What comes out to me from the “Black Spider letter” correspondence of Prince Charles published today is how utterly obsequious Tony Blair and New Labour ministers were to him. No sign whatsoever of radicalism from the former “People’s Party” as they fell over to ingratiate themselves with the heir to the throne. I rather enjoyed Charles quite sharp tone to Blair.
I am fundamentally opposed to the existence of the monarchy. It will hopefully be replaced by a better system, but no human system is perfect. Given that we have a monarchy at present, you will perhaps be surprised to learn that I do not see anything wrong in Charles’ letters, which put forward views which are much what we would have expected him to hold. Of course there is interaction between the monarchy and government, and of course we should get rid of this hereditary element. But Charles’ lobbying is hugely less damaging and pernicious than the corporate lobbying I witnessed throughout my Whitehall career. At least Charles is not lobbying them for corporate advantage and giving large political donations at the same time.
While in my view he did nothing wrong in writing the letters, he and government are both very wrong in arguing they should be private. It is when it is secret that such attempts to wield influence between two branches of government – and monarchy is a branch of government – can be most simply perverted to ill ends. That such publication will not occur again because government has legislated to keep it secret, is an example of the privileged arrogance that prevents this from being a genuine democracy.
Altogether not that big a story and it gives Rusbridger and the Guardian the chance to pose as radical. I find the fact that what is published is so anodyne and unobjectionable rather suspicious – what has not been published? Rusbridger is of course the editor who complied enthusiastically with a GCHQ instruction to smash the Snowden hard drives. The existence of other copies does not justify this any more than it justifies book-burning.
By coincidence, a very worthwhile article by Michael Gillard that had been excised from the net has recently been republished, setting out how Rusbridger in 2002 conspired with Andy Hayman of the Met to bury an investigation into police corruption, including the burglary of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry. By a further coincidence I was having a pint with Laurie Flynn in Sandy Bell’s four days ago.
Hayman went on to be the promoter of the stream of lies about the murder of Jean Charles De Menezes and the publicist of numerous fake terrorist plots, before having to resign in a scandal involving nubile police officers at public expense in tropical islands.
Rusbridger and his extraordinary wig go on and on as a pretend opposition outlet, their reputation much dented by recent hysterical unionist output which exceeds the Daily Express. But Rusbridger’s continued usefulness to the establishment is not in doubt. The pose of publishing the most harmless of Prince Charles’ letters does little to help a threadbare disguise.
..back to the previous pic! So my guess is a slip in entering the email address.
2 hrs. to go. Its either Ipswich or Norwich, which of the wi(t)ches will go to Wembley…..
Just looked up Dzkhar Tsarnaev. He was doing badly academically, was deeply in debt, pushing drugs to make ends meet, and ripe for cultivation by online Islamists who could have directed his bitterness against his adopted country. A second-year medical student too, with bright prospects. A real tragedy. But he’s an adult who took the lives of others, and now he will have to face the consequences.
PS. Correction – he wasmajoring in Marine biology and *hoped* to become a dentist. But he had failed courses in Chemistry, so maybe he didn’t have what it took. If so, it would be another reason for being bitter.
RobG.
Brilliant stuff from last night.
ChunkyMark is a fantastic asset for democracy. THEY won’t like him!
I just love all this information that comes up on here. What a pity so few people know about it.
The more who find out all this information the sooner the “brainwashing” will disappear, I hope.
Keep it going all you good people. You are wonderful.
Anon1
I’m going to stop picking on you if you don’t up your game.
What is the point of me slapping you down about making unsupported accusations and calling everyone a conspiracy theorist if your only response is to call me a conspiracy theorist and make another unsupported accusation? Eh? I don’t know why I bother, I really don’t. Now listen carefully.
You mocked John Goss for questioning reports about an executed general in N. Korea. I pointed out that such doubts are reasonable because the Western media has fabricated them in the past. Now – either address my point or slink off. Substance, not empty rhetoric, please.
Brian Fujistan.
Your own posts are on the button too.
That “red carpet” must have touched a lot of hearts.
Except the hearts of those who did that damage, and, those who allowed it.
All that badness creates a boomerang effect!
Dead Can’t Dance.
Cleggover is not doing so badly making shapes on the dance floor.
You put your left Clegg in! Ex-Lib Dem leader is pictured doing the CONGA as he and Miriam joined hundreds of party workers on dance-floor at election ‘wake’
300 ousted Lib Dem MPs, spin doctors and officials gathered for party
Nick and Miriam Clegg ‘quaffed quite a lot of wine and danced all night’
Ex-Lib Dem leader danced to Prince and the Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive
Speech to party workers ‘recognised how dreadful the results were’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3081497/Clegg-lead-CONGA-Nick-Miriam-dominate-dancefloor-Lib-Dems-hold-political-wake-defeat.html
Abe do you write for Take a Break?
You are asserting nonsense as you go along, all in the way of rubbishing your nemesis correction the perceived nemesis of the tribe; Anything Islamic.
The guy has got not a pot to piss in, but has computers and an Internet account and can afford hours of sitting and clattering away on the keyboard being “cultivated” by Muzzzluuuums!!!!
Who sends you these wanky memos for your talking points?
The starting day of the trial of this chap the jury was shown a picture of him giving the finger at the camera! Now which young scalawag does not do that? But that was to prove his total disrespect for our way of life crap!!!!
Give over Abe.
Craig, you despise people whose opinion is not the same as yours. Your alcohol-inspired posts from this past year prove it.
The SNP will kick you out. The Scots regard you as an effete, wannabe carpet-bagger.
Why not move to England where you’ll be less unwelcome?
Your party membership is now being reviewed. OK, we might let you stay, but don’t bank on it.
“an hereditary monarchy” It’s ‘a’. Learn English. It will help you in the long term.
I heard the pressure cookers that were used described as ‘weapons of mass destruction’. Somewhat hyperbolic. I am not forgetting the deaths and injuries that were caused.
Food for thought and some facts from this author on the Boston Marathon trial and verdict.
Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field for more than a quarter century. He now concentrates on his writing and has a blog site at http://empireexposed. blogspot. com/. He is also a regular contributor to Global Research and a syndicated columnist at Veterans Today.
Boston Marathon Bombings’ Guilty Verdict Exposed as a Gross Travesty of Justice
By Joachim Hagopian
May 14, 2015
http://www.globalresearch.ca/boston-marathon-bombings-guilty-verdict-exposed-as-a-gross-travesty-of-justice/5442240
Craig your fan club is out to have a pop at you again!
Sticks and stones …….
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Mary the spin put on the “news” has long entered into insane unconscious hyperbolic drivel.
Gordon Will you be voting ref motion of no confidence in Jim Murphy?
Scottish Labour discusses Jim Murphy’s future
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-32760196
“an hereditary monarchy” It’s ‘a’. Learn English. It will help you in the long term.
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This is a bit clumsy Gordon. You start a sentence without a capital and end it without a full stop. It contains no verb. Then you have the pedantry to criticise Ba’al for using ‘an’ instead of ‘a’ when prefixing ‘hereditary’.
The rule is based on whether the ‘h’ in the following word is aspirated or not but colloquially either would be correct. For example “an heir” would be correct whereas “a heir” would not. Hereditary and heir are related words and it is only an anomoly of English pronunciation that makes one right and the other wrong.
Hope this helps.
“Your party membership is now being reviewed. OK, we might let you stay, but don’t bank on it.”
Didn’t someone come out with more or less identical words here recently? Maybe it was “Gordon” or maybe somebody else.
But the most blatant trolling I’ve seen here.
“Learn English. It will help you in the long term.”
Well no, actually, it would be more productive to learn Chinese or Russian. That’s what clever young folk are doing these days.
Gordon
16/05/2015 12:49pm
‘“an hereditary monarchy” It’s ‘a’. Learn English. It will help you in the long term.’
“An hereditary” is a bit old-fashioned, but that doesn’t make it wrong. It used to be common enough. Of course, it might just be a typo. I’ve made plenty of them.
If you post again, do make certain that your English is absolutely flawless, won’t you? Because if it isn’t, you can be sure that it will be corrected for you, in public.
Kind regards,
John
The new SNP MPs taking selfies in Parliament doesn’t bode well. The wee porridge w*gs are clearly enamoured with their new-found importance. A sense of entitlement and a period of frenzied troughing are sure to follow as they settle in. It’s not looking good for Scottish independence.
A scene somewhere in zionistan:
Where is that fecking cross?
His boss getting hoisted up on it, has not sunk in yet!
Pope describes Palestinian leader as ‘an angel of peace’
Node
“Now listen carefully.
You mocked John Goss for questioning reports about an executed general in N. Korea. I pointed out that such doubts are reasonable because the Western media has fabricated them in the past. Now – either address my point or slink off. Substance, not empty rhetoric, please.”
I mocked John Goss for supporting North Korea as a victim of Western smears and a paragon of self-sufficiency and technological innovation.
Sure, some reports coming out of North Korea turn out to be erroneous. Conflicting reports are common from isolationist regimes without free media. I wouldn’t turn that into what John Goss appears to believe about the country, however.
So what do you believe about North Korea, Node? What is it really like, substance without empty rhetoric please.
Ps, I note you seem to have gone off the idea of security services involvement in the defacement of the war memorial.
“BREAKING: Jim Murphy has survived a vote of no confidence to stay on as Scottish Labour leader”
(a tweet.)
Not exactly a plum job, is it.
He is resigning anyway. Whither next?
Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy to resign
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-32760196
One of my favourite songs seems apt for all these resigner/leavers.
The Seekers The Carnival is Over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k
“When justice eventually prevails Gaddafi, Saddam and Ceausescu will not go down in the history books as tyrants, but as those who opposed the tyrants.”
Worth noting that apart from Anon1 there has not been a smidgen of criticism of this piece of stinking shit.
“Worth noting that apart from Anon1 there has not been a smidgen of criticism of this piece of stinking shit.”
It’s because your propaganda is not believed any more! Nobody trusts you and Anon1 or the other trolls to tell the truth. You’ve blotted your copybooks that many times you get what you deserve.
I would criticise Gaddafi, Saddam and Ceausescu for the gross faults in their reigns. But they were all executed without trial (except for kangaroo trials) and therefore not allowed to put their side. Was that right?
THanks for the clarification on my intentional use of ‘an’, John. Though, did Gordon but know it, I could myself be accused of pedantry for that usage.
I shall in future address myself to ‘Gordon’ in hiphop, the better to make myself understood at his low cultural level.
Anon1 : “So what do you believe about North Korea, Node? What is it really like, substance without empty rhetoric please.”
I’m on record on this blog as stating that I have no idea what’s going on in N. Korea. Everything I’ve heard about that country has come through Western media and that is not to be trusted on this subject as even you have admitted, therefore I don’t have enough reliable information to form a judgement.
Anon1 : “Ps, I note you seem to have gone off the idea of security services involvement in the defacement of the war memorial.”
Read what I said again. Not only did I NOT say it was the security services wot dunnit, I specifically pointed out that there was NO evidence on which to form a judgement.
So. Two situations where neither of us seem to have sufficient information. I am happy to admit that I don’t know while you are certain you do. I can think of only three explanations to account for your confidence in the absence of facts. Which is it?
(1) You are using ESP
(2) You have inside information on matters of national security
(3) You are an idiot
sddam’s prison guards had been checked vetted and warned not to divulge a word of what he said or did!
To date none of the prison guards have been sought to be interviewed or called to be giving evidence.
Saddam was given a suit two size bigger to attend his trail (kangaroo court, that kept changing presiding judges because they were considered lenient) this was to “humiliate him”. That is the extent of the mentality of the pygmies minds who are busy pushing the narrative.
Not one Iraqi that I know is happy that Saddam has been ousted, they are wishing/praying for the good old days in Iraq.
The new SNP MPs taking selfies in Parliament doesn’t bode well.
Bless. No-one else takes selfies, do they? Not in the Daily Mail, anyway….
Still, it’s what the public seems to want from Two (Taxpayer Funded) Jobs Johnson…
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/12883697.Crowds_gather_as_Mayor_of_London_poses_for_selfies_in_town_centre_visit/?ref=mr&lp=18