Armchair Revolutionaries

Some people will have a go at you if you say you don't vote.
"If you don't go out and vote you give up your say on how this country is run!..idiot"
It seems the common belief that a vote grants us a say in how our democracy is run. It gives us a voice in the midst of the masses it is one piece of evidence that we live in a free society. However a vote does not give us a personal and individual right to choose our democracys rules and regulations but it gives us the right to choose a proxy to do it for us. In theory we find the candidate that shares the same view as ours, that promises us that they will support our position in matters that arise. This of course relies heavily on trust and that often seems to be lacking. Particularly on my part.
How many times do politicians break there election promises or fail to do what they say or act in an unethical manner? It seems we have no choice but to continue voting for more and more politicians interested in their careers and bank balances more than their constituencies.

What would happen if at the general election literally not one single person left their house to vote? I mean literally zero for all parties? Think they have a contingency plan for that?

Anyone want to chip in for a medium sized tropical island?

Need I say who or where? Blair and Europe, of course!

Douglas Adams said in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

I see that one of the more unpleasant groups of extremists will be on the march in London tommorrow. No, it isn't Nick Griffin's mob, its a lunatic called Anjem Choudary. I mentioned him and his ilk before in a post about Walthamstow and also in one here about the Hilton Hotel hosting his press conference - which ended up with a good old blogger's spat between me and a fellow blogger, tel1342. (Apparently I wasn't making my abhorance of fundamentalist islamic idiots clear enough for his taste).

http://armchairrevolutionaries.blog.co.uk/2009/03/22/holiday-inn-s-sharia-shame-5810945/

Anyway, for those who want to go along and heckle them, Islam For The UK will be trudging along our city's streets tomorrow in the Westminster/Parliament area, taking in Whitehall, Downing Street and Trafalgar Square. They are demanding the full implementation of sharia law in Britain. These of course are the traditional spots for people seeking to extend or uphold the freedoms of this country on demos, so it will be interesting to see how this bunch of authoritarian idiots shape up as marchers. Presumably they have got the police's permission for all this nonsense.

This would not be so odd as you might think. Sometimes the group's demands are so bizarre you have to suspect them of being on the CIA's payroll as agents provocateurs. The group has allegedly earmarked Buckingham Palace to be turned into a mosque, Come The Glorious Day. That ridiculousness does not mean though that the group should not be taken seriously. They are said to have attracted some rather nasty friends and supporters, none of whom are representative of the muslims I know.

Hi to everybody...today a 23 year old man is being charged with murder for attacking two burglars in his mother's house...the seventeen year old died as a result of being stabbed.
Here are the details...

Man charged over 'burglar murder'

Tyler Juett, 17, died in hospital from stab wounds

A man has been charged with murdering a 17-year-old who was stabbed after breaking into a house in Nottingham.

Omari Roberts is accused of stabbing Tyler Juett, 17, and a 14-year-old as they broke into the house in Heathfield Road, Old Basford, on 13 March.

Mr Juett, of Aspley, died later at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.

The Crown Prosecution Service said 23-year-old Mr Roberts' alleged actions were "not reasonable" and he should face prosecution.

As well as the murder charge, Mr Roberts, of Heathfield Road in Old Basford, Nottingham, is accused of wounding with intent.

He appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court earlier and was sent for trial at the city's crown court, where he is due to appear on 10 November, a court official said.

Mr Juett's 14-year-old companion, who cannot be identified, pleaded guilty to burglary at Nottingham Youth Court on 14 May and was sentenced to two years' detention.

What is 'reasonable' in this situation? If he had taken a baseball bat, and struck them, he'd be charged with assault or murder if one of them died as a result...was he supposed to allow them to continue ransacking his mother's house? Should he have rung the police and then sat back and waited for them to arrive, and, in the meantime, endanger his mother's life if she was in the house, which I can't make out whether she was there or not...if she was, then what is a reasonable response in such a circumstance? The police shoot an unarmed man on a tube until there's nothing left of his head, and they're not charged with any crime...but a man who defends his own mother's home and accidentally kills the burglar is a murderer??? Seems a pretty topsy turvy justice system we have now...
I've just discovered that his mother was there when he arrived to visit her...here's a more
detailed version of the events...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223342/Man-stabbed-death-burglar-ransacking-mothers-house-charged-murder.html
What do you think?

Oh, ya’r’ there - Blair,
I wondered where ya’d went,
So now ya’ want to be - The President!

We’re still here - Blair,
But we still don’t have a voice:
New Labour, Old Tory, no change, no choice.

This is a link to the blog site of Stuart Syvret, a former health minister who was arrested in April under the Jersey’s data protection laws after he published details of a police investigation into a registered nurse. He believed this showed that the person remained a danger to the public and this had been ignored by the authorities.

http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.com/2009/03/mass-murderer.html

The island’s authorities have now issued a warrant for his arrest when he did not attend a preliminary court hearing. This caused Mr Syvret to cross the Channel. He is seeking sanctuary with John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP. Mr Syvret is not just any old whistleblower, he is an elected Senator on the feudal Crown Dependancy (it calls itself a "Bailiwick") of Jersey.

“I have completely lost faith in Jersey’s judicial system,” he said. “It’s a joke. Jersey’s legal system is utterly corrupt, incompetent and overly politicised. They will have to drag me back.”

Syvret intends to fight any attempt by the Jersey authorities to extradict him from England back to the Island, which the Queen is head of state of because she claims descent from the Duke of Normandy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mp-gives-asylum-to-jersey-whistleblower-1809824.html

"Life is no longer fun. Binge drinking and an increased suicide rate is caused by the government taxing and controlling everything to take the merry out of England" - Discuss

Hi to everybody...I've just watched Horizon's The Secret of You which I recorded earlier, and it's quite interesting so, if you missed it and are interested in seeing it, here it is...It's an exploration of consciousness and what it might be...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nhv56/Horizon_20092010_The_Secret_You/

The last section is the most interesting I think...does pose a whole load of new questions...

I watched it, it was a very different Question Time to normal.

It was immediatley obvious that they had packed the audience with ethnic minorities, many more than usual. Lots of students and liberal types asking the questions. Very hostile towards Mr Griffin. There was shouting and booing.

I was watching the BBC Have-Your-Say (a live comment forum) at the same time - and there was strong support for the guy.

From what I remember, he made the following points:

* the BNP want a truce with Islam - we stop interfering in the muslim countries, they don't try to convert the UK. Seems fair to me.

* Teaching sex education to 5 y.o. children is wrong - particularly teaching homosexuality to young children. I totally agree.

* Immigration needs to stop, but those already here can stay, provided they are legal.

These are all things I agree with. Given that he was in a snake pit, he came across pretty credible.

The other panelists kicked off by calling him a facist and a nazi. This was ironic seeing as the left-wing UAF were outside the BBC trying to get the show cancelled, so we, the public, can't hear what this guy has to say. Who's really anti democratic? Who are the facists?

Lets not forget Peter Hain, who feels the same way - And lets not forget Jack-the-lying-snake-Straw was a member of the Communist party! and he's sitting there on QT name calling!

There was a wonderful moment when Jack Straw was going on and on about morals - And Nick Griffin just replies "You've killed hundreds of thousands in an illegal war, and you're lecturing me about morals?"

it was sweet. Jack Straw - You are a vile snake.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/maya01_.html

Very good article about the Royal Mail strike written by a postie. It says a lot about what's going on and, if you believe him, is a bit on an inditement of the Royal Mail management.

Comments?

Daily Mail headline generator:
http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

It's just brilliant. What is so funny, that some of them are genuine headlines (or at least could be). Enjoy a bit of light relief.

My favourite:

COULD BINGE DRINKING GIVE THE MEMORY OF DIANA DIABETES?

Hi to everybody...just to remind you that today is World Food Day and 1 in 6 people on this planet will go to bed tonight hungry...that has to be completely unacceptable in a world where huge amounts of food are thrown away everyday...it seems for all the promises made by the world's wealthiest countries, the problem has barely improved at all...and I'm not suggesting more food aid which keeps the poverty stricken reliant on it, but sound and efficient ways of enabling them to start to support themselves and provide for themselves and their families...this doesn't seem to be happening fast enough or at all...it's true many of the poorest are caught between warring factions making the rebuilding of their lives tantamount to impossible in the immediate future, but not all the poor live in such dire conditions...where it is possible to provide land, farming equipment, wells and seeds and animals, this should be possible so why are so many still barely living as subsistence levels in our world today?

Hi to everybody...an update on yesterday's post about the UN security council's investigation into the war in Gaza...according to the news today, Prime Minister Netanyahu contacted Prime Minister Gordon Brown and told him, in no uncertain terms, not to vote for it or to abstain??? Britain abstained...hmmm...

UN votes to endorse Gaza report

Both Israel and Hamas have rejected the charges in Mr Goldstone's report

The UN Human Rights Council has backed a report into the Israeli offensive in Gaza that accuses both Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes.

The report by Richard Goldstone calls for credible investigations by Israel and Hamas, and suggests international war crimes prosecutions if they do not.

Twenty-five countries voted for the resolution, while six were against.

Both Israel and the US opposed official endorsement of the report, saying it would set back Middle East peace hopes.

The Palestinian Authority initially backed deferring a vote, but changed its position after domestic criticism.

Palestinians and human rights groups say more than 1,400 Gazans were killed in the 22-day conflict that ended in January, but Israel puts the figure at 1,166. Thirteen Israelis were killed.

'Culture of impunity'

Before the vote in Geneva, from which 11 countries abstained, the Palestinian representative argued that the matter was simply about respect for the rule of law.

Earlier, the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner had insisted that now was the time to end the "culture of impunity" which pervaded.

Israeli air strike in Rafah, Gaza, on 13 January 2009
The report accuses Israel of using "disproportionate force" in Gaza

UN seeks close Gaza scrutiny
Key extracts from UN statement
Full UN report on Gaza war

In contrast, Israel had lobbied intensively against the resolution.

The Israeli government says that the Goldstone report is biased against Israel, and removes the right of nations to defend themselves against terrorists.

The US representative at the Human Rights Council agreed, saying that the resolution - which also criticised Israel for its recent actions in East Jerusalem - only made the prospect of a meaningful peace process more difficult.

But he also urged both sides to launch independent investigations.

The BBC's Tim Franks in Jerusalem says momentum behind the Goldstone report will grow.

The UN, at its headquarters in New York, may take it up, our correspondent says.

The report demands that unless the parties to the Gaza war investigate the allegations of war crimes within six months, the cases should be referred to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

In the short term, the resolution will also provide some political relief for the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, our correspondent says.

Mr Abbas had been the butt of intense criticism among the Palestinian public and from his Islamist rivals in Hamas, for initially trying to delay a vote on the Goldstone report, he adds.

Hi to everybody...heard about this on the news tonight. In the Gaza war, 1400 Palestinians died, 5000 were injured and 650 million euros worth of damage was inflicted on the area. In six months, if the Israelis and Hamas do not present the findings of their own investigations, the UN security council will put its document before the Council again to decide whether to bring charges of war crimes...Israel has said nobody from Israel will be charged with war crimes and the US will veto any effort on the part of the Council to brings such charges against Israel...
Here's a report on what happened...
UN Security Council Begins Debate On Gaza War Crimes Report
22 hours ago
(RTTNews) - The United Nations Security Council Wednesday began a debate on the report submitted by a UN-appointed investigating committee that probed the alleged war crimes by Israeli forces and Hamas militants during the December-January Gaza conflict.

At Wednesday's special UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East, both Israeli and Palestinian representatives argued against and for the implementation of the recommendations suggested by the 15-member UN team that probed the Gaza conflict.

The UN Human Rights Council, a 47-member inter-governmental body within U.N. for protecting and promoting human rights globally, had voted on January 12 to set up the probe into the alleged human rights violations by Israeli forces against the Palestinians.

The UN team led by South African judge Richard Goldstone had concluded in their 575-page report that actions amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed by the Israeli security forces and Hamas militants during the Gaza offensive.

The report alleged that the Israeli operations "were carefully planned in all their phases as a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population," and listed a series of recommendations, including the handing over of the case to an international tribunal if Israel fails to investigate the war crimes allegedly committed by its soldiers during the Gaza offensive.

Palestine Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki told the Council on Wednesday that his government took the allegations of possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Palestinians in Gaza very seriously. He said that Palestinians "reject any equating of the occupying power's aggression and crimes with actions committed in response by the Palestinian side," adding that his government supported "the pursuit of domestic investigations to address this critical matter."

Maliki went on to say that the Palestinians would seek to "rectify the malfunction that occurred" in Geneva when the Human Rights Council meets later in the week, adding that the Palestinian leaders were hoping that the 47-member council "will endorse, and formally convey the report to the appropriate United Nations agencies, in accordance with the report's recommendations."

Meanwhile, Israel's UN ambassador Gabriela Shalev dismissed the Gaza report, claiming that it "favors and legitimizes terrorism" and is "destructive to the peace process." She stressed that the report was one-sided and biased against Israel. She added that the international community must recognize Israel's right to self defense if they expect Israel to "take further risks for peace."

"By trying to bring this report before a so-called urgent debate in this council, this council's attention was diverted from the reality in our region," Shalev said. She added that such a debate is "a tale full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Arguments from both sides came a day after the Human Rights Council decided to hold a special session in Geneva on Thursday to debate on the Gaza report. The council in a statement on Tuesday said the special session is being held at the request of Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, with 18 of the 47 council members approving a motion to hold a special session to debate the Gaza report.

The development followed the Council's decision on 2nd October to postpone the voting on a draft resolution on the report to its next session in March 2010 in Geneva. The earlier decision to postpone the debate came after Pakistan requested for the postponement on behalf of the co-sponsors of the resolution, and was aimed at buying more time for members to consider the contents of the fact-finding probe.

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lashed out against the Gaza report in a speech at the opening session of the Knesset. He called the war crimes charges leveled against Israeli troops "an absurd claim," and described the UN report as a "distorted one, written by this distorted committee".

Israel had rejected the UN report earlier, stating that it would launch a diplomatic offensive to prevent any prosecutions of its soldiers by an international war crimes tribunal. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it was "appalled and disappointed" by the "biased" UN report. Israel said it "did not feel able to cooperate with the Fact Finding Mission because its mandate was clearly one-sided."

Hamas, the radical Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, also criticized the UN team's findings and and described it as "political, biased and dishonest" report. The group said that the report put people "who resist" crimes "on the same level as those who perpetrate" them.

Israel had launched a 22-day offensive against the Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on 27th December in response to continued rocket fire into southern Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza. The three-week war was was finally halted on 17th January with separate unilateral cease-fire by Israel and Hamas, the group that controls Gaza Strip.

Hi to everybody...heard this on the news this morning and must admit I nearly choked on my All Bran and honey...
It is being said that she is a wonderful example of faith and also showed that somebody like her to lose their faith and remain loyal to God!! She was 24 for goodness sake, she had barely had time to examine her life, let alone her faith...and she, like St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross and Thomas a Kempis, all lost their faith after writing down their spiritual experiences...having had exactly the same experience as well when I was forty after I wrote a large book on my faith, the different religions of the world and called it 'A time for Healing' followed by a small book outlining where our religion sprang from centuries ago that finally closed the book so to speak on my faith in a deity...and freed me from my brainwashing done to me as a child and continued throughout my adult life in the Catholic Church...the sense of liberation was wonderful after it. However, with the above mentioned, it was a devastating blow to discover they no longer believed in God - the Dark Night of the Soul was coined to describe...unfortunately for all of them, they were nuns and priests and in their time, you didn't leave the Church so they went through hell trying to find their faith again or dying before they did...
To hear that St. Terese's remains are now being carted round the world as a reminder to people of perceived sanctity is just absurd...I cannot believe that these remains are also being taken into prisons...how far do we believe faith in a relic can take us? Her remains were taken to Baghdad prior to the war in the hope that it would stop it...well, that should give us a huge clue that such a belief is ridiculous, but, clearly, that hasn't stopped the gullible and the religious from starting this world tour...talk about desperate measures to resuscitate a dying religion...
Saint's remains arrive for tour.

The remains of St Therese of Lisieux have arrived for their first visit to England and Wales.

She was described by Pope Pius X as "the greatest saint of modern times".

A casket containing bones from her thigh and foot will visit 28 sites in England and Wales, including Anglican York Minster and a London jail.

St Therese, a French Carmelite nun who died of tuberculosis in 1897 aged 24, came to wider attention after her autobiography was published.

The Roman Catholic Church says the relics - which have been credited with promoting healing and reconciliation - are likely to draw huge crowds during their month-long tour.

St Therese said she intended to use her time in heaven to do good on Earth, and she was considered to be an effective bridge to God.

BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott said that people prayed to her, assuming her to be in heaven, and in many cases felt their prayers had been answered.

Her remains were taken to Baghdad seven years ago in the hope of averting the Iraq conflict, and part of the relics have been sent into orbit around the Earth.

Over the next few weeks, the casket containing her bones will visit various sites, including the chapel of Wormwood Scrubs jail in London.

I think the adverts are too intrusive. What do other people think?

Carter-Ruck have abandonned their attempt to censor the press from reporting parliament, about an hour before they were due in court to justify their extra-ordinary behaviour.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/guardian-gagged-parliamentary-question

All their injunction achieved was maximum publicity for the things that they were trying to keep quiet, a reduction in their reputation as lawyers and a lot of wasted costs for their hapless clients.

Guido Fawkes is posting this evening that according to the Guardian, despite the 1688 Bill of Rights, it has been gagged from reporting a question to be asked in parliament later this week. The gag was obtained by Carter-Ruck Solicitors. The exact terms of the gagging order were not published.

Guido Fawkes speculates that this might be the question:

Paul Farrelly (Newcastle-under-Lyme): To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of legislation to protect

(a) whistleblowers and
(b) press freedom following the injunctions obtained in the High Court by
(i) Barclays and Freshfields solicitors on 19 March 2009 on the publication of internal Barclays reports documenting alleged tax avoidance schemes and
(ii) Trafigura and Carter-Ruck solicitors on 11 September 2009 on the publication of the Minton report on the alleged dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast, commissioned by Trafigura.

Guido Fawkes is reporting that his publishers will only accept service in Charlestown (i.e outside the UK) as per the requirements of the Hague Convention.

I haven't seen this talked about on blog, and it's from July. This is the wording:

"A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding 25,000 euro."

"a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if (a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage."

It was passed in July 2009.

This seems like an outrageously bad law to me. If I'm interpreting it correctly, if I shouted "There is no god" in the streets and offended a few Catholics, I could be fined 25,000 Euros for it. A Catholics could be similarly fined for being scornful of Protestants, and both of those could be done for saying bad things about Judaism. Let's not even go near the subject of cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.

Utterly bonkers.

Tom.

To get the early news, I have a habit of reading The Australian Online each morning, and would like to call your attention to this article - Quote:

THERE is no longer any doubt that torture was used against prisoners at Guantanamo Bay under George W. Bush. The president's own appointee who headed the military commissions, Susan Crawford, said so in January.

An astonishing, and largely ignored, judicial ruling issued on September 17 in the case of one Fouad al-Rabiah told us that the US government knowingly tortured an innocent man to procure a false confession.

We know that an American interrogator, operating under the authority of the US government, said the following words to a detainee: "There is nothing against you. But there is no innocent person here. So, you should confess to something so you can be charged and sentenced and serve your sentence and then go back to your family and country, because you will not leave this place innocent." - That's from page 41 of the court memorandum and order, releasing al-Rabiah.

Full article HERE - Do you approve of such events?

Hi to everybody...an update on Gary McKinnon's appeal against extradition to the US..
Hacker loses extradition appeal bid

(UKPA) – 3 hours ago

Computer hacker Gary McKinnon has been refused permission to appeal to the Supreme Court against extradition to the US on charges of breaking into the Pentagon's military networks.

The High Court, which has turned down his extradition challenges, decided the case did not raise "points of law of general public importance" - a prerequisite of being able to pursue a case at the higher level.

Mr McKinnon's lawyers said they would now consider applying to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

They argue that extraditing the 43-year-old, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and says his hacking was aimed at nothing more than searching for reports of UFO sightings, would lead to "disastrous consequences" for his health, including possible psychosis and suicide

Mr McKinnon, from Wood Green, north London, had challenged Home Office decisions allowing his extradition to go ahead and the refusal of Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, to put him on trial in the UK on charges of computer misuse. A UK trial would allow him to avoid extradition.

Gary McKinnon's mother Janis Sharp said after the decision: "No other country in the world would so readily offer its citizens to the US as sacrificial lambs merely to safeguard a 'special political relationship'.

"To use my desperately vulnerable son in this way is despicable, immoral and devoid of humanity."

Mr McKinnon's solicitor Karen Todner said: "The effects of these proceedings on Gary have been devastating. The legal team are now considering our position and we will exhaust every avenue to prevent Gary's extradition."

The Home Office said no further comment would be made while Mr McKinnon continued to pursue the legal avenues available to him. A spokesman said: "We note today's judgment.

"The case remains before the courts. Therefore, we do not propose to comment further at this stage."

Copyright © 2009 The Press Association. All rights reserved.

Do you think he deserves it?

Tom.

America has five per cent of the world's population, but has 25 per cent of the world's prison population...some 2 and a half million people. In the 1970's, just prior to the civil right's legislation being passed, America's prison population was falling, and contained one of the best rehabilitation programs of its day. Since 1975, the prison population has quadrupled, mainly due in the last fifteen years to the legislation that brought in 3 counts and you're jailed for life. Anomalies that have been caused are cases where a person was committed for life for stealing a pair of shoes and many others have been caught for minor offences, even after they have served their previous two prison sentences.

I heard an interesting piece of news this morning...in 2002, Blair set aside one and a half billion pounds to upgrade the Puma Helicopters badly needed by the forces in Afghanistan...then the media started on about the poor housing for the armed forces, and the money set aside for the helicopter upgrades went into improving the housing instead of its original purpose...now that the upgrades are going ahead on these 38 year old machines that can only carry 16 people at a time, the work isn't going to be carried out in Britain but in Romania and, when completed, the helicopters will be 50 years old...the government could have bought the American helicopters which are modern and far better but they cannot afford to buy them now...
What a farce!!

Hi to everybody...here is the Lisbon Treaty for anybody who might be interested in reading the 294 pages of it...LOL...the opening gives you the outline of the aims of it...
http://www.fco.gov.uk/resources/en/pdf/pdf20/fco_ref_cm7294_eureformtreaty

Once again, the Labour party has brought UK PLC to the brink of bankruptcy.

The conservatives tell us – in a bout of honesty, unusual for politicians – that large cuts will be necessary. They tell us this BEFORE the election, and yet …

Get ready for it again - all the usual are about to come out of the woodwork and with that tired refrain label the Conservative party the “Nasty” party.

Never mind that it has been 10 years of Labour custodianship that has brought us to this.

Never mind that even an 8 year old child knows, you don’t spend money you don’t have.

Never mind that until a couple of weeks ago Labour was looking us straight in the eye and telling us that no cuts were needed.

“Nasty party, Nasty party”

Like a spoilt child, screaming at mummy for more sweets.

“Nasty party, Nasty Party”

Hi to everybody...here's an interesting article from the Independent on the influence of Eton on British politics...so far it has produced 18 Conservative Prime Ministers, and it will be 19 if Cameron gets in after the next election.
These individuals would have been brought up as far removed from the working people's lives as is humanly possible to get...they are the elite, and it appears to give them an advantage that far outweighs the chances of rising up the ladder in the world of politics and business for anybody who was not provided with an elite education - they use the Old Boy's Network and old boy's clubs to climb the ladder. Do we really want a 19th Old Boy in government...the Conservatives have never been on the side of the working man, however much Cameron proclaims he's bringing in a new caring Conservative party...caring and Conservative simply do not go together...he has allied himself in Europe for a start with some of the nastiest parties around, ones that most right thinking people would be ashamed to be seen with, but he, apparently, does not see that this is a problem...the Conservatives want a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty...even if Ireland, Poland and Czechoslovakia vote yes to its ratification??? What on earth is he going to do if the British people say 'No' to it? Take us out of Europe altogether because no country in Europe is going to say to Britain..'oh, well, if you don't want it, we'll go back to the drawing board and start all over again! He has declared that he is going to create jobs and reform the Welfare system and start helping young one after six months instead of the current ten months??? Where is he going to create jobs? They will all be low paid if he does manage to create half of the required number of two and a half million currently unemployed...our manufacturing base has been all but destroyed by Thatcher's hatchet job on Britain, now we are consultants, in the financial industries and in IT jobs, and the rest of the workforce would have to be employed in the building industry, shops, the utilities, nursing, policing, the civil service, the armaments industry and all the sundry other small businesses that now make up our jobs market...The Conservatives keep the elite thriving and do little or nothing to raise the living standards of those less fortunate in our society...they pander to the middle classes more but still don't make their lives any easier when they're in power...and they certainly won't if they get in this time because of the debt the country now has due to the world recession...not Britain's recession...it was a world banking crisis that catapulted most countries of the world into a downward spiral that only pouring money into banks and insurance companies could stop...the current government's efforts stopped this country descending into a major depression as did the other government's efforts around the world...the Conservatives would have us believing that the entire situation was caused by the current government and they are the only party capable of getting us out of debt by cuts...deep, and what they won't admit, savage cuts right across the board...how they are going to reduce the numbers of unemployed by these cuts, which will, inevitably produce more unemployed, is beyond comprehension...for the next few months we are going to be bombarded with promises and plans from people, many of whom come from amongst the elite of our country, and/or were born with silver spoons in their mouths about how they are going to look after the working people and solve all the problems we find ourselves in thanks in no small measure to Thatcher's deregulation of the banks and financial institutions, and which Tony Blair, also educated at a public school, Fettes College, the Eton of the North as it called, left in place...privatization will also raise its head again...already Cameron is talking about reducing the welfare system by involving private enterprises like charities I presume...so charities will be expected to take up the slack when people start to fall through the ever widening holes in the welfare net??? I don't think so...hmmm...I also doubt whether they'll start reducing our nuclear weaponry, and will they restore the fourth Trident to create jobs that Brown has said he will cancel?
Any Eton educated lefties in the Labour Party didn't make it to be Prime Minister...they were usually the rebels of the Party...like Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House until recently...that alone should be of interest to anybody wondering whether Eton can produce unbiased individuals...going on this evidence...almost none at all...
Would be interested in the views of people here on this subject as it's going to be on our minds now leading up to the next election...
Here's the Independent's article...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/etons-old-boy-network-518455.html

So The Sun has announced its change of allegience to David Cameron, announced yesterday.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/feelingblue/
Is this big news or just another piece of media tosh? Of course The Sun has always been naturally Tory, since it's a working class paper who are naturally conservative, but for 12 years they supported the Labour Govt, only to switch sides following the conference.
Bafflingly, The Mirror ran with the headline "We Love You Mandy" seemingly at odds with how the rest of the nation feels about the politician's favourite politician.
Thoughts?