She was making plain her fury in fresh air, in front of the black door to No 10 that is a symbol of British government.
You could hardly stage-manage more clearly the difference between the European Commission’s sneaky secrecy and Britain’s open, sovereign democracy (and how the Eurocrats hate and fear that!).
It is abundantly clear what the EU and its minions are up to as they launch attack after attack on May and the British negotiating position…clear to everyone except it seems the BBC which expresses shock and surprise that May has accused the EU of hostility and of attempting to manipulate and interfere in the outcome of the election…..the EU would like nothing better than a weak, irresolute and incompetent Corbyn at the helm or failing that a LibDem rump providing an awkward squad to make Brexit all but impossible.
The BBC went into overdrive running cover for Clinton filling the airwaves with accusations of Russian interference in ‘American democracy’ and the of peddling ‘fake news’, the BBC intent of course to put Hilary in the driving seat and now, as the BBC continues with that narrative having failed to get their preferred candidate elected, to unseat Trump.
Contrast that pious outrage with the almost complete lack of interest in an attempted coup against our own country by another foreign ‘government’, the unelected EU, as it works to undermine British democracy and attempts to put its own collaborators in place…the BBC actually providing so much useful help as it peddles the EU message whilst attacking May relentlessly.
All this should serve to underline why the undemocratic and increasingly tyrannical EU should be destroyed and replaced with a co-operative, non-political union of willing countries that serves to unite nations in purpose but not in a political or financial superstate that the EU has become intent on crushing all dissent and imposing its will upon those sovereign states….a monster out of control.
You just have to look at the BBC’s Kuenssberg’s ‘analysis’ of what May said this afternoon to realise that the EU is not the only enemy May has to contend with. Even the title of Kuenssberg’s piece gives the game away as she claims May is ‘Upping the ante’.
Curiously Kuenssberg hasn’t thought that it was the EU which had been ‘upping the ante’ with its torrent of hostile briefings, so often to the BBC direct, and its spreading of misinformation and alarmist black propaganda…also aided by the Remain supporting FT which seems to delight in coming up with increasingly ridiculous figures for ‘reparations’ to be paid to the EU by Britain.
Kuenssberg sets out from the start to try and undermine May claiming she has done a u-turn and is engaged in ‘megaphone dipomacy’….no thought that perhaps May is right and the EU has been launching hostile attacks on Britain?
This morning, the chancellor and the Brexit secretary said the noises off out of Brussels and suggestions of an exit bill of 100bn euros were only “manoeuvring” and that the UK would not be pulled into “megaphone diplomacy”.
By 15:30, the prime minister was standing at a lectern in Downing Street accusing some in Brussels of trying deliberately to interfere in the election, to make trouble for her politically at home, and of wanting the Brexit talks to fail.
Kuenssberg then expresses shock at the PM’s words and tries to suggest they are not only unmerited but a deceptive political ploy by May rather than a genuine insight into EU manipulation and corruption of our democracy…it’s not ‘quite some statement’, not ‘quite an accusation’….the statement and accusation were bang on and absolutely jusitifed as nearly all other commentators, BBC aside, believe…..not Kuenssberg though….
Forget that nuance for a moment – this was quite some statement, quite an accusation to make. It seems the prime minister is intent on playing the Brexit card for all it’s worth in the next election.
It’s no coincidence that the Tories want every UKIP voter to turn to them, no coincidence that many Labour seats were Out areas in the referendum, no small matter that in 71 Labour constituencies, the UKIP vote was bigger than the size of the eventual majority.
It’s all just a tactic says Kuenssberg…May doesn’t really mean it…and those poor old Brussel’s bureaucrats, once again the innocent targets of fake news and anti-EU spin…
British prime ministers taking public aim at “Brussels bureaucrats” is hardly an original tactic from the playbook.
And do not, for one second, be surprised if come 9 June, IF Theresa May is back in power, her language starts to sound rather more conciliatory.
And of course it is May who has gone ‘full throttle’ and is thus out of control and over the top….not the EU who started the war of words and the gunboat diplomacy then?…..
But words like this cannot be unsaid. What is perhaps more surprising is that Theresa May has gone full throttle at such an early stage in this election, and in a situation where the polls put her as the clear frontrunner.
Kuenssberg should leave the analysis to those with insight and understanding of events, stick to facts not making it up as you go along. The BBC was desperately accusing the Russians of manufacturing fake news to change the course of the US election and yet here the BBC is engaged in exactly the same behaviour that it deplored on behalf of Clinton as it peddles the EU’s fake news in order to undermine Britain and Britain’s future success and prosperity. The BBC working to betray us to the EU.
Lord Hall Hall…lock him up!
Is Kuenssberg related to Sturgeon?
They seem to have a lot in common.
On another, related, point. Theresa seems to have found one of Fatcher’s handbags whilst rummaging in the No.10 basement (despite what some of the naysayers seem to think).
Letts in the DM has an apt summary.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4471296/QUENTIN-LETTS-sees-PM-Eurocrats-clobbering.html
And she didn’t even mention GCHQ/NSA transcripts of the leading EU ‘players’. I’ve ordered more popcorn.
Oh dear, Stig Abel assisted by Jenny Kleeman almost hyperventilating over May’s speech in the Sky paper review.
Over to Auntie Beeb and coverage of the presidential election in France. Macron emerges from a building; relaxed, smiling he shakes the hand of a black gendarme and tousles the hair of a young boy. Thence to Le Pen; looking hot and bothered wending her way along a crowded corridor.
Politics apart, I can’t wait to see them suck up a huge majority for May, and even better, a Le Pen victory.
The spirit of Alvar Liddle was being invoked the other day. When he was active the BBC reported the news. It struggled with trying to remain truthful, while not assisting the enemy, in a bid to retain the trust of its listeners.
The modern BBC reports very little news, most of its output labelled news is speculative opinion pieces that most of us could write ourselves given the headline and knowing the line to take as well as any BBC journalist.
If the BBC had an ounce of integrity it would be up-front that it wants to de-rail brexit. Even nasty tiny Tim is more honourable than them.
Yesterday the BBC couldn’t get enough of the EU’s money demands, seeing it as clear evidence that Brexit will damage Britain. Strangely today it is nowhere on the BBC news website front page, even while it’s prominent on the Daily Telegraph and Times websites.
Why, it’s almost as if the BBC was campaigning against Brexit, and has just realised how counter-productive the EU’s tactics are, and that they are even driving Remainers into the Leave camp.
I expect the next EU tactic to be moderating its demands, and offering to meet the UK ‘half-way’.
Flexdream
Yes halfway sounds good.. going by my own Abbotsabacus that is about zero or nothing even.
They have to keep clear of UK politics today due to the local elections.
Every BBC vox pop today: “Hello random person in the street who is old/young/poorly and not at work and curiously available for comment; just how awful is it for you with cuts in services/education/theNHS due to THE GOVERNMENT today?”
… the FT needs to make up its mind too … increasingly anti Brexit and with a dodgy editor who accepted the Legion d’Honneur secretly this year … the weasel, self serving should be a resignation matter ….
How do the BBC spin the hideous 80 billion exit penury. Do they play it in that it would be to expensive for us to leave so we may as well remain the EU, or this is a punishment for leaving and the consequences of leaving could be nasty so let’s stay in?
This is a microcosm of the whole ‘remain’ campaign, in that it has been full of inconsistencies smoke and mirrors. The remain side are in a total mess and it really does show much to my delight. Now employing that much despised Messiah Blair it is even more fun to watch, surely he is the ‘black spot’ of politics no person of sound mind would employ.
Kuennsburg (!) last night suggested May started the antagonism towards the EU, however just a rudimentary glance at events will show that Juncker broke with all protocol and described the meeting before the dessert plates ( and empty vino bottles ) were cleared away and insulted his host quite inappropriately ( not oft I like that word ).
The EU/BBC can’t make up it’s mind as to whether it should blackmail us or bludgeon us into submission, I personally think neither will work now as ‘leave’ has conducted it’s campaign with consistency, decorum, honesty, and of course clearly has the interests of our sovereignty at heart.
It is a real conundrum for our enemies, and in warfare if you are not clear of your strategy you are bound to lose.
… the FT needs to make up its mind too … increasingly anti Brexit and with a dodgy editor who accepted the Legion d’Honneur secretly this year … the weasel, self serving should be a resignation matter ….
My personal opinion is that May is correct – the EU has decided that by pretending to bill us E100 Billion, that will ‘scare’ people into voting for a party that is not Teresa May. They absolutely have not got their heads around the thought that we will happily walk away from them.
It would be pure heaven for me if Teresa suddenly announced that there will be no negotiations and no money. What would the reaction be, what could they do. Blackmail is very ugly and it shows you how ugly the Brussels bureaucrats are.
The EU has been doing exactly the same thing in the French Elections by claiming it was going to remove Le Pen’s EU immunity and indicating that would leave her open to the risk of prosecution over some vague and unspecified financial irregularities.
Of course, that was definitely not an attempt to undermine Le Pen before the election took place or to influence the French voters into voting for other candidates more favourable to the ultimate aim of the Eurocrats for total control over every single nation who make up the separate parts of the EU.
The EU, by it’s own rules, should not involve itself in the democratic electoral processes of it’s member nations. Those rules are something the EU has blatantly failed to observe time and time again when it comes to the electoral processes in member states when elections looked like leading to results unfavourable to the EU.
In both Italy and Greece, when voters elected Governments who failed to follow the orders of the Eurocrats the EU forced puppet so called Technocrats to take control and to direct those nations in the directions the EU demanded.
The bBBC, along with other parts of the MSM, studiously ignore such behaviour as if the EU behaviour was not only allowable but was the kind of activity the EU should be entitled to engage in whenever it felt fit in order to force members to comply with it’s wishes.
Newsnight deploying every trick in the book here:
One degree of separation, quotee not flagged… the works…
Not as such going their way in the comments.
Stinging criticism of the EU there from the CleggFly; “less than reasonable positions”. Probably just the right side of weaseldom to ensure that his EU pension is safe.
Or was he revealing his insider knowledge about Ms Abbott’s rumpy-pumpy with Dustybyn?
I do tire of Kuenssberg when she is wearing her soviet submarine political officer hat.
“Forget what you think you heard, this is what you are meant to hear”.
What actual qualifications does she possess to be able to immediately interpret statements for the sake of all us thickos?
More evidence if was needed that this bBC operation and its fakery and traitorous actions were so neatly summed up by Donald Trump – that DJ SOPEL moment
“Another Beauty ”
Nice to see UKIP leading the way with a manifesto pledge that it would seek to end their preposterous Licence Tax.
Delingpole has picked up on Kuntburger on Breitbart.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/04/delingpole-and-consequently-this-country-is-at-war-with-germany/
It seems that, as ever, it is all about the money. Britain has been a net contributor since day one of membership, and since 1973 we have paid about half a trillion pounds into the EU. During most of this time, the only other net contributor was Germany.
I can see why the EU wants us to keep paying even when we leave. I am sure that €100 billion will come in handy. But if we have to keep paying in even after we leave, does that mean a country which was a net recipient would continue to receive money from the EU even if it left? The proposition is absurd, and the EU’s case with regard to the €100 billion is just as absurd.
All we want from the EU is to leave on good terms and to have a fair trading arrangement from them, and it seems that even that is beyond the vindictive minds of Brussels to arrange. It is starting to seem as if we are not getting a lot of love for that half a trillion are we? It’s almost as if every penny we sent to the EU was a complete waste.
Rob,
I wonder what the public reaction will be once formal negotiations get going and Brussels really does quote a £50 billion to £100 billion exit fee? I’m guessing it’s the old ” ask for a silly sum then bargain down to the real figure” type approach. Apart from any fee we have legally committed too under International Law the EU deserves nothing from us.
What public services would be cut to pay the 50 billion ? Or would we all get hit for a penny on income tax?
The EU would have to tread carefully as the effect on public opinion on EU citizens staying in UK could in worst case get a bit ‘anti’. [ sorry no mention of albeeb here but no doubt they would be trumpeting “the British negotiating failure” all the way to the 2023 general election.
The bBC reports:
English language ‘losing importance’ – EU’s Juncker
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has told a conference in Italy on the EU that “English is losing importance in Europe”. Amid tensions with the UK over looming Brexit negotiations, he said he was delivering his speech in French. Laughter and applause greeted his comment about the English language, and he could be seen smiling wryly.
And here is a picture of him as he delivered his diatribe:
Notice anything?
Pounce
This character must have really lost the plot. He clearly has no idea about the Blighty national character – with or without the attempt of al beeb
Types and their multicultural friends to undermine it.