Saturday, December 26, 2009

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Our review of the year 2009 is enhanced by the exposure of UK G Brown's 'British vahloos' 'road show' as a wasteful, embarrassing act of incompetence and ineptitude...as confirmed by reports



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Saturday
26 December 2009


Editor © Muhammad Haque

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Our review of the year 2009 is enhanced by the exposure of UK G Brown's 'British vahloos' 'road show' as a wasteful, embarrassing act of incompetence and ineptitude...as confirmed by reports.


Those are, to begin with, in the Times and about 3 hours after we examined that, then published by the London Daily Mail group.


We have now challenged both media groups to show courage and tell the truth and expose the wasteful scam Crossrail.

[To be continued] 



    rom The Times
    December 26, 2009

    Britons shun Gordon Brown’s roadshow to promote Britishness

    Philip Webster, Political Editor
    Gordon Brown’s national roadshow to promote the concept of Britishness has turned out to be an expensive flop.
    The public, councillors and even ministers have declined to attend events organised to determine if there is a case for a full British Bill of Rights and duties, or a written constitution.
    The Conservatives say ten members of the public turned up to the first event in Leicester in December 2007, which cost £37,000 and was hosted by Jack Straw. They say that after that embarrassment, his Ministry of Justice restricted attendance at Governance of Britain events to people selected, and even paid, by the ministry.
    They also claim that councillors have increasingly spurned the events. A total of 21 local authority representatives turned up in Leicester, but attendance fell at subsequent events to 11, then 10, 7 and 2. Finally, at an event in Newcastle on November 21 this year no councillors or officials turned up.

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    Even ministers are understood to have snubbed the roadshow. Nick Brown, the Labour Chief Whip and Minister for the North East, pulled out of last month’s event. Michael Wills, the Justice Minister, who had attended the previous events, also failed to attend.
    Eleanor Laing, the Shadow Justice Minister, said: “Since 2007 we have had gimmick after gimmick on what it means to be British . . . Now, the public has spoken: Gordon Brown’s Britishness roadshow is a colossal waste of money. With the public finances in a mess, any plans for an even bigger nationwide non-event should be scrapped now.”
    Mr Brown laid out his vision of a Britishness roadshow in his first statement to Parliament as Prime Minister. “It is right to involve the public in a sustained debate,” he said, urging Britons to consider their common values and the case for going farther with a single document codifying the duties and rights of citizens.
    Mr Wills hit back yesterday at the Conservatives. “It’s disappointing that they have such little regard for what it means to be British and the importance of this identity in a challenging world,” he said. The total bill for the Britishness events was expected to be less than £1 million, he added.
    Labour officials denied that the public had snubbed the events. They claimed that 457 of the 500 people invited to the first five events had attended; and 225 of the 240 invited to return for the reconvened events had done so. They insisted that small payments were the norm in research of this kind, to recognise the time and commitment that participants had given.
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    Andrew Pearson wrote:
    Am I supposed to believe that Gordon Brown actually believes in "Britishness"? If he had any sincere desire to advance the condition of the British people, he might have tried a little to avoid doing so much damage to the fabric of the nation. He surely cannot pretend that his government carries no responsibility for what has befallen the country.
    December 26, 2009 5:47 PM GMT
    Andrew Brown wrote:
    I go into a petrol station and see asians only serving and running the station who rather sullenly accept my payment whilst chatting amongst themselves in a foreign language. Ditto a local shop, part of a large supermarket chain. I walk down the street and hear foreign languages as much as English. These events are not in Southall or the other numerous predominantly "ethnic" areas. The country is unrecognisable compared to 10 years ago.

    Am I able to feel English or even British in my own country, Mr Brown?
    December 26, 2009 5:43 PM GMT
    Ian White wrote:
    How many languages will Brown's Britishness road show be translated into?
    December 26, 2009 5:38 PM GMT
    Judy Walton wrote:
    Mr Brown just hasn't worked it out has he? There is nothing 'British' about a shop full of non English speakers or dodgy Eastern Europeans standing around on street corners or foreigners mowing down 12 year olds...and he and his compatriot Bliar, brought them all into Britain.
    December 26, 2009 5:31 PM GMT
    Simon page wrote:
    @ROBERT MCCLAIR. Independence? No Scottish MPs at Westminster who can't have any say in their constiuencies voting university fee for English students? We need a build a wall separating Scotland and England as Salmond and SNP want more and more immigrants to Scotland, no upper limits.
    December 26, 2009 5:27 PM GMT
    Andrew Brown wrote:
    Dennis Daly

    I would guess you're a labour supporter as you clearly haven't a clue.
    December 26, 2009 5:26 PM GMT
    Thomas Robinson wrote:
    It's fortunate for the government that they are organsing the events. Any private organiser would get strangled by red tape.
    December 26, 2009 5:22 PM GMT
    Harry Toll wrote:
    Brown's concept of "Britishness" is supposed to be a substitute for actually being British, the later having been eliminated by the Lisbon Treaty. If you want to be British, have a referendum on the treaty and see what happens.
    December 26, 2009 5:11 PM GMT
    ROBERT MCCLAIR wrote:
    When will GB ealise that even his fellow Scots are, in ever increasing numbers, turning their back on being "british"...other than being so in the way that a Swede (say) is Scandinavian...but as for being part of the "Union" (what a classic misnomer THAT is) he can Foxtrot Oscar and stay in his beloved Ingurlund.........we want Sweet Flora Adams to do with it and we're off the first chance we get.
    let's hope he rest of you take Gordon B. to your bosom........and strangle him!!!!!
    December 26, 2009 5:05 PM GMT
    Dennis Daly wrote:
    Aging Andrew-You sure are and with many of the commentaters to this article have forgotten to engage brain for the last two years. Gordon Brown did not bankrupt Great Briton,for we are told by the media that the banker's had a hand in bringing our economy to the state it is now in and incidentally,
    it would indeed be surprising if many of them were Labour supporter's.

    Born in England,I consider myself an Enlishman but proud to say I am also a British citizen and reject entirely the ridculous suggestion that the English people will emigrate to the continent - utter stupidity.

    December 26, 2009 5:04 PM GMT
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