'Blair Force One' will cost £12m a year [ 21 June 2006 ]
Get it while the getting is good. That is Prime
Ministerial policy. Otherwise - Greed is good. Using and abusing the Queen's
Flight is now beneath his dignity. It will make it easier to get all of those
freebies from Silvio Berlusconi. PS It will take about 1,200 taxpayers to feed this
particular bit of aggrandizement.
Brown reduces fraud - his own that is
He is going to reduce his off balance sheet numbers. So things
will look even worse. No doubt it is all perfectly legal when he does it or no
one has the bottle to charge him. He is admitting to some £53 billion of
the controversial PFI deals. Perhaps the Private Eye comments helped.
Blair Got A £50,000 Yale Scholarship [
25 May 2006 ]
His old man is Jack the Lad when
it comes to freebies. Like father, like son? Someone did this for a reason and
Blair's brains are not it.
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He is also believed to be planning a holiday rather than
concentrating on his studies. Euan began his gap year with two months of 'work experience'
at a Paris radio station owned by the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy chain. He enjoyed an estimated
£40,000 worth of perks including
the use of a £2 million apartment and a chauffeur-driven Mercedes with
bodyguard.
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Are these pay offs for favours
past, present or future? Meanwhile pensioners will shiver this winter.
Minister denies NHS IT 'fiasco'
[
17 May 2006 ]
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They insist the £6.2 billion project -
described as the world's largest civil IT scheme - has caused untoward
disruption...... The hi-tech initiative is at the heart of Blair's efforts to modernise the National Health Service.
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They have spent £502 million on management so far with more to come no doubt. How difficult is it to connect a few thousand PCs to a main frame? It should all be standard stuff. It needs a bright lad who knows C++ and Linux. Any payments over £1 million are the result of gross fraud and gross incompetence. Of course with Blair splashing money round, it is snouts in the trough - up to the trotters at that. You might wonder what the NHS management do for a living if they use management consultants. Perhaps they constitute a pension scheme.
'Cash for honours' grilling [
15 May 2006 ]
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Lord Levy has told friends that he does not intend to be the fall
guy for Mr Blair, who ordered him to save Labour from financial ruin.
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Is Levy going to keep his mouth shut and go to prison so that Blair can get away with it? I wouldn't either. The police have arrested some little nonentity but will they have the bottle to arrest Blair?
Project Allenby/Connaught
Rebuilding barracks at Aldershot and on
Salisbury Plain is a big job. The Ministry of Defence called it
Project Allenby/Connaught and invited bids. It settled
on Aspire Defence Limited which is a consortium of HSBC, Carrillion and
Kellogg,
Brown Root. The latter two mobs come in for an extra £5.7 billion for running the grounds, catering and a few other
things.
Three years ago the deal was going to cost
£3.9 billion which is a lot of money for rebuilding some barracks. Now the deal
has been signed for £8 billion which is humungous and has nothing to do with
inflation. Competitive tendering? Not on your life. It is like voting in the
Stalin era. One candidate, one vote and one winner. See more at
Key Developments | Reuters and page 8 of
Private Eye 1157. Anyone who thinks that Blair and his cronies are going
to walk poor really hasn't got it.
Treasury Tells The Truth
Des Brown is the Treasury Chief Secretary.
He told the truth, by accident one assumes. He claimed that the use of
Private Finance Initiatives is explained by Her Majesty's Government's
enthusiasm for fraudulent accounting which is of course legal when HMG does
it. The fact that they are vastly more expensive is neither here nor there.
Maggie's privatizations were simpler, cleaner, effective and profitable. But
that was then. This is now. He contradicted Brown's story line. Something on
Des is at
Des Brown. See the full story at page 5 of
Private Eye 1156
Blair 'sleazy, incompetent', say voters [ 30 April 2006 ]
Sleaze is the euphemism for corruption that was used against the
Tories. Labour is far more corrupt than the Tories. Blair is not incompetent.
Blair is creating a police state deliberately, systematically and very
successfully.
Super-rich prosper under Labour [ 25 April 2006 ]
How many of them have done anything for England or Englishmen?
Not a lot is the answer. Blair loves them though.
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Casino owners,
high-flying businesswomen and retail entrepreneurs have helped to
boost the combined wealth of the super-rich. Half of the new entries in this year’s The Sunday
Times Rich List with fortunes of half a billion or more owe
their wealth to internet gambling or casinos.
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Meanwhile English jobs are being shipped overseas or taken by illegal immigrants.
