But it’s
also deaf to the citizenry’s rights, dumb about threats to liberty,
unable to smell mendacity, and acquiring a taste for privilege
Smile all you like, you’re still
a Digger & a Ginger
The Slog: Another day goes by, and the jolly romp of those above the law
continues with ever broader smiles. How about this for a “free press”
snippet from yesterday’s Guardian:
‘The trial of former News International chief executive Rebekah
Brooks has been delayed by seven weeks….The trial will now not start
until 28 October – after Mr Justice Saunders adjourned the case for
legal reasons at a hearing in the Old Bailey on Wednesday. Those reasons
cannot be reported.’
I understand sub judice as well as the next
man, but in our current ‘culture’ of secret privilege, I think we
deserve to know just a little more than this. Brooks was charged nearly thirteen months ago,
so one wonders why “legal reasons” have suddenly popped up. And while I
can appreciate that during house conveyance, it is standard practice
for idiot legals to find a problem on the day of exchange, this isn’t
really what we’re talking about here.
There’s already evidence of an attempt some
months back to delay the course of justice, when somebody leaked a
non-story about two people close to David Cameron “but not working
inside Number Ten” having an affair. That seemed to have an air of
trying to build a head of steam for a mistrial caper, but nobody took
the bait. Now we have another mysterious ‘new element’. As they say,
“This is a hold-up” – but as Newscorp is used to asking people to hand
over money at gunpoint, perhaps there is nothing to see here…move along
please, hythangyoo.
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Sometimes things are held up, and at others they are set aside. More than 7m people are in line to share a £1.3bn compensation pot
after Britain’s biggest banks agreed to foot the bill for years of
mis-selling credit card insurance cover. Just get a grip of these
further numbers: the Financial Conduct Regulator revealed that 13 banks and building societies
such as Barclays and Bank of Scotland will take part in the
compensation scheme. These banks all referred customers applying for
cards to CPP, which sold card protection and ID fraud cover judged
useless by the City regulator last year….and which, quite obviously, all thirteen institutions knew about. CPP itself has made a provision for compensation of £29m. That amount is almost twice the loss CPP announced yesterday.
But with his bare face hanging out, CPP
chief executive Paul Stobart admitted the company would be better off if
only a small number of customers eligible for redress filed a
claim….because if they did, “it would crush us”. Rushing spring streams
of tears are pouring down my cheeks. And talking of cheek, Stobart’s
former partner in the racket, founder Hamish Ogston, insisted, “It’s
bollocks. There’s never been a compensation redress scheme in history
where it’s been 100 per cent.” Really Hamish? Well, there’s a first time
for everything, you sh*thead.
As you’d expect in any cosy little club
where the police dare not tread, the CPP fraudsters – and by all means
call your lawyer Hamish, because that’s what you are, apart from a moron
– are being baled out by the banks.
Neither fraudster will be asked to pay
anything back. Neither man has been charged with anything. No banker
complicity in the scam is to be investigated. Nobody is going to jail.
Everybody appears to be happy about this. Welcome once again to Fool
Britannia.
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Boris Johnson, meanwhile, is keen to start “a new career writing fiction”. One could scarcely call this a new
career for BoJo, as his Mayoral report on Co2 emissions ploughed into
the atmosphere of London by a new generation of ‘green’ taxis has since
been shown (by his fellow-Tory at Defra) to be utter fiction from
beginning to end. How lucky for Tim Yeo, therefore, that his Tory Party
mate Boris happened to underestimate the emissions in favour of, um….Tim
Yeo’s taxis.
What Mayor Johnson perpetrated in that
instance was first, gross misuse of a major public office (he passed a
law forcing taxi drivers to buy the Yeomobiles) and second, a fraud
against both these knights of the road and the capital’s electorate. He
has not been any of the following: censured, cautioned, questioned,
arrested, charged, put on trial or sent to prison. Neither has Tim Yeo,
but he did ask for 48,901 other offences to be taken into account
offshore and hidden from view.
You can follow the full ignominy of Johnson’s Progress here at Borisconi the Barbarian.
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All of this would be bad enough if it simply
involved these appalling hobgoblins having no sense of honour or
respect or conscience….and walking free. Yesterday an American was
sentenced to thirty-five years in jail for obeying his conscience.
Nobody in this saga wound up with their just desserts: but I know of she
for whom my first custard pie would be reserved: custard and ginger
hair have enormous potential for cruel humour, I fancy.
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