I do not claim any direct link between my declaration in Kirkcaldy that I was seeking nomination as a SNP Westminster candidate and fancied taking on Gordon Brown, and his subsequent decision to let the media know he intends to stand down and not fight! But it is an act of remarkable political cowardice from a man who so spectacularly promised No voters massive devolution of powers to the Scottish parliament. That Brown promise was given more publicity by the mainstream media than any other event in the entire referendum campaign. The fact that Brown never had any locus to deliver what he was promising was bound at some stage to become acutely embarrassing. He now escapes responsibility for the cynical lies of his pledges, by simply running away.
Brown was always a feartie. He was scared to stand against Tony Blair for leader, scared to call a general election early when he could have averted Labour’s electoral disaster. He was even scared to stick to his guns when for once he got something right and called that dreadful woman a bigot.
Brown contributed directly to the crippling poverty of millions by his disastrous deregulation of the City of London and years of giving the bankers everything they desired. Nor must we allow the mainstream media unchallenged to cement the lie that there was no alternative to trillions of pounds in grants and effective subsidies from taxpayers being given direct to the fatcat bankers, which have crippled the public finances for generations. Letting bad banks go bust and bad bankers go on the dole (or hopefully jump) was a far better option. Contrary to the Brown myth, world recession was not averted. It happened, massively. The only thing saved was the multi-million incomes of the people whose greed and stupidity had caused the collapse.
Brown remains the greatest friend the bankers ever had.
Brown and Darling lead a large phalanx of Labour MPs who realise their best career move is to transit to the benches of the House of Lords while the going is good, and start pocketing their 300 pounds a day allowance for doing nothing but hoovering up comfy directorships.
I fear that they will find that Scottish independence is coming sooner than they think and that gig will soon get cut short too.
As for Brown’s devolution promises, frankly I don’t give a damn about the Smith Commission. Holyrood control of income tax is meaningless if most other taxes are set in London. Fiscal autonomy can only work if Scotland is given all its taxes, including those from hydrocarbons and from whisky. That will never happen. Any tax and spend devolution which reserves oil and whisky taxes to the UK Treasury will be perverted by Westminster, to only result in further public spending cuts for Scotland. Besides, if Westminster can still send our children to fight and die in illegal wars, the money is immaterial.
Which brings us back to Gordon Brown. Remember not only did he first deregulate the bankers then give them huge transfers from poor families’ taxes, he backed Blair to the hilt over the invasion of Iraq. Without Brown’s support, Blair could not have done it, and hundreds of thousands would not have died – nor would we have ISIS and linked chaos now.
Brown is an evil man.
Gordon Brown seems to have emerged from some right-wing Thatcher think-tank only to be placed in charge of the UK economy as a Labour politician. Neil Kinnock may have less brains than a shadow puppet and but he did at least have a little bit of little bit of left wing stored in his memory. At least the wanker tories really believe in the lethal, selfish, money-grabbing tripe they say they believe in. Alas.
Phil
For a certain length of time I myself gave my fellow Muslims in the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaida, and even ISIS the benefit of the doubt in the last year, but when I discovered that mr Mossad Baghdadi is an Israeli citizen trained by USUKIS in the dark arts of brutality, I slammed them.
It wouldn’t be a very convincing blog if nothing moved or changed in the thought-stream, like Fred’s oft-repeated retard comment or Habster’s vita bella two-fingers to all dissent from the Hasbara norm.
More on Gordon Brown: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS BY S.C. (NAME PROTECTED) AND GIOVANNI DI STEFANO – Read more – Online Publishing Company Limited:
http://2012indyinfo.com/2012/11/04/the-paedophile-ring-that-encircles-british-politics-by-s-c-name-protected-and-giovanni-di-stefano-read-more-online-publishing-company-limited/
There are many cases where the ‘Security Services’ were using places like Elm Guest House, places in Wales, and of course Kincora in Northern Ireland, to film child abuse so they had blackmail material against the perps.
If there was rock-hard evidence on the web for Brown, he would be in dire trouble. But if you were in his position, rich and powerful, with friends in high places, would you not sue the people making these claims? It’s not like it’s some off-shore nut who is in a non-extraditable country, these folks are easily traced (especially given the powers we are aware the ‘Security Services’ have)?
For people who may really believe that paedophiles in very high political, judicial, ‘Security Services’ and police positions is vastly overblown, I will name a few books on the problem in the US; all have videos by the same people, but obviously the books have far more information and detail. Readers/watchers be advised: they are extremely sickening to read/watch:
Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips book ‘Access Denied – For Reasons Of National Security’, and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtHsD0G-mY
John DeCamp’s ‘Franklin Cover-Up’ + video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSIDQt5Dwc
Noreen Gosch’s ‘Why Johnny Can’t Come Home’ + video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7C1cCa8V9s
In every case of the many involved, the ‘Law’ was either directly involved in the abuse, or was heavily involved in the cover-up.
If, as I believe, the accusations against Gordon Brown are true, that could explain his not rising against Bliar. Blackmail is a very powerful brake on any tendency to ‘upset the apple cart’, which is what kept J Edgar Hoover in his position as FBI head for so long: he was detested, but he had the dirt on so many powerful people, they were afraid to move against him.
Republicofscotland
26 Nov, 2014 – 7:09 pm
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A Scotland Yard statement said:
“We can confirm a 73-year-old man attended by appointment an East London police station and was interviewed under caution in relation to an allegation of fraud.”
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As we see frequently in this country upper-class crooks get appointments to attend police stations for questioning, whereas the hoi polloi get arrested in dawn raids.
Ed L
The 5% of the vote I obtained in Blackburn was the highest since 1936 for any independent parliamentary candidate, other than the sitting ex-Labour MP Dick Taverne. In other words it was the best result for any independent candidate in modern political history. Check it out.
Should I be ashamed of that?
Fred
26 Nov, 2014 – 7:44 pm
“I don’t think Brown is evil and I will not be pushed into hating him.”
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Who is pushing you Fred?
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“Yesterday we were supposed to hate Theresa May and this morning to hate a load of people who work for a charity for giving an award to someone we are supposed to hate.”
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What are your views on Theresa May and the award given to Tony Blair by Save the Children charity?
Blair and Save the Children
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9886139.ece/alternates/w1024/Daily-cartoon-20141127.jpg
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What does HRH think of the award?
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/about-us/people/president-princess-anne
Perhaps old habits are hard to break Mark.
http://www.theduckshoot.com/why-is-coke-head-george-osborne-still-chancellor/
The one who should ‘hang his head in shame’ (or better, have his head hung for him) over the Blackburn election is ‘Lord’ Patel, who urged Muslims to vote for ‘Criminal Against Humanity’ Jack (‘Man of’) Straw.
Our Gordon justifying the Iraq War because not removing Saddam would stand in the way of the ‘New World Order’ (one minute video clip): Gordon Brown says Saddam Hussein was in the way of the New World Order: (or should that be ‘Ordure’?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s1j0KHTGfY
tell us where we can read your personal blog excretions, Phil, so we can come and have a good rout through your facile BS.
As for ED small l, do you think repeating Craigs name four times in a small contribution here is enough?
I reckon you are not too confident about using such tabloid tactics and here because you are lonely and wanted to read something that got you all welled up inside.
If this blog is un-required reading, then you succumbed and failed to take your own lame advise, try gauging your verruca, or your eyes for that matter, then you don’t have to read at all. I’m sure you can shout instead.
@Craig “Gordon Brown is an evil man.”
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Craig
You say you do not want to parachute into a seat at the expense of a local activist. Where exactly in Scotland is there a deficit of able local people? Of course, no where. You will be stealing a seat off a capable person and thus you continue to trade off your disgusting past.
Of course your words were not sincere. Just more bullshit. You are going to jump at a seat and damn any local people.
More graduated BS from Phillip, making out that aspirational fervour and initiative equates with wanting to ‘steal a seat’, you oaf.
Do you really think there would be no interviews in front of the local membership? Its not some anarchic rabble picking their noses or a Stalinist coven, who make the decision.
I put Gordon Brown in the same category as Saddam Hussein – an exceptionally unscrupulous bastard otherwise he wouldn’t have risen so high amongst the other unscrupulous bastards, but he must’ve had some scruples otherwise THEY wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to get rid of him.
Nevermind
Are you suggesting nobodies like you and I should not scrutinise politicians unless we ourselves are equally scrutinised? Don’t be so fanboy daft.
As for stealing a seat. Craig said:
Nevermind
Are you suggesting nobodies like you and I should not scrutinise politicians unless we ourselves are equally scrutinised? Don’t be so fanboy daft.
As for stealing a seat. Craig said:
Do you think there are seats in Scotland where there are no local people capable and wanting to stand? Of course not. Craig will be a favoured candidate carpetbagged over a local candidate. Just like every party does. Same old same old.
Is Brown evil? It’s not that I want to protect the reputation of my school, Kirkcaldy High (1954-60, so not overlapping with Gordon,1962-67), or of his father (whom I did know as our school chaplain and as one of my father’s colleagues in the local Church of Scotland Presbytery) – but, while the phrase “the banality of evil” is, indeed, useful, I think it better to reserve “evil” to describe the results of actions rather than the character or motivation of individuals or organizations.
Most of the time the word is used by politicians (and Craig’s one too in this respect) and the media, it is to demonize others. Fine, perhaps, if you really believe in demons, devils, Beelzebub and all those other ways of avoiding serious thought. What matters with people like Brown, Blair, Farage, rapacious bankers, tax-avoiding multilaterals etc is to discredit them rather than puff them up as demons.
Guano
I am not banging on about Craigs past for nothing. I am doing so very much in the context of his current efforts to get elected.
Paul Barbara
Here’s a list of 25 Labour councillors/members etc, who have been accused or convicted of sexual offences.
http://labour25.com/
Here’s quite a few more, this time it includes Tory/councillors members, who have been convicted suspended or forced to resign for sexual improprieties.
http://conspiracytruths.co.uk/mpscovictedofsexoffense.html
Finally here is an FOI request to the Home Office by Derek Canning LLB.
https://antioligarch.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/a-list-of-child-sex-offenders-inside-the-british-government/
“As we see frequently in this country upper-class crooks get appointments to attend police stations for questioning, whereas the hoi polloi get arrested in dawn raids.”
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Dougie Scrogie
Yip couldn’t agree with you more, the police frogmarch some poor b*stard from Morrison’s or Sainbury’s for stealing a jar of coffee, yet these greedy fat troughing b*stards, get an appointment to show up at a police station.
With the excuse they either forgot, or its all one big misunderstanding, a quick shake of the head coppers hand a pat on the back and its all done and dusted.
Copied from Medialens.
Heard of sir Alan Parker – uberpowerful PR? Close to Cameron, Blair, Brown, Save the Children … ?
Posted by marknadim on November 27, 2014, 2:13 pm
Came across him mentioned in 2 pieces on Save the Children, mentioning ties with current and last two PMs, besides being chairman of StC. Who he isn’t close to? What decisions isn’t he involved in?
“Sir Alan Parker, who is the chairman of both Save the Children UK and the PR company Brunswick, is an associate of Blair’s, and helped to hire Forsyth as the charity’s chief executive in 2010.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/26/david-cameron-mocks-tony-blair-save-the-children-award –
which also has comedian Dom Joly, a StC ambassador, saying: When @savechildrenUK gave an award to Tony Blair for his ‘anti-poverty work’ I can only assume they meant his own, personal poverty?”
The (ex-) Prime Minister is godfather to Parker’s son, William, and his wife Sarah, who briefly worked for Parker, runs her charitable endeavours from Brunswick’s elegant offices in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
At his 50th birthday party, when he hired Ealing Studios and the women guests dressed as can-can dancers, Cameron sat next to his host at the dinner.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583898/PR-king-Alan-Parker-the-No-10-favourite.html
“… outside the City and Westminster, he is largely unknown. But he is someone who commands enormous influence in boardrooms across the globe, who advises a sizeable chunk of the FTSE 100, and whose second wedding in 2007 (to Jane Hardman, who is well connected in Tory circles) was attended by both the then prime minister, Gordon Brown, and leader of the opposition, David Cameron. He’s holidayed with Cameron and has accompanied him on a trade mission to China. For a while he employed Sarah Brown, Gordon’s wife, and Gordon is godfather to Parker’s son, William. But Parker himself remains in the background.”
From Indy profile here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/alan-parker-will-the-pfixer-emerge-victorious-in-the-biggest-proposedtakeover-in-british-corporate-history-9348170.html
In regard to Iain Orr’s quick discussion on the term “evil” above, readers might care to peruse this book: Political Ponerology
http://ponerology.com/
“Ponerology”, for those who might not already be fully aware of the term, is the study of evil. I have to warn you though, it’s a pretty densely written book, and not your average pick-up, put-down, flick-through holiday read. There are some reasonable extracts in the website mentioned.
“I am not banging on about Craigs past for nothing. I am doing so very much in the context of his current efforts to get elected.”
Perhaps you’d be better focused on a system and culture that does not allow people with any mortally or goodness to get anywhere, but obveosely your working for that system. Picking on frankly stupid ‘issues’ or straw man points you attribute to Craig s writing in order to try and undermine anything but the selfish and evil status quo. How upright you are.
One of the very few people to speak out for justice, and your so concerned about him getting support. It does not shock me.
It isn’t Facebook that feeds terror. It’s war and tyranny
The refusal to accept Britain’s role in a violent campaign without end fosters fear and racism
Seumas Milne
The Guardian, Thursday 27 November 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/facebook-terror-war-tyranny-britain-fosters-fear-racism
They are not ‘evil’. The likes of Blair and Brown, and their successors, are psychopaths.
Paul Barbara
Your couple of posts on Gordon Brown being a paedophile, culminating in:
“More on Gordon Brown: THE PAEDOPHILE RING THAT ENCIRCLES BRITISH POLITICS BY S.C. (NAME PROTECTED) AND GIOVANNI DI STEFANO – Read more – Online Publishing Company Limited:
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If, as I believe, the accusations against Gordon Brown are true, that could explain his not rising against Bliar. Blackmail is a very powerful brake on any tendency to ‘upset the apple cart’..”
could be taken to constitute defamatory libel. That, as you may know, is a criminal offence.
I believe that people should not be able to get away with accusing others of criminal activity by hiding behind the anonymity of internet blogs and am therefore minded to draw the attention of Gordon Brown’s office to your comments about Gordon Brown on this thread.
Please let me know, on this blog and within 24 hours, whether you have any objection to me doing so.
Do not take this as a joke because I am entirely serious.
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As for the link you offer – here is what Wikipedia has to say about the egregious Giovanni di Stefano:
“Giovanni Di Stefano (born 1 July 1955) is an Italian businessman and convicted fraudster based in the United Kingdom. He has been involved in legal cases for high-profile notorious defendants worldwide; he has no legal qualifications and is not registered to work as an advocate in the UK or Italy.[1] He has been referred to as “The Devil’s Advocate” for his advocacy on behalf of clients such as Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milošević.[2][3] He was also a business associate of the Serbian paramilitary leader and indicted war criminal Arkan.[3][4]
He has been convicted four times in Ireland and the United Kingdom of fraud and related criminal offences, serving a total of eight and a half years for convictions between 1975 and the late 1980s. He was described by a judge as “one of life’s great swindlers”.[5] His most recent conviction, in March 2013, saw him being sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment after being found guilty or pleading guilty to 27 charges including deception, fraud and money laundering between 2001 and 2011 related to “tricking people into thinking he was a bona fide legal professional”.”
Seumas gets so much shit for saying the blindingly obivious, good to see some surportive comments got in before the usual bashing get’s under way.
I overheard two girls the other night talking about some guy who beat up a pregnant girl. This kind of thing is pretty common in my area. Along with the racist sexist misogynist bigotry.
Yes it’s ‘evil’, and there is responsibility, there is also circumstance and environment. And frankly as far as community violence goes, I think those that have created this environment hold a big load of that blame. Same with the middle east.
@Republicofscotland: Glad you’re aware of the problem. It is not, of course, a Party thing; unfortunately all parties have their perverts. I have seen some of the Labour List before, but didn’t take much notice because it was just an anti-Labour rant, whereas, as we know, it crosses Party lines.
Check out the videos I put up about the States; and here is an article, ‘Satanic subversion of the U.S. Military’:
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/satanic_subversion.htm which dovetails with the DeCamp video. Amazingly, the Royal Navy also has at least one ‘Church of Satan’ serving, who was given permission to practice his ‘religion’ on board ship, and given premises to do so; he has since been promoted, and offered a job in the MoD. Needless to say, not all Satanists ‘come out’, any more than Witches do. The ones who do are the tip of a very nasty iceberg.
Also, re people in high places often being paedophiles and worse, there is a ceremony or rite where one can sell one’s soul to the Devil, a deal signed in the person’s blood, whereby the Devil will grant the person all his/her desires, in exchange for the person sacrificing one soul (generally a young baby or child) per year to Satan (that is, killing them in a sacrificial ceremony). Most people will say ‘Tommyrot’ or worse, but the ancient texts exist, and some misguided, evil people act upon them.
MODS
Be aware of Habbabkuk’s threats (4.43pm).
Habbabkuk, Paul Barbara merely states that he believes something he read elsewhere. Why report Paul Barbara rather than the source to Gordon Brown’s office?
And on what basis do you describe Paul Barbara as ‘anonymous’? It looks like a real name to me. Remember to assume good faith.