Category: UK Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
London 2012 Olympics of Cronyism, Vested Interests Selling Torches on Ebay / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Olympics are coming home to the birth place of Crony Capitalism, and nothings more crony than 900 vested interests lining up to run a a few hundred yards to grab themselves as much as a £145,000 bounty by near immediately selling their 'precious' replica torches on ebay.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Britain's Strategy of Allying Closely With U.S. Whilst Hedging Bets in Europe / Politics / UK Politics
By: STRATFOR
Britain controlled about one-fourth of the Earth's land surface and one-fifth of the world's population in 1939. Fifty years later, its holdings outside the British Isles had become trivial, and it even faced an insurgency in Northern Ireland.
Britain spent the intervening years developing strategies to cope with what poet Rudyard Kipling called its "recessional," or the transient nature of Britain's imperial power. It has spent the last 20 years defining its place not in the world in general but between continental Europe and the United States in particular.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
Feeding off the Syrian Carcase / Politics / UK Politics
By: William_Bowles
An uncle of mine, a quite extraordinary individual, used to say that he was privileged to have a ‘ringside seat’ when viewing the rampages of capitalism. To which I must add that the ticket to gain admission has been extremely costly, for the planet, but not for my uncle in spite of his lefty leanings. But privileged he was, as all of us are here in the West, insulated from the worst extremes of Empire by all those dead brown bodies.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
U.S. Lawmakers Help Themselves to Congressional Pork / Politics / UK Politics
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
For members of Congress, the only thing better than getting "pork" for the folks back home is getting a slice of that pork for themselves.
Pork, also known as earmarks, describes the long-standing Congressional practice of steering tax money back to home districts to pay for expensive, constituent-pleasing projects.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Britain Sleepwalking into Fascism / Politics / UK Politics
By: William_Bowles
"[W]hen dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era - force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary to deal with those who still live in the nineteenth century world of every state for itself. Among ourselves, we keep the law but when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle." -- The new liberal imperialism by Robert Cooper (Cooper by the way was a former civil service adviser to Tony Blair)[1]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Occupy Wall Street, Consider This My Gift to You… / Politics / UK Politics
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: Out of far left field, I see something coming that I never expected.
It's more like the coming together of pieces of a puzzle that have eluded us for too long.
By the way, Occupy Wall Street, if you're listening, and I hope you are, and you're still floundering (which I know you are) without a cause that anybody can really wrap their heads around, drop your drums, chants, and wanderings, and make the coming together of this puzzle what you're protesting.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Thatcher's Last Stand Against Socialism / Politics / UK Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
Please consider this humorous video of Margaret Thatcher's last House of Commons Speech on November 22, 1990. What Thatcher said then about the Euro, European politics, socialism and wealth creation makes as much sense today as it did then, when she made fools of the opposition in Parliament to much laughter from the conservatives.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Britain Going to Make the Great Escape from European Union Titanic Heading Towards Economic and Democratic Disaster / Politics / UK Politics
By: Videos
"Why would a successful country that has enjoyed a thousand of years of independence give up its right of self government to the un elected non entities that we see before us and the answer that comes back from the foreign office is ....."
"Britain is going to make the great escape from the European Union, we will have our democracy back, our liberty back as you lot head for disaster"
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Cameron Shoots UK in the Foot Trying To Sabotage Euro Rescue / Politics / UK Politics
By: Andrew_Butter
The problem with UK these days is that they have an obsession with youth, Tony Blair was a kid that never grew up and thought going to war and water-boarding “sounded like fun”; David Cameron is looking much the same.
Grown-ups don’t start trying to negotiate side deals when their neighbors and partners are laying sand-bags to hold-back flood waters. That’s rude and immature.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
David Cameron Chose Well / Politics / UK Politics
By: Paul_Tustain
David Cameron was today forced in Brussels to choose between the free market and the vanities of overreaching politicians...
Today is a very sad day. We believe that the markets are telling us that there is a horrible abscess in Europe, and that the Euro is the pus. We believe that fuelled by injustice, the infection of nationalism will now tear Europe apart - making outright enemies of Germany and Greece, France and Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
To Be Truly Dominant, America Must Regain Its Values / Politics / UK Politics
By: Barry_Elias
Last week’s column described the dynamics of our lost half century in America.
The decline was principally due to a devastating deterioration of values. For America to regain in pre-eminent status, its values deficit needs to be rebalanced.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Will David Cameron Sell UK Down the EU River of Worthless Promises to Join the Euro? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
The UK had been expected to have a voter referendum on proposed EU treaty changes. The EU of course does not want voter referendums or anything that look remotely democratic as we have seen by actions in Greece and Italy.
Deal or No Deal?
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Are British Police to Blame for Extent of London Riots and Looting? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst The US was being stripped of its AAA credit rating London high streets were being stripped of their consumer goods. Many thousands of residents and business owners were all saying the same thing, "Where is the Police?"
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Fiat Money and the British Riots / Politics / UK Politics
By: MISES
Andy Duncan writes: This is going to be tricky to do from a hillside in Cornwall, with a flaky mobile connection and an iPad with a one-letter-at-a-time keyboard. However, it's pouring down with rain this August morning, so let's examine the real sickness at the heart of British society, which is the constant-inflation policy of the British government.
Friday, August 12, 2011
UK Insurance Giants Will Use Taxpayers To Bailout Costs From Riots / Politics / UK Politics
By: Patrick_Henningsen
Following any disaster, be it man-made, or ‘Act of God’, there will be many losers, but there will also be some big winners. Some people might be surprised by who is who in this story.
First, let’s look at the losers. This past week, a series of riots ravaged London and other parts of the UK. Costs to businesses is estimated so far at GBP £100 million.
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Friday, July 22, 2011
David Cameron and the Murdoch Affair / Politics / UK Politics
By: William_Bowles
The political/corporate class must be ruing the day email arrived, it is proving to be the undoing of many a powerful individual and perhaps even the downfall of the government? But only if the media do the job they claim to be doing, investigating malfeasance at every level.
Friday, May 06, 2011
Labour Local Election Council Gains Hides Deeper Failure / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Submissions
The leading left of centre pressure group Compass have reacted to the ‘Super Thursday’ elections by stating that what lies beneath the mixed results for Labour is a real concern.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Vote Yes to AV or No More Labour Governments / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Labour has 48 hours to wake up and vote Yes to AV warns influential centre-left campaign group
Without a yes vote in Thursday’s referendum Gordon Brown’s administration could be the last Labour government ever according to the influential centre-left pressure group Compass.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Cameron Hoodwinks Uncle Sam into Another Stupid War: After Libya...Mogadishu? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Andrew_Butter
When I was confined to one of those particularly British institutions, “Public School”, one of our favourite games to relieve the tedium was to goad unpopular boys into having a fight. The trick was not to get found out.
A pattern is starting to emerge; mid-term with approval ratings in the doldrums, US Presidents are easy meat…for Public School Boys.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Britain's Bungling "Secret Intelligence Service" in Libya / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Felicity Arbuthnot writes: "Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.": (Marcus Tullius Cicero,106-43 B.C. Roman Statesman, Philosopher.)
British Style "Liberation": Beware the Ides of March.
Even by the standards of a near bancrupt island off Europe, run currently, largely, by a bunch of seemingly gung-ho, out of out of touch millionaires, the gun boat diplomacy of Messrs Cameron, Fox and Hague (Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Foreign Minister respectively) was a monumental farce of historic proportions.
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
How Cameron’s SAS and MI6 Secret Op Bungled in Benghazi, Libya / Politics / UK Politics
By: Patrick_Henningsen
As far as paperback novels and heroic British failures go, few can top events in Libya this week. Eight British men – including six SAS soldiers and a James Bond-style MI6 agent, dropped by helicopter in Benghazi under the cover of night, only to be surrounded and captured by local farmers-*****-rebels, according to major news reports.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Britain’s Bankers Given a Free Rein by Government’s Project Merlin / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Julie Hyland writes: The manoeuvres by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat government with the banks express the cynicism and contempt towards working people characteristic of the ruling elite throughout the financial crisis.
Last week, the government unveiled Project Merlin—the outcome of four months of negotiations between government officials, bankers and legal advisers over bonuses and lending. To much fanfare, it was announced that banks would make available some £190 billion to small businesses, increase their contribution to the Business Growth Fund by £1 billion, and provide an additional £200 million to the government’s Big Society Bank, aimed at encouraging the voluntary sector to take over public services.
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Russian Mafia Aided by British Lawyers Spreading Across Police State Britain / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst the Egyptians celebrate ridding themselves of the mafia dictatorship and its oligarchy that has stolen Egypt's wealth and kept over 90% of the population both poor and enslaved, the people of Britain need to take a close look at what is taking place on their own Island which has increasingly constructed the infrastructure that is supportive of a near perfect police state that has become home to a literal flood of hundreds of Russian Mafia Oligarchs over the past 10 years that seek to join the bankster elite in the seditious corruption and control of British civil society the price of which will be paid for by ordinary British Citizens in loss of freedom and wealth.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
British Prime Minister Whips Up Anti-Muslim Sentiment / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Julie Hyland writes: British Prime Minister David Cameron used his speech to last weekend’s Munich Security Conference in Germany to proclaim a “sea-change” in the fight against “home-grown” terrorism in Britain.
The Tory leader’s remarks were profoundly anti-democratic. They gave notice that he intends to march in lockstep with the right-wing, anti-Muslim campaign being led by governments across Europe, as they seek to divide the working class in the face of social devastation and imperialist war.
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Thursday, February 03, 2011
Britain is an Incipient Fascist State / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Derek Martin writes: I was born in 1929. Despite the prevailing poverty of the 1930’s, followed by the horrors of the Second World War, there was a general spirit of optimism generated by the radical thinking of H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, and a host of left wing thinkers associated with the Labour Party. Despite the war this persisted, and led to the Labour Government of 1945, and I reached adulthood feeling that we had reached at least the beginning of a genuinely brave new world. Events have proved me very wrong. The only Brave New World around was Huxley’s, and I read the articles about the impending decline of the U.S.A. into fascism, (‘America Has Gone Away’ by Paul Craig Roberts (ref.1), and the somewhat more recent, ‘Does Fascism Lurk Around the Corner in the U.S.A.? by Danny Schechter (ref. 2), and realised that for some time I had been considering Britain in the same terms. I thought then that it might be worth sharing my thoughts with others; hence this article.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Britain's Police State, UK Adopts Chinese Model of Policing Protests? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Nathan Allonby writes: CCTV has led to large scale arrests, following the recent student protests in London, over increased tuition fees. A total of over 180 people have been arrested, with the majority identified by CCTV.
The current arrests very much represent a landmark - we are now equipped for the Chinese approach to public order, in almost a complete reversal previous British policing.
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wikileaks Defenders Promise More Cyber Attacks / Politics / UK Politics
By: Chris_Kitze
BARRACUDA writes: A pro-WikiLeaks hacker has told Sky News an internet insurgent group will keep attacking those companies who target the whistleblowing website.
Speaking on camera for the first time, the cyber-insurgent "Bass", from the group Anonymous, revealed details of how they operate and their growing size.
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Thursday, December 09, 2010
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks Founder Jailed in London on Bogus Charges / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Patrick Martin writes: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police Tuesday morning, denied bail by a London magistrate and then jailed. Assange faces a hearing December 14 on an extradition request by Swedish authorities, who issued a warrant last week on fabricated charges of sexual misconduct.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
End Legal Loan Sharking Rally to Protect Poorest Borrowers / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Stella Creasy, Labour and Co-Operative MP for Walthamstow is to hold a rally in the House of Commons as part of the ongoing End Legal Loan Sharking campaign to end exploitation of the poorest consumers in Britain by payday and doorstep credit agencies. The meeting will take place from 7pm to 9pm in House of Commons Committee Room 5 on Tuesday 7th December 2010. Speakers will include Martin Lewis of MoneySavingExpert.com, Gavin Hayes, General Secretary of Compass, Maurice Glasman of Citizens UK, Justin Tomlinson MP and Stella Creasy MP.
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Is David Cameron a Socialist? Time for a Tea Party for Britain ? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Tea party movement in America spontaneously grew throughout 2009 in response to both Bush and Obama laws that have squandered trillions and sought to increase the size of the Federal government which culiminated in many tea party candidates winning seats under the Republican banner in the November Mid-term elections.
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Northern Rock Remutualisation or Privatisation? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Today Compass calls on the Government to launch an investigation into the feasibility of remutualising Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley. A Compass commissioned YouGov poll yesterday showed nearly twice as many people favoured remutualisation of Northern Rock as opposed to a private sale. This follows on from Ed Miliband's recent support for remutualisation of the bank.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Has the Coalition Government Sunk the British Navy? / Politics / UK Politics
By: LewRockwell
Eric Margolis writes: PARIS – Britain’s mighty Royal Navy ruled the waves until World War II, fully 25% of the earth’s surface. There are few greater epochs in history than the stirring saga the Royal Navy, Britain’s famed "wooden walls."
As a boy, I thrilled to the glorious adventures of Britain’s sailors, such as Sir Francis Drake, the renowned admirals Anson and Howe, and the great Sir Horatio Nelson, whose name will live forever in naval glory.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010
Red Ed Miliband New Leader of the Labour Party / Politics / UK Politics
By: Pravda
Ed Miliband, 41, is the new leader of Britain's Labour Party, beating his brother, former Foreign Secretary David, in the final round of voting, having wooed the Left, promising to unite Labour after years of covert division between Blairites and Brownists, promising tax rises over public spending cuts and earning the label "Ed Red".
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
Labour Leadership Election Cliffhanger Results Shocker, Ed Miliband Wins on the Fourth Round! / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
David Miliband the favourite and leading candidate for the whole of the Labour leadership election campaign saw his victory go up in smoke as the big unions (Unite and GMB) piled in with David's left leaning brother Ed, after the union voters had been bolstered and pumped via anti-cuts propaganda earlier in the month at the TUC congress.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Labour Leadership Battle Between the Miliband's, David Miliband New Labour Leader (Probably) / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
David Miliband is expected to be elected as the new Labour Party leader today with the results to be announced shortly after 4.30pm at Labours Party Conference in Manchester. The leadership race began some three months ago with David Miliband as the clear favourite but increasingly his younger brother Ed has been able to chip away at David's lead bit by bit as the Labour party members have always been left of New Labour which therefore naturally favours Ed Miliband over David Miliband, whereas the parliamentary party favours David Miliband as a more experienced and effective parliamentary leader to put up against the twin headed coalition government of David Cameron and Nick Clegg.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Vince Cable's Anti-Capitalism Conference Speech, From Mr Bean to Stalin / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Coalition Government Business Secretary, Vince Cable attacks all aspects of capitalism from bank bonuses to executive pay. His speech included contradictory delusional statements such as capitalism kills competition as opposed to what ? Socialism ?
Full transcript of Vince Cables speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference below:
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Tony Blairs Journey Into Fantasy Land, 624 pages of Excuses for Killing 1 Million People / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Dr. David Halpin writes: Your 'Journey' has been long on miles but absent of humanity, reason and law. 'It can only get better'. Could it have got any worse?
Your vapour trails have left millions weeping. One million of those are widows in Iraq, at least 1.2 million humans with their Allah, five million orphans and four million refugees. We will leave out the blood and the mayhem you have left in Afghanistan, Somalia and the Yemen. You sprang from each jet with strange eyes ablaze, with more lies and plans for yet more Muslim decimation. You had been re-fuelled at high altitude by your fellow psychopath Campbell and other 'advisers' like Manning.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Coalition Government's £100 Billion Economic Gamble Supported By "No Reputable Economic Theory" / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Today Compass has launched a report which reveals the extent of the Coalition Governments reckless gamble. It is calculated in this new report by the leading left of centre pressure group Compass that the government is making a £100 billion gamble on growing while cutting which is supported by "no reputable economic theory".*
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
HMRC Northern Ireland Racist Staff Systemic Underpayment of Benefits To Ethnic Minorities / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The HMRC sacked seven of its Belfast workers with an additional 2 workers having already resigned for systemic racist abuse of ethnic minority benefit claimants by tampering with their computer records so that people from an ethnic minority background were paid less money then they were entitled to receive.
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Friday, August 06, 2010
Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted For War Crimes / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
John Pilger writes: Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair’s will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now consider Britain’s Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Con-Dem Government Starts to Crumble, David Laws Resigns, Liberal Democrats Betray Voters / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
David Laws, the Chief Security to the Treasury, charged with the responsibility of implementing huge and swinging public spending cuts as well as input into mega- tax rises as part of the emergency budget due on 22nd June 2010 has resigned after he was caught out allegedly fiddling his expenses by funneling an estimated £40,000 to his BOYFRIEND.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Reasons Why Labour Lost the Election and the Leadership Candidates / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The General Election dust has now settled for better or worse in a ConDem government for at least the next 2 years. The Labour party elite are now engaged in two tasks, first to elect a new leader and secondly to dissect why Labour lost the general election. This article lists the 5 reasons that are the most probable as to why Labour lost and may help in determining which of the 6 candidates announced so far would be best for Labour and Britain.
Sunday, May 09, 2010
UK Taxpayers Ramrodded Into E.U. Bailout; Good Riddance to "Clown" Brown / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
Smack in the midst of an election that will likely cost Prime Minister Gordan Brown his job, British taxpayers ordered to bail out euro.
Sunday, May 02, 2010
British Parliamentary Democracy A Triumph of Victorian Engineering / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: William_Bowles
To understand what's going on with Britain today we have to look back to the 19th century and the rise of industrial/mercantile capitalism, for it was during that period that the Victorians got into the business of myth-making in a big way, rewriting our history almost completely. Truly a triumph of Victorian engineering.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Goldman Sachs Fraud Sparks The Next American Revolution / Politics / UK Politics
By: Midas_Letter
Allegations of fraud brought last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission is a shocking departure from the culture of collusion among the U.S. government and the nation’s top banks. That despite the position of this publication and myriad others broadly categorized as “fringe” who have consistently and vociferously objected to the two or more standards applied to organizations and individuals by a corrupt legal system.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Incentive to Work and Pay Taxes, a Radical UK Electoral System Reform Idea / ElectionOracle / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Taxes, Electoral reform and immigration are all political hot potatoes during the general election campaign as the country is trending towards a hung parliament that gives a once in a life time opportunity for the Liberal Democrats to CHANGE the electoral system.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Full Spectrum Internet Media Censorship, UK Bill Heralds Death of the Internet / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Steve Watson writes: A draconian Internet censorship bill that has been long looming on the horizon finally passed the house of commons in the UK yesterday, legislating for government powers to restrict and filter any website that is deemed to be undesirable for public consumption.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Uses British Passport to Avoid U.S. No Fly Terror List? / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
Benjamin Netanyahu entered the United States to deliver a key note speech at the Israeli lobby group AIPAC in Washington. Given the behaviour of the Israeli regime in terms of terrorism against civilians and assassination squads roaming the world which is on par and in a number of cases worse than the other middle eastern regimes such as Iran. Therefore it is not inconceivable that the Israeli Prime Minister could have also used a forged British Passport to enter the United States so as to by pass the U.S. No fly list of those suspected to be linked to terrorism.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
U.S. Election November 2010, Just More Rearranging of Deck Chairs / Politics / UK Politics
By: LewRockwell
Scott Lazarowitz writes: You’ve probably heard the expression, "Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," which refers to making futile changes to a failing situation. This November’s elections will be such a case of rearranging the deck chairs on Titanic America, because the real problem that needs to be addressed is systemic, and serious systemic changes need to be made.
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Iraq War Inquiry Shows Blair the British Neo-con / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
Alan Hart writes: Putting Tony Blair on trial would be much too cruel. The man is ill, delusional, quite possibly to the point of madness. What he needs most of all is psychiatric help. Any doubts I might have had about that diagnosis were removed by his six-hour presentation to the Chilcot Inquiry of his reasons for joining the neo-conned “Dubya” Bush in the war on Iraq.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
BBC Question Time, BNP Sowing the Seeds of Civil Unrest in Britain During 2010 / Politics / UK Politics
By: N_Walayat
The BBC's decision to allow the leader of the far right BNP air time on its flagship political debate programme Question Time tonight marks another milestone along the path towards the emergence of the far right to new extremes which follows the electoral winning of two European Parliament seats and a string of local election gains.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
UK Postal Strike Heralds Battle Between Working Class and the Establishment / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
John Pilger writes: The postal workers’ struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. If the privateers running the Post Office are allowed to win, the regression that now touches all lives bar the wealthy will quicken its pace. A third of British children now live in low-income or impoverished families. One in five young people is denied hope of a decent job or education.
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
The Dieing Sun Shines on the Tory Party / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Sun, Britains most popular newspaper publically announced its backing of the Conservative party some 6 months ahead of the next General Election. Whilst it is bad news for Labour, however it is not surprising given Labour's low poll rating and the Sun's own highly critical reporting of Gordon Browns government where it had resumed the role of pumping out biased Tory propaganda barely weeks within Gordon Brown taking over from Tony Blair in July 2007.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Labour Government Benefits Culture Results in Rampaging Feral Youths / Politics / UK Politics
By: N_Walayat
The easy money for nothing benefits culture that Labour has implemented over its 11 year rule, which is in part to reward a large section of its natural voter pool has resulted in the expansion of the benefits culture far beyond that of the preceding decades where invariably the operative strategy in maximising the amounts claimed in benefits is to produce increasing number of children, with little if any effort put into raising a large proportion of the children into decent members of society but instead resulting in rampaging literally untouchable feral youths roaming the estates and city centres of Britain wreaking havoc amongst the rest of the population.
Monday, September 28, 2009
National Parks, Another Scam of the Super-Rich / Politics / UK Politics
By: Gary_North
Ken Burns is at it again. This time, it is a PBS series on the national parks. He subtitles it "America's Greatest Idea."
The national parks are not America's greatest idea. They are the super-rich's greatest idea . . . for themselves.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Liberal Democrats to Tax the Rich Out of Britain with 0.5% Property Tax / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
One of the great things about being the third small party is that there is literally ZERO chance of becoming the next government, hence the party can announce ridiculous policies that pander to the masses but make little if any economic sense.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
For Britons, The Party Game Is Over / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
John Pilger writes: On the day Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his “major policy speech” on Afghanistan, repeating his surreal claim that if the British army did not fight Pashtun tribesmen over there, they would be over here, the stench of burnt flesh hung over the banks of the Kunduz River. Nato fighter planes had blown the poorest of the poor to bits. They were Afghan villagers who had rushed to siphon off fuel from two stalled tankers. Many were children with water buckets and cooking pots. “At least” 90 were killed, although Nato prefers not to count its civilian enemy. “It was a scene from hell,” said Mohammed Daud, a witness. “Hands, legs and body parts were scattered everywhere.” No parade for them along a Wiltshire high street.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Shelley, John Sawers, Head of M16, Security Undermined by Face Book Information / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
The next head of MI6, John Sawers due to take over the intelligence agency in November 09 has had his security undermined by detailed postings on the internet, predominantly on the social networking site Face Book by himself and his wife Shelley Sawyers. Giving detailed information on their family and friends including photos of their residence, where they holiday and many more aspects of their lives, totally undermining what it is to be the head of Britians intelligence agency where in years past the officers in charge usually remained totally unknown to the public even several years AFTER their retirement.
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
SNP Would Bankrupt an Independent Scotland, But Benefit England / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The debate of Scottish Independence form the United Kingdom has again returned, with Increasing powers being transferred over to the Scottish Parliament run by the SNP government at Holyrood, there are again increasing cry's for FREEDOM, independence from Westminister rule. To counter this the policy of the Westminister governments has been to bribe the Scots with ever larger amounts of net subsidy, where the annual block grant has now reached £32 billion per year.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Gordon Brown Makes Way for Nick Griffin Britain's BNP Fuhrer / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
Nick Griffin the Fuhrer of the extreme far right BNP, British National Party that is also referred by many as the British Nazi Party capitalised on Labours vote meltdown and the Westminister MP's expenses scandal that has hit all mainstream parties by the BNP winning 2 MEP seats in the Labour heartlands of North West England and Yorkshire and Humberside.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Mealy Mouthed Caroline Flint Quits Browns Government, Statement / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The reason why voters view MP's as being mealy mouthed, full of self interest with little real interest in doing what is best for those that elected them was made clear by Caroline Flints behaviour (Minister for Europe) and statements over the past 24 hours where comments of support for Gordon Brown a little over 12 hours ago were replaced by a vicious attack on Gordon Browns Premiership after she failed to get her way in terms of promotion within the cabinet.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Labour Ministers Stab Gordon Brown in the Back, MP Email / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The latest in a line of resigning Labour Government Ministers to stab Gordon Brown the British Prime Minster in the back was the local government Minister, Hazel Blears, who struck a day before the local elections with maximum damaging effect. In her resignation letter, Hazel Blears is clearly pushing for Gordon Brown himself to follow suit and resign:
Saturday, May 30, 2009
MP's Non-Existant Mortgage Fraud, Where are the Police? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
A number of MP's have claimed thousands in tax payer monies for mortgages that do not exist. Whilst virtually all MP's have hidden behind the "within the rules" mantra as to why they defrauded the tax payers "LEGALLY", however claiming monies for non existent mortgages brings the matter into criminal law which supercedes all other law with the only exception being the Queen as the head of state.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Deep Recession, Huge Political Scandal / Politics / UK Politics
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: I went to the Sunday Times site on Sunday. Here was the lead headline:
Read full article... Read full article...At least half of the House of Commons' 646 MPs will be swept away at the general election, as voters take revenge on the political classes for the expenses scandal.
Monday, May 18, 2009
MP's Blame Greedy NHS GP's for Expense Claims Abuse / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Humiliated MP's across all parties that have been drowned out by the public chorus of outrage and indignation of the abuse of the MP expenses system have repeatedly stated how MP pay has failed to keep pace with that of NHS GP's which is one of the key reasons as to why they have resorted to what amounts to legalised theft from the electorate.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik Sets Expenses Scandal Claim Record / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Justice Minister, Shahid Malik, became the latest MP to be named in the ever expanding expenses scandal in the Daily Telegraph which states that Mr Malik claimed the maximum allowed for the second homes allowance amounting to £66, 827 over 3 years for his London home with an original purchase price of £85,000 (2001), whilst at the same time nominating a rental property as his main residence in his Dewsbury constituency for less than £100 per week.
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Friday, May 08, 2009
Corrupt Labour Government Ministers Have Their Snouts In the Trough / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Tory supporting newspaper, The Telegraph has pulled off a scoop of getting their hands on outrageous and unforgivable MP expense claims right from the Prime Minister downwards albeit at an alleged cost of £300,000 paid to the leaker which the Police are looking into.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Britain Sleep Walks Into a Police State as Political Dissent is Criminalised / Politics / UK Politics
By: Global_Research
Julie Hyland writes: “From foul deeds endless tragedy arises,” the World Socialist Web Site wrote, commenting on the state execution of innocent Brazilian worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, by plainclothes policemen on a London subway train on July 22, 2005.
Events have tragically confirmed that warning. In the years since Menezes’ killing, for which no one has ever been held to account, the legal framework of a police state has been enacted in Britain.
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Daniel Hannan Blasts Gordon Brown on handing of the Economic Crisis / Politics / UK Politics
By: Mike_Shedlock
I commend Daniel Hannan who had the courage to blast Prime Minister Gordon Brown on his handing of the economic crisis. The Mail Online picks up the story in the Tory who told Brown to his face that he's a disaster .Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Big Government, not Big Media, Threatens Free Speech / Politics / UK Politics
By: Ayn_Rand
Contrary to widespread cries that media consolidation threatens free speech, the real threat comes from laws regulating media ownership.
Self-appointed consumer watchdogs--including Obama’s recent pick for FCC chair, Julius Genachowski--have long complained about media consolidation. So it was no surprise that when the FCC recently loosened restrictions barring companies from owning a newspaper and TV station in the same city, these critics went apoplectic and are now urging the House to follow the Senate in blocking the measure.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
BNP Members List Leaked Online- Link Here / Politics / UK Politics
By: Submissions
British National Party (BNP) full membership list of 12,801 members has been leaked onto the internet. The list contains contact details and notes on selected party members. The list has been first published on the internet by Wikileaks who's staff has verified the list as predominantly containing BNP members, and other individuals who have donated to the BNP or have had other contact with the BNP may also be listed.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Gordon Brown Saved by Financial Armageddon / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Last weeks near collapse of the worlds financial system that was brought home to British voters and labour party members on a near daily basis with an ever increasing meltdown being observed as Britain's biggest mortgage bank HBOS teetered on the brink of nationalisation, has to all intents and purposes brought the risk of an imminent leadership challenge against Gordon Brown to an end, this despite all of the protestations from the growing labour rebels who will fail to bring down their leader, but are succeeding in destroying any chances the Labour party has of winning the next election as the voters despise disunity within political parties. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
UK Frontline Charities Being Annihilated by Bureaucrats as Government Panics / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
In a week in which government minster's were circulating reports that the fast developing economic downturn would lead to an
"upward pressure on acquisitive crime", property crime, a surge in support for the far right and racist elements as well as an
increase in the support for radical Islamic fundamentalist groups from people on the receiving end of racism and unemployment as well as a general outbreak of lawlessness as the country experienced during the 1980's economic depression emanating form within the deprived areas of Britain.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, May 23, 2008
UK House Values Have Fallen by 25%, Contributing to Labour Vote Meltdown / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst the mandarins of the Labour government scratch their collective heads as to why the voters have lost total confidence in Gordon Browns government, one of the key reasons for the meltdown in the Labour vote in the
Crewe and Nantwich
by-election is the housing bear market.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Gordon Brown is New Labour's Grim Reaper / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Gordon Brown the formerly smart and intellectual chancellor who was thought to have carried a grinning and increasingly shallow Tony Blair to three election victories. Now past events are increasingly being seen in a new light of who carried whom.
Gordon Brown's Labour party was delivered a near knockout punch in the Local elections where the natural party of local government is fast being pushed out of political power. The final Labour scalp to go was its biggest, Ken Livingston the London Mayor replaced by the Tory comedian Boris Johnson.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Gordon Brown's Tax U-Turn as Anticipated- Your Fired! / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Gordon Brown bottles it again in the face of escalating revolt against the abolition of the 10% tax band that hit 5.3 million of Britains poorest workers. This hit at the core of the Labour Party's values of redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor. As stated In last saturdays article
Gordon Browns Abolition of the 10% Tax Band- Leadership Challenge? , that the logical thing for Labour to do would be a U-turn, otherwise the next election is as good as lost. Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Gordon Browns Abolition of the 10% Tax Band- Leadership Challenge? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Whilst Gordon Brown is busy generating embarrassing moments in the US trying to follow Tony Blair onto the global stage, at home Labour MP's incensed at the abolishment of the 10% Tax band and the impact it is having on die hard low paid Labour voters are now in open revolt.Read full article... Read full article...
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Queen's New Year Honours, OBEs for Kylie Minogue and Kashaf Walayat / Politics / UK Politics
By: Nadeem_Walayat
The Queen's Honours committee did the rounds today with new year gifts for the famous and many more of the not so famous. The sun may have long since set on the British Empire but the establishment can still pin medals to lapels as reward for contribution to British society.
Kylie Minogue at 39 tops the bill of the famous league by picking up an OBE, Order of the British Empire.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Gordon Brown Takes Over From Tony Blair - Any Difference? / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
The long goodbye is over, Tony Blair steps down as the British Prime Minister today and looks set to embark on a long cruise to the Mediterranean to help, did I say help ?, Apparently to help find peace in the middle east on behalf of the Quartet group (USA, EU, UN and Russia).
But now, finally, Gordon Brown, the man who has engineered 10 years of prosperity for Britain has his hands fully on the levers of power. What differences can we expect ?
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Monday, April 16, 2007
Shocking news about Gordon Brown - Sold Half of Britians Gold Reserves at Bear Market Low / Politics / UK Politics
By: Adrian_Ash
"...Two billion here...two billion there. Pretty soon you're just funding a war in the desert or paying one-in-four of the working population to stay at home on sick leave..."
SHOCKING NEWS from the Sunday Times in London . Gordon Brown is an idiot.
More shocking still, his boss Tony Blair – the prime minister who led Britain to war in Iraq on spurious evidence of WMDs – doesn't always speak the truth. Their political party, New Labour, likes to bury bad news. And expert knowledge counts for nothing at Westminster .
Hence the biggest financial story in the United Kingdom right now – bigger by far according to the column inches than its record-breaking credit bubble – is that Gordon Brown "ignored advice" before selling half the nation's gold at rock-bottom prices in 1999.
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Monday, December 04, 2006
Britain's 30 billion pounds Nuclear insurance policy - Trident II / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
The UK Labour government led by Tony Blair has revealed plans for the successor to the Trident submarine nuclear deterrent. The plan is for 3 smaller nuclear submarines, in some 20 years time. The initial estimate is for £20 billion, but given the history of defence spending over-runs this could easily reach £30 billion, ($60 billions). Additionally there would be running costs of at least £1 billion.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
UK Labour Party suffers lowest poll readings since 1987 because of Iraq war / Politics / UK Politics
By: John_York
According to the Guardian/ICM poll published today. Labour's support drops to 29%, as the lowest reading since Margaret Thatchers landslide in 1987 ! The Conservatives having climbed to 39%, with the Liberal Democrats third on 22%.
This is on the back of recent coverage of the Military in both the US and UK contemplating withdrawal from a worsening situation in Iraq, as this is seen by most of the UK electorate as Tony Blair's war, as another recent polls results showed that 72 per cent said that Tony Blair's support for George Bush calls into question his political judgement, and 62 per cent believe that British troops should be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible with a further 72 per cent believing that the war in Iraq is unwinnable.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
What would a Gorden Brown PM mean for Britian ? / Politics / UK Politics
By: Sarah_Jones
On the day when Tony Blair made his last speech at a labour party conference, we ponder what a Gorden Brown Premiership would mean for Britian ?
Gordon Brown having waited some 10 years, is now poised to become the next PM sometime during the next 9 months.
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