Reaction: Jet engine technology applied to politics

Following the same principle applied to jet engine technology, when there is action there is bound to be a reaction and this is exactly what we are seeing right now both in politics and in religion that is becoming increasingly politicized and taking sides.

The Breivik and the Meerah factors are just the tip of the iceberg of something that is even more sinister. The changes we are now seeing in societies across Europe point directly towards massive polarization. A discredited political class and a non-viable economic reality are just pieces of the puzzle.

In France, the traditional centre is being squeezed between two poles that paradoxically seem to have quite a few areas of agreement. In Holland, a government fell because it failed to get the support of a political party seen as right-wing (although I must say that the labels right-wing and left-wing have lost much of their relevance and appeal).

One area where changes are plainly visible is sexuality. Traditional Christianity, Islam and some branches of Judaism seem to share quite a few of the views seen as extreme when compared with liberal attitudes regarding sexuality. Why is this happening? Why suddenly there is such an aggressive attitude towards sexuality when a few years ago the trend was towards a more tolerant approach regarding sexual interactions?

While developments were happening outside organized religions, not many people thought that sexuality was a subject worth talking about. Provided the issue did not affect organized religions internally, there was a sort of status quo, a sort of no-man’s-land. Liberal society could do whatever liberal society wanted to do but without interfering with organized religions.

But then, thanks to political correctness and all the talk about human rights and equality, organized religions became a valid target and pressure was applied to change what is the core message of organized religions that is not compatible with liberal attitudes towards sexuality. Suddenly, the political world that had been a traditional ally of organized religions turned against organized religions that saw themselves increasingly under attack.

When you look at the precedents of the Spanish Civil War that began in 1936, you see how the Catholic Church felt threatened by Marxist ideas and liberal attitudes and a traditionally conservative organization like the Army sided with the Catholic Church and had a common cause. This is how General Franco became the reaction to counter the action of Marxism and Liberalism.

The Catholic Church in Rome, from the beginning, felt more inclined to support Conservatism or even forces that we call today Extreme Right. In 1933, the German Army – traditionally aristocratic – told Oskar von Hindenburg that they were in no position to maintain internal order in Germany and defend German borders at the same time. The choices were stark but extremely rational.

German aristocrat Oskar von Hindenburg was more inclined to side the Junkers (the landowner Aristocracy) and the Army rather than side with Marxist forces that wanted to create a Soviet Germany very much like the Soviet Union of 1917. Add to this traditionalist Churches – including the Catholic Church - linked to the ruling classes and detested by Marxists.

So for everything there is some sort of rationality. When you look at the Vatican’s message and you see the reaction of some organized churches in Britain regarding sexuality, there is a lot more than sexuality being discussed. In times of instability, in their search for security, people tend to become polarized. Erich Fromm wrote a book about ‘the fear of freedom’. Increasingly people align themselves with two opposite schools of thought to experience a sense of belonging and suddenly the middle ground is squeezed between two conflicting poles.

In 1930s and 1940s Germany both National Socialists and Communists exploited ‘people’s need to belong’ and similar examples are found across Europe today. Human nature is still very much the same despite technological advances.

The timing today might differ from the timing of 1929-1939 but the consequences could be even more catastrophic.

Lib Lab Con - the brutality of welfare dependency

What we are seeing in Newham and we are bound to see in many other places is that the British National Party has been absolutely correct all the way.

Living on benefits is not what we should call part of a normal economy. Living on benefits is and should be part of exceptional circumstances. Unfortunately, the combined policies of Conservatives, Labour and LibDems have reduced millions of peoples to begging.

This is the reality of the kind of Britain that the combined forces of Lib Lab Con have produced.

For hundreds or even thousands of families that depend on housing benefits to survive this is the worst tragedy and, for us as a country, it is also a huge tragedy to see people, that should have the opportunities that we know this country can provide, forced to live in such horrible circumstances.

One day, a family had a home, friends, a local school and a community. The next day, they are thrown out and sent to Newham and when Newham cannot support them they are told that they could be forced to move across the country all the way to Stoke on Trent leaving behind home, friends, school mates and the place where they grew up. Suddenly, Stoke on Trent does not want them either and they are in limbo.

The damage done to this country by the policies of Lib Lab Con is not merely financial. The uncertainties will create irreparable emotional damage to entire families. This is nothing more than the consequence of ideological stupidity. They created situations of dependency and now ordinary people are made to suffer.

We are not allowed to debate but we can ask questions

The reason why Police officers are about to be replaced with Community volunteers is purely and simply the lack of money that the GLA is facing when government grants are falling both in nominal terms and in real terms, not taking into account inflation rates.

The lack of funding is so evident that Boris Johnson was accused of taking money from the Fire Services to prop up other areas of the budget. We know that tension among local authorities is rising, especially after the reduction of housing benefits more affluent local authorities are getting rid of hundreds of families that are now heading for places like Newham that itself, unable to cope, asked Stoke on Trent for help and was refused any help.

I wonder how the GLA will be able to deliver the number of homes that the Labour government itself, since 1997, was unable to deliver. If you remember, Tony Blair promised 30,000 new homes per year. Boris Johnson is talking about 50,000 new homes per year. I would like to believe that Boris Johnson is right but I have reasonable doubts taking into account that Tony Blair was the head of the entire country while Boris Johnson is the head of the Greater London Authority.

We cannot take part in debates because they do not allow us to take part in debates but we are even more dangerous because we are then free to ask questions.

Newham: Forced migration to Stoke on Trent?

People in Newham could end up living faraway from Newham because the local authority cannot provide housing due to the reduction of housing benefits and this provided that a housing association in Stoke on Trent accepts to take them in.

If the housing association located faraway from Newham does not accept them, will they go and live in sheds with beds? Why are people unable to understand that the more people come into the country the more difficult life will be for those who already live in precarious conditions?

Continue voting for the so called mainstream political parties and you will end up living under a tree or in affordable accommodation like the one shown here.

Political exclusion leads to violence

Given the kind of Democracy that we have that allows political exclusion we are bound to see more people like Breivik committing atrocities of all kinds, more Islamic extremists, more riots, more strikes and more criminal gangs.

Britain is walking along a very dangerous path in which Democracy is becoming more and more unrepresentative. National identity and trust in Democratic institutions are vanishing and people are fending for themselves.

In many parts of London life is cheap and is becoming expendable. The rising number of armed gangs from 250 to 400 in just a few years with 60 of them extremely being extremely dangerous, a corrupt Police force that is a reflection of a corrupt political system, endemic unemployment and welfare dependency, and people that not even bother to take part in elections manipulated by the mass media used and abused by a few political parties are a recipe for disaster.

Many years ago a Spanish politician said that change would come by the Force of Reason or by the Reason of Force. This is already happening across Europe where fear is replacing dialogue and politicians choose posturing rather than substance and speculation and false promises rather than facts.

Europe criticizes Argentina's confiscation of YPF and calls for sanctions

The European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Argentina’s nationalization of YPF and called for a partial suspension of tariffs that benefit exports from the South American country to the EU.

After Argentina blocked Uruguayan exports because Uruguay resisted Argentinean attempts to force Spanish fishing ships out of the River Plata region, Argentinean anger now turns against Spanish interests including Repsol that owned 53% of YPF (formerly the Argentine state oil company) whose assets were confiscated by Argentina in a move aimed at attacking anybody who has any kind of economic relationship with Britain.

In a desperate attempt to save Uruguayan companies that now cannot export goods to Argentina, Uruguayan President José Mujica contacted the Brazilian government looking for support.

Financial institutions that deal with the Falkland Islands and provide assistance to oil exploration companies have also been targeted by the government headed by President Cristina Fernández Wilhelm.

Uruguay has indicated that Spanish ships operating between Uruguayan harbors and the Falkland Islands have a legitimate right to do so and ships navigating under the British flag were, are and will be allowed to enter Uruguayan territory whenever they choose to do so.

The pressure exerted by Argentina on foreign countries and Mercosur countries is backfiring, leaving the government of President Fernández ever more isolated. Just weeks ago, tensions between Argentina and Chile, once again, rose but this does not seem to influence or lead to a change of direction of a very aggressive Argentinean foreign policy.

Speaking with Latin American journalists based in Uruguay, in Spain and in Germany that follow the situation in the River Plate, I could confirm that my fears about an unexpected irrational Argentinean reaction are totally justified.

For a long time I have been thinking about the possibility of a new military aggression once President Cristina Fernández Wilhelm feels confident enough that she can carry the will of the country with her.

Efforts to restore British naval military capabilities should be made a priority. Economic sanctions imposed by Europe could push an already desperate Argentina over the edge.

Comments please? Was this before the Peace Agreement?

The world at war and British Nationalism

Some years ago, Thames Television produced a very good series of programmes called “The world at war” presented by Laurence Olivier who played the role of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding in the movie “The Battle of Britain”.

For those in the Nationalist movement who seem to have forgotten what it means to be British, the said documentaries and movie will be recommended viewing. They might learn a few things about the values Nationalists in Britain should stand for and it is no wonder why Dame Vera Lynn does not want to be associated with certain brands of Nationalism.

I have said it over and over again that I want a British Britain.

It was Winston Churchill who said when Britain was fighting for its own existence: “Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.”

British Interests have nothing to do with 1930s talk

I promised myself not to attack fellow nationalists and I will stick to this principle by not replying in kind to the nonsense they constantly spread about the British National Party. In actual fact, some Nationalist websites have become an extension of sites that are constantly attacking Nationalism in Britain to the point that I have been made to believe that they are actively involved in working against Nationalism.

One writer in particular, visibly affected by the guilt he feels because of the death of his wife, has purely and simply lost the plot and seems completely detached from the political realities of Britain. All I can say is ‘good luck to him and to others who are apparently intellectually incapable of understanding what it takes to fight for Nationalism in Britain.’

The 1930s style of writing and talking brings them closer to the Third Reich and this has little to do with defending true British interests. Blinded by the sheer stupidity of their arguments they will be forever left in the fringes of British society and they will forever be a minute minority because the vast majority of the people in Britain are mentally normal and cannot accept their Adolf Hitler style delusions that led to the death of 60 million people across the world.

The true defense of British Nationalism can only be about defending British language, British culture and British identity. I don't think anybody rational could possibly support ideas that seem to have been taken from the pages of Mein Kampf.

Spent Force is second with 31% of the Vote

Goresbrook – April 2012 By-Election

Lab	58%
BNP	31%
UKIP	5%
CON	4%
Lib Dem	2%

Tonight, the British National Party was second with 31% of the vote. The message is that we have never left. We did not pack our suitcases. The message to those who thought that we had left is: you are not alone, we are here to stay.

 

Spent Force obtains 31% in Goresbrook - Barking and Dagenham

The Spent Force is, despite all odds, the real opposition in Goresbook Ward.

The message to all other political parties is: "You are not alone. We are here to day."

In fact, as the numbers seem to prove, we never left. We are very much the only one party that can be genuinely called the Official Opposition in Barking and Dagenham.

The British National Party was there to listen. Much work needs to be done and especially taking into account that only 25.57% of those registered to vote actually voted. In Feltham, not long ago, in a Parliamentary By-Election, only about 30% of the Electorate voted.

Trust in the political system is almost absent and about 7 out of 10 people have lost their appetite for elections.

Budget Planning anyone?

As inflation goes up, the Bank of England decided not to push any more quantitative easing into the system. As this happens, further announcements are made regarding new taxes (that are not called taxes) to try and extract new monies from people who are struggling to survive. Food prices and clothing prices seem to be, according to some media, the main reasons why inflation is going up. No mention of fuel prices and other factors that create a vicious cycle of inflation that produces more inflation.

I listen to the political debate and rest assured that my main concern is ‘how can we trust budget predictions?’ This is precisely why I purposefully decided to avoid getting into a muddle of numbers, figures and percentages and when asked about numbers I explicitly said that we can only indicate aspirations and direction of travel.

The Greater London Authority does not exist in some sort of extra-terrestrial environment. Every item on the GLA agenda is very much linked to the national economy.  Some people tend to think that 14 billion Pound is a lot of money but even 14 billion Pound is a relative amount of money when rising inflation is certainly eroding budgets, creating gaps between nominal value and real value.

In 1997, I could do an awful amount of supermarket shopping with just 25 Pound. What kind of supermarket shopping you do today with 25 Pound? For a long time, we had more or less stable prices but now such kind of price stability is no more and it is difficult to predict what would be the real value of 14 billion Pound in three or four-years-time. What is more, even the nominal figures are in doubt due to changes in grants, Council Tax and other sources of revenue. On top of that, costs are naturally rising and suddenly reserves put aside for exceptional circumstances have to be spent to maintain essential services.

During an electoral campaign, it is not uncommon to see political parties putting caution aside to try and widen their electoral appeal.  I, instead, prefer to talk about aspirations, about things what we very much want to implement, but always state the fundamentals, the obstacles, the hurdles we must overcome before we are able to deliver.

When somebody tells me that he or she is going to create 200,000 new jobs or build 50,000 new homes every year, I must admit that in times of scarcity it sounds like a Panacea, like a perfect world. Reality is quite different. I look at the number of those out of work, of those waiting for subsidized accommodation and of those who are desperate to buy their own homes and, suddenly, even if the number of jobs or houses to be built were to become a reality, even the most auspicious announcements are nothing more than a drop in the ocean.

When it comes to budgets, I am pragmatic rather than ideological. One plus one equals two. Pragmatism combined with a sense of social fairness will put you on the right track. Some decisions are financial decisions and other decisions are political decisions. We will take financial decisions but at the same time we will keep our political commitment to deliver as soon as it is physically possible.

Breivik: Chronicles of a Mass Murderer

Today, in Norway, the trial began to decide if Breivik is either sane or mentally ill. When I learnt about what this man has done, my instinct told me that Breivik was mentally insane because only somebody who is mentally insane can carry out the atrocities that Breivik perpetrated in Norway.

I would like to believe that only people who are mentally insane can do what Breivik did. I would like to believe that there are no more Breiviks roaming around and waiting to commit mass murder. After what happened in Toulouse, France, when an Islamic extremist of Algerian descent killed adults and children at a Jewish school, I realised that in Europe we live in dangerous times and that some people have lost their humanity and are ready and able to commit this kind of atrocities.





 

Britain creates Uruguay in 1828

Many people in Britain ask why a Uruguayan is standing as London Mayoral Candidate and they deserve an answer. I feel that the country where I was born has an enormous debt of gratitude. In fact, Uruguay owes its own existence to Britain. Without Britain, Uruguay would not be today an independent country. It goes without saying that I have been British since long before I was awarded British citizenship.

In 1828, what is today Argentina and what is today Brazil were fighting to control a territory that they considered to be theirs, despite the fact that the inhabitants of the said territory had their own traditions and had fought for many years to be an independent nation.

In 1828, Britain sent Lord John Ponsonby to arrange a settlement and the fundamental requirement for a settlement was that both Argentina and Brazil would recognize the right of those we call today Uruguayans to have their own independent country. With the Treaty of Montevideo negotiated by Britain, Uruguay became a free independent nation.

Today, I stand as a Candidate for the British National Party and I have said repeatedly that I want a British Britain, the Britain that created the country where I was born and the Britain that must be protected. British culture, British language and British institutions and traditions are very dear to me as they were to the Uruguayans who, thanks to Britain, after so many sufferings, got the right to call themselves Uruguayans.

So now you know why a British Citizen born in Uruguay is ready and willing to stand up for Britain.

Britain Vs Argentina: Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

Argentina was poised on Thursday night to launch the forced takeover of assets from the Spanish energy group Repsol, risking a diplomatic showdown with Spain and scaring investors needed to unlock the country's vast shale gas reserves.

As we have detailed recently, everything is set for a showdown in a not so distant future. YPF was originally a state oil company but today is 53% owned by Repsol.

There is nothing wrong with trying to nationalize oil resources in Argentina, but this is not an isolated trend in terms of relationships between countries. Just a few weeks ago, Argentina tried to intercept, inside Uruguayan territorial waters, Spanish vessels travelling to the Falkland Islands.

In Argentina, the anti-British campaign is gathering pace in the context of a ruinous financial situation as a consequence of which the Argentinean state is having troubles when trying to obtain foreign currencies. Also in this context, it is easy to understand why the Argentinean government has implemented regulations to control parity exchanges to try and keep in Argentina as many US Dollars as possible.

Lending institutions - including British banks - were threatened because they are providing financial support to oil exploration companies in the South Atlantic.


Reports were issued indicating that Hilary Clinton, the American Secretary of State, asked for classified information regarding the state of mind of Argentinean President Cristina Fernández Wilhelm and this happened before Hilary Clinton visited Argentina. This is an additional reason to be worried. We all assume that a Democratic Argentina would not dare to become engaged in an illegal invasion. Unfortunately, the unpredictable behavior of the Argentinean government is telling us that we must be on our guard.

In 1982, a desperate Argentinean Military Junta launched the invasion of the Falkland Islands. In 2012, a mentally unstable Argentinean President might try to do exactly the same. There are certainly parallels between General Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Cristina Fernández Wilhelm. The present Argentinean President is using the populist card to divert attention from the internal financial chaos

One London for all Londoners

If we want to eliminate waste that leads to poverty, we must completely rethink the way London is run as a capital city. I believe that the remains of a feudal system with 33 different local authorities and added levels of bureaucracy translated into different planning process and different urban development realities is hampering the efforts made to create a better London.

Without a Master Plan for London to gather the strengths of thirty-three local authorities, we are going to continue seeing a growing gap that divides Londoners from each other and leads to lack of trust, confrontation and deprivation.

All London boroughs have the same right to better provision of services including transport, housing, policing, health and education. More and more people complain about the growing gap between rich and poor. The feudal ways in which London is run are very much one of the root causes of growing disparity between rich and poor.

One London for all Londoners.  

Democratic Deficit: Only 4 out of 7allowed to participate

The fact that for too many people the exclusion of candidates appears as normal is very much an issue of concern about the state of British Democracy. Just a few days ago the British mass media and the British political establishment were lambasting Russian Presidential and Parliamentary Elections because they said that Russian Presidential Elections and Parliamentary Elections were not representative.

Lets look at the figures.

The running party in Britain, the Conservative Party, got elected with 33 per cent of popular support while the political party that is now in power got more than 45 per cent of the vote for Parliament and more than 60 per cent popular support for President Vladimir Putin.

British politicians and the British mass media went on and criticized Russian mass media regarding the political campaign in Russia talking about restricted access for several candidates and political parties. Lets look at the facts. Practically, in every debate of the campaign for the Greater London Authority only four candidates have been given full access by the mass media and those behind the organization of debates.

In all counts, standards in Russian elections are much higher than in Britain. Non only that. In America, there are reports that indicate that all candidates, regardless of the electoral performance of their political parties or themselves in past elections, are given equal opportunity during debates. In conclusion, standards in Britain are behind both the standards of American and Russian elections.

I took part in an interview made with Russian State Television and there are further interviews planned to talk about hypocrisy in British elections and about how elections in Britain are being manipulated. What is more, this is not new. This is something that has been happening in election after election for more than twenty years.

This is not about broken promises and lies regarding the implementation of Referenda on Europe. This affects the core of British Democracy and comes on top of open ballot boxes, printing of false ballots, registration of dead people as voters and the list goes on and on.

John Bolton: Do you want to be an independent nation?

John Bolton, the American ambassador to the UN under George Bush, said: Britain should renounce the jurisdiction of the European Court of Law. It’s a question of what do British people want to do. Do you want to be an independent nation, or do you want to be a county in Europe?

I have to say that John Bolton is spot on when saying that it is a question of what do British people want to do. I have to say that the British people have never been consulted about what they want to do because all the so called major political parties in Britain have refused to give the British people the opportunity to decide what the British people want to do.

This is not only about the European Court of Law. It is about the right of the British people to decide if they want to be in the European Union or out of the European Union. It is no surprise at all that even in the Mayoral Election in London only the candidates of political parties that want Britain to stay in Europe have been allowed to take part in most debates and have been made the centre of attention of the mass media.

I would like to tell John Bolton, former American ambassador to the United Nations that, the British people have been made hostages and at the moment have no say. Britain is being overrun by European bureaucrats.

But here comes the catch: we don't want to be run by Europe and we don't want to be run by America.

We don't want extradition treaties that are biased in favour of the USA and violate basic rights of British citizens.

Rowan Williams: Arising from the dead?

The Archbishop of Canterbury stated today that the fundamental message of Christianity this Easter was that Jesus arose from the dead.

As somebody who grew up in the Catholic tradition and most importantly as somebody who grew up in the Christian tradition, I say that the most important message of Christianity is not that Jesus arose from the dead.

The most important message of Christianity is that Jesus was ready and willing to give his life for the common good. The meaning of Resurrection is that all of us can have the hope of starting afresh thanks to somebody like Jesus that gave his life for us.

When asked to tell to whom a Roman coin belonged to, Jesus states: Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and Give God what belongs to God. This is a message that organized churches across the world seem to have completely forgotten in their quest to please political correctness.

But there is another message Jesus sends to whoever wants to listen to him. When asked why he was preaching outside the temple, Jesus replied that he preached everywhere because God is everywhere. Jesus was not talking about organized and politicized churches but about the essence of Christianity that is to spread the word of God everywhere and transmit the word of God to whoever is ready and willing to listen to it.

And there is yet another message Jesus sends to whoever is listening to him: you can choose. So the word of God is not be imposed or forced upon other people. It is up to us to choose or not to choose. This is why Christianity is so fundamental for us. We have a choice and having choices is the foundation of tolerance in society.

Modern Democracy is very much based on this fundamental principle that states that we must have choices and when organized churches become an obstacle that limits democratic choices they are basically attacking Christianity and eroding Democracy.

Education: a country at war

The latest news in the show of force between government officials and the National Union of Teachers is that the regulator OFSTED could be locked out of classrooms and denied key data on pupils. Why? It might happen as part of a major protest over the “destructive” inspection system.

The report indicates that the National Union of Teachers backed plans that may lead to a campaign of “non-cooperation” with the regulator amid claims inspections have a major impact on staff workload, damage morale and promote a culture of exam cramming.

After all the debacle related to pensions and increased contributions, we hear that relationships become ever more confrontational.

Now let’s see how we got here. Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems and their acolytes are fully supportive of flood immigration. As a consequence of flood immigration, teachers had to try and obtain better results with classrooms in which only a minority of pupils spoke English as their first language.  Suddenly, the subject of league tables appear and teachers were put under huge pressure to deliver results with more red tape, more paperwork, bigger classrooms and standards it would have been impossible to reach even in ideal conditions.

The political establishment blames the teachers. The teachers blame the political establishment and the policies that the teachers themselves have supported. The NUT complains about being under pressure in conditions created by flood immigration that the teachers help to maintain.

Not long ago a Labour representative said that in September there was going to be a shortage of not less than 100,000 school places and this at a time when most schools are overly subscribed.  Not long ago I went to a local schools meeting. The issue was that local schools could not cope with demand for new school places and they were talking about getting rid of playgrounds.

Teachers are being forced to work longer and pay more for their pension contributions, forced to teach in almost impossible conditions with supernumerary groups many of which don’t have English as their main language and told to achieve even higher standards.

We have seen what is happening in Britain. Any rational person should have seen this coming. What did they do? They attacked the British National Party that has been telling them again and again that this was going to happen.

When the situation in schools gets out of hand, who will suffer? Everybody will suffer but the useless angry exchanges between the authorities and the National Union of Teachers will continue.

Coalition: Value for money translation for Police and the Courts?

Many people have lived in Britain since birth and are still very much incapable of using the English language properly.

But there is another issue and this involves the use of foreign languages in Britain. Those who tell you that you can learn a foreign language studying a few hours each week are obviously lying to you and you end up spending a huge amount of money buying hot air.

The Coalition Government is desperately trying to save money and its efforts seem to have backfired when it contracted the services of a company called Applied Language Solutions (ALS) to provide translation and interpreting services to both the Police and the Courts.

Applied Language Solutions has reportedly been unable to deliver what was promised at a cost of hundred of millions of pounds of taxpayers money and this is the same company that was awarded a translation contract for the Olympic Games.

There are cases of translators and interpreters that could not be provided and of those who were effectively provided there is a number that has not been paid the arranged fees. We must take also into account translators and interpreters that have proven to be unable to work due to personal incompetence.

The saving exercise has ended up being an absolute shambles and there are also reports indicating that, even when ALS has cut down fees offered to translators and interpreters, a hole in the official budget of the Ministry of Justice is growing on a daily basis.

Change for change sake can be a recipe for disaster and this is yet another example of 'value for money' turned into 'value for rubbish'.

Equal access to mass media and public debates

If people are not allowed to know what a political party stands for, how can we have a democracy? This was the question the British National Party put across to the Returning Officer in charge of Elections for London Mayor and for the London Assembly, on behalf of those who are being denied access to the media and public debates.

The British National Party is representing everybody standing in these elections by stating that in a Democracy all those standing for election must be treated on an equal footing and be allowed to be heard by the Electorate.

During a meeting at the GLA headquarters in Central London, members of ethnic minorities stated that they are also being ignored by the mass media and organizers of public debates.

As well as supporting the right of all candidates to be heard, Clive Jefferson acting as Election Agent asked the Returning Officer to organize a debate due to take place at the headquarters of the Greater London Authority with the participation of all seven Mayoral Candidates to be covered by all mass media.

Internet Surveillance: Protecting us by destroying our freedoms

Not content with persecuting legal political parties and calling Nazi, Fascist, racist, homophobe, xenophobe and anti-Semite anybody who dares to oppose their plan to  put Britain in the hands of big capital and unelected bureaucrats, now they want to spy on every move we make, everyone we talk to, everything we think or say.

The excuse is always the same. They want to protect us. It sounds like the script of the movie “I Robot”. They want us to be safe by taking away every single bit of the rights we have left.

They use immigration to allow potential terrorists in and then they use them as an excuse to curtail our freedoms.

London's Health and Safety: Sheds with Beds?

Sheds with Beds in London: Housing Exception or Housing Trend?

I became aware that things like this can be seen in London as an acceptable by-product of housing demand that cannot be met and that in London unscrupulous individuals that 'rent' sheds with beds are allowed to get away with murder.

This is how some people who cannot afford decent housing are actually living in the capital city of the United Kingdom.

I just wondered how, despite all the health and safety legislation that we have got, local authorities can possibly allow this to happen.

Immigration is about numbers and this is even more evidence that proves that we are not managing to meet basic needs.

We are not talking about the future. We are talking about the present. This is going on right now in London.