A strange smell over Lockerbie murders

clipped from www.timesonline.co.uk Claims of Lockerbie cover-up as only man convicted of bombing drops appeal Relatives of Lockerbie victims were denied their final chance of discovering the truth yesterday when the only man convicted of the atrocity abruptly dropped his appeal. The decision of Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, who is expected to be freed from prison in Scotland next week allowing his return to Libya, sparked charges of a top-level cover-up. Politicians, relatives and experts accused the Scottish government of striking a deal with the convicted terrorist: that in return for his repatriation he would abandon an appeal that might have exposed a grave miscarriage of justice. “It’s pretty likely there was a deal,” said Oliver Miles, a former British Ambassador to Libya, who told The Times that the British and Scottish governments had been very anxious to avoid the appeal.

I am no legal expert but things about this case have never seemed answered to any degree of satisfaction.
Get away from the revulsion and gut reactions for once and enquire of the evidence. It does not stack up and ought to be placed before a body independent enough to review it dispassionately.
I make no judgments or other observations except that already mentioned.

White scum not at work

clipped from www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk Cenotaph attacker slammed by war veteran A BLACKPOOL war veteran has slammed the vandal who desecrated the resort's war memorial and attacked the passer-by who tried to stop him. Bailey was also ordered to pay compensation to Mr Brown who stepped in after witnessing the incident in June. notyetavet, South Shore 15/08/2009 10:54:43 The sirens from ther police to the judiciary for equity in punishments are played out here. Take the incident of Andy Miller, the Sandgrown 79 yo pensioner who was having to clean toilets to make ends meet- who was hounded to death by bailiffs instructed by Blackpool's magistrate court to extract a £60 speeding fine to this worthless piece of human flesh! It makes one wonder who or what kind of mindless libertarian you are to be to become a magistrate. The less said about your councillors remarks the better...

Ill educated, ill mannered, anti-social and that's me. Compared to this dross I'm a paragon of all the virtues.

Prince of Darkness presides

clipped from www.politics.co.uk Lord Mandelson seeks further curbs on wankers Lord Mandelson is reportedly considering further legal action to clamp down on bonuses after yesterday's FSA report was deemed inadequate. Lord Mandelson is reportedly considering further legal action to clamp down on bonuses

Did I read that correctly?

Lest We Forget

clipped from www.accringtonobserver.co.uk Roll of honour THE 11th Battalion East Lancs - those killed or died of wounds in July 1916 …

Thanks to the Accrington Observer for this timely reminder of the debt we owe to our forefathers.

The fear behind the hypocrisy

Don't panic. Don't sit there oblivious. Click and watch what a British politician is like close up. Come Back Guy Fawkes.

Broons transparency

clipped from www.modoracle.com Gordon Brown has been accused of trying to suppress a report that shows billions of pounds are being wasted buying defence equipment. "Incompetent" decision-making was costing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) up to £2.5 billion a year, the government review was said to have found. Commissioned by former Defence Secretary John Hutton and led by ex-MoD aide Bernard Gray, its findings were due to have been published before MPs broke up for the summer recess.

Would the worst Prime Minister ever do such a thing????
Replies please to your own MP, on holiday and still claiming expenses.
No, I have not made a mistake with ever.

Out of the mouths of Babes - and odd fellows

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Duncan apologises for foul-mouthed complaint about way MPs are treated Alan Duncan, the shadow leader of the Commons, said that, although his remarks were made "in jest", he could understand why they would anger members of the public. He was forced to respond after the London Evening Standard printed comments he made in the House of Commons when he was being secretly filmed by Heydon Prowse, a campaigner with whom he was having a drink.

One poof and he ought to be gone, but life is not that simple.
If he thinks living on £64k per year is miserly, then he ought to be a former SBS veteran existing on less than £5k - but we should not forget private incomes, expenses, now watered down and proposed receipt free...No, not the veteran you morons, this parasitic little odd fellow.

Outcome of the Social experiment that did not work

clipped from www.channel4.com Baby P mother and stepfather named Tracey Connelly and her lover Steven Barker were responsible for the death of 17-month-old Peter Connelly in his blood-spattered room in August 2007. He had suffered 50 injuries, including fractured ribs and a broken back. Barker was told he had played the major part in Peter's death and was given 12 years. He was also jailed for life with a minimum term of 10 years for raping the girl.

Here is another woman who has the right to bare children, but not the morality to raise them. One must feel for her other children, but why the lunatic liberals can't digest that she is unfit to mother a crocadile let alone a child, is beyond comprehension.
Why waste more taxpayers money when our troops are desperate for the gear to fight labour's illegal wars, while Rockall lays waiting to house this evil family?
The system failed this handsome little fellow and will continue to fail society as long as we are gudgelled into believing that this dross is allowed to breath the fresh air they denied the little boy, Peter.

Young Brits killing young English

clipped from www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk Hit and run driver jailed after killing Nelson mum Athif Faiz, 23, was at the wheel of a hired Vauxhall Astra when he hit Amanda Bailey, 33, in Leeds Road, Nelson. His front seat passenger Mohammed Zaman, 19, and the backseat passengers Mohammed Rashid, 24 and Rafhan Sarwar 19, all fled from the scene, failed to get medical attention for the victim and left her to die from multiple injuries, Burnley Crown Court heard. Sentencing, Judge Beverley Lunt told Fiaz: “You killed Amanda Bailey. “You didn't care. Any human being who can treat another so callously can only be described as despicable.

No matter how I try to hide my disgust, the fact that my once wonderful Lancashire is now a haven for strangers who have no respect for British law cannot go unchallenged.
Gordon Marsden MP, does not believe there are problems, along with all the blind parliamentarians who want these immigrants in my country to bolster their failing majority.
Whatever happened to Labours pledge that immigrants guilty of serious offences would be repatriated to their own countries?
Just hot air????
I have close relatives, young, decent people, living amongst these hooligans from elsewhere. I want them to be safe, yet I fear for them. Call me racist, I call it realism.

Lancashire reporter upholds journalistic values

clipped from www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk Bailiffs change after death of Knuzden pensioner Reporeter Emma Cruces, Lancashire Telegraph BAILIFFS will no longer be allowed to judge a householder’s ‘vulnerability’ following a report into the death of pensioner Andy Miller. The 78-year-old father-of-five collapsed and died of a heart attack in January after a bailiff took him to a cash point to pay an overdue speeding fine, which had spiralled from £60 to £350. In the report, Mr Straw said in future the court’s contractors, Marston Group bailiffs, should use its customer service unit to investigate these claims, separating the task from the enforcement of warrants.

It is the story stupid.
Behind the headlines are always the victims. For Andy Miller and his immediate family it means that four teenagers will be growing up without their father.
For Greg Pope, MP Accrigton Labour, a decent, honest man, the weight of working within such a corrupt regime seems too much and he is sadly leaving Parliament.
The one shining light is the emergence of a good, clear reporter in a paper that still hold values of decency and accuracy.