KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN SO! Constitutionally. Legally. Evidentially. Analytically. And ECONOMICALLY. That he, G Brown, was WRONG on so many counts to waste £Billions on Big Business scam Crossrail
In December 2007, KHOODEELAAR! told Brown so!
0505 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 31 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN SO! Constitutionally. Legally. Evidentially. Analytically. And ECONOMICALLY. That he, G Brown, was WRONG on so many counts to waste £Billions on Big Business scam Crossrail
In December 2007, KHOODEELAAR! Told Brown so!
And everything that KHOODEELAAR! has said to Brown about Brown’s flawed backing with scarce public money of the project intended to create a diversionary excuse and a pretext for Big Business to loot UK public money, has been vindicated by the actual events.
We have already reported today how the Crossrail peddling London Gauia5dinman is now admitting that one of the key planks in selling the Big Business Crossrail scam, the alleged trend in passenger usage of trains, has been exposed as unfounded……
We said in October 2007 that even Channel 4 News published evidence that Brown had been wrong to ignore the advice of Rod Eddington in backing Crossrail.
Last night [Monday 30 March 2009] Channel 4 News published some more evidence fo serious contradictions and lack of ethics in the records of Gordon Brown's conduct and behaviour
It published several clips showing Brown in fact BACKED the bankers and financial wrongdoers as he, Gordon Brown, went on the attack against REGULATION. For years!
No wonder that Brown wanted to find any excuse to put public money to fund Big Business. That excuse was provided him by Ken Livingstone during 2007.
[To be continued]
20 January
Khoodeelaar! challenges the UK ‘Crossrail Bill’ in the UK Parliament [’the House of Lords’] and warns the UK Government of damaging embarrassment…..
By©Muhammad Haque
1740 Hrs GMT London Saturday 19 January 2008:
Khoodeelaar! challenges the UK ‘Crossrail Bill’ in the UK Parliament [’the House of Lords’] and warns the UK Government of embarrassment unless ALL the objectors in the UK to the Crossrail Bill are allowed to pout to t Parliament all the evidence against Crossrail plot.. and unless the process of scrutiny in parliament is actually allowed to take place and is seen to be taking place….
The CURRENT campaign news, information and commentary being created for Khoodeelaar! by the AADHIKAR Media Foundation and published on the internet is focussed on the CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
What is Khoodeelaar! doing to bring about compliance with the UK’s European Treaty obligations in the conduct of making laws in the UK. Khoodeelaar! is at once embarked on a multi-faceted programme of defence of the ordinary public in London and by extension across the UK against the illegal, unconstitutional, illegitimate behaviour on the part of the UK executive. As this week’s ‘comments’ in the ‘mainstream’ media in the UK has been about the near-disaster [that was, according to a number of news reports, averted only by a worrying 20 seconds!!!] at the Heathrow airport which reportedly occurred when Gordon Brown was in the vicinity, the Khoodeelaar! campaign is going to put appropriate legal and constitutional law emphasis on the demand that it has already put to Gordon Brown’s administration to show the evidence of uncorrupted correlation between the various claims that the Government has been making for the Big Business CrossRail hole plot. Of specific importance is the claim that has been made with insane fanaticism, and echoed by a Ken Livingstone-compromised Gordon Brown in the weeks and months between 1 October 2007 and 1 December , that one of the most vital ECONOMIC arguments and justifications for Crossrail is that it would link up Heathrow airport with the rest of the ‘City of London’. Now that even Frank Field, MP [Birkenhead, England] [on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Any Question’ as broadcast on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 January 2008] has called Heathrow airport obsolete and assorted other commentators have been able to speak out against any plans to create another terminal at Heathrow airport, questions that Khoodeelaar! has already put to Ruth Kelly [the Current ‘Crossrail hole plot-promoting UK Secretary of State at the Department for Transport’] will be updated and reinforced. 2007 0. Khoodeelaar! will show the constitutional law way forward for solving the genuine transport needs of London 0. Khoodeelaar! dissecting the language of CrossRail lies by Crossrail promoters 0. Khoodeelaar! evidence of constitutional and democratic questions as put to the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council – the past four years 0. Khoodeelaar! questions to the several relevant UK MPs 0. Khoodeelaar! questions to the office concerned in the UK House of Lords dealing with the House of Lords ‘consideration’ of the ‘Crossrail Bill’ 0. Khoodeelaar! diagnosis of the unconstitutionality of the behaviour of Ruth Kelly, Tom Harris and their co-ministers and post-holders in the uk Department for Transport 0. Khoodeelaar! invokes the ‘lessons’ of 1988 and the follies of the PRE-Crossrail UK Department for Transport and their THEN idiocies which exposed the UK Government of the day [Maggie Thatcher] to Europe-wide ridicule [ as based on the UK’s Government’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL, unethical and dishonest behaviour] in a big way 0. Khoodeelaar! constitutional law updates against the drafting of, the proceedings about and the promotion of the current ‘Crossrail Bill’ 0. Khoodeelaar! campaign updates 0. Khoodeelaar! breaking news Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments » 1050 Hrs GMT London Saturday 19 January 2008: Khoodeelaar! No to the “Crossrail Bill”- The evidence of the context and constitutional rationale law as put to the personnel involved in the administration of the House of Lords in November 2007 by the Khoodeelaar! Organsier Muhammad Haque - January 19, 2008 by Khoodeelaar “ The Khoodeelaar! Formal petition to THE UK HOUSE OF LORDS AGAINST THE HYBRID ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’ Following our last e-mail sent to you on Monday, We decided to send the material today, after discovering some information about what was going on in the house of commons. We note the appearance of the ‘secretary of state For transport’ Ruth Kelly before a HOUSE OF COMMONS committee on Monday 12.11.2007. In our petition [the procedure and formal Structure, addressing etc of which will be finalised upon our receipt of the guidance that is being still prepared by yourselves], we shall refer to a number of the factual Issues that have arisen both during Ruth Kelly’s latest statements as well as the relevant Questions as put to her by members of that committee. We are letting you know, at this stage by way of information for any relevant advance preparation/s on your [plural] parts, that our campaign AGAINST the CROSSRAIL [HOLE PLOT] Bill has been thoroughly in accord with the principles of universally Verifiable and recognisable constitutionality and that we have found that such standards of constitutionality That We have ourselves adhered to in our various and Detailed inquiries of the Secretary of State [as the Promoter to date] in this matter of our serious objections To the contents and the implications of the ‘CrossRail Bill’ have not been even acknowledged let alone expressly recognised by the succession of holders Of the office of `Secretary of state…]. This really is the reason why we shall seek to draw to the attention of the upper house committee concerned the most serious flaws and defects in the present [the current] ‘CRASSRail’ London, scheme. We are aware of the constitutional options beyond And after the process in the Upper chamber is [has been] formally concluded on this matter.. At this time we are making appropriate demands and representations both to the Secretary of state as well as to any other backers of this seriously irresponsibly promoted scheme that in our view will not address the main transport needs of London and will be an unwarranted waste of a lot of money from the public sector.
Yours sincerely
Muhammad Haque
The Organiser Khoodeelaar! 1315 Hrs GMT/UK Tuesday 13.11.2007
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Khoodeelaar! evidential diagnosis of the failures of MPs - continuing the focus on Jacqui Smith
0430 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 31 March 2009
Khoodeelaar! evidential diagnosis of the failures of MPs - continuing the focus on Jacqui Smith
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the MPs were stooges when it comes to thought and holding the executive to account... Now we know some of the sordid details of why they are so stooge-able. They are deeply engaged in devising ways to justify expenses...House of Parliament! House of Fiddlers....[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! evidential diagnosis of the failures of MPs - continuing the focus on Jacqui Smith
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! That the MPs were stooges when it comes to thought and holding the executive to account... Now we know some of the sordid details of why they are so stooge-able. They are deeply engaged in devising ways to justify expenses...House of Parliament! House of Fiddlers....[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! evidential diagnosis of the latest confession de facto by the Crossrail-peddling Guardian that train passenger numbers are down...
0255
Hrs GMT London Tuesday 31 March 2009
Original time posted:
0245 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 31 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The CRASS role playing, Crossrail scam-peddling Guardian and its equally crass ‘reporting’ Dan Milmo confesses, after all!
That passenger numbers on London trains - tube, underground - are decreasing… and that the decrease is forcing Boris Johnson to face up to the fact that he will have £5 Billion pound shortfall — almost the same amount, at October 2007 prices, as the sum that his predecessor Ken Lyingstill Livingstone ‘committed’ to Crossrail…CRASS, CRASS and CRASS… That sum itself would be raised from ordinary London public… And that was based on a crass projection ton of passenger numbers as well as on an equally crass and typically false projection of the City of London being a - nay, THE - world class financial centre…How totally hollow those Ken LYINGSTILL Livingstone slogans read and sound now… in a week when the very same Livingstone, back in a ‘mode of a campaigner ’ is faking it again, posing as a G20 campaigner … featuring as one of the State-approved, ‘left’ ‘luminaries’ of lies.….the disclosure in the Guardian is taking only hours after Boris Johnson was the subject of a particularly relevant item in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.…Which we shall be analyzing here soon
[to be continued]
Hrs GMT London Tuesday 31 March 2009
Original time posted:
0245 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 31 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! The CRASS role playing, Crossrail scam-peddling Guardian and its equally crass ‘reporting’ Dan Milmo confesses, after all!
That passenger numbers on London trains - tube, underground - are decreasing… and that the decrease is forcing Boris Johnson to face up to the fact that he will have £5 Billion pound shortfall — almost the same amount, at October 2007 prices, as the sum that his predecessor Ken Lyingstill Livingstone ‘committed’ to Crossrail…CRASS, CRASS and CRASS… That sum itself would be raised from ordinary London public… And that was based on a crass projection ton of passenger numbers as well as on an equally crass and typically false projection of the City of London being a - nay, THE - world class financial centre…How totally hollow those Ken LYINGSTILL Livingstone slogans read and sound now… in a week when the very same Livingstone, back in a ‘mode of a campaigner ’ is faking it again, posing as a G20 campaigner … featuring as one of the State-approved, ‘left’ ‘luminaries’ of lies.….the disclosure in the Guardian is taking only hours after Boris Johnson was the subject of a particularly relevant item in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme.…Which we shall be analyzing here soon
[to be continued]
Khoodeelaar! evidential item on UK MPs who employ their relatives! Mother of Parliaments! Grotesque!
Khoodeelaar! evidential item on UK MPs who employ their relatives! Mother of Parliaments! Grotesque!
Monday, March 30, 2009
Khoodeelaar! FORESAW, as far back as 2007 that Boris Johnson would fail the people of London spectacularly
Khoodeelaar! FORESAW, as far back as 2007 that Boris Johnson would fail the people of London spectacularly
2158 [2145] Hrs GM T London Monday 30 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BORIS JOHNSON SO! And KHOODEELAAR! TOLD about Boris Johnson so too! Khoodeelaar! FORESAW, as far back as 2007 and in the week of the announcement by the London Daily Telegraph of Boris Johnson's own announcement as a potential contender for election [the still almost a year away] to the post of mayor in the name of London.. We had FORESEEN that Boris Johnson would become exposed as shallow. In fact we had known of the DARIUS GUPPY ‘conversation’. We had known of OTHER Boris Johnson scams. Like his having made up things. We did NOT list those in full in 2007. We did the next dignified thing. We advised Boris Johnson to make sure that he had a HIGHER moral and ethical standard than Ken Livingstone. We said this in the knowledge that Ken Livingstone had corrupted public life in London. And that no one who did not have the moral and the ethical qualifications and qualities should be allowed to seek or to occupy the post in the name of the people of London ... No media outfit, including the Channel 4 station, picked up on our warning and our advice to Boris. No one even explored the theme. No newspaper or blog discussed this. In the months around Johnson’ announcement and plugs as a candidate, we posted similar views on the web site of the London magazine the Spectator [which Boris had been editor of] and on the web site of the London daily Telegraph and on the Times newspaper. There was no follow-up by anyone else on any of our comments and concerns about Boris Johnson's’ fitness to occupy the post. In view of the contents of the Channel 4 Dispatches programme as broadcast at 1900 Hrs GMT this evening, we can say EVIDENTIALLY, factually and accurately: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO.. And on that empirical evidential accurate basis, KHOODEELAAR! is telling Boris Johnson again: Scrap Crossrail and quit peddling for Big Business Crossrail hole/s scam...
[To be continued]
2158 [2145] Hrs GM T London Monday 30 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BORIS JOHNSON SO! And KHOODEELAAR! TOLD about Boris Johnson so too! Khoodeelaar! FORESAW, as far back as 2007 and in the week of the announcement by the London Daily Telegraph of Boris Johnson's own announcement as a potential contender for election [the still almost a year away] to the post of mayor in the name of London.. We had FORESEEN that Boris Johnson would become exposed as shallow. In fact we had known of the DARIUS GUPPY ‘conversation’. We had known of OTHER Boris Johnson scams. Like his having made up things. We did NOT list those in full in 2007. We did the next dignified thing. We advised Boris Johnson to make sure that he had a HIGHER moral and ethical standard than Ken Livingstone. We said this in the knowledge that Ken Livingstone had corrupted public life in London. And that no one who did not have the moral and the ethical qualifications and qualities should be allowed to seek or to occupy the post in the name of the people of London ... No media outfit, including the Channel 4 station, picked up on our warning and our advice to Boris. No one even explored the theme. No newspaper or blog discussed this. In the months around Johnson’ announcement and plugs as a candidate, we posted similar views on the web site of the London magazine the Spectator [which Boris had been editor of] and on the web site of the London daily Telegraph and on the Times newspaper. There was no follow-up by anyone else on any of our comments and concerns about Boris Johnson's’ fitness to occupy the post. In view of the contents of the Channel 4 Dispatches programme as broadcast at 1900 Hrs GMT this evening, we can say EVIDENTIALLY, factually and accurately: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO.. And on that empirical evidential accurate basis, KHOODEELAAR! is telling Boris Johnson again: Scrap Crossrail and quit peddling for Big Business Crossrail hole/s scam...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the duplicity of the UK Channel4News site APPEARING to be rigorous about UK Interior Minister Jacqui Smith
2048 Hrs GMT London Monday 30 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the duplicity of the UK Channel4News site APPEARING to be rigorous about UK Interior Minister Jacqui Smith
[To be continued[
What's in Jacqui Smith's expenses?
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By: Channel 4 News
As the saga of the home secretary's second home takes another twist with the revelation that adult videos were included in her expenses, we list some of the items she claimed for.
Last month it emerged that Smith was facing a parliamentary "sleaze" investigation over her taxpayer-funded second home allowance claims.
She claimed at least £116,000 of the commons second home allowance on her constituency home in Redditch, where her family live, by designating her sister's house in south-east London as her main home.
Smith insisted she had done nothing wrong and said her accommodation arrangements were fully in line with commons rules.
But yesterday the home secretary was again in the firing line when she had to apologise for an expenses claim which included two adult films viewed at their home.
The Sunday Express said documents going back to 2001 show Smith had claimed £150,304 for the cost of running a second home since 2001, including the films.
The expenses covered council tax, utilities and insurance but also included:
a Habitat stone kitchen sink worth £550
a dining room table worth £460
a sofa bed at £704
a reclaimed antique-style fireplace costing £1,000
a £399 Hotpoint cooker plus £15 connection
a £189 Hotpoint tumble dryer
two washing machines, worth £550 over two years
home entertainment included DVD players, two Samsung widescreen TVs and two digital set-top boxes worth more than £1,100
an 88p bath plug
the bill from Virgin Media which included the two 18-rated "additional features" which cost £5 each to view. The phrase is said to be used as a euphemism for films with adult content
the Virgin Media bill also shows the film Ocean 13 starring George Clooney was viewed on two nights at £3.75 a time plus the film Surf's Up which cost £3.50
The paper claims its revelations showed Smith was a regular user of the so-called John Lewis list, which allows MPs to claim for furniture and fittings up to the cost charged at the department store.
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on the duplicity of the UK Channel4News site APPEARING to be rigorous about UK Interior Minister Jacqui Smith
[To be continued[
What's in Jacqui Smith's expenses?
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Last Modified: 30 Mar 2009
By: Channel 4 News
As the saga of the home secretary's second home takes another twist with the revelation that adult videos were included in her expenses, we list some of the items she claimed for.
Last month it emerged that Smith was facing a parliamentary "sleaze" investigation over her taxpayer-funded second home allowance claims.
She claimed at least £116,000 of the commons second home allowance on her constituency home in Redditch, where her family live, by designating her sister's house in south-east London as her main home.
Smith insisted she had done nothing wrong and said her accommodation arrangements were fully in line with commons rules.
But yesterday the home secretary was again in the firing line when she had to apologise for an expenses claim which included two adult films viewed at their home.
The Sunday Express said documents going back to 2001 show Smith had claimed £150,304 for the cost of running a second home since 2001, including the films.
The expenses covered council tax, utilities and insurance but also included:
a Habitat stone kitchen sink worth £550
a dining room table worth £460
a sofa bed at £704
a reclaimed antique-style fireplace costing £1,000
a £399 Hotpoint cooker plus £15 connection
a £189 Hotpoint tumble dryer
two washing machines, worth £550 over two years
home entertainment included DVD players, two Samsung widescreen TVs and two digital set-top boxes worth more than £1,100
an 88p bath plug
the bill from Virgin Media which included the two 18-rated "additional features" which cost £5 each to view. The phrase is said to be used as a euphemism for films with adult content
the Virgin Media bill also shows the film Ocean 13 starring George Clooney was viewed on two nights at £3.75 a time plus the film Surf's Up which cost £3.50
The paper claims its revelations showed Smith was a regular user of the so-called John Lewis list, which allows MPs to claim for furniture and fittings up to the cost charged at the department store.
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep accountability deficit in UK Parliament: It is a bankrupt Parliament [4]
0145 [0140] Hrs GMT London Monday 30 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! evidential notes on the culture of unaccountability in the UK Parliament. As we have been arguing for over 5 years, the UK Executive is liable to go off the rails. The rails and the tracks of normality. Of constitutionality. Of decency and decorum as demanded by adherence to democratic accountability.. What has Jacqui Smith’s location this week at the centre of this deeply humiliating personal embarrassment to the role she played and her fellow Blairing MPs played in giving the nod and the yes to the Big Business Crossrail hole scam Bill? What rigours would have spared Jacqui Smith this experience? We say a lot. Had there been a robust, rigorous and ethically active Parliament, most of the personal acts of embarrassment, would not have occurred. But as the UK Parliament is a propaganda place, there to promote the agenda being touted via the Executive, we have these spectacles.…. Accidentally exposed MPS and ministers found with their snouts in the trough or EVEN worse..
.[To be continued]
FROM
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/7079
State repression in Britain
Binyam Mohamed has made allegations of MI5 collusion in his torture at various detention camps, including Guantánamo Bay. The Guardian has recently exposed a police databank on thousands of protesters. A wave of repressive legislation has been introduced.
Tony Saunois looks at these and other attacks on civil liberties, and the need for all socialists and trade unionists to take up the important task of defending democratic rights.
The state, cartoon by Alan Hardman, photo Alan Hardman
Under the guise of 'fighting terrorism' and 'combating crime' New Labour has introduced an avalanche of repressive legislation. This effectively criminalises protest and takes away basic democratic rights.
Socialists understand the genuine fear of terrorism and crime felt by millions of working people and support any democratic measures that will help prevent them taking place. Yet, New Labour has introduced repressive measures which are being prepared for use against working people fighting for their rights.
The police are preparing for a "summer of rage" as the economic recession takes grip. Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police's public order branch, warned that "middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests." In his comments Hartshorn specifically mentioned the G20 protests.
The threat of growing mass protest and civil disobedience has led the government and state apparatus to strengthen its repressive powers. It is polishing its arsenal of legislation against activists and protesters.
The use of legislation, justified as necessary to 'combat terrorism', is already being widely used against sections of the population. For example the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) - justified as a piece of anti-terror legislation, has been used by local authorities to monitor people suspected of fly-tipping, fishing illegally and even applying for a school place outside a designated catchment area.
These measures, introduced over the last decade and recently strengthened, are unprecedented in recent British history. Once pictured as the 'mother of democracy', Britain has now become one of the most repressive and monitored societies in the world. The government, on paper, has acquired powers giving it all the trappings of a parliamentary 'bonapartist' repressive regime.
42-day detention without trial, justified to combat terrorism, would be one of the longest detentions in the world had it been voted in. Even the existing 28-day limit outstrips that of other countries hit by terrorist attacks including Spain (five days), Turkey (seven and a half) and the USA (two days).
More laws
Police on the protests against the war in Gaza in january 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
By 2008 New Labour had created over 3,600 new offences; an average of 320 a year. Of these, 2,367 were introduced with no debate in parliament, using secondary legislation such as orders in council and statutory documents. Among them was legislation to make it illegal to disturb a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer! It is also now illegal to create a nuclear explosion!
More ominous, though, is legislation designed to restrict democratic rights, including the right to protest. In 2005 an amendment was added to the 1997 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 4 (SOCPA) which was not debated in either chamber in parliament. This can be used to ban protests of any kind. As in Latin America, the right to protest is being criminalised.
In 1997 the Protection from Harassment Act was introduced into parliament. The government argued that it would protect women from stalkers. But this Act was used against Oxfordshire environmental campaigners. Thrupp Lake, a local beauty spot, was under threat from RWE npower, which owns Didcot power station. This company wanted to empty the lake and fill it with pulverised fly ash. Protesters launched a petition and some stood in the way of contractors who were trying to cut down trees.
Right to protest
Police on the protests against the war in Gaza in january 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
The company obtained an injunction against the protesters to keep them away from the site, with a threat of up to five years imprisonment if they broke it. Under the Protection from Harassment Act, it is only necessary to prove that someone felt "alarmed and distressed" by protesters.
Maybe this is a well-intentioned piece of legislation, badly drafted and misused? Not exactly. Mr Lawson-Cruttenden, who acted for RWE, claims that his law company helped draft the legislation in 1997. He boasted that the purpose of obtaining injunctions under the act is "the criminalisation of civil disobedience".
Although the company eventually backed down that was not the end of the struggle for the Oxfordshire protesters. The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU) is a police team which has been established to coordinate the fight against "domestic extremists". A NETCU manual advises officers on policing protests.
To help identify "extremist elements" police officers are recommended to check the list of "High Court Injunctions that relate to domestic extremism campaigns". This was published on the NETCU website. On the list of so-called domestic extremists was Dr Peter Harbour, a 70 year old retired physicist. He was never convicted of anything. He is on the NETCU list as a consequence of his activities to prevent Thrupp Lake from being turned into an industrial dumping ground.
Since this case was exposed by George Monbiot, NETCU has modified its website and all sections on it apart from press reports of successful prosecutions, simply state: "Site temporarily unavailable".
Even these measures are not sufficient for New Labour. Just in case an investigation by a local coroner's court starts posing difficult questions - then the Coroners and Justice Bill (2009) which is currently being drafted has the solution. It gives the government powers to suspend controversial inquests, hold them without a jury and when desired amend the Data Protection Act!
In order to carry out the monitoring and surveillance of activists and protesters the police have established new branches of the secret services which are totally unaccountable. Even the formation of these bodies has been carried through without any parliamentary debate or questioning. NETCU is one such organisation. Another is the more recently established Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU).
Among those to be targeted, according to the Daily Mail, are: "organisations behind industrial action such as secondary picketing". It will collect data on organisations and individuals and also infiltrate targeted groups. The same article warned that the CIU will take legal action to prevent publication of material revealing its activities.
Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) now routinely operate on all protests and demonstrations. FIT teams are charged with compiling information and taking photographs of demonstrators and those they associate with. Such information, stored on databases of course, is often passed from one demonstration to the next to allow the police to target known activists.
As well as protesters, journalists and reporters have been drawn into the net. It is now illegal to refuse or prevent the police from taking your photo on a protest. Yet since February 2009, it is illegal to take a photo of a police officer engaged in anti-terrorist activity. This makes it, in practice, illegal to photograph any police officer.
State of emergency
One of the most pernicious and authoritarian pieces of legislation was carried through parliament and received scant media coverage at the time. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 allows for the declaration of a state of emergency and rule by decree.
For the first time, the government has the right to declare a state of emergency without even the use of the Royal Prerogative. Government ministers, including the chief whip, under this Act are empowered to declare a state of emergency providing there is "sufficient justification". Grounds for such a declaration, at regional or national level, include interruption, or threat of interruption, of the supply of money, food, water, transport, energy, communication or provision of health services as well as the threat of war or terrorist attack and of course "damage to property".
The powers that the government could assume amount to the imposition of a dictatorship and the right of ministers to issue "regulations" by decree. All of these powers can be assumed without parliamentary approval. Parliamentary ratification of such a declaration of a state of emergency need only be sought "within thirty days" and "regulations" approved after seven days.
While the right to strike and take industrial action cannot be formally removed the government would have the right to ban any assembly or protest and compel all citizens to undertake any task demanded and be moved from or to any specified location. In addition, special 'tribunals' can be established to deal with those defying government regulations. Communication by mobile phone or email can also be shut down.
While the ruling class in Britain has overseen emergency legislation before, the powers included in the Civil Contingencies Act go much further than earlier emergency legislation, such as laws introduced in 1920 and 1948.
So pernicious has New Labour become that unbelievably the House of Lords can appear as a defender of democratic rights. The House of Lords report by its constitution committee, 'Surveillance, citizens and the state', reflects the concern of a section of the ruling class that these measures will simply alienate big layers of society and undermine the ability of the ruling class to maintain stability and rule. The Lords' report warns that mass surveillance: "risks undermining the fundamental relationship between the state and citizens, which is the cornerstone of democracy and good governance".
Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, who made her career running covert operations against the miners in the 1980s, is, among other things, no friend of the working class and socialists. However, even she has opposed the latest measures on the basis that they will give justification to "terrorists" because people will live "in fear and believe they are in a police state". The 'libertarian right' in the Tory Party have taken up the cause and opposed at least some of the measures that New Labour has introduced.
Yet opposition to these repressive measures should not just be left to those sections of the ruling class and radical commentators like Henry Porter or George Monbiot. This repressive legislation is there to be used against workers and left-wing, socialist activists when the government deems it necessary. Socialists, workers and young people must oppose such existing and pending legislation.
The recent strikes by the prison officers, the postal workers and oil refinery workers have illustrated, that when faced with a determined mass movement with a combative leadership, the existing anti-strike and repressive laws cannot prevent a struggle taking place.
Defend democratic rights
But the introduction of this legislation must sound the alarm bells. There is the urgent need for a mass campaign to oppose the repressive legislation such as the Serious Organised Crime Police Act and demand the repeal of the 'anti-terror' laws such as the Regulatory Investigative Powers Act and all anti-trade union legislation. Such a campaign needs to also demand the disbandment of ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers (see box), the CIU and NETCU.
Socialists are not opposed to community policing to protect and defend communities. However, this can only be done through the establishment of a fully democratically controlled police service which is under the control of, and accountable to, the community. It needs to be linked to the need to build a mass party of working people, committed to fighting for democratic rights and for socialism.
CCTV - Big Brother is watching you
Like a modern day version of Big Brother in George Orwell's book 1984, New Labour's Britain has become the most 'watched' society in the world. Nobody knows exactly how many CCTV cameras are in use. The most recent estimate is somewhere between four and five million, roughly one camera for every twelve people! Each one of the population can be filmed on CCTV up to 300 times a day.
Deep underground in central London, a maze of tunnels, entered at Piccadilly Circus, lead to a central control room. This houses a bank of forty-eight plasma screens which allow operators to monitor the unsuspecting population moving about on the surface. This government-financed surveillance operation cost £1.25 million to establish and is among the most sophisticated in the world. It is regarded by the Home Office as the 'best-practice example' on which the UK's future public surveillance should be modelled.
160 fixed cameras keep an eye on population movements in Belgravia along with dozens more 'mobile' units which are fixed to walls and linked to Wi-Fi connections. 6,000 visitors from 30 different governments - including the USA, Brazil, Mexico, and China have visited the centre - regarded as a model which will be copied elsewhere.
There is no accountability or control over who uses or has access to the information collected. It is justified as helping to combat crime. Yet the evidence for CCTV effectiveness is not exactly overwhelming. A joint Home Office/police report found that 80% of the images from CCTV are of such poor quality they cannot be used for detecting crime and one police surveillance expert estimated that only 3% of crime is solved as a result of CCTV.
Data collection - "freedom is slavery"
Under New Labour, Britain has become the data capital of the world. Huge amounts of information are accumulated by the state on every aspect of the lives of millions of the population.
Staggeringly the UK DNA database is now proportionally the largest in the world with DNA profile stored on 7% of the population. This includes the DNA of over one million young people under the age of eighteen; 337,000 are under the age of sixteen.
Often, these DNA samples arise from minor crimes from which there is no prosecution but the DNA remains on the database until the individual reaches one hundred years of age. DNA records have been used in numerous cases to prevent employment or to provide a basis for dismissal.
Yet, it is not only DNA records which are being compiled. In a phrase worthy of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania in 1984, Britain now has a "transformational government" strategy. This means sharing information across all databases. It will require, according to the former chairman of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Sir David Varney, the state possessing "a deep truth about the citizen based on their behaviour, experiences, beliefs, needs or desires".
Former Whitehall security coordinator Sir David Omand admits that: "finding out other people's secrets is going to involve breaking everyday moral rules."
Yet while the state is free to observe our movements and listen to our conversations and discussions the New Labour government has been more reticent to open up records of its own deliberations. In Orwell's Oceania, the 'Ministry of Peace' was responsible for war. The Ministry of Truth propagated: 'War is Peace'; 'Freedom is Slavery'; and 'Ignorance is Strength'.
In New Labour's Britain, Jack Straw uses the Freedom of Information Act, not to open up government to public scrutiny but to prevent publication of the record of discussions in the Cabinet in the lead-up to the Iraq war!
ACPO - unaccountable, unelected, powerful
A large part of the police legislation is a direct result of proposals made by ACPO - the Association of Chief Police Officers. This organisation is now regularly presented in the media as 'the viewpoint' of the police and it has a major role in driving government policy.
ACPO was established in 1997 to replace an informal network of regional police chiefs. Since then it has developed into a powerful, unaccountable, unelected, organisation which acts almost like a 'state within a state'. Even the Mail on Sunday described it as: "one of the most mysterious and powerful organisations in Britain".
While formally a non-profit making private company it is in effect mutating into the high command of a national police force. It has been responsible for establishing organisations like NETCU and the CIU. Among its achievements is the distribution of 10,000 stun guns to police officers throughout the country.
Funding for ACPO 'project work' from the government increased from £1.3 million in 2005 to £15 million today. From ACPO you can purchase a "police certificate" verifying that you have no criminal record for £70 - it actually costs ACPO 60p to obtain the information from the police computer. These certificates are used for visa applications to work or live in the USA, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Alternatively you can go on a training programme for speed camera operators run by a senior police officer who was banned from driving for speeding!
Yet this organisation has acquired the power and influence it has without a single debate or vote in parliament.
State repression by numbers
20 - the percentage by which the proportion of the British population in prison has risen since 1997.
151 - the number of people locked up in Britain out of every 100,000. By comparison China jails 119 per 100,000 and Saudi Arabia jails 132 per 100,000.
4,842 - the increase in the number of police officers since 1997, the highest number ever.
1 - the right to demonstrate within one kilometre of parliament has been removed. You can still do it in Serbia.
In this issue:
Capitalist crisis: Make the bosses pay!
March for jobs!
Map of Youth March for Jobs route
Socialist Party editorial
Tide of job losses must be fought
Socialist Party election campaign
Rail union launches euro election challenge
An appeal from Bob Crow
No2EU Financial Appeal pdf
NO2EU Supporter appeal pdf
Socialist Party campaigns
Students need a mass fighting organisation
Credit crunch hits home
Campaign for a new workers' party
MPs - an honourable profession!
Fast News
Socialist Party feature
The uncaring care sector
Pay for your own vetting
Socialist Party marxist analysis
State repression in Britain
Keeping (illegal) tabs on us
International socialist news and analysis
France: Three million take to the streets in national strike
Canada: "Fighting back makes a difference"
Mass demo in New York against budget cuts
Scotland: International Socialists conference a big step forward
Dundee Prisme occupation: Workers remain defiant
Stop the slaughter of Tamils: London campaign meeting
Socialist Party workplace news
Nom-dom jobs slasher
New allegations hit Unison's right wing
Unison Four to face further hearings
Wales: United battle needed to stop college cuts
Fighting for justice for cleaners!
PCS Land Registry jobs and pay campaign
Workplace news in brief
KHOODEELAAR! evidential notes on the culture of unaccountability in the UK Parliament. As we have been arguing for over 5 years, the UK Executive is liable to go off the rails. The rails and the tracks of normality. Of constitutionality. Of decency and decorum as demanded by adherence to democratic accountability.. What has Jacqui Smith’s location this week at the centre of this deeply humiliating personal embarrassment to the role she played and her fellow Blairing MPs played in giving the nod and the yes to the Big Business Crossrail hole scam Bill? What rigours would have spared Jacqui Smith this experience? We say a lot. Had there been a robust, rigorous and ethically active Parliament, most of the personal acts of embarrassment, would not have occurred. But as the UK Parliament is a propaganda place, there to promote the agenda being touted via the Executive, we have these spectacles.…. Accidentally exposed MPS and ministers found with their snouts in the trough or EVEN worse..
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State repression in Britain
Binyam Mohamed has made allegations of MI5 collusion in his torture at various detention camps, including Guantánamo Bay. The Guardian has recently exposed a police databank on thousands of protesters. A wave of repressive legislation has been introduced.
Tony Saunois looks at these and other attacks on civil liberties, and the need for all socialists and trade unionists to take up the important task of defending democratic rights.
The state, cartoon by Alan Hardman, photo Alan Hardman
Under the guise of 'fighting terrorism' and 'combating crime' New Labour has introduced an avalanche of repressive legislation. This effectively criminalises protest and takes away basic democratic rights.
Socialists understand the genuine fear of terrorism and crime felt by millions of working people and support any democratic measures that will help prevent them taking place. Yet, New Labour has introduced repressive measures which are being prepared for use against working people fighting for their rights.
The police are preparing for a "summer of rage" as the economic recession takes grip. Superintendent David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan police's public order branch, warned that "middle-class individuals who would never have considered joining demonstrations may now seek to vent their anger through protests." In his comments Hartshorn specifically mentioned the G20 protests.
The threat of growing mass protest and civil disobedience has led the government and state apparatus to strengthen its repressive powers. It is polishing its arsenal of legislation against activists and protesters.
The use of legislation, justified as necessary to 'combat terrorism', is already being widely used against sections of the population. For example the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) - justified as a piece of anti-terror legislation, has been used by local authorities to monitor people suspected of fly-tipping, fishing illegally and even applying for a school place outside a designated catchment area.
These measures, introduced over the last decade and recently strengthened, are unprecedented in recent British history. Once pictured as the 'mother of democracy', Britain has now become one of the most repressive and monitored societies in the world. The government, on paper, has acquired powers giving it all the trappings of a parliamentary 'bonapartist' repressive regime.
42-day detention without trial, justified to combat terrorism, would be one of the longest detentions in the world had it been voted in. Even the existing 28-day limit outstrips that of other countries hit by terrorist attacks including Spain (five days), Turkey (seven and a half) and the USA (two days).
More laws
Police on the protests against the war in Gaza in january 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
By 2008 New Labour had created over 3,600 new offences; an average of 320 a year. Of these, 2,367 were introduced with no debate in parliament, using secondary legislation such as orders in council and statutory documents. Among them was legislation to make it illegal to disturb a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officer! It is also now illegal to create a nuclear explosion!
More ominous, though, is legislation designed to restrict democratic rights, including the right to protest. In 2005 an amendment was added to the 1997 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 4 (SOCPA) which was not debated in either chamber in parliament. This can be used to ban protests of any kind. As in Latin America, the right to protest is being criminalised.
In 1997 the Protection from Harassment Act was introduced into parliament. The government argued that it would protect women from stalkers. But this Act was used against Oxfordshire environmental campaigners. Thrupp Lake, a local beauty spot, was under threat from RWE npower, which owns Didcot power station. This company wanted to empty the lake and fill it with pulverised fly ash. Protesters launched a petition and some stood in the way of contractors who were trying to cut down trees.
Right to protest
Police on the protests against the war in Gaza in january 2009, photo Paul Mattsson
The company obtained an injunction against the protesters to keep them away from the site, with a threat of up to five years imprisonment if they broke it. Under the Protection from Harassment Act, it is only necessary to prove that someone felt "alarmed and distressed" by protesters.
Maybe this is a well-intentioned piece of legislation, badly drafted and misused? Not exactly. Mr Lawson-Cruttenden, who acted for RWE, claims that his law company helped draft the legislation in 1997. He boasted that the purpose of obtaining injunctions under the act is "the criminalisation of civil disobedience".
Although the company eventually backed down that was not the end of the struggle for the Oxfordshire protesters. The National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit (NETCU) is a police team which has been established to coordinate the fight against "domestic extremists". A NETCU manual advises officers on policing protests.
To help identify "extremist elements" police officers are recommended to check the list of "High Court Injunctions that relate to domestic extremism campaigns". This was published on the NETCU website. On the list of so-called domestic extremists was Dr Peter Harbour, a 70 year old retired physicist. He was never convicted of anything. He is on the NETCU list as a consequence of his activities to prevent Thrupp Lake from being turned into an industrial dumping ground.
Since this case was exposed by George Monbiot, NETCU has modified its website and all sections on it apart from press reports of successful prosecutions, simply state: "Site temporarily unavailable".
Even these measures are not sufficient for New Labour. Just in case an investigation by a local coroner's court starts posing difficult questions - then the Coroners and Justice Bill (2009) which is currently being drafted has the solution. It gives the government powers to suspend controversial inquests, hold them without a jury and when desired amend the Data Protection Act!
In order to carry out the monitoring and surveillance of activists and protesters the police have established new branches of the secret services which are totally unaccountable. Even the formation of these bodies has been carried through without any parliamentary debate or questioning. NETCU is one such organisation. Another is the more recently established Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU).
Among those to be targeted, according to the Daily Mail, are: "organisations behind industrial action such as secondary picketing". It will collect data on organisations and individuals and also infiltrate targeted groups. The same article warned that the CIU will take legal action to prevent publication of material revealing its activities.
Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) now routinely operate on all protests and demonstrations. FIT teams are charged with compiling information and taking photographs of demonstrators and those they associate with. Such information, stored on databases of course, is often passed from one demonstration to the next to allow the police to target known activists.
As well as protesters, journalists and reporters have been drawn into the net. It is now illegal to refuse or prevent the police from taking your photo on a protest. Yet since February 2009, it is illegal to take a photo of a police officer engaged in anti-terrorist activity. This makes it, in practice, illegal to photograph any police officer.
State of emergency
One of the most pernicious and authoritarian pieces of legislation was carried through parliament and received scant media coverage at the time. The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 allows for the declaration of a state of emergency and rule by decree.
For the first time, the government has the right to declare a state of emergency without even the use of the Royal Prerogative. Government ministers, including the chief whip, under this Act are empowered to declare a state of emergency providing there is "sufficient justification". Grounds for such a declaration, at regional or national level, include interruption, or threat of interruption, of the supply of money, food, water, transport, energy, communication or provision of health services as well as the threat of war or terrorist attack and of course "damage to property".
The powers that the government could assume amount to the imposition of a dictatorship and the right of ministers to issue "regulations" by decree. All of these powers can be assumed without parliamentary approval. Parliamentary ratification of such a declaration of a state of emergency need only be sought "within thirty days" and "regulations" approved after seven days.
While the right to strike and take industrial action cannot be formally removed the government would have the right to ban any assembly or protest and compel all citizens to undertake any task demanded and be moved from or to any specified location. In addition, special 'tribunals' can be established to deal with those defying government regulations. Communication by mobile phone or email can also be shut down.
While the ruling class in Britain has overseen emergency legislation before, the powers included in the Civil Contingencies Act go much further than earlier emergency legislation, such as laws introduced in 1920 and 1948.
So pernicious has New Labour become that unbelievably the House of Lords can appear as a defender of democratic rights. The House of Lords report by its constitution committee, 'Surveillance, citizens and the state', reflects the concern of a section of the ruling class that these measures will simply alienate big layers of society and undermine the ability of the ruling class to maintain stability and rule. The Lords' report warns that mass surveillance: "risks undermining the fundamental relationship between the state and citizens, which is the cornerstone of democracy and good governance".
Stella Rimington, former head of MI5, who made her career running covert operations against the miners in the 1980s, is, among other things, no friend of the working class and socialists. However, even she has opposed the latest measures on the basis that they will give justification to "terrorists" because people will live "in fear and believe they are in a police state". The 'libertarian right' in the Tory Party have taken up the cause and opposed at least some of the measures that New Labour has introduced.
Yet opposition to these repressive measures should not just be left to those sections of the ruling class and radical commentators like Henry Porter or George Monbiot. This repressive legislation is there to be used against workers and left-wing, socialist activists when the government deems it necessary. Socialists, workers and young people must oppose such existing and pending legislation.
The recent strikes by the prison officers, the postal workers and oil refinery workers have illustrated, that when faced with a determined mass movement with a combative leadership, the existing anti-strike and repressive laws cannot prevent a struggle taking place.
Defend democratic rights
But the introduction of this legislation must sound the alarm bells. There is the urgent need for a mass campaign to oppose the repressive legislation such as the Serious Organised Crime Police Act and demand the repeal of the 'anti-terror' laws such as the Regulatory Investigative Powers Act and all anti-trade union legislation. Such a campaign needs to also demand the disbandment of ACPO, the Association of Chief Police Officers (see box), the CIU and NETCU.
Socialists are not opposed to community policing to protect and defend communities. However, this can only be done through the establishment of a fully democratically controlled police service which is under the control of, and accountable to, the community. It needs to be linked to the need to build a mass party of working people, committed to fighting for democratic rights and for socialism.
CCTV - Big Brother is watching you
Like a modern day version of Big Brother in George Orwell's book 1984, New Labour's Britain has become the most 'watched' society in the world. Nobody knows exactly how many CCTV cameras are in use. The most recent estimate is somewhere between four and five million, roughly one camera for every twelve people! Each one of the population can be filmed on CCTV up to 300 times a day.
Deep underground in central London, a maze of tunnels, entered at Piccadilly Circus, lead to a central control room. This houses a bank of forty-eight plasma screens which allow operators to monitor the unsuspecting population moving about on the surface. This government-financed surveillance operation cost £1.25 million to establish and is among the most sophisticated in the world. It is regarded by the Home Office as the 'best-practice example' on which the UK's future public surveillance should be modelled.
160 fixed cameras keep an eye on population movements in Belgravia along with dozens more 'mobile' units which are fixed to walls and linked to Wi-Fi connections. 6,000 visitors from 30 different governments - including the USA, Brazil, Mexico, and China have visited the centre - regarded as a model which will be copied elsewhere.
There is no accountability or control over who uses or has access to the information collected. It is justified as helping to combat crime. Yet the evidence for CCTV effectiveness is not exactly overwhelming. A joint Home Office/police report found that 80% of the images from CCTV are of such poor quality they cannot be used for detecting crime and one police surveillance expert estimated that only 3% of crime is solved as a result of CCTV.
Data collection - "freedom is slavery"
Under New Labour, Britain has become the data capital of the world. Huge amounts of information are accumulated by the state on every aspect of the lives of millions of the population.
Staggeringly the UK DNA database is now proportionally the largest in the world with DNA profile stored on 7% of the population. This includes the DNA of over one million young people under the age of eighteen; 337,000 are under the age of sixteen.
Often, these DNA samples arise from minor crimes from which there is no prosecution but the DNA remains on the database until the individual reaches one hundred years of age. DNA records have been used in numerous cases to prevent employment or to provide a basis for dismissal.
Yet, it is not only DNA records which are being compiled. In a phrase worthy of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania in 1984, Britain now has a "transformational government" strategy. This means sharing information across all databases. It will require, according to the former chairman of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Sir David Varney, the state possessing "a deep truth about the citizen based on their behaviour, experiences, beliefs, needs or desires".
Former Whitehall security coordinator Sir David Omand admits that: "finding out other people's secrets is going to involve breaking everyday moral rules."
Yet while the state is free to observe our movements and listen to our conversations and discussions the New Labour government has been more reticent to open up records of its own deliberations. In Orwell's Oceania, the 'Ministry of Peace' was responsible for war. The Ministry of Truth propagated: 'War is Peace'; 'Freedom is Slavery'; and 'Ignorance is Strength'.
In New Labour's Britain, Jack Straw uses the Freedom of Information Act, not to open up government to public scrutiny but to prevent publication of the record of discussions in the Cabinet in the lead-up to the Iraq war!
ACPO - unaccountable, unelected, powerful
A large part of the police legislation is a direct result of proposals made by ACPO - the Association of Chief Police Officers. This organisation is now regularly presented in the media as 'the viewpoint' of the police and it has a major role in driving government policy.
ACPO was established in 1997 to replace an informal network of regional police chiefs. Since then it has developed into a powerful, unaccountable, unelected, organisation which acts almost like a 'state within a state'. Even the Mail on Sunday described it as: "one of the most mysterious and powerful organisations in Britain".
While formally a non-profit making private company it is in effect mutating into the high command of a national police force. It has been responsible for establishing organisations like NETCU and the CIU. Among its achievements is the distribution of 10,000 stun guns to police officers throughout the country.
Funding for ACPO 'project work' from the government increased from £1.3 million in 2005 to £15 million today. From ACPO you can purchase a "police certificate" verifying that you have no criminal record for £70 - it actually costs ACPO 60p to obtain the information from the police computer. These certificates are used for visa applications to work or live in the USA, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Alternatively you can go on a training programme for speed camera operators run by a senior police officer who was banned from driving for speeding!
Yet this organisation has acquired the power and influence it has without a single debate or vote in parliament.
State repression by numbers
20 - the percentage by which the proportion of the British population in prison has risen since 1997.
151 - the number of people locked up in Britain out of every 100,000. By comparison China jails 119 per 100,000 and Saudi Arabia jails 132 per 100,000.
4,842 - the increase in the number of police officers since 1997, the highest number ever.
1 - the right to demonstrate within one kilometre of parliament has been removed. You can still do it in Serbia.
In this issue:
Capitalist crisis: Make the bosses pay!
March for jobs!
Map of Youth March for Jobs route
Socialist Party editorial
Tide of job losses must be fought
Socialist Party election campaign
Rail union launches euro election challenge
An appeal from Bob Crow
No2EU Financial Appeal pdf
NO2EU Supporter appeal pdf
Socialist Party campaigns
Students need a mass fighting organisation
Credit crunch hits home
Campaign for a new workers' party
MPs - an honourable profession!
Fast News
Socialist Party feature
The uncaring care sector
Pay for your own vetting
Socialist Party marxist analysis
State repression in Britain
Keeping (illegal) tabs on us
International socialist news and analysis
France: Three million take to the streets in national strike
Canada: "Fighting back makes a difference"
Mass demo in New York against budget cuts
Scotland: International Socialists conference a big step forward
Dundee Prisme occupation: Workers remain defiant
Stop the slaughter of Tamils: London campaign meeting
Socialist Party workplace news
Nom-dom jobs slasher
New allegations hit Unison's right wing
Unison Four to face further hearings
Wales: United battle needed to stop college cuts
Fighting for justice for cleaners!
PCS Land Registry jobs and pay campaign
Workplace news in brief
AADHIKARonline noting the evidence of the abuse of power by the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn who distorts the records to further his own ego
0100 Hrs GMT London Monday 30 March 2009
AADHIKARonline noting the evidence of the abuse of power by the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn who distorts the records to further his own ego
[To be continued]
Not even in the Augean sleaze of the Major years did we have a Home Secretary claiming porn on expenses
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
Last updated at 11:04 PM on 29th March 2009
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So now we know how Jacqui Smith's husband amuses himself while she's snuggled up in her sister's spare bedroom in South London.
Back at the family's 'second' home in her Redditch constituency, Richard Timney likes to relax in a gentleman's way in front of porno movies - which are then charged to the taxpayer as part of her parliamentary expenses.
When I christened the Home Secretary 'Jackboot Jacqui' I had no idea that her husband was into that kind of thing.
Clinging on: If Jacqui Smith loses her seat, it will have a lot to do with her husband's porn-viewing habits
This flagrant abuse has come to light after it was revealed that Smith claimed £67 for a cable television subscription - including access to the Playboy Channel, the Adult Channel and Television X, listed euphemistically as 'additional services' to spare the subscriber's blushes.
Purely in the interests of research, you understand, I visited the Television X website to check out the schedule.
In alphabetical order, it starts with 'Anal Boutique' and goes downhill from there. Suffice it to say, the line-up specialises in what we in the trade call 'acts too disgusting to be described in a family newspaper'.
Now, there is a charitable argument that any man married to a 'Blair Babe' should be entitled to pornography as a basis for negotiation. But whether the British taxpayer should have to pay for it is another matter altogether.
Jackboots says she knew nothing about the porn channels, which were wrapped up in her internet account. The BBC, quick to leap to her defence, assures us she has given her husband a 'good earbashing' (which I believe can be found under 'E' on the Television X website and costs £4.95 for the full half-hour).
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She may not have known, but he certainly did. And Timney is not some na've house-husband, idling away the lonely nights while high-flying wifey is keeping the world safe from international terrorism.
Timney is a full-time politician, paid £40,000 out of the public purse to be Smith's adviser - in which capacity he has been known to write to their local paper singing her praises, while not actually mentioning that he's married to her.
He will have been well aware what 'services' were being claimed on her expenses - he filled them in. Maybe he genuinely believed that claiming for dirty movies was legitimate. After all, if Gordon Brown can claim for his Sky Sports and Sky Movies subscription, it's only a short stretch to the Playboy Channel.
In any event, Jacqui Smith signed the expenses claim. Even if it was an 'oversight' she put her name to it and she accepted the money. Are we to believe that the Home Secretary is so slapdash she signs anything shoved in front of her, without bothering to read it?
Actually, yes, seeing as half the time she appears to have no idea what is going on in her department.
In the scheme of things, a few quid for some filthy films is a mere bagatelle when viewed in the context of the £100,000 Smith fraudulently claims from the taxpayer by pretending that her sister's box room in Southwark is her 'main' home.
As I have pointed out since this scandal broke, the Home Secretary has a perfectly serviceable grace-and-favour house in Belgravia at her disposal. It's a short, chauffeur-driven hop from her department and, befitting the holder of one of the four great offices of state, is a great deal smarter than a scruffy terrace in South London, which from the outside looks one step up from a squat.
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But if she lived rent-free in Belgravia, she wouldn't be able to fiddle her expenses. Listing her sister's address as her 'main' residence means she has been able to lavish a small fortune on her real family home in Redditch, all courtesy of the mug taxpayer.
She's even claimed for the kitchen sink - a £550 stone job. You couldn't make it up.
The Home Secretary, above all, must realise that ignorance is no defence. Even if she didn't know what her husband was slipping through on her expenses, she should have done. It may not have been her fault, but it was her responsibility.
At this stage, it is customary to say that if she had a shred of decency she would resign. But if she had a shred of decency she would have resigned when it was revealed that she was lying about her 'main' home in order to claim £100,000 of public money to which she is not entitled.
Smith will probably cling on, for now. But when she's voted out by the people of Redditch it will be her husband's dirty movies which do for her, not the far greater 'second home' swindle, just as it was the income tax evasion not the murder which claimed Al Capone.
It won't be enough for her to protest that they're all at it, even though they are - as became increasingly apparent over the weekend.
While these latest home truths about the Home Secretary's expenses dominated the headlines, there were fresh revelations about the creative accounting methods of employment minister Tony McNulty and Left-wing MP Harry Cohen.
It now appears that, as I have maintained all along, McNulty has committed a criminal offence in claiming allowances for his parents' home in Harrow.
And it has been revealed that Cohen, MP for Ilford, Essex, claims his 'main' home is a single-bedroom cottage and seaside caravan 70 miles from his constituency.
Cohen has received a staggering £310,000 in 'second' home allowances since he was elected. But he remains quite brazen about it all, claiming that when he entered parliament, MPs were encouraged to fill their boots.
This is how it always ends, in a torrent of sleaze. With Labour mired in corruption and Gordon's mini-me Nigel Griffiths caught having sex in the Commons with a stockinged slapper, we can almost look back on the final days of Johnny Major as a golden age of probity and propriety.
Not even in the Augean squalor of Major's government did we have a Home Secretary claiming pornography on expenses.
The Smith-Timneys epitomise the kind of institutionally-corrupt, smug New Labour entitlement junkies who believe that the taxpayer should pick up the entire bill for their work, rest and play - even if that includes hard-core porn.
Richard Timney has been wheeled out for a ritual apology, but it's too late. We can only imagine Jackboots's reaction when she got the phone call informing her what the cat got up to when the mouse was away.
And you know what? Next time she claims that her sister's spare room is her 'main' home, she might just be telling the truth for once.
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AADHIKARonline noting the evidence of the abuse of power by the Daily Mail's Richard Littlejohn who distorts the records to further his own ego
[To be continued]
Not even in the Augean sleaze of the Major years did we have a Home Secretary claiming porn on expenses
By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
Last updated at 11:04 PM on 29th March 2009
Comments (0)
Add to My Stories
So now we know how Jacqui Smith's husband amuses himself while she's snuggled up in her sister's spare bedroom in South London.
Back at the family's 'second' home in her Redditch constituency, Richard Timney likes to relax in a gentleman's way in front of porno movies - which are then charged to the taxpayer as part of her parliamentary expenses.
When I christened the Home Secretary 'Jackboot Jacqui' I had no idea that her husband was into that kind of thing.
Clinging on: If Jacqui Smith loses her seat, it will have a lot to do with her husband's porn-viewing habits
This flagrant abuse has come to light after it was revealed that Smith claimed £67 for a cable television subscription - including access to the Playboy Channel, the Adult Channel and Television X, listed euphemistically as 'additional services' to spare the subscriber's blushes.
Purely in the interests of research, you understand, I visited the Television X website to check out the schedule.
In alphabetical order, it starts with 'Anal Boutique' and goes downhill from there. Suffice it to say, the line-up specialises in what we in the trade call 'acts too disgusting to be described in a family newspaper'.
Now, there is a charitable argument that any man married to a 'Blair Babe' should be entitled to pornography as a basis for negotiation. But whether the British taxpayer should have to pay for it is another matter altogether.
Jackboots says she knew nothing about the porn channels, which were wrapped up in her internet account. The BBC, quick to leap to her defence, assures us she has given her husband a 'good earbashing' (which I believe can be found under 'E' on the Television X website and costs £4.95 for the full half-hour).
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She may not have known, but he certainly did. And Timney is not some na've house-husband, idling away the lonely nights while high-flying wifey is keeping the world safe from international terrorism.
Timney is a full-time politician, paid £40,000 out of the public purse to be Smith's adviser - in which capacity he has been known to write to their local paper singing her praises, while not actually mentioning that he's married to her.
He will have been well aware what 'services' were being claimed on her expenses - he filled them in. Maybe he genuinely believed that claiming for dirty movies was legitimate. After all, if Gordon Brown can claim for his Sky Sports and Sky Movies subscription, it's only a short stretch to the Playboy Channel.
In any event, Jacqui Smith signed the expenses claim. Even if it was an 'oversight' she put her name to it and she accepted the money. Are we to believe that the Home Secretary is so slapdash she signs anything shoved in front of her, without bothering to read it?
Actually, yes, seeing as half the time she appears to have no idea what is going on in her department.
In the scheme of things, a few quid for some filthy films is a mere bagatelle when viewed in the context of the £100,000 Smith fraudulently claims from the taxpayer by pretending that her sister's box room in Southwark is her 'main' home.
As I have pointed out since this scandal broke, the Home Secretary has a perfectly serviceable grace-and-favour house in Belgravia at her disposal. It's a short, chauffeur-driven hop from her department and, befitting the holder of one of the four great offices of state, is a great deal smarter than a scruffy terrace in South London, which from the outside looks one step up from a squat.
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But if she lived rent-free in Belgravia, she wouldn't be able to fiddle her expenses. Listing her sister's address as her 'main' residence means she has been able to lavish a small fortune on her real family home in Redditch, all courtesy of the mug taxpayer.
She's even claimed for the kitchen sink - a £550 stone job. You couldn't make it up.
The Home Secretary, above all, must realise that ignorance is no defence. Even if she didn't know what her husband was slipping through on her expenses, she should have done. It may not have been her fault, but it was her responsibility.
At this stage, it is customary to say that if she had a shred of decency she would resign. But if she had a shred of decency she would have resigned when it was revealed that she was lying about her 'main' home in order to claim £100,000 of public money to which she is not entitled.
Smith will probably cling on, for now. But when she's voted out by the people of Redditch it will be her husband's dirty movies which do for her, not the far greater 'second home' swindle, just as it was the income tax evasion not the murder which claimed Al Capone.
It won't be enough for her to protest that they're all at it, even though they are - as became increasingly apparent over the weekend.
While these latest home truths about the Home Secretary's expenses dominated the headlines, there were fresh revelations about the creative accounting methods of employment minister Tony McNulty and Left-wing MP Harry Cohen.
It now appears that, as I have maintained all along, McNulty has committed a criminal offence in claiming allowances for his parents' home in Harrow.
And it has been revealed that Cohen, MP for Ilford, Essex, claims his 'main' home is a single-bedroom cottage and seaside caravan 70 miles from his constituency.
Cohen has received a staggering £310,000 in 'second' home allowances since he was elected. But he remains quite brazen about it all, claiming that when he entered parliament, MPs were encouraged to fill their boots.
This is how it always ends, in a torrent of sleaze. With Labour mired in corruption and Gordon's mini-me Nigel Griffiths caught having sex in the Commons with a stockinged slapper, we can almost look back on the final days of Johnny Major as a golden age of probity and propriety.
Not even in the Augean squalor of Major's government did we have a Home Secretary claiming pornography on expenses.
The Smith-Timneys epitomise the kind of institutionally-corrupt, smug New Labour entitlement junkies who believe that the taxpayer should pick up the entire bill for their work, rest and play - even if that includes hard-core porn.
Richard Timney has been wheeled out for a ritual apology, but it's too late. We can only imagine Jackboots's reaction when she got the phone call informing her what the cat got up to when the mouse was away.
And you know what? Next time she claims that her sister's spare room is her 'main' home, she might just be telling the truth for once.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Gordon Brown's ' latest ‘plan’: Exposed as half-cooked as the rest of his ‘policies’
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Has Gordon Brown backtracked on his G20 targets?
Sunday 29th March 2009
Gordon Brown has today come under intense pressure after an apparent change in strategy regarding the forthcoming G20. Despite travelling around the world for the last week or so championing his cause for a concerted effort to revive the worldwide economy it would appear there will be no "spending pledges" at the forthcoming meeting.
This is a major change in strategy from the UK government, with many observers believing that signs over the last few days that European ministers were looking to block any such move have derailed Gordon Brown’s hopes. Just a week ago it appeared that the G20 summit could well turn into Gordon Brown's personal rescue plan however today there are signs that he is about to be stabbed in the back by his European counterparts.
The G20 itself does not have a very good reputation amongst the vast majority of the UK public, and those around the world, with suggestions that there is plenty of hot air but very little action afterwards. The fact that Gordon Brown appears to be backtracking on his earlier promises does not bode well for the future and will not help the reputation of this meeting of the elite governments of the world.
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Has Gordon Brown backtracked on his G20 targets?
Sunday 29th March 2009
Gordon Brown has today come under intense pressure after an apparent change in strategy regarding the forthcoming G20. Despite travelling around the world for the last week or so championing his cause for a concerted effort to revive the worldwide economy it would appear there will be no "spending pledges" at the forthcoming meeting.
This is a major change in strategy from the UK government, with many observers believing that signs over the last few days that European ministers were looking to block any such move have derailed Gordon Brown’s hopes. Just a week ago it appeared that the G20 summit could well turn into Gordon Brown's personal rescue plan however today there are signs that he is about to be stabbed in the back by his European counterparts.
The G20 itself does not have a very good reputation amongst the vast majority of the UK public, and those around the world, with suggestions that there is plenty of hot air but very little action afterwards. The fact that Gordon Brown appears to be backtracking on his earlier promises does not bode well for the future and will not help the reputation of this meeting of the elite governments of the world.
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KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep accountability deficit in UK Parliament: It is a bankrupt Parliament
By © Muhammad Haque
1620 Hrs GMT/1720 Hrs UK Time
London Sunday 29 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep accountability deficit in UK Parliament: It is a bankrupt Parliament
Ordinary decency would make most observers sympathetic to Jacqui Smith. Her plight as caused by the [so far] published details of her husband's behaviour.
What will fail to make decent thinking observers sympathetic to Jacqui Smith or to her fellow MPs is the brazen disregard for standards that is displayed every day the MPs are in ‘action’ in their paid roles
When was the last time that so many ‘comments’ were noticed about any subject that has to do with ordinary peoples’ ordinary lives?
NEVER is the answer. Must be the answer. On the evidence of their conduct. On their true records. Not on their faked records.
The ‘other’ MPs and politicos only comment in the terms of fake innocence that has been on display during today [Sunday 29 March 2009] when they think that their participation in the public indulgence will leave THEIR own activities unexposed.
Then there is the matter of doing their constitutional duty of scrutinizing Bills.. They DO NOT scrutinise anything unless VERY SERIOUS and or country-wide pressure is put on them.
This is seen every single time. On every single Bill. On every single aspect.
If that is the only way in which to make MPs do their job of representing representing the people then there cannot be a parliament. Not an active one any way.
KHOODEELAAR! has explained, reported, focussed on and pointed out - now for more than 5 years about the Crossrail Bill and agenda and scam - that the holders of posts in Parliament [=’MPs’] who are in those posts on the assumption that they would hold the executive to account have been failing to do their job...
Not only should Jacqui Smith have known what her expenses were being used for. The House of Commons bureaucracy and the MPs should have done so as well..In other words, there should have been in place at all times vigilance about what their privileges were being put to...
That state of vigilance is unlikely to come into play any time soon in Britain, if the behaviour on holding the executive to constitutional account as displayed by Chris Huhne is anything to go by..
When Jacqui Smith announced her latest Martial law in the UK inner cities last week, Huhne came on the BBC and backed her..
Huhne is supposed to be the anti-spin miniature giant inside the UK Parliamentary Lib Dems Party
Well his endorsement of Jacqui Smith’s declaration of a new state of Martial law showed that he could not possibly be one.
The only description that fitted Huhne on the evidence of his role as he played it on the declaration of martial law in the inner cities was that he was a pathetic pigmy devoid of ALL necessary morality ethics and honour in a democratic parliament....
Or worse, a colluder.
It is worth noting that when Huhne appeared on the BBC News Channel and was asked to comment on Jacqui Smith’s Martial law, his face took on a twisted look of suppression...As if Huhne was under orders to N OT tell all... And tell nothing g he dutifully did. The only thing he did tell was that he agreed with Jacqui Smith.
How very different from the ‘undemocratic ’ ‘failed states’ [introduced into the zombified minds by the BBC and reinforced by all UK parities and personnel] like Pakistan the UK is...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where as in Pakistan, Military dictators come in with routine frequency, in the ‘Mother of Parliaments’ at Westminster, no such event would be tolerated! Or contemplated
Or could it?
It could. And in welcoming tones too. As Vince Cable’s OTT phrasing in his PMQs spot addressing Harriet Harman on Wednesday showed.
“Dr” Cable has left no doubt now - with his over the top depiction of Mervyn King’s comments to the Treasury Select Committee as a very ‘British coup’ - that he is really no more rigorous intellectually than the others despite the unplanned glory that he has been covered in over his ‘Stalin to Mr Bean’ peroration.. But then why should Vince Cable be any different?
Why indeed!
The man who made his main career as almost Number Two leftie to the ‘very Brit ish socialist’ Tony Benn in the 1970s, has now renounced all of that.
In a confessional arranged in the last few weeks by the BBC with the resident racist reactionary apologist and time-server 'clergyman' of lies Andrew Neil, Chris Mullin [who even ‘edited’ the over the top and deeply corrupting Tribune of the non-existent left before seeking his domain in the Place of Westminster, ] has denied being anything like the left-winger that he may have been portrayed as.… So much so that he also put on the record words about the comparative ease with which he had got on with the liar himself. Tony Blair.
But then the now admitted ease with which so many allegedly left wing, allagedly working class Blairing MPs got on with Tony Bliar should not come as any surprise at all after layer,o students of the disintegration of Gordon Brown’s ‘vah-loos’.
He lacks democratic values.
He is sunk in a hole of distortion, ignorance and conceit and deceit... Gordon Brown can indulge in a surfeit of scripted statesmanship. But he will come unstuck... Why? Because the House of Commons has let him down. It has failed to hold Brown to account, thus giving him the impression that fakery is quite okay...
And Jacqui Smith has become the latest casualty career-wise of the failure of the Mother of Parliament to morally protect its members from their own excesses and carelessness... and propensities
[To be continued]
London Sunday 29 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep accountability deficit in UK Parliament: It is a bankrupt Parliament
Ordinary decency would make most observers sympathetic to Jacqui Smith. Her plight as caused by the [so far] published details of her husband's behaviour.
What will fail to make decent thinking observers sympathetic to Jacqui Smith or to her fellow MPs is the brazen disregard for standards that is displayed every day the MPs are in ‘action’ in their paid roles
When was the last time that so many ‘comments’ were noticed about any subject that has to do with ordinary peoples’ ordinary lives?
NEVER is the answer. Must be the answer. On the evidence of their conduct. On their true records. Not on their faked records.
The ‘other’ MPs and politicos only comment in the terms of fake innocence that has been on display during today [Sunday 29 March 2009] when they think that their participation in the public indulgence will leave THEIR own activities unexposed.
Then there is the matter of doing their constitutional duty of scrutinizing Bills.. They DO NOT scrutinise anything unless VERY SERIOUS and or country-wide pressure is put on them.
This is seen every single time. On every single Bill. On every single aspect.
If that is the only way in which to make MPs do their job of representing representing the people then there cannot be a parliament. Not an active one any way.
KHOODEELAAR! has explained, reported, focussed on and pointed out - now for more than 5 years about the Crossrail Bill and agenda and scam - that the holders of posts in Parliament [=’MPs’] who are in those posts on the assumption that they would hold the executive to account have been failing to do their job...
Not only should Jacqui Smith have known what her expenses were being used for. The House of Commons bureaucracy and the MPs should have done so as well..In other words, there should have been in place at all times vigilance about what their privileges were being put to...
That state of vigilance is unlikely to come into play any time soon in Britain, if the behaviour on holding the executive to constitutional account as displayed by Chris Huhne is anything to go by..
When Jacqui Smith announced her latest Martial law in the UK inner cities last week, Huhne came on the BBC and backed her..
Huhne is supposed to be the anti-spin miniature giant inside the UK Parliamentary Lib Dems Party
Well his endorsement of Jacqui Smith’s declaration of a new state of Martial law showed that he could not possibly be one.
The only description that fitted Huhne on the evidence of his role as he played it on the declaration of martial law in the inner cities was that he was a pathetic pigmy devoid of ALL necessary morality ethics and honour in a democratic parliament....
Or worse, a colluder.
It is worth noting that when Huhne appeared on the BBC News Channel and was asked to comment on Jacqui Smith’s Martial law, his face took on a twisted look of suppression...As if Huhne was under orders to N OT tell all... And tell nothing g he dutifully did. The only thing he did tell was that he agreed with Jacqui Smith.
How very different from the ‘undemocratic ’ ‘failed states’ [introduced into the zombified minds by the BBC and reinforced by all UK parities and personnel] like Pakistan the UK is...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where as in Pakistan, Military dictators come in with routine frequency, in the ‘Mother of Parliaments’ at Westminster, no such event would be tolerated! Or contemplated
Or could it?
It could. And in welcoming tones too. As Vince Cable’s OTT phrasing in his PMQs spot addressing Harriet Harman on Wednesday showed.
“Dr” Cable has left no doubt now - with his over the top depiction of Mervyn King’s comments to the Treasury Select Committee as a very ‘British coup’ - that he is really no more rigorous intellectually than the others despite the unplanned glory that he has been covered in over his ‘Stalin to Mr Bean’ peroration.. But then why should Vince Cable be any different?
Why indeed!
The man who made his main career as almost Number Two leftie to the ‘very Brit ish socialist’ Tony Benn in the 1970s, has now renounced all of that.
In a confessional arranged in the last few weeks by the BBC with the resident racist reactionary apologist and time-server 'clergyman' of lies Andrew Neil, Chris Mullin [who even ‘edited’ the over the top and deeply corrupting Tribune of the non-existent left before seeking his domain in the Place of Westminster, ] has denied being anything like the left-winger that he may have been portrayed as.… So much so that he also put on the record words about the comparative ease with which he had got on with the liar himself. Tony Blair.
But then the now admitted ease with which so many allegedly left wing, allagedly working class Blairing MPs got on with Tony Bliar should not come as any surprise at all after layer,o students of the disintegration of Gordon Brown’s ‘vah-loos’.
He lacks democratic values.
He is sunk in a hole of distortion, ignorance and conceit and deceit... Gordon Brown can indulge in a surfeit of scripted statesmanship. But he will come unstuck... Why? Because the House of Commons has let him down. It has failed to hold Brown to account, thus giving him the impression that fakery is quite okay...
And Jacqui Smith has become the latest casualty career-wise of the failure of the Mother of Parliament to morally protect its members from their own excesses and carelessness... and propensities
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep deficit of accountability in UK Parliament
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the deep deficit of accountability in UK Parliament On their record. [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the unreliability of a 'career-politician': the incredibly glib words of Brian Coleman on the 'Tony McNulty' 'news'
By © Muhammad Haque
0545 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 29 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the unreliability of a 'career-politician': the incredibly glib words of Brian Coleman on the 'Tony McNulty' 'news'
When I went on the record and stated any agreement with anything that Brian Coleman had ever said, I did so with precision. Precision and condition and qualification. I had been aware of Brian Coleman’s mutterings. And I had noticed over so many of Coleman's stray utterances that he was not reliable at all.
On his record, Coleman has not sustained anything. Except his career. For what it is worth. And it can not be worth anything to the people of London. Except to Brian Coleman.
In October 2007, not long after Gordon Brown played his role as a peddler of Big Business Crossrail, Brian Coleman popped up in the New Statesman saying that the City of London should be scrapped.
The City of London exists as a highly brazen Tory tool. Tory in the Norman Tebbit sense. Tory in the Margaret Thatcher sense. Tory in the Tony Blair sense. Tory in the sense that it has behaved in over the most part of its existence as a ‘world crass grabbing centre’ that has been central to bringing to its knees whatever financial system [!!!] existed in the ‘free trading world’...
My immediate trigger for addressing the role of the City of London in October 2007 - a full year before the financial calamity began to show - was of course the peddling role the City of London had been playing for facilitating the looting of the UK public by Big Business in contracts to the tune [initially] of £16 Billion via Crossrail. That is before taking into account the additional £Billions in expected overruns.
So I put in a brief sentence as follows:
“
11 October 2007 at 11:19
I fully agree with and endorse the statement in Brian Coleman's column as follows:
"Never mind that it has no benefit at all for most actual Londoners as opposed to commuters from the Home Counties."
Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar!
No to Crossrail hole Bill
London E1
1118 Hrs
Thursday 11 October 2007”
I had expected that Coleman would follow up his utterances ‘against’ the City of London. If not about the City of Lo London itself, I had expected him to elaborate on the grabbing irrelevance of the place. But I have not noticed anything.
In fact Since October 2007, I had not come across Brian Coleman in print again.
Until last night .
Coleman appeared on the BBC News Channel along with a person from the ‘Guardian Weekly’. To ‘review’ the front pages of the Sunday papers. On the item about MPs’ expenses, allowances etc, Coleman took the very same line that Eric Pickles had done on last Thursday's’ Question Time.
In fact Coleman went one further and sought to undermine the Mail on Sunday for trying to find credible information on MPs behaving greedily...
Coleman decided to attack the Mail on Sunday ‘s particular reporting and investigation instead of saying anything about the subject that the newspaper had been focussing on...
taken together, the performances of Eric Pickles on the Question Time and Brian Coleman on the B BC News Channel over the same issue raise the question: what chance is there that a Tory ‘win’ at any general election will make things any better?
CRASS prospects indeed!
They will carry on the Crossrail crass scam too.
I am saying this in the full knowledge of the hype and the spin around Daniel Hannan and the plugs for Daniel Hannan and the Tories in the Times by Crossrail scam-backing Matthew Parris
[To be continued]
0545 Hrs GMT
London Sunday 29 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on the unreliability of a 'career-politician': the incredibly glib words of Brian Coleman on the 'Tony McNulty' 'news'
When I went on the record and stated any agreement with anything that Brian Coleman had ever said, I did so with precision. Precision and condition and qualification. I had been aware of Brian Coleman’s mutterings. And I had noticed over so many of Coleman's stray utterances that he was not reliable at all.
On his record, Coleman has not sustained anything. Except his career. For what it is worth. And it can not be worth anything to the people of London. Except to Brian Coleman.
In October 2007, not long after Gordon Brown played his role as a peddler of Big Business Crossrail, Brian Coleman popped up in the New Statesman saying that the City of London should be scrapped.
The City of London exists as a highly brazen Tory tool. Tory in the Norman Tebbit sense. Tory in the Margaret Thatcher sense. Tory in the Tony Blair sense. Tory in the sense that it has behaved in over the most part of its existence as a ‘world crass grabbing centre’ that has been central to bringing to its knees whatever financial system [!!!] existed in the ‘free trading world’...
My immediate trigger for addressing the role of the City of London in October 2007 - a full year before the financial calamity began to show - was of course the peddling role the City of London had been playing for facilitating the looting of the UK public by Big Business in contracts to the tune [initially] of £16 Billion via Crossrail. That is before taking into account the additional £Billions in expected overruns.
So I put in a brief sentence as follows:
“
11 October 2007 at 11:19
I fully agree with and endorse the statement in Brian Coleman's column as follows:
"Never mind that it has no benefit at all for most actual Londoners as opposed to commuters from the Home Counties."
Muhammad Haque
Organiser
Khoodeelaar!
No to Crossrail hole Bill
London E1
1118 Hrs
Thursday 11 October 2007”
I had expected that Coleman would follow up his utterances ‘against’ the City of London. If not about the City of Lo London itself, I had expected him to elaborate on the grabbing irrelevance of the place. But I have not noticed anything.
In fact Since October 2007, I had not come across Brian Coleman in print again.
Until last night .
Coleman appeared on the BBC News Channel along with a person from the ‘Guardian Weekly’. To ‘review’ the front pages of the Sunday papers. On the item about MPs’ expenses, allowances etc, Coleman took the very same line that Eric Pickles had done on last Thursday's’ Question Time.
In fact Coleman went one further and sought to undermine the Mail on Sunday for trying to find credible information on MPs behaving greedily...
Coleman decided to attack the Mail on Sunday ‘s particular reporting and investigation instead of saying anything about the subject that the newspaper had been focussing on...
taken together, the performances of Eric Pickles on the Question Time and Brian Coleman on the B BC News Channel over the same issue raise the question: what chance is there that a Tory ‘win’ at any general election will make things any better?
CRASS prospects indeed!
They will carry on the Crossrail crass scam too.
I am saying this in the full knowledge of the hype and the spin around Daniel Hannan and the plugs for Daniel Hannan and the Tories in the Times by Crossrail scam-backing Matthew Parris
[To be continued]
Saturday, March 28, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Ruth Madoff having made off herself with a load from London as well!
1134 Hrs GMT London Saturday 28 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Ruth Madoff having made off herself with a load from London as well!
We shall examine the psychology and the psychosis of Big Business in the context of the Bernard Madoff disclosures so far...
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note on Ruth Madoff having made off herself with a load from London as well!
We shall examine the psychology and the psychosis of Big Business in the context of the Bernard Madoff disclosures so far...
[To be continued]
Friday, March 27, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential question to Boris Johnson: Is Boris merely, opportunistically faking a No to Bechtel? And has he already caved in to Bechtel?
KHOODEELAAR! evidential question to Boris Johnson: Is Boris merely, opportunistically faking a No to Bechtel? And has Boris already caved in to Bechtel on the alleged contract?
[To be continued]
The following piece is taken from EVENING STANDARD
Page 35 1st edition
London Friday 27 March 2009
At cross-purposes over choosing a Crossrail builder
Peter Bill
EVENING STANDARD
Page 35 1st edition
London Friday 27 March 2009
-A well-stifled row has broken out between the builders of Crossrail and Transport for London, over who is in overall charge. TfL, which is chaired by Mayor Boris Johnson, was asked earlier this month to approve two huge contracts.
The first was for the job of becoming Crossrail's Project Programme Partner. Crossrail bosses recommended that the £100 million job to supervise the builders be given to a US-dominated trio. TfL said fine, give the job to AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group.
But the recommendation by Crossrail bosses on who should get the job of actually building the central section of the 118-kilometre line was not accepted for "technical reasons", says TfL in full coy mode. There are four firms in the running - including giants Bechtel of the US and Laing O'Rourke of the UK.
It's not known who Crossrail recommended. But Boris apparently baulked at the idea of immediately giving the whole show over to the Yanks by appointing Bechtel.
Laing O'Rourke is lobbying for more weight to be given to the "Britishness" of the bids when they come up for reconsideration in a few weeks. This is all a bit tricky because, under European rules, you are not supposed to favour one bid over another on national grounds.
But both Crossrail and TfL have been spooked by the rows that have erupted across Britain over the employment of non-British subcontract labour. Crossrail can't obviously dictate the nationality of the workers who, they stress, will be "overwhelmingly" British.
However, just suppose Laing O'Rourke were to be appointed. It would obviously be in a better position to employ Brits drawn from its 31,000-strong workforce than those awful Americans ever could. This should at least be taken into account, should it not Boris? Laing O'Rourke yesterday proudly announced it was to hire 1000 new apprentices.
[To be continued]
The following piece is taken from EVENING STANDARD
Page 35 1st edition
London Friday 27 March 2009
At cross-purposes over choosing a Crossrail builder
Peter Bill
EVENING STANDARD
Page 35 1st edition
London Friday 27 March 2009
-A well-stifled row has broken out between the builders of Crossrail and Transport for London, over who is in overall charge. TfL, which is chaired by Mayor Boris Johnson, was asked earlier this month to approve two huge contracts.
The first was for the job of becoming Crossrail's Project Programme Partner. Crossrail bosses recommended that the £100 million job to supervise the builders be given to a US-dominated trio. TfL said fine, give the job to AECOM, CH2M Hill and Nichols Group.
But the recommendation by Crossrail bosses on who should get the job of actually building the central section of the 118-kilometre line was not accepted for "technical reasons", says TfL in full coy mode. There are four firms in the running - including giants Bechtel of the US and Laing O'Rourke of the UK.
It's not known who Crossrail recommended. But Boris apparently baulked at the idea of immediately giving the whole show over to the Yanks by appointing Bechtel.
Laing O'Rourke is lobbying for more weight to be given to the "Britishness" of the bids when they come up for reconsideration in a few weeks. This is all a bit tricky because, under European rules, you are not supposed to favour one bid over another on national grounds.
But both Crossrail and TfL have been spooked by the rows that have erupted across Britain over the employment of non-British subcontract labour. Crossrail can't obviously dictate the nationality of the workers who, they stress, will be "overwhelmingly" British.
However, just suppose Laing O'Rourke were to be appointed. It would obviously be in a better position to employ Brits drawn from its 31,000-strong workforce than those awful Americans ever could. This should at least be taken into account, should it not Boris? Laing O'Rourke yesterday proudly announced it was to hire 1000 new apprentices.
KHOODEELAAR! evidential action archive: When we compared Christine Gilbert to her successor in post in Tower Hamlets
KHOODEELAAR! evidential action archive: When we compared Christine Gilbert to her successor in post in Tower Hamlets
[To be continued]
Thursday, 9 August 2007
Shadwell ward by-election derails Crossrail hole plot-backer against the East End of London!
By©Muhammad Haque
0140 Hrs GMT
London Friday 10 August 2007
Shadwell in the East London inner city borough of Tower Hamlets is still under the overall influence of a very Blaired operation at the corruptly-controlled Tower Hamlets Council
But the East London Council ward witnessed a minor signal failure on Thursday 9 August 2007.
The result of the signal failure was that a vehicle, an agent, a tout for Big Business was derailed.
At least for the time being.
Michael Keith, the Blairing candidate, was defeated by under 100 votes. A fact that the Blairing propaganda operatives were seeking to use as some sort of evidence that the defeat was not convincing enough proof that the Blairing assault was rejected by the people who made up the active electors in Shadwell.
The idea that a majority of 97 in a poll of counted votes totalling under 4000 votes in a Council ward did not amount to a ‘victory’ is not credible at all. Yet that is exactly what the Blairing propaganda operatives were being asked to say about the defeat of Michael Keith at Shadwell.
That Keith the Blairing Candidate has been dealt a blow in Shadwell on two occasions [two elections] in a row must not be used by his ‘opponents’ to gloat at all.
The Tower Hamlets Council still remains in the grip of the operatives who have been carrying out the same agenda, supporting the same attacks on the public provisions as Michael Keith did.
No doubt his derailment will be a temporary relief to the ‘party’ organisation – or what there is of the Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway’s ‘RESPECT’ ‘party’.
But that relief must be extended into action by the WHOLE community to defend the community against a 'local' Council I which has on the face of it the ‘mandate’ of the electorate and which is abusing that mandate to destroy the very important and life-saving and life enhancing infrastructure needed by the community.
What I told a satellite TV news recorder in a one minute statement during the afternoon [Thursday 9 August 2007] outside the Bigland Street polling station was that the best candidate to deserve the peoples’ votes on the day would be the one who would defend the community’s rights and who would speak up for the community upon their election and throughout the period of their being a councillor..
Can Harun Miah, the new councillor for Shadwell, live up to that standard that I articulated ?
For the prevention of the attacks in the local community will not be made possible by the indulgent disarray within the RESPECT group of occurs or by its version within what they ca the ‘RESPECT” party!
The prevention of the attacks on the East End being carried out via Tower Hamlets Council will be the test.
To make the derailment permanent, lessons must be learnt immediately.
Those lessons must be based on what was witnessed in the middle of the afternoon in the Bigland Street polling station.
As I had asked a Metropolitan Police officer within minutes of Carole Swords arrest, 'Was it necessary to arrest Carole?'
I have already reported the Police officer's response.
But other people who also witnessed the arrest as I did, have raised questions including the role of the Tower Hamlets electoral returning officer.
They are of the view that Martin Smith who is the Council's chief executive and is by that fact the returning officer, must be asked to explain the heavy handed behaviour of the police towards Carole Swords.
Analogous to that would be the type of behaviour that was prevalent when Christine Gilbert was in post as chief executive.
[To be continued]
[To be continued]
Thursday, 9 August 2007
Shadwell ward by-election derails Crossrail hole plot-backer against the East End of London!
By©Muhammad Haque
0140 Hrs GMT
London Friday 10 August 2007
Shadwell in the East London inner city borough of Tower Hamlets is still under the overall influence of a very Blaired operation at the corruptly-controlled Tower Hamlets Council
But the East London Council ward witnessed a minor signal failure on Thursday 9 August 2007.
The result of the signal failure was that a vehicle, an agent, a tout for Big Business was derailed.
At least for the time being.
Michael Keith, the Blairing candidate, was defeated by under 100 votes. A fact that the Blairing propaganda operatives were seeking to use as some sort of evidence that the defeat was not convincing enough proof that the Blairing assault was rejected by the people who made up the active electors in Shadwell.
The idea that a majority of 97 in a poll of counted votes totalling under 4000 votes in a Council ward did not amount to a ‘victory’ is not credible at all. Yet that is exactly what the Blairing propaganda operatives were being asked to say about the defeat of Michael Keith at Shadwell.
That Keith the Blairing Candidate has been dealt a blow in Shadwell on two occasions [two elections] in a row must not be used by his ‘opponents’ to gloat at all.
The Tower Hamlets Council still remains in the grip of the operatives who have been carrying out the same agenda, supporting the same attacks on the public provisions as Michael Keith did.
No doubt his derailment will be a temporary relief to the ‘party’ organisation – or what there is of the Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway’s ‘RESPECT’ ‘party’.
But that relief must be extended into action by the WHOLE community to defend the community against a 'local' Council I which has on the face of it the ‘mandate’ of the electorate and which is abusing that mandate to destroy the very important and life-saving and life enhancing infrastructure needed by the community.
What I told a satellite TV news recorder in a one minute statement during the afternoon [Thursday 9 August 2007] outside the Bigland Street polling station was that the best candidate to deserve the peoples’ votes on the day would be the one who would defend the community’s rights and who would speak up for the community upon their election and throughout the period of their being a councillor..
Can Harun Miah, the new councillor for Shadwell, live up to that standard that I articulated ?
For the prevention of the attacks in the local community will not be made possible by the indulgent disarray within the RESPECT group of occurs or by its version within what they ca the ‘RESPECT” party!
The prevention of the attacks on the East End being carried out via Tower Hamlets Council will be the test.
To make the derailment permanent, lessons must be learnt immediately.
Those lessons must be based on what was witnessed in the middle of the afternoon in the Bigland Street polling station.
As I had asked a Metropolitan Police officer within minutes of Carole Swords arrest, 'Was it necessary to arrest Carole?'
I have already reported the Police officer's response.
But other people who also witnessed the arrest as I did, have raised questions including the role of the Tower Hamlets electoral returning officer.
They are of the view that Martin Smith who is the Council's chief executive and is by that fact the returning officer, must be asked to explain the heavy handed behaviour of the police towards Carole Swords.
Analogous to that would be the type of behaviour that was prevalent when Christine Gilbert was in post as chief executive.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential dissection of the latest instance of crass propaganda for ‘CRASSrail’ by one of the Big Business agenda-peddling web sites.
1758 [1755] [1750] Hrs GMT London Friday 27 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! evidential dissection of the latest instance of crass propaganda for ‘CRASSrail’ by one of the Big Business agenda-peddling web sites... They keep doing it. They are lying when they put the word ‘Crossrail’ where the word ‘train’ or railway’ or ‘rail’ should be used. This is not a careless act on their part. This is a deliberately corrupt act. They have been doing this on every aspect of the crassly conceived scam. They have been even trying to replace the word ‘transport’ by the word ‘Crossrail’. [To be continued]
Growth talks for Crossrail
Planning, 27 March 2009
Transport secretary Geoff Hoon visited Ebbsfleet and Dartford in Kent last week to discuss extending Crossrail services to the Thames Gateway area.
The government is working with councils and local stakeholders to safeguard a route in north Kent. Bringing Crossrail to the area would give regeneration plans a substantial boost, according to Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership chairman Kevin Lynes.
During the visit, Hoon also viewed plans for two domestic rail platforms at Ebbsfleet station and an extended 9,000-space park-and-ride facility, which are both set to open in December.
Inspecting the progress of the work, he said: "Ebbsfleet has successfully served high- speed international rail for some time and I am delighted that passengers on domestic services travelling to London and the South East coast are to benefit from faster journey times."
Lynes added: "The secretary of state has seen how the high-speed rail link is already bringing tremendous focus to Kent Thameside. We aim to deliver more than 25,000 homes and 50,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
"Joining up Dartford with Crossrail will be an added boost for the regeneration of the north Kent area by establishing a direct rail link between Ebbsfleet, Docklands, the City of London and Heathrow," he insisted.
"This will be an added incentive in persuading businesses to locate to Kent Thameside and create additional job opportunities for local people."
KHOODEELAAR! evidential dissection of the latest instance of crass propaganda for ‘CRASSrail’ by one of the Big Business agenda-peddling web sites... They keep doing it. They are lying when they put the word ‘Crossrail’ where the word ‘train’ or railway’ or ‘rail’ should be used. This is not a careless act on their part. This is a deliberately corrupt act. They have been doing this on every aspect of the crassly conceived scam. They have been even trying to replace the word ‘transport’ by the word ‘Crossrail’. [To be continued]
Growth talks for Crossrail
Planning, 27 March 2009
Transport secretary Geoff Hoon visited Ebbsfleet and Dartford in Kent last week to discuss extending Crossrail services to the Thames Gateway area.
The government is working with councils and local stakeholders to safeguard a route in north Kent. Bringing Crossrail to the area would give regeneration plans a substantial boost, according to Kent Thameside Regeneration Partnership chairman Kevin Lynes.
During the visit, Hoon also viewed plans for two domestic rail platforms at Ebbsfleet station and an extended 9,000-space park-and-ride facility, which are both set to open in December.
Inspecting the progress of the work, he said: "Ebbsfleet has successfully served high- speed international rail for some time and I am delighted that passengers on domestic services travelling to London and the South East coast are to benefit from faster journey times."
Lynes added: "The secretary of state has seen how the high-speed rail link is already bringing tremendous focus to Kent Thameside. We aim to deliver more than 25,000 homes and 50,000 jobs over the next 20 years.
"Joining up Dartford with Crossrail will be an added boost for the regeneration of the north Kent area by establishing a direct rail link between Ebbsfleet, Docklands, the City of London and Heathrow," he insisted.
"This will be an added incentive in persuading businesses to locate to Kent Thameside and create additional job opportunities for local people."
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD UK Gordon BROWN SO! That Big Business-craved Crossrail that he peddled typifies Brown's follies...
1325 [0955] Hrs GMT London Friday 27 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD UK Gordon BROWN SO! That the stunt for Big Business agenda-setters craving UK public money under covers of Crossrail that he had aided Ken Livingstone to stage at a location in ‘the Canary Wharf’ was sure to come back to haunt him..
We told Brown this in October 2007. We again told him the same in April 2008. On BOTH those occasions, Brown was appeasing Livingstone. We diagnosed Brown’s ‘reason’ for appeasing Livingstone as being linked with Brown’s concern for ’stability’ [remember that word - in the vocabulary that Brown is fond of using] in the face of Livingstone’s sub-racist manouvres and propaganda against the collective Scotland ‘gravy train’ ‘at the expense’ of London…
We told Brown that he should ignore Livingstone and spell out the truth on the economy. And on the ‘Union’. And on the true state of society in London that Livingstone had corrupted into the poor state it was in.
And it still is in… Brown failed to pay heed to our advice. Instead, Brown persisted in indulging Livingstone and as a part of that ’strategy’ of ignorance, he praised Canary Wharf, too.. To the skies. In the state of fantasy that Brown was in, he cared little for sense or substance, so long as he got to pose with Ken Livingstone..
Livingstone had become ‘the real source of Brown’s problems within the Blairing environment’. Brown had to keep Livingstone ‘happy’…
Brown was wrong on that. He in fact bought Livingstone’s propaganda on himself and so Brown caved in. He committed to find £Billions of public money to fund the Big Business CRASSrail that Livingstone was touting for as part of HIS pact with Big Business agenda-pushers and their stooges and tools in the City of London…
For his part, Livingstone got the ‘BIG DEAL’ that he could then dangle all over the place as part of his ’re-election’ bid….’In appeasing Ken Livingstone and in prioritising Livingstone’s egotistic demands above listening to those who spoke sense about London - including Rod Eddington -
Brown confounded his problems. For he also praised the City of London.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN that ALL three tokens of his praise were heading for the holes of their own making..Ken Livingstone, Canary Wharf and City of London… We advised Brown to avoid a hole that he would be sinking in too.. We said to him to scrap the Crossrail hole agenda and avoid the big hole….
Brown paid no attention….
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail hole scam” CAMPAIGN TOLD BROWN SO! In saying this again today, Friday 27 March 2009, we also note the fact that Canary Wharf ‘the company’ as ‘different’ from the ‘place’ is admitting that it is in a £multiBillion hole of its own…
We note that Brown has not spoken a single sentence of praise for the City of London for months… that Ken Livingstone has totally relapsed into a state of infantile irresponsibility that now threatens to dwarf some of his most callous acts of the past 40 years of careeristic misdemeanours in the name of the people of London….Livingstone has just publicly confirmed that he does not care for ethics or morality, let alone accountability..
He will say and do anything at all to get back to t he d ays of glory and power… in the name of the people of London no matter how damaging his behaviour in office has been for the cause of the people of London…
Livingstone has AGAIN threatened to stand as an ‘independent’ candidate for the same post… We have news for Livingstone: It may be that the ‘powers’ and the PURSE that go with the ‘mayor of London’ [the pair of 'mates' that Livingstone really misses and has been experiencing the most pain as he battles with the withdrawal symptoms] may themselves come to be withdrawn or may vanish…..
You have read it here first…We say a small word of advice to Boris Johnson: Scrap Crossrail lunacy and quit talking irresponsibly……
[To be continued]
OMEFINANCE
ECONOMICS
UK economy slows sharper than expected as construction slumps
Britain's economy slowed even more sharply than expected in the last three months of 2008 as construction output plunged, official data showed on Friday.
By Telegraph Staff
Last Updated: 12:18PM GMT 27 Mar 2009
GDP contracted by 1.6pc in the fourth quarter of 2008, revised down from a contraction of 1.5pc, the Office for National Statistics reported. The quarterly fall of 1.6pc was the sharpest decline since 1980.
Construction output tumbled 4.9pc over the quarter, revised down from a fall of 1.1pc. The ONS said this was due to survey data replacing a forecast.
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The decline is the biggest quarterly fall in construction output since the fourth quarter on 1980.
Output of the production industries fell 4.5pc compared with a fall of 1.8pc in the previous quarter, driven by the marked decline in manufacturing output.
Cuts in interest rates and a general reluctance to spend as the recession deepens saw the household saving ratio jump to 4.8pc between October and December, the highest since the start of 2006, from 1.7pc in the previous quarter.
There was also evidence that firms ran down inventories even more aggressively that previously thought - by more than £4bn after a build-up of £1bn in Q3.
Britain is mired in recession for the first time since 1991. The generally-used technical definition of a recession is two quarters running of negative economic growth.
On an annual basis, British GDP sank by 2pc during the fourth quarter compared with the October-December period in 2007. The ONS had originally estimated contraction of 1.9pc.
The ONS also confirmed that the economy grew by 0.7pc in 2008, the slowest annual rate since 1992 and a dramatic slowdown after 3pc expansion in 2007.
Separate figures showed Britain's current account deficit narrowed to £7.641bn in the fourth quarter of 2008 from an upwardly revised deficit of £8.162bn in the third quarter.
Sterling fell against the euro on Friday as it continued to suffer the fallout from Thursday's weak retail sales figures. High street sales plunged by 1.9pc during February, taking annual growth down to just 0.4 percent, its weakest since 1995
Following that theme, John Lewis - the department store group whose sales are often seen as a barometer of British retail spending - reported on Friday sales dropped by 12.6pc in the week to March 21.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD UK Gordon BROWN SO! That the stunt for Big Business agenda-setters craving UK public money under covers of Crossrail that he had aided Ken Livingstone to stage at a location in ‘the Canary Wharf’ was sure to come back to haunt him..
We told Brown this in October 2007. We again told him the same in April 2008. On BOTH those occasions, Brown was appeasing Livingstone. We diagnosed Brown’s ‘reason’ for appeasing Livingstone as being linked with Brown’s concern for ’stability’ [remember that word - in the vocabulary that Brown is fond of using] in the face of Livingstone’s sub-racist manouvres and propaganda against the collective Scotland ‘gravy train’ ‘at the expense’ of London…
We told Brown that he should ignore Livingstone and spell out the truth on the economy. And on the ‘Union’. And on the true state of society in London that Livingstone had corrupted into the poor state it was in.
And it still is in… Brown failed to pay heed to our advice. Instead, Brown persisted in indulging Livingstone and as a part of that ’strategy’ of ignorance, he praised Canary Wharf, too.. To the skies. In the state of fantasy that Brown was in, he cared little for sense or substance, so long as he got to pose with Ken Livingstone..
Livingstone had become ‘the real source of Brown’s problems within the Blairing environment’. Brown had to keep Livingstone ‘happy’…
Brown was wrong on that. He in fact bought Livingstone’s propaganda on himself and so Brown caved in. He committed to find £Billions of public money to fund the Big Business CRASSrail that Livingstone was touting for as part of HIS pact with Big Business agenda-pushers and their stooges and tools in the City of London…
For his part, Livingstone got the ‘BIG DEAL’ that he could then dangle all over the place as part of his ’re-election’ bid….’In appeasing Ken Livingstone and in prioritising Livingstone’s egotistic demands above listening to those who spoke sense about London - including Rod Eddington -
Brown confounded his problems. For he also praised the City of London.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN that ALL three tokens of his praise were heading for the holes of their own making..Ken Livingstone, Canary Wharf and City of London… We advised Brown to avoid a hole that he would be sinking in too.. We said to him to scrap the Crossrail hole agenda and avoid the big hole….
Brown paid no attention….
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business Crossrail hole scam” CAMPAIGN TOLD BROWN SO! In saying this again today, Friday 27 March 2009, we also note the fact that Canary Wharf ‘the company’ as ‘different’ from the ‘place’ is admitting that it is in a £multiBillion hole of its own…
We note that Brown has not spoken a single sentence of praise for the City of London for months… that Ken Livingstone has totally relapsed into a state of infantile irresponsibility that now threatens to dwarf some of his most callous acts of the past 40 years of careeristic misdemeanours in the name of the people of London….Livingstone has just publicly confirmed that he does not care for ethics or morality, let alone accountability..
He will say and do anything at all to get back to t he d ays of glory and power… in the name of the people of London no matter how damaging his behaviour in office has been for the cause of the people of London…
Livingstone has AGAIN threatened to stand as an ‘independent’ candidate for the same post… We have news for Livingstone: It may be that the ‘powers’ and the PURSE that go with the ‘mayor of London’ [the pair of 'mates' that Livingstone really misses and has been experiencing the most pain as he battles with the withdrawal symptoms] may themselves come to be withdrawn or may vanish…..
You have read it here first…We say a small word of advice to Boris Johnson: Scrap Crossrail lunacy and quit talking irresponsibly……
[To be continued]
OMEFINANCE
ECONOMICS
UK economy slows sharper than expected as construction slumps
Britain's economy slowed even more sharply than expected in the last three months of 2008 as construction output plunged, official data showed on Friday.
By Telegraph Staff
Last Updated: 12:18PM GMT 27 Mar 2009
GDP contracted by 1.6pc in the fourth quarter of 2008, revised down from a contraction of 1.5pc, the Office for National Statistics reported. The quarterly fall of 1.6pc was the sharpest decline since 1980.
Construction output tumbled 4.9pc over the quarter, revised down from a fall of 1.1pc. The ONS said this was due to survey data replacing a forecast.
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The decline is the biggest quarterly fall in construction output since the fourth quarter on 1980.
Output of the production industries fell 4.5pc compared with a fall of 1.8pc in the previous quarter, driven by the marked decline in manufacturing output.
Cuts in interest rates and a general reluctance to spend as the recession deepens saw the household saving ratio jump to 4.8pc between October and December, the highest since the start of 2006, from 1.7pc in the previous quarter.
There was also evidence that firms ran down inventories even more aggressively that previously thought - by more than £4bn after a build-up of £1bn in Q3.
Britain is mired in recession for the first time since 1991. The generally-used technical definition of a recession is two quarters running of negative economic growth.
On an annual basis, British GDP sank by 2pc during the fourth quarter compared with the October-December period in 2007. The ONS had originally estimated contraction of 1.9pc.
The ONS also confirmed that the economy grew by 0.7pc in 2008, the slowest annual rate since 1992 and a dramatic slowdown after 3pc expansion in 2007.
Separate figures showed Britain's current account deficit narrowed to £7.641bn in the fourth quarter of 2008 from an upwardly revised deficit of £8.162bn in the third quarter.
Sterling fell against the euro on Friday as it continued to suffer the fallout from Thursday's weak retail sales figures. High street sales plunged by 1.9pc during February, taking annual growth down to just 0.4 percent, its weakest since 1995
Following that theme, John Lewis - the department store group whose sales are often seen as a barometer of British retail spending - reported on Friday sales dropped by 12.6pc in the week to March 21.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidence of the dishonesty of the Crossrail scam-backing London DAILY MAIL
The DAILY MAIL is often given credit for setting at least some of the
'moral agenda' and even the 'political agenda' in British politics. This
is based on the propaganda that the DAILY MAIL represents the core values.
More on those later.
If their item about the so-called 'New Labour
golden couple' Tony McNulty and Christine Gilbert is any evidence then the
DAILY MAIL do not deserve the positive image that they are often given by
other media. And by certain politicians.
KHOODEELAAR! will examine the
piece below in the course of the coming days.
[To be continued]
__________
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164040/The-rise-rise-New-Labour-couple.html
The rise and rise of a very New Labour couple
By KIRSTY WALKER
Last updated at 12:48 AM on 23rd March 2009
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The McNulty-Gilberts are the very epitome of a New Labour golden couple.
He is an uber-loyal minister, while she is a former history teacher who rose to be head of a government quango after a stint in charge of London's deprived borough of Tower Hamlets.
The couple, who married in 2002, met when they were both working in Harrow - he was a councillor and she was director of education in the mid-1990s.
Their relationship became the source of controversy in 2006 when Miss Gilbert was made head of Ofsted, one of the most important roles in public life. It prompted accusations of cronyism because Mr McNulty was a Home Office minister at the time and was one of Tony Blair's most loyal ministers.
Labour minister Tony McNulty and his wife Christine Gilbert are the very epitome of golden New Labour couple
Miss Gilbert, 59, denied the allegations, insisting she had applied and won the job in an 'open competition'.
But former colleagues have spoken of her quiet approval of New Labour's approach to schools while she was chief executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Miss Gilbert spent 18 years in teaching, eight of them as head of the Whitmore High School in Harrow. She was director of education at Harrow council for five years before taking over at Tower Hamlets.
During her time in charge at Tower Hamlets she presided over a marked improvement in the borough's previously dismal exam results, and also over a wave of favourable publicity congratulating her on this achievement.
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This came, in part, from Miss Gilbert's decision to hire an outside PR firm which spent more than £1million boosting her own and the borough's image.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, she has no children, either from her marriage to Mr McNulty or from an earlier marriage. Her husband has been described as a 'New Labour hardman', whose brusque manner has won him enemies as well as friends in Westminster.
The 50-year-old minister, who attends Cabinet in his role as employment minister, is also no stranger to controversy.
As Home Office minister he was stripped of his immigration responsibilities in 2006 by Tony Blair following a string of Home Office blunders.
In 2007, while he was the police minister, he admitted he had smoked cannabis at university.
The son of an Irish immigrant, Mr McNulty was educated at the Salvatorian college in Wealdstone, North-West London, before studying political theory at Liverpool University.
He went on to obtain an MA in political science from Virginia Tech in the U.S.
Before becoming an MP in 1997, he was leader of the Labour group on Harrow council and a senior lecturer on organisational behaviour at the University of North London.
He served as a Whip from 1999 to 2002, following a period as Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Blunkett.
His first ministerial role came in 2002 when he was appointed a junior minister in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. In June 2003 he moved to the Department of Transport as junior minister with responsibility for aviation, local transport and London.
He was then promoted to Minister of State with responsibility for rail and London in September 2004.
Mr McNulty moved to the Home Office in May 2005, where he was briefly immigration minister before his portfolio was changed to police, security and counter-terrorism.
Despite his Blairite credentials, he was made employment minister by Gordon Brown. He now has the task of defending the Government at a time when job losses are soaring.
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'moral agenda' and even the 'political agenda' in British politics. This
is based on the propaganda that the DAILY MAIL represents the core values.
More on those later.
If their item about the so-called 'New Labour
golden couple' Tony McNulty and Christine Gilbert is any evidence then the
DAILY MAIL do not deserve the positive image that they are often given by
other media. And by certain politicians.
KHOODEELAAR! will examine the
piece below in the course of the coming days.
[To be continued]
__________
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164040/The-rise-rise-New-Labour-couple.html
The rise and rise of a very New Labour couple
By KIRSTY WALKER
Last updated at 12:48 AM on 23rd March 2009
Comments (0)
Add to My Stories
The McNulty-Gilberts are the very epitome of a New Labour golden couple.
He is an uber-loyal minister, while she is a former history teacher who rose to be head of a government quango after a stint in charge of London's deprived borough of Tower Hamlets.
The couple, who married in 2002, met when they were both working in Harrow - he was a councillor and she was director of education in the mid-1990s.
Their relationship became the source of controversy in 2006 when Miss Gilbert was made head of Ofsted, one of the most important roles in public life. It prompted accusations of cronyism because Mr McNulty was a Home Office minister at the time and was one of Tony Blair's most loyal ministers.
Labour minister Tony McNulty and his wife Christine Gilbert are the very epitome of golden New Labour couple
Miss Gilbert, 59, denied the allegations, insisting she had applied and won the job in an 'open competition'.
But former colleagues have spoken of her quiet approval of New Labour's approach to schools while she was chief executive of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Miss Gilbert spent 18 years in teaching, eight of them as head of the Whitmore High School in Harrow. She was director of education at Harrow council for five years before taking over at Tower Hamlets.
During her time in charge at Tower Hamlets she presided over a marked improvement in the borough's previously dismal exam results, and also over a wave of favourable publicity congratulating her on this achievement.
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I won't return my £60,000: Labour minister claims allowance for second home he doesn't even live in
This came, in part, from Miss Gilbert's decision to hire an outside PR firm which spent more than £1million boosting her own and the borough's image.
Born into an Irish Catholic family, she has no children, either from her marriage to Mr McNulty or from an earlier marriage. Her husband has been described as a 'New Labour hardman', whose brusque manner has won him enemies as well as friends in Westminster.
The 50-year-old minister, who attends Cabinet in his role as employment minister, is also no stranger to controversy.
As Home Office minister he was stripped of his immigration responsibilities in 2006 by Tony Blair following a string of Home Office blunders.
In 2007, while he was the police minister, he admitted he had smoked cannabis at university.
The son of an Irish immigrant, Mr McNulty was educated at the Salvatorian college in Wealdstone, North-West London, before studying political theory at Liverpool University.
He went on to obtain an MA in political science from Virginia Tech in the U.S.
Before becoming an MP in 1997, he was leader of the Labour group on Harrow council and a senior lecturer on organisational behaviour at the University of North London.
He served as a Whip from 1999 to 2002, following a period as Parliamentary Private Secretary to David Blunkett.
His first ministerial role came in 2002 when he was appointed a junior minister in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. In June 2003 he moved to the Department of Transport as junior minister with responsibility for aviation, local transport and London.
He was then promoted to Minister of State with responsibility for rail and London in September 2004.
Mr McNulty moved to the Home Office in May 2005, where he was briefly immigration minister before his portfolio was changed to police, security and counter-terrorism.
Despite his Blairite credentials, he was made employment minister by Gordon Brown. He now has the task of defending the Government at a time when job losses are soaring.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note about the end of Brown's indulgence in debts-causing imprudence
2118 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 25 March 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note about the end of Brown's indulgence in debts-causing imprudence [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note about the end of Brown's indulgence in debts-causing imprudence [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! evidential note in context: Even 'Mirek' can see what we have seen for years and have advised Brown to heed our GUIDANCE ..
By © Muhammad Haque
2100 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 25 March 2009
The KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the London Crossrail Big Business scam is a part of the movement that has over the years consistently foreseen the follies of Big Business and their touts in ‘decision-making’ posts funded in the name of the people..
The KHOODEELAAR! warnings to Gordon Brown [when he was UK Finance minister] about Crossrail were given in extensive detail. We even gave him the questions that he could;d and should have put to the then Crossrail-peddling minister Alistair Darling...Brown did delay the funding commitment..
But when he gave the commitment to Crossrail, he defied the evidence. And made a mistake. No, Brown was brazen. He did not make a mistake. He was ignorant. Or he was worse: dishonest. He is persisting with the same ignorance in the USA today Wednesday 25 March 2009. He also ignored the KHOODEELAAR! analytical and evidential work on the sub-racist tactic by the likes of Michael Snyder, Barrenness Jo Valentine and their colluder as co-peddler for CRASS-rail Undone Mayor Ken Livingstone .
The three of them belonged to a lying cabal of Big Business touts that created a bogus ‘case’ collectively against Scotland and railed against un-named Scottish politicos and blamed Scotland for the failure of UK Central Govt to fund Crossrail in London.……
It was KHOODEELAAR! that made this analysis. Not even the SNP. Not anyone else. We published the analysis and told Brown to beware of the lies and the fabrications.…
But Brown evidently ‘thought’ that he would rather cave in and appear to be with the anti-Scottish sub-racists than face up to the facts of their particular racism... Brown appeared keen to appease that little cabal of racists...All of them brayed that the future of world depended on the UK Govt. funding Crossrail! That was in the period June 2007 to April 2008.
The world, it appears case on the records, began to fall apart as soon as Brown gave the final erroneous commitment to Crossrail.
So much so that by the end of the year that has followed Brown’s triumphant appearance on stage in Canary Wharf with Crossrail peddling Ken Livingstone [who was manipulating Brown to serve Livingstone’s propaganda purposes as the candidate for a third time to abuse the powers and the money in the name of the people of London] Brown is being treated with contempt in effect as the likes of Anne McElvoy mock Brown quite openly [EVENING STANDARD, London Wednesday 25 March 2009] .
On what ?
On the very 'Keynesian' trip which they had been part of a year ago as they used Brown's intellectual fragility and gullibility and capitalized on those to peddle the case for Big Business case ‘for CROSSRAIL:” and assorted other scams to loot the public....
[To be continued]
From the IHT web site [published by the New York Times]
Britain's Brown expects results from G20 summit
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/25/america/NA-US-Britain-Brown.php
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Published: March 25, 2009
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NEW YORK: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday promised "detailed results" from next week's G20 summit as he stopped in New York during a three-continent tour intended to drum up support for a coordinated international response to the global economic crisis.
Brown is hosting the April 2 summit for leaders of the Group of 20, made up of rich and key developing nations that account for more than 80 percent of the world economy.
"I believe that now, for the first time, global leaders recognize the need to cooperate and that in each country people think and see a problem that is their country's problem, they also see that a solution to that problem doesn't just lie in their country but lies in the international community," he said. "So there will be detailed results and positive decisions that come out of London."
He also attacked corporate greed, saying the summit would seek to create international standards for executive compensation.
"We will even also publish principles about remuneration, so that there are similar standards and for remunerating bankers and the financial system in future in all countries and not just in one, to avoid a race to the bottom which is a consequence of not having any standards at all," Brown said.
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Brown said the time had come for a new world economic order.
"A new consensus has to be built, and we know unless we work together and set global standards together we will not be able to have the progress we want," Brown said. "And I say to people in America, it is important to recognize a bad bank in any country can now affect banks in all countries and we should work together to set global standards at the highest level."
Brown made his comments at New York University where he participated alongside former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in a discussion of multilateralism in the 21st Century.
In his speech, Brown maintained a generally positive tone, saying the current crisis was a result of growing globalization and expressed optimism that it would eventually result in a stronger world financial system.
But he warned against a tendency toward increased protectionism in the face of crisis.
"We cannot just stand here, we've either got to act in the way we're suggesting or there will be a retreat into protectionism, because if we cannot show that national and international action can work together, then people will abandon the gospel of free trade and of international cooperation," Brown said. "So, there is huge danger of a retreat into protectionism.
Brown's optimism contrasted sharply with comments Wednesday from the head of the European Union, who characterized President Barack Obama's plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as "the road to hell."
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's comments before the European Parliament highlighted simmering European differences with Washington and some of the obstacles Brown faces in achieving greater international cooperation.
Brown's stimulus plans also appear to be facing resistance at home, with Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warning Tuesday the government must be careful about how much money it pours into stimulus measures in the face of growing deficits.
Earlier in the day, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Brown warned of the specter of deflation, where falling prices lead to more layoffs and create a vicious circle of economic shrinkage.
"I think in the short term everybody is concerned about the problems that come from deflation," Brown told the Journal, adding his government was doing "what is necessary to resume growth in the economy."
Brown meets with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before heading to Brazil and Chile in an effort to drum up support from two key emerging market players.
On Tuesday, Brown spoke to lawmakers at the European Parliament, insisting a cash injection into the global economy will be "twice as effective" if it is adopted by all countries around the world.
By stressing both cash injections into the economy and greater regulation, Brown sought to calm critics both in the United States and the 27-nation EU.
2100 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 25 March 2009
The KHOODEELAAR! campaign against the London Crossrail Big Business scam is a part of the movement that has over the years consistently foreseen the follies of Big Business and their touts in ‘decision-making’ posts funded in the name of the people..
The KHOODEELAAR! warnings to Gordon Brown [when he was UK Finance minister] about Crossrail were given in extensive detail. We even gave him the questions that he could;d and should have put to the then Crossrail-peddling minister Alistair Darling...Brown did delay the funding commitment..
But when he gave the commitment to Crossrail, he defied the evidence. And made a mistake. No, Brown was brazen. He did not make a mistake. He was ignorant. Or he was worse: dishonest. He is persisting with the same ignorance in the USA today Wednesday 25 March 2009. He also ignored the KHOODEELAAR! analytical and evidential work on the sub-racist tactic by the likes of Michael Snyder, Barrenness Jo Valentine and their colluder as co-peddler for CRASS-rail Undone Mayor Ken Livingstone .
The three of them belonged to a lying cabal of Big Business touts that created a bogus ‘case’ collectively against Scotland and railed against un-named Scottish politicos and blamed Scotland for the failure of UK Central Govt to fund Crossrail in London.……
It was KHOODEELAAR! that made this analysis. Not even the SNP. Not anyone else. We published the analysis and told Brown to beware of the lies and the fabrications.…
But Brown evidently ‘thought’ that he would rather cave in and appear to be with the anti-Scottish sub-racists than face up to the facts of their particular racism... Brown appeared keen to appease that little cabal of racists...All of them brayed that the future of world depended on the UK Govt. funding Crossrail! That was in the period June 2007 to April 2008.
The world, it appears case on the records, began to fall apart as soon as Brown gave the final erroneous commitment to Crossrail.
So much so that by the end of the year that has followed Brown’s triumphant appearance on stage in Canary Wharf with Crossrail peddling Ken Livingstone [who was manipulating Brown to serve Livingstone’s propaganda purposes as the candidate for a third time to abuse the powers and the money in the name of the people of London] Brown is being treated with contempt in effect as the likes of Anne McElvoy mock Brown quite openly [EVENING STANDARD, London Wednesday 25 March 2009] .
On what ?
On the very 'Keynesian' trip which they had been part of a year ago as they used Brown's intellectual fragility and gullibility and capitalized on those to peddle the case for Big Business case ‘for CROSSRAIL:” and assorted other scams to loot the public....
[To be continued]
From the IHT web site [published by the New York Times]
Britain's Brown expects results from G20 summit
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/25/america/NA-US-Britain-Brown.php
The Associated Press
Published: March 25, 2009
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NEW YORK: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday promised "detailed results" from next week's G20 summit as he stopped in New York during a three-continent tour intended to drum up support for a coordinated international response to the global economic crisis.
Brown is hosting the April 2 summit for leaders of the Group of 20, made up of rich and key developing nations that account for more than 80 percent of the world economy.
"I believe that now, for the first time, global leaders recognize the need to cooperate and that in each country people think and see a problem that is their country's problem, they also see that a solution to that problem doesn't just lie in their country but lies in the international community," he said. "So there will be detailed results and positive decisions that come out of London."
He also attacked corporate greed, saying the summit would seek to create international standards for executive compensation.
"We will even also publish principles about remuneration, so that there are similar standards and for remunerating bankers and the financial system in future in all countries and not just in one, to avoid a race to the bottom which is a consequence of not having any standards at all," Brown said.
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Brown said the time had come for a new world economic order.
"A new consensus has to be built, and we know unless we work together and set global standards together we will not be able to have the progress we want," Brown said. "And I say to people in America, it is important to recognize a bad bank in any country can now affect banks in all countries and we should work together to set global standards at the highest level."
Brown made his comments at New York University where he participated alongside former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker in a discussion of multilateralism in the 21st Century.
In his speech, Brown maintained a generally positive tone, saying the current crisis was a result of growing globalization and expressed optimism that it would eventually result in a stronger world financial system.
But he warned against a tendency toward increased protectionism in the face of crisis.
"We cannot just stand here, we've either got to act in the way we're suggesting or there will be a retreat into protectionism, because if we cannot show that national and international action can work together, then people will abandon the gospel of free trade and of international cooperation," Brown said. "So, there is huge danger of a retreat into protectionism.
Brown's optimism contrasted sharply with comments Wednesday from the head of the European Union, who characterized President Barack Obama's plan to spend nearly $2 trillion to push the U.S. economy out of recession as "the road to hell."
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's comments before the European Parliament highlighted simmering European differences with Washington and some of the obstacles Brown faces in achieving greater international cooperation.
Brown's stimulus plans also appear to be facing resistance at home, with Bank of England Governor Mervyn King warning Tuesday the government must be careful about how much money it pours into stimulus measures in the face of growing deficits.
Earlier in the day, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Brown warned of the specter of deflation, where falling prices lead to more layoffs and create a vicious circle of economic shrinkage.
"I think in the short term everybody is concerned about the problems that come from deflation," Brown told the Journal, adding his government was doing "what is necessary to resume growth in the economy."
Brown meets with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon before heading to Brazil and Chile in an effort to drum up support from two key emerging market players.
On Tuesday, Brown spoke to lawmakers at the European Parliament, insisting a cash injection into the global economy will be "twice as effective" if it is adopted by all countries around the world.
By stressing both cash injections into the economy and greater regulation, Brown sought to calm critics both in the United States and the 27-nation EU.
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD BROWN SO! QUIT faking it. Stop the fakery, start telling the truth. Star acting honestly. SCRAP CROSSRAIL
1955 Hrs GMT London Wednesday 25 March 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That IRRESPECTIVE of labels - whether self-adhesed or conferred by third parties or sources - career politicos are corrupt.
The extent of their corruption may vary from careerist to careerist. But they all are corrupt. If this corruption is a product of ‘the system’ then of course the system is unfit for purpose.
The purpose being the universal rights of people.. If the corrupt careerism impedes the realisation of rights for - all and for all concerned - then the corrupt careerism must be got rid of. The process of getting rid of it may be long. But it has to go...
The preferable option should be constitutional, democratic, ethical and humane. As objectively defined and universally understood.. Can this be done?
This is one central question.. This question is reinforced by the evidence of the day today Wednesday 25 March 2009. Evidence as relayed from and linked to the uses and abuses of power by all involved.… On this day the USA-UK axis of media and propaganda as conducted by the vested interests who exclude the voices of the ordinary people repeatedly foisted the images of the head s of regimes without scrutinising their conduct. Just as the MPs in the UK House of Commons failed to scrutinise Crossrail...
[To be continued]
FROM BBC online
Papering over the cracks at G20
Analysis
By Steve Schifferes
Economics reporter, BBC News
Mr Topolanek says Europe should resist US-style spending
A week before the G20 summit is set to begin, a major row has flared up between the US and Europe over how to revive the world economy.
US President Barack Obama has called for all countries to bear the burden of stimulating the world economy.
He said it would be unfair to expect those countries taking extraordinary measures to lift up those that were not.
Meanwhile, the Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, the current holder of the EU presidency, has condemned US economic recovery plans as "a way to hell".
Mr Topolanek, whose government collapsed last night in a Czech parliament vote of no-confidence, said the United States was not taking "the right path".
He attacked the growing US budget deficit and the "Buy America" campaign, saying "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell".
Mr Obama wants Europe to play its part
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is hosting the G20 summit, has been trying to patch up the row, arguing that all countries are agreed that they will take "whatever measures are necessary" to boost their economies.
But he has been put on the spot by the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, who has warned that the UK has little room for further fiscal stimulus on its own.
Behind the row
The intellectual case for a big worldwide fiscal stimulus has been put by the normally conservative International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has suggested that countries should spend at least 2% of GDP to boost their economies.
Mr Brown is trying to play honest broker
The idea is that if all work together, there will be spillover effects, so that countries will also gain by being able to sell more exports abroad as well as boosting their economies at home.
This is particularly important for large exporting countries, such as Japan and Germany, which have seen a particularly sharp drop in their economic output.
The IMF says that the overall fiscal stimulus plans could boost world growth in 2009 by between 1% and 3%, with about 1% coming from spillover effects.
G20 LONDON SUMMIT
World leaders will meet next month in London to discuss measures to tackle the downturn. See our in-depth guide to the G20 summit.
The G20 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the US and the EU.
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But it is worried that most countries - other than the US and China - are cutting back stimulus packages in 2010, and says that the boost to growth will be much less - perhaps zero - by then.
This may reflect a difference of judgement between the US and Europe as to how long the recession will last.
But so far the economic climate has been rapidly worsening, and signs point to the recession being deeper and longer than previously expected.
Fundamental differences
So the differences in approach to the stimulus reflect long-standing tensions between the US and Europe over public spending and deficits.
While European countries generally spend more than the US on public goods and services, they have been struggling for the last decade to reduce the burden of their government debt , which was a key aspiration particularly in the eurozone.
So they are reluctant to give up those hard-won gains to rescue the US economy, which they argue was the country that caused the crisis in the first place.
And some European countries, especially Germany, are historically very sensitive to the longer-run inflationary implications of higher budget deficits.
While the US is prepared to run a budget deficit of 8.9% of gross domestic product, or GDP, and the UK is likely to reach 11% by 2010, Germany is planning a deficit of just 5% and France 6%.
According to IMF figures, France has among the smallest stimulus plans of any G20 countries, at just 0.7% of GDP.
The blame game
Perhaps it is not surprising that France has been one of the most vocal countries calling for the reform of the world financial system in order to get tougher with the banks.
However, they now appear to be pushing at an open door, with both the US and the UK, the traditional advocates of the free market and light-touch regulation, now conceding the need for tighter regulation.
But while this may prevent the next crisis, it is not a solution for the current one.
Mr Brown may be right that all countries are determined to do what it takes to rescue their own economies.
But the more the idea of coordinated action appears to be a chimera, the less likely it will be that the G20 will produce the confidence-boosting effects on global markets that its organisers are hoping for.
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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!
That IRRESPECTIVE of labels - whether self-adhesed or conferred by third parties or sources - career politicos are corrupt.
The extent of their corruption may vary from careerist to careerist. But they all are corrupt. If this corruption is a product of ‘the system’ then of course the system is unfit for purpose.
The purpose being the universal rights of people.. If the corrupt careerism impedes the realisation of rights for - all and for all concerned - then the corrupt careerism must be got rid of. The process of getting rid of it may be long. But it has to go...
The preferable option should be constitutional, democratic, ethical and humane. As objectively defined and universally understood.. Can this be done?
This is one central question.. This question is reinforced by the evidence of the day today Wednesday 25 March 2009. Evidence as relayed from and linked to the uses and abuses of power by all involved.… On this day the USA-UK axis of media and propaganda as conducted by the vested interests who exclude the voices of the ordinary people repeatedly foisted the images of the head s of regimes without scrutinising their conduct. Just as the MPs in the UK House of Commons failed to scrutinise Crossrail...
[To be continued]
FROM BBC online
Papering over the cracks at G20
Analysis
By Steve Schifferes
Economics reporter, BBC News
Mr Topolanek says Europe should resist US-style spending
A week before the G20 summit is set to begin, a major row has flared up between the US and Europe over how to revive the world economy.
US President Barack Obama has called for all countries to bear the burden of stimulating the world economy.
He said it would be unfair to expect those countries taking extraordinary measures to lift up those that were not.
Meanwhile, the Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, the current holder of the EU presidency, has condemned US economic recovery plans as "a way to hell".
Mr Topolanek, whose government collapsed last night in a Czech parliament vote of no-confidence, said the United States was not taking "the right path".
He attacked the growing US budget deficit and the "Buy America" campaign, saying "all of these steps, these combinations and permanency is the way to hell".
Mr Obama wants Europe to play its part
Meanwhile, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is hosting the G20 summit, has been trying to patch up the row, arguing that all countries are agreed that they will take "whatever measures are necessary" to boost their economies.
But he has been put on the spot by the governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, who has warned that the UK has little room for further fiscal stimulus on its own.
Behind the row
The intellectual case for a big worldwide fiscal stimulus has been put by the normally conservative International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has suggested that countries should spend at least 2% of GDP to boost their economies.
Mr Brown is trying to play honest broker
The idea is that if all work together, there will be spillover effects, so that countries will also gain by being able to sell more exports abroad as well as boosting their economies at home.
This is particularly important for large exporting countries, such as Japan and Germany, which have seen a particularly sharp drop in their economic output.
The IMF says that the overall fiscal stimulus plans could boost world growth in 2009 by between 1% and 3%, with about 1% coming from spillover effects.
G20 LONDON SUMMIT
World leaders will meet next month in London to discuss measures to tackle the downturn. See our in-depth guide to the G20 summit.
The G20 countries are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the US and the EU.
Q&A: G20 Summit
Lessons of failure: 1933 Summit
Your views on the summit
But it is worried that most countries - other than the US and China - are cutting back stimulus packages in 2010, and says that the boost to growth will be much less - perhaps zero - by then.
This may reflect a difference of judgement between the US and Europe as to how long the recession will last.
But so far the economic climate has been rapidly worsening, and signs point to the recession being deeper and longer than previously expected.
Fundamental differences
So the differences in approach to the stimulus reflect long-standing tensions between the US and Europe over public spending and deficits.
While European countries generally spend more than the US on public goods and services, they have been struggling for the last decade to reduce the burden of their government debt , which was a key aspiration particularly in the eurozone.
So they are reluctant to give up those hard-won gains to rescue the US economy, which they argue was the country that caused the crisis in the first place.
And some European countries, especially Germany, are historically very sensitive to the longer-run inflationary implications of higher budget deficits.
While the US is prepared to run a budget deficit of 8.9% of gross domestic product, or GDP, and the UK is likely to reach 11% by 2010, Germany is planning a deficit of just 5% and France 6%.
According to IMF figures, France has among the smallest stimulus plans of any G20 countries, at just 0.7% of GDP.
The blame game
Perhaps it is not surprising that France has been one of the most vocal countries calling for the reform of the world financial system in order to get tougher with the banks.
However, they now appear to be pushing at an open door, with both the US and the UK, the traditional advocates of the free market and light-touch regulation, now conceding the need for tighter regulation.
But while this may prevent the next crisis, it is not a solution for the current one.
Mr Brown may be right that all countries are determined to do what it takes to rescue their own economies.
But the more the idea of coordinated action appears to be a chimera, the less likely it will be that the G20 will produce the confidence-boosting effects on global markets that its organisers are hoping for.
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THE ROAD TO THE G20
LATEST NEWS
US 'wants more financial rules'
Czech PM attacks US spending
Brown denies split over economy
Obama pledges recovery
Public 'wants G20 stimulus deal'
IMF announces lending reforms
Europe 'must lead downturn fight'
SECURITY AND PROTESTS
Recession rallies G20 protesters
G20 protesters: What they want
Unions press G20 on new tack
Police warn of G20 protest scale
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
The lessons of failure: the last London economic summit
Papering over the cracks
G20: The key issues
Financial tsunami
What do Sherpas do?
Q&A: The G20
AROUND THE WORLD
Snapshot of G20 countries
China presses G20 reform plans
Eastern Europe faces downturn
Japan copes with recession
VIDEO REPORTS
Ukraine on the brink of collapse
Russia considers Lada rescue
How Latvia's boom turned to bust
Japan homeless living in internet cafes
Steel factory invests in lettuce
HAVE YOUR SAY
G20: Your views reported
THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
G20: Full in-depth report
UK recession in depth
Global recession in depth
TOP BUSINESS STORIES
UK government bond auction fails
AIG employee quits at 'betrayal'
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