I agree with his analysis of Galloway, but when, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, your Prime Minister commits the “supreme war crime,” and you re-elect him, I’d say there’s a few voters in Britain willing to suffer fools.
“I have no expectation of justice from a group of Christian fundamentalist and Zionist activists under the chairmanship of a neocon George Bush who is pro-war. I come not as the accused but as the accuser.”
I was sitting right up the back of the bus this morning on my way to work, one of those buses where the second-to-back seat faces toward the back one. To my left was some other bloke and sitting on the seat facing us were two of route 29’s many goddesses, a joyful morning’s bus ride to be sure. Until, that is, someone farted.
As with the re-election of Bush Junior I couldn’t help but think, using the very arguments developed by the Blairites to support their bombing and invasion of Iraq, that you could formulate a pretty good argument for the bombing of Britain, or at least Westminster, to dispose of Britain’s very own elected war criminal.
Someone with the username magnacarta has posted a message on ACCforum.org today alleging that doctors and ACC employees have been scamming “significant” amounts of money out of the Crown entity “over some considerable period of time.” Although the website appears to have degenerated into a huge bitchin session and the allegations appear to be politically motivated, they’re also pretty sensational, which is a good enough reason to post them here.
If you’re the type who thinks stealing from corporations that extort billions out of the masses so their execs can get rich is, well, naughty, you should probably look away now in case a moral panic is induced.
Suggestion for next week’s headline, “Britain re-elects War Criminal!”
… we look for an American defeat in Iraq. Such a defeat would serve as a powerful deterrent to future unprovoked conflicts and would deliver a serious blow to the belief that aggression is a viable expression of foreign policy.
A reader over at frogblog explains the history behind and the justifications given for charging a rate of interest on student loans anything more than inflation. Not surprisingly the free-market fundies of Labour and ACT had a major part to play.
For those of you who don’t know May Day is a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the western labour movement.