A Team of BNP activists attended the anti-racism/BNP March that Mr McFadden was leading, it was a dismal showing only 130 people despite it being advertised in the papers including the free ones delivered to homes. As our people mixed they found out that many of the people in attendance were bused in from places like Manchester and Leeds.
To us that says that the people of Merseyside Reject McFaddens lies and hatred of the British people and way of life. Even those that weren't bused in were students from local universities but they aren't even from Merseyside originally.
Our team also filmed the speakers at their event, funnily enough as the camera pans around the audience nobody is paying attention to the speakers as the audience talk between themselves and slowly slope off into the distance.
The best bit that we caught on Camera was McFadden telling a whopping big lie, which we will be looking into and possibly reporting to the police. Mr McFadden said at the end of the rally that the BNP had been leafleting his area spreading lies saying that we have called him a "Nigger Lover" When we have said no such thing and would never dream of saying such a vile filthy thing.
McFadden is already subject to a police investigation, funnily enough he and his cronies have accused the BNP of trying to intimidate HIM! When he is the one under police investigation for saying live on air that he has on his computer and will be using the leaked BNP members list. That is 'political intimidation' if ever there was any, but of-course we are just the baby eating BNP so its okay to intimidate our members.
--- THE LEAFLET!---
We have had this leaflet passed onto us, it is that what was put around the area of McFadden.
We do not tolerate lies from anti-British cretins and therefore we have posted the leaflet here in full for you to all see for yourself that McFadden is a fibber!
Daily Post Article:
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2009/02/02/bnp-stands-accused-over-leaflet-drops-64375-22833444/
The peoples of Europe have finally discovered what they signed up to. I do mean "peoples" (plural) because however much political elites may deceive themselves, the populations of the member states of the EU are culturally, historically and economically separate and distinct. And a significant proportion of them are getting very, very angry.
ReplyDeleteWhat the strikers at the Lindsey oil refinery (and their brother supporters in Nottinghamshire and Kent) have discovered is the real meaning of the fine print in those treaties, and the significance of those European court judgments whose interpretation they left to EU obsessives: it is now illegal – illegal – for the government of an EU country to put the needs and concerns of its own population first. It would, for example, be against European law to do what Frank Field has sensibly suggested and reintroduce a system of "work permits" for EU nationals who wished to apply for jobs here.
Meanwhile, demonstrators in Paris and the recalcitrant electorate in Germany are waking up to the consequences of what two generations of European ideologues have thrust upon them: the burden not just of their own economic problems but also the obligation to accept the consequences of their neighbours' debts and failures. Each country is true to its own history in the way it expresses its rage: in France, they take to the streets and throw things at the police, in Germany they threaten the stability of the coalition government, and here, we revive the tradition of wildcat strikes.
But the response from the EU political class is the same to all of these varied manifestations of resistance. Those who protest are being smeared with accusations of foolhardy protectionism or racist nationalism when they are not (not yet, anyway) guilty of either. It is not purblind nationalism, let alone racism, to resent the importation of cheap labour en masse when its conditions of employment (transport and accommodation provided, as seems to be the case at Lindsey) allow it to compete unfairly with indigenous workers. The drafting in of low-wage work gangs has always been seen as unjust: exploitative of the foreign workers, and destructive of the social cohesion of existing communities which, incidentally, is something about which the Tories say they are much exercised. So can the protesters expect their support?
The US had a rule during its great period of immigration in the early years of the last century, that no one could enter the country with a pre-arranged job. This was designed precisely to prevent the unfairness and disruptive effect of the wholesale import of cheap labour. An individual travelling to seek work, prepared to take his chances in fair competition with local workers is one thing: the organised recruitment of people from the poorest regions of the poorest countries in Europe in order to reduce employers' wage costs in the more prosperous ones, is something else altogether.
Nor is it "protectionism" to argue that competition for employment should take place within a context of social responsibility and respect for the fabric of communities. Genuine protectionism is setting up barriers to free trade: this is what Barack Obama is doing when he forbids the importation of foreign materials such as British steel, and urges his countrymen to restrict their purchases of goods not manufactured in the US ("Buy America!") I eagerly await the condemnation of his proposal for US economic isolationism from all those European leaders who were so anxious to see him elected.
Free trade in goods, as opposed to unlimited open borders for transient labour, is absolutely essential to the recovery of the global economy (and for that matter, to the relief of poverty in the developing world). I agree with those who fear that the US under President Obama may be about to do what it did under Franklin Roosevelt, whose protectionism and hard-nosed refusal to make concessions to international needs condemned the world to a depression (followed by a war). But what the British strikers are demanding is not the same at all, and if their complaints are caricatured or defamed, the price in social disorder could be hideous. It is not an exaggeration to say that this could be the moment of justifiable anger that neo-fascist agitators have been waiting to exploit.
The protesters are simply demanding what they thought – what all free people have been taught to think since the 18th-century enlightenment – was their birthright. That is to say, for the basic principle of modern democracy: the understanding between the state and its people that the proper function of a government is to represent the interests of those who elected it. And to be fair to both presidents, Obama and Roosevelt, this assumption is so deeply grounded in the American psyche that it is almost inconceivable for any US administration not to abide by it quite literally.
In the grand abstract terms of the enlightenment, the legitimacy of government derives from the consent of the governed, and therefore no government should have the right to hand over its authority to some external body which is not democratically accountable to its own people. So when the framers of the EU arranged for the nations of Europe to do exactly that, they were repudiating the two centuries old political struggle for the rights and liberties of ordinary citizens, of government "of the people, by the people and for the people". It has always been my view that this was a quite conscious decision by the EU founders who, in the wake of two world wars, came to believe that the infamous national crimes of the 20th century could be traced directly to the democratic revolutions of the 18th century, and that the only long-term solution to this was to replace democracy with oligarchy.
But there it is. And here we are, with a generation of European political leaders who almost all accept the terms in which their predecessors gave away the most important principle of that great democratic pact between a free people and its government. While times were good and there was enough prosperity to keep everybody distracted and happy, the loss went almost unnoticed except by a few persistent and despairing critics. Well, not any more. The American government may be committing itself to a policy that is economically unsound and even irresponsible, but its insistence on maintaining the compact with its own voters – on putting their concerns first – will at least ensure that democracy will survive there. I am not at all sure that will be true in Europe.
THEY KNEW ALL ALONG!!!
ReplyDeleteUnions learn the cost of Union membership
Strangely absent from coverage of trade union protests against the hiring of Italian workers at Total's Lincolnshire refinery has been any recognition that this is fully supported by EU law. This was twice confirmed by judgments of the European Court of Justice in 2007, one upholding the right of a Finnish ferry firm to hire cheaper Estonian crews, the other allowing Latvians to build a Swedish school. It is 20 years since Britain's trade unions switched to enthusiastic support of the EU, after a speech by Jacques Delors at the 1988 Labour conference, Now at last they might realise what they were signing up to.
Update:Job Protests put Fuel Supplies at Risk
ReplyDeleteWILDCAT strikes may threaten fuel and power supplies this week with an escalation of protests against foreign workers taking key contracts, despite Gordon Brown’s pledge to secure “British jobs for British workers”.
There are calls for a national boycott of filling stations run by Total, the French oil company, and plans to move the protest south by blockading the oil-fired Isle of Grain power station in north Kent which provides 3% of the energy needs of the National Grid.
As ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders yesterday to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were plotting their next moves.
A plan for a national march against foreign workers, to take place in London, is under way and organisers are already in touch with farmers and hauliers who staged the protests against fuel tax in 2000.
Tomorrow the dispute may spread to the nuclear industry with 900 contractors at Sellafield nuclear power station voting on a proposed strike.
The government appears to have been caught out by the speed with which the dispute is escalating. Already there appears to be division within its ranks.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, issued a stark warning against moves to protect British jobs from foreign workers. He insisted that companies must continue to be allowed to employ staff from overseas. In a blunt message to the protestors, he said: “Protectionism would be a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression.”
His tough stance was echoed by the prime minsier, who condemned plans for further wildcat strikes tomorrow. “That’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” Brown said.
At the same time Pat Mc-Fadden, the employment minister, was meeting union leaders to try to settle the dispute.
In their protest placards and banners, the strikers repeatedly highlighted Brown’s speech about “British jobs for British workers” which was delivered to the Labour party conference in September 2007. The prime minister may now be hoist by his own petard because Mandelson’s comments yesterday make it clear that the government has no power to legislate for British jobs.
Official statistics show that the number of foreign workers has risen by 175,000 since Brown’s speech, while the number of British in work has fallen by 46,000.
Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead, said: “These strikes are proving to be a double whammy for Gordon Brown. The claim of ‘British jobs for British workers’ looks a pretty empty promise. Worse still, it shows the European Union has us in a double arm lock. British workers are being specifically excluded from working on contracts by European contractors.”
Oil company bosses have taken to trawling the internet in an attempt to keep pace with striking workers who are coordinating action on websites such as ukwelder.com.
Yesterday the website discussed possible action at the Isle of Grain - considered vulnerable because “there is only one way in” - and the London Olympics venues.
Lawyers acting for Total have shown print-outs of previous posts to the website to a judge. The company alleges that workers have spent several weeks planning the main protest at its refinery at Killingholme where 400 job vacancies will eventually be filled by Italian and Portuguese workers.
In an application for an injunction preventing demonstrators from setting foot inside the refinery, solicitors Denton Wilde Sapte stated that the ukwelder.com site revealed plans for “disruptive” action at the Killingholme plant.
The application quoted adverse comment on the site’s chatroom, including “stop the men and the steel from going through the gates” and “let's send them stinking foreign leeches back to theyre urine soaked shantys [sic]”.
Total is said to be increasingly concerned at growing calls by unions for a boycott of all its filling stations across the UK.
Billy Bones, the local Unite trade union convenor at Killingholme, said yesterday: “The support we are getting from across the country is staggering.”
It’s legal.
The government says IREM, the contractor which triggered the dispute in Lincolnshire with plans to bring in up to 400 Italian and Portuguese workers, is acting within European Union laws.
The 1999 EU posted workers directive sets out the rules for employers who temporarily move workers to another member state.
There is no obligation to pay the “posted” staff the same market rates of the host country, but employers must comply with local minimum wage rates and statutory benefits.
Update:Job Protests put Fuel Supplies at Risk
ReplyDeleteWILDCAT strikes may threaten fuel and power supplies this week with an escalation of protests against foreign workers taking key contracts, despite Gordon Brown’s pledge to secure “British jobs for British workers”.
There are calls for a national boycott of filling stations run by Total, the French oil company, and plans to move the protest south by blockading the oil-fired Isle of Grain power station in north Kent which provides 3% of the energy needs of the National Grid.
As ministers held emergency meetings with union leaders yesterday to try to stem the flow of unofficial protests, militant shop stewards were plotting their next moves.
A plan for a national march against foreign workers, to take place in London, is under way and organisers are already in touch with farmers and hauliers who staged the protests against fuel tax in 2000.
Tomorrow the dispute may spread to the nuclear industry with 900 contractors at Sellafield nuclear power station voting on a proposed strike.
The government appears to have been caught out by the speed with which the dispute is escalating. Already there appears to be division within its ranks.
Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, issued a stark warning against moves to protect British jobs from foreign workers. He insisted that companies must continue to be allowed to employ staff from overseas. In a blunt message to the protestors, he said: “Protectionism would be a sure-fire way of turning recession into depression.”
His tough stance was echoed by the prime minsier, who condemned plans for further wildcat strikes tomorrow. “That’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” Brown said.
At the same time Pat Mc-Fadden, the employment minister, was meeting union leaders to try to settle the dispute.
In their protest placards and banners, the strikers repeatedly highlighted Brown’s speech about “British jobs for British workers” which was delivered to the Labour party conference in September 2007. The prime minister may now be hoist by his own petard because Mandelson’s comments yesterday make it clear that the government has no power to legislate for British jobs.
Official statistics show that the number of foreign workers has risen by 175,000 since Brown’s speech, while the number of British in work has fallen by 46,000.
Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead, said: “These strikes are proving to be a double whammy for Gordon Brown. The claim of ‘British jobs for British workers’ looks a pretty empty promise. Worse still, it shows the European Union has us in a double arm lock. British workers are being specifically excluded from working on contracts by European contractors.”
Oil company bosses have taken to trawling the internet in an attempt to keep pace with striking workers who are coordinating action on websites such as ukwelder.com.
Yesterday the website discussed possible action at the Isle of Grain - considered vulnerable because “there is only one way in” - and the London Olympics venues.
Lawyers acting for Total have shown print-outs of previous posts to the website to a judge. The company alleges that workers have spent several weeks planning the main protest at its refinery at Killingholme where 400 job vacancies will eventually be filled by Italian and Portuguese workers.
In an application for an injunction preventing demonstrators from setting foot inside the refinery, solicitors Denton Wilde Sapte stated that the ukwelder.com site revealed plans for “disruptive” action at the Killingholme plant.
The application quoted adverse comment on the site’s chatroom, including “stop the men and the steel from going through the gates” and “let's send them stinking foreign leeches back to theyre urine soaked shantys [sic]”.
Total is said to be increasingly concerned at growing calls by unions for a boycott of all its filling stations across the UK.
Billy Bones, the local Unite trade union convenor at Killingholme, said yesterday: “The support we are getting from across the country is staggering.”
It’s legal.
The government says IREM, the contractor which triggered the dispute in Lincolnshire with plans to bring in up to 400 Italian and Portuguese workers, is acting within European Union laws.
The 1999 EU posted workers directive sets out the rules for employers who temporarily move workers to another member state.
There is no obligation to pay the “posted” staff the same market rates of the host country, but employers must comply with local minimum wage rates and statutory benefits.
ALEC McFADDEN IS A "SCAB"
ReplyDeletePensioners will have to care for disabled grown-up children as Labour ‘rushes’ to close NHS homes
ReplyDeleteThousands of elderly couples fear their final years could be spent caring for disabled grown-up children as a result of Government plans to close down NHS residential homes.
Under proposals that echo ‘care in the community’, Labour wants to move around 10,000 adults with serious learning difficulties out of state-run institutions so they can live by themselves.
I don't blame Mc fadden for being scared shi****! i wouldnt argue with those four knuckle dragging skin head rasict!fasict What a total guttless pratt the man is!
ReplyDeleteI believe a Nazi attacked him at his door!no one charged! the rumour has it! it was the husband of a womans he had been caught fornicating with!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBN9fMO_iks&feature=email check this out
ReplyDeleteZIONIST BBC GIVE THATCHER THE BOOT!!
ReplyDeleteThatcher axed over golliwog remark
Feb 3 2009
Carol Thatcher will no longer be working on The One Show, the BBC has announced.
Her future with the programme was questioned after she referred to a tennis player as a "golliwog".
The daughter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made the remark after filming the show last Thursday during a conversation with presenter Adrian Chiles and several guests.
She was immediately challenged about the remark, but only apologised on Sunday and dismissed the comment as a "joke".
A BBC spokesman said: "We will no longer be working with Carol Thatcher on The One Show."
WHAT A BLOODY SHOWER!!!
ReplyDeleteOutrage as police station ditches Union Jack... for a gay rights flag
A Union Flag at a police station was replaced by a gay rights flag in a move that has triggered a fresh row over political correctness.
The rainbow flag was hoisted outside Limehouse police station in East London to mark Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender history month in February.
MEN AND WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN , PUT DOWN YOUR LAGER ,THROW AWAY YOUR CURRY AND RICE , TURN OFF THE TV , GET OFF YOUR ASRE AND TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK . THE WHOLE WORLD IS LAUGHING . 3 MILLION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS , 300 SCHOOLS THAT ENGLISH IS NOT THE FIRST LANGUAGE AND A SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEM THAT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO SIT AND WATCH TV ALL DAY . ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ...............
ReplyDeleteBNP ALL THE WAY!!!
ReplyDeleteAnyone who cared to think about things instead of swallowing government lies could have seen this mess coming. Government spent 11 years demonising people as lazy scroungers - a tactic that created a stigma that makes many people unemployable anyway - while bleating on about skills shortages as an excuse to bring in immigrants, who have driven wages down for everyone, especially the much vaunted and self righteous "hard working families".
What they should have been doing is taking people off the dole and supporting them through college to get the trades we were short of. But of course that would have cost money, people would have got out of a hole and the government would have had no more bogeymen to whip up hatred against.
It's bad now because they got away with so much by dividing the working classes - workers against "scroungers", skilled against unskilled, town against town "we pay the high council tax in this country you know", even trade against trade on the building sites. We are all in this mess together and should stand together rather than bitching and backstabbing all the time. Up the BNP.
That was a bad move putting McFadden's address on leaflet. All you done was give him the publicity he loves. Also, it looked like the bnp were intimidating him. I don't know why you bothered, as most in Merseyside have never even heard of him.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of publicity Joey 'All publicity is good publicity' especially when you are competing against a biased media, I think the BNP made a valid point so I disagree with you. I have sent £20 to the branch for a good days work and hope there will be more leaflets soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom Louise
Criminals could be named and shamed... with their convictions printed on posters
ReplyDeleteBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:12 AM on 04th February 2009
The age of the snitch: A nurse suspended for praying. Carol Thatcher sacked for a private remark. How public sector informers are creating Stasi Britain...
ReplyDeletehttp://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/02/looks-like-glenrothes-election-was.html
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of publicity Joey 'All publicity is good publicity' especially when you are competing against a biased media, I think the BNP made a valid point so I disagree with you. I have sent £20 to the branch for a good days work and hope there will be more leaflets soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom Louise
No, Louise, bad publicity is not good publicity. This was the way nationalists thought in the 1970's and 80's, and finally realised it was counter - productive.
Joe Owens
The Liverpool bnp need to consult Nick Griffin, next time they attack McFadden. He's just waiting for this to happen then brand the bnp bullies. Don’t give him the chance, next time.
ReplyDeleteJoe Owens
MORE ZIONIST NEWS.
ReplyDeleteIt's all in the editSome of the BBC's reports about the recent strike action have a disturbing undertone: working-class people are racist
Why is the BBC obsessed with making working-class people seem racist?
Watching BBC news bulletins yesterday, it was very easy to believe claims that the current spate of wildcat strikes is inherently motivated by xenophobia. Constant emphasis was placed on objections to "foreign workers" per se, rather than fear of workers' wages being undercut, which would seem to be the real issue.
The 10 o'clock bulletin gave us a good example. A voiceover by the BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, (about 12 mins in) told us: "Beneath the anger, ministers fear, lies straightforward xenophobia." Cut to woolly-hatted worker telling BBC reporter: "These Portugese and Eyeties – we can't work alongside of them." There we are: northern white bloke refusing to work with foreigners. Case closed.
Except, watch Paul Mason's report on Newsnight, featuring the same interview (about 4:30 in):
These Portugese and eyeties – we can't work alongside of them: we're segregated from them. They're coming in in full companies.
Even taking into account the dodginess of the use of "Eyetie" to refer to an Italian person, one has to admit that it would be very difficult to portray the second, full quote as racist or xenophobic. It's a statement addressing basic workplace issues – British workers literally cannot work alongside foreign workers, as they are separated. There really is no excuse for editing and presenting a quote in such a misrepresentative manner, unless one is setting out to prove something – namely, that working-class people are racists.
The BBC does have form on this, unfortunately: last year's White season was almost exclusively concerned with portraying white working-class people as paranoid and racist. This despite the fact – and this really needs to be repeated until it's firmly implanted in every bien pensant liberal's head – that white working-class people are the most likely to have friends of other races and religions, and are most likely to marry and have children with people of other races and religions. Not the behaviour of a resentful army of racists.
The apex of the White season's utter weirdness was a Newsnight interview with the BNP's Nick Griffin, author of Who Are The Mindbenders, a 1997 pamphlet detailing how "the Jews" control the BBC and other media. Griffin was interviewed on his own,
I dont agree with Joey. Time has moved on since the 1970's. People talk openly about being second class citizens, the failure of the education system, hospitals, housing etc and of course the main topic of conversation - the immigration invasion. The betrayal by past goverments and the so called trade unions - that dont represent the people lucky enough to have a job. People are now open and willing to talk about the BNP, to say they support the BNP and will vote for the BNP. No one is hiding the fact any more, the party has landed, it's 2009 not 1970's. I agree with the Wirral's group intiative of leafleting. I will be sending £10 for more enterprising action alerts even if it upsets that dreadful toad Mcfadden (no matter what it is it will upset lefties like him).
ReplyDeleteBritish jobs for British workers
ReplyDeleteHow interesting that this harmless-seeming slogan is now seen as in some way ‘extremist’ or ‘far-right’. What is wrong with it? What, above all, is ‘extreme’ about it? If we are a country at all, then surely we must put our people first? If we don’t, then what exactly is a country? In fact, if we don’t, can we consider ourselves even to be a country?
You have missed the point. The NF in the 1970's was made up when violence was on the TV because it gave them publicity (at their marches). This is what i mean by bad publicity and not slogans of the past. So putting McFadden's address looked like the Bnp were returning to the old days of violence. Putting his address looked like the Bnp were bulling him. The public are not that bright in working these things out, and would believe what the echo told them. Opponent’s address’s on leaflets is not a good idea.
ReplyDeleteJoe Owens
And those promising to give money because an opponents’ address was put on the leaflet is bizarre? Or are the little red trolls pushing this because they know it damages Nationalism? Or it could be the new and naive of Nationalism? Anyway, that’s my opinion regarding opponent’s addresses on leaflets. The more astute take note.
ReplyDeleteJoe Owens
The stupidest idea in British policing?
ReplyDeleteThe anonymous blogging policeman records that officers are visiting areas with high vehicle crime and identifying vulnerable vehicles. They attach a sticker to the windscreen informing the owner that there is some kind of insecurity. They even tick a box telling the owner how the vehicle is insecure. This marks out the vulnerable cars for thieves and helpfully informs them how to proceed.
lol.
WHAT IS THE T.U.C.THAT McFADDEN RUN'S ?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzgO2DE4-b4 (NOT TO BE MISSED)
ReplyDeleteBoredom gets PCSOs into trouble'
ReplyDeleteFeb 5 2009
Police community support officers in Britain's largest force keep getting into trouble because they are bored and unmotivated, a report said.
Senior officers at Scotland Yard agreed to review the civilian role after they found a disproportionate number of staff were being disciplined.
They discovered police community support officers (PCSOs) accounted for more than half of all police staff gross misconduct cases during the last financial year despite only making up about one-fifth of the workforce.
In more than half of cases, employees were sacked or reprimanded for criminal offences, including drinking and driving and other motoring crimes.
Other PCSOs were disciplined after they were caught misusing police computers, behaving inappropriately and in one case, making a false allegation.
Twenty of the 35 PCSOs found guilty of gross misconduct were sacked, with the remaining 15 handed formal reprimands. A further 20 cases of less serious misconduct by PCSOs were recorded.
Martin Tiplady, director of human resources, said boredom and reduced motivation were partly responsible for indiscipline. He said some PCSOs did not recognise the authority of their managers and did not understand the strict policing hierarchy within the force.
And he said the policy of encouraging those who failed their initial police constable training to become PCSOs was a recipe for dissatisfaction and low morale.
In a report to the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), Mr Tiplady said a damaging "them and us" attitude remained between officers and PCSOs. Mr Tiplady said PCSOs performing security roles were more likely to get into trouble than those on borough units.
PCSOs were introduced to increase the uniformed police presence on the streets and divert low-level responsibilities away from more expensive sworn officers. But the role attracted criticism from the Police Federation who accused the Labour Government of undermining the role of constable and "policing on the cheap".
Labour MP first to be sued for 'laziness'
ReplyDeleteA Labour MP has become the first to be sued for negligence by a constituent.
Health Minister Ann Keen has been taken to court over allegations that she failed to exercise her duty to help a war veteran clear his name after a miscarriage of justice 47 years ago.
John Taylor, 84, claims he wrote more than 100 letters to his MP asking her to help him get compensation for his wrongful conviction of stealing £17 in 1962 - a conviction which saw him serve three years in prison. The conviction came after three men brought a stolen safe to the flat where he was sleeping, but it was quashed in 1998.
Mr Taylor, who was badly wounded while fighting in Holland during the Second World War, alleges his MP failed to act beyond writing to the Justice Secretary Baroness Scotland about his case four years ago.
She denies the allegation, insisting she "repeatedly made representations" on Mr Taylor's behalf and sent acknowledgements to his letters.
Legal experts say the case, which is being heard at Brentford County Court, is the first of an MP facing action for breaching their "duty of care" to a constituent.
While MPs have no statutory obligation to voters, the Commons code of conduct says they have a "general duty to act in the interests of the nation as a whole and a special duty to their constituents".
Mrs Keen, the Brentford and Isleworth MP, made the headlines last year after she and her MP husband Alan used £175,000 of public money to buy a flat near Parliament when they already had a home just nine miles away. The revelation earned them the sobriquet "Mr And Mrs Expenses".
She holds the marginal her marginal seat of Brentford and Isleworth with 4,411 votes.
Mr Taylor, of Hounslow, west London, told the Daily Mail: "I haven't asked for the Earth. I just want some assistance from my elected representative."
A source close to the MP was quoted as saying: "Ann Keen has done all she could for Mr Taylor. She tried to help at the start and has been sending acknowledgments.
"As recently as June last year, she told Mr Taylor that his solicitors should contact her if there was any useful action she could take. Now she has drawn a line under it and said she can do no more."
Joey, that scumbag McFadden was revealed for what he is. All the info on that letter is allready in the public Domain. Any UAF, Searchlight, drug dealing goon who wants to contact him can do so on that moble no. His address is available on the internet through his Union connections. Seeing as he is such an ambassador for democracy and free speech he should hardly be worried about his neighbors popping around and saying hello to him.
ReplyDeleteAlso just because the media and McFadden say its "political intimidation" to suit them and their story, then thats their opinion. Dont believe whats in the paper Joey and the words that they print just because you are reading them. You are coming accross as if you are almost shocked at the leaflet which is sad. But that's my opinion mate.
HERE HERE!!!
ReplyDeleteUnite Bringing the Migrant Community Together
ReplyDeleteLONDON, December 5 /PRNewswire/ --
- Date and Time: 6th December, 10:30am-4pm
- Location: Ceramica, Burslem Town Hall, Stoke
Unite, the UK's biggest union are together with Unionlearn hosting an event in Stoke on Trent on Saturday 6th December which will give information, advice and guidance to migrant workers working in the UK.
Workers and their families will be able to take advantage of free information about employment rights, family issues and local community benefits. Unite members and migrant workers will have access to translators, employment law solicitors and local college staff. The Employment law solicitors will provide the migrant workers with any legal advice they may need and can offer them the time and assistance that our members would not usually be able to receive.
The event and entrance to the interactive venue is free, with families urged to come along and take part in the Unite play areas and workshops.
Local colleges are also supporting the event and are paying for the funding of ESOL (English Speaking for Other Languages).
UNITE A UNION FOR WHOM NOT US!!!
JOEY OWENS His name is synonymous with fun.
ReplyDeleteCar sales plunge in worst figures since 1974
ReplyDeleteCar sales have fallen nearly 31 per cent in the worst year-on-year January figures since 1974.
Bailed-out Royal Bank of Scotland bankers set for millions in bonuses
ReplyDeleteRBS to reward staff in spite of losses.(SCUM)
Gordon Brown suggests world heading for a 'Great depression'
ReplyDeleteGordon Brown appeared to acknowledge for the first time today that the world economy was heading for a 1930s-style “depression”.
Mr Brown stumbled slightly over his words at Commons question time, just a week after admitting that Britain was facing a “deep” recession.
(DELIBERATELY AS WAS PLANNED!!!)
The Great Depression was not accidental
ReplyDelete"(The Great Depression resulting from the Stock Market crash) was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence....The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all."
Louis McFadden
(1876-1936) US Congressman (R-PA) (1915-1935), Chairman of House Banking and Currency Committee. Poisoned in 1936.
Source: testified in Congress (1933). There were at least two attempts on his life by gunfire. He died of suspected poisoning after attending a banquet.
THE FIREMAN ESCAPES BUT ONLY JUST!!
ReplyDeleteLiverpool council leader Warren Bradley cleared of ethics breach
Feb 5 2009
LIVERPOOL council leader Warren Bradley was today cleared by the Standards Board of breaking ethical standards.
The board said Cllr Bradley was on one occasion “unwise and possibly naive” and his conduct “occasionally suggested lack of good judgement” in the wake of the Mathew Street festival cancellation in 2007.
Gun first aid lessons for city children LIverpool Echo 5.1.09.
ReplyDeleteLIVERPOOL children are being taught “urban first aid” to help friends who have been shot or stabbed.
The scheme, which has started in Kensington, could soon be rolled out across the city.
It was set up by a group of Merseyside nurses who realised youngsters did not know what to do in the wake of a shooting or stabbing.
So they qualified as British Red Cross trainers and set up a new charity to teach first aid in schools and youth clubs.
Young people are taught how to treat stab and gunshot wounds and deal with binge drinking victims.
Registered nurse Ibrahim Napson is one of seven nurses involved in the new charity.
He said: “We had all seen various degrees of violence in Kensington?
THE PRESS ARE WHORE'S!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe government used the press to drive down the share prices of some of the UK's leading banks to lower the cost of nationalising them, MPs were told today.
Simon Jenkins, a Guardian columnist and former editor of the Times, told the Treasury select committee that financial journalists had found themselves in a "predicament" during last year's banking crisis, when the shares of many banks were falling sharply.
"The government, knowing it was about to acquire large chunks of these banks was, I sense, using the press to force down the share price," Jenkins said.
"Ministers and officials were de facto insider trading and using the journalists to that end.
Royal Mail delivers more bad news as 16,000 workers learn they will lose their jobs
ReplyDeleteBy Ryan Kisiel
Last updated at 1:47 AM on 06th February 2009
Comments (27) Add to My Stories Up to 16,000 jobs are to be scrapped at Royal Mail, it emerged last night.
Royal Mail chiefs have written to thousands of staff offering voluntary redundancies, or reducing their hours to part-time and plan to relocate workers to larger sorting offices.
Friday, 06 February 2009
ReplyDeleteStampede by Banks to Beat Bonus Crackdown
'Banks dependent on taxpayer support are planning to rush out hundreds of millions of pounds in bonuses to senior bankers and traders before a threatened crackdown. As ministers prepared to curb excessive remuneration, it emerged that Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group were poised to follow Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) by paying bonuses within weeks.'
For 15 years, Ireland's economy boomed, but today it is the country most severely hit by recession in the Eurozone. Every five minutes, a job is lost. When the property bubble burst, Irish banks had to pay the price. In Limerick, computer giant Dell is shedding 1900 jobs, closing its plant and moving to Poland.
ReplyDeleteIreland's deputy prime minister presents students with business awards, but with unemployment at 8%, students are worried about their future.The government is about to take some unpopular decisions - Irish tax payers will soon be handed a large bill. The French took to the streets for far less; how the Irish respond remains to be seen.
NEW'S FLASH. 6.1.09.
ReplyDeleteSearchlight to be investigated by Met Police
News just in, has completed for me a perfect day but you will have to wait to hear about that until tomorrow.
Tonight I want to inform you, that this morning, the Metropolitan Police have been requested to make a criminal investigation into the activities of several charities either registered or associated with the Gable family business, better known as Searchlight.
FLAG UP YOURS
ReplyDeleteABOVE: Flying the flag We will be writing to Mr Smithson and apologising Phil Barrett, Sunderland City Council
7th February 2009
A PROUD father who flew the St George’s flag to welcome home his soldier sons was threatened with a £2,500 fine.
Council jobsworths told patriotic Robert Smithson to get a licence or pay up when he raised the 6ft banner in his front garden.
Gas engineer Robert, 40, was stunned by the warning after the tribute to his 18-year-old twin sons Richard and Robert on their first trip home to Sunderland from the Coldstream Guards.
“I’m very proud of my sons,” said Robert, whose boys could soon be heading off to Afghanistan.
“They’ve been serving their country and standing outside Buckingham Palace guarding the Queen.
“For somebody to put a complaint in about the national flag is bad enough, but the way the council has handled it is appalling.
“Why did they send a threatening letter when they could have just knocked on the door and had a quiet word?”
Now Sunderland City Council has admitted it was wrong. The flag is not legally classed as advertising when it is flown horizontally, as Robert has it.
“We have decided the flag can stay,” said development director Phil Barrett.
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THE TRIBAL VOTE AGAINST THE BNP.
ReplyDeleteRegister to vote or this racist BNP man Nick Griffin gets elected
Written by www.daily.pk
Friday, 06 February 2009 18:30
Pakistan Daily is urging YOU the Asian commmunity to get into the polling booths at this summer’s European Elections.
As reported in our most recent edition the far-right British National Party could win its first seat in the European Parliament by claiming just 8% of the vote! And Nick Griffin the leader of the party is standing as a candidate in the North West.
He has already started campaigning for votes in the local towns. He is pictured here at the Manxman Pub in Blackburn during a meeting. The meeting was attended by local BNP canvassers including Robin Evans who gave a short speech on the night.
If you want to do something about it and stop the BNP then in the first instance you have to register with your local council to vote. The European elections take place on Thursday June 4.
The proportional representation voting system used for Euro-elections increases the BNP's chances of winning a seat.
The Asian community has long been vocal in protesting over international issues but it is time we focussed our energies democratically to ensure those who aim to divide and spread hateful messages are not given a mandate to further their cause.
Fundamentally the Asian community needs to become more active in local politics.
There have already been warnings against complacency. Harriet Harman MP said, “In the North West, where Nick Griffin, the BNP chairman, is standing, Searchlight estimates they only need about 8% of the vote to break through into the European Parliament.
“The BNP threat cannot be ignored. A new Labour analysis of council elections shows that even where they are not winning they are coming second in areas which are Labour, Liberal Democrat and Tory-held. Their poison is spreading.”
Councillor Taalib Shamsuddin was one of the first local councillors to warn of the threat. “The only way to stop Nick Griffin is a massive voter turn out on Thursday 4 June and people voting for one of the top three parties.
“The deadline for voter registration is 19 May and I urge everybody to make sure there friends and family are registered to vote."
Cabbies’ fury over new taxi licensing fees
ReplyDeleteLIVERPOOL taxi firms have blasted plans to nearly double the cost of licensing their vehicles.
Political correctness has replaced British Politics!
ReplyDeleteJust a note here to point out that the financial meltdown we are experiencing now can be placed fairly and squarely at the feet of the politically correct Democratic Party in the USA. You don't believe me? Read about it here or watch a video on YouTube here .
If you agree with what you read here, please help by linking to this site whenever and wherever you can. After all (to paraphrase Edmund Burke) for political correctness to triumph it only requires that common sense does nothing!
Have you ever stopped to wonder why 40% of people don't bother to vote anymore? Have you ever stopped to wonder why, which ever party is in power, nothing ever gets any better? Have you ever stopped to wonder why all the three major political parties in the UK have broadly the same policies? The answer is simple - political correctness. This left wing ideology has very cleverly, and by stealth, replaced British politics. None of the main parties now dare suggest any policy that is not politically correct otherwise the PC Brigade will label them the 'nasty' party. Witness the Conservative party policy U turns. In a desperate effort to lose their 'nasty' party label they have become Blue Labour, a slightly diluted form of New Labour!
So we now have the three main parties all occupying the same small piece of 'centre ground'. Many people don't vote on the grounds that it is pointless - you will get the same whoever wins. Some people don't vote because they realise that politically correct policies are what has got us into this mess in the first place.
Other people don't vote because they realise that career politicians are a self seeking, corrupt bunch of freeloaders who they wouldn't trust to run their whelk stall while they were on holiday. Notice that I say career politicians - this is the new breed of politicians that haven't ever entered the real world of work. They have left school, gone to university and then blagged a job as a 'research assistant' to a MP before realising that the job was such a doddle that they could do it themselves. They have never had to hold down a proper job, they have no management or other skills, hold no real political views and tend to migrate to whichever party looks most likely to win power. To survive in this fantasy environment all you need to do is to be politically correct. You can read more about this, the political parties and how the New Labour ministers got there under Politicians/ Parties on the navigation bar.
So what is political correctness, how did it start and how did it become so successful? Political correctness is first and foremost an attack on free speech, clear thinking and discussion. Political correctness is perpetrated by the left in politics as a cover for their flawed ideology - a sort of cultural Marxism. By cloaking their strange ideas under the cover of not wishing to offend anyone (which naturally appeals to peoples' better nature), they try to bypass debate and give a 'received wisdom' which must not be questioned. And anyone who disagrees with this 'received wisdom' must therefore be a really nasty person and deserves to be ostracised by their peers. This peer pressure is instrumental in enforcing and expanding political correctness.
For example, if you question whether unfettered immigration into this country is necessarily a good thing or perhaps whether immigrants should be health checked, then you must be a nasty bigoted 'Little Englander'. Come on everyone - shout him down with cries of 'racist'. Of course, only the hard of thinking could be drawn into this charade - anyone with an ounce of common sense can see right through it.
So how did it all start? Political Correctness started in a think tank (called The Frankfurt School) in Germany in 1923. The purpose was to find a solution to the biggest problem facing the implementers of communism in Russia. Why wasn't the wonderful idea of communism spreading? Read the short history here, the full history and purpose here or watch a 22 minute documentary here.
The Frankfurt school recommended (amongst other things):
the creation of racism offences
continual change to create confusion
the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
the undermining of schools and teachers' authority
huge immigration to destroy national identity
the promotion of excessive drinking
emptying the churches
an unreliable legal system with bias against the victim of crime
dependency on the state or state benefits
control and dumbing down of media
encouraging the breakdown of the family
Sound all too familiar? Yes - Great Britain 1997 onwards......
The basic idea is to make the country wholly dependent on the State. By the dumbing down of education, the creation of huge state sector employment and large scale immigration, New Labour has effectively created a captive audience to vote for them or Blue Labour, should the Conservatives actually get back into power.
If the Conservatives did get back into power, nothing much would change. David Cameron has already shown his true Politically Correct credentials many times but none so shamelessly as when he sacked the well respected Patrick Mercer, just for speaking the truth. Patrick Mercer wasn't being a racist, he was just commenting on how in Army life you get picked on if you have some different feature whether it is black skin, ginger hair, being fat or just lazy. My Father did me a great service many years ago when pointed out that 'sticks & stones would break my bones but names would never hurt me'. Thanks for instilling some common sense in me, Dad!
But of course, political correctness has made common sense a thing of the past. If you catch a burglar in your house then it's probably best to help the poor soul by carrying your possessions to the front door lest he should trip up and hurt himself and it's you that end up in court!
After all, you won't get much help from the Police, who have been effectively neutralised by the fast tracking of university graduates whose only experience of life has been obtained in the liberal atmosphere of education. Probably best not to complain to them about their lack of attendance when your car has been vandalised or you will probably get a letter back from a Superintendent pointing out that vandals are victims as well (read it here). And just in case any real policemen still exist, the Politically Correct Brigade has turned the Police Force in on itself by claims of institutional racism.
If they do actually succeed in getting a villain into court (only 1 for every 100 crimes committed) then the Magistrates hand out such lenient sentences (as laid down by the very Politically Correct 'sentencing advisory panel') that there is no deterrent. If you do end up in prison (extremely unlikely as New Labour have deliberately refused to build anything like enough new places) the prison officers are told to call you by your first name and not say anything that may upset you! As your cell is now your home, you are allowed to smoke there but Prison Officers who want to search it for drugs now have to give you 30 mins notice of their visit so that they don't put themselves at risk from the smoke oh and also to give you enough time to move your drugs elsewhere. Just in case you do get bored, you can keep yourself amused by repeatedly taking the prison governor to court over trivial matters that you think violate your human rights (no pornography etc) - all paid for by legal aid!
Travelers can descend upon your area, dump old cars and shit everywhere with impunity. You try doing it in your front garden and see what happens! They are allowed to bypass the normal planning controls that are so strictly enforced on the rest of us and cost local councils hundreds of thousands of pounds in court cases and clean-ups. Who pays? Why you do of course - just check your council tax bill!
Illegal immigrants (if caught) are rarely deported. Those that are deported are just the more honest ones who don't know how to play the system or haven't been coached by the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns which is funded by your lottery money! Oh and have you got a long way to come to get here? Why not hijack an airliner for the trip? Don't worry, we will still let you stay!
Would you like a black coffee? NO! You can't say that! It's coffee without milk and Local Authorities spend a fortune of our money on making their employees attend courses on Newspeak!
Our British humour has suffered badly. We can't tell jokes anymore in case it's considered racist or it upsets anyone. Don't these Politically Correct people realise that the clue is in the word "joke",which my dictionary quite rightly defines as "something said in fun or jest" or "to say something in fun or teasing rather than in earnest?"
Try organising an event or trip and you find yourself tied up in the endless red tape created by the Health & Safety Executive. These people are all part of the 'Nanny State' (state control) which insists in sticking its nose into every aspect of our lives and telling us how to live it!
Just in case there is anyone left in the country that might still be enjoying themselves - let's ban smoking, fox hunting and let feminists launch a totally unfounded attack on men as rapists.
That is the sad state of the UK today. But overwhelmed by their own success with political correctness, the left have something else just as sinister up their sleeve so they can expand their power and control over us even more - the Great Global Warming scam! Same methodology - an idea to appeal to peoples' better nature - let's save the planet - and the same way of enforcing it by peer pressure. Just watch what happens to any scientist who breaks ranks or disagrees - they get the same treatment that Galileo got from the medieval church. David Bellamy was the first I think. It takes a brave man (or a self sufficient one) to come out against these things publicly when you know your future livelihood may be at risk.
Politically correct people can't stand reality or see that things have evolved to be as they are for good reasons. Politically correct people remind me of ostriches - they bury their heads in the sand and then proceed to talk out of the only orifice that still remains above ground.
So don't let anyone fool you that political correctness is just about being "nice to people", tolerant and treating them with proper respect. That's called good manners. Political correctness has been deliberately designed to subvert free speech, debate and common sense, replacing these with a ruthlessly enforced set of left wing ideas. Far from being tolerant, politically correct people are the most intolerant of all people and have the worst manners. They refuse to debate subjects (as their views don't stand up to the most elementary scrutiny), preferring just to scream abuse at you.
We Are Losing Our Country
ReplyDeleteI knew that the muslim population was growing faster than the rest of society, but even I was shocked to discover just how rapidly they are proliferating:
The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for The Times.
The population multiplied 10 times faster than the rest of society, the research by the Office for National Statistics reveals. In the same period the number of Christians in the country fell by more than 2 million.
Experts said that the increase was attributable to immigration, a higher birthrate and conversions to Islam during the period of 2004-2008, when the data was gathered. They said that it also suggested a growing willingness among believers to describe themselves as Muslims because the western reaction to war and terrorism had strengthened their sense of identity.
Muslim leaders have welcomed the growing population of their communities as academics highlighted the implications for British society, integration and government resources.
If this trend continues unabated, it is not unreasonable to believe it will transform British society significantly. Worse, their population may well increase exponentially - with muslims continuing to marry from abroad, have more children and have them at a younger age. Is it inconceivable that they will then demand concessions, or at least use the democratic system to Islamify Britain?
What is British about a man who attends his local mosque, speaks Urdu as his first language (at home, in the community centre, local shops, etc), wears traditional muslim clothes, grows a beard as thick as his fist, eats halal meat, avoids alcohol, makes his wife wear a niqab, supports the Pakistani cricket team and would like Sharia Law to replace the current legal system? Being British is surely more than just being born here?
I believe it was The Duke of Wellington who said that being born in a stable doesn't make one a horse, after somebody asserted he was Irish. Likewise Kipling wasn't Indian, despite being born in India. In Switzerland jus soli is not recognised, and thus being born there does not confer upon the child Swiss nationality.
Enoch Powell was right.
Troops' Bully Beef and biscuit ration packs replaced with pasta and Halal menus.
ReplyDeleteSgt Steve Carley of 16 Air Assault Brigade tastes one of the new rations packs to be tested by troops on front-line operations in Afghanistan
Front-line British troops will see traditional biscuits brown and corned beef replaced with new products in their ration packs under a trial scheme starting this summer.
More than 300,000 new 24-hour Multi-Climate Rations (MCR) will be deployed to troops featuring pasta lunchtime pouches, cookies and energy bars.
The trial will also include the introduction of 20 new menus for general use, plus six new menus for vegetarian, Halal and Sikh/Hindu dietary requirements.
The contents of the new ration packs have been influenced by feedback from troops from all three services, including soldiers who have experienced eating the traditional ration packs for long periods.
Defence Equipment Minister Quentin Davies said: 'One of the most important requirements is to provide increased variety to troops operating for long periods on rations, which will help reduce menu fatigue.
'These new menus have been developed to meet the needs of service personnel operating in the extreme climates of Afghanistan and Iraq, providing them with a wider range of nutritionally balanced meals.'
Food selection panels were conducted in May last year to select products for the new packs and included soldiers from the Household Calvary Regiment.
Captain Paul Cunningham, of the Defence Food Services project team, said: 'The food served to our soldiers, sailors and airmen is well-balanced, nutritious and plentiful.
Colchester: Flag-flying patriot told to haul in his mast
ReplyDelete3:00pm Saturday 7th February 2009
A ROW has broken out after a British National Party (BNP) member claimed he has been told to stop flying his Union Flag because of his political beliefs.
'Drunk' mayor quits 'after he was carried out of council meeting'By Daily Mail Reporter
ReplyDeleteLast updated at 4:43 PM on 30th January 2009
'Embarassing': Alan Winkworth, mayor of Epsom and Ewell, has taken an extended period of rest
A mayor has stood down after a series of claims that he turned up drunk to civic events - and even had to be carried out of a council meeting.
(SCUM)
We're in denial: afraid to face up to the real causes of recession
ReplyDeleteAn infantilised electorate is encouraged by politicians to blame bogeymen
'Tony Blair is poised to become the first President of Europe after it was confirmed that French leader Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to help him win the post.
ReplyDeleteA senior aide to President Sarkozy told a private gathering of senior British and French politicians that he is to tell fellow EU leaders that Mr Blair is the only man who can help Europe stand up to the rest of the world.
The remark by Alain Minc, a key member of Mr Sarkozy's inner circle, is the second French blow to Gordon Brown's standing in two days, coming after Mr Sarkozy said Mr Brown's decision to combat the recession by cutting VAT was a 'mistake'.'
Merseyside Police declare £15,000 expenditure on Common Purpose (23/09/2008)
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Merseyside police declare over £15,000 expenditure on Common Purpose. The police are often claiming shortage of funds to fight crime but there appears to be no problem in paying for traing by a pro EU political charity. What do Merseyside rate payers feel about this?
Crisis 'more serious than 1930s'
ReplyDeleteMr Balls said the economy would define politics for 10 to 15 years
The financial crisis will be "more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s", cabinet minister Ed Balls has predicted.
Mr Balls, a former economic adviser to Gordon Brown, said the global recession would be the most serious for "over 100 years", the Yorkshire Post reported.
He told a Labour conference that these were "seismic events that are going to change the political landscape".
The Conservatives said the remarks were "staggering and very worrying".
Mr Balls, the schools secretary, made the comments at Labour's Yorkshire conference at the weekend, the newspaper reported.
Mr Balls and Downing Street have attempted to play down the significance of his remarks, insisting he had been pointing out the unique nature of the global financial crisis and was not predicting that the impact on ordinary people would be worse than that experienced during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
They accept that he said what's being quoted but had not meant to say it
According to the Yorkshire Post, he said: "The economy is going to define our politics in this region and in Britain in the next year, the next five years, the next 10 and even the next 15 years.
"These are seismic events that are going to change the political landscape.
"I think that this is a financial crisis more extreme and more serious than that of the 1930s and we all remember how the politics of that era were shaped by the economy."
Mr Balls, MP for Normanton, added: "We now are seeing the realities of globalisation, though at a speed, pace and ferocity which none of us have seen before.
"The reality is that this is becoming the most serious global recession for, I'm sure, over 100 years as it will turn out."
'Unprecedented'
For the Conservatives, shadow Treasury minister Phillip Hammond said: "This is a staggering and very worrying admission from a cabinet minister and Gordon Brown's closest ally in the Treasury over the past 10 years. Is Ed Balls spilling the beans here and telling us that the government sees the situation as slightly more serious?
Phillip Hammond, Conservatives
"We are being told that not only we are facing the worst recession in 100 years, but that it will last for over a decade - far longer than Treasury forecasts predict."
He added: "Is Ed Balls spilling the beans here and telling us that the government sees the situation as slightly more serious than they have tried to portray?"
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable contrasted Mr Balls' assessment with comments from fellow minister Baroness Vadera, who recently said she could see "green shoots" of economic recovery.
He said: "Instead of giving clear and consistent leadership, government ministers are oscillating between complacent optimism and this doom-laden picture of Armageddon. Surely the truth lies between the two?"
A spokesman for Mr Balls insisted that the prime minister and Chancellor Alistair Darling had highlighted the "unprecedented speed and ferocity" of the crisis "time and time again".
He said: "The unprecedented global nature of this crisis and its impact on the global financial sector is affecting every single economy in the world.
"The Bank of England agrees with this analysis. As the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Charlie Bean, said in October: 'This is a once in a lifetime crisis, and possibly the largest financial crisis of its kind in human history."'
The Commons Treasury select committee is due to question the bosses and former bosses of the UK's biggest banks on Tuesday and Wednesday over the causes of the financial crisis.
Laid off? Go home, says Czech republic
ReplyDeleteArticle Comments (36) Reuters
February 9, 2009 at 1:29 PM EST
PRAGUE — The Czech Republic will offer a free plane ticket and €500 ($795) to foreign workers who voluntarily agree to return home after losing their jobs in the economic downturn, the government said on Monday.
The sweeteners are among measures to cope with security risks stemming from rising unemployment among foreign workers in the EU member country, Interior Minister Ivan Langer said.
In the past years, the fast-growing Czech economy, led by the car industry, lured cheap labour mainly from Ukraine, Slovakia, Vietnam, Mongolia and Moldova.
10.1.09.
ReplyDeletePolicewoman charged over model murder
A policewoman will appear in court later today charged with helping her son who is accused of murdering a teenage model.
Melda Wilks, 49, an officer with West Midlands Police, is charged with assisting an offender - her son, Ricardo Morrison, 21 - who is charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, Amy Leigh Barnes.
Womanising police chief Mike Todd's chaotic love life 'left him open to blackmail and damaged the force's reputation'
ReplyDeleteTHE battle over foreign labour will erupt again today after Brits were banned from building two new UK power stations.
ReplyDeleteMore than 2,000 protesters will stage demos at the plants to shame Gordon Brown over his infamous “British jobs for British workers” pledge.
They are demanding action from the PM after contracts to build the stations were handed to foreign firms.
More than 1,300 new jobs are being created at the sites in Staythorpe, Notts, and Grain, Kent, but none of the posts will go to British workers.
Union chiefs will also take their fight to 10 Downing Street by handing in a petition signed by thousands. Workers will also carry our Daily Star “British jobs for British workers” posters.
The action is expected to trigger more wildcat strikes after last week’s walkouts sparked by the Lindsey Oil Refinery dispute in Lincs.
And the Daily Star will again be at the heart of the action. Unite bosses have praised our support and now we are asking everyone to display our posters amid reports some employers have told workers to take them down.
Today’s protests flared after the contracts for the gas-fired stations went to French firm Alstom. Brit workers have been told the jobs have already gone to Spanish, Portugeuse and Polish employees.
Unite supremo Derek Simpson said: “It will be a disgrace if UK workers are not allowed to apply for jobs to build British power stations.”
Alstom has subcontracted Spanish firms Montpressa and FMM at Staythorpe, where 850 jobs building the station’s turbine and boiler will go to Spanish and Portuguese men. The 450 jobs at Grain have been earmarked for Polish workers.
The firms involved say they have followed rules by tendering the work out fairly under EU law.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4430543376785758889#01h22m45s (WORTH WATCHING)
ReplyDeleteWhere is the TUC and unite, unions with Mc Fadden at the head! polish workers bused into ship yard in liverpool! all part of thatchers plan!With comie support!ONLY THE BNP WILL FULLY SUPPORT BRITISH JOBS FOR BRITISH workers! join the resistance join the BNP !WELL done the four brave BNP women!
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