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The Labour Party Discussion Thread
Topic Started: Aug 24 2010, 01:01 PM (743 Views)
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George Dutton
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“Browell Smith, Newcastle Solicitors - huge beneficiaries of miners claims are donors to Nu Labour”…

http://tinyurl.com/yrt3yg


"Red tape cost more than sick miners got in compensation"

"Almost 300,000 miners with a disabling chest disease have received less money in compensation than it cost the Government to administer their claim, a report discloses today"...

http://tinyurl.com/2d6bz8


"Coal Health Claims"...

http://tinyurl.com/384uo8


"During all those years it was suing the Government on behalf of miners for taxpayers money in fees and compensation it was also donating to the Labour Party coffers"...

http://tinyurl.com/2vnzx3

"Coal miners' solicitor struck off"

"A solicitor who once made £13m in a single year has been struck off for his misconduct in handling the compensation claims of sick miners."...

http://tinyurl.com/c2hnc5
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George Dutton
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"The Corruption of New Labour: Britain’s Watergate?"

"Posted 20 March 2006 - 01:59 PM"

"I have argued over the years on this Forum that Tony Blair is a corrupt politician and needs to be removed from power. Recently events suggest that we might be on the verge of discovering the exact scale of his crimes. I suspect this is not the case and will end up as Britain’s Watergate. In the sense that Nixon was forced to resign but the full account of his crimes were never revealed to the public.

Let me outline my case against Tony Blair. The story begins before Blair became leader of the Labour Party. In the past, attempts to undermine the Labour Party took place either just before or during a Labour Government. Kier Hardy was incorruptible but the ruling elite got rid of Labour’s first government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, with the Zinoviev Letter in 1924. More sophisticated methods were then used on MacDonald after that and by 1931 he was willing to completely sell-out the Labour Party.

It took many years to overcome this treachery but by 1945 the Labour Party was able to win control again. Clement Atlee was also fairly incorruptible but fellow leaders of the party were willing to accept the money of the CIA via Tom Braden and the International Organizations Division to move to the right. This created internal division in the Labour government was by 1951 it had lost its majority.

Harold Wilson was the next Labour prime minister. We now know that MI5 and the CIA began a long drawn out campaign to undermine his government. Edward Heath suffered from the same forces as he was considered by the establishment to be far too left wing. James Callaghan and Denis Healey (one of the original targets of CIA money in the late 1940s) successfully moved Labour to the right after Wilson was finally removed in 1976. Callaghan and Healey introduced monetarism that was developed by Margaret Thatcher’s period in office.

In 1986, the newly elected Tony Blair took a “freebie” tour of the United States. At the time he was a member of CND. While in Washington he announced he had changed his mind and that that the “visit had persuaded him of the value of nuclear weapons”. The intelligence services always prefer their placements to have been a former “left-winger” because they rarely move back again after they have been “converted”.

In March, 1994, Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party at the Israeli embassy in London. Levy was a retired businessman who now spent his time raising money for Jewish pressure-groups. After this meeting, Levy acquired a new job, raising money for Tony Blair. According to Robin Ramsay (The Rise of New Labour, page 64), Levy raised over £7 million for Blair).

In an article by John Lloyd published in the New Statesman on 27th February, 1998, the main suppliers of this money included Sir Emmanuel Kaye (Kaye Enterprises), Sir Trevor Chin (Lex Garages), Maurice Hatter (IMO Precision Group) and Maurice Hatter (Sage Software).

In April, 1994, John Smith died and Blair won the leadership contest. With Levy’s money, Blair appointed Jonathan Powell as his Chief of Staff. A retired diplomat, Powell was not a member of the Labour Party. In fact, his brother, Charles Powell, was Margaret Thatcher's right hand man.

Alastair Campbell was the other man brought into his private office with Levy’s money. Powell and Campbell were later to become key figures in the later invasion of Iraq. It is of course a pure coincidence that this decision reflected the thinking of Israel’s government.

Another important figure in the corruption of Tony Blair was the media baron, Rupert Murdoch. It was widely believed that Labour Party lost the 1992 General Election because of the anti-Labour campaigns of Murdock’s newspapers.

In 1995 Tony Blair flew to Australia to “pledge his allegiance at a meeting of News International’s executives… an extraordinary act of fealty”. (Peter Oborne, Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class” page 141)

As a result of this meeting Murdoch’s papers were, at worst, neutral towards Labour. Alastair Campbell began writing articles to go under Blair’s name in the Murdoch papers. (Robin Ramsay, The Rise of New Labour, page 67)

It was later announced that Blair had signed a book contract with Harper Collins (a company owned by Rupert Murdoch). The deal was worth £3.5 million to Blair. This information only came out when Blair used the contract as security when he purchased his house in London. Margaret Thatcher and John Major got similar book deals with Harper Collins. Of course, the royalties near reach the multi-million advances paid for them. However, it is a great way of bribing a prime minister.

To create “New Labour”, Blair had to start removing the links with the trade union movement. Traditionally, the trade unions had been the main providers of money to the Labour Party. However, if Blair was going to this he had to find other financial backers. This became Sir Michael Levy’s job. However, the problem with obtaining large donations is that they always expect something back in return. Businessmen have always seen donations to political parties as an “investment”. Recently, there has been much speculation about this money being used to buy “honours”.

For example, all but one of Labour’s top donors who have given over £1m has received a peerage. The exception is Lakshmi Mittal, the steel magnate. He was rewarded in other ways - the Romanian steel contract. This is the reality of large political donations. The granting of honours is just a sideshow. It is the granting of other political favours that is the real scandal.

For example, soon after he was elected as prime minister, Blair announced that sport was being exempted from the ban on tobacco advertising. Everyone was surprised by this broken election promise until it was revealed that Bernie Ecclestone had given the Labour Party £1 million a few weeks previously.

Another example of Blair’s corruption concerns his relationship with the businessman, Paul Drayson. Blair had a meeting with Drayson on 6th December, 2001. Soon afterwards two things happened: (1) Drayson donated £100,000 to the Labour Party; (2) Drayson’s company, PowerJect, won a £32 million contract to produce a smallpox vaccine. The most surprising aspect of this contract was that it was not put out to open tender. If it had of been the contract would have gone to a German-Danish company called Bavarian Nordic. It is this company that Drayson has purchased the smallpox vaccine from. It is believed that Drayson paid Bavarian Nordic £12m for the vaccine. In other words his £100,000 investment has resulted in a £20m profit. In all, Drayson has given £1.1m to New Labour. This was a good deal for Drayson, he was also given a peerage as a result of this donation.

Another company that has a strange relationship with Blair is Jarvis Engineering. The chairman of this company is Steven Norris. He was formerly a Conservative MP and served as Minister of Transport (1992-1996). However, he decided to leave the House of Commons to become chairman of Jarvis Engineering. Although still a member of the Conservative Party, Norris decided it would be a good idea to make large donations of money to the Labour Party.

This was followed by a change of Labour Party policy. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had in opposition been strong opponents of the Public Finance Initiative (PFI). A scheme brought in by the Conservative government that enabled private companies to obtain government contracts to provide public sector services. Jarvis Engineering had done extremely well out of this scheme. Blair and Brown decided that this scheme was now a good one. It was not very surprising that Jarvis Engineering soon began winning PFI contracts given out by the Labour Government. Jarvis was not the only company that found it very beneficial to give money to “New Labour”. History shows that it seems a very good way to get PFI contracts.

When Tony Blair was elected he promised to reform the House of Lords in order to make it acceptable in a democratic society. However, he has failed to do this and Robin Cook disclosed in his diaries that Blair was never keen to reform the second chamber. The reasons are clear. Selecting who should be in the House of Lords gives tremendous power to the prime minister. It is also a source of income as Blair has been selling honours for the last nine years.

Giving money to New Labour is good business. In 2001 Richard Desmond gave £100,000 to New Labour. Within days the DTI gave permission for Desmond to buy Express newspapers for £125m. Afterwards he admitted it was a good deal as New Labour spent £114,000 advertising in his newspapers “so I actually made money on the deal.”

Over the last five years, 17 out of the 22 donors who have donated more than £100,000 have been given some kind of honour.

The publicity over links between donations, honours, and government contracts (PFI was always going to lead to government corruption) has resulted in Blair developing a new tactic. This involves businessmen in providing loans rather than gifts. Loans do not have to be declared. The idea is that several years after the contract has been given or the honour awarded, the loan is turned into a gift.

Chai Patel (1.5m), Sir David Garrard (1m) and Barry Townsley (1m) all gave this money to Lord Levy (Blair’s bagman). It has now been revealed that over £14 million in loans was raised by Levy before the 2005 election. As a businessman myself, I find it difficult to understand why Labour has been willing to sell honours in exchange for loans. How are they ever going to be paid back? Since 1997 the membership of the Labour Party has fallen by over 50%. Trade union contributions to the party have also nearly dried up. Therefore, the only way they will be able to pay this money back is by raising this money in donations. It is financial madness? Or is it? Remember, leading Labour Party officials are claiming that they knew nothing about these loans. Is it possible that some members of the party have received money for arranging these loan deals? The Labour Party is in danger of going bankrupt. One of the reasons the Labour Party sought out these loans is that its bankers refused to provide the necessary overdraft to fight the election.

Even this is not the great scandal waiting to be exposed. This involves the relationship between Tony Blair, Jonathan Powell, Alastair Campbell, Michael Levy, Rubert Murdoch, etc. and the funding of the Labour Party and the Iraq War. Is it possible that some of these loans came from companies who have benefited from the Iraq War? This is of course what has happened in the United States (Halliburton & Bechtel). Is this the reason that Tony Blair is reluctant to reveal who gave such large loans in 2005?

We now know that Lyndon Johnson manipulated Congress in order to start the Vietnam War. We also know that the greatest beneficiaries of the war was three companies based in Texas, Brown & Root, General Dynamics and Bell Corporation. All three companies had been long-term financial backers of LBJ. Will we find out the same thing about Blair and his backers? The fact that the man who arranged these loans was Sir Michael Levy.".

There`s more, MUCH more...
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=6382&st=0

"John Yates, the senior police officer named in the legal action is the same man who investigated Tony Blair over his relationship with businessmen who were given honours and discovered that there was not a case to answer."...
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=16526&st=15

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George Dutton
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The subversion of the Labour party.

"The Clandestine Caucus"...
http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/rrtalk.htm
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George Dutton
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"The Handbrake Turns of Harriet Harman"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsYlBBUjwvM
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George Dutton
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"Tony Blair and BAE Systems"

There are five pages to read through, but well worth the read, it just gets more and more interesting...
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=9094

"So Lord Goldsmith, what first attracted you to the £1m-a-year job at a US law firm?"

"· Ex-attorney general starts lucrative new career"

"· Famous for advice on Iraq war and BAE corruption"...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2007/sep/27/uk.topstories31

Tony Blair and a UK hedge fund...
http://tinyurl.com/ygwvpjd

"Craig Murray"
"Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist"
"Jack Straw's Corrupt Partner, Lord Taylor of Blackburn, Demands £120,000 to "Bend the Rules"...
http://tinyurl.com/c6odr6
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George Dutton
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it.”

Political economist Frederic Bastiat, The Law (1850)

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George Dutton
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BAE...

Gummer...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/04/bae-austrian-bribes-gummer-mensdorff

Hmmm...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/22/bae-systems-ministry-of-defence-hospitality

Herald...
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/herald-view/probe-into-bae-1.923461

"Bandar"...
http://tinyurl.com/ye83xoe

"BAE files"...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/series/baefiles
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George Dutton
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"World Tribunal On Iraq - The New York Hearings"...
http://www.blip.tv/file/293217

"Iraq Inquiry Digest"...
http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/

"Denis Halliday Speaking at the World Tribunal on Iraq"
http://tinyurl.com/36ck7p5
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George Dutton
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31 January 2010

"Completely Shameless"

"Blair Benefits From Banking Crisis"...
http://www.neurope.eu/articles/98788.php
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George Dutton
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"Windrush Ventures No 3 LP."...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/dec/17/mystery-tony-blairs-money-solved

Anyone else noticed all the similarities?...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/06/politicians-and-serial-killers.html

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"A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7909510.stm


"A motorist who sent and received more than 20 text messages before she crashed into another car killing its driver has been jailed for 21 months."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7865114.stm

"Texting peer freed after appeal"...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7939988.stm
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The population has been sold the lie that democracy means freedom to create a manipulated perception of ‘freedom’ behind which a tyranny can operate unseen and so unchallenged.

For a vote to be worth anything it must be cast as a choice between different political and policy options. If those options, with their different names, colours and rhetoric, are basically the same there is no choice and thus the vote is worthless. With this, the concept of a free country must fall, even under the illusory and tenuous definition of the right to vote every four or five years equating with 'freedom' ...

... The buzz-word to sell and promote the illusion of choice is … change … and they are all at it now. Obama’s campaigns were founded on the constant repetition of the word ‘change’ to hide the fact that he was business-as-usual.

David Cameron’s campaign to be British prime minister was based on him ‘standing for change’ and this week the new Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said that his party, which spent 13 years devastating Britain’s economy, fighting engineered wars and rolling out the Orwellian State, now stands for ‘change’. Then we have Sarah Palin (a female Boy Bush with an intellect to match) talking about ‘standing for change’ as she targets a run for president in 2012.

Pull the bloody other one. ‘Change’ is just a holding position to entrap the public mind in the ‘hope’ that the next political glove-puppet will make some positive difference when the system is structured and manipulated to make sure they don't. This 'hope' is like sitting on a carousel horse hoping that you will eventually catch the one in front. I wouldn't hold your breath.
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