Beyond Contempt

For all the failings that he had, and let us be fair he had some pretty bad ones, Tony Blair had a way of capturing the mood of a country and as such, he was able to eloquently speak on such subjects delicately. The most discussed issue this morning in offices and workplaces across the country is not the unemployment figures; it is how could the savage beating to death of a seventeen-month old baby happen in the same borough as the equally sadistic death of Victoria Climbié.

This afternoon at Prime Minister's questions, Chairman Brown showed how retarded he truly is. He is inept in sensing the popular mood. Asked a straightforward question about the death of Baby P he went into a pitifully prepared response full of bureaucratic bullshit. His tone was truly off key and made shoddier when he made a cheap partisan accusation. Obviously, something is wrong in the Haringey Children's Services department in spite of the Victoria Climbié inquiry.

The thought of Haringey's own Children Director doing her own inquiry is unbelievable. There is only one thing she should be doing.

Resign and it can be argued that she should not be the only one to fall on her sword.

The list of people responsible for this murder could be argued to go to the very top. It is a Labour Authority after all, and Nu Labour has had a reputation of awarding people of failing authorities with comfortable jobs. One such person is Margaret Hodge, who was leader of Islington Council. Whilst at the helm, in 1985, Demetrious Panton complained about abuse that he had suffered while in the council's care in the 70s and 80s. He did not receive an official reply until 1989, in which the council denied responsibility.

In 2003, following Hodge's appointment as Minister for Children, Demetrious Panton went public with his allegation that he was abused in Islington Council care and had repeatedly raised this issue with no effect. He holds Margaret Hodge ultimately responsible for the abuse that he suffered. Following a media campaign conducted by several national newspapers calling for her to resign from her new post, she responded to Panton by letter, in which she referred to him as 'extremely disturbed'.

Panton then passed the letter to the press, which planned to publish it, only to be judicially restrained from doing so at the instruction of Hodge. The letter was eventually published, mainly because the blocking of the letter was seen as disproportionate. Hodge was forced to publicly apologize and offered to contribute to a charity of the man's choosing as recompense.

As the MP for Haringey, Lynne Featherstone has said this evening 'what society allows a BBC presenter to resign for some hoax call, and yet someone in authority is not held to account for the brutal death of someone in their area,'

Exactly, my point in one. On a separate point, it has to be fair that the way that the local MP has dealt with this has been exemplary in these shocking circumstances.

As for the perpetrators, I have thought long and hard on this one, as I have done after Soham and Sarah Payne and the many other shocking and disgusting acts of criminality by this country's lowlife. The hangman's noose is the first thing which comes to mind, when it comes to these sort of cases, however as an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, I am very wary of going down that dark route for a number of reasons.

Something is for sure, something must happen.

Rob :(

Lunacy of the Madhouse

Afternoon,

I see the government has decided to use the Obama-Mania sweeping the world to bury some bad news – though somewhat unsuccessfully. You would have thought that following the Government's somewhat stunning victory at the Glenrothes by-election on Thursday, they would have tried to consolidate by trying to keep their nose clear from any controversial proposals.

Don't be silly, this is Nu Labour we're talking about now!

The Home Secretary, Commissar Jacqui Smith has said that 'people tell me that they can't wait to get their ID cards,'

One part of that is true...

If you don't arrange or make an appointment to get your fingerprints and biometrics done, you'll get find a cool £150. Persist and it goes up to a whopping £1000.

That same day, the home secretary was invited to the Social Market Foundation to do a speech, where the glass that she was drinking from was 'taken' by a sympathizer of NO2ID campaign.

The offending glass has according to NO2ID, been going through a methodological process at an undisclosed location (love when people say that!).

From what NO2ID says, this will not just get the home secretary's fingerprints, but it will allow them to create a plastic foil stamp that will allow anyone, yes ANYONE to leave her fingerprints behind say at a crime scene, for example. Last March, German hackers cloned the German Interior Minister's fingerprints using these precise methods.

This is yet another example of this government not listening to the people and listening to the doom-mongers such as those at Wapping. We all know that Blair's policy initiatives originated from the Scum's columns, with its dumb readership. That is not an initiative, that is just pandering to the retarded and insane. Of course, when you have the likes of Kelvin Mackenzie and Jon Gaunt amongst your columnists, they are seen as the height of cerebral thinking in that shit-covered place.

But, Chairman Brown, for all of his flaws, and he does have several – he is Old, Traditional Labour. Yet, here he is, continuing to listen to the same cunts who Blair listen to. Surely, that is where Blair had his problems, continuing to listen to the likes Alastair Campbell and fucking Mandy the Gigolo. Why don't you go the fucking whole hog and bring back fucking Neil and Glenys Kinnock!

The problem with Gordon is that he does not trust his own instincts; he has to go back to Peter and Alastair, almost for their permission to announce some policy. We didn't elect Chairman Brown, but fuck me we certainly didn't elect these fucking two vultures, almost circling around a dead carcass, even after that unexpected by-election victory.

Winning that by-election might make Gordon go for a snap election for January or February next year. That would be a terrible mistake. The victory in Glenrothes can be seen as a defeat against the SNP government in Scotland, and not as a vote of support for Brown's economic policy. Labour did have their majority reduced by HALF; they did not gain anything at all. It is all very well; the victory going with the Media Narrative, that Gordon is the saviour of the world and we should all be grateful for that 'fact'.

Let see what happens when Labour have to defend one of their seats in England. I fear it could be an entirely different story, sadly.

Rob :)

Place Your Bets...

Just seen something on Guido, apparently Betfair are offering odds of 9/1 on Chairman Brown leaving office before the end of the year.

Reasonable odds that, considering that he could be gone before then if Nu Labour's fortunes don't change any time soon.

With the unions threatening a summer of discontent as well as Labour on the brink of bankruptcy. There is the thought that the unions could hold the cards of Labour's short term future.  The thoughts of many indicate that the unions want Alan Johnson to take over - a former union official.  Whereas Blairites and Labour's millionaire backers want David Milliband.

If Chairman Brown goes then, whoever comes in would have to get a mandate from the country. It was common knowledge when Bliar went to the electorate in 2005 that Chairman Brown was waiting in the wings to take over office.

There was nothing there for people to presume that within a year of being elected that Chairman Brown would be such a liability that his commissars would be lining up to give the Coup D'Grace to their leader.

What goes around, comes around.

Rob :)

Strike One...

The aforementioned Summer Of Discontent seems to be upon us after Unison Council Workers voted to go on strike to get a better wage.  

They have been offered a below inflation rise of 2.45%, but they are demanding 6%.

In recent weeks, Shell tanker drivers have been given a pay rise amounting to 14% after negotiation, following a four-day stoppage which bought parts of the country to a near standstill. We have seen the unfair bonanza of shareholders and city bosses getting ridiculous bonuses and dividends, yet the first sign of the workers rising up and demanding a better living wage and these same bosses are falling over themselves to criticise them.

The Chancellor has asked that everyone from 'the boardroom to the shopfloor' to take payrises consistent with the government's 2% inflation target.  Fat Chance!

Asking the low-paid and average earners in the public or private sector to make sacrifices when the people who have caused the economic difficulties in the first place and yet continue to draw record bonuses breaches any test of fairness.

I'm on just under £15k, the average wage is £22,000pa. Only 2% of the working population is on anything over £200,000pa. Yet it is this small group of people who are making the economic decisions which are causing hardship for the majority through their speculating and sheer risk-taking on stocks and shares and yet they are the people who are gaining at everyone else's expense - literally.

I back the strikers.  There is no excuse for the lowest-paid in this country to go without a decent payrise because of the selfishness of a few yuppie cunts who are the children of Thatcher.  And surely that is a good reason, never to vote for the dirty Tories.

We need to adopt the socialist model, where those who can pay tax can, and those who cannot, won't.  The argument for those on the minimum wage, not to pay tax should be taken to the people.  Anyone who went to the country on these principles, would have a good chance of getting into power, because the party of the workers, the vulnerable and the persecuted is not working with our interests at the forefront of their policies.

Rob :)