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Apologies for the lack of recent postings here.

Various Labour politicians seem to be trying to pretend that they are not "NuLabour" any more, and to curry favour or half heartedly rally opposition to Gordon Brown becoming the next (unelected) Prime Minister.

Here is today's website launch from Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn, with a website confusingly named like several chains of Opticians shops:

www.the2020vision.org.uk

or

www.the2020vision.co.uk

Both of these domain names seem to be registered to someone in Norwich, in Charles Clarke's constituency, but not at his constituency office.

Domain name: the2020vision.org.uk

Registrant:
the2020vision

Registrant type:
Not supplied

Registrant's address:
68 Eaton Road
Norwich
Norfolk
NR4 6PR
United Kingdom

[...]

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 02-Feb-2007
Renewal date: 02-Feb-2009
Last updated: 26-Feb-2007

[...]

If you sign up to their email list (only an email address is required, and it does seem to be handled by systems entirely within the United Kingdom), you get a reply from "future@the2020vision.org.uk"

They claim that they will soon have an online donations form, but are accepting cheques care of NuLabour press baron Lord Hollick, who has funded the NuLabour think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Clarke and Milburn are claiming that they are going to be "listening" to the general public rather than just the Labour Party, but given their previous records and policies, this seems unlikely.

See this BBC report for some of the speculation about what it might mean.

It seems that in the ongoing Cabinet re-shuffle, Charles Clarke is no longer Home Secretary, and he is returning to the back benches.

About time !

No sign yet of who his replacement as Home Secretaqry is, or if the Home Office is to be re-structured.

Why has Jack Straw been moved to be Leader of the Commons and the role of Foreign Secretary being split in two - a Europe Minister (Geoff Hoon the former Leader of the Commons) and a Rest of the World Minister.

Hurry up and resign !

According to the bookmakers Willam Hill the latest Odds:

To Leave Office Before The End Of May:

Charles Clarke: 2/5 Yes, 7/4 No
John Prescott: 1/2 Yes, 7/4 No
Patricia Hewitt: 1/7 Yes, 1/7 No

Already the victims and relatives of victims of criminals who should have been deported when they had served their prison sentences, are emerging in the tabloids e.g. in the Daily Mirror

Surely Charles Clarke and / or Tony McNulty and / or Hazel Blears should resign from the Home Office ?

Unfortunately the media and even other UK political blogs are easily distracted from all the other unresolved ongoing scandals, which also deserve political heads to roll:

  • Tony Blair and Lords Levy and Adonis over the Loans for Peerages scandal,

  • Ruth Kelly regarding sex offenders employed in schools

  • Tessa Jowell and her husband's Italian financial dealings, and the massive cost overruns for the London 2012 Olympics which are already emerging.

  • Gordon Brown is keeping a low profile again, presumably glad that the media are no longer questioning his appalling incompetence over £2 billion of Tax Credits, two years in a row now.

    Has nobody noticed the record fuel prices and the utter lack of any action over them by the Chancellor ?

The Daily Mirror reveals that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has admitted to having an extra-marital affiar with his secretary.

This scoop would normally have been the headline story in the rest of the media, but for Home Secretary Charles Clarkes attacks on the media on Monday, followed by yesterdays admission of utter incompetence by the Home Office in not considering for deportation, at least 1023 foreign criminals who hhd been sent to prison over the last 7 years.

Apparently over 160 cases were ones where there was an reccomendation from the Court which sentenced these offenders that they should be deported when they had serveed their sentence.

How is it that the bureaucracies of th ePrison and Probation and Immihration services, all of which report to the Home Secreatry, cannot coordinate something so simple, where the people to deported are not hiding somewhere "underground" as illegal immigrants, but are actually physically locked up in prison ?

Apparently 288 of the total were not delat with properly since August last year, when Charles Clarke had been warned by the National Audit Office of the problem back in July.

It therefore appears as if the problem has got even worse, directly under the mis-management of Charles Clarke

Charles Clarke is refusing to resign, so far, but how why should he be allowed to continue as Home Secreatry ?

Surely he has no special skills or experience which would make sorting out the problem immediately any swifter ?

Charles Clarke now seems to be claiming that he did offer to resign before last Christmas, according to this Press Association report

Ironically, even doubly disgraced ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett has, apparently, called for "heads to roll" , although, not, of course that of Charles Clarke, at least in public.

It was Blunkett who also presided over the same incompetent and shambolic Immigration and Nationality Directorate scandals, which lead to the resignation of Home Office Immigration Minsiter Beverkly Hughes is, of course partly to blame.

WIll this latest demonstration of sheer bureaucratic incompetence be blamed on the "computer system" and lead to a demand for "more resources" and even more legislation ?

Who is the likely replacement for Charles Clarke as Home Secretary, ?

Will he or she actully concentrate on getting the Home Office to fulfill its plain vanilla basic statutory duties competently, instead of trying to social engnieer society with a flurry of ill thought out and ever more complicated legislation and unworkable high tech "magic" technological fixes, which they are incompetent to implement ?

Will the other NuLabour Cabinet Minsters like Tessa "9 mortgaes" Jowell and Lord "Honours for City Academies" Adonis and Margaret "Let's hype up the BNP" Hodge, be thankful that the limited attention span of the press and broadcast media have now seemingly forgotten about, their recent scandals ?

Where is the Tony Blair / Lord Levy "Loans for Peerages" scandal being reported now ?

More good analysis and comments at Blairwatch

It is hard to comment sensibly on NuLabour. We are frightened and disgusted by this Labour regime.

Apart from the ongoing Loans for Peerages and City Academies scandals, we have been reading:

  • The Observer has some emails between Henry Porter and Tony Blair which show just how out of touch Tonty Blair is The Devil's Kitchen has some mild crticisism - " Tony Blair: you fascist fuck!"

  • Tony Blair's email to Henry Porter promises banishment from theUK, presumably even for British citizens, deportation without trial, merely on suspicion:

    I would impose restrictions on those suspected of being involved in organised crime. In fact, I would generally harry, hassle and hound them until they give up or leave the country.

    How about some actual evidence of wrongdoing and a proper trial before punishments are handed out by the state ?

  • It is no surprise that the disgraceful David Blunkett is milking his Parliamentary expenses for his country cottage love nest, to the tune of £20,000, according to the Sunday Times

  • Tim Worstall has an opinion piece in the The Times , but also writes "Fuck him" on Charles "The Safety Elephant" Clarke and his evil plans to refuse financial compensation to people who have suffered miscarriages of justice.

  • Mayor of London blog asks "So what is the difference between NuLabour and the NuBNP ?" over the NuLabour's Margaret Hodge inspired free publcity and scaremongering for the British National Party just before the Local Council Elections.

  • The Terrorism Act 2006 has now been commenced, except for the 28 days detention without charge provisions, for now.

    Watch out for Section 3 "takedown notices" which will curb and chill free speech on the internet . If any "constable" decides, " that your website, or blog or discussion forum should, in his "opinion", be censored - you have 2 working days to comply or else you will be deemed to endorse "encouraging terrorism" or "disseminating a terrorist publication" -and face up to 7 years in prison and / or an unlimited fine. Even a forged Section 3 notice will be enough for your website to be censored by your ISP or webhost.

    You could also face imprisonment for life under the vague, catch-all Section 5 Preparation of terrorist acts even if you have not actually committed an act of terrorism

The NuLabour Home Office , has still failed to sign or ratify the Council of Europe Convention on Action against trafficking in Human Beings last May in Warsaw, despite claiming that the issue was one of their top priototies during the now elapsed UK Presidency of both the European Union and the G8.

They have now published a consultation document which calls for more research into the problem, more training, and "rasing of awareness" etc.

Tackling Human Trafficking – Consultation on Proposals for a UK Action Plan (176Kb .pdf)

The excuse which Charles Clarke has given for not already having led the ratification of the COE convention is, according to the BBC:

There has been pressure on the government to sign the European Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings.

The convention says temporary residence permits must be given to victims endangered by return to their home countries and to those who assist with prosecutions.

Currently, when trafficking victims are discovered, their fates are decided on an individual basis, and they do not have a right to remain in Britain.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government had not signed the treaty yet because it was not sufficiently comprehensive.

But he continued: "We do anticipate that in the coming months we will be in a position to sign and then ratify the convention."

So trhat will have been another year of dithering and procrastination.

The BBC report on the "sex slave" trade brothel raid in Birmingham today, but it fails to mention the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking of Human Beings.

N.B. the latest versions of the BBC website reports now do seem to include a mention of the CoE convention, but only, presumably, after our complaint (unlikely) or the BBC's monitoring of their rival TV network coverage (much more likley).

Sarah Green from Amnesty International has been interviewd by Sky News and ITV News, and has mentioned the Council for Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking of Human Beings.

Why has the NuLabour Government still failed to sign or ratify this Convention ?

Why was the police raid in Birmingham delayed until after the Labour Party Conference, in which neither Home Secretary Charles Clarke nor Foreign Secretary Jack Straw bothered to mention this Convention ?

The TV pictures clearly show the presnce of TV crews and other photographers waiting for the bus full of "up to 50" police women to turn up and raid the premise, so it was a staged media event by the West Midlands police.

The Independent has a report about the shameful incompetence displayed by the NuLabour Government during the UK hosted EU Summit venues in Newport South Wales (Foreign Office) and near Newcastle in the North East (Home Office).

Not content with isolating themselves away from the general public, and by arresting peaceful NO2ID demonstrators before they even got near the Gosforth Park summit venue near Newcastle, to demonnstrate about Charles Clarke's incompetent Biometric Passport and ID Card plans, the NuLabour spin doctors have managed to damage the international repution of the United Kingdom by seriously pissing off the accredited journalists from the foreign press corps, and embarassing the United Kingdom which they are meant to represent in front of other European Union Ministers and diplomats.

"Sir John Grant, the UK's ambassador to the EU, expressed his "wholehearted regret" after poor logistics, heavy-handed security and disastrous IT marred high-profile events.

After two meetings in Britain, the continental media mocked Tony Blair's plea for Europe to compete in the information age, noting the lack of reliable internet access at the UK's gathering.

The failings of the British rail network have also been highlighted and the off-hand treatment of journalists has been portrayed as symbolic of the UK's coolness towards the EU.

Meanwhile, an official complaint has been made to the British embassy in Berlin after a German journalist was barred from a meeting because he asked for an idle X-ray machine to be used to cut waiting time at a security check."

This jobsworth bureacratic security theatre is typical of the attitude promoted by NuLabour - fail to catch or deter any real terrorists, but persecute and harass former friends and neutrals.

Sunday Blunkett Sunday

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Another Sunday, with several Sunday Newspapers shamelessly copying the News of the World's "story" contained in their serialisation of the former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Lord Stevens' autobiography.

Liar Blunkett tried to stab me in the back

The Sunday Times, the Observer and the Independent on Sunday just clone the same "juicy" quotes where Lord Stevens criticises the disgraced ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett for having an "anti-police attitude", in contrast with his predecessors the NuLabour Jack Straw and the Tory Michael Howard, both of who also managed to cock up relations with the Police, the Judiciary, the Prison staff etc., but not, presumably as much as David Blunkett did.

Lord Stevens , who is by no means above criticism himself, does appear to be justifiably peeved by the media briefings after the September 11th 2001 attacks:

"There were only three people in that office - myself, the Home Secretary and his dog. And it didn't come from the dog."

The Sunday Telegraph, which originally broke the immigration visa scandal story (as opposed to the News of the World's claim that it broke the scandal about Blunkett's adulterous affair) which led to the resignation of David Blunkett, where he appeared to have nearly got away with an almost criminal misuse of his official position, for the benefit people embroiled in his scandalous private life, has an even more worrying twist to their report, repeating the claims that Tony Blair is set to bring back David Blunkett as Home Secretary in a Cabinet re-shuffle before Christmas.

One would have thought that the NuLabour Politburo would be reacting to this sort of media spin in the same wway that the Soviet one did after the death of Stalin, when his secret police chief Beria appeared to be holding the reigns of power, and that they would summon up enough collective courage to ensure that, above all, Blunkett could never be allowed to return as Home Secretary.

Are Sir John Stevens' comments meant to help to drive stake through the undead flesh of Blunkett's political anbitions for power ?

Or is this all just Blunkett inspired media spin, to keep his wreteched name in the media every week, come what may ?

The Sunday Times reports the astonishing news from a "Downing Street source" that the disgreced ex-Home Secretary David Blunkett is to take over control of the Home Office, whilst his replacement Charles Clarke goes on holiday.

'A senior Downing Street source said: "There has been a lot of fuss over Charles going on holiday, but we think he deserves one and David Blunkett will fill in over that brief period while he is out of the country. He obviously has a lot of experience in the area."

Tony Blair, who is to go on holiday this week, has also given Hazel Blears, the Home Office minister, a role in the day-to-day running of the department. John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, will be in overall charge of government while Blair is abroad.

The source added: “Prescott is in charge, but Blunkett will have control over issues relating to the Home Office.”'

So why is Hazel Blears MP, Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety, who is meant to be responsible for "Counter terrorism" not up to the job ?

David Blunkett did not resign from the Home Office for reeasons of health or family , it was the result of getting caught out in a meddling with an immigration visa as part of his scandalous private life.

David Blunkett should not have been brought back into the Cabinet as Minsister for the Department for Work and Pensions, let alone anywhere near the Home Office where, presumably he will be rubber stamping Control Orders, Extradition Warrants, Electronic Intercept Warrants, and Immigration Visas and Appeals etc.

Who exactly is in charge of the massive Department for Work and Pensions, whilst Blunkett is crushing civil liberties and meddling with the Home Office and Police and the Security Service ?

Why was David Blunklett chosen rather than Jack Straw, also a former Home Secretary, who is presumably more currently more up to up to date with anti-terrorism investigations than Blunkett, since MI6 the foreign espionage Secret Service reports to him.

What are NuLabour playing at ? They have not protected our civil liberties and they have not prevented terrorist attacks in London.

Any sucesses by the Metropolitan Police and the Security Service etc. seem to be in spite of the NuLabour politicians, and not as a result of their incompetent leadership.

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