THE TOP TEN THINGS UK PARLIAMENT WON’T TOUCH UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

Time to light the blue touch-paper?

By John Ward: There are certain injustices (especially in Britain) that keep on an on resurfacing. They usually appear first in the blogosphere and/or liberal-to-left press, and are duly dismissed by lying politicians as poppycock, scandalous, rumour, innuendo, hearsay, politically motivated and so on ad nauseam. Then about three years later, when nobody cares any more, they surface in the Establishment MSM as done deals.

When, for instance, rumours began to leak that the Telegraph had obtained damning information about Parliamentary expenses cheating, Lord Mandelson told a bevvy of microphones that it “is likely to turn out to be another fiction cooked up by the Tories and their friends at the Daily Telegraph”. When the reality of Newscorp phone hacking reared its ghastly head, Boris Johnson raged at “yet another load of Left-wing poppycock dreamt up by the socialists”. As neither Fondlebum nor Jobsworth are for the apologising, I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for one. And I definitely wouldn’t waste my breath asking for one.
A few weeks ago I harked back to some of this in relation to illegal surveillance during a piece about privacy invasion. Here’s one telling extract:

‘At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last Wednesday, NSA chief General Keith Alexander acknowledged for the first time that between 2010 and 2011, the spy agency collected location data on Americans as part of a secret pilot project…..For me, this is horribly reminiscent of Jacqui Smith (New Labour’s UK Home Secretary) lying her head off in 2009 about a “trial study” by GCHQ – while denying the donation of a £12bn budget to enable the completion – with ISP cooperation – of the installation of 24/7 monitoring of all UK citizen phone calls, texts, emails, blog content and site visits. In fact, the entire budget had already been spent, and its aims have now been achieved in full.’
I have never been in the slightest doubt that Smith lied to the Commons, because a retired but highly experienced security services officer – genuinely concerned about loss of liberties – told me at the time that what the Home Secretary described as a test set for the future was a budget already spent in the past. Now today – four years on – the Telegraph runs this piece…which (of course) was based on left-of-centre journalism:
‘The Guardian newspaper claimed that it had obtained documents that show that GCHQ, based in Cheltenham, has had access to the [NSA] system since at least June 2010, and generated 197 intelligence reports from it last year. Intelligence reports from GCHQ are normally shared with Britain’s security services MI5 and MI6. The newspaper said that US-run programme, called Prism, allowed GCHQ to circumvent the formal legal process required to seek personal material such as emails, photos and videos from an internet company based outside the UK…’
As most of you know, I hold no candle for the Fascist coven at Rusbridger’s Guardian, but if there’s one thing they don’t like it’s a Labour minister going MI5 native; and even more, they love it when yer Towreez go that way, because it suits all their archaic fantasies about gentleman spies.
This sort of thing, however, has reached such a level of iniquity it needs to rise above politics, and become another of those cultural all-Party issues about decency. However, as all our Parties now (the Faragistas included) have proved themselves to be perpetrators of gross indecency, it’s a little pointless waiting for anything to emerge from Westminster. Would you expect Clegg to stand up for abused kids, Balls to climb the barricades about the Coop, or Nigel Farage to demand the deportation of Murdoch and all his hobgoblins? Quite.
This would be my Top Ten of things our legislators won’t go near:
1. Paedophilia 2. Systemic Constitutional & Economic Change. 3. Unelected Media power. 4. Banishing money from politics and political funding 5. ISP privacy invasion. 6. Surveillance of citizens 7. Equality before the Law. 8. Purging the senior Civil Service. 9. Electoral reform 10. Financial Service, Bourse & Investment Banking reform.
Oh dear. There isn’t a lot left, is there?
So if those we elect won’t change anything, then, um…maybe we need to, er, oh dear. It’s very nice here in Greece during October: the crowds have gone and now there’s……

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