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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 full post election Cabinet has now been announced, and there are some controversial appointments at the Junior Minister level:

Department for Education and Skills
Minister of State (Children)
The Rt Hon Beverly Hughes MP for Stretford and Urmston is the disgraced ex-Home Office Minister who had to resign over the immigration scandal involving Romanian and Bulgarian visas exposed by whistleleblowers Steve Moxon and James Cameron.

Beverly Hughes takes over from The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP for Barking, whose disregard for Data Protection and Privacy worries about her controversial "Big Nanny Database" Children Act does not bode well for future policy in her new postition as Minister of State (Work) under the authoratarian technological illiterate David Blunkett at the Department for Work and Pensions.

Department for Education and Skills
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Adonis

Andrew Adonis was, until today, simply a NuLabour political commissar, with the ear of the Prime Minister's office, and not even a Member of Parliament, which is why he has been ennobled so that he can serve as a Junior Minister. he was responsible for dreaming up amd meddling with the implementation of the City Acadamies, which waste vast sums of public money. handed over to private companies, who are also allowed to brainwash the children with their own products and meddle with the curriculum to include rubbish like Creationism, and who can decide to sell off assets like buildings or playing firlds for their own profit.

What right has he to be literally now lording it over Education policy ?

Ministry of Defence
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Drayson (unpaid)

Pual Drayson, a businessman, whose ennoblement was already controversial due to his apparent donations of over £500,000 to the NuLabour party, and whose company PowderJect managed to secure a £32 million Government contract for smallpox vaccine, awarded without it being put out to competitive tender. Allegedly this was because PowderJect had managed to contractually sew up the capacity of the actual pharmceutical company producing the vaccine with an ironclad contract.

Why has this man appeared as a Junior Ministry of Defence Minister ?

Tony McNulty MP for Harrow East is now Minister of State at the Home Office, presumably replacing Des Browne, in charge of Citizenship and Immigration (who in turn had replaced the disgraced Beverely Hughes). Will he really be spearheading the re-introduction of the controversial Identity Cards Bill ?