The CPS

How proud we need to be today, that we have the Crown Prosecution Service. This fabled organisation is led by a man who has a nobility beyond reproach. He is avowedly Left wing and a great believer in the Human Rights industry.

He brought a prosecution against a man who killed a burglar, based on the evidence of another burglar. The case was dropped when it came to court, being mere political posturing by the CPS. This is the same organisation that is taking so long over the simple matter of an MP having allegedly lied about who was driving his car, when caught by a speed camera. The charge, brought after considerable and unexplained delay, is perverting the course of justice.

Clearly, Mr, Starmer is a great believer in transparency and accountability as he has made very little of the prosecution of a Cabinet Minister, but launches live TV announcements about members of the Murdoch empire, in a similar predicament.

I think that the nature of the outrage evinced by Mrs Brooks is interesting. Her annoyance isn't just that she is 'innocent', but that the prosecution is being brought due to political pressure (or the CPS's own leanings). I think there may be something to this. Over 40 people have been arrested over this scandal, but the first charges  in the current investigation are these, and none are charged with criminal offences that might be said to be based on the central issue. No, Mrs Brooks and others are charged with destroying information that, the speculation is, night have been incriminating.

When the police launch an investigation into your work practices and you go into the office, extract a number of boxes of material and burn them in your garden (not what is alleged here) then it would be reasonable to assume that the two are connected and you are up to no good. It isn't proof though and though Keir may think that an old fashioned concept and not applicable in political trials, it is still the law.

It will be interesting indeed to see if the CPS think that the law should be allowed to have much bearing on the case. A great deal of information and not a little speculation swirls around daily in the Leveson inquiry, which seems to blithely ignore stumbling into possibly legal areas, where it may harm a future prosecution. Then there is the Left media reporting the inquiry, with many aspects amplified beyond reality. We are, for instance, continually told that 'this is bad news for the Prime Minister' because he knows someone who is appearing. No substance to the assertion being required.

A clear picture that Rebekah Brooks was in charge of a very unpleasant organisation has been framed and it is impossible to believe that any trial would not be conducted in the oxygen of an extremely opinionated atmosphere. According to the biased media, pursuing their favourite target, Murdoch, she had to know what was going on because she was in charge. At times they hardly seem able to stop short of suggesting she must have personally organised it and probably ordered it, because she is the darling of Murdoch.

On this basis every corrupt police officer must be operating under the instructions of his Chief Constable. Once again, the Left expect an ignorant public to swallow their version of reality whole. Well, maybe we shouldn't.

Pointlessness

A parliamentary committee decided yesterday was the day to show just how pointless this Left inspired Salem witch hunt is. They announced that in their opinion the Murdoch's were not fit and proper people to run an international company, even though they have no business making that assertion. It is the role of a regulator.

The opinion though, just appeared to be the malicious dribbling of the Labour bloc doing as they are told, so not even a hint of a real inquiry process. But I suppose the real point was to try to set the direction the regulator should take. It would be a brave bureaucrat who found differently from a Parliamentary committee wouldn't it?

This inquiry, like the Leveson one is yet another example of how the Left so completely dominate our lives through corrupt politics. It has no point and barely touches things that are the proper interest of government and yet as a tool to attack capitalists, both in the flesh and politicians of that hue, it is unimpeachable. The constant complaints and shrill exhortations of the Left really are becoming tiresome.

The process has revealed something of importance though, that is of real and proper interest to MP's and something that requires action. Tom Watson MP (Labour), a member of the anti-Murdoch brigade brought in to do harm, has released privileged information from within the inquiry, before its own report was published and in a book written for financial gain. Watson disclosed that the report would say Murdoch misled Parliament.

Surely this exposes Watson as at least not a fit and proper person to be on the committee, casting its whole validity into doubt, but also raises the question as to whether he should be a Member of Parliament at all. It is surely correct that he be released from his position as an MP and barred from the House for at least 5 years, meaning he cannot stand again for election to that House, within that time frame.

Naturally, as you would expect of such an unattractive character, Watson has form. He has leaked information before, though his buddies on the Leveson inquiry somehow managed to blame Guido Fawkes blog. They said that Watson had copied the information released from the blog, making Paul Staines (aka Guido) the source of the leak. Quite how the redacted version he published became un-redacted in Watson's hands, no-one felt at liberty to say. This meant an important matter was dropped.

So, the actual lessons learnt are, that we should listen less to and be more aware of the Left and its persistent tactics to modify the way you think. And that we should act against the Left, holding them to account every time they corrupt democratic process and break the law. No more should they be able to escape common justice, as it applies to others. This is not party politics, or differing opinions. We have to weed out these dangerous people from within our midst.

On Being Fed Up

I am heartily sick of hearing about the Leveson inquiry. I know it has such a high profile because it is beloved of the Left and so the BBC major on every nuance, but really what is the point? So journalists hacked phones; that is a criminal matter for the police, lawsuits by those affected are a civil matter. Government collusion is a concern but, excuse me, I haven't actually heard much of substance there. We really must stop letting the shrieking of the Left affect our view of the world.

When New Labour came to power it was widely held that it was the support of the Sun that swung it and now we hear that Cameron and others had personal contact. This must come as a major shock to the country, close to a bear's activity in the woods, I should imagine. What we haven't heard is anything of substance. The Jeremy Hunt affair looks dodgy, but probably because it is.

Hunt has a guilty look that does his conscience, if not his integrity, a great service. The torturous way Cameron talks about it also suggests there is more to it, but we'll see. It might make some small point to the whole, expensive shebang.

Look, let us get this straight. If a Prime Minister can lie, openly and blatantly to Parliament and the country and in doing so take this country to war and we do absolutely nothing about it, why would we be concerned about a Prime Minister knowing a media tycoon? We haven't even locked Campbell up, for goodness sake!

Actually, on a separate note, is the vast amount of money Blair is getting paid and his 'Middle East' mission, based on him continuing to search Iraq for WMD's? You know, the ones he is certain are there? Here is what is apparent today though, with the benefit of hindsight and a better view of what, in any other country would be called criminal activity. In the Middle East there is a real threat from the very slightly unhinged regime in Iran.

This stands them apart from a long list of grasping malcontents who seem to run much of the area. They actively want to cause harm and want powerful weapons. So we invade the country next door which, whilst having a nasty, tinpot dictator in charge, was otherwise none of the above.

A constant stream of news emerges that ends with the word Pakistan, as in 'terrorists trained in', 'went to a camp in', 'assisted in terrorism by the security services of', 'bombers came from' and 'Osama Bin Laden found in'. So, once again, we invaded the country next door. Due to this new policy, all I can say, with one eye on the Eurozone situation, is that if the Germans kick off again, boy are Denmark in trouble.

Global Warming stopped in 1998. CO2 continues to go up, but the temperature doesn't. It's been warmer before. CO2 rises after the temperature does, not the other way around. Clearly we do not understand climate to any significant degree. So why are we still taxing and regulating and pumping money into Green activities and giving a mountain of cash to Green activists and academics?

(On the basis that there are obviously a lot of really stupid people out there; I have a few jars of Moonbeams for sale, at £1 million each. I collect them from cucumbers).

Lies, Damned Lies And Water Shortages

Because, I presume, all this water that is cascading from the sky may be giving us the impression that the drought might be over, the usual thing happens. The BBC, the nations' broadcaster on behalf of their own ideology, trot out a reporter to a reservoir on the day of the heaviest rain. 'The water here', he intones, 'would normally be way over my head at this time of year'. He carried on to say that the rain just wasn't enough. But, forgive me if I am wrong, but I don't think reservoirs fill up exclusively with rain that falls directly on to them. I think they have rivers and possibly other water courses feeding into them.

This water doesn't arrive on the same day as the rain of course. Which is why the BBC rush someone out, with downpours fresh on your mind and raincoat and tell you it isn't enough, because there is a drought story running, which very possibly may allow a 'Climate Change' angle to be worked in at some point. Anyway, us plebs get a 'narrative' not the news and certainly not the truth. And still no need for water companies to repair leaks, even with the 'drought'.

Lordy, lordy Brown is getting a kicking he richly deserves via Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson enquiry. Don't overdo it Rupert, just a decent hint that the man was completely unhinged will do, bearing in mind we have seen plenty of evidence of that ourselves! And fancy Brown getting Lord Mandelson to tell lies, I mean, why him? Oh yes, because he doesn't do anything else!

I saw two swallows this morning. I am well aware that this still does not qualify as a summer prediction, but my optimism shall not be thwarted, or the nation's done for.

BBC Bias

You would hope that, with perhaps some personal leanings, news reports would attempt to be just that, reports on the news. However, just watching the lunchtime BBC slot it became apparent just  how distorting this broadcaster is. Whilst blatant bias is unacceptable from any broadcaster one that you are compelled to pay for should be squeaky clean. But the BBC feel they are above the mere opinion of the hoi poloi.

Today the head of the Press Complaints Commission resigned over the phone hacking scandal, but what did the BBC choose to lead on? James Murdoch. And what was the 'story? That he had been asked to clarify something. The way the BBC chose to present this was 'James Murdoch no doubt thought his appearance before the House committee would be his last', but it went on, 'the Chairman has asked him to reply in writing' to clarify something he said earlier. In an attempt to justify their misleading intro, the BBC went on to say that one Labour MP on the committee wanted James recalled but was out-voted. And the 'news' was that an email had shown up that seemed to contradict something James had said to the committee earlier. This being something that came to light days ago. So, for absolutely no reason whatsoever, the state broadcaster ran a headline story that was old news and no news. Just to keep their figures of hate, the Murdoch's in the glare of publicity.

The BBC really is a disreputable organisation and one on which you can have no faith that you are being told the truth.

Murdoch Runs Britain

A facile comment, but one designed to serve a purpose. The Sun newspaper, of the Murdoch 'empire', has happily in the past taken credit for winning elections. So be it. If people are dim enough to follow the advice of a newspaper written to a reading age of 8, then that is the nature of democracy. I don't remember too much bleating from the Left when Murdoch was, for totally selfish business reasons supporting the snake-oil salesman Blair.

But how much influence does he have? A Channel 4 programme seemed to suggest he is an immense power in the land and not a good one either. I confess to not being able to watch much of such a programme, but the snippet I did see contained a typical, left liberal deceit. They said that the government (which was Blair at the time) wanted to amend a law to allow foreigners to own terrestrial broadcasters in the UK. The edit then cut to Murdoch and Sky TV and the recent attempt to gain 100% control. But Sky isn't a terrestrial broadcaster. The stunt Murdoch pulled was that the law on satellite broadcasting was written specifically to allow only one digital broadcaster, so the winning company could establish itself and recover costs before having to compete.   But Murdoch skirted this by launching an analogue system. BSB, the proposed digital broadcaster was taking a leisurely, money no object approach to getting their service up and was eaten up by the efficient rival.

The power in this land clearly lies with a left liberal leaning media that will have no truck with any opposition. What it believes and says is right, no matter what, because they are inherently good people. Definitely the right people to tell others what to do and definitely right on everything. When their beliefs differ from reality, then reality has to be altered to fit (known to ordinary people as lies). This was the role of Alistair Campbell and others in the Blair government, though here the 'narrative' was more self-serving than to support an ideology, this being a concept that Blair did without. Most of the brain-washing in this country is done by the BBC, which believes in some very strange and unsupported things, with religious fervour (religion being something it is not keen on, ironically). They have been convinced by political activists, who are people very like them, that the world is subject to climate change caused by man. To avoid any embarrassment they have declared that the subject must not be debated and they will not give airtime to anything that disagrees. Particularly not science, scientists or facts. And they also assure us Murdoch is a menace.

MP Tom Watson And Parliamentary Rigour

Bravo for Tom Watson, a Labour member of the committee that grilled the Murdoch's recently (and who's party also supplied the person who attacked Rupert Murdoch), who has become aware of a possible mendacious statement by James. It seems the younger of the clan claimed not to know something that apparently others say he did. If he has misled the committee, Watson wants the police to investigate.

Now let us be clear, this is a nasty affair and whoever has been up to no good should be discovered and dealt with under the laws of the land. But the thing is, this is still really a minor matter and yet Mr Watson wants to pursue the miscreants at all costs. The same rigour seemed absent though when his ex-leader, Mr Blair, lied to Parliament in order to attack another country, Iraq. This cost the country a not inconsiderable sum and, much, much worse the lives of a lot of completely innocent and uninvolved people, not least our forces who did not need to be there. But why did we invade? Was it just for Blair's vanity? His fame and the impact it could have on his 'saleability' later? There were no WMD's and we knew that, so just what was he up to?

Then of course, we have the related death of a civil servant who was involved in stating that there were no WMD's before the lies that took us to war, Dr David Kelly. There is not only an absence of rigour over investigating his death, there is official interference to ensure there is no proper investigation. These are real issues of national importance that should be investigated at all costs, with no stone left unturned. Then we might see more than mock outrage from a Director of Communications who really was a danger in No 10. But Mr Watson doesn't seem to see any need for rigour here. The Murdoch's may not be the most pleasant people, but the Left represent the extreme in that respect.

Brown 'In Tears'

More mysterious mutterings about what people know (touch side of nose) of the hacking scandal at News International (now that the Sun and Sunday Times have had fingers pointed at them we can no longer call it the NotW scandal). Policemen knew they were hacked but felt churlish about mentioning it before apparently and Gordon Brown knows about his son's medical records being hacked, his own bank accounts and that this was done by criminals. The police investigation continues in slow motion it seems and Robert Peston (who should have been imprisoned previously) may be 'too close' to a NI person.

In fact the investigation has all the makings of a Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The politicians will hope so no doubt. And with rumours as to who is to look into police conduct it is like asking a paedophile to run a school. Proof if ever you needed it that the politicians never, ever learn anything. They are persisting with moving inappropriate people around, into inappropriate jobs, just to repay old debts and keep in with the right people. Remember, there are allegations of murder floating around regarding the very strange death of Dr David Kelly and yet we mustn't have an inquest, with all its legal powers and responsibilities. What hope that the smoke canisters are not as yet being deployed around this unholy and entirely self inflicted mess from News International and politicians and favours.