The really bad thing about the Caroline Spelman 'nanny-money-mini-scandal' is that the Tories are not admitting to a sense of deep shame.....

By©Muhammad Haque
0900 Hrs GMT
London saturday 7 June 2008

So the Tories are ‘more open than Labour’!

So says the BBC female voice reading the script at 0800 Hrs GMT today Saturday 7 June 2008


So that’s all right then, isn’t it!

Because the Tory giving the certificate is George Osborne, the equivalent for the Tories to what Gordon Brown was for the Blaired party.

There are a few things wrong with this certificate.

Osborne is not himself ‘more open’ than anybody else. In fact, when the ‘media spotlight’ is placed on him, which will happen sometime in the future [and perhaps even sooner than Osborne may feel it may come], he will be puffed out…

But where will that lead ‘us’, the ordinary people in Britain who wait for years for the miscreants in parliament to be exposed, caught out…

Not far by the looks of things. Why? Because the ‘spotlight’ as featured on the BBC 2 slot ‘NEWSNIGHT’ last night [Friday 6 June 2008] around the nanny-money-mini-scandal of Caroline Spelman, is unlikely to be taken to the ethical conclusion. BY either main party. Or indeed by the so-called third ‘main’ party, as measured by the numerical presence in the UK House of Commons.

For all the main parties are operated by sleaze. They are unethical. As they are unaccountable.

It is a democratic prison that the UK Parliament is… It is full of images and symbols, all of which are now way past the sell-by dates… We have reached a morass… And there is no sign that any alternative is on the horizon.

This became clear when Emily Maitlis, fronting the 'NEWSNIGHT' [BBC2] slot for the Friday evening, continued her ritualistic questioning after doing the ritualistic, vapid talking to Michael Crick [who seems to be returning to reporting after a long period in internal BBC careeristic diversion and attempts and retraining] turned to Alistair Graham. Graham was the so-called standards man not long ago.

And he did his own ritual recommending of what is to be done… He was most concerned about the reputation of Parliament being damaged….

That was the clearest sign if any were needed as to how backward the ‘standards’ ‘watchdog’ thing is… And why it cannot be relied on to uphold ethics and accountability…

The Caroline Spelman 'money-nanny'-mini-scandal broke in news terms on the day that John Major had been featured in the Times as being concerned about falling standards and in particular about the Gordon Brown assault on civil liberties….

Bu the time he was verbally cuddled by Evan davis on the Today programme this morning , Major was already in a mode of defensive retreat. Especially when Evan Davis menacingly asked him to opine on the location, historically, of Gordon Brown in the scales of misery…. Major would not countenance any attempt at being used as a measure of misery… Even he thought Gordon Brown’s position today was worse than anything that might have happened to him [Major]…. He rushed out the battered image of good old Anthony Eden, the perennial sick bag of British misery measurement….

This shows that there is no owning up to any responsibility, any sense of responsibility at all…. Not a good example, was he, that bloke from ‘Brixton [of fantasy]’ John Major?

He was as daft and useless at backing the real accountability team on Saturday 7 June 2008 as he had been in 1995 [the year they talked about when Major had been going through his Gordon Brown period…..!]

History and language are to be put on a backward trip... Just like Major had spun the back to basic scam that ended in total social humiliation for him...


We have to travel back to Anthony Eden and begin to appreciate just how bad the image and the reality of Britain was….


COMING SOON HERE:

“Back to Suez….. and Egypt and Palestine… And what a smarmy, stupid and illogical presentation that was, when Tony Blair made the appearance before a group of 'parliamentarians' on Wednesday… and talked with monumental stupidity and factual detachment about the perception, intelligence of the people of Palestine….. How can anyone say that Blair was ‘a clever, bright’ man?

Jeremy Hardy got closest to defining Tony Blair on the ‘news quiz’ programme [BBC Radio 4] on Friday 6 June 2008. Hardy was spot on about Tony Blair's immorality and lack of fundamental sense of shame....

[To be continued]