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A cummerbund & Griffinite free zone.Nick Griffin wrecked the National Front in the 1980's and then he wrecked the British National Party when he hijacked the BNP in 1999.A blog that supported John Tyndall.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
The South East Alliance marching to Downing Street to demand the Prime minister invokes Article 50
Law firm which offers legal services for Muslims bombarded with Islamophobic abuse
Bosses at Carter Law Solicitors, which has a dedicated department
specialising in Islamic divorces and family law, say they are 'extremely
shocked at the racist reactions'
Carter Law Solicitors' website
A law firm offering divorces and family law services for Muslims has
been bombarded with Islamophobic slurs following an advertising campaign
on social media.
Bosses at Manchester-based Carter Law
Solicitors have been forced to reply to shocking comments posted to
their Facebook page following the online ad.
The company has a dedicated department specialising in Islamic divorces and family law.
Specialist Sharia Law-compliant solicitors help clients meet the requirements of their faith and UK law.
The
advert reads: “Seeking advice on Islamic Family Law, Talaq or Khula?
Carter Law will ensure your family matters are dealt with in a Sharia
compliant way.”
One shocking reply reads: “You need to take your ISLAMIC business and go back to the country you came from.
“ISLAM has NO PLACE in OUR COUNTRY we are CHRISTIANS and will remain CHRISTIANS.”
Bosses
at Carter Law replied: “Thank you for your insightful comment. We can
assure that our business is neither ‘Islamic’ nor ‘Christian’, and in
fact has no religious affiliation.
“We are happy to provide our services to clients of any creed.”
Google
Carter Law Solicitors are based at The Point Office, in Cheetham Hill
Another post read: “There is only one law in the UK, abide by it or get OUT.”
Bosses
said: “The services we are offer aren’t about circumventing UK law.
These legal services are fully compliant with the rule of UK law, but
also with the beliefs of our Muslim clients for their peace of mind.
“Thank you for your valuable input, though.”
One person posted: “ONE LAW IN THIS COUNTRY.”
Another called the firm ‘traitors’.
Jack
MacMichael from Carter Law said: “We were extremely shocked at the
racist reactions to the ad we ran on Facebook. The commenters seem to
believe that there is some sinister parallel legal system for Muslims,
but the services that we’re advertising are within the bounds of the law
of England and Wales.
“They simply meet the needs of observant Muslim clients.
“Carter Law believes in equality for all of our staff and clients, regardless of ethnicity or religious convictions.
“It
is a shame that not every shares our ethos. We’re all entitled to an
opinion, but to see such unashamedly racist comments in a public forum
wasn’t a pleasant experience.” http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/law-firm-offers-legal-services-11686277#comments-section
In
many ways, Sir Philip Green is an entrepreneur of whom Britain's Jewish
community should be proud...............
Star power: Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne, Sir Phliip Green and Jourdan Dunn at a recent Top Shop fashion show
In
many ways, Sir Philip Green is an entrepreneur of whom Britain's Jewish
community should be proud. In 2002, when he bought Arcadia, through his
family company Taverta, it was a basket-case, haemorrhaging cash.
With consummate financial management and skills in fast-fashion
retailing he turned it around, restoring the great brands in the Arcadia
portfolio - Topshop, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Wallace and Evans - to
their former glory. It was this achievement which propelled him from
perpetual commercial outsider into the billionaire class.
The Sunday Times Rich List values his family's private wealth - most
of it held offshore in Monaco by his wife Tina - at £3.22bn.
Not surprisingly, Green is resentful about the hammering he is taking
in the media and the House of Commons over his much criticised sale of
the 88-year-old high street chain BHS and the plight of his pensioners.
He has concerns that because he likes to work behind the scenes he
doesn't get the credit he deserves for his philanthropic giving, often
focused on the Jewish community.
Wednesday was the best night of Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Joe Biden, Tim Kaine and Barack Obama testified to her greatness and
goodness and readiness to be president. And all saw in the Republican
Convention in Cleveland a festival of darkness and dystopia.
Nor is this unusual. For, as the saying goes, the ins “point with pride,” while the outs “view with alarm.”
Yet the clash of visions between Cleveland and Philadelphia is stark.
We appear to be two separate and hostile peoples, living apart in two
separate Americas.
Obama’s America is a country of all races, creeds, colors,
lifestyles, a kumbayah country to be made more wonderful still when
Clinton takes the helm.
The message from Cleveland: Cry the beloved country. America has lost
her way. She is in peril. A new captain is needed. A new course must be
set if America is to find her way home again.
Which portrayal is the truer? Which vision of America do her people
believe corresponds more closely to the reality of their daily lives?
Do Americans share Philadelphia’s belief in Clinton’s greatness and in the magisterial achievements of the Obama presidency?
Let us see. Fifty-six percent of Americans believe Clinton should
have been indicted; 67 percent believe she is neither trustworthy nor
honest. And 75 percent of Americans think that, under Obama, the nation
is headed in the wrong direction.
After Cleveland, Trump took a 62-23 lead among white high-school
graduates, those who constitute a disproportionate share of our cops,
firemen, soldiers and Marines – and those interred in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Given that the media are mostly “progressives,” why do Americans who
rely on that media hold so negative an opinion of Clinton, and reject
the direction in which Obama is taking their country? Like the reporting you see here? Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network.
Does the reality they perceive help to explain it?
Consider. Obama did inherit a disastrous economy and growth has been
at or near 2 percent a year since then. But this is not the growth we
knew in the Reagan era.
And what, other than the trade policies we pursued, explains the
deindustrialization of America, the loss of manufacturing plants and
jobs and China’s shouldering us aside to become the world’s No. 1
industrial power.
What produced Detroit and Baltimore and all those dead and dying towns in the Rust Belt?
Even Hillary Clinton, who has called TPP the “gold standard,” now
rejects her husband’s NAFTA. Is this not an admission that the elites
got it wrong for a quarter century?
Obama in Philadelphia celebrated our diversity.
Yet, we have seen Old Glory burned and Mexican flags flaunted this
year. We have seen Black Lives Matter chant, “What do we want? Dead
cops!” – then watched black racists deliver dead cops in Dallas and
Baton Rouge. Is Ferguson America’s future?
From the podium in Philadelphia, we hear the word “love.” But in
interviews, Democratic Party activists invoke terms of hate, such as
racist, fascist, homophobe, misogynist and sexist to describe the
Cleveland Republicans.
Would the party of Philadelphia accept a President Trump?
Would the party of Cleveland accept President Clinton?
Hard to believe. Divided we stand. So, where do we go?
Given the distance between the two halves of America, given the
contempt in which each seems to hold the other, we can probably drop
from the Pledge of Allegiance the word “indivisible,” right after the
Philadelphia Democrats succeed in cutting out the words, “under God.”
We are told our allies are nervous. They should be.
Even FDR could not lead a divided nation into war. When America
divided over Vietnam, Richard Nixon had to lead us out. Our division led
to America’s first defeat.
In the absence of a Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attack that brings us
together in patriotic rage, Americans are not going to salute the next
commander in chief, and then go fight Russia in the eastern Baltic or
China over some reefs or rocks in the South China Sea.
Even when we were more united during the Cold War, Ike and LBJ never
considered using force to roll back Soviet invasions in Hungary and
Czechoslovakia.
Our strongest ally in the Arab world, Egypt, and our NATO ally in the
region, Turkey, are both descending into dictatorship. Libya, Syria,
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen are bleeding profusely in sectarian and
civil wars, breaking apart along tribal and religious lines.
Could a President Trump, or Clinton, rally us to stand together and send another Army of Desert Storm over there? Not likely.
Barack Obama believes the more diverse a country we become –
religiously, racially, ethnically, culturally, linguistically – the
greater, better and stronger a nation we become. And with his
immigration policies, he has put us, perhaps irretrievably, on that
road.
Yet, outside that Wells Fargo Center, where such sentiments seem to
enrapture Democratic delegates, Europe, Africa, the Mideast and South
Asia are all being pulled apart, right along those same fault lines.
And measured by the rhetoric of Philadelphia and Cleveland, so are we.
At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles
Police stand beside demonstrators outside a former DYI
market that has been converted into a shelter for asylum seekers in
Heidenau, south of Dresden AP
Up to 1,000 protesters have clashed with police in eastern Germany in riots reportedly sparked by the arrival of 250 migrants.
Police
said protesters shouting "foreigners out" and carrying banners against
the "asylum flood" threw bottles and stones at busloads of asylum
seekers arriving in Heidenau, near Dresden.
At least 31 officers were hurt in violent scuffles as police used tear gas to disperse crowds.
Peaceful demonstrations began after news spread that the town was
welcoming a large number of refugees who are set to be housed in an
empty building.
The protest was hijacked by a group of far-right radicals, many
belonging to the militant National Democratic Party (NPD), considered a
neo-Nazi organisation.
"After the riots, the situation is now calm," a police spokesman told
Tagesspiegel online, adding it was not yet clear how many people had
been injured or how many arrests had been made.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas condemned the riots on Twitter saying
that Germany will "never tolerate that people are threatened and
attacked in our country."
Sinister links of cult of Corbyn: Hardline Left-wing group backing
his leadership campaign has SECRET ties to anti-Semitic organisation to
boost Muslim support
Exposed: Corbyn backers have secret ties to anti-Semitic group
The 'Momentum' group used hardline fanatics as cover to deselect MPs
Momentum official said that she had contact with a disgraced group
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) used to to 'orchestrate' backing for the Labour leader
The
hardline Left-wing group backing Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign
has secret links with an extremist organisation accused of anti-Semitism
to boost his support among Muslims, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
An
official from Momentum, described as Corbyn's 'Praetorian Guard', told
an undercover reporter she had indirect contact with a disgraced group
called the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC) to 'orchestrate'
backing for the Labour leader.
Another Momentum official suggested to our reporter to contact MPAC discreetly to garner support.
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Aaron Bastani, also known as Aaron
Peters, is the driving force behind Novara Media, dubbed Momentum's
'armed police'. Bastani used to organise the UK Uncut tax protests
outside high street shops.
MPAC,
which once publicly mocked Holocaust Remembrance Day, has been banned by
the National Union of Students from university campuses for the last 12
years because of its extreme views.
Our
investigation comes after repeated accusations of anti-Semitism against
Labour under Mr Corbyn, who once called terrorist group Hamas
'friends'. Earlier this month, the launch of an internal Labour report
into the problem descended into chaos when the Labour leader was accused
of comparing Israel with Islamic State.
The
disturbing new link came after a five-week investigation into Momentum
by The Mail on Sunday which found that far from a 'rabble', the
cult-like cadre deploys tactics far removed from the values of
traditional Labour.
Today we reveal:
A
Momentum official used a hard-line organisation called Novara Media as a
cover to write a step-by-step guide on deselecting Labour MPs, authored
under a false name;
The
Left-wing activist behind Novara was a fanatic who brought chaos to
Britain's high streets in a series of tax protests, before changing his
name;
Momentum
installed a secret 'mole' inside Tory HQ to spy on London Mayoral
candidate Zac Goldsmith, so the Left-wingers could ambush him at events.
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Message of hate: MPAC founder Asghar
Bukhari donated cash to Holocaust denier David Irving, describing his
views as 'The Truth'. MPAC posted the message on Holocaust Remembrance
day in 2013
Publicly,
Jeremy Corbyn claims to champion a new, 'kinder' politics, and
Momentum, the grassroots movement which grew out of his successful
leadership campaign last autumn, insists it rejects 'abusive behaviour
towards MPs or anyone else'.
But
inside Momentum's two London 'war rooms' this month, there was nothing
'kind' about the sentiments on display towards the 'enemy' – fellow
Labour members who dare to disagree.
Our
reporter was able to observe Momentum's inner workings at the two
offices. One is in Holborn, provided by the Unite union, whose kingmaker
general secretary Len McCluskey is Corbyn's most powerful ally; the
other near Euston Station in the HQ of the Transport Salaried Staff
Association.
Our
reporter noticed the strong support which MPAC was lending online to Mr
Corbyn's leadership campaign and raised the group with Momentum
officials.
The campaign is a long summer of war
MPAC's
founder Asghar Bukhari once donated cash to Holocaust denier David
Irving, describing his outrageous views as 'The Truth'. In 2013, on
Holocaust Remembrance Day, MPAC posted on its Facebook page: 'Take your
holocaust, roll it up nice tight then shove it up your (be creative)!'
When
our reporter discussed MPAC with Momentum's London organiser Faduma
Hassan, she admitted there had been contact through intermediaries, but
appeared to have no concerns about the group.
Ms
Hassan – pictured next to Corbyn as he launched his leadership campaign
last week – said of MPAC: 'I don't know them a lot, I just deal with
them whenever I need anything.' Later, asked about MPAC's support for
Corbyn on its Facebook page, she added: 'I am glad they are doing it. I
didn't even notice.
'That's fantastic, thank you for updating me.'
Former
teacher Ms Hassan, 26, a member of Young Labour's National Committee,
explained: 'You know when you work with a group of people, and you have a
meeting with them… so we orchestrate things and then we let it go.'
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When our reporter discussed MPAC with
Momentum's London organiser Faduma Hassan (right), she admitted there
had been contact through intermediaries, but appeared to have no
concerns about the group
MPAC yesterday denied there had been any contact.
On
a separate occasion, Rob Lugg, 35 – Momentum's representative in
Wandsworth, South London – discussed a covert relationship between the
group and MPAC in comments our reporter secretly recorded.
He
said of MPAC: 'I think they're definitely not like, 'Oh, we shouldn't
go anywhere near them', but I don't know what the issues are
particularly. But maybe there are issues that we should just investigate
a bit – we might not be able to openly co-operate with each other, but
that doesn't mean we can't pass each other information.'
One
of the key weapons which Corbyn and Momentum deploy against their
'enemies' within the ranks of Labour MPs is the threat of deselection. A
foretaste of what lies ahead came with the controversial vote over air
strikes against Islamic State in Syria last December when Labour MPs who
backed the bombing – in defiance of Mr Corbyn – were subjected to a
vicious campaign of intimidation.
The group sent a spy in Tory headquarters
In
recent weeks, 63 MPs have stepped down from frontbench positions while
172 signed a motion of no-confidence in the leader. Last week, Mr Corbyn
raised the prospect of a wholesale purge of dissidents when he
announced a 'full and open' selection process in every single seat
before the next General Election.
A
few days earlier, our reporter watched as Momentum's national
organiser, James Schneider, drilled backroom staff on how the campaign,
described by a colleague as 'a long summer of war', would be waged.
He
made it clear Momentum was prepared to use subterfuge and employ
'proxies' for their attacks on MPs to keep their own hands clean.
Referring
to the MPs who have resigned from the Shadow Cabinet, he said: 'We have
to ridicule them and embarrass them through proxies. That's the
strategy.'
On
TV, however, public school educated Schneider, son of a
multi-millionaire, wants to present a more moderate face – hence the use
of 'proxies', or third parties.
And
a key proxy employed by Momentum online is Novara Media, dubbed by
Momentum's treasurer Michael Chessum as 'our armed police'. Senior
Momentum volunteer Sophie Nazemi added they were Momentum's 'militant
wing'. The driving force behind Novara, with its multi-media platform
hosting articles and videos, is one Aaron Bastani, 32, formerly known as
Aaron Peters, who describes himself as a 'political commentator', but
who not so long ago used to organise the chaotic UK Uncut tax protests.
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Momentum activist Rob Lugg proposed a covert relationship between the group and MPAC
At
the time, as our photo shows, he was keen to show off the impressive
results of his hours in the gym. Bastani's website is full of glowing
tributes to Corbyn, but one of the articles – a step-by-step guide to
'de-selecting Labour MPs' – was secretly written by a Momentum member
and primary school teacher called James McAsh, who is the London
Representative of London Young Labour. Significantly, Mr McAsh did not
sign the article himself, instead using the pseudonym Eric Sim.
One
of the leading opponents to Mr Corbyn in recent weeks was Labour MP
Angela Eagle, who mounted a leadership bid, before giving way to
colleague Owen Smith. Ms Eagle faced death threats when she first
announced her candidature. A brick was thrown through her office window.
But
only a few days later, our reporter heard Ms Nazemi joking that the
Momentum campaign of exposing Ms Eagle's voting record would be cast as
'low-key bullying'.
Ms Nazemi, 21, said: 'What we are doing is low-key bullying for Eagle to resign.'
During
the highly charged London Mayoral campaign between Tory Zac Goldsmith
and Labour's Sadiq Khan, Momentum sent 'spy' Beth Foster-Ogg, 18, into
Conservative HQ. Senior Momentum official Santiago Bell-Bradford, 24,
said: 'We wanted to ambush him.'
An
MPAC spokesman said the organisation had 'never contacted Momentum or
been approached by any of its representatives'. He added the Holocaust
Remembrance Day message was posted by a volunteer who was then removed.
Aaron
Bastani, the co-founder of Novara Media, denied his organisation has
become a propaganda wing for Momentum. He said: 'We are a news
organisation, we cover them [Momentum], and if there is a story,
obviously we write about them.'
A
spokesman for Momentum said: 'The Mail on Sunday and Omar Wahid have
exploited Momentum's enthusiastic young activists. Wahid posed as a
socially awkward volunteer of limited competence.
'He
was warmly welcomed and in return undermined the trust and generosity
of spirit of the Momentum team. He acted in a way that appears to
proximate entrapment.
'In
addition he seems to have specifically targeted Muslim volunteers in
what looks like an attempt to smear them and Momentum as anti-Semitic.
Momentum has no relationship with MPAC.
'Faduma Hassan has had no contact with MPAC either as an individual or on behalf of Momentum.'
NWN: It was OK for Corbyn to applaud IRA bombers. But as soon as he is seen to harbour 'anti-semites', the whole of the controlled mass media bay for his blood. Yet another example of just who really control the show. The UK party system is a sham.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Turkey 1967 - Turkey 2014
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
John Tyndall : 14 July 1934 – 19 July 2005 .
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Please don't start the war yet.................I'm not ready !
What 'they' are doing to our Armed Forces.
Why should Britain tremble ?
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
The new Prime Minister. My God !
Looks like a bag of shoite. Her first decison was to speak about the 'Holocaust'. Israel says she is their 'bestest' friend.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Health tourists jump NHS queue: Foreign patients given eye surgery while Britons wait for months
Investigation reveals health tourists are jumping the queue for operations
At least 300 foreign patients have been offered surgery before Britons
Their condition has been deemed a priority and they are treated first
The life-changing cataract treatment costs the NHS up to £2,500 a time
Cataracts occur when the lens in the
eye becomes cloudy, causing problems with reading, writing and general
vision, which gradually get worse (stock photo)
Health
tourists are jumping the queue ahead of NHS patients for life-changing
cataract operations, an investigation has revealed.
At
least 300 foreign patients flying in from countries including Nigeria
and Zimbabwe have been offered surgery before British taxpayers because
their condition is deemed a priority.
The treatment costs the NHS up to £2,500 a time including translation costs but many patients return home and never pay it back.
Yet
they are being fast-tracked by doctors as their condition is deemed
very complex and urgent, leading to lengthy delays for British patients.
Cataract surgery is the most common treatment on the NHS and 300,000 operations are performed a year, mostly on the elderly.
Yet
it is being heavily rationed due to financial pressures. Figures have
shown that at least half of health trusts currently ration cataract
surgery and some patients have been told their vision is 'too good' even
though they cannot read or write.
Some
areas including parts of Greater Manchester have average waiting times
of 222 days – nearly eight months – while others will now only do one
eye at a time.
Cataracts
occur when the lens in the eye becomes cloudy, causing problems with
reading, writing and general vision, which gradually get worse. But they
can be easily treated by a simple 30-minute operation to remove the
affected lens and replace it with a plastic implant.
Charities
have warned, however, that thousands of patients are gradually losing
their sight because NHS trusts are refusing to carry out surgery.
The
Daily Mail used the Freedom of Information Act to ask all 150 hospital
trusts in England a series of questions about overseas patients. The
replies show that in the past two years 849 overseas patients were given
cataract surgery on the NHS even though they were not eligible for free
care.
They
included 283 who were fast-tracked to the front of the queue because
doctors deemed their condition to be more urgent than others already
waiting.
Only
77 trusts managed to reply to any of our questions so the true scale of
the abuse is likely to be far higher. Thirteen admitted they never
recovered the full costs from the patients.
Professor
J Meirion Thomas, a former cancer surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital
in London, said: 'This investigation proves again that health tourism
is flourishing in the face of the feeble efforts of the Department of
Health.
'Why should patients who are not eligible for free NHS care be allowed treatment at a rock-bottom price?'
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Foreign patients have been offered
life-changing cataract operations ahead of British taxpayers because
their condition is deemed a priority
He said government research showed that 84 per cent of health tourists never paid their debts.
Conservative
MP Peter Bone said: 'We really have to have a system which puts British
people first.' Andrew Percy, another Tory MP, said: 'The NHS is facing
extreme pressures and its unacceptable that money is being spent on
treatment for people that are ineligible.'
Last
August the Daily Mail Investigations Unit revealed that the vast scale
of health tourism in the NHS was being covered up by hospital bosses.
NHS
whistleblowers said they are told to disguise the true number abusing
the health service by bosses who 'don't want to know' – and are branded
racist if they speak out.
By
law, only patients who are 'ordinarily resident' in the UK – and have
lived here for at least six months – are eligible for free treatment,
operations and scans. But lifesaving procedures, maternity care, A&E
treatment and GP services are free for all.
Ministers
have repeatedly promised to crack down on health tourism amid
accusations that the NHS is too lax compared with other EU countries.
They
twice unveiled proposals to start charging foreign patients in A&E
although they are still 'consulting' on the plans and there is no clear
start date.
I HAD TO WAIT FOR TWO YEARS, SAYS 83-YEAR-OLD GRANDMOTHER
Bernice Cowles (pictured) waited two years for cataract treatment on the NHS
Bernice Cowles waited two years for cataract treatment on the NHS after being told her failing sight was too good.
In
2013, the 83-year-old grandmother, pictured, was caring full-time for
her husband William, who has since died, and struggled to read the small
writing on his prescriptions without a magnifying glass.
She
was referred for an operation in April 2015 to repair her left eye,
which was more severely affected. But this was only after a routine
sight test revealed her vision was so poor that it met the NHS's strict
eligibility criteria.
Mrs
Cowles, from West Horndon, Essex, said the operation was 'very
successful' – and she hoped to have the other eye operated on soon.
Yet most other countries in the EU demand to see patients' identity cards or passports before offering them treatment.
The Mail was alerted to the problem by a whistleblower from a hospital whose role is to charge foreign patients.
She
said many patients, mainly from Nigeria and Zimbabwe, are brought in by
relatives living here. The relatives then take them for eye tests by
opticians, who refer them to hospital, where doctors carry out cataract
surgery immediately. But they do not demand money beforehand.
The
whistleblower said that between five and 15 overseas patients arrive at
her hospital a week needing cataract treatment. 'We rarely get the
money back,' she said. 'They tend to need very complex procedures. We
have to use a translation service as well and it's a huge cost.'
The
Department of Health said: 'This Government is determined to make sure
our NHS isn't abused – we were the first to introduce tough measures to
clamp down on migrants accessing NHS hospitals and are going further
with plans to extend charging to A&E and other services, helping the
NHS to recover up to £500million a year by 2018.'
Outrage as war crimes prosecutors say Tony Blair will not be
investigated over Chilcot's Iraq war report – but British soldiers could
be
Tony Blair: war crimes prosecutors say he won't face inquiry
Prosecutors at the International
Criminal Court will examine the Chilcot report for evidence of abuse and
torture by British soldiers but have already ruled out putting Tony
Blair on trial for war crimes, The Telegraph can disclose.
The decision has outraged families of troops killed in Iraq who blame Mr Blair for engineering the war.
Sir John Chilcot’s report will finally be published on Wednesday and is expected to strongly criticise Mr Blair’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But in an official statement to the Telegraph, the International
Criminal Court (ICC) said its prosecutors would comb through the 2.3
million word report for evidence of war crimes committed by British
troops but that decision to go to war remained outside its remit.
Reg Keys, whose son was killed in IraqCredit:
S Meddle/REX/Shutterstock
It means individual soldiers could be prosecuted for war crimes but not Mr Blair.
The ICC, based in the Hague, has begun a 'preliminary examination’ of
claims of torture and abuse by British soldiers, after receiving a
dossier from human rights lawyers acting for alleged Iraqi victims.
In the statement, the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICC said: “We
will take note of the Chilcot report when released in the context of its
ongoing preliminary examination work concerning Iraq/UK.
“A preliminary examination is not an investigation but a process
aimed at determining whether reasonable basis exist to open an
investigation.
“As already indicated by the Office in 2006, the 'decision by the UK
to go to war in Iraq falls outside the Court’s jurisdiction’.”
The ICC prosecutor’s office said the ICC was looking at introducing a
“crime of aggression” which would cover illegal invasions but that “has
not yet crystalised and in any event, will not apply retroactively”.
Sir John Chilcot, chairman of the Iraq Inquiry
Grieving relatives condemned the ICC’s stance. Roger Bacon, whose son Matt Bacon, a major in the Intelligence Corps, was killed in a roadside bomb in 2005,
said: “It is outrageous. It is double standards. These soldiers have
gone out to do their best for us and here they are being hounded and yet
the guy who took them there is not being looked at. That is completely
wrong and disgusting.”
Mr Bacon, a retired police officer, added: “It is bad enough the ICC
are examining these allegations of abuse in the first place but to use
the Chilcot report to further their investigation does not seem right at
all particularly if they are not going to look at Blair.” Reg Keys, whose son Tom was one of six Royal Military Police slaughtered at Majar al-Kabir in 2003,
said: “The ICC should be using the Chilcot report as a basis for a
legal action against Tony Blair not as ammunition against British
soldiers for alleged abuse.”
Mr Keys, who famously stood against Mr Blair in the 2005 election,
added: “It makes me very angry. They don’t call him Teflon Tony for
nothing.”
The Chilcot report is expected to
conclude that Mr Blair’s government misled the public over the presence
of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before launching what many
people still believe was an illegal war.
The Crown Prosecution Service has twice considered a case against Mr Blair but on both occasions decided to take no action.
But Mr Blair may also face legal action from families, who may try to
sue him for 'misfeasance in public office” or else negligence on the
grounds he exceeded his powers and that led to mass casualties.
If successful such a legal action could lead to a huge award of damages against Mr Blair.
Matthew Jury, managing partner of McCue & Partners, lawyers for
the bereaved families of British soldiers killed in Iraq, said: “It’s a
little premature to be talking about prosecutions. The families’
current concern is that the Inquiry has properly discharged its duties.
We shall find out on Wednesday.
“Only after a full and unhurried examination of the reports contents
and conclusions, will the families decide what further steps should be
taken. However, if it is determined that government officials have
acted unlawfully, the families will consider taking whatever action is
appropriate and necessary.”
Relatives are also angered they
will be given just three to digest the vast Chilcot report before it is
made public while ministers, it is understood, will receive the report
24 hours in advance.
“This is just another example of politics trumping compassion. The families deserve better,” said Mr Jury.
The publication of the report, seven years after the Iraq Inquiry
began, will also lead to renewed attempts by MPs, led by former SNP
leader Alex Salmond, to resurrect attempts to impeach Mr Blair.
In an email to MPs sent last
month, Mr Salmond wrote: “If, as I believe, that Chilcot finds that
there was a prior commitment from Blair to [George] Bush at Crawford
Ranch [President Bush’s Texas home] in 2002 that would provide the
reason for pursuing the matter further.”
Sir David Amess, a Tory backbencher who received an email from Mr
Salmond asking for his help, said: “We’re going to go for it. When the
Chilcot report is published, if it’s proved that Tony Blair misled
everyone, I personally am determined to see justice prevail and to see
him impeached.”
Mr Blair has repeatedly said that he wanted to use Chilcot to address
his critics. In an interview in the United States last October, he
apologised for wrong intelligence on weapons and for “some of the
mistakes in planning” in the run up to the 2003 invasion. However he
defended the military action and the removal of Saddam Hussein.
A spokeswoman for Mr Blair said the former prime minister had “made
his position clear” and that his office “would not be giving a running
commentary” prior to publication. “It is hard for us to say anything
when we have not seen the report,” said the spokeswoman. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/02/outrage-as-war-crimes-prosecutors-say-tony-blair-will-not-be-inv/?WTmcid=tmgoff_soc_spf_fb&WT.mc_id=sf30165083
NWN: So once again we see our troops in danger of prosecution, when the people who sent them in the first place like the traitor Blair will get off 'scot free'.
Friday, July 01, 2016
..........................................................fawning views on The Tribe.
Stop squabbling, grow up - and get on with Brexit: RICHARD
LITTLEJOHN says the political class's behaviour since the referendum
vote has bordered on the clinically insane
The
entire political class have taken leave of their senses. Both during
the referendum campaign and since the result was announced, their
behaviour has bordered on the clinically insane.
Of
course, you should never underestimate their uncanny ability to make
everything about them. But the unedifying orgy of self-indulgence we
have seen over the past week has plumbed new depths of cynicism and
opportunism.
Yesterday's
Tory leadership contest fiasco resembled a Whitehall farce scripted by
David Chase, the man who created The Sopranos. If you ever doubted that
politicians are an alien race apart, then here was conclusive proof.
Following
David Cameron's inevitable resignation after his humiliating defeat at
the ballot box, the Conservative Party in Parliament decided that the
best response was to form a circular firing squad.
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If you ever doubted that politicians
are an alien race apart, then yesterday's Tory leadership contest fiasco
was conclusive proof
Instead
of sober reflection, they embarked on an incestuous bout of infighting
and jockeying for position, as the real world looked on aghast.
As
I wrote on Tuesday, only inside the Westminster village could anyone in
their right mind interpret the most momentous decision the British
people have taken in half a century as a clear message that: What we
want is Stephen Crabb.
Yet
here was someone most people have never heard of being touted seriously
as the saviour of the nation, despite the fact that he was on the
losing side in the referendum argument.
Crabb
is now one of five names that will go forward to Tory MPs before the
field is whittled down to two and laid before the wider membership.
Home Secretary Theresa May is the odds-on favourite.
When
17,410,742 people put their cross in the Leave box a week ago, how many
of them thought that what they were really voting for was to install
Mother Theresa as Prime Minister?
After
all, she had rarely been seen in public for the past five months,
having spent the referendum campaign hiding behind the sofa.
Yet
now, if the polls and the bookies are to be believed, she will be in
overall charge of the negotiations to extricate Britain from the EU —
something she didn't believe in.
May
announced her candidacy in a tartan trouser suit that made her look
like one of the Bay City Rollers — an outfit presumably intended to
reassure voters north of the border that she would protect Scotland's
best interests, too.
The
one name conspicuously missing from the list was the early front-runner
Boris Johnson, who withdrew from the fray after being comprehensively
shafted by his Leave colleague Michael Gove. During the campaign, the
two men had been joined at the hip and it was assumed that they'd run on
a joint ticket.
The
first we knew of a rift between them was when an explosive private
email from Gove's wife, Mail columnist Sarah Vine, fell into the wrong
hands and was leaked to Sky News.
Even
so, no one predicted that Gove would chuck his own hat into the ring,
especially as he had once said that he was prepared to write 'on
parchment in my own blood' a guarantee that he did not want to lead his
party or become Prime Minister.
It
was a promise he restated during one of the televised referendum
debates. Then again, he is a politician, so we shouldn't be too
surprised that he's gone back on his word. They all do.
At
heart, every MP dreams of making it to No 10. They're all living in
their own movie. Politicians don't have friends in any meaningful sense,
just disposable alliances. Their principles are infinitely flexible
when it comes to career advancement.
They talk frequently of loyalty, but none of them actually means it.
The
Goves and the Camerons were supposed to be bosom buddies, but that
didn't stop Call Me Dave sacking Gove from the education department to
appease the teaching unions and the so-called 'Blob'.
In return, Gove knifed Cameron over Europe and now he's knifed his ex-New Best Friend Boris, too.
Gove
may be an impeccably mannered chap, but he's clearly a student of the
Cosa Nostra and now appears to fancy making the leap from consigliere to
Godfather. Be careful what you wish for, Michael.
As
for Boris, he has suffered the same fate as his hero Winston Churchill,
who was also discarded immediately after his finest hour.
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As for Boris, he has suffered the same
fate as his hero Winston Churchill, who was also discarded immediately
after his finest hour
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The first we knew of a rift between
Michael Gove and Boris Johnson was when an explosive private email from
Gove's wife, Mail columnist Sarah Vine, fell into the wrong hands and
was leaked to Sky News
Whether,
like Churchill, he can make a comeback remains to be seen. But after a
brilliant campaign, Boris didn't do himself any favours by deciding to
lay out his vision of the road ahead in his newspaper column, rather
than in public — and appeared to back-pedal on his promise that a Leave
vote would drastically reduce immigration.
Nevertheless,
he had earned his crack at the leadership and the conspiracy to keep
him off the ballot paper is yet another affront to democracy. So is the
suggestion that May and Gove might stitch up a deal to prevent party
members even getting a vote on who becomes the next leader and occupant
of Downing Street.
Gove
may be an impeccably mannered chap, but he's clearly a student of the
Cosa Nostra and now appears to fancy making the leap from consigliere to
Godfather.
There
have been far too many affronts to democracy over the past week,
particularly from resentful Remainers who have howled petulantly from
the rooftops about the electorate stupidly voting the 'wrong' way.
The
notion that they will still try to scupper Brexit, either in
Parliament, by holding a second referendum or by trying to force a
General Election, is monstrous.
I
suppose I should mention the turmoil in the Labour Party, which has
also suffered a nervous breakdown. Labour MPs have interpreted the Leave
vote as an opportunity to force Jeremy Corbyn to resign and replace him
with one of the Eagles.
Not
that I care what happens to him, or who comes next, but it should be
pointed out that all along Corbyn has shown little enthusiasm for the EU
and if he did, as reported, vote to Leave in the privacy of the polling
booth, then he was more in touch with the mood of the British people
than 80 per cent of MPs from all parties at Westminster.
And
there's the rub. When it came to the EU, the overwhelming majority of
the political class — including the woman who may well become our next
Prime Minister — were on the wrong side of history and at odds with the
people they are supposed to represent.
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We have had a week of lunacy, whining
and navel-gazing at Westminster, time which should have been devoted to
working out how quickly the will of the people could be implemented in
an orderly fashion
Where's
the leadership from anyone? Certainly Theresa was missing in action
during the campaign. Most of the Cabinet backed Remain and went along
with Cameron and Osborne's disgraceful efforts to bully and terrify
people into doing as they were told.
There certainly aren't any outstanding or obvious leaders on the Tory ballot paper, nor within Labour's ranks either.
Once
again the political class — not that they've shown much class lately —
have been obsessed with settling their own petty scores, squabbling
among themselves and advancing their own careers rather than getting on
with the job in hand.
Lest
they need reminding, the British people have just given them a clear
mandate to get Britain out of the anti-democratic, corrupt EU racket.
That's what they should be concentrating on right now.
Instead,
we have had a week of lunacy, whining and navel-gazing at Westminster,
time which should have been devoted to working out how quickly the will
of the people could be implemented in an orderly fashion.
They
also need reminding that this wasn't just a rejection of the EU, it was
a revolt against the entire political class, whose antics over the past
week have been an insult to the magnificent exercise in popular
democracy we have just experienced.
And unless they get the message, this revolt won't be the last.
Increase in number of hate incidents reported to GMP
Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling
There has been an increase in the number of hate incidents reported to Greater Manchester Police.
Deputy Chief Constable Ian Pilling said: “While we cannot categorically
say whether the increase is related to any particular event, I wish to
make it absolutely clear that all hate crime is unacceptable and even a
small increase is of concern to us. It is really important that we have
an accurate picture of hate crime in Greater Manchester so that we can
deal with it in the most effective way possible.
“I now want to make a wider appeal to the people of Greater Manchester – where you see it, report it.
“We suspect that the majority of hate crimes, like several crime types,
go unreported, which is why it’s vital that people tell us about what
has happened to them.
"I would urge anyone with mobile footage of suspected hate crimes to
report it to the police rather than just share it on social media
platforms – unless police officers are made aware they cannot
investigate it and catch offenders.
“Many people in our communities will be feeling anxious right now as a
result of the perception that a small number of people are using recent
events to give ill-judged legitimacy to their hate-filled views.
"What’s happening in Greater Manchester appears to reflect a national
picture that has emerged in recent days. True Vision, the national
online reporting site, has told us they have received some disgraceful
examples of racial abuse around the country this week.
NWN: Greater Manchester Police (GMP) treat selective 'hate' crimes very seriously. GMP like many other Police forces in the UK however, don't treat rapes, grooming and paedophilia very seriously at all.
The Battle of the Somme - 1st July 1916 100 years ago
On July 1, 1916 at 7:28 A.M. the Allies launched the largest offensive
of the war. What would soon be the bloodiest and most tragic single day
in British Military history. July 1, 1916 the opening day of Somme.
By
12:30 P.M. over 50,000 of Britain's soldiers were dead or wounded..
At 0728 on 1st July 2016 a two minutes silence will be observed. The
end of the two minutes silence will be signalled by whistles and a 100
gun salute in London.
Star power: Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne, Sir Phliip Green and Jourdan Dunn at a recent Top Shop fashion show
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