The Belgian Bus Crash: Part 2.

In the first part of this trilogy I explained how the Belgian Royal Family deliberately caused a bus to crash in a Swiss tunnel on Wednesday last (14/3/12) in order to help the British Royal Family to put pressure on the United States of America over the proposed military pull out from Afghanistan and kick start the Republican Party's 2012 Presidential election campaign. Beyond those specific objectives the bus crash was also designed to cause generalised confusion in and around the meeting between the British Prime Minister and the US President.

For example although fairly common in Europe the design of the tunnel with two tunnels each carrying traffic in opposite directions is similar to the design on the Channel or Euro-Tunnel which carries rail traffic between France and Britain. The Channel Tunnel is obviously a strong physical symbol of the link between Britain and continental Europe. Apart from that a fire in the Channel Tunnel was used to publicise and explain a blood clotting problem that my grandmother had following hip replacement surgery in 2008. My father also helped in the building of the Channel Tunnel and I'm sure it's been used to discuss many other issues that I'm not even aware of.

Then there is the paedophilia issue. Along with Austria both Switzerland and Belgium have been rocked by some very nasty - Josef Fritzl style - paedophile scandals in recent years. While there is absolutely no suggestion of this sort of wrong-doing by anyone involved in the bus crash there is only so long you can listen to stories about children having fun with adults in Swiss ski chalets before you think about child abuse at least once. This is especially true when the Belgian authorities kept making statements about how the teachers had been loving the children as if they were their own. This unsettling topic of conversation was fed even more by the fact that on Thursday (15/3/12) Britain's BBC News Channel was holding it's annual "School Report" event. This involves schools across Britain teaming up with the BBC to allow specially selected children between 11 and 16 years to work with professional journalists throughout the week to interview politicians and produce their own news reports. Some of these reports are then broadcast internationally on the BBC News Channel. Obviously this sort of thing does draw attention to how the British Establishment screens children from a very young age and then sometimes "grooms" them into performing certain roles. Mainly though the BBC School Report causes chaos in the normally quite robust working environment of British politics and the news media while everyone is forced to watch their language as they're over-run by school children.

Then of course there is the beer issue. Apart from the FN FAL assault rifle Belgium's most famous export is probably Stella Artois a legendary Pilsner Lager that I used to drink alot of. However the Stella Artois you get in the UK these days is actually brewed in Wales and their tinkering with the recipe has produced a lager so sugary that even I struggle to find it drinkable. I am though quite partial to the Cidre they recently brought out even though I much prefer Magners Cider which is brewed in Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland. The children killed in the bus crash came from Lommel which although in Belgium and spelled differently is pronounced more or less the same.

Now talking of beer it's around 17:45 on Tuesday March 20th 2012 and I'm shortly off to the pub. It will probably be the other pub because Crystal Palace are playing Burnley tonight. Burnley of course are the team of Alistair Campbell - Tony Blair's infamous spin doctor. So at this rate and with the UK budget tomorrow I don't see part 3 turning up anytime before Thursday.