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April 25, 2011 ' Comment '
Dear Sir Sometimes people are accused of being either a fool or a crook. With regard to Wednesday’s public sector day of action, the Coalition Government could be said to be either incompetent or Machiavellian. Consider this: for some of the cabinet, this is their first proper job, which may explain why they went into “negotiations”, saying this was their proposal on the table, take it or leave it, and then they were surprised when the Unions didn't’t fall over in gratitude, but wanted to negotiate. As for being Machiavellian, the other side is, the Coalition Government may want to see strike action happen. Think about what happened with the miners. First threaten the industry and stir up problems and strife, thereby weakening the unions; then shut the pits. Now consider a possible agenda – provoke public sector strikes, then make public sector strikes illegal, then reduce the number of employees, then bring in friends of the Coalition Government from America to run things when privatised I wonder what are the Coalition Government’s true motives? !

NHS reforms: American consultancy McKinsey in conflict-of-interest row

Firm receives £250,000 a year from government while also providing paid-for advice to GP's affected by changes
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April 25, 2011 ' Comment '
There are some dichotomies regarding the present government’s housing policy, which I hope a member of the Conservative Party can explain, but do not expect they will be able.
Firstly can they explain the reasoning behind  forcing people out of their council properties just when there is a shortage of low rent accommodation. Then why are they increasing social rents to 80% of market rents at the same time as trying to cap housing benefit, not to mention also trying to hold down the wages of the lowest paid in the name of competiveness. 
Further, the same Government wants to increase the discount on council house sales, thereby encouraging sales of council housing and further exacerbating the problem of lack of social housing  which they caused in the first place in the 80’s.
These actions will make a lot of people angry, but they maybe not be Conservative voters, so like the miners, they do not matter.
If the Government wants to get the debt down why try to sell more council houses which puts individuals in debt and  cause the banks  to borrow more from abroad and have less to lend to business.
Mix that with another Great Idea  - increasing our job insecurity, which the rest of Europe does not bother with, and making it harder for people to get mortgages.
With the social housing gone, high rents and limited accommodation if these people  lose their job, they will be homeless. Who will pay then and what will happen to our society.
The government’s policy needs a total rethink !

NHS reforms: American consultancy McKinsey in conflict-of-interest row

Firm receives £250,000 a year from government while also providing paid-for advice to GP's affected by changes
      www.guardian.co.uk

 

April 25, 2011 ' Comment '

May 5 nth 2011

Parish Council Elections

Waverley Council Election

Alternative Vote Referendum

If you don’t vote you can’t whinge

 






Iain Duncan-Smith talks of the sin of idleness
What of the greater sin of forcing idleness on others as the Thatcher Goverment done in the past.
When instead of using the oil revenue to modernise British industry the money went on the dole .the idea of a post-industrial economy was to produce a servant class.
Somewhere in economics, is something called supply and demard
The present Goverment is either stupid or telling fibs as takeing money out of the economy and sacking loads civil servants may increase the labour supply,but at the moment there is no labour shortage and no wage inflation.So how will creating unemployment again help the private sector create jobs?
This caused by ingorance of the Goverment, as most are millionaires, who stayed on at school into their twenties, and when they bothered to get a job it was more likley well paid and through friends. To them jobs fell into their hands, but for the rest of us the supply of jobs is less.



 

14 August 2010
 



This deficit is not the result of gross misconduct of the general population and is not limited to Britain or the fault of the Labour party. It is a global crisis that originated in meltdown of the financial and banking sector, which arguably the whole western system has been involved in in one way or another, partly because of the lack of regulations and the free reign of the market. And for which the whole western world needs to find ways of dealing with.

The messages that this government are sending out are destructive to morale and self-esteem of this country, they are punishing and threatening. It is a cheap and populist way of throwing up of values, e.g. arts against sciences (what has more grip on reality, what counts more) making the arts marketable and market-oriented. The global financial crisis shows what can happen if markets are the only measureing tool.

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David Cameron talks of broken Britain: well who broke it? The Conservatives' in the eighties with mass unemployment! Before then most people left education and went straight into a job. Then with youth unemployment the chain was broken and the idea of getting a job earning a wage: working with and being treated as an adult was gone. People left school and did not have to grow up
As regards employment the previous incarnation of the party of unemployment said " The old jobs will go and new ones come, in banking and insurance".
They did not believe it! How many people from Redland Bricks, Coopers Stick Factory or RFD finished up working in the City of London?
The post industrial economy did not work, Germany still manufactures there they have better jobs.
No the idea was to destroy the uppity working class; the policy of selling off council houses was to break up communities and now the idea of short term tenancies which will destroy communities, families even more having the same neighbours for years is helpful such as hospital runs, shopping, key holders, does social services want to spend more time and money looking after the elderly etc.
The next group to target is the unemployed Cameron's recent speech about dole scroungers demonised the unemployed they become undermenchen
So remember with this deficit reduction, austerity the new monetarism whose turn next to be unemployed no sympathy like that ,for those who caused this disaster(the City people ) ; but the real plan is so the employed the majority will not care about the unemployed and everything will look rosy

The Thatcher Years were an less an aberation than we thought
This is the true face of the Tories


Some thoughts on the New coalition Goverment

Most political parties are internal coalitions,

Their members having a range of views. The idea of broad church parties, and some sort of concesus between the members or between rank and file and the leaders

The Lib - Dems in the past had no main idology In the North they were anti Labour In the South It was Labour has no chance Vote Lib Dem to beat the Torries

In future elections how can the Lib - Dems say the only way to beat the Torries is to vote Lib-Dem
even in Labour held seats

The Academies Bill – marketisation meets sectarianism

Thatcher Years were an less an aberation than we thought
This is the true face of the Tories

10 August 2010 Comment

This deficit is not the result of gross misconduct of the general population and is not limited to Britain or the fault of the Labour party. It is a global crisis that originated in meltdown of the financial and banking sector, which arguably the whole western system has been involved in in one way or another, partly because of the lack of regulations and the free reign of the market. And for which the whole western world needs to find ways of dealing with.

The messages that this government are sending out are destructive to morale and self-esteem of this country, they are punishing and threatening. It is a cheap and populist way of throwing up of values, e.g. arts against sciences (what has more grip on reality, what counts more) making the arts marketable and market-oriented. The global financial crisis shows what can happen if markets are the only measure tool.

 

 



 

Gary McKinnon's mother hopeful of UK hacker trial



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The mother of UK computer hacker Gary McKinnon says she is "confident" the new coalition will halt his extradition to the US as early as next week. Janis Sharp said the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats promised before the election he would be tried in the UK. They would not want to be the type of government which broke its promises as soon as it took power, she said. Glasgow-born Mr McKinnon is accused of breaking into the US military computer system and faces 60 years in jail. The 43-year-old, who has Asperger's syndrome, says he was on a "moral crusade" to find classified documents about UFOs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8684746.stm



16 May2010 comment

Some thoughts on the New coalition Goverment

Most political parties are internal coalitions,

Their members having a range of views. The idea of broad church parties, and some sort of concesus between the members or between rank and file and the leaders

Now assume that David Cameron wanted to move the Consertives towards the centre.The older rank and file would not have liked it,and maybe the younger activest also

But with The Lib - Dems in coalition Cameron can modernise his party

Whether or not the Thatcher Years were an aberation or the true face of the Tories we wait and see



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20 April 2010

Comment

It is all right for the Catholic Church to be against contraception
Altar boys don't get pregnant

"The Pope is accepting some resignations from some bishops who did what he did, ie allowing the transfer of sexual predators to other venues, failing to report crimes to the appropriate authority, seeing the crimes as public relations embarrassments, to the neglect of both law and the victims."

 

Pope arrives in Malta on first foreign visit since sex scandal

Pope Benedict XVI admitted that the Roman Catholic Church had been "wounded by our sins" as he landed in Malta on his first foreign visit since the explosion of sexual abuse revelations involving priests

Two Maltese MPs have received invitations to the papal mass on Sunday while their unmarried partners were excluded, a Church spokesman said: "Had we also invited the partners ... it would mean that the Church would be condoning cohabitation."

Hypocrisy complaining about what consenting adults do.
Whilst for years covering up and moving kiddy fiddlers until found out big time

February 20, 2010

Comment

How Does what happened in Dubai
Affect People in Chiddingfold

Consider someone going on holiday to Australia, Thailand , or somewhere else
and stopover on the way and at the airport they could be accused of being an Israeli spy
Habeas corpus does hold much sway in some countries!

Reports have suggested the Hamas commander was in Dubai to buy weapons for the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas. ?

The US has long been the largest arms supplier to Israel; under a current 10-year agreement negotiated by the Bush administration the US will provide $30 billion in military aid to Israel. “As the major supplier of weapons to Israel, the USA has a particular obligation to stop any supply that contributes to gross violations of the laws of war and of human rights,” says Malcolm Smart, Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa programme director. “To a large extent, Israel’s military offensive in Gaza was carried out with weapons, munitions and military equipment supplied by the USA and paid for with US taxpayers’ money.” For their part, Palestinian militants in Gaza were arming themselves with “unsophisticated weapons” including rockets made in Russia, Iran and China and bought from “clandestine sources”, it said. About 1,300 Palestinians were killed and more than 4,000 injured during the three-week conflict. On the Israeli side 13 were killed, including three civilians. Amnesty said Israel’s armed forces carried out “direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects in Gaza, and attacks which were disproportionate or indiscriminate”. Palestinian militants also fired “indiscriminate rockets” at civilians, Amnesty says. It calls for an independent investigation into violations of international humanitarian law by both sides. Amnesty researchers in Gaza found several weapon fragments after the fighting. One came from a 500lb (227kg) Mark-82 fin-guided bomb, which had markings indicating parts were made by the US company
And no one has been killed or arrested for suppling these !


August 18, 2011

8 senior Members of Parliament attend the demonstration
Comment in support of Gary McKinnon at the Home Office

By fg on December 16, 2009 10:27 PM | 16 Comments

How much longer will the Labour government Ministers, and the Home Office senior civil servants, continue to impose their ill thought out, Kafkaesque, Extradition and Computer Misuse legislation and policies, both on Gary McKinnon, and on all of the rest us in the United Kingdom ?

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is mounting a fresh High Court challenge to stop his extradition to the US.
BBC News
16:56 GMT, Thursday, 10 December 2009

Gary McKinnon is not indicted in the USA on anything to do with the alleged "confidentiality and snoensitivity" of any information he may have gleaned. There are espionage allegations, only unsubstantiated claims of financial damage, not involving the theft of any money or goods.
If ,as he alleges, there were plenty of other hackers from around the world invading the same systems at the same time, then half the crucial witnesses and evidence such as United Kingdom Internet Service provider logfiles and the computer he used, are here in the UK, not in the USA. These may or may not prove that Gary was involved with one of the 97 systems at a particular time, but none of that prima facie evidence has been tested in any court, despite all the Extradition hearings and appeals.
Some of it would have been cross examined under the old extradition Act 1989, which was in force when Gary was arrested in 2002., but the retrospectively applied Extradition Act 2003 has prevented that.

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From The Times
October 17, 2009
Pentagon hacker wins a US extradition delay
for psychiatric review
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor
Lawyers for the Home Secretary
have agreed to delay moves to extradite Gary McKinnon,
the computer hacker, pending a review of fresh psychiatric evidence.
Last week Mr McKinnon, who has Asperger's syndrome,
was refused permission to take his case to the Supreme Court
and faced 14 days to make representations.
But government lawyers have now said
that they will set aside the 14-day deadline
to take time for consideration of the evidence.
Karen Todner, Mr McKinnon's lawyer, said:
"We do take some hope from this.
It is the first time that Alan Johnson
will have a proper opportunity to consider the reports in this case
and it shows that he is taking it seriously.
In the meantime we don't want to be hammering on his door."
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http://www.avianweb.com/plasticinouroceans.html Gary was indicted by a US court in November 2002, accused of "hacking" into over 90 US Military computer systems from here in the UK. The unjust treatment of British citizens (and others) when facing the might of the US Military "justice" system, which practices detention without trial in Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere, and stands accused of making use of torture by allied regimes ("extraordinary rendition") is an ongoing scandal. It cannot be excused even by a "war on terror". It seems only just that Gary should face any charges in a British court, and to serve any sentence, if he is found guilty, in a British prison.

 

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