The government announces today there is simply no money for a pay increase for NHS workers. Yet we have 320 billion spare for new Trident missile systems. Highly skilled NHS workers need to investigate just how deep it is possible to insert a nuclear warhead into Danny Alexander’s colon.
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“I thought it was Neil Kinnock who started “New Labour””
It was
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgaitskell.htm
In truth “Thatcherism” should be called Gaitskellism, he was way ahead of Thatcher, the other evil seed in the creation of NuLabour was
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRhealeyD.htm
A lot of info here
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/intro/search.cgi?zoom_query=labour+party&zoom_and=1
Diverting for a moment into someone else’s airspace –
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/14/malaysia-airlines-radar-idINDEEA2D05S20140314
200 miles is indeed about the limit for a conventional S-band search radar.
Hint as to why Malaysian air traffic control is disorganised – and they know it –
http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/2014/02/malaysia-to-launch-atc-centre-by-april/
This is from the 1980s, when Tony Benn was younger and Channel Four was very good.
They’re discussing the intelligence services:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvAAY7UiMH8
Very spookie altogether.
“Tony Benn”
Let me explain how it works!.
Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, John McDonnell, Jon Cruddas, Diane Abbott, etc, now, no one who claims to be a socialist could possible be in a far right party!, doesn’t make any sense, so what are the above doing in NuLabour, a party that has killed so many!, sent people to be tortured!, etc, etc.
The answer is simple, they serve to give the FALSE impression that there is still a vistage of decency, justice and liberty in the NuLabour party, it keeps so many people voting for NuLabour!, it works a treat for the far right, it makes people think they have a choice, when in fact, they ‘don’t have a choice!.
“so what are the above doing in NuLabour, a party that has killed so many!, sent people to be tortured!, etc, etc.”
In the case of Skinner, their best to return to the founding principles. In the case of Abbott, riding a vehicle which takes them to minor media celebrity. Maybe they should have resigned, but where could they go, poor lambs?
The only Right conspiracy you need invoke is Thatcher’s huge success in playing on the bourgeois aspirations of the floating voter. Old Labour having failed utterly to exploit enormous public discontent, Nu Labour was inevitable from then on.
“Me too, Ben. Wish I didn’t :)”
Thanks, B.
I have no opinion on this issue, but thought it worth mentioning that CMOS technology is used in capsule colonoscopy procedures and in satellite guidance/navigation systems. So there is some common ground in your comment, Craig.
Cameron’s tribute to Wedgie Benn was unnecessary and rude.
He said that he rarely agreed with Tony Benn opinions. As if Cameron’s opinions on anything were anything more than a pee specimin.
Can we get back to Danny’s Colon. I want to know how it ends!
Tony Benn: How he defied the BBC on Israel 14 March 2014 Tony Benn, probably the last real socialist to serve in a British government, died today aged 88.
I’m posting a short video of him below in action (long after his retirement from politics) in early 2009. It sums up what was so great about him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cKcFG8hiQ
Here he is using a three-minute interview on BBC news not to self-aggrandise but to subvert a BBC decision to refuse to publicise a charity appeal to help Palestinians in Gaza deal with the humanitarian crisis provoked by Israel’s Operation Cast Lead.
It was notably the first time the BBC had rejected an appeal for help from the Disaster Emergencies Committee. The decision was so embarrassingly craven towards Israel it ended up even being criticised by members of the British government, the BBC’s paymasters.
In those three mins, Benn twice reads out the address for people to send in donations; points out that all the BBC staff he has spoken to objected to the management’s ruling; notes that the BBC decision was capitulation to Israeli pressure (a capitulation that continues to this day); and ends with a savage indictment of BBC policy by telling viewers the BBC will be responsible for the deaths in Gaza caused by the refusal to publicise the appeal.
It’s an example of why Benn was that rare beast: a politician with truly democratic instincts. Another short video offers some condensed wisdom, with Benn arguing that the US and Britain fall short of being democracies.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-03-14/tony-benn-how-he-defied-the-bbc-on-israel/
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That BBC decision of Mark Thompson and Caroline Thomson was disgusting and cruel.
The late Lord Ballyedmond was not a pal of Charles Haughey. His name was Edward Haughey before he was ennobled although there is said to be no Haughey family connection.
Read this for more info on him.
Capitalist tyrant targeted by bomb on Co Louth border
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77927
Tory party funder, Thatcher follower, supporter of Pinochet etc etc.
Also read the comment from Barry lower down and others.
Friend of tyrants and war criminals
author by Barry – 32csmpublication date Déar Lún 17, 2006 19:11
I don’t think anyone has mentioned the death of Bob Crow.
Phil Jupitus in the Morning Star.
A Poem to Bob Crow – Phil Jupitus
I heard
On the train
We had lost
A most singular
Essex man
Fighting man
Union man
Railed against injustice
Made points
And kept track
Of the bastards
So I wrote these lines
On the same train
And realised that
In his memory
None of us
Should be
Sleepers