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25 April 2010.
Editor © Muhammad Haque.
Crass role by Crassrail-peddler Ruth Kelly! Ruth Kelly whose sluttish whisper we pointed out in our latest update of our questions to her and her co-touts for the Big Business agenda wasteful scam CrossRail only in the past 24 hours, was, of course the UK Transport Secretary when she resigned as part of the last Bliaring putsch as part of the mini-bid to oust the BLIARing ‘rival’ Gordon Brown out of No 10 Downing Street. What a Crass role model! How could Ruth Kelly be trusted on her sluttish whisper for CrossRail? Those cringe-making words uttered by her on camera [5 October 2007] in an even more cringe-making way than any of her contextually known and citable co-‘Bliar-Babes’ could be accused of being capable of…She was never one of the people as far as the 'most deprived’ borough Tower Hamlets was concerned. No one in the East End, unless they were in some secret arrangement or dubious deal or trade that was not an ordinary, decent way of earning a living, who was on an ordinary income, could dream of doing the things that she was doing whist still claiming to live in the same borough. The offensive claim that she was [and probably still is] married to a former Tower Hamlets Borough Council [Bliaring] councillor was also misleading as it gave the additional false impression that she had married one of the ‘designated depriveds’. The truth was a hundred miles away from that kind of fabricated image making. Just as the Canary Wharf station – so overly hyped by the liars touting on for Big Business agenda scam CrossRail- is from the typically ordinary and neglected and deprived parts of the inner London borough of Tower Hamlets. As the truth of the ‘regeneration’ of any parts of the East End as touted by Ruth Kelly’s co-peddler, Ken Livingstone [same date, 5 October 2007] Now, the disclosure about her dishonesty and opportunism over her children’s schooling comes in the Mail on Sunday today [25 April 2010] showing her hypocrisy and her utter contempt for any standard of equality for the ordinary people. As far as she is concerned, the ordinary people can rot in their deprivation while the likes of Ruth Kelly move on and 'provide for their children'. What the likes of Ruth Kelly do and have been doing for years is to condemn the ordinary people to low standards or no standards. When she took her own children away from the 'comprehensive' schools OPTION she had in Tower Hamlets and put them in exclusive ones that ordinary Tower Hamlets parents could only dream about, Ruth Kelly showed that as a BLIARing selfish self-seeker she did not have to hide her low standards and morality free ‘life choices’. She could flaunt them and she could do so whilst still putting on a smile as she knew that neither the Bliaring regime nor the Blaring local Tower Hamlets Council corrupt controlling clique was in a position to disown her, let alone to make an example of her by publicly distancing themselves from her misconduct. Misconduct is the word we intend to use and have used. We invite her to provide us with evidence that can truthfully invalidate our use of the word that she is guilty of public misconduct.
All of that stands in sharp contrast to her other image, which the corrupt sections in the ‘mainstream’ 'media’ perpetuated for years, that she was some sort of diehard religiously dedicated Roman Catholic fanatic due to her claimed membership of the sect Opus Die which she was reported to show in her near-fetishist wearing of a particular piece of excruciatingly painful item of sect-linked ritualistic gear! Some have even tried to link her with very far right tendencies, such as was done in the immediate aftermath of her appointment to the post of Education Secretary by Tony Blair.
The hostile profiles of Ruth Kelly included several references to the Da Vinci Code and its portrayal of the Opus Dei as a nasty outfit involved in sinister activities.
It is our studied view that Ruth Kelly was probably so seriously targeted in THAT propaganda because of the frustration as experienced by Big Business interests which wanted to promote in Britain a whole range of experiments which the Roman Catholic faith forbids and which Ruth Kelly would not therefore support.
Ruth Kelly has behaved as an irresponsible politician. She has failed to address those allegations in public and for that she alone is to be held responsible. Not her faith. Not her Sect. Not even her husband.
Compare her silence on those allegations to her vocal as we have shown, sluttishly whispered promotion of - Yes, a Big Business scam - Crossrail! The mind seriously boggles.
Ruth Kelly has behaved as another MP or now, as a soon to become ex-MP. Grabbing and doing so ruthlessly! Irony, satire and contempt all rolled into that one recitation of her published first name!
And what a trail of moral poverty she has left behind in her once parliamentary constituency in Bolton, Lancs as well!
Ands she was asking the UK public to allow her to waste £Billions on Crossrail! She could not be trusted at all.
[To be continued]
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"Former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly stands down as MP - then one day later buys £1.8m house on doorstep of two best Catholic schools in Britain
By GLEN OWEN
Last updated at 2:21 AM on 25th April 2010
Last updated at 2:21 AM on 25th April 2010
Labour's former Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was last night accused of hypocrisy for buying a near-£2million house next to two of Britain’s best state schools.
Strict Catholic Ms Kelly – who has four children under 13 and caused a storm when she sent her son to a private school – has moved from a run-down part of East London with poor schools into an affluent educational hotspot in West London.
She appears to have timed her move to avoid controversy, taking ownership just hours after Parliament was dissolved for the Election and she stepped down as MP for Bolton West.
Strict Catholic: Ruth Kelly seen in 2004 with her husband, Derek Gadd
Her new three-storey, £1.8million home – bought with the help of a loan from the Queen’s bankers, Coutts – is on the doorstep of two Catholic state schools boasting stunning academic results.
Last night Ms Kelly, 41, admitted that her eldest daughter would be going to one of the schools but denied that she had helped to ‘buy’ the place by purchasing the house.
But Tory candidate Douglas Carswell, who sat on the Commons Education Select Committee, said: ‘This shows complete hypocrisy. We have an apartheid education system, where the rich can do the best for their children while the poor have to make do.
‘The next Government has to make sure that everyone has the opportunities that are only available to the likes of Ruth Kelly.’
Access to good schools has become a key General Election battleground, with the Tories promising to rip up Labour’s system in favour of a chain of parent-driven ‘independent’ schools.
It is unclear how Ms Kelly, who was Education Secretary from 2004 to 2006 and resigned from the Cabinet as Transport Secretary in 2008, paid for the house in a tree-lined street in Brook Green, near Hammersmith.
Old home: Ms Kelly had two ex-council flats knocked together in run-down Wapping, East London
New home: The West London house bought by Ms Kelly
She previously lived with husband Derek Gadd in two knocked-together former council flats in Wapping, East London, worth an estimated £750,000, and in a constituency home, which the couple sold last month for £190,000.
Ms Kelly and Mr Gadd are still recorded on the Land Registry as owning the Wapping property, although any change in ownership can take up to three months to appear.
The move means that privately-educated Ms Kelly, who has a son and three daughters, is three-quarters-of-a-mile from Sacred Heart girls’ Catholic school, a comprehensive where last year 99 per cent of pupils got at least five good GCSEs – double the national average. Two-thirds of all passes were at A grade.
The school was at the centre of a previous controversy when Tony Blair won a place there for his daughter Kathryn, despite living six miles away in Downing Street.
Sacred Heart is deluged with applications for the 150 places it offers every year. It divides applicants into three bands according to academic ability, then awards places on the basis of families’ devotion to the faith.
Where candidates are level-pegging – as is usually the case – priority is given to ‘pupils living nearest to the school, using a customised computer road network routing programme which finds the shortest route from home to the school gate’.
Confronted by The Mail on Sunday, Ms Kelly admitted that her eldest girl has won a place at Sacred Heart – and that her two other daughters are expected to follow – but denied that the house’s proximity to the school helped her to gain access.
Nearby: Ruth Kelly's three daughters will go to Sacred Heart, one of Britain's top state schools
She said her daughter had already secured a place at the school when the family was living 10 miles away in Wapping.
As a member of the mysterious Opus Dei sect, which follows a strict Vatican line on issues such as contraception and embryo research, Ms Kelly would have scored highly on ‘devotion to faith’.
Asked whether the new house’s location would help her two other daughters to go to Sacred Heart, she said they were already assured of a place under the school’s policy of giving priority to siblings.
She claimed the purchase of the house had nothing to do with schools, saying: ‘We moved because there are no good family houses in Wapping.’
The row comes three years after The Mail on Sunday revealed Ms Kelly had taken her son out of a state primary in Tower Hamlets, East
London, and moved him into a £15,000-a-year prep school in Oxfordshire, on the grounds that the state school did not cater adequately for his special educational needs.
It is not known where the boy, now 12, is now at school but Ms Kelly’s new home is a mile from Cardinal Vaughan boys’ school in Holland Park, rated the best Catholic comprehensive in Britain. It boasts that
it ‘tops national league tables, regularly outperforming many selective and fee-paying schools’. Cardinal Vaughan, which has six applicants for every place, last year came under pressure from the Catholic Westminster diocese to place more priority on those living nearest the school and less on the level of faith displayed by families.
Critics say that under Labour, parents who do not want to send their children to poorly-performing local comprehensives are forced to go private, move near to an academically-selective grammar school, develop a strong Catholic faith – or pay a premium to live in a house near to the few good state schools.
Experts say the average home near a top-tier state school is worth 13 per cent more than equivalent properties. The problem is acute in London, where competition for places at academically-rigorous schools is fierce. Secondary schools in Ms Kelly’s old borough, Tower Hamlets, are among the poorest-performing in Britain.
A spokeswoman for Finlay Brewer estate agents, whose ‘Sold’ sign was outside Ms Kelly’s new house last week, described her new road as being at the centre of ‘a great family area, with excellent schools’. She added: ‘We have just sold to a family with a girl going to Sacred Heart and a boy to Cardinal Vaughan.’ She did not say who the family were.
The £1.8million price would have been a stretch even for a former Cabinet Minister – particularly as she has been the main breadwinner since her husband, whom she met at an anti-racism rally and married in 1996, gave up his career as an archaeologist to help to run the family while she pursued her political ambitions.
According to the Land Registry, Ms Kelly handed over the money for her new house on March 30 and became the legal owner on April 13.
She lost her £138,000-a-year Cabinet salary when she resigned as Transport Secretary in 2008, to spend more time with her family. This month she stopped drawing her £65,000 MP’s salary.
She made an £81,000 profit on her Bolton constituency home, which she bought for £109,000 in 2001, and will receive a £32,000 Commons pay-off.
Ms Kelly, who was embroiled in the MPs’ expenses scandal when it was revealed that she had used her taxpayer-funded second home allowance to pay for £31,000 of renovations at the Bolton home, has not outlined her career plans after politics.
The daughter of a Northern Irish pharmacist, she went to Westminster school in London, where fees are now close to £30,000 a year.
Left-winger Jon Cruddas, Labour MP for Dagenham, East London, was criticised for using £60,000 of Commons expenses to help to buy a £500,000 second home in Notting Hill, close to Cardinal Vaughan.
He denied that he had moved to the property – which is four miles from Parliament and 17 miles from his constituency – just to get his son into the school.
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Colin wrote
'Yet another hypocritical champagne socialist, so quick to lecture the rest of the population on the advantages of comprehensive education while ensuring their own offspring enjoy all the advantages of the position, money and privileges they have gained through their selfless commitment to the cause of the liberal/left and the common people!
At least the Grammar School system gave everyone the possibility of a good education based on merit. Now it's an 11-plus that relies on your parents' financial ability to buy a £1.8 million house with the right post code'
- colin, cumbria, 25/4/2010 10:43