AADHIKAROnline © Muhammad Haque London Commentary
0540 [0530] GMT
Friday
29 April 2011.
The ITV News bulletin shown at 0430 GMT ended with their preview of the day’s Fleet Street newspaper front pages.
One theme dominates everything the media is spreading today: the Wedding of Kate and William.
The one item which the mainstream media is hiding is of course the cost of it. The DAILY TELEGRAPH accepts that the wedding is going to cost the UK Economy more than £5 Billion. Not so the BBC. In their first bulletin of the day, ‘BBC London’, fronted by the very tellingly named Asad Ahmed, put on the state of denial on the part of the BBC. Asad Ahmed read a script that boastfully claimed that the [London] ‘economy’ was set to ‘benefit’ to the tune of a few £Millions because of the arrival in London of the extra number of visitors drawn by the Wedding! Now at that rate, the BBC will declare the UK Economy one of the most prosperous in the world today by the time the formalities of the Wedding are finished! The mind boggles at the BBC’s capacity to lie to the public about the rest of the world. How much is the BBC’s lying costing the world every day!
To be continued]
Brick Lane Esmoth Ali tragedy, community mourning afterwards & early signs of Nick Gibb's crassness
FROM THE BBC WEB SITE [below]
Another exclusive report exposing another CONDEM COLLUSION disaster!
When Nick Gibb outraged the community in shock after Mr Esmoth Ali’s murder as he slid into a meeting barely clothed...
1535 Hrs GMT
London
Wednesday 20 April 2011
Editor © Muhammad Haque Contextual Commentary on the CONDEM COLLUSION
Considering that the meeting, held in July 1989, had been about the then latest tragedy of Mr Esmot Ali’s murder in the hands of still unprovoked assailants, Nick Gibb’s appearance at the community meeting exposing some part of his body that should have been covered, was an additionally distressing spectacle.
Contrary to the claims that he could make - and his CONDEM COLLUSION colluders will make today - the supporters of a colonialist culture never want to show that they treat the world with equal dignity!
Appearing at a meeting of the community in shock, Gibb scarcely bothered to say anything by way of an apology. What he said about the tragedy itself was equally of no substance. That was 32 years ago! But the years of careeristic gavels across the other parts fo the country have not taught Nick Gibb the modesty to show respect to people in any community. Including those who dedicated their best years to the cause fo education in Society! [To be continued]
20 April 2011 Last updated at 16:08
Teachers heckle minister over pension fears
Nick Gibb faced jeers from teachers angry over pension changesTeachers have heckled the schools minister over proposed changes to public-sector pensions.
Nick Gibb faced jeers and shouts of "rubbish" as he addressed the annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
On Tuesday, the conference of the traditionally moderate union voted for a strike ballot over pension changes.
"There is clearly a huge passion about the pensions issue," said Mr Gibb afterwards.
The schools minister had told teachers that the government could not "ignore the realities of the cost pressures" of the pension scheme.
The union's general secretary, Mary Bousted, said: "If ATL is so angry, where is the government going to go on its pension reforms. We're middle England, if you alienate us where do you go?"
First strikeMr Gibb's speech to the conference in Liverpool came a day after the union voted for a ballot for what could be the union's first ever national strike.
Teachers spoke out against pension changes, which they said would mean working for more years for lower benefits.
The campaign over pensions could see the ATL joining other teachers' unions in staging a joint walkout this summer term.
The ATL's executive committee says it will co-ordinate its strike ballot with other teachers' unions, if they also vote for a strike ballot over pensions at their Easter conferences.
Mary Bousted: "ATL members are very angry - and it takes a lot to get them this angry"In her conference speech on Wednesday, Dr Bousted told delegates: "We prepare for a strike, for the first time in our history, more in sorrow than in anger. We do not want to strike. We want to avoid a strike. But when reason fails, what is left?"
She told delegates that it was unfair for public-sector workers to pay through their pensions for the damage caused by the global financial crisis.
And she attacked the "cynical mantra from cabinet millionaires that we are all in this together".
'Gold standard'Mr Gibb had told teachers that there needed to be changes to a pension scheme which because of longer life expectancy was becoming increasingly expensive.
He said that in the decade between 2005 and 2015, the annual cost of paying teachers' pensions would have risen from £5bn to £10bn.
"This is why long-term reform of public service schemes is needed - and why teachers and other public-service scheme members are being asked to pay a higher pension contribution from April 2012," Mr Gibb told the conference.
But he promised that "public-service pensions should remain a gold standard".
The strike ballot motion adopted on Tuesday said the pension changes will include raising the retirement age to 68 and the replacement of the final-salary scheme with a career-average scheme, which would mean a lower pension for many teachers.
The union says that the proposed public-sector pension changes would see teachers on average losing 25% of the value of their pension.
Teachers at the conference also challenged the idea of having to work beyond the age of 65.
"Can you imagine being a reception teacher and trying to get on and off those little chairs at 68? I think not," said history teacher, Alice Robinson.
