Oil Giants Employ An Army Of Ex-Government Employees And Politicians To Paint A Picture Of The Industry In An Eco-Friendly Shade Of Green

Massive Interference In Elections.
Let’s say all the claims are true.
Suppose Russia tried to interfere in the American elections.
That ought to make people laugh hysterically.
There is huge interference in American elections.
It comes from the corporate sector.
They practically buy the elections.
In fact, there is extensive work in mainstream academic political science that demonstrates very convincingly that you can predict the electability, hence largely the votes, of people in Congress on major issues just by looking at their campaign funding.
That is one factor, let alone lobbying and everything else.
That is massive interference in elections.
( Noam Chomsky, 13.03.2018 )

Who really wields the power in the UK?
Bureaucrats, lobbyists, mandarins and ex-spies are the ones pulling the strings behind the scenes, this is the secretive Deep State, the secret manipulation of Government by the wealthy and powerful, the ones pulling the strings on multi-million-pound government deals with multi-nationals, military contractors and pharmaceutical firms.
( Lewis Panther, 25.02.2018 )

Tory Party vice chairman Ben Bradley apologised for a libellous tweet about Jeremy Corbyn.
He also agreed to make a donation to charities of his choice.
He deleted the tweet claiming the Labour leader sold British secrets to communist spies almost immediately.
( Keir Mudie, 25.02.2018 )

A Grim Taste Of Things To Come.
Lucky me.
I was in Italy for the dawn of 2018.
New Year’s Day is my birthday and I’d go to the ends of the Earth to avoid it altogether if I could.
I dislike birthdays.
Anyhow, arriving in Italy it was a birthday treat to still be able to relish the expediency of the EU passport control queue.
The non-EU queue was long and slow.
The immigration officials unsmiling and suspicious.
A grim taste of things to come whenever we venture across the channel come 2019.
( Fiona Phillips, 06.01.2018 )

Why have we unquestionably allowed public servants to replace the three-letter word ‘lie’ with the three-word phrase ‘error of judgment’?
( Brian Reade, 24.02.2018 )

So, after all the agony and vitriol over our parting of the ways with the EU, our new, blue, post-Brexit, British passports are to be made in France.
Tu ne pouvais pas le faire!
In other words: you couldn’t bloody make it up.
Well, you couldn’t, could you?
( Fiona Phillips, 24.03.2018 )

A firm that employs Tory former Chancellor George Osborne, and pays him £650,000 a year as an advisor, partly owns the French company that won a controversial contract to make blue British passports.
( Andrew Gregory, 24.03.2018 )

Tory Party Members Want To Bring Back The Death Penalty.
It’s rare to see an opinion poll play out with such chilling accuracy the moment it’s announced.
But that’s what’s happened to a survey of Tory party members which shows that a majority of them want to bring back the death penalty, 60% think people of the same sex should not be allowed to marry, and 90% believe that the pain of austerity should be upped.
Well done YouGov.
( Brian Reade, 06.01.2018 )

Liam Fox has flown around the world eight times in a vain attempt to secure post-Brexit trade deals with the bill for his 219,000 air miles topping £100,000.
( Brian Reade, 06.01.2018 )

At Least Parliament Stood Up To That Man On A Bike.
Days after MPs questioned cyclist Bradley Wiggins on his ethics, the Prime Minister, The Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury rolled out the red carpet for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
That’s the man in charge of a country which brings in itinerant labour to build its skyscrapers treating them as virtual slaves, has one of the worst records in the world for torture, hangs gays, lashes rape victims for allowing adultery to happen, finances Islamist extremists and is guilty of horrific war crimes in Yemen.
Still, at least Parliament has stood up to that man on the bike who allegedly did something that broke no rules.
It’s good to have our ethical priorities in order, eh?
( Brian Reade, 10.03.2018 )

Best For Britain?
Hungarian/American multi-billionaire financier George Soros plans to give up to half a billion to overturn the referendum result decided by the British people.
He’s handed it to a campaign group called Best For Britain.
Soros has got an interesting record on doing what’s best for Britain.
He took on the Bank of England by betting against the pound in 1992.

Britain was then part of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, a device to align all currencies ahead of the introduction of the euro.
This meant us following the German mark.
But because the Tories had made our economy weaker than Germany’s, their attempt to follow the ERM made matters worse, leading to low interest rates and high inflation.

The Tories started putting up interest rates to try to boost the pound’s value, but Soros began shorting the pound, effectively selling heavily on the currency.
The Tories were then forced to push up our interest rates from 10 to 12% in one day and up to 15% the following morning.

When that failed to stop the crisis, they pulled out of the ERM on Black Wednesday, costing the taxpayer over £3billion and earning Soros $1billion.
Now he wants to interfere again in Britain’s business by making us stay in the EU.
( John Prescott, 18.02.2018 )

Propaganda From The Right.
They did it to the first Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald with the fake Zinoviev Letter.
They did it to Harold Wilson and they did it to trade union leader Jack Jones.
And now the Right are doing it to Jeremy Corbyn.
Quoting dodgy East European sources to prove that everyone on the Left is a spy who wants to sell this country into the hands of communism.
Thank God they think Corbyn is that much of a threat to their Thatcherite agenda.
( Brian Reade, 24.02.2018 )

She is a charisma free, mentally fragile calamity in waiting, which would be wonderful if she were merely a Tory leader.
But she’s in charge of Britain at its most crucial negotiating time with foreign powers since Suez.
And rather than resemble a statesman from the 1950s she looks increasingly like she’s playing the senile nun in Call The Midwife.
( Brian Reade, on UK PM Theresa May, 24.02.2018 )

A Case Of Anti-Immigrant Hypocrites?
Nigel Farage has praised UKIP leader Henry Bolton for leaving his wife for a young model on the grounds that “at least he’s being talked about now”.
Talked about being one way of defining mercilessly mocked.
Still, it’s allowed us to discover that Bolton carries on the uncanny habit of populist, right-wing leaders being in thrall to foreign women.

Bolton’s first wife was Danish and his second one Russian.
Farage was married to a German before dating a French woman.
Arron Banks, ex-UKIP backer who’s flirting with setting up his own right-wing party, is married to a Russian.
And I’m sure Paul Nuttall claimed he’d been out with Martina Hingis and Heidi Klum.

It’s a pattern repeated in America where Donald Trump’s first wife was Czech and his second Slovenian.
What do men who are all vehemently against foreigners living in their country see in these women?

Do they think that, with being able to master more than one European language, they’ll help them translate their first editions of Mein Kampf?
Or is it simply a case of these anti-immigrant hypocrites spouting: “Do as I say, not who I do”?
( Brian Reade, 13.01.2018 )

Oil giants employ an army of ex-government employees and politicians to paint a picture of the industry in an eco-friendly shade of green, according to campaigning investigators.
( Lewis Panther, 25.02.2018 )

State department records released in January showed the big four silicon valley firms spent $50million on lobbying in Donald Trump’s first year in office.
( Lewis Panther, 25.02.2018 )

Brexit And UK Fishing Rights.
The biggest lie perpetrated by Brexiteers like Michael Gove, Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg is that we would instantly take back control of our fishing industry.
It’s not EU quotas that have led to the collapse of the fishing industry.
It’s the fact that for years we have over-fished.
EU quotas on fishing were a way of controlling over-fishing to allow fish stocks to increase so we could have a sustainable industry.
And the UK had the second-largest allocation.

But it is clear countries like France and Spain didn’t even inform the EU how much fish they were landing, so over-fishing continued.
Also, technology led to smaller vessels being replaced by huge trawlers over-fishing on an industrial scale.
It was the greed and profit maximisation of the industry that has affected our coastal communities, not the EU.

Ironically, the UK fishing industry is in much better shape than any of our EU partners.
Profits are continuing to grow and are the highest across the EU.
And the Government actually decides how its EU fishing quota is distributed.
If it really cared about the fishing industry, it would ensure these coastal communities with smaller vessels were allowed to fish more.

Instead, we have larger foreign vessels being registered in the UK but landing their fish overseas.
Brexit won’t change that.
The Government can, but it has done nothing.
( John Prescott, 25.03.2018 )