That being a corrupt swine gets you a 30-day slap on the wrist is probably an issue in and of itself tbh.
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That being a corrupt swine gets you a 30-day slap on the wrist is probably an issue in and of itself tbh.
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Other investigations ongoing that's what Boris and chums are trying to curtail...
I wonder if someone had had a little chat with Owen Paterson about resigning pointing out it would help Boris and the party out.
Just said it above mate, it's probably why Patterson has 'resigned' and Boris is hoping it's all old news tomorrow.
Lets face it, they're not doing it for "our" benefit. Even Johnson's statement was about how it was all so terrible for them that he'd been caught taking bribes for access to parliament.
Yeah but I was already committed to the tackle
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Move along, nothing to see here.
Bloody EU technocrats - always on the gravy train
Wasn't he being investigated by the committee he wants to disband?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I've lost count.
Corbyn, as as he bravely demonstrated at the Belmarsh tribunal (something you won't be reading about in the mainstream press) this week is one of the few politicians in Britain with integrity and willingness to stand up for what is right.
It was because of his threat to the criminals discussed at the Belmarsh tribunal (see excerpts below) that he was deliberately targetted and smeared as an antisemite (and other lies or insinuations) in the British media. A book called Propaganda Blitz outlines many of the ways this propaganda campaign was conducted in both the (so-called) left and the right-wing press.
Far from being left with effective or strong opposition by deposing Corbyn what we have now is no opposition which is a damn sight worse than ineffective opposition, as it makes political change and accountability all but impossible.
Blair was charismatic and a brilliant politician but he was a cowardly b*tch of the US and Murdoch empire, whereas Corbyn actually has the guts to stand up for what is right, and put justice and Britains long term interests before Americas and his own, as he did by appearing at that tribunal.
Some excerpts from the Belmarsh tribunal (video below).
STELLA MORIS:
Julian’s lawyers were targeted by name, not just incidentally spied on. There are emails telling the security company to target Gareth Pierce, to target Aitor Martínez, to target Julian’s legal team, and their documents were stolen. And Baltasar Garzón’s office was broken into, just as the CIA was planning to murder Julian. And our 6-month-old baby’s nappy was instructed to be stolen so that they could use that, analyze the DNA to check whether Julian was the father. This is flagrant criminality. We’re dealing with criminals who have instrumentalized the law, instrumentalized the extradition arrangements with this country and their good relationships with this country to politically persecute an innocent man, a journalist for doing his job.
TARIQ ALI: Julian exposed another set of wars. Basically, he exposed the so-called war on terror, which began after 9/11, has lasted 20 years, has led to six wars, millions killed, trillions wasted. That is the only balance sheet of that war. Nowhere has it redeemed itself or done any good, as we’ve seen most recently in Afghanistan. So, what do you say to people like Chelsea Manning and Julian, who’s the principal target of the legal and judicial brutalities taking place, when they reveal stuff, which everyone knows it’s true, since some of it is on video — Americans bombing Iraqi families, totally innocent — totally innocent — laughing about it and are recorded killing them? That’s a big joke. Well, it isn’t a big joke for the millions who have died in the Arab world since these 20 years of war began. And Julian, far from being indicted, should actually be a hero. He’s not the first. And if they think that punishing him in this vindictive and punitive way is going to change people’s attitudes to coming out and telling the truth, they’re wrong.
EDWARD SNOWDEN:
What we are witnessing is a murder, that passes without comment. And I want to say that it is difficult for me to comprehend the spectacle of the press of a nation, the “developed world,” aiding and abetting, with full knowledge, a crime not only against this man, but against our public interest. However, at this moment that we are, we all see this. We all feel it. It’s no less familiar than the shoes on my feet.
Everywhere we look, from Afghanistan to economics, from pandemic to pervasive surveillance, the obvious has been made unspeakable. And it has become unspeakable because the truth of our circumstances could be taken as evidence in the defense of the actions of the out of favor. And in the eyes of the American state, few represent this class, a greater object of hatred, than the person of Julian Assange. He has been charged as a political criminal — something that I understand quite well, but he has been charged as the purest sort of political criminal, for having committed the transgression of choosing the wrong side.
The charges, which are — they are absolutely an unadorned legal fiction. We are told to believe that the state has these powers over what can be said and what can’t be said, the things that can and cannot be said. But what happens if we permit that? Where does that lead? What are we? Can we be said to be free, if even our power to express ourselves, to understand the facts of our world, can be fenced off from us, and we look beyond, through the gauze, through the veil, at what could be the facts of the world, but we’re not permitted to acquire them?
If you love the truth, as I think everyone here does — you wouldn’t be listening to this, you wouldn’t be watching this, you wouldn’t be participating in this, you wouldn’t care about this, unless something in you told you that something important was happening here. And if you do care, as I think you do, you are a criminal of the same category as Julian Assange. In the eyes of the state, what differentiates you, what divides you from him, that is only the degree. We share the same guilt. Each of us share in the crime. And we are unindicted co-conspirators in his quest to raise a lantern in the halls of power.
JEREMY CORBYN: Julian Assange has paid a very, very, very high price for his lifelong determination to expose the truth. Why? Is it because he has some idea that he can make himself famous by exposing the truth? Or is it something much stronger and much more moral than that, the belief that by exposing the truth, you can save lives, you can stop wars, and you can make sure that democracies function properly by holding all public officials, elected or unelected, to public account?
And that’s why the role of Julian Assange in all of this is so important. His information exposed the dishonesty surrounding the claims on Iraq. His information exposed the dishonesty of the continuing reporting of Iraq after 2003 with hidden information about the numbers of people that had died from “friendly fire” in Iraq, but also the dangers to all journalists, to everyone who believes in free speech, of the concept of the embedded journalist, embedded on an aircraft carrier, sent into a barracks or whatever else, to produce reports that are to the liking of the military.
So, those of us who want to live in a peaceful world and do not believe that a repeat of Iraq will do anything other than bring about even worse consequences than the Iraq War did are here because we want to support Julian Assange in the bravery that he’s shown and the price that he’s already paid for that bravery of ensuring that the whole world knows the truth about it.
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Well worth a listen from 01:11:00 as John Major addresses what is left of the Tory faithful (if there is such a thing now).
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
You’d think so right instead I expect someone to end up talking about corbyn being unelectable and Westminster elite
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