KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That bankers staging the appearance before UK MPs’ 'Treasury' 'select committee' were NOT going to tell the truth!

AADHIKAROnline commentary on the morass and the stalemate in ‘democratic accountability’ in the UK …. In the context of Gordon Brown’s increasingly untenable utterances about ‘global’ this and global that…..No MP and this includes David Cameron the alleged Opposition leader in the Commons now, has shown that they understand the fundamental fraud that they are part of and party to…. If there is a global dimension to the current crisis then it is to be traced to the bankers and the Big business and the big fraudulent institutions of the west …

And those in turn must be linked with the agenda of the Military industrial Complex….

But there is no sign whatever in any of the proceedings of the staged and the stooged committees of the allegedly independent Houses of Parliament of any recognition of this truth….

By © Muhammad Haque
0720 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 12 February 2009


KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the bankers staging the appearance before the UK MPs 'Treasury' 'select committee' were NOT going to tell the truth!

And they did not tell the truth!

Not that the banker’s aversion to telling the truth stopped one of the MPs, ‘Mr Mudie’ as a banker kept addressing him, from coming across as quite exercised by the mess that the bankers had made…

So why did the bankers again get away?

The central problem is in the fact that the MPs were not prepared!

NOT prepared with the kind of evidential interrogatives that are needed if lying presentations by style-coached bankers were to be stopped and reversed.

What the 'Treasury Select Committee’ is most likely to do, with a Gordon Brown-assisting McFall in the chair, is to contrive a form of ‘recommendations; that will come across as ‘vindicating’ Brown’s own propaganda.

If they do that then a few members of this particular ‘Select Committee’ will be ‘justified’ to expect to be ‘honoured’ or ‘rewarded’ for their roles [to use one of the sleaze-ball words that was brought to light in connection with Keith Vaz who had reportyeldy played a helping role in the Hosue fo Commons giving the authoritarian measures an almost ethnicity-linked and therefore ‘universally acceptable’ receptions…More in a later AADHIKARonline commentary about that particular session of the ‘Home Affairs Select Committee’ which Vaz staged to counter the impact of the publicity about his role. Vaz then used that ‘meeting’ to get Brown to ‘clear’ him, Keith Vaz, of any ‘wrongdoing’ or ‘inappropriate’ communication…] .

Whether the Treasury Select Committee MPs do get ‘rewarded’ under the influence of Gordon Brown depends very much on the next part of Brown’s career… especially during the coming months…..Watch this space


Back to the much-published ‘Second day’ of the Treasury Select Committee’s grilling of the bankers…

It was no grilling.

It was infantile. It was ignorant. It was an insultingly inadequate demonstration of the powers a parliamentary committee could exercise to establish the truth of an important misconduct ..

The exchanges – including McFall’s embarrassing promotion, on the first day, of the Oxford dictionary- were not up to scratch.

They did not address the fundamental problem of corruption which is what banking is all about.

Usury.

Greed.

And an agenda of deception and false accounting.

These are the permanent features of banking.

And of capitalist ‘prosperity’.

And of the linked ‘parliamentary system’ .

Brown was quite clearly banking on the bankers being salvaged by McFall… in the end..

As he referred to the role of McFall’s committee when he, Brown, uttered one of his answers during the ‘Prime Minister’s Questions’ on Wednesday 11 February 2009.

If the ‘Select Committee’ system was working to hold the UK Executive to account then Brown would not have made that reference. He made that reference only because he knew that he could bank on that select Committee.

As he could on any similar select committee.

None of the select committee’s has established itself as the holder of the executive to account.

On any subject. On anything.

The select committees., in fact, are just as shallow and supine as they are intended [by the Executive] to be.

By the executive…

Upholding the truth of the matter, on any matter, is not at the top of the agenda of their objectives.

If it is anywhere on any of the objectives of any of the Select Committees…

[To be continued]
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