Cannabis and its legal status serves a Common Purpose
http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : When the Home Secretary was questioned about ID cards for the UK, she said members of the British public had actually come to her, asking when the ID card initiaitive was going to be implemented, so keen were the UK public on the concept of a national ID card.
For this writer at least, it was a real "coffee & cornflakes" moment, and I'm still picking bits of Mr Kellogs breakfast cereal out of my keyboard even today.
Suffice to say the Secretary of State was laughed at, albeit discreetly.
If you are not aware of what Common Purpose is check out http://www.tpuc.org for more information
Moving on to another controversial topic, the Home Secretary said something similar over the cannabis debacle. People were actually asking her when she was going to upgrade cannabis to a class B drug as it was what the public wanted!?
Except everything I've ever read about the reclassification, apart from what was written by "zealot" groups such as Debra Bells "Talking About Cannabis", and the Daily Mail readers, pointed to what a mistake the reclassification of cannabis would (and will) be.
Regardless of all expert advice the Home Secretary, (aided by the Prime Minister - neither of whom I voted for, so why should they speak for me) has forged on with her almost unilateral plans to criminalise and alienate millions of working class British citizens by increasing the penalties for possession and cultivation of cannabis.
Fast forward to today and the financial crisis GB PLC fnds itself in.
Remember all the talk some months back on the Cannabis Lobby , regarding Common Purpose and what (according to some people) it was being set up for?
In short, an organisation was being constructed which would eventually usurp the Rights of the British Public, taking crucial decisions away from the democratic process, allowing one or two members of a chosen "elite" to decide whats best for Mr & Mrs 2.6, (thats you and me by the way).
Today (December 12-08) in The Times I read this;
Pound slides closer to parity with the euro
Sterling fell to a new low against the euro today raising fears that it is set to reach parity with the single currency.
The pound declined to €1.118, down from 1.12 yesterday, but travellers at some airports are receiving just €1 for each pound they convert at foreign exchange kiosks.
Sterling has fallen by 18 per cent so far this year, and is down 73 cents from its peak in October 2000.
Analysts said the slump could continue as investors dumped sterling, and sterling-denominated assets amid plunging confidence in the UK economy and expectations of futher aggressive interest rate cuts by the Bank of England.
Some economists forecast that the interest rate, currently 2 per cent, could fall as low as 0 per cent next year.
Mark O’Sullivan, director of trading at Currencies Direct, said the pound could fall for the next six to eight weeks as more dismal economic data on retail sales and the housing market continue to batter the already shrinking economy.
Mr O’Sullivan said: “For any investor or government there is no reason to be holding sterling at the moment.”
Last week the pound hit a a six-and-a-half-year low against the dollar falling below $1.45 for the first time since April 2002.
Sterling remained below the $1.50 mark today, trading at about $1.49.
So does it not make perfect sense that the Government, aided by strategically located local government officials around the country (for instance Plymouth County Council is now almost entirely run by Common Purpose supporters , who spend crazy sums of public money on projects which will never see the light of day), could theoretically at least, run the Pound, (and at the same time the country as a whole), into the ground, making sure no one wants to invest in it, until it reaches parity with the single currency.
There-after it would be easy to assume Mr Brown would sign us up into the single currency, and according to one person who left comments on The Times website, Mr Clive Burghard, Lancing, ENGLAND;
When the Pound has been successfully devalued to achieve parity with the Euro, that nice, trustworthy, Mr Brown will sign us all up to the Euro, full membership via the back door. Entirely without the CONSENT of The British People.
Surely what we're seeing here, in the same vein as cannabis was reclassified and regardless of what the experts actually said about it, goes against everything the democratic process stands for?
What do you think? Perhaps more importantly, what can be done about it?
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