Apart from the narrowness in the polling between the two main parties, the other dramatic characteristic of this election is the number of people who are profoundly disgruntled and deep-down angry at the Establishment, in which they include Labour as well as the Tories, and are likely either not to vote at all or to […]
Posts Tagged ‘The establishment’
Chilcot: Establishment writes its own rules to evade embarrassment
Jan 22nd, 2015 by Michael Meacher.The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war (March-April 2003, nearly 12 years ago) was set up in 2009 and took public evidence from its last witness in 2011. The announcement yesterday that the report after 6 years on inquiry is being strung out until after the election this May is truly scandalous. Cameron has tried […]
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Our corrupt, self-protective, unaccountable Establishment
Dec 29th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.By chance several events in the few days before Christmas highlighted poignantly how the British Establishment – the small political-economic-financial elite who went to the same public schools and the same universities (usually Oxbridge) – automatically close ranks to protect each other when they come under pressure. Jonathan Burrows, a former MD of Blackrock Asset […]
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For Scotland’s sake, we must break from the Westminster establishment
Nov 3rd, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The Westminster establishment, to which all the three main political parties are seen to sign up, is the most toxic brew in modern British politics. It has led to UKIP, which robbed the Tories of Clacton and likely Rochester, as well as almost certainly several Tory seats at the next election. And which came within […]
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Woolf’s enforced resignation exposes Establishment & Home Office stitch-up
Nov 1st, 2014 by Jon Lansman.It’s not often I disagree with my colleague Tom Watson MP, but on the issue of Fiona Woolf being forced out of the chairmanship of the child sex abuse inquiry after a string of damning revelations I think he’s got it wrong. “Labour should not go after May”, he’s reported as saying. Of course he’s […]
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Sham regulator just a device by Murdoch & co to distract from real press accountability
Jun 3rd, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The launch last week of the press industry-backed press regulator is a farce, but one that the media moguls are determined to run for all it’s worth. This is press industry-driven self-regulation again in all but name. The press industry is one of the three biggest powers in the State, along with the finance industry […]
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MPs, press, police, bankers – none can be left to regulate themselves
Apr 9th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.Cameron’s obstinate defence of Maria Miller against the large majority of his own party and the public who want to be rid of her for her greed, arrogance and sheer callous disregard for decent standards in public life needs some explaining. Maybe he wanted to put in the knife himself in his own time in […]
