We do not have a parliamentary system which can hold a government with an absolute majority to account, even when that government only gained 37% of the vote. This is a salutary video for all of us, but particularly my fellow SNP members who think that being on House of Commons committees will make a big difference. Watch it from 16.32.30 where Paul Flynn starts to explore the links between Liam Fox, Adam Werritty and Matthew Gould. As he threatens to uncover hidden truths, he is shouted down by Tory MP Robert Halfon and forbidden from speaking by Tory committee chair Bernard Jenkin.
The Tories will be even worse in this parliament.
Halfon has today been promoted to Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and given a seat in the Cabinet. He is a really nasty piece of work whose political career has been sponsored and financed by a very sinister figure named Poju Zabludowicz, who works closely with Mossad. It is appalling that Zabludowicz should be able to place his puppet into the centre of government, and shows yet again that money can buy power at Westminster, every time.
It is amusing that Cameron has been forced to put David Mundell into the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Scotland. Also interesting that in the present state of opinion Cameron was not able to put in a colonial governor from the Lords or an English constituency. But whatever else may be said in Mundell’s favour, nobody has ever described him as highly intelligent, I suspect not even his mum. So it will be interesting to see how he manages his extraordinarily sensitive brief.
Labour equally had no choice but Ian Murray – which means as a shadow cabinet member he will have to stop pretending he is opposed to Trident. As anti-Trident rhetoric was the thing that saved Murray (plus disgraceful media attacks on his SNP opponent), by forcing him to become pro-Trident Scottish Labour will make a strong bid to have no MPs at all.
“That’s a straw man. The point is, unanswered questions relating to the official 9-11 Commission Report does not entitle conspiracy theorists to fill in the gaps with unsubstantiated “definitive” answers of their own.”
So let’s have a full inquiry with power of subpoena and prove the conspiracy theorists wrong then.
Why not?
This geophysicist knew what he was talking about.
11 May 2015, 6.25am BST
Rumbling from ocean trenches could be sign that Japan faces mega earthquake
Japan has the most powerful seismic network in the world. And this network is throwing out some warning signs.
http://theconversation.com/rumbling-from-ocean-trenches-could-be-sign-that-japan-faces-mega-earthquake-41464
Author
Luca de Siena
Lecturer in Geophysics at University of Aberdeen
Sky have just reported the occurrence of an earthquake of 6.9 magnitude off the coast of the island of Honshu.
Lysias
12/05/2015 10:25pm
“Can trustees transfer to themselves property belonging to the beneficiary of a trust for no consideration?”
I do not know. Doesn’t sound very likely, does it? I do not know if Janner’s children are trustees of his property. But I will have a little bit to say about the duties of an attorney in a moment.
Kind regards,
John
Note for newcomers: Ba’al Zevul is a nasty little shit who attacks the person because he can’t dispute the facts.
Lysias
12/05/2015 10:21pm
Aha, that is exactly the information I was looking for. Probably the reporters have made their own OPG100 application.
J
“So let’s have a full inquiry with power of subpoena and prove the conspiracy theorists wrong then.”
I agree with you.
@Lysias
12 May, 2015 – 10:06 pm
Thanks for the link. Peter Morrison was just one of many paedos during the Thatcher government (Thatcher gave the keys of Broadmoor to Jimmy Savile – you couldn’t make it up!).
The Daily Mail is a strange entity (and one that should be prosecuted for hate speech). During this election campaign they ran a piece on one page saying that Labour would decimate the health service by spending more tax payer’s money on it, whilst on the opposite page decrying that under the coalition government waiting lists are longer.
According to Reuters, the earthquake was 78 miles southeast of Morioka and at a depth of 20.5 miles. What does that say about the likelihood of a tsunami? It’s shallow earthquakes that cause the worst tsunamis, isn’t it?
Uh oh, looks like Morioka is on the northeast coast of Honshu. That would put it near Fukushima, wouldn’t it?
“The Daily Mail is a strange entity (and one that should be prosecuted for hate speech). During this election campaign they ran a piece on one page saying that Labour would decimate the health service by spending more tax payer’s money on it, whilst on the opposite page decrying that under the coalition government waiting lists are longer.”
I suppose they could argue that in theory it could be decimated if, say, more tax payer’s money was spent on new PPI projects and executive pay increases as opposed to increasing the amount of front-line staff.
Morioka is 140 miles north of Fukushima.
Lysias
12/05/2015 10:21pm
“Acting under that power of attorney, Janner’s three adult children transferred ownership of his home, valued at around £2 million, to themselves in March last year.”
That transfer would be in contravention of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 [section 12 (1)], unless the attorneys have applied to the Court of Protection for permission to make such an enormous transfer to themselves. Victims could have an easy remedy if such permission has not been granted. If the attorneys have applied for and received such permission, the Court of Protection may have been unaware that potential civil claims for damages might be made against Lord Janner for sexual abuse and/or assault. In that case, any victim could make an application to the Court of Protection to have the lasting power of attorney revoked on the grounds that the attorneys are not carrying out their duties correctly.
Kind regards,
John
Washington will never allow a new inquiry into the 9/11 cockups because it would show that CIA leaders like Tenet and Morrell cooked up the whole story about Saddam having WMD to hide how wrong they had been about the 19 suicide bombers – what they had hoped to catch red-handed as hijackers to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan for allowing Osama bin-Laden sanctuary there.
And thank god that Morrison, Thatcher’s PPS, was running her re-election campaign in the absence of George Younger as Morrison made a complete mess of it, forcing her to resign, and in return, she gave him a knighthood to spite her tormentors.
No tsunami risk, they’re saying.
@Lysias
12 May, 2015 – 10:56 pm
And I should stress that Indian Point is only 40 miles from downtown Manhatten:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NY-Indian-Point-Transformer-Explodes-Smoke-303187081.html
And I should also stress that the explosion apparently occured with an electrical transformer, not with the reactor.
Not that it makes much difference, because after Fukushima (the worst disaster in human history), and WIPP, and the forest fires at Chernobyl, cancer rates are going to go through the roof over the coming decades.
This is my planet.
I did not give a mandate for total scum to destroy it.
It’s my planet too which is why I’m in favour of nuclear energy.
Daniel, so what are you going to do with all the nuclear waste?
I don’t have the figures to hand right now, but I believe it’s hundreds of tons every year, of the most toxic stuff ever created on this planet.
And by the way, just about all western economies could easily go on to renewables (and in particular Scotland).
I wonder why they don’t?
Drill baby, drill.
“Daniel, so what are you going to do with all the nuclear waste?”
Your inference is we don’t have choices. But this is wrong. The UK’s stockpile of nuclear waste could be used to generate enough low-carbon energy to run this country for 500 years.
If the material we have seen until now as waste is instead seen as fuel, it has the potential to solve three problems at once:
1) The UK’s contribution to climate change
2) Possible future energy shortfalls and
3) A significant component of the massive bill – and massive headache – associated with cleaning up the current nuclear mess.
“And by the way, just about all western economies could easily go on to renewables (and in particular Scotland).
I wonder why they don’t?
Drill baby, drill.”
The argument ought to be centered on getting the mix right.
Trowbridge H. Ford wrote: “Washington will never allow a new inquiry into the 9/11 cockups because it would show that CIA leaders like Tenet and Morrell cooked up the whole story about Saddam having WMD to hide how wrong they had been about the 19 suicide bombers – what they had hoped to catch red-handed as hijackers to get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan for allowing Osama bin-Laden sanctuary there.”
Well it’s not like the 9/11 cockup is the only cockup that has been in need of a good government/media coverup. They both had some previous practice at the art of finessing cockup coverups with the earlier Oklahoma City bombing.
From The Secret Life of Timothy McVeigh:
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” So let’s have a full inquiry with power of subpoena and prove the conspiracy theorists wrong then.
Why not? ”
Because it would be a waste of time and money. The tin-foil hat brigade would never admit they were wrong no matter how much proof you laid before them, they’d just whine “cover up”.
Election 2015: Social democracy is dead. Don’t mourn.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/election-2015-social-democracy-is-dead.-dont-mourn/
Just a few days and the Nasty Party reveals its true face. According to the state broadcaster:
New laws to target radicalisation
David Cameron is to set out new powers aimed at tackling radicalisation, saying the UK has been a “passively tolerant society” for too long.
6 hours ago
Live Politics live: 13 May
Is Prevent strategy failing?
A difficult dialogue
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32714802
May puts up her steel reinforced shutters.
Mediterranean migrant crisis: May wants some people returned
4 hours ago
Economic migrants rescued from the Mediterranean while trying to reach Europe should be returned home, Home Secretary Theresa May has suggested.
Writing in the Times, she said offering everyone resettlement regardless of circumstances would only encourage more to make “these perilous journeys”.
She said this was why the UK was not backing a planned quota system aimed at resettling migrants across the EU.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32716735
Jemand now links to a YT made by the Q Society of Australia, a clone of the EDL by the looks of it.
‘Welcome to the YouTube channel of Q Society of Australia Inc; Australia’s premier Islam-critical organisation. We are an all-volunteers civil rights group with chapters around the country.
Please feel encouraged to support our volunteers and the work we do. Our homepage provides more information and how you can contribute or become part of Q Society as a registered supporter. Q is incorporated as a not-for-profit association, we are secular and not associated with any political party.’
They even have Geert Wilders on their banner. Wot! No Pamela Geller?
http://www.qsociety.org.au/
Anti-austerity politician comes out for tories: Green party peer Jenny Jones recommends multi-millionairre environmentalist Zac Goldsmith for mayoral preference.
Who wooda thunk?
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/greens-would-back-tory-zac-to-be-mayor-over-labour-says-peer-10241968.html
@ Jemand
Brendan O’neill is a sharp writer; the Guardianistas must hate every last drop of his testosterone:
“…the real Two Britains. Which is, on one side, the Britain of the moral clerisy, which is pro-EU, multicultural, anti-tabloid, politically correct and devoted to welfarism and paternalism as the main means through which to govern the masses, and, on the other side, the Britain of the rest of the us, of the masses, of those people increasingly viewed by the cultural elite as inscrutable, incomprehensible, and in need of nudging, social re-engineering and behaviour modification.”
I think ‘clerisy’ may become the word of 2015; or at least the title of Socialism’s epitaph: Too good to be true.
I conclude from his silence that the source of a certain poster’s background and expertise in Jannerite pasdophilia (classics studies at Oxford or service in the US Navy?) must remain, forever, a mystery to the readers of this blog.
Also from Australia,
Net Loss: Freedom? Edward Snowden, Scott Ludlam and Elaine Pearson on the surveillance state (Progress 2015)
Join NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (via video link), Greens senator Scott Ludlam and the Australian director of Human Rights Watch Elaine Pearson for a historic discussion on Australia’s national and global surveillance state and how we can and must build a stronger movement to protect our freedoms in the digital age.
This discussion, moderated by Nick Moraitis, was filmed at the Melbourne Town Hall as part of the Progress 2015 conference.
Melbourne, May 2015
http://www.themonthly.com.au/video/2015/may/13/1431475782/net-loss-freedom-edward-snowden-scott-ludlam-and-elaine-pearson
Published
May 13th 2015
Duration
1h 2m 36s
RoS
Nothing in your response challenges my assertion but you did actually say “hope triumphs cynicism”. Priceless stuff.
The SNP are fishing tory rebel waters. No Tory will be persuaded to rebel by an SNP MP. If some Tories do rebel the SNP will claim success. If no Tory rebels the SNP will say what heartless unreasonable English bastards! It’s bullshit PR politics as usual.