According to BBC news, Telegraph Editor Will Lewis doesn’t think the constant barrage his newspaper has given our MPs of late has caused irreperable damage to the UK’s Parliament.
“This is not my fault. I am the messenger who happened to be able to get this stuff and deliver it to people who should have been told this by MPs themselves.”
Of course. Don’t shoot the messenger. Even if the messenger has used the information he gained through methods no-one can guarantee the legitimacy or legality of, and used the information to further his own income by spreading the dossier of information over weeks or even months?
The Telegraph has enjoyed being on it’s high horse over the last few weeks. It’s enjoyed the damage it has done to the reputation of ALL MPs. It’s enjoyed the income it’s got from extra sales immensely.
“The principle we were establishing here was that I know this information was true and the readers must know this as quickly as possible because this has gone on for too long unnoticed.”
Does ‘as quickly as possible’ include as many weeks as the Telegraph has spent covering expenses? I really do think the Telegraph deserves to lose a lot of respect for the way it’s chosen to masquerade a huge income drive as an exercise in the public interest.
I sometimes notice irony, so this isn’t a dig/spat, whatever you might think. I even asked a policeman why this happens -“it just does”, he agreed.
I’d always thought of police using sirens to get through traffic for their tea break as an urban myth.
Then I passed Tesco on the Caledonian Road, and there was a police car sat outside on the double yellow lines with lights flashing. Obviously on business, I thought.
Damned lights!
Sod’s law. The split-second the photograph was taken, the light-strobe was not there – but the lights were flashing!
Went into the shop. Panic over. The policemen were stood patiently queueing to pay for their sandwiches.
After the obligitory half-hour wait (is it me, or are Tesco local shops badly managed in that respect?), they popped their lunch in the boot and made off. Emergency over.
Today in Prime Minister Questions he abused his power again by demanding a General Election – so he can bring in his own reforms including fixed-term parliaments. He attacked Brown’s plans for proportional representation, as Cameron sees it as a system which would be unfair, unlike the current first past the post system which allowed voters to get rid of:
“weak, divided and incompetent governments and that is what we should be doing now.”
Except, if you stop and think about it, the London Mayoral Elections are done proportionally. Were they unfair? The people of London ended up with a weak and incompetent leader, was that because of Proportional Representation?
Cameron wants to make MPs more powerful, by having fewer of them. That’s fewer people representing YOU!
“Do you believe that Sir Alan Sugar can combine his role as host of Britain’s most popular business TV programme with his new job as the government’s enterprise champion, where he will sit in the House of Lords taking the Labour whip?”
So there we have it. The Tories openly admit that they can’t tell the difference between a serious business programme, such as Working Lunch, and a piece of populist entertainment in which the British masses learn absolutely diddly squat about how to run a business.
Jeremy Hunt, thinking he was onto a winner in the Commons, continued that it was:
“something quite unprecedented where someone has their own weekly TV programme at the same time as being one of the main ambassadors for government policy in precisely the same area.”
Of course, if the election was next June, the Apprentice would be going out at the same time, Hunt continued:
“In that period would it be right for the BBC to carry on screening The Apprentice when its main star is a principal advocate of Government business policy?”
Another bare faced lie, which adds proof t hat the Tories aren’t willing to accept Sir Alan’s word that he’s approaching the position with a neutral stance so far as political allegiance is concerned. How demeaning of them.
When the Tories stop whipping up storms in teacups, perhaps then they’ll be a credible and trustworthy party.
Ladbrokes and William Hill have it just about evens that Brown will resign this week, or be pushed…
There should be an accumulator on there, that the second Brown resigns, Cameron will call a General Election.
Completely unbiased view – whoever is shouting that we need a General Election – no we don’t! Do we really want to hold it over the summer, with masses away on holiday? No, we don’t. Do we want to hold it in the autumn, so that we can have a chance to see what the three main party policies would be about MP sleaze and expenses? Yes we would.
Gordon Camer-Clegg need to get their collective heads wound in, behave like grown ups, and then show us, the British Public, that they are an act worth voting for. The squabbling indistinguishable mess is not politics.
David Cameron that is. On Wednesday, during Prime Minister’s Questions, he was urging the Prime Minister to call a general election.
In The Times, he’s made more headway on his idea of fixed-term parliaments. Come off it. Do we really want to get rid of Brown so Cameron can decalre himself PM for a fixed five years? Does he realise how hypocritical he is by calling for a general election before the current Government’s time is up – so that he can intern himself as a fixed feature of Parliament for a full five years?
Politicians are corrupt and only think of their own gain – you don’t need to fiddle your expenses to prove it.
The Searchlight organisation has compiled this video of British National Party leader Nick Griffin, and a woman called Marlene Guest – one of the BNP’s lead candidates for a seat in the European Parliament. For once the BNP’s leading figures in this election tell us what they really think.
As a European candidate in Yorkshire and Humberside, Guest questions the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust and claims that the number of victims had been fabricated for “compensation.”
Speaking of the Holocaust, Griffin says, “this nonsense about the gas chambers is exposed as a total lie” and then confirms that he wants every non-white removed from Britain.
This is the real BNP.
Throughout the 2009 EU Election campaign the BNP have tried to hide their extremism behind a thinly veiled cloak of legitimacy. From day one it’s been paper thin – but many people have still been fooled by their lies. The truth is – they don’t give a damn about Britain or any of us.
This video shows the truth about Nick Griffin and one of the BNP’s lead candidates in this election.
What’s more important – the state the country is in, or the fact that a couple of people in the Cabinet have resigned.
Cameron just spent his ten minutes of PMQs lambasting the Government over the latter. He really didn’t go into the state of the country. He just wanted a new election. Meanwhile the sensible MPs on the back benches wait patiently for their turn to ask sensible questions.
But Cameron wants reassurances. Is resigning really challenging the respect of the boss? If I wanted to resign my job to do something else, would I be disrespecting them? Then Cameron wants guarantees that there won’t be any more resignations. Surely that demand goes against employment law – is that a sign of what we’d get under a Cameron led government?
This is the time that Cameron (and Clegg, and Brown for that matter) need to think more about the points in hand, the urgent running the country business, rather than cheap point scoring. The MPs need to sort their house out, Cameron’s bickering style of cheap point scoring is only serving to get in the way.
Watching PMQs today, Cameron seemed to call for an election an awful lot. If instead he concentrated on leading an effective opposition, he might actually earn some respect. If calling for an election is the best you can do, isn’t that a sign of throwing in the towel early? A sign that you really can’t be arsed to fight as opposition? A bit weak?
15 minutes into Question Time, we get sensible questions from other MPs, relating to the running of the country. Cameron used nearly 10 minutes of this critical part of the parliamentary week to make cheap jibes at the PM. What a waste.
Then 20 minutes in another Tory starts demanding an election, and it dawns on me that if Cameron succeeds and forces fixed-term parliaments, he wouldn’t have the ability to be challenged by the opposition. Talk about two faced!
Clear Channel, a large (very large) US company, which specialises in advertising, radio, and whatever else it can make money from, has started carrying adverts for the BNP in the UK.
While the rest of the UK are busy trying to combat the threat of the British National Party at the Euro elections on 4th June, Clear Channel, being American, don’t care about the abhorrent style of politics the party uses, it only cares about making money.
Before you place your ‘X’ in the box on 4th June, remember a few choice sentences of the BNP leader, Nick Griffin…
I am well aware that the orthodox opinion is that six million Jews were gassed and cremated and turned into lampshades. Orthodox opinion also once held that the Earth was flat … I have reached the conclusion that the ‘extermination’ tale is a mixture of Allied wartime propaganda, extremely profitable lie, and latter witch-hysteria
Nick Griffin 1998
When the crunch comes, power is the product of force and will, not of rational debate. We have to have a body of trained young men capable of defending our organisation. If people come to crack our heads we will break theirs
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