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Protocols of Zion - 20
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
Any views expressed here are my own, I am not a member of or affiliated to any Political Party
John Hardon.
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this
and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear:
Don't worry about American pressure on Israel.
We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001
Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allen Poe
I'll tell you how hetrosexual I am. If I was a woman I'd be a Lesbian.
John Hardon
Where have all the Dollars gone?
Gone to Zionists everyone!
When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn
I don't think too much of this world, meet you on the next one and don't be late.
Jimi Hendrix 1969
“We are on the verge of a global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis, and the nations will
accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller 1994
"From the days of Illuminati leader Weishaupt, to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky, this worldwide conspiracy has been steadily growing"
- February 8th, 1920, Winston Churchill (Jew)
The Muslim Population Time bomb!
And still they let them flood into this once proud land of OURS.
They are breeding like Rats, make no mistake in less than 50 years they will out number us.
What are YOU going to do about it?
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 -8:29 PM - PARADISE LOST
THE BEAUTY THAT IS THE WHITE EUROPEAN RACE
SOON TO BE LOST FOREVER
Experts reckon that in 200 years time Blonde haired Blue eyed people will have become extinct through inter racial relationships. I believe it will happen sooner than that. Western Governments are actively encouraging race mixing, children are being brain washed at school and by the media to think that it is something to be proud of.
It is a New World Order policy so that future generations will have no sense of History of their ancestors, Nationalism or pride in their race as we will all look the same, swarthy mud coloured people.
Except of course the rulers, the 'elite, the illuminati, the Zionist Satanic scum that wish to exploit us and of course without the above mentioned attributes we will be nought but Cattle, much easier to control, to be slaves to the ruling dictate.
WE are the real illuminated one's, we who can see through their attempts to hide the truth of their vile satanic agenda and we must fight against them at every level using whatever means we can, or what once was and could be again Paradise on Earth will be lost forever.
John Hardon
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 -2:10 PM - *Sticky* This says it all really!
This says it all too:-)
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -6:32 PM - Do as we say, not as we do!
Source: http://us.altermedia.info
Jews Want Diversity but Not
for their Tribe
Why Can’t White's Oppose Diversity too?
by Ian Mosley
The Jews have endlessly demonized anyone who is pro-White as being a “mean, evil, hateful racist.” The average pro-White activist wants an all-White homeland, where his people can exist and control their own destiny. Curiously, the Jews stole the nation of Palestine from the former occupants, for this very same purpose for their people.
Funny how we are endlessly told that the Jewish state of Israel is “wonderful and good” while an equivalent White nation, dedicated to Whites would be “unthinkable, racist and Nazi.”
The Jews have always been very big on pushing diversity and assimilation and interracial mixing for other people, but especially for the hated White goyim. They even came up with a slogan: “eliminate racism by eliminating race.” But when it comes to their own little Jewish children, race-mixing is strictly forbidden!
According to Ha’aretz, the Israeli equivalent of the New York Times: “The Prime Minister’s Office and the Jewish Agency unveiled an aggressive advertisement campaign for the Masa project which is designed to strengthen Jewish identity among youths in the Diaspora and their bonds to Israel. One video clip likens Jews who marry outside of the religion to missing persons, with fake notices and pictures which drive home the point. As part of the campaign, similar ‘missing person’ notices will be plastered on walls around the country.”
Imagine White parents putting the picture of their 16 year old daughter on a milk carton as a missing person because she started dating a Black. Of course, we’re not allowed to shame race-mixers like that in the US, but in Israel, shaming race-mixers is state policy.
The Ha’aretz article goes on: “Masa hopes the campaign will spur the public to commit to the cause of preventing marriage to non-Jews, which Jewish Agency officials believe is tantamount to a strategic national threat. According to figures compiled by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, over 50 percent of Jews in the Diaspora marry a non-Jewish partner.”
How is racial dilution a threat to Israel but no one else? Race-mixing has produced disastrous results for millions of White families. The US is steadily losing its technical competency thanks to an invasion of Third World bunglers. If the White people of America are race-mixed out of existence, America will quickly become nothing more than yet another Third World nation. How well could a future Third World USA defend itself against an increasingly well-armed Red China?
Ha’aretz goes on: “Studies show that Jews who participate in extensive programs in Israel deepen their Jewish identity and strengthen their bond to the country. Most of them marry Jews and send their children to Jewish schools and become politically and socially active on behalf of Israel-related causes. Some of them even immigrate to Israel. The head of the campaign, Motti Scharf, compared assimilation to the critical water shortage. ‘Even though this is an existential problem, the public in Israel is displaying apathy towards it because the process is slow and not dramatic, out of sight,’ he said. ‘The time has come to put the issue on the table.’ ”
I agree, Motti. But can we White people put the issue on the table? How about Whites who “racially assimilate”? Can we shame the White sluts who give their bodies to negroes in exchange for drugs, and the White men who get mail order brides from Asia?
Why are Jews the only people in the world who are to be allowed their own country and who are allowed to be free of the curse of Diversity? There is a big difference between White separatists and the Jews. A White Separatist wants his homeland to be all-White. He doesn’t want to enslave or abuse non-Whites. He simply wants the Third World people back in their countries while he lives in his.
The Israelis however seem to delight in torturing and subjugating the hapless Palestinians, who have nowhere else to go. A Swedish newspaper recently reported Israeli soldiers were shooting Palestinian children and then having rabbis sell their organs in New Jersey. I don’t think the Jews are in any position to dictate morality to anyone.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -5:55 PM - Hate crime?
Source: http://sarahmaidofalbion.blogspot.com/
Hate by any other name
I wonder how many white Americans know that if they were attacked by a gang of Blacks, Hispanics or Asians, who beat them to the ground and then set about them with machetes, Clubs and bats, while shouting “We hate you you white [expletive] Cracker, we are doing this to you because we hate you and your whole [expletive] white race!” their attackers could not be charged with a hate crime. Even if the gang then pulled out guns and fired a dozen bullets into their heads while screaming “We hate you, hate you, we hate you!” Their murder would still not be a hate crime.
They could be murdered, raped, tortured, even dismembered alive, but, no matter how much actual hate was involved in their dispatch from this earth, it would still not count as a hate crime.
Meanwhile, however, the act of tugging a headscarf, could well be a hate crime even if no physical injury occurred. That is provided, of course, that it was not a heterosexual, white Christian wearing the headscarf at the time it was tugged, in that case, it would not be a hate crime, even if the headscarf tugging were accompanied by an assault with a 50 pound mallet.
The reason for this is that as white people, unless they are gay (since October 2009), disabled or, in some limited circumstances, female, are not a “protected class” under US anti-discrimination legislation, they are therefore, not protected by the current hate crimes legislation, and, as such, can not be the victim of a hate crime.
Technically white people over 40 are protected from discrimination, but only when the discrimination relates specifically to age, which isn't much help when they are being battered around the head by a 200 pound Negro.
Believe it or not, the same distinction does not apply in Britain, however, the effect is the same, as we all know, the police and crown prosecution service would rather crawl over red hot coals than charge a non-white person with a racially motivated crime against a white person. The terrible killing of Kriss Donald was an exception only because the authorities could not deny the racial motive of his killers, who went out looking for a white boy, snatched an innocent child from the street and tortured him to death for no reason other than the colour of his skin.
Even the CPS could not find a way to ignore that, although they certainly tried, and the media have been busily burying all memory of the case ever since.
In America that would have made no difference. In the USA, Kriss's skin colour, the very thing his murderers killed him for, would by law have prevented his murder being treated as a race hate crime. The law deliberately denies white males protection from hate crimes.
The hate crimes legislation was recently extended to include hate crimes against gays and lesbians. This move was strongly opposed by the so called Religious Right, and by many Nationalists. By doing so, they again demonstrated their seemingly suicidal instinct for picking the wrong target.
It matters not a jot that an additional minority group has been included amongst the preferred groups who have been selected for protection, what matters is that the legislation deliberately denies protection to another politically chosen section of the population.
By opposing the extension of the legislation, the Right left themselves open to, in some instances legitimate, accusations of homophobia, whilst by their very actions appearing to imply that the hate crimes legislation, as it stood, was acceptable, when it was most certainly not.
The Right allowed themselves to appear beset by irrational prejudice, whereas, in fact, the law itself was drafted on that very basis. The iniquity of the US hate crimes laws are that they exclude selected groups, based on race, gender and (now) sexual orientation, the Right should be challenging the left to defend their anti white racism and bigotry, rather that providing them with diversion to hide behind, not to mention an open goal through which they could and did call us bigots.
A law should protect everyone, or it is a bad law. The current hate crimes legislation in both its prior and post October 2009 forms is a bad law because it enshrines racial and sexual discrimination into US law, and it is that iniquity which the right should have been fighting.
Those who opposed the Matthew Shepard Act in the manner they did were defeated, because it is indefensible to argue that a law should not protect a particular group, however, that is what the law already does and why the law itself is indefensible. The exclusion of whites from the protection of hate crimes legislation is indefensible, and results entirely from bigotry and racial prejudice on the part of the left wing zealots who drafted the law.
The exclusion is based on the politically and racially motivated fantasy that most hate crimes are committed by young heterosexual white males, which is patently untrue. In fact young white males are most likely the main victims of hate crimes, statistically they are the main victims of interracial violence, and it denies all credibility to suggest that the majority of that violence does not have racial animus at its root.
There are vast areas of many US cities where an unarmed white man dare not go in peril of his life, there are far fewer, if any, areas where a black man would be at similar risk, yet it is the black man, not the white who the law protects.
Everyone knows that to send a young white man to an unsegregated American prison is cruel and unnatural punishment, the lowlife scum in Hollywood, who out sick society treat as heroes, laugh and joke about the multiple gang rape and violent abuse of white men in prison, crimes which are far less likely to be inflicted on a black man. Yet, at the same time political correctness bars the authorities from even acknowledging this let alone protecting the victims, for no reason other than that the victims are white and their abusers black.
America is littered with hidden hate crimes which are not acknowledged as such because the law is not intended to protect white people.
In 2002, the Carr brothers, Reginald and Jonathan, raped, sodomised and tortured five young whites in Wichita, inflicting acts of extreme violence and humiliation on them including forcing the three young male victims to perform involuntary sexual acts both on each other and on the female victims, before taking them naked into the frozen winter countryside and shooting each, execution style (amazingly one of the two female victims survived). Shortly after killing four of their victims the Carrs attempted to hijack another woman, again a white one, almost certainly with the same motive.
Despite the fact that the brothers were black and all their victims white and in the face of the obvious hatred involved in their crime, the authorities laughably (should that be contemptibly?) declared that “race played no part” in the crime and the brothers did not face hate crimes charges. This was of course a charade, they could not have been charged with a hate crime because of the skin colour of their victims.
Likewise, none of those charged and currently standing trial for the brutal 2007 rape and murder of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville can face hate crimes charges, despite the level of brutality involved. Brutality minimised and suppressed by the national media, who even denied that genital mutilation had been inflicted, until one lawyer fainted in court at the sight of the photographs.
I defy anyone to suggest that the killers in both the Wichita and Knoxville cases would not have been automatically charged with hate crimes had the races been reversed.
The abject hypocrisy was exposed n the Knoxville case when the prosecution argued that racism could not be involved because one of the defendants had previously dated a drug addled white girl. This ignored the fact that he had actually beaten the woman, and also than out in Virginia, Bobby Ray Brewster faced hate crimes charges for allegedly beating and raping his own black girlfriend, a crime the alleged "victim" now claims never occurred.
in ways such as this the authorities will perform somersaults to avoid charging a non white person with a hate crime against a white person, because they don't want to admit that the law does not permit them to do so.
Some actually argue that whites are not entitled to such protection because “whites have power”. This echoes that deeply evil and unpleasant old bigot Jo Brand's claim that you can't be racist against whites for the same reason. These claims completely ignore the fact that in numerical terms both in America and in Britain there are more deprived white people living beneath the poverty line than all other racial groups .
The lying media will throw statistics at us to prove otherwise, but in terms of the numbers of people officially living in poverty, there are more whites than any other group, in America it is more than twice as many.
They have no power, why are they not entitled to protection?
The left will no doubt claim that even deprived whites have power because other whites do. However, this is like claiming that the average citizen in a third world dictatorship has power because those at the top of their society have billions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts and enjoy more power over others in their country than a white man has dreamed of since the Romanovs were shot in Ekaterinburg.
The assertion is not merely hypocritical it is deceitful, and deliberately so.
The reason that “Hate crimes” do not protect white people because they are designed to fit a fake world view within an entirely fake world, which exists only in the agenda deluded minds of the true believers and and possibly the script writers of CSI Vegas and Law and Order Special Victims Unit. A politically correct fantasy world where all hate victims are black or brown and all hate criminals are white, male and preferably “preppy”.
As the left in Britain cling to their tiny number of totem white perpetrator hate crimes, such as the tragic murders of Stephen Lawrence and Anthony Walker, whilst ignoring the far higher number of crimes which do not fit their chosen narrative, the American left have their celebrated handful of anti-black hate crimes, which they constantly roll out whenever they need to distract the public from what is really happening. The most famous of this relatively small number of white perpetrator hate crimes is the truly terrible murder of James Byrd Jnr.
However, even that awful crime is not exactly what it seems. The main perpetrator in the killing of James Byrd Jnr, a man called John King, had himself been the victim of multiple hate crimes, having been subjected to repeated gang rapes by black men in prison not long before the killing.
King had shown no previous evidence of being a "racist" before he went to prison, but he had become one by the time he came out. This does not, in any way excuse what was done to James Byrd Jnr, but who can doubt that had a black man been repeatedly raped and brutalised by white men, this would most certainly have been held up as mitigation no matter how awful a crime he then went on to commit.
It is not my purpose to defend John King, merely to point out our society does not permit him the claim to mitigation which they would willingly grant a black man, merely because King is white.
The fact hate crimes legislation enshrines anti-white racism into US law is hardly surprising in a country where a Hispanic anti-white racist and feminist bigot has just been appointed to the Supreme court, and where the legal system conspires to deny “standing” to anyone question the highly dubious eligibility of their affirmatively appointed president. However, the prejudice behind this law goes further, as anti white racism has become an increasingly prominent feature in popular culture.
In music hip-hop and rap are not only valued above blue grass, but they is now valued above the classical greats, and certainly never mocked and disparaged in the same way. When the public watch the popular soaps they see dim and dawkish whites confronting bright and confident blacks and their cop shows are all about white crime, black heroes and politically correct victims.
All the while Americas superpower strength is falling away, its streets are less safe and its infrastructure is crumbling. As its once great cities like Baltimore, Cleveland and St Louis follow New Orleans and Detroit into crime ridden decay and social collapse one is left to wonder if this was somehow the aim.
We in Europe should tremble as we watch, because what happens in America today will most likely happen here tomorrow and the same dark forces that steer our course steer theirs. There is an agenda to what is going on and it is not an agenda designed to serve us of European origin well.
As with so much else, the true hate behind the hate crimes laws lurks in the hearts of those who drafted them, and they have only just begun.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -5:51 PM - Filling the country with immigrant scum for votes!
Source: http://www.thegreenarrow.co.uk/
They, the enemy of the people hide behind selective discrimination and fake moral outrage. There is no pretence; they know there will be no reaction from the native people because those who dare complain will be accused of being racist which in the mind of these rabid imbeciles is an accusation worse than being accused of being a paedophile. It is not the people of this land who are racists but is rather a childish accusation that is wielded as a big stick by the people who are trying their best to change this country into something that it is not.
How often have you read in the positions vacant column of newspapers, only blacks and people of an ethnic minority need apply? I would call that racist and discriminatory. Would you find similar requirements for positions in Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Indian, Turkish, Chinese or Japanese newspapers? No, this rule does not apply; it is only applicable in countries subservient to the EUSSR. They make the rules, our government submits to them, and we as a cowed race blindly obey them.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -5:45 PM - Fighting for the corporations and the Zionist NWO scum that own them!
Source: http://www.thegreenarrow.co.uk/
Copied from Land and People
By Mercia
Today we return, yet again, to the subject of what is really behind the phoney “War on Terror”, in general and the war in Afghanistan, in particular. For the last month or so, we have been making it clear that the military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war by proxy in Georgia/South Ossetia, the US military presence in Kosovo and the sabre rattling over Iran is about cornering the World’s oil and gas assets, be that oil/gas fields or pipelines, in the cold light of the dawning of the epoch of Peak Oil/Gas. Of course, and for reasons that are only too obvious, the Establishment, through their bought and paid for politicians and media, would rather that we believed it was to do with “bringing democracy” and “fighting terrorism”. What utter hogwash!
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:26 PM - Suprise, suprise!
Obama Restores Mossad
Spy’s Visa
'Uzi Arad met with Larry Franklin in the Pentagon cafeteria to shoot the breeze (if you believe Arad). I’ve got a few other ideas what they were doing. Because this senior Mossad operative was caught poaching U.S. secrets from Pentagon officials his U.S. visa was revoked by the Bush Administration in 2007.
But given that we’re talking about Israel here, its spies seems to have the resilience of a Punch and Judy show clown. Knock ‘em down a few times and they bounce right back. At least, that’s what’s happened to Arad. After being appointed Bibi Netanyahu’s national security advisor, he gained a new lease on life. The Obama administration also restored Arad’s visa.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:23 PM - When enough becomes never enough!
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Shareholders Demand
Goldman Bonuses
'Goldman Sachs has had to defend itself from angry taxpayers, regulators, the government – and now its own shareholders. Some of the US investment bank's largest investors are furious about the New York-based firm paying record bonuses to its staff – bonuses are estimated to be $717,000 (£435,000) each for 2009, the biggest payout in the firm's 140 years. Investors claim that now profits are back, rewards should go first to shareholders because they suffered the cost of the credit crunch more than anybody else.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:19 PM - Satan Rules OK..... No it fucking ain't ok
The Roots of Evil in
Jerusalem
'As this entire report will be built around the construction of this building order by the Rothchilds I should show you a picture of the building. A friend of mine took this picture as he and his wife flew over the area a couple years ago. The Supreme Court building sits on a plot of land opposite the Knesset and next to the Foreign Ministry and the Central bank of Israel.
It is important to keep in mind that it sits in line with the Knesset, for we will be talking about Ley-Lines that cross under this pyramid running to the Knesset, with other ley-lines that cross in perfect order to the center of Jerusalem and on to the Rockefellow Museum. Everything about this building has been thought out to the very finest detail, and it is diabolical.
The Devils plan has been put into place before we ever had an idea of his plan. He knows his final battle will be here in Jerusalem.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:16 PM - 'lying, snake-eyed, scumbags with a hole inside them where their soul used to be.'
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When the Dog Poet Gets His
Flying Saucer Back.
'No, I am not shocked and dismayed. Quite frankly I am gleeful because, ‘it appears’ that some major league fraudsters, right up there with the 9/11 Commission who blamed the attacks on Muslims, instead of The Mossad and The CIA, who actually did the attack, have been caught intentionally lying about- and cooking the weather books- global warming. It goes without saying that they were probably all in for a piece of the pending world carbon tax or… they could just naturally be lying, snake-eyed, scumbags with a hole inside them where their soul used to be.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:12 PM - We are now living in a Fascist governed state were freedom is fast becoming a thing of the past!
Britain's New Internet Law --
As Bad as Everyone's Been Saying,
and Worse. Much, Much Worse.
'The real meat is in the story we broke yesterday: Peter Mandelson, the unelected Business Secretary, would have the power to make up as many new penalties and enforcement systems as he likes. And he says he's planning to appoint private militias financed by rightsholder groups who will have the power to kick you off the internet, spy on your use of the network, demand the removal of files or the blocking of websites, and Mandelson will have the power to invent any penalty, including jail time, for any transgression he deems you are guilty of. And of course, Mandelson's successor in the next government would also have this power.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -3:09 PM - More on the bull shit global warming scam.
Oceans to Fall, Not Rise,
Over Millions of Years
'Sea levels are set to fall over millions of years, making the current rise blamed on climate change a brief interruption of an ancient geological trend, scientists said on Thursday. They said oceans were getting deeper and sea levels had fallen by about 170 meters (560 ft) since the Cretaceous period 80 million years ago when dinosaurs lived. Previously, the little-understood fall had been estimated at 40 to 250 meters.'
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:55 PM - Things are just going from bad to fucking worse!
Source: http://www.express.co.uk
MARGARET ASHTON'S EURO
ROLE MUST BE FINAL NAIL IN
LABOUR'S COFFIN
OF ALL the acts this dying and discredited Government has foisted upon us it is hard to match the appointment of Baroness Ashton as Foreign Minister for Europe for sheer cynicism.
The Prime Minister informed us it is a “success” to have a Briton in the job. As he knows it is the exact opposite.
The appointment of Lady Ashton means that Britain no longer has a European commissioner with a specific portfolio, leaving the field wide open for France and Germany to manoeuvre one of their own politicians into a role that encompasses banking and the financial markets.
Then they can set up a thicket of regulation to choke the lifeblood out of the City of London and transfer its status as one of the top three global financial centres to a central European country instead.
Given that possible outcome what Gordon Brown has allowed to happen is one step away from treachery but should we be surprised?
This is a Government that in the 12 long years it has been in power has brought the country to its knees: destroying our pensions system, once the envy of the civilised world, dumbing down the education system to an extent that illiteracy in some areas is becoming the norm, deliberately tempting as much of the population as it could manage on to benefits in order to buy their votes... and now it’s giving away our sovereignty, too.
We can only pray that David Cameron means it when he says that he will not allow more power to be ceded to the EU without a new treaty.
In the meantime the current incumbents must go down as one of the worst governments in history. The election can’t come soon enough.
Socialist with a Dalek at home
Baroness Ashton keeps a full-size Dalek in her home
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:50 PM - I say fuck the EU we should get out of it!
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Daniel Hannan: EU is 'in
a democratic mess'
The European Union is an economic, demographic and democratic mess, writes Daniel Hannan.
Published: 11:42AM GMT 21 Nov 2009
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"It's all very well to criticise, Hannan, but what would you do if you were in Van Rompuy's shoes?" So asked a euro-enthusiast friend when I had finished tearing into Thursday night's stitch-up.
It's a fair question, and it won't quite do to answer that I wouldn't be starting from here. The EU is in an economic mess: its share of world GDP will fall from 26 per cent to 15 per cent in 2025. It is in a demographic mess: 40 years of low birth rates have left it with a choice between depopulation and mass immigration. And it is in a democratic mess, with turnouts plummeting.
So what would I do? Step one is easy: I'd abolish the Common Agricultural Policy, thereby giving a greater boost to Europe's economies than any number of bail-outs and stimulus packages. Food prices would fall sharply: the average family would save more than £1,000 a year in grocery bills, with the greatest savings being made by those on the lowest incomes. Scrapping the CAP would also be the single greatest gift Europe could give the Third World. It would remove the main barrier to a full WTO agreement. Oh, and it would take a penny off income tax into the bargain.
With the CAP out of the way, it would be easy enough to dismantle the rest of the Common External Tariff. I'd phase out all structural, cohesion and social funds, releasing armies of consultants and contractors to more productive work. Ditto the staffs of dozens of euro-quangos: the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs, the European Food Safety Authority, the European Chemicals Authority, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and so on.
Now the biggie: deregulation. According to the Commissioner for Enterprise, Gunther Verheugen, the benefits of the single market are worth around 180 billion euros a year, while the cost of complying with Brussels rules is 600 billion euros. In other words, by its own admission, the EU costs more than it's worth. The solution? Heap the bonfire with pages of the acquits communautaire: the EU's amassed regulations. Scrap the directives that tell us what hours we can work, what vitamins we can buy, how long we can sit on tractors, how loudly we can play our music. Return power to national governments or, better, to local authorities – or, best of all, to individual citizens.
I would confine the EU's jurisdiction to matters of a clearly cross-border nature: tariff reduction, environmental pollution, mutual product recognition. The member states would retain control of everything else: agriculture and fisheries, foreign affairs and defence, immigration and criminal justice, and social and employment policy.
The European Commission could then be reduced to a small secretariat, answering to national ministers. The European Court of Justice could be replaced by a tribunal that would arbitrate trade disputes. The European Parliament could be scrapped altogether; instead, seconded national MPs might meet for a few days every month or two to keep an eye on the bureaucracy.
You will, of course, have spotted the flaw in my plan: it would put an awful lot of Eurocrats out of work. Which, sadly, is why it won't happen. For, whatever the motives of its founders, the EU is now chiefly a racket: a massive mechanism to redistribute money to those lucky enough to be on the inside of the system.
Daniel Hannan is Conservative MEP for South East England. Read his Telegraph blog here
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:37 PM - The Marxist EUSSR pushing to scam us for even more money!
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news
Herman Van Rompuy:
Europe's first president
to push for 'Euro tax'
Herman Van Rompuy, Europe's first president, is to join forces with the European Commission to push for sweeping new tax raising powers for Brussels.
By Bruno Waterfield and Justin Stares in Brussels and Colin Freeman
Published: 7:00AM GMT 22 Nov 2009
Within days of taking office in January, the former Belgian prime minister will put his weight behind controversial proposals already floated by the commission's head, José Manuel Barroso, for a new "Euro tax".
He will add credence to Mr Barroso's plans, to be formally tabled in the New Year, by arguing for a Euro-version of a "Tobin Tax" – a levy on financial transactions already floated by Gordon Brown as a solution to the international banking crisis. It would result in a stream of income direct to Brussels coffers, funding budgets that critics say are already rife with waste and overspending.
Mr Van Rompuy, 62, who was appointed to the newly-created £320,000-a-year post at last week's special EU summit, set out his stall on direct Euro-taxes during a private speech at a recent meeting of the Bilderberg group of top politicians, bankers and businessmen. The group officially meets in secret, but when selected details of his remarks leaked out, his office was forced to issue a public statement on his behalf.
"The financing of the welfare state, irrespective of the social reform we implement, will require new resources," he said. "The possibility of financial levies at European level needs to be seriously reviewed."
Mr Barroso, whose commission acts as the European Union's executive arm and civil service, has set out alternative plans for a Euro tax that would involve Brussels taking directly a fixed percentage of VAT and fuel duties. While these taxes already help to fund EU spending – set at £121 billion next year – they are currently gathered by the treasuries of individual nation states, from which varying sums are paid into EU coffers.
A new Euro tax could appear on all shopping and petrol station receipts, showing the amount of VAT or fuel duty creamed off directly to Brussels. Supporters say it would take a fixed proportion of the existing tax revenue rather than increase it overall, and make the cost to taxpayers of running the EU more transparent. Critics argue this could backfire by increasing anti-Brussels sentiment.
Mr Van Rompuy has not set out in detail exactly which tax raising mechanisms he favours most, but after the Bilderberg meeting his spokesman said he would look favourably on either green taxes or a version of the Tobin Tax, originally proposed in 1972 by the US economist James Tobin as a tax on currency speculation.
Mr Brown floated this earlier this month as a way of financing future bail outs of the banking system, although he meant it for global rather than purely European purposes.
But whichever revenue-raising mechanism was used, the backing of two of Europe's most senior apparatchiks for the idea in principle will give it extra momentum.
Opponents of the idea could also underestimate Mr Van Rompuy's determination to get his own way. Ostensibly chosen for his new job because of his skill as a consensus-builder, he is also known as a skilled and ruthless political operator, who is happy to play rough as well as smooth. Last year he ordered the locks to be changed on a chamber in the Belgian parliament in order to prevent deputies holding a politically disruptive debate. According to Belgian newspaper De Morgen, van Rompuy told colleagues a few weeks ago that to achieve a top EU function you must "not ask for high office, but become a grey mouse, and offers will come."
Mr Barroso, meanwhile, has just been reappointed to his post by member states for a second five year term, freeing him to push his tax agenda in bolder fashion than before. Any move towards Euro taxes, however, will encounter bitter opposition from British Conservatives.
"Any kind of harmonised tax system will remove control over our national tax systems," said Timothy Kirkhope, leader of the
Britain's Conservative MEPs. "Competition in Europe depends on member states being allowed to have competitive tax regimes."
In opposing any Euro-tax plans, the Tories will find an unlikely ally in Mr Van Rompuy's sister Christine, 54, a left-wing nurse who joined the Marxist Belgian Workers' Party after witnessing the Belgian government's privatisation of the health service. She is now one of her brother's staunchest political critics, and the brochure used by her party features a picture of her brother dressed as a clown.
"I disagree with my brother's ideas for a green tax," she said. "Any new taxes would be paid by the poor. We need to tax the rich."
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:30 PM - The governments conduct concerning the illegal war in Iraq has been a bloody disgrace.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news
Iraq report: Secret papers
reveal blunders and
concealment
The “appalling” errors that contributed to Britain’s failure in Iraq are disclosed in the most detailed and damning set of leaks to emerge on the conflict.
By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 9:58PM GMT 21 Nov 2009
On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday Telegraph has obtained hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels.
They include full transcripts of extraordinarily frank classified interviews in which British Army commanders vent their frustration and anger with ministers and Whitehall officials.
The reports disclose that:
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning for a full invasion and regime change began in February 2002.
The need to conceal this from Parliament and all but “very small numbers” of officials “constrained” the planning process. The result was a “rushed”operation “lacking in coherence and resources” which caused “significant risk” to troops and “critical failure” in the post-war period.
Operations were so under-resourced that some troops went into action with only five bullets each. Others had to deploy to war on civilian airlines, taking their equipment as hand luggage. Some troops had weapons confiscated by airport security.
Commanders reported that the Army’s main radio system “tended to drop out at around noon each day because of the heat”. One described the supply chain as “absolutely appalling”, saying: “I know for a fact that there was one container full of skis in the desert.”
The Foreign Office unit to plan for postwar Iraq was set up only in late February, 2003, three weeks before the war started.
The plans “contained no detail once Baghdad had fallen”, causing a “notable loss of momentum” which was exploited by insurgents. Field commanders raged at Whitehall’s “appalling” and “horrifying” lack of support for reconstruction, with one top officer saying that the Government “missed a golden opportunity” to win Iraqi support. Another commander said: “It was not unlike 1750s colonialism where the military had to do everything ourselves.”
The documents emerge two days before public hearings begin in the Iraq Inquiry, the tribunal appointed under Sir John Chilcot, a former Whitehall civil servant, to “identify lessons that can be learnt from the Iraq conflict”. Senior military officers and relatives of the dead have warned Sir John against a “whitewash”.
The documents consist of dozens of “post-operational reports” written by commanders at all levels, plus two sharply-worded “overall lessons learnt” papers – on the war phase and on the occupation – compiled by the Army centrally.
The analysis of the war phase describes it as a “significant military success” but one achieved against a “third-rate army”. It identifies a long list of “significant” weaknesses and notes: “A more capable enemy would probably have punished these shortcomings severely.”
The analysis of the occupation describes British reconstruction plans as “nugatory” and “hopelessly optimistic”. It says that coalition forces were “ill-prepared and equipped to deal with the problems in the first 100 days” of the occupation, which turned out to be “the defining stage of the campaign”. It condemns the almost complete absence of contingency planning as a potential breach of Geneva Convention obligations to safeguard civilians.
The leaked documents bring into question statements that Mr Blair made to Parliament in the build up to the invasion. On July 16 2002, amid growing media speculation about Britain’s future role in Iraq, Mr Blair was asked: “Are we then preparing for possible military action in Iraq?” He replied: “No.”
Introducing the now notorious dossier on Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, on Sept 24, 2002, Mr Blair told MPs: “In respect of any military options, we are not at the stage of deciding those options but, of course, it is important — should we get to that point — that we have the fullest possible discussion of those options.”
In fact, according to the documents, “formation-level planning for a [British] deployment [to Iraq] took place from February 2002”.
The documents also quote Maj Gen Graeme Lamb, the director of special forces during the Iraq war, as saying: “I had been working the war up since early 2002.”
The leaked material also includes sheaves of classified verbatim transcripts of one-to-one interviews with commanders recently returned from Iraq – many critical of the Whitehall failings that were becoming clear. At least four commanders use the same word – “appalling” – to describe the performance of the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence.
Documents describe the “inability to restore security early during the occupation” as the “critical failure” of the deployment and attack the “absence of UK political direction” after the war ended.
One quotes a senior British officer as saying: “The UK Government, which spent millions of pounds on resourcing the security line of operations, spent virtually none on the economic one, on which security depended.”
Many of the documents leaked to The Sunday Telegraph deal with key questions for Sir John Chilcot and his committee, such as whether planning was adequate, troops properly equipped and the occupation mishandled, and will almost certainly be seen by the inquiry.
However, it is not clear whether they will be published by it.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:20 PM - The government are courting an ever more 'Islamification of Britain' agenda.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk
Where are all these militant
atheists ruining Britain?
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremists
As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. The readers of Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and Christopher Hitchens are, they tell us, crass because they do not appreciate the mystery of religion, the consolations of ritual and all the rest of it, and also dangerous because they are as fundamentalist in their criticisms of religion as the religious fanatics they criticise.
I could waste your time by pointing out that "new atheists" are not so different from old atheists – we still don't believe in God, for instance – and add that the charge of moral equivalence would be easier to substantiate if atheists planted bombs on the underground. But space is short and the depressing truth about "new atheists" no one dwells on is that if they exist outside the imaginations of religious writers, they are never there when you need them. For if we had a vibrant atheist or secularist movement in Britain, it would now be tearing into this government for once again trying to ride the Islamist tiger.
Last Sunday, John Denham, the communities secretary, announced: "Anyone wanting to build a more progressive society would ignore the powerful role of faith at their peril. We should continually seek ways of encouraging and enhancing the contribution faith communities make on the central issues of our time."
As the week wore on, it became clear what type of "faith communities" Labour wanted to put at the centre of its "progressive society". Denham is forcing out of his department Azhar Ali, an adviser from the heart of the Labour movement (he was once the Labour leader of Pendle council). Ali's crime was that he opposed Islamism while advising Tony Blair, Ruth Kelly and Hazel Blears.
After Daud Abdullah, the deputy general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, signed a declaration advocating attacks on the Royal Navy if Gordon Brown sent ships to impose an arms blockade on Gaza, Ali told his comrades to cut all links. He might have said that a centre-left party should never have had links with the MCB in the first place. It contains supporters of the Arab Muslim Brotherhood and the south Asian Jamaat-e-Islami. Arab liberals know the Brotherhood to be the enemy of every enlightened value they hold, while their Bangladeshi equivalents regard Jamaat in the same way Observer readers regard the BNP, only worse because Jamaat murderers collaborated in the Pakistani army's crimes during the Bangladeshi war of independence.
That brief moment of principled politics is over. There's talk of the government giving the MCB's Sir Iqbal "death perhaps is a bit too easy for Salman Rushdie" Sacranie a peerage. Meanwhile, ministers are about to cut financial support for Sufi Muslims who, like the majority of Britain's Muslims, Sunni or Shia, are not represented by the MCB.
The fix is in and Islamists are all over Whitehall again. Denham is entertaining Inayat Bunglawala of the MCB, who gave a taste of the "progressive" policies Labour is encouraging when he wrote an article defending Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a preacher who recommends wife-beating, genital mutilation of girls and the murder of apostates and homosexuals. Earlier this year, the sheikh said of Adolf Hitler's massacre's of the Jews: "This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers."
Astute outsiders look at people who were on the 20th-century left and notice that they have gone from calling themselves "socialists" to "social democrats" to "third wayers" to "progressives" in rapid succession. They might have wondered what the new "progressive" label means. Now they know.
Over at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls is as keen on appeasing the churches as Denham is on appeasing radical Islam. Last week, the National Secular Society (of which I am a patron) described how Labour allowed faith schools to reject applications from non-religious teachers solely on the grounds that they doubted the presence of supernatural beings or worshipped the wrong supernatural being. The rebuttal Balls's department issued was so vituperative and inaccurate that civil servants had to take the virtually unheard-of step of withdrawing it and thus tacitly acknowledge the truth of the secularists' claim that the only people New Labour allowed employers to discriminate against were atheists and sceptics.
You don't need to be a political tactician to understand Labour's dog-whistle politics. Balls is playing both sides by alleging that the Tories would bring creationism to the classroom while doing nothing to restrict religious control of schools. At the Department for Communities, I am told that real power does not rest with the ineffective John Denham, but Shahid Malik, his deputy, who perhaps hopes that appeasing Jamaat and the Brotherhood will help him keep the core vote in his Dewsbury seat and enable a few other desperate Labour MPs to survive a potential Tory landslide as well.
No minister, though, imagines that they will pay a political price as hundreds of thousands of "new atheists" walk away in disgust. Which is not to say that a price will not be paid, just that it will come in a coinage no Observer reader should want to accept. Communalist politics do not always generate a liberal backlash; more often, communalism merely produces heightened communal tension.
Sufis are now promising to tell Dewsbury Muslims not to vote for Malik, which is no more than he deserves. More seriously, a revival of the left's affair with Islamism can only help the BNP by convincing the white working class that their rulers hypocritically denounce racial conspiracy theories, misogyny and homophobia when they come from the followers of Nick Griffin, but not when they come from the friends of Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
It is a dismal way to imagine Britain's longest period of left-wing rule ending, but perhaps it will take the BNP winning a parliamentary contest or so splitting the Labour vote that the Tories come through the middle in "safe" seats for the party to realise you cannot be a fairweather anti-fascist or part-time leftist without your "progressive society" turning to dust.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:13 PM - The Governments 'Citizenship rules' are just completely useless.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk
From The Sunday Times
November 22, 2009
Citizenship language scam exposed
David Leppard and Kevin Dowling
Immigrants who don’t understand English have been able to buy language certificates that give them the right to settle in Britain.
An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that staff at English language colleges in London and Birmingham have been offering migrants who speak little or no English Home Office-regulated English and Citizenship certificates for £250 each.
Tests are rigged to allow almost anyone to pass.
Staff hand out crib sheets with questions and answers in English. Others let candidates write the sound of English words on the sheets in their own tongue, so the answers appear right, but they don’t know what they are saying.
At the UK Learning Academy in Birmingham, a staff assessor told an undercover reporter that candidates did not have to take any courses or speak any English to pass the tests. The assessor simply asked if the candidate knew their own name, date of birth and address. When told that they did, the assessor replied: “That’s all right then. That’s a guaranteed pass.”
Yesterday the Academy said it had sacked the assessor for “gross misconduct”. Directors at a second college under investigation said they had suspended its English course, while a third college removed the website advertising its course.
Chris Grayling, shadow home secretary, said: “These revelations are particularly alarming and reveal another major abuse of our system for immigration.” He called for the certificates to be suspended.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -2:08 PM - Zionist managing director of NWO (UK) Inc wants more power to meddle in foreign affairs.
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk
From The Sunday Times
November 22, 2009
Lord Mandelson tells
Gordon Brown:
make me foreign
secretary
Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson at the
Employment Summit in central London
Isabel Oakeshott and Jonathan Oliver
Gordon Brown is facing demands to make Lord Mandelson foreign secretary in a row that risks tearing apart his government.
The business secretary is secretly pressing Brown to hold a cabinet reshuffle so he can achieve his life-long ambition of running the Foreign Office. Mandelson made the request after he was snubbed for the post of European Union foreign minister at last week’s Brussels summit.
Mandelson’s reshuffle call puts the prime minister in a perilous position as he struggles to retain the support of the most powerful figures in the cabinet.
If he bows to Mandelson’s wishes, he risks alienating David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and his ally Ed Balls, the schools secretary, who is still eager for promotion. If he refuses Mandelson’s demand, he risks losing his loyalty with potentially devastating consequences for the election.
A well placed No 10 insider said: “This is highly delicate. He’s facing opposing demands from the most powerful people in the cabinet. He can’t square the circle." Mandelson is known to harbour ambitions to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather Herbert Morrison, who was briefly foreign secretary in the 1940s.
The Sunday Times understands that the business secretary was promised the job if Miliband became the EU’s high representative. When Miliband again turned down the role last week, Mandelson launched an 11th-hour bid to secure the Brussels job for himself.
According to insiders, the business secretary was still canvassing for the EU role as late as last Thursday. However, in a tense telephone conversation with Brown as Mandelson travelled by train to Birmingham, the prime minister told the business secretary that he wanted him to remain in Britain.
In a development known to just a handful of cabinet ministers, Mandelson is now pressing Brown to move him to the Foreign Office, pushing Miliband aside.
“Gordon promised Mandelson he would get the foreign secretary job if Miliband went to Brussels,” said the high level source. “That fell through. Now Mandelson is pressing Gordon very hard to make him foreign secretary anyway. He thinks it is his last chance to achieve a life-time ambition.”
Mandelson is said to believe that Brown can risk moving ministers because it is too late for a coup against him. Brown is willing in principle, but he would have to find a suitably senior role for Miliband. One option could be a direct job swap, effectively making Miliband deputy prime minister.
However, such a limited reshuffle risks bitterly disappointing Balls, Brown’s most loyal lieutenant, who still has his sights on becoming chancellor. The No 10 source said: “Gordon told Ed that if David went to Brussels and a re-shuffle followed, he would try to make him chancellor. Ed is still hoping for the job.”
Neither Miliband nor Alistair Darling, the chancellor, is thought to know of the discussions. Publicly, Mandelson has insisted that his only aims are to help Labour win a fourth term. His campaign for a foreign affairs role suggests he may now be pursuing a separate agenda, having lost faith in Brown.
A spokesman for Mandelson said: “Peter is happy where he is.” No 10 also denied the claims.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -1:59 PM - This story shows just how fucking rediculous this country has become under the loony PC Marxists!
Source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk
From The Sunday Times
November 22, 2009
Mimicking of Sir Trevor McDonald
lands ITV with £5m lawsuit
AN ITV newsreader has been accused of imitating Sir Trevor McDonald by a female presenter who is bringing a £5m racism and ageism case against the television company.
Lisa Aziz, the first Asian news presenter to appear on national terrestrial television, claims that Steve Scott “regularly mimicked” the famous Afro-Caribbean newsreader’s accent during rehearsals.
Scott, a former ITN Africa correspondent and a regular presenter of ITV’s lunchtime and weekend news bulletins, is also alleged, in papers prepared for an employment tribunal, to have imitated Pakistani and Irish accents and the accent of Alex Beresford, the black ITV weatherman.
The troubled television firm has been forced to launch an internal investigation into allegations of racism at ITV West Country in Bristol where Aziz and Scott co-presented the nightly news programme until she was suspended over alleged expenses irregularities in June.
Although the investigation has cleared Scott of racism, the presenter has decided to stop doing his impersonations.
Scott declined to comment on the claims. But he has told friends that he has never imitated McDonald and his imitations of other colleagues are in good humour and “definitely not racist”.
The case, due to be heard at a tribunal in March, will add to the woes of ITV. The company has been mired in a long-running financial crisis which has led to hundreds of job cuts and criticism over its bungled search for a new chief executive. It will be one of the first challenges to face Archie Norman, who was last week appointed to take over from Michael Grade as chairman.
Aziz, a 47-year-old single mother of two and a guest at Chequers of Sarah and Gordon Brown, is suing ITV for race, sex and age discrimination. She claims she was “set up” by senior ITV managers on a bogus expenses-fiddling charge. She alleges that they wanted to remove her from her £160,000-a-year post as part of a cost-cutting exercise. The company denies the charges.
In papers submitted to her legal team in preparation for the case, she alleges that she is a victim of “a cult of youth” in which “institutional ageism” in TV treats older female staff less favourably than older male staff.
In an interview last week she claimed that, like Selina Scott and Moira Stewart, she has been “targeted for removal” in favour of younger women presenters. “I have been replaced by four blondes in their twenties and thirties,” she said.
Selina Scott, 57, became the first high-profile female television presenter to win compensation on grounds of age discrimination last December. She won a reported £250,000 and an apology over her claim that Channel 5 had replaced her for being too old.
The Aziz case is causing turmoil inside ITV’s London headquarters, with senior executives dreading being called to defend their alleged treatment of one of ITV’s most experienced news presenters at a public hearing.
Clive Jones, the chairman of GMTV who as chief executive of ITV News poached Aziz from Sky News in 2005, is one powerful ally who may be called as a witness for her. He has privately told friends he believes the case is “pointless, stupid and unnecessary”.
As well as the allegations against Scott, Aziz claims one colleague asked her to “call in her terrorist mates” to help compile a story about Andrew Ibrahim, an Islamist extremist who was convicted last July of plotting terror attacks in Bristol.
A second white employee, she claims, complained that Aziz “wasn’t one of us” and objected to colleagues about having to go on a racial awareness course.
She says a third employee sought to “demean” her by asking her to fetch “some Muslim garb a man might wear” for a television reconstruction of the Ibrahim case.
Earlier this year ITV was reorganised into six newly created super regions as part of a drastic cost-cutting exercise. At ITV West, subsequently renamed ITV West Country, all employees, including Aziz, were forced to re-apply for their jobs. A new expenses regime was also introduced, apparently causing confusion among some staff.
As a lead presenter, Aziz had always been entitled to claim expenses for dry cleaning her clothes and hair-dressing. She claims she was “ambushed” by her head of news and a human resources manager who effectively accused her of defrauding ITV over a claim for a dry-cleaning bill of £5.75p.
“It was like I was Bernie Madoff,” she said. “The most insignificant of expenses queries were dangled in front of me as if I were a criminal who’d masterminded the crash of Lehman Brothers.”
The bill was wrongly labelled “child’s top” — a mistake she says the dry cleaners later rectified in a signed statement gathered by Aziz. She accuses the company of conducting a “Sherlock Holmes-style investigation” into her expenses, sending junior employees “undercover” to check up on her hair-dressing and dry cleaning bills. She alleges managers ran “informants” to gather information about her, and other staff “intercepted” her mail.
After her claims, ITV bosses were forced to carry out a lengthy internal inquiry into alleged racism and inappropriate behaviour among staff at its Bristol offices.
Peter Herbert QC, her lawyer, is expected to demand that ITV bosses disclose the results at the tribunal hearing.
“The treatment of Lisa Aziz is a serious indictment of senior management at ITV. [We] deplore such allegedly sexist and racist behaviour,” he said.
Aziz is now on sick pay and receiving counselling at the Priory clinic for work-related stress. She is claiming punitive damages for the impact the allegations have had her on health.
Last week Ian Squires, ITV’s controller of regions and current affairs, wrote to Aziz to tell her that her grievances had not been upheld. Squires said a lengthy investigation had found no evidence of racism, sexism or age discrimination.
A senior ITV executive said: “It is accepted that Steve Scott regularly impersonates people within the office and he confirms the same. He strongly denies the accusation that he makes racist and demeaning remarks.
“As a result of the investigation Steve has immediately ceased doing all impersonations of his own volition.”
In a statement ITV said: “We vehemently deny any discriminatory behaviour. We will vigorously defend our position in this regard.”
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -1:53 PM - The legasy of 12 years under Labour.
Source: http://financialadvice.co.uk/news
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As we approach the end of 2009 the government forecast of a budget deficit for 2009 of £175 billion looks now to be dead in the water. Recent figures show that the budget deficit is now increasing by £3 billion a week and the UK government is in severe trouble as we approach the next general election. Despite the fact that Gordon Brown has pledged to half the budget deficit within four years this appears to be a very ambitious target and one which is unlikely to be met, whether Labour or the Conservatives win the next general election.
There is no doubt that the ever growing UK budget deficit, together with record national debt, is holding back the UK economy in the short to medium term. Recent figures show that the UK is falling behind its European counterparts as well as the likes of America and Japan who have already broken out of the recessionary cycle. Despite various promises from the UK government, confidence in Gordon Brown and he is fellow ministers is falling each and every day due to promises which have been left unfulfilled.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009 -12:50 PM - The truth about Labour
Source: http://www.uktabloid.co.uk
Nu Labour is not the Labour
party of yesteryear!
They had no right
Nu Labour is a Marxist dictatorship which denied
the people of Britain the most basic of rights, the right for a
Referendum
Nu Labour Discriminates against the Native Population
Whilst pandering to minorities for imported votes.
Nu Labour operated a secret 'open-door' immigration policy
Labour secretly opened Britain’s borders, while pretending to control the numbers under its so called “managed migration” policy
That is not Today's Labour - Labour of yesteryear is gone dead and burried!
No longer is Britain the cradle of Democracy
But it's Graveyard!
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