A quick round-up of Seventh Day Inventism

As ever, most of it involves blind liberal naivety about Islamism; the EU; and the Special Relationship.

It does seem to me rather odd that the English Defence League (EDL) has chosen to hold its summit in Denmark, which most people agree is not part of England. Danish forebears the Vikings spent a deal of time raping and pillaging in Northern England and variously hiring themselves out as mercenaries to prop up early English kings, but that’s about it. However, the EDL insists that it is on the lookout for ‘similar Parties’ throughout Europe – hence the suddenly cosmopolitan nature of a Party dedicated to defending England from Abroad and all its ways.

As this can’t mean other EU Parties interested in defending England, it presumably means other Parties called things like The Polish Defence League, or The Luxembourg Defence League. Or Piss Off All Foreigners. However, I suspect the truth to have a fair amount to do with confrontation….and as you’d expect, the European Left Knee has jerked into action in the shape of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA). This is clearly not a breakthrough in Leftist branding, although they should’ve given thought to the fact that the acronym was claimed seventy years ago by the Argentine Football Association….a group (indeed, a country) not famed for its dislike of fascists.

Argentina is now, I hear, threatening to sue any oilcos giving Britain advice about the enormous oil reserves between the Falklands and Buenos Aires. Scientific research long ago established the fascinating correlation between oil and patriotism, and this developing situation seems to bear that out. But the other factoid to emerge from newly FOI-released White House papers is that, at the time of the first Falklands crisis, Secretary of State Haig begged Ronnie Reagan to….side with Argentina.

Talking of oil, I note the eerie quiet in the Progressive Camp this morning as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (which promised faithfully not to field a Presidential candidate) is showing good faith by fielding a Presidential Candidate. What we do see in the liberal press, however, is more (genuinely shocking) stuff about the bestialities of the Assad regime in Syria….but little recognition of the continuing reality: that the Opposition is Islamist dominated, and will be even worse.

Thus we spot the bollocks in Argie claims on the Falklands, the EDL summit in Denmark, the AFA, the Arab Spring, and the Special Relationship. The EDL is, much of the time, a repectable name for turfing out all the Muslims south of Hadrian’s Wall, and the point of its summit to link up with other (for example Dutch) Parties with similar ideas about social exclusion. The AFA is in turn – and the clincher is the Anti-Fascist nomenclature – a call to arms for all those using the right brain where the left should be, and vice-versa. Finally, since 1945, the Special Relationship has consisted of the UK sending troops to Korea, the US stamping out the Suez project, the US demanding full repayment of Lend-Lease (while spraying mainland Europe with the Marshall Plan), the US not sending troops to help the UK kick out the genuine Argentine fascist Galtieri, the UK signing up with the US for shock and awe in Iraq, the UK capital London being bombed as a result of it, and the US military forces commander in London at the time ordering every American soldier there to hightail it outside the M25 with all speed.

In Britain we have the bollocks of the April Fuels crisis ‘management’ by Camerlot, but the Eurofools have no need of either April or petrol supplies to fuel their foolishness: the EU is crammed with bollocks round the clock, and on the verge of bollocks inflation.

Not satisfied with already having basket cases like Portugal and Greece on board, in 2007 Brussels welcomed our Romanian brethren into the fold. There are very probably now more Romanians outside Romania (and inside other EU countries) than there are Romanians who stayed at home. And I’m afraid most of them seem to be something of a nuisance.

Before this gets rejected as me going a bit EDL on this issue, I should explain first, that all those countries unlucky enough to border Romania can agree on but one thing: Romanians are trouble. Second, that my now sadly deceased unstinting supporter of the less well-off in West London (whose fuse was longer than any I’ve experienced elsewhere) said she didn’t trust Romanians – and disliked their habit of spitting at her when they considered the money donated to be less than generous. Third, that the fine and generally likeable people of Belfast and Derry stood the Romanian migrants for roughly a fortnight, before going public on what a crooked bunch they are. Fourth, that the Poles with whom I became friendly at my local gym (before Tesco knocked it down to build a supermarket) said to me, “Whatever you do, don’t let the Romanians in. They will steal the shirt off your back”. And fifth, the news from today’s IoS – not what you’d call a racist mucksheet – that sick babies can’t be treated in Romanian hospitals, because the medical staff there won’t treat them without being given bribes.

There is a general bollocks point to be made here, in that the EU’s single currency and coming Fiskalunion is based on the obviously wrong and muddled idea that all EU cultures contain people just as honest, hardworking, obsessive, well-ordered and fleissig as the Germans. Such is the delusionally dominant role of political correctness in our lives now, nobody in a position of power has dared to question the idea of a currency based on such starry-eyed unscientific nonsense. Not everyone wants to be like Anglo-saxon Wasps (the US elite also has difficulty grasping this) and thus their cultural behaviours reflect that. Pc bollocks is nothing more than the Left’s inability to undertake – or even accept – the basic scientific principle of observation.

Meanwhile, the eurozone game of Pass the Parcel continues, although it should really be termed Pass the Unpinned Grenade. On Monday Mario Draghi again insisted that sovereigns must stump up more money for debt management – by which, of course, he meant more from the taxpayers, and less from him. Notably absent from his analysis was the suggestion that his alma mater Goldman Sachs should stump up a few dollars too. The Athenian interpretation of his speech was to assume they were doing the right thing by printing more money of their own, and the FinMin Brussels summit thought it might involve lying about how much was in the pot. So they responded accordingly, and to show willing Berlin tossed in a further amount which – when you remember how Mario paid for the Greek ‘bailout’ – was less than suggested. Everyone then joined hands to claim solidly that something between 600 and 900 billion euros was in fact 2.4 trillion euros by any other name. Following which, Lucas Papademos told everyone to brace themselves for a third Greek bailout.

Sensing that the explosives might be heading in his direction now, Jens Weidmann on Friday said he would no longer accept Greek, Portuguese or Irish sovereign bonds as collateral…thus thwacking it back towards Signor Draghi’s baseline. Second set to the Bundesbank.

All of this is of course complete bollocks. The bollocks is that Greece, Portugal, Spain and the eurozone can be saved, when they can’t. And the additional bollocks is that somewhere in the EU there is going to be a final guarantor for the creditors, which there isn’t. And the even bigger heap of bollocks is that a firewall built after the infected horse has bolted can stop the infection from spreading to the US, because it clearly can’t.

But this still wasn’t enough bollocks to fulfil the EU’s needs: it’s almost as if the EU is printing its own bollocks, without the balls to back it up. This morning, the EU FinMins are calling for the IMF to boost its firewall contribution, which it won’t. So it looks like we’re in for accelerating hyperbollocks in the coming weeks. The Slog may not be able to keep up: whatever you do, stay short in bollocks.