Chaos in the ranks

Having been put in the position of holding a balance in the House of Commons, Clegg obviously found the prospect of a seat at the table in Number 10, together with the luxury limo more attractive than maintaining any semblance of honour or principle. Cable, Alexander and others followed Clegg’s lead and grasped this opportunity for all the privileges of Ministerial office and convinced the remaining LibDem MP’s to endorse the concept of Coalition. The arguments made by Clegg and others in respect of providing the country with stable Government are nothing more that a smoke screen put forward to camouflage a grubby grasp for power at any price. The honourable thing would have been to remain in opposition and watch the Conservatives Govern in a minority.
The Lib Dem’s are now reaping what they (or perhaps Clegg) have sown. Chaos, alarm and confusion rattle around Westminster as they scrabble for some semblance of justification for their abandonment of principle and betrayal of the all those who voted LibDem at the last election, in the vain belief that British politics could be lifted from the gutter,

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chaos-in-lib-dem-ranks-as-vote-on-tuition-fees-creates-party-split-2152171.html

mounted police charging London crowd

BBC News, Sky News, Fox News and the rest of the establishment mouth pieces, only ever point their cameras at windows being smashed or some other "out rage" commited by demonstrators. Where are these "Reporters" when the real thugery takes place? Why is it that the only recordings of demonstrators being attacked, like Ian Tomlinson (who was only going home from work anyway), are only caught on mobile phones or digital cameras of the public? It is only demonstrators behaving badly who are filmed. This has always been the case. The excesses of the police are often overlooked.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/26/police-student-protests-horses-charge

The Banks and finacial sector created the mess.

The Banks and finacial sector created the mess.The last Government, and now the Condem Coalition are pouring billions of Pounds of our money into a rotten and corrupt system, while the people pay the price with punative cuts in services and benifits, huge increases in taxes and duties, rising prices and more job losses. This is a global situation and the protests are growing in an increasing numbers of countries. The protest will be here soon.




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/8038931/Why-we-need-to-follow-the-Irish-and-restructure-our-zombie-banks.html

Labour Leadership Result and media hysteria

Within minutes of the Labour Party Leadership election results being announced, the rabid fascist right wing media release their name calling scaremongering excrement reminiscent of the days of Thatcher. The first out of the starting blocks was the obnoxious Adam Boulton (of the Alastair Campbell interview fame) closely followed by the lass from Wigan, Kay Burley. (The “Sack Kay Burley” campaign on Facebook should have Adam Boulton added to its aims.) How Sky News manages to continue masquerading as a balanced news programme remains a mystery to us all. Perhaps the fact that it is part of the Rupert Murdoch media empire has something to do with its biased presenters and story lines.
The BBC news coverage was not much better, with various presenters mentioning the “Red Ed“ label. Today (Sunday 26th September 2010) it is the turn of the Sunday Papers to seek to compete with each other for the title of “Who can produce the most hysterical headline and associated story content”. The sad, and worrying thing is that many people in this country actually believe what they see on television and read in the papers. .

Another harebrained contrick

Nick Clegg sold the LibDems "down the river"(and everyone else who voted Libdem) so that Cameron could indulge in these fairyland contricks.
Who pays for this lunatic scheme? "The Big Society Bank is based on legislation passed by Labour allowing money untouched for 15 years to be diverted to good causes if account holders cannot be traced by banks."
The Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber double act following the disaster that was New Labour.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-says-big-society-is-not-about-saving-money-2029927.html

Smiley's people or the Goon show?

Is this the biggest Non-story in the entire history of news coverage? Russian spies who "spied" on nothing, gathering information that they could have got from Google or Facebook.
"Sleepers", living and working in the UK and USA some with children born in their respective countries, trying to "influence policy making" in the US and UK.
Fat chance of achieving that with New Labour here and George "Dubya" Bush there, then in charge.Even less chance with control freak Obama in the White House and Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber in Downing Street
The these 10 low level "spooks"are being exchanged for proper espionage agents jailed in Russia,just because the Russians want to become members of the World Trade Organisation !!
The mind boggles

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Russian-Spies-Anna-Chapmans-British-Citizenship-Reconsidered/Article/201007215661852?lpos=World_News_News_Your_Way_Region_4&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15661852_Russian_Spies%3A_Anna_Chapmans_British_Citizenship_Reconsidered

More rewards for crime

War criminal and liar Tony Blair to receive an award and $100,000 in cash !

http://twitter.com/TelegraphNews

You could not make this up !!

RT @TelegraphNews Tony Blair to be awarded Liberty Medal http://bit.ly/aakQLb

Dr. Kelly

We will probably never get to the truth of this matter. The establishment pro war lobby have too much to hide.
Why are the initial post mortem results to be kept secret for the next 70 years?


http://bit.ly/aOU3le

Another illegal act in defiance of United Nations Resolutions

Another illegal act in defiance of United Nations Resolutions.
This time Resolution 478 of 20th August 1980.

http://imeu.net/news/article005891.shtml

Wake up World and smell the coffee !

Planning committee to release blueprint outlining takeover of East Jerusalem -

Haaretz Daily Newspap www.haaretz.com

Approval of the plan is expected to result in a wave of protest from Palestinians and Arab states, as well as international criticism of the government in Israel

A Facebook page which seems to be gaining members!

Don't stop at KB. Marshall,Boulton,Botting all have the same problem. Biased, ignorant and bloody rude "presenters".Perhaps Rupert Murdoch interviews all applicants for Sky News positions to ensure that they have the necessary qualities.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Sack-Kay-Burley/109109012465276

Israel to allow aid cargo into Gaza

It would be nice to believe that this is a direct result of the International protest not only at the attack on the flotilla, but also at the continuing blockade of Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories. Perhaps the tide is finally turning................time will tell.

Israel to allow aid cargo into Gaza - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Palestinians killed by Israeli fire - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Palestinians killed by Israeli fire - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

The Expenses scandal goes on

Enough of this whining and hand wringing nonsense about what a noble and wonderful person David Laws is/was. Even Nick Clegg has joined the “Westminster Club” and the sound of doors banging shut as MP’s of all persuasions band together in closed ranks, defending the indefensible. The cold hard fact is that, had the question of £40k expenses claims not been brought into the public domain, David Laws would still be in the cabinet, would not have announced that he would immediately pay back the costs of the rent and other housing costs, and he would not have referred himself to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. His personal life has little, if anything, to do with the expenses claim. He was exposed as having made claims which should not have been made. How this equates with being an “honourable” man defies logic.
It seems that the age of a new cleaner political environment, much promised before the election, has lasted less than 30 days and we have reverted to the same old self interest of distortion and hypocrisy, as the Con/Lib cabinet of Clegg and Cameron perpetuate the “It’s ok if you pay the money back” philosophy.
With the newsreaders on Sky News and BBC News24 reporting that the Prime Minister is leading the tributes to David Laws, we should all remember that this is not reporting a death in the family, it’s reporting the discovery of another grubby little British MP with his fingers in the till.

Electoral Reform

During my time as a very active member of the Labour Party, there was always s difference of opinion, one of many, between those on the on the traditional right of the Party and those of us who believed that PR was a more democratic system of voting. First Past the Post will always favour Labour but will invariably produce Governments elected by less than 4 in every 10 of people voting. That, in my opinion is just one of the fundamental reasons why the total number of people turning out to vote has, until this election, been falling. Ironically, it is the FPTP voting system which has produced the current coalition perhaps as a result of many people voting tactically to try to ensure that, this time, their votes were not wasted and a change in the voting system could be made. At this election, there was a 65% turnout. This is a 4% increase on the previous election, when all expectations prior to polling day, were that turnout would be down.
Perhaps the Labour Party leadership election will produce a result which would allow me to rejoin a party of principle and vision rather a collection of populist opportunists called Nu Labour.
In his Compass publication THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY, Jon Cruddas writes

Democracy
To build equality, to create community and to secure a sustainable future we
must strengthen our democracy. We need constitutional change and proportional
representation – to push power out of Whitehall and closer to the people.


Now there, if he stands, is a candidate that I would campaign for and support, if I were still a member of the Labour Party

A coalition of the centre right

We now have a new Government. A coalition of centre right Conservatives and Liberal Democrats has replaced a centre right coalition of Labour. The prospect of a new political philosophy , shown at times during the election campaign by Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats, has been extinguished by the vision of seats in the cabinet and some political power for Lib Dems, albeit limited, for the first time in some seventy years. This has clearly been more attractive to the Liberal Democrat MP’s and Executive Committee members than remaining on the opposition benches in the House of Commons. The losers in this arrangement are of course a substantial number of Liberal Democrat Party members, and a significant number of people in the Country who voted Lib Dem in a number of Constituencies in the hope and belief that, at last, this time something may come as a result of their votes. Alas, the arrangement with the Conservatives has dashed that prospect.
Notwithstanding the agreement with the Tories in connection with a referendum on changes to the electoral system, the system to be proposed is the Alternative Vote, which the vast majority of people will argue is little better than First Past the Post and can often produce results which are even more distorted and un representative of electoral preference. Only one method of PR has any credibility and that is Single Transferable Vote. It is the system used in other Countries and ensures that a true reflection of voters preferences are shown in the resulting Parliaments. It is argued by critics of PR that the election results produce minority Governments which lead to protracted discussions between parties seeking to create a coalition. It is therefore ironic that our current FPTP system has produced in this election, exactly the same result. There also seems to be no timescale for the holding of this referendum. It could be that nothing will happen within the lifetime, however long that may be, before the first Thursday of May in 2015 !
Leaving aside the matter of Proportional Representation and the other points in the coalition deal, there remains the wider issue of how a progressive left of centre party can remain in such a close relationship with right of centre party and retain any impression of credibility with the voters. Many people voted Liberal Democrat on May 6th 2010, many for the first and in the light of subsequent events perhaps the last time, in the belief that their votes may have an effect in brining about change in the political and electoral system in this country. It seems that now, on May 12th 2010, we still have the same old attitudes but now disguised with some new faces. What ever happened to the belief in principle before expediency.

Calm down..........calm down.

Adam Boulton on Sky News. showing how he has really overdone it and should go and lie down in a dark room with a glass of milk and an asprin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gkHwU4DRA8