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MI5 STUPIDITY

2012-01-30T16:02:00.000-08:00

If you dozy bird brains are going to keep spying on me and hacking me, there's not really anything I can do to stop you.

But you are wasting your time if you are looking for contacts and stuff. The Lord shows me stuff. He can see everything all the time and doesn't need a computer.

You people ought to say you are sorry to the Lord, he's coming back soon you know. What on earth are you going to say to him when he comes back?

You lot need to think long and hard about that.

ORANGES AND SUNSHINE

2012-01-25T01:59:00.000-08:00

Last night I watched Oranges and Sunshine. I had wanted to see this film at the cinema, when it was released last year, but none of the cinemas near me showed this film.

I cannot recommend this film highly enough. It is about the organised deportation of children in care from the UK to Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada. It has extra materiel included on the DVD, a questions and answers session with people from the film and Margaret Humphries, the social worker who led the quest to reunite the deportees with their families in the UK, and the apology from Gordon Brown and Andy Burnham is also included. Before the apology, there is a statement which says that the deportations were not only going on in the 1950s and 1960s, but that they had been going on for centuries. As I read that shocking statement, I wished they could have added that the illegal deportations are still ongoing, as the secret family courts are still taking peoples children from this country and sending them abroad - there are accounts from the West Midlands to show that Social Services have spent public money in this way, on plane tickets to whisk children out of this country.

I don't want to knock Gordon Brown, because one thing I will say about him is that I wrote to him many times while he was the Prime Minister and I got a reply from every single letter I sent to him. I don't think it is fair to blame the horrible wicked child stealing and deportation that has come to light on people like him. I just wished Gordon Brown would have had a bit more courage, and a determination to stop these disgusting crimes against humanity while he had the chance.

Of course, the situation is different from this film now, as nowadays each individual child is worth more, the human traffickers see the stolen children as little pots of gold, as the child prostitution and forced adoption industry is worth £billions, whereas the 50 - 60s deportees were wanted as cheap labour to exploit, although some of them were also sexually abused as well.

It is a very good film and I am very glad to have managed to get a copy at last.

BEN HUR

2012-01-23T15:10:00.000-08:00

I tried to do a post about the book I am reading, Ben Hur, but the last time I tried I was unable to as apparently someone else is using my dashboard - without my permission.

SOME GREAT GUITARISTS THAT I ADMIRE

2012-01-19T14:24:00.000-08:00

When I was young I spent about a month learning the opening of this piece. I don't know how he manages to play it so fast!

I learned to play this when I was young, and impressed my friends at school, but probably encouraged the bullies to pick a fight with me, which ended my school days because I belted them back and ended up getting big stones thrown at me and Mum wouldn't let me go to that school any more and got me into college instead.

I just like to listen to this, he makes his guitar sing the blues

Listen to the end of this track - you can hear the sea in this song.

REVIVAL NOT REVOLUTION

2012-01-19T00:16:00.000-08:00

Being blocked from accessing Revolution Harry's blog has prompted me to put this post up.

I (and I strongly suspect Harry is too) am 100% opposed to revolution. I think it's important for me to make this statement so that there can be no misunderstanding about this issue.

I am a Christian, not an anarchist. Christians are people who try to follow the example set by the Lord Jesus Christ, who was also not an anarchist, though he was falsely accused of being one.

Anarchy is the desire to destroy the government and create a lawless society. I have no such desire. What I want is that the government rules in a just and proper way, so that everybody, without exception, is subject to the same laws. So that, for example, if a rich man murders someone, he is given the same means of a fair trial as a poor man.

The way I see it, the ones who are responsible for creating disrespect for the laws are lawyers. To deliberatly create over complicated laws, that ordinary people stand no chance of even remembering, let alone obeying, is to show contempt for the God who created us all. To create all these new laws and clauses, and not give the people in the country easy access to actually finding out what all these new laws and clauses are is dishonest.

People are getting angry, because they see God's laws being broken - the laws which prohibit murder, stealing, rape ect - and people using their influence, political muscle and money, and these new super complicated laws and clauses to get away with really serious crimes, whilst other people are getting hammered for really ridiculous non crimes such as dropping a sweet paper. And they also realise that something very strange is going on with the media, that they are not being given the news, that they are being certain news items and not others, that they are being prevented from accessing certain news items and information.

I hope and pray that this country will never have another revolution, but will instead have a spiritual awakening. People need to care about justice, we need to care about righteaousness. There are people in this country who want this country to fall apart at the seams, I say in this country but the driving forces are actually coming from a gang of people who don't really care about this country at all - they are international anarchists. They don't need to worry too much about causing everything to go belly up in this country because they have properties in other countries, and some of them also have yachts.

I wrote to every MP in the British Isles at least 10 times, informing them about two American paedophile psychologists, Richard Gardner and Ralph Underwager, who have influenced the child protection system in the UK, with syndromes that they have invented, the object which was to enable paedophiles to get away with their crimes, and to cover up child abuse. Child abuse has to be one of the most wicked crimes anyone can commit. I had quite a few replies from those MPs, but not a single one of them has ever stood up in Parliament and spoken about either of these two men to my knowledge. Gardner was sent to this country by Eagle Associates and the Kensington Institute, apparently now renamed the Commonwealth Institute. Anyone who invited Richard Gardner to this country must have known full well what a wicked scoundrel he was. Eagle Associates is a subsidery of Lockheed Martin, the US company that is responsible for making cluster bombs, and also running the UK 2011 Census. The chairman of Eagle Associates is a man called David Abrahams. I understand this is the same man who gave dodgy cash donations to New Labour whilst Tony Blair was Prime Minister, and then tried to deny it, by pretending to be skint! Now THAT looks like anarchy to me!

REVOLUTION HARRY HAS BEEN GAGGED!

2012-01-18T06:30:00.000-08:00

THIS IS ALL I CAN ACCESS OF HARRY'S BLOG SITE NOW, IT JUST GOES TO A WHITE SCREEN WHEN I TRY TO GO ONTO IT. MORE TOMFOOLERY, MORE GAGGING, AND HARRY WILL NOT BE PLEASED WHEN HE FINDS OUT - AS HE WILL.

Pied Pipers Of The Truth Movement: How About Brian Gerrish?

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TO THE TROLL

2012-01-16T03:10:00.000-08:00

Like I said, I'm not publishing any more of your nasty hate filled comments. I have however spent about 5 minuites (that's all you are worth of my precious time) penning a little song specially for you.

SET TO THE BARRY MANILOW SONG MANDY

In my inbox, every day
What's the insult for today?
Adding hate comments to all of my posts
Sending it via Google, the host

Telling me I've got no brain
Hassling me again and again
Calling me "nutter", "a freak" and "a slag"
Telling me I'm just a stupid old bag

Oh Haworth!
You troll and you troll without ceasing
Every day
Oh Haworth!
I won't post any more of your bleating
And I wish you Good day
Now go away.

REST IN THE LORD

2012-01-13T01:26:00.000-08:00

PSALM 37

Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither as the green herb.

Trust in the LORD, and do good;
so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

Delight thyself also in the LORD;
and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Commit thy way unto the LORD;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light,
and thy judgment as the noonday.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him:
fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,
because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath:
fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

For evildoers shall be cut off:
but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be:
yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

But the meek shall inherit the earth;
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

The wicked plotteth against the just,
and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The Lord shall laugh at him:
for he seeth that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy,
and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.

A little that a righteous man hath
is better than the riches of many wicked.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken:
but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.

The LORD knoweth the days of the upright:
and their inheritance shall be for ever.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time:
and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall perish,
and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs:
they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again:
but the righteous showeth mercy, and giveth.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth;
and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD:
and he delighteth in his way.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down:
for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

I have been young, and now am old;
yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his seed begging bread.

He is ever merciful, and lendeth;
and his seed is blessed.

Depart from evil, and do good;
and dwell for evermore.

For the LORD loveth judgment,
and forsaketh not his saints;
they are preserved for ever:
but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The righteous shall inherit the land,
and dwell therein for ever.

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom,
and his tongue talketh of judgment.

The law of his God is in his heart;
none of his steps shall slide.

The wicked watcheth the righteous,
and seeketh to slay him.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way,
and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:
when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

I have seen the wicked in great power,
and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not:
yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright:
for the end of that man is peace.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together:
the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD:
he is their strength in the time of trouble.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them:
he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them,
because they trust in him.

I AM STILL GETTING BULLIED AND CALLED A NUTTER

2012-01-12T01:48:00.000-08:00

I am still getting abused in this way. I won't be publishing any more of the abusive comments.

It is horrible to be getting this abuse. I dread looking on my own blog site, because it makes me feel horrible inside to have people hating me for no reason at all.

MY HOTMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED (AGAIN)

2012-01-11T01:45:00.000-08:00

I am really sick of this. My Hotmail has once more been hacked.

It was being used by some criminal - it is a criminal offence to hack another persons email - to send a photo message to my email contacts.

To Believe

2012-01-07T11:08:00.000-08:00

This beautiful song is a prayer from this childs heart.

"THEY HAVE TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF ME IN ORDER TO STOP OTHER INDEPENDANT JOURNALISTS"

2012-01-05T12:45:00.000-08:00

FATHER HUDSON INVOLVED IN THE ADOPTION AND FOSTERING GRAVYTRAIN

2012-01-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

THE INDEPENDANT

Priest jailed for seven years for abuse at orphanage
Linus Gregoriadis Friday 01 May 1998

A CATHOLIC priest who abused children at an orphanage was jailed for seven years yesterday.
Father Eric Taylor, who abused boys as young as six and then stood by as they were beaten by nuns for complaining, was found guilty of 16 charges of indecent assault and two charges of buggery.

During sentencing at Warwick Crown Court, Judge Marten Coates told 78- year-old Taylor: "For nearly seven years you were in a position of trust and authority at the home at Coleshill.

"These homes had been set up to rescue the most vulnerable people in our society.

"You told the jury the regime was harsh and boys were beaten in an unlawful manner. Not only did you do nothing about this, but you knew the fear of receiving such punishment meant that the boys were unlikely to complain.

"Those few who did knew their complaints would not be believed and secure in that knowledge you indulged yourself.

"The lifelong damage you inflicted has been seen during the course of this trial. The trust placed in you, you abused on a daily basis."

During the two-week trial the jury heard of a catalogue of offences at the Father Hudson's home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, between 1957 and 1965.

After the verdict, one jury member left the court in tears as it was revealed that Taylor had been previously been fined by magistrates for abusing four boys at his vicarage in Worcestershire in 1975

Taylor, of Aston-by-Stone, Staffordshire, was jailed for seven years on the two counts of buggery and five years, to run concurrently, on the charges of indecent assault.

Now in their forties and fifties, the 16 victims who helped secure a conviction are only the tip of the iceberg, it is believed.

At least two orphans who were at the home during Taylor's reign committed suicide, according to Warwickshire police who have also revealed that 10 more former residents had come forward since the beginning of the trial.

Victims told how Taylor was "like a Pied Piper" who was revered at the orphanage, by nuns who admired his status as a former prisoner of war, and by young boys whom he would reward with cigarettes, money and sweets.

Taylor, who spent four years in a war camp in Austria after being captured while serving with the Royal Navy during the Second World War, arrived at the home in 1957 after being ordained three years earlier.

He would prey on young boys as they slept in their dormitories, the court heard.

Nuns at the orphanage would beat those who complained with belts, canes, wet rags and straps, it emerged, and people who complained about Taylor's activities would be forced to do chores.

Taylor, who denied all the charges, was found not guilty of two further charges of buggery and one charge of indecent assault.

The Roman Catholic Church last night apologised to the priests' victims. A joint statement issued by the Father Hudson Society and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, read: "We deeply regret the effect of Father Taylor's actions and will offer counselling and ongoing support as appropriate to those concerned."

The Father Hudson Society has not operated residential homes since 1984 but runs a range of services including adoption, fostering, residential and day care for older people and those with disabilities.

Judge Coates told Taylor: "The boys came from all walks of life. You are a disgrace to your cloth and the church you proclaim. Your victims were not only young but they were helpless, you were the nearest thing they had to a father figure."

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SUNDAY MERCURY

Police close investigation into child abuse at Warwickshire home

May 10 2009 by Adam Aspinall, Sunday Mercury

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POLICE have closed their investigation into abuse at a notorious Midland orphanage.

Scores of men and women have claimed they suffered attacks while at Father Hudson’s Home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Last year, the Sunday Mercury revealed a catalogue of shocking new allegations from 11 people of sexual and physical abuse by priests and nuns at Father Hudson’s.

We passed the details on to Warwickshire Police, and MP Mike O’Brien, whose north Warwickshire constituency contains the care home which shut in 1988, backed demands for police to investigate.

But last night a spokesman for Warwickshire Police said: “We are no longer investigating the allegations into Father Hudson’s Home. The investigation has been closed.”

Only one priest has ever been convicted of abusing children at the home. Eric Taylor was found guilty of sexually abusing boys and girls from 1957 to 1965.

He was arrested when his terrified victims came forward in the 1990s. He was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1998 but died in jail, at the age of 80, in 2001.

Now, though, Midland legal experts say there is fresh hope for the victims to achieve justice through the civil courts following a landmark High Court ruling last week.

Judges permitted a former Birmingham solicitor to pursue his claim for £5 million damages against the Roman Catholic Church for abuse he says he suffered as a child in Preston, Lancashire.
Patrick Raggett, 50, said he was abused by Jesuit priest Father Michael Spencer at Preston Catholic College, which closed in 1978, and that this had ruined his career.

It is by far the biggest claim of its kind in Britain, and comes despite the fact that 35 years have passed since the abuse ended – and nine years since the priest died.

The college governors argued that the case should not proceed because it was outside the legal time limit.

But Mrs Justice Swift, ruled that the case could go ahead to a full trial, leading legal experts in Britain to speculate that the Roman Catholic Church in the UK could now face a slew of US-style compensation claims over child abuse.

Jonathan Peacock, who specialises in child litigation cases for Irwin Mitchell solicitors in Birmingham, said: “Mr Raggett’s case has not changed the existing law.

“But it does demonstrate that the courts are willing to see justice done and in exceptional circumstances will allow very old cases to go ahead where they can still be dealt with fairly to all concerned.”

The new allegations of abuse at Father Hudson’s home included a 67-year-old man who broke his 50-year silence to claim he was raped by a priest.

Another woman told how she believed her brother drank himself to death because of his painful memories of abuse. Rose Connolly, 53, welcomed Mr Raggett’s success. She said: “This is fantastic news for Mr Raggett and hopefully it means we may now be able to find justice for the years of abuse we suffered in the home.”

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SUNDAY MERCURY

Father Hudson's victims demand meeting with Pope

Sep 12 2010 by Adam Aspinall, Sunday Mercury

FORMER childhood victims of paedophile Catholic priests are demanding a meeting with the Pontiff in Birmingham next weekend.

Pope Benedict XVI flies into the country on Thursday for the first papal visit since 1982 and will host a live Mass in Cofton Park on Sunday.

It has been reported he will meet victims of clerical sex abuse in secret during the four-day tour, in an attempt to defuse the long-running scandal.

Amazingly, Catholic Church officials had apparently struggled to find victims willing to meet the Pope in private.

Rose Connolly, 54, suffered abuse at Father Hudson’s Home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, in the late 1950s and said she would be happy to attend any attempt at conciliation.

“For years all people like me have wanted is an explanation of why we were abused and why were treated so badly,’’ she said.

“I know I wouldn’t be alone in saying that victims of abuse at places like Father Hudson’s Home would love the chance to meet the Pope and discuss it with him.

“Although, the truth is, I don’t think many would be able to hold back their feelings.”

Another victim, who did not want to be named, added: “I think this is just a PR exercise to make the Vatican look better.

“They don’t care about sex abuse now and never have done in the past, otherwise they might have done something about it when the hundredth report of sex abuse was quietly swept under the carpet.”

Scores of men and women have claimed they suffered attacks while at the Father Hudson’s Home from the 1940s to the 1980s.

In 2009 the Sunday Mercury revealed a catalogue of shocking new allegations from 11 people about sexual and physical abuse by priests and nuns. Yet only one priest has ever been convicted of abusing children at the home.

Eric Taylor was found guilty of attacking boys and girls from 1957 to 1965. He was arrested when terrified victims came forward in the 1990s and was sentenced to seven years jail but died in prison in 2000, aged 80.

The Pope has met abuse victims on past overseas trips, but public anger has been stoked in recent months by a series of new revelations of clerical abuse in Ireland and his native Germany. In June, the Pontiff begged for forgiveness from God and victims in a sermon to priests in Rome.

Some campaign groups have said they will attempt a citizen’s arrest of the Pope over the church’s alleged cover-up of abuse, with several human rights lawyers arguing that he should face a trial.

Meanwhile, Irish Catholics appear set to snub Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain with fewer than 1,000 expected to make the pilgrimage across the water. Some 88 per cent of the island’s population is Catholic, but the Pope is not visiting the country.

Up to 65,000 people are expected to attend the Mass in Cofton Park, which will also see the Beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

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FROM FATHER HUDSONS SOCIETY WEBSITE:

Father Hudson’s Society is the Social Care Agency of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, covering the counties of Staffordshire, Worcestershire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire. It’s main offices are in Coleshill, North Warwickshire, but it has projects and offices throughout the diocese. The Society is a registered Charity ( number 512992) and a Company limited by Guarantee (Reg No. 1653388). It is managed by a Board of Trustees (directors), who meet regularly and bring their many and varied talents to bear on the strategic decision making of the Society.

Mission Statement: Father Hudson’s Society, developing as the social care agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, offers services to people in need, in order to improve their quality of life. Christ’s command to “love one another as I have loved you” underpins our work with children, young people, adults and families, without favour or discrimination.

The Trustees count amongst their number both retired and working Senior Social Work managers, practicing solicitor, retired finance director, retired bank manager, marketing consultant, Catholic priests, youth and education workers . The President of the Society is Archbishop Bernard Longley. The Society is an organisation member of Caritas Social Action Network The day to day management of the Society is carried out by the Chief Executive and the Senior Management team, who between them hold academic and professional qualifications in Management, Social Work, Human Resources, Accountancy, and Health and Safety.

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RIGHT, I HAVE A BONE TO GNAW ON ABOUT THIS.

I was attending St Mary's PROTESTANT church in Market Drayton every Sunday, and I told the priest in charge there that I was a survivor of the Staffordshire Pindown child abuse. Now at the time I had no idea that the Catholic Church had any involvement in childcare in Staffordshire, neither did I realise at that time that the clergyman in charge of St Mary's, Rev Michael Hayes was a Jesuit trained at Maynooth.

Hayes was not interested in the abuse I had suffered and offered me zero siupport. Not only that, the wicked man also tried to prevent me from recieving prayer support after the service every week in the little ministry room at the front of the church. Michael Hayes scowled at me and it was very clear that he thought I was a pest. All I wanted was support, prayerful support, which is what the Church members are supposed to offer each other, according to Jesus Christ. I went into that little room every week for prayer, if noone else was in there I just prayed silently by myself, while everyone else was having tea and chatting. I was not making a pest of myself at all. Other people came up to me and wanted to join me in my prayers, and I was so glad of their prayers, I asked the Lord to help the Pindown abuse victims, the secret family court victims and persecuted whistleblowers such as Stuart Syvret. But Michael Hayes tried to stop me doing that. How can a vicar try to stop people asking God to help victims of child abuse and persecution? But thats what he did. When he left the church to go to Yeovil I discovered he was a Jesuit, and I was very angry and wrote to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, also my local bishop of Lichfield and Liverpool as well, none of them replied to my letters.

How disgusted I am that this organisation is still involved in adoption and fostering! How on earth can this be right, with their dreadful track record?

AND WHERE IS THAT APOLOGY I AM STILL WAITING FOR?

Trying to heal

2012-01-04T04:36:00.000-08:00

I am trying to help myself. Regular readers of this blog will have witnessed some of the abuse I have been subjected to.

I have been regularly called a "nutter" and told that I need to be in a psychiatric hospital. I have been bullied and threatened, and have kept some of the nasty comments I have been sent off this blog. I have only let a few on because I wanted other people to witness the bullying. So, you see, I am not such a "nutter" after all!

Anyway, it is hard to cope with depression, when it tries to stranglehold your life. The way I am coping is

1) Prayer, I talk to God about my troubles. This is one of the reasons I am called a nutter, because these days it is considered old fashioned to talk to God, although not that very long ago lots of people talked to their creator. Anyway, thats what I do, and I don't see why I should have to put up with being called a nutter for doing so. I know its the Christian way to be long suffering, but I reckon I have suffered enough now, so if anyone leaves any vile comments about my mental health status because I choose to talk to God I will be taking them to court for harassment. I think it's about time I put an end to this nonsense for once and all.

2) Knitting, sewing and crotchet, I love making things. Yesterday I made a bag for a keyboard, I made it out of an old pair of trousers and some materiel I had left over from something else. I will be posting pictures of that at some point, in case anyone else wants to make one.

3) Origami I have rediscovered this beautiful art form. I have got Robert Harbins Origami books 1 and 2 and have been going through the different folds. Its a very relaxing and cheap hobby. Those unwanted junk mailings can be put to good use.

4) Dancing I love ballet, and have started doing my old ballet exercises to some music while I cook dinner. I might start to go to dance class again if I can find one near where I live.

5) Singing and playing music. It's a lovely thing to do, even if you arent very good. Anyone can play something, even if its only rattling a tambourine. Its a great stress reliever.

6) Painting. I like watercolour painting best, because they dry quickly and I like the effects you can get from wet in wet technique. I like painting landscapes best. Painting makes you really look at things.

ANTHONY BLUNT WAS EXPOSED BY MARGARET THATCHER AS A TRAITOR

2012-01-03T10:22:00.000-08:00

Last secrets of the Queen Mother's favourite traitor: Memoirs of society spy Anthony Blunt could rock Royals
By Geoffrey Levy

Last updated at 1:47 AM on 27th June 2009

Early next month, a strongroom in the basement of the British Library in Euston Road will be unlocked by a curator.

He will disturb, for the first time in 25 years, the typewritten sheets that are the unfinished memoirs of Anthony Blunt, the Soviet spy who worked for the Queen.
At last the questions over what the manuscript contains - and who it exposes - will be over.

Blunt, a crashing snob and rampant homosexual, was the 'fourth man' in the infamous Cambridge spy ring which included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby.
Friends of Blunt have played down the significance of the 30,000-word document written after the patrician art historian, who advised the Queen on her collection for two decades, was publicly exposed as a traitor by Margaret Thatcher in 1979. He died four years later from a heart attack.
One of the handful of people who have seen the manuscript is artist and fellow art historian John Golding, Blunt's friend and executor. He has said that he is 'not aware of any great revelations'.
So why did he ask the British Library to lock it away for a quarter of a century?
Golding's explanation: 'I did so because, although most of the figures mentioned were dead, their families might not like it. It covers his Cambridge days and there are a number of names. They weren't all spies, but Communism was common among intellectuals in the Thirties.'

Are there new or unexpected names? 'I'm not sure,' says Golding. 'It's 25 years since I read it, and my memory is not that good.'
One name that could well appear in Blunt's description of his early life is that of his cousin, a certain Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - later, of course, to become the Queen Mother.
Blunt's mother Hilda was a 2nd cousin of the Earl of Strathmore, Elizabeth's father.
The young Anthony and his two brothers Christopher and Wilfrid occasionally used to have tea with Elizabeth at the family's London home in Bruton Street, Mayfair - the house from which she was driven to Westminster Abbey in 1923 (when Blunt was 16) to marry the Duke of York, later King George VI.

'I'm sure the Queen Mother was kept out of the loop when MI5 finally got Blunt to privately admit his guilt in 1964,' says a frequent royal houseguest. 'Few apart from the Queen were allowed to know.
'But after he was exposed in 1979, it was different, though no one ever mentioned his name in front of the Queen Mother. While in no way condoning what he'd done, she didn't like to hear him being disparaged.'
Blunt's 1964 confession was covered up as part of a deal in which he was granted immunity from prosecution. In return, he was meant to reveal to MI5 all he could about the Soviets.
But one old friend of Blunt's circle says he 'still doubts very much whether Anthony would have stooped to telling them everything'.

His Communist sympathies, going back to his Cambridge university days, had long been recognised.
He arrived at Trinity College as a brilliant Maths scholar in 1926, a time of depression, hunger marches and political ferment. The Spanish Civil War was looming. Class guilt and genuine concern about the rise of fascism were turning aesthetes such as Blunt into men of action.
By 1932, when he was made a fellow of Trinity and the poet Stephen Spender was describing him as 'the most amusing man in Cambridge', he had been recruited by Russia to spot potential spies among his peers.
He was lured in by his brilliant, hard-drinking and gay friend Guy Burgess, an Old Etonian who became a double agent working for MI6 while his real masters were the KGB.

Burgess found him easy to manipulate. He had seen in the emotionally stunted Blunt not just a wish to commit himself to anti-fascism, but also an appetite for subversion which, in those days of illegal homosexuality, was keenly whetted.
Burgess had himself been recruited by Kim Philby, another British intelligence officer supplying information to the Soviet Union, who defected to Russia in 1963 with the fourth Trinity-educated spy, Donald Maclean.
Of the quartet, only Blunt sailed smoothly on. He had joined the British Army from Trinity in 1939. MI5, recruited him the following year.
His known Communist sympathies were deemed relatively insignificant compared to the need to defeat Hitler. There is a --difference between being a sympathiser and an agent.
Eventually, colleagues did become suspicious. Years later, it emerged that he was passing on important messages from encripted Enigma intercepts to the Soviet Union, but the British authorities could never prove it. He ended the war a Major.

Blunt continued to be watched during the Cold War period.
He was appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, turning it, in the words of his friend and former pupil, Brian Sewell, 'from a finishing school for witless girls into a seminary with a worldwide reputation'.
As suspicions deepened that he was a Soviet agent, he was interrogated 11 times by MI5, but they never broke him down and could do nothing.
Whether King George VI, who made Blunt his keeper of the King's pictures after the war in 1945, was ever told of the security service's suspicions beyond him being a communist sympathiser is unknown.
A royal source tells the story of how, in 1948, a young ex-officer, Philip Hay, came to Buckingham Palace to be interviewed for the post of Private Secretary to the widowed Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, mother of the present Duke.
As he walked down a red-carpeted corridor with Sir Alan Lascelles, the King's private secretary, they passed Blunt in silence. When they were out of earshot, Sir Alan whispered to Hay: 'That's our Russian spy.'
Indeed he was, but no one had proved it, and to the world at large, he remained a figure of great integrity.
The moment of truth in 1964 was April 23 - ironically St.George's Day.
Intelligence officer Arthur Martin arrived at Blunt's flat at the top of the Courtauld Institute off London's bustling Oxford Street and told him, that the agency now had unimpeachable evidence of his treachery.
The source was an American called Michael Straight who had confessed his own complicity to the FBI.
Blunt, knighted by the Queen in 1956, at first denied it. Martin told him he was authorised to grant him immunity from prosecution. Blunt paused briefly, then said: 'It's true.'
Endless hours of debriefings followed. Yet, outwardly, for the next 15 years, nothing changed in the exalted life of the angular, arrogant intellectual who had begun life as a mathematician, smoothly switched to languages, and had eventually risen to the pinnacle of establishment life as an art historian.
Privately, his domestic life with Scots-born former Irish Guards bandsman John Gaskin, described as so beautiful he turned men's heads as well as womens', continued. Gaskin had moved into Blunt's flat at the Courtauld Institute in the Fifties.
The Queen, fully briefed about Blunt's confession, played her part perfectly and Sir Anthony Blunt continued to be a familiar and welcome figure in the royal palaces, as official adviser on her art collection, just as he had been to her father.
Nor did his confession affect his presence at the highest tables. In 1966, two years after that clipped admission, Lord Annan, provost of King's College, Cambridge, held a small dinner party at his home.
Round the table were Labour's Home Secretary Roy (later Lord) Jenkins, father-figure of the permissive society, Ann Fleming, widow of James Bond author Ian, and Victor (Lord) Rothschild and his wife Tess.
With the Provost's permission, the Rothschilds had also brought their friend and house-guest - Blunt. Incredibly, while it might have made no difference to his being there, the Home Secretary had been left in complete ignorance by MI5 that the surveyor of the Queen's pictures had spent years as a Soviet spy.
Governments - Labour and Conservative - came and went. Blunt's reputation continued to grow.
Then, one November afternoon in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher had been in power a few months, she was asked in the House of Commons if rumours that Sir Anthony Blunt was a Soviet agent were true. Yes, she said.
For some in MI5 who believed Anthony Frederick Blunt should have been rotting in jail for his high treason, it was a moment of triumph.
For 15 years, they had been forced to bottle up their anger at what they saw as 'special treatment' for this well-connected establishment figure whose lofty life continued uninterrupted while more lowly Russian spies like John Vassell, a clerk at the British embassy in Moscow, were sent to prison for 18 years.
Some even dared wonder whether the cover-up could have been influenced by his being related to the Queen Mother and, through her, the Queen herself.
Mrs Thatcher has never explained why she ended Blunt's cosy arrangement with MI5. But Sir Bernard Ingham, her private secretary while she was at No 10, has little doubt.
'I believe she did it because she didn't see why the system should cover things up,' he says.
'This was early in her Prime Ministership. I think she wanted to tell the civil service that the politicians decide policy, not the system. She wanted them to know who was boss.'
SUDDEN exposure shocked Blunt but, outwardly, failed to shake him. 'He was so businesslike about it,' says his friend art expert Brian Sewell. 'He considered what the implications were about his knighthood and academic honours and what should be resigned and what retained. It was so typically Anthony.
'What he didn't want was a great debate at his clubs, the Athenaeum and the Travellers.
'So the resignation of the knighthood was quickly in the post and then he resigned from the clubs and a number of academic honours. He was incredibly calm about it all.'
One afternoon, however, when Blunt slipped into a cinema in Notting Hill, he was recognised and booed until he had to leave. The effect of such opprobrium after decades of admiration was greatest on his domestic partner John Gaskin.
Just a few months after Thatcher's bombshell, he threw himself from the 6th-floor balcony of their apartment in Bayswater. His fall was broken by railings and, incredibly, he survived.
But Blunt was now a withdrawn figure, seldom going out. It was Tess Rothschild who suggested he fill his time by setting down his memoirs, so he began to write.
According to Sewell, he never finished it because he was having to travel to the newspaper library in Collindale, North London, to check facts and 'he began to have difficulty using it, as he was being recognised and it was becoming intolerable'.
Others suggest that Blunt stopped writing when he reached the point at which he would have to expose names not already known.
'I do know he was really worried about upsetting his family,' admits Sewell. 'I think he was being absolutely straight with me when he said that if he could not verify the facts there was no point in going on.'
Blunt stopped writing some months before his death in 1983 leaving his estate - including the memoir - to Gaskin. He kept it for a year and then, in a state of near nervous-breakdown, called John Golding to take it away.
Golding decided to lodge it at the British Museum for 25 years, which ends this July. Four years later, having returned to his native Dundee in Scotland, Gaskin was killed by a train on an open-level crossing. Friends assumed he had killed himself.
'Those who were dealing with the memoir thought they were doing Anthony some kind of service by putting off its exposure for 25 years,' says Sewell. 'How absurd. Instead of dampening down the flames, it's all we've talked about for 25 years. I can't wait for it to be opened.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195881/Last-secrets-Queen-Mothers-favourite-traitor-Memoirs-society-spy-Anthony-Blunt-rock-Royals.html#ixzz1iQAIBTZM

GARY DOBSON, GUILTY, DAVID NORRIS, GUILTY

2012-01-03T06:53:00.000-08:00

AND IF I HEAR THAT BBC PRESENTER TALK ABOUT "A TINY TINY DROP OF BLOOD AND A SINGLE HAIR" ONCE MORE I THINK I WILL HURL SOMETHING AT THE TELLY!

The BBC seem quite dissapointed with the GUILTY verdict. I WONDER WHY THAT IS???

RIP Stephen Lawrence. Justice has been a long time coming.

THE POLICE HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED FOR INVESTIGATING INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE

2012-01-02T03:56:00.000-08:00

DEVOTEES OF RICHARD GARDNER AND RALPH UNDERWAGER NUMBER 1 - "DR" MICHAEL BONE

2012-01-02T02:32:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2011-12-31T16:18:00.000-08:00

Hoping 2012 brings an end to secret family court oppression and the persecution of institutional child abuse survivors.

POLITICAL PRISONER RELEASED FROM LA MOYE PRISON TODAY

2011-12-30T12:41:00.000-08:00

He's out!

How long for I am not sure, he expects to be maliciously arrested again, and the Blog of Doom has closed ranks.

FATHERS RIGHTS BULLIES ATTACK KEN CLARKE'S HOME

2011-12-30T11:27:00.000-08:00

Civil rights campaigners forced a change in Church policy on kids rights and brought their message home to a “lying” Tory lawyer this Christmas.

The ‘New Fathers for Justice’ group, which regularly organises protests in Cornwall, struck at the home of Minister of Justice Ken Clarke yesterday (Christmas).

They daubed the former barrister’s house in West Bridgford, Notts, with the slogan ‘Fatherless Christmas’, and pasted protest posters.

Meanwhile the Archbishop of Canterbury waxed lyrical about the value the Church placed on fatherhood – after protestors threatened to protest at Canterbury Cathedral.

Lambeth Palace, the established Church’s head office, put out a statement on behalf of Dr Rowan Williams which reads:

“The Archbishops thoughts and prayers are with all those who cannot be with their families at this time.

“The image of fatherhood is at the heart of Christianity as can be seen in the loving and dependable God of the New Testament.

“The Church recognises the significance of the fathers role in the life of a child.

“Christian communities around the country are working to support families in need, whether providing practical help, like parent toddler groups or courses in parenting skills, or simply as a human network helping to share responsibilities and encourage all human relationships to flourish.”

Fat Tory Ken Clarke found his lawn adorned with abandoned toys, a Santa suit, and a Coffin on Christmas morning.

Family rights groups nationwide are furious that after years of promising reform, the coalition Government conducted a ‘whitewash’ review of reviled ‘family law’.

Clarke’s Ministry is directly responsible.

A spokesman for the politician called the words ‘Fatherless Christmas’ “distasteful”.

She said: “‘There were some distasteful slogans painted on the garage doors of Mr Clarke’s home early on Christmas Day.

‘Once they were discovered, they were cleaned up.We are not treating it a big deal.”

West Country New Fathers for Justice spokesman Richard Adams responded: ‘Ken Clarke may well find the slogans of our group ‘distasteful’.

“We find the denial of equal rights to fathers, and the denial to children of their right to a family life, to be yet more distasteful, and worth protesting against.

“Why does he keep lying that fathers have equal rights everyone in the real world knows it’s patently untrue?

“He seems to live in some world of his own and we hope this Christmas protest will wake him up a bit.”

Mr Adams went on: “After years of fishing for our votes saying they would reverse the brutal policies of the so-called ‘family’ court, the Tories have done nothing.

“Norgrove’s review was a ludicrous sham, dictated by the people responsible for child abuse and persecution the new Government promised to stamp out.

“We’d like nothing more than to be simply with our families, and happy in the knowledge our children would grow up with equal rights, this Christmas.

“But until anything is done – this is the only way anyone takes any notice of our message.”

Mr Adams said the statement from Rowan Williams – made as protestors threatened to storm the pulpit at Canterbury Cathedral – was ‘a step in the right direction’.

But he added: “The Church needs to act. Words will no longer do.”

Truro Dad Stuart Chilcott is currently awaiting trial for his protest at Truro Cathedral in support of 50/50 rights for the children of seperated parents.

Stuart is a member of the New Fathers for Justice group, who share the same political goals as all the other civil rights and ‘Fathers4′ groups in Britain.

They seek a legal presumption of 50/50 contact for a child with their parents if they split up, and the abolition of the deeply controversial, undemocratic secret court system that still exists within the ‘family’ division despite forty years of protest.

In July, a New Fathers for Justice activist dressed as Batman also targeted Mr Clarke, who has the power to reform or abolish the entire family division.

The protested staged an ‘arrest’ of the Justice Secretary outside his home, saying his actions were on behalf of all children stopped from seeing their fathers.

In October, five protestors camped out on the roof of Deputy PM Nick Clegg in the same cause.

PROKOFIEV SYMPHONY IN D MAJOR OPUS 25

2011-12-28T10:57:00.000-08:00

I have been listening to this today and just had to share it, as it is one of my favourite pieces of music.

THE BLOG OF DOOM HAS GONE ALL SHY!

2011-12-28T10:46:00.000-08:00

Well, I will try not to laugh, but I just don't think I can help it!

SOME BEAUTIFUL MUSIC FOR BOXING DAY

2011-12-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

I need a rest from blogging about awful paedophiles and corrupt courts, so here is some beautiful music I have been listening to this morning, hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.

This next one might not be everyones cup of tea, but I love it.

This one makes goose bumps come out on my spine, it's so beautiful

THE BULLY

2011-12-25T15:58:00.000-08:00

A PRAYER FOR PRINCE PHILIP

2011-12-24T11:47:00.000-08:00

Dear Lord Jesus,

I am praying for the recovery of Prince Philip. I am asking you to restore him to full health.

I am asking this for the sake of the Queen. If he died she would be so sad. She has tried to be a good Queen, although made a lot of mistakes, the main one of which was not to have arrested those who have committed treason.

Nevertheless, it is the day we celebrate your birth tomorrow. It is the season of good will, because we remember how you were born to help us to learn how to be good.

You told us to pray for the government so that is what I am going to do. I hate it that the Queen didn't get to see my letter concerning the institutional child abuse that is going on all over the UK via the Secret Family Courts, the human trafficking.

I also know that although not a perfect man, some very wicked people have told a lot of lies about other people, such as Prince Philip, to make out that he is a lot worse than he really is. Although the horrible thing he said about coming back as a virus was a very unkind remark, I don't believe everything that has been written about him, because I can see for myself how corrupt the media can be, what with the appalling way Stuart Syvret has been treated by those JEP clowns.

So Lord Jesus, I am asking you to heal Prince Philip. Please help him recover and let him get out of hospital soon dear Lord Jesus, so that the Queen will be happy.

I know you are coming back very soon Lord. Help the Queen, please. I know she works very hard and its hard for her.

Love Barbara xx

A CHRISTMAS DAY MIRACLE

2011-12-24T05:11:00.001-08:00

I had no intention of putting anything else up, but someone sent me this video, and I think it's appropriate that it gets posted next to the one above. Alex is feeling the full horror of what is happening all over the world, and his tears are a prayer.

Again, I had no intention of adding anything else to this blog posting, but the Lord reminded me of this song I wrote 20 years ago, and I found it in one of the tatty old exercises books I used to write all the songs I composed in, so I recorded it while I was going through all the horror of the Secret Family Courts, I think I was really singing it to myself at the time, and posted it onto YouTube, and prompted me to add it to the post, so here it is. The Lord always has a good reason for this sort of prompting, so perhaps the words in this song might help someone else who is going through it, I hope so.

Yet again, the Lord has drawn me back to add something to this blog post. Listen to these beautiful lyrics - they are a promise!

SOMETHING NICE FOR CHRISTMAS EVE

2011-12-23T16:27:00.000-08:00

Enough of those scoundrels now, this blog is a Troll free zone for the next few days.

Here are some of my favourite love songs. Hope you enjoy them.

MORE MALICIOUS COMMENTS

2011-12-23T10:28:00.000-08:00

"ou deserve everything you get from that blog for writing crap about it all them time on your own stupid blog.
By Anonymous on YET ANOTHER WICKED BULLYING COMMENT FROM THE JERSE... on 22/12/11!
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From the blog post titled "The Haut de la Garenne Murder Farce continues.... "

"Anonymous said...
That Zoompad needs electric shock therapy, she is totally ga ga. Mind you be a good girlfriend for rico.

December 22, 2011
Anonymous said...
Forget Zoompad, doesn't even live in Jersey and is just a crazy woman whose only pathetic life evolves around a stupid blog.

December 22, 2011 "

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This is systematic and illegal cyber bullying. The people who are posting these things are breaking the law.

My GP doesn't think I am a crazy person who needs to be sectioned, put in a straight jacket and given ECT.

Remember this important fact - POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS ARE USING THAT DISGUSTING BLOG AS A MOUTHPIECE.

So basically, politicians and journalists are cyber bullying a member of the public.

If we had a proper free press this would be headline news. But we don't.

A FEW LAST MINUIT CHRISTMAS CRAFT GIFT IDEAS

2011-12-22T02:06:00.000-08:00

And some lovely ballet to watch, the music from the Rose tutorial is from Les Sylphides by Chopin

YET ANOTHER WICKED BULLYING COMMENT FROM THE JERSEY HAUT DE LA GARENNE MURDER FARCE BLOG

2011-12-21T10:04:00.000-08:00

Anonymous said...
This is why the accredited media deserve respect for reporting the facts and not rumour mongering about conflicts, cover ups and inadmissible evidence because that's all what comes from these blogs and then they wonder why nothing ever happens.

Another year has passed since Operation Rectangle was closed and what's different on the blogs compared to this time last year? Nothing and this Zoompad from the UK should be sectioned with a straight jacket into a ward. The woman is deranged.

December 21, 2011

http://thehautdelagarennefarce.blogspot.com/2011/12/haut-de-la-garenne-murder-farce.html

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One day, I will have access to the justice system, just like other people who are not victims of the Pindown child abuse scandal do, and these horrible men, some of whom are Jersey politicians and journalists, will pay for their vicious hate crimes against me.

At the moment, I do not appear to be covered by the Human Rights Act. I am not alone, it's a sad situation, but at present some people, through no fault of their own, just do not have any access to justice, because of the paedophile gangs who have infiltrated so many of our authorities all over the UK. There's only really a small number of these wicked people, but they are subverting the whole system. It appears to be a man called Stafford Beer who invented this infiltration system,, which paedophiles and criminals are profiting by.

I am not insane. I have mental health problems, because I have PTSD, due to the abuse I have suffered from these gangsters. I also probably on the autistic spectrum, as Asperger Syndrome is a genetic trait in my family. Having Asperger Syndrome doesn't mean that a person is insane, it just means that they have a genetic disorder. It isn't my fault if I have Asperger Syndrome. Asperger Syndrome people don't need putting in straight jackets and sectioning.

Those wicked evil people have gone too far this time. I am sick and tired of being called a nutter, as I have been called a nutter most of my life. I am going to do something about this now, it's sickening. No-one should have to be putting up with this sort of wicked bullying. What makes it even worse is that some of these people are actually politicians!!!

Do people vote for people to get into Parliament so they can go round bullying people with mental heath problems? I don't think they do!

I don't exactly know what I am going to do to stop these disgusting bullies, because I have been to Stafford police and been told that they are "drawing a line" under it. But there must be something someone can do to stop all this, and I am going to find out how to do it. I am going to ask the Lord to help me to find someone who will stop these creeps bullying me all the time.

PAUL MURPHY MP

2011-12-21T04:47:00.000-08:00

THIS WAS THE MP STEPHEN NOTT CONTACTED TO INFORM HIM OF THE PHONE HACKING COVER UP. PAUL MURPHY MP DID NOT WANT TO KNOW, HE TOLD MR NOTT THAT IT WAS NONE OF HIS BUSINESS. WHICH I FIND VERY ODD, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WAS VERY MUCH THE BUSINESS OF A GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVE!

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THE LEVESON INQUIRY - WITNESS STATEMENT OF STEPHEN NOTT:

"15. I called my Member of Parliament, Paul Murphy. He did not want to know and
said it had nothing to do with him. This was in ,early 2000"

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Paul Peter Murphy, KCMCO, KSG (born 25 November 1948) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen since 1987, and served in the Cabinet as both Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary. Murphy has previously held the position of Minister of State for Northern Ireland from February 1997 until 1999. He held this position shortly before being promoted to Secretary of State for Wales.

Murphy, who supports Arsenal, was born to the late, Ronald Murphy and his wife, Marjorie Murphy; he also has a younger brother. Murphy's late father was a miner, and originated from Ireland.[1][2] The family were devout Catholic, and Murphy considers himself a devout Catholic. Murphy's late mother was from England, and came from a family of small businessmen. His Mother's mother was one of seventeen children.[3] Murphy attended St Francis Roman Catholic School in Abersychan, West Monmouth School in Pontypool. He later attended Oriel College, Oxford, to study History.[4] His leisure interests include classical music, cooking and reading. Murphy has never married, and remains a bachelor. He once said in an interview "I have so many books, theres only enough room for me".[5] Murphy has one younger brother, Neil Murphy - a nephew, Daniel and a niece, Rachel.

He was a management trainee with the CWS, before becoming a lecturer in Government and History at Ebbw Vale College of Further Education, now known as Coleg Gwent.

He is Roman Catholic. He was made a Knight Commander of Merit with Star of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George "for helping to promote peace in Northern Ireland" (KCMCO). He is also a Knight of the Pontifical Order of Saint Gregory the Great (KSG).

Murphy is an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College in 2000. He is also a Visiting Parliamentary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford.

[edit] Early political career

Murphy joined the Labour Party at the age of 15. He is also a member of the Transport and General Workers Union. He was Secretary of the Pontypool/Torfaen Constituency Labour Party from 1971 to 1987. Paul was a member of Torfaen Council from 1973 to 1987 and was Chair of its Finance Committee from 1976 to 1986. He contested Wells Constituency in Somerset in the 1979 General Election. Murphy later became Leo Abse's agent.

[edit] Senior Cabinet posts

He has been MP for Torfaen, Wales since the 1987 election. In opposition he served as a foreign affairs spokesperson and then in defence as navy spokesperson.

He was has served twice as Secretary of State for Wales on 28 July 1999 to 24 October 2002[6][7] and again from 2008 to 2009.[8] He was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 24 October 2002 to 5 May 2005. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1999.

He was succeeded by Peter Hain and left the government, becoming chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee in May 2005. He was also British Chair of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body and an Executive Committee member of the British-American Parliamentary Group. Murphy has admitted he thoroughly enjoyed this role.

He was re-appointed Secretary of State for Wales on 24 January 2008, following the resignation of Peter Hain. He was also given the job of chairing a new Cabinet Committee on the sensitive issue of IT and information security, in the wake of a rash of scandals surrounding the loss of personal data by Government agencies. In April 2008 he was appointed as the Government's Minister for Digital Inclusion.

Prior to joining the Cabinet he was Minister of State for political development in the Northern Ireland Office from 1997 to 1999 - acting as Mo Mowlam's deputy - and was largely responsible for negotiating the so-called strand two ('North-South' or 'Island of Ireland') arrangements agreed in the Good Friday Agreement. In 1999, he was named 'Minister to Watch' at the Spectator Parliamentary Awards. Murphy has been cited as a "Safe pair of hands", by Gordon Brown, and Tony Blair.

David Davies, MP for Monmouth once said: "Paul Murphy is clearly a very experienced member of parliament and whilst I and my colleagues will disagree with his policies and his government's policies and will certainly take him to task for that, he's a man who is, I think I probably can say, is widely respected on all sides of the House of Commons." (After hearing Murphy had been asked to become Secretary of State for Wales.[9]

[edit] Voting Record

In 1979 Murphy was a fierce opponent of Devolution.[10] Murphy recently said "I have been trying to work out whether or not I am a devo-sceptic and I have come to the conclusion that I am not. In 1978, I was a devo-opponent, and in 1997 I voted for devolution. My constituents agreed with me in 1978, but they did not agree with me in 1997, because they voted against a Welsh Assembly on both occasions. However, I would rather describe myself as a devo-realist, in the sense that what is here is here. I am not all that keen on a coalition in Cardiff, but we are where we are, and we have to work in the current political climate for the benefit of the people whom we represent, whether we are Members of Parliament, Assembly Members or members of local authorities".[11]

In a free parliamentary vote on 20 May 2008, Paul Murphy voted for cutting the upper limit for abortions from 24 to 12 weeks, along with two other Catholic cabinet ministers Ruth Kelly and Des Browne.[12][13]

[edit] Parliamentary Expenses

Murphy was subject to criticism over his expenses claims, revealed by the Daily Telegraph during the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal. Most notable of these was his £3,419.25 claim to have a new boiler installed in his Westminster house, stating that the previous one was a hazard as "The hot water was far too hot".[14] Other claims submitted by Paul Murphy relate to purchases of a Toilet Roll holder, new carpeting and a television, as well as mortgage payments and stamp duty. Although, his expenses were not accurately reflected by newspapers, his total expense claim per year, was much lower than the majority of MPs. This was further proved by the fact he had to pay no money back after further analysis of his claims. He was, and still is, highly regarded as an MP across the parties and was approached to stand for speaker, although he refused to carry this forward.[15][16] Murphy has now been ordered to repay some of the money he "claimed" back. He has to pay back £2,237.72 in cleaning costs, mortgage payments and a wardrobe that exceeded the guideline price.

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Sadly, the Group's records do not contain details of the meetings that brought about the formation of the British-American Parliamentary Group.

We do know from Sir John Graham's book "Ditchley Park" that the group was founded in 1937 by Ronald Tree, a Conservative back-bench Member of Parliament for Market Harborough 1933-1945 and Anglo-American, together with fellow back bencher Hamilton Kerr, MP. They were "instrumental in setting up an all-party American Committee which was able to do sterling work both before and during the war in extending the extraordinary limited knowledge of the United States at that time within the British Parliament and elsewhere".

In Sir Roger Moate's (former Honorary Secretary) chronicle of the group from 1941, he discloses that in the Group's early years its history was intertwined with the Empire Parliamentary Association, later to become the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.

The Government undertook funding of the Group during the Second World War.

The Group’s Objectives, Activities and Rules were formally adopted on 5 July 1967 and have since been subject to minor amendments in 1968, 1981, 1982, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Rules & Objectives
The Group’s Objectives, Activities and Rules were formally adopted on 5 July 1967 and have since been subject to minor amendments in 1968, 1981, 1982, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

1.
The objects of the British-American Parliamentary Group are to promote friendly relations and mutual understanding between Members of both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom and Members of both Houses of Congress of the United States of America; to discuss problems common to the United Kingdom and the United States; to exchange courtesies and to provide opportunities for discussion with Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and other distinguished citizens of the United States; and to arrange for the exchange of visits and information between legislators of both countries.

2.
Any member of the House of Lords or House of Commons is eligible for membership of the Group and shall become a member on setting up a Standing Order for an Annual Subscription or on paying a Life Subscription.

3.
The Annual Subscription shall be not less than £5.00 (five pounds), payable upon joining and thereafter on 1 April in each year. Any member may opt to pay a Life Subscription of £40 (forty pounds), subject to the other Rules of the Group.

N.B. When members leave either House their subscription becomes forfeit. If the member subsequently returns to either House, a Life Subscription would become re-activated.

4.
Any members ceasing to be a Member of either House of Parliament shall cease to be a member of the Group.

5.
The Speaker of the House of Commons and the Lord Speaker shall be ex-officio Honorary Joint Presidents of the Group, subject to ratification at each Annual General Meeting.

6.
Members of either House shall be eligible for election at the Annual General Meeting of the Group as Vice-Presidents on the nomination of the Executive Committee and shall hold office till the next Annual General Meeting.

7.
The management of the Group shall be vested in the Executive Committee.

8(a)
The Executive Committee shall consist of not more than 18 Members, who shall be elected each year at the Annual General Meeting. There will be two separate ballots to elect 12 members from the House of Commons, of which six members from the Government Party and six members from the Opposition Parties who receive the most votes being declared elected, and six members elected to represent the House of Lords, the proportion of which is to be determined by the Lord Speaker and the representatives of the parties and groups in the House. In addition, the Executive Committee may co-opt not more than four other Members who shall hold office until the following Annual General Meeting.

8(b)
The Joint Honorary Treasurers and the Honorary Secretary shall each be nominated by the Executive, ratified each year at the AGM, and shall be additional members of the Executive Committee with full voting rights.

The Honorary Secretary shall be eligible to continue in that office for a maximum of eight consecutive years.

8(c)
Nominations for election to the Executive Committee shall be proposed and seconded by members of the Group and shall reach the office of the Group not less than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

8(d)
The Executive Committee shall meet, when summoned by the Honorary Secretary, or at the request of either of the Joint Vice-Chairmen or of any six members, not fewer than four times between one year's AGM and the next.

8(e)
At all meetings of the Executive Committee, six members shall form a quorum.

8(f)
The Honorary Chairman shall be the Prime Minister, subject to ratification at each AGM.

The Executive Committee shall nominate two Vice-Chairmen, preferably of Ministerial and Shadow Ministerial office, for up to three years, subject to ratification at each AGM. The Senior Vice-Chairman shall be the Vice-Chairman who is a member of the Party in Government. No Vice-Chairman shall be eligible to continue in that office for more than three consecutive years. The Vice-Chairman or Vice-Chairmen vacating office under this rule shall not be eligible for re-election to that office for two years after vacating such office.

8(g)
The Executive Committee may fill any casual vacancy occurring amongst the Officers or Committee by appointing a suitable and qualified member of the Group, of the same Party and the same House as the person causing the vacancy.

Any person so appointed shall hold office until the Annual General Meeting then next ensuing.

9
The Duties of the Executive Committee shall include:

(a) The Group's programme of activity;

(b) Ensure that the selection of participants in delegations is balanced and reasonable;

(c) The promotion of membership of the Group;

(d) The control of the expenditure of the Group's funds;

(e) The appointment of a paid Administrator, whose duties shall be to co-operate with the Officers and Executive Committee in carrying out their duties;

(f) The Duties of the Executive Committee shall include the execution of the Group’s affairs in accordance with the Financial Memorandum setting out the aims and objectives of the British-American Parliamentary Group and describing the administrative and financial arrangements for the Group’s activities and its relationship with the House of Commons Commission and the House of Lords House Committee.

10
The Annual General Meeting of the Group shall be held at such time and place as the Executive Committee may appoint.

(a) Twenty members shall form a quorum.

(b) The Executive Committee shall submit to the Annual General Meeting a report of their proceedings and a statement of the receipts and expenditure in the past year.

(c) Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Group, together with an Agenda and copies of the Annual Report and Accounts, shall be posted to every member not less than fourteen days before the day appointed for such a meeting.

(d) At least seven days' notice of any motion not mentioned on the Agenda to be brought up at the Annual General Meeting shall be given to the Executive Committee.

(e) Any election of Officers must be advertised on the All Party Notices not less than seven days beforehand.

11
A Special General Meeting of the Group may be summoned at any time and place by the Executive Committee to consider and determine any matter of interest and importance that may arise and also by the Honorary Secretary in accordance with Rule 12(b) and 12 (c). If a requisition in writing of not less than twenty members, stating the object for which the meeting is demanded, shall reach the Executive Committee, the Executive Committee shall summon a Special General Meeting to be held not less than twenty-one days and not more than thirty days from the receipt of such a requisition. The provisions of Rule 10(c) and 10(d) shall, so far as is practicable, apply to Special General Meetings.

12
In the event of a General Election:

(a) The re-elected members of the Executive Committee who were in office on the date of the dissolution of Parliament shall carry on the affairs of the Group until the next Annual General Meeting. In the event of any of the Officers not being re-elected, the Executive Committee, as then constituted, shall nominate a member or members of the Executive Committee to act in their place until the election of Officers takes place at the next Annual General Meeting;

(b) In the event of fewer than six members of the Executive Committee being re-elected, the Honorary Secretary (or other eligible Officer should the Honorary Secretary not be re-elected) shall take immediate steps to arrange for the election of a new Executive Committee and will call a Special General Meeting of the Group for this purpose;

(c) When the results of the elections held by virtue of Rule 12 (b) are known, those Officers and members of the Executive Committee still eligible for membership of the Group shall, with the exception of the ex-officio Officers, Vice-Presidents, and Honorary Secretary, retire forthwith unless re-elected to office.

13
Any amendment to these Rules shall be made by simple majority at the Annual General Meeting of the Group provided that notice of the amendment shall be included in the notice summoning the meeting.

14
In the event of the interpretation of any of the foregoing rules being in doubt or in the event of a situation arising which is not apparently covered by any of the rules, it will be for the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee to decide what to do and the ruling will remain operative unless and until rejected at the next Annual General Meeting.

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I wonder if this group had anything to do with the disgraceful decision to award the collecting of intimate and private details of all the citizens of the UK, including their sex lives and details about their health, by force, to the same American company that produces some of the most terrible weapons mankind has ever invented? Incidentally, the same parent company that invited a paedophile called Richard Gardner to the UK to lecture on child protection!!!

Well well well! No wonder this MP wanted to stick his fingers in his ears when a member of the public tried to inform him about widespread data crime!

And Stuart Syvret is in La Moye prison - for what?

To use his words, YOU COULD NOT MAKE IT UP!

IF I AM GOING TO BE BULLIED FOR WISHING HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ANOTHER BLOGGER I AM GOING TO KICK UP A STINK ABOUT IT!

2011-12-21T03:02:00.000-08:00

http://thebaldtruthjersey.blogspot.com/2011/12/next-small-step-toward-political.html

I simply wanted to wish Trevor and Shona Pitman Happy Christmas, and thank them for the way they have stuck their necks out to speak up for the victims of the Haut de la Garenne child abuse:

Anonymous said...
Thank you for fighting the fight for the most vulnerable. I hope you and your family have a peaceful and happy Christmas. xx

Zoompad

19 December 2011 22:42

Those disgusting creeps on the JERSEY HAUT DE LA GARENNE MURDER FARCE BLOG spotted it, and they wrote this:

http://thehautdelagarennefarce.blogspot.com/2011/12/haut-de-la-garenne-murder-farce.html

Anonymous said...
Enrico says nothing to hide so nothing to fear but maybe he should start using 'cry wolf?' He is just like Syvret with his put ups or shut up, as when asked point blank to show the world evidence it goes all silent. He has no admissible evidence of a child abuse cover up, it’s all in his imagination and fooling Looney’s like Zoompad is easy, even Trevor Thickman has her appearing on his defunct blog, but convincing people who want to see more than a theory will catch fools like him out every time. Sky news would laugh at his blog for its grammar alone never mind its far fetched mumbo jumbo of a States of Jersey and Media that would need hundreds of people in on a cover up. It’s not just bonkers it’s bloody stupid.

December 21, 2011

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Now, as that Blog of Doom is frequented and contributed to by some corrupt Jersey politicians and journalists, that means that ordinary members of the public are in effect being bullied by people in positions of authority for saying Happy Christmas to someone.

Not only that, but I have actually in the past been hospitalised 4 times in psychiatric hospitals, the first time, as a "place of safety", because the local authorities didn't really know what to do with me, my medical records clearly say that I was not suffering or being treated for any mental illness. The other times I was hospitalised were because I was suffering from clinical depression, which was caused by the child abuse I suffered.

So those people on that blog are committing a criminal offence by calling me a looney. I have PTSD, which I am unable to access any proper help for - I have been to my GP many times for help, but the help available has not been very useful, the last abuse councillor I went to broke the confidential contract he was supposed to uphold by passing on information about my counselling sessions to the secret family court. I am not blaming my GP for this, my GP has tried to help me, and it is not my GP's fault if the agencies I am referred to are not what they ought to be.

I have been told by those vile people on that disgusting blog many times that I "need help", which is another sly way of inferring that I am a raving lunatic who needs sectioning. I admit that I do indeed need help, as I know I suffer from PTSD and have an eating disorder, that causes me to eat when I am not even hungry, comfort eating, to stifle the pain I feel inside over the abuse. I also skin my feet until they are bleeding and I am unable to walk - I don't even realise I am doing this, until after I have done it and I can't walk, and a dreadful skin condition that refuses to respond to any of the various treatments I have tried. I certainly don't need "sectioning". What I need is for the bullying I have endured for too many years to stop, and to be able to access appropriate and confidential medical treatment, which ought to be my right by law, except that Pindown childrens home abuse survivors don't appear to have any rights!

PIERS MORGAN CALLED STEPHEN NOTT A NUTTER

2011-12-21T01:16:00.000-08:00

I know how Stephen Nott feels. It's quite disgusting what Piers Morgan has said about him.

Piers Morgan also knows all about the secret family courts and Pindown. I wrote to Piers Morgan myself about all that, and I know other people have contacted him as well. I think this is really disgusting, what Piers Morgan is saying in this video.

As I said in my last blog posting, I have also been called a nutter by journalists.

I find this interesting as well.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=piers%20morgan%20john%20kercher&source=web&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CCYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzoompad.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F10%2Fmeredith-kercher-why-was-this-video-not.html&ei=6afxTrDVMITj8APJypDNAQ&usg=AFQjCNH84GNUo02uumhI8b3owXnOCyZSCA&sig2=_oz8WwEngDOaSBy8367UNg

Now, this was all a bit too hush hush dont wake the baby for my liking.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=piers%20morgan%20john%20kercher&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CC0QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sundaypost.com%2Fmagazine%2Fmag_archive%2Ffamous%2Fmag_celebrity_may_2010.htm&ei=6afxTrDVMITj8APJypDNAQ&usg=AFQjCNEBefb_VV3CjO97ek8_56oIiSSA9g&sig2=Kl5gtQmWHCO8iGsDG9DR-w

ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF VERBAL ABUSE FROM THE JERSEY POLITICIANS AND JOURNALISTS

2011-12-20T23:50:00.000-08:00

This is the latest attack upon me from the JERSEY HAUT DE LA GARENNE MURDER FARCE BLOG - which is the mouthpiece of some very corrupt Jersey politicians, journalists and gangsters.

Remember - I am not a politician, journalist or anything with any public authority. I am a woman who was abused in a Staffordshire Pindown home as a child, persecuted (as all the Pindown victims have been) to try to deliberately criminalise me, or to deliberately drive me insane or to turn to drugs or alcohol, as many others have been. Anyone looking at the paper trail of the disgusting persecution I have been put through could not fail to come to the conclusion that I have been deliberately and maliciously persecuted to try to either shut me up or to try to justify the abuse I suffered as a child in Pindown. I have yet to be allowed access to the full Pindown report, it is quite disgraceful that I have not even been given a copy of that document. I have many times expressed a desire to have access to that document, but my wishes have so far fallen on deaf ears. I am left wondering now if the original report in its full form still exists, or if it has been shredded. No-one will tell me anything, they know I want it, but they won't let me have it, and they treat me as if I don't exist, and every now and then I get another sly kicking. Anyone who has suffered malicious vindictive persecution will understand what I have been subjected to.

It is true that I am naive in some respects. I have been tricked, by people pretending to care about stopping child abuse, who have turned out to have a different agenda. The UK Column, for example, I really thought Brian Gerrish cared about stopping child abuse, but after what happened at Stoke on Trent I have realised my error.

I was sent for abuse counselling, and the first therapist advised me to write some poetry and paint some pictures, for therapeutic reasons, and I ended up writing a book which I got published, the book is called "Tip". I had to self publish it, which cost me a lot of money, and only a handful of people have bought it, but the book did buy me some publicity, because I got into the local newspaper several times, which made those who were persecuting me take a step back, because bullies never like an audience witnessing what they are doing. So although some people might think I am a loser for writing a book that hardly anyone has bothered to read, I think the money spent on getting it published was well spent, because it sort of was like a flashlight on the bullies who were trying to destroy me.

I gave Stuart Syvret a copy of that book, but I don't suppose he has read it, he's never said anything to indicate he has. I gave a lot of copies of it away, but I don't think many of the people I gave it to have read it. I gave Stuart a copy of it at London, when we met up at the Magna Carta, at the same time I gave him my treasured copy of Henry George's "SOCIAL PROBLEMS", a book which I came across at a second hand book shop, and I would rather he read that than my book, as Henry George was a Christian man who had some very good ideas, I think.

I don't mind that people haven't read my book, as I really only wrote it for therapy, and I only had it published because I thought that if I was a published author the bullies might be less inclined to hurt me any more, because they wouldn't want other people to see what they were up to. And now that I have a blog, it would be less easy for me to be disappeared, as so many other Pindown victims have been.

So really, you would not think that a person like me would be a valid target for Jersey politicians to throw stones at, would you? Well, that horrible blog - the Blog of Doom I call it, but it's really called the JERSEY HAUT DE LA GARENNE MURDER FARCE blog has been writing nasty things about me for years. Jersey politicians contribute to and read that blog, so you would think they would want to put a stop to one of the Pindown abuse victims getting singled out for verbal abuse there, but no, and whats more one of the victims of the Haut de la Garenne child abuse, a lady called Carrie Mondrai, has also been vilified on that same blog.

This might seem a bit of a pointless excercise to some people, but I am going to post on my blog every instance of verbal abuse I get from those Jersey politicians journalists and corrupt individuals, every time they call me a nutter or a loony ect.

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Anonymous said...
Enrico says nothing to hide so nothing to fear but maybe he should start using 'cry wolf?' He is just like Syvret with his put ups or shut up, as when asked point blank to show the world evidence it goes all silent. He has no admissible evidence of a child abuse cover up, it’s all in his imagination and fooling Looney’s like Zoompad is easy, even Trevor Thickman has her appearing on his defunct blog, but convincing people who want to see more than a theory will catch fools like him out every time. Sky news would laugh at his blog for its grammar alone never mind its far fetched mumbo jumbo of a States of Jersey and Media that would need hundreds of people in on a cover up. It’s not just bonkers it’s bloody stupid.

December 21, 2011

IT CAME UPON THE MIDNIGHT CLEAR

2011-12-20T15:26:00.000-08:00

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heavens all gracious King!"
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled;
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world:
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

O ye beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow;
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
Oh rest beside the weary road
And hear the angels sing.

For lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophets seen of old,
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold,
When the new heaven and earth shall own
The Prince of Peace, their King,
And the whole world send back the song
Which now the angels sing.

MEDIA MANIPULATION AND PROPAGANDA

2011-12-20T11:41:00.000-08:00

I think it is always very interesting to examine why certain people are chosen for these radio discussions. It's good to listen to these discussions very carefully. Sean Gabb is certainly coming accross as someone standing very high upon a moral pedestal. It's worth bearing in mind that the media is not always particularly interested in enlightning the listeners, but to get their key people plenty of exposured in the public arena.

I was cut off from George Galloways radio show, for talking about the Secret Family Courts and blacklisted by Talk Sport. There are certain subjects that are an absolute taboo on any mainstream media channel, the Pindown abuse is one of them. When they do make programs on that subject, they take great care not to invite certain people to talk about their experiences!

JESUS AND THE TAX GATHERERS

2011-12-20T10:15:00.000-08:00

Luke 19

Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. 3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” 6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.

7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”

8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”

9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

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Matthew 9

The Calling of Matthew
9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

WATCH DAVID AND GOLIATH

2011-12-20T05:35:00.000-08:00

THE LEGALISATION OF PAEDOPHILIA - BLAME THE VICTIM

2011-12-20T04:32:00.000-08:00

CROCODILE TEARS

Adolf Bergbauer has been jailed for less than three years despite admitting he started sleeping with his daughter when she was 12. Picture: AFP Source: AFP

Dad had sex with daughter when she was 12
He fathered three disabled children with her
Court unable to say sex was not consensual

A 69-YEAR-OLD German who slept with his daughter more than 500 times over 30 years and fathered her three disabled children has been acquitted of raping her.

A court in Nuremberg ruled that Adolf Bergbauer's sexual relationship with his daughter was consensual.

However, it has jailed him for incest.

Prosecutors claimed that Bergbauer started raping his daughter when she was 12 years old and called for a 14-year jail sentence for 500 counts of rape.

Bergbauer's daughter, now 46 years old, told the court that he had regularly beaten her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. She also claimed her mother and four brothers did nothing to help her.

Bergbauer - who has been dubbed "German Fritzl" in reference to Austrian Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked in a basement for 24 years and fathered six children with her - admitted at the beginning of the trial that he had a sexual relationship with his daughter, but denied raping her.

Related Coverage

»German incest father sentenced to jail The Daily Telegraph, 8 hours ago
»Austrian incest suspect freed The Daily Telegraph, 10 Sep 2011
»Austria incest suspect to plead not guilty Herald Sun, 1 Sep 2011
»New Austrian 'house of hell' found The Daily Telegraph, 25 Aug 2011
»Fritzl's dungeon to be destroyed The Daily Telegraph, 12 Aug 2011
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He alleged that she was the one who always propositioned him, a claim his daughter vehemently denies.

However, the court ruled that it was impossible to prove that the sexual relationship Bergbauer had with his daughter was not consensual.

He was cleared of the rape charges, but was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for committing incest and coercion.

Prosecutors said they would consider launching an appeal.

Jesus is coming back soon

2011-12-19T04:51:00.000-08:00

MY ANSWERS TO THE BLOGGERS OF DOOM

2011-12-19T02:48:00.000-08:00

The blog titled THE JERSEY HAUT DE LA GARENNE MURDER FARCE is a blog dedicated to covering up institutional child abuse. The people who contribute to that blog are a toxic mix of corrupt journalists and politicians. One of them even appears to be involved in illicit drug activity.

They are cowards, as they hide behind anonymity (or try to, but can't do so from the all seeing eyes of God), and they openly boast about hacking into the computers of other people, including one woman who was abused in a Pindown childrens home 40 years ago - me.

Because many of them hold high positions of authority they are able to plot against whistleblowers of child abuse, and even victims of child abuse.

They have also mocked the Lord Jesus Christ on that blog. According to those people, Christians are nutters. Being a Christian myself, I have made several attempts, out of the kindness of my heart, to help these wicked people see the error of their ways. I have sent them passages from the Holy Bible, in the hope that they might see the moral danger they are in, by mocking God, the author of life. But it is to no avail, as the hearts of those people appear to be as hard as stone.

The Lord is coming back soon. All the prophesies which fortell his return appear to have come to pass. Just like the wise men, who followed a star to the baby Jesus, we Christians follow the prophecy which leads us to the Lord, who told us to watch diligently for his return, and not to fall asleep.

They have posted the following comment on their Blog of Doom

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Anonymous said...
Rico claims the following:

"Exposing the Truth behind the Jersey Child Abuse Cover Up. We have a State controlled Media that has been complicit in the Cover Up of Child Abuse."

So Rico is saying that the controllers of the BBC, JEP and Channel TV are all involved in the cover up of child abuse with States Members.

Wouldn't any normal person say that not only is this claim with the sheer number of people supposedly involved in the Media with their own families not only ludicrous and flawed but incredibly paranoid?

I have read his blog and claims and copy and pastes and I am yet to see anything that remotely backs up his delusions. I guess at least when you read claims like his you think to yourself that at least your own mental health feels okay.

The controversy of the claims being so far fetched must be the only thing keeping it going.

December 19, 2011

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Not only are the controllers of the BBC, JEP and Channel TV all involved in the cover up of child abuse with States Members, they are involved in other criminality in the UK and abroad. This does not mean that everyone working at the BBC, JEP and Channel TV are criminals, just key people. The way this criminal network functions is by getting themselves into key positions. It's a bit like a little jockey riding a powerful stallion, controlling such a big horse is fairly easy if you have bitted the horse correctly.

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Here is another of their anonymous comments (always anonymous)

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Anonymous said...
Cover-up is another way of saying 'we've lost'.

Where is this motion by John Hemming? Where is the support for Syvret from other States Members? Why isn't this contrary evidence on the National News? Why aren't the real victims making a noise about this instead of childish self proclaimed unqualified blogging experts? Rico says he has questions well these are some of mine.

December 19, 2011

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John Hemming, I will not waste my fingers typing about that double crossing cover up merchant. I warned Stuart again and again and again not to stay at his London flat, sadly, not many people take notice of what I say, mainly because I am a Christian and in this day and age being a Christian = being a delusional nutter who talks to invisible people. I think so many of my non Christian friends would feel more comfortable if I denied my faith, or at least watered it down a little, which I cannot possibly do, as my relationship with Jesus Christ is just as important and as real as any relationship with any of my mortal friends.

When I was a girl at school, being abused, and showing symptoms of being abused for anyone who had eyes to see, and being bullied by some girls who kept quizzing me if I had had sex - I couldn't answer yes or no, because I was being raped at the time, another girl who I liked very much drew me to one side and said "I can't openly be friends with you any more, because the others will bully me as well if I am, I hope you understand". Yes, I understood all right. It hurt me so much, I had to grit my teeth and bear it, too much of a burden for such a young girl - I think I was 12 at the time - how it grieved me to be treated like that. I respected that girl for at least having the decency to tell me, and I was polite to her outwardly, but inside me, I couldn't help but despise her, for her cowardice.

So how can anyone expect me to treat my dear friend Jesus Christ, who is so kind to me, who is so despised in this fallen world, in the same sad way as I was treated?

The real victims. They have made a noise, tried to. They have made statements to the police, over 160 people came forward to make statements.

The media is playing cunning tricks, such as making television programs about Staffordshire Pindown and deliberately not allowing victims of Staffordshire Pindown abuse that they know about to participate in the program.

Anyway, I am going to re post the rest of the comments on the Blog of Doom, so that my readers can judge for themselves what is going on, and what sort of people have seized control of the reins at the moment. I will add that these people are traitors. Jersey is ruled by the Queen, and she is also a Christian. The Queen is a good woman who has tried to do her duty to God all her life. She could have abdicated, but she has carried on being Queen, trying her best to keep stability and law in the UK. She has had a very difficult life, because some of the people round her are wicked, and she knows it. But the Lord said that the wheat will grow with the tares, and all be harvested together, the tares cannot be plucked out until the harvest time, for fear of uprooting the wheat.

Here are the rest of the Blog of Shame comments.

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31 comments:
Anonymous said...
Another story the VFC Muppets blatently ignore.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
It was a disgrace that the Police used tax payers money to fund a meal out with a reporter like this. So much for Harper's ability to sense crooks at the time then.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
wined, dined and sixty.........!
You diiirty ol' man!!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
So there is Rico and Neil attacking Jimmy, Ben and Sean for raising what now can only be described as extremely pertinent questions about Lenny Harper's relationship with the News of the World and this meal. No doubt we have not heard the last of this fiasco which will be ignored by Team (selective) Voice.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
They always try to blank these contrary reports which you could argue is covering up!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
THE former News of the World crime editor who wrote some of the most lurid stories during the Haut de la Garenne child abuse inquiry has been arrested by anti-corruption police.

Several national newspapers have reported that Lucy Panton was taken in for questioning on suspicion of paying officers for stories.

The 37-year-old was detained during a dawn raid on her Surrey home at 6.15 am on Thursday.

She is the seventh person to have been arrested since the launch of Operation Elveden, a probe into allegations of bungs being given to police officers by journalists.

The investigation is running parallel to the police inquiry into phone hacking.

In February 2008, it was one of Mrs Panton’s photographers who was found hiding in bushes at Haut de la Garenne in the days before former deputy police chief Lenny Harper went public about excavations at the former children’s home in St Martin.

LENNY HENRY WHAT A COMEDIAN!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
Of course, Voice for Codswallop and Squeako Sordid will say that it's very wrong of this blog or anyone else to infer any wrong-doing, or malfeasance from the Harper/Panton relationship without any directly pertinent evidence.

They'll bang on about how terrible and wrong it is to assume "guilt by association," and to ignore the concept of the "Presumption of Innocence" (especially with regard to friends of Lenny's like Ms. Panton).

But.....er.....hang on a mo.......Isn't that what they and their scant following led by the Blessed Con have been doing for ......er.....Oh dear!....Oops!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
Rico says he is really deep into research at the moment and has little time for anything else. So obviously the dating direct advert never got anywhere then!

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
It's sad reading as it is.

All this uncovering child abuse he claims he does when it technically amounts to no proof of any cover up except in his imagination..

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
A waster doing what wasters do best.....wasting his life away trying to defend a few @holes!

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
So now they may understand why the majority take no notice of Lenny Harper or Graham Power anymore.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
HO HO HO :-

STU’S XMAS DINNER

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
Ooooh nooo Did Lenny take the penny from Lucy . The saga continues. Will all be revealed about Lennys motives .

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I am going to really enjoy Christmas knowing the loser is where he belongs. Cheers guys :-0

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
He he he, love the pic of Stues Xmas dinner.
One things for sure , the leg on the plate is the only one he's had for a while and the only one he's likely to get when he gets out , well apart from Neil and Rico's that is.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
That nice prison meal makes a change for Stu instead of sitting in Pizza Express on his own all night with a laptop......

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
NEW PIZZA RESTAURANT FOR STU

December 18, 2011
Zoompad said...
He he!

Thanks for making me chuckle and a Merry Xmas to you all on the Farce blog x x x

Zoomy :-x

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
Dining on his own, are you having a laugh the only time you'd see him out eating is if someone else was picking up the tab. That or Neil gave him an advance on services rendered.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I hope all his X's have had a check, you never know what you'll pick up from someone that frequents the Herpes Piza Bar.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I love these blogs. This one says SS is a twat which is true because he is in jail and reports the news like it actually is and then the other blogs treat SS like some kind of super hero despite being proved to be a liar in court, a bully of women and a psycho. Then they play down anything that makes Harper look dodgy like the NOTW reporter.

You see according to them the JEP is not allowed to publish anything that questions Harper despite the newspaper itself being sold a load of rubbish from his press conferences.

They keep on having a go at Bailhache, well get over it he got in and topped the poll.

Then Sorda desperately tries to re-sell this story over and over again with his so called investigations which amount to nothing technically, you can tell that by his non substance amateur camcorder YouTube videos but they are still a feeding frenzy for a group of no hopers that cannot see they are beaten even years after Operation Rectangle has been closed.

I reckon a line has to be drawn and until any of these bloggers actually manage to produce something that re-opens Operation Rectangle and get people charged who are actually guilty of a crime and not a victim of a Syvret vendetta on his blog then I may take some of this waffle of defiance seriously.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
RICO AND IAN’S HOME MADE PIZZA FOR STU

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
They should speak to a certain ex who recently wrote a letter to the paper about him if they really want to know the real Stuart Syvret.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
They will never re-open the historic child abuse case period. It is over and a judicial review was thrown out. Let them carry on taking about it and getting nowhere.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
What the voice for fools and sordid's blog fail to realise is , if Syvret had been successful in receiving compo for suing the States, you wouldn't have seen him for dust.
He was so gutted that they didn't offer him a deal on the court steps.
Now he's just looked on as a fool.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
Just don't know what's happened to Evans's link to the petition to free Nelson.
The link no longer appears on his latest postings.
I guess it was a bit embarrassing after so many weeks they were getting maybe just one vote a day. Last time I looked it was up to a grand total of 71, Ha Ha .
MERRY CHRISTMAS guys.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
What these Bozos don't seem to get is that they can attack the retro actions of the media, past coppers, past states members, BDO (yawn) etc forever,, but until they manage to get Operation Rectangle re-opened their work amounts to nothing because moaning and moaning with conspiracy doesn't get cases re-opened, yer a cover-up rs, yer right.

December 19, 2011
Anonymous said...
Cover-up is another way of saying 'we've lost'.

Where is this motion by John Hemming? Where is the support for Syvret from other States Members? Why isn't this contrary evidence on the National News? Why aren't the real victims making a noise about this instead of childish self proclaimed unqualified blogging experts? Rico says he has questions well these are some of mine.

December 19, 2011
Anonymous said...
Rico claims the following:

"Exposing the Truth behind the Jersey Child Abuse Cover Up. We have a State controlled Media that has been complicit in the Cover Up of Child Abuse."

So Rico is saying that the controllers of the BBC, JEP and Channel TV are all involved in the cover up of child abuse with States Members.

Wouldn't any normal person say that not only is this claim with the sheer number of people supposedly involved in the Media with their own families not only ludicrous and flawed but incredibly paranoid?

I have read his blog and claims and copy and pastes and I am yet to see anything that remotely backs up his delusions. I guess at least when you read claims like his you think to yourself that at least your own mental health feels okay.

The controversy of the claims being so far fetched must be the only thing keeping it going.

December 19, 2011
Anonymous said...
No word from teh pipe seller on the arrest of Lenny's contact at the News of the World, and on whom he decided to spend taxpayers money.

The longer he ignores it, the bigger the mug he looks.

Come on Rico. It's all about the Truth after all.

December 19, 2011
Anonymous said...
I am pleased to see that Lucy Panton has at last been arrested for her disgraceful behaviour. I only hope now the truth will be revealed about Harper and his cosy relationship with her.

I find it hard to comprehend that a woman who could write such dishonest crap in a shi..y newspaper is fit to be a mother. Maybe now she is realising just how much she was used by the corrupt Harper (thats if she has an ounce of decency in her).

December 19, 2011

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HE'S ALIVE!

2011-12-18T14:49:00.000-08:00

SUICIDE?

2011-12-18T14:05:00.000-08:00

Camilla's bodyguard shot himself after his wife left him, inquest hearsBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:47 PM on 30th June 2008

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The head of security for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall shot himself after texting his wife that he ''could not live without her'' when she left him following a series of violent rows, an inquest has heard.
Police Sergeant Richard Fuller, 55, was married with four grown-up children and was a well-respected member of the force where he had a distinguished 29-year career.

But Sgt Fuller shot himself with his hunting rifle at home two weeks into a trial separation after wife Jill left him following a series of violent incidents.
Sgt Richard Fuller, the head of security for Prince Charles' wife Camilla, was found dead after shooting himself at his home
The inquest in Trowbridge, Wilts., heard he had suffered stress at work and felt he was 'losing control' of his professional and personal lives.
Sgt Fuller, a trained armed response officer with Wiltshire Police, was head of security at Ray Mill House, Camilla's six-bedroom country home in Wiltshire.
The Duchess of Cornwall and Prince Charles were told of the death while they were on board the yacht Leander on a tour of the Caribbean.
He lived with wife Jill, 45, their children Daniel, 19, and Stephanie, 18, and her daughter Jennifer Reynolds, 21 in a four-bedroom home in Bremhill, Wilts.
She had moved out of the house two weeks earlier but returned during the day to cook and look after their horse, the inquest heard.
Mrs Fuller, a clerk in the firearms unit where her husband worked, received a text message at 5.20am, moments before his suicide.
She contacted a police colleague of her husband's and the pair rushed back to the family home where her husband was lying dead on the bed - his hunting rifle pointing at his head.
Mrs Fuller, his second wife whom he married in 1988, told the inquest: 'I went to the cottage around 10.45 on Saturday morning and we had a nice day, riding together.
'I left him watching television about 9pm and felt that in the circumstances all was well.
'About 5.20 the next morning I got message from him. It said he couldn't live without me. He said not to come home and something about the police, which didn't make sense.

'That message was the only indication I had of what he was going to do.'
Enlarge Sgt Fuller started working for Camilla in 1996, leading her round-the-clock security team
Reading from Mrs Fuller's statement, coroner David Masters said: 'You left him for a period last year after incidents involving him behaving in an aggressive and violent manner towards you, and flying off the handle.
'He said to you during that time "I'm lying on the bed with a gun, you don't know what I'm going to do."
'You said you had a vision of him lying on the bed with a gun. Soon after that you had a reconciliation and he seemed to be coping better.'
Sgt Fuller's body was discovered by his colleague Paul Cambers who had accompanied Mrs Fuller to the house.
He said: 'He was barricaded in his room from the inside and I had to break the door down. He was lying on the bed, clearly dead. He couldn't continue his life without Jill.'
Police investigators revealed that Sgt Fuller had been due at work three hours later. His lunchbox was made ready in the fridge and a newly-ironed shirt was hanging up.
Sgt Fuller, Wiltshire Police's chief firearms instructor at its headquarters in Devizes, received a Crown Court Commendation in 1995 for the successful arrest of a man armed with a shotgun.
He started working for Camilla in 1996, when she bought the £850,000 property, set in 27 acres, after her divorce from Andrew Parker Bowles.
The home was the venue for the wedding reception of her daughter Laura Parker Bowles and husband Harry Lopes in June 2006.
The Duchess, despite rarely staying there, insisted on beefing up security to a round-the-clock team of armed officers, led by Sgt Fuller, costing the taxpayer £2.6million.
In 2001, he received a long service and good conduct medal.
The only blemish on his career was in February 2006 when he was cleared of unlawful violence during an arrest, by pinning a suspect's head to the floor with his boot.
Magistrates in Chippenham heard that Mr Fuller had problems controlling his temper and following a short separation in January 2007, had threatened suicide.
Coroner David Masters said the incident had ''preyed on his mind'' and he had sought psychiatric help and been prescribed anti-depressants.
Clinical psychologist Dr Max Kite said in a statement read to the inquest: 'He felt guilty about his marriage and the harm he was unintentionally doing to it, because of circumstances at work. He felt he had become very difficult to live with.'
Sgt Fuller's firearms permit was revoked in January 2007 and all guns removed from his home after he took time off work with depression - but the permit was reinstated in May.
Mark Johnson, Sgt Fuller's son from his first marriage, said he was concerned about the police allowing his father to keep guns, given his mental state.
He said: 'When Jill left last year I was aware he had threatened suicide. I was always concerned about the firearms in the house because of the problems with his temper.
'He was a firearms officer and if he was going to harm himself that's how he would have done it.
'Before he died he seemed distressed and unhappy and possibly depressed. He told me he was taking happy pills and thought everyone hated him.
'He liked to be in control. But he was doing a job he didn't enjoy. He was nearing retirement and didn't know where his life was going.
'He was losing control of his professional life and his relationship was breaking down.'
Calling for a police review of policies surrounding mental health, Mr Johnson added: 'Between the way he was in his professional life and the way he was at home there is clearly a void which needs to be addressed.'
Recording a verdict of suicide, coroner David Masters said: 'Richard Fuller was a professional policeman, but I have also heard about aspects of his character which were more easily demonstrated in his domestic life.
'It was clear he suffered stress in his activities at work, not in relation to the job he had to do but in relation to a complaint made against him, for which he was acquitted.
'But it preyed on his mind and this aggravated his domestic relationships.
'He separated from his wife, this time a final separation and this was a situation he could not get his head around.'
After the inquest, Superintendent Matt Pullen of Wiltshire police, said a review had been launched into occupational health practices in the police force.
He said: 'Richard Fuller was a highly competent officer and well-liked and respected s a firearms expert.
'Because of the critical nature of a firearms officer's duties, they are subject to constant, rigorous and regular checks, and there was no breach of any of these processes.
'After any tragedy there are lessons to be learned and this is no different. Medical experts agree it can be difficult to accurately predict anyone's action.
'No system is foolproof and no one will ever know what was going through Richard Fuller's mind before he took his own life.
'No policy can prevent someone from taking their own life if they are determined to do so.'
Mrs Fuller said in a statement after the hearing: 'The past few months have been a particularly difficult time for our family.
'The inquest verdict has now been reached, our grieving continues and I would specifically ask members of the media not to contact us at this difficult time, allowing us to fully re-adjust following Richard's death.

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NOT NEWS OF THE WORLD Police inspector's body washed up on exclusive beachfront

Posted by George Freund on July 19, 2011 at 12:14 PM

Police inspector's body washed up on exclusive beachfront after he 'jumped off a ferry'

Last updated at 08:16 14 March 2008

A commended police inspector has died after apparently jumping off a cross-Channel ferry, it was revealed today.

Inspector Neil Munro, 43, boarded the Brittany Ferries ship alone late last night in Poole, Dorset.

The married father-of-one - the third policeman thought to have killed himself in the space of four days - went overboard in Poole Harbour a short time after it set sail at 11.45pm.

Inspector Neil Munro was discovered in the garden of a multi-millionaire property magnate David Russel

Deceived wife pays tribute to 'caring and loving' suicide chief constable

Nobody saw him fall and the boat continued on its crossing to Cherbourg without stopping.

His body was found washed up at the beachfront home of a multi-millionaire neighbour of soccer boss Harry Redknapp on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula.

It was discovered trapped under a private jetty at the harbourside mansion of property magnate David Russell and his wife Valerie.

Their gardener made the grim discovery at 8.30am while working in the grounds of the 10 million pounds property that overlooks Poole Harbour.

His colleagues at Dorset police found a ticket for last night's Brittany Ferries' service from Poole to Cherbourg on him.

Officers today launched an investigation into his death, although sources revealed it looks like he took his own life.

Insp Munro's devastated colleagues are today comforting his wife and their young son at their home in Bournemouth.

His death follows the apparent suicides of police sergeant Richard Fuller, 55, who was found at his house near Calne, Wilts, on Monday after he shot himself with a rifle.

The following day Michael Todd, 50, the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police is thought to have committed suicide while walking in Snowdonia.

Martin Baker, the chief constable of Dorset Police, today led his force's tributes to Insp Munro.

He said: "The whole of the force has been deeply shocked by today's news and our thoughts are very much with Neil's family at this time.

"Neil had served with Dorset Police for 20 years. He had a huge impact on policing here in Bournemouth and across the force.

The body of police inspector Neil Munro was washed up on the beach on the exclusive Sandbanks

"In November, 2006, I personally commended Neil for his professionalism in the field of hostage negotiation.

"He had previously received a Divisional Commander's Commendation for his prompt and positive action in dealing with and defusing a potentially dangerous situation at Poole when he was confronted with a man armed with a firearm, a knife and a stick.

"Due to his ability, Neil was selected to provide personal support to Dorset Police's Assistant Chief Constable, Adrian Whiting, during his command of the policing operation at the 2007 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth.

"Neil had many friends among his colleagues within the force, and outside, due to his work with other agencies including Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership representatives. He will be very much missed by a great many people."

Clive Chamberlain, chairman of the Dorset Police Federation, also paid tribute to Inspector Munro.

He said: "As a close knit community ourselves, colleagues have been very saddened by the death of a valued friend and colleague.

"Neil was an excellent leader and a great friend to many within Dorset Police.

"It is obviously very difficult for colleagues who were called to the incident because usually they don't know the person involved.

"But there are occassions sadly like this where they have to deal with someone they know and respect."

Insp Munro spent 20 years working for Dorset police and was the section inspector in command of the north Bournemouth area for the last two-and-a-half years.

A post-mortem examination is due to be held tomorrow (Fri) to establish the exact cause of death, although it is understood he had suffered bad head injuries.

An inquest is also due to be opened and adjourned.

A spokesman for Brittany Ferries confirmed that a Neil Munro was booked onto last night Barfleur boat from Poole to Cherbourg.

He said: "At this stage it looks as though the man was a passenger on board the Barfleur ferry.

"I understand the police found a copy of his ticket in his clothing.

"We imagine he boarded the ferry in Poole at 11.45pm last night that was headed for Cherbourg in France.

"No-one saw him go over or knew anything about it so we did not alert a search team.

"We do not check our passengers getting off so the crew would not have noticed anything untoward."

David and Valerie Russell's New England-style property is located just yards away from Portsmouth FC manager Harry Redknapp's mansion home which he shares with wife Sandra.

Neighbour Ken Coffin, 89, who has lived in the area since 1947, said: "It has been known for the odd body to wash up off Sandbanks in the past.

"But is still must have been a bit of a shock though for the person who found it.

"What with the weather we have been having it could have come from anywhere - off a boat, off the quay or washed in to the harbour on the tide."

Mr Russell is aged in his 40s and is the chairman of the 100 million pounds Property Alliance Group.

He and his family moved to Sandbanks three years ago after they purchased a plot of land, demolished the house on it and built the lavish mansion in its place.

Mr Russell is a renowned property developer based in Manchester and has four children.

Sandbanks, which featured on a recent ITV documentary presented by Piers Morgan, is the fourth most expensive place to live in the world, behind London's Belgravia, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The sandy peninsula, which has become a millionaire's playground, is also home to computer magnate Sir Peter Ogden.

The 520ft long Barfleur ferry can carry up to 1,200 passengers and 590 cars at a time.

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The jetty in front of and to the right of the boat is the property where the body was found. The newspaper said it was in the garden, on the beach and under the jetty in one article. You will notice the empty lot next door. The ferry terminal is at the right. I believe Inspector Todd was murdered and his body put in the drink. It would be a small issue to get a ferry ticket. This terminal also serves Jersey where the child abuse scandal occurred. It was said Insp. Todd invesigated the Sea Cadet allegations where children were given to the elite rich for use on their yachts.

He was a model cop and decorated hero. He was called in to a four hour disciplinary interview where he left in tears. It had to be good. What if they pressured him to drop his investigation. The Deputy Chief Constable, Lenny Harper, on Jersey received 140 threats from former and serving police. He was retired. The owner of the property is a Manchester millionaire businessman. Chief Constable Todd was from Manchester. I believe he was murdered as well.

The investigation into the abuse at Haut de la Garenne, Jersey would seem to be the crux of the matters. Jersey is a Crown Dependency which is directly administered by the royal family. It is one of those banking sanctuaries as well. That makes it a money laundering capital of the world. There is an all encompassing evil that sits in the shadows behind all of this. News of the World has done its share to provide cover for child murder. Camilla Parker's bodyguard Sergeant Jim Bergerac also died of suicide as well. One of these events could be written off as coincidence. There are now so many a clear pattern emerges to me anyway.

THE BLOGGERS OF DOOM ARE PUTTING UP POSTS USING MY NAME AGAIN

2011-12-18T13:25:00.000-08:00

They are at it again.

Remember, some of the people who post on this horrible blog are politicians and journalists.

The Lord is coming soon, then this awful persecution by these rats will stop.

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The Jersey Haut de la Garenne Murder Farce
"I thought it was a shambles with no financial management, a poorly-managed fiasco where the lead detective made unnecessary trips and took his notes with him. I don’t regard that as a leak, though having worked there I’m not surprised at this" Mick Gradwell -21 June 2011.

Saturday, December 17, 2011The Haut de la Garenne Murder Farce continues....
The News of World journalist that was wined and dined by Lenny Harper is now arrested over alleged payments to police:

Lucy Panton, former crime editor of News of the World, has been arrested then bailed in ongoing investigations into alleged payments to police

Thursday 15 December 2011 11.03 GMT

A forner NoW journalist been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's Operation Elveden investigation into alleged payments to police. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Lucy Panton, the former crime editor of the News of the World, is believed to have been arrested on Thursday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged payments to police officers.
She has since been released on bail until April

Officers from Operation Elveden said that a 37 year old woman was arrested at 6.15am on Thursday at an address in Surrey and is the seventh person held under Scotland Yard's probe into allegations of payments to the police.

It is understood from sources that the person arrested was Lucy Panton, who was taken to a south London police station.

Panton was promoted from crime correspondent to crime editor of the News of the World in October 2005. She joined the News of the World in September 2002 from the People and was crime editor of the News International title until it closed at the height of the phone-hacking scandal in July.

The Metropolitan police said in a statement: "At 0615hrs on Thursday, 15 December, officers arrested a woman on suspicion of committing offences involving making payments to police officers for information.
Panton is believed to have been on maternity leave when the News of the World closed in July. She has a six-month-old baby and another young child. She is married to a serving Metropolitan police officer.

Calls to Panton's mobile phone were unanswered. News International declined to comment.

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Anonymous said...
Another story the VFC Muppets blatently ignore.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
It was a disgrace that the Police used tax payers money to fund a meal out with a reporter like this. So much for Harper's ability to sense crooks at the time then.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
wined, dined and sixty.........!
You diiirty ol' man!!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
So there is Rico and Neil attacking Jimmy, Ben and Sean for raising what now can only be described as extremely pertinent questions about Lenny Harper's relationship with the News of the World and this meal. No doubt we have not heard the last of this fiasco which will be ignored by Team (selective) Voice.

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
They always try to blank these contrary reports which you could argue is covering up!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
THE former News of the World crime editor who wrote some of the most lurid stories during the Haut de la Garenne child abuse inquiry has been arrested by anti-corruption police.

Several national newspapers have reported that Lucy Panton was taken in for questioning on suspicion of paying officers for stories.

The 37-year-old was detained during a dawn raid on her Surrey home at 6.15 am on Thursday.

She is the seventh person to have been arrested since the launch of Operation Elveden, a probe into allegations of bungs being given to police officers by journalists.

The investigation is running parallel to the police inquiry into phone hacking.

In February 2008, it was one of Mrs Panton’s photographers who was found hiding in bushes at Haut de la Garenne in the days before former deputy police chief Lenny Harper went public about excavations at the former children’s home in St Martin.

LENNY HENRY WHAT A COMEDIAN!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
Of course, Voice for Codswallop and Squeako Sordid will say that it's very wrong of this blog or anyone else to infer any wrong-doing, or malfeasance from the Harper/Panton relationship without any directly pertinent evidence.

They'll bang on about how terrible and wrong it is to assume "guilt by association," and to ignore the concept of the "Presumption of Innocence" (especially with regard to friends of Lenny's like Ms. Panton).

But.....er.....hang on a mo.......Isn't that what they and their scant following led by the Blessed Con have been doing for ......er.....Oh dear!....Oops!

December 17, 2011
Anonymous said...
Rico says he is really deep into research at the moment and has little time for anything else. So obviously the dating direct advert never got anywhere then!

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
It's sad reading as it is.

All this uncovering child abuse he claims he does when it technically amounts to no proof of any cover up except in his imagination..

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
A waster doing what wasters do best.....wasting his life away trying to defend a few @holes!

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
So now they may understand why the majority take no notice of Lenny Harper or Graham Power anymore.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
HO HO HO :-

STU’S XMAS DINNER

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
Ooooh nooo Did Lenny take the penny from Lucy . The saga continues. Will all be revealed about Lennys motives .

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I am going to really enjoy Christmas knowing the loser is where he belongs. Cheers guys :-0

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
He he he, love the pic of Stues Xmas dinner.
One things for sure , the leg on the plate is the only one he's had for a while and the only one he's likely to get when he gets out , well apart from Neil and Rico's that is.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
That nice prison meal makes a change for Stu instead of sitting in Pizza Express on his own all night with a laptop......

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
NEW PIZZA RESTAURANT FOR STU

December 18, 2011
Zoompad said...
He he!

Thanks for making me chuckle and a Merry Xmas to you all on the Farce blog x x x

Zoomy :-x

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
Dining on his own, are you having a laugh the only time you'd see him out eating is if someone else was picking up the tab. That or Neil gave him an advance on services rendered.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I hope all his X's have had a check, you never know what you'll pick up from someone that frequents the Herpes Piza Bar.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
I love these blogs. This one says SS is a twat which is true because he is in jail and reports the news like it actually is and then the other blogs treat SS like some kind of super hero despite being proved to be a liar in court, a bully of women and a psycho. Then they play down anything that makes Harper look dodgy like the NOTW reporter.

You see according to them the JEP is not allowed to publish anything that questions Harper despite the newspaper itself being sold a load of rubbish from his press conferences.

They keep on having a go at Bailhache, well get over it he got in and topped the poll.

Then Sorda desperately tries to re-sell this story over and over again with his so called investigations which amount to nothing technically, you can tell that by his non substance amateur camcorder YouTube videos but they are still a feeding frenzy for a group of no hopers that cannot see they are beaten even years after Operation Rectangle has been closed.

I reckon a line has to be drawn and until any of these bloggers actually manage to produce something that re-opens Operation Rectangle and get people charged who are actually guilty of a crime and not a victim of a Syvret vendetta on his blog then I may take some of this waffle of defiance seriously.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
RICO AND IAN’S HOME MADE PIZZA FOR STU

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
They should speak to a certain ex who recently wrote a letter to the paper about him if they really want to know the real Stuart Syvret.

December 18, 2011
Anonymous said...
They will never re-open the historic child abuse case period. It is over and a judicial review was thrown out. Let them carry on taking about it and getting nowhere.

December 18, 2011

JERSEY: CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM BY AUSTIN MITCHELL MP

2011-12-18T11:44:00.000-08:00

JERSEY: CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEM
by

Austin Mitchell
Labour MP for Great Grimsby

Jersey is located in the English Channel. Geographically, it is closer to France than to Britain but it is a UK Crown dependent territory. The residents of Jersey are subjects of the Crown but not of the British government or its rules, regulations and taxes. British pound Sterling is the legal tender in Jersey and the exchange rate of Jersey’s own currency (Pound) is tied to the UK currency. Jersey residents can take up employment (without any restrictions) in the United Kingdom and can send their children to schools and universities in the UK and their sick can also be cared for in the UK at the British taxpayers’ expense. However, Jersey is neither part of the UK nor the European Union (EU). Neither is it an Associate Member of the European Union. Under protocol 3 to the Treaty of Accession signed by the UK in 1973, Jersey (and the Channel Islands) are included within the EU for the purpose of free movement of manufactured and agricultural goods. However, the provisions relating to fiscal harmonisation and financial services do not apply to Jersey. Other provisions of the Treaty of Rome, including those relating to the free movement of EU citizens, capital movements and the harmonisation of taxation and social policies also do not apply to Jersey. The 1991 Maastricht Treaty does not disturb Jersey’s anomalous position in any way.

In regulatory circles, variously described as a financial bolt-hole, tax haven and funny money laundry, Jersey is the richest and most populous (with population of 85,000) of the Channel Islands. Its constitutional position as suggested by the 1973 Kilbrandon Report is that “the United Kingdom are responsible for the defence and international of the islands, and the Crown is ultimately responsible for their good government. It falls to the [UK] Home Secretary to advise the Crown of the exercise of those duties and responsibilities. The United Kingdom Parliament has the power to legislate for the islands but it would exercise that power without their agreement in relation to domestic matters only in the most exceptional of circumstances” (Hansard, 3 June 1998, col. 471). Jersey has its own laws and taxes which are enacted by its Parliament, the Jersey States, but approved by the Privy Council and the Sovereign. However, in common with other Channel Islands, Jersey has not enacted any of the UK and/or European Union treaties and laws on human rights, legislation to combat money laundering and organised crime.

The anomalous constitutional and political position allows Jersey to offer a friendly offshore welcome for finance, money and wealth. Indeed, those wealthy enough can agree their tax liabilities in advance before they settle as racing driver Nigel Mansell has recently done. The main attraction to money, its owners and manipulators are the low tax regime, secrecy, the less constrictive regulatory regime, standard 20% personal and corporate tax rate, though after various deductions most corporations pay a much lower rate. Jersey has perfected the art of looking both ways, presenting a respectable face to the British government and the world but a welcoming wink to offshore finance which all too often has different preoccupations and different reasons for going to Jersey than its lovely climate and situation. Successive British governments have pretended not to notice anything, but other regulatory authorities have not been so obliging. John Moscow, the New York Assistant District Attorney chased the crooked dealings of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and came up against a veil of silence in Jersey. He said, “My Experience with both Jersey and Guernsey is that it has not been possible for the US law enforcement to collect evidence and prosecute crime. In one case we tracked money from Bahamas through Curacao, New York and London, but the paper trail stopped in Jersey …… it is unseemly that these British dependencies should be acting as havens for transactions that would not even be protected by Swiss bank secrecy laws” (The Observer, 22 September 1996, page 19). Accountants and others have flocked to the funny money havens to shave tax-bills and ply their laundering expertise . The Jersey connection is also visible in the 1990 UK High court case of AGIP (Africa) Limited v Jackson & Co. (1990) 1 Ch 265 in which Mr Justice Millett said that accountants “knowingly laundered money”. It is also prominent in the Polly Peck affair. More recently, the United Nations has publicly expressed concerns about its role in drug trafficking and organised crime .

In Jersey politics, there is an unhealthy overlap of business, legislative, executive and civil service interests. The separation of judiciary, executive and legislature traditionally found in liberal democracies are absent, resulting in abuse and silencing of any dissent. Though there is universal suffrage and regular elections for representatives in their constituencies and senators representing the whole island, general elections are rare i.e. all the seats in Jersey States (i.e. Jersey Parliament) are rarely simultaneously contested. The government of the island is the States of Jersey. The President of the States of Jersey is the Bailiff of Jersey who is also the chief civil officer, a judge, Head of Judiciary in respect of all courts, whether civil, criminal or mixed. He is also the Speaker of the Jersey States and presides over all sittings of the States and is thus a guardian of the rights of its elected members and able to determine which members can speak and when. The Bailiff is neither elected by the people nor the elected members of the Jersey States, but is appointed by the Crown. The Crown’s chief representative on the island is the Lieutenant Governor, who mainly occupies a ceremonial role. Jersey has no formal Cabinet system of government. Instead, there are a series of Committees (of which the Finance and Economics Committee is the most powerful) and numerous other bodies and sub-committees. Each committee is presided over by a member of the Jersey States, who also happens to be a powerful local businessman. The Presidents of these committees are effectively the Ministers. Most members of the Jersey States are members of one or more of the Committees and are expected to be legislators, executives and critics and are supposed to keep their business affairs out of politics. The government operates with utmost secrecy, even the minimalist freedom of information is absent and Cabinet papers are never published, not even after twenty/thirty years.

Unlike most liberal democracies, Jersey has only one Chamber of Parliament, with no chance of a second opinion. Members of the Jersey States are part-timers who have to run other businesses to earn their living. Deprived of adequate secretarial and research support, they are not easily able to research the big issues whilst those in-charge have the resources of the civil service (and sponsoring businesses) behind them and are always able to give the impression that they know best. There is no written record of parliamentary proceedings relating to any proposed legislation though the wealthy individuals can buy audiocassettes of the debates, costing £10 per cassette. There is no political party system and all aspiring Members of Parliament stand as individuals. Their manifestos are full of apple-pie and motherhood statements and none offers any specific political mandate or to bring political change to Jersey. The best consumer protection is either to buy non-Jersey goods or to buy them from major international stores. The island has no university and it does not attract much scholarly attention. Books and monographs providing details of its recent history are far and few. Jersey does not have consumer protection laws or trade description acts. There is no minimum pay and no employment rights. A large number of European migrant workers oil the Jersey economy, but are forbidden to rent or buy property for the first twenty years of their stay, all relying upon the mercy of their masters. But millionaires are always welcome.

Jersey’s aggressive pursuit to be an offshore financial centre has decimated its traditional economy. The once mighty agriculture and tourist sectors now account for only 5% and 24% of the economy . The financial services sector forms 55% (unofficial estimates put it as high as 90%) of the economy. This boon has also been a curse as it has driven up the price of real estate and land and has gobbled up the available work force. Alternative economic activity has little chance of flourishing. The Jersey establishment now has little choice but to continue to find new ways of attracting finance and finance related activity. One of Jersey’s major attractions has been the feather-duster approach to regulation. There are no independent bodies to regulate the financial sector (though under pressure it is in the process of creating some structures) and the role of Jersey organisations in the BCCI, Polly Peck, AGIP, money laundering or any other scandals is rarely investigated. Jersey does not demand the publication of financial information from even the largest of banks and financial operators located there. These policies have enabled the Jersey to attract footloose money.

In 1996, Jersey’s GDP reached £1,350 million. Most of it consists of profits booked by major finance houses. Various trusts and banks located in Jersey boast assets of some £200 billion which are mostly located in cyberspace. Very little of the impressive financial statistics relates to actual economic activity on the Island. Whilst some wheeler-dealers, property speculators, accountants, lawyers and financiers have done very well, little of this wealth percolates down to the masses. In 1996, the Jersey government managed to raise £284.4 million from taxes. Unemployment is at less than 1% of the workforce. The reliance on financial piracy has enabled Jersey governments to produce balanced budgets and ordinary people simply don’t want to ‘rock the boat’ or do anything that might attract international regulatory attention.

Jersey`s politics are as intimate as those of any small council in Britain, but untroubled by ideological, class, wealth distribution, power asymmetries, environmental, gender, ethnicity and other divisions. The political system is run in the interests of wealth, followed at some distance by good government and good order, then the interests of the ordinary islanders who enjoy a minimalist welfare state. A small business elite now dominates Jersey politics once dominated by the old landed agricultural interests. The new political elite has close connections with wealthy money manipulators. They are more interested in attracting wealthy people. They want to attract “brass plate” names, banks, trusts and offshore financial businesses, enabling them to book some of their profits at low tax rates in Jersey and avoid taxation in their host countries. This is now being supplemented by providing a bolthole for accountancy firms keen to escape the consequences of audit failures . Jersey’s politicians claim that their affairs are not riven by social divisions and party clashes. Yet this tolerant intimacy (as later section will show) presents a very different face when threatened by internal dissent. There is nothing when that happens to offer protection to dissenters or mavericks from community ostracism. Jersey is in effect a one party (the business party) state run by a clique of business interests. An elite which benefits from independence, controls political power, and even the media. Jersey Evening Post, the island’s only major newspaper, is owned by Senator Frank Walker, President of the powerful Finance and Economic Committee. The local commercial radio and television stations are owned by others, but rarely present any in-depth analysis of Jersey politics while the professions are assiduous in their service of the dominant financial interest. When some members of Jersey States sought to voice concerns over the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) laws, the Jersey establishment branded them ‘an enemy of the state’, a label strong enough to silence dissenters and persuade Jersey States to pass 95 pages of insolvency legislation in less than thirty minutes . Dissent has no base, no mouthpiece and no defenders.

Despite international concerns, there has been no systemic scrutiny of Jersey’s very convenient independence, its constitution, its institutional structures, its predatory tax regime and other privileges. No British government has sought to rein any of this, however inconvenient it finds the Jersey loopholes and international condemnation. The approach can be summed up in the Kilbrandon Commission’s report conclusions that “anomalies seem to us to be things that should be, if not encouraged, at least accepted so long as they are cherished by those most directly affected and do no harm to others. We have not approached the Islands in any spirit of reforming zeal. We have found no sign that this was the desire of the government of the United Kingdom”. More recently, the British government has become concerned not about the independent regime in Jersey, but about tax fiddles exploited there by British residents and British money and the facility that the regime gives to both to avoid British regulation and obligations. Morally, Jersey’s perks are indefensible for the emphasis on not being part of the United Kingdom is really a fiction. As part of a greater unity, the island should contribute its own share, but does not and that issue is rarely raised in political circles. In reality, there is no real threat to either tax or financial independence merely to excesses exploited by British residents though this does not stop the Jersey elite interpreting any criticism of its role and authority as a threat to the whole fabric of the island. Even if it is more likely to be a demand for human rights, or for environment, and action such as those demanded by the handful of Greens.

The unfriendly face of the friendly isle emerges when threats arise. In Jersey the worst threat is anything which draws attention to its internal affairs, lax regulation, or anything which might focus attention on the financial and tax perks offered to footloose finance capital. The ruling elite interprets any threat to its power as a threat to the island, its way of life and its system of government and trundles into action a powerful clobbering machine, part legal, part political, part media and in large part community, since it comes down to denunciation, ostracism, personal abuse, even deprivation and unemployment. Some of this has been highly visible as Jersey has been on the prowl for more business, this time from major accountancy firms seeking to escape the consequences of audit failures.

JERSEY LEGISLATURE FOR HIRE

An accepted feature of liberal democracies is that organised interests lobby and seek to influence civil servants and Ministers and shape legislation. However, Jersey goes further than this. It permits the organised interests to indulge in DIY legislation, they draft legislation and the Jersey establishment promises to pass it “on the nod”. Such practices came to light during the passage of the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) legislation . In June 1995, Jersey was approached by major international accountancy firms with a view to enacting legislation which would give them considerable liability safeguards, accompanied by complete secrecy, no public accountability, no independent regulation and no express rights for those who might be negatively affected by their negligence.

The public spin was that the principle of ‘joint and several liability’ of partnerships has not served the Big-Six accountancy firms very well even though on the back of it they were making £3.5 billion in the UK and some US$51 billion world-wide. So Jersey came out as the white-knight to their rescue. The pretence was that LLP legislation was operationalised in many USA states, but the Jersey States were never told the USA LLP legislation was part of the quid pro quo where in the aftermath of the huge Savings & Loan scandals, auditors in turn accepted greater responsibility for reporting fraud to the regulators. Jersey secured no quid pro quo, nor any duties upon auditors who might locate there. The Jersey States were never told auditors might be facing lawsuits for alleged negligence because they have been using audits as a market stall for selling other wares and in the process used audits as loss-leaders to attract other business. Nor was any reference made to the internal policies of the firms which result in very tight time budgets and which barely give audit trainees adequate time to do the work. Rather unsurprisingly, scholarly research has shown that a considerable part of audit work is falsified i.e. it has simply not been performed because people in the field are not given enough time to do it.

No public evidence of any kind was produced to show the actual liability settlements made by firms. More importantly, the Jersey establishment never let on that the negligence lawsuits against the auditing arms of accountancy firms were initiated by the insolvency arms of other firms (i.e. the firms sue each other) because in their capacity as receiver, liquidators and administrators, they stand to collect at least 10% of all the cash raised. In the UK, the auditing firms already enjoyed considerable liability protections. For example, following the 1990 House of Lords judgement in Caparo Industries plc v Dickman & Others [1990] 1 All ER HL 568, auditors do not owe a ‘duty of care’ to any individual, present/potential shareholder, creditor, employee, pensions scheme member, bank depositor or any other stakeholder. They only owe a ‘duty of care’ to the company. Following the Companies Act 1989, they could trade as limited liability companies, a right that they campaigned for. In return they would have to give up secrecy and partnership tax perks. But amongst major firms only KPMG incorporated and then only the auditing arm of its operations. The rest, along with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), formally their regulator (under the Companies Act 1989), in practice their advocate and defender, began to campaign for a framework which would give them protection from lawsuits, replacement of ‘joint and several liability’ with a system of ‘full proportional liability’, ‘capping’ of auditor liability, secrecy, tax perks and no rights for audit consumers. Under a Tory government which used accountants to spearhead its privatisation programme, regulation of health service, local authorities and self-assessment, the prospects of a favourable hearing looked good. Lobbying was in the hands of Ian Greer Associates and in Neil Hamilton, the then Corporate Affairs Minister, Ian Greer had a compliant Minister. Until Hamilton fell from grace and government received an opinion from the Law Commission that ‘full proportional liability’ was against the public interest and that it could not find any “principled arguments for capping” auditor liability. So major accountancy firms began to look for a lever to exert pressure on the UK government. They approached Jersey in the hope that a favourable liability position so near the UK mainland, accompanying by a threat to move from the UK to Jersey, would persuade the British government to concede all their demands.

Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young initiated discussions through their Jersey representative, Mourant du Feu & Jeune, whose one time leading partner (subsequently consultant) was Senator Reg Jeune. As Jersey civil service expressed some reservations, prior commitments and lack of resources for drafting the necessary legislation, Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse had the LLP Bill drafted by a London law firm at a cost of a million pounds. They all worked closely with the Finance and Economics Committee and its President Senator Pierre Horsfall. In the Bill, the firms gave themselves considerable liability protection, with no public accountability and no rights for audit consumers. In the draft Bill, there was not even an obligation for the firms to say on their headed paper that are located in Jersey. After some tidying up the Jersey law draughtsmen the Bill was finally referred to the Jersey States. Rather unusually, the LLP Bill also contained an acknowledgement of “the contribution of Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young and others ....... to the structure and detail of the draft law” (page 2 of the Draft Limited Liability Partnerships (Jersey) Law 199). Senior members of Jersey government also assured Price Waterhouse senior partner that the Bill will simply be “be nodded through, spend the summer with the Privy Council and be back in Jersey in time to be implemented in the statute book by September” (Accountancy, September 1996, page 29).

The promised ‘fast track’ proved more troublesome. Indeed, the Jersey elite for the first time faced an obstacle. Deputy Gary Matthews, a member of the Jersey States, was puzzled by the rush to pass legislation which most members did not fully understand. Its supporters could not easily explain what the island gained from the Bill, as certainly there was no demand from any local residents. So he sought help and began to ask searching questions about the drafting of legislation, its implications, the economic and political cost to Jersey. His concerns also resonated with a handful of other people and a critical scrutiny of the Bill began to be mobilised, especially as Jersey stood to make little financial gain , but the potential for attracting negative publicity from audit and regulatory failures was great . It also became clear that accountancy firms were not going to shut-up their offices in major UK cities, sack their staff, give up their clients or the lucrative UK markets to move to Jersey. In the event of any dispute, their UK based clients were more likely to opt to have their dispute heard in the UK courts according to UK laws. In any case, the firms intended to conduct their normal business with normal clients in the normal way throughout the UK and any physical move to Jersey without the express approval of each client could be construed as a “sham” designed to disadvantage creditors . It became evident that the firms were looking for “brass plates” or token offices to legitimise appearances . Deputy Matthews’ probing generated an unexpected and unwelcome debate which highlighted the consequences of legislation and it coincided with the visibility of the Cantrade (a subsidiary of Swiss banking giant UBS) scandal in which some $27 million of investors’ savings disappeared. The debate became personalised, a process heightened when an opponent of the LLP Bill Senator Stuart Syvret, a 28 year old cabinet maker complained about the haste with which the Bill was being pushed and alleged that Senator Jeune, participated in the processes leading to the Bill and had an obvious conflict of interest in the passage of the Bill since his firm was involved in its drafting and was indeed acting for Price Waterhouse. Syvret’s allegations were denied and treated as a breach of privilege.

On 3rd September 1996, Senator Syvret, an elected representative of the people, was suspended indefinitely from Jersey States and told to make a full apology in writing. This he stoutly refused to do and as a consequence his constituents were denied any representation in Parliament and his mail was opened by the Jersey authorities. Instead of being silenced, Syvret widened and internationalised the argument by giving a critical interview to the Wall Street Journal and BBC Television (BBC2, Newsnight Programme, 14 November 1996) and by seeking help from UK MPs and accounting academics and by going to London to see them and the then Shadow Home Secretary Jack Straw. The unjust way he had been treated was condemned in House of Commons by an Early Day Motion, sponsored by Austin Mitchell MP, which pointed out that his indefinite suspension was an unheard of and unjustifiable deprivation of his human rights as a legislator. It demanded his reinstatement and received 57 signatures.

British government so keen to defend human rights in other jurisdictions did not want to do anything. The UK Ministers stuck unwaveringly to the non-interference line even when reminded that Britain was responsible for “good government” and its spokesperson criticised the lack of human rights in other jurisdictions. But at their own door-step the then Home Secretary Michael Howard and his deputy Lady Blatch refused to act and restore elected representatives to their rightful place. Publicly, at least, the Jersey establishment had little to fear from Britain since the then Conservative government was determined not to interfere. However, the Early Day Motion (with the possibility of the issues being raised in European Parliament and even the United Nations) threatened the carefully cultivated democratic image of the island. Despite reassurances from Shandwicks (a Public Relations firm used by Jersey States, see below) that Mitchell was a “maverick”, Jersey establishment was nervous. On 4th March 1997, Senator Stuart Syvret was grudgingly readmitted to Jersey States, without apology and without any explanation but still subject to censure. Syvret subsequently brought a lawsuit against the Bailiff for unlawful exclusion, violation of human rights and interfering with rights as an elected representative of the people, amongst other charges. His action is being assisted by local Advocate Philip Sinel, a known critic of the regime, especially its handling of the Cantrade affair . Sinel is acting on a pro bono basis even though Battanier, Peter Mourant of Mourant du Feu & Jeune has decided that Syvret is not eligible for this and must spend his time on more deserving cases. He risks having his licence to practice revoked. The initial verdict in the Jersey Royal Court has gone against Syvret as the judge ruled that the Jersey legislature was immune from action because it provided its own remedies. Judge Michael Beloff awarded Crown costs of £40,000 against Syvret, raising the shadow of bankruptcy. Syvret’s intention is to pursue the matter through the Jersey Court of Appeal and Privy Council before taking the case to the European Court where a file marked ‘Syvret v United Kingdom’ has already been opened.

The ‘fast tracking’ of the LLP Bill, international visibility and the suspension of Senator Syvret prompted the appointment of a Committee of Inquiry under the Chairmanship of Senator Shenton . Its membership consisted entirely of the supporters of the Bill and it criticised (report published on 17th March 1997) ‘fast tracking’ of the Bill, Senator Horsfall and failure to provide background papers to Jersey Parliament. In the 1996 elections, Jersey Evening Post ran a “don’t rock the boat” campaign and several ‘business’ candidates were fielded against Deputy Gary Matthews. Whilst the Jersey establishment let ‘outsiders’ draft the Bill, Matthews was attached by Senator Horsfall for going outside the island for advice (Jersey Evening Post, 19 June 1996, p. 17). His family was threatened, his business suffered. He lost his seat in Parliament and left the island. Though the Shenton report vindicated some of his concerns, it did not say anything about the election campaign against Deputy Mathews. One Senator claimed that the report’s findings “discredit the manner in which the election was fought” (Jersey Evening Post, 18 March 1997, p. 3)

The Jersey LLP legislation completed its Parliamentary passage several months behind schedule, receiving Royal Assent on 19th November 1996, acquiring the status of Law (or an Act) on 10th January 1997. However, it could not be fully implemented because it did not contain any provisions for dealing with insolvency of accountancy firms. After further consultations with accountancy firms, these provisions were rushed through (as secondary legislation) on 19th May and the Law is expected to come into effect in September 1998 . Yet the expected flood of accountancy firms seeking a refuge in Jersey shows no sign of materialising though Ernst & Young periodically threaten to go . The UK government has bowed to the pressures from the accountancy firms and a LLP Bill has been published (September 1998). With the help of Jersey, accountancy firms have secured concessiosn from the British people. Which pirate state will they use next?

THE PROMISE OF A KING

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Jesus is coming soon, just as he promised.

In England we have a Queen, and she sits on the UK throne, but she is also a Christian, and looks forward, as other Christians do, to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer.

The reign of Jesus Christ will be like no other monarch's reign, because it will be for ever, in justice and peace.

When Jesus was born, angels filled the sky and sang for joy.

When Jesus was murdered, by the men he had come to redeem, the sky darkened, and an earthquake ripped the Temple curtain which had seperated God from man, which meant that all men could speak to God, not through a go between priest any more, but directly to Jesus Christ.

Thinks about it for a moment. What an amazing thing that is. We are microscopic little ants, in a vast universe - yet we can actually speak to God!

Love came down at Christmastime. Blessed are those who believe.

MUSIC FROM A MORE INNOCENT AGE - THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

2011-12-18T04:30:00.000-08:00

I remember when everyone seemed to really look forward to these national events, such as the Eurovision Song Contest. This was a time when most people in Britain had never been abroad, not even to France, and Spain was seen as a really exotic place, in fact, if anyone was going to Spain they might as well have said they were going to the Moon, but now people nip abroad all the time.

Anyway, here are some of the songs from Eurovision. Hope you enjoy them.

DAWN RAIDS BY THE POLICE - I THOUGHT THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO USE DAWN RAIDS FOR TERRORISTS!

2011-12-18T02:58:00.000-08:00

"Lucy Panton, 37, was arrested in Surrey by Operation Elveden detectives probing alleged police corruption.

She was arrested at 06:15 GMT and held at a south London police station before being bailed until late April.

Operation Elveden is running alongside the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking."

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=lucy%20panton%2C%2037%2C%20was%20arrested%20in%20surrey%20by%20operation%20elveden%20detectives%20probing%20alleged%20police%20corruption.&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-16195863&ei=osftTurwJoiE8gO02YmACg&usg=AFQjCNEJod-jacVbVH9VKk16J4IXtL8Rpw&sig2=-Y0vJPs9DfxaDqUJekKW_A

I don't think anyone would criticise the police for dawn raids such as the one below, to stop drug dealers poisoning our children

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=dawn%20raid%20police%20guidelines&source=web&cd=23&ved=0CDEQFjACOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peterboroughtoday.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpolice_warning_to_drug_dealers_after_seven_arrests_in_raids_across_peterborough_1_3337688&ei=7cjtTunxF8n68QOwgq3vCQ&usg=AFQjCNFu3nBvxW1U9JXgt9b1FqircnOn4w&sig2=HvvvAnmip6sGKYdbzUjGLw

But when the police are allowing themselves to be manouvered into banging aggressivly on the doors of people who have upset the international paedophile gangsters, ie Lucy Panton, Stuart Syvret, terrifying their children, trashing their homes, siezing their computers, then I think that they are not using the Terrorism Act in an appropriate way at all.

I think the police ought to make very sure that the people who are pushing them into banging on peoples doors are not members of the international paedophile gang who are preying on children all over Europe and causing mayhem.

The police did some good work during Operation Ore and Operation Rectange and all the other institutional Pindown abuse investigations. The problem is, the police underestimated the devious nature of paedophiles. They simply did not understand just how crafty and malicious and utterly ruthless kidfiddlers are.

The Police of all the forces all over the UK ought to read THE APPALLING VISTA by Brian Rothery as part of their training of anti child abuse. By reading that book they might understand just how crafty and evil paedoiphiles are. In that book they will learn all about how the Orees conned everyone. They will discover the Nigel Oldfield (the disgusting creepy vile pig who was on Mothers for Justice attacking me for praying for victims of the secret family courts and for posting the truth about Richard Gardner and Ralph Underwager, the two American paedo psychologists who influenced the secret fami9ly courts) was involved in getting the Orees off, they will read how the Orees are laughing and sneering at the Police, they will read that Brian Rothery thinks its ok to take pictures of nude children (it's artistic apparently) and they will read how the Orees think the Pindown victims are a load of whining compensation seekers.

I think the Police need to stop letting evil people leading them by the nose. Stop doing dawn raids on whistleblowers, and start arresting the wicked members of horrible organisations that abuse children instead.

OPERATION ELVEDEN AND OPERATION WEETING

2011-12-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

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The former crime editor at the now defunct News of the World newspaper, who was arrested over alleged payments to police officers, has been bailed.

Lucy Panton, 37, was arrested in Surrey by Operation Elveden detectives probing alleged police corruption.

She was arrested at 06:15 GMT and held at a south London police station before being bailed until late April.

Operation Elveden is running alongside the Operation Weeting investigation into phone hacking.

A BBC correspondent has witnessed bags of evidence and papers being seized from Ms Panton's home in Ashtead, Surrey, although officers there would not confirm they were from Operation Elveden.

It is the seventh arrest for the police operation into alleged police corruption.

Operation Weeting, which is investigating hacking of mobile phone voicemails of public figures by the News of the World, has resulted in 16 arrests.

Operation Elveden was launched after officers were handed documents suggesting journalists working for News International had made illegal payments to police officers.

Allegations of phone hacking and police payments led Met Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson and Assistant Commissioner John Yates to resign, and the News of the World to close down after 168 years.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said a woman had been arrested "on suspicion of committing offences involving making payments to police officers for information".

"She was arrested at a residential address in Surrey and has been taken to a south London police station where she remains in custody," he added.
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Operation Elveden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Elveden is a British police investigation.[1] It was opened as a result of documents provided by News International to the Operation Weeting investigation.[2]

According to the Metropolitan Police website, Operation Elveden is an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to police.[3] It is being supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.[4]

The investigation is led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers of the Metropolitan Police Service,[2] who is also leading Operation Weeting and Operation Tuleta. The service's Directorate of Professional Standards is also involved in the investigation.[2] The Elveden suspects are given numbers to identify them.[2]

[edit] Arrests

As of the 15 December 2011 seven arrests have been made.[5][6] These include a journalist who works for News International was arrested and taken to a south west London police station on 4 November 2011.[7] He was later identified by the media as Jamie Pyatt of the Sun[8][9]

[edit] References

1.^ "Statement from Commissioner". Metropolitan Police Service. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
2.^ a b c d "Met chief: phone-hacking documents point to 'inappropriate payments'". The Guardian. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
3.^ "Man arrested in connection with phone hacking and corruption allegations". Metropolitan Police Service. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
4.^ "Phone hack victims could number 4,000 confirm Met Police". Channel 4 News. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-00.
5.^ "Operation Elveden: Woman held in police payments probe". BBC News. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
6.^ "Operation Elveden arrest". Metropolitan police. 15 December 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
7.^ "Man held in inquiry into payments to police". BBC News. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
8.^ "Police Payments: Sun Reporter Bailed By Met". Sky News. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
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See also
Operation Weeting
Operation Tuleta
Operation Rubicon
Operation Motorman (ICO investigation)

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Operation Elveden collected news and commentary from The Independent
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Operation Weeting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Operation Weeting is a British police investigation that commenced on 26 January 2011,[1] under the Specialist Crime Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service[2] into allegations of phone hacking in the News of the World phone hacking affair.[3][4] The operation is being conducted alongside Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of inappropriate payments to the police by those involved with phone hacking,[5] and Operation Tuleta, an investigation into alleged computer hacking for the News of the World.[6] All three operations are led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, Head of Organised Crime & Criminal Networks within the Specialist Crime Directorate.[7]

In August 2006, the News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.[8] On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively.[9] On the same day, it was announced that Andy Coulson had resigned as editor of the News of the World. In 2007, that appeared to be the end of the News of the World royal phone hacking scandal.

In July 2009, The Guardian newspaper published a series of allegations[10] that a culture of phone hacking went far beyond the single case of Goodman and Mulcaire's hacking of the royal household. It was alleged that a much wider range of people across different areas of public life, including the former deputy prime minister John Prescott,[11] the Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, politicians Tessa Jowell and Boris Johnson,[12] publicist Max Clifford and even Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the News of the World's sister paper The Sun.[13] had been the victim of hacking ordered by the News of the World. The News of the World and its parent News Corporation strongly denied the allegations, and called on The Guardian to share any evidence it had with the police.[14][15] In the wake of the allegations, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Sir Paul Stephenson asked the force's Assistant Commissioner John Yates to review the original 2006 investigation in the light of any new evidence, with regards to potentially reopening the investigation. In a single 8-hour meeting, Yates decided not to take any further action.[16]

In the wake of the police deciding not to instigate legal proceedings, several public figures who had allegedly been hacked began litigation proceedings against the News of the World's owner News International, and against the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. Those who began legal action included the football agent Sky Andrew, actress Sienna Miller, actor Steve Coogan, television presenter Chris Tarrant and football pundit Andy Gray.[17] In the course of one of these litigation proceedings, that brought by Sienna Miller, papers lodged in the High Court suggested that Ian Edmondson, a senior editor at the News of the World, was involved in work undertaken by Mulcaire.[18] In the wake of this new evidence, News International group general manager Will Lewis was tasked with reviewing any documents relating to the 2006 Goodman case within the company's records and files. This review led Lewis to also re-examine all documents held by the legal firm Harbottle & Lewis, who had defended News International against an unfair dismissal case brought by Clive Goodman in 2007, in which he discovered questionable material. Lewis passed this material to a second legal firm, Hickman Rose, who in turn asked the former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald to examine the evidence and report his findings to the News International board. Macdonald's report found evidence of indirect hacking, breaches of national security and serious crime, which led Macdonald to recommend that the company immediately referred the matter to the police; News International did.[19][20]

The Crown Prosecution Service announced an immediate review of the evidence collected during the Metropolitan Police's original investigation into phone hacking at the News of the World,[21] before the Metropolitan Police announced on 26 January 2011 that it was launching Operation Weeting, a new and fresh investigation into the entire phone hacking affair.[22]

[edit] Scope

In its initial months of existence, Operation Weeting had around 45 officers working on it.[23] In a report to Parliament on 20 July 2011, the Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons recommended that additional resources be made available to the operation in order to speed up its progress;[24] later the same day, the Metropolitan Police announced that the number of officers assigned to Weeting was to be increased to its current level of 60.[25]

It is believed that around 3,000 people may have had their phones hacked,[26] a figure that was confirmed by DAC Akers at an evidence session of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 12 July 2011. At the same evidence session, Akers confirmed the police have contacted only 170 of the 3,870 people named in Glenn Mulcaire's files to date.[27] There were 11,000 pages of the evidence[27] with 5,000 landline phone numbers and 4,000 mobile phone numbers.[28] on them inside the so-called "Glenn Mulcaire files".[27]

During the investigations, documentation provided to Operation Weeting suggested that some police personnel may have accepted "inappropriate payments" from news organisations in return for classified information. As a result, the Metropolitan Police Service opened an additional investigation, Operation Elveden, which is also being led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers.[1][29]

[edit] Arrests

As of 7 December 2011, 18 people have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] They are:
Neville Thurlbeck [A], News of the World chief reporter. Thurlbeck was arrested on 5 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and unlawful interception of voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000.[39] Thurlbeck was released on bail later the same day, and is due to return in September.[40]
Ian Edmondson [B], former News of the World News Editor. Edmondson was arrested on 5 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and unlawful interception of voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000.[39] He was released on bail later the same day, and is due to return in September.[40]
James Weatherup [C], a News of the World assistant news editor. Weatherup was arrested on 14 April 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and unlawful interception of voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000.[41] Weatherup was bailed later the same day, and is due to return in September.[42]
Terenia Taras, freelance journalist. Taras was arrested and bailed on 23 June 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977. She is due to report back to a police station in October.[43][44]
Laura Elston [E], a Press Association royal correspondent. Elston was arrested on 27 June 2011 on suspicion of intercepting communications, contrary to Section 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) 2000, before being bailed to return in October. Elston's bail was cancelled on 18 July when she was informed that no further action would be taken against her.[45]
Andy Coulson, a former News of the World editor and former Downing Street Communications Director. Coulson was arrested on 8 July 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.[46] Coulson was released on bail later the same day, and is due to return to police in October.[47]
Clive Goodman, a former News of the World royal editor who had previously been jailed in January 2007 for intercepting voicemail messages of members of the royal household. Goodman was arrested on 8 July 2011 on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906.[48] He was bailed on the same day, and is scheduled to return in October.[47]
An unidentified 63-year-old man who was arrested on 8 July 2011 on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. He was bailed the following day, and is due to return in October.[47]
Neil Wallis, a former News of the World deputy editor. Wallis was arrested on 14 July 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.[49] He was bailed on the same day to return in November.[50]
Rebekah Brooks, News International chief executive and former News of the World editor. Brooks was arrested on 17 July 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977, and of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. She was bailed that evening until October.[51]
Stuart Kuttner, former News of the World managing editor. Kuttner was arrested on 2 August 2011 on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 and on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.[31] He was initially released under police bail until the end of the month but was taken into custody again on 30 August and bailed until an unspecified date in September.[52]
Greg Miskiw, former News of the World news desk editor. Miskiw was arrested on 10 August 2011 on suspicion of corruption, contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 and on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.[32] He was bailed the following day to return in October.[53]
James Desborough, News of the World US editor. Desborough was arrested on 18 August 2011.[33]
A 35 year old man believed to be Dan Evans, a former reporter for News of the World, was arrested on 19 August 2011.[34]
A 30 year old man, whom The Guardian identified as Ross Hall, a former reporter for News of the World who wrote under the pen name of Ross Hindley,[54] was arrested on 2 September 2011. He was bailed the same day to return in mid-January 2012.[35]
A 35 year old man was arrested in an early morning raid on 7 September 2011[36] on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to Section 1 (1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977.[55] He was bailed the same day until an unspecified date in October. The BBC identified the man as Raoul Simons, a journalist who worked for the Evening Standard and later as the deputy football editor of The Times.[56]
A 31 year old woman was arrested on 30 November 2011 on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977. The media identifed her as Bethany Usher, a former journalist at News of the World and The People.[37] On 8 December 2011 the police announced that they would take no further action against the woman.[57]
A 41 year old man was arrested on 7 December 2011 "on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voicemail messages, contrary to Section 1 (1) Criminal Law Act 1977 and on suspicion of perverting the course of justice contrary to common law."[38] Media sources have identified him as the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.[58]

[edit] Independent review

On 15 September 2011, the newly appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Bernard Hogan-Howe, announced that he had requested that Durham police carry out an independent review of the evidence collected by Operation Weeting. Hogan-Howe said that he had asked the team, lead by Durham chief constable Jon Stoddart, "to have a look at the inquiry to reassure us we are going in the right direction and I think we are."[59]

[edit] See also
Operation Elveden
Operation Tuleta
Operation Rubicon
Operation Motorman (ICO investigation)

[edit] References

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[edit] External links
Operation Weeting collected news and commentary from The Independent
Statement from Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, 6 July 2011

THE MURDER OF REV ROBERT BRADFORD

2011-12-17T07:15:00.000-08:00

Reverend Robert Bradford was a Methodist church minister and Westminster MP for South Belfast. A deeply religious man, he had entered politics to try and improve the lives of ordinary people suffering at the hands of religiously-motivated IRA terrorism.

On 14th November 1981 Reverend Bradford was holding a clinic for his south Belfast constituents to help them deal with everyday issues like housing, welfare benefits, employment, etc. It was held at a community centre in the Finaghy area at the same time as a children's disco for underprivileged kids from the area.

A gang of IRA gunmen stormed into the building firing shots all around (including towards the young children) and murdered the minister and an innocent caretaker Ken Campbell.

Robert Bradford (Ulster Unionist politician)

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Robert Bradford, MP In office 1974–1981

Preceded by Rafton Pounder

Succeeded by Martin Smyth

Constituency South Belfast

Personal details
Born 8 June 1941 Limavady, Northern Ireland

Died 14 November 1981 (aged 40) Belfast

Political party

Ulster Unionist Party

Religion Protestant

Robert Jonathan Bradford MP (8 June 1941 – 14 November 1981) was a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until he was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 14 November 1981

Bradford was born on 8 June 1941 to a Belfast family resident in Limavady due to the wartime evacuation. Bradford's father left the family not long after his birth and his mother died so he was raised by foster parents. A talented footballer, Bradford signed for Glenavon F.C. as a teenager and his displays soon attracted the attentions of top English side Sheffield Wednesday F.C, who invited him to a trial. However, Bradford was not signed by the club and returned to Northern Ireland to resume his career with the then Belfast-based club Distillery.

[edit] Religion

Bradford gave up football in 1964, after deciding to train to become a Methodist minister. After spending the rest of the 1960s attached to congregations in East Belfast and Fivemiletown, Bradford was fully ordained in 1970 and given his own parish in the Suffolk area of South-west Belfast. Bradford would later be removed from post in the late 1970s and would spend the final years of his life without a church. During these years he came to spend time in the 'Bible belt' of the United States and became associated with Evangelicalism. Nevertheless Bradford claimed to always remain at heart a Methodist and also rejected suggestions that he was to join Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church (which he never did).

[edit] Political career

Bradford first became involved with unionism in 1971 when he joined the Orange Order. From here he became more involved in the political side of the movement and stood as a candidate for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973 in South Antrim, although he was not elected.

Bradford was first elected as Member of Parliament for South Belfast in the February 1974 British general election, this time under the banner of the United Ulster Unionist Council (an alliance between the Vanguard, the Democratic Unionist Party and the anti-Brian Faulkner Ulster Unionists under Harry West), defeating the sitting MP Rafton Pounder, a pro-Faulkner Unionist. His campaign had been openly supported by the British National Front and, at a September 1974 NF Rally, Martin Webster read out a letter of solidarity from Bradford.[1]

Bradford greatly increased his majority in the October election, after Pounder dropped out, and largely maintained this increased majority in 1979. Between 1974 and 1978 he sat for the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party until in February 1978 he joined the Ulster Unionist Party (then commonly called the Official Unionist Party), along with Vanguard leader William Craig and most of the membership. He was re-elected in 1979 for the UUP.

[edit] Death

A mural dedicated to Bradford, Oak Street off Belfast's Donegall Pass
Bradford was shot dead - by the IRA on 14 November 1981 in a community centre in Finaghy, Belfast, while hosting a political surgery. Kenneth Campbell, the 29 year old Protestant caretaker in the centre, was also shot dead in the attack.

The Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald made an expression of sympathy in the Dáil Éireann saying: [2]

“I would like to refer to the brutal murder, by the Provisional IRA, of the Reverend Robert Bradford, MP in Belfast on Saturday last. His death and that of Mr. Ken Campbell, caretaker at the Finaghy Community Centre, are part of a calculated series of atrocities committed in recent days. I know that all the people we represent share the sense of sorrow, anger and outrage widely felt in Northern Ireland at present.
The killing of an elected representative of the people calls for particular condemnation in the strongest possible terms and serves to remind us of the real objectives of the organisation responsible. The IRA has once again shown its utter contempt for human life and for the democratic process which it has recently sought to distort for its own ends. Its true attitude to democracy and freedom was summed up in a recent statement of an IRA spokesman who, when asked by an interviewer for a foreign newspaper about the wishes of the people in this part of the country concerning an aspect of reunification, replied, “We call the shots. We don't really give a damn what they want”.

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His seat was won by Martin Smyth, also of the Ulster Unionists, in a by-election in 1982. A book about Bradford's life, A Sword Bathed in Heaven, was written by his widow, Norah, in 1984, dealing largely with his path to Methodism, although also examining his political career.

[edit] Bibliography
Norah Bradford, A Sword Bathed in Heaven, 1984

[edit] References

1.^ p182, Nigel Fielding, The National Front, Taylor & Francis, 1981, ISBN 0710005598
2.^ Dáil Éireann Parliamentary Debates - Volume 330 - November 17, 1981

[edit] External links
Seanad Éireann (Senate of the Republic of Ireland) passes motion of sympathy on assassination of Rev Robert Bradford MP.
NI Conflict Archive on the Internet

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Preceded by
Rafton Pounder

Member of Parliament for Belfast South
1974–1981

Succeeded by
Martin Smyth

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Former cleric urges new probe into MP murder
Sunday, April 29, 2007

By Pauline Reynolds

THE former head of the Methodist Church is to ask the Police Ombudsman to investigate the IRA murder 26 years ago of UUP MP Rev Robert Bradford.

Former Methodist president Rev Jim Rea and Belfast councillor Jim Rodgers are due to meet with Nuala O'Loan tomorrow to call for the case to be re-opened following revelations in Sunday Life.

In our story, journalist Greg Harkin sensationally revealed how Special Branch AND Army intelligence knew details of the murder plot THREE days before.

Mr Rodgers also plans to raise the case with the PSNI Historical Enquiries Team.

He described our revelations as "terribly disturbing".

"Some people may think that because Robert was murdered so long ago it doesn't really matter any more," he said.

"But I believe it's important we find out the truth.

"Greg Harkin is a highly respected journalist with very good contacts and I have no reason to doubt his information.

"At the time of his murder, it had been rumoured Robert may have been set up, not by the Special Branch but by British intelligence.

"There were also a number of names put forward suggesting involvement in the killing, but no one has ever been brought to book. We need to get to the bottom of this and put it to rest.

"These claims will obviously have been very upsetting for Robert's wife Nora and the couple's daughter."

Mr Rodgers and Rev Bradford were good friends.

Added the councillor: "We had a lot in common, belonging to the same church and the same political party.

"We appeared on a number of public platforms together and his views and my own would have been very similar.

"He was a person who I held in the highest regard."

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MP could have been saved
MP 'sacrificed to protect agents within ranks of the provisionals'
Sunday, April 15, 2007

In the third part of our explosive series The Special Branch Files, journalist Greg Harkin reveals how a botched undercover operation led to the murder of the Rev Robert Bradford

Shortly before 11.30am on Saturday, November 14, 1981, three armed IRA members carrying ladders and dressed in painters' boilersuits arrived at the community centre at Benmore Drive in Finaghy.

At first their arrival did not arouse suspicion; there was ongoing work at the centre.

One of the gang members, carrying a sub-machine-gun, took up position at the front door.

One of his accomplices shouted "freeze" before opening fire on the caretaker, 29-year-old Kenneth Campbell, who was returning to the centre after a break at his nearby home.

While one of the IRA men pinned an RUC bodyguard to the ground at gunpoint, another gunman quickly turned to the Reverend Robert Bradford, Ulster Unionist MP for South Belfast.

He opened fire, shooting him in the eye, chest, neck and ear.

The 40-year-old father-of-one died instantly.

As the IRA's active service unit (ASU) fled, the RUC officer fired three shots after their getaway car.

It was another horrific day in a blood-spattered year in which 117 people lost their lives in the Troubles - 1981, the year of the hunger strikes.

Today, however, 26 years later, Sunday Life can reveal that neither Rev Bradford nor Mr Campbell should have died in the IRA attack - RUC Special Branch and Army Intelligence had prior knowledge of the incident an incredible THREE DAYS beforehand.

They told neither the Rev Bradford, nor his police protection officer.

Three years ago, a former officer with the shadowy Army intelligence-gathering outfit the Force Research Unit (FRU) contacted me with information on several murders which took place during the Troubles.

He knew of - but did not know - 'Martin Ingram', another former FRU officer.

He hinted at a cover-up in the murder of the Ulster Unionist MP in 1981.

Now, for the first time, he has decided to tell the whole story.

I have since been able to verify these claims with two other sources not known to each other.

"The Rev Bradford was a sitting duck. The IRA had checked out the (community) centre before as a possible venue for a hit," said the source.

"He had certainly been warned that he had to be extra careful when he was there, but the information before the shooting was 100pc certain that an attack would take place that Saturday, November 14.

"This was not a general warning. We had someone in the IRA giving us information on the planned attack.

"I know for a fact that Special Branch also had someone inside giving them the same information."

The ex-officer claims he had spent that weekend expecting to hear about the arrests or shootings of IRA members.

"I couldn't believe it when the MP was taken out along with another civilian," he recalled.

"I made a point of finding out what went wrong. Our lot had put a great deal into this intelligence operation and I know Special Branch did, too.

"All the information was passed up (the chain of command), but nothing happened. I know that teams were prepared by the RUC to intercept the IRA team, but they were still on their way (to Finaghy) when the murders took place. They were too late. It was mind-boggling.

"But they shouldn't have been too late. They (the RUC) knew for three f*****g days what was going to happen, but there was no operation put in place around the IRA team as they set off from Andersonstown, there was no operation put in place around Mr Bradford or his home on the Malone Road, and the operation for the community centre was still leaving the station when the murders took place.

"It defies belief that this could have happened, but it did. Army Intelligence would have had people on the ground the night before, for God's sake."

But how could such a monumental mistake take place?

Branch sources say officers at the time were also furious that the Rev Bradford had not been saved, but put the incident down to poor planning and incompetence rather than any more sinister reason.

The former soldier however said he believed that now was the time for information on the murder to be investigated - believing there could have been other reasons.

"I believe the hit went ahead to save agents' lives," he claimed.

He admitted that he had "no evidence whatsoever" to substantiate this claim, but insisted: "I find it hard to believe any other reason.

"This is not just about Mr Bradford, either. There was also Mr Campbell who died and at least three Catholics were killed by loyalists in retaliation in the days after the killing."

Just hours after the Bradford murder, Stephen Murphy (19) was shot by a UVF gunman as he answered his door in the Oldpark area of north Belfast. He died from his injuries 10 days later.

Thomas McNulty (18) was murdered by the UVF as he walked home in the Short Strand area of east Belfast the day after the Bradford murder.

Two days later, Billy Wright, then UVF leader in Mid-Ulster, shot dead 20-year-old Catholic Peader Fegan in Lurgan.

When the MP and Mr Campbell were shot, children at a kids' disco witnessed the horrific murders.

A 15-year-old DJ described how he threw a chair at one of the killers while shouting at other children to dive for cover.

"The gunmen pushed the children out of the way as they made their way out of the building," he added.

An 11-year-old told reporters afterwards: "They shot the Rev Bradford about six times. We were quite close by. The shots were very loud."

The murders were widely condemned.

TDs in Dail Eireann stood for a minute's silence, but in Northern Ireland there were fears of an all-out civil war.

The SDLP leader, John Hume, said the murder was a deliberate attempt by the IRA to provoke the community into civil conflict.

Unionists reacted with anger. UUP leader James Molyneaux threatened a 'Third Force' if the Secretary of State, Jim Prior, did not announce a 'crackdown' on the paramilitaries.

At the Rev Bradford's funeral, Mr Prior was jostled by dozens of mourners. He recalled afterwards: "I had to make a run for the church door with my detectives shielding me. I just about managed to get through in one piece. "

Heckled

He was later heckled inside the church and as he left afterwards he was jostled again by crowds shouting: "Kill him! Kill him!"

Earlier, mourners cheered and applauded when the minister conducting the funeral service called for the reintroduction of capital punishment.

The IRA admitted responsibility for the murders just hours after the killings.

The Provisionals' statement read: "Belfast Brigade IRA claims responsibility for the execution of Robert Bradford MP, one of the key people responsible for winding up the loyalist paramilitary sectarian machine in the North.

"Let Mr Tyrie (UDA leader) and the UDA know well the cost of killing innocent nationalist people."

The Rev Bradford had become a Methodist minister when he was 22, turning his back on a career as a professional footballer with Sheffield Wednesday.

He joined the UUP when he served as a minister in the loyalist enclave of Suffolk in west Belfast and was elected MP for south Belfast in 1974.

He became an outspoken critic of the IRA and had demanded the reintroduction of hanging for terrorist killers.

The Rev Bradford's widow, Norah, was 33 at the time of the killing. They had one daughter, Claire.

Speaking after the murder, she told reporters: "They have tried several times at the advice centre. They came at least two times before and they were caught out watching the advice centre, but he would not give it up just for them.

"He knew it would be the most likely place for them to get him.

"He never feared he would be attacked. He felt it was a possibility. He did not fear it."

It is clear from other interviews at the time that the Rev Bradford knew he was a target for the Provisionals.

He also knew the centre in Finaghy where he attended clinics at least once a month was a place where an attack could take place.

What makes the claims from a former Army officer more serious is the fact that the security forces knew an attempted murder was going to take place on the morning of November 14, 1981 and appeared to do very little to prevent it.

They know who was in the gang, who was providing support and various other details.

What is clear is that the gang would not stop at these murders. The gun used to kill the Rev Bradford was also used to shoot Judge William Doyle and Mary Travers several years later.

"Northern Ireland has to move on, but I don't think that is possible until we have dealt with the past," said the ex-FRU officer.

"I believe there has to be a lawyer-free truth and reconciliation tribunal where everyone makes statements about the past.

"Police officers, for example, are allowed under the law to waive the restrictions of the Official Secrets Act when they talk to the Police Ombudsman. "A tribunal could offer an amnesty to all participants - security forces and paramilitaries - and a way forward that doesn't involved expensive investigation and legal fees."

Today's revelations will certainly lead to calls for inquiries.

Mrs Bradford said of her husband's killers at the time: "The Lord will deal with them in his own good time. It is not for me to speak of that."

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AIREY NEAVE (Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave)

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Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave DSO, OBE, MC (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979) was a British soldier, barrister and politician.

During World War II, Neave was one of the few servicemen to escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. He later became Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Abingdon.

Neave was assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb attack at the House of Commons. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility.

Early life

Neave was the son of Sheffield Airey Neave (1879–1961), a well-known entomologist, and his wife Dorothy (d. 1943), the daughter of Arthur Thomson Middleton. His father was the grandson of Sheffield Neave, the third son of Sir Thomas Neave, 2nd Baronet (see Neave Baronets). Neave spent his early years in Knightsbridge in London, before he moved to Beaconsfield. Neave was sent to St. Ronan's School, Worthing, and from there, in 1929, he went to Eton College. He went on to study jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford. While at Eton, Neave composed a prize-winning essay in 1933 that examined the likely consequences of Adolf Hitler's rise to supreme power in Germany, and Neave predicted then that another widespread war would break out in Europe in the near future. Neave had earlier been on a visit to Germany, and he witnessed the Nazi German methods of grasping political and military power in their hands. When Neave went to Oxford University, he purchased and read the entire written works of the prescient writer Carl von Clausewitz. When Neave was asked why, he answered: "since war [is] coming, it [is] only sensible to learn as much as possible about the art of waging it".[1] During 1938, Neave completed his third-class degree in the study of jurisprudence. By his own admission, while at Oxford University, Neave did only the minimal amount of academic work that was required of him by his tutors.

[edit] Wartime service

Neave joined the Territorial Army and became an officer of the Royal Artillery in the regular British Army at the beginning of World War II. He was sent to France in February 1940 as part of a searchlight regiment. He was wounded and captured by the Germans at Calais on 23 May 1940. He was imprisoned at Oflag IX-A/H near Spangenberg and in February 1941 moved to Stalag XX-A near Thorn in German-occupied western Poland. In April 1941 he escaped from Thorn with Norman Forbes. They were captured near Itow while trying to enter Soviet-controlled Poland and were briefly in the hands of the Gestapo. In May, they were both sent to Oflag IV-C (often referred to as Colditz Castle because of its location)[2].[citation needed]

Neave made his first attempt to escape from Colditz on 28 August 1941 disguised as a German N.C.O. He did not get out of the castle as his hastily contrived German uniform (made from a Polish army tunic and cap painted with scenery paint) was rendered bright green under the prison searchlights.[3] He tried again on 5 January 1942, again in disguise, together with Dutch officer Anthony Luteyn. Better uniforms and escape route (they made a quick exit from a theatrical production using the trap door beneath the stage) got them out of the prison and by train and on foot they travelled via Leipzig, Ulm, and then into Switzerland via Hans Larive's Singen route by 9 January 1942.[4] Neave returned to Britain through France, Spain, and Gibraltar and was the first British officer to make a "home run" from Colditz.[5]

He was later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9. While at MI9, he was the immediate superior of Michael Bentine. He also served with the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, investigating Krupp. As a well-known war hero - as well as a qualified lawyer who spoke fluent German - he was honoured with the role of reading the indictments to the Nazi leaders on trial. He wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the Nuremberg Trial.[6]

[edit] Political career

Neave stood at the 1950 election in Thurrock and at Ealing North in 1951. He was elected for Abingdon in a by-election in June 1953, but his career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959.

Airey Neave was a Governor of Imperial College between 1963 and 1971 and was a member of the House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology between 1965 and 1970.

Edward Heath, when Chief Whip, was alleged to have told Neave that after he suffered his heart attack his career was finished[citation needed] but in his 1998 autobiography, Heath strongly denied ever making such a remark. He admitted that in December 1974 Neave had told him to stand down for the good of the party. During the final two months of 1974, Neave had asked Keith Joseph, William Whitelaw and Edward du Cann to stand against Heath, and said that in the case of any of them challenging for the party leadership, he would be their campaign manager. When all three refused to stand, Neave agreed to be the campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's attempt to become leader of the Conservative Party, that was eventually victorious. When Thatcher was elected leader in February 1975, he was rewarded with the post of head of her private office. He was then appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and was poised to attain the equivalent Cabinet position at the time of his death. In opposition, Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who took a hard line against both Loyalist and Republican paramilitaries.

Neave was author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution if there was no early progress in that regard and concentrating on local government reform instead. This integrationist policy was hastily abandoned by Humphrey Atkins, who became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the role Neave had shadowed.

Politician Tony Benn records in his diary (17 February 1981) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information from an intelligence agent two years previously that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if a Labour Government was elected, James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected Party Leader in his place. Campbell claimed that the agent was ready to give his name and the New Statesman was going to print the story. Benn, however, discounted the validity of the story and wrote in his diary: "No one will believe for a moment that Airey Neave would have done such a thing".[7] However the magazine printed the story on 20 February 1981, naming the agent as Lee Tracey. Mr. Tracey claimed to have met Neave and was asked to join a team of intelligence and security specialists which would "make sure Benn was stopped". Tracey planned a second meeting with Neave but Neave was killed before they could meet again.[8]

[edit] Death

Memorial plaque to Airey Neave at his alma mater, Merton College, Oxford.
Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a car bomb fitted with a mercury tilt switch exploded under his Vauxhall Cavalier[9] at 2.58pm as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.[10] Both of his legs were blown off and he died in hospital an hour after being freed from the wreckage. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), an Irish Republican organisation banned in the United Kingdom under anti-terrorism legislation, admitted responsibility for the killing.

Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher led tributes to Neave saying: "He was one of freedom's warriors. No one knew of the great man he was, except those nearest to him. He was staunch, brave, true, strong; but he was very gentle and kind and loyal. It's a rare combination of qualities. There's no one else who can quite fill them. I, and so many other people, owe so much to him and now we must carry on for the things he fought for and not let the people who got him triumph." Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan said: "No effort will be spared to bring the murderers to justice and to rid the United Kingdom of the scourge of terrorism."[10] The INLA issued a statement regarding the killing in the August edition of The Starry Plough.

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"In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class".[11]

”

Neave's death came just two days after the vote of no confidence which brought down James Callaghan's government and a few weeks before the 1979 general election which brought about a Conservative party victory and Margaret Thatcher to power as Prime Minister. Neave's wife Diana, whom he married on 29 December 1942, was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon.

Neave's biographer Paul Routledge met with a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (the political wing of INLA) who was involved in the killing of Neave and who told Routledge that Neave "would have been very successful at that job [Northern Ireland Secretary]. He would have brought the armed struggle to its knees".[12]

[edit] Conspiracy theories

Kevin Cahill, an Irish investigative journalist, claims Neave was on the verge of a massive overhaul of the security services, possibly involving a merger of MI5 and MI6 and arising from his belief in corruption in the security services. Cahill suggests a link between Neave's killing, that of Sir Richard Sykes' and the attempted murder of Christopher Tugendhat in December 1980. Cahill claims that Neave would have been head of the combined security services with Sykes and Tugendhat as his deputies, with Sykes responsible for foreign operations and Tugendhat responsible for home operations.

Cahill claims to have had a conversation with a drunken Neave on St. Patrick's Day 1979 in the foyer of the Irish embassy in London. Cahill had left a party and was waiting for a taxi. He saw Neave in the room and introduced himself to him as an admirer. Cahill claims that Neave was inebriated and responded "quite out of the blue" by saying "There are going to be changes here, big changes, soon. There is going to be cleaning of the stables...There has been serious corruption." Neave then said that there was "no use playing games. We have to win...We will win when the [corruption] is sorted out. Count on that." Cahill found Neave's remarks surprising because he seemed internally preoccupied with the UK, with his Northern Ireland brief "almost a sideline". Cahill also thought that Neave's mention of corruption meant Soviet penetration.

Whilst working in the House of Commons as Paddy Ashdown's research assistant, Cahill claims to have had around six conversations with the security staff there. The most frequent remark was that "everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous. Cahill claims they did not believe INLA killed Neave but that it was an "inside job".

Cahill concluded that Neave was killed by the security services; MI6 agents working with the CIA because Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in the intelligence establishment for corruption.[13]

Another person who did not accept the generally accepted version of events was Enoch Powell, the Ulster Unionist MP. Powell claimed in an interview with The Guardian on 9 January 1984 that the Americans had killed Neave, along with Lord Mountbatten and Robert Bradford MP. He claimed the evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary with whom he had a conversation.[14]

On 18 October 1986 Powell returned to the subject of Neave's death in a speech to Conservative students in Birmingham. He told them that INLA had not killed Neave, but that he had been assassinated by "MI6 and their friends". Powell claimed Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK and that the Americans feared that this process, if implemented by Neave, would have been irreversible. His killing, alleged Powell, was intended to make the British Government adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO.[15]

[edit] Works
Saturday At MI9 (U.S. title: The Escape Room)
They Have Their Exits
Flames of Calais
On Trial at Nuremberg
Little Cyclone

[edit] Notes

1.^ Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (Fourth Estate, 2002), p. 35.
2.^ - The Story Of Colditz
3.^ Airey Neave, They Have Their Exits (Beagle Books, Inc., 1971) p.69-76.
4.^ Neave, Airey (1969). The Escape Room. New York: Doubleday & Co..
5.^ McNally, Michael; Peter Dennis (2010). Colditz: Oflag IV-C. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. pp. 21.
6.^ Airey Neave, Nuremberg
7.^ Tony Benn, The Benn Diaries (Arrow, 1996), pp. 506-507.
8.^ Routledge, pp. 299-300.
9.^ Pallister, David; Hoggart, Simon (31 March 2009). "From the archive: Airey Neave assassinated". The Guardian (London).
10.^ a b Car bomb kills Airey Neave
11.^ Holland, Jack & McDonald, Henry (1996). INLA Deadly Divisions. Poolbeg. pp. 221. ISBN 1-85371-263-9.
12.^ Routledge, p. 360.
13.^ Routledge, pp. 335-336.
14.^ Simon Heffer, Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999), p. 881.
15.^ Heffer, p. 906.

[edit] External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Airey Neave
Airey Neave Trust
Margaret Thatcher speech at Neave's memorial service in 1979
Read about Airey Neave on The UK National Archives' website.

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1979: Car bomb kills Airey Neave
Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave has been killed by a car bomb as he left the House of Commons car park.
The bomb, said to be highly sophisticated, exploded as Mr Neave began driving up the exit ramp shortly before 1500GMT.

Emergency services were on the scene in minutes.

The 63-year-old Conservative MP, known for his tough line on anti-IRA security, was taken to Westminster Hospital where he died from his injuries.

So far two groups, the Provisional IRA and the Irish Natonal Liberation Army, have claimed they carried out the killing.

It is not yet known when the bomb was attached to his car but investigators believe a timing device and trembler - which detonates the bomb through movement - were used to ensure the bomb went off as Mr Neave was leaving the Commons.

The area around Parliament Square was immediately closed as police began a full-scale search of the premises.

Despite increased threats to the safety of MPs not all cars are checked fully as they enter the car park.

Gilbert Kellard, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said Mr Neave was aware of the dangers and was "happy and content" with his security.

Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher led tributes to Mr Neave saying: "He was one of freedom's warriors. Courageous, staunch, true. He lived for his beliefs and now he has died for them."

Prime Minister James Callaghan said: "No effort will be spared to bring the murderers to justice and to rid the United Kingdom of the scourge of terrorism."

The killing is thought to have been timed to coincide with the start of the election campaign which was announced yesterday.

Mr Neave was a close adviser to Mrs Thatcher, he led her campaign to become the Conservative Party leader and headed her private office.

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Maggie's Machiavel

Douglas Hurd discovers the Colditz escapee who brought down Ted Heath in Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Enigmatic Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave by Paul Routledge

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Douglas Hurd

The Guardian, Saturday 16 March 2002 23.59 GMT
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Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Enigmatic Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave
Paul Routledge
392pp, Fourth Estate, £16.99

Paul Routledge would not have written this life of Airey Neave had it not been for the manner of Neave's death. On the afternoon of March 30 1979, a car exploded on the ramp leading up from the car park of the House of Commons. The driver of the car, who died in hospital less than an hour later, was shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, a close friend of Margaret Thatcher. Paul Routledge represents Airey Neave as an honourable man who acted through his life in accord with his convictions, but also as a natural plotter whose instinct for conspiracy led him down mysterious paths to that agonising death.

His family did not want this or any book to be written, and gave Routledge only limited cooperation. That may explain why the account of his childhood and his education at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, is somewhat thin. Often in political biographies the opening chapters are the most interesting; they tell us what we could not before have known about the formation of the familiar character who then takes the stage.

By contrast, the account of Airey Neave's war is vivid. The subaltern of 24 was captured in the defence of Calais in May 1940. In January 1942, after weary weeks of preparation, he escaped from Colditz with a young Dutch officer and after many hazards found his way though the snow to Switzerland. His courage and persistence emerge from this story - but also his self-contained reserve. Before long he held high responsibility in MI9, the intelligence agency responsible for creating and sustaining the "ratlines", the channels run by the resistance movements in France, Belgium and Holland for the spiriting back to Britain of shot-down RAF pilots.

After the war, his interest increasingly focused on politics. Thus developed the Airey Neave who became my political neighbour in Oxfordshire, the soft-voiced MP for Abingdon, helpful and pleasant in manner, but always keeping his inner thoughts in reserve. By the time I knew him he had lived through a modest but competent ministerial career, cut short by a heart attack in 1959. A strange story surrounds this setback. It was said that when Airey Neave told the chief whip that his doctor had said he must resign, Ted Heath said curtly, "Well, that's the end of your career". This curt rebuff is said to explain Neave's deep hostility to Heath in later years.

The story does neither man credit. After examining the evidence, Routledge rightly rejects it. But for whatever reason, when it came to the point in 1975, Neave was convinced that Ted Heath must go. Margaret Thatcher shrewdly made him her campaign manager. Most managers cry up the chances of their candidate in order to create a bandwagon of support. Airey Neave, reading the mood of the parliamentary party, persuaded a good many MPs to vote for Thatcher not in order to elect her but to give Heath a sharp warning that he must change his ways.

I had two long talks with Airey Neave in December 1974 and January 1975. There was not much point in his trying to shift me away from supporting Ted Heath. But we talked about the new chapter in Heath's relationship with the party that would be necessary after his re-election. Naively, I was lulled by this tactic. The idea of "a new chapter" was close to my own heart. I discussed it with William Waldegrave, who was by then running Heath's office, and with Heath himself. He should, we said, be more forthcoming, open and friendly to Conservative MPs. Heath welcomed this advice, but somewhat spoiled our pleasure by adding that of course this was how he always behaved.

Airey Neave chose as his reward the post of shadow Northern Ireland secretary. Routledge sees this choice as fitting the "war hero and habitué of the murky world where the politics of democracy and the secret state intervene". But the Northern Ireland portfolio was fascinating and important in its own right. Neave's instincts were Unionist. He gradually began to detach the Conservative party from the concept of power sharing between Unionist and Nationalist politicians, which had underlain Heath's Sunningdale agreement.

There was nothing extreme about Neave's political stance. Perhaps because of his enthusiasm for the wartime resistance movements, he was pro-EEC, and in other respects, as Paul Routledge writes "a Conservative of the old school, with a caring streak". What makes him remarkable to Routledge is his link with the "secret state", defined here as the intelligence establishment that owes its loyalty to the crown rather than to a democratically elected government. It is said to be ready on occasion to consider undemocratic means of rescuing the nation - including the Union with Northern Ireland - from the follies of politicians. Neave's link with the intelligence services, originating with his wartime role in MI9, is seen as relevant to the unsolved questions about his death - who killed him, how was he avenged, why has no one been prosecuted for his murder?

Enoch Powell characteristically came up with the most bizarre answer to the first question. Airey Neave, he suggested, was killed by a combination of MI6 and the Americans who feared that when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, Neave might scupper their plans for a United Ireland. Routledge cannot swallow this - and quite right, too. He is sure that Neave was murdered by the Republican terrorist group INLA; indeed, at personal risk he has talked to some of those involved at one remove. But he suspects that at Thatcher's insistence a campaign of reprisals was undertaken against INLA leaders. This, he thinks, was preferred to any serious attempt to bring the murderers to trial, since such a trial would have brought to light Neave's contacts with "the secret state".

I have a difficulty here. Who would know about this "secret state"? Would the minister responsible for Northern Ireland know, or the minister responsible for supervising MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, or the minister who introduced the two reforms that brought these agencies out of darkness and gave them a statutory existence? When holding these posts, was I part of the "secret state"? As it happens, no. Was I grotesquely simple? Did I fail to notice undemocratic manoeuvres and plots among people with whom I dealt almost every day for nearly 11 years? I hope and think not.

So I do not believe in the "secret state" as defined by Routledge. On the rim of the intelligence agencies there are from time to time eccentrics and malcontents, who drink, dine and whisper, whether against Harold Wilson or Ted Heath or other politicians. They chatter of short cuts and dramatic solutions, and are a godsend to journalists bored with the daily inanities of political life. Neave knew this world from his wartime past, kept in touch with some of its personalities, and enjoyed the occasional spot of dining and whispering himself.

However, he was killed not because of his intelligence background but because he was a prominent English politician with Unionist sympathies. His killers are not alone in Ireland in benefiting from the difference between knowing who committed a murder, and finding the witnesses and evidence to convict.

Lord Hurd is a former Conservative foreign secretary.
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'Conniving' Margaret Thatcher is attacked by daughter of Michael Heseltine

Margaret Thatcher is accused of pushing her Cabinet 'into a corner' to stop Michael Heseltine succeeding her as prime minister.

By Richard Eden

6:24AM GMT 28 Nov 2010

Since Michael Heseltine helped force Margaret Thatcher from 10 Downing Street, he has been vilified by the Tory Right. Now, his daughter claims that he was the real victim.

"It was painful to see him not achieve what he wanted," says Annabel Heseltine. "I will never really get over the way Margaret Thatcher bound her Cabinet … she made it a condition that she would only leave if they promised not to vote for my father. To me, that was so conniving. She pushed them into a corner. That's not a democracy. I will never forgive her."

Speaking to Anne McElvoy on the Radio 4 programme Archive on 4, to be broadcast on Saturday, she adds: "We only found out because David Hunt was away in Japan at the time, so he had not been made to make that promise.

"Margaret Thatcher rang him as soon as he got back and he said, 'No, I can't make this promise now.' "

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The newly ennobled Lord Hutton is the chairman of the Royal United Services Institute, which has just appointed David Abrahams as its vice-president.

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Michael Heseltine

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Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British businessman, Conservative politician and patron of the Tory Reform Group. He was a Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001 and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major. In 1990, he stood for leadership of the Conservative Party against Margaret Thatcher, and whilst he was unsuccessful, this triggered Thatcher's eventual resignation.

A self-made millionaire, Heseltine entered Parliament in 1966, entered the Cabinet in 1979 as Secretary of State for the Environment, and was Secretary of State for Defence from 1983 to 1986. In the latter role, he was instrumental in the political battle against the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Heseltine was widely considered an adept media performer and charismatic Minister, although frequently at odds with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1986 over the Westland Affair and returned to the backbenches. Following Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in November 1990, Heseltine challenged the incumbent Margaret Thatcher for the leadership of the Conservative Party, polling well enough to deny her an outright victory on the first ballot. Following her resignation in a dramatic Tory "palace coup", Heseltine returned to the Cabinet under her successor John Major.

Under John Major, of whom he eventually became a key ally, Heseltine rose to become President of the Board of Trade and from 1995, Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State. Declining to seek the leadership of the Conservative Party following the 1997 election defeat, Heseltine remained a vocal voice for modernisation in the Party and is widely considered a leading elder statesman in the United Kingdom.
Michael Heseltine was born in Swansea in Wales and is a distant descendant of Charles Dibdin (from whom one of his middle names was taken). His mother was Eileen Ray Pridmore whose family came from West Wales where they were farm labourers from Pembrey. His mother's great-grandfather came from the village of Gretton, Northamptonshire to work at the Swansea docks (as a result, Heseltine was latterly made an honorary member of the Swansea Dockers Club). His maternal grandfather, James Pridmore, founded West Glamorgan Collieries Ltd, a shortlived company that briefly worked two small mines on the outskirts of Swansea (1919-21).

Heseltine was brought up in relative luxury at No. 1, Uplands Crescent (now No. 5). He enjoyed angling in Brynmill Park and won a junior competition.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School.[citation needed] He campaigned briefly as a volunteer in the October 1951 General Election before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford, where, in frustration at his inability to be elected to the committee of the Oxford University Conservative Association, he founded the breakaway Blue Ribbon Club. Julian Critchley recounts a story from his student days of how he plotted his future on the back of an envelope, a future that would culminate as Prime Minister in the 1990s.[citation needed]A more detailed apocryphal version has him writing down: 'millionaire 25, cabinet member 35, party leader 45, prime minister 55'. He became a millionaire and was a member of the shadow cabinet from the age of 41 but did not manage to become Party Leader or Prime Minister.

Heseltine's biographers Michael Crick and Julian Critchley recount how, despite not being a natural speaker, he became a strong orator through much practice which included speaking in front of a mirror, listening to tape recordings of the speeches of Charles Hill and taking speaking lessons from a vicar's wife. In the 1970s and 1980s Heseltine's conference speech was often to be the highlight of the Conservative Party Conference despite his views being well to the left of the then leader Margaret Thatcher.

He was eventually elected to the committee of the Oxford Union after five terms at the University. The following year (1953-4), having challenged unsuccessfully for the Presidency the previous summer, he served in top place on the committee, then as Secretary, and then Treasurer. During this last post he reopened the Union cellars for business and persuaded the visiting Sir Bernard and Lady Docker to contribute to the considerable cost. After graduating with a second-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics,[citation needed] described by his own tutor as "a great and undeserved triumph", he was permitted to stay on for an extra term to serve as President of the Oxford Union for Michaelmas term 1954 having been elected with the assistance of leading Oxford socialists Anthony Howard and Jeremy Isaacs.

After graduating he built up a property business in partnership with his Oxford friend Ian Josephs. With financial support from both of their families they started with a boarding house in Clanricarde Gardens and progressed to various other properties in the Bayswater area. He trained as an accountant but after failing his accountancy exams in 1958[citation needed] could no longer avoid conscription into National Service.

Heseltine later admitted to admiring the military as his father, who died in 1957,[citation needed] had been a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers in the Second World War and active in the Territorial Army thereafter. Heseltine felt that his business career was too important to be disrupted although he and his father took the precaution of arranging interviews to increase his chances of attaining an officer's commission in case he had to serve.[2] Heseltine had been lucky not to be called up for the Korean War in the early 1950s or the Suez Crisis in 1956 but in the final years of National Service, already due for abolition by 1960, an effort was made to call up men who had so far managed to postpone service. Despite having almost reached the newly reduced maximum call-up age of twenty-six, Heseltine was conscripted in January 1959, becoming a Second Lieutenant in the Welsh Guards. Heseltine left the Guards to contest the General Election that year, according to Ian Josephs this had been his plan from the start,[3] and was exempted on business grounds from the remaining sixteen months of service. During the 1980s his habit of wearing a Guards regimental tie, sometimes incorrectly tied with a red stripe across the knot, was the subject of much acerbic comment from military figures and from older MPs with extensive war records. Crick estimated that he must have worn the tie on more days than he actually served in the Guards.[4]

Heseltine built a housing estate at Tenterden, Kent which failed to sell and was beset with repair problems until after his election to Parliament,[5] founded the magazine publishing company Haymarket in collaboration with another Oxford friend Clive Labovitch and early in the 1960s acquired the famous (but unprofitable) magazine Man About Town whose title he shortened to About Town then simply Town. In 1962 he also briefly published a well-received[citation needed] weekly newspaper,Topic, which folded but whose journalists later became the Sunday Times Insight Team. Between 1960 and 1964 he also worked as a part-time interviewer for ITV.

After rapid expansion Heseltine's businesses were badly hit by the Selwyn Lloyd credit squeeze of 1962 and, still not yet thirty years old, he would eventually owe £250,000 (over £3 million at 2007 prices). He claims to have been lent a badly needed £60,000 by a bank manager who retired the same day. Later, during the 1990s, Heseltine joked about how he had avoided bankruptcy by such stratagems as paying bills only when threatened with legal action or sending out insufficiently completed cheques although it has never been suggested that he did not pay off all his debts eventually. It was during this period of stress that he took up gardening as a serious hobby.

In 1967, Heseltine secured Haymarket's financial future by selling a majority stake to the British Printing Corporation retaining a large shareholding himself.[citation needed] Under the management of Lindsay Masters, the company grew publishing a series of profitable motoring, management and advertising journals and making Heseltine a personal fortune of hundreds of millions of pounds.[citation needed]

[edit] Member of Parliament

Heseltine contested the safe Labour seat of Gower in 1959 and in 1964 the marginal constituency of Coventry North, which he lost to the Labour incumbent Maurice Edelman by 3,530 votes. Heseltine was eventually successful in 1966 becoming the Member of Parliament (MP) for the safe Conservative seat of Tavistock in Devon. After the abolition of the Tavistock constituency he represented Henley from February 1974.

Following the Conservative victory in the 1970 General Election Heseltine was promoted to the Government by the Prime Minister Edward Heath serving briefly as a junior minister at the Department of Transport before moving to the Department for the Environment where he was partly responsible for shepherding the Local Government Act 1972 through Parliament. In 1972, he moved to the Department of Industry, which he subsequently shadowed, now as a member of the Shadow Cabinet - during the subsequent spell in opposition.

As Minister for Aerospace in 1973, Heseltine was responsible for persuading other governments to invest in Concorde and was accused of misleading the House of Commons when he stated that the government was still considering giving financial support to the Tracked Hovercraft when the Cabinet had already decided to withdraw funding. Although his chief critic Airey Neave disliked Heseltine as a brash 'arriviste' Neave's real target, in the view of Heseltine's PPS Cecil Parkinson, was Heath, whom Neave detested and later helped to topple from party leader in 1975.

Heseltine was Shadow Industry Secretary throughout the Conservative's 1974-79 time in opposition gaining notoriety following a 1976 incident in the House of Commons during the debate on measures introduced by the Labour Government to nationalise the shipbuilding and aerospace industries. Accounts of exactly what happened vary but the most colourful image portrayed Heseltine seizing the mace and brandishing it towards Labour left-wingers who were celebrating their winning the vote by singing the Red Flag. The Speaker suspended the sitting. Heseltine subsequently acquired the nickname Tarzan and was thereafter depicted as such, complete with loin-cloth, in the "If" series drawn by satirical political cartoonist Steve Bell. During the 1980s this macho image was reinforced by the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image, which portrayed him as a camouflage wearing psychopath reminiscent of the 1960s white British mercenary of the Congo "Mad Mike" Col. Mike Hoare. This was after an occasion when, as Defence Secretary in Margaret Thatcher's government, he had been persuaded to don a camouflaged anorak over his suit while inspecting troops in the rain on 6 February 1985 when he deployed 1500 police and soldiers to fence off RAF Molesworth to prevent anti-nuclear protesters from entering the cruise missile base.

[edit] Member of the Cabinet

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appointed Heseltine to the cabinet as Secretary of State for the Environment in 1979 after her election victory that year. He was a key figure in the sale of council houses and was sent in as a troubleshooter to deal with the explosion of violence in Britain's inner cities in the aftermath of the Brixton and Toxteth riots during the early 1980s. As Environment Secretary in 1981 he opened Britain's first Enterprise Zone at Corby in Northamptonshire. Heseltine was responsible for developing the policies that led to five bi-annual National Garden Festivals starting in 1984. He established Development Corporations that were directly appointed by the minister and overrode local authority planning controls, a controversial measure in Labour strongholds such as East London, Merseyside and North East England.

Heseltine then served as Secretary of State for Defence from January 1983 - his presentational skills being used to take on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the June 1983 General Election - until January 1986, when he resigned in a bitter dispute with Margaret Thatcher over the Westland Affair. Heseltine gathered his papers, got up from his chair and proclaimed "I can no longer be a member of this Cabinet" and then left the room.[6] Heseltine then stormed out of Downing Street and famously announced his resignation to the assembled media.

[edit] Backbenches and leadership contest

He returned to the backbenches where he became increasingly critical of Margaret Thatcher's performance, declining to support the passage of the Community Charge (popularly known as the poll tax) through Parliament in 1988, although he actually voted against the government only when he supported an amendment proposed by his ally Michael Mates that would have adjusted the charge tax to take account of ability to pay. He abstained in the November 1989 Conservative Party leadership election, in which Sir Anthony Meyer challenged for the party leadership and repeatedly insisted that he could "not foresee ... circumstances" in which he would challenge Thatcher for the leadership. Following Sir Geoffrey Howe's resignation speech in November 1990[7] Heseltine announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

During the subsequent leadership election, he polled 152 votes (just over 40%) in the first round of voting by Conservative MPs, enough to prevent an outright Thatcher victory (the rules required an incumbent leader to obtain a majority of 15%; Thatcher had polled 204, just under 55%). Heseltine was thought by many pundits to be on course to beat her in the second ballot as many Conservative MPs were now rumoured to be ready to switch support from Thatcher and only 26 would have had to do so to give Heseltine the overall majority he needed in the second ballot.

With lukewarm support from her Cabinet, most of whom told her that she could not win and faced with the bitter prospect of a Heseltine premiership Thatcher withdrew from the contest. That weekend, many Conservative MPs were faced with the anger of their local party members who overwhelmingly supported Thatcher but did not at that time have a vote in leadership elections, and opinion polls showed that John Major would also boost Conservative support if leader (previously Heseltine's unique selling-point). In the second ballot, a week after the first, Heseltine's vote actually fell to 131 (just over 35%) as some MPs had voted for him in the first ballot as a protest against or to try to oust Thatcher but preferred to vote for other candidates now that they had a wider choice. John Major, with 185 votes, was only two votes short of an overall majority and Heseltine immediately and publicly conceded defeat announcing that he would vote for Major if the third ballot went ahead (it did not, as Douglas Hurd, who had finished a distant third, also conceded). Although for the rest of his career Heseltine's role in Thatcher's downfall earned him enmity from Thatcher's supporters in the Conservative Party, this opprobrium was not universal. In a reference to the reluctance of the Cabinet to support Thatcher on the second ballot, Edward Leigh said of Heseltine: "At least he stabbed her in the front".

[edit] Return to the Cabinet

Heseltine then returned to government as Secretary of State for the Environment, with particular responsibility for 'reviewing' the Community Charge, widely and correctly expected to lead to poll tax being abolished, allegedly declining an offer of the position of Home Secretary. After the 1992 general election he was appointed Secretary of State for Trade and Industry choosing to be known by the title, dormant since 1974, of President of the Board of Trade and promising to intervene "before breakfast, dinner and tea" to help British companies.

Heseltine's responsibilities also included Energy, which was previously a separate ministry. When plans were made in 1992 for the privatisation of British Coal it fell to Heseltine to announce that 31 collieries were to close[8] including many of the mines in Nottinghamshire that had continued working during the 1984-5 strike. Although this policy was seen as a betrayal by the Nottinghamshire miners there was hardly any organised resistance to the programme. The following week a threatened rebellion by some Conservative MPs over the plans led to the number of closures being scaled back to the 10 least viable mines.[9] The government stated that since the pits were money losers they could be sustained only through unjustifiable government subsidies. Mine supporters pointed to the mines' high productivity rates and to the fact that their monetary losses were due to the large subsidies that other European nations were supplying their coal industries. Whilst Heseltine is generally seen as a One Nation Conservative, his reputation in the coalfields remains low.[citation needed] The band Chumbawamba released the critical song "Mr Heseltine meets the public" that portrayed him as an out-of-touch figure with; the same group had once dedicated a song to the village of Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire, which was reduced to a ghost town following the closure of local pits.

In June 1993, Heseltine suffered a heart attack whilst in Venice, which led to concerns on his ability to remain in government after he was televised leaving hospital in a wheelchair. In 1994 Chris Morris jokingly implied on BBC Radio 1 that Heseltine had died, and persuaded MP Jerry Hayes to broadcast an on-air tribute. Morris was subsequently suspended. Heseltine, who after being seen as an 'arriviste' in his younger days, was now something of a grandee and elder statesman and reemerged as a serious political player in 1994 helped by his flirting with the idea of privatising the Post Office and by his testimony at the Arms to Iraq Inquiry at which it emerged that he had refused to sign the certificates attempting to withhold evidence. The cover of Private Eye announced "A Legend Lives" and one major newspaper ended an editorial by proclaiming that the "balance of probability" was that Heseltine would be Prime Minister before the end of the year - this being at a time when John Major's leadership had lost much credibility after the "Back to Basics" scandals. However there was no leadership election that autumn.

[edit] Deputy Prime Minister

In mid-1995, John Major found himself consistently opposed by a minority of Eurosceptic MPs in his party and challenged them to "put up or shut up" by resubmitting himself to a leadership election in which he was unsuccessfully opposed by John Redwood the Secretary of State for Wales. There was speculation that Heseltine's supporters would engineer Major's downfall in the hope that their man would take over, but they stayed loyal to Major.

Heseltine, who showed his ballot paper to the returning officers to prove that he had voted for Major, commented that "John Major deserves a great deal better than that from his colleagues".[10]

He was then was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State. In this capacity he chaired a number of key Cabinet committees and was also an early key enthusiast for the Millennium Dome. In December 1996 Heseltine, angering eurosceptics, joined with Conservative Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in preventing any movement away from the government's official refusal to decide on whether or not to join the single currency.

After Labour won the 1997 election, Heseltine suffered further heart trouble and declined to stand for the Conservative Party leadership again although there was still speculation that Clarke might have stood aside for him to stand as a compromise candidate. He became active in promoting the benefits for Britain of joining the single European Currency appearing on the same stage as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Robin Cook as part of an all-party campaign to promote Euro membership. He was also made a Companion of Honour by John Major in the 1997 resignation Honours List.

[edit] Retirement

Heseltine resigned his Henley-on-Thames constituency at the 2001 election, being succeeded by Spectator editor Boris Johnson, but remained outspoken on British politics. He was given a life peerage as Baron Heseltine, of Thenford in the County of Northamptonshire.

In December 2002, Heseltine controversially called for Iain Duncan Smith to be replaced as leader of the Conservatives by the "dream-ticket" of Clarke as leader and Michael Portillo as deputy. He suggested the party's MPs vote on the matter rather than party members as currently required by party rules. Without the replacement of Duncan Smith, the party "has not a ghost of a chance of winning the next election" he said. Duncan Smith was removed the following year. In the 2005 party leadership election, he backed young moderniser David Cameron.[citation needed]

Following Cameron's election to the leadership he set up a wide-ranging policy review. Chairmen of the various policy groups included ex-Chancellor Kenneth Clarke and other former cabinet ministers John Redwood, John Gummer, Stephen Dorrell and Michael Forsyth as well as ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith. Heseltine was appointed to head the cities task force having been responsible for urban policy twice as Environment Secretary under Thatcher and Major.

He was ranked 170th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2004 with an estimated wealth of £240 million.[citation needed] He is a keen gardener and arboriculturalist and his arboretum was featured in a one-off documentary on BBC Two in December 2005.

In 2008 Heseltine took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.

[edit] Publications
Michael Heseltine, Raising The Sights - A Tory Perspective, in the Primrose League Gazette, vol.91, no.2, Aug/Sept 1987 edition, London.
Julian Critchley, Heseltine - The Unauthorised Biography, André Deutsch, London, September 1987, ISBN 0-233-98001-6
Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1
Michael Heseltine, Life in the Jungle, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000, ISBN 0-340-73915-0, written with the acknowledged assistance of Heseltine's lifelong friend Anthony Howard.

[edit] References
Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1, p92-3
Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1, p79
Michael Heseltine, Life in the Jungle, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000, ISBN 0-340-73915-0,p49

[edit] Notes

1.^ BBC Wales Coming Home - 29th September, 2008
2.^ Michael Heseltine, Life in the Jungle, Hodder & Stoughton, 2000, ISBN 0-340-73915-0, p49
3.^ Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1, p79
4.^ Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1, p92-3
5.^ Michael Crick, Michael Heseltine: A Biography, Hamish Hamilton, 1997, ISBN 0-241-13691-1, p105-7
6.^ Peter Jenkins, Mrs Thatcher's Revolution: The Ending of the Socialist Era (Pan, 1989), p. 192.
7.^ Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster. "House of Commons Hansard Debates for 13 November 1990". Publications.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2010-04-29.
8.^ "1992: Thousands of miners to lose their jobs". BBC News. 13 October 1992. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
9.^ Schmidt, William E. (20 October 1992). "British Prime Minister Retreats on Mine Closings". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
10.^ Macintyre, Donald; Brown, Colin (27 June 1995). The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pm-assails-malcontent-redwood-1588458.html.

[edit] External links
Haymarket Group
BBC: Heseltine: Political CV
Guardian: Aristotle article on Michael Heseltine
Guardian interview with Michael Heseltine by Simon Hattenstone
Interview about battling CND for the WGBH series,
War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
Thatcher's First Cabinet
Michael Heseltine's interview about Europe, economics, and how he really got on with Thatcher.

[edit] External links
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Michael Heseltine

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1.) GENERAL EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS:-

(A) B.A. Degree. University of Western Australia, (1955-1958.)
Subjects taken:- Psychology, Education, English, German, Philosophy , Sociology.
(B) M.A. Degree. University of London, (1958 - 1960.)
Birkbeck College. Title of Research:- The Psychological Needs of Sub-Normal Children as Assessed by a Thematic Apperception Test. Examiner of Thesis - Prof. C. A. Mace.
(C) Diploma in Clinical and Educational Psychology. Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, (1961 - 1962.)
(D) Ph. D. University of London, (1966.) Main Research:- An Application of Group Operant Conditioning. Thesis Examiner:- Prof. Vernon and Dr. G. Jones.
(E) C. Psychol. AFBPsS. Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Membership Number:- 21085.

2.) PRESENT EXPERIENCE:-

-President Elect 2010 – International Council of Psychologists
-Director, Allington Manor Psychological Services.
-Honorary Member of the Polish Medical Society.
-Member of the Association of Educational Psychologists (A.E.P.), Great Britain.
-Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Membership no: 3064/8272.
-Visiting Professor to the Jungian Society, Zurich, Switzerland. -Member of the International Foundation of Learning. ( Canada.)
-Member of Editorial Board of the International Journal of Group Tensions. -Member of Editorial Board of Special Services in the Schools Journal. -Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Applied School Psychology. -Consulting Editor:- Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour Journal.
-Member of the Special Group in Clinical Neuropsychology.
-Member of The British Academy of Forensic Sciences.
-Member of Editorial Board of Quarterly Journal of Mental Health.

-Previous Experience:-

-(1968 - 1974.) Chief Educational Psychologist, Hampshire C.C.
- Head of Psychology and Educational Psychology in charge of 12 qualified psychologists, other staff and trainees.
-Visiting Lecturer to the Department of Sociology for the University of Southampton and Reading College of Technology.
-(1974 - 1976.) Independent Clinical - Educational Consultant Psychologist. -Director of Assessment and Guidance Centre ( London and Winchester.) -Visiting Lecturer:- London University; University of Southampton; Reading College of Technology; Southampton Technical College; and University of Maryland, U.S.A.
-Visiting Professor of Psychology and Education, Faculty of Education, University of Khartoum, Omdurman, Sudan
- Development of Child Guidance and Special Education in the Sudan. -Former Editor-in-Chief,and a founder member of School Psychology International. (1979 - 1985.).
-Former Director of International Council of Psychologists (ICP) (1981 - 3.) -Former Chairman - Hampshire Branch of the Association for Gifted Children, (1981 - 1983.)
- Chairman and Trustee – Children of High Intelligence 2008/09
-Former Honorary Secretary of I.S.P.A. (1983 - 1985.)
-Former Chairman of the Consultative Committee on Solvent Abuse, Hampshire.
-Former Treasurer of the British Rorschach Forum Trust
-(1964 - 1967) Area Clinical Psychologist for Essex, (1964.)
-(1962 - 1964) Educational Psychologist, London County Council.
-(Before 1962.) Market Research, Industrial Psychology. Teacher. Research, Journalism, Army (Paratrooper), Tree - Felling, Lifeguard, Factory Worker, Farmer, Sailor, Swimming Instructor, Security Guard, Painter, Carpenter, Boat Builder, Foundry Worker.

3.) REFEREES AND TESTIMONIALS:-

(A) Prof. Charles Spielberger, Director, Centre for Research on Community Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, U.S.A.
(B) Dr Peter Merenda, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, U.S.A. (C) Dr Frances Culbertson, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, 800 West Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190, U.S.A.
(D) Mr W. Briggs, 2 Lynford Avenue, Winchester, Hants.
(E) Dr G, Watson, 49 Woodfield Drive, Winchester, Hants.
(F) Professor C. Mace, (Deceased) - Testimonial.
(G) Professor Sybil Eysenck, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London. SE5 8AH, Great Britain.

4.) MEMBERSHIPS:-

(A) American Psychological Association. – Member & Foreign Affiliate.
(B) National Association of Gifted Children. - Consultant to.
(C) Chairman of CHI (Children of High Intelligence)
(D) International Council of Psychologists. - Director (1983.) Director 2nd term (1999-2000)
(E) Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
(F) Fellow of the College of Preceptors (now the College of Teachers).
(G) UK Register of Expert Witnesses.
(H) The Expert Witness Directory.
(I) Member of the Academy of Expert Witnesses.
(J) Member of Expert Witness.
(K) APIL Expert Witness Database.
(L) AVMA Database.
(M) Chartered Scientist of British Psychological Society

Southern England Psychological Services

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"At the present time, the sexually abused child is generally considered to be the victim," though the child may initiate sexual encounters by 'seducing' the adult."

Gardner, Richard A., Child Custody Litigation (1986), p.93

Sexualizing children can have procreative purposes, because a sexualized child is more likely to reproduce at an earlier age. "The younger the survival machine at the time sexual urges appear, the longer will be the span of procreative capacity, and the greater the likelihood the individual will create more survival machines in the next generation."

Gardner, Richard A., True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse (1992), pp.24-25

"It is of interest that of all the ancient peoples it may very well be that the Jews were the only ones who were punitive toward pedophiles."

Ibid. pp.46-47

Many child advocates are "charlatans, and/or psychopaths, and/or incompetents."

Ibid. p.526

"It is extremely important for therapists to appreciate that the child who has been genuinely abused may not need psychotherapeutic intervention."

Ibid. p.535

"There is a whole continuum that must be considered here, from those children who were coerced and who gained no pleasure (and might even be considered to have been raped) to those who enjoyed immensely (with orgastic responses) the sexual activities."

Ibid. p.548

"Older children may be helped to appreciate that sexual encounters between an adult and a child are not universally considered to be reprehensible act. The child might be told about other societies in which such behavior was and is considered normal. The child might be helped to appreciate the wisdom of Shakespeare's Hamlet, who said, 'Nothing's either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' In such discussions the child has to be helped to appreciate that we have in our society an exaggeratedly punitive and moralistic attitude about adult-child sexual encounters."

Ibid. p.549

"If the mother has reacted to the abuse in a hysterical fashion, or used it as an excuse for a campaign of denigration of the father, then the therapist does well to try and 'sober her up'... Her hysterics... will contribute to the child's feeling that a heinous crime has been committed and will thereby lessen the likelihood of any kind of rapproachment with the father. One has to do everything possible to help her put the 'crime' in proper perspective. She has to be helped to appreciate that in most societies in the history of the world, such behavior was ubiquitous, and this is still the case."

Ibid. p.584-585

"Mothers who have been sexually abused as children may have residual anger toward her molesting father or other sexual molester, and this may be interfering with her relationship with her husband. This should be explored in depth, and she should be helped to reduce such residual anger... Perhaps she can be helped to appreciate that in the history of the world his behavior has probably been more common than the restrained behavior of those who do not sexually abuse their children."

Ibid. p.585

"It is likely that the mother has sexual problems... In many cases she herself was sexually molested as a child... She may never have achieved an orgasm -- in spite of the fact that she was sexually molested, in spite of the fact that she had many lovers, and in spite of the fact that she is now married. The therapist, then, does well to try to help her achieve such gratification. Verbal statements about the pleasures of orgastic response are not likely to prove very useful. One has to encourage experiences, under proper situations of relaxation, which will enable her to achieve the goal of orgastic response... Vibrators can be extremely useful in this regard, and one must try to overcome any inhibition she may have with regard to their use... her own diminished guilt over masturbation will make it easier for her to encourage the practice in her daughter, if this is warranted. And her increased sexuality may lessen the need for her husband to return to their daughter for sexual gratification."

Ibid. pp.584-585

"If he [the molesting father] doesn't know this already, he has to be helped to appreciate that pedophilia has been considered the norm by the vast majority of individuals in the history of the world. He has to be helped to appreciate that, even today, it is a widespread and accepted practice among literally billions of people. He has to appreciate that in our Western society especially, we take a very punitive and moralistic attitude toward such inclinations... He has had a certain amount of back [sic] luck with regard to the place and time he was born with regard to social attitudes toward pedophilia. However, these are not reasons to condemn himself."

Ibid. pp.593

"Of relevance here is the belief by many of these therapists that a sexual encounter between an adult and a child -- no matter how short, no matter how tender, loving, and non-painful -- automatically and predictably must be psychologically traumatic to the child... The determinant as to whether the experience will be traumatic is the social attitude toward these encounters."

Ibid. pp.670-71

"I believe it is reasonable to say that at this time there are millions of people in the United States who are either directly accusing or supporting false sex-abuse accusations and/or are reacting in an extremely exaggerated fashion to situations in which bona fide sex abuse has occurred."

Ibid. p.688

Mandated reporting of child abuse has resulted in the "reporting of the most frivolous and absurd accusations by two- and three-year-olds, vengeful former wives, hysterical mothers of nursery school children, and severely disturbed women against their elderly fathers."

Gardner, Richard A., Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 5(1), p.26

"We need well-publicized civil lawsuits against incompetent and/or overzealous psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, child protection workers, 'child advocates,' police, and detectives whose ineptitude has promulgated a false accusation."

Ibid. p.26

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Paedophiles can boldly and courageously affirm what they choose. They can say that what they want is to find the best way to love. . . . Paedophiles can make the assertion that the pursuit of intimacy and love is what they choose. With boldness they can say, "I believe this is in fact part of God's will. --Dr. Ralph Underwager in this interview with Paidika,
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Dr. Ralph Underwager earned his masters of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, and has been, since 1974, Director of the Institute for Psychological Therapies in Northfield, Minnesota. Besides being a staff psychologist in a clinic, Dr. Underwager has also been a pastor at Lutheran churches in Iowa and Minnesota. He is a member of the National Council for Children's Rights, the American Psychological Association, the Lutheran Academy for Scholarship, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, among others.
Hollida Wakefield received her M.A., from the University of Maryland, where she also completed the course work for her Ph.D. She has worked as an elementary school teacher, a college psychology instructor, and since 1976 as a staff psychologist at the Institute of Psychological Therapies. Her memberships include the National Council for Children's Rights, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, and the American College of Forensic Psychology. She and Dr. Underwager are married.
Ms. Wakefield and Dr. Underwager are the publishers of the journal, "Issues in Child Abuse Accusations." They co-edited the volumes: "Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse" and "The Real World of Child Interrogations." They have written numerous articles on the interrogation of children, the role of the psychologist in assessing child abuse cases, the evaluation of child witnesses, and the manipulation of the child abuse system. They regularly appear as expert witnesses and give training sessions to jurists, psychologists, and laymen.
This interview was conducted in Amsterdam in June 1991 by "Paidika," Editor-in-Chief, Joseph Geraci.

THE MATRIX

2011-12-17T01:52:00.000-08:00

I watched half of The Matrix last night, I am going to watch the other half tonight. I wish I had seen this film before.

It reminded me of when I first awoke to the realisation that the Secret Family Courts were stealing children and giving them to people to do vile things to. When I first got dragged through the Secret Family Courts I didn't know what was happening, I was so confused, because it made no sense to me the horrible way I was being treated. It didn't make sense to any of my friends either, people kept saying "Why are they doing this to you?" and I just kept saying "I don't know!"

It made no sense at all for the West Midlands Court Circuit to spend so much time and money on trying to destroy me. At that time, I believed that courts were places where people who had done something bad had to go, to be judged and punished. I thought that prison was where bad people went. I thought that judges were really clever and good people, and that a judge would never tell a lie or do a wicked thing on purpose. I thought solicitors and lawyers were people who knew all about the laws and helped the judges make sure that bad people didn't get away with bad things. I thought the Governments made the laws in Parliament, to make the country works properly, to make everyone have enough to eat and somewhere to live and not be robbed and things like that. I thought the Queen was in charge of all the country and had to read through all the laws and check they were ok and sign them so that they could be passed. I thought the Queen was like a sort of a judge, a very very clever woman who knew about all the laws and things that were going on. I was terribly terribly naive.

The Matrix is a really interesting film. I have only watched half of it, but it is all about machines taking over the world, and enslaving all the human beings. The people are plugged into an alternate reality program so they don't realise they are enslaved. They live in pink goo all plugged up to machinary, and the machines need them as slaves to generate electricity for the machines to work.

It sounds a bit mad, but it is sort of like the satanic activity that is going on. People don't realise they are working for the devil. They have dark desires (ie paedophilia) and they plot against God's children, and those who try to stop children getting hurt, ie Stuart Syvret, who is right now in La Moye prison at St Brelade, put there for trying to bring child abusers to justice. Some of the people who plotted against him, they aren't paedophiles, but the paedophiles have tricked them into helping them get Stuart in jail, because they have lied and said that Stuart is an anachist. Stuart isn't an anachist at all, he's just a man who wanted to see the laws and the Government working properly, and fairly, so that the laws were applied to everyone, with no exceptions.

Anyway, I am going to watch the rest of the Matrix tonight.

WHY I OCCUPY BY MATTHEW HORNE

2011-12-16T11:18:00.000-08:00

I AM REPOSTING THIS, AS I THINK AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE OUGHT TO READ IT

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Why I Occupy

My name is Matthew Horne, I come from a small town in the North West called Colne, Lancashire.

I have worked in many fields and they are as follows:

Joiner at Bowden homes – building timber-framed housing in the north-west and Wales.
The military – infantry signaller with the 1st battalion Scots guards for 4 years from the age of 17 ½ – 22. I trooped the colour in 2007, have performed countless guard duties in the name of Queen and country and completed one tour of Iraq; Nov 2007 – June 2008 (Op Tellic 11)
Taught English in Thailand for a year and a half at a private school called Somapa Nussorn. Teaching up to 90 students aged 10-11 in 3 different classes as part of the intensive English program.
Freelance computer technician and website developer, maintainer and owner.

Qualifications

NVQ level 3 in Telecommunications

Celta – Cert 4 TESOL ( English language)

NVQ level 2 – Public services

Key skills level 2 Maths, English, IT

Why I occupy

At Occupy London I work in the Tech Group, ensuring continuation of power, lighting, communications as well as reducing the eco footprint. I also perform active roles in Tranquilly where necessary as well as helping out other working groups where my experience is needed. I also work for my own organisation called Veterans for Peace which is aimed at highlighting the reality of war and providing the public with factual information about what they are supporting and providing help for other veterans to speak and be heard. Promoting peace through non violent action. I am responsible for supporting the website veteransforpeace.org.uk as well as farangrakthailand.com and help spearhead publicity for our organisation as an early co-founder.

St Pauls has provided me with a place to utilise my skills and continue to work irrespective of the fact I don’t get paid. It has also provided a platform with which to speak out about the wars and how the financial system backed by governments and corporations have taken us down the path to war several times in pursuit of profit. There is a lot of injustice that governments, corporations as well as those that fund it need to be held accountable for. 1.4 million Iraqis died, who is responsible for that? It has also helped rebuild my faith in humanity, that all is not lost, and that there are many other like-minded people out there who wish to change the world for the better.

I have provided the camp with huge amounts of input, including restructuring the financial system in which we are using. I have provided my telecoms, electrical and computer skills to further the cause. I help out with the security structure that is in place. I have made public appearances and public speeches to help educate and highlight social injustice instigated by those at the top. I have been implementing my health and safety knowledge, worked on policies and ideas, informed larger audiences with social media, provided security and integrity for valuable equipment.

The removal of tents at St Pauls will not make the problems go away, it is easy to brush something under the carpet, but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Until governments, corporations and the financial institutions open up dialogue for real change and end the corruption in which has hijacked our democracy, I believe the camp should stay and removing it will just highlight the ignorance of the above, the state of our democracy, freedom of speech and expression.

Personal

Since my return to the UK in March 2011 from Thailand I searched hard to secure work so that my fiancée would be able to return to the UK, I met her in the UK during my service in the army, she was studying at university as PA and business English, we have now been together for 4 years but due to the discriminating process of immigration I am being forced to comply with certain regulations such as the large sum of £810 to the border agency and the cost of the clearance certificate as well as legal costs. I feel that this is unfair as it breaches my right to a family life. I tried very hard to secure work but due to the current economic environment, I have been unable to find anything secure enough to satisfy immigration rules. What is wrong with simply proving our relationship and granting her the right to stay? We have all the evidence, but lack the funding which is no fault of my own.

I tried to join the BT apprenticeship program, but was rejected due to not having GCSE maths even though I have 4 years experience in telecommunications. The 3 hours I spent filling out the form was wasted as it didn’t even reach the eyes of another human being. Out of desperation I sought alternative means of funding by working for myself fixing computers, it made some money but not much. I have had many sleepless nights worrying about how I am going to solve this money related issue, the banks refused to re mortgage my home even though there is plenty of equity. The £7000 which could be released would have solved my problem of getting her over here as it would have satisfied immigration’s demand of supporting ones self. If I were a politician I would have been able to avoid all this process due to status, but as I am just a normal person I am denied my rights.

I had a job in Thailand teaching English which I enjoyed but once again political demands of needing a degree to stay permanently meant that I could no longer stay and had to leave or face jail and deportation. Even though I have the capacity to develop in many fields with experience in many working environments; the fact that I lack GCSEs is used against me. The processes of automatic emailing systems which use algorithms to detect patterns of suitability rely on key words in order to determine if someone is acceptable to be employed, overriding the human contact when attempting to gain employment. Also I wish to understand why after the death of 1.4 million Iraqis no one has been charged for these crime against humanity. This is the worst form of racism. Racism was used as a tool to alienate and dehumanize the Iraqi people so that soldiers could justify their actions. Tony Blair walks free while millions suffer due to his actions. Indiscriminate killings go on ignored while those who bankrolled it live in luxury. My personal experience of war and discrimination led me to seek justice and it is something that I will continue to fight for now until death. We live in a world in which money equals power and those who have no money are kicked aside as unproductive, lazy and idle.

I could be very productive but I am denied my rights to a decent job, one that allows me to fulfil my potential and live a decent life. I served my country, but my country does not serve me, it has kicked me aside and refused to help me in any way to do the right thing and grant me permission have my family life. The haunted nights and images of injustice seen in Iraq have left their mark deep in my mind. There is a darker side to our governments, backed by corporations and financial institutions who put aside humanity and compassion because it is seen to yield low profits. Millions live in misery at the hands of these people, including myself. The only way to clear my conscience it to seek the truth and open up this dark chapter of a system built by a ruling class.

The occupy movement has provided a platform in which people can stand and be heard. The countless years of ignorance by our governments shows an out of touch system which has no concept of how the rest of us live. They make decisions on our behalf, but when we object they simply carry on like we are not there. Only when they want our votes do they seek to connect to the public. The Iraq war was heavily opposed by over 90% of the population and yet they used our name to wage an illegal war, damaging the good people of this country and projecting an image around the world that we are a warmongering nation which is simply not true, many here do not hope for war. We send our young soldiers to do the dirty work with strong reasons to believe that corporations are influencing governments’ decisions to declare war in the first place.

Why do we not go to countries that have no resources? Because it is not profitable, then the British people are misinformed and mislead to support what our soldiers are doing, but if only they knew the truth. To add to insult we are marked as heroes. There is nothing heroic about busting down someone’s door and raiding the inhabitants, scaring them to death, dragging the men away to unknown locations, torturing them, knowing they are innocent. There is nothing heroic about bombing someone’s home and killing everyone inside simply based on suspicion.

There is nothing heroic about driving down a road and getting blown up by a road side bomb and losing your legs, and it is certainly not heroic coming home in a box. Soldiers do not sacrifice, they are sacrificed. This is what people need to know. They deserve the truth, the families of those who have lost loved ones deserve to know why their husband, father, wife, daughter or son died and for the real reasons behind the war. It did not take me long to see through the smoke and mirrors to know what was really happening, and it is my duty to protect the British people, and to seek justice for the millions of Iraqis who suffered at our hands.

No amount of years will ever make them forget what we did; we were worse that Saddam and this government knows it, corporations don’t care about it. Halliburton stated themselves, “Good for business, bad for the people”. There were more private security in Iraq than British soldiers, these are mercenaries that kill anything and everything and are not held accountable, like BlackWater, who have yet again changed their name due to the reputation they developed in Iraq; they are an illegal organisation and justice must be done. The lies must stop. Iran is looking like the next target, how many more must die before enough is enough? Who are we to judge others, who are we to go to their land and tell them what to do and what to think? If we continue down this path of declaring war after war, then justice will one day come to us.

I have sacrificed all my comforts and put aside my personal priorities in pursuit of justice which led me to join Veterans for Peace. To sum it up, I have sacrificed everything, because I am not the most important thing in my life.

There is no one word to describe this movement, it is a symbol of freedom, justice, community and humanity.

Matthew Horne

Wage Peace

ENOUGH OF THE NASTINESS

2011-12-16T09:55:00.000-08:00

The paedophile gangsters (some of them very high in authority unfortunatly) are doing 99% of people's heads in, it's pretty horrific how just a very few bad eggs can stink the whole place out.

Well, pretty soon now, they will either be in jail or in hell. The ones that repent and turn their lives round, they are the smart ones, they might end up in jail now, but it's better to take your punishment now than later, when the Lord gets back. No-one will escape judgement, every one of us will be judged. The wise amongst us will already have invited the Lord into our lives, to make us fit for heaven. The fools say "There is no God" and carry on doing disgusting things.

Well, they won't be able to make the excuse that they didn't know, because I've been nagging them again and again and again to repent and be saved, but all I get from them is "You're a nutter" and "You should be in a lunatic asylum" ect ect ect. It's a waste of time trying to get through to people like that, you might as well shout at a brick wall, for all the good it will do. They're there again now, looking forward to Christmas, except they hate Christ, they despise Him, and they hate all his friends as well.

Anyway, enough of that for now. I am reading the Radio Times, in the hope that there will be some ballet on this Christmas, I want to go to see War Horse at the cinema, but there are usually some nice films on TV as well. I see they are doing another version of Charles Dickens Great Expectations. I wish they would do Dombey and Son as that is one of my favourite Dickens books.

I have found the page with the Christmas ballet, they are doing Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake again, what a dissapointment, of all the lovely versions they could have chosen of that beautiful romantic love story they have to go and pick the horrible version which is all about getting smashed on heroin. Well I won't be watching it, what a dead loss, you can't watch that rubbish with your kids.

At least there are some lovely things to watch on YouTube.

I used to love watching the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films on Saturday morning.

Judy Garland had such an expressive face.

Danny Kaye was very funny

I love the Suffragette song from Mary Poppins