Dear <insert MP’s name here>,
The house of cards that is the global financial system is now in terminal collapse. Mr Darling’s recent suggestion that no-one could see this coming was typical of the reasoning that has got us to this point, and was either a simple lie, or demonstrates his complete incompetence.
So, how did we get here? The answer is simple. We the people allowed bankers and politicians to implement policies which could only ever end one way, and, in fact, demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of economy.
Economy is physical – it comes from the ability of a nation to generate wealth through human productivity.
The deliberate winding down of our skilled manufacturing base, the deliberate lack of investment in basic economic infrastructure such as power stations, transport systems, water systems etc., the deliberate asset stripping of what little infrastructure we have left, to place so-called “value” in the hands of shareholders, and the insane fiscal policies which have allowed for the blowing of bubbles to sucker the mass of the population into believing that something could be got for nothing, could only ever end one way.
It is a year since the collapse of Northern Rock, the first major sign of what was to come. What did you do? Nothing.
You did nothing when major UK banks announced they needed to raise additional capital through share issue.
You did nothing when the greatest bailout of all time – that of Fanny and Freddie – signaled the immediate collapse of the global financial system.
You do nothing as the mountain of personal debt the people of this nation carry approaches twice our GDP.
And you will do nothing, no doubt, now that Lehman Brothers is in bankruptcy, and Merryl Lynch has been bailed out by Bank of America.
When will you admit that the collapse of this house of cards is accelerating? When will you admit that globalisation is, and always was, insane? When will you admit that free trade is by no means free? When will you admit that international action is required to save our lives?
Because, make no mistake, unless you act, and act now, tens of thousands of lives will be lost in the UK, as a result of collapsing government finances bringing in even less money for social security and the health system.
I am writing, therefore, to tell you what you must do.
You must begin work, today, now, to cause the meeting, round a table, of the governments of the UK, USA, France, Germany, Russia, China, and India, and you must place the global financial system in administration. You must tell the bankers to go to hell. You must freeze all speculative debt, including mortgage debt, and you must make sure that nations have the time they need to sort out the mess. This can only be done through international treaty.
One mess that needs to be sorted out, for example, is agriculture, specifically food production. Food production needs to be doubled in order to feed the world. Transport systems need to be built to get the food to where its needed efficiently. Power systems need to be built now in order to guarantee our needs for the next few generations.
It’s time to act. It’s time to recognise that money does not make the world go round. The productive and creative power of the human being does that.
I am calling on you to be productive, creative, and demonstrate you have the guts required to be a leader. Any government is only as effective as its individual MPs. If you are effective, the government will be too.
So, act. Act now.
Yours …
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With respect – whilst we discuss history, which is of course, very interesting, the REAL problem remains NOW. The net is closing, I assume the plans have been made, ID cards are coming in tthis year ! Where are the protests ?
SOMEONE has to save our democracy ! Who will come to our rescue ?
Otherwise, we all face deprivation, subjugation, perhaps even annihilation !
Sorry to be all doom and gloom, but that appears to be the outlook.
“SOMEONE has to save our democracy ! Who will come to our rescue ?”
You will!
Tom, the only people who can save our democracy are people like you and us. Don’t expect a solution to fall from Heaven. So, if you, or anyone else, want to help this organisation do what needs to be done, contact me! We can give you plenty to do.
If you don’t want to work with us, then find some more suitable group. But don’t just sit there hoping!
Hi Ed Count me in.
Corrupt British government and the bashing thereof, has been around a lot longer than must people think. There is no doubt in my mind that the system of British government is now so badly inflected with the dirge of corruption that sooner or later something is going to “give.”
The current power base in government has long, long deep roots my friends and that is where our difficulty lays, for to get to the bottom of them is going to take some very seriously harsh gardening, that is if we truly wish to rid Britain of this evil infestation once and for all time.
How far back can we go, well plenty of intrigue down through the centuries, after all King John was part of what we could call anti corruption power plot uprising. And I love uprising against corruption in high office such as this one which produced our beloved Magna Carta.
Take the case of a lovable rakish rouge John Wilkes, the son of Israel Wilkes, a malt distiller, born on 17th October 1725. In 1762, the new king, George III, arranged for his close friend, the Earl of Bute, to become prime minister. This decision upset a large number of MPs who considered Bute to be incompetent. John Wilkes became Bute’s leading critic in the House of Commons. In June 1762 Wilkes established The North Briton, (We have the UK Column) a newspaper that severely attacked the king and his Prime Minister.
After one article that appeared on 23rd April 1763, George III and his ministers decided to prosecute Wilkes for seditious libel. He was arrested but at a court hearing the Lord Chief Justice ruled that as an MP, Wilkes was protected by privilege from arrest on a charge of libel. His discharge was greeted with great popular acclaim and Wilkes left the court as a champion of liberty.
Wilkes after a spell recovering from and injury in France returned to attacking the king and his government and stood as Radical candidate for Middlesex. After being elected Wilkes was arrested and taken to King’s Bench Prison. For the next fortnight a large crowd assembled at St. George’s Field, a large open space by the prison. On 10th May, 1768 a crowd of around 15,000 arrived outside the prison. The crowd chanted ‘Wilkes and Liberty’, ‘No Liberty, No King’, and ‘Damn the King! Damn the Government! Damn the Justices!’. Fearing that the crowd would attempt to rescue Wilkes, the troops opened fire killing seven people. Anger at the Massacre of St. George’s Fields led to disturbances all over London.
On 8th June Wilkes was found guilty of libel and sentenced to 22 months imprisonment and fined £1,000. Wilkes was also expelled from the House of Commons but in February, March and April, 1769, he was three times re-elected for Middlesex, but on all three occasions the decision was overturned by Parliament. In May the House of Commons voted that Colonel Henry Luttrell, the defeated candidate at Middlesex, should be accepted as the MP. John Horne Tooke and other supporters of Wilkes formed the Bill of Rights Society. At first the society concentrated on forcing Parliament to accept the will of the Middlesex electorate, however, the organisation eventually adopted a radical programme of parliamentary reform.
John Wilkes was released from prison in April 1770. Still banned from the House of Commons, Wilkes joined the campaign for the freedom of the press. In February, 1771, the House of Commons attempted to prevent several London newspapers from publishing reports of its debates. Wilkes decided to challenge this decision and the government reacted by ordering the arrest of two of his printers. A large crowd soon surrounded the House of Commons and afraid of what would happen, the government ordered the release of the two men and abandoned attempts to prevent the publication of reports of its debates.
In 1774 John Wilkes was elected Lord Mayor of London. He was also elected to represent Middlesex in the House of Commons. Wilkes campaigned for religious toleration and on 21st March, 1776, he introduced the first motion for parliamentary reform. Wilkes called for the redistribution of seats from the small corrupt boroughs to the fast growing industrial areas such as Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield.
Although not a supporter of universal suffrage, Wilkes argued, as I do, that working men should have a share in the power to make laws.
You have to give it to old John Wilkes, there are few men ready and willing to stand up and be counted for what they believe in–he was one.
Take a browse through his famous essay Number 45 which outraged George III, and resulted in his arrest for seditious libel under a general warrant (in which the crime but not the criminal was named), and landed forty-nine other people in jail. The arrests incited Wilkes to bring a counter-suit against his arrestors for trespass, forcing the courts to examine the legality of Wilkes’ seizure as a member of the House of Commons. The court vindicated Wilkes but more importantly the incident signalled a “momentous shift in the locus of power in government from the privileged to the masses.” Colonists idealized the radical Wilkes as their champion of liberty whose cause celebre demonstrated to their great satisfaction that the British government was all too eager to curtail freedom of the press and the people’s lawful rights.
“The King’s Speech has always been considered by the legislature, and by the public at large, as the Speech of the Minister. It has regularly, at the beginning of every session of parliament, been referred by both houses to the consideration of a committee, and has been generally canvassed with the utmost freedom, when the minister of the crown has been obnoxious to the nation. The ministers of this free country, conscious of the undoubted privileges of so spirited a people, and with the terrors of parliament before their eyes, have ever been cautious, no less with regard to the matter, than to the expressions of speeches, which they have advised the sovereign to make from the throne, at the opening of each session. They well knew that an honest house of parliament, true to their trust, could not fail to detect the fallacious arts, or to remonstrate against the daring acts of violence committed by any minister. The speech at the close of the session has ever been considered as the most secure method of promulgating the favourite court-creed among the vulgar; because the parliament, which is the constitutional guardian of the liberties of the people, has in this case no opportunity of remonstrating, or of impeaching any wicked servant of the crown.
This week has given the public the most abandoned instance of ministerial effrontery ever attempted to be imposed on mankind. The minister’s speech of last Tuesday is not to be paralleled in the annals of this country. I am in doubt, whether the imposition is greater on the sovereign or on the nation. Every friend of his country must lament that a prince of so many great and amiable qualities, whom England truly reveres, can be brought to give the sanction of his sacred name to the most odious measures, and to the most unjustifiable public declarations, from a throne ever renowned for truth, honour, and unsullied virtue.
A despotic minister will always endeavour to dazzle his prince with high-flown ideas of the prerogative and honour of the crown, which the minister will make a parade of firmly maintaining. I wish as much as any man in the kingdom to see the honour of the crown maintained in a manner truly becoming Royalty. I lament to see it sunk even to prostitution. What a shame was it to see the security of this country in point of military force, complimented away, contrary to the opinion of Royalty itself, and sacrificed to the prejudices and to the ignorance of a set of people, the most unfit, from every consideration, to be consulted on a matter relative to the security of the house of Hanover!
The King of England is only the first magistrate of this country; but is invested by the law with the whole executive power. He is, however, responsible to his people for the due execution of the royal functions, in the choice of ministers, and totally equal with the meanest of his subjects in his particular duty”.
Sounds to me as if very little has changed in almost 250 years, except perhaps we have all lost the strength of John Wilkes, to challenge the powerful forces and to see our challenge through to the better end.
John Wilkes also had the charisma to inspire people to support his cause, which of course was their cause, and to rise in revolt to support him.
Armed with a Brand New Constitution for the benefit all people of this country. One “irrevocably” etched in stone, I know what I could do with a supportive crowd of 15,000 who chanted ‘Wilkes and Liberty’, ‘No Liberty, No King’, and ‘Damn the King! Damn the Government! Damn the Justices!’.
Some say this is what the government of Britain today wants to see happen in order that they can counter attack and subdue. I don’t think so, as my intelligence throughout Britain seems to be telling me that the whole country appears to be on the verge of a serious backlash against this government, and the political system that is the source of so much misery to many, and if they were, like in Wilkes’ day prepared to open fire on protestors, I believe that would spark the whole nation into an open revolt.
Hi Ed.Me too.
How much more of this are we going to tolerate?——————
Scaremongering, and using other unethical tactics which severely limited
Parliamentary debate, the New Labour Government — with the connivance of the hierarchies of the other major Parties — pushed through the most dangerous Bill in the history of Britain.
Strikingly reminiscent of Adolf Hitler‘s Enabling Act which allowed him to legally set up a dictatorship, the Civil Contingencies Act is a flat-out Dictatorship Act.
MPs did nothing to protect British democracy and civil rights. Many Peers denounced the “absolute power“ granted by the Bill, but did nothing. Lord Lucas even warned,
“We are signing our death warrant as a democracy“, but what did this accomplish?.
The unconscionable Civil Contingencies Act, believe it or not:
* allows the Government ministers to call for a State of Emergency for almost any reason under the sun
* allows the Government, under the Emergency, to make, amend or repeal Acts of
Parliament as if It were Parliament and Crown — the powers of an absolute dictatorship
[Hitler‘s Enabling Act, article 2: “Laws decided by the Government of the Reich may deviate from the provisions of the constitution.“ Blair‘s Enabling Act, clause 22 (3): “Emergency regulations may make provision of any kind that could be made by Act of Parliament or by exercise of the Royal Prerogative.“; and may (clause 22, 3, j) “disapply or modify an enactment or a provision made under or by virtue of an enactment“.]
— would therefore allow by decree the surrender of the British nation to the European
Union empire; approval for GM food and crops; privatisation of pensions and the NHS, unlimited immigration, etc.
* allows the ordering of any individual to do, or not do, almost anything demanded by the Government
* allows the confiscation or destruction of property without compensation (including farm animals and pets, bank accounts and stock, anything you own (“property“)
* allows the banning of people meeting together (based on other legislation, this may mean a gathering of more than 2 persons)
* allows the prohibition of movement, or can compel movement (can keep you confined to your house, or force you out of it)
* allows the cutting off of communication between you and others
* allows a prison sentence for “failing to comply“ with any order (and do not forget here the confiscation-of-property-without-compensation threat)
* allows the deployment of the Army
As the Earl of Onslow said in Parliament, this legislation is unnecessary, for emergencies can be handled with current laws. No-one dreamt of such a Hitlerian Bill during World War I, World War II, and the Northern Ireland Troubles. Only the New Labour Government (that persistently lied about Iraq and waged a war of aggression there) has done it.
There has been a corrosion of the moral fabric of British government — MPs, Peers, Judiciary.
The Citizens of Great Britain must become informed, and politically activated, to understand and devotedly oppose the immense dangers the United Kingdom faces from Without (the EU empire) and from Within.
REPEAL the extremely dangerous,
democracy-extinguishing
CIVIL CONTINGENCIES ACT
(enacted 18th November 2004)
AND WE THE PEOPLE ALLOW TONY THE BLAIR TO ROAM
David,
A fine lesson in history and very interesting indeed. They say that history repeats itself. Well, where do we find another JOHN WILKES ?
We could certainly find 15,000 protestors – if they knew what was happening.
A lot of people do – but — most people don’t.
Albert Burgess has a few up his sleeve I am sure.
Mr Editor,
What would have had to have happened for the McCollum Memo to prove that FDR knew at least the day before ?
You haven’t said anything about Helen E. Hamman’s character. Do you have a record of her being a liar in anything ?
When you find the time to dig around to find an answer to my last point, you may put it on this forum, i can wait.
There are three questions here. I ask that in your reply you answer all three.
Great post Joe here is one more for you best wishes David.
http://www.bilderberg.org/masons.htm#nutshell