Bovine waste matter alert! The Unions are again plotting to hold the country to ransom!
So, forgive me, but
The Labour Party is up against the rocks, listing heavily, most definitely away
from the port, correct? Dave and his mates, predictably, are up in arms, "We don't want a Labour Party that
acts at the behest of the Unions. This would not be due and fair democratic
process..." or some such accusation. A
fair assessment?
The political
polls, reflecting what the tabloid-driven public 'think', have delivered their verdict; the general public is not
happy with Labour's close ties to their 'union paymasters.' As a consequence
Labour's standing in the polls has dropped by as many as a
non-specific-guessed-at number of points.
Hurrah for Prince David and his charred-souled-Knights! Mount up Sir
Rupert, Sir Jeremy! Ride for queen and country... and justice!
Writing as a true democrat- an aspirational goal with
a definition that might truly occupy
whole volumes- and in an approximation of an ideal world, I would not wish to
associate myself with the defence of such alleged
democratic malpractice as that being 'tied' to Len McClusky and the Unite
Union. Pause for thought...
Many thanks to Andi Jetaime
But are we not
missing something here? Is there not, perhaps, a wider context within which to
consider this alleged subterfuge?
Are the Tories and Labour really arguing for greater democratic
accountability? Really? And why is it
that the ‘free’ press and wider media are always
so swift and ready to present such findings with a tsunamic tirade of ‘moral
superiority?’
We listen, we
watch, we are presented with the ‘facts’, the ‘opinions’ of experts with political
‘insight’; the revelation is bathed in a ‘righteous’ and ‘cleansing light’ and
yet we are left feeling somehow still very much in the dark, an Antarctic
winter of radiance has again flooded the scene!
Also to Jeannie Fletcher
What can we
possibly have missed, in a country so ‘loyally served’ by such a ‘wide-ranging’
and ‘free’ press; one in which such democratically accountable servants work so
tirelessly in ‘our’ cause?
Gleaning information from The Independent, easily one of the nation’s more reliable
newspapers, I will summarise:
Mr Milliband
(Labour leader) has been, “locked in a damaging war of words with Len McClusky
(Unite),” over allegations that some of the 100 recently recruited members, in
Falkirk, were asked to, “allow others to cast votes on their behalf.”
Apparently Unite
then went on to attempt to install Kate Murphy (office manager to senior Labour
figure, Tom Watson) as Labour’s election candidate for Falkirk. Mr Watson has
recently resigned and, pending further investigation, Ms Murphy has been
suspended by the party.
A lot of not-happy bunnies have been quick to board this proverbial bandwagon! But I’m going to suggest that we might
just take a slightly wider view- well,
how on earth could we not? Blinkers off now, everyone!
Many thanks to Adam Cohn
Firstly, let's take a brief detour into the world of Tory-supporter-influence,
which every day goes largely unchallenged,
even supported and celebrated by ‘our’ media. Relevant? Of course it’s relevant, it’s the context, the very
political environment, within which the aforementioned, alleged wrongdoing has supposedly
occurred.
Immensely more alarming, and significantly outside of the ‘alleged’ categorisation, we might peruse The Gove Academy
Thrust, whereby Ofstead have been charged with placing huge numbers of schools
onto the business opportunities shelves. Once there, not entirely unlike a
Cybermen-featuring episode of Dr Who, the structure may be stripped bare, to be
replaced by a far more ‘generously funded’ alternative. An alternative that
might, should it so wish, discard the staff's current pay scales and contracts, discard
even the necessity for basic teaching qualifications. The ‘ultra-essential’
National Curriculum may also be dropped, if it so suits the business sponsor,
sorry school Head and Board of
Governors.
The Gove is currently ‘selling off’ potential business influencing
opportunities to industry, encouraging companies to ‘sponsor’ a brimming
reservoir of recently converted schools, rather like a demented store manager in an Everything Must Go sale. What could possibly go wrong? The
ever-scrupulous British businessman or businesswoman can surely be trusted to
act with honour. Or just conceivably not, given the current trend for, and rate of, deregulation.
And finally, thanks to Brian Snelson
Our next port of call might be the recently-in-the news-again instance
of JC’s (Jeremy Hunt) closer-than-democratically-apt dealings with the Murdoch bid for BSkyB,
whereby the lying toad (JC) was outrageously preparing the ground for yet
further incursions into ‘our’ remnant democracy, by the likes of the Murdoch
Empire.
Although charged with conducting a ‘fair’ and ‘open’ process, involving
the sell off of BSkyB, JC’s advisor, one Jeremy- it must be something about the name- Smith, ‘opted’ to supply covert and up-to-the-minute news on the bidding
process, solely to News Corp. JC, as befits his persona, thus acting as the oil in the
cogs of Cameron/Osborne’s desire to develop a “mutually beneficial relationship
with Murdoch’s media empire.” The e-mails cited in the Leveson Enquiry really
do leave no other sensible conclusion.
Depending upon how many threads one wishes to pursue, one might
conceivably drag in half of the then ‘serving’ Cabinet. But, at this juncture,
I should just like to tie in the involvement of one Andy Coulson; he who moved from
News of the World Editor (during the widespread use of phone hacking), to
becoming Cameron’s media advisor during the JC-BSkyB attempted shoo-in.
Insider-dealing by any other name?
Somewhere a prison cell pines for an oily and absent occupant! Several, not unlike sardines in a can, marinating in their own oil!
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