A delegation from the Council of Europe is currently mulling whether to invoke international monitoring of British elections. The council normally monitors countries in the Balkans and the former USSR; the only western-European nation under examination is Monaco. The stench of corruption and alleged vote rigging has finally reached the noses of those bodies who monitor despot nations and third world countries.   more »

Connecting for Health is planning to begin the implementation of the Care Record Service (CRS) in the next few weeks A spokesperson for CfH, the agency in charge of England's NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), told GC News that trusts acting as early adopters are likely to begin using the CRS in the spring.For the first time everyone’s most up-to-date and confidential details are to be held on one massive database. Patient Doctor confidentiality gone forever.   more »

The first of the Big Brother card and database schemes (of which there are many) has finally been scrapped. Always punted as the poor entrant to the NIR the youth opportunity card will not now see the light of day. It appears that an early assessment of progress has caused the DfES to scrap the scheme before it even got off the ground.   more »

TONY BLAIR is about to secretly sign Britain over to a federal Europe... FOREVER.The final act of Tony Blair will be to sell our nation to foreigners, without a referendum. THIS IS TREASON.   more »

Gordon Brown has been hard at work again. He has been working on even more schemes to take more and more of your money. Not content with controlling your movements, stopping people travelling freely around the UK, sharing all your personal secrets with an ever widening group of civil servants, companies and other interested parties (such as genetics experiments), he now wants to take whatever you have left when you are dead. Unless we stop this man now, Britain will be no better than Zimbabwe within 5 years.   more »

The protection society has against kleptocracy and plutocracy is largely dependent on the effectiveness of the rule of law to prevent political leaders abusing their powers, the free flow of information (necessary to properly identify government wrongdoers) and ability of the population to remove corrupt leaders from office.   more »

The Department for Transport has announced funding for local authorities to experiment with road pricing – despite major opposition to the scheme. The Department for Transport (DfT) said on 24 February 2007 that it has awarded more than £14m to support 10 areas across England developing proposals for the TIF.   more »

A leader in the Nazi biomedical vision, he thrived on experiments with genetic abnormalities. Even surpassing Hitler at times, Mengele has come to embody the archetype of Absolute Evil, perhaps because he so egregiously violated his professional oath to honor and preserve life.The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS's Spine database and using patient information to identify potentially willing drug test subjects.   more »

So, the net tightens.
 

The ineptitude of government departments ts is by design.
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Local Authority snoopers are being setup in the same way that the STASI began life, as a secret police force.

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The SOCA have been set up in exactly the same way that ...   more »

It reconciles the irreconcilable by not including the extravagantly generous pension obligations of the public service in its debt calculations—pension obligations that, properly accounted for, now amount to nearly 56 percent of GDP. Also not included is the government’s increasing resort to private finance of government institutions, which involves huge future expenditure obligations without the capital costs having to appear in the national accounts.   more »

UPDATED - Government has been so overwhelmed by the influences of the big consultancy groups over the past 6 or 7 years, that is has effectively become a management consultancy in its own right. No longer does government do anything, it just directs others to do it for them, or to outsource it, because it does not have the resources or expertise in house to fulfil its obligations, and service levels to you and me in every government department have fallen dramatically as a result.   more »

Are you in business? Do you do overseas trade? Do you use SWIFT to clear your transactions? Have you been wondering why American companies are winning contracts over British firms? Did Gordon Brown, or the Treasury, or the Bank of England tell you that the Americans now have all of your financial data?   more »

The head of the Royal Navy has warned that the service needs another £1bn to meet future foreign policy demands. RIGHT, HEADS UP CHAPS, now look, oi, put those soddin gin and tonic’s down and bloody well listen.   more »

The State Media service (BBC) is reporting that Mr Justice Beatson has quashed a control order on the grounds that a suspected terrorist? has been deprived of his liberty. The Home Secretary however has decided to ignore the Judge, and has issued a new control order whilst appealing the first.   more »

"The further back you look, the further forward you can see." (Winston Churchill) In July 1933, Germany under the National Socialists was embarking on a journey consolidating its power in a country that was virtually bankrupt. A review at the time by William Conrad Kessler, on July 15, 1933, and published in The American Economic Review show how Adolf Hitler intended to move forward and finance his new policies.   more »

The culture of spying on neighbours is being promoted across this land, like the creeping sickness of the Gestapo, KGB or the Stasi. As the latest news of the Government paying nearly £30 million of our tax money to train local authority smoking snoopers to spy in pubs and clubs and give them powers to fine on the spot, the anger amongst ordinary people is now beginning to reach a boiling point.   more »

Do you doubt where NuLab is taking this country? Do you ever wonder where the NuLab think tanks get all their ideas from? Everything they have done so far, they have stolen from the Nazi’s. As you will have seen from previous posts, much of the anti terror laws, police powers and powers given to other government agencies are almost identical to Nazi laws, especially the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, some of which could have been copied almost word for word from the Nazi Enabling Act.   more »

Are we in the process of setting up either a Secret Police force, or a Gestapo type political organisation in Britain. Whether intentional or not, lets explore the similarities between what we already know went before, and where this country is going now.   more »

The type of road charging is not up for discussion, should our dear leader decide to ignore the 1.5 million signatories to his petition system, and go ahead with a road charging scheme. The definition of an electronic road toll has already been spelt out by European Directives, and it would appear that they are more big brother centric that the UK.   more »

After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks dissolved the old police and sought the creation of Workers and Peasants' Militia under the supervision of the NKVD of the RSFSR. In 2007 Thousands of staff are being trained to police the smoking ban in bars, restaurants and shops in England. More effort will be put into catching smokers than looking for burglars, muggers, thieves and robbers, and it will all be based on targets.   more »

Lord Falconer said in a speech today "In overcoming terrorism, policy must come first and the law second." Since the tragedy of 9/11, both the US and British governments have embarked upon a policy of ruling using the Politic of Fear.   more »

Environment Secretary David Miliband has been urged by a senior Labour MP to challenge Chancellor Gordon Brown for the party leadership. Former minister Frank Field said Mr Brown was too closely associated with Tony Blair's government and that he had "indelibly smudged" policy. The party should instead consider "jumping a generation"   more »

Following the MI5 shambols with the national security level warning emails, I have been using a Firefox plug-in that allows me to connect to the Home Office website that gives the same information. However, this evening I noticed that this had not been advising a security level for several hours, and put it down to the internet problems that I had been experiencing earlier in the day. So, I tried to connect directly to the Home Office site, and got this:   more »

Today we see two events, and last week a series of events, all reported in the press, but with very different levels of equality.   more »

The NHS is sick, the patient needs fixing. It needs new funds. It needs new funds not as before, money spent on administrators, on ‘consultants’ (and I don’t mean the medical kind), on IT projects, spin machines and smoke and mirrors accounting practices.   more »

Oil and gas production in the North Sea is now expected to be about 10 per cent lower over the next few years than previously thought, according to the annual survey from the UK Offshore Operators’ Association.   more »

I am an IT Project Manager by trade, so am on a daily basis used to the appliance of logic, and as such don’t believe in a series of apparently coincidental problems.   more »

The Conservatives have announced a firm policy, and it's good news for civil libertarians: They plan to scrap the ID cards project should they get into power. Even better, they are prepared to stand up to the lobbying of the ID industry, whose influence on this and related issues was brought to the fore last week thanks to John Higgins of Intellect (Link).   more »

Since the outbreak of Bird Flu at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, there has been a mire of information, counter information, mis information and speculation. It is time for the Minister in charge to make a definitive statement as to exactly what the rules are, what happened and what is going to happen.   more »

In a reference to released with no charge terror arrestee Abu Bakr’s claims of a police state, John Reid told the BBC'S Politics Show yesterday: "It's a completely absurd proposition, the idea that someone who is on, actually, a state-financed television station, having been released under the laws of our democratic, libertarian constitution, against the wishes of the police who wanted to hold him longer”.   more »

With the rhetoric and accusations mounting daily, the world media attention is currently on Iraq and the possibility of the war spreading to Iran. The speculation and the warnings of such an attack have been roundly condemned by groups as diverse as ex US generals and inter faith groups. What is currently going unnoticed is the US military build up in Japan.   more »

Gordon Brown is now running Britain. His grip on power is being consolidated as he waits for Tony Blair to formally resign and hand over the keys to No.10. Tony Blair has now been marginalised to the point that no new policy decisions are being made in No.10 Downing Street, all decisions regarding government are now processed and approved at No.11.   more »

n what is her second stupid statement in as many days, the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt tell us that if you Smoke or are Obese then the NHS will not provide treatment for you. On 8th Feb in an interview with Oonagh Blackman, PATRICIA Hewitt incredibly declared that NHS bed closures are a sign of success - because it means fewer people need care. In these two statements what she is really saying is that the NHS will only be providing services for people who are well and healthy.   more »

London Mayor Ken Livingston is going to be introducing new legislation. In the first move to use the IPCC report and the Stern Review to raise money on ‘green taxes’ the London Mayor Ken Livingston has prepared a bill for parliament to start charging based upon exhaust emissions in London. The scheme will allow TfL to charge drivers £25 per day, will cost £600million to set up, but deliver just a 0.3% improvement on air quality   more »

This blog has been quiet for a few days.

I have been in London on what should have been a single day trip, only to find that I could not return home as my village in the Brecon Beacons had been snowed in, and me out.

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Anton Setchell is the ACPO National Coordinator for Domestic Extremism, and in his press briefing regarding the Letter Bombs which have gone off over the past few days, declared that his role does not cover terrorism. I am now confused. I thought that when there was a campaign of terror going on, where bombs of any description were involved, that was called Terrorism.   more »

Ruth Kelly, Britain's communities secretary, launched on Wednesday a $9.9m fund for local politicians to use to counter the "false and pernicious" ideology of Muslim extremism. Ruth Kelly, I am disgusted. Disgusted with you, and disgusted with this government for allowing you to introduce this clearly racist fund.   more »

Reading about the stupidity of the government selection of technology for its flagship Biometric Passports, where the chips are only guaranteed for 2 years, but the passport is valid for 10, makes the point that most, if not all of the reforms currently underway are flawed.   more »

In a letter to David Davies in response to his putting the Government on notice to cancel the ID cards project should a future Conservative government come to power, the IT Industry association Intellect, threatened to introduce stronger break clauses into its contracts with this government.   more »

Last week I spotted this General Dynamics advertisement posted on an on-line job site. Programme Manager required to lead a new programme providing a digitised communications system for a North African Country.   more »

I remember seeing a film many years ago, about Mafia guys who were discussing how someone was going to get whacked. The lead was telling the target, ‘when they come for you, they will come with smiles on their faces, like friends’ 10 years ago, NuLabour came to us, with smiles on their faces, like friends.   more »

There was a press release today on behalf of the ACPO, (Association of Chief Police Officers), with regard to wanting the current period of detention without charge extended to 90 days. This press release shows quite unequivocally that the Police have at senior levels become a political organisation, deciding for themselves that they should have powers, and getting involved in party politic policy making in order to obtain them.   more »

According to David Milliband, the debate about climate change is over, but we think that the debate is only just beginning. We would like to see some sensible policies coming out of government, policies that are going to carry our race into the next millennium, and refrain from using any of these reports for short term political and financial gain.   more »

Is the government deliberately trying to spread this virus to poultry right across our land, or are they just plain stupid. Is the Government trying to create another level of scare tactic to divert attention away from its other activities?.   more »

David Davis has written to Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, giving formal notice that an incoming Conservative administration would scrap the Government's costly ID card project.   more »

The news as being reported on BBC and Sky News is that a letter bomb has exploded in the central London offices of Capita Management, the company that runs the London Congestion Charging on behalf of TfL. We abhor the use of force in this manner, and condemn those who have undertaken this cowardly act.   more »

This has been a strange week, where events have moved quickly, where the infighting has now come to an end, and Blair is being thrown to the wolves. It is now clear that the executive power in Britain resides in No.11 Downing St, as Brown was meeting the Mexican president on an official visit to the UK during the week, as Tony Blair and his PMOS were being baited by the press next door.   more »

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In the first use of the new BIG BROTHER powers given to police, raids were carried out on 2 entire streets in Liverpool yesterday. Some 140 officers working with 14 different agencies have forcibly entered 30 addresses in the Gestapo style operation.   more »

This latest bit of NuLab planning has confirmed to me my worst fears. This government IS BIG BROTHER, and its intention is to control your life from birth to the grave.   more »

Government broke, commission Stern report, scare tactics, propaganda taught in schools, propaganda in the press (lets see how many opposing press items you can find), and generate TAXES, lots and lots of green TAXES.   more »

I got round to reading today that the Press Gazette was patting itself on the back for its campaign to stop or slow down the legislation to change the FOI Act by putting restrictions on requests by way of cost. Quite right that the Press Gazette and the Campaign for Freedom of Information along with many other campaigners and bloggers should have taken up the issue, but.... Sorry to say Press Gazette, you missed the important one.   more »

Is the BBC, Sky News, ITN and most of the print media in the pocket of this Labour Government.? We do believe that they are, and we also believe that they are heavily influenced by the office of Gordon Brown, for it is he who is the power house in government, not Tony Blair.   more »

The following Press release issued today by the Charity Commission. with regard to the Smith Institute.   more »

How Labour Party Policy planning is done. This is how they come up with the crazy ideas for technology and legislation. Its the only way I can describe what goes on.   more »