0940 Hrs GMT.
London Thursday 25 February 2010.
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
KHOODEELAAR! Diagnosing the opportunistic parasite role being assigned by Rupert Murdoch to Michael Portillo who is peddling undemocratic myths designed to revive the images of Thatcher and Bliar as ‘saviour’ and to damn both 'main' Parties in THAT context. Portillo is in denial about the true ‘crisis’ today. He has no awareness or at least he does NOT WANT TO BE AWARE about the real problems caused to society and to the economy by the absence of democratic accountability in and by Parliament. He is in denial about the truth. And so he is peddling the lies that would cheer up both a Thatcherite and a Bliarite. In all the sub-platforms that Portillo has craftily boarded since the John Major poll disaster of May 1997 when Portillo was ejected from the publicly paid for platforms maintained in the name of politics, he has peddled the same pattern of the lie. Portillo’s ‘sub-career-successes’ have been facilitated by the BBC which has allowed that allegedly formerly Murdoch-ed peddler Andrew Neil to promote Portillo albeit in a most cringe-making sofa setting co-exposing one of Ken Livingstone's ardent promoters. Despite the Andrew Neil spot and DOZENS of one-offs here and there over the past 12 years or so, Michael Portillo has not come across as a person who has any real interest in telling the truth. What he has specialised in as his ‘expertise’ is as a revisionist. As a faker. How can this fakery be any good in establishing the long overdue democratic accountability that this society needs? Portillo is an unreconstructed apologist for Big Business and as such he is and has been a backer of wars on innocent people in the parts of the world where peoples’ rights, whose humanity are not recognised by the ‘powers;’ that Portillo identifies with and promotes as being the ‘proprietors of the world’. After 12 years of revisionist fakery, Portillo remains as much of a ‘bastard’ as he was in July 1993 when John Major accurately descried him as one of the three bastards bent on doing him [Major] down. What Portillo is ‘selling’ is the ‘worth’ as a Bully. If John Major were talking ‘off record’ to ITN’s Michael BRUNSON today, he would call Portillo a Bully. After the fashion of the Bullingdon Club. This identity of Portillo comes across very firmly in his ignorant promotion of the lie that an election will make all that is wrong right. By THAT fact: an election! He does not address the fundamental corruption caused by an unaccountable parliament, a lying parliament. A really deficit, dysfunctional dressed up democracy! A fakery all around the Palace of Ghostsminster...And by a culture of lying local councils, regional assemblies…
[To be continued]
From the website of the London INDEPENDENT newspapers group:Twitter, to End POVERTY
Major 'says three in Cabinet are bastards'
JOHN MAJOR's leadership was plunged into a new crisis last night after claims that he described three Eurosceptic Cabinet colleagues as 'bastards' in comments accidentally recorded after a television interview.
The remarks, which were not broadcast but have gained circulation among broadcast journalists, are likely to enrage the right of the Conservative Party when Mr Major had promised a truce with Maastricht rebels.
The incident follows an interview with ITN's political editor, Michael Brunson, last Friday after the Prime Minister had won his confidence vote over handling of the Maastricht Treaty in the Commons. Private discussion seems to have been picked up on a 'live feed' - which made Mr Major's conversation available to the BBC and Sky as well as ITN - and taped by technicians.
According to today's Observer Mr Major told Mr Brunson: 'The real problem is one of a tiny majority. Don't overlook that. I could have all these clever, decisive things which people wanted me to do - but I would have split the Conservative party into smithereens. And you would have said I had acted like a ham-fisted leader.'
Mr Brunson asked the Prime Minister why he did not sack three rebel Cabinet ministers, to which the Mr Major replied: 'Just think it through from my perspective. You are the Prime Minister, with a majority of 18, a party that is still harking back to a golden age that never was (the Thatcher era), and is now invented. You have three right-wing members of the Cabinet who actually resign. What happens in the Parliamentary party?'
When Mr Brunson argued that the Prime Minister had the power to bring in others, Mr Major said: 'I could bring in other people. But where do you think most of this poison is coming from? From the dispossessed and the never-possessed. You can think of ex-ministers who are going around causing all sorts of trouble.
'We don't want another three bastards out there. What's Lyndon Johnson's maxim?' (The maxim is: 'It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.')
At no point in the tape did the Prime Minister name the three colleagues singled out for attack. Four Cabinet ministers are regarded as sceptics on Europe: Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Social Security, Michael Portillo, Chief Secretary to the Treaasury, John Redwood, Secretary of State for Wales, and Michael Howard, the Home Secretary.
But revelations of Mr Major's private opinions, unless proved false, will damage his standing on the right of the party - and undermine his claims to be a sceptic on Europe himself. They also underline the deep divisions which have been created within the Conservatives by the 18-month row over ratification of the Maastricht Treaty.
Downing Street said last night that it 'did not know if this conversation took place and if it did it would have been a private matter'.
Mr Brunson was not available for comment but an ITN spokesperson said: 'Michael Brunson has private conversations with senior politicians all the time and he would never comment on them'.
(Photograph omitted)
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