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As the Labour party descends into chaos, the Conservative government presses on with its plan to dismantle our NHS.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/26/nhs-plans-radical-cuts-to-fight-growing-deficit-in-health-budget NHS plans closures and radical cuts to combat growing deficit in health budget The conspirators of the Parliamentary Labour Party, now openly aided by elements of the National Executive Committee and Labour Party hierarchy, are determined to destroy the party and to stop the democratic process of the leadership election. A process which they themselves instigated when their first coup attempt failed, is now falling apart, as their "Stooge Candidate" Owen Smith, is exposed at every hustings debate, as a lightweight naive figure, only on the platform as a leadership contender, because no other member of the conspiratorial PLP had the backbone to challenge Corbyn themselves. Owen Smith: The lightweight and naive "Stooge Candidate"  The latest tactic, emanating this time from elements within the National Executive Committee of th...

Delay, prevarication and cover up.

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chilcot-inquiry-into-iraq-war-will-not-report-before-election-9991412.html Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq war will 'not report before election'   There are many people involved (a) with the decision to take this country to war, (b) the "conspiracy" between politicians to manufacture justification for intervention in Iraq, (c) the disputes between the intelligence services of the United States and the united Kingdom and (c) the prevarication and delays in publication. Too many people with too much to hide creating seemingly endless delay in order to prevent disclosure of themselves and their part in illegal war. The report may be published "after the election", but personally I believe that further means will be found to prevent the findings coming into the public domain

The terminal decline of "English" English.

Now the "Americanism" is now part of our language. Do you? Another Americanism creeps into use on television, on the BBC News as well as SKY . Even the media are caught up in this swing towards the American rather than the usual UK use of words and phraseology.  This time it seems we now use the word "homicide" rather than the UK English "murder" to refer to unlawful killing. Not that the word "homicide" is wrong, it is just not what we have historically used to describe that crime. Too many American "cop" shows on television have no doubt ingrained the "American" language into the minds of the viewer who now accept and even use the phraseology in their everyday lives. Kojak, Colombo, LA Law, Miami Vice and others, even going back to Dragnet, have been littered with variations ad nauseum, of the  the "I am lootenant Colombo LA Police Homicide" introduction of the character. Even the British Police seem to b...

A conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-inquiry-conversations-between-george-bush-and-tony-blair-will-never-be-made-public-9456326.html Chilcot Inquiry: Conversations between George Bush and Tony Blair will never be made public A grubby little cover up   The conspiracy to enter into war, has recruited new members with a grubby little deal to cover up evidence and conceal the truth. In any other circumstances, this would be a case of "conspiracy to pervert the course of justice".   Bush and Blair; Shoulder to shoulder The Cabinet Office has decreed that disclosure of the full text of documents would be detrimental to United States/United Kingdom relations and could endanger the "Special Relationship"(a relationship which in fact only exists in the imagination of many British politicians). It is intolerable that un elected and un accountable civil servants are able to thwart and disrupt a legal enquiry and protect former p...