Yes, it is official.
The situation at Westminister is so embarassing for this country, that even the Americans after the fiasco regarding hanging chads can afford to have a dig at us...
In the 1970s, Britain was seen by the world as 'The Sick Man Of Europe'. Times seem not to have changed much in the last 30 years....
Morning, and many happy returns for this season.
It seems that the Iranian President has decided to do his own Christmas Message. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reportedly invited by Channel 4 to give his own alternative Christmas Message, which I find rather odd, for all the obvious reasons!
He will be shown telling those who watch 'the general will of nations' is for a return to 'human values'.
Unless it is regarding Israel....Naturally.
Of course, some four hours beforehand, Queenie Lizzie would have given her pre-recorded message to her Commonwealth (see what I did there? - I know clever that!).
Talking about those who will be sombre this year, her comments come just hours after the body of a well-known financier was found in his New York office. A victim of the Bernard Madoff fraud scandal which has rocked the financial world - Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet was found at his desk with both wrists slashed.
Nice Christmas Present for the family, that.
At least there will be more Turkey for them...
Sadly, I do not think that will be the last similar case we will have before this Credit Crunch is done with...
Evening,
It does seem that Christmas is certainly going to be a muted affair in homes across the country and indeed beyond. I have come to the simple conclusion that as my mother is working both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, that those two days are going to be nothing more than glorified holidays.
I have long before now, come to the brutal conclusion that Christmas and to a lesser extent Easter have become like Football, a corporate beanfest, for when the rich cunts in the city, who have fucked over those who have lost everything, still get everything that they and their equally stuck-up brats want for Christmas.
And yet, this government, instead of giving billions back in Tax relief schemes to those families in desperate need, they give our hard-earned money to those incompetent cunts controlling our banks.
Chairman Brown has an awful lot to answer for this Christmas, in fact it seems that the 'Brown Bubble' has indeed burst, with the Tories going back into what seems like a comfortable 7% poll lead according to ComRes.
We had that chance.
And I fear we have blown it.
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 :(
