Friday, 5 June 2009

Punch and Judy Politics

It appears that the British public will get what they want, another dose of Punch and Judy politics. Firstly we get NoLab and now we are getting Cameron and nothing changes. We hardly know what David Cameron stands for but off they go like lemmings voting for a party we were desperate to be rid of 12 years ago.

Meanwhile the scale of the NoLab meltdown and the lack of LibDem progress has frankly astonished me! How can the public believe that the Conservative Party are not just as guilty as the others of swindling the public purse. Somehow David Cameron has convinced thousands of people that his moat cleaners, manure spreaders and house flippers were not as guilty as the NoLab cabinet members.

Meanwhile Gordon clings on stubbornly refusing to answer questions from the press at a press conference and doggedly repeating the same old mantra. They will have to pick him up and carry him out of Number 10.

His much vaunted 'reshuffle' collapsed when the two people that he really wanted rid of, Alistair Darling and David Milliband 'refused' to go and he didn't have the courage to get rid of them. All around him Ministers are resigning but on and on he goes even though they have lost (currently) 290 County Council seats. NoLab do not now have a single Council throughout England. To anyone else it would be a catastrophe, a signal from the public that they don't want him but he just doesn't care. In fact he just ignores democracy but then what is new from him.

He has now stuffed the Cabinet with many people of a previous dubious past and has had to turn to the House of Lords to fill the many positions vacant after the plethora of resignations. I look forward to the many challenges from the back benches.

Thursday, 4 June 2009

Jack Straw

Once again Jack Straw is in charge of an incompetent ministry. Typically he blames the management and just as typically the response is that the management was underfunded. This is classic NoLab administration but when it happens to Justice in this country then it is dangerous and so it has been proven.

Clearly the Probation Service is incompetent and so is the CPS. The shadowy people who make crass decisions about the suitability to release prisoners into the community have once again be seen to be out of their depth. The problem is that they make obscene decision after obscene decision but we never know who 'they' are. They are anonymous and so cannot be brought to book for their mistakes.

Once again the modern Civil Service is exposed as being administratively incompetent. The traditional technique of dotting the 'i's and crossing the 't's has been abandoned for young, trendy, mostly female, grinning idiots. They have no idea about attention to detail, sense of priority or even a semblance of authority.

The result is that people are dying horribly because we have people on our streets who have taken advantage of the NoLab policy to free dangerous prisoners onto our streets even though it is clear that they are convicted and lethal members of society.

Make no mistake ultimately Jack Straw is culpable. He has always been useless but he knows where the bodies are buried. He has seen crime rising particularly involving the people we have 'welcomed' into this country. If you have a free for all and welcome unlimited immigation then you will release unlimited crime. They are all laughing at us.

Two young French students were tortured and murdered by people who should have been behind bars. The people who released them should be named and shamed and top of the list should be the useless Jack Straw who has been so culpable. He has destroyed the British democratic legal principals by his allegiance to Europe. He has refused to build more prisons and then refused to abandon the legal system which has obviously failed the public.

Jack Straw should be ashamed of himself because he killed those two poor French boys as sure as eggs are eggs. His policies killed them because they support the criminal and not the victim. We have to change the system!

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

The Reshuffle

Predictions are dangerous because unless you are really in the 'know' then there is a very good chance that you will end up with egg all over your face. That is of course unless you are in the Racing Press who write articles day after day on the merits of horses who ritually fail to live up the expectations of their hopes.

Gordon Brown has a major problem on his hands. He cannot find a Home Secretary! Jacqui has (thank God) followed so many other NoLab Home Secretaries. In fact they have never had an MP who has been able to cope with the office and that is no surprise. The job has always been too big for anyone other than Superman.

He also has two Cabinet Ministers who he really wants to replace but Alistair Darling and David Milliband do not want to stand aside for Ed Balls and Peter Mandelsson. Now this is the crunch because Gordon is a ditherer. He is not a man of courage and so he must choose between the immovable and the intractible. This is what you get if you are indecisive.

I dread to think who we will get as Home Secretary after Gordon's reshuffle because he has few options. This is not a joke appointment it is crucial to the security of the country. He has hundreds of MPs to select from but they are not suitable. Has there ever been a more a greater indictment on the paucity of talent on the NoLab benches.

Everyone knows that Gordon is a loser. They do not want to be associated with him. He cannot have a reshuffle because nobody wants to be shuffled and all those he wants to reshuffle don't want to be shuffled. It is a mess created by indecision and a total lack of leadership.

A Momentous Day - 04 June 2009

Nobody actually knows how the public will vote tomorrow. I actually believe that the NoLabs still have a hard core of supporters who are so entrenched in history and so intransigent that despite all the proof that they have been betrayed they still do not see it. There are also all the people who need to protect their jobs. I still think that it will not be meltdown.

In fact perhaps it will get worse because the only party who may lose votes are the Tories. If the core Labour votes, the boneheads, continue like automatums to vote 'like their father did' and the public take their spite out on the Tories and the Liberals we could have a very interesting result.

Some parts of the country will vote UKIP but they have been discredited because news of Nigel Farage's European expense claims prove that he has to be a suspect politician. The Greens will never get sufficient support and then there are all the new parties like the Libertarians, the Jury Party and many others who have not yet got the organisation to be a potent threat.

This leaves us with the BNP, who are well organised and large enough to field sufficient candidates to challenge. I don't think that the BNP will cause a major upset but they have the capacity to do so. It depends just how deep the public anger has reached. There is just a chance that they will rebel against the whole political class which includes the media who have systematically abused the BNP.

As I have blogged before, the European elections are actually a non event but they are a barometer on just how angry the public are. The County Council elections however have a little more significance because if NoLab are wiped out then there is little connection betwen local government and Westminster. In effect, once again, NoLab will have no support outside of the Westminster 'bubble'. Tony Blair won them their elections and Gordon Brown has destroyed the whole party in two short years!

I have never before looked forward to the results of an election because the public are angry. Just how angry has yet to be revealed!

Catherine Ashton

Catherine 'Who' I hear you ask so I will explain. I am well aware that although there is a huge trumpeting of the importance of the European elections tomorrow they actually have no relevance. You see the only people who have any real power are the 27 European Commissioners and we don't get to vote for them! That is where I found Catherine Ashton because she is the single European Commissioner that emanates from Britain. Her portfolio is European Commissioner of External Trade so in effect, with the exception of the Queen she is the most influential politician that we have.

Well how did she get the job I hear you ask? Simple innit if you follow the Gordon Brown school of democracy HE nominated her to replace 'Mandy' when Peter came back to Westminster. Yes the only person who got a vote was Gordon! I say the only person because with his exception nobody has ever elected Catherine Ashton for anything anywhere. She has never faced an electorate!

She is a mystery woman who has spent her entire life slithering up the pole of power by serving on Quangos and committees. If you read her CV I have never seen anyone sneak her way into power like Baroness Ashton of Upholland. She is one of the Labour 'cronies' that we read so much about that were stuffed into the House of Lords where she 'steered' the Lisbon treaty through the upper house.

She is a fine example of the utter contempt that the EU and Gordon Brown in particular view the democratic process. ELections are after all so tiresome and vulgar!

The Beginning of the End Gordon?

At long ,long, last the Cabinet and the parliamentary NoLab party are standing up against Gordon Brown and in the last hour Hazel Blears has resigned from the Cabinet following the resignation of Jacqui Smith and other prominent NoLab politicians.

I know very little of how these politicians operate but it smells to me of a plot to get rid of Gordon. The Chipmunk has really sunk the knife in his back by the very timing of her resignation. An hour before PM's Question Time and the day before the European and County Council elections could not have been timed worse for the PM.

It could also be a plot by the female side of the party to destabilize Gordon. It only needs Caroline Flint to resign and the only conclusion that can be drawn is that they have done him in. Whatever, it is obvious that he has lost control of the Cabinet and the wolves are circling.

If Gordon is forced out then is that the end of the New Labour Project and can we all get back to sanity and proper accounting and accountability. Is it really too much to hope for?

Monday, 1 June 2009

Accountability/Bribery/Fraud

I have been pondering over the problems that we have in this country prior to the elections on 4th June. I have been trying to put my finger on what NoLab has brought to this country since they came to power. I have come to the conclusion that their most telling contribution has been 'secrecy'.

Nobody is ever responsible for their actions. Nobody is to blame. Nowhere can we find a culprit, a poor decision, a dodgy transaction because today, government is a smokescreen. Listen to Gordon Brown, he a master of evasion, he never answers a straight question with a straight answer. He does not understand honesty because if he was ever honest, just for a second, he would have to face the truth.

Beneath him are layers of deceit, obfuscation and greed. It does not matter where we look because behind every corner of NoLab government is a layer of secrecy designed to prevent you from discovering the truth. Nobody is ever elected anymore and even when they are then we are learning to doubt the validity of the vote.

They are earning more from the public purse that any generation before them. The sums are vast and yet nobody ever knows who voted them their pay rises. If you are in the stratosphere then you are there for life. It does not matter how badly you have fouled up because once you are part of this disgraceful cartel then you have it made for life.

What I want to know is who selected these people and why? As a member of the public who coughs up the taxes to pay their wages then I would like someone to answer these questions. 'Mugabe' says that he wants to reform the system that he helped to create. The problem is that he specialises in secrecy.

We the public should vote/be informed of every major appointment which carries a salary of over £100,000. We should know why the high earners are earning their vast salaries. We should see their CV's their experience and their suitability. I don't care about the private sector but I do care about the public sector. It is reported that the management of the NHS has burgeoned out of control. This government has thrown money at the public sector to buy votes.

This is a tactic used by the European Union and it has been adopted by NoLab. It has been widely reported that the MEPs have had money, unlimited money, thrown at them. They have been coerced to keep them onside. Bribe them with enough money and they will not ask too many questions. 'Mugabe' learned the tactic from Mandelsson but the problem is that they have been outed by the 'patriot' who gave the Daily Telegraph the disk.

Now we all know what is happening so what do we do about it? Clearly we cannot abdicate this responsibility to the political classes but who supercedes parliament. In this country we actually only have one person who is neutral of politics and who is trusted by almost everyone. I just wish that Her Maj would speak openly about the state of the nation. I know that there are conventions but these are extraordinary days. This government is ruining the economy of the country because of their policy of bribing their supporters.

It is naked corruption but then we will only rid ourselves of it when we have total transparency. That is what we should be voting for on 04 June so if you can find a party who advocates it then please support them. The European Union is a corrupt, undemocratic, unaudited abysmal assembly of thieves and vagabonds supported only by thieves and vagabonds like Brown, Cameron and Clegg. Vote for change!