David Miliband is calling for a model EU. I wonder what relation to the model UN this will have.

Well, it's not like he's old enough to go to the real thing is he!

... Wait you mean he's the actual Foreign Secretary? Shit, we're screwed.

Why do we have a twelve year-old representing us on the world stage?

How is comparing Labour's approach to the EU Constitution "Reform Treaty" to Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement of Hitler at Munich in 1938 a "Hitler jibe" worthy of demanding an apology? But Miliband thinks it is - for some reason.

The son of a Jewish immigrant Miliband may be, but I can't see how that makes any difference in this case. At all. Jews were the victim of Hitler long before Munich, and Miliband himself is not being compared to Hitler, but Chamberlain.

The comparison is, of course, disturbing accurate.

We should have a referendum on the EU treaty so that whatever happens and whichever decision is made it is the people who have made the decision.

Source: The Telegraph

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I want to know how he can possibly justify not holding a referendum on the EU "Reform Treaty" [ie. Constitution under another name]. I'm looking forward to reading "his" letter and then seeing it ripped to shreds in the media and by bloggers.

Maybe he'll even post it on his poor excuse for a blog? Even if he does, I bet he won't have the balls to link to anyone who disagrees with him.

Go on David, prove me wrong. I dare you.

This just has to be right at the top my list of the most idiotic thing I have ever heard anyone ever say:

Erm, WTF? How on earth can climate change [it's lucky that they stopped using the term "global warming" because it's bloody freezing at the moment] be the greatest threat to global equality? Surely dictatorship, totalitarian government and PC extremism [as well as the culture of state dependency - on the development of which Theo Spark has a great parable] is a greater threat?

Equality is not prevented by global warming in the slightest. If anything it will do the opposite - if the doomsday claims by eco-fascists is correct - by reducing us all to the same level? If anything under their conditions, us in the developed world would be far more screwed than third world countries.

Climate change is not - and cannot - itself threaten global equality. It might have some impact on it, in a roundabout way, but to claim that it is the "greatest long-term threat" to achieving global equality is utter rubbish, and gives the issue far far more importance than it deserves.

Source: BBC

The gay icon Foreign Secretary, David Miliband has, as I reported he intended to, restarted his blog. The aim of his blog is, he says to

But will they be worth my time reading?

But he's not alone - he has friends blogging with him! There are six of them from the Foreign Office blogging - Milibland himself, Jim Murphy (Minister for Europe), the "Strategy Adviser to the UK Ambassador to the EU", and other officials. They want to have a "global conversation" - whatever one of them is.

But the burning question is - how much does this cost us, the taxpayer? Miliband's original blog at Defra was costing us £40,000 a year, but how much more is this one going to cost, considering that there are six of them? I think we have a right to know.

Despite reports that FCO mandarins wouldn't allow it, David Miliband is to resume blogging at the Foreign Office, have previously done so at Defra:

It better not cost the absurd amounts that it was before. That is truly a waste of money, especially considering the inanity of Miliband's pronouncements. Make it interesting and actually engage in the real blogging experience and don't let it cost us so much money - or don't bother doing it at all.

Image: Beau Bo D'Or
Source: BBC

Yet more support for a referendum on the new EU Constitution Treaty:

Now there is support for a referendum on this "not-Constitution" Treaty from the Conservatives, some Trade Unions, a third of the PLP, and even several senior ministers. We want a referendum on this. Whilst I have every intention of voting against it myself, whatever the result of a referendum on it would have to be accepted.

It is clear that, like Brown, the EU doesn't want the people - and certainly not the British - to have a choice over this. The people of France and the Netherlands rejected the EU Constitution, so they are just changing a few words - and in the process making it "unreadable" - to get it past the people and legislatures of Europe. There will be transfers of sovereignty, and they don't want us to know that or to have the chance to vote on it. The Constitution has not been "abandoned" like David Miliband says, but just slightly re-written. No matter if "[t]wenty-seven European heads of government all signed a document in June, after nearly two years of negotiation, saying the constitutional concept has been abandoned," the reality is that it hasn't.

I thought the European union was supposed to be democratic? That's what the entry requirements include anyway. It's just a pity that they themselves fail their own democratic requirements - if the EU applied to join the EU, it would be rejected on those grounds. But since Britain is still a democracy, we the people demand our right to decide on our own future - directly, in this case.

If Gordon Brown does not give in to their 12 points, the third of Labour MPs who support a referendum on this issue have no choice but to vote against the "not-Constitution" Treaty if it goes to Parliament rather than coming to the people. Even if they agree with the "Treaty" itself, they must vote against it because the people have been denied the right to vote.

Sources: BBC, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Daily Mail