Only Sweat the Small Stuff 922

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I was called by a journalist yesterday who told me that in Dewsbury six years ago I shared a platform with Baroness Warsi’s now husband at a meeting against the persecution of Muslims. Sadly I couldn’t really help him as at the time I was doing hundreds such events and have only the dimmest of recollections of that one.

It is not merely amusing that Cameron refers Warsi for investigation for allegedly pocketing a couple of thousand quid while protecting Hunt who tried so hard to shepherd the Murdoch BSkyB bid past the winning post, while pretending to referee the event.

Nor is the lesson just that a Muslim woman will always be expendable while a fully paid up member of the ruling class will be less so.

The truth is that to trip up an MP over a little cash does not threaten the system. To tackle the massive institutional corruption by which corporate interests control the British state is a different question altogether.

Hunt is of course not the only case not to be referred. Nor was the Adam Werritty debacle, where rather than the proper investigative procedures Cameron organised a tidy little stitch-up by Gus O’Donnell which omitted almost all the key facts and particularly did not say what the entire scheme was about – the promotion of the interests of Israel. The Murdoch Empite, the Israeli lobby, these are amongst the interests that actually run the exploited citizenry of this poor wracked old country. Every now and then glimpses of truth emerge.

But must not be pursued.

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  • Komodo

    No dissertation would have been necessary, Mary. A quiet word with the Dean of Studies by one of David’s friends would have been enough…as the next phase of his career shows:
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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/20/david-cameron-the-pr-years
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    “Cameron’s affable demeanour is only skin-deep, he added. “You see him now and he looks a charming bloke and for people who were meeting him for the first time he could be charming … [but] everyone’s view of him has been coloured by subsequent events.” Cameron, he says, was a man who cultivated only those who could prove useful. “I’ve only seen him once since he [became Tory leader] and he apologised for being such a wanker.”

  • Komodo

    That’s fine, Clark. Just duplicated it anyway. Maybe the blog speaks even worse Turkish than I do?

  • Mary

    The second Mrs Green from a fawning piece in the Independent 1995.
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    ‘The financial rewards enable Green to indulge his taste for expensive cars. These have included a Bentley Turbo, a rare Aston Martin and a Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible. He and his second wife, Tessa Buckmaster, have two small sons. (He has two daughters from his first marriage.) Tessa is a former employee of Carlton, a member of the Buckmaster stock- broking family and a barrister. According to a friend, “she is not the bimbo or trophy wife you might expect, but very bright and an intellectual sparring partner for Michael.”‘
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    I am wondering if she is this Tessa Green who has gone on to the board of the Princes’ Foundation?
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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2041564/Princes-William-Harry-appoint-Tessa-Green-Dianas-Lady-Charity.html

  • Komodo

    >I am wondering if she is this Tessa Green who has gone on to the board of the Princes’ Foundation?
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    Seems so, Mary. PPE Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 1983, big cheese in Royal Marsden Hospital, CBE.

  • Komodo

    Oxford PPE’s….
    “I had a vacation job working alongside a colleague who was studying philosophy at what was then Staffordshire Polytechnic, and it very quickly emerged that she was doing a more rigorous, stimulating and comprehensive course than I was at Oxford. And I recall the raised eyebrows when, having been awarded a College prize in Philosophy in my final year, I chose to spend the book tokens that came with it on, inter alia, a copy of Popper’s The Open Society and its Enemies – a key political and philosophical text of the twentieth century, but one that Oxford ignored.”
    http://notesbrokensociety.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/the-curse-of-ppe/

  • Komodo

    I had intended something nearer “Anyone here from N. Cyprus?” but will submit to arbitration. Or not, if your source is Google Translate.

  • Passerby

    Komodo,

    Burada== here
    Kuzey== northern
    Kıbrıslı== Cypriot
    var mı? == are any?
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    Agreed on your transliteration.
    As ever it is in the semantics, are you looking for your chums? or do you intend insult? or is there another angle that I cannot discern. I love linguistics, although not the best method of communication yet the most fun and ingenious method of interfacing.
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    However, over all baffled as to why anyone from Northern Cyprus, has any relevance to the debate? Although must say I have not had time to read the thread in full.

  • Passerby

    Komod,
    it is “belliki” spelling brigade gone international now ayyye? However darn interesting choice of a word. in what sense did you choose as in “maybe”, or as in “obviously” ?

  • Passerby

    Komodo,
    sorry for misspelling your name no malice is intended just an inability to press the right key far enough.

  • Komodo

    Apparently. As to the rest, if you are not resident N of Nicosia, it is of no relevance to you.

  • Mary

    Poor Julian.
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    BREAKING NEWS:Wikileaks founder Julian Assange loses his latest legal battle against extradition to Sweden

  • Mary

    He is being ground down. I hope that somebody can get him out of this rotten country,
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    14 June 2012 Last updated at 15:16

    Supreme court dismisses Assange appeal bid
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    The Supreme Court has dismissed a bid by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to reopen his appeal against extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes.
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    Seven judges of Britain’s top court unanimously dismissed the move by Mr Assange as being “without merit”.
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    Two weeks ago the court rejected his argument that a European arrest warrant for extradition was invalid.
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    His lawyers had argued that the decision was based on a legal point that had not been argued in court.
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    Swedish prosecutors want to question Mr Assange over allegations of rape and sexual assault made by two female former Wikileaks volunteers in mid-2010 but have not filed any charges.
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  • Komodo

    “Jay asks why the decision to switch responsibility for the BSkyB bid from Cable to Hunt was made so quickly.

    Cameron answers that it was a “major problem” for the government and that in the 24-hour news environment “you cannot just spend hours or half-days” deciding what action to take.”
    (Leveson, today, 2.44 pm)
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    One of the most revealing admissions I have seen that it is not the public interest, but the fear of what the media might do, that determines Govt. decisions.

  • Kim

    Mary, you may already know this, but Green gave David Cameron his first “real” outside politics at Carlton TV. After Samantha Cameron’s mother…Dave’s mum-in-law…had a quiet word with her good friend Green.

    We’re all in it together. Up to our eyeballs.

  • Mary

    Ha! This is him in 1997 when he lost in the Stafford election.
    http://www.standard.co.uk/news/article7273142.ece/ALTERNATES/w300/http%3A-img.dailymail.co.uk-i-pix-2007-03_02-cameron240307_468x752.jpg
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    He got into Parliament in 2001 after Shaun Woodward Witney Con had defected to NuLabour.
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    Thereafter his rise was rapid. He had of course been a SPAD to that joke of a Chancellor Lamont and to the man with something of the night, Michael Howard. He probably picked up some tips along the way.

  • Mary

    Cross post from Medialens.
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    Cameron blows the whistle on himself
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    Posted by The Editors on June 14, 2012, 5:38 pm
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    Media boss Rebekah Brooks to David Cameron: ‘professionally we’re definitely in this together’.
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    Ah, the watchdogs of the ‘free press’!
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    Cameron’s explanation for the comment. Brooks was saying: ‘we’re friends, but professionally… we were, you know, we were gonna be pushing the same… er… political agenda’.
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    In the video, below, at around 2:40 you can see Cameron realising he’s been cornered into exposing the true relationship between media and politics. He doesn’t want to say it but he’s just got nowhere else to go: ‘we were gonna be pushing the same… er… political agenda’.
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    In other words, the media is part, not a watchdog, of power.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18437287
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    Eds
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    Symbiosis a-go-go.
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    Posted by Keith-264 on June 14, 2012, 6:29 pm, in reply to “Cameron blows the whistle on himself”
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    No doubt Leveson will “understand”….

  • Rose

    There was something on R4 Today about Leveson being of little interest to anyone outside the Westminster “village”, and I heard Robinson say the same thing after Cameron’s appearance this afternoon – he suggested the public (sorry, we ordinary people)are only interested in watching football. Blimming cheek. Sounds to me like an attempt at some dirty trick – forming a close protective circle perhaps?

    Re Sarsak – glad to see his supporters managed to get their banner on display for a time during that interview.

  • lysias

    I don’t think you need to do a thesis/dissertation to get a First in PPE at Oxford. It’s an undergraduate program. I got a First in Greats (i.e., classical studies, another undergraduate program) in 1974, and I didn’t do any thesis/dissertation for it. I just had to do well enough on the written examinations.

  • Mary

    Another war criminal Bliar is in Hong Kong. This is hidden away on the BBC Politics site and then in the Watch and Listen section. It has not been put in a list.
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    Tony Blair heckled during Hong Kong speech
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18449345

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    The headline says ‘heckled’. It was an attempt at a citizen’s arrest.
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    I heard that Bliar had visited Cameron to give advice on Leveson et al. Also that Cameron was ‘coached by top lawyers’ for today’s performance.

  • Mary

    Gideon and Merv are moving on from QE (failed) to cheap loans to the banks and Extended Collateral Term Repo Facility. That runs off the tongue nicely doesn’t it. They don’t actually have a clue what to do.
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    Bank and Treasury look to boost bank lending
    Sir Mervyn King’s Mansion House speech
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    Eurozone in Crisis
    What is to blame for Spain’s pain?
    Spring fever in the eurozone
    In graphics: Eurozone in crisis
    EU austerity drive by country
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    The Bank of England will launch two new stimulus packages in response to the worsening economic outlook, the BBC understands.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18448636

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