THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

Katherine Gun: Whistleblower

Katherine Gun was a British translator who worked for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer, concerning a request by the United States for intelligence on diplomats from members of the Security Council, who were scheduled to vote on a second United Nations resolution on the planned 2003 attack of Iraq.

Katherine Gun’s regular job at GCHQ in Cheltenham was to transcribe Mandarin Chinese into English but while at work at GCHQ on 31 January 2003 Katherine Gun read an email from Frank Koza, the chief of staff at the division of the regional target of the American intelligence agency, the National Security Agency.

Frank Koza’s email requested assistance in a secret operation to bug the United Nations offices of six nations, Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea and Pakistan.

These were the six swing nations on the UN Security Council that could decide whether the UN authorised the attack of Iraq.

Some claim the plan defiled the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which coordinates global diplomacy.

Katherine Gun was outraged by the email and took a printed copy of it home with her and after studying the email over the weekend, she gave the email to a friend who was acquainted with journalists.

In February, she travelled to London to take part in a protest against war with Iraq and Katherine Gun heard no more about the email, and had forgotten all about it until Sunday 2 March, when she saw it printed on the front page of The Observer newspaper.

Less than a week after the Observer story, on Wednesday 5 March, Katherine Gun confessed to her line manager at GCHQ that she’d leaked the email and was arrested and in a BBC interview with Jeremy Paxman, she stated that she’d not raised the matter with staff counsellors as she truly didn’t think it would have any useful conclusion.

Katherine Gun spent a night in police custody, and eight months later was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act and while waiting to hear whether she would be charged, Katherine Gun embarked on a postgraduate degree course in global ethics at Birmingham University.

On 13 November 2003, Katherine Gun was charged with an offence under section 1 of the Official Secrets Act 1989 and her case became a cause célèbre among activists, and many people stepped forward to urge the government to dismiss the case.

Among them was Reverend Jesse Jackson, Daniel Ellsberg, the US government official who leaked the Pentagon Papers and actor Sean Penn, who described her as a hero of the human spirit.

Katherine Gun intended to plead not guilty, saying in her defence that she acted to stop imminent loss of life in a war she deemed was illegal.

The case came to court on 24 February 2004 and inside half an hour, the case was dismissed because the prosecution failed to offer evidence, yet the reasons for the prosecution dismissing the case was unclear.

The day before the trial, Katherine Gun’s defence team had requested the government for any records of legal advice about the validity of the war that it had acquired during the run-up to the war.

A full trial might have revealed any such records to public inspection, as the defence was expected to demonstrate that trying to stop an illegal war of aggression overcome Katherine Gun’s responsibilities under the Official Secrets Act.

Speculation was prevalent in the media that the prosecution service had yielded to political pressure to dismiss the case so that any such records would remain undisclosed.

However, a Government spokesperson stated that the decision to drop the case had been made before the defence’s demands had been presented and that The Guardian newspaper had announced plans to drop the case the preceding week.

On the day of the court hearing, Katherine Gun stated that she was quite bewildered in the 21st century that we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a method to resolve issues.

In May 2019 The Guardian said the case was dropped when the prosecution realised that evidence would surface and that even British government lawyers thought the attack was illegal.

In September 2019 Ken Macdonald, the former director of public prosecution, said the case against Katherine Gun was not dismissed to prevent the Attorney General’s advice on the legitimacy of the Iraq War from being exposed and he maintained that Katherine Gun wouldn’t have received a fair trial without the disclosure of information that would have jeopardised national security and one questions whether the disclosure in this criminal case might have been a little too embarrassing.

Two years after Katherine Gun’s trial, she penned an article called ‘Iran: Time to Leak’, which asked whistleblowers to make public information about plans for a possible war against Iran.

And she advised those in a position to do so to expose information which correlates to this prospective aggression, legal advice, meets between the White House and other intelligence agencies, assessments of Iran’s threat level, or better yet, evidence that assessments had been altered, troop deployments and army notifications and that we shouldn’t let intelligence and facts be fixed around the policy this time.

Katherine Gun uncovered dirty games of the secret services and paid a high price for them, was it worth it?

Twelve years after the Gulf War in 1991, the United States Bush administration proposed an attack of Iraq in early 2003 and the United States, with its most intimate ally Britain and international support, wanted to overthrow dictator Saddam Hussein and was under huge justification pressure.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell presented alleged evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to the UN Secretary Council on 5 February and the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair aided with comparable assertions.

Shortly before, Frank Koza of the US secret service NSA sent a top-secret mail and bluntly asked his colleagues of the British GCHQ for unlawful assistance, saying “As you know by now, the Agency launches a wave of interception against UN Security Council members, minus Great Britain and the USA, of course”.

Desired is the full spectrum of information that could help start a war against Iraq. Frank Koza wrote on January 31, 2003, that six members with voting rights were to be blackmailed.

But even Katherine Gun couldn’t stop the start of the war but it did trigger a scandal and a global outrage and it was the most important and courageous leak that had been seen and for weeks it’s all the world spoke about but nobody thought about how Katherine Gun was feeling.

Katherine Gun felt isolated at the time and wasn’t sure who she could trust or what the consequences of what her action might be and that must have been extremely stressful for her.

Today we have a much clearer understanding of what transpired then but at the same time, many questions continue to be unanswered about the relationship between the intelligence agencies NSA or GCHQ, that’s the super political issue, did they act independently? Or by directives, through official channels?

The affair began with an email and in it, the NSA asked the GCHQ for assistance listening to the UN and segments of the Security Council were to be blackmailed to vote for the Iraq war.

Katherine Gun was already cognizant that the people were not being told the truth throughout the Iraq war and that numerous journalists, sadly, didn’t investigate what the politicians claimed but Katherine Gun had investigated herself and had come to the conclusion that there wasn’t any justification for an Iraq attack and when she saw the email, the red line was crossed for her.

The email revealed what was going on behind the scene and it jarred Katherine Gun on how blatantly politicians wanted to manipulate the vote and she knew that was ammo for opponents of war but sadly, British politicians didn’t seize this opportunity later, which bothered Katherine Gun because if you have evidence, you should use it.

After Katherine Gun read the email she thought about all over the weekend but she didn’t speak to anyone about it, not even her husband and it was a restless weekend, hard to describe as if she’d suddenly landed in an unfamiliar world like the Wizard of Oz.

It seemed as if no one was aware of what was happening, only her and she was so nervous because leaking this email was punishable and she feared that the GCHQ could feel her guilty conscience or that they could read her mind but still, she acted.

It was about a war contrary to international law and that was her motivation, so she printed it out and put it in the mailbox on Monday and that was it, it was out of her hands.

She had posted the letter to a contact who wanted to pass it to The Observer but then nothing happened for weeks and there was a mixture of emotions, at first a bit discouraged and then somewhat relieved and she had participated in the big anti-war protest in London in February 2003 and she was touched because millions around the world protested that day and she thought that was enough, the war will not come.

But in March 2003, the story was on the front page of The Observer and it was a huge shock because it was terrifying for a person who’s committed themselves to never giving out documents in the Official Secrets Act to see such a document on the front page of a major newspaper and it was scary.

There was also an error in transcribing the email where an overeager secretary consistently translated all terms from American English into British English, so some journalists questioned if it was simply a scam.

Katherine Gun didn’t see the error at first because she was practically in a state of shock and besides, what could she have done, should she have called The Observer and say, “Hi, that’s mine, it’s real”.

The GCHQ immediately searched feverishly for the leak and when she was questioned for the first time, she denied everything but she said that she’s a poor liar and sensed that she couldn’t keep going to work that way because she was a sincere person, so she went to her superiors.

Her superior responded differently from what she expected she would. She was extremely sympathetic and concerned and she told Katherine about other past employees who had thrown for ideological reasons.

Katherine Gun was taken into custody and was charged 8 months later but there was never a point where she regretted what she’d done but there were times when she felt discouraged, demotivated, broken and fearful and she tried to survive day after day without the system wearing her down.

The process concluded in February 2004 with a surprise, because minutes after the opening, the case was closed because Attorney General Peter Goldsmith didn’t present any evidence.

The Attorney General had issued a lengthy report to Tony Blair, with whom he was a close friend and concluded that there was no legitimate justification for war, only that was his assessment several weeks before the war.

Then he met with lawyers from US Security Advisor Rice and Vice President Cheney and changed his assessment and there were various theories which were later known and had Katherine Gun’s case come to court, all of that might have come out earlier.

The Blair Government wasn’t interested in a trial because then Katherine Gun could have justified her breach of the law with the defensive necessity, emergency in case of imminent danger, ie Red and they didn’t want a court to decide for that would have raised in detail the question of the legitimacy of the war.

For Katherine Gun, the acquittal was great, but not for the country and it was quite costly because Katherine Gun lost her colleagues and friends but she also gained a lot of new friends and acquaintances.

It was also true that she never got a long-term job again and it took her two years to adjust to her life and her new circumstances and she was a little traumatised, hardly speaking about it because it stressed her out but then her daughter was born and she wanted to spend a lot of time with her.

Before the Iraq war, the US Government was desperately looking for a smoking gun, undeniable evidence that supported the war along with all the sick jokes that Katherine Gun had to endure as a whistleblower with the surname ‘Gun’.

Mr Koza stated the information would give the US policymakers an advantage in getting results beneficial to US goals or to head off surprises and the eavesdropping would have involved interception of international traffic between delegations and home governments, but also the bugging of offices and homes as well.

And the nature of the memorandum suggests the familiarity between GCHQ and its much larger American ally, the British organisation being treated more like an outstation than an independent entity and it simply shows how anxious the Americans were to pre-empt any effort at a settlement resolution that might result in a weakening of the hardline position they and their British collaborators had assumed towards Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Emails like Mr Koza’s would have usually have faded into the intelligence ether but unluckily for the British Government, it turned out to be the one that got away and at some time during the next month it popped up on the computer screen of Katherine Gun.

How she came to have access to the memorandum presumably addressed to senior officers is unclear but because of her independent spirit, she determined that the memo’s contents revoked her responsibilities under the Official Secrets Act.

And even though she had little thought on what went on at GCHQ, it was a position where she could use her language abilities. She was not inclined to leak secrets but she felt it was a clear and significant matter that needed to get out to the people.

Katherine was pretty shocked and she felt the British intelligence services were being asked to do something that would threaten the entire UN democratic process and when she first leaked it she had no idea if anybody would be interested but she felt very strongly about it and hoped the newspapers would get their fangs into it.

She was hoping to pour some cold water on people’s heated debates about war and she wanted people to stop and have a rational and impartial debate about why they were going to war.

Katherine Gun wasn’t exactly seeking anything, it just happened and she felt it was rather important because the email did shock her and when she was asked if she knew she was breaking the law, she responded that she guessed she was.

The article proposed a sneering attempt by the Americans and British to manipulate the UN and it couldn’t have come at a more critical time, with the attack of Iraq less than three weeks away.

And it was a major humiliation for GCHQ, which was under pressure from its big brother to demonstrate how a sensitive bugging operation had become public knowledge.

Katherine Gun was a rather sensitive person and she felt that she couldn’t go on working for GCHQ after what she’d done but that what she’d done was a matter of duty and she never regretted her action because it was wrong to bug the Security Council to manipulate the vote.

It was a cynical operation that went far beyond normal bugging and it was the run-up to the second resolution which the US desperately wanted to provide a basis for starting a war, sadly what she did, did not realise the intended end, but she was right to try.

Katherine Gun broke the Official Secrets Act and she admitted that but in her defence she was acting under the pressure of events and it was the right thing to do and she may have sort of disgraced her country but it was a principled stand, and what she did was never politically motivated.

She was not especially political and Katherine was arming herself for the possibility of prison, violation of Section 1 carrying a two-year sentence but in the end, it didn’t come to that because the Crown Prosecution Service withdrew the charge against her without giving a reason, although I’m sure political opportunism unquestionably executed its part.

Katherine Gun’s lawyers who were provided by the civil rights group Liberty warned the prosecution that they would seek disclosure of the advice offered to the Government by Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, in the run-up to the attack of Iraq.

But the Government declined to deliver the entirety of his comments, which may have included argument against military action and any objections made by the Government’s senior law officer could have proved political dynamite if exposed in court.

The Foreign Office was no doubt eager for the Katherine Gun thing to wither away because there was always the possibility that Katherine Gun might win because during an appeal by David Shayler, the MI5 whistleblower imprisoned for exposing top-secret information to a Sunday newspaper, the House of Lords accepted that the terms of the Official Secrets Act might be overcome by a defence of emergency, so, therefore, Katherine Gun might have demonstrated that she was motivated, unsuccessfully by a wish to save human life.

Katherine Gun was also becoming too popular with high profile personalities in America, including the actor Sean Penn, the rights activist Jesse Jackson and Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers on US involvement in Vietnam, which provided valuable support.

The humiliation for Tony Blair became all the more prominent when five members of US Congress sent him an open letter saying that the British and American people deserved to know all the elements involved in the build-up to the war.

Following Katherine Guns expulsion from GCHQ, she registered at Birmingham University to study for a master’s degree in global ethics, a position that was seemingly more suited to her personality but she delayed her start date.

But whatever she’d done, she unquestionably joined a long list of whistleblowers, Tisdall, Ponting et al, who’ve for a mere second put the secret world in the spotlight and Katherine Gun has unmistakably ceased to be a fan of Tony Blair and the government.

Katherine Gun was a pretty brave woman but it’s particularly worrying that the US seemed to be inclined to give United Kingdom spies orders or that the United Kingdom has gone along meekly with blatantly unlawful and unethical acts.

Can you visualise what the United Kingdom government would say if other countries attempted to do the same thing? But unfortunately, the CIA, GCHQ, NSA and MI6 et cetera are criminal cartels and they’re involved in abduction, cruelty, death, drug running, weapons smuggling, and money laundering and they dodge law by controlling the politicians of their countries by extensive spying, extortion and bribery.

And any politician who supports defending these organisations or who supports secret courts or who supports spying on their nationals can never be trusted.

Katherine Gun was brave and we needed someone of her character to blow the whistle on secrets like this and this is the hard evidence and stark proof that Great Britain government officials, together with other US lackeys have become US mercenaries and are acting with such conviction as if there was no other option and no other alternative but to bomb Iraq.

Katherine Gun gave us hope that perhaps there could be an end to this mortifying servitude from this predator called the USA and people should be proud of what she did and should continue to be so.

Katherine Gun is a person who we can all aspire to be like but when the moment comes, do we do the right thing? Well, of course, we should but at a probable price of losing everything and being prosecuted but as far as she was concerned, she did the right thing and we should never overlook her part in highlighting how far the US and Tony Blair were willing to go to ensure they went to War.

Tony Blair and George Bush should have found themselves facing war crime charges because they started a war of aggression without UN permission and if this had of happened then Katherine Gun’s contribution would not have been in vain.

Some people might not remember this story about Katherine Gun, others might remember it well, but this is a reminder that at the bottom of Pandora’s box, lies hope but this was a shameful illegal act to use the GCHQ to spy on delegates to the United Nations in order to blackmail them and coerce their votes of a military action that was justified by misrepresentations and dishonest deception.

Katherine Gun was, of course, a hero for exposing these violations at the expense of her career and she’s an extraordinary woman and we should be taking our hat off to her because she paid the price of doing what she did, like other whistleblowers in similar situations have.

And it appears that a true sense of principle and honesty usually comes into conflict with these large bureaucracies and where integrity and a sense of discipline take priority over ethical considerations.

We’re frequently told that strength and character are good traits, but in reality, they’re usually penalised, particularly when it’s the best way to improve oneself in the hierarchy.

Bravo to Katherine Gun and in the future when Government has been defeated, hopefully, her name will stand beside other heroes and other brilliant persons who put their conscience before their profession.

And what she did might have appeared to have been in vain but it was also critically important to place on the public record that our governments are misbehaving and do misbehave.

They do falsify causes of war and they do attempt to deceive us with the idea that our boys and girls only behave honourably, whether before, during and after the war and it’s important to stress that patriotism should never trump the truth.

And in the wake of modern propaganda tactics, war has become a get out of jail free card for failed and shameful politicians and the biggest evil in the modern world is that it’s become easy for enthusiasts of war to trump up the causes and it has become easy for the victors to record their version of history to the near exclusion of others.

Russian Tory Donors Named In Report

Nine Russian business people who gave money to the Tories have been identified in a report that was sordidly covered up by 10 Downing Street and it’s been reported that numerous contributors had been named in a report by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament (ISC) on alleged Russian interference in UK elections.

The report is still under wraps, despite pleas by ISC chair Dominic Grieve for its release after Downing Street declined to confirm its discovery before Parliament adjourned for the election.

It wasn’t made clear who the contributors listed in the report were, or whether they would have been mentioned publicly in the report or been in its confidential annexe and it’s additionally unclear what any references to donors in the report say but then billionaires finance the Conservative Party, so this shameful cover-up shouldn’t be unexpected.

And the Tories hindered this report and opposed tax transparency so their billionaire backers could continue to rip us off unchallenged and Labour is on the side of the many, not the few, so we’ll get dirty money out of governments, introduce an oligarch tax and take on vested interests selling out our people and public services.

Chancellor Sajid Javid was challenged on the report but stated that he believed it had been timed out in terms of the election and that when it came to party donors, whether it’s the Conservative Party or any other party, there are extremely stringent rules that need to be followed and that of course, they will always follow those rules.

And asked if he was certain Russian money wasn’t pulling the strings in the election, Sajid Javid stated that he was as sure as he could be and that he was sure in terms of his party and that he was pretty confident about how they were financed and that they were quite clear about that.

But Conservative Party’s Russian linked donors have come under investigation before with Lubov Chernukhin, a banker and wife of a former ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who gave the Tories a single cash contribution of £200,000 but there is no suggestion that she’s named in the ISC report.

Top Tory Grant Shapps blamed the machinery of government for the stay in publication, adding the government is not permitted to print things which are regarded as questionable in any way around election time.

Chairman of the committee Dominic Grieve previously accused the Government of sitting on the report and stated it was sent to the Prime Minister for approval on October 17, however, the Government maintained that more time was needed to redact information, however, former Cabinet Secretary Lord Butler and Lord Ricketts, a former National Security Adviser dismissed this response.

Political funding in the United Kingdom has been a cause of debate for countless years, even though political parties in the United Kingdom can be financed through membership fees, party contributions or state funding, the latter of which is reserved for administrative costs.

The Conservative Party relies on contributions often from people and businesses, as well as sources the Labour Party gets a notable portion of its donations from Trade Unions.

However, the Conservatives have received significant cash injections from several Russian contributors and their friends and well connected Russian oligarchs and companies have been massively involved in lobbying for Russian interests and have stepped up their funding of the Conservative party.

And this report comes as Boris Johnson stands accused of presiding over a cover-up over his government’s unwillingness to release a report into alleged Russian meddling in British politics.

And now we know one of the reasons Boris Johnson is suppressing the official report into Kremlin penetration of our government. It’s because of the substantial and increasing ties between Russian money and the Tory party.

Boris Johnson faces mounting pressure over his decision to withhold the report on Kremlin electoral interference but Dominic Grieve said that the grounds given for the report’s unprecedented delay were false.

And Downing Street has maintained that there wasn’t enough time for the report sign-off process before the election.

Former Prime Minister, Theresa May, had earlier vowed to distance the Conservatives from Russian money, especially in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings in 2018 and by far, the largest recent Russian contributor has been Lubov Chernukhin, the wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister.

Lubov Chernukhin has donated more than £450,000 to the Conservatives in the last year.

Another former arms financier Alexander Temerko, a notable Russian contributor in Tory circles who have given money in the past year and Alexander Temerko, who has talked passionately about his friend Boris Johnson, has gifted over £1.2 million to the Conservatives over the past seven years.

And he reportedly confessed to being involved in a Eurosceptic conspiracy to oust Theresa May as Tory leader less than a year ago and with the Conservatives looking to raise £30 million before December’s general election, significant funders to the Tory campaign are expected to include many existing Russian contributors.

An investigation by Open Democracy has determined that the Conservatives have received more than £3.5 million from Russian funders since 2010 and while contributions quieted down following the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018, they’ve picked up again in recent months, according to filings to the Electoral Commission.

Between November 2018 and October 2019, the Tories have received at least £489,850 from Russian contributors, compared to less than £350,000 in the preceding year.

In May, the Conservatives also received approximately £20,000 from a lobbying company closely connected to both Russian interests and the upper echelons of the Tory party and founded by former Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside, New Century Media was funded by the Kremlin to cultivate a positive image of Russia in the United Kingdom in 2013.

New Century Media, which has donated more than £177,000 to the Conservatives over the last decade, previously arranged for Vladimir Putin’s judo partner to meet then Prime Minister David Cameron at a major Tory fundraising event in 2013.

Burnside also represented Dmytro Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch familiar to Vladimir Putin, who’s wanted by the FBI on bribery charges.

New Century Media has also represented Gerard Lopez, the former Formula One chief who has close business relations with senior figures in Putin’s Russia and who came under attack from Labour MPs when he gave £400,000 to the Conservatives in 2016.

Another prominent recent Tory donor is the Russian billionaire financier Lev Mikheev and the Moscow born investment banker has given £212,000 to the Tories since 2010 and records reveal that the former Tory MP Rory Stewart received £10,000 from Lev Mikheev for his failed Conservative leadership bid.

Lubov Chernukhin has been the most generous Tory contributors in recent months and is a long-standing party sponsor who has given more than £1.2 million to the Conservatives since 2014.

In February, Lubov Chernukhin attended the elite Black and White Ball for influential Tory contributors in Battersea Park, where she paid £135,000 at an auction to have dinner with Theresa May.

She also gave nearly £15,000 to the constituency office of the then Conservative Party chairman Brandon Lewis MP, now Minister of State for Security and Lubov Chernukhin had previously paid £160,000 to play tennis with Boris Johnson and David Cameron in 2014. She has also paid £30,000 to have dinner with Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson.

Alexander Temerko has also been a long-time supporter of the Tories. He was a frequent attendee at the Conservative leader’s group of influential donors and has connections to the highest levels of the Kremlin.

Plus Alexander Temerko has manifested himself as a critic of Brexit, but earlier this year it was announced that the Russian tycoon had privately argued pro-Brexit views, and admitted being involved in a failed endeavour led by members of a group of hardline Conservative MPs, the European Research Group, to expel Theresa May as leader in December 2018.

Alexander Temerko is supposed to be especially close to Boris Johnson and the two men sometimes call each other ‘Sasha’, the Russian diminutive for Alexander, which is Boris Johnson’s real first name, and which his most intimate friends call him.

The Conservative’s Russian ties have sparked problems in the past and after becoming the leader in 2016, Theresa May pledged to distance her party from Russian donors, with collaborators briefing that it wouldn’t be business as usual with Moscow.

But in March 2018, the Conservative Party refused appeals by, amongst others, Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, purportedly killed on orders of the Kremlin, to recover money given by numerous affluent Russians.

Labour MP Ben Bradshaw argued that the new conclusions made the release of the Intelligence and Security Committee report even more important and he stated that they knew that the Kremlin meddled in the 2016 US presidential election and our EU referendum and that nothing had changed since then.

We’re now embarking on the most important general election of our life but we don’t have any confidence that it won’t be subverted by an unfriendly foreign influence and why are powerful Russian interests giving money to the Conservatives?

Is this political, commercial or both? And what are their interests in propping up Boris Johnson’s government? Especially a government that’s refusing to release a report into Russian meddling in our politics.

Yet, a spokesperson for the Conservative Party stated that the Conservative Party doesn’t accept foreign donations as they’re illegal and that the people that have been mentioned have lived in Britain for numerous years and are British citizens, which gives them the democratic right to donate to a political party.

But both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are equally irresponsible, promising money left, right and centre to obtain votes and with our stalling economy and depreciated currency, now is not the time to promise huge sums of money to everyone.

And one way to circumvent tricky negotiations with the EU is to remain by voting for the Remain candidate on 12 December so that we can bin Brexit. That way there would be no need for re-negotiating with the WTO and the EU.

That way we can keep the fruitful deal we’ve been enjoying for decades, we can start repairing our economy, preserve the pound and forget about using ferries to bring in essential supplies and turning Kent into a lorry park and we can forget about employing additional customs officers to police and Irish and Continental borders.

But then Boris Johnson has a lot to hide from, from cheating to lying and a known groper of women, so why would anyone ever want to trust him? And only fools follow a Donkey but then can we trust any politician these days?

And Brexidiots are of course, too dense to understand that the USA and Russia are both quite intent to undermine us Europeans and once the UK leaves the EU they will take advantage of the desperation that will overwhelm our country in its newly isolated position.

Oligarchs financing our political party that looks after the wealthy only endeavour to keep the poorer and disadvantaged in servitude and there’s a common pattern emerging of an attempt at world mastery by a deep state machine that probably all answer to one puppet-master.

It was Remembrance Day last week, a time to remember those who fought wars, but in the meantime, we’re currently engaged in one that’s being fought electronically via banking, misinformation and media control.

And we should remember our heroes while we can because there might come a time when it could be made illegal to do so if these mobsters get their way and it’s quite pitiful that Tory apologists just keep rehashing the same mantra, Marxist, tax increases, disaster for economy, terrorist collaborators, can’t they come up with an original comment or independent thought?

And they don’t appear that worried that children are starving or that families don’t have homes and they’re thrilled to see our public services diminish even further, that’s because they’re wealthy and have no concept on how the world they live in works.

But according to the Tories, we seem to have the very best Government that Russian money can buy.

Russia bad, but Russian money good!

Boris Johnson Gives Rambling Incoherent Brexit Speech

Boris Johnson has been accused of not understanding his Brexit deal after he gave a random and rambling talk on the election trail as the Prime Minister was caught on camera praising fundamental elements of EU membership, including freedom of movement and access to the single market, to a group of Conservatives in Northern Ireland.

And critics of the Prime Minister’s deal questioned why the rest of the United Kingdom would not have those rights if Boris Johnson believes they are such a bonus. The Prime Minister was further savaged for misleading his audience about tariffs.

Under the Prime Minister’s deal, firms moving goods west from Britain to Northern Ireland will have to fill out two customs forms and EU customs laws will then apply to some of these goods, if they’re considered at risk of moving into the EU later on.

Yet Boris Johnson contradicted that by stating that there would not be tariffs or controls on goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland that are not going on to Ireland, this is misleading.

Boris Johnson further stated there would be no checks on all goods going the other way, from Northern Ireland to Great Britain. Despite his own Brexit Secretary having previously told MPs that exit summary declaration would be required in terms of Northern Ireland to Great Britain.

Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, the Shadow Brexit Secretary, slammed the Prime Minister for the remarks, which he stated displayed a lack of understanding over his Brexit deal.

And he said that Boris Johnson either doesn’t understand the deal he’s negotiated or he isn’t telling the truth, probably both.

Under the Prime Minister’s deal, there will need to be customs checks on goods going from the United Kingdom into the EU but to bypass restraints on the 310-mile border between Northern Ireland and the Republic these will happen when goods from Great Britain arrive in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland and the Republic will share some EU single market laws, forcing checks on manufactured and agricultural goods crossing the Irish Sea.

But in an obscure and incoherent speech by Boris Johnson, he stated that when you come out of the EU Customs Union which is what we’ve done you have to have some way of checking that goods going to the United Kingdom into Ireland that might attract a tariff pay that tariff is there is to be a tariff, that sounds more like something someone would say if they were inebriated.

He continued saying that the only place you could do it if you didn’t do it at the border is at the border in Northern Ireland and that there would be no tariffs or controls on goods coming from Great Britain to Northern Ireland that are not going on to Ireland and that was the whole point.

And that the great thing that has been misunderstood about this is there will not be checks and that he spoke as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a passionate unionist and that there would be no checks on goods going from Northern Ireland to Great Britain because they were the government of the United Kingdom and that they would not initiate or execute or perform such checks.

And he said that actually, Northern Ireland has got a great deal, you keep freedom of movement, you keep access to the single market but you further have, as it states in the deal, unfettered access to Great Britain.

The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats pounced on the Prime Minister’s remarks as an acknowledgement that the rest of the United Kingdom is getting a worse lot than Northern Ireland under his deal.

But Liberal Democrat Shadow Brexit Secretary Tom Brake stated that the single market and freedom of movement are an excellent deal and that even Boris Johnson understands this, so why isn’t he keeping them for the whole of the UK as part of the various benefits of EU membership?

And he continued that it was the best deal for the United Kingdom and that’s why a Liberal Democrat government will revoke Article 50 on day one because it’s time to stop Brexit and forge a more favourable future.

It must be especially challenging for Boris Johnson because he’s a simpering reprobate and he’s chosen to support a ridiculous decision and once that happens, all his efforts have been wasted in fruitless attempts to warrant it.

And it’s ridiculous to pretend that Brexidiots knew what they were voting for. They couldn’t have known because there were too many likely ways to leave the EU and it was never stipulated which one we would take, to return to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, to take a Norway option, to take a Canada option or to get the famous bespoke deal that would give the United Kingdom all the perquisites but none of the responsibilities.

This latter was what the Brexidiot leaders kept promising, even though the EU ruled it outright from the start and all evidence confirms that we will undergo a huge blow to our economy by leaving, but rather than drawing conclusions from the evidence, the Brexidiots simply block it out by squawking ‘Project Fear’ every time that tiny voice of reason manages to make itself heard at the back of the withered truffle they call their brain.

All Boris Johnson’s speeches are random and disorganised and full of ridiculous identifiers such as ‘wonderful’ and ‘fantastic’ with unquestionably no substance and honestly the man has gone so far down the road of dishonesty, misrepresentation and misleading assurances that now perhaps he could never wander down the path of righteousness and understanding even by accident and perhaps a rocking horse would be more comfortable and more intellectually agile than Boris Johnson.

And have you noticed that every time Boris Johnson makes a fool of himself, the Tory quarters seem to employ additional ogres to defile the pages of the newspaper with their sheets of misleading rubbish and their trolls are so offensive, juvenile and ineffective they inspire people to vote Labour?

But then Boris Johnson is a bumbling, stumbling, blustering clown with his dog’s breakfast Brexit and it’s difficult to believe the Tories have allowed this fool to lead the nation or are they simply making him the fall guy for when it all goes wrong, which it unquestionably will.

Boris Johnson said that Northern Ireland has a great deal access to the single market and the Customs Union, yet he tells the British media that being a free member of the single market and the Customs Union with the EU is a bad deal – This man really can’t seem to stop lying, so which one is it, Boris,?

This guy’s a babbling loon when he contradicts himself all the time and it’s nauseous when we see him meandering through hospitals, with his sleeves rolled up which is essential when you’re working staff but not necessary if you’re a birdbrain looking for a photo opportunity, then a food distributor, in a white coat and hat.

And we should despair when so many voters go ‘Ah Boris, he’s doing his best’ but we should feel sad for the blockheads who believe one of the most dishonest, lying human beings on the political landscape because the only thing that Boris Johnson cares about is Boris.

Boris Johnson is not fit to be Prime Minister especially when he remarks that Muslim women are postboxes and that black people are pickaninnies with watermelon smiles, he’s just a joke and this is why Boris Johnson can’t be let out to campaign and we all know what a lousy campaigner he is and how slothful he is about getting across any brief and unavoidably he then says things that are off the mark and then he creates a disaster.

They sneak him here, they sneak him there, because he’s the dedicated follower of Thatcher, oh yes, he is…

Tories Will Strip Workers Of Tea Breaks And Bank Holidays

Jeremy Corbyn warns that a vote for Boris Johnson’s Tories will strip workers of their tea breaks and bank holidays and force them on to zero-hours contracts and Labour stands shoulder to shoulder with ASDA workers facing the sack for refusing to sign spanking new contracts.

And Labour is going after the bad bosses because they know whose side they’re on, the side of the workers but Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are on the side of bad bosses like ASDA who cut holiday days, end flexibility for workers and make other cuts to terms and conditions.

Supposedly Labour will put wealth and power in the hands of the many in our country, not the elite few after union bosses claim that 12,000 ASDA workers face the sack after declining to sign brand-new contracts.

Jeremy Corbyn warned that if the Tories get back in workers would increasingly suffer under contracts like those inflicted by the US-owned chain, operated by parent company Walmart and his criticisms came after ASDA declared a seven-day delay on Friday to the deadline for workers to sign the contracts.

Nevertheless, the firm, which doesn’t use zero-hours contracts and does pay the national living wage, stated that anyone returning would do so under its new arrangements.

The GMB stated that thousands of ASDA’s 12,000 hourly-paid workers have been pressured into signing the new contracts, which improve flexibility and could mean short-notice changes.

This 11th-hour stay kicks the can down the road for ASDA workers who are unable to sign this punishing new contract and they now face the likelihood of being fired.

Under the terms of the new contract ASDA will make an £80 million investment to boost the pay of over 100,000 of their colleagues to £9 per hour, and in April will see a further pay rise of £9.18 as well as protecting the enhanced ASDA package which includes an annual gratuity.

And despite widespread commitment throughout the process, there continues to be some misinformation from outside parties to their colleagues, and this is why they’ve given the 330 colleagues who are still uncertain a little more time to sign-up.

And whilst the large preponderance of their colleagues have chosen to sign the contract, ASDA has said they don’t want anyone to leave as a result of the significant change and that they’ve worked extensively with them and union representatives to understand and discuss concerns.

And ASDA has said that the contract is about fairness for all their colleagues and moves them in line with their rivals and whilst retail as a whole is under pressure, they will do all they can to ensure they have a sustainable business for their customers, their colleagues and the communities they serve.

The party has further criticised US-owned Amazon for exploiting its workers in giant warehouses and Labour has promised to ban zero-hours contracts and introduce a £10 minimum salary for all workers.

At a campaign gathering in Swindon, Wiltshire, Jeremy Corbyn also stated a majority for Boris Johnson’s Tories would expedite an NHS sell-off through more intimate relations with Donald Trump’s US regime.

And that since Boris Johnson has been Prime Minister, there’s already been at least six high-level meetings between British officials and pharmaceutical companies in the USA. So, why would there be a meeting? And what would they be discussing?

Donald Trump and the US ambassador and others have stated frequently that any trade deal with Britain would require their access to the British healthcare market which should make us profoundly suspicious.

And a million people are waiting for social care and in our NHS 34,000 nurse positions are waiting to be filled and some doctors are under unimaginable levels of pressure and the longest waiting times for operations in the antiquity of the NHS, however, none of this is necessary because all of this is a result of the austerity brought in, in 2010.

And you can see how this is becoming a reality with ASDA workers because they’re all getting cheated by this shocking employment market.

ASDA is controlled by US giant Walmart who want to force its 12,000 UK employees to sign new contracts, removing lunchtime pay and special rates for Sundays and Bank Holidays et cetera and anyone declining to sign will be fired.

So, why on earth would anyone trust the Tories with workers rights? Not only have they always voted against the introduction of every single working right we have, but they’ve also spent the last 40 years unwaveringly hacking away at the rights we do have.

Only last year they attempted to make victims of workplace bullying and wrongful dismissal pay £3,000 to take their employer to a tribunal, effectively giving bad employers carte blanch to abuse workers.

And they’ve made the social safety net so harsh and inadequate on purpose so that people dare not quit no matter how they’re treated at work.

They’ve enacted against Trade Unions and made striking illegal in virtually all circumstances and several of Boris Johnson’s cabinet have lauded Brexit as a glorious opportunity to deregulate employment.

With Pritti Patel and Dominic Raab who penned a book about how to scrap workers rights and called British workers the most inactive in the world and that they were too spoiled, so is that who you trust with your working rights?

And the Tory government will not retain to the European Rights Charter in the UK law after Brexit which implies they will have you by the short and curlies as a worker and they’ll be able to punish people on disability more.

The Tories are just destructive and perhaps next they’ll close all the schools in poor neighbourhoods and turn them into workhouses, after turning all the hospitals over to Donald Trump.

Perhaps they’ll double tax for zero-hour workers and trash taxes for the millionaires and make people work till they’re 90 years old and it’s going to get especially bad when Boris Johnson wins and Jeremy Corbyn might not be the most suitable option but on the other hand, he might just end up being our protector.

The election is about the next four years and Brexit will get done no matter what party wins and the Tories have been crippling and hurting the NHS for ten years while they’ve been in control and they WILL go for the kill if they win and they’ll deep more suffering on the public and then ask you to praise them for the privilege.

This is terrifying news for the feeble workers and which will no doubt be accompanied by no meal breaks at all with holiday pay being cut and Union Leaders took out and whipped every day.

But we should also bear in mind that this kind of scaremongering by the media is bad for people’s mental health because every mind matters and Boris Johnson is a bonking idiot because he couldn’t run a bath, let alone a country.

And here’s what the Tories don’t tell you with their visions of a mythical New Jerusalem built here, post-Brexit, in England’s green and pleasant land, yeah right, that will have to be paid for in hard cash.

Newton’s Third Law of Motions demonstrates there’s no such thing as a free lunch, someone always has to pay, so connect the dots and figure out who’s lined up to pay for their extraordinary adventure, why, you of course and some ideas are so absurd that only stupids can believe them.

Everything in life has to be paid for by the people, so Labour can promise whatever they like that appears beneficial to the people but we will still have to pay for it in one way or another because nothing is free.

Yet the government whether it be Conservative or Labour attempt to bribe the people, they attempted to bribe the students, then the nurses, now low paid workers, who’re next?

And then forced pay increases come back right to the door of the consumers via petrol, gas, electric, food and clothes, so let’s just say everything that we require for living but never has the government addressed the real problems in the United Kingdom, yet they’re thrilled to give our money away free all over the world.

And ultimately workers will be stripped of their rights and we’ll be back to Victorian standards in a heartbeat, just as Margaret Thatcher intended, so it’s all coming together beautifully for them now.

And we should be sick to death of Torie’s victimising sick families as they attempt to quietly cull our population and I wonder how many homeless people will die this winter? All because of the Tory cuts and the harsh benefits system.

The Conservatives and their voters are brutal, ruthless and apathetic people who have turned their backs on the sick and disabled, the proof is there for all to see with more Conservative murder in a seemingly caring society.

And who would have thought we’d have over 2,000 food banks, hundreds of zero-contract hours, families stuck on Universal Credit and big companies now forcing contracts that are more damaging than their current ones?

We are being indoctrinated by a Tory government and we’re like rodents stuck in a cage and austerity is staying and Boris Johnson and his playmates are getting fatter on the back of the poorest in society and in the end, your retirement present will be a coffin, if you make it that far, or even if pension still exists by then.

And now that food banks are here, they’ve become part of normal society, so now that it’s normal, maybe we should have our loyal MPs eat from them on a daily basis, instead of the subsidised food they get from the House of Commons restaurant and bars because food banks are degrading and they should try standing in one.

We need to build more houses so that we can resolve the housing crisis and to support the homeless. We need to find more money for the NHS, to help the overburdened and underpaid doctors and nurses.

This is all true, but where do we get this money from? Well, it will, of course, all come from the taxpayer and whoever gets to become the next Prime Minister will promise us everything they think we want to hear and that’s excellent but it will still all come from the taxpayers pocket.

Michael Gove Fudges Reply

Michael Gove fudged his response when he was asked if he could promise people wouldn’t die if the United Kingdom crashed out of the EU, only 10 days before the deadline.

But Michael Gove told MPs that he’d been instructed to increase contingency arrangements because a settlement had not been reached and Boris Johnson was ordered to write to the EU asking for an extension to the leaving date but he accompanied it with a letter to President Donald Tusk emphasising that he felt a further stay was not in Britain’s and the EU’s interest.

Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies, said ministers could not ensure that lives would not be lost if there was a no-deal, yet, Mr Gove, who was in charge of no-deal preparation, was previously explicit in ruling out deaths but then he refused to categorically rule it out.

Tracy Brabin asked Mr Gove, who’s in charge of no-deal planning if he could replicate a promise he had earlier made because she had earlier challenged him directly if he thought anyone would die because of a no-deal Brexit.

Mr Gove was unequivocal then and he was very robust in his answer, which was ‘no’, and asked if this was still the case, he spoke to the government’s preparations stating that they would ensure that there would not be any deficits or delays that the honourable lady was worried about.

On 10th October Dame Sally Davies said that the health service and everyone has worked extremely hard to prepare but that we can’t guarantee that there will not be deficits, not only of medicines but of technology and gadgets and things and that there may be deaths and that we can’t guarantee that there won’t and when asked directly if patients are at risk, she stated that they were at risk.

Parliament had the opportunity to establish a meaningful vote which would have enabled the Tories to progress smoothly to the ratification of their deal and exit, but instead, the House voted in such a way as to put an orderly exit in doubt.

But with no clear agreement in the House to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, there was no extension granted, nevertheless, the Prime Minister believes the only way to get legislation is to browbeat and coerce MPs with the intimidation of no-deal but the Prime Minister has lost the approval of the House and he’s double-crossed the DUP and he’s taken a bulldozer to most of the procedures.

And he’s acting more in the style of the Godfather, throwing confetti at a Mafia family wedding in the way that he’s disposed of the goodwill of the House.

Of course, there have been 12,0000 plus deaths through Austerity, what’re a few more deaths and we must realise that the Tories just don’t give a damn and we have some of the cruellest politicians and they put themselves before the people they serve.

Doctors Accuse Boris Johnson Of Only Recognising NHS Crisis Because Of Election

Doctors have attacked Boris Johnson of only recognising an unprecedented NHS crisis coming this winter because of concerns it will hinder the Tories’ prospects in the General Election and the British Medical Association reprimanded ministers over the plight of the health service as the Observer published rising concerns in the Government ahead of the December 12 vote.

The criticism came as the Prime Minister met with calls to permanently ban fracking after doing a major U-turn to suspend the dubious process over earthquake concerns.

Jeremy Corbyn said that imposing the moratorium in the run-up to the vote was an election stunt after Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced the position could be reversed.

But, despite the criticism, numerous polls inferred that the Tories were riding high in the public’s view with a notable lead over Labour and with the first December election since 1923 approaching, Downing Street was taking contingency steps to keep the effects of winter pressures in the NHS to a minimum.

And under this Government’s watch, patients and personnel working in the NHS have endured winter after winter of congested emergency departments, long delays and pitifully low staffing levels and it shouldn’t take an election to take stock of just how serious the situation has become.

Staff have already come under intense pressure, trolley waits are at a worryingly high level, A&E targets aren’t being met and as such, the British Medical Association (BMA) predicts that the NHS is crashing towards an unprecedented crisis this winter.

Downing Street insiders, nevertheless, stated they didn’t recognise the report that an operations unit was being planned for No 10 over the seasonal pressure on the health service and two leading doctor’s groups have urged politicians not to make absurd assurances about the NHS simply to entice voters.

Boris Johnson and his chums don’t care about anyone, all they worry about is power and wealth.

There are UK citizens out there pleading for food at food banks. There are people out there who are genuinely disabled and are refused benefits to conserve money.

Women’s pension rights at 60 years old were abandoned and all migrants coming into the United Kingdom are bankrolled by these things to preserve money.

Our soldiers are homeless after tours of duty and have no help and the enemy which they encountered are in the United Kingdom with money and homes available – Tory, the party of the businessman for the businessman.

The Tories are infected, money-chasing freeloaders with no social conscience and we’ve yet to meet one with any actual ability and they’re simply connected to the previous generation of sick parasites.

And when will Boris Johnson quit going to hospitals to panic the suffering? No wonder he’s hidden away from people and sent to the research department, there’s no one to challenge him there.

And when he does go head to head with Jeremy Corbyn it will be like debating with a bullfrog on a mixture of amphetamines and Prozac, kind of like a man, manic nincompoop who can only replicate one thing, Brexit and it appears that the only time they acknowledge the NHS is when there’s a run-up to an election.

But of course, there’s nothing else left for the Tories to sell off, the NHS is their biggest asset and the Americans are waiting like ravenous dogs outside the butcher’s shop.

We mean nothing to them and our votes are a means to an end and probably your end and Boris Johnson should be squirming like a maggot on a fishing line and he should be attempting to explain to people why they can’t get certain medication due to cost, particularly when he and his Government have wasted 100 million on TV ads when they were trying to get ready for Brexit in October, which of course, never happened and instead of going around various hospitals he should be looking for a nice trench to lay in because he’s not to be believed.

And Boris Johnson is setting up the first sale sign by saying that the NHS is in dire need of funding which is unlocking the doors for the US troops to ride in as our protectors before lumping us all with private insurance and death.

The Tories only care when there’s going to be an election and they’re nothing more than an Eton mess and yes, the NHS is in crisis but it’s our NHS yet Boris Johnson can’t wait to sell it off but our NHS is not a political football to kick around.

And broken promises by this Government should mean penalties and prison time and we should be fed up with seeing various Tories touring hospitals with their sleeves up and NHS badges on show because they’re just turning hospitals into zoos and the sick patients into shop dummies.

Boris Johnson keeps telling the British people lies, it must be in his DNA not to tell the truth and the state of Britain is in neglect. The Tories have failed our country, they’ve failed the people and they’ve failed the police. They’ve failed our schools and our NHS and the Government is an outright mess.

Boris Johnson has spent 100 million telling us that we leave the EU on the 31 October but that money could have instead built five new hospitals.

Boris Johnson Claims…

Boris Johnson may claim the NHS isn’t up for grabs in any US trade deal but a former doctor fears the Prime Minister won’t be able to stop himself flogging parts of our cherished institution to private firms and he’s warned that would lead to sky-high post-Brexit treatment and prescription prices as it is, forced open to profit-hungry drugs companies and health insurance monsters.

The more we’re assured that the NHS isn’t for sale, that the NHS won’t play any part in negotiations with the United States, the more we know it will because we’ve seen Boris Johnson’s dishonesty, so why would we expect him to be good to his word about anything?

And we shouldn’t accept that the NHS won’t be part of a trade deal because let’s face it, it’s a multi-billion-pound industry and he’s not going to be able to resist putting that on the table.

In June, Donald Trump declared to the world that the NHS would be on the table in any forthcoming negotiations with post-Brexit Britain, provoking speedy denials from a flustered Boris Johnson.

That could open the door for US pharmaceutical titans to charge the NHS excessive market prices for medications.

Currently, they’re kept at bay by checks and balances which ensure health service costs are a fraction of US market prices and the British health service is free for all, unlike the American system.

This would gradually lead to it becoming a model of the US health system where citizens pay high costs for health insurance, about £7,800 a head, compared to our estimated £2,500 through taxes and those who couldn’t afford that, could pay with their well-being or even their lives.

America has a somewhat different health care design to us and we should see it as a truly scary ghost of Christmas future and people die in the United States because they can’t afford medications.

And as soon as there’s a two-tier system, people who have the least will suffer the most and ultimately, if you reduce people’s access to healthcare it will cost lives.

Donald Trump is also attempting to discard his forerunner Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, brought in to assist poor American’s.

In the run-up to the referendum, Boris Johnson repeatedly claimed the NHS could get £350 million a week more following Brexit but the system has become increasingly strained and there are now more than 100,000 openings, 10,000 fewer junior doctors than we need and more than 30,000 nurses.

But it’s no longer only cuts or forced overtime which is creating an all-out crisis, it’s the imminent threat of a no-deal Brexit and the use of the divisive language coming from Westminster, led by Boris Johnson himself which is forcing EU and foreign national workers to quit the health service because they feel unwelcome.

This is leaving gaping holes which only deliver more pressure on those left behind and a skeletal system may simply not be able to cope with a winter health crisis this year.

The NHS is on such a knife-edge at the moment because the NHS is its staff and it’s spread thinner than it’s ever been.

Boris Johnson will eventually sell off our NHS to Donald Trump because those pair are more dangerous than Arthur Daly and if our NHS is sold off people in this country won’t be able to afford private health insurance which will put their families and themselves in terrible jeopardy.

This will be the fault of the Tories, yet ordinary working people will fall for this utter madness and if the selfish greedy Tory liars happen to get a majority the NHS is gone and the NHS belongs to the people but the selfish greedy Tory liars will sell it for quick cash for them and their wealthy cronies.

Impotent Tory Posh Boy Boris Johnson

Efforts to divert attention don’t come more polluted than ashamed Boris Johnson’s election ploy and this is an incompetent Prime Minister who by his own words should be rotting in a ditch after declaring his pledge to leave the EU on Halloween is a Tory fright show.

Of course, his demands are a smokescreen to conceal his latest defeat and he’s so inept he can’t get an election or should that be an erection! And Jeremy Corbyn ordering his troops to abstain again means Boris Johnson will crash a third time to get his necessary two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Yes, Jeremy Corbyn might look like a chicken, but better that than being a turkey gambling a vote for Christmas and we should question whether the Tory Grinch wants an immediate election campaign.

The privileged Old Etonian entitled rich boy Boris Johnson wanted to have his cake and eat it, demanding Labour give him an easy timetable to deliver Brexit and that election and Jeremy Corbyn was right to hold fire and as the clocks went back on Sunday so Labour’s extensive army of foot soldiers would be neutralised as it’s dark by 5 pm and it would have been the first December clash since 1923.

And now the bold strategy is to challenge Boris Johnson’s defective Brexit and prepare for decision day next March and seen from a distance, Brexit Britain has resembled a bluebottle heaving itself at a pane of glass next to an unlocked window.

It’s been almost a year since Theresa May negotiated a way out of the European Union but the window wasn’t good enough for Leavers who thought they should smash the glass instead and on it went, buzzing and thudding, a country going nowhere in a frenzy.

Then Boris Johnson took over, promising deliverance by 31 October, do or die – Buzz, buzz, thud with exhaustion, defeat, frustration and lack of imagination which has ultimately brought Parliament to the verge of destruction.

It’s an erratic motive and MPs on all sides are trepidatious about a December vote and Christmas isn’t a traditional election period and it isn’t clear how kindly the voters will take to the concept.

Brexit has previously corroded traditional party allegiances and incentivised tactical polling and there’s no one pendulum rotating between blue and red and in 2017, polls at the start of the contest demonstrated a hopeless guide to the outcome.

Boris Johnson has no intention of repelling voters as efficiently as Theresa May did. He’s exceptionally better on the stump and the campaign he wants to run has been sitting in a Downing Street drawer for months anticipating activation, a presidential-style race against Jeremy Corbyn.

And No 10 tacticians surmise that Labour’s prospects would be magnified under any other leader but Boris Johnson also fancies his luck as the holder of a Brexit deal and safe exit out of the quagmire, when everyone else in the game offers more swamp.

But many Tories are worried about this plan and a promise to deliver Brexit isn’t the same as Brexit delivered and even Boris Johnson’s promises aren’t a high-value coin.

Even his most familiar allies hesitate to list integrity and consistency amongst his qualities and there’s also scepticism around his supposed electoral attraction and it’s never been tested in Labour heartland seats where, in speculation, Leave votes are up for grabs.

There’s also a cultural inoculation against Tories in those parts that pre-dates Brexit and in Scotland, the blustering Etonian shtick is a hindrance on a paltry Tory Brand.

Factor in a departure of pro-Europeans to the Liberal Democrats and it gets pretty hard to map Boris Johnson’s route to a majority and Jeremy Corbyn’s path is even harder, which is why many Labour MPs resisted the election and some of them further believe he’s unfit for Downing Street and dread having to pretend he should be Prime Minister, regardless of whether they believe it can happen.

The maestro himself enjoys a campaign because that’s the kind of politics he can do but Jeremy Corbyn would sooner be in a town hall, firing up the faithful with desperate warnings about Tories and the NHS than cooped up in Parliament with a convoluted Brexit position.

Labour misanthropes hypothesise that their leader would sooner fight and fail than delay, better martyrdom in the electoral campaign than suffocation in the Commons because the Corbynite faithful expect their champion’s willingness to come alive in the exhilarating air of an election.

Even Tories who believe Boris Johnson’s gamble will work acknowledge that it’s precarious because no one has a clue how a December vote will play out, which would be something to rejoice if there was also a way to believe the air would be clearer following the aftermath.

There ought to be something exciting about a roll of the democratic dice, yet there’s a depressing gloom over the whole enterprise.

Activists would sooner be pounding the streets in the spring sunlight, but winter weather isn’t going to hinder the hardcore. Furthermore, a lot of the message delivery these days is done by algorithms that don’t feel the chill and the sense of dark foreboding in Westminster isn’t meteorological.

Boris Johnson’s Britain and Jeremy Corbyn’s Britain are hugely diverse countries, on starkly diverging paths. Each one contains millions of contestants who will feel more like protesters under an antagonistic ideological regime than citizens under a government they happened not to want.

Also feasible is a Parliament in which forces are as finely tuned as they are now and few MPs expect a vote to determine the economic or political difficulties caused by the decision to leave the EU.

None thinks it will accelerate cultural agreement between those who necessitate Brexit at any price and those who want it abandoned, and the tenor of British politics in recent years hardly spurs belief that a campaign will illuminate the issues or promote a sense of understanding.

And even if headline campaign messages were positive and election law forced a vulgar perspective on broadcast communications, the uncontrolled digital platform would host a grim gladiatorial free-for-all.

The turbines of radicalisation and polarisation that inspire hyper-partisan politics on and offline are revving strong already and it’s a more haunting sound than the needling buzz of the continual Brexit stay.

And the dread of an indecisive result isn’t a reason to avoid an election and it would be unreasonable if we were only called to vote when a landslide outcome was guaranteed.

Parliament is stuck and dissolution is what the constitution prescribes to restart it but electoral uncertainty shouldn’t be cause for alarm in a mature democracy and true democrats don’t shy away from a polling booth.

However, it’s difficult to shake the fear that British politics will be even more hostile and more divided following an election campaign than it is now and no one imagines there’s a result to please everyone.

There must be winners and losers.

Democracy doesn’t require consensus, but it does require losers to accept the authority of winners and winners to recognise the legitimate concerns of losers.

That’s the quality that’s been destroyed by the past few years. The problem is not our failure to reach agreement over Brexit but the gloomy obscuration over an election is cast by the breakdown of our politics to perform in a state of civil disagreement.

So, now there’s going to be a Christmas election and Boris Johnson, Cummings and Rees Mogg are going to be the three wise men bringing cold, frank intent and murk.

Sadly, we’re shuffling the pack of cards on the off chance that we’ll get a better hand next time around and that’s the fundamental principle of democracy, living in the belief that the next batch of shysters will be slightly less rubbish than before and a vote for Boris Johnson is like buying a lottery ticket to lose your job.

And it’s easy for Boris Johnson to win, all he needs to do is drive around the country in a big red bus, with a great big lie printed on the side of it, it’s worked once already and Pandora’s Box has been opened.

And Boris Johnson should stop opportunistically trashing for political gain, he should stop cheapening with his dishonesty, hollow assurances and belligerent repetition and stop using every dishonest trick in the book to evade democratic inspection.

Nevertheless, Boris Johnson is quite fortunate in the same way that Theresa May was, by having Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition.

Boris Johnson would have a rather different ride if Tony Blair was challenging him at the dispatch box but of course, we shouldn’t be knocking Jeremy Corbyn, there are some aspects of his character that we should admire.

However, Jeremy Corbyn isn’t charismatic, he’s not dynamic, he’s humourless, he’s terrible at handling the media and the press and he’s not a player and this matters a lot during an election campaign.

Boris Johnson will probably do well at the General Election and he’ll clean up all of the Brexit Party votes and he’ll mop up the Labour Leave votes.

He’ll also have the full strength of the Conservative party behind him and most of the British press, certainly the zealous right-wing press who will be pitiless against Jeremy Corbyn.

That’s a sizeable advantage and Jo Swinson and the LibDems could become the next opposition which suggests that Boris Johnson could still be remaining as Prime Minister.

Keith Vaz Set To Be Suspended For 6 Months

Disgraced MP Keith Vaz faces the longest Commons suspension of all time after he met two prostitutes while chairing the Home Affairs Committee and the damaging report said that the Labour grandee must face a six-month postponement from Parliament more than three years after the embarrassment was revealed.

The Commons Standard Committee declared the 62 years old displayed disregard for the law by showing readiness to buy cocaine in a rendezvous with two sex workers who he told ‘We need to get this party started’.

And MPs ruled that his actions were a particularly grave violation of the Code of Conduct which states members must not harm the reputation and integrity of the Commons and the Committee rejected his outlandish claims of amnesia as it savaged him for failing repeatedly to clarify questions and MPs dismissed his request a transcript and recording were unreliable following forensic examination.

And if agreed by MPs, the prohibition will trigger a recall petition against the disgraced MP, which will enable voters to force a by-election booting him out of office.

The Committee further took the unusual step of demanding that Mr Vaz is excluded from a former MP pass that would let him wander Parliament at will if he stands down.

The MP described himself to the two men as a washing machine salesperson called Jim, yet he told an investigation that the object of his meeting with the two men was not to engage in paid sex but to discuss the internal design of his flat.

And in a statement, Mr Vaz’s office announced that Keith Vaz had been treated for a serious mental health condition for the last three years as a consequence of the events of 27th August 2016 and he’s now shared all the medical reports in confidence with the Committee.

And he has nothing more to say on this subject other than what was said in his verbal and written statements to the Committee and the Commissioner.

The report confirmed that the Metropolitan Police had chosen not to continue with a case against Mr Vaz, despite two referrals.

The incident was reported to the House of Commons officials three years ago and the matter has stretched over the tenures of two separate Standards Commissioners but the inquiry was repeatedly delayed by the two police referrals, which didn’t lead to a prosecution, the 2017 election and Mr Vaz’s ill health.

MPs took the extraordinary decision to redact delicate information from the MP’s doctors about the precise nature of his continuing poor health and while accepting that Mr Vaz’s well-being has still not entirely recovered, the report is scathing.

It stated “it is more likely than not that Mr Vaz has engaged in paid sexual activity”, continuing: “We are satisfied from the evidence we have considered that Mr Vaz did on 27 August 2016 offer to procure and pay for illegal drugs for use by a third party.”

The report added: “He has not ‘co-operated at all stages’ with the investigation process”.

Mr Vaz had failed, repeatedly, to respond to direct inquiries and he has given sketchy explanations and his account has, in parts, been unbelievable and he’d not given a complete and detailed account of the relevant events.

According to the report, Mr Vaz offered several alternative and conflicting suggestions on what had transpired and he suggested variously that the men were called over to discuss redesigning his flat, and that they were sent there to entrap him.

And that he developed amnesia after his drink was spiked, that the recording of the incident was falsified and that no sexual activity took place.

The report stated: “It is difficult, to put it mildly, to see how all these separate defences could simultaneously be true.”

The report rejects allegations that the Sunday Mirror had ensnared Mr Vaz and it stated that Mr Vaz had not provided compelling or credible proof to prove that they forced or provoked him to act in a way that was out of character or inconsistent with past conduct.

It was almost certainly true that the conversation was being driven by the two men but there was no proof to suggest that Mr Vaz was being steered in directions he was reluctant to go.

It, however, concluded that he breached section 16 of the 2015 House of Commons Code of Conduct, which declares that members shall never undertake any activity which would cause meaningful harm to the character or integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally and Mr Vaz’s behaviour was a very serious violation of the Code.

But Keith Vaz could avoid his suspension from Parliament thanks to the general election being called which suggests that Keith Vaz could be on a course to avoid his punishment as he will be permitted to stand again at the election and his proposed suspension will be withdrawn if he’s re-elected.

This would mean that he effectively would avoid any punishment, except for the committee’s proposal that when he ceases to be an MP that he’s not given a former member’s pass.

Mr Vaz, who sits on Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee, has already been re-adopted as the party’s candidate in his Leicester East constituency but given the incriminating report and his approach to parliamentary rules, he should lose the Labour whip and be unfit to stand as anything other than an independent.

And according to Keith Vaz, that night with the two rent boys was all a terrible misunderstanding and if the Labour party have even the slightest remains of respectability they wouldn’t back this man. So, either they no longer care or fear information he has on them as otherwise there isn’t any way that the Labour party would support this man, who has more skeletons in his closet than a medical school, to continue as a Member of Parliament.

How many get out of jail free cards does this slimebag need? He’s been up to no good for years and constantly uses ill health to get off and if he gets re-elected then his constituents are total fools and should be detained along with this treasonous meat sack and surely his constituents if they have any morals will jettison this guy.

But then if this guy had any morals he wouldn’t be standing for election because this is a confirmed liar who’s prepared to make up absurd tales to get himself out of trouble and yet he will still be voted back in by the red rosette brigade and if anything confirms the deception of Labour it’s this man.

Women on Universal Credit Left Selling Sex For £5

Women on Universal Credit have been left so desperate that they selling sex for just £5 and MPs have been warned that women are turning to prostitution to survive due to the five-week wait for their benefits to be paid.

But a Government enquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee has discovered a fundamental design flaw in the policy and the committee is now asking the Government to withdraw the five-week wait at the start of their claim.

One woman affected by Universal Credit stated that she was thinking of going back on the streets because the last six months of her life had gone down the drain.

She had gone out of prostitution and got guidance on how to apply for benefits and was just about managing but then she was transferred over to Universal Credit.

She got less money but was still managing, but then she got a letter in the mail saying that she was no longer entitled to Universal Credit because she was an EU Citizen and that she had to apply for settled status.

She added that it was difficult to live with no money and she felt she had no alternative but to sell herself and if women are selling themselves for a fiver it’s not because they’re working for an escort company but then this is all down to Ester McVey who was pretty satisfied with herself to save a few quid by coming with these ideals to punish people.

But then when you see articles like this concerning benefits and this Government’s war on them, you can wager the variety of posts you’ll get which are frequently harsh, indifferent and sometimes plain cruel, so welcome to Britain! But then I guess it makes people feel better about themselves and their own ordinary monotonous lives if they’ve got someone to look down on.

And I hope Iain Duncan Smith is enjoying his state handout known as a landowners subsidy, along with the Duke of Westminster and all the other wealthy men and women who are entitled to it – curious how they never get labelled as scroungers.

But then there are people out there that are stating that if you can’t afford children, then just don’t have them because why should the taxpayer pay for other people’s children? But then we’ll cheerfully pay whenever another Royal pops out another baby and not only that, we’ll glorify it as well.

But what some people don’t understand, benefit is not only for the unemployed, there are millions of workers who claim Working Tax Credit which is designed to top up your earnings if you work and are on a low salary.

Nevertheless, it’s being superseded by Universal Credit and most people now have to claim Universal Credit instead and it’s a really great way of pulling the wool over other people’s eyes to make them believe that that said person is on Universal Credit because they’re on benefits when in fact that said person is working but on a low salary.

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