Sometimes I am the butt of the jokes - as this recommendation for Commenter of the year on Political Betting -
Another nomination: Tapestry
Cause he’s the ONE guy you can be sure will NEVER knuckle under to the knavish tricks or depraved blandishments of the Greater East Cornwall Co-Prosperity Sphere!
by Sea Shanty Irish December 30th, 2010 at 20:11I later penned the phrase 'ban the burko/bercow' used by Nigel Farage for his Buckingham campaign, after an idea from a commenter 'Jay' on The Tap.
I coined 'Breakneck not Brokeback' for the coalition, writing it on PB, and here on The Tap to find it used by others unattributed! (as usual!) http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2010/07/its-the-breakneck-not-the-brokeback-coalition.html and at Policy Exchange. Although my idea for what constitutes a 'breakneck' coalition is very different. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bc1958c0-fbf2-11df-b7e9-00144feab49a.html#axzz16mvM2uqf
Habitually find my phrases used by others over the years, but I didn't write all the examples down in a list!
More memorable examples are Harriet Harman using my suggestion that all the men would leave Britain if she became the next Labour leader (in government) but there wouldn't be enough airports. She actually used it replying to Hague in the commons the same day I wrote it on Politicalbetting.
Then I wrote a tirade against Blair becoming EU President on Conservativehome, ending with a jab at Cherie Blair, calling her 'Cherie Antoinette'. Two days later it was used on Have I Got News For You.
My more recent writings (late 2010, early 2011) have been more focused on less amusing topics. Humour is parked while I get to grips with some very unpleasant subjects.
MY NAME - WHY TAPESTRY?
When I occasionally meet a reader, I am often asked how I acquired the name 'Tapestry'. The story goes back ten years, when the Financial Times launched one of the first online chat forums. Along with half a dozen others, I became a regular in the Euro thread.
One of the other chatters called Stephen Saines from Canada suggested we all adopt names from the game of Monopoly, and as the traditional British pro-Keep The Pound representative, he allocated me the Top Hat piece. He allocated himself the pro-Euro Motor Car!
Things went on happily until I began to find that when I tried to log in, access was barred. But if I adapted another name, I could get past the gate-keeper who was trying to bar me. The first alt I used was Topper. Then Tapper. Then Tapestry. Then Teapastry. Then Tapestory and so on in rotation, continually changing the name until I could get access to the forum.
From all those names, once the blogosphere started in earnest around 2004, five years later, I continued with Tapestry as the preferred choice of name when I left comments on blogs.
Once I started my own blog in 2006, the name Tapestry seemed not quite right, as there are blogs about tapestry-making and I would be endlessly confused with those. So I adapted the name once more to 'The Tap'. It's all a bit confusing in a way, but it works.
EARLIER PRE-POLITICS WRITING
I was published twice writing about business cultures, once by Director Books, writing a chapter in Successful Change Strategies in 1992, called 'Building A Creative Culture For A Growing Organisation' and by Elsevier Science, in Long Range Planning, April 1997, titled, 'Entrepreneurship In A Growth Culture'. Both were accepted for publication by Professor Bernard Taylor of Henley Management College. The second is still in print in 2010 and is read by thousands of MBA students every year all over the world. It is published in most major languages. Maybe I've got a following of groupies in China, but I wouldn't know! I have met people who studied my ideas at College and they say they have used them in their subsequent careers. One major bank told me they used them in reorganising their regional offices.
The original ideas about culture came from the observation, that there were two primary cultural influences on human behaviour, which can be identified quite easily, once you know what you are looking for.
Leaving aside the individualistic cultural category, the two interactive cultural emphases that can be identified at both group and individual level, are either to cooperate, or to compete. Individuals within organisations possess either predominantly cooperative behaviour and attitudes, both internally and externally, or predominantly competitive.
Identifying what kind of cultural environment you need for your organisation to succeed, is crucial to the success of a business venture, or any field of activity where the information requirements for decision-taking are either mutual openness, and high levels of cooperation, and maximum sharing of information, or intense competitiveness between individuals, low cooperation, and a centralising focus for information.
Once the correct cultural model is identified (there is also an individualistic cultural model where information is neither shared openly, or centralised, and where minimal interaction and coordination is required) individuals have to be carefully selected to fit either a highly cooperative environment, or a highly competitive one. The cultural predisposition of an individual is almost impossible to change once it is set, and the setting happens at an early age.
Individuals betray their suitability to one culture or the other by the way they describe themselves. The details of their past life are not as important, as the way the talk about it, and contextualise it, and present themselves. You need to read the article if you are interested further. See the article Entrepreneurship In A Growth Culture here. Sadly I don't own the copyright.
As for a political parallel, the most cooperative and open philosophical phrase throughout history, has to be 'the right to the pursuit of happiness', originally penned by John Locke.
In my own life, once I had identified these parameters of organisational culture, and written it up for Professor Bernard Taylor, who I met at a lunch at Henley by chance, while working there on a project to identify the role of Company Directors. After that my interests moved on from business towards politics.
I still own my business which runs on, but I haven't worked there all that much since 1992. Health problems intervened and I was away for five years entirely, unable to even receive a phone call. But with health a lot stronger than it was, I am able again to take an interest in the goings-on at the 'factory'. The company's website is being relaunched in September and that is a fun project. It is a jewellery manufacturing and distribution business supplying the trade in Britain and Ireland. We once had offices in Canada, Japan and the USA. But with the internet taking over communications, we don't need them now.
Blogging was initially something I could do while I was ill, housebound and cut off from the world of work. The internet reconnected me to activity on a controllable basis, while various unconventional doctors worked out what chemicals had done to my nervous system as a child living on a dairy farm (PCB). They have rectified the situation as far as is possible to do.
FINANCE/TECHNOLOGY/ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT
I am now interested in financial matters, as the effects of the financial world have become so great that they overshadow the rest of mankind's endeavours. Essentially a credit bubble has grown to an all time high, driving prices of assets to very high unsustainable levels. As the bubble deflates, my view is that the prices will fall back, and the world's economies and political systems will be put under huge strain.
The world's technologies have stagnated, with breakthrough technologies not tolerated by governments and large organisations, all of which try to keep the current paradigm as fixed as possible. Man needs to grow his economic output, and create a benign physical and cultural environment. To achieve these ends, new technologies, all discovered and known about, will need to be released. Scientists who know the secrets of the future either keep quiet or meet untimely deaths.
The cultural, financial and technological lock-up will eventually break free, possibly in explosive fashion, or maybe peaceably, which would be nice. The electrical inventions of Serb Nikola Tesla from over one hundred years ago will be part of the new paradigm - the Tesla coil, the Tesla dynamo and the transfer of electricity from the environment without the need for generation.
The coil is able to create huge energy. One parallel description of how it works is to picture a child's swing. One small push delivered each time the swing passes is enough to create a bigger and bigger effect until the swing flies over the bar and goes right around. The power input needed to accelerate the swing is minimal compared to the huge energy output. See Tesla Cars in the blog, and Tesla Electricity.
Electricity passes from the earth out to the ionosphere and back again via lightning strikes and other weather effects. The flow of electricity returning to the earth could be intercepted by harnessing lightning strikes or the use of magnetism, and distributed by resonance. Or power can be tapped into as it moves out from the earth. Tesla believed electricity, magnetism and gravity were all one force.
His inventions could power everything without the need for fuels. Those who set about proving that these ideas work don't survive long, with vested interests brutally suppressing the use of Tesla technology by private people. There are many other known technologies which have been suppressed by business and governments which like things the way they are. The only thing they care about is maintaining the positions they have acquired, as with all empires throughout history. Yet the empire that rules the world now is hidden, keeping apparently democratic systems in place to fool the masses into subservience.
They intend to reduce the world's populations by poisoning people, as Monsanto poisoned my family, and our neighbours, in the 1950s and 1960s with PCBs which were given full licence by 'government' although the effects of daily exposure to peoples' nervous systems were well documented in the 1930s. Newer, more targeted and efficient poisons and 'unevaluated' viruses, which increase sterility, as well cause deaths, are being delivered through a worldwide vaccination programme. Fluoride and other toxins are being delivered via tap water ensuring a shrinking in fertility and faster rate of death. GM foods could easily be added to the list of poisons, if they choose to use them for the purpose of reducing population. Meanwhile dioxin has recently been found in animal feed, ensuring it gets established in the human food chain. You need to be on your guard, it might be said.
Not only are poisons and viruses being delivered deliberately into our bodies, easily accessible cures to diseases such as cancer are being deliberately kept from view. 'Health'is big business, which actually means disease is big business. Anything which brings on chronic or terminal illness is excellent for this industry. The only trouble is that the same cartel controls the media, the food supply and most all else. Read 'World Without Cancer'by G. Edward Griffin.
UPDATE APRIL 2012 - After studying world events and blogging for another year, I am far less optimistic than I was a year or two ago as regards the ability of mankind to throw off the control grid, that keeps technological advance locked up, and which is quietly poisoning us all. Chemtrails and weather control are evident across many continents. Contamination of food, water, air and light (emf's) grows every year, as do the numbers of vaccinations being given to children (49 by the age of 5 in the USA). The world government seems to be successfully going about its huge depopulation campaign (90% of humanity - starting with the rich countries incidentally), with no one or few even aware as to what is going on. Talk of The White Hats being able to carry out mass arrests and a coup d'etat seem fanciful. People generally prefer to hide away from reality and die in droves with a murmur, rather than read up on what is going on and try to reverse the bind we are all in.
Alien/UFO games are being played out and there are signs of more false flags being planned, the two possibly linked. At The Tap Blog, we write on.
JUST FOR INTEREST, A BIT ABOUT MY FAMOUS GRANDFATHER
This is an extract of an account of the day after HMS Hood was sunk.
The Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Cruiser Squadron, with his force proceeded at 28 knots on the course which would bring him soonest within 100 miles. He hoped to get near enough to launch the attack by 2100, but a short engagement with Prince of Wales caused the enemy to make ground to the westward; and became apparent that the Victorious could not be within 100 miles of them before 2300. The Rear-Admiral Commanding, Second Cruiser Squadron, therefore ordered the striking force to be flown off at 2200, some 120 miles from the objective.
35. The Victorious had only just commissioned. She was about to carry a large consignment of crated Hurricanes to Gibraltar, there to be assembled and flown to Malta, when she was put under my command for this operation. The only operational aircraft she had on board were nine Swordfish of 825 and six Fulmars of 820 Squadron. She had only had a week to work up and the Fulmar crews were far from fully trained.
The Commanding Officer had decided that nothing less than the whole of 825 Squadron could be expected to produce any result in a torpedo attack. He realised that the Fulmars were far from ideal for shadowing, but decided to use them to maintain touch, in the hope of being able to launch another torpedo attack in the morning.
36. The nine Swordfish were flown off at 2210, followed at 2300 by three Fulmars and at 0100 by two more as reliefs. The weather was showery with squalls; wind north-westerly, fresh; visibility good, except during showers. Sunset was at 0052.
7. 825 Squadron, by very good navigation and with the assistance of the ASV, located the Bismarck at 2330 and altered to the southward with the object of making their attack from ahead. The cloud was increasing and they lost touch, but after circling round for some time located the Norfolk and Prince of Wales and were redirected by the former. A few minutes later the ASV gear again indicated a ship and the squadron broke cloud to deliver their attack, only to find themselves over a United states Coastguard cutter. The Bismarck was six miles away and, observing this incident, opened H.A. barrage fire, keeping it up throughout the attack. Eight aircraft got in their attacks, the ninth losing touch in a cloud layer and failing to find the target. At least one hit was obtained.
38. This attack, by a squadron so lately embarked in a new carrier, unfavourable weather conditions, was magnificently carried out and reflects the greatest credit on all concerned. There can be little doubt that the hit was largely responsible for the Bismarck being finally brought to action and sunk. The value of ASV was once more demonstrated; without it, it is doubtful whether any attack would have been possible.
The Rear Admiral commanding the second cruiser squadron was my grandfather.
by Tapestry January 28th, 2011 at 20:57
124. The extract from HMS Hood Association website
128. Against countries such as China and Russia the UK would be helpless.
The primary threat we could face could be from a country we normally regard as an ally. If the US is subjected to Martial Law under the Patriot Acts, and the camps are filled with political opponents, racial and social undesirables, and Congress emasculated, the OWG will wish to export its totalitarian agenda.
Britain might have to face up to a hostile USA in these circumstances, if we attempt to preserve our democratic existence, with the Nazis coming from the opposite direction on this occasion.
by Tapestry January 28th, 2011 at 20:57
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