Meet the New Boss..Same as the Old Boss

 Meet the New Boss..

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Thesesa May

Same as the Old Boss......

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Harriet Harma

 BBC News - Home Secretary Theresa May condemns protest 'thugs': 

'I'm Harriet Harman - you know where you can get hold of me.'

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"Those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history" - B Obama.

"Those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history". B Obama.






Let me make myself clear, I do not support this Dutch MP, nor have I watched his film and probably never will.

What I am about is the stiffing of dissent in all it's forms.

I have had to deal with a lot of unpleasant people in my life, with a lot of unpleasant ideas and opinions. No doubt a lot of these people felt the same about me.

I was raised to believe in the principle that, though I may disagree with what you say or believe and I may even challenge you on those issues, I will defend your right to say it or believe it.

This action by the Home Secretary does nothing for debate, freedom of speech or democracy and revels more about NuLabour attitude towards these principles, the disdain they have for the critical thinking abilities of the people of the UK and gives the impression that they are cowards but are still willing and able to use 'gunboat' politics to achieve their aims.

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"Can I exchange this? This one seems overly expensive and somewhat faulty."

"Can I exchange this?

This one seems overly expensive and somewhat faulty. "

Expenses row: 'Lodger' deal earns Jacqui Smith £100,000 as she claims sister's house is main home

By Simon Walters and Martin Delgado
Last updated at 1:32 AM on 08th February 2009

Good investment: Jacqui Smith has claimed over £116,000 on her 'second home' in Redditch

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has claimed more than £116,000 in Commons expenses for a 'second home' while effectively lodging with her sister.

Ms Smith claims the maximum parliamentary second-home allowance, currently a tax-free £24,006 a year, on the detached house in her West Midlands constituency, where her husband and two young children live and which she bought for £300,000 five years ago.

She is able to do so because she has told the Commons authorities that her 'main home' is a house in London owned solely by her sister, Sara, where she stays on some weekdays.

Nor is this the only large expense caused by the Home Secretary's decision to share her sister's house.

Two policemen provide a round-the-clock guard at the South London property, costing taxpayers an estimated £200,000 a year. The two officers are stationed at the property on a shift basis.

So here we are, in the year 2009, with some of our most vulnerable citizens facing eviction, bank-corrupt-see, mounting debts and worse, whilst these career politicians keep lining their pockets and the pockets of their city friends, (largely by printing more new fiat money) in an 'I'm Al'right Jack' mentality.

Does this seem like value for money?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1138782/Expenses-row-Lodger-deal-earns-Jacqui-Smith-100-000-claims-sisters-house-main-home.html?ITO=1490

Technorati Tags: Home Secretary,Jacqui Smith

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Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon could be tried in Britain - Telegraph

At last! some hope for this man.

See also here, here, and here.

Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon could be tried in Britain - Telegraph

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Home Office to review UK's surveillance powers

Home Office to review UK's surveillance powers | OUT-LAW.COM

Picked up this article via one of Twitter's most useful of service's Monitter.

(From Out-Law's article)

The UK is not a surveillance society as some have claimed, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said. Smith conceded, though, that surveillance powers needed to be reviewed to cut back on excessive use.

The Information Commissioner and others have claimed that the unusually intensive use of closed circuit television cameras in the UK and the creation of children's, DNA and health databases have turned the UK into a surveillance society.

Speaking this week to a trade association, Smith rejected the charge.

"Are we really a nation under CCTV? Do we, today, live in what critics call a surveillance society?" she said. "I don’t believe so, not for one moment."

Seems to me that ZaNuLabour Government are doing a bit of trick-cycling here by appearing to be conciliatory to the legitimate concerns regarding pervasive use of surveillance equipment and 'back-peddling' whilst ensuring that the the entire circus show, complete with clown's, goes on.

Monitter is so useful that I have created a permanent link to on my Netvibes Universe so it is both handy for myself and for my Universe's Alien Lifeforms.

Technorati Tags: surveillance society,Jacqui Smith,Information Commissioner,ID Cards

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Britain faces Zimbabwe immigration influx claims UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

Bit of a bus mans holiday for them then!


Home Secretary Jacqui Smith claims Britain faces Zimbabwe immigration influx - Telegraph

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Twenty UK MPs want Hacker Gary McKinnon to serve his sentence in UK

BBC NEWS | Technology | MPs want UK jail time for hacker

(Taken from the BBC article)

Mr McKinnon is currently awaiting a decision by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as to when the extradition process will begin.

In the interim, 20 UK MPs have signed an Early Day Motion which calls for any sentence imposed by a US court to be served in a British jail.

At last, some MP's with something resembling a spine!

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GB ID "bunkum" GCHQ - Telegraph - Stop - help state bodies share information about people - Stop

Well it would seem that NULabour (Old danger, remember that Tory campaign?) has lost the backing of most of the security services over this issue.

(From the article)

Mr Mattinson is not the first figure from Britain's intelligence community to reject Government claims for ID cards. Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5 has also questioned their value in fighting terrorism.

Despite recent speculation that he will drop the scheme, Mr Brown has insisted he will press ahead with ID cards.

Of course he will, after all he has friends set to capitalise on the venture and they might not be best pleased if it doesn't come about.

No, it wasn't so much NULabour Old danger as NULabour New Danger.

See also here, here, here, here, here and here, for a start.

Gordon Brown's terror claims for ID cards are "bunkum" says GCHQ expert - Telegraph

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