Brick Lane Today: 02/16/12

Thursday, 16 February 2012

Scotland: Muhammad Haque diagnosing the state of the Constitution in view of "Dave" Cameron's latest Contricks

1555 [1550] [1542] Hrs GMT

London

Thursday

16 February 2012

What "Dave" Cameron needs to show is that he is not a committed conman. That he is still open to reform! Now that is a word! Reform!

Contrast the deformities he has been prone to inflict on the NHS and on the rest of Society which he has been plaguing with the lying Deform Bills loads.His utterances about Scotland are outrageously incredible. He is not believable. For Cameron to be credible about Scotland he has got to get rid of most of his makeup. His prejudice. His ignorance. His contemptible contempt for other Peoples. He has also to start apologising for the corrupt Capitalist Con that has been exploiting the other Peoples for so long. He is a peddler of the Big Biz City of London and of the Bankers’ and the Profiteers’ lies. He cannot just make a momentarily topical utterance "pledging" to “give” [he is not trusted to give anything from his “inheritance”] more “devolution powers” to Scotland and expect the basic rights fo the people to be thus seen to HAVE BEEN delivered. He has to withdraw and retreat from his entire imperialist posturing. Both on the British isles and far far beyond. He has to think AT ONCE f Edinburgh as well as of the Malvinas. He has got to stop believing the lies that he mouths: like he is a superman! He is nothing of the kind. He has to show that he is trusted n the NHS. Which he is increasingly not. He has ts how that eh has at last reconciled himself and has been “persuaded” t recognise Society. That he has mouthed lies every time he has said anything against the human rights laws. That he has concealed from the pubic in his spiels the fact that the UK is not in a position to just ditch the United Nations Organisation. Which is what he will have to do if his racist rhetoric against human rights laws is at all to be practised.

[To be continued]

HONDURAS: When will the NEWS ORGANISATIONS stop waiting for the worst to happen before they report?

1435 Hrs GMT London Thursday 16 February 2012.

I am here SETTING OUT the basic components of what is news.

When will the NEWS ORGANISATIONS stop waiting for the worst to happen before they report?

I am thinking of the Honduras prison tragedy. As the Guardian is reporting, most of the people who died were not even convicts. Not convicted any way. They were on remand. Put most generally in the language of the “English legal system”. [And I have a lot to say about THAT, later] .

Where is the justice in their deaths?

And why aren't the "DAMNING REPORTS" news agenda setters, editors, commissioning editors everywhere busy investigating similar tragedies waiting to happen BEFORE THEY HAPPEN across the world where millions of innocent people are held captive without trial...?

NEWS MUST be pro active always.

Investigate more. Parade less. In fact parade none. Investigate.

[To be continued]

Get me some action against the wrong doers. NOT another "damning report" "NEWS"!

1340 [1325] Hrs GMT

London

Thursday

16 February 2012

Where is that "Damning" report? Given the "Mainstream Media" propensity to use this idiotic phrase "Damming Report" whenever there is another de facto admission [by enquiry or by default almost always following huge efforts by the victims and by ordinary people with nothing to gain personally except some sort of justice, some sort of vindication] by one or the other of the agencies allegedly admitting to their latest wrongdoings and failures, the "Mainstream Media" starts the "news item" pegged to that "finding" by saying scripted formula words and then including the phrase " Damning Report". That then is the end of their "coverage". Damning who? Definitely not the perpetrators as most of them never get the sack or held to account in any way that can be recognised as any "action". let alone deserved action.. I have more to say about this centrally corrupting "tradition" of "damning reports" that in fact and reality damn the victims and the ordinary people who are denied, violated and whose lives and livelihoods are destroyed...

[To be continued]

EVENING STANDARD reports: "Mayor of poverty-hit council hires adviser in £1,000-a-day deal"

London EVENING STANDARD reports:

Tower Hamlets Council hires the "disgraced LDA"-linked man as consultant to be paid £1000.00 a day!

[To be continued]

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Mayor of poverty-hit council hires adviser in £1,000-a-day deal

Tom Harper and Simon Freeman
15 Feb 2012

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One of the poorest boroughs in London today came under fire for spending £1,000 a day on a personal aide for its mayor.

Tony Winterbottom is an "executive adviser" on regeneration and development to Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets who was ousted from the Labour Party over alleged links to Islamic extremists.

Local government secretary Eric Pickles accused Mr Rahman of wasting taxpayer money. He said: "It is astonishing that one of the poorest boroughs in the country sees fit to squander such colossal amounts of public cash in this way.

"Tower Hamlets seems to be living the ultimate champagne socialist lifestyle, leaving taxpayers to pick up the tab. I fail to see the business case for shelling out this money, which should be diverted towards protecting frontline services."

Tower Hamlets has the worst child poverty in the UK, with 52 per cent of children below the breadline. Campaigners warned planned £70 million cuts to the local budget could cause an "economic and social disaster".

Mr Winterbottom, 67, insisted he was not overpaid and was "embarrassed to be charging so little".

Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, said: "At a time when Tower Hamlets is being buffeted by cuts from central government, every penny is precious and a £1,000-a-day contract seems to be way over the top." London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "I'd better investigate the circumstances but it sounds like a lot of money to me."

A former adviser to Labour mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone, Mr Winterbottom won the contract to advise Mr Rahman last October. An investigation by the Evening Standard found the £1,000-a-day deal is with LDP Projects, run by him and his wife, Kathleen, based at his home in Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire.

The consultant works three days a month for Tower Hamlets.

Emma Boon, campaign director of the Taxpayers' Alliance, said: "Deals like this for consultants should not be allowed at a time when the rest of the public sector is taking a pay freeze."

Mr Winterbottom was previously a senior official at the defunct London Development Agency. He was criticised in 2008 after he left on a year's sabbatical, followed by a £75,000 pay-off and £160,000 top-up to his pension fund. An investigation into the LDA, ordered by Boris Johnson and headed by former financial journalist Baroness Wheatcroft, found a string of failings including "ineptitude" and "massive misspending".

Mr Rahman became the first directly elected mayor of Tower Hamlets in 2010. He originally stood as a Labour candidate, but was deselected amid claims about his links with fundamentalist group the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). He has denied the allegations. He won the poll as an independent backed by Mr Livingstone, and controls a £1.3 billion budget.

Mr Winterbottom, who has also advised Tottenham Hotspur on stadium development, said: "I'm embarrassed the Standard knows I am charging so little. My company has done work in the private sector for a lot more than £1,000 a day."

He claimed he would not ask for the full amount: "I tendered a bid for £1,000 a day. In reality, I get paid £125 an hour but I have not yet put in an invoice. I wanted them to respect me as an individual so I asked them to pay me a proper price but I'm not going to charge them.

"I'm absolutely squeaky clean. This is not a money-making operation. This is about fighting for Lutfur Rahman who's trying to do good work."

A Tower Hamlets spokesman said: "We do not comment on payment of individual employees unless the information is on the council website as part of our responsibility towards transparency."