Two years ago this month, in April 2009, I published on the SPECTATOR magazine web site the comment that was initially aimed at the then Official Oppo

0940 Hrs GMT

London
Sunday
03 April 2011.

By © Muhammad Haque


Two years ago this month, in April 2009, I published on the SPECTATOR magazine web site the comment that was initially aimed at the then Official Opposition, the CON Party as fronted by David Cameron.

Two years on, there has been a ‘change’ [that word!] and the names have changed.

Yet my fundamental evidential thesis, that the Official Opposition in Britain was bankrupt, stands.

What it proves is that there is NO OPPOSITION in the UK Parliament at all.

You effect ‘change’ only to the extent that a name is changed. But the polices, the agenda remains the same

To all universally conscientious democrats and people of any morality, this is not just worrying. This is a very worrying state of affairs.

The fear gets even more culpable when it is noted that the entire ‘free press’ the ‘free media’ is ‘content’ to let the status quo alone.

[To be continued]

Quoting MUHAMMAD HAQUE’s comments on Alistair Campbell and related ‘controversies linked with the McBride resignation’ April 2009




The challenge is really about the location of the official Opposition Vis a Vis ethics, morality, accountability, honesty and transparency.
The ordinary people in the UK are not being served at all well by the mainstream media frenzies. They are the ones who have had to benefit most by the behaviour of McBride and Draper..
It is only a matter of time before one of the tabloid titles or even a broadcasting outfit engaged in similar commercial pursuits reveals further details about the ‘leaking’ to or the ‘discovery’ by Guido F of the particular communications…
Once the particular saga is over, the will move on to the next sensation lasting a 24 hour period…
The people are not served by the official Opposition either… In their collective roles as MPs since they became elected. Did David Cameron, William Hague and Chris Grayling have not contributed anything to the cause of constitutionality. Not a single one of them is known as a democracy campaigner… Not a campaigner for constitutionality.
Nor for accountability.
It is important to point out these basic facts and to put the current media sport into perspective. On poverty, on civil liberty and on the Blaired collusion with the GW Bush regime in the war against innocent people [as opposed to and distinguished from the legitimate ground for UNO-sponsored and internationally legally valid and warranted and justified and supportable focus on the people liable for all the violations of human rights in countries and regions in any part of the contemporary world] William Hague, David Cameron and Chris Grayling have contributed nothing for democracy… Or for accountability.


Did any of them go on the broadcast media and pronounce anything at all against MPs expenses and other unacceptable conduct? If they did, when did they do it? My observation is that the McBride e-mails and Derek Draper's reappearance as a Blaired Party spinmeister is more the product of some spin-traders seeking to make profitable mischief than it is about any even conceivable difference between the two mainstream Parties 'of Government' in Britain. On the matters that do matter, like the violation of civil liberties and the open, the brazen introduction of new breaches of the rile of law and the entrenchment of existing lawlessness as applicable to most organs of the state, Chris Grayling has been failing big time. Likewise, Cameron is not questioning Brown's preaching in anything like an original opposition leader should or could do on the available evidence. And the less said about William Hague the better. The three of them have featured as the main sources or entities in the current Tory Opposition front bench as implying dire retributions against Brown and his lot over the McBride affair. But what has any of them to say on the issues of the UK being embroiled in unnecessary, unjustified, unwanted and unjust international engagements?
How does Grayling justify HIS failure on the G20 priorities and the hypes that the City of London interests embarked on in the pre-'summit' days? What are the comparative lessons for 'our democratic society' of the events surrounding the Guardian's reports about Ian Tomlinson’s and the McBride e-mail 'stories'?
And has any of the three frontbench Opposition leaders had anything to say about global poverty?
Oops!
Or even about poverty in Britain? How much did THEY support of the Blair-Brown strategy for creating poverty in the UK? Why did the Tories hire David Freud, the man who as unable to answer simple questions about his big plan against the poor when he was quizzed by news bulletin presenter on Channel 4 news?


As for the Spectator’s tactical use of the name of the ‘records’ of Mr A Campbell, the less said the better. How could the Spectator be presenting A Campbell as a source of impartial opinion on the very matter for which he was compared with some of Adolph Hitler’s henchmen in the time that he spent as Tony Blair’s own spinmeister? Also, what about Bernard Ingram? What role did he play in doing down democratic accountability as far as he created some of the grounds which A Campbell later used to brow beat those in the ‘lobby’ who had dared to ask questions almost verging on democracy? Has the BBC deleted all the episodes of Bernard Ingram’s appearances on the various ‘news’ slots? He was shamelessly anti-accountability and was openly insulting those who wanted accountability from Margaret Thatcher…
Has Chris Grayling or David Cameron noticed that role?

As for William Hague, he is the boy who dreamt of being like Thatcher… He could not see anything at all beyond that barrier to democracy which he typically misunderstood as a visage and worshipped as a reflection almost akin to divinity….
These are not sources to lecture the public about any standards


0745 Hrs GMT London 'Bank Holiday' Monday 13 April 2009


http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffee-house/3533131/now-alastair-campbell-sticks-the-boot-into-mcbride-and-whelan.thtml