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- UKIP believes in facilitating quality education for all, regardless of income, age or range of abilities, with a full and unashamed emphasis on the 3 RsRead more...
"when faced with the decision finance or democracy? I went for democracy"
Look and learn, Labour. Get the hell out of the economy.
Class of 2010, UK"So let us not deceive our children, and especially children from poorer homes with worthless qualifications so that they become like the citizens of Weimar Germany or Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe carrying their certificates around in a wheelbarrow, or produce people like those girls in the first round of X Factor who tell us they want to be the next Britney Spears but they can't sing a note."
Schools Minister Vernon Coaker said: "These comments are quite frankly astonishing. It's easy to make sweeping, rhetorical flourishes about so-called 'soft' subjects - but it is wrong to ignore the hard work of tens of thousands of teachers and pupils and misrepresent the state of education in this country.
Just opened a new extended services community room at Carlton Central Infant School@VernonCoakerMP
The bloggeratti are panting eagerly in expectation that the Chillcott gangbang of five are about to prove the existence of the 'G' spot, 'G' in this respect standing for Guilt, Blair, Tony, of.
Faster, deeper, talk dirty intentions to us; an army of voyeurs stand on the sidelines proffering advice, ask this, ask that, go here, go there.
'Miranda' is no more about to explode in an orgasm of guilt that will lead him to the promised land in the Hague at the hands of five members of a parliamentariat which couldn't even organise an expenses rip-off in an institution of unparalleled privilege than donate his assets to Iraqi orphans.
This isn't the Jeremy Kyle show; a skilled interlocutor tearing holes in a collection of feral youths who have never being held to account before - although the Daily Telegraph is doing its level best to engender that atmosphere with its interactive 'lie-detector' appearing alongside Blair, so that the 'peeeple' can place their votes now - this is a collection of feral parliamentarians who have never been successfully held to account themselves, attempting to tear holes in a series of skilled interlocutors.
One of the advantages of being in government is the ability to surround yourself by the best 'operators', and so before Blair exercised his prerogative to take the country to war purely on his say so, as he was fully entitled to, he took the precaution of ensuring that his former flatmate, Goldsmith, had a legal argument up his sleeve, in the event that the International Criminal Court was ever invoked, and that Alastair Campbell was laying a careful trail through the media that could successfully obscure the manner in which he took his decision.
In any given dispute, there will be two different legal 'opinions' given - that by counsel for the defence, and that by counsel for the prosecution - they will be diametrically opposed, it is the nature of the beast. Both will be from 'learned cousnel' - the media has spent two days salivating over Lord Goldsmith's opinion as though it came down the mountain on a tablet of stone, it was just that, an opinion. Furthermore, it was an opinion to 'his client' - Tony Blair - not the British people.
The millions that are being expended on this political show trial are doing no more than obscuring the reforms of our parliament that could ensure in future we have parliamentarians who stand for truth and honestly.
Blair is the past, raking it over serves no purpose whatsoever. Correction, it keeps the chattering blogeratti occupied when we should be better employed raking over the future.
A new political party is being launched and has asked me to review them.
Off you go then.....the Impact Party
Police said it was the UK's biggest ever demonstration with at least 750,000 taking part, although organisers put the figure closer to two million.
There were also anti-war gatherings in Glasgow and Belfast - all part of a worldwide weekend of protest with hundreds of rallies and marches in up to 60 countries.
They came as UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, in a speech warning of "bloody consequences" if Iraq was not confronted, directly addressed those marching.
Protestor at #iraqinquiry complains re police chaos: "If you're going to have a police state, at least organise it properly."Read more...
The main argument now, increasingly, is between those who view the state as an enabler and those who view it as, at best, a sometimes necessary irritant. To employ a massively oversimplified analogy, statists seem to think that the state should act as captain, coach, physio, kitman, ballboy, PR department, groundsman, ticketing department, FIFA representative, the guy with the half time oranges, agent, translator, WAG, turnstile operator, matchday police, the guy selling the big flags outside the ground and the guy confiscating the big flags on the way into the ground.
Libertarians just want a guy with a fucking whistle.
Benny Fitz-Clements and his mates knocking at the front door.“work hard, get lucky and you’ll own a Learjet”
“work hard and you’ll own a BMW”
“Sit on the couch all day belching Stella and you’ll still get a car (an old banger mind), a washing machine, some beer vouchers, a fridge, a cooker, a TV, somewhere to live, free school meals and free health and education. All translated into Urdu if you need it. Just vote Labour”
Where the two senior legal officers in the Foreign Office in the build up to the Iraq war have given evidence. They have both declared in forthright terms that the war was plain and simply illegal.
However the outcome for their shared view is very different. Sir Michael Wood, the then head of the department, simply put his head down and got on with other work and picked up a knighthood in 2004.
His principled deputy Elizabeth Wilmshurst resigned two days before the invasion. Gary Gibbon reports that she was the only witness to have been given a round of applause throughout the entire Inquiry thus far. But Lord Goldsmith and Tony Blair are yet to come.
Channel 4 News
Elizabeth Wilmshurst is the only public official to have come out of this with any credit.
A minute dated 18 March 2003 from Elizabeth Wilmshurst (Deputy Legal Adviser) to Michael Wood (The Legal Adviser), copied to the Private Secretary, the Private Secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary, Alan Charlton (Director Personnel) and Andrew Patrick (Press Office):
1. I regret that I cannot agree that it is lawful to use force against Iraq without a second Security Council resolution to revive the authorisation given in SCR 678. I do not need to set out my reasoning; you are aware of it.
[The following italicised section was removed by the Foreign Office but later obtained by Channel 4 News]
My views accord with the advice that has been given consistently in this office before and after the adoption of UN security council resolution 1441 and with what the attorney general gave us to understand was his view prior to his letter of 7 March. (The view expressed in that letter has of course changed again into what is now the official line.)
I cannot in conscience go along with advice - within the Office or to the public or Parliament - which asserts the legitimacy of military action without such a resolution, particularly since an unlawful use of force on such a scale amounts to the crime of aggression; nor can I agree with such action in circumstances which are so detrimental to the international order and the rule of law.
2. I therefore need to leave the Office: my views on the legitimacy of the action in Iraq would not make it possible for me to continue my role as a Deputy Legal Adviser or my work more generally.
For example in the context of the International Criminal Court, negotiations on the crime of aggression begin again this year.
I am therefore discussing with Alan Charlton whether I may take approved early retirement. In case that is not possible this letter should be taken as constituting notice of my resignation.
3. I joined the Office in 1974. It has been a privilege to work here. I leave with very great sadness.
If you fancy some mischief, there are various opportunities to arrest a well known war criminal responsible for the deaths of between 100,000 and 1 million innocent men, women and children coming up.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
He is known to be residing in the UK at various addresses and is wanted on charges of genocide. It is rumoured he will be associating with fellow criminals in London. Do your worst.
Arrest Blair
I have been watching the Tea Party movement in the States for the last year, they have
been slightly more than successful in grabbing 'There is something wrong with steering' Kennedy's old seat in the US Senate. Or as the Guardian calls them-'What sort of person could unite this rag-tag collection of tax-hating gun nuts and single-issue cranks? '
The Grauniad still believes that the second coming has happened then !
The 'Chosen One' worshipping of Obama when he was elected was nauseating enough, our own dear Kerry MP Bristol East was out there campaigning on behalf of the good people of Bristol for his election. The BBC told us that angels would appear on the earth and Doves fly into the Sky.
The reality is that the American Economy so long dependent on the Consumer, is in hock to China, Guantánamo Bay is still open for business and the Iraq/Afghanistan mess continues with the prospect of another pre announced offensive. (They did not do this in the First World War !)
Anyway,now that the word of the chosen one has been challenged by the voters, the BBC has decided to get down and find out why the good people of Massachusetts voted for Senator Brown, by going to interview 'the people who oppose the President' in Kentucky and Arkansas !!
Hopefully for the BBC, it can stoke up the implication that this is a racist conspiracy from nothing more than a bunch of Good Ol' Rednecks South of the Mason Dixon line. This is a new low for the BBC.
Here is a map so that BBC Executives can work out Mass, KY and AR
The BBC should not have to worry too much, our two party system is not as sophisticated as the two hundred year old American one. A Barbary Ape with a Blue Rosette could win most seats with minimal interference from 'Independents'.
It is important that Trafalgar Square is a safe, enjoyable environment for Londoners and visitors to the capital. Heritage Wardens are employed there at all times to make sure it is, and to help our visitors to enjoy the square.
Do it. Everytime you see one of them watching you, watch them. DEMAND to see their warrant card. And then ask the time(they hate it).
Passengers on the 11.40 British Airways Shuttle from Birmingham to Glasgow today
A Prisoners Earnings to Be Taxed
and the money used to fund Rape Crisis Centres
Fabian social control using the Tax system, how novel !
Strengthening Police stop and Search powers, and 'grounding' orders
The Police will love that, and abuse it the same way they did the Terrorism Act
Anybody caught carrying a knife should expect to go to jail
That's me buggered then, I had better start practicing gnawing through stuff as an alternative to carrying a tool to do the job.
Allow Police to use surveillance powers in routine cases without need for authorisation
The Stasi Charter, the DDR did this they bugged and followed people and completedly missed the 1989 revolution. Do CCHQ not watch films like the 'Lives of Others' or read books like '1989, The Berlin Wall, My Part In Its Downfall' by Peter Millar.
The Police will love this
Replace Police Authorities with Elected Police Commissioners.
No No No, Elected Chief Constables. In Swindon when the Authority said they were going to rip out speed cameras, the Chief Constable just said he was not accepting that, and would put more mobile units on the street. The Chief Constable should set out his Policing Priorities in his manifesto, not drafted by the likes of Jack Straw.
VOTE TORY, VOTE FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN POLICE STATE
This crap comes out the same day the Met was chastised for allowing a taxi Driver sexually assault forty women, because they basically could not give a toss.
Last year the Police go very excited about cracking a few heads in the Summer of Rage Hartshorn of the Met warned some middle class bastards are going to kick off, or words to that effect. In the end we had one newspaper seller killed and a six foot copper with his ID hidden laying into a woman half his size with the back of his hand and then proceeding to take her legs away with his baton.
This year, we have still the soft fluffiness of a Government borrowing £20m an hour, every hour of every day, seven days a week, fifty two weeks of the year. This will continue as none of the three major parties want to address the deficit, they just want to tell everybody what they are going to spend your money on. Unfortunately PAYE is not even covering the Benefits bill, so that is why the Government is acting like a junkie in a crackhouse. CPI rose to 2.9% in December.
Once the Election is over, and another 646 sit in the Commons and we are set for another five years of elective dictatorship with a landslide for the Tories with I estimate less than 25% of the available vote. The dabbling round the edges will start, hikes in NI (tax on jobs and business) hikes in VAT to 20%+ plus increases in fuel duty (taxes on the poor), collapse in foreign investment in the UK. With a moth floating out of the treasury account books and not a lot else
Britain is the only Country importing people and exporting Jobs. The longer the Political Classes put off the inevitable reduction in personal tax take and having to slash and burn the State and its dependents the more painful the correction is going to be.
Perhaps Super Hartshorn got the Summer of Rage right and the year wrong.
Ask your candidate on May 6th were they stand on Elected Chief Constables, I bet they have not even thought about it.
The Police are becoming more dangerous not less since gunning down Jean-Charles De Menezes. This use of the local armed plod and helicopter seems to me that eventally somebody is going to get seriously hurt. The boy made a peaceful protest, and look at the result.
I suggest that somebody serves a FOI request on how much this jolly jape cost and send an invoice to the Chief Constable to pay personally. I can't be bothered at present because i am still dealing with the results of my subject access request, it is amazing what the guardians keep on us all.
H/T Total Politics
There are two distinct classes of men..... those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
Thomas Jefferson
Writer with others of the Constitution of the United States of America. Died aged 83 founding father of the United States
Versus
Ein Reich,Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer
Adolf Hitler Committed Suicide aged 56, consigned half of Europe to Communism for forty years, systematically murdered Jews,Homesexuals,Slavs, Gypsies,Socialists,Liberals,Communists,Army Officers in industrialised death camps. Started an agressive war that consumed millions of lives.
and
'I have been a racist since 1921, I don't know how they think I am imitating Hitler'
Benito Mussolini executed in 1945 aged 62.
One helped create the most powerful nation on earth based on Liberty and Freedom, the other two destroyed their countries based on Blut und Boden
By the way, Britain declared war on all three.
Dave is not a Libertarian (he said so) Dave does not believe in giving you a say over the EU (No to a Lisbon Referendum) , the great forehead of doom is going to restore public finances by introducing European Vat Rates in excess of 20% because 'its good for us'.
The only thing good for us is to pull down the big intrusive state, Billy Bragg wants a tax strike, because of the evil Bankers, I want a tax stike to bring down the big State, it worked in 1640 over the Bishops War and Ship Money and it worked in 1776.
Mass immigration ? blame the Welfare State, would you move to another country with no home, no means of support,no understanding of the language or culture ? Those that can do this deserve to come here because they are taking a risk and are not a drain on the rest of us. Mass Immigration has come about because the State offers a better standard of living, than living in a country with no work and a lot of heavy ordnance descending from above.
The Forehead of Doom is going continue to maintain a big State by continuing to take fifty per cent of your salary before you see it, and slap another tax on the poor by raising VAT to European levels. Sucking money out of the productive private sector and redirecting it to the bombed out public sector.
None of these are State organisations, they are efficient and do not demand index linked pensions out of your PAYE.
The National Trust
RNLI
County Helicopter Trusts
Mountain Rescue
How do you feel about these, resentful, put upon, do they need huge administrations ?
Why does every service we want have to be provided by the State, the most inefficient method of delivering anything.
Vote UKIP,Vote BNP, Vote Independent,whatever- you will still be losing half of your salary and paying 20% Vat, because in this two party state, its the Conservatives turn next
The same crowd that brought you Norman Lamont and John Major.
VAT Bomb H/T Guido
I'm flying to Zurich tomorrow. At the first sign of a full body scanner, I'm going native. You want to see me nude? Then see me nude. Hopefully a few Muslim women will be "offended".
Obnoxio comments on UKIP's new 'flagship', and successful eye catching 'ban the Burqa' stunt. Trying to Out BNP the BNP.
I do not want to hear one more word on how UKIP is Britain's only Libertarian Party. Fancy having your office raided viz Nikki Sinclaire MEP, join UKIP the party of kick arse 1950's authoritarianism. UKIP is all things to all men as long as you hate the EU.
By using the word 'hate' I am being specific, because this is the gout ridden, red faced emotional reaction to Johnny Foreigner. UKIP are fully aware that the have very little to offer than this one pressure group offering of 'Out of the EU', but the best they could come up with was bashing Johnny Foreigner for what they wear. I say lets ban tweeds and MCC ties whilst we are about it.
The Libertarian Party is agin the EU because it is more big, costly, unrepresentative Government. AND the people of the UK have not assented to it. Therefore it is illegitimate.
I do not give a monkey's if people want to wear burqas,MCC ties or pink thongs in the street. As long as they are doing nothing harmful to others, who cares.
If UKIP and the BNP are appealing to the foul mouthed, drunk, white working classes who were thrown off the train, I was travelling on yesterday. I want the BNP and UKIP to 'ban' them as well. In fact lets ban everything we do not agree with personally.
I find Lord Pearson offensive to look at and listen to, but I am happy to let him push on not be banned and sink UKIP into a party of Colonel Blimps
If I knew who you were, I would sue. I have stolen nothing from anyone and deeply resent the accusation. Both Sir Thomas Legge and Sir Christopher Kelly have confirmed in writing that they have “No Issues” with me – and even the Daily Telegraph could not give me a mention.
So – identify yourself and repeat the allegation. I dare you.
Michael Mates
Meanwhile
It was found that in 1993 Nadir had paid Mates to ask questions on his behalf in the British House of Commons. Mates was forced to resign over this affair. Nadir had also been a major contributor to Conservative Party funds through the previous decade.
Tell us where you live Michael and we might tell you where WE live
Next! David Kidney MP
I want you to explain what you mean when you accuse me of stealing.
David Kidney MP
Well...
The Labour MP, has paid back the cash after reporters from The Sentinel questioned why Mr Kidney had received a £1,068.51 council tax rebate three times in 2007 and twice claimed water rates totalling £290.80 in the same year.
Now the House of Commons Fees Office has discovered it approved the same council tax payment three times and the same water rates bill twice when both should only have been paid once.
Mr Kidney repaid the cash – without interest – on Friday after the error regarding his two-bedroom London flat came to light.
Before the error, Mr Kidney had claimed £64,255 between April 2004 and the end of March 2008. The region's highest claimers were Staffordshire Moorlands MP Charlotte Atkins on £87,702 and Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly on £86,311.
Mr Kidney said: "I was unaware of the errors and horrified to learn about this. I feel let down by the fees office.
Go on, Cromwell an MP. They HATE it.
After the failed attempt by the UN to extract trillions in taxes at Copenhagen and redistribute to various dictators throughout the planet, it would appear our unelected New World Order will simply not take NO for an answer
“What happened in Haiti could happen to anywhere in the Caribbean because all these island nations are in peril because of global warming.”
“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m saying? We have to act now!”
Join me and others outside Parliament on April 20th to read aloud the famous speech by Cromwell to the corrupt and useless within. Bring a pig mask
...It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.“Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
“Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd; your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean Stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings, and which by God's help and the strength He has given me, I now come to do.
“I command ye, therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. You have sat here too long for the good you do. In the name of God, go!
Remember these from 2005? Will be worth a fortune one day on Ebay
Updated Version. Hat tip to everyone
Oh, no. Someone's having fun!
"Behind you"
The outdated offences of criminal libel and sedition have been abolished after the introduction of new laws.
The two offences were disposed of yesterday as Section 73 of the Coroners and Justice 2009 came into effect, sweeping away the old common law offences of sedition, seditious libel, obscene libel and defamatory libel.
The old offence of sedition - essentially an attack on the sovereign or institutions of government - included exciting disaffection against the institutions of government with an intention to incite violence or create public disorder.
Seditious libel was publishing seditious material in a written or permanent form.
Justice Minister Claire Ward said: "Sedition and seditious and defamatory libel are arcane offences - from a bygone era when freedom of expression wasn't seen as the right it is today.
"Freedom of speech is now seen as the touchstone of democracy, and the ability of individuals to criticise the state is crucial to maintaining freedom.
OH "earning" £30,399 on November 5th, courtesy of IngSocThe government's powers under the Terrorism Act to stop and search people without grounds for suspicion are illegal, a European court has ruled.
The European Court of Human Rights was giving its ruling in a case involving two people stopped near an arms fair in London in 2003.
It said the pair's right to respect for a private and family life under human rights laws had been violated.
It awarded them 33,850 euros (£30,399) in compensation.
The court said the stop and search powers were "not sufficiently circumscribed" and there were not "adequate legal safeguards against abuse".
H/T Obnoxio, Daves Part and others
Don't trust politicians even Bible thumping ones
here in the midst of the coldest winter since global warming began
The Country is in ruins. Our children will be in debt. Our grandchildren will be in debt. We are hated throughout the world. Our democracy lies in tatters.
Luckily, the £6 Million a year, 50 strong staff, taxpayer funded Quango, the British Potato Council have just issued a press release.
It's National Chip Week 15th - 21st February. You can win stuff. Chips probably. With Cheggers
My attention has been brought to a mischevious little website set up to annoy the 646. It takes the hassle out of abusing MPs by automatically formatting and sending the following speech by Cromwell to any MP you fancy
TO:
FROM: the_people@youve-been-cromwelled.org
SUBJECT: You've Been Cromwelled!Dear
In support of the people of
, the people of Britain have decided to Cromwell You! Our records show
that you have been 'Cromwelled'times. In our humble opinion it should be none. You have no right
to steal from us, the very people you are expected to serve. The time has now come for the expenses system in Parliament to have a total
overhaul, and as such we the people demand that you stand with us and help facilitate this wish.On the 20th April 1653 Oliver Cromwell made a speech to Parliament where he dismissed Parliament as the Members were corrupt in every way.
We the people resurrect this speech in the hope that it will remind you that you serve us, and not the other way around. Please find an excerpt
of the speech below:
On the 20th April 2010 we will be holding a protest outside the Houses of Parliament and will be calling for a Day of National Civil Disobedience.
The ball is now in your court, you can help this country be great again by supporting our call, or you can continue to be morally corrupt, which will result in you losing your seat in Parliament. Do not forget that the proposed date for the General Election is May 2010. The people will remember how you respond to this campaign. You have been warned!
This email has been sent on behalf of a voter via the website: www.youve-been-cromwelled.org.http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=5540582362418355935
We are aware of your so called 'Parliamentary Protocol' where you shirk your responsibility to the people of Britain by only dealing with your constituents.
You serve us ALL! Please take the time to respond to this email and then visit the website.From
The People
I know the NHS is loved by its 32 Million employees, worshipped by 9 million Labour voters and held in the highest esteem by the unemployed/Nigerian health tourists, but honestly....
What interests me the most is that this gem was produced by an "independent National Health Consultant", Ray Addison and Norgine Ltd. Now to send an FOI request to find out exactly what this fucking madness cost the taxpayer.
Source
*Running the country ‘by making it up as he goes along' and acute indecisiveness: classic symptoms of clinical depression.
*Being unable to tell lies from truth - first pointed up by Matthew Parris in the Spring of 2009, and confirmed by the revelation in Watt's book that Brown told blatant lies to Marr on live television (in October 2007) about 'hand on heart', never seriously considering an election.
*How Brown 'walked out of a Downing Street dinner party with US politicians because they sat down without his permission' - again, grandeur delusion associated with manically narcissistic phases of bipolar disorder.
*'"The Prime Minister of Great Britain is a man too ill to be holding the Office." This was the conclusion last week of a senior civil servant liaising regularly with Gordon Brown'.
*'One of the main sources of this story told us, "It's a farce, and utterly disgraceful. There isn't a mandarin in Whitehall who's unaware of Brown's condition"'.
*MAOIs: 'this older class of drugs has one huge advantage: for severe (ie manic)depression...it remains very effective'.
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