No2EU and Construction Workers to demonstrate today at Olympic Site

The report on the planned demonstration may be read from here. Key elements of the protest are as follows:

The convenor of the No2EU – Yes to Democracy euro election platform, RMT general secretary Bob Crow, will join with a thousand construction workers on the gates of the Olympic site in Stratford this Wednesday (6 May) in a mass protest over attacks on pay and working conditions, writes Geoff Martin.

The protest has been called by rank and file construction workers in opposition to a “race to the bottom” on pay and conditions and the exploitation of overseas workers to drive down wages. It will be joined by workers from all the over the country including a contingent from the protests at the Lyndsey oil refinery. Six coach loads are coming down from Northumberland alone. NO2EU are fielding candidates in next month's EU elections who are committed to not taking up their seats in the Strasbourg Parliament as a socialist alternative to a protest vote for the nationalistic and socialist BNP.

Germans pick French to build Britain's largest combined cycle power plant.

The report comes from a magazine based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, linked here, and states the following: Alstom SA has secured a 900 million-pound ($1.31 billion) contract to build the biggest combined-cycle power plant in the United Kingdom. The contract, awarded by U.K.-based RWE npower, a division of RWE Power AG (Essen, Germany), will see Alstom build the 2,000-megawatt (MW) gas-fired combined-cycle power station on the site of a former oil-powered power station at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The plant is the latest in RWE npower's stated plans to create more efficient and environmentally friendly power plants. According to RWE npower, approximately 40 percent of the U.K. energy fleet was built before 1975 and will need replacement in the short to medium term. Like the earlier work at Staythorpe, British workers will no doubt be excluded although it will of course be the English, now held in a state of EU controlled peonage , who must pay for all this sophisticated construction produced in Germany and France, more quotes: RWE npower has already contracted Alstom to build its new 1,650-MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Staythorpe, Nottingham, U.K. The new plant will include five Alstom GT26 turbines, each one to be installed in the KA26-1 single-shaft combined-cycle power plant power block. Each block will also house triple-pressure heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), a compact state-of-the-art reheat type STF30C steam turbine, a TOPGAS (hydrogen-cooled) generator and the "ALSPA" plant control system. Today, there are 85 of Alstom's GT24/GT26 units in commercial operation, with an accumulated operating time of more than 3 million hours. "This new project clearly demonstrates that Alstom's engineering expertise is crucial to the power industry in the U.K. and around the world," Alston Power president Philippe Joubert said. "This is the second contract signed by Alstom with RWE npower in less than two years, which underlines our customer's confidence in our engineering ability." The emphasis has been added by this blog editor. To think Britain led the world in such technology before 1972! All given away by the same maggot Members of Parliament who this week can only debate how best they can continue to enjoy their same tax free expenses in an ongoing manner that can somehow still be kept from the public, while unemployment mounts and our debts rocket higher with every passing second!

Lost liberties

The great newspaper of the North of England, The Northern Echo, had a great feature article on Thursday of last week regarding the police crack down against peaceful protests. I missed this due to the sheer volume of other items upon which to blog, but link it now and offer this taster the title of which is "Why police need to be reined in"(I believe another power station protest story is about to break)

This catalogue of abuses comes hard on the heels of the disgraceful, unprovoked violence when a climate change camp was set up to protest against a new coal-fired power station in Kent.

Then, the “potentially dangerous” items seized by police included blankets, soap, toilet rolls, board games, clown costumes, children’s crayons, cushions, carpet, marker pens and a pensioner’s walking stick.

Justifying such draconian action, the police claimed 70 officers were injured – only to later admit that the only “injuries” were heat exhaustion, toothache, insect bites, diarrhoea, cut fingers and headaches.

I am fast coming to the conclusion that the police are out of control and that anyone joining a peaceful demonstration risks a trip to hospital – or even the morgue.

Staythorpe - Alstom can "NOW" recruit Brits!!!!!

Read here -The company's UK president Steve Burgin said: "Alstom can NOW recruit staff in this country for new jobs that have been created." (Blog editor's emphasis).

Crisis Mounts - 3,152 applicants for 52 Jobs -BNP Rise

The Government, the Conservative Opposition, their Mainstream Media Lackeys, the Members of Parliament, the Members of the European Parliament, Councils up and down the country, complicit troughing Civil Servants - NONE OF THESE can much longer keep the lid on their wilful destruction of the nation's economy and system of society. The Observer reports on the evidence in the employment area which may be read in gruesome detail from here. One shocking statistic from the Isle of Wight is in this postings headline, others from the article follow: There are just 4,275 vacancies across the 12 inner London boroughs, against almost 71,000 unemployment benefit claimants. Hackney, in east London, has 37 claimants for every new job. When Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire held a recruitment day recently to hire 150 staff, it attracted a crowd of up to 3,000 people. Hackney, in east London, has 37 claimants for every new job. Again to the deep shame of the British media, once renowned for its fearless and deep analysis of political trends and independence from political control, it is left to Al Jazeera this Sunday morning to report on one absolute certain consequence of the sabotage of the nation by the establishment - the rise of the BNP, read their report from Newark on Staythorpe from here. (The BBC did include an item on an attack on the BNP in their web coverage yesterday, read here)

Required reading for followers of UK politics

The reports of the illegal database on construction workers broken by the BBC this morning (web report linked here), is very disturbing coming on top of the recent protests at the Total Lindsey Refinery and the ongoing disputes at Staythorpe and the Isle of Grain. There is considerable confusion in the minds of politicians as to the nature of the threat this June from the BNP, a good example is this item in Independent Minds from Labour supporting Mark Seddon. The Unions are losing touch with their membership in the dispute over the impact of the EU Posted Worker Directive in this country. Read this report from the Socialist Party on the 24th February protest at Staythorpe, linked here. Whether one believes the BNP is Nazi and Far Right as some on the left of politics choose to tag it, or Far Left as its economic policies seem to indicate, it is filling a vacuum deliberately being created by a non-functioning political process and complete absence of any realistic debate within the mass-circulation media. It is almost as if the cross-party ruling establishment is waiting for an excuse to activate the tyrannical Civil Contingencies Act.

Staythorpe Protest and Clegg's son Miguel

There will be new protests at Staythorpe Power Station continuing in Newark later today, read one report here. The fact that Nick Clegg, whose own links to Spain are not generally trumpeted, has decide with his Spanish wife to call their third child Miguel did not strike me as particularly odd when reading the news reports yesterday, but bearing in mind the refusal of the Spanish sub-contractor at Staythorpe to hire British workers and Clegg's close relations with the EU and his status as an EU pensioner it occurs to me that the choice of name for his third son might be taken with a view to getting some form of future guarantee of employment in England when the lad matures in twenty odd years time. We must face facts, I guess, after all at the present rate who will be employable in a 100 per cent EU controlled England by then? The junior Clegg will presumably not be aiming for a job as a construction worker of course, possible a career in another area of Spanish investment, such as a foot on the ladder towards running the Abbey National perhaps!