It looks as though the arguement about the numbers of immigrants in the workforce is set to continue. The government have tonight come out fighting, and defending their "revised" figures, despite figures from the National Statistician saying that the true figure could be as much as 1.5million. But, please think again, we believe that these figures are still wrong, very wrong.   more »

There is one set of laws for the common wee folk and another set of laws for the godlike rulers and overseers. So thinks Meredydd Hughes, Britain’s most senior traffic cop who was allegedly caught driving at 90mph in a 60mph zone in North Wales while on holiday last May..   more »

Am having to take care of a few 'family' problems at present which are taking up both my time and full attention. It is essential that I deal with these matters, so for the next week or so blogging will be a little light.

Despite multiple attempts by the police to rubbish Tim Ireland's legal warning off the record or downplay it in the media, Mark Thomas pressed the matter and the police were forced to admit that if he wore a red nose without permission he could indeed be arrested for an having unauthorised demonstration.   more »

Great piece from Iain Dale regarding Gerald Howarth MP and the Duke of Edinburgh. Well said. We have to concur with the Duke.   more »

London is the capital of United Kingdom
London is capital of the constituent country England
Greenwich in London is the home of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

Sunday, 28 October 2007, 01:59:59		+1 hour	BST
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 01:00:00		No offset	GMT

or for those of a Military nature, Zulu time.

the Bill’s underlying assumption: that we essentially know who is breaking the law, but we do not have enough evidence to prove it, so we will make legislation that means that we do not have to come up with such evidence, because we can restrict those people’s liberty severely without needing to prove that they have done anything wrong.   more »

Do you get the feeling that we have heard this before somewhere?? THE French parliament today definitively adopted an immigration bill that has sparked angry debate for introducing DNA testing of foreigners who want to join relatives in France.   more »

I came across this video, for which we must thank our good friends Common Purpose, while trawling the Internet yesterday. And what a little gem it is! Business leaders and senior police and army figures are shown appreciating the values of Sikh temples, contemporary dance groups, children’s rescue centres and sundry other ‘diverse’ environments and cultures. But for what purpose, beyond the common purpose that Common Purpose itself seems remarkably reluctant to reveal?   more »

We reprint in full an open letter to the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband from Prodicus. I write to explain why I shall be among thousands of angry and despairing British citizens attending the Referendum Rally in London on Saturday 27th October and why I and others now urge our fellow citizens to overturn hundreds of years of highly developed Parliamentary tradition and demand a national plebiscite on the Reform Treaty.   more »

A radical plan to persuade people to stop smoking, take more exercise and change their diets was proposed last night by a leading Government adviser. Professor Le Grand said instead of requiring people to make healthy choices suggested a smoking permit, which smokers would have to produce when buying cigarettes, and an "exercise hour" to be provided by all large companies   more »

For the sixth night in a row, Muslims in Amsterdam are torching cars, following the death of a Muslim who burst into a police station and stabbed two officers: Violence flares again in Amsterdam.   more »

The Levi-Prodi law lays out that anyone with a blog or a website has to register it with the ROC, a register of the Communications Authority, produce certificates, pay a tax, even if they provide information without any intention to make money, to get a publishing company and to have a journalist who is on the register of professionals as the responsible director.   more »

Medical records and other highly personal details of British citizens' lives are to be handed to foreign governments under a right-to-snoop deal with Europe. Britain will also give our European partners unprecedented access to details of our sex lives, religious, philosophical and political beliefs and trade union membership. Under new judicial co-operation rules, European authorities --including government departments, police and local councils - will be able to demand intimate background checks on victims of crime, witnesses and informants, as well as suspects.   more »

New English holiday to be announced   more »

What is treason exactly? Why is it so important that it is more vile than murder? Who brings charges of treason? I have been looking into this matter of treason and trying to answer these questions. If treason has been committed by the powers temporally in charge of running the affairs of the nation , how does a nation put a stop to it?   more »

The Mail on Sunday tells us that plans to use fingerprint scanners to control entry to the Commons have been abandoned over fears that terrorists could cut off an MP's finger to get inside. Security advisers have warned that a suicide bomber would have no compunction about removing a politician's finger to fool scanners. I am rather inclined to agree with them, so in order to pre-empt such a situation arising   more »

Have you been wondering why our government want to gather all our data together, the NHS spine, the ID cards, the National Identity Register, Biometric Passports, the PNC, the DNA register, and to share it with everyone. Then read this. And because like most people in most countries, we tend not to look beyond our own borders, don't be surprised when we do, that we see that the same laws, the same information gathering, the same ID cards etc are being enacted right across Europe, the USA, Australia and NZ and many other westernised countries.   more »

In these days of lies, corruption and treason by our politicians, we trust that ALL members of the Armed Services remember their oath, to serve and defend our Monarch, Nation and her People.   more »

For those English patriots who will watch the Rugby this evening.   more »

The European Empire. Is there a political solution? Reading this posted on the comment section of the Express there is'nt one.   more »

Tony Blair has been placed in the frame to become the first permanent President of the EU after France launched a campaign to install him in the powerful new Brussels job. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, touted the former Prime Minister as his preferred candidate after Gordon Brown and fellow leaders agreed the EU Reform Treaty, which establishes the new post from January 2009.   more »

Following on from my piece earlier this week about where NuLab gets its ideas from....DK has come up with this revealing piece. Today I was reading a book. And that book reminded me of a man that I had not thought of for a very long time. The man's name was Alphonse Bertillon. Alphonse Bertillon (April 23, 1853—February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher...   more »

This story illuminates a small corner of how our legislators and our Executive function – apparently, by mistake mislaying an Act of Parliament. Now that treason rears it’s ugly head .. this comical nonsense takes on a new and deeper significance.   more »

it would it be nice if our elected representatives were required to be honest? Well, a private member's bill has just been published which, if it became law, would make it an offence for MPs, members of the devolved assemblies, MEPs and elected mayors (or agents acting on their behalf) to make, or publish a statement they know to be false, misleading, or "deceptive in a material particular".   more »

This is nice work if you can get it. I calculate based upon the various recess periods that our overpaid, overbearing, arrogant and in the main obnoxious MP's and Lords work on average about 6 months in the year. That is of course just the terms times, but even then there is little obligation on the MP's to actually turn up, and many of them just don't both even doing that.   more »

David Miliband, the foreign secretary wants an apology after a Labour MP compared his approach to the new EU treaty to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Germany.   more »

As Britain moves further and further into a totalitarian state, and it is totalitarian, almost on a daily basis we are faced with another ban of some kind or another. Bans on various activities for the population are a classic sign of a totalitarian state, as is social engineering, by those who believe that they know best what is good for the people, remove their ability to think and choose for themselves and rule their lives with total rules, total laws which must be followed to the letter. That is totalitarianism. But where have NuLabs social ideas come from.   more »

There has been a virtual media blackout on the conduct of major military exercises by both Russia and the US. . Reminiscent of the Cold War, Russia and America are conducting major war games simultaneously. The Russian Air Force will be conducting major military exercises over a large part of its territory from the 16th to the 30th of October. These Russian exercises coincide chronologically with the conduct of major US sponsored war games under Vigilant Shield 08, which are slated to take place from the 15th to the 20th of October.   more »

institutional relations between the English regions and Whitehall in the post-1997 era were found to rely heavily on ad hoc forms of contact. The regions in England are still viewed as a ‘burden’ and a network form of governance has not yet replaced the Westminster model. That last paragraph sums up Common Purpose.   more »

Iain Dale is running with a story which few quite understand. He says: It seems to be completely mad that ITV wish to but their regions from 12 to 9. ITV Meridian plans to axe the programme which serves the South East and replace it with one which covers an area from Southend to Weymouth, and up to Swindon. At a time when the internet means that localised services are expanding all the time, ITV is moving to centralise their news operations. Perhaps the day of local TV news really is over.   more »

Vanessa Alarcon saw them at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square in Washington last month. "I heard someone say: 'Oh my god, look at those'," the university student recalled. "I look up and I'm like, 'What the hell is that?' They looked kind of like dragonflies or little helicopters. But those are not insects." Bernard Crane saw them, too. "I'd never seen anything like it in my life," the Washington lawyer said. "I thought: 'Is that mechanical, or is that alive?' "   more »

A bit of Kipling, a warning our Brussels masters ought to heed?   more »

Iain Dale has posted that the Fixed Term Parliament website is now live, and is to back up the Bill put forward by David Howarth MP.   more »

As we have written before, the Al Gore film which has been used to spread alarm around the world, set up a scam of a global trading system in carbon credits, politically indoctrinate school children and divert attention away from the Authoritarian moves by governments is uncovered - in court, to be a sham and huge global hoax.   more »

The reform treaty is soon to be finalised by the heads of the member states of Europe and will in effect create a new super state. The form and make up of that new super state is by anyone's calculations communist. The closer we look the more we see that the new form of communism is a mixture of Eurabia and the EUssr.   more »

The head of the BBC's governing body has criticised high-profile presenters such as Jeremy Paxman and John Humphrys for publicly attacking proposed cuts at the corporation according to the Telegraph. Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust, the former car park planner, (appointed by Tony Blair after he had completed his Common Purpose training and making a donation to the Labour Party), said that they should stay out of the debate about where the axe should fall.   more »

Our Government is still proposing to abandon people to the death squads for having worked for the troops it sent, in our name, to Iraq. The 'twelve month' stipulation is utterly unacceptable. In the Miliband statement, the Government committed itself to doing nothing to shelter people at risk from death squads for having worked for British soldiers or diplomats, unless they can prove that they have worked for the British for a continuous period of twelve months.   more »

The Destruction of Counties, departments and districts, as Regions take over, the demise of Parliament and the Reign of the Emperor of Europe. Throughout Europe, the changes have begun, and have been going on quietly for some time, since 1999. It only awaits ratification of the EU Constitution or what is now known as the Reform Treaty. England is to be split into 9 regions, the Ministers like Gauliters have already been appointed, and the County system will be abolished forever, along with the County Councils and local authorities. England will no longer be a country at all.   more »

This is a UKIP video that is worth watching if only for the fact that for the first time it tells the public what the other parties are afraid to. It mentions how MP's roles will be usurped or abolished by the EU, how Counties will be abolished, how local councils will be abolished (which explains why all the services have been farmed out to Quango's) and the role played by the Communist organisation 'Common Purpose' in the creation of the EU police state.   more »

Police need at least 50 days to question some terrorist suspects before charging them, the country's top officer has said. Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, said the current 28-day limit should be raised as a ''precaution". So we wonder what epidemic Sir Ian sees coming?.   more »

The General Register Office in England and Wales is to join the Identity and Passport Service, enabling the link up of identity cards, passports and life event information Responsibility for overseeing the recording of births, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales will transfer from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to the Identity and Passport Service from 1 April 2008. This coincides with a new status for the ONS, which will become independent of ministers in April. The IPS is an executive agency of the Home Office.   more »

Brown's Darling has delivered the awaited pre-budget speech. What a load of twaddle. At the moment I really cant be bothered to comment, knowing that its all lies anyway. Black = white, up = down, green = tax etc.. The para at the very end says it all: And in health, when added to its budget, this will deliver over 20 new hospitals, 150 new walk-in centres open 7 days a week, 100 new GP practices.. Promises to deliver more, reality close down more and more. lies lies lies. But you can read the full speech here.   more »

Unelected PM Gordon Brown, the king of smoke and mirrors, has outdone himself with the announcement he made to the commons yesterday, announcing that his government would be making special arrangements for Iraqi employees who are under threat of death by the militias. We publish below the Ministerial Statement from the Foreign Office with regard to that offer. Note the reference to the Gateway programme. Run jointly with UNHCR. They have to convince the UNHCR that they meet the criteria of the 1951 Convention and really do need resettlement.   more »

Henry Porter writes in The Observer: The art of government these days is to extend power without people noticing. Gordon Brown proclaims his solemn duty ‘to uphold freedom of speech, freedom of information and freedom of protest’, yet his ministers steal through the night to attack each one of these rights. We are moving with a sickening speed to a point where the reality of government intentions is the precise opposite of its presentational rhetoric.   more »

Meeting moved. It's now in the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House. The meeting on Iraqi Employees will take place on the same day (Tuesday 9th October) at the same time (7-9pm) with the same speakers in a changed venue very close to the original one: the Attlee Suite in Portcullis House (MPs' own office block, opposite Parliament).   more »

Gordon Brown may apparently be making a statement on Iraq to the House of Commons tomorrow afternoon, sometime after 2pm. He may or may not mention Britain’s Iraqi employees and the need of some of them for asylum. The Times article of Saturday promises nothing but gave the Government a big, positive headline: classic spin. so the meeting on Tuesday, October 9th is now more important than ever: we can win if we keep pushing. It’s at Parliament, Committee Room 14, St Stephen’s entrance, from 7-9pm.   more »

Michael Geist reported on the BBC news site about Chertoff’s presentation at this year’s global privacy conference, where the theme was “Terra Incognita”, the latin term for unknown lands: In a room full of privacy advocates, Chertoff came not with a peace offering, but rather a confrontational challenge.   more »

Remember a few weeks ago when lawyers acting for Uzbek billionaire and potential Arsenal buyer, Alisher Usmanov, had Craig’s Murray’s, Tim Ireland’s, Boris Johnson’s and a bunch of others’ websites taken down? And do you remember the wave of publicity those actions received? Well, they’re at it again, and this time it’s the mighty Indymedia on the receiving and of the threats.   more »

Gordon Brown has agreed to support US air strikes against Iran if the Islamic republic orchestrates large-scale attacks by militants against British or American forces in Iraq, according to senior Pentagon officials. A source close to Mr Brown said the two had talked about Iran but "we have not had this conversation".   more »

US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) has just announced plans for an anti-terrorism exercise called Vigilant Shield 2008. The series of exercises is mandated by the U.S. government to prepare, prevent and respond to any number of national crises that would call for the use of the military inside the United States. These linked exercises will take place October 15-20 and are being conducted throughout the United States and in conjunction with several partner nations including Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as the Territory of Guam.   more »

You are a back room bully, a man with no backbone, a man without honesty, a man who would rather use covert politics, who uses his network of charities and quangos to do his work secretly behind closed doors, you are a thief, a thief of our liberties, a thief of our sovereignty, and you a man who runs away at the first sign of trouble. In short you are a cowardly oppressor of free people. Your nicknames of Stalin and McCaverty are well earned.   more »

Let these names forever be associated with the word "cowardice." They "were only following orders." Let's hope they are never given worse orders to follow. Witness statements submitted to the inquest into the death of the schoolboy Jordon Lyon describe how Andrew Furnival, 24, and Helene Weatherburn, 20, "just stood there" after an angler pointed to the spot where Jordon had gone under the surface. They "were only following orders." tell us that Britain is now on the slippery slope to a form of socialism that is disgusting and abhorrent. History teaches us that 'only following orders' is no excuse.   more »

The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court's powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.   more »

The Common Purpose programme – what is it? Interest is now growing in the term Common Purpose. There has been extensive search interest on Google using the Common Purpose search string, throwing up what appears to be a massive network of sinister and secretive collaborations. Questions are now being asked in the House, and you can see here that an MP in particular has been querying how much each department has spent on Common Purpose.   more »

The New Mexico Spaceport Authority unveiled the design for the world's first public launching and landing site for space vehicles, Spaceport America, future home to Virgin Galactic and the X Prize cup   more »

Southwest Airlines said it will apologize to a passenger who was told he would be removed from a flight if he didn't change clothes, the second time in recent months the budget carrier has been forced to do so. Joe Winiecki, of Largo, Florida, boarded a Southwest flight in Columbus, Ohio, wearing a fictional fishing shop T-shirt which featured....   more »

The centralised computer system intended to handle the recruitment of junior doctors will not be used next year Recruitment to specialist training posts in England will instead be handled using the best elements of paper based, local processes adopted before the introduction of the Medical Training Application Service (Mtas).   more »

In the world of government where incompetence and corruption are rife, comes the story of the senior civil servant who is lavishly rewarded for having failed on nearly 70pct of the projects which his department have undertaken and overseen.   more »

One of the big things to come out of this year's Tory Conference seems to be Boy George's modest (yet eminently sensible) proposal to raise the threshold for Death Duty, and to make some cuts to the Stamp Duty payable on house purchases. Judging by the amount of irate comment and shrill bleating, not to mention the possible illegal use of the civil service for party purposes, it's obvious that these ideas have scared the NuLab apparat shitless.   more »

Many monks who escaped arrest in the junta's crackdown on mass demonstrations in Rangoon and Mandalay are returning to villages in ethnic areas and joining armed resistance groups. A Shan monk who escaped across the mountainous border into Thailand told a Thai TV reporter he intended leaving his order and enlisting in the Shan State Army-South, which is fighting the army in eastern Burma. If it can happen in Burma, it could happen in Britain.   more »

Gordon Brown has said that he wants to hear and listen to the citizens, but we know that what he really means is like minded people will be chosen to sit on his 'juries' and agree with him. In Brown's Britain the lies, deceipt and spin are all around us. Below are the words of a real citizen, a citizen like the rest of us, for whom the spin and lies must come to an end. He speaks from the heart, and his words are the words of the majority of the people in this land, and the noise is getting louder and louder. The British Lion is now awake Mr Brown, it is time for you to really begin to listen.   more »

Another way of engaging children is to make political structures themselves more accessible, and maybe the most effective way of doing this is through technology. technologies can also be used to harness young people's interest in political issues. IS THIS NOT ILLEGAL.   more »

THERE’S been a bit of a puzzler in The City over the past few weeks. Yes, it’s all this credit crunch thing again. If, as we are told, banks aren’t lending to each other any more, if commercial paper isn’t getting rolled over (both of which are broadly true), then why aren’t the banks lining up to borrow from the Bank of England?   more »

Whats going on in Russia that no-one wants to report on it ? This from Nourishing Obscurity   more »