Looking for a voice

They say that everybody has a book inside of them, I am by inclination and educational degree a Historian, therefore that is what I would prefer to write on. However some of you who have met me know that I have had a torrid time of the hands of the state over the last four years, and during that time I have kept a daily log of the dirty tricks, the bullying, the coercion, the perjury,the forgeries, the monitoring, the attempt to seize my papers and computers, the anonymous letters, the criminal damage and the smears and above all the Court shenanigans.

The cast list in my forthcoming publiction is quite interesting, Lord Mandelson the poacher turned gamekeeper, only a Socialist could appoint somebody to look over the welfare of British Industry who was so unsuited to carry out this role, Lord Digby Jones, The British Ambassador to Paris, my local MP who I will not currently name but has called my experiences a 'scandal', and has proved to me that there are some politicians who are still trying to swim against the tide of self interest. There is the usual flock of poor quality lawyers and public servants for whom fulfilling the quota is their sole raison d'etre. French public officials who were so adept at discriminating against foreigners that they have a word for it 'joined at the elbows' and Frenchman who know corruption and have rendered service above and beyond the call of duty


I have consulted widely from academic sources that Government chooses to ignore. One Law Academic urged thirteen years ago, that measures then proposed would be opressive and against all principles of English Law. Another Academic who wrote that the whole system had descended into farce, with the State acting a Prosecutor, Judge and Jury.

This phase of my life comes to an end on October 11th with a final hearing, I will then feel free to write the story of one person's entanglement with the Blair/Brown Stasi State that lead us into national moral and financial bankruptcy from 1997-2010.

The working title is 'In the Shit- In The Footsteps of Lilburne'

Before this I was a Classical Liberal, I am now a radicalised Libertarian, who has had his eyes forced wide open.

Certainly offers have been made to publish across Europe in various languages on line, if I only get to to self publish, at least my putative grandchildren will know my story not the one the Court records will show.

Just looking for a publisher now

Did we or did we not fight a war for Parliamentary Democracy ?

The Country fought not for a elective monarchy to appoint for King Tony/Gordon/Dave to appoint their favourites to become Ministers of State.

There is no Commons oversight or confirmation hearing, he Stephen Green is in a powerful position because he was and still is a powerful Banker, appointed by somebody that 65% of the people did not vote fore.

Arise Lord Green !

It’s not chiefly about Europe – it’s about democracy. Regular readers will know that I have always seen the repatriation of jurisdiction from Brussels as a means to an end. Having got the powers back, we should pass them down to local authorities or, better yet, to individual citizens. I want decisions to be decentralised, diffused, democratised. I want open primaries, popular initiative procedures, elected sheriffs, self-financing councils, an end to quangos, recall mechanisms and, yes, referendums – lots and lots of referendums.

Dan Hannan MEP


The first time I voted was in the EEC Referendum in 1975, for the record I voted yes to belonging to a free trade zone, I did not vote for a European superstate.

Therefore by my calculation anybody under the age of 53 has had no say on whether the United Kingdom should be part of a super state, which should it take in Turkey, will stretch from the Atlantic to Iraq.

In 1975, we were in the economic doldrums, three day weeks, miners strikes, clapped out rust belt industry, there were very good reasons for voting yes.

My biggest regret at the time was that it meant crapping on Australia and New Zealand. As in all of these things Australia and New Zealand just got on with it and enjoy prosperity and a standard of living the British can now only dream of.

As a Constitutionalist, I agree with Hannan. We seriously went off the rails in 1660, and instead of heading towards being a State like Switzerland we reintroduced the Cavalier Parliament which was more know for excluding power from the people than sharing it.

Those that saw the way the tide was running post Commonwealth went to America, taking their ideals of Liberty with them. One hundred years later the Thirteen States declared UDI. Britain went on to become a short lived economic and military superpower. In 2010 we have ended up politically at May 1st 1660 again, and we have to now make a decision to stay within the New Holy Roman Empire or declare UDI like Norway and Switzerland.

I am pro Europe and Anti EU as so constituted.

It is time to let the People speak.

It now appears that the third autopsy carried out on Ian Tomlinson was carried out by two pathologists jointly, one acting for the Policeman implicated in his death.

That Report has been witheld claiming legal privilige by the Policeman's defence team, as the Police are always saying to the rest of us 'if you have nothing to hide , you have nothing to fear'

This whole episode is turning into another sordid nineteen seventies TV cop adventure, with cover ups, known incompetent pathologist Patel being involved.No wonder the coroner wants this case handed over to a Judge.

Police Sgt Andrews jailed yesterday was brought before a Magistrates bench, which can only impose a maximum tarrif of six months, whereas this was a serious personal assault that two years later means that the victim needs surgery to her eye.

The stench of chicanery is everywhere, the Police Force have detached themselves from the communities they work in, and are acting like a para military militia.

A clear signal needs sending to the Police and that has to start from the top, with ACPO a private Limited Company being wound up by the Courts and their files being opened up to public scrutiny. After all it is public money they are spending.

Only by

Lets see whether the tough guy gets thrown around his cell.

Tomlinson's attacker ?

Not that petitions do much good but its at 6500 already.

H/T Crash Bang Wallace

Guido is positing that the BBC may be slightly biased in its reporting here

Rwanda is feeling in a bit of the same frame of mind.

I had my say here


This is an institution that taxes everybody £12 pm to have the privilige of broadcasting Gramscian propaganda into your homes. Sky do not need a Elizabethan style state monopoly to survive, neither do other broadcasters.

Time to cut the TV Tax

Never mind the politics of whether or not William Hague is gay (not in the slightest importance to me) this is serious stuff, and should make any sensible person question why they should not be a Libertarian. I reprint in full the following from the Anna Raccoon site in the hope people are going to start waking up.

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It’s been a while since there has been a story in the press that left me with my jaw so far down that it hurt. But today, I believe, we are firmly back in the deranged world of government gone completely insane:

HM Revenue and Customs could take direct control of every worker’s monthly pay cheque under plans to overhaul the error-prone income tax system.

Instead of employers deducting income tax then paying gross salaries to employees, the gross monthly payment would go to an HMRC-run tax “calculator”, which would then pass the net salary to the worker.

The reform would mean the end of traditional monthly payslips, because employers would no longer be able to tell workers how much tax they had paid each month.

The immediate thought that comes to mind is: what do we do when (and not if!) this all goes wrong? What happens when, as will inevitably happen, HMRC makes a balls up and takes your whole month’s salary? Who will you fight with? Without a payslip, how do you budget for the forthcoming month, especially if you are on highly variable wages? What about people with all sorts of different sources of income? How will this “help” them? What about people who have valid reasons for submitting an annual return to claw money back?

Inevitably, this kind of glorious “lateral thinking” is a result of the many failings of the people in HMRC. Why is the long-suffering taxpayer being exposed to this extraordinary risk? It’s not like the government exactly has a fantastic track record when it comes to grandiose computer systems.

I’m going to do something that I don’t generally do, because I’m not as erudite at campaigning as Anna: I’m going to ask you to spread the word about this as far as you can; I’m going to ask you to write to your useless MP and complain in the strongest possible terms about this insane idea; write to your local newspaper, tell all your friends and do everything you can think of to stop this insane idea from becoming reality.

Because although Anna is a wonderful campaigner, I don’t think there’s enough of her to go around to save each and every one of us!

UPDATE: I am generally loathe to update articles, especially if they have only just been published, but I feel that this information may be of great value to 1.4 million taxpayers:

The first batch of 45,000 letters demanding cash to be repaid will start to arrive on Tuesday – with the rest sent out over the next four months.

But accountants said recipients should act swiftly to use a little-known loophole which forces HM Revenue and Customs to abandon ‘out of the blue’ demands and effectively write off the money.

They also insisted many of those affected are entitled to argue that they or their employer have done nothing wrong and should not be penalised for someone else’s blunder.

Enough is enough. It is time to starve these incompetent thieves of our hard-earned money!

Today millions of serfs are going to receive a tax demand for underpayment of tax due to the incompetence of a centralised State under Blair/Brown.

Are the peasants sharpening their scythes ready to burn down their local Tax office, are they heck. We will get the usual 'Mustn't Grumble' attitude, and that 'Don't Panic, carry on as usual' poster will be much in evidence.

Government have bankrupted the exchequer, the Labour Party are in deep denial over this. Ed Milliband last Saturday, saying we cannot sacrifice everything on the Altar of the Deficit. Yet the State is going to turn round today and say sorry, we did not damage you enough, have a tax demand.

Those fortunate enough to be owed a rebate however, will only be refunded their money over four years.

Equity,Fairness, Mustn't Grumble, I'll have a nice cup of tea instead.

I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

H/T Tom Paine

But on another piece I write like !


I write like
William Shakespeare

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

All harmless fun of course, but I tried a number of pieces of writing at different times over the last year, and there was a common theme of brilliant writers who were depressed then killed themselves, apart from Bill Shakespeare of course.

Bloody amazing !

Have spent most of the morning getting Guthrum Jnr to fly the coop to University, seeing the shock of telling him that he needs toothpaste, soap, deodorant, toilet rolls, as no these are not supplied by Jesus, and no they do not automatically replenish themselves.

However I was listening to Radio four confirming that the Construction Industry has gone into double dip recession, yet at the same time we are one Million Houses short in this country.

It is fairly apparent that the market is not working for the construction industry.

- We have a beyond stupid planning system that artificially restricts land for housing, this pushing the price up artificially, this does not help young families wanting to get on the housing ladder, it protects the boomers 'profits' in their equity that have been earned whilst doing nothing but watch TV. (It is not real money)

- House prices if the market was working, should be falling to a level of affordability, land should virtually be at agricultural prices.

- The supply of money to fund mortgages has dried up because the banking system went bankrupt, the 'Building Societies' (the hint is in the name) dropped their mutual status and became second line banks and have been failing along with the banks.

- The market for new funds for housing loans is just not working, because the State discourages new entrants.

In the meantime the housing crisis continues unabated. A roof over your head is a need not a want, and is a much higher priority to sexual and gay rights.

Housing shortage is an innate by product of a centralised planned Marxist state.

What I found interesting about yesterday's little farrago about William Hague and Friend was not the shenanigans about sharing a room together, but it was the reaction of the mainstream Media to the way the story broke.

The Mainstream Media has long decided that it has given up any pretence of being the fourth estate holding the executive account and investigative journalism of my youth is now in the distant past.

However when I hear phrases like 'a story that started on the outer fringes of the Internet' in reference to the Guido Fawkes site, you can almost hear the gnashing of teeth and the sound of spades digging trenches around their bastions of parliamentary privileged access.

The fifth estate of the 'outer reaches of the Internet' (the political blogoshere) contains a strong streak of Libertarian writing that is completely unrepresented in the political process, that believes that big Government is by its very nature suspect and is very likely to be corrupt. This is nothing new.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. Tacitus

The Political blogs have long exposed abuses of big Government and especially the cosy relationship between Government, the BBC and the major broadsheets in not reporting stories that affect the quality of our lives.

The exposure of the expenses scandal was not something the Daily Telegraph suddenly came upon, Heather Brooke had been doggedly pursuing this for a few years, the political blogs, this one amongst them started five years ago was coming up the story after story of national and local government financial and political abuse.

The Whitehall village knew all about the thuggery of Damian McBride and the slipperiness of Derek Draper and how close these two were to Brown. It was Guido that broke the story of the targeting and the slandering of opposition politicians and even the same tactics being used on politicians in their own camp.

Peter Hain was another Government Minister skewered, William Hague was forced to make a highly personal statement in his defence and to dump Myers overboard.

The question of Brown's temperamental suitability to be the unelected leader of this country that circulated widely on the blogs, has been confirmed by no less than Tony Blair in recent days.

The 'outer fringes of the Internet' contain figures like Julian Assange of Wikileaks.

Whistle blowers are not going to the media any longer because they know they are not going to closed off by a D notice or a public interest immunity certificate as was used in Matrix Churchill. The battlefield logs leaked to Wikileaks would never have been reported in the mainstream media.

The Fifth Estate continually ran the loss of public bodies that lost £1Bn in Iceland, whilst local authorities in a blue funk resorted to news management by the Local Government Association. Without the political blogs very few people would have known about the colossal loss of public money. Only one Lib Dem Peer went on Radio four and said that these authorities had been acting Ultra Vires, and he was promptly silenced by the Lib Dem leadership.

Campaigns to release people like Nick Hogan from the petty injustices of the State would not have been possible without political blogs.

The 'digital opposition' has been far more effective in holding the Executive to account than 'Her Majesties Loyal Opposition, so lets stop pretending that 'the outer reaches of the Internet' are not influencing political discourse. As sure as eggs are eggs you are going to see from the political establishment a further call for 'control of the Internet', extending Advertising Standards to the internet is just the first salami slice.

This pipsqueak of a blog has had repeated weekly visits in the last month from the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills, (don't worry I am not publishing my account of my tussles with you until mid October on legal grounds), the BBC, the Houses of Parliament, various Police forces around the country and about six or seven local authorities in the South West.

Monitoring the 'Outer Reaches of the Internet' by public bodies has become an essential part of their news management because it happens in real time, not creeping out in the dead tree press after some twenty four hours.

The last time we had such uncontrolled political 'pamphleteering' was prior to the English Civil War, constraining these pamphlets did not do Laud much good. At least Ministers are taking the 'Fifth Estate' seriously even if mainstream media are not.

I think I can go along with this.

I have just finished reading the scattered extracts from the Court of King Tony, complete with the faux tears over Iraq, and admissions of policy failure on the underclass, massive immigration, and the mild drinking.

The sub text is one of self justification even when he was wrong over Iraq and the massive overspending by the State.

However for me the two interesting things were his moral failure over Gordon Brown, and the appalling way we are run as a country.

With Gordon Brown, by common consent he was a disaster as both Chancellor and Prime Minister. With the boot boys like Damien McBride and Ed Balls, we had a situation that no 10 was too terrified to kick him into touch. That came over time and time again. Blair takes pride in his manipulation and down right lies, saying thats what we expect of a senior politician. No we do not, we want a leader who acts in the best interests of the country and has some moral integrity to boot.

It is clear that as every day went on and Blair failed to deal with Brown and his coterie, Brown brooding in the Treasury just got stronger. The Treasury believes that it runs the show, the longer Brown stayed there, he was seeing himself as the 'once and future' De Facto Leader.

Blair should have sacked Brown quickly and surgically, Balls removed and thugs like Damien McBride and his ilk removed from the halls of Government. The fact that Blair was such a weak leader, that he allowed Bush to run our foreign policy, and Brown to damage the domestic economy and play Scottish pork barrel politics is testimony to his lack of vision, will and purpose for the country.

Secondly, the Blair/Brown era shows how bankrupt our constitutional arrangements are.

All power is centralised and focussed into the character flaws of these two men. This was worse than worst days of Charles I personal rule. The 'Something must be done' attitude just laid the foundations of the Stasi State that Con Dem is still yet to tackle. Our Civil Liberties were torn up, our liberal values torn up, and the standards of education and managerial expertise thrown to the dogs of expediency.

We cannot have a return to this, Con Dem is constrained in a mexican stand off at present, but this is not going to last for ever. Unless power is decanted away from Whitehall and either back to Parliament as it was in 1640, or better still closer to the people of this country in our own equivalent of a Federal Lander or Canton, we are going to repeatedly suffer by the insanity of power being so centralised, where even giving out of 'honours' causes political scandals.

The very fact we talk of the Westminster Village shows that we have distorted elite driven bankrupt political system that has failed over and over again, trying to maintain 1950's Butskillism.

To my eternal regret two years ago I did not buy Chris Mullin's first edition of his diaries 'The View From The Foothills' and have the opportunity to have it signed at the Hay festival.

This morning I have so far spent a relatively lazy morning, clearing up two dead rabbits that one of the cats has decided to supplement his diet with, yesterday it was only one headless on the the kitchen tiles. However I was able to listen to Chris Mullin's new diary extracts on Radio 4 called Decline & Fall 2005-10. A deliberate title parody of Gibbon's Roman Empire or the last days in the Reichs bunker.

Chris Mullin has always struck me as one of the few Labour men that I can have time for because of his principled stance on Civil Liberties.

Listening to the extracts this morning which dealt with the vote on ninety days detention under the Terrorism Act that Mullin opposed it was clear that the vast majority of Labour MP's would not recognise principle if it stood up and hit them in the face.

Blair made an impassioned speech to the PLP to support ninety days on the basis that it would wrong foot the Tories, not dealing with terrorists. Blair the operator clearly knew the sheep he was dealing with. As with driving the sheep into the lobby over Iraq, Blair was on sparkling form.

As a well know dissenter, he was called into to see the whip, then the 'man' himself, who urged him to vote with the Government. Mullin said he would love to, if he had not spent most of the seventies and eighties fighting the very people that Blair was preparing to give extended powers to.

(As with most episodes of Police malpractice, nobody was ever bought to book, Supt Reade and others though charged with Perjury and perverting the course of Justice were never prosecuted)

In the event the sheep were defeated by the wolves, the first ever nu-labour defeat. As Mullin said, 'The Rubicon had been crossed'.

Mullin exposes the sham of naked and dangerous power play that is 'Representative Parliamentary Democracy' as practiced in this country. Without men and women of princple, a small cabal of 'like minded friends' tend to run the country. The publication of 'The Journey' by one T.Blair will show that largely that the small cabal around Blair were acting in the interests of a foreign power, namely the United States, not the the United Kingdom.

If the quality of the flock of sheep that was the PLP was anything to go by we desperately need a written Constitution to hold the Executive in check, when having a pop at the Tories is seen as more important than national security.

This is the second Argentinian Film I have seen, this one is definately up in the bloody marvellous category.

Lord Mandelson's megadepartment left a legacy of bad debts, waste and mismanagement that cost taxpayers’ tens of millions of pounds last year, it has been revealed.



Of course not that is just for the little people

Business,Innovation and Skills eh? Obviously none of these three applies to this Department.

Until I had read this post by Raedwald I must admit that the London Olympic Games and Paralymptic Games Act 2006, was one that passed me by.

As with all New Labour Acts it raises a new 'enforcement' army of people who failed to get their GCSE's and do anything productive in life.

22 Enforcement: power of entry

(1)A constable or enforcement officer may—

(a)enter land or premises on which they reasonably believe a contravention of regulations under section 19 is occurring (whether by reason of advertising on that land or premises or by the use of that land or premises to cause an advertisement to appear elsewhere);

(b)remove, destroy, conceal or erase any infringing article;

(c)when entering land under paragraph (a), be accompanied by one or more persons for the purpose of taking action under paragraph (b);

(d)use, or authorise the use of, reasonable force for the purpose of taking action under this subsection.

(2)The power to enter land or premises may be exercised only at a time that a constable or enforcement officer thinks reasonable having regard to the nature and circumstances of the contravention of regulations under section 19.

(3)Before entering land or premises a constable or enforcement officer must take reasonable steps to—

(a)establish the identity of an owner, occupier or person responsible for the management of the land or premises or of any infringing article on the land or premises, and

(b)give any owner, occupier or responsible person identified under paragraph (a) such opportunity as seems reasonable to the constable or enforcement officer in the circumstances of the case to end the contravention of the regulations (whether by removing, destroying or concealing any infringing article or otherwise).

(4)The power to enter premises may be exercised in relation to a dwelling only in accordance with a warrant issued by a justice of the peace; and a justice of the peace may issue a warrant only if satisfied on the application of a constable or enforcement officer that—

(a)there are reasonable grounds to believe a contravention of regulations under section 19 is occurring in the dwelling or on land that can reasonably be entered only through the dwelling,

(b)the constable or enforcement officer has complied with subsection (3),

(c)the constable or enforcement officer has taken reasonable steps to give notice to persons likely to be interested of his intention to apply for a warrant, and

(d)that it is reasonable in the circumstances of the case to issue a warrant.


As Raedwald points out the only protection the general public has is that a warrant has to be signed by a Magistrate, so there is going to be a whole host of new District Judges to be dishing them out.

I am waiting for the new uniform for these enforcement officers to be rolled out, black battledress,riot shield and pink lycra shorts.


Did we actually have an election to stop this sort of thing ??

H/T Big Brother Watch

I have been invited on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Keep Cornwall Whole at Truro Town Hall 7pm on the 31st August as a representative of the Libertarian Party South West (Wessex & Kernow)

Con-Dem is proposing on the grounds of efficiency to merge some Cornish Seats with ones in Devon. Cornwall (Kernow) is in a very unique constitutional position within the United Kingdom. The last Stannary Parliament was called some thirty years after the last pre modern Scottish Parliament. The Duchy of Cornwall has morphed into some form of private company belonging to Prince Charles Coburg-Saxe-Gotha, but retain a great deal of the Duchy rights to the foreshore and other monarchical benefits, whilst the political entity morphed into a County Council of England.

The latest proposal by the Boundary Commission is that parts of Cornwall are blended into Devon.

Cornwall appears to have as much right to Crown Dependency status as the Isle of Man,the States of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, with the right to set its own tax rates and have its own Courts etc.

Cornwall by adopting a Libertarian Agenda would stop being derided as an English Black Spot for unemployment, and could be the fourth prosperous independent Crown Dependency.

I am assured that even though I am by birth a Miercisc (look it up) I will be most welcome.