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Ministry of Truth unveils further attempt to deprive us of our liberty

December 6, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Police State, Terrorism No comments

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, has pronounced that the state should be allowed to detain “terrorism” suspects without charge for 42 days. The 28 day limit that we currently have is already longer than any other developed nation. The British government has already admitted that there have been no occasions when the current 28 day limit has not been sufficient.

I sent the following email to my Liebour MP, David Wright, this morning:

Dear David,

I see that your government is due to announce its plans for increasing the unlawful and unconstitutional detention without charge of “terrorist” suspects.

The “anti-terrorism” laws that your government brought in have been abused systematically and have failed to catch a single terrorist.

Walter Wolfgang was physically removed from the Labour Party Conference and refused re-entry under the Terrorism Act

A woman and man were arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act for reading out the names of dead soldiers near Downing Street

A man was arrested and detained under the Terrorism Act for carrying a blank placard outside Parliament

Several people have been put under house arrest after being found innocent in a court of law under the Terrorism Act

As of last year, 300,000 people were stopped and searched under the Terrorism Act but not one of them was a terrorist
Those are just a few examples of the abuse of the Terrorism Act and the illegal and unconstitutional curtailment of civil liberties in the name of “anti-terrorism”.

Your Prime Minister says that it’s necessary for your government to curtail my rights and liberties so that terrorists can’t change my way of life, Well guess what – my way of life has been changed for the worse because of your government’s “anti-terror” legislation.

I urge you strongly not to support this illegal and unconstitutional attempt to advance the police state.

Stuart

The British government has previously tried to increase the limit to 90 days but this was beaten down to 28 days. Protest is effectively illegal outside the British Parliament now so the only way to stop this illiberal move is to convince enough MPs as possible to oppose it.

Technorati Tags: Liebour, Police State

EDM 266

December 5, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution 3 comments

Just sent this to my MP …

Dear David,

Your Prime Minister signed the Scottish Claim of Right in which he pledged that the interests of Scottish people would be paramount in all his acts and deliberations.

Now that he is your British Prime Minister, the interests of all people in “Britain” should be paramount in all his acts and deliberations.

Asymmetric devolution, the continued existence of the Barnett Formula, persisting in allowing MPs elected in Scotland to vote on areas of legislation that have been devolved in their own constituencies, a commitment to the abolition of England by regionalisation, refusing to acknowledge that English people have a “sovereign right to determine the best form of government for themselves” (something else that was in the Scottish Claim of Right) – all these demonstrate Gordon Brown’s continued adherence to the principles of the Scottish Claim of Right.

Gordon Brown’s faux-Britishness is a sham. He has pledged to put the interests of 5m people first and foremost in everything he does to the detriment of the other 55m and is standing by that pledge. EDM266 calls on your Prime Minister to renounce the Scottish Claim of Right as it is clearly incompatible with his position as British Prime Minister. The text is as follows:

That this House recognises that the Prime Minister is a signatory to the Scottish Claim of Right in which he declared and pledged that in all his actions and deliberations the interests of the Scottish people `shall be paramount’; believes that by declaring that the interests of the Scottish people should come first he has committed himself to discriminating against the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland; considers this to be incompatible with being the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in which office the interests of all UK people should be equal; and calls on him publicly to disassociate himself from and withdraw from the Scottish Claim of Right.

As an MP elected in England elected to represent the interests of your constituents rather than your party, I would like you to sign EDM266 and reflect what I believe will be the majority view of your constituents; that Gordon Brown’s pledge to put Scottish interests first and foremost in all his acts and deliberations is incompatible with his job as British Prime Minister and discriminatory against the other 55m people of the UK that he has pledged to treat as less important, second-class citizens.

Stuart

p.s. Once again, I ask that you conserve resources, save money and do your bit for the environment by replying to me by email and not by post.

EDM266 can be found here.

Technorati Tags: Gordon Brown, Discrimination, Claim of Right

All men are equal in the eyes of the law

December 3, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Federal Europe, Sleaze 9 comments

The law is the law and all men are equal in the eyes of the law. This is one of the most fundamental concepts in English law but the most serious of crimes – treason – is committed regularly and goes unpunished. Other fundamental rights that we have had for centuries and are guaranteed by the constitution are ignored.

Federal Europe

Membership of the EU is not only damaging to the economy and bad for democracy but is illegal.

Firstly, the 37th article of the 1563 Articles of Religion says that “The Queen’s Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England and other her dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not nor ought to be subject to any foreign jurisdiction”.

Secondly, the 1689 Bill of Rights says “And I do declare That noe Forreigne Prince Person Prelate, State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authoritie Ecclesiastical or Spirituall within this Realme Soe helpe me God”. The important bit isn’t the term “forreigne prince” (although the President of France also takes the title of Prince of Andorra when taking office) – it is the word “potentate”. A potentate is an ambassador performing negotiations on behalf of a large group. A foreign prince is merely a person holding a royal title in another country who the monarch allows to use that title in this country.

Catholics on the Throne

Last month, the Catholic Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Devine, criticised No Mandate Brown for failing to support calls for the Act of Settlement to be amended to allow Catholics to become King or Queen. Attempting to change the line of succession is High Treason under the 1702 Treason Act and the penalty is life in prison.

Abolition of the Monarchy

There exists a Campaign for an Elected Head of State which seeks to remove the Queen as head of state and replace her with a president. Anyone connected with the campaign or supporting their aims is guilty of treason under the 1848 Treason Felony Act. The Campaign for an Elected Head of State claims, in its FAQs, that because the House of Lords declared the 1848 Treason Felony Act incompatible with the Human Rights Act that it is no longer against the law. The ruling was actually a statement by Lord Scott and doesn’t change the law. Lord Scott said that “in a mature democracy people do not get prosecuted for advocating political change by peaceful and constitutional means”. Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, said that the Treason Felony Act did not breach the right to freedom of expression and refused permission for the Guardian to appeal against the ruling that they had committed treason. The law, as it stands, holds republicanism as felony treason and punishable by life in prison.

Fighting for a foreign power

When Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded, the military found several men who hold British passports fighting against our troops. Again, this is high treason by giving aid to the enemy. However, rather than being tried for treason, they were packed off to Guantanamo Bay or brought back here and tried for terrorism-related charges.

Summary Justice

The 1689 Bill of Rights says “That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void”. Summary justice – parking tickets, speeding tickets, on-the-spot fines for drunken behaviour or dropping litter, etc. – is illegal and any fines are void. The Bill of Rights is a constitutional law and is not assumed to be repealed if another law is passed that contradicts it. This was the ruling in Thorburn -v- Sunderland, also known as the metric martyrs case.

The right to trial by jury

Magna Carta gives the right to a trial by jury of your peers. As with the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta is a constitutional law and cannot be repealed by implication. The abolition of jury trials – first with the establishment of the county court system in the late 1800’s and more recently with the removal of the right to trial by jury for complex fraud cases – is unconstitutional and illegal.

Technorati Tags: Treason, Constitution, Traitors

How long before Liebour is brought down?

November 27, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Labour One comment

In most civillised countries a government that is caught breaking laws and abusing the public trust every couple of months would have collapsed and senior ministers and party officials would be enjoying some hospitality at Her Majesty’s pleasure. So what’s it going to take to bring down this corrupt Liebour government?

The public were lied to about the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. We were told that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that they were capable of launching an attack on the UK within 45 minutes. We were lied to about the cash for honours case. We were told that Liebour hadn’t offered peerages in return for donations to their party when they had. We were lied to about the ban on fox hunting. We were told that it was to save the poor little vermin when it was simply part of Liebour’s jealous class war and kowtowing to animal rights terrorists. We are being lied to about the terrorist threat and the need to curtail our rights and liberties. Anti-terror legislation has been used to stop and search over 100,000 people and none of them turned out to be terrorists and ID cards are being introduced at huge cost and against the will of the electorate that are so secure that famous people and members of the government won’t have their details on it for security reasons. We are being lied to about the threat from global warming. We are told that unless we all turn to subsistence farming and live in mud huts we will be burned alive on the parched earth and drown from rising sea levels but the reality is that climate change is a natural phenomenen and the scientific world is divided into three parts – those who don’t think it’s anything to worry about, those who do and (the biggest part) those who are being paid stupid amounts of money to say that it is.

There are so many lies and examples of corruption I don’t have the time or inclination to write them down. But there is another one to add to the list today.

Peter Watt, the General Secretary of the Liebour Party, has resigned after admitting that he knew that a property developer made £600,000 of donations to the Liebour Party via three associates without the Electoral Commission being informed. This is a serious offence – not only is it illegal but it is an abuse of the trust that the electorate is supposed to have in the government.

But you reap what you sow as the saying goes and Liebour are suffering for their corruption and dictatorial ways. The latest opinion poll shows that Liebour has only 27% support witht he Tories on 40%. The increasing charge sheet against the Liebour Party, the rapidly dwindling support for the Liebour government and the crippling debts they’ve run up trying cling desperately onto power could prove to be the death of the party. No wonder they’re still trying to introduce state funding of parties.

Will Liebour see out the year? Probably. will they last until the next general election? Probably. Heads will undoubtedly roll but the party will stay in power for as long as it can get away with it and there’s little chance of forcing them out of power by taking to the streets because then you’ll be branded a terrorist and riot police will take you away.

Technorati Tags: Liebour, Corruption

Virgin on ridiculous

November 15, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Health, Traitors, WTF? 11 comments

The NHS has found something new to spend our money on. Not something frivilous or wasteful like cancer treatments, but hymen repair jobs for muslim women.

I kid you not. Muslim women can get a pretend virginity for their husbands free of charge on the NHS.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) refuses lots of medical treatments because they don’t provide “value for money”. But fake virginities do.

I am increasingly of the opinion that the only way we’re ever going to reclaim England from the traitors who are running the country into the ground is a revolution.

Technorati Tags: NHS, Virgin, WTF?

Detention without charge

November 15, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Police State, Terrorism One comment

The British government has decided that it now wants to hold “terrorist suspects” for 58 days without charge.

A few months back Liebour tried to change the amount of time someone could be held without charge from 2 weeks to 3 months. Thankfully this was blocked but a compromise was reached allowing suspects to be held for a month without charge. Now the One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan wants it increased to 2 months.

As I’ve pointed out in the past, the “anti-terror” laws in this country are wide open to interpretation and have been abused many times since their inception. A woman was arrested outside Downing Street for reading out the names of dead soldiers and a man was arrested for carrying a blank placard within 1km of Parliament – both under anti-terrorism laws. Walter Wolfgang, the elderly Liebour supporter who was manhandled out of the Liebour Party conference last year for saying “nonsense” when Jack Straw was talking bollocks, was banned from returning to the conference under anti-terrorism laws. At the same conference every delegate was stopped and searched before entering and a delegate taking pictures of the stop and search had his camera taken from him and the images wiped – again, under anti-terrorism laws.

Anti-terrorism laws seem to have been used for everything except actually arresting terrorists. Lord West, the unelected Liebour Minister for Security, said that he was not convinced that the limit needed to be extended until Gordo the Goblin King hauled him into his office and told him that he had to change his mind. Like the good little mindless, spineless, Liebour drone that he is, he is now in favour of the proposals … again.

There is one concession in the proposals – the period of detention without charge (which is unconstitutional, incidently) would only be changed from 28 days to 58 days if a state of emergency was declared. A bit like the state of emergency that General Musharraf declared in Pakistan when he thought he might not be president for much longer perhaps? How reassuring.

Technorati Tags: Terrorism, Police State

English Grand Committee

October 29, 2007 wonkotsane Anglophobia, Britain, Come the revolution, England, Propaganda 3 comments

The media has been awash with stories of the Conswervatives “new” radical plan to save the union and solve the West Lothian Question.

It’s not a new idea though, they’ve been talking about it for a couple of years at least and even then it’s not an original idea – someone told me that it first reared its ugly head in the 1800’s!

Anyway, this is all by the by – English Votes on English Matters or an English Grand Committee (they’re basically the same thing) will not solve the West Lothian Question, will not save the union and will not make England equal within the union. What it will do is fail miserably and expose the extent to which party politics has made an utter sham of democracy.

If the Conswervatives introduce a bill for an English Grand Committee and somehow manage to get it through Parliament, Liebour will do everything in their power to make it fail. That’s assuming they get it through, of course, because Liebour MPs will be whipped until they’re sore to make sure that their Scottish MPs can still vote on English matters because without them they don’t have a working majority in England.

There is a marked difference in the attitudes of MPs from Liebour and the Conswervatives in response to the English Grand Committee idea. Tories are coming out and saying something has to be done to make the system fairer because it’s not right that MPs elected in Scotland have a say on health and education in England but not in their own constituencies. Liebour, on the other hand, are rolling out minister and after incompetent, discredited minister to say that the idea is unworkable and will lead to the breakup of the union. They’re right but what do they propose as an alternative? They don’t because they don’t have one. They know that the only way to make governemnt fair in England is to give us our own parliament but that’s bad for the party so they won’t entertain the idea. In short, the party is more important than the people and that’s the root of all the problems with the sham of a democracy in this country.

There are many problems with the idea of an English Grand Committee is that it doesn’t create a seperate English Executive. The MPs sitting on the Grand Committee won’t be there as English MPs representing the interests of England, debating English legislation. They will be there as British MPs representing British interests on British legislation relating to England. They certainly can’t be relied upon to represent England’s interests, they’re the ones who’ve been letting all this happen in the first place.

This Grand Committee idea also means there’s no pot of money for England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland get a wedge of cash to spend on what they want, spending on England comes from the British budget. If the money is needed to buy a few votes then tough luck England, there’s no more money for you.

And don’t even get me started on the Speaker of the House deciding whether a bill should be certified as an English bill – the Speaker is a Scottish Liebour stooge whose partiality at times is so breathtaking that it’s a miracle that Conswervative MPs are even allowed to speak in the presence of a Liebour MP, let alone disagree with them.

So what’s the solution? Nothing short of an English Parliament is going to work but nobody wants to give us one. I asked a few people today – some interested in politics, some not – what they thought and the same two answers came from everyone:

Hold a referendum
Revolution

The first one is simple and every day that passes and the Scottish Raj don’t give us a referendum is an insult to every English man, woman and child in England. The second? I’m not suggesting that a group of armed revolutionaries should storm parliament and hang every MP that’s supported the apartheid but a short sharp revolution like the one in Ukraine followed by a snap election not long ago would suit me just fine. We need an English Parliament and whether it’s by referendum or revolution we will have one.

Technorati Tags: England, Britain, Devolution, English Parliament, Revolution

Free Prescriptions for all …

October 23, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, England, Health, Scotland 34 comments

… Scots.

The Scottish government is abolishing prescription charges in Scotland for all Scots. At the moment, 96% of all prescriptions are dispensed free of charge.

Abolishing prescription charges north of the border is going to cost the English taxpayer another £70m.

In April this year, the Welsh government abolished all prescription charges in Wales on the same day that prescription charges in England rose to £6.80 per item. Paid for by the English taxpayer of course.

The Daily Mail is calling this “The Great Divide” and says that it’s the final straw for English taxpayers. For me, the final straw whizzed by years ago and I’m now in a constant low-level rage aimed at this racist Scottish Raj.

My nan has Age Related Macular Degeneration (ARMD). It’s the most common cause of blindness in over-60’s in England but can be cured. Can she get it treated? No. She lives in England and therefore must go blind so that enough money can be stolen from the English NHS to pay for ARMD treatment in Scotland. She worked and paid taxes all her life, right up until she was in her 50’s when she had to stop because of ill health. She worked in a munitions factory during the Second World War while my Grandad was on the front line in Korea. What reward does she get for her contribution to the country? Second-rate, third-class treatment at the hands of the NHS – she even got a hospital superbug when she had a knee replacement!

My youngest son has Dyspraxia. He was lucky enough to get it diagnosed at such an early age – 5 years old – because he can get help before he gets too far behind and loses interest at school. He already complains that it’s hard at school and he has a concentration span you measure in seconds. A doctor has referred him for speech therapy and occupational therapy. There is one child occupation therapist for the whole county of Shropshire. The NHS provides one child occupational therapist for around 444,000 people. Unsurprising, then, that the waiting list is at least 12 months long. In Scotland, they’ve been pumping money into occupational speech therapy for children since 2003 to improve the service.

Meanwhile, a new report by the Audit Commission into the English NHS says that one third of NHS Trusts were still in the red.

The American Civil War started on the premise of “No Taxation without Representation”. The American colonies were taxed by the British government but weren’t allowed to vote. The American colonies were subsidising Britain and got foreign rule in return. Sound familiar? Come the revolution, we’re going to need a big wall.

Technorati Tags: Health, England, Scotland, Prescriptions, NHS

Gordon Brown: Criminal and Traitor

October 19, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Federal Europe, Traitors 18 comments

The One Eyed Wonder of Wankistan has sold us down the river.

Last night he signed a treaty establishing, amongst other things, a European nation, primacy of EU law over national law and a commitment to adopt the Euro.

Don’t be taken in by the propaganda spouted by the eurofederalists and the traitor politcians who want their chance to play at being world statesmen – this treaty is the UE Constitution in all but name and Gordo the Goblin King’s “red lines” are certainly not drawn in permanent marker.

The not-a-constitution is a self-amending treaty. Anything in the not-a-constitution that currently requires a unanimous vote of member states can be changed to a majority vote without another treaty. Our oil supplies are coming under EU control, as is asylum and immigration. The not-a-constitution establishes the Euro as the currency of the EU and requires all member states to commit to its introduction. It also requires members to start giving up their derogations – the precious “red lines” that the Tartan Traitor says are protecting “British” interests.

This is undeniably a transfer of sovereignty from the British government to the EU. Commitments have been made, in signing the treaty, that will bind successive parliaments. This is not allowed but the highest court in the land will be a European court which is obliged to work for the benefit of the EU so any attempt by future parliaments not to honour these commitments will likely be ruled unlawful by the EU.

The Bill of Rights 1689 – a law still in effect today – says “That no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm”. The terms are a bit archaic so I’ll just explain what they mean. A “foreign prince” is a member of a royal family from another country that has settled in this country and been allowed to keep their title. A “prelate” is a high-ranking member of the clergy. A “potentate” is either the unelected head of a state or an “ambassador” performing negotiations on behalf of a large group.

The EU cannot negotiate on behalf of England. No “ambassador” of the EU can have jurisdiction over England. To allow this to happen – which No Mandate Brown has just done by signing the not-a-constitution – is unlawful and nothing short of treason.

Technorati Tags: EU Constitution, Gordon Brown, Treason, Bill of Rights, Europe

British government is racist

August 5, 2007 wonkotsane Anglophobia, Come the revolution, Political Correctness, Traitors 36 comments

An 18 year old girl has been refused permission to apply for a job with the Environment Agency because she is white and English.

The application form asked for ethnic origin and included “White Other, eg. Irish, Welsh, Scottish”. The application said that preference would be given to those from minorities. When asked if being White English ruled her out for the job, Abigail Howarth was told by Bola Odusi of PATH National Ltd, the company running the recruitment scheme, “Thank you for your enquiry unfortunately the traineeship opportunity in targeted towards the ethnic minority group to address their under representations in the professions under the Race Relations Act amended 2000.”

However, the Environment Agency admits that it has “no evidence that white Welsh, Scottish or Irish workers were under-represented” in the area where Abigail Howarth wanted to apply but claims that the Commission for Racial Equality has confirmed that it is acting lawfully in racially discriminating against white English people.

Mary McDowell from PATH National Ltd said “The White Welsh, White Irish and White Scottish is a technicality in law – if they are a minority, they are entitled to places on these schemes – they are not part of the majority group, which is White English. “The White English in this area are the majority group and hence could not apply.”

So, the recruitment officer from PATH National was black, the Organisational Development Manager from PATH National was Scottish, the head of the Environment Agency is Scottish and the Commission for Racial Equailty is headed up by a black person and people are acting surprised because White English people are being discriminated against? This oppresive, politically correct, racist bullshit has got to stop. Why the fuck should White English people be prepared to be discriminated against because of their colour and their nationality in their own country? PATH National should be immediately sacked as a public sector supplier and the staff involved in this racist campaign should be prosecuted for racial discrimination. The Chief Executive of the Environment Agency should be hauled in front of the Parliamentary Standards Committee and the Commission for Racial Equality after which, the CRE should be wound up and all “positive discrimination” laws repealed. You cannot positively discriminate against anyone, discrimination is exclusively a negative action and to discriminate against someone for belonging to the majority colour and nationality in their own country is indefensible.

Criminal Justice System

July 27, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Police State, Terrorism, Traitors One comment

The English language sometimes makes it hard to convey your actual meaning in writing but, on the other hand, it makes for suitably ambiguous headlines like this one.

Some time ago, the British government tried to change the law so that “terrorist suspects” could be locked up for 3 months without charge. The attempt failed as even Labour MP’s saw through the thinly-veiled attempt to curtail civil liberties unnecessarily and the shonky way in which justification was invented by instructing police forces to draw up proposals for 90 day detention without charge and then claiming those proposals were requests for its introduction. Let’s be realistic here – if you’ve got enough evidence to suspect somebody you don’t need three months to find a charge that will stick.

The “independent” reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile, recently said that unelected judges should decide how long people can be held without charge instead of elected politicians. I think this is probably the first time the “you gave the wrong answer before so we won’t ask you again” method of democracy has been used on MP’s. Lord Carlile has previously proposed bringing in an English version of the US Patriot Act which allows the US government to lock up non-US citizens indefinitely without charge, without trial and without access to legal advice.

This is all illegal under our existing constitution of course. Habeas Corpus (yes, it’s a law, not a principle) and the Bill of Rights between them guarantee the right to trial by jury and ban summary justice and arbitrary imprisonment. What other basic rights do we need? We certainly don’t need a new Bill of Rights which is what No Mandate Brown is planning to introduce. What we need is for our existing rights under our centuries old constitution to be respected. Under English law you can’t lock people up indefinitely, the police or local authority “enforcement officers” can’t hand out on-the-spot fines and you can’t be convicted of any crime without standing trial in front of a jury if that is your wish.

The curtailment of our civil liberties and blatant disregard for our constitution and legal system is all in the name of fighting terrorism. The British government calls it a “war” but it’s not. You can’t have a war against a word or a crime, a war is between two or more nations. If this was a war, terrorism suspects would be prisoners of war and would have more rights from the Geneva Convention than they do under anti-terrorism laws. But what constitutes an offence under the “anti-terrorism” laws that the British government have introduced?

Reading the names of dead soldiers outside the war memorial next to Downing Street is a crime under anti-terrorism laws. Carrying a blank placard within 1km of Parliament is a crime under anti-terrorism laws. Wearing a T-Shirt insulting the Prime Minister within 1km of Parliament is a crime under anti-terrorism laws.

Anyone who has seen Taking Liberties or read the book by the same name will remember the man who was put under house arrest for not being a terrorist. Off the top of my head, the story goes something like this: a muslim went to live in Afghanistan before the invasion because he wanted to experience living in an Islamic country. When the Americans threatened to ~~invade~~ liberate the country he moved his family to Pakistan. The Americans subsequently offered a bounty to anyone in Pakistan accusing someone of terrorism. As an outsider, the man was promptly sold to the Americans by locals. He was taken to Afghanistan and ~~tortured~~ interrogated for a few months with the full knowledge of British government. He was then taken to Guantanamo Bay where he was ~~tortured~~ interrogated some more and then sent back to the UK without standing trial where he was placed under house arrest by the Home Secretary for not being a terrorist.

There is another story in the same book about another muslim who stood trial as a terrorist for knowing someone who knew someone who stabbed a police officer during a “terror raid”. He was acquitted after the CPS’ case fell to pieces when it became clear that he didn’t even know the person who had stabbed the police officer but his freedom was short-live because the Home Secretary put him under house arrest for not being a terrorist.

What is so absurd about “anti-terrorism” legislation is that it isn’t actually needed. Committing a terrorist act, when you break it down, is one or more existing basic crimes. Blowing something up is criminal damage, killing somebody is murder and trying to kill somebody is attempted murder. Planning to commit one of these crimes is conspiracy to commit criminal damage or conspiracy to commit murder and trying to undermine the state is treason. All these have been crimes for centuries and, until recently, carried serious sentences.

To use a recent example: the two muslims, Singe Maheed and Allaburn Majeep, who drove a jeep into Glasgow Airport were guilty of criminal damage and attempted murder. The fact that they were a pair of nutjob jihadi’s doesn’t make it anything other than those two basic crimes.

So, getting back to my original comment about the failings of the English language and the ambiguous headline – is it a criminal justice system or is the justice system criminal? Answers on a postcard …

And who represented England?

July 24, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Transport 2 comments

The meeting of the British-Irish Council last week agreed to tie the UK and Irish driving licence penalty points systems into each other.

Steps are already being taken to harmonise the UK and Northern Ireland systems as the way the law stands at the moment, the holder of a British driving licence can accumulate 9 points on the mainland and 9 points in Northern Ireland without losing their licence.

Harmonising the UK and Northern Ireland systems is a sensible move, we are supposed to be part of the same union after all. Recognising the points accumulated in the Irish Republic is also a good idea but it does set a precedent which might not be of benefit to English drivers. The EU is always looking for ways to bring more things under their federal wing and this could be seen as a starting point for an EU-wide driving licence points and fines system, administered by the EU of course with a percentage of fines going straight into the EU propaganda fund. Whilst the fundamental laws around driving – don’t drive at 80mph through a town centre (unless you’re “testing” a police car), don’t drive into pedestrians, don’t drive the wrong way down a motorway, etc. – are the same in most countries, the same cannot be said of all rules of the road and an English driver could quite innocently break some obscure local driving law and find themselves totting up enough points for a ban without even realising it. For instance, in France it is an offence not to cover your headlights in those silly yellow covers or drive your English car without an EU sticker on it. That could be 6 points under a harmonised points system. Add to that a couple of speeding tickets from 3 or 4 years ago and you’ve got a driving ban.

Anyway, this is beside the point. The main issue I have with this is that the British-Irish Council has no representation from England. They have representatives from the Irish Republic, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man but England is represented by the British government which is also representing Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. To make matters worse, No Mandate Brown has pledged to put the interests of Scottish people first in all his acts and deliberations and what really takes the piss is that No Mandate Brown can’t impose the changes on Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland because transport is devolved!

Private Eye: Down on the Farm

July 19, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Federal Europe 4 comments

An interesting piece in this months Private Eye. Shropshire has a reputation for producing fearsome judges and it’s good to see Judge Onions carrying that on.

Down on the Farm

A MURKY drama unfolded recently in a Shrewsbury courtroom reminding us yet again of the unhealthy closeness between the officials of Defra and the pharmaceutical industry.

John Rawlings is an agricultural merchant who supplies some 70 farms in the Midlands with pesticides (don’t worry if you have a bias against pesticides: that’s not the point of the story). Mr Rawlings noticed to his surprise that many of the pesticides he was selling were available much more cheaply on the continent, even though they were the same products made by the same companies. Aware that we now Live in the “single market”, Mr Rawlings imported 14 products from Italy and Holland — products which would have cost up to 45 percent more in Britain. He and his customers were happy. But Defra wasn’t and duly hauled him into court to face 14 criminal charges. His offence, apparently, was that these chemicals had not been vetted by the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD), part of Defra’s empire, and were therefore illegal, even though all but one were exactly the same as products the PSD had already approved. Defra, it seemed, had not yet heard about the single market. This is odd, since almost all it does is dictated by Brussels, for which it is merely a very inefficient branch office.

What Defra hadn’t reckoned on, however, was His Honour Judge’Onions who, as the costly trial unfolded, waxed ever more irritable. At one point he was so angry at Defra’s “prevarication” he threatened that, unless it got its act together and withdrew II of the 14 charges, he would order a senior Defra minister to appear in his court by lOam the next morning to explain what the officials were up to.

At the end of the case Judge Onions said it was clear Defra was collaborating with the “chemical companies to operate a cartel” (which two of the companies’ witnesses had admitted under oath). In other words, Defra was conniving with its friends in the pharmaceutical industry to sting British farmers up to 45 percent more for their products than was being charged to farmers on the continent. He was so angry he said he would be writing to Mr Kerr Wilson, head of the PSD, asking why the case had been brought and demanding an answer within 21 days. He also said the pharmaceutical companies should be investigated by the Competition Commission, since operating cartels is an offence under EU law.
On the three remaining charges, the judge gave Mr Rawlings a conditional discharge on the grounds that technical offences had been committed. But in light of Defra’s behaviour, he ordered the ministry to pay 80 percent of its costs. True to form, when Defra and the PSD reported the case on their websites, they left out anything remotely detrimental to their case, including the fact that the taxpayers were being left to foot most of Defra’s £42,500 bill. They presented it as if they had won a glorious victory and reminded farmers that it was a criminal offence to use pesticides not approved by the PSD, for which they could lose their EU subsidies.

The chances of Della doing anything to end the illegal cartel seem remote. After all, it’s not long since Defra helped cover up the disaster inflicted on thousands of sheep farmers by their use of OP sheep dips, all manufuctured by its pharmaceutical chums.

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MPs must display “self-restraint”

July 9, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution 2 comments

Jack Straw has called on English MPs to show “self restraint” over the unfair, racist Barnett Formula which gives Scotland more public spending than England with the English taxpayer footing the bill.

The Labour back benches are starting to get more vocal about the fact that their constituents in England can’t have life saving cancer drugs or drugs that will save their eyesight from the most common form of blindess but in Scotland they are available free of charge on the NHS thanks to the £11.3bn subsidy paid by the English taxpayer.

The Demon Headmaster also launched a predictable scathing attack on the Tories’ English Vote on English Matters proposal that would ban MPs not elected in England from interfering in English-only matters that are devolved in their own constituencies.

By calling for self-restraint Straw is acknowledging there is a problem and, more importantly, he is acknowledging that MPs need to do something about it but for the good of the union ~~and to keep Liebour in power~~ they must suffer the discrimination against their constituents and be prepared to lose the next election as a result.

Brown appoints Regional Ministers

June 29, 2007 wonkotsane Anglophobia, Come the revolution, England, Regions 4 comments

No Mandate Brown, the unelected pretender to the office of First Minister of England, has dealt what may prove to be England’s fatal blow.

The Goblin King has appointed a Minister for each of the made-up regions of England. Before his coronation as unelected Prime Minister the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath made noises about resurrecting regional government in England even though it has been thoroughly rejected by voters and declared dead by Traitor Bliar.

How dare Gordon Brown, who fought for the establish of a national parliament for his own country, presume to undermine the very existence of England.

Edit:
I’ve written a more in-depth piece on this on the West Midlands NO! blog.

President Bliar

June 17, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Federal Europe 2 comments

Traitor Bliar is being tipped for the job of EU President by the Nicolas Sarkozy, the new French President.

A permanent EU President is one of the new unelected positions of power that will be created by the European not-a-Constitution.

A cynical person might be forgiven for wondering if this is why Bliar is going to sign the EU not-a-Constitution without giving us the referendum that he promised (there’s still time to vote for the traitor as Twat of the Week by the way).

Hat-tip: KeithS

Give me my referendum you lying scumbag

June 15, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Federal Europe, Propaganda 38 comments

Traitor Blair has reneged on his promise to give us a referendum on the EU Constitution.

The lying, coniving, fuckwit scumbag traitor says that it’s not a Constitution, it’s an “amending treaty”. This is, of course, a complete and utter filthy lie. The treaty that he will agree to next week is the EU Constitution that was rejected by the Dutch and French in a referendum and that he himself declared to be “dead” minus the three quarters of the treacherous treaty that’s already been slipped in through the back door.

If Angela Merkel gets her way (and she usually does), the treaty will give the EU a “single legal personality”, introduce majority voting on more policy areas including criminal law and foreign policy and create an EU Foreign Minister and full time EU President. Merkel also describes the renaming and repackaging of the EU Constitution as a “major concession” and says that it will only happen as long as the “substance” of the original EU Constitution treaty is preserved. Changing the name from Constitution to Treaty doesn’t change what it is – especially when the “substance” of the treaty is the same.

Blair and the Dutch and French governments have all said that the Treaty for the EU Constitution needs to be simplified so they can bypass the electorate and not hold referenda.

The Tories have called for a referendum on “the type of Europe we want to see”, the Illiberal Dipshits are saying that “criminals and terrorists are free to bomb their way across Europe” because we haven’t handed the country over to the EU and UKIP are demanding a referendum on pulling out of the EU altogether and returning back to what was agreed to in a referendum 50 years ago – a Common Market.

Merkel – the German Chancellor and EU Chief Propagandist – says that we have to have this treaty to make the enlarged EU function properly. One observation and one solution love – we didn’t want an enlarged EU in the first place and we can easily make the EU smaller and easier to manage for you by leaving it and spending our several billion pound euro-subsidy on ourselves.

Any further transfer of sovereignty to the EU is an act of treachery, plain and simple. Power is loaned to government, it is not given and no government can bind its successors. Bliar has no right to give away any more of our sovereignty to the EU – it isn’t his to give away, it’s ours.

I was promised a referendum and I expect it Blair. Do you hear me you lying, cheating, traitor?

British government says we can’t have equality

June 5, 2007 wonkotsane Anglophobia, Come the revolution, England, Propaganda 2 comments

The treacherous British government has responded to a petition with over 1,700 signatures demanding an English Parliament.

The petition said:

The 1998 Scotland Act has left England uniquely without its own Parliament or Assembly. Simple fairness requires that an English Parliament now be created.

The response is below. To see my comments, hover over the speech bubbles The comment would be here .

Devolution has been designed to meet the varying demands of the people of the UK . The great virtue of the British Constitution is that it has for centuries, been able to accommodate difference and anomaly in order to meet the specific aspirations of the British people .

English constituency MPs currently total over 80% of Members in Parliament and they represent over 80% of the population of the UK . An English Parliament would turn the UK into a federal nation . History shows that where one country in a federation contains more than 30% of the economic wealth or population, the federation is unsustainable . England’s dominance within the UK would make a federal UK unsustainable . There would be continued tension between the policies of the English Parliament and Government, and those of the federal Parliament and Government, with the English institutions determining most of the economic and social policies, including public expenditure, but the federal institutions responsible for defence, taxation and macro-economic policy .

The highest priority was given to the creation of a parliament in Scotland, and a national assembly in Wales, since the demand for decentralisation in these countries was long-standing . Indeed, proposals to create similar institutions were enacted in the late 1970’s but failed to secure the necessary majorities in referendums . The existing devolution settlement introduced in 1997/98 was designed to meet varying needs, and enabled better local decision making, in response to local issues .

Restoring the trust in politics

June 4, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Police State No comments

The Tartan Taxman, Prime Minister-designate and all-round nice guy, wants to restore trust in politics. That’s what he said a couple of weeks ago. So why isn’t he jumping up and down demanding the heads of whoever has instructed the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) to shred documents rather than release them under the FOI Act?

An FOI request was put in for copies of “gateway review reports” on the ID Cards and NHS computer systems but the OGC refused to provide them. A tribunal ruled that the documents had to be released so the OGC are going to the High Court to try and keep them secret. Now Computer Weekly Online has been leaked details of instructions to civil servants at the OGC to destroy the reports rather than make them public.

The leaked memo says “You must securely dispose of the [final gateway] report and all supporting documents immediately after delivery of the final report”.

The OGC is part of the Treasury.

Hat-tip: An Englishmans Castle

I am not a number …

May 28, 2007 wonkotsane Come the revolution, Police State 2 comments

The Home secretary, John Reid, is planning to try and push through new “anti-terrorism” laws in just four weeks that will allow police officers to stop people, require proof of their identity and question them about their movements. Anyone refusing to provide their name or co-operate with the police if stopped and questions will be guilty of obstruction and liable to a fine of up to £5,000.

How are we to prove our identity if proof is demanded by a police officer? With ID cards perhaps? But we’re told that they’re going to be voluntary and we won’t be required to carry one at all times so that wouldn’t work. Could it be that we’re being misled over ID cards? Surely not.

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