No doubting it, disasters have got
something for everyone. They’re functional for lower middle class Daily Mail
readers who watch all the natives on television and think how lucky they are
that their house values in Essex won’t be affected and yet maybe, on the
downside, that there’ll be millions of them all coming over here looking for
jobs and housing! Yes, they’ve all got to
be housed, all 11 million of them! In Essex! Then there are all the
journalists stirring the pot and reporting it up, the talking Aid Heads, politicians
putting on their caring and sharing make-up, the aid mob themselves, the rescue
wallahs, the charity brigade and tin shakers. Even the crying kids who love
being on camera. Yes, everyone loves a disaster, but also big on the news was
the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Ceylon, that’s Sri Lanka to
you Godfrey Bloom! The island nation, ethnically divided between Sinhalese and
Tamils, recently went through a big
civil war full of full of endless Tamil terrorism. The Sinhalese
Government hit back with its army terrorizing the Tamils, killing and torturing
many. And David Cameron comes along and sticks his head into it all with Prince
Charles acting as dummy, hoping the Government in Colombo that had to terrorize
the terrorists in order to defeat them will hear him out, loud and good, when
he asks for an enquiry into it all.
Yes, David Cameron, as British Prime
Minister representing the supposed center of the Commonwealth, goes to Ceylon
with Jon Snow and the Channel Four mob to talk about War Crimes and ask the Government
there to investigate. That’s the other big story across all the news media. The
shiny faced Dave telling his hosts what’s what with the sallow Jon Snow on his
shoulder. Well the Channel Four boys weren’t allowed to go anywhere on the
island while Dave was surrounded by police most of the time. Never mind, that’s
real public school cheek for you! The ex-Eton boy going on a conference to some
foreign country and telling his hosts what to do while the media back home is baying
for blood. It’s like some French President coming over to Britain during the
IRA campaign of violence and telling the Government over here how to behave!
These are probably the two big things of
the week but they are not the stories I want to concentrate on. To my mind
there’s some altogether more serious stuff at home. The Philippines and Ceylon
may have been battering your head but that’s the pleasure of journalists and
their media, and ultimately political masters. For a whole week or more that’s
what they wanted to shove down your throat but in all truth what the heck is
all that to you? Well the following is my choice of news. Firstly the statement
from the National Audit Office that bills for domestic energy customers will
rise annually above the level of inflation for the next 17 years because they
will be required to pay for the complete renewal of the Big Six cartel’s entire
supply infrastructure from pipes to power stations. Secondly, the return of undercover
police spying activities. This time at Universities on student groups.
I’ll deal with the gangsters of the Energy
Cartel first, a major news story that effects everyone getting drowned out by
Philippines, mercifully for the Coalition Government. The National Audit Office
staffed by faces none of us know (they might be operating out of the Monkey House
of the London Zoo for all we know) was set up the current Government. It’s one
of their agencies, and has the blessing of the saintly Clegg, and kind hearted
and caring ‘friend of the people’ Secretary of State for Energy Ed Davey… just as much as its statement about domestic
energy customers having to pay for the renewal of the suppliers infrastructure
would ALSO have their knowledge and blessing. Why, are you surprised? Did you
ever think that either of these Lib-Dem monkeys were virgins? They knew about
the whole thing long ago with Ed keeping silent as the grave about the whole
thing! After all, he’d worked it all out with executives from the suppliers’
cartel who were working in his Department.
It’s easiest if we consider it like this.
Most of the companies that make up the cartel are foreign owned and operate out
of overseas tax havens. That means they pay NO TAX over here. Secondly no tax
and rocketing energy prices mean fabulous profits for shareholders most of whom
are based outside Britain.
NOW HERE’S THE GREAT WHEEZE… WAIT FOR IT…
These foreign owned companies registered in overseas tax havens specifically
for the purpose of tax avoidance, along with their foreign shareholders expect
the energy consuming public over here to pay for the complete renewal of the
supply infrastructure for the owners. Pay for a renewed supply infrastructure that is not their property and would not be
owned by themselves. NOW WHY SHOULD ORDINARY CUSTOMERS WANT TO DO THAT?
INDEED, WHY SHOULD THEY HAVE TO DO THAT OR BE MADE TO DO THAT? They
won’t own what they’re paying for!
That’s the real cheek of it! They’re not only paying a rocketing price for the
gas and electricity they use but are now being asked to pay for its delivery.
Pay for a huge increase in the capital value of the energy companies that they
themselves do not and will never own. This is something that Davey and Clegg must
have known about, SO WHY THE SILENCE? Why Ed, I thought you were in politics to
help people. Help those hard pressed people deal with their energy bills. Isn’t
that what you’ve always claimed, as the man who always looks so concerned on
everyone’s behalf!
Well Ed? The statement from the National
Audit Office is almost a week old and we haven’t heard a word from you about
all of this. You’ve stayed silent as the grave you naughty boy. But then that’s
Liberal Democrats for you. Politically they’re absolute rascals!
So this is what’s good then for Liberal
Democrats. That the Big Six Cartel of Energy Suppliers set up under their
guidance, most of whom are foreign owned and registered in overseas tax havens
so that they have no UK tax liability, all of them making fabulous profits on
the backs of domestic customers over here, ARE NOW PROPOSING THAT THE BRITISH
PUBLIC PAY FOR THEIR CAPITAL RENEWAL! It’s as nasty as staff bureaus employing
contract workers demanding that they pay them a fee to receive their own salary,
or oil terminal workers on the Clyde being told that they have to take a salary
cut to pay for the capital renewal of their employers business. To summarize, it’s
fast becoming a case of workers coming under attack from employers literally
blackmailing them about their jobs or consumers likewise from energy suppliers who
make it possible for them to cook, wash and keep warm. Forget the huge profits
of these supply companies or the fact that they avoid paying tax. Theirs is an
attack on ordinary people supported by the Liberal Democrats so let’s have no
friendly concern out of you people, thank you very much.
We all know now that your job in Government
is really to facilitate all this attack on behalf of the Tories. That’s the
real truth. And now it’s also possible to know who’ll help facilitate all of
this. Help deal with any protest, demonstration or opposition to your nasty
covert intentions. WHY, IT’S THE UNDERCOVER POLICE! UP TO THEIR TRICKS ALL OVER
AGAIN! They’ll help deal with any public protest for you, whether its workers
or students, those with jobs or those unemployed.
This is a main news story of The Guardian
and rightly so. Not content with having recently infiltrated national protest
groups with undercover agents, gaining the confidence of activists, having sex
with women members and in general shamelessly betraying the trust given them as
well as affection, are continuing with this kind of conduct all over again.
They’ve spied on and cynically betrayed decent but naïve people once and got
away with it without being punished so naturally they’re engaging in such
practices all over again. If they can’t join the groups they’re interested in, they
are shamelessly and cynically asking people to spy on their friends. The Police
Undercover Unit is dirty and cynical, that we know, but then so are their
political masters. If Government is currently engaged in an attack on the poor
and unemployed then it will need to deal with protest against their actions and
conduct. The security agencies lead the way in this, particularly MI5. The
police undercover boys however do the work on the street. Doughboys of dirt you
might say.
Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up
to. Again it’s a virtually unreported story that in real terms will affect far
more people in Britain than a typhoon ten thousand miles away. That’s because
everything that the police do over here now that’s political affects people in
a bad way. They were never supposed to get involved in politics but here they
are. Up to their necks, beginning from the time they helped break the Miner’s
Strike. The well documented front page story in the Guardian of November 15
tells how a young political activist in Cambridge with many student friends,
though not at the University himself, was approached by a member of a police
covert unit and promised rewards for information about their political
activities. What was requested was “student union type stuff,” naming students
engaging in protest, listing vehicles they proposed travelling in to
demonstrations and identifying leading members. The targets of such
surveillance were to be UK Uncut (which runs a campaign against tax avoidance
and government cuts) Cambridge Defend
Education (which has protested against student tuition fees and education cuts)
and Unite Against Fascism.
Police spying on Anti-Fascist organizations
is perhaps the most sinister activity of all. Firstly what do the police want
this information for? Do they propose handing any information they gather about
plans for anti-fascist protest over to fascist organizations which would mean
that they’re effectively working for them. This is an exceedingly serious
matter and should be of immediate concern to the Jewish Community in Britain for
very obvious reasons. The same spying activities by police on Jewish or
Anti-Fascist organizations took place throughout Europe during the 1920’s.
Information was fed by police forces to fascist groups and eventually the Nazis
which led to the arrest and deaths of many Jews and political activists and
quite frankly there is nothing to say that it couldn’t happen here. Apart from
this, police spying on protest groups campaigning for plain political fairness
and justice is quite frankly appalling. Protest and demonstration in this
country is not illegal and students or whoever else have a right to do this for
causes they believe in, not be spied upon and then questioned, intimidated, have
their vehicles stopped and ultimately find themselves being rounded up as has
certainly happened in the past.
In the case of police having a spying interest
in Anti-Fascist organizations this is understandable enough. Such organizations
are invariable anti-racist and the police as is well known have been declared an
institutionally racist organisation.
However many individual members almost certainly hold pro-fascist views,
something common to police throughout 1930’s Britain and Europe. An example of
this today would be police membership of the Nazi Golden Dawn Party in Greece
and the support they give it. So the question is a very fair one. Why are
undercover police interested in the activities of anti-fascist students and
organizations unless it is for politically dangerous and sinister reasons. In
fact, more generally, why do the police want to spy on and gain information
about students or other ordinary people engaged in political protest activity
at all? And who indeed are they doing it for?
As for the attempt to recruit an activist
in Cambridge, him going to meetings of organizations like UK Uncut and reporting
back, the man told his story to the Guardian who fitted him out with a concealed
camera and let him go back to the would be covert police sleuth for further
discussion. And there it all was. The undercover political policeman wanting to
know about anti-fascist activities and for information holding out a bait of
his own,
“You might go to a UK Uncut or Unite
Against Fascism meeting one evening, you might get say £30.”
Thirty pounds! For doing such a dirty thing
as betraying your friends and causes that are decent. This, I think, tells us
everything. Everything about what kind of people they are. Something that
should make us realise who is decent and who is not. Make us realise who we are,
and whose side we should be on.
These are the stories that I think are important this week. The real question in Britain today is, who cares? Who cares when it’s far easier to give money to disaster causes than think, about how very precious our freedoms are and how important it is to be vigilant.
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