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BLAIR - NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST - PRIME MINISTER BLAIR IS DESTROYING THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION
NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST (NHHT) - A CREATURE OF PRIME MINISTER BLAIR
LABOUR PARTY TO 'GERRYMANDER' OR RIG THE VOTE ACROSS BRITAIN - PILOTED UNDER NHHT IN WEST LONDON
BLAIR DESTROYING BRITISH CONSTITUTION - HOUSE OF LORDS TODAY - MONARCHY TOMORROW
92 MEMBERS OF THE HEREDITARIES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS UPPER CHAMBER REMAIN
YET THERE ARE 654 LIFE PEERS - EX BLAIR FLATMATE'S, PARTY DONORS, WASHED- UP MINISTERS, LIKE THE TERRIBLE TWINS OF LABOUR, LABOUR LORD TOM SAWYER AND LABOUR LORD CLIVE SOLEY WHO GOT ALL LABOUR MPs TO VOTE FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ. IF NOT, CLIVE SOLEY AS A LABOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP) SAID THAT ANY LABOUR MPs WHO DID NOT OBEY HIM - AS CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR PARTY (PLP) WOULD BE SACKED, AS THAT WAS WHAT TONY BLAIR THE PRIME MINISTER HAD INSISTED ON. MOST OF THE LIFE PEERS SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THE MERE WHIM OF THE PRIME MINISTER - PAST OR PRESENT.
THE LABOUR PARTY REFORMS ARE A DOG'S BREAKFAST - SERVED UP BY GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK AND A CHANGE NEXT WEEK - NO LONG TERM PLANNING.
BRITAIN IS ALL ABOUT COCK-UPS AND SHORT TERMISM!
WITH THE REFORM OF THE LORDS, ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF BRITISH HISTORY WILL BE CONSIGNED TO THE RUBBISH BIN.
THE OLD SYSTEM WORKED EXTREMELY WELL. IT HAD A MIXTURE OF SPIRITUAL INPUT - THE CHURCH - LEGAL INPUT - SENIOR JUDGES - BUSINESS INPUT - CONSERVATIVE PEERS - COUNTRY INPUT - CONSERVATIVE & LIBERAL PEERS.
OWING SEATS TO BIRTHRIGHT, THE HEREDITARIES WERE BEHOLDEN TO NOBODY - MAKING THEM TRULY INDEPENDENT
PEOPLE OFTEN SPEAK OF THE INBUILT CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY IN THE DAYS WHEN MOST OF THEM WERE HEREDITARY. TRY TELLING THAT TO MARGARET THATCHER OR JOHN MAJOR WHO WERE VOTED DOWN IN THE LORDS MANY HUNDREDS OF TIMES BETWEEN THEM.
THE HEREDITARIES SPOKE UP FOR ECCENTRIC MINORITIES, AS FEW DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEGISLATORS WOULD DARE, FOR FEAR OF BEING THOUGHT 'BONKERS' BY THE ELECTORATE. IF LEGISLATION SEEMED UNJUST OR ILL-DRAFTED THEY CHALLENGED THE PARTY LINE WITHOUT FEAR OF THE WHIPS (WHO CONTROL HOW THE POLITICAL PARTY MUST VOTE).
BESIDES, THE HEREDITARIES GAVE A VOICE TO COUNTRY PEOPLE, SO OFTEN TRAMPLED UPON IN A DEMOCRACY IN WHICH THE GREAT MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE MAJOR CITIES AND TOWNS (LOOK AT THIS GOVERNMENT'S TREATMENT OF RURAL POST OFFICES AND COUNTRY BUS SERVICES AND YOU WILL KNOW WHAT EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN).
TONY BLAIR'S MOTTO IS IF IT'S NOT BROKEN, BREAK IT. HE WAS DETERMINED TO GET RID OF THE HEREDITARIES WHEN HE CAME TO POWER TEN YEARS AGO IN 1997.
BLAIR EVICTED MOST OF THE HEREDITARIES IN 1999 WITHOT A THOUGHT IN HIS HEAD ABOUT WHO OR WHAT SHOULD REPLACE THEM.
THERE WAS A POLITICAL 'STITCH-UP' TO PRESERVE CLUB MEMBERSHIP FOR A FAVOURED FEW. THE SELF-ELECTING ARISTOCRACY IT PRODUCED IS UTTERLY INDEFENSIBLE, WHETHER ON GROUNDS OF SENTIMENT, LOGIC OR EFFECTIVENESS.
THE ONE REMAINING HEREDITARY ELEMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION WILL BE LEFT LOOKING TERRIBLY EXPOSED - THE BRITISH MONARCHY.
A GROWING NUMBER OF LABOUR POLITICIANS ARGUE THAT THE CROWN (i.e. CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY - MEANING THE QUEEN) SHOULD GO THE SAME WAY AS THE HEREDITARY PEERAGE.
BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL VANDALS?
IN 1997, MR BLAIR THE PRIME MINISTER, TOOK 'AN AXE' TO THE UNION WITH SCOTLAND, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, AND THE SEPARATION OF THE JUDICIARY, LEGISLATURE AND EXECUTIVE (UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HIS EX FLAT MATE - LABOUR LORD CHARLES FALCONER).
LABOUR POISONED ENGLAND'S RELATIONS WITH SCOTLAND, POLITICISING THE JUDICIARY AND CIVIL SERVICE AND TREATING PARLIAMENT WITH COMPLETE CONTEMPT.
REGARDING THE MONARCHY...
THERE'S THE ELDEST SON OF THE QUEEN, PRINCE CHARLES, WHO LEADS A LIFE OF HUGE EXTRAVAGENCE, JETTING OFF WITH A VAST ENTOURAGE TO COLLECT AN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD IN THE UNITED STATES, LEAVING COLOSSAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS ALL OVER THE SKY.
THERE'S THE SECOND ELDEST SON TO PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE HARRY [OR TO BE MORE TRUTHFUL, THE ELDEST SON TO THE CONSUMMATED LOVE BETWEEN JAMES HEWITT AND HRH PRINCESS DIANA - NO BLOOD TEST WILL EVER BE ALLOWED TO DETERMINE THE TRUE PATERNITY OF HARRY!] WHO IS OFTEN FOUND DRINKING HIMSELF SILLY NIGHT AFTER NIGHT IN 'HOORAY-HENRY' STYLE NIGHTCLUBS [IGNORING THE COCAINE HE OFTEN SMOKES]. THE REASON HE ACTS THIS WAY IS CLEAR - HE HAS BEEN MADE ONLY TOO AWARE OF HIS TRUE PATERNITY - THE HEAVY AND DARK SECRET THAT HARBOURS ANOTHER MAJOR SECRET OF HIS LATE MOTHER - NOT TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT PUBLICLY!!! [CHARLES SPENCER HAS A GOOD REASON WHY HE CANNOT LIVE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM!]
THEN THERE IS THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE SECOND SON OF THE QUEEN, KNOWN AS 'FERGIE' [SARAH FERGUSON]. WHO SHAMELESSLY TRADES OFF HER ROYAL CONNECTIONS ON THE FOOLISH US STYLE CHAT-SHOW CIRCUIT. WHAT CAN BE MADE OF HER 18 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BEATRICE, GUSHING ON A VIDEO PLAYED TO A 'MOTHER OF THE YEAR' LUNCH IN MANHATTAN: "YOUR LIFE, YOUR LOVE AND YOUR CREATIVITY HAVE BLESSED ME SO MUCH AND BLESSED SO MANY PEOPLE?" [WHAT TOSH!]
WHEN WE'VE ALL FINISHED THROWING UP, THE IMPRESSION IS LEFT OF A SELF-INDULGENT AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY, DRAGGING DOWN THEIR ROYAL NAME AND STRIPPING IT OF ITS MYSTIQUE AS THEY ENJOY ALL THE FAR TOO MANY PRIVILEGES THAT GO WITH IT.
NEXT, THE CONSTITUION WRECKERS WILL TURN THEIR ATTENTION TO THE HEREDITARY MONARCHY.
AT A TIME WHEN SO MANY OF THE LINKS THAT BIND OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER ARE WEAKENING - THERE ARE LARGE PARTS OF OUR CITIES WHERE YOU WON'T EVEN HEAR ENGLISH SPOKEN - THE MONARCHY REMAINS A UNIFYING FORCE.
CAN YOU IMAGINE A PRESIDENT BLAIR - OR A PRESIDENT THATCHER FOR THAT MATTER - COMMANDING ANYTHING LIKE THE NEAR UNIVERSAL RESPECT AND AFFECTION EARNED BY THE POLITICALLY NEUTRAL QUEEN DURING HER LONG REIGN?
WHAT'S MORE, WOULDN'T YOU HAPPILY BET YOUR LAST PENNY THAT A PRESIDENCY WOULD TURN OUT TO BE TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE MONARCHY?
THE ROYAL FAMILY MIGHT BE DYSFUNCTIONAL - YES, DARK SECRETS MIGHT LURK IN THE PROGENY OF THE CHILDREN, AND YES, SOME TRADE SHAMELESSLY OFF THEIR ROYAL CONNECTIONS AND TEND TO BE FAR TOO PROFLIGATE.
BUT THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE:
TRANSPARENCY - ACCOUNTABILITY - CONSULTATION - MODERATION
THE SAME SOLUTION NEEDS ADOPTING BY LABOUR GOVERNMENT
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BLAIR - NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST - PRIME MINISTER BLAIR IS DESTROYING THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION
NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST (NHHT) - A CREATURE OF PRIME MINISTER BLAIR
LABOUR PARTY TO 'GERRYMANDER' OR RIG THE VOTE ACROSS BRITAIN - PILOTED UNDER NHHT IN WEST LONDON
BLAIR DESTROYING BRITISH CONSTITUTION - HOUSE OF LORDS TODAY - MONARCHY TOMORROW
92 MEMBERS OF THE HEREDITARIES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS UPPER CHAMBER REMAIN
YET THERE ARE 654 LIFE PEERS - EX BLAIR FLATMATE'S, PARTY DONORS, WASHED- UP MINISTERS, LIKE THE TERRIBLE TWINS OF LABOUR, LABOUR LORD TOM SAWYER AND LABOUR LORD CLIVE SOLEY WHO GOT ALL LABOUR MPs TO VOTE FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ. IF NOT, CLIVE SOLEY AS A LABOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (MP) SAID THAT ANY LABOUR MPs WHO DID NOT OBEY HIM - AS CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR PARTY (PLP) WOULD BE SACKED, AS THAT WAS WHAT TONY BLAIR THE PRIME MINISTER HAD INSISTED ON. MOST OF THE LIFE PEERS SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ON THE MERE WHIM OF THE PRIME MINISTER - PAST OR PRESENT.
THE LABOUR PARTY REFORMS ARE A DOG'S BREAKFAST - SERVED UP BY GOVERNMENT THIS WEEK AND A CHANGE NEXT WEEK - NO LONG TERM PLANNING.
BRITAIN IS ALL ABOUT COCK-UPS AND SHORT TERMISM!
WITH THE REFORM OF THE LORDS, ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF BRITISH HISTORY WILL BE CONSIGNED TO THE RUBBISH BIN.
THE OLD SYSTEM WORKED EXTREMELY WELL. IT HAD A MIXTURE OF SPIRITUAL INPUT - THE CHURCH - LEGAL INPUT - SENIOR JUDGES - BUSINESS INPUT - CONSERVATIVE PEERS - COUNTRY INPUT - CONSERVATIVE & LIBERAL PEERS.
OWING SEATS TO BIRTHRIGHT, THE HEREDITARIES WERE BEHOLDEN TO NOBODY - MAKING THEM TRULY INDEPENDENT
PEOPLE OFTEN SPEAK OF THE INBUILT CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY IN THE DAYS WHEN MOST OF THEM WERE HEREDITARY. TRY TELLING THAT TO MARGARET THATCHER OR JOHN MAJOR WHO WERE VOTED DOWN IN THE LORDS MANY HUNDREDS OF TIMES BETWEEN THEM.
THE HEREDITARIES SPOKE UP FOR ECCENTRIC MINORITIES, AS FEW DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEGISLATORS WOULD DARE, FOR FEAR OF BEING THOUGHT 'BONKERS' BY THE ELECTORATE. IF LEGISLATION SEEMED UNJUST OR ILL-DRAFTED THEY CHALLENGED THE PARTY LINE WITHOUT FEAR OF THE WHIPS (WHO CONTROL HOW THE POLITICAL PARTY MUST VOTE).
BESIDES, THE HEREDITARIES GAVE A VOICE TO COUNTRY PEOPLE, SO OFTEN TRAMPLED UPON IN A DEMOCRACY IN WHICH THE GREAT MAJORITY OF VOTERS ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE MAJOR CITIES AND TOWNS (LOOK AT THIS GOVERNMENT'S TREATMENT OF RURAL POST OFFICES AND COUNTRY BUS SERVICES AND YOU WILL KNOW WHAT EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN).
TONY BLAIR'S MOTTO IS IF IT'S NOT BROKEN, BREAK IT. HE WAS DETERMINED TO GET RID OF THE HEREDITARIES WHEN HE CAME TO POWER TEN YEARS AGO IN 1997.
BLAIR EVICTED MOST OF THE HEREDITARIES IN 1999 WITHOT A THOUGHT IN HIS HEAD ABOUT WHO OR WHAT SHOULD REPLACE THEM.
THERE WAS A POLITICAL 'STITCH-UP' TO PRESERVE CLUB MEMBERSHIP FOR A FAVOURED FEW. THE SELF-ELECTING ARISTOCRACY IT PRODUCED IS UTTERLY INDEFENSIBLE, WHETHER ON GROUNDS OF SENTIMENT, LOGIC OR EFFECTIVENESS.
THE ONE REMAINING HEREDITARY ELEMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION WILL BE LEFT LOOKING TERRIBLY EXPOSED - THE BRITISH MONARCHY.
A GROWING NUMBER OF LABOUR POLITICIANS ARGUE THAT THE CROWN (i.e. CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY - MEANING THE QUEEN) SHOULD GO THE SAME WAY AS THE HEREDITARY PEERAGE.
BRITISH CONSTITUTIONAL VANDALS?
IN 1997, MR BLAIR THE PRIME MINISTER, TOOK 'AN AXE' TO THE UNION WITH SCOTLAND, THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, AND THE SEPARATION OF THE JUDICIARY, LEGISLATURE AND EXECUTIVE (UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF HIS EX FLAT MATE - LABOUR LORD CHARLES FALCONER).
LABOUR POISONED ENGLAND'S RELATIONS WITH SCOTLAND, POLITICISING THE JUDICIARY AND CIVIL SERVICE AND TREATING PARLIAMENT WITH COMPLETE CONTEMPT.
REGARDING THE MONARCHY...
THERE'S THE ELDEST SON OF THE QUEEN, PRINCE CHARLES, WHO LEADS A LIFE OF HUGE EXTRAVAGENCE, JETTING OFF WITH A VAST ENTOURAGE TO COLLECT AN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD IN THE UNITED STATES, LEAVING COLOSSAL CARBON FOOTPRINTS ALL OVER THE SKY.
THERE'S THE SECOND ELDEST SON TO PRINCE CHARLES, PRINCE HARRY [OR TO BE MORE TRUTHFUL, THE ELDEST SON TO THE CONSUMMATED LOVE BETWEEN JAMES HEWITT AND HRH PRINCESS DIANA - NO BLOOD TEST WILL EVER BE ALLOWED TO DETERMINE THE TRUE PATERNITY OF HARRY!] WHO IS OFTEN FOUND DRINKING HIMSELF SILLY NIGHT AFTER NIGHT IN 'HOORAY-HENRY' STYLE NIGHTCLUBS [IGNORING THE COCAINE HE OFTEN SMOKES]. THE REASON HE ACTS THIS WAY IS CLEAR - HE HAS BEEN MADE ONLY TOO AWARE OF HIS TRUE PATERNITY - THE HEAVY AND DARK SECRET THAT HARBOURS ANOTHER MAJOR SECRET OF HIS LATE MOTHER - NOT TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT PUBLICLY!!! [CHARLES SPENCER HAS A GOOD REASON WHY HE CANNOT LIVE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM!]
THEN THERE IS THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED THE SECOND SON OF THE QUEEN, KNOWN AS 'FERGIE' [SARAH FERGUSON]. WHO SHAMELESSLY TRADES OFF HER ROYAL CONNECTIONS ON THE FOOLISH US STYLE CHAT-SHOW CIRCUIT. WHAT CAN BE MADE OF HER 18 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BEATRICE, GUSHING ON A VIDEO PLAYED TO A 'MOTHER OF THE YEAR' LUNCH IN MANHATTAN: "YOUR LIFE, YOUR LOVE AND YOUR CREATIVITY HAVE BLESSED ME SO MUCH AND BLESSED SO MANY PEOPLE?" [WHAT TOSH!]
WHEN WE'VE ALL FINISHED THROWING UP, THE IMPRESSION IS LEFT OF A SELF-INDULGENT AND DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY, DRAGGING DOWN THEIR ROYAL NAME AND STRIPPING IT OF ITS MYSTIQUE AS THEY ENJOY ALL THE FAR TOO MANY PRIVILEGES THAT GO WITH IT.
NEXT, THE CONSTITUION WRECKERS WILL TURN THEIR ATTENTION TO THE HEREDITARY MONARCHY.
AT A TIME WHEN SO MANY OF THE LINKS THAT BIND OUR COUNTRY TOGETHER ARE WEAKENING - THERE ARE LARGE PARTS OF OUR CITIES WHERE YOU WON'T EVEN HEAR ENGLISH SPOKEN - THE MONARCHY REMAINS A UNIFYING FORCE.
CAN YOU IMAGINE A PRESIDENT BLAIR - OR A PRESIDENT THATCHER FOR THAT MATTER - COMMANDING ANYTHING LIKE THE NEAR UNIVERSAL RESPECT AND AFFECTION EARNED BY THE POLITICALLY NEUTRAL QUEEN DURING HER LONG REIGN?
WHAT'S MORE, WOULDN'T YOU HAPPILY BET YOUR LAST PENNY THAT A PRESIDENCY WOULD TURN OUT TO BE TEN TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE MONARCHY?
THE ROYAL FAMILY MIGHT BE DYSFUNCTIONAL - YES, DARK SECRETS MIGHT LURK IN THE PROGENY OF THE CHILDREN, AND YES, SOME TRADE SHAMELESSLY OFF THEIR ROYAL CONNECTIONS AND TEND TO BE FAR TOO PROFLIGATE.
BUT THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE:
TRANSPARENCY - ACCOUNTABILITY - CONSULTATION - MODERATION
THE SAME SOLUTION NEEDS ADOPTING BY LABOUR GOVERNMENT
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