Khoodeelaar! Told you so.....

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2115 Hrs GMT London Thursday 26 February 2009:

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!

By © Muhammad Haque : That the AGENDA which created the London Crossrail scam was a corrupt, looters’ agenda. One that was contrived to rob the public and to enrich the very small number of individuals at the expense of the public. Everything about the CURRENT activities of the Brown-fronted Blaired regime in the UK shows this to be the case.

On a day [Thursday 26 February 2009] when even more evidence emerged of just how incompetent the Brown-fronted Blaired regime has been in democratically and accountably handling the looters masquerading as ‘big Business outfits’ , it was noticeable that the Lib Dems’ Vince Cable was maintaining the policy of political cowardice on behalf of his ‘mainstream’ ‘party’.


That word ‘mainstream’ does contain more evidence of collusion than may at first suggest. It is about the status quo. It is about keeping the status quo floating even when the ship is sinking..


As the Lib Dems did when they BACKED the Blairing collusion with the GW Bush-fronted invasion and attacks on Iraq…


As observers of the Khoodeelaar! analyses of UK parliament will know by now [after 5 years fo KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of the UK constitution and the examination of the undemocratic and un-robust UK Houses of Parliament]] , we have often asked Cable to go the necessary logical distance and call the Brown-fronted Blaired regime’s bluff.


But Cable does not do that. Today, Cable used the word disgraceful as part of his jobbing denunciation of Alistair Darling’s record in the context of so much information showing the robbery of the UK public via the RBS. But Cable stopped there. As did George Osborne, the so-called ‘main’ Opposition counterpart to the existing finance minister ['Chancellor of the Exchequer”].


Between the two of them,. Cable and Osborne allowed the Darling disaster to continue. So ineffectual was Osborne that no sooner had her sat down after making his routine ‘opposition’ comments during A Darling’s appearance in the House of Commons this afternoon than Darling was able to claim that Osborne had been backing the very scam that he was now affecting to condemn…Cable should have gone the distance that Osborne will never do. Call a debate on the entirety of the Brown-fronted regime’s ‘handling of the economy’ and related conduct. Make the now runaway bailout £Billions the key, the corer topic around which the debate should be held…Instead of doing that, both the ‘mainstream’ parties on the Opposition have allowed John McFall to continue to fail.. There is no denying the fact that McFall is an extension of Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown. And his role has not been that which the current issue of ‘Private Eye’ magazine says it to have been. It has been worse. Many times over. McFail is neither intellectually nor ethically nor politically nor organisationally [that is, the composition and remit etc of his select committee - which is a convenient charade and serves the status quo] able to do the job. That Select Committee itself has been a stooge one. Contrary to the apparent ‘robust’ posturing, the Treasury Select Committee has failed… Just as every single select committee is designed to fail… As we have seen on CrossRail. Both “CrossRail Bill” Select committees [in the House of Commons and in the House of Lords] were stooged..................


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Ministers admit: 'We pay our husbands and wives'
Nick Cecil, Chief Political Correspondent
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Nearly 30 members of the Government employ their family at the taxpayer's expense, the Evening Standard reveals today.

They include four Cabinet members who are using public funds to pay for their spouses, partners or children to be on their staff.

Among the claimants are Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, housing minister Margaret Beckett, Europe minister Caroline Flint, children's minister Beverley Hughes and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn, who all attend Cabinet.

Armed forces minister Bob Ainsworth, transport minister Paul Clark, defence minister Quentin Davies, environment minister Jane Kennedy, education minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry, foreign office minister Bill Rammell, Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson, work and pensions minister Jonathan Shaw, overseas aid minister Michael Foster and communities minister Iain Wright also have their spouses or other relatives working for them.

Salaries for parliamentary office staff range from £13,500 to just over £40,000.

Deputy chief whip Tommy McAvoy is among eight members of the Government's whips office who employ family members, as do at least five parliamentary private secretaries.

There is no suggestion that any of the MPs have broken any parliamentary rules on employing family members, many of whom work long hours during the week and at weekends.

However, the practice was cast into the spotlight by the Derek Conway scandal after it emerged that he was employing both his sons and his wife.

Mr Conway was suspended from the Commons and ordered to repay £13,000 following an inquiry into his "employment" of his son Freddie as a researcher while he was studying at Newcastle University. He is still employing his wife Colette as office manager.

The fact that so many members of the Government are employing family members has raised fresh questions over the use of public money.

Mark Wallace, of the Taxpayers' Alliance, told the Evening Standard today: "This is yet another sign that the way Westminster works is outdated and out of touch with the working practices in the rest of the country.

"We are constantly told that politicians deserve large salaries because they are like executives of large firms. In reality, no private sector executive could turn up and employ spouses or children to work in their office."

MPs, including former Conservative leader Michael Howard, Sir George Young, chairman of the Commons standards and privileges committee, shadow home secretary Chris Grayling, and senior Lib-Dem David Heath, also declare in the Commons Register of Members' Interests that relatives are on their staff.

Alan Keen, Labour MP for Feltham and Heston, employs his son David as constituency manager and senior caseworker.

Mr Keen and his wife Ann, a health minister, have faced controversy over the use of public funds to pay for a second home close to Westminster when they have a constituency home nine miles away.

Office managers and executive secretaries are paid between £21,320 and £40,052, senior research/parliamentary assistants £27,780 to £40,052, senior secretaries £17,443 to £30,363, junior secretaries £14,212 to £25,195, senior caseworkers £17,443 to £29,716, caseworkers £13,566 to £25,195 and research/parliamentary assistants between £14,212 and £34,240.

The Government is expected to publish the list of ministerial interests today which may give greater insight into their links to business and any potential conflicts of interests they or their families may have.

They could include the financial dealings of ministers' wives and children.

Ministers will have to declare for the first time "relevant interests of spouse, partner or close family members".

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has sparked controversy by refusing to reveal his ministerial interests before the official list is published. His department rejected freedom of information requests to disclose information in advance.

The new list is expected to reveal more information about the peer's transitional funding package after he stepped down as European Trade Commissioner to join the Government.

The documents could also shed some light on the financial affairs of supermarket heiress Camilla Sainsbury as her husband Shaun Woodward is Ulster Secretary.

However, David Cameron could also come under pressure to publish a similar list for the Tory frontbench.

Labour has repeatedly sought to exploit the fact that several shadow Cabinet members have a string of directorships which could raise questions of conflicts of interests if they become ministers.

The list of ministerial interests was due to have been published last autumn but was put back following the Cabinet reshuffle.

MPs have been hit with repeated controversies about their use of public funds, particularly the second home allowance.

Home Secretary Ms Smith caused a storm after it emerged that she had declared a London home that she shares with her sister as her main residence which enabled her to claim the second home allowance on her constituency home.

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