The Camel’s Back Is Broken…

Evening,

I think the commons vote this afternoon regarding Ghurkas’ rights in which the government lost to a coalition of both Conservative and Liberal Democrats shows the utter disarray that this government is in.  Even though the government tried to avoid defeat by offering some concessions that was nowhere near what was being demanded by Ghurka supporter groups – they were defeated after some 27 Labour MPs opposed the government in defeating their motion. 

Although the vote is symbolic and will not have any sway in changing government policy, it has to be said that the Home Office are going to find it nigh on impossible to resist demands for a radical rethink.  It is reported that ministers are to release some form of statement later this evening – it will be interesting to see what is said in this statement, whatever form it may take.

Of more concern to Chairman Brown will be the sight of both opposition leaders showing their solidarity to Gurkhas and their supporters outside the Houses Of Parliament in a rare joint press conference – is this the moment when the camel’s back finally broke?  The sight of both Clegg and Cameron kow-powing with Joanna Lumley must be causing the Nokias and Blackberries ever-continuing alarm and worry!!!

Meanwhile we have had Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker coming out with his views on the labour government…

“I think Gordon Brown’s behaviour just makes a mockery of the whole system… A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative. You can sense an era passing.”

You know that a Labour government is in the serious shit when someone as vocal a supporter of New Labour as Cocker was in the beginning is saying things like this.

This follows the comments attributed to Sir Michael Caine at the end of last week…

"We've got three and a half million layabouts laying about on benefits and I'm 76 getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go to work to keep them.

"Let's get everybody back to work so we can save a couple of billion and cut tax, not to keep sticking it on."

Ooh that’s harsh, still he continues…

"A political party that's in too long is like a piece of meat – if it's there too long it will go rotten and they've gone rotten and they've got to go,"

He leaves his harshest criticism for Chairman Brown…

"The point about him is he's never been elected by anybody. I'm supposed to be in a country where I get the chance to elect someone and I've been around here at the most dangerous of times led by a man who's never been elected by anybody."

Ooh, that is harsh.  Still feel like you’re living in the Mother of Democracies?

Be seeing you,

Rob :(

 

An Apology

Sorry for not posting during my weekend away.

It was such a good weekend that I could not find any time to fully post accordingly. Saying that it seems that there has been a lot of news around - and I'll be given my thoughts on them later this evening.

Speak then,

Rob

And So It Begins...

Evening,

I am currently residing in the bar here at the Best Western here in Stoke, on my first Bulmers and am wondering just how much booze I can consume this weekend without being a shocking wreck....

Rob :)

And Now For Something Different!

Evening,

This time tomorrow I will more than likely be on my 5th or 6th drink put clubbing with some mates from work as I am off to Alton Towers for the second year in a row. Last year was so good, that I couldn't help myself for seconds!

As long as I don't get utterly smashed like last year then it should be a very good weekend!

Oh We Are Fucked....

Evening,

The Budget has been and gone...

We are in it to our neck and there is fuck all we can do about it.

Night, Night!!

A Shitty Night...

 

I think last night we saw why the Redmen will probably not win the title this year.  Scoring four goals against Arsenal is one thing.  Conceding four goals against Arsenal is on another plain...

We need a miracle...

Nothing To See Here...

 

Good evening,

The much anticipated announcement from Mr Fawkes was, interesting with evidence showing explicitly that certain Labour stooges knew far far more than they were letting on.

There is also evidence that a certain journalist was complicit in these dealings...

This on the same day, when Labour tried to silence their critics...

What a sorry mess we are.

Who Will Fall Next?

Today, the blogosphere has been awashed with rumour and counter-rumour regarding who Guido has got in his cross-hairs tonight. His last post, posted at lunch-time today gives some sort of clue in who he is gunning for, and although he is not as high profile as Damian McBride was, the thought of Kevin Maguire, the Political Editor of the Mirror sleeping uneasily will no doubt be raising a few grins down at CCHQ tonight.

There can be no doubt at all that this has been a terrible week for the Labour Party and for the Labour movement in general, with allegations that Union funds are being used to fund the smear operation, as well as the assertion that Chairman Brown's closest political ally, Ed Balls is or was conducting similar operations.

Is it not within the realms of probability that the likelihood of Balls and McBride having contact regarding these operations is almost certainly the case. Take that to its obvious conclusions and it becomes clear that either Brown knew of this or he had lost complete control of Downing Street. Both explanations - in the current climate seem plausible.

I do have to say this though, Guido has been on one heck of a picnic. That could and should be seen as a very worrying thought for those trembling tonight...

I will have to try and post on the latest, if there is anything to comment on before I head off in the morning.

Rob

We Have Reached A Nadir

 

Evening,

I begun this post last night, in light of the new revelations that have been released to certain media sources, concerning what I alluded to below.  It has to be said that possibly not since the Profumo Affair that we have seen British politics scratching the wood off the bottom of the proverbial barrel.  Then we were talking about cabinet ministers actually lying to Parliament when they were questioned about the affair - of course, there was Cash for Questions, which again was ministers trying to manipulate people whilst using their power.

However, this is somewhat different and deeply alarming. 

On the one hand we have got a Prime Minister who it seems, if he is supposed to be believed, does not know what on earth is going on, over the other side of his office, where his 'senior advisor' is setting up websites, with lying psychotherapists and someone who had already been sacked from the Labour Party!  It will be interesting to see who else was in the loop - possibly Ed Bollocks, if the Times are to be believed...  As much as Lord Voldemort would like to wish, this is not going to die a death quickly...in fact Guido seems to be toying his readers with some further revelations for later this evening....

...and on the other, we have evidence that shows that when police were checking the private e-mails of the former Shadow Immigration Minister, they were looking for any collusion with the current General Secretary of Liberty - almost trying to kill two birds with one stone.  Possibly trying to get at someone else completely left-field?  Possibly the member for Haltemprice and Howden?

Is it really a wonder that the former Labour MP for Halifax Alice Mahon, has decided that enough is enough and has resigned from the party that she has served for 50 years.  She has seen the party changed irrevocably for the worse, as has all members of her vintage.  For every Alice Mahon, there will be hundreds of Labour activists who will simply drift away from the cause as well as thousands of Labour voters who will just stay at home come Election day.

I read an interesting and yet at the same time, the same old Labour spin, this afternoon from Nick Palmer, who did a guest column on PoliticalBetting, and his question was why was it that still some 30% of voters will still vote Labour - and you know what although he tried to put a case up, right now, people do not give a damn about Chairman Brown's five aims, because believe it or not, it does not put money in people's pockets. 

Let's take one of these five reasons, that Mr Palmer gave for us to keep supporting Labour.

Reducing both absolute and relative Child Poverty.

People are only interested in what affects them, and unfortunately for Labour, they did themselves great harm with the abolition of the 10p tax rate, which is the tax rate that the vast majority of those single mothers and those who live in the lowest 10% of the population.  Chairman Brown stipulated at the time, that he was going to be helping that same 10% of the population out of poverty? 

How?

By abolishing the 10% tax rate and introducing a one rate fits all for anyone under £18,000 per annum, he was pretty much guaranteeing that the lowest 10% of the population in fact was WORSE OFF than before.  It was only the intervention of several dozen Labour MPs with a social conscience that prevented an carbon copy repeat of the Poll Tax demonstrations.  No fucking kidding, that is how nasty the situation was back then.

With the country sliding into recession, thanks to Chairman Brown's lack of understanding that banks and building societies need more than someone keeping their eye outside their barn, it is nigh on inevitable that many hundreds of thousands of children will fall back into poverty before the year is out. 

And the saddest thing of all is that we are probably going to have to wait at the very least another decade before we have the opportunity to make that all right.  Still happy smearing your enemies, instead of doing what those of us on the Left wanted you to do, Gordon?

Fucking great thought that, isn't it.

Just When It Could Not Get Any Worse...

It does.

And if the rumours are correct, Chairman Brown is going to have an awful lot of explaining to do...

And Mr Maguire doesn't get out of it clear of the Brown Stuff. No wonder he was peddling such a pathetic line on his blog last week.

On the same day as one of the Left's great characters and leaders leaves the Party that she has served for 50 years, we have to survey what is left of the Labour Party and whether it can ever come back to its roots.

And yet another victim of Brown's Stormtroopers comes forward with a complaint. These are stacking up now. Murder and assault of a harmless woman, whatever next?

EDIT: Oh I forget, there is that scandal involving the breaking of a ballot box in the selection process for the Erith & Thamesmead Labour Candidacy. And here's a Labour government stooping to Mugabesque tactics to get the right man (or in this case, woman and not just any old woman) into the seat...

Any chance of some U.N election inspectors, please?

Night, Night.

20 Years On...

Yet Still No Justice.

Justice For The 96.

Always In Our Thoughts.

Always In Our Thoughts

Tonight the world saw probably two of the finest teams on the planet collide on the football field and produced 90 minutes of exhilarating football, the sort of which we have not seen in many a long year.

Although Liverpool were eventually knocked out on aggregate by Chelsea, the performance by Rafa's Redmen was a fitting tribute to our 96 brothers and sisters who lost their lives, 20 years tomorrow at Hillsborough.

All of you are in our hearts and minds at this time, as are their families and friends, as well as all those who were scarred that day. Physically and Emotionally.

Justice For The 96

So Brown Apologised...

Well sort of.

He says that he regrets that these e-mails were concocted by his henchmen and that a new code of conduct is being drawn up by Gus O'Donnell - the man who runs the Civil Service.

He must hope that is the end of the story.

Unlikely.

Night, Night!

The Backlash...

Evening all,

It seems that there are some in the media who are trying, somehow to justify the methods that were used by Messrs McBride and Draper.

Kevin McGuire at the Mirror is one, note the staggering amount of negative views coming from the readership there. You know things are bad when the readership at The Mirror are coming in from all angles to slag the Political Editor off.

Below is the comments that I have added to the 200 or so comments that have been added onto the blog since yesterday. Can't help but think that Number 10 has been erringly quiet these past 24 hours...

Kevin,

Don't think you should have made those comments towards the end of your post. Those of us on the left of the political spectrum are getting ever so fed up with the constant brown-nosing of Brown that the likes of yourself and others who should know better.

Isn't the real reason why you've come out fighting is that there are other e-mails which could be released into the Public Domain at any time which names Journalists (lap-dogs) who were privy to these smears themselves...

I wonder who those could have been...

Remember, this is not a socialist government, Kevin. With it's continuing reliance on big business and arms dealers, it doesn't represent the hopes and aspirations of the working class, and hasn't since Clause 4, hence why fascist parties are gaining ground in areas which have always been solid Labour territory.

Do tell Gordon that, when you next see him...

For the first time in a long time, there does seem to be some journalists who would naturally toe the government line, who have gone out all guns blazing. Jacqui Ashley at the Guardian is one such example.

Chairman Brown has confirmed that there was no Government Ministers who were aware of the e-mails smears. I do hope for his sake that he is correct but having read certain websites, I fear that he will be disappointed...

This is a dreadful day for Number 10...

EDIT: Chairman Brown has reportedly sent 'letters of regret' to those smeared by McBride, according to the BBC.

Over to you Guido....

The Lies And Smears Of New Labour

Evening,

We have seen in the past 72 hours, the way that Labour works with the media - whether that is trying to help it's friends in the police cover up murders, or to smear political opponents such as what we have seen tonight, which has resulted in the resignation of one senior advisor - and it will probably not end there.

Both Guido and Political Betting have gone into utter meltdown following the revelations which broke on both sites late last night and as of now, are suffering outages due to the sheer volume of interest that the smear allegations have caused in the political world.  Admittedly they are both opposition blogs - the author of PB is actually a Liberal Democrat sympathiser - contrary to speculation.

However, as we have also seen in the past week in regards of the death/murder of Ian Tomlinson the police and the government have done their darnest to make sure that any protest is curtailed - make no mistake this is the next move in the government's aim of repressing all voices of dissent against this fascist government.

As I have said before - Enough Is Enough.

Last Night's Result...

Was a blip. In the wider context of the world, it is not the most earth shattering thing to have happened in the past few weeks.

I've got two major issues that I am wanting to deal with today. Firstly, I think we need to deal with the resignation of the Counter-Terrorism commisioner of the Met for revealing certain documents by mistake.

Secondly, in light of the above and the video evidence showing that Ian Tomlinson was attacked without reason by Brown's Brownshirts at the G20 protests, surely questions need to be asked about the position of the Home Secretary.

Seriously.

EDIT: Craig Murray has some interesting thoughts, he should know. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan until he said what he felt about the regime there...

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The Pigs Murdered Ian Tomlinson - The Proof

The Guardian have released unequivical evidence that shows that Ian Tomlinson, the gentleman who tragically died at the Greed20 protests last week, was attacked from behind by Brown's Brownshirts.

Non co-operation from everyone must become the norm, until the bastards get the message.

Enough is enough.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/07/video-g20-police-assault

Now That Is Done With...

Afternoon,

I am on my way back from Canterbury after doing a morning's shopping in the City Centre, fresh in the knowledge that not one drop of alcohol passed through my lips yesterday. Very good!

I have also been able to purchase my first pair of designer jeans for what seems like an age - and it's probably is! Saw these vintage Ben Sherman jeans reduced to half-price by accident, and they fit so much better than I thought they would. Result!

Also got yet another Superdry top to to with the jeans, almost got another but thought better of it! Hopefully, my Wax jacket ordered from Ark should be waiting for me when I get in. Heading to the gym about 4ish and that should be me done for another day!

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Another Year Pasts...

Evening,

As I head up towards my 27th year on this planet, I have taken the rare decision not to celebrate.

It's not like I have much to celebrate this year....

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Police Brutality...

In all its gory...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/04//426087.mp4

Draw your own conclusions, I already have done.

Edit: Have found an video via Al Jazzera which makes the Police look very bad indeed.

RIP: The Unknown Protester

 

Morning,

Following the confirmation of the death of a protester at the hands of the Stasi at the Bank of England last night, there has to be serious questions over whether or not it was such a good idea to have medics who were trying to save the poor bloke, drawing batons at protesters at the same time.  You would have thought that they would be unarmed, so they could differentiate between the medics and the police.

But this is the police, famous for all sorts of cover ups...

The Stasi Vs The Police

Evening,

Thought I would let you know that contrary to what I said previously I never did go up to the G20 meltdown event in the City, and from what I gather a good job too, as I have no doubt that I would be still up there being frisked by Chairman Brown's private militia (I mean Police)

What we have seen today is that if you want to show contempt for some Wanker Bankers, then you have to give up your liberty as a private citizen.

Utterly disgraceful.

Mother of Democracies?

Crock of bullshit, that.

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