Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown on the importance of human life. Does he only mean British lives, because he shows a total disregard for the lives of foreigners.

This comment derives from the Gordon Brown interview on the Today programme on Radio 4. The man has no substance, such a load of tosh he gave us this morning, inviting in to eat at the manse the local burglar, oh what a funny thing that was Gordon.

What a great leader our Gordon is, this citizen, who will never be what he truly is, a subject, just like the rest of us.

Get out now

I have been made redundant in the past and I know that it is not a very nice experience. In fact it happened to me three days after I was married, so that really messed up my plans. Did I see it coming, yes, and do you know what one of the directors actually asked me would I mind delaying my marriage so that I could train somebody to do my job. we had just been merged so there were two people for one job and I was the higher paid.

As for Jaguar/Land Rover, there must be no bail out by the British taxpayer. Another firm gone, Adams, this time with more jobs at risk. The total weakness of the British economy is being exposed for what it is, a complete and total disaster. In the meantime look at the price of oil, heating bills must come down, all the companies which put up their prices because of the increases in oil prices must also bring down their prices. In the meantime the spivs, known as the labour government, want to fight them on the beaches, etc...

Gordon Brown must, with no prevarication tell Israel to stop the killing in Gaza, he is the Prime Minister, prove it, get out of the kitchen and tell Israel to stop, stop now! I am so ashamed to have call the awful man my Prime Minister, he's nothing but a gutless sham of a man. Get out now, and get our soldiers out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Do your job Brown

I have just listened to the News. It would appear that Israel is trying to make a point prior to Obama taking over as President.

There can be no justifification for their actions in terrorising the people of Gaza with an attack by the Israeli airforce, resulting in, from what I have heard the deaths of at least 120 people.

This is totally unacceptable and is taking advantage of the Christmas break by our politicians. Gordon Brown must see that there is more to being our Prime Minister than worrying about the economy. That is his problem, he is still thinking of himself in terms of being chancellor, well I have to tell him that there is more to it than money. We rae talking lives here, and he just sits back smiling like a cheshire cate because he saved the world. Well he hasn't.

Do your job Brown, or get out!

Abandon Hope

for those who are looking for a better 2009, then I say abandon hope.

There is going to be a massive reduction in the overall wage of the population. Why? Because the great retirement nuclear time bomb is just going to start, not only in the UK but primarily in America.

I wish Obama good luck, but I'm afraid he has been handed such a poisoned chalice! When Hoover took over in America in 1929 the Americans actually thought that he could solve the problems which had become apparent in 1928, he didn't. Everything they tried failed, and then in the October the final nail was driven into the coffin.

The money has gone, wasted, thrown away, and America still wants to fight in Iraq and Afhanistan. They are so doomed, and the trouble is we have a Prime Minister who seems to revel in misery, misery of his own making. We are going to go down with him, this is going to be a failure of Titanic proportions.

Happy New Year, welcome to my world.

An election

so the PM dare not face PMQs again. Maybe if he had then somebody might have been able to ask him about the conversation he had with the good Lord Mandelson with regard to your interview.

Are you soon to have an interview with Brown, you surely deserve to be rewarded for being so well informed.

This is shameful what is going on, who exactly is meant to be running the country, the great war leader Brown, surely not.

There must be questions asked about why we are retreating from Iraq and leaving our current base to the Americans. Either there is a need for troops or not. Why are we getting out now.

I think that the analysis on the Daily Politics was wrong. The MPs are coming home to prepare for an election. There is no money to fund it, the labour party is bankrupt, yet they know that will try to have to do it on the cheap.

There does seem to be a scorched earth policy because there will be a hung parliament, with the lib dems holding the balance of power. I think that labour will sacrifice some of its own MPs to the lib dems rather than the conservatives. That way they will still be the largest party in a new parliament.

The conservatives must not change their leader no matter what. The country is about implode. There will soon be a government of national unity, the situation was revealed in the attitude of Lord Heseltine, the situation is in fact very bleak.

Forget Iran

There must not only be an inquiry into the Iraq war, there must also be an urgent debate in parliament before we send more troops to Afghanistan. There must be a full statement as to what the purpose is of sending our troops there.

There must also be an urgent statement by the prime minister with regard to his comments relating to the part that Pakistan is playing in respect of global terror.

The Prime Minister, by his comments, is drawing attention, not to the issue of religion, but I think that he is playing the race card. There is absolutely no justification for doing this, is he setting the scene for another expansion of the wwar on terror. Forget Iran, it is now Pakistan.

Pensions

Pensions are seen as deferred pay. I was made redundant in 1992, aged 43. rather than take a substantial sum of money, which would have been taxed, I stuffed it into my company pension so that I started to draw a pension aged 50. I am 60 next year. I intend to have got more out of my pension than I actually earned whilst I was working for the company now paying my pension. Revenge is best tasted cold.

Oh, and whilst many workers are lucky to keep their jobs rather than even get a pay rise, my pension will have increased by 5% this year. A good rise, bring on inflation. Don't know what will happen with deflation

Road to serfdom

during the Great Depression, or Global Downturn I, the Stock Markets did not fall dramatically every day. There was no index to measure the stocks against. As for the Dow Jones it has to be the most ridiculous index ever invented, and only 30 stocks, unbelievable.

We should not look at stock markets in any other way than gambling dens. There is no investment. It is no different to putting your money on a horse and hoping that it comes in.

If you think that investing in pensions is any different to the 'Ponzi' scheme now exposed in America then dream on.

The demographic nuclear explosion will start to really kick-in over the next five years as the children born in 1944 now reach retirement. I am a 49er so will reach formal retirement age in 2014, by which time I expect the money all to be gone. There will be no jobs for the younger generation to pay taxes to pay for my pension, so where will my pension come from. Higher taxes, this will be a disaster. I am soon to be a serf, we have been on the road to serfdom for years.

Royal Mail

The demographic time bomb is about to go nuclear. All the pension funds depend on getting their income to pay pensions, soon they are going to have to start liquidating their assets to pay because the income is no longer there.

The investment banks will lose the income they receive through their portfolio management fees.

As for the Post Office which you refer to this morning, the government taking control of the pension scheme will be a dsiaster. They will suddenly have voting rights because they will be major shareholders in a substantial number of companies.

I think that you want to remind yourself of the Guiness Affair. Look and learn Robert and other viewers of your blog. There are lessons still to be learnt.

The whole game is up, look at how and why Arthur Andersen collapsed.

There are serious problems, you know that, I know that, soon the whole world will know that. Soon people will start talking as the big pay-offs to buy silence disappear. There has been a massive confidence trick.

What some people want to look at is the Robert Maxwell connections to the current labour government.

Pakistan

Who lets the militia operate. Who pays the militia. Who controls the militia. Who pays for the private security firms. As the armies withdraw it will the private us/uk contractors who will run Iraq.

You just look at what General Sir Mike Jackson now does, since his reirement from the army. You look at how many former SAS work for private security firms.

The same could happen in Zimbabwe, when it falls it will be a bloodbath with revenge attacks and civil war. This is going to be a disaster, because the Zimbabwe people do not have a religion, like being a Pakistani Moslem, to threaten the security of the world.

I mention Pakistani only because that is what I am being told by the Prime Minister.

Shoebushed

we know that one of the reasons why the West cannot take action against Zimbabwe is because of our involvement in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Tonight, I learnt that my comments over Iraq have been wrong, there is now freedom and democracy in that country. Where is my proof I hear you all say.

Well, I saw the news tonight and a person threw his shoes at the President. Yes, the President was insulted in the only way that a true Iraqi knows. He threw his shoes at the President of America, size ten shoes apparently.

All the blood , spilt, all the lives damaged, all the money spent, and for what? So that a man can throw his shoes at the President.

Churchill Brown

I am becoming strongly resentful of Gordon Brown. Now he has got the papers to refer to Churchill as being the last PM to go to the 'Front Line'. Now Gordon goes to the 'Front Line'.

The front line was in Stockwell where the police shot and killed Mr de Menezes, the front line was in London when bombs exploded on a bus and tube trains.

What we are doing is similar to the American policy. Take them on in their own territory. For all of his faults Bush can turn around to the American people and say that since 9/11 there have been no attacks on American soil by foreign terrorists. None.

Accordingly, his and our policy works. I strongly consider that de Menezes was shot and killed as an example as to what will happen, I think that if he had actually looked like a Pakistani then he would not have been shot. I think that the jury should have been given the opportunity to find for a case of unlawful killing. That is what I think.

Zanulabour

yet again you seem to have gone walkabout.

Yes there is the Zimbabwe crisis, but we have had the De Menezes verdict. Now we have heard from the Office National Statistics about the release of the figures relating to knife crime. Bearing in mind the arrest of Damian Green can we now expect a comment from the Home Secretary about these appalling events.

In the meantime this country is getting more like Zimbabwe with Zanulabour saying that knife crime is not as bad as it was and Mugabe saying that Cholera is under control.

No Running Commentary

just to say that I heard David Milliband on the Radio 4 Today programme this morning. He was asked about the fall in the currency, and completely failed to answer the question when asked was it not Gordon Brown who said that a weak currency was the sign of a weak economy.

When pressed he said that he would not get involved in a running commentary on the issue. Now should we apply the same logic to everything.

Zimbabwe, no running commentary, national security, immigrants overload the system

The occupation of Iraq, no commentary, disloyal to the country.

Dafur, DR Congo, Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project, no running commentary, foreign governments,

China, no running comentary, need to borrow their money to support our failing economy

Germany, oh no commentary, I mean they know where a failed economy ends up

The war in Afghanistan, no commentary , national security, disloyal, war on terror.

The state of the economy, no commentary, playing with peoples jobs, disloyal to to the country, national security

Aircraft Carriers for the Navy, no commentary, national security, build them and then mothball them

Glenrothes Bye-election, no commentary, ok we announced the aircraft carriers just before the election and now...we won it so!

Leaks to MPs, no commentary, ongoing inquiry, disloyal, national security

Government failures, Gordon doing a great job, everybody agrees, national crisis, we must all pull together

I think you get my drift, so is there anything else where we should leave the narrative to the politicians. Mind you what on earth would we do with you if you keep saying there will be no running commentary, except from the politicians of course.

In the meantime there will be no cover-up in Downing Street.

Zimbabwe

I don't think that many people have yet understood what is actually happening.

Yes Zimbabwe is now a failed state, it is bankrupt it has hyper-inflation there is Cholera which is in danger of spreading to other countries, because disease does not recognise artificial man-made borders.

I firmly believe that this is a foretaste of what will happen on a global basis as the second Great Depression begins to bite.

If Gordon wants it in his terms then this is Global Downturn II. When we see the collapse of the American car industry then surely everybody can see that Keynesian economoic policy, in the long run, does not work.

Zimbabwe cannot be saved from its fate, but neither can many other countries which will face similar problems. We are in for a terrible time and the politicians, philosophers, and economists just do not know what to do. They are completely lost, they have no narrative and will try to do what they can to save themselves let alone the rest of us.

Zanulabour

surely Gordon Brown must turn to the European Union and say that it really is time for some action to be taken. It must be time for regime change in Zimbabwe.

I would have thought that Cholera was just as bad a threat as Weapons of Mass Destruction. Trouble is Zimbabwe has no oil.

What might actually happen though is that Zanulabour will take action to prevent an influx of asylum seekers. As you know I have always thought of Gordon Brown as a one trick pony. This is serious and must be resolved. It is totally unacceptable.

Zanulabour

surely Gordon Brown must turn to the European Union and say that it really is time for some action to be taken. It must be time for regime change in Zimbabwe.

I would have thought that Cholera was just as bad a threat as Weapons of Mass Destruction. Trouble is Zimbabwe has no oil.

What might actually happen though is that Zanulabour will take action to prevent an influx of asylum seekers. As you know I have always thought of Gordon Brown as a one trick pony. This is serious and must be resolved. It is totally unacceptable.

Get into the Euro

surely the political and economic decision to go into the Euro has now been made.

The deeper in debt you are then the better it is to go into the Euro at something like the existing exchange rate, namely about one to one.

If you had assets or savings then this is terrible for you, because you will get ever lower numbers of Euros for your savings. If only the Tories had fought to get us into the Euro when the rate was favourable for savers, not debtors. I think that this has been another stitch up.

Does nobody care for those pensioners who have retired to the Euro zone who are now being absolutely hammered by the losses they are getting on their monthly pension payments. Mind you if they had bought property then at least they will get more pounds for their Euros if they decide to sll up and return to the wonderful free, democratic country led by the unelected PM who has saved the world.

Ulysses Brown

for some time now I have been saying that apart from anything else we actually cannot afford the continuing occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan.

Today apparently we are to be told that we can no longer to start work on two aircraft carriers, because the money is needed in the defence budget to pay the soldiers. Now I hope that others have noticed how Geoff Hoon has been transferred from the Ministry of Defence to Transport. Of course he would have fought very hard to have these carriers started, because they are also good for employment. In that case we would also have something to show for all this expenditure. What will we have, a final ignominious retreat from Iraq, and further involvement in a totally failed adventure in Afghanistan.

The Germans are absolutely right to criticise Gordon Brown, the man who picks his nose and saved the world. I actually am beginning to feel sorry for him, how can he sleep at night. Should we now call him Ulysses Brown, the man with the weight of the world on his shoulders.

End it Now

But what about electing an MP who is led by the leader of the party that MP stands by and that leader says, quite categorically, that he will serve a full term. Blair said that he would serve a full term.

Now he did in fact stand for a full term, not of the parliament but he resigned his seat therefore he personally served a full term.

In the meantime Jack Straw writes an article for the Daily Mail where one is left with the impression that he thought that the Humans Right Act was a 'villains charter'.

Now a minister came on to the Today programme and says that what Straw actually said was that 'there was a sense that the Human Rights Act had become a villains charter'. Now that is very misleading.

It really is time for this pathetic parliament to come to an inglorious end. Not this government with its governance but this awful shocking absolutely discredited parliament, it is time for cahnge. Oh, and I have saved the world, what me a megalomaniac, never.

Run for cover

there is more and more reason to believe that there will be a spring election sprung on us.

The troops will be coming out in March? The 'budget' changes will come into effect. Brown gave it away when in PMQs he referrred to Darling and his recent 'budget', not pre-Budget Report.

In the meantime the MPs are taking a longer than usual christmas break, I reckon so that they can spread the good word about what the government is doing to help 'hard working families'.

In the meantime the pound keeps falling, but lets not give a running commentary, maybe it would be seen as not being loyal.

This is shocking

for a start it is good to have you back. I hope our comments have not stung you into action. Two blogs in two days is very good.

Now for these 'reforms'. I have referred before to the demographic time bomb going off. An awful lot of people will soon be retiring and then they will be coming off either unemployment benefit or their disability payments. When you retire your main entitlement will be through the state pension scheme. They may be entitled to some form of means tested tax credits but they will have to declare all their income, or what exactly have they done with their money, given it away.

I just cannot see these proposals working. Look at what is happening in Greece. Young people will say you have given the banks billions for the bankers and their bonuses, and you want me to get a useless job, or digging old peoples gardens. This is bizarre.

There will be riots on the streets, this will never see the light of day, unless we are coerced by tales of young women living a life of luxury on our benefits. Interesting photo as well, the person seems to be wearinga prison uniform. Interesting choic

National Unity

this is how bad the government has become. I read the Daily Mail interview with Jack Straw and there was the distinct impression that the Human Rights Act had become a villains charter, and thus needed 'changes'.

Now some government minister was on the Today programme this morning being interviewed about the 60th anniversary of the declaration of Human Rights and he was asked about Jack Straw's comment.

The naswer amazed me. He actually said that Jack Straw has never said that the Human Rights Act was 'a villains charter'. No! What he has been saying is that the Act gave 'the sense of a villains charter'.

Now you wonder why we should be afraid. An election in the spring has never been so needed. I think that the riots in Greece will spread as more and more people realise that we are reaching the end game. I see Brown and his conies saying that the situation is too serious and that elections will have to be delayed, and then we can have a government of national unity. For our good of course.

Greece is just a foretaste

I would love for some of those who support socialism to come on to your blog and explain to me how they can justify the new government policy with regard to the unemployed.

I so look forward to seeing this policy being implemented, after they have probably lost the next, if there is one, election.

The events in Greece are going to be a foretaste of what I think will happen in many countries. Anybody who fails to get a job will be able to simply turn to a government and say you have found billions to save the banking industry, so that they give millions in bonuses, yet you do nothing to save my job.

Where are the reporters

I think that like the politicians you now regret the creation of the internet.

You are just hoping that we get bored aren't you. That we will get bored and go away.

Well I have news for you, I ain't and I don't think that others will either.

In the meantime what are the others saying, I know I'll go and look at their for a while shall I. How is that nice mr Peston.

Talking of which did he have any exclusives over Carphone Warehouse, thought not, because if he did then he couldn't announce them because they would have been market sensitive.

Is there something which you have to say which is not disloyal, or market sensitive. Just interested, because why on earth are we, the taxpayer, paying an awful lot of money for reporters who don't seem to have anything to report. Probably practicing your American accents. Nothing to do until 20th January, I hope that you are not going stateside.

What are you going to do

will teach them all a lesson. He would throw such a tantrum, mind you that wonderful Mr Prescott will probably join him, shouting and screaming no I don't want to go, but you insist, oh well off I go then. Serving my country again.

You really can't make this up. Zanulabour, now who exactly voted for Gordon Brown, anybody apart from his local constituenThe other convention is that the Speaker also goes to the House of Lords. Why not break the habit. Do not send the Speaker to the Lords, that ts.

Sorry Mr Straw, I'm not being very loyal to my country am I. What are you going to do, take away my human rights?

Afghanistan and Moral Equivalence

May I suggest that if you wish to question my moral equivalence, then you really ought to ask the relatives of Mr de Menezes, or maybe those who knew Dr David kelly.

As for what our soldiers have done in Iraq, well that's ok then is it. You ask the relatives of those people who our soldiers beat-up. Also the relatives of the people who our soldiers 'detained' who were then handed over to be tortured and then killed. Don't even ask for where is my eveidence because you only have to look and there is plenty out there.

I am afriad it is not me, it is those who continue to support our soldiers no matter how much evidence there has been which would lead any sane, rational individual to come to the conclusion that we actually have very little to be proud of in Iraq/Afghanistan.

Look at the pictures of Prince Harry at the computer calling in an air strike, look at the deaths resulting from 'Drone' attacks, where war is no different to a computer game. Prince Harry even wore the cap with the declared aim of 'we do bad things to bad people' and this from a Prince of the realm who wore a Nazi uniform.

Just how simple are some people in this country. It is time to wake up.

In the meantime the insurgents in Afghanistan/Pakistan block a pass in the Khyber region which results in a stock pile of equipment in Pakistan and then they go and blow up all the equipment whilst in storage. I mean these people are not stupid, they have defeated more invading armies than many have had hot dinners. Time to retreat and get out, we have been defeated again. Or there will be no victory, there never was even the slightest cahnce. And where is bin Laden, he will see out Geotge Bush, and what will Obama do, continue the battle.

When did he know

what a terrible society we are becoming. People who see children who are suffering are being told that of course you should snitch on your neighbour, or dob as some people now refer to telling on people who do wrong.

In the meantime the Home Secretary does not want information to come from her department, information which has been collected at my expense. Anybody who speaks out is reported and investigated. So Home Secretary what is to be done. What is the point of collecting information unless it is to be used for the benefit of society, and be freely available.

For example, when did Gordon Brown become aware of the problems in the finacial markets, why didn't he tell us, and how many people does the government think will become unemployed as a result of GDII. Finally, ask yourselves how many people who used to be on unemployment benefit have now retired, or how many on Disability Payments are due to retire over the next five years as they reach 60/65.

I will always refer to the answer given by many Germans after WWII, I didn't know what was going on and I didn't want to ask!

Global Downturn II

I have asked before where is Gordon Brown during a crisis. This is not the time to repeat it. However, where exactly are you, have you gone shopping to beat the Great Depressson II, or should we call it Global Downturn II.

The Great War was only the Great War until World War II, so the Great War wasn't the Great War at all, it was World War I. So, the Great Depression wasn't the Great Depression at all, it was Global Downturn I, because anybody who thinks that it was not Global is an idiot.

So, exactly where are Nick, or must I stay commenting on your site until 3 in the morning when I will be able to claim comment number 1000 for my own. Can you not give us something to comment on, you know like what has happened to the DR Congo, or Zimbabwe, or Darfur, or the Chad/Cameroon Oil Pipeline Project, or the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Rights which seem to be eroded more and more with each passing day.

Human Rights

May I suggest that more publicity be given to the series being run by Amnesty International to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. After 7 pm news on Channel 4.

The issues covered are Article 8 Monday, Article 19 Tuesday, Article 14 Wednesday,Thursday 'All human beings are born free and equal'.

In the light of recent erosions of 'our freedoms' then I think that these short films are far more important than 'Taking Liberties'. People are being killed and kiling throughout the world even as I write this. Iraq and Afghanistan are stains on all Britons. The War on Terror has made us worse than our adversaries, we know better, we, in Europe, have seen where this takes us, Concentration Camps and the Gas Chambers. This must stop. I do not want history to look at me and say , 'and what did you do during the war Daddy?. Did you watch them kill the women and children, and send people to be tortured and executed. Because that is what is happening, in our name.

Nick and the BBC. It is the wars which are breaking us, slowly and inexhorably, we are all polluted. It is time for the BBC to show some guts, don't swallow all the government pressure to concentrate on our injured soldiers and the sacrifices. The same excuses were used in WWI they must not have died in vain, they fought for freedom, well ask the Speaker and Damian Green about those freedoms. They will knock on your door one day, and then what will you say.

Article 19

I know that this comment relates to a Channel 4 programme but I hope the moderators let it through.

Next week after the Channel 4 7pm News there is a series of programmes 'celebrating' the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I believe more than ever that these rights are being eroded every passing day. Only 3 minutes long, so nobody has any excuse to be bored.

With the events in parliament and the treatment of Damian Green it will be interesting if people watching these films can see how Green is just the tip of a huge iceberg.

What I regard as the best one is on Tuesday Queen, Country, and a Gag Order. It tells the story of a young man's belief in Article 19, the right to freedom of expression. Can it be any more important than now, when we are all under threat.

Fear for the voters

It is not only the politicians I worry about. It is the people in this country who are actually entitled to vote.

I mean you cannot be serious. Bearing in mind the recent court cases I would put the mental capacity of some individuals to be just about equal to neotholic man. At leasr neolithic man had the excuse that they weren't educated.

There must be some sort of test imposed which restricts the voters to only those of a certain mental capacity. Furthermore, anybody who is in receipt of benefits should not be entitled to vote, they are just being bribed with taxpayers money.

I know that this suggestion may seem to be a bit harsh, but surely the Sarheant vote in Strictly Come Dancing is the proof if anty were needed that these same people could vote in an imminent general election. How scary is that. Oh, and the worst decision ever made was to extend the vote to women, who now need to be bribed in the same way that the property owners were before them.

English for England

since the revelations about the office of an MP being raided and the debates which have followed I thought that I would go into the Parliament web page so that it was possible to watch everything live, I know how sad.

What struck me however was the information which was available, notably the booklet 'You and your MP'. Now this is available in 16, yes 16 languages, and apparently it describes the role of an MP and how they can help their constituents. I will of course be reading a copy with interest but I thought also that I would list the languages:-

Arabic
Bengali
Chinese (Traditional)
English
French
Gaelic
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Punjabi
Somali
Spanish
Turkish
Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh

How much could be saved by just having everything fully explained in English and no other language. Why are we paying to have all these translations, I think that in these financially straightened times we ought to stick to nothing but English.

Either that or should your blog be available in all the above languages? No other language than English for England. If people can't be bothered to learn the language then tough. Stay ignorant.

The Underslass

Is this the same Robert Peston who has stopped saying that he has an exclusive. The same Robert Peston who I believe was used to manipulate the news.

With regard to Nick, I think that there is a major problem with the nature of Blogs. If there is nothing to say then don't say anything just to fill the empty spaces. Surely that is one of the major problems of today, so many people seem to be paid just to fill empty spaces.

For example, take me, I am now going to say what I have been saying for some time now, that 2008 will be just as bad as 1929, but only different. History will not repeat itself but the economy is shot to pieces. Politicians are saying that they are taking action today because it will be worse if they don't. Well, the politicians were saying the same in 1928. They spent the money so that by 1929 there was no money left.

As I have said before Gordon Brown and the labour party are going for a scorched earth policy. He will hold a spring general election, which he will not lose, but it will be a hung parliament. If labour can't buy votes from the underclass to get themselves re-elected then there is a serious problem with the mental capacity of the electorate.

Publish and be damned

Surely your comments are read by a wide range of individuals. Have we somehow hit on something. That could save the political parties thousands in fees to consultants.

We identify a problem, #352, somebody then comments on it #368 and then somebody else comes up with a viable way of dealing with the problem #374. Now I don't think that we should charge a fee, but surely this is a good solution to a problem.

Even better, just publish everything on the internet. There will actually be so much information that nobody could possibly have the time to look at it all. So, what is the famous saying, oh yes, 'publish and be damned'. Let us have full disclosure, why should only a small number of people have access, real freedom of information.

Governance

when people ask of the tories if you were in government would you allow the leaking of information I will say this.

If the information is collected for a government department by civil servants at the expense of the taxpayer then, no matter how embarrassing, that information must be published. If it has been collected and then not published then what the point in collecting the information. If it is spressed because it may embarrass the government of the day then it is not released for a political reason. Civil servants are not meant to be political yet they seem to collect information for political purposes, so they are political.

The interesting word which I thought was used by the Home Secretary was when she referred to governance and not government. Could somebody explain the difference, why did she use it? Anybody.

No Warrant

I cannot believe what I am hearing on the radio. Can you seriously believe that the police did not have a search warrant, what is this a police state.

I mean does this mean that the police can now raid our homes without a warrant. This is shameful.

Lock and Load

I think that there ought to be more made of the actions of the Duke of Edinburgh after the speech was given. As he and the Queen wre leaving they had a quick chat with Jack Straw, who had a bag with the speech in it. I saw the Duke reach into the bag and then pretended to pull the speech out of the bag and then throw it away in a very disdainful manner. I think that his actions mirrored how I felt about it. A complete and utter waste of time, it was pathetic.

Also on the way into the Lords, Brown was rabbiting away to Mr Cameron and David just ignored him. His silence said so much. I don't think that David likes Gordon at all, not one bit. It's time to bring on the election, it is time to lock and load.

Confidentiality Clauses

a member of my family used to serve in the armed forces. He was given an honourable discharge from the army, with a glowing testimonial from his commanding officer. He used to speak in public about his views on the war in Iraq, purely from the perspective of what it feels like going off to the enemy based on American Foreign Policy, on the treatment of prisoners, and the treatment of the local population.

He did not break the Official Secrets Act, but they prevented him from speaking in public on the basis that he was in breach of a confidentiality clause which was an attachment to his contract of employment, a document which he had to sign before he could be employed in the branch in which he served.

This clause was inserted because of some high profile books and films based on the experience of members of the Special Forces, which resulted in huge sums of money being paid to the authors. Now I think that the use of this confidentiality clause has been incorrectly applied, and I am not a happy bunny at all.

Charges

I thought that you showed an improvement in your performance on the Today programme this morning. You were very quick to pick-up on the Lord Mandelson, that is the unelected member of the government, when he inserted the word allegations about the conservative front bench.

Exactly who has made these allegations because until Mandelson revealed them on the Today programme I have never heard of them. Could it be that the police ought now to question Lord Mandelson because if he has any knowledge of these 'crimes' then he should reveal them. Has he known of these unsubstantiated allegations for some time and not said anything. Could it be said that he is complicit in any conspiracy because he has information which he is not disclosing.

Surely, there is now a moral obligation on everybody to reveal to the proper authorities anything that they know which is illegal. For example, if a soldier has been involved in the detention or arrest of anybody who has then who is likely to have been either tortured or shot then it is incimbent on that person to reveal this to the proper authorities so that charges can possibly be brought.

Questions to the PM

surely the Prime Minister, whenever he can be found, should be asked, 'who gave you the information which you used against the conservative democratically elected government?'. The reason why we must be told is that we should know what has happened to the career of that person since he was the mole who supplied the young Gordon Brown with his information.

I think that taking into account your comments on the Today programme we are entitled to know the answer to my question, there must be no cover-up in Downing Street.

Why Statistics

one thing surprises me. Now we know that some statistics collected by the government should not have come into the public domain. so, why actually collect them if we should not be privy to them.

What exactly is the point of collecting the data, just so that it is there. Surely, if one bit of data is collected, then it should be in the public domain. Issue it all, so that we can all see the information, total freedom. If there are any secrets then the question has to be asked why? Why not tell us. Surely, if the conservatives are ever elected then they will have to have access to all the numbers?

You cannot justify the collecting of any data if you don't want to come into the public domain what you have found. Forexample, if only 1000 people come into the country then many would regard that as good news, so it would probably be published. If 100000 come into the country then that might not be so good, so don't publish.

Of course we should have a free and open society, what have the statisticians got to hide.

Continuing story. How we have become a banana republic

so now we have a senior police officer doing an inquiry into a police inquiry into an MP.

Surely the Home Secretary is now going back on what she said only on Sunday. She should not be involved in this, so much for principles.

As for the government surely we will now be told, don't worry we are having an inquiry, so we must not prejudge the inquiry.

This is getting seriously bizarre. It is no wonder that the pound continues to fall. Can nobody imagine how this looks to foreign investors. We have a country going hugely into debt, which is fighting what many regard as illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and where now we have the police investigating an MP and raiding parliament.

Then there is a Prime Minister who cannot be found, as usual, when the going gets tough. Mind you he has got form. In the event of him being found he will probably say that everything is about the economy and that is what the government is fighting for, blah, blah. Oh, and you really won't expect me to comment on an on-going police inquiry.

Finally, we have an unelected member of the government, Lord Mandelson, apparently writing the Queens speech, you really can't make it up.

What with the electoral fraud, which has previously been revealed, that we have had nothing on cash-for-honours, and that even the Prime Minister has had no votes from any English for him, can you wonder why many consider this country a banana republic.

Mugabe

I do have a serious problem, and that is how on earth can you guys be expected to keep up with what can be called events.

For example, Today covered the the terrible events now unfolding in Zimbabwe, this Cholera out-break now being reported is truly sad. I have commented before about this unfolding disaster and it really is time that something was done. The UN was pass an urgent motion declaring Zimbabwe a totally failed state, and must call for the charges to be brought against Mugabe on the basis that he is committing crimes against his own people, he is responsible for crimes against humanity.

What is going on

so now exactly what is going on. Why is 'the mole' able to give a press conference through his solicitor.

As there were no inducements how is it that the word 'inducements' has been used in BBC news reports, why has the term 'grooming' been used at all? Who gave the information to the BBC on which their earlier reports were made. I refer especially to 'grooming' used on the Today broadcast.

we need to know who actually authorised the arrest of Mr Green, who gave permission for the raid on his parliamntary office, and when will they return his computer and other technological equipment.

I regard this as a severe intrusion on the work of an MP, if they do this to him then what hope is there for any of us.

The Prime Minister, who seems to be missing in action must make a full statement, with the Home Secretary by his side. I regard this whole process as totally unacceptable.

The End of the Story

good news at least we do not live in a police state.

The police follow the law, according to somebody on the Met Police Authority. If there is an allegation of law breaking, then of course they must be followed.

Look at the issue of leaks and how they are managed. Parliamentary privilege has been violated. The idea that MPs inhabitat some sort of place where the police cannot go.

Systematically inducing somebody to do this. Contempt of parliament, Erskine May. Narrowly defined parliamentary priviledge.

The law needs to be applied with discretion and common sense. All the systems in place to prevent the arrest of Mr Green. Smith, how could she be in ignorance. If t police believe that a crime has been committed of course they should investigate.

The Home Secretry is responsible, washing her hands, I am reminded of Pontius Pilot.

Still no word from the Prime Minister, exactly where is he, probably writing letters to the X-Factor contestants again, why not Strictly Come Dancing, where are their letters.

I think that this is going to disappear pretty quickly now, there needs to a new Blog Nick. How about Baby P report, after the statement is released?

This is no longer the subject for the public, time to move on, only there is no news is there. Who will speak to you now Nick, surely you aree expected to reveal all your sources, or are you as afriad as some of have been for a long time. No more grinning when asked who is your source.

I noticed even Peston said this morning that he learnt when ministers learnt about some breaking news. So what exactly is the point of journalists anymore if nobody will talk to you for fear of getting a knock on the door from the boys in blue. Unattributed comments are no longer worth the paper they are written on.

Queen's Speech

just to say that I will be listening to the Radio 4 one o'clock news with interest over this issue. I bet all the party hacks have been reading your blog with interest to see how they should now handle this one.

I think we will get the contiuning stance of let the police do their job. Also don't expect anything from the Speaker, it is now being hinted at that he may say something on wednesday. As for Gordon Brown, he will stay silent and refuse to be interviewed. Nothing to do with me, afer all I'm only the Prime Minister. Maybe the Queen, or Prince Charles may have something to say.

Just thinking it could be the most interesting Queen's speech ever. Can you imagine, we are so not pleased about the treatment meeted out to one of my subjects. I'm Spartacus.

Freedom of the Press

the Editors at the BBC are digging a bigger hole as every news broadcast comes on air.

It is no longer grooming in the Green Affair, it is no longer inducing, we are now being told that it is priming. Can anybody go to their Thesaurus and come up with another term to apply.

This is a total fiasco, in the meantime I read in a copy of the Daily Mail that Lord Mandelson is now rewriting the Queens speech. How does the journalist know this, how do they know what is happening unless it is guesswork.

I am not getting hysterical, I am angry, and as others have commented many times before, I have been for some time.

As for leaks from any government department surely the relevant department could just take out an injunction preventing any publication. The trouble is it would mean a compliant media co-operating in some form of cover-up, there must be no cover-up in Downing Street, the press must remain free, just like they were over Prince Harry.

Cheshire Cat Brown

you have just been on the Today programme with regard to what I shall refer to as 'the Green Affair'.

The new word is no longer groomed but now induced, who got you to change, or did you do it of your own accord?

Now Brown still has a problem because if somebody gives you information, which you then put into the public domain, are you still inducing somebody, because they know that if they give you information you will bring it into the public domain. Just as they intended. Again it was interesting to see the old Gordon Brown grinning like the cat which had got the cream, the Cheshire Cat Prime Minister. He is so childlike, oh look at me I know something you don't know, miaaaow.