Labour and the five empty pledges
http://ua.am/9bID

Labour let it be known yesterday that its election manifesto will contain a series of 'guarantees' on the economy, jobs, crime, health and education. Here, EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY examines the pledges and the reality behind them.

PLEDGE: Cut Britain's deficit in half in four years.
REALITY: Not only is this pledge extremely modest - it is merely a promise to halve the rate at which our national debt will be increasing, to £89billion a year in 2014 - but Labour won't explain how it will be achieved. Experts estimate that outside the protected areas of health, education and policing, all other departments face budget cuts of 17 per cent, but ministers won't say where the axe will fall. And the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies says a further £13billion of cuts or higher taxes will be needed.


PLEDGE: Neighbourhood police teams for all communities
REALITY: There are already neighbourhood-police teams throughout Britain; just not very visible ones, and nothing in this pledge is going to change that - certainly no new money is being allocated to delivering it. Half of the current neighbourhood teams are mere ' Blunkett's Bobbies', rather than real policemen. In fact, under Labour, the number of police stations in Britain has fallen by 500 - a 25 per cent drop. And beat police officers are so tied up in red tape that they spend only one hour in five on patrol. Labour has already spent £1billion on neighbourhood policing - with nothing to show for it.

PLEDGE: Any young person jobless for more than two years will be offered training or work.
REALITY: The current youth unemployment pledge - that anyone under 24 out of work for six months will be offered training or work - is expensive enough at £1.5billion. Promising to extend it to everyone out of work for more than two years would cost far more, depending on how ministers define 'unemployed'. 250,000 people are officially unemployed for more than two years, but the real figure, which includes 2million on incapacity benefit, is far higher. And since Labour spent £75billion on the New Deal since 1997, while the long-term youth unemployment rate actually rose, more spending might just waste more money.

PLEDGE: NHS treatment within 18 weeks or a legal right to go private
REALITY: These 'rights' - other pledges including a right to cancer care within two weeks, and a right to treatment by an NHS dentist - are not all they seem. The full consultation paper merely says that primary care trusts would have to take 'reasonable steps' to find an alternative hospital, and they would not be allowed to pay more than the NHS 'tariff' for that care. In some cases, where there is a 'limited capacity nationally', the so-called right would disappear altogether. Nor is it clear that tougher targets will help the NHS; up to 1,200 people in mid-Staffordshire lost their lives over the past few years because NHS managers put targets first and patient care second.

PLEDGE: Personal tuition for children falling behind
REALITY: Ministers are offering ten hours of one-to-one tuition for children not meeting key targets. They claim that £315million is set aside for this, but as well as being a hopelessly inadequate estimate of the true cost of one-to-one tuition the cash is already in the schools budget, so nothing will change. Pilot projects have failed because of a shortage of tutors; Labour has no idea how to find enough to deliver this pledge nationally. Nor do ministers address the issue raised by this pledge; that tuition is necessary because overall education standards have fallen; official figures show that half a million pupils have left school under Labour with no 'useful literacy' - unable to read or write.
 

Create the 2 faces of gordon brown:

http://londonlx.com/brown
 

Gordon's scorching the earth in his typical party political way, unlike PMs of the past:

http://ua.am/8Mq8
 

Seems we are top of the league!

.... of being the worst in the developed world:

http://burningourmoney.blogspot.com/2009/11/worst-in-world.html

full marks, brown, you twat.
 

BBC Gives BNP a Voice, but Not Climate Sceptics

It seems that the BBC are happy to give the highly controversial British National Party (BNP) a voice on Question Time, but didn't give a climate sceptic the chance to have a say on the previous week's Newsnight (15th October), which was laughingly billed as 'Greens on trial.' The idea was supposedly to ask tough questions on whether the Greens were blocking innovations vital to the fight against climate change. Any 'trial' without a witness for the prosecution is surely a sham.

The Newsnight discussion (30 minutes of it) was framed so that the introduction saw the return of BBC 'ethical man,' Justin Rowlatt, warning that we had only six years to act or else it would be too late, together with footage of world leaders speaking about the severity of the problem, plus footage of the US army on patrol and a voiceover saying that even they now see climate change as one of the biggest global threats.

In the studio defending the green movement for a good 20 minutes were Chairman and Director of the Ecologist and Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith, director of the film The Age of Stupid, Franny Armstrong, and co-founder of the green PR company Futerra, Solitaire Townsend. All of them got the opportunity to promote the climate disaster scenario. The questioning from presenter Emily Maitlis was pretty hopeless.

ABD Environment spokesman Paul Biggs commented: "Ex-newsreader Peter Sissons recently lifted the lid on what is effectively the BBC's policy of ignoring the legitimate arguments of climate sceptics. Clearly the BBC is impartial when it suits them, but this impartiality does not extend to the climate debate. Apparently climate sceptics rank below the BNP on the BBC's impartiality scale."
 

Whilst I still hope for a 2009 election, I'm expecting it's going to be 2010.

To that end I'm starting to build a wiki about it:

http://ge2010.co.uk

Now it's my expectation that it can be used to catalogue labour's failures so they can't get away with their usual lies, but it's open for all to edit so as long as it's all truthful then we can see how it'll turn out.
 

Go for a walk with OldHolborn on the 5th November

http://ua.am/8cVg


 

http://ua.am/8dms

£22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
- 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
- The longest national tax code in the world
- 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
- Gun crime up by 57%
- Violent crime up 70%
- The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
- The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
- The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
- The only G7 country with no growth this year
- One in six young people neither earning nor learning
- 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
- Missing the target of halving child poverty
- Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
- Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
- Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
- Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
- Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
- Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
- The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
- Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
- Prisoners released without serving their sentences
- Foreign prisoners released and never deported
- 7 million people without an NHS dentist
- Small business taxes going up
- Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
- Tax rises for working people set for after the election
- The 10p tax rate abolished
- And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
- Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
- Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
- Profitable post offices closed against their will
- One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
- The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
- Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
- Dossiers that were dodgy
- Mandelson resigning the first time
- Mandelson resigning the second time
- Mandelson coming back for a third time
- Bad news buried
- Personal details lost
- An election bottled
- A referendum denied

Hat tip Dizzy

And let me add:

-Ballot Boxes are interfered with
-Voting registers go missing
-The Police can kill innocent people and get away with it
-You can be put in prison for 42 days on pure suspicion
-You can be put in prison indefinitely without charge on the word of a politician
-The State can torture people
-Your children are monitored at School by Political Officers
-Their behaviour is logged on a State database for their entire lives
-Your innocent fingerprints, iris scans and biometrics are held by the State
-You do not have the right to remain silent
-You are watched on 4 million CCTV cameras
-You may not photograph the Police
-The media is controlled by the State
-You do not have the right to protest peacefully
-Curfews exist for entire communities
-Your travel movements are logged and monitored
-Who you vote for is logged and monitored
-Your shopping habits are studied and logged by the State
-Your emails and telephone conversations are recorded by the State
-Your passport can be withdrawn at the whim of the State
-Government agencies can use lie detector tests on you.

BASTARDS. Print this off and hand to any Labour "activists" who may canvass your vote in the next few months.
 

Dave Cameron's speech tomorrow.

I wonder what stunt gordon brown has planned?

Trip to Afganistan?
Call an election?
Stroke? - maybe not him though... is there a redshirt (like on startrek) that's become a minister recently?

As for DC's speech - I still think he needs to pull something out of the hat which can be used as the one retort to those that say that they don't like labour but don't quite want to vote for him yet.
 

PR620: Fixing the Fixed Cameras

news: for immediate release
==================
Claire from Safe Speed, says that,
"We are delighted with this news that the Conservative Party will stop the
installation of fixed speed cameras."

"We are encouraged that this is the first step towards a return to good
road
safety - after all, a safe speed is not measured in miles per hour."

She continues "The ongoing distraction that cameras have caused, have done
nothing to improve road safety."

"If this policy becomes a reality, we hope that a return to intelligent and
proper road safety messages, might begin to repair some of the last 17
years
of damage," and states that "Safe Speed calls for the removal of all speed
cameras. This 'quick fix' has not worked, there is no quick route to road
safety."

Claire continues. "Focusing on the wrong road safety policies and messages
prevent the correct ones from being implemented."

"We must ensure that road users understand the need to be responsible for
all their actions, and that they are encouraged to seek ways in which to
improve their abilities, skills, knowledge judgment and attitude."

"Promoting and encouraging good road user behaviours, attitudes and
responsibilities must be frequently encouraged along with all the
appropriate road safety messages."

She concludes, "there is never a time to drive at an inappropriate speed
for
the conditions."

<END>
=================
Notes to Editors:
Claire Armstrong,co- founder of the Safe Speed Road Safety Campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk)

==================
Since Pauls tragic demise in Dec 2007, Claire Armstrong, Pauls partner,
continues Safe Speed. ================== safespeed.org.uk Contact Safe
Speed:co-founder Claire Armstrong -----------------------------------
description: Safe Speed road safety campaign web:
http://www.safespeed.org.uk email: carmstrong@safespeed.org.uk telephone:
01862 893030 mobile: 07799 045553 & 07721 331991

Location:
North Scotland

We are always available for further comment on your road safety story.

To be added to our PR distribution list send an email to
carmstrong@safespeed.org.uk or visit our press pages at:
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/prindex.html

Recent press releases (since November 2004) are automatically and
immediately uploaded to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SafeSpeedPR

Notes for editors
=================

About Safe Speed
================

The Safe Speed road safety campaign is primarily the work of engineer-
turned
road safety analyst Paul Smith.

Since setting up Safe Speed in 2001, Paul Smith, 52, an advanced motorist
and road safety enthusiast, and a professional engineer of 25 years UK
experience, has carried out over 10,000 hours working on the campaign with
well over 5,000 of those hours researching the overall effects of speed
camera policy on UK road safety. In addition to those 10,000 hours, Paul
had
funded the campaign to the tune of £10,000.

We believe that this is more work in more detail than anything carried out
by any other organisation. Paul's surprising conclusion is that overall
speed cameras make our roads more dangerous. Paul has identified and
reported a number of major flaws and false assumptions in the claims made
for speed cameras, and the whole "speed kills" system of road safety.

The inescapable conclusion is that we should urgently return to the
excellent road safety policies that gave us in the UK the safest roads in
the World in the first place. Far from saving lives, speed cameras are a
dangerous distraction.

Safe Speed does not campaign against speed limits or appropriate
enforcement
of motoring laws, but argues vigorously that automated speed enforcement is
neither safe nor appropriate.

Safe Speed is very slimly funded by voluntary contributions to the web
site.
We are urgently seeking improved funding.

The Safe Speed web site contains more than 350,000 words of road safety
analysis and information. We are seeking publishers for 'the book of the
web
site'.

It has turned out to be quite an amazing story and there are opportunities
for journalists and broadcasters to explore how all this came about, what
it
means, and where road safety has gone so badly wrong.

------------------------------------

* To visit the Yahoo home page for this group, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SafeSpeedPR

* To visit the Safe Speed media home page, go to:
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/prindex.html
 

Great article by Fraser Nelson in the Spectator:

http://ua.am/89Ca

That's why you should vote conservative and not just 'not labour'


what you need is thoughtful radicalism. Prepared radicalism. It needs to come from a solid and strong base. Compare Margaret Thatcher’s trade union reforms with Ted Heath’s. It wasn’t that Heath’s were unambitious, it was that actually he tried to do it all at once, it blew up in his face and he had to abandon it. Whereas Margaret Thatcher had what Ferdy Mount described as the “long runway” approach to change. You prepare the ground, and then the aeroplane can effectively take off.’

More on conhome too: http://ua.am/89CN
 

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Brown's mad! http://ua.am/89WK
Norm	08:33 02/10/2009

Norm	12:27 01/10/2009

Labour.

Words: Cuts, Cuts, Cuts
Actions: over half a million advertising a scheme no-one wants: http://ua.am/88.O
 

methinks doris needs to have a mouth-guard to prevent her foot from entering it:

http://ua.am/87.H
Sorry, I can’t help myself. The fact that John Bercow has called for an end to the ‘12 week MPs holiday’ demonstrates that for him, that is exactly what it was!



I, and many other MPs have been hard back at work since the beginning of September.
 

On the day that brown has been caught lying again, people are comparing him to comical ali
http://ua.am/83+I

Which reminded me of something I did ages ago, which I've now updated with some brown pictures and quotes:



keep reloading the image for a random quote, and let me know if you have any other good ones to put on there!
 

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Who is 10percent now, eh?	20:04 16/09/2009

So it turns out brown was lying to us again (oh, what a suprise) and he says he's now going to cut lots of stuff.
But I don't think labour can be not evil anymore as they just don't have the will or ability to do anything right.

So what will labour cut?
Cut Jobs? -Yes
Cut Liberty? -Yes
Cut Democracy? - Yes
Cut Living Standards? - Yes
Cut Health? -Yes
Cut Taxes? - No
Cut Debt? - No
Cut ID Cards? - No
Cut MP Expenses? - No
Cut Red Tape? - No
Cut Crime? - No
Cut Quangos? - No

Cut Lying to us all the time - Please!

(and CoF fans - yes, I know I've mixed the album covers up)
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7RQ0vXomKg

 

Well it was nice to see brown apologise for something (although obviously not something he'd done) but it would have been nicer not coming from him!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8249792.stm

...and here's just one reason why:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/09/labours-filthy-law.html
 

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As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty...
Hitler	19:30 13/09/2009

Bizarre PR from ETA Muddles Facts on School Run
No Wonder Transport Policy is on Another Planet

The ABD today cited a PR from the Environmental Transport Association (ETA) as an example of the muddled thinking on transport which leads to the daft policymaking we have seen over the past twenty years.

The ETA issued a press release (full text below) on 7 September claiming that the School Run actually reduces congestion.

A spokesperson for the ETA said: "If every child started walking to school then by next year there would be no lull in traffic levels over the summer holidays - the extra road space would quickly be filled by business and commuter traffic."

"This statement shows a complete lack of understanding of the effect of the school run on traffic and of the nature of the lifestyle decisions which drive commuting patterns," said the ABD's Nigel Humphries. "This type of thinking is being applied to transport policy both nationally and locally, so its not surprising that Britain's transport network is increasingly divorced from the needs of the people."

The general lull in traffic in school holidays is nothing to do with the school run, its driven by the fact that working people with families take their holidays at the same time as the schools, and so commuting and business travel are reduced at these times. People with children also tend to commute further, as their choices as to where to live are constrained by school concerns not merely what is convenient for the adults. So the suggestion that the roads around schools would fill up during the holidays is simply ridiculous - the traffic does not exist because its on holiday too - all sitting on the M5 trying to get to Cornwall!

The ingrained idea behind this argument - that empty roads fill up with traffic for no apparent reason - is what has led the ETA to make this obviously ludicrous statement. This argument has been used against road building and to support the removal of roadspace from traffic on the basis that creating congestion is a good thing because it deters traffic.

Used in the context of schools, the absurdity can be clearly seen - school run driving patterns are different from commuting ones and tend to create congestion in residential areas near the schools that are otherwise deserted at those times of day. Only where a school is sited on a commuter route do the two collide, and then commuters will shift their route or their time in the morning - so an increase in children walking to school and consequent reduction in school run congestion will do nothing but make peoples lives a little easier and mitigate congestion over a wider area - an all round good thing!

"We are mystified by the ETA's approach here - surely they should be doing everything possible to encourage children to walk to school, which is a good thing, rather than undermine this goal," concluded Humphries.

ENDS

ETA PR TEXT

The school run reduces congestion

The popular belief that without the school run traffic would always run as freely as in the holidays is false, and far from adding to congestion, the school run reduces it in cities according to the Environmental Transport Association (ETA).

A spokesperson for the ETA said: "If every child started walking to school then by next year there would be no lull in traffic levels over the summer holidays - the extra road space would quickly be filled by business and commuter traffic."

Although in a perverse way the school run appears to restrict congestion, the ETA is not campaigning for more people to drive their kids to school; children commuting to school by car have as much (or as little) right to travel in this way as anyone else, but there are many environmental, health and social reasons why children are better off walking or cycling.

Press Enquiries:
pressrelease@abd.org.uk
0870 4442535

General enquiries and membership:
membership@abd.org.uk
07000-781544

The Association of British Drivers is run on a voluntary basis to lobby for the beleaguered British motorist.
The ABD - for drivers who can THINK for themselves

The Association of British Drivers - the operating name of Pro-Motor. A non-profit making company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England No.2945728. 4 King Square, Bridgwater, Somerset TA6 3YF.
 

Where to begin on this one?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8226973.stm

Did the guy have a bomb or something?
No excuse for closing the motorway at all for any period of time.
Sure it may have had a chance at saving someone's life, but how many lives were disrupted for that? and perhaps deaths indirectly caused.
Not to mention the huge monitary cost, given he was in his late 50s you can calculate that he had say 25 years left to live - so that's about 220,000 hours.
Now a 35mile queue for 7 hours will have directly wasted about 520000 man hours (not to mention the people waiting for people waiting in the queue)
Now I'm not saying they should have pushed him off after 2 hours but maybe they should have taken action ... or perhaps just not shut the motorway - slow traffic down and wave them past or create a contraflow if needs be but on the face of the story bristol and sommerset police need a kick up the arse.
But given the weak state of government at the moment that are only interested in making life worse for people or to use soldiers lives for their own political ends then it isn't going to happen.
grr
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8196865.stm

Seems people are now so used to the government nannying them that they ask the embassies for help with stupid things.

How stupid have people become?

The programme 'Economy Gastronomy' was on BBC2 last night and I could barely watch as they acted as if it was normal that the guy had never been to a supermarket and when making brownies the cook guy said "this is really like home cooking" as if it was referring to something from a bye-gone era.
The presenter woman also said she doesn't refrigerate eggs as "they don't last longer as they have a sell by date on them" (ok, that might be paraphrasing) as if they couldn't go off before then and must be thrown away afterwards.
She probably thinks they come out of the chicken like that... well, that's assuming she knows they come from a hen.

Anyway, enough of the TV review, but it's just another thing to point out how dumb people have become of recent - (maybe I'm just getting old.) and this should be something the government helps to avoid and not causes, so we are definately long overdue a time where we can eject labour for good and so teach about its evils that it may never return.
 

Seems all the businesses that have collapsed under the weight of labour are now going to be commandeered in the name of our glorious leaders so they can tell us what to do some more and we can praise them:

http://ua.am/7@6z

..of course at a cost to the taxpayer and hindrance to business.
 

Another useless reply to a downing street petition that basically ignores any ideas and says they'll just carry on as normal

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20319

hardly surprising though.
 

Yes, this website is a shambles, but I like it like that :P

News today is that the evil prince of darkness is on 3 times as many committees as the PM himself and 8 more than even the chancellor.
http://waugh.standard.co.uk/2009/07/the-expanding-empire-of-mandelsonia.html

Given you all know who I meant by the prince of darkness and I've even had people's Grans moan about him, shouldn't there be some more riots or perhaps the queen stepping in or something?
Nope.. we'll just post on the internet and tut a lot.

on another note I done a blog this morning:
http://normbrainer.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/for-one-priceless-moment/
 

Maybe we should all go down to parliament square to call for the resignation of the speaker at the very least.

General election, not 2009, but 2008 please!
 

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Wow... This website is a shambles.
Ed	22:54 20/07/2009

Seems the gov't want to annoy everyone by not only not listening to the petition but trying to big themselves up in the reply

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20043

That's just sick.
 

New image:


It was going to be a part of a comparative with conservatives but I'm not in a mood to promote them today!

Bits to explain - that's the magna carta being fed into the printer and obama as jesus on his monitor.
The fire can explain many things such as "pants on fire" as he's a liar, or perhaps the scorching of the earth, maybe signifies hell that mandy has created.
He's only a little girl as there was one in the picture that I used as the base, but thought that was quite funny as he throws tantrums like one (hence the broken mobile)
He seems to think his numbers show that there will be investment in the future years from labour, but perhaps he just entered -10% to get the right number and he doesn't get negative numbers so assumes there must be investment!

Agh .. thunder, quick post before the power is cut!
 

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I think his % scale doesn't go below zero - so he reads out a cut as zero percent growth - he really don't understand numbers, do he?
Percy	08:47 10/07/2009

me myself i have always refused to vote and you ask yourself why?....it's easy whats the point?...in this country there is no party apart from bnp and green's that have any balls to do anything about the bullshit in this country ..labour,lib dems,cons will never do anything to get rid of the illegals in this country which have taken the fabric of jobs from this society we spent ages to buils and they over the past 30 years have managed to crush slowly and as for the main taking point why are we as a people unable to bring an un-elected asshole like gordon brown(tax-devil) to justice and make him accountable for the way he has destroyed our country and the lies he keeps telling?

All i can say is unless there is a drastic change in the way polititions are made accountable for the promises they constantly lie there way into power for then we are doomed to failiure!!!!
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8130451.stm

Brown is still vandalising the despatch box, even after he has been warned about it before.

Very telling of what he thinks of Parliament and British history.
Go on, scribble on it with marker pen just like you have the rest of the country and it's traditions ... and expense reports.

You make me want to wish you ill will... and I'm not like that... which makes me wish you more ill will. Go now. go on. just go.
 

It's all just got too silly.

People, especially the tories, have given up calling for an election and those that do just feel they are pissing in the wind.
We know that every day labour stay they make things worse at a rate that will take longer to put right but no-one cares.

The old boys club is still about as brown gives the old speaker a peerage, along with a huge pension (... with our money) despite misgivings from the lords commission.

http://ua.am/7DIm

New Labour have been known as the masters of spin since they started. Spin is willfully misleading people but it seems now they can't even be bothered to spin and just out and out lie eg. both brown and balls claiming debt is falling.
http://ta4.at/.1fcqj

Both of them bullying people on a visit to schools
http://ta4.at/.1fcqk

Along with the redacted expenses thing, hiding public payments from all including others in parliament, the slow car crash of the iraq enquiry set up, the new home sec wanting to stop ID cards but brown not ... it is just a farce.

The only thing you can do when clowns have you tied up and are stabbing you is laugh at them.

I'm sure the labour lot just get off on telling people what to do... but now we're laughing at them as they do it.

hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahaaha

hahaha

ha!
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO7HAjB8-RM

 

it could all kick off next week and we countdown to end these years of misery - The Plaid Cymru and the SNP have tabled a motion to dissolve parliament which is being supported by the libdems and conservatives:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8079604.stm

Given it would need some labour support, it's not likely to succeed directly, but I can't see it not having any affect.

My guess is still brown will call the election for Oct 1st, although he may have to call it sooner than he planned.

Fingers crossed!
 

My opinion we need them to go now. This way we can start with people who have a mandate to try to rebuild our ruined political system.

Please also vote at,

http://gen.host56.com

Also STOP Golden Handshakes.. NO REWARD FOR FAILURE - politicians own mantra.
 

give the british people a general election
 

According to a post on Guido:
http://ua.am/7M2L

Nick Brown has said that the election will be called shortly after the speaker has gone.

So if he goes on June 21st, give that a couple of weeks and a long campaign, will we see a new government by the time of the next term in oct/nov?

I doubt they'll have an election in the middle of summer, so that leaves september.
Or, in fact - 1st October, just after Labour party conference.

Right, I'm off down t'bookies.
 

Wahay.. the Speaker is going!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8057203.stm

Let's hope it is with immediate effect!
 

The Speaker is still hanging on... quelle surprise.
He's casting blame on everyone when not all are guilty and trying to claim that he thought of the proposals to free the information - he's worse than brown!

He's similar to brown too in that he can't admit his own weaknesses.
Brown can't admit he's blind and still tries to hand write letters. The Speaker can't really speak properly (oh the irony) and doesn't find alternatives to words that there are many like "situurchun".
If you tell him this he'll probably shout racism or poorism that you're picking on him 'cos he's from the poor bit in glasgow.
Well I ain't heard anyone from anywhere speak like that.
 

Conservatives appear to be encouraging you to vote for them next month by saying you'll get a General Election if they do well!

http://ta4.at/.1d6ql
 

Well, we all know the Speaker must go.
We would all like brown to go too but they make excuses about it not being good to change leader at time of crisis etc, which isn't valid but some would agree.

A year before the election is an ideal time to change the Speaker as they can then get to know everyone and get into the job before the change of government to assist them in their new jobs.

The Speaker is just too out of touch with the MPs nevermind everything else.

So... who should it be?
Well, it's tradition for it to be someone from the opposition, although labour don't do that.
So there are 2 choices I can think of:

Ming the merciless, I mean campbell... people have nominated him before to do it
or
Kate Hoey because she does actually seem quite moral and I'm not sure why she is with the bunch of crooks in labour.
She also seems to work well with Boris and so isn't so partisan.
It would also just really annoy michael martin, which although I'm not vindictive (yeah, right) can't be a bad thing.

Comment your selections below...
 

well done for the new petition but alass it will get nobbled just like the brown to resign one ive tried 12 times over two days to regester but it never sends the email link to your web site one guy told me that one was getting 500 hits per hour at first but it only went up by about 300 in two days ! it stinks as do any other petitions like gurkha's etc we need a petition away from the government web site to really show what the country feels.
 

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Yeah, I had to use a different email address or it got caught up in the spam filter - funny how it never grabs any other non-unsolicited mail.
Norm	17:12 11/05/2009

http://www.douglascarswell.com/text.aspx?id=1

Last summer, Dan Hannan and I wrote The Plan, in which we advocated a specific programme to clean up Westminster. It included:

•Abolishing MPs’ perks – including the Additional Cost Allowance and the Communications Allowance.
•MPs to be bound by the same laws as everybody else – bar Article IX of the Bill of Rights of 1689
•Electing Commons Speaker by secret ballot – no more Whips office patsies in the role
•Electing select Committee chairmen by secret ballot – again, no more Whips running the show.
•Confirmation hearings for Whitehall chiefs – Sir Gus O’Donnell and the Sir Humphrey Appleby-types might not like it, but that’s a bonus.
•Select committees to confirm annual budgets for Whitehall departments – Voting to approve supply, is after all, the reason we invented Parliament in the first place – yet it no longer seems to fulfil this role.
•Scrap state-subsidised politics – including election broadcasts, leaflets and “Short money”. With the internet and YouTube, the costs of doing politics could be lower than ever. Time for political parties to cut their cloth according to their own means, perhaps?
•Direct democracy, including open primiaries and popular initiative, to make politicians answer to us - not the other way round.
“It’ll never happen” someone told me. “MPs won’t accept it”. Perhaps soon they’ll not have much choice.

Posted on 10 May 2009 by Douglas Carswell
 

Cassius has hit the nail on the head here:

http://ta4.at/.1cwpn
You have an expense system which covers expenses wholly, neccesarily and exclusively incurred in the course of performing your parliamentary duties up to a maximum allowance of £24K per year, or whatever the relevant figure is. You do not understand the rules of the system you have been abusing. If you havent incurred the expense under the rules, you do not even begin to submit a claim. The "allowance" is a maximum, not an aspiration.
 

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http://ua.am/7XFK#comment-80623
Another good comment	09:02 11/05/2009

The tide has gone out on their expenses scam and they are all exposed.

No good blaming "the system" - they are the system, they have broken the rules they have made.
 

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New post on Labour2009.com http://ua.am/7XH@
Norm	07:36 11/05/2009

lol... that's the oddest pic yet, norm.
Percy	22:42 10/05/2009

Right on.... where's mcavity gone anyway?
Phil mibüts	20:57 10/05/2009

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

It'll be on Guido:
http://www.order-order.com/2009/05/hmrc-official-mps-will-be-investigated/

I have my virtual pitchfork and burning torch, come join us to drag the bastards down.
 

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Perhaps we have to all post everything possible on there and see what gets deleted - process of elimination!
Percy	22:41 10/05/2009

hmm.. Now all comments there are being moderated. I suspect today's downtime was for deleting comments - someone has threatened him I thinks :(
Norm	22:20 10/05/2009

Gawd yeah, still down now - how long's it take to reboot a server -could have reformatted up a new one for 'em by now if it was that dead...c'mon I want gossip!
Norm	17:00 10/05/2009

order-order.com appears to be down... probably being DDOSed by labour... should have got the servers from http://Serverstream.net
Guido Down	15:07 10/05/2009

Well today's award you would expect to go to Blears:
http://www.salfordstar.com/article.asp?id=172

But it doesn't... it goes to "The system".
They've all been trying to say that it's within the rules (which it blatantly isn't) and it's the system at fault so if that's the case the system deserves the Pig In The Trough Award.

shh..MPs.. come closer, I have to tell you something.....

...

YOU ARE THE SYSTEM!

You and your speaker make the rules and you've even broken them as they say that claims must be beyond question and not look dodgy.
...AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN ASHAMED.
The tide has gone out and you're naked and you don't even notice.
You disgust me so much that you're reward is NULL. Less than nothing. Which is what your job (and freedom) should be in the very near future.
 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q6I6_WK2d8
From Guido	10:09 10/05/2009

Blears should get it. Before she's been a little funny dwarf that would always say everything was fine when it wasn't - it was a laugh. Now the joke is on us :(
Norm	20:26 09/05/2009

Today's award really does have to go to browne himself.

http://ta4.at/.1cumt

Swapping houses in a blatantly fraudulent manner then shelling out 6grand for a cleaner of a house that he doesn't need as he has one in downing street, whilst he tries to come across as the poor scottish son-of-the-manse as if he cares for poor people.
maybe that's the where the stupid grin comes from as the sides of your face are pushed back as you push deeper into the trough.
That's our swill you git... now stop stealing it from us to waste or spend on your yourself.
GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT £200

Do collect your award - collect it violently to the head.



 

I could feel something big happening and was refreshing pages expecting.

For hours I was dissapointed and my F5 key getting worn out, so I wrote the article below.

Now it's happened... http://ua.am/7TLp
Not quite an election annoucement but big and I can't see it not causing shockwaves to hopefully bring the government (and others) down a peg or 7.


 

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http://ua.am/7TLQ and it's all a con: released now to detract from the Ghukas, be too late for quesitontime and get tories data released just before elections
Norm	21:35 07/05/2009

I don't think we're going to get the general election on the same day as the Euro/locals - think it's a bit late for that (although officially think there's a few more days yet) but I'm still thinking there may be one this year.

It's brown's only way out - he's cracking under the pressure and surely knows that his party won't let it go on that much longer (well, they have for a few years already but it's getting impossible to ignore now)

Brown is self serving and his reason to live seems to beat the tories.
So forget convenience of having the election on a reasonable day as this is only a logistical problem, he just cares about stats so he'll try to fatten his pigs by weighing them and have a late summer (when richer people who he wants to tax even more are abroad) or perhaps it might be an autumn election.

One of the main crititisms of brown are that he is stubbon and wants to go on dictating forever.
Calling the election earlier gets him off that in one stroke.



It also helps his legacy as he can then say "I did what was right for the country"'; that he was "brave"; that he chose to let the people have their say rather than being forced out.

By this time next year, it will have also been proved what everyone knows that the budget stats are totally out and we'd still be in recession.
He can then in a few years blame the tories for not fixing it sooner as he had planned.

He'll also have got the good morale that the iraq war is over, before the enquiry has started.

It will give him an edge over the conservatives as they won't be expecting it - they are expecting a year long election campaign starting now. Labour can't afford that anyway. Any points he can score against his opposition will make him smile, possibly even a real smile.



From what we hear from people like Prescott is that he's not as stupid as we think - in that he has a calculating brain behind the scenes. From his public performances you would think he'd stay on for as long as possible and then invent a crisis to stay on longer to make those calling for an election look heartless.

Whichever it is, I can't see him being happy with power taken away from him - the power to choose when to have an election so it's either this summer or perhaps autumn 2010 after the possible crisis has passed, or the Queen has stepped in (..or new King - how low will he go to create a crisis? - ok, that's quite a low comment I take it back)

He'll muck it up though - as I say, he'll call it on the most awkward of days. The one that he has calculated to give him the most votes but will miss some blindingly obvious emotional event that will make people annoyed with him, especially the labour MPs who get all the flack on the streets for is ineptitude.



Norm
http://ge2009.co.uk
 

John Major writes for the Telegraph to say that labour now is worse than him then:
http://ta4.at/.1cu98



Throughout the 1992-97 parliament, we tried to do what we believed was right for the country, although much of our programme was controversial – especially in our own party. We persevered with policies we believed would curb inflation and bring long-term economic benefit. So they did, but at the expense of our electoral prospects.

Labour, by contrast, has retreated to tactics I believe they will live to regret. Too often, in the face of public hostility, they cite the last Conservative government as a precedent, the not-so-subliminal message being: "They're worse than us."

It is not convincing.
 

Well, I've tried to photoshop (well, paintshop pro) a few images for this site but who needs fakery when Gordon Brown is PM:



http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=86377265
 

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Close, but not quite bad enough	17:19 05/05/2009

New poster:


Based on the fact that if Labour are in power for the next year, people have predicted that it'll take till 2032 to clear their debts which they are making worse (50% tax loses the gov't money for one)
Therefore, it's taking over 22 times longer to pay off than they are in power - that's nearly a day for every hour that us, and our kids will be paying due to bad mistakes yet to be implemented (not including the ones brown has already made)
Let's have them out now, eh?
 

STOP PRESS:
Secret plans from Downing Street have been revealed which show they wish to spike their supply of TammyFlu, perscribed to cure the swine flu, so they contain a thought control drug which, along with secret codes in the leaflet sent to every home, will co-erce vunerable people to vote for the most glorious Gordon Brown at the next election.
We MUST have a General Election before this diease spreads to protect vunerable members of your family and friends from this evil labour government, before they can put their plan into action.

Sign the petition:
http://11l.ta4.at/

Visit the website:
http://ge2009.co.uk
 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1smRKM7_so

 

Brown Must GO!
http://11l.ta4.at/
 

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Norm	17:58 27/04/2009

He can't listen to crititism and I'm not sure nokia could take the lack of sales after he stops throwing them!
Go unkle Go'	12:13 27/04/2009

The Budget Song:
http://dungeekin.blogspot.com/2009/04/budget-song.html
 

http://thecrownblogspot.blogspot.com/2009/04/gordon-brown-dance-of-comedian.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS37nnFYzZ0

 

New Labour is D.E.A.D: http://ua.am/7_Ct
 

As I thought... DC is calling for a general election to co-incide with the Euros ..
C'MON BROWN... DO IT!

http://ta4.at/.1ckps
 

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Maybe same as the last one that wasn't - things may be getting worse so it'd be a gamble to leave it. plus he can make it seem good with the budget.
J	17:21 21/04/2009

The telegraph are noticing that the government are suddenly seeing their stupid errors - this happens at election time.. http://ua.am/7cZD

More chance of a summer 2009 election?
 

Seems guido at http://www.order-order.com has been down all day.

I suspect a DDOS attack - you can only guess where that is from.

They should get Serverstream @ http://Serverstream.net in to host 'em - their DDOS mitigation service is amazing and maybe even government strength.
 

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Worked for me all day yesterday, maybe your ISP was blocking you.
John	07:42 20/04/2009

test
Steve	21:44 19/04/2009

Interesting development...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8005448.stm

The Search of Greens stuff, the were looking for things on Shami Chakrabarti.

Maybe this is attached to the culture of Downing Street that was revealed in the smear scandal last week - She has been a thorn in the governments authoritarian side and were after stuff to stop her.

They really are rotten and it makes me sick the more I hear.

Caaptcha word: cringe .. that's apt!
 

DG is free!
http://ua.am/7ccu

They've eventually dropped the stupid case - so now a case can be brought about those who caused it and those who let the police into the commons.

The speaker must now stand trial.
 

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THIS ISN'T OVER. SMITH MUST GO.
Carter	08:25 17/04/2009

Brown, Smith or Martin need to face legal reprocussions for at least this or the smears.
Percy	13:58 16/04/2009

Greengate, smeargate... how many more gates before brown is shown the door?
Norm	11:39 16/04/2009

Well the CPS are to eventually say something about the Damien Green case tomorrow:

http://ta4.at/.1cgyr

Now given they've annouced it, I guess it means it will be dropped, but then who knows whose side they are on, and they could have been ordered by brown and croonies to continue with the case in revenge for the embarrasments over the weekend.
 

Seems brown is a racist too now...
http://ua.am/7c30

Wouldn't suprise me - he is always one of those people that say obama is good because he is black, and is also patronising at those he thinks he is better than.
It's typical harperson style political correctness which is divisive and offensive.

Whether the story is made up in a "you can do it and so can we" type way, I'm sure we'll find out soon.
 

The real letters are worse than the jokes...look at this:


Cuddles, I mean brown himself wrote that:

http://ua.am/7c0z

Now I've nothting against the blind and my handwriting is getting on for that bad - but it is for that reason I don't hand write letters.
If I feel the situation would normally get a hand written one then I'd type and apologise for that.

It's one thing to be disabled and work around your disability without shame, and it's totally different to just pretend that all is well.
I real man can accept his weaknesses - pretend they aren't there and you are allowing an unguarded attack.

CHAAAAARGE!
 

This award is for the dining table of a certain James Purnell:



http://ua.am/7E+7
 

hmmm.. I made a post on conservativehome about the government being able to block sites at will - and now my IP appears to be blocked :(
 

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and now there's a strange burning smell - I'm I being gassed to be taken to a strange village?
Norm	18:45 14/04/2009

Here's proof that uncle gordy knew about these made up slurrs all along! :)


 

Well, ignoring the big story which is just typical labour that uses our money for its own party's gain, here's another thing:
http://ta4.at/.1cg9j
"Iraq war: Gordon Brown aims to delay inquiry report until after election"

... well there's one way to ensure the enquiry is after the election - call the election this year.

Perhaps with the troops coming back on july 31st then as long as there are a few more crises and/or (possibly folied) terrorist plots (no, I'm not suggesting brown is orchestrating them, no, not at all, never...) then perhaps he may still call a summer election.
He has the slyness and dirtyness, along with all of our tax money (which is all labour money of course) to get himself back in the game.... I don't think he'd go so far as to remove the Queen though - Charles wouldn't stand for brown's nonsense.

I fear that we've passed the point where there's hope for the nation in that real nasty stuff is on the way - and it will happen when brown has gone and as conservative types aren't so vengeful it won't be like how socialist types still hate Thatcher for being great; brown will slink off with a £70million pension and in 20 years time people will have forgotten him, and the cycle repeats.

When someone better gets into power then reform needs to be made to better politically educate people or change the voting system.
We really can't have a party which got so few votes lording over everyone as if they own the place and everyone in it.
 

Looks like it's hotting up to be a close contest for who gets to keep the award this week...

latest contestant is Mr "it was someone else's fault" speaker who has been snorting taxpayer funded cocaine from taxpayer funded 1st class virgins in the bahamas every month at our expense.
OK, well not quite but not far off:
http://ua.am/77it



I think he's just testing to see how little and badly he can do his job for the most reward, which may be what a lot of people do but in work there's a chance of getting sacked.
 

Go over to Guido to see this one:

http://ua.am/76m-

This one's for you, darling dearest.


 

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They say everything is within the rules. They make the rules! The rules don't define right and wrong.
Within the rules	10:38 06/04/2009

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/MP2ndHome/

"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Convert the London 2012 Olympic Village Accomodation into Living accomodation for Members of Parliament and end their second home allowance."
 

Well... you have to hand it to brown that he's a schemeing git, and good at it.

He's been peddaling the lie about the recession being nothing to do with him and all global.
Normal people might have gave in and admitted it, but brown has managed to get so deep into his own lies that he's got all the world leaders together to try and blame it on them.

I guess he has all of our money to enact his cover-ups and denial stunts though.
 

Now's your chance to work out who should be getting the next Pig in the Trough Award..

Expenses for 07/08 have been released:
http://ge2009.co.uk/HoCExpenses0708.xls
 

The government is spending too much on advertising and telling us what we can cannot do.
How long before the speeches of our glorious leader are projected on the walls and advertising hordings of the tube and other public places:


 

Pic of the week:

 

Must See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs


Good on that man!
 

“But I must warn you that the dying days of this administration may well see one last wretched round of manipulation and manoeuvre, of private deals or public pacts or cosy little understandings, always, of course, in the national interest before the Government are finally dragged, kicking and screaming, to the polls.

If that should be the case, so be it. I believe that the longer they wait the harder they will fall. But the harder, too, will be our task of halting and reversing the decline of Britain.

Our party offers the nation nothing less than national revival, the deeply-needed, long-awaited and passionately longed-for recovery of our country. That recovery will depend on a decisive rejection of the Labour Party by the people and a renewed acceptance of our basic Conservative belief that the State is the servant not the master of this nation.

Does what has happened to Britain over the last four and a half years imply that we have been governed by remarkably foolish people? No, though you may be able to think of one or two who would qualify under that heading.

Is it the result of having been governed by unusually wicked people? No. There have been enough good intentions to pave the well-worn path twice over. The root of the matter is this: we have been ruled by men who live by illusions, the illusion that you can spend money you haven't earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors; the illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by Government decree like rabbits out of a hat; the illusion that there is some other way of creating work and wealth than by hard work and satisfying your customers; the illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise; the illusion that you can have an effective foreign policy without a strong defence force and a peaceful and orderly society without absolute respect for the law.”

http://ta4.at/.1az5w
 

Probably not that relevant to this page, but I liked it anyway:
"Roger Helmer MEP: The whole climate alarmist scare is a media-driven frenzy"

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2009/03/roger-helmer-me.html



You can buy the book he mentions here:
http://ta4.at/.1ank6
or
http://ta4.at/.1anki
 

http://ta4.at/.1adll

The East wintergarden is a glass building, so all those cold people outside can peer in and watch the piggies on 2 legs quaffing their champaign and devouring their "£50-a-head salmon terrine dinner"


 

"Humiliated, hopeless, paralysed. Time to go
Even Cabinet ministers are finding it hard to contemplate another 14 directionless months. We need an election now"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/alice_miles/article5841400.ece
 

Let's spend far too much money on some buzzwords

http://ta0.at/10vx.~
 

The worrying thing about the pope visit may be that it's predicted to be something bad on this outdated website...
http://www.666man.net/538AD.html
"under the eighth papal name since 1798. This person is John Paul II replacement. Ten kings unite with the beast to make war."
"During the third phase, Rev. 13:11 the earth beast enforces worship of sea beast."
Brown looks like a seabeast to me.
 

Surveillance will cost more than £34 billion say Convention on Modern Liberty:
http://ta4.at/.19sz5
 

http://ta4.at/.19rfs-

"Prime Minister holds recession talks with Pope"

..says it all.

He's so screwed he's even turning to religion to get him out of his mess...and one of the craziest at that.

Maybe he's gone to ask for blair back.
"Save me Tony!" screams brown to a confused pope.

Perhaps Brown doesn't like that people are praying and under the command to some guy in italy rather than him and so will say "Ge'orf my land, benny-boy"

Is the pope banned from entering the UK?
By the home office rules he probably should be.. is that why brown has gone to him?
 

The government takes another step that crosses a deeper line.
It's only that they are crossing so many lines of acceptability and have been creeping up on them and like the frog in the boiling water they're going un-noticed.

Milliband has been rude to the indians and now him and sleazi "2 homes secretary" smithe are causing trouble by banning a dutch MP who dares to question them or islam.
Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion write more on CentreRight:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/02/government-bans.html

UKIP's Press Release:
http://www.ukip.org/content/latest-news/916-lords-row-over-banned-dutch-mp

Relevant Vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX8bQE8aB6w

 

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Well, he got as far as heathrow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7885918.stm
Percy	16:05 12/02/2009

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2009/02/tories-choose-s.html
ConHome	11:16 12/02/2009

He's being stopped from leaving holland: http://ta4.at/.19r6j "A spokesman for the Conservative Party said it did not wish to comment." Whusses.
Percy	11:10 12/02/2009

Shocking story about a school that has aquired a secretaties private email and threatening dismissal due to it questionning why her child couldn't talk about religion in school:
http://ta5.at/.19r6c-

That's exactly the sort of thing that government should be ensuring doesn't happen.
But it's exactly what they are guilty of:
http://ta4.at/.19q0q-

I'm anti-religion, but you can't ban it. People have to be able to freely talk about it, only that way will they realise it's a load of tosh (but continue to practice anyway as it might help them)
 

I tricked David Cameron to track down Damian Green, says police chief:
http://ta4.at/.19qo8-

Why aren't the MPs (or most of the media) mad about sleazey smithe?
Simon Heffer Questions in the telegraph:
http://ta4.at/.19qo9-
 

MPs to question Bob Quick, who ordered Damian Green's arrest
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5697475.ece

"Shiny chin to the fore Miss Piggy struts into Parliament

Brazen as a brass bed pan, Jacqui Smith trolleyed in to the Commons yesterday, stumpy gait, earrings swinging, shiny chin to the fore. Parliament's Miss Piggy."
...but no-one questionned her:
http://ta4.at/.19qe5
QUENTIN LETTS in the daily mail.

While Harperson ignores any sort of real problem and has a dig at men again:
http://ta4.at/.19qe7

Some slight common sense as an advisor to the gov't suggests that some drugs aren't satans work, and extasy is only as dangerous as horse riding.
MELANIE PHILLIPS disagrees:
http://ta4.at/.19qe9
... but that's only an advisor and since when did labour listen to advice.
... and if it's only as bad as horse riding, why isn't horse riding a category B drug?
 

Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse

http://ta4.at/.19q2q-
 

Today's reasons for needing an election soon...

NormBrainer blogs about impending doom:
http://ta4.at/.19q0l-

Alistair Thompson writes about how it's not capitalsm that's failed:
http://ta4.at/.19q0m-

Foster parent who has looked after 80 children struck off...because a Muslim girl in her care became a Christian
http://ta4.at/.19q0q-
(are we now on the axis of evil?)
 

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has claimed more than £116,000 in Commons expenses for a 'second home' while effectively lodging with her sister.

http://ta4.at/.19pmx
 

Iain wrote on the CenterRight board earlier in response to the Thatcher Affair....

"There seems to be a whole industry of language fascism that is spring up, where there is an almost constant clamour of ‘minority’ groups jostling to take 'offence' at something or other, just so they can exert their authority over people and dictate and censor what people can or cannot say. I am afraid its like something from Mao's cultural revolution, where poor hapless individuals were singled out for public humiliation, not really as a punishment, but stage managed as a warning to everybody else. Its a threat of toe our line or else, we'll have you sacked, we'll demand a public apology, and wobetide anyone who fails to make a grovelling apology otherwise then the whole process will start again.. This whole ‘offence’ thing is really an extension of the cultural Marxist agenda that stems for Multiculturalism , and the only way the can advance their divisive politics is through morally blackmailing people to censor what they say, lest the worst of the worst happens, someone takes offence at what you are saying."

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/02/an-answer-to-cl.html#comment-147796961
 

Tory MP Damian Green has protested angrily that he is being prevented from talking in Parliament about a police investigation involving him.


He said it was "extraordinary" the Speaker had taken Scotland Yard's word about a request to see details of his e-mails but had not approached him.

He was ordered to stop speaking by Deputy Speaker Sylvia Heal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7872220.stm
 

Relations between the Conservatives and the Commons Speaker have reached a new low following a row over which documents should be seen by police carrying out the Home Office leaks inquiry.


By Rosa Prince

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4527056/Tories-and-Speaker-in-new-police-row.html
 

The age of the snitch: A nurse suspended for praying. Carol Thatcher sacked for a private remark. How public sector informers are creating Stasi Britain...
http://ta4.at/.19onm

BY MELANIE PHILLIPS, WRITING IN THE DAILY MAIL
 

We need an election now to make the BBC independant again and get rid of the guardianistas who appear to be running it as the ministry of truth for the government so that they keep their licence fee, now that labour have made it purely government controlled (happened in 2004: http://118.ta4.at/ )

I'm not sure if they've got rid of Carol Thatcher because of who she is or that the feeble excuse they gave was real, or maybe both, but it stinks; just like labour who are implementing orwell's vision at an alarming rate.
Please, let's have an election soon so that 2010 isn't 1984 except late, worse and more expensive (like so many other labour policies)
 

Damian Green: police case set to be thrown out on 'parliamentary privilege' grounds
The case against Damian Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman at the centre of a Scotland Yard leak investigation, is set to be dropped on the grounds that he is protected by parliamentary privilege, according to sources close to the case.

http://ta4.at/.19n0t
 

THE BAD ECONOMY IS JUST A DISTRACTION AND GORDONE BROWNE KNOWS IT.
YES THERES A GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROBLEM BUT BROWNE MADE SURE WE WERE ON THE STARTING LINE WITH OUR PANTS DOWN AND NOW THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US.
HIS BAD ECONOMY MIXED WITH HARMANS SEGREGATIONS AND THE THREAT TO PARLIAMENT NOT SEEN SINCE BEFORE CROMWELL AND THE REMOVAL OF RIGHTS HELD SINCE BEFORE MAGNA CARTA ARE A PATH TO ONE THING - WAR
WHAT STOPPED ME GETTING PAST WESTMINSTER YESTERDAY. A STOP THE WAR DEMO. DIDNT SAY WHICH. I WOULD GUESS IT WAS PROBABLY NOT THE WAR WHICH LABOURE ARE PLANNING BUT ONE THAT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH US AND I WONDER HOW COUNTRIES END UP LIKE THE SOVIETS DID. THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE BUT DONT SEE IT HAPPENING TO THEM.
ELECTION NOW.
 

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Well, I agree, but do you have to shout?
Percy	23:08 26/01/2009

Earlier today Louise Bagshaw wrote on CentreRight ponding on the police response of the Laws for loot affair that came to light today Vs the events at Damian Green's arrest:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2009/01/damian-green-vs.html

The comments make good reading and does seem we are heading (if we're not there already) to a system which incorporates all the bad things of the soviets - It was even commented to me today that things are getting a bit communist by a not-very-politically aware friend.
 

More on the Kawczynski case... Looks like the speaker is trying to make excuses and blame others again.
It may not be as bad as the Green case, but it does seem that it goes against what we were assured would happen after the last time.

The Speaker should get his facts straight and see it's time for him to go.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2009/01/daniel-kawczyns.html
 

Classic divide and conquer proposal from laboure, this time on their beloved class lines.
http://ta4.at/.19jdn

Attempts to make people feel part of a certain class so they can then say how they are helping that particular group that they've put you in.

Well, it's not the right thing to do and it's not fair on anyone.
 

According to the BBC news, another Conservative MP has has their offices raided

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7843578.stm

Daniel Kawczynski this time - Not sure what colour ribbon you can have for Kawczynski, but I'll stick with green.

It doesn't quite sound as sinister motives from the government this time, although still not right; but maybe more of the story will come to light shortly.
 

Labour Party Political Broadcast 2009...

http://ta4.at/.19ici
 

"Exposing this Government's assault on our historic liberties"


Dominic Raab writes for ConservativeHome Platform on the assault on our liberties in the past 10 years:
http://ta4.at/.19i9x

He is author of the book The Assault On Liberty which is launched tonight and can be purchased here for £6.74 at time of writing:
http://ta4.at/.19i9y
 

Yesterday we had the heathrow decision and it was yet another sign the government are getting out of control.
Jeff Hoon said it was too big a decision that affected the country therefore it was up to government, not parliament to decide.
This led to John McDonnell lifting the parliamentary mace, he explains himself here: http://ta4.at/.19grt

He's a Labour MP, so goes to show that they aren't all evil on that side, but something needs to be done to clear out the powercrazed loonies at the top.
 

Stewart Jackson MP writes about the "Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill":

Buried in the small print of the Bill are plans for the creation of unelected economic and transport quangos, allowing the Secretary of State to establish by Ministerial fiat combined authorities - which will be appointed and not directly elected. These unelected authorities will be empowered to impose local charging schemes, in the form of congestion taxes, road pricing and workplace parking taxes.

As Eric Pickles has said, the Bill establishes a dubious constitutional precedent in allowing unelected local bodies to begin to levy and vary taxes on local householders.
http://ta4.at/.19fqq
 

Bruce Anderson talks about how parliament is becoming a joke.
Seems to me yet another reason to get rid of the jokers in power right now:


http://ta4.at/.19ekx
 

Seems the Green affair is not quite forgotten yet...

Bernard Jenkin MP talks about The issue at the heart of the Damian Green affair: Privilege

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2009/01/bernard-jenkin.html
 

This is ridiculous and I would have thought made up if it wasn't for the bill...

The Government is set to throw out the 165-year old law that obliges the Bank to publish a weekly account of its balance sheet – a move that will allow it theoretically to embark covertly on so-called quantitative easing. The Banking Bill, which is currently passing through Parliament, abolishes a key section of the law laid down by Robert Peel's Government in 1844 which originally granted the Bank the sole right to print UK money.

http://ta4.at/.19e1p
 

The controversy over the arrest of Tory frontbencher Damian Green took a new twist today after it emerged the arresting officers were wearing sound recording equipment at the time.

Police arrested and held shadow immigration minister Green for nine hours last month in connection with a Home Office leak inquiry. It prompted Tory accusations of "heavy-handed tactics" by Scotland Yard and piled pressure on the officer in charge of the probe, Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick.

More: http://ta4.at/.1792v
 

Today, there are reports in the Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times which state that the police are preparing to drop the case against him, not least because of the "bungled and possibly unlawful way in which his House of Commons office was searched".

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2008/12/damian-greens-c.html
 

Well, all seems to be a bit quiet on the speaker/Green issue at the moment but back on the huge issue of the economy, brown's plans aren't going well.
This week Cameron agreed with me that we need a General Eleciton Now:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7772725.stm

The German finance minister also says that brown's economic plans are an epic fail:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7776962.stm

...and the markets agree with the pound dropping to an all time low - some bureau de changes offering 1:1 on the £:€

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7777448.stm

This certainly is a brown mess and he wants to dig us in further.
 

This petition seems to sum up my thoughts on the internet filtering although may have been created for another reason.
http://11f.ta0.at/

Next month the IWF will start filtering what they call 'extreme porn'. Totally legal things will start to be banned (as they have been now).

My post the other day said the ISP filtering wasn't to do with Damian Green affair, but it struck me that they are giving false information (pretending the server is not finding the page) to block an article whilst leaving a picture they have decided possibly might be illegal for all to view.
This means they have the ability to change any page to anything, really.

But this means we can't edit wikipedia anonymously.
So if we want to say something, do we write to our MP? I guess we're concerned about that too that it may get in the wrong hands.

What else is there? .. The BBC? well that's now totally government controlled since a few years ago (used to be parliament)

All information sources are being systematically brought under control.
 

More on the Damian Green debate...

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2008/12/more-on-the-dam.html
 

technologoically speaking, the speaker know's nout.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/commons_speaker_statement/
 

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/parliament/2008/12/government-defe.html

More info on the lost vote.
 

Very close vote in the house right now, but it seems that the government have won and got their tight remit for the investigation against the apparent wishes of the Speaker (although what everyone suspects is what he wanted to happen) - so looks like this may be able to be kicked into the long grass and forgotten about.

A sad result.
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/playlive/bbc_news24/

Discussion going on now on how long to discuss and what to discuss regarding the Green affair
 

"Whether it was chaotic mishandling of the first order by the police, the Home Office, and the House of Commons authorities, or the inevitable consequence of a weakened Commons and over mighty Executive, or something even more sinister, we may never know. Whatever the cause, it must never, ever, happen again."

more: http://ta4.at/.0vrr9
 

The Speaker now says he won't even quit after a General Election (if brown ever calls one)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5299239.ece

This was expected even before he made his biggest mistake, so it looks like he will have to make more mistakes before he will leave on his own volition- He has to go now.
 

Not to do with the Green affair but very much on the subject of authoritarianism, my ISP along with 6 others are not filtering wikipedia as someone has decided an image on there is unsuitable for me, and everyone else.

More info....
http://ta0.at/.0vqaz
and
http://ta0.at/0t9h.~

Worse than the fact they have done this is that they aren't even telling people (it returns a 404 Not found error) and blocks the article that contains the image in question, yet not the image itself:

This is the page that is blocked for me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer

But you can get to it via...
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer

or just view the image at


This appears to be a response to the government who have been recently asking the ISPs to do such things.
http://www.iwf.org.uk/government/page.156.381.htm

The ISPs have previously just said they are carriers of information and so won't do such things, plus would be too expensive and cause too many problems (like this case has caused people to be unable to edit wikipedia) therefore can't really introduce it.
But now they have... shot themselves in the foot really.

There are some that may say "would you prefer to have child porn?" or some other such ridiculous statement that tries to defend the ISPs ... well here's a page for them
http://ta0.at/.0vqda
 

backbench amendments with cross-party support are being tabled for the debate on Harrietr Harman's motion to set up the committee, which will take place on Monday.

http://ta4.at/.0vmcn
 

http://ta4.at/.0vlkv

QUENTIN LETTS writes about the gov't stitch-up in the enquiry into the Speaker.

--
http://ta4.at/.0vll5

Calls to quit grow as Yard contradicts
his statement to Commons

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Labour (and their speaker who they seem to have claimed all for themselves) are getting more disgusting and more partisan by the day.
The Speaker must go, although even then according to Diane Abbot on 'This Week' last night they'd just replace him with another labour stooge, but at least a new one may restore some public confidence in parliament.
 

Comment taken from:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/12/on-leaks.html#comments

ALL information belongs in the public domain unless there are very good reasons for it to be held discreetly.

The Government rests on a very slender basis of legitimacy with a mere 22% voters backing it in an election; and it is not widely respected or admired...it proceeds with arrogance where circumspection would be in order.

The Government was elected 3 years ago with a different Cabinet and a different Leader - there is a crisis of legitimacy in this regime and it is becoming heavy-handed in its attempts to suppress contrary viewpoints.

Frankly the political system lacks popular legitimacy, and the way Brown-Mandelson are playing, it seems it must be removed forthwith as a threat to democracy itself

Posted by: TomTom | December 03, 2008 at 21:12
 

So it appears there was no warrant to search the office and the Serjeant at arms apparently didn't just wave them through but signed something to give them consent.

http://ta4.at/.0vglb

I can't help thinking that the Speaker must have known it was going to happen and if he didn't then people who said he was wrong to change the role of the Serjeant.
Either way this hasn't done anything to make me think the Speaker should keep his job as he has not ensured that MPs and therefore constituents have been adequately protected.

Labour are trying to say that he broke the law and therefore did wrong and therefore the police are valid in whatever they do.
Well it's not all black and white like that.
Law isn't the absolute definition of morals and the police have rules the same as everyone.
 

mandleson has come out and says it's all a smokescreen for the Conservatives who are trying to hide the fact that he broke the law

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/12/mandy-ratchets-up-temperature.html

Well, I'm not sure he did break the law, but even if he did, he didn't do anything wrong.
It's quite amazing that mandy thinks that is an attack and is indicative of much of labour who seem to think that the law defines what is right and what is wrong just like if all procedures are followed then everyone has done their job correctly, even if someone dies.... it's all very robotic and inhuman.
 

Some interesting comments from a great article regarding the survival of the Speaker...

http://ta4.at/.0vgey

For many that don't follow parliament procedures they probably missed the irony that Ms Boothroyd a Labour MP was serving as speaker under a Tory government and never once took a party line in her judgments. MP's of all persuasions had to follow the rules of the house or be struck down by her pronouncements. New Labour get into power and instead of reciprocating and pushing for a Tory MP happy to follow the neutral position, they force a Glaswegian on the house. During his tenure we've seen time and again, what appears to be his blatant bias against the opposition and his convenient deafness to Labour MP's profanities when even the country at large heard the offensive words. Labour has politicized the speakers position in exactly the same way they politicized the BBC but don't anything less from a bunch of ministers who evolved from the primordial slime of hard line unions, third rate lawyers and Stalinist run councils !

- Mike, Alicante, Spain, 3/12/2008 8:47

Michael Martin and his token woman appointment Jill Pay, will survive the same way that the likes of Clown Brown and Lord Mandy of Sleaze survive, they will just tough it out! They have the hide of rhinos and they know that there will never be another British election. Once the EU Constitution, renamed the Lisbon Treaty to fool the sheeple, is fully up and running and the EU Army occupies Britain, it will be divided up into regions and the UK will cease to exist. Token jobs in EU will be handed out to all the New Labour slime who sold out their country.

- Vodeane Sinclair, Birkenhead, Auckland, New Zealand, 3/12/2008 4:45
 

Just Released: Footage of police searching Damian Green's office

http://ta4.at/.0vg47

Includes a well considered statement from Dominic Grieve.
 

More from the daily mail as even some high up labour MPs are critising the scandal:
http://ta4.at/.0vfjs

Shows that not all labour are evil, although I've a feeling that they are misguided into thinking their friends in the party are.
Perhaps those decent labourites should split and form a party of their own and leave the likes of brown, martin and smith to rot in hell
 

David Cameron writes an very good piece here:
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/88338/An-assault-on-all-our-rights.html

on the disgraceful behavior of the Speaker and Brown's lack of comment.
 

There is no greater urgency than upholding the democracy and sovereignty of our nation at this time. Election please.
 

I expect that if left until 2010, brown will just find some way to delay the election - be there some catastrophic event of just general security reasons so might as well have it now.
2010 will be too late for all the damage they have planned for our lives and liberty in 2009, not including the things we don't know about. It scares me to think what life will be like in 2011 if we keep these lunatics in control.
 

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