Agenda 2019

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/12/tory-leadership-challenge-contenders-_n_2860721.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&utm_hp_ref=uk Tory Leadership Challenge Hots Up Theresa May: 4/1 Boris Johnson: 5/1 Michael Gove: 9/1 Philip  Hammond: 10/1 Adam Afriyie: 25/1 Liam Fox: 33/1  What a motley collection of miscreants and malcontents, all apparently bidding for the position of Conservative Party leader and potential Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Not being a member or supporter of the Tory party, (or of the Labour party anymore), I suppose that I should not have an axe to grind one way or another, but as this person may at some time become the "leader" of the country, I do have more than a passing interest. If this is really the best that Torries have to offer, we shall just have to live in hope that there is a figure, a "dark horse" lurking in the shadows of Central Office, p...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-police-could-have-stopped-sex-offender-jimmy-savile-50-years-ago-8530241.html Police could have stopped Savile 50 years ago Savile  Almost every week another story emerges of how opportunities were missed to stop Savile and his evil escapades of abuse. The opportunities were missed presumably by accident, but there is a continuing possibility that some were missed by design. It is essential that those deliberately ignored and more importantly those responsible for ignoring them are identified and where possible, charged with covering up the crimes.  

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/11/liam-fox-tory-leadership_n_2851902.html?utm_hp_ref=uk   Liam Fox Dodges Leadership Questions.   Liam Fox Liam Fox. Remember him? He was the same Liam Fox who, when as Secretary of State for Defence, gave his close friend Adam Werritty, access to the Ministry of Defence and allowed him to join official trips overseas. This is the same Liam Fox who, after paying back the £22,476 claimed as expenses for mortgage interest payments, appealed against Sir Thomas Legg's decision, and lost. In March of 2010, Fox blamed a "changeover of staffing responsibilities", for his failure to comply with Parliamentary rules of the Register of Members' Financial Interests in connection with visits to Sri Lanka. In October 2011, Fox's association with Adam Werritty, who had been the Best Mann at Fox's wedding in 2005, attracted some media attention.    Adam Werritty It came to light that Werritty had lived r...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/10/tony-blair-iraq-bush-meyer_n_2848780.html?utm_hp_ref=uk More evangelical than the American Christian Right. Tony Blair and George Bush   "With his Manichean, black and white view of the world, Mr Blair was in his way more neo-con than the neo-cons, more evangelical than the American Christian Right. From this flowed Britain's contribution to the mistakes made before and after the Iraq invasion, despite repeated warnings from the Foreign Office and the Washington embassy."  (Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain's ambassador to Washington between 1997 and 2003.) The evidence against Blair, (and Bush) mounts. The ICC has given lengthy prison terms to people for far less than these two criminals conspired to carry out in Iraq. Blair fabricated "justification" for the invasion and lied to the House of Commons to secure parliamentary support for an illegal war. That is a crime in itself. The un-necessary...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/10/iain-duncan-smith-justin-welby-reforms_n_2849177.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary said "fairness" was at the centre of the overhaul he was steering through parliament.   Iain Duncan Smith   Iain Duncan Smith, failed Conservative party leader, failed shadow defence secretary, central character in "Betsygate" and arch enemy of working people, (to mention just a few points from his rather checkered past), considers that it is fair to attack the sick, the disabled and young in the name of welfare reforms. His understanding of the word fair is as warped as is his personality.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/mar/09/leveson-report-press-victims-government-vote Campaigners write letter urging government to end talks with editors and act on report recommendations   A House of Lords amendment to the Defamation Bill,  introduced by Lord Puttnam, aims to bring in press regulation   Why is Cameron so set against the recommendations of the report? His prevarications and delaying moves, "...he is expected to block it to prevent a likely government defeat", are clearly indicative of a private agenda. Cameron should beware. The consequences for being closely involved with the media can be very damaging as many have found to their cost.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/09/lib-dem-conference-nick-clegg-secret-courts_n_2845254.html?utm_hp_ref=uk  Activists Show Fury At Nick Clegg Support For Secret Courts   Nick Clegg holds a Q&A session with party members    On the BBC News24 Programme "Hard Talk" yesterday (Saturday 9th March), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown admitted to voting for the Liberal Democrats at the last election, then went on to say that she had made the wrong decision and would "never vote for them again".  Yasmin Alibhai-Brown   The reason for this change of heart was, as she put it, because the Liberals had supported Tory legislation that reneged on every principle, promise, undertaking  and pledge that Liberal Democrats had made during the election campaign and generally betrayed people in this country.They had, again in her words, become  "Tarts" in the political arena. I have argued previously that the way in which Clegg and...