EXETER & DISTRICT BRANCH

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Although Ive been back from my trip to New Zealand for more than two weeks, it is only now that I have been able to concentrate on compiling the September Newsletter which will now be issued in early October. This is to be another very short Newsletter, but hopefully it will be back to normal by November.

Halal Slaughter An Update.

In the July Newsletter an article concerning halal slaughter appeared which containing the following Government ruling from 1991:

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Sue Clegg responded to the article with a letter to DEFRA, and received a reply as detailed below:
Hi Cliff I wrote to DEFRA regarding the attached document to see if it was still effective seeing as it is from 1991 and whether the part about the exemption from stunning meat was only to be for the Jews and Muslims, this is their reply. Council Directive 93/119 sets out the measures that must be taken to protect the welfare of animals at the time of slaughter or killing. This requires all animals to be stunned before slaughter except when animals are subject to methods of slaughter required by certain religious rites. This Directive has been implemented in England (similar provisions also apply in the rest of the UK) by the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 as amended (WASK). WASK permits religious slaughter where this is undertaken by a Jew / Muslim for the food of a Jew / Muslim. Although WASK provides powers to require the production of relevant documents or records necessary for the enforcement of the regulations, there is no requirement in WASK for business operators to keep records demonstrating who the final consumer of meat is or what their religion is. The Government does nevertheless consider that it is right in principle to ensure that people know what they are buying and how their food has been prepared so that they can take an informed view on the welfare standards involved. Last year the European Parliament put forward an amendment to the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation to require food labels to indicate if meat was from animals that had not been stunned. Although the amendment was not taken up, subsequent discussions led to a compromise agreement that labelling should be considered by the EU commission in a welfare context. The Government supported this approach and we will be working with the Commission to ensure the provision of consumer information is considered alongside measures to minimise the suffering of animals slaughtered without stunning. Council Directive 93/119 will be replaced by Regulation 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at killing from 1 January 2013. We are currently looking at measures to implement this regulation and we will be consulting on this later this year. Sue Clegg

To me it all appears very vague; but what is clear is the manner in which any move by the government to label meat as halal can only be done with EU approval. It says a lot for democracy in the UK, when laws required to meet the needs of the British people are decided not by elected MPs, or MEPs, but by a group of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

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Observations from Our Circum-navigation of the World.
As mentioned in the August Newsletter, my wife and I spent a month flying around the world by way of Vancouver, New Zealand and Singapore. What follows is my observations of the places visited with respect to the people, the social conditions; and lessons the they can learn from Britain, and Britain can learn from them. Vancouver This is a modern city which still retains much of its colonial past, particularly the Gas Town area of the city that was built just after the 1900s. This area contained many restaurants with their own micro-brewery established on the premises. The meals proved to be good value for money, and tasted all the better for being washed down with a couple of pints of the excellent locally brewed India Pale Ale (IPA).

Susie standing next to the Steam Clock in Gas Town, Vancouver

This is a steam powered clock that every quarter hour sounds off a medley of tunes from the five hooters located at the top of the clock.

It was noticed that the city had a large Chinese population, probably as much as 20%; and although there were some black people around their numbers were very low so there was no apparent breakdown in the social cohesion of the population that is so apparent in many British cities. The only thing that annoyed us about Vancouver was the number of beggars who kept pestering us for money we can only assume that they were drug addicts trying to get the price of their next fix. After four days visiting the sights of Vancouver, it was off to New Zealand.
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New Zealand For the first six days of our visit we stayed in an excellent B&B in Wellington, and were able to visit all the places of interest in the city, including the numerous brew-pubs which all seemed to produce excellent IPAs which I found irresistible. The standard of living in New Zealand is much higher than the UK. Most of the dwellings are detached bungalows with decent sized gardens, all at an affordable price. There are no apparent slums of deprived areas, although the locals seem to think there are clearly they have no idea about the state of Britain with its sink estates of welfare dependent immigrants. Whist in Wellington we visited the New Zealand parliament and listened to a debate concerning the provision of hydro-electric schemes, and the needs of the Maori population. It seems that the Maoris are given special privileges that are not granted to the settled European communities, who feel that they are treated as second class citizens quite the opposite to what happens in the UK. We hired a car and toured the North Island visiting Napier, Roturua, New Plymouth and North Palmerston. What amazed us was the vast amount of empty space free from overdevelopment that blights the UK; you could travel for miles without seeing a building or passing another car. On the negative side, you often had to travel over 100 miles before you found a petrol station, which caused us some anxious moments. Rotorua proved a great disappointment as the control of the geyser sites has been handed over to the Maoris as part of their cultural heritage; consequently one must now pay to visit these naturally occurring hot springs and geysers. One would not object to paying a small fee to assist in the up-keep of the site, but a charge of 50 was a rip-off which resulted in most of the potential visitors turning their backs on the site and walking away, like we did - talk about killing the goose the laid the golden egg. In general New Zealand is a very good place to live, and if the opportunity arrives for one to emigrate there, then they should do so without any hesitation. The population is at least 90% European, with 5% Maori and 5% other. At one time New Zealand had a policy of only allowing Europeans to settle in the country, but now they allow anybody into the country. Consequently, in the larger cities one is likely to see more nonEuropeans in particular Chinese and Indians; but ominously Negros and Moslems are becoming more apparent. Due to the low value of the sterling compared to other currencies we found New Zealand to be rather expensive, especially when dining out we were paying $NZ 24(12) for two pints of beer. However, we found that most hotels charged about 60 a night for a double room, which is comparable to the UK. After 22 days in New Zealand we flew to Singapore.
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Singapore I first went to Singapore in 1963 with the RAF just before Malaysian independence. Then it was still a colonial outpost that made me feel proud to be British. The British practically built the island state from scratch, with the assistance of labour brought in from China and India. Contrary to what the liberal-left teach our children, the British were held in high regard by all nationalities on the island, and I was able to walk anywhere without fear of hostility from the local population. Back then I remember it as a well-run society living in harmony with each other. In the early 1960s there were no high-rise buildings, but attractive colonial style housing designed and built by the British. I visited Singapore some 12 years ago, and was amazed at its transformation with the building of an underground railway and many high-rise buildings. In fact I even worked there for a little while with a firm of consulting engineers; they have now disappeared as a result of us ex-pats training the locals to do the work, so making ourselves redundant. Since that visit, there are now many sky-scrapers and a more extensive underground railway which is currently being extended further. Ive always enjoyed Singapore a success story of the British Empire which still embraces much of what Britain was like in the 1950s. The country is clean and tidy, and well run. There is little crime, and the people are polite. In particular the women were elegantly presented with no tattoos, piercings or surplus layers of fat. Where did Britain go wrong?

The picture shows the Chinatown district of Singapore with lanterns across the street in preparation for a forthcoming Chinese festival.

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John Irvings Letter

John Irving wrote the attached letter to the Western Morning News, which they published in September.

A Sweet Thought
Ive received the following message from my sister that you may find amusing.

Mr Cadbury met Miss Rowntree on a Double Decker. It was just After Eight. They got off at Quality Street. He asked her name. Polo, Im the one with hole she said with a Wispa. Im Marathon the one with the nuts he replied. He touched her Cream Eggs, which was a Kinder Surprise for her. Then he slipped his hand into her Snickers,which made her Ripple. He fondled her Jelly Babies and she rubbed his Tic Tacs. Soon they were Heart Throbs. It was a Fab moments as she screamed in Turkish Delight. But 3 days later, his Sherbet Dip Dab started to itch. Turns out Miss Rowntree had been with Bertie Bassett and he had Allsorts!

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The House of Corruption!
I have received the following E-mail from Christopher Whitlock, that you may find enlightening!

Can you imagine working for a company that only has a little more than 635 employees, but has the following Employee Statistics. 29 have been accused of spouse abuse, 7 have been arrested for fraud, 9 have been accused of writing bad cheques, 17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses, 3 have done time for assault, 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit, 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges, 8 have been arrested for shoplifting, 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits, 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year, And collectively, this year alone, they have cost the British tax payer 92,993,748 in expenses! Which organisation is this? It's the 635 members of the House of Commons. The same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line. What a bunch of crooks we have running our country - it says it all... And just to top all that they probably have the best 'corporate' pension scheme in the country - whilst trying to ensure that everyone else has the worst possible! If you agree that this is an appalling state of affairs, please pass it on to everyone you know ...

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A Letter from the English Democrats
The following letter has been received from the English Democrats, which you may find of interest.

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Skeptics in the Pub!
I have received an E-mail from Adrian Romilly concerning an organisation called Skeptics in the Pub. He feels that this is a group that we can get involved with to put the Nationalist point of view across in a covert way. Skeptics in the Pub have groups operating in Plymouth and Dartington, and with a group in Exeter in the process of being reformed after a period of inactivity. On their website they state their objectives as being:
Skeptics in the Pub (or Sceptics in the Pub, if you prefer) are groups which meet and converse in the UK and beyond, usually gathering once every month. The event was founded in London, UK by Dr Scott Campbell in 1999, for all those interested in science, history, psychology, philosophy, investigative journalism and how to examine extraordinary claims of all types. A speaker (or number of speakers) is invited each month to present a topic of interest, which is followed by a discussion in a relaxed and friendly pub atmosphere

Some of the topics discussed include: How to Create Your on Cult, the Scientology Way The Struggle for Evidence-Based Policy A Love Song for DJ Gothe Econonics, the Last Frontier of Skeptism? The Little Atoms Road Trip: A Scientific Odyssey Across America A History of West Country Quacks and Rise of Evidence Based Medicine Most of these topics are hardly likely to inspire nationalists, and leaves little room for real debate where differences in opinion are freely discussed. Adrians view is that nationalists should attend these debates with the objective of setting the agenda to include more controversial topics that will inspire more heated and passionate rhetoric. We will keep an eye on this organisation to see if we can affect the topics under discussion to reflect the true concerns of the British people.

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