All Three Main Parties Accused of Skullduggery in Commons

The entire electorate know that charges of financial trickery are warranted.

Below, from Hansard, linked here, are some of the direct charges made yesterday in the House of Commons by MPs themselves. What, if anything will the electorate do about it? Is merely withdrawing their support for the three main political parties in elections really sufficient? 

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Andrew Stephenson(Pendle) (Con): Given the scandal involving Unite the Union in Falkirk, and the leaked internal document showing that it is now trying to influence selections in 40 other constituencies across the country, including Pendle, does the Minister agree that there is huge public demand for complete transparency on the influence of trade unions on our political system?
Miss Smith: It is high time this is looked at. I think that the examples my hon. Friend has just given demonstrate that these are by no means isolated cases. It is the same old Labour party, which Len McCluskey still bankrolls, still rigs selections for, still controls and still chooses the leader for.
Sadiq Khan (Tooting) (Lab): The Minister talks about transparency in the political system. She will be aware of the huge concern in March last year when it was first disclosed that multi-millionaires were getting privileged access to No. 10 Downing street and potentially influencing Government policy. It is about more than just elections; it is about influencing Government policy. Does she think that those millionaires will have more of an impact or less of an impact at the next general election?

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The Deputy Prime Minister: All parties in this House, if we are candid with each other, have had problems with the way in which big money circulates in politics.... the Labour party has failed and failed and failed to address the fact that it is at the beck and call of major vested interests in British society

Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab): Would not the Deputy Prime Minister speak with more credibility about political funding if his party returned the £2.5 million given to it by a convicted criminal, Michael Brown? That money was stolen. Why not return it?

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Political parties wield THE power in Britain, those who join them know how they are run and thereby make a Faustian pact to partake in that power. The Parties are all, it would appear from the above and in one way or another, similarly corrupt. The powers thus obtained, it seems from the ever continuing expenses scandals, are then mainly being used for the self-enrichment of such MPs, even to the extent of the selling out of the democracy and Parliament these very MPs were actually elected to protect. But the Parties controlling the candidate lists and the tribal voting patterns of the British electorate, allow this system to survive - even to the now almost complete bankruptcy of the country and its effective governance from abroad!

Not voting Labour, Conservative or Liberal Democrat ever again is certainly one remedy, but is it enough given the powers already ceded to the EU? 

Any remedy thus seems to first demand EU withdrawal which is possible under Article 5O but to make that possible will demand a huge and sudden surge in support for UKIP, for which they are yet to be fully prepared. 

An alternative would be for enough MPs, possibly now spurred by sensing their own looming danger, to  at last realise the urgency and necessity of a non-EU, non ConLabLib alternative for Great Britain. If they let the Euro crisis play itself out, it will be too late for them and we will all become dependent upon the organisational and administrative talents which UKIP can muster.

All MPs today stand accused of complicity in this mess, by continuing to be beneficiaries of the corrupt system their parties have deliberately created for election to public office in the UK, only allowing in weak-willed dross who will continue to tolerate such obscene abuses of power apparently with self-enrichment their one and only aim!

Regional Convergence - The Corrupt Conspiracy that UKIP has a week to Expose!

The conspiracy to finally destroy the ex-Countries of the EU and the National Parliaments which once allowed protections of all their Citizens' Rights, now almost completely neutered, has been accomplished through the EU Regional Policy!  Such is quite separate from the sham European Parliament and the authoritarian EU Commission with its posturing and pampered little tin gods! Read the plan for its next six years from here.

Local Councillors, significantly County Councillors are hugely involved in these particularly secretive and sordid activities and arrangements. I suggest these should be made a particular target for the closing stage of the present local elections campaign by the UKIP.

Detail of how this corruption operates in the UK is here.

Elections question looms large for Greece

If the Greek Parliament accepts another €325 million of cuts over and above those already agreed by their existing Coalition Government, and passes a vote to that effect on Sunday, another much greater problem exists. I repeat the penultimate quote of remarks by Finance Minister Venizelos, from a report in ekathimerini, linked here, of this morning:

Finally, he said that all the members of the coalition government would have to give a clear commitment that they would stick to the agreement even after general elections. Venizelos indicated that these would have to be written commitments.

Will the Greek electors not seek any means available to vote for candidates who have not signed onto this death warrant for the independence and sovereignty of their nation? Knowing that, could the elections still be allowed to proceed and what precedent will that then set for elections for the future elsewhere in the EU?

Very dangerous times for Europe I fear!

Britain's elections

The Sun today attacks Blair's plans to bring the EU constitution provisions into force by stealth, link here. Simon Heffer in the Daily Telegraph spells out what many of us have known for years about Blair, Brown and New Labour, link here. BUT the good news is in the Guardian which notes in the latest opinion poll the British public have begun to notice and are putting the blame where it belongs on the two main political parties and the thoroughly non-democratic party rule they have fostered. The report is linked here and the following is a quote: Both Britain's big political parties are under heavy pressure ahead of next week's elections across England, Wales and Scotland, a Guardian/ICM poll published today shows.

One in three voters have turned their backs on Labour and the Conservatives and now back the Lib Dems or a smaller party such as the Greens or the SNP. Support for Labour is down one point on last month, at 30%. The Conservatives have dropped four points to 37%.

BUT those levels of support are still way, way too high. The only way to shake the non-democrats who exert power through their control of party power levers (Cameron's Conservatives are this week removing members' controls over MEP selection) is to hit them hard in the elections on 3rd May. Local issues and dedicated councillors might seem good enough reasons to vote for the status quo or a decent candidate running under a labour or conservative banner - they are not. If a candidate is in one of the two main parties he is by definition part of a disgraced and corrupted system - there can be no circumstances whatsoever where he thus deserves your vote. The party system will not be reformed as long as it brings power - only the electorate can now remove that power, this year the only opportunity seems to be on 3rd May. There are plenty of smaller parties and independents standing - please do not vote labour or conservative.