face political reality folks, the Romney Campaign is excellent at running a negative Campaign, and unlike 2008 POTUS has a depressing domestic record to defend, the biggest own goal ( that is Football in the UK folks, and Soccer in the US ) is ObamaCare. The Oval is very much in the hands of the US Supreme Court, and the Supremes are expected to rule on ObamaCare in June. Also last month there was the poor jobs report, although US unemployment went down it was not because jobs were created, it was because people gave up, its that bad folks. The Obama Campaigns theme of class warfare is also a mistake, its not working, might keep the left of the Democratic Party happy but scares the hell out of moderates and independents as they know they will be next for a tax hike. The Chicago operation has to up its game and fast, this is not 2008, if they think it is they are heading for a rude wake up call on November 7th.