We’ve just had an entire day of MP’s and indeed, journalists talking about the scourge of online abuse towards politicians. Yet there’s barely been a mention of the politician who receives the most online abuse (it seems – by an absolute country mile), Dianne Abbott. And a similar quantity of mainstream orthodox press abuse as… Read more
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Constitution
You can’t learn from history if you don’t know what it was
This short video gives information on the legal action that now has the necessary permission to bring a case to try to outlaw messaging secrecy within government. The case is a joint effort between All the Citizens, which is an organisation campaigning for more transparency and Foxglove Legal, which campaigns to hold the tech giants… Read more
The purpose of the state
It seems to me that this is more and more of a problem as our current government appears to be of the opinion that in fact the state has little, or even, no purpose. In spite of the fact that they are in charge of it. Clearly the Johnson government like being in charge because… Read more
Make lying in the House of Commons a criminal offence
For anyone who hasn’t seen this petition, personally, I suggest that this is well worth signing . Why on earth directly lying to the House of Commons should not be made a criminal offence needs some considerable explaining (not least by the speaker)…. Here is the link to sign the Parliamentary petition…. Read more
Devolving money creation
There is an interesting programme from Renegade Inc (27 minutes) with the South African, Brett Scott who is ‘an author and financial activist’. I suggest that he has various insights: First that the cashless society is definitely not for the benefit of individuals but rather for corporations and banks. Second the ‘war on cash’ is… Read more
Dawn Butler on being expelled:
I have to say Butler’s expulsion is decidedly surreal. It is an indictment of our democracy that she was actually expelled for telling the truth. Perhaps Keir Starmer could organise his party so that every Labour member called on to speak called Johnson a liar. If every one of their speaking members were expelled, hopefully… Read more
The real question is…
…who is the “we” continually mentioned below? Even Kuenssberg seems surprised, presumably at Cummings’ directness. (With apologies for the four letter word in the link): The most obvious conclusion is that “we” was the Vote Leave ‘party’ headed up by Matthew Elliott, previously of the Institute of Economic Affairs and a founder of the sham… Read more
Treasury sends the Bank of England credit in bookkeeping shock
In my continuing efforts to try to get the Treasury to admit it creates money, I think I am gradually chipping away at the terminology designed to obfuscate the actual position. In their latest letter (click to enlarge): it admits that the Treasury instructs the Bank of England to create a credit. It demurely seems… Read more
Simple slogans get us to a dangerous place…
Timothy Snyder has been mentioned here before and this short extract is certainly up to standard. Fascism was well used to the simplistic three word slogan. So ‘Get Brexit Done’ has a similarly easy, simplistic appeal. (Even though Brexit never will be done, for we are not moving house, we are merely just trying to… Read more
Do we have an upright UK government?
As journalist Corole Cadwalladr says The case is broadly about Russian influence in the Tory Party and potentially in UK governance itself. The Tory idea of ‘nothing to see here’ is being challenged. It was with James Eadie QC that it was established that owing to Vote Leave’s many infractions of campaign regulations, the Brexit… Read more