Keystone Cops!

Andy Hayman

I am afraid I have been left incredulous by the behaviour of the former Assistant Commissioners of the Met during their appearances before the Home Office Select Committee. Their attitude and moral standards at times beggars belief!

Their apologies rang very hollow and in the case of Andy Hayman he seemed  very flip with his answers. He seemed to think there was nothing wrong to accept hospitality from the very company that he was investigating and from which he later accepted employment .

How can he possibly imagine that people would regard this behaviour as acceptable? At times laughter rang round the room as he protested his innocence. Sky News has done a great job exposing the Keystone Cops who frankly have lost all credibility. I got the impression that these top police brass went out of their way to sweep the hacking scandal under their plush carpets. They seemed frightened to confront News International and one wonders why?

I think that in a quirky way Rebekah Brooks and her dodgy cohorts may have done us all a favour. They have exposed what happens when the wrong people are pushed to the top of the heap by organisations like Common Purpose. I will know that the government have grasped the problem when they investigate the power of Common Purpose. This is the real problem and the rest is frankly window dressing.

I don't believe it!!!

I have just watched Yates of the Yard embarrass himself live on SKY news. He was exposed as at best a lazy policeman and at worst incompetent. In 2006 he took one day to decide that the Guardian did not have any new evidence in the phone hacking scandal which justified further investigation.

This despite the fact that somewhere in the police vaults lay bags which contained 11,000 pieces of evidence taken from the phone hacker's house. He had a staff of 4000 people and yet still did not think that someone should trawl through the evidence to see who had been hacked!

The impression left for me is that he has somehing to hide. There has to be a reason that those bags were left alone.  I do not believe he has risen to the ranks of Assistant Commissioner without a better track record than the one he displayed before the House of Commons Select Committee today. No wonder Chairman Keith Vaz (yes that Keith Vaz) warned him that he would likely be recalled.

There does appear to be a link between Yates and News International. Nobody can yet speculate how close the link was although the mainstream media are poking about in the mire. The current person being grilled is former Met Asst Commissioner Peter Clarke and he sounds just as incompetent as Yates. Nobody can explain why those 11,000 pieces of evidence were overlooked. It stinks!!

Who is going to jail then?

As the storm clouds continue to gather around the senior executives of News  International I think it is fair to ask which of them stands a good chance of going to jail? Now that the royals are involved and the privacy of Gordon Brown has been breached the police may have to act however reluctantly.

It is clear that officers of the Metropolitan Police have been involved and for that alone prison sentences should be demanded. Their officers  also appear to have been covering up corrupt behaviour which I find criminal. There is little doubt that some of their senior officers have not been acting in the best interests of the public.

Somebody, somewhere has now decided to leak these indiscretions to the public. Who is doing it? Is it the Guardian? How long do we have to wait before the full extent of this media carnage is known? If News International has been routinely hacking the phones of well anyone with the assistance of officers from the Met the potential for blackmail is enormous!

I have long blogged that endemic corruption was at the heart of our political society but it now seems as if it is much worse than even  I could ever have imagined. Can we trust any of them to tackle it properly or will they find a way to weasle around it? Will we find a judge who doesn't have something to hide? To be honest we may even have to face a General Election where we will once again have the prospect of voting for politicians who will offer false manifestos and carry on regardless of the result.

The Metropolitan Police- who is in charge?

I have been bowling throughout the afternoon and I am just now catching up with the news but the whole story is horrendous. A royal protection officer paid by the News of the World for information about the family he was protecting? How much lower can this story get? How much lower can the Metropolitan Police sink? If this is true how can Sir Paul Stephenson remain in his position as Met Commissioner?

For the whole time that I have been writing this blog I have constantly ranted on about the conduct of the police and the Political Class. I have particularly concentrated on the police because they have been corrupted beyond belief. Time after time I have highlighted how they have fouled up and then apologised believing that this would be sufficient to placate those who had been wronged. It was happening everywhere and all the time.

The worst examples always came from the Met where wrong practice seemed to be routine. The Territorial Support Group were always the most violent and vicious and gave the impression of being hired thugs. However the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes really exposed the incompetence of some of the senior officers. Clearly the whole operation that day under the control of Cressida Dick was a shambles. She is a Common Purpose recruit and was later promoted!

David Cameron is seriously on the defensive. Red Ed has been given a heaven sent opportunity to wound the government fatally. If David Cameron is to safeguard his position then he must sack Sir Paul Stephenson, he must sack Yates of the Yard and announce a root and branch reform of the Metropolitan police. Nothing else will suffice. The problem is, if his banking and media masters prevent him from saving his skin then we will eventually end up with an election. However this time even the stupid British might realise how they are being stitched up!

What an absolute shambolic mess courtesy of the corrupt Political Class who have betrayed the British public for their own gain. It is high time that treason came back onto the statute book! The corruption emanating from the Political Class, the Bonus Class and the Police has been evident for some time but it has been proven by the conduct of News Internatiional with the connivance of the aforementioned. The question is what do we do about it? They are all guilty! Some have been caught out in the open but they are all at it. It has become a culture without shame and without boundaries. Unless we the public do something positive it will only get worse because until we sweep them away they will continue to spit on us.

Manna from Heaven for Red Ed!

Ever since Ed Miliband beat his brother to the leadership of the tragic NoLab party he has died a death. He is routinely humiliated by David Cameron at PM's Question Time because it is akin to the Luxemburg tennis players trying to beat Andy Murray in the Davis Cup!

Suddenly he has been given an unprecedented opportunity to traduce the PM who at the moment is wide open to a left hook. David Cameron has so many questions about his friendships with the Murdoch Empire that even Tony Blair is apparently intervening on his behalf. Well that is the clincher...when Teflon Tony is on your side then you are on the skids! Please remember David = Conservative and Tony = Labour so are you now getting the picture. David loves News International and Tony loves News International so Tony and David must be in love!

Perhaps that is why David got his side of the House of Commons to give Tony a standing ovation when Gordon eventually kicked him into touch. They represent opposite sides of the political spectrum but actually they are mates!! How does that work!

The Political Class have somehow contrived to neuter our electoral process so that they are both the same and both support News International and the European Union. Wow! It makes you proud to be British. Can you remember how, when he was campaigning, David Cameron spoke about capping local government salaries, the bonfire of quangos and the British Bill of Rights? Yeah right!

If Ed Miliband cannot get this right then he may as well forget any bid for PM. The problem is that 'Red Ed' does not have the clout to challenge the Murdoch Empire. He is a weak leader and almost everyone knows it and at any rate he is a puppet of the Unions.

So that brings me back to the crucial issue. Who is backing Britain? We have the Murdoch empire which at every level appears to be on the side of the European Union and we have the Trade Unions who also are backing anything which supports the European Union! So where does that leave you and me?

You guessed it! Perhaps we should try Nigel Farage who does not appear to have any links to News International or the Trade Unions. ARE YOU LISTENING! We have ONE active politician who stands up and shouts for Britain and has NO LINKS TO NEWS INTERNATIONAL OR THE TRADE UNIONS!!! He bats for Britain... !! Food for thought!

Iain RIP

Today is the first anniversary of the death of my son Iain who was killed on the A1 whilst driving his HGV home to Edinburgh in the early hours of the morning. We will never forget the shock of this unexpected accident and the dreaded knock on the door as the police came to inform us.

We are a small compact family so to lose someone who was such a larger than life character was tragic. However out of his death we met many of his friends from his HGV days and his university friends as he had just completed his law degree.

Today I received Facebook messages and I was genuinely surprised at how many people remembered him. His housemate and best friend Dan even took flowers and laid them at the accident spot. They will never know what a comfort these little acts of kindness have made to the family.

David Cameron and his friends!

When a scandal as big as 'Hackinggate' hits the fan many people are drawn into the spotlight from the sidelines. Some of these people probably thought that they were in positions of strength and suddenly discover that their lives are being exposed to a wider audience. I have often posted of a New World Order which includes certain prominent families who run the banking, energy and media worlds.

Clearly the Rothschilds are the most prominent of these families but the Murdoch group must now be closely associated along with the Astors, Rockefellas etc, etc. I was always dubious about Tony Blair's association with Rupert Murdoch because I do not consider that Mr Murdoch is a force for good. I would rather that my politicians were independently minded and not in thrall of any banker or media mogul.

There is little doubt that the European Union was established by very powerful people because so many international politicians fell into line and opposition was minimal. Only an enormously powerful influence could have got away with it. So I am afraid that anyone who supports the EU I regard as suspect.

I have always regarded David Cameron as a politician who could guide this country away from the lousy days when Gordon Brown was blundering around Downing Street and so to some extent I welcomed him as PM. However since the hacking scandal broke the mainstream media are linking him closer and closer to the Murdoch empire so that his judgement seems to be impaired.

It now appears that his social circle in Oxfordshire is immersed with the Murdoch empire to such an extent that he cannot avoid accusations that he is flawed. According to the press he shares the same friends as Tony Blair. His Christmas dinner with Charlie and Rebecca Brooks, his links to near neighbour Matthew Freud (married to Elizabeth daughter of Rupert Murdoch), a PR guru closely linked with the News of the World and the employment of Andy Coulson are at best remarkably naive for a person of Cameron's background and experience.

Reports also place him on board Nat Rothschild's yacht at one time with George Osborne and that does concern me. I realise that he is an Old Etonian and that it is highly likely that he has known some of these people socially for years but he is now the PM and should be serving the people. Mixing with these notorious bankers and media moguls is very poor judgement for a serving British PM.

Finally the Mail on Sunday detailed the political guests who attended the 40th birthday party of Elizabeth Freud (nee Murdoch). Named were David Cameron, George Osborne, Tony Blair,  Peter Mandelson, David Miliband and Tessa Jowell which makes you wonder if our vote counts at all.  I pose the question are not these leading politicians are far too close to the powerbrokers for comfort.?