David Cameron has f***ed up over Europe – I hope our politicians won’t f**** us up too.

I like Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister. I like his style too – he says it as he says it. He was right too. British Prime Minister, David Cameron has “fucked up” over Europe.

I’ve been away for two weeks and in that time I’ve seen my profound reservations about two of our Prime Ministers justified. Now both David Cameron and Tony Blair are both exposed in their incompetence.

Forgetting Cameron’s blundering appointment, defence and now apology for his ill-considered recruitment of the disgraced phone-tapping ex-editor of the News Of The World, let’s look at his repeated mismanagement of Britain’s role in Europe now that he is almost certainly going to be defeated over his opposition to the appointment, expected today, of  Jean-Claude Juncker as the new EU president.

It could have been so different if, here in Britain, our party leaders had spent more time working on improving the EU than hiding from their own Euro-sceptic backbenchers. Politicians have an obligation to explain as well as to represent. Now, Britain’s only main pro-European party, the Liberal-Democrats, is being slaughtered at the polls.

The Polish Foreign Minister Mr Sikorski summed it up the Jean-Claude Juncker affair in that leaked recording: ‘It’s either a very badly thought through move, or, not for the first time a kind of incompetence in European affairs. Remember? He fucked up the fiscal pact. He fucked it up. Simple as that.

‘He is not interested, he does not get it, he believes in the stupid propaganda, he stupidly tries to play the system… his whole strategy of feeding [his Eurosceptic fellow Conservatives] scraps in order to satisfy them is just as I predicted, turning against him.

‘He should have said, fuck off, tried to convince people and isolate [those sceptics]. But he ceded the field to those that are now embarrassing him.’

And what about the other British Prime Minister who let down his country. I was horrified to return from holiday and read about the worsening situation in Iraq. My sympathies, yet again, have to be extended to the Iraqi people for this the latest round of horror.  So, Mr Blair, not only were there no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but there has been no peaceful post-Saddam settlement either. You lied to us then and you won’t admit your errors now. As you said once, let history be the judge. I think I know what it will say.

Wayne Rooney

I had a lovely time in Italy but coming home to England, it looks like everything is beginning to unravel. I think we deserve better. We can’t even rely on Wayne Rooney.

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STEPHEN DEARSLEY’S SUMMER OF LOVE BY COLIN BELL

My novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published  on 31 October 2013. It is the story of a young fogey living in Brighton in 1967 who has a lot to learn when the flowering hippie counter culture changes him and the world around him.

It is now available as a paperback or on Kindle (go to your region’s Amazon site for Kindle orders)

You can order the book from the publishers, Ward Wood Publishing:

http://wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-stephen-dearsleys-summer-of-love.htm 

…or from Book Depository:

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Stephen-Dearsleys-Summer-Love-Colin-Bell/9781908742070

…or from Amazon:

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COLIN BELL’S PUBLICATIONS:

Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love
Ward Wood Publishing
October 30, 2013

http://www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk/titles-fiction-colin-bell-stephen-dearsleys-summer-of-love.htm

Genius Floored: Uncurtained Window
Soaring Penguin Press
June 15, 2013
Poetry anthology


http://www.soaringpenguinpress.com/publications/poetry/genius-floored-whispers-in-smoke/

Genius Floored: Whispers in Smoke
Soaring Penguin Press
June 6, 2014
Poetry anthology

http://www.soaringpenguinpress.com/publications/poetry/genius-floored-whispers-in-smoke/

Reaching Out
Cinnamon Press
December 2012
Poetry and short story anthology

http://www.cinnamonpress.com/product-item/reaching-out/

Tic Toc
A Kind Of A Hurricane Press
June 2014
Poetry anthology

http://www.kindofahurricanepress.com/2014/06/tic-toc-is-now-available.html

The Blotter
The Blotter Magazine Inc.
November 2009
Three pages of poetry in the American South’s unique, free, international literature and arts magazine.

http://www.blotterrag.com/back-issues/2009-11.pdf

The Fib Review
Musepie Press
My Fibonacci poetry has appeared in this journal from 2009 until the present

http://www.musepiepress.com/fibreview/writers.html

Shot Glass Journal
Muse Pie Press
My poetry has appeared in various issues of this short form poetry journal

http://www.musepiepress.com/shotglass/writers.html

Every Day Poets Magazine
Every Day Poets
I have various poems of the day published in this 365 days a year poetry magazine.

http://www.everydaypoets.com/?s=Colin+Bell

In The Night Count The Stars
Bittersweet Editions
March 1, 2014
An “uncommon anthology” of images, fragments, stories and poetry.

http://www.bittersweeteditions.com/in-the-night-count-the-stars.html#%2EU8ZFXY1dXoo