Europe needs a revolution

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As you may know, I’m a Pat Condell anorak.  
He makes occasional video blogs, or pronouncements, via Youtube.  His latest addresses the erosion of the UK’s ability to self-govern as the unelected Eurocrats now make the rules we are forced to follow rather than our elected politicians.  It’s well worth listening to:  

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  1. Oh Boy.
    How do I help this articulate, clear headed, straight speaking, truth speaking man ?
    All I achieve is the occasional letter in my local paper, read by a few hundred people who do nothing and forget what I have said by the next day.

    Peter Moore.

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  2. Peter,

    If only you had the power of a radio station at your fingertips, capable of beaming out such words of debate to assist those of muddled thinking. That would do it.

    🙂

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  3. Indeed,
    But as you know Chris, under the terms of the Ofcom licence, if I promote the truth, I am bound by the licence to give equal prominence to promoting the lie.
    You could say that is only fair, or you could say that it was another clever way of blunting free speech.
    What it needs is a station that, one way or another, does not need an Ofcom licence.

    I will, when I can, post my recent letter about Wind Farms, that did appear in my local paper. Talking of wind, I need to watch the weather forecast now.

    Peter Moore.

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  4. Watched an old episode of “Yes Minister” recently which lampooned the politicians and civil servants of that time. It does however appear that in reality, these grey faceless men in suits have been running things for a long, long time, with little or no regard to the great unwashed masses that they clearly hold with such contempt these days.

    Perhaps our society has always been this way, with the exception that the current career politicians and the unelected power brokers now despise us enough not to pretend it is anything different.

    George Orwell's 1984 certainly did arrive a little late (to quote a certain t'shirt)but in many ways it has arrived and gets nastier by the year.

    The Artist Formerly Known as Jack Wolf

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  5. In London village, and indeed across Liverpool if you include DAB as being a legitimate 'radio' platform, I can hear Ofcom licensed radio stations putting out constant one-sided burble about 'God'.

    Indeed, at regular intervals these radio stations will threateningly remind anybody not in ore of their version of this 'God' that they will definitely be consigned to a torturous burning for eternity for daring to have thoughts or ideology that excludes subordination to their particular 'God'.

    Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but this threatening and aggressive type of broadcasting would be considered by Ofcom to be against their terms and conditions were it not for the fact that it is a Christian 'God' they are promoting.

    Indeed, were these radio stations to address the Ofcom requirement for balance, they should surely also be broadcasting programming content on behalf of those who have other 'Gods' (ideally of the less violent and bad tempered kind), or those who have no 'God' at all.

    However, it seems to me that no attempt is ever made to address this Ofcom need for balance.

    Therefore, I put it to you that a programming segment promoting Mr Condell's perspective on life, the universe and everything should have equal rights and be allowed to be broadcast without the need for balance or fear of recrimination.

    If broadcasting without balance is good enough for the Christians, it should be good enough for everybody.

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  6. I would guess Chris,

    That the bizarre rules of what was The Radio Authority before becoming Ofcom, have created some anomalies that all the same are set in stone.
    It was at the time when potential radio stations were dreaming up the craziest formats in order to be chosen, since the Regulator was driven to ' increase listener choice '.
    Thus we got Viva 963 a radio station for ' womens interests '. Now, I coud write thousands of words on what womens interests may be, or what I wish they were, but best not go down that road. Suffice to say that the granting of a licence was a huge piece of sexism and, of course, also a commercial disaster.
    Country 1035 was less controversial, but again a financial tragedy.
    Premier, Londons Christian Radio Station, got a licence to be just that and they survived. Even their devotees describe their on air fund raising appeals as ' ponce-athons '. where the station begs for huge sums in order to be able to continue doing God's work.
    Then we have Spectrum, which could not fail to get a licence by offering to air mixed programmes from religious and ethnic minorities.
    Recently they lost a major customer and had, for a while, some spare air time.
    I thought it would be a fine thing to put Radio Caroline back on 558Khz for a spell and Spectrum could not have been nicer, but could not put us on air. You see, we were not an ethnic minority and we broadcast in English.
    I asked if the Jewish programmes were in Hebrew. They said no and neither were the Irish programmes in Gaelic, nor some Dutch programmes in Dutch.

    I said ' so you cannot transmit the programmes of a London based station, using the native tongue of the UK, aimed at English people ( plus anyone else who wants to listen ). Surely that is discrimination.

    No, they said, we cannot transmit you, as much as we would like to, but no it is not discrimination, it is just the terms of our licence.

    Peter Moore.

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