Two years ago, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell called for Philip Green’s knighthood to be removed for his ‘vandalism’ British Home Stores pensions scandal – and said similar about Richard Branson because of his tax-exile status and his attempt, as McDonnell saw it, to ‘undermine’ democracy by accusing Jeremy Corbyn of lying about being on an over-full Virgin train. The SKWAWKBOX subsequently showed Corbyn’s account was accurate.
Following his calls, McDonnell was castigated as ‘anti-business’ by right-wing MPs and others.
Today, after Green was named under parliamentary privilege by Peter Hain as the person facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment who had allegedly used non-disclosure agreements to gag complainants and an injunction to silence a newspaper, the voices that attacked McDonnell are conspicuously silent on the issue.
How bleakly unsurprising.
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But for the Psychopaths our reality – and our history – would be totally different.
I happened upon the following article earlier, so just in case there’s anyone who still believes the White Helmets are heroes and a force for good, check it out and learn the truth. And here’s a taster:
Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, sums it up like this:
The White Helmets are jihadi auxiliaries… They are not, as claimed by themselves and by their supporters… simple rescuers. They are not volunteers. They are paid professionals of disinformation.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/10/western-media-attacks-critics-of-the-white-helmets/
https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201807261066705055-us-israel-white-helmets/
For no particular reason I thought it’d turn out to be Sugar.
Maybe I thought of him because he seems to chase celebrity – thought of as a better route to success with women than the business world and the driving factor behind many aspiring to fame via music, acting, TV, fashion, politics etc.
Although I suppose superyachts have aphrodisiac qualities too.
So if he has nothing to fear and done nothing wrong , as he clearly states , then why the need for injunctions and non disclosure orders ?
It’s a perception problem! The ‘honours system’ is a measure of who’s who. Who is the biggest creep; who donates the most money to the Tory party; who can say yes to the establishment whenever possible. Yes Sir! Uncritical, unquestioning, Yes man (& woman), but never working class (unless nouveau riche). An elite system that rewards itself…..& as for the House of Lords………!!!
‘Tonight I need to write a poem.
To share just how I feel.
As the Tory Barbarians.
The wealth of the workers they steal.’
But they are vapid and they are really morons who stuff their mouths with gold!
(Yes rich & powerful you are grotesque and thîck and you with all your vacuus wealth YOU are the true little people of the planet!). Sleep well diverse working people tonight -together we are going to win the World. X
I love poetry like I love jazz, opera, musicals and disco – I’m a proselytising philistine as far as they’re concerned, sorry 🙂
For me the beauty of language is in the clarity of thought and communication it allows, not the contrived impenetrability of an Eliot, Browning or Thomas – which I find pointless and irritating enough to want to dig them up and strangle them.