Britain - Springboard of Democracy?
The Pitfalls in Approaching a Member of Parliament
The Third Way: An Ethical Foreign Policy
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It is hardly surprising that
one Nigerian - the Commonwealth Secretary General - believes that
The high comedy becomes sad
black farce when the Commonwealth commends our henchmen in
As
Mr Blair is not a Mrs
Thatcher, nor is Mr Cook a Foreign office patsy.
However, many, many lies have been told by officials to cover up the democratic
crime of the century. This criminality was of the highest order. It brings
shame on our nation that for forty years the crooks have had absolute power and
total control to prevent disclosure. Even so, Mr
Blair does not know that we, the Smiths, are people of total integrity as he
is. He may feel that the people who planned a
No one from New Labour has
sent us a message of support and hope - yet. These are early days, however, and
there is still time before the moral malaise and ethical stun guns of
Mr and Mrs
Blair are barristers. They know that the state has broken many laws, even the
mighty Magna Carta in its treatment of a civil
servant who predicted that only disaster could flow from British criminality in
Mr Blair has won a great victory. Can he
imagine British officials and Security Services robbing him of this great
electoral triumph? Yet this is what we did in
7 June 1997
I told the Governor General of
If the Blair
Government continues to treat me as the wrongdoer, someone who needs to be
targeted by Special Branch and MI5 and MI6, then they identify with, ally
themselves with the Governor General and his criminality. They are accessories after the fact.
However, in the same way as the Governor General then denied he had done what
he did, Mr Blair's Government can deny he did what he
did, whatever I say. I will, of course, know that they are guilty but they can
stop me telling anyone else. They could deny knowledge of everything. Do I have
proof I told Mr Blair's Government? They get lots of
letters. I can copy my letters to them to others. That does work. I can write
to their enemies too. That is embarrassing.
The criminals can be seen as
individuals who seized the controls of the State apparatus for their own ends.
They could be disowned. I could be rehabilitated. The Chief Constable in
Wiltshire knows that I am an honest man who fought criminality exactly as she
does. She should be on my side in a sane civilised
society. The society, which allowed
Only a few criminals were
involved. The mass of the public, the officials, the politicians, the House of
Commons, knew nothing of this criminality. This was a secret coup. In Hitler's
The Speaker does not want to know., Prime Ministers do not want to know. Top civil
servants do not want to know. Judges do not want to know, although some told me
how to get a pay off. I am told that I am honest. That apparently is a problem.
They do not tell others that I am honest. They say I am mad, obsessed, paranoid
- maybe they cross their fingers and mutter"...about the truth." Quite
a lot of people do think that I am mad not to take massive bribes like a
knighthood. Who gives a fig about a thousand and one lies; about democracy; and
starting civil wars in which two million die. I care.
Do you?
A state with a secret service
is both lawful and criminal at the same time. But only for
issues like mine. Really big state crime. They
may turn a blind eye to warders beating the hell out of prisoners and police
beating confessions out of suspects, but that is something else. Shoot to kill when
the Irish and terrorists and colonials and foreigners are concerned gets us
near the secret state, but polite society is not too bothered. Rarely do MPs
question these abuses. MPs often have a girl or boy friend on the side and fear
MI5's curiosity.
Honesty is the best policy?
Honesty is its own reward? Honesty is a load of nonsense in a semi-police state
like ours. We are creeping up to the millennium with New Labour - a moral
millennium. Mr Blair will not let us down; Mr Cook promises to be a good guy with a white hat on a
white horse. We shall have to wait and see, won't we?
22 May 1997
The Pitfalls in Approaching a Member of Parliament
For non-Britishers
who are unaware of the hypocrisy of British institutions, I should explain that
you are only allowed to complain to the MP for your constituency. If he
declines to answer your letter, there is nothing you can do. Even Party leaders
play this game. An MP may correspond with you if you are lucky, but it is
unlikely he will act for you. The laziness or irresponsibility of MPs is recognised in the strictly defined areas where one may
complain to an Ombudsman. One has to approach the Ombudsman through an MP, but
not necessarily your own MP.
It may be thought an MP will
reject you if you are a critic of his Party or the Government, but that is not
necessarily so. The truth is that MPs are powerless and know it. Even if they
write to a Minister they are likely to be fobbed off. Awkward MPs can be
silenced through the Whips' Office or pressure through their constituency
officials. If all else fails, MI5 may harass or blackmail him. Few MPs do not
commit indiscretions at some time and MI5 (and the Whips' Office) are ever keen
to record them. Fiddling expenses, cheating on a spouse, or using prostitutes
are fertile areas in which to provide pressure. MI5 is totally unscrupulous
and, if they can totally misbehave with a Prime Minister, as they did with
Harold Wilson, an ordinary MP does not stand a chance unless he is fearlessly
brave and honest. He will also find MI5 has many Friends and the luckless MP
may find pressure being applied from the unlikeliest source. Even if a paragon,
he may have to cope with many ugly rumours that
circulate about him.
However, your MP will be a
paragon and does see you and listens and then changes the subject and bids you
a cheerful good-bye. He may, however, really be interested until you mention
the bribes you were offered. A dramatic change may take place. I am too
cynical. Your MP is still interested. Then mention the knighthood you were
offered to buy your silence. If I exaggerate MPs' interest in titles, honours and money, Labour leaders will tell you that
hundreds of Labour MPs will do anything for them. Is there a Labour MP who does
not hanker to sit in the totally undemocratic and abhorred House of Lords?
I omitted to mention that, if
an MP valiant for truth is found, his Questions may not be accepted 'at the
Table.' Various devices exist to stop a difficult MP even asking a Question.
And my complaint was not about
the train service or a library closure. The State had threatened to kill me.
The State was destroying democracy by rigging elections in the African giant
nation of
26 October l994
The
The mandarins plot against
Governments in favour of the secret establishment.
This is no paranoid fantasy, but the stark truth, for they
control the flow of information, conceal many secrets, are adept at lies
and deception, and control all the Secret Services, Armed Forces and the
Foreign Service. As soon as possible they will curry favour
with gullible Ministers, lead them astray, trap them and use blackmail.
On Day 11 of the New Labour
era we were promised that the Queen's Speech would include a Privacy Law to
protect us from 'the misuse of power by the State.' (Guardian,
23 May 1997.) A move the Government described as 'the first step on the
road to a Bill of Rights.' The mandarins saw that off by mentioning some dirty
washing Old Labour had carelessly left behind for the amusement of the
mandarins.
In 'behind the Chair' friendly
chats and briefings between Mr Blair and Mr Cook and Messrs Thatcher, Major and Company, New Labour
has been put in the real picture on Nigeria, including the destruction of
democracy by the British. Mrs Thatcher gloried in our
treason and buttered up the Nigerian dictatorship while batting for
Will Mr
Blair match Mr Major's decency and honesty with
regard to our disgusting record of treason in
5 June 1997