Avid followers of the Madeleine McCann case may recall a fairly vitriolic (but no less patriotic) article by Simon Heffer of the Daily Telegraph, evenhandedly titled, 'Don't go to Portugal for your holiday'.
It was your usual PJ slapping nonsense: the Portuguese Police have been damned unpleasant to Gerry and Kate O 'Blighty and it was high time we stopped playing golf there. But what's really strange is our own intractable Maddie firebrand, Tony Bennett is on surprisingly good terms with Heffer and his friends within the ‘Swinton Circle’ - an intriguing turn of events given Maddie PI Kevin Halligen's equally right-wing circle
Here’s a quick description grabbed from elsewhere:
” The Swinton Circle is a right-wing conservative British pressure-group with links to the Conservative Party. It is staunchly pro-Unionist, neo-Imperialist and Eurosceptic, and is a strong supporter of Western military action in the War Against Terrorism.”
In October 2005 a joint party of London Swinton Circle and Springbok Club members visited Gibraltar and Cape Trafalgar in Spain in order to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Recent speakers have included Professor David Marsland, Michael Shrimpton QC, Godfrey Bloom MEP (United Kingdom Independence Party, Yorkshire), Simon Heffer and Tony Bennett, founder of Active Resistance to Metrication.
In another bizarre twist it appears that Bennett, Heffer and Shrimpton combined their efforts to oppose those trifling Euro-faffers who were determined to alter our good old Metric system.
The Journal of the British Weights and Measures Association, which exists to protect and promote British weights and measures, and to oppose compulsory use of the metric system was supported in the EU Courts by both Michael ‘The French Abducted Madeleine and Murdered David Kelly ’ Shrimpton QC and Anthony ‘Mohammad is a paedophile and Madeleine is his new little sunbeam’ Bennett.
And according to the association website, the celebrated Eurosceptic, JK Rowling (OBE) is also an Honorary Patron too (in addition to Simon Heffer).
Rowling's closet Conservatism has been under scrutiny before. Warren Cairns, writing in The Spectator in 2000, gently mocked the Potter author for being 'a signed-up member of the Forces of Conservatism' in his essay, 'Harry Potter - eurosceptic'. But I am sure this was in jest.
What a clever way of doing things. Good cop, bad cop, supporter, sceptic, aggressor, defender and everything in between: what better way to confuse the Police than with a performance like this?
The world will think the worst of arabs – and all those public figures too squeamish to be seen doing the dirty work can blame it on all those anonymous sightings in which only Muslims seem to have figured.
The thing about all these groups like the UKIP, the BNP and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR for short) is that they are the 'black ops' teams of your cosy middle-classes, backing and pushing through legistlature that your average Tory will be too squeamish or too cautious to back himself. Parties who can get their hands dirty on their behalf. It's a Jeckyll and Hyde arrangement. Whilst Jeckyll cosies up to the watchful popular masses, Hyde pulls on his cape and slips into night.
I can just see it now: David Cameron dashing to the Temple Church in London, with sirens screaming behind him and dozens of lardy arsed PJ officers giving chase, throwing a Union Jack blanket around her before making a triumphant return home.
The arabs take a good bashing, the PJ get a crate of beer and everybody's happy.
It's a measured response to a Euro crisis. Assuming this really is a benign bit of stage craft and not something more sinister altogether. Gunpowder plot, or funpowder plot? Perhaps we should wait until after the interval.
More to follow shortly.
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Remember that tosh by Toscano in Spain, 'The Frenchman took Maddie'? Is it just me or did Shrimpton blame the French in his equally imaginative retelling of the the strange death of Dr David Kelly?
Could it be? Could it really, really be he came up with all this tosh?
And how many people were aware that the UKIP spin-off political party, 'Veritas' (of which Bennett was a founder member) was launched in 2005 at a Golf Club in Leicester by Robert Kilroy-Silk (Golf loving Brummie with property in Southern, Spain.
Hmm. Now who else likes playing Golf in Leicester?
And Robert Murat too, if his meeting with Jorge da Silva at Palmares Golf Club on the afternoon of May 3rd 2007 is anything to go by.
further reading:
Still unsure of what is going on here? Then read the following on Madeleine Investigator, Halligen and his right-wing allies:
http://www.thesargeants.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=263
http://www.thesargeants.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=292
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