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Too late Labour, you had your chance

Apr 21, ’10 8:41 AM

Nick Clegg and the Lib­eral Demo­crats are as much a part of the estab­lish­ment as the rest of them but they get my vote (my first in a UK elec­tion) for point­ing out the bleedin’ obvious:

Brown sys­tem­at­ic­ally blocked, and per­son­ally blocked, polit­ical reform. I think he is a des­per­ate politi­cian and I just do not believe him.

Brown and Labour, at heart, are author­it­ari­ans and deserve to be thrown on the dustheap. This is the best chance Bri­tain has had for elect­oral reform in a very long time.

Next time maybe Bri­tain will be able to vote in mod­ern demo­cracy under a mod­ern sys­tem of pro­por­tional rep­res­ent­a­tion (not the ruse that Brown was tout­ing, the altern­at­ive vote).

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War criminals looking after their own

Dec 16, ’09 11:32 PM

Soli­citor Daniel Machover, after politi­cians — includ­ing Gor­don Brown — hatch a plan to insu­late fel­low politi­cians from uni­ver­sal jur­is­dic­tion:

I feel hon­est revul­sion at the idea of a case where a judge has gran­ted an arrest war­rant and a politi­cian gets on the phone and apo­lo­gises. They have got to stay out of indi­vidual cases and legal decisions.

Of course Gor­don Brown and the gov­ern­ment he is a part of played an integ­ral role in the inva­sions of Iraq and Afgh­anistan. He’s just look­ing out for his own kind.

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Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq War is a whitewash before it starts

Nov 23, ’09 9:06 AM

The Chil­cot Inquiry into the Iraq war is already run­ning a pro­pa­ganda cam­paign that it “won’t be a whitewash.”

But you only need to real­ise that its mem­bers were appoin­ted by Gor­don Brown — one of the per­pet­rat­ors — and read the terms of ref­er­ence to real­ise this is a white­wash before it even starts.

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Jacqui Janes is wrong about why her son is dead

Nov 10, ’09 8:37 PM

Jac­qui Janes believes her son is dead because the war in Afgh­anistan is under-resourced.

He’s not. He’s dead because he was fight­ing an unjust war.

The stated aim of the inva­sion of Afgh­anistan was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda mem­bers. On 14 Octo­ber, 2001, the Taliban pub­licly offered to hand over Osama bin Laden to a third coun­try, provided the U.S. hal­ted the illegal bomb­ing of Afgh­anistan and pro­duced the neces­sary evid­ence about involve­ment of bin Laden or any of his asso­ci­ates in the 11 Septem­ber attacks.

George Bush junior dis­missed this offer and con­tin­ued with the offens­ive, put­ting an end to any pos­sib­il­ity of a poten­tially peace­ful, legal res­ol­u­tion to the events of 11 Septem­ber 2001.

The United Nations Secur­ity Coun­cil never author­ised the inva­sion of Afgh­anistan and it cer­tainly wasn’t an act of self-defence. It was an act of aggres­sion, the supreme inter­na­tional crime.

Neither George Bush nor Gor­don Brown had to go off to war, but Jac­qui Janes’ son did, and now he’s dead.

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Another whitewash hardly surprising

Jun 16, ’09 8:12 AM

If Gor­don Brown were to open the way for a truly inde­pend­ent and open inquiry into the inva­sion and occu­pa­tion of Iraq he would quite likely find him­self in the dock for war crimes.

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The evil legacy of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and New Labour

May 9, ’09 10:51 AM

Two things stand out as New Labour’s leg­acy: war of aggres­sion (the “supreme” war crime) and the worst inequal­ity of incomes since records began (another supreme crime con­sid­er­ing the dam­age it inflicts on every­body).

Tony Blair, Gor­don Brown and their con­spir­at­ors are little more than wolves in sheep’s cloth­ing and they’ve had much of the Labour Party and its sup­port­ers hood­winked for all these years.

Polly Toyn­bee — one of the hood­winked—may stamp her feet now but all she ends up doing is lay­ing bare how dys­func­tional Britain’s quasi-democracy is.

Because the UK is still stuck in the dark ages of plur­al­ity vot­ing (and New Labour broke its mani­festo pledge of elect­oral reform) con­trol of Bri­tain will simply pass from one wolf to another.

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Gordon Brown’s hypocrisy on North Korea

Apr 5, ’09 5:22 PM

Gor­don Brown, on BBC News today, called North Korea’s rocket launch “a breach of inter­na­tional obligations.”

Mean­while, under his lead­er­ship, Bri­tain con­tin­ues to flout a bind­ing legal require­ment — under the Nuc­lear Non-Proliferation Treaty—to move towards “com­plete dis­arm­a­ment under strict and effect­ive inter­na­tional control.”

‘One rule for us, one rule for every­body else.’

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Can you believe this guy?

Mar 22, ’09 1:32 PM

Under his and Blair’s lead­er­ship the eco­nomy tanks. What does he do? Blatantly tries to divert atten­tion by scream­ing “War on Ter­ror.” Little more than a pro­pa­ganda tool to take away the freedoms of the people of Britain.

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