Breadcrumbing

Hansel & Gretel: A trail of breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbing:-

Hansel & Gretel: The following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, the children find that birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods.

Computer Usage: "The graphical control element Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents. The term comes from the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the eponymous fairytale."

Urban Dictionary: "The act of sending out flirtatious, but non-committal text messages (ie "breadcrumbs") to members of the opposite sex in order to lure a sexual partner without expending much effort."  

  Association Agreement foreshadowing by the BBC?

I watched this, this morning and it reminded me of the "mock-up" Association Agreement symbol in MIND THE (Credibility) GAP. Mr. Brexit also notices some potential foreshadowing of Association Membership, too:-

Cameron hides EU Associate Membership position in plain sight

This "drip-drip" or "bread-crumbing" towards the intended result, it seems has been Cameron's consistent dress-rehearsal for some time as per the above previous blog.

You can read and listen to most if not all the Legacy News-Media and it won't make any difference to your understanding, it will only yet again and again remind you of Bremner, Bird & Fortune's satirical double-acts; doubly so if you are vaguely aware of the EU and of Brexit beyond these sources as per Understanding The Mountains Of Madness. One of the fundamental problems with the EU is that it is a question as much as "WHO?" as it is as "WHAT?". There's a really decent article by Tony Parsons in GQ Magazine that seems to make this point in a very straightforward and common sense way (without recourse to "Group Cohesion" theories!): Why We Should Leave The EU ~ Tony Parsons:-

"Forty years have passed since our last referendum on Europe, but with the ailing continent in economic free fall in the face of global competition, the time has come to quit this failed experiment. Goodbye EU, hello world...

The liberal establishment, from Downing Street to Broadcasting House, will argue for Britain to remain in the EU, that the loss of our national sovereignty, the degrading of our democracy, is a price worth paying because it is good for business.

But can you really put a price tag on freedom?

Don't let them tell you the British are not a proud, independent nation. Don't buy into their stinking culture of fear. Throw your arms around the big beautiful world. Don't be a Little European. Just say no."

Here is encapsulated in simple language some of the major themes:-

• Time
• Deceptive Political machinery
• Results and Performance feedback
• Globalization
• Don't make choices based on Fear: You'll regret it!
• Our future is engaging with the bigger picture, brighter picture

  Our relationship with the EU as per Set Theory representation:-

This is what Supranationalism means politically and legally!

What David Cameron is attempting to breadcrumb and gather pace now towards is this little trick:-

It does not matter how he phrases it, to quote an old Chinese proverb: "The more he writes the darker it gets (more ink and more confusion!)." The rebrand of "equals" is seen in the BBC footage above, but politically and legally under Supranationalism it looks like the above: We are a political SUB-SET along with the rest of the EU members, with the EZ an even smaller sub-set politically merging.

Dr. RAE North has been arguing that the esssential result that we wish to achieve in our EU Referendum (likely in 2017) is to recognize the EQUAL SETS status politically and legally of EFTA Nations such as Norway as per The Norway Option (or model!):-

The Norway Option ~ Dr. Richard North: One Step & One Component At A Time

It was already noted in My Kingdom for a Macroscope! that people often failed to understand the place and the order of The Norway Option in the greater context of Brexit = Present Simple Event (x1 day vs 16,425 days) compared to the full FLEXCIT Present Continuous towards Future Perfect Continuous Process. The full picture of which leads to the necessary condition of a Brexit vote is:-

UNECE becomes the "Regional Super-Set of equals" removing supranational subordination for international cooperation

In the above, what is made clear is the EQUAL SETS political and legal nature. It also massively helps as per The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and creates the "Positive Vision" that is based of developing "Real Wings Of Knowledge" with which to experience a flight of freedom as per Strange Trails. A lot of "eurosceptics" fail to understand this, because become hung-up upon the EEA Treaty agreement that is effectively the Present Simple and Present Continuous GLUE towards the full development of the Future Perfect Continuous FLEXCIT process.

Abstracting the full Campaign Process itself as per Argument Abstraction, the primary aim is to reach Power To The People in this EU Popular Referendum (likely in 2017) and David Cameron just like every other voter has x1 vote himself: No more and no less:-

Increasing "People Power" (= Democracy) via Correct Process

MIND THE (credibility) GAP

"MIND THE GAP"

The recent contributions by Professor Minford reminded me of the old satirical double-act of Bird and Fortune and the masterly way they postured preposterously...

  Bird & Fortune: "Europe" (1996) - Masters of Posturing

Prof. Minford's closing comments on Britain's EU membership (2015)

Professor Minford sounds just like Bird and Fortune along with the other waffling persons in the above clip. The attitude is strikingly similar to the pantomime of the satirist above.

In a lot of the EU debates, there's a very "dreamy" posturing social behaviour going on; perhaps the atmosphere of high social ranking persons produces such ineffectual actual debate and discussion?

EU Referendum: an immensely complex operation

Quoting Dr. RAE North at EUReferendum.com:-

Yet, what is especially significant is that, even with (then) nearly 50 years of political and economic integration to come, the Law Officers already thought that withdrawal would be "an immensely complex operation". And that currently, is the position we confront, with the possibility of Mr Cameron and the "colleagues" confusing the issue with an offer of associate membership of the European Union.

Despite the superficial attraction, that idea is not at all acceptable. It keeps the UK in a subordinate position where, in a Brussels-centric supranational treaty organisation, the European Commission still has the right of initiative when it comers to making the rules and therefore calls (too many) of the shots.

The thing is, we've been here before. Edward Heath in 1963 had made it clear that the question of associate membership had been considered and rejected.

EU Referendum: the tyranny of non-tariff barriers

 

Quoting Dr. RAE North at EUReferendum.com, again:-

Although tariffs do still have a role, in restricting trade or directing flows, they have been largely replaced by non-tariff barriers (NTBs), sometimes called technical barriers to trade (TBTs). This we have remarked upon in earlier blogposts, although the concept of there being barriers other than tariffs has barely if at all percolated the upper reaches of the Eurosceptic aristocracy.

Sometimes, one wonders if they read their own material. In 2012, an IEA report stressed that: "Non-tariff barriers need to be brought to the forefront of the trade debate". This was with reference to developing countries, where NTBs make it difficult to move into the export of higher value added products. Yet it is hard to get people such as Ruth Lea even to mention NTBs in any context, while Global Britain managed to produce a whole report on international trading without referring to them. 

Looking at some serious sources on the EU, the promise of a simple and complete break, with the EU along the lines of:-

 EU Referendum: David Cameron's Political Destiny Defined

David Cameron has been posturing for so long on "EU Reform" it seems he's been preparing for this his final and greatest act, his entire political career:-

 1. Cast-Iron Guarantee (2009)

2. No Ifs, No Buts Immigration promise (2010)

3. Phantom EU Veto (2011)

4. Cutting/Freezing the EU Budget (temporarily) (2012)

5. Tub-Thumping ""Late EU bill"" (2014)

6. Deadly Serious (2015)

 

 

Lost Leonardo - Coming Attractions

“Our participation in the Single Market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU.”

Pete North - Setting the stage for the Cameron deception 

 

White Wednesday - Patterns In The Smoke

 

Putting it all together:-

Turkish Delight! Turkish Delight!

'The White Witch' manipulates Edmund via his greed for "Turkish Delight!"

In C. S. Lewis' children's story, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, there's a particularly educational scene involving a meeting between The White Witch and Edmund. We know previously that Edmund has an inclination towards petty or mean-spiritedness; presumably from an as yet unacknowledged form of insecurity in the development of his character. This is what is exploited by the White Witch in her meeting with him, in addition to her artful methods of magic and deception: What we're really witnessing is the interaction of these two characters; within a fabulous context. She switches here domineering behaviour into flattery, cajolery and appeals to Edmund's own sense of greed and aggrandizement, promising him more "Turkish Delight!" if he will, only but, bring to her his other siblings and then veiled threats when he shows signs of not complying.

What's instructional for children is the deceptive behaviour by The White Witch who is clearly an untrustworthy character (both in the book and the animation of the book above, visually); whom has already been described as evoking fear and terror in others, from another character's account. And yet Edmund, blinded by his own smallness of character (not caring enough for his siblings while he stews in his own resentments) and his greed for "Turkish Delight!" demonstrates how easily he is manipulated by The White Queen, and how oblivious he is to the many signs of her real character that intermittently break through the "play-acting of pleasant and friendly", from time to time.

Turkish Delight: A gelatinous confection usually powdered with icing sugar

For so long, in the EU and Brexit debates in the UK the quality of arguments have been inferior and dominated by the Pro-EU Orthodoxy of the Status Quo Support For EU Membership. This orthodoxy has been defended by primarily FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) and equally by the apparent merging of the Legacy News-Media with the State-Government (which itself seems to have merged) and again merged with the EU; as per Understanding The Mountains of Madness. There we saw the foreshadowing that EUReferendum.com as per Dr. RAE North has been blogging about so far ahead of the Legacy News-Media, of the Association Membership fudge via David Cameron's Fallacy Of The Middle Way argument, despite this very model being rejected so long ago in the 1960's!

Lying in Parliament: "No Turkish Delight, if you support The Norway Option."

I've been following the various attempts to highlight how as per White Wednesday The Norway Option, as per Argument Abstraction is not a Min-Max Declarative Fallacy of Brexit but an Iterative Step as per Sequential Problem-Solving in Corvids pointing out that in all the information alone on the EU or Brexit,

"How We Are Governed?"

is perhaps the unifying/integrating principle from which all our subsequent details follow, Off The Ball Movement. This is all covered again by The Sceptic Isle “Associate membership” of the EU is a third rate offer and again by Jonathan Lindsell in Cameron Is Using Norway to Make the Out Campaigns Look Risky in conjunction with as per Dr. RAE North again EU Referendum: the "better deal" fallacy:-

"By this mean, these two thinkers, Freidman (Milton Friedman on the behaviour of government bodies: Barking Cats) and Selznick (Philip Selznick's theory of bureaucracy), provide vital elements of the intellectual foundation, with which we can begin to understand how the EU will behave. Their principles have served me well in my many years as an analyst of EU affairs."

"First Steps Into A Bigger World."

But irrespective of the rigour, research and knowledge demonstrated above, the higher quality of arguments and concepts promoted, we see the basic tools of the deceptive politicians in attempting to dissuade people from choosing "The Norway Solution":-

Carswell vs Thomas: "Turkish Delight!" (Greed) vs FUD (Fear)

This along with Daniel Hannan's decade old Swiss Association Membership fantasy all seem to align with 'Vote Leave' Campaign is Cummings Apart as per Lost Leonardo. What's interesting in Douglas Carswell's speech above, is his mixture of terms in a way where their application is not really making a whole lot of sense: Mumbling "Project Fear, Straw Man..." with Lying Lucy Thomas looks like this: It all plays into George Osborne's

Best Of Both Worlds: "Turkish Delight! Turkish Delight!"

I think the solution is not to be so childishly and ignorantly greedy: If a stranger offers you something that sounds too good to be true... it's because it probably is. A better guide is Learning & Playing The Rules Of The Game  aka "knowing the score". As suggested in both the campaign and the withdrawal process are 2 different contexts of Supranationalism and Intergovernmentalism: Both very very complicated, but the actual question boils down to a very simple choice for voters between Remain and Leave: Do you trust these people who attempt to manipulate the electorate via firstly Fear (for decades) then Greed (in the 2 years up to the referendum) and never ever attempt to educate them in the decades before a Referendum that has itself been promised and not delivered many times in the past as per Eurosceptic "Amnesia" vs Brexiteer "Total Memory Recall"?

The real face of our politicians' plans for the EU Referendum