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Civil List Loot: King George III

While the King was engaged in increasing subserviency of the court (Tory) party. Parliamentary support was purchased with pensions and pecuniary corruption.
In February 1769 the arrears of the Civil List amounted to £513,511; and his Majesty applied to Parliament to discharge them.
This demand was made when the people were exasperated by the persecution of John Wilkes,- when the policy of the court was odious, and the King unpopular.
But if the country was discontented, Parliament was held in safe subjection. Inquiry was demanded into the causes of the debt, and explanatory accounts were sought: but all investigation being resisted by ministers, the amount was granted without information.
In the following year Lord Chatham avowed his conviction that the Civil List revenues were expended in corrupting members of Parliament.
But the same causes of excessive expenditure continued without a check; and eight years later the King again applied to Parliament, not only to discharge a debt of £618,340, but to increase his annual Civil List to £900,000 a year. The large amount of secret-service money, and the increased pension list were noticed,- and insinuations made of corruption. But Parliament acceded to the demands of the King.
Erskine May. Civil List of King George III. Chapter IV.

The Speaker, Sir Fletcher Norton, commented. "The Commons have not only granted to your Majesty a large present supply, but also a very great additional revenue; great beyond example; great beyond your Majesty's highest expense."
King George 3 had Speaker Norton fired. Norton was the last Speaker to criticize the Civil List.
The present Queen, Snotty Liz, gets a Civil List of £M7.9 per year to play with.
Since 1992 when Labour MP's demanded a closer check on palace spending. The Queen has been unable to steal as much as she used to. Consequently between 1992 - 2005 she built up a £M37 Civil List surplus.
A half decent Head of State would have returned that money to the Treasury for use in our hospitals. Snotty Liz is holding on to it for shortfalls! In other words until she thinks of some way to steal it.   

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The Queen's Ministers

The West Lothian MP Tam Dalyell had a fag at Eton of who he would later remark. “I wish I had beaten him more.” The fag, Nicholas Ridley, became a typical Tory Minister of the Crown doing the Queen’s bidding - closing the pits and imposing the Poll Tax.
He was given the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 1989. You would think Her Majesties Department of Trade and Industry was all about creating British jobs. Not so.
The Head of State had decided that “market forces” should dictate Britain’s trade and industry.
Ridley was ordered to ignore the effects of cheap imported goods and increasing immigrant labour.
At that point Ridley saw the light. It was obvious to him the Queen had decided to hand-over Parliaments’ law making powers to the bankers running Brussels. After he posed the question: "What is the DTI for? I've got bugger all to do and thousands of staff to help me do it." Ridley was forced to was forced to resign he died in 1992.

The DTI is now called BERR (Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform). Run by the Queen’s odious business secretary, Mandy Mandelson, BERR is concentrating on flogging-off the Post Office to a German outfit and bringing in cheap labour to build French and German nuclear power stations.

Most government departments have one unelected minister BERR has four. Lord Carter BERR’s minister for communications used to run the Brunswick Group, a PR outfit whose clients include British Airways, Barclays, Unilever, Rolls Royce and BT.
Lord Davies, the minister for trade and investment, was chairman of Standard Chartered and a non-executive director of Tesco.
Until October, the Queen’s trade minister was “the Fat Cat’s fat friend” Lord Digby Jones of the Confederation of British Industry.
These unelected ministers prevent anyone interfering with their plan’s to destroy the last vestiges of the trade unions.
As Blair’s mentor and as the Queen’s EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson , was instrumental in preventing government regulation that would have stopped the bankers stealing £300 billion which the honest taxpayer has now to pay back to those same deregulated banks.

Following their royal orders to control every word you read BERR has now deregulated British news distribution. This is a gift to Tesco’s and the like but a tragedy for your local newsagent and your freedom of speech. Without small distribution companies newspapers and magazines have no protection protected publishers from censorship by powerful retailers.
Tesco UK has been trying to break the ­distribution agreement since 2000; now Mandelson has delivered.
In dumbed-down-America Tesco and the like already dictate the contents of the magazines they sell.
A few days ago, the Guardian revealed that BERR has set up a new unit, whose purpose appears to be to lobby another department on behalf of business. The business department relinquished its responsibility for energy policy only six months ago. Now it has created an energy and climate change unit, whose brief and title look suspiciously similar to Ed Miliband's Department for Energy and Climate Change. While Miliband gets the environment, Mandelson appears to be doing everything in his power to trash it. Over the past year he has secured £2.6bn in subsidies, loans and guarantees for the motor industry. He boasts that this is "effectively the same as underwriting the entire vehicle sector's research and development and capital expenditure for a year". He is widely blamed for the decision to build a third runway at Heathrow.

Last month BERR launched a consultation about the EU's attempts to strengthen its directives on waste electrical equipment and hazardous substances. The EU is trying to cut the amount of cyberjunk going into ­landfill and to prevent companies ­sending dead computers overseas to be ­dismantled by child labourers. In ­drafting the ­consultation document, Mandelson's department conferred with 10 ­industry bodies but no trade unions or ­environment or development groups.

In the strategic plan it released last month, BERR announced that it wants the government to "match … the influence it ­exercises in the economy to the strategic needs of business". It also wants to second even more people from the private ­sector into government, which is ­already ­infested with people whose public ­duties conflict with their ­commercial interests. It revealed that, as of last month, "grant applicants to all ­research councils will have to set out the ­economic impact of their proposed research". This appears to mark the end of the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake: all research, whether funded by the state or corporations, must now ­consider the needs of business.

Business is perfectly capable of ­making its own representations. It does not require a cell inside government to ensure that its voice is heard; it should compete, like the rest of us, for the attention of ministers. Mandelson's department has one legitimate function: simplifying and clarifying regulations. The others – the trade missions, the lobbying, the featherbedding – achieve the rare distinction of undermining both social democracy and free markets.

BERR now has a budget of £1.92bn, £460m bigger than it was last year. The government is looking for savings. It should close this department down.


Thieving Doris Cameron

Multi-millionaire Cameron took out a £350,000 mortgage on his constituency home in Oxfordshire when he became an MP in 2001. By declaring it as a second home he could claim £20,000 a year towards the repayments. But within four months of buying it, he paid off £75,000 he owed on a house in London.
If he had kept the loan on the London home and borrowed £75,000 less on the Oxfordshire home, he could have saved the taxpayer £22,000.
Doris's pal James Clappison claims £100,000 but owns 24 houses:


Clappison claims £100,000 but owns 24 houses
MPs' expenses By Jon Swaine 15 May 2009

James Clappison, a work and pensions spokesman, used taxpayers’ money to buy petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies for his “second home”, part of a property portfolio that includes a farm and a cricket club.

Mr Clappison, the MP for Hertsmere, claimed the expenses for a semi-detached house worth about £375,000 in St Albans, Herts, where he lives with his wife Helen. He also spends time at a house in Leeds, which is worth about £360,000 and is registered to his wife. Neither property is mortgaged.

The properties are spread around the villages of Withernsea and Patrington, where Mr Clappison owns a farm and 75 acres of surrounding land inherited from his father, who was a farmer.

He also owns the ground of Patrington village cricket club. He sits on the

club’s committee as “president and proprietor”. He has built up his property interests steadily since being elected in 1992, when he took over the safe Tory seat from Cecil Parkinson, the former cabinet minister and close ally of Lady Thatcher.

According to the Commons register of members’ interests, he had five houses by 1998 and 14 four years later.

Since 2001, Mr Clappison has claimed a total of £102,241 in second home expenses. Because he owned the house in St Albans outright, he was unable to claim interest charges on mortgage repayments, as many MPs do on their second homes.

Instead he made regular claims for maintenance, groceries, utilities bills and his television licence. He typically claimed £300 per month for food, £100-£125 per month for a cleaner and £31 per month for his cable television bill.

He has also claimed a total of £3,166 for regular work on his garden since 2004.

Detailed receipts submitted to the Commons fees office show that last year, he claimed £316 for gardening services, including the planting of a wide variety of flowers. Over two months, his gardener invoiced him for a box of geraniums, five boxes of petunias, one bottle brush shrub, one and a half boxes of busy lizzies, three trailing geraniums and five trailing petunias.

In letters to Mr Clappison, the gardener wrote: “Today I worked two and a half hours but there is still a lot more to do.”

Between 2004 and 2005 he claimed £628 for gardening. He also claimed £20 for a Kenwood kitchen blender in July 2004. From 2005 to 2006 he claimed £578 for a washing machine and £719 for a new bed from Marks & Spencer.

During the same year he also claimed £970 for gardening, including £320 to have a cherry tree and laurel bush cut back.

Between 2006 and 2007, he spent £567 on gardening. The same year he claimed £892 on a renovations bill spanning repainting, reflooring and window cleaning.

The work included the supply and fitting of a new lavatory seat in his bathroom. He also claimed £297 for a VCR. The following year, he claimed £3,541 for roof repairs and £1,990 for redecoration including the refurbishment of brass fittings to his front door. He also claimed £686 for gardening and £298 for television and DVD player.

James Clappison
Conservative work and pension spokesman

Salary: £64,766

Total second home claims

2004-05: £10,656

2005-06: £12,376

2006-07: £12,161

2007-08: £15,916

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Banks: How Our Money Vanished
John Lanchester has written a brilliant exposition of the banking crisis.

These are his conclusions:
It’s for this reason that the thing the governments least want to do – take over the banks – is something that needs to happen, not just for economic reasons, but for ethical ones too. There needs to be a general acceptance that the current model has failed. The brakes-off, deregulate or die, privatise or stagnate, lunch is for wimps, greed is good, what’s good for the financial sector is good for the economy model; the sack the bottom 10 per cent, bonus-driven, if you can’t measure it, it isn’t real model; the model that spread from the City to government and from there through the whole culture, in which the idea of value has gradually faded to be replaced by the idea of price. Thatcher began, and Labour continued, the switch towards an economy which was reliant on financial services at the expense of other areas of society. What was equally damaging for Britain was the hegemony of economic, or quasi-economic, thinking. The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn’t belong. In fields such as education, equality of opportunity, health, employees’ rights, the social contract and culture, the first conversation to happen should be about values; then you have the conversation about costs. In Britain in the last 20 to 30 years that has all been the wrong way round. There was a reverse takeover, in which City values came to dominate the whole of British life.

It’s becoming traditional at this point to argue that perhaps the financial crisis will be good for us, because it will cause people to rediscover other sources of value. I suspect this is wishful thinking, or thinking about something which is quite a long way away, because it doesn’t consider just how angry people are going to get when they realise the extent of the costs we are going to carry for the next few decades. I think we will end up nationalising at least some of our big banks because the electorate will be too angry to do anything that looks in the smallest degree like letting them get away with it. Banks can’t change their behaviour, so we have to do it for them, and the only way to do it is to take them over. We can’t afford any more TBTF.

I get the strong impression, talking to people, that the penny hasn’t fully dropped. As the ultra-bleak condition of our finances becomes more and more apparent people are going to ask increasingly angry questions about how we got into this predicament. The drop in sterling, for instance, means that prices for all sorts of goods will go up just as oil and gas prices have spiked downwards. Combined with job losses – a million people are forecast to lose their jobs this year, taking unemployment back to Thatcherite levels – and tax rises, and inflation, and the increasing realisation that the cost of the financial crisis is going to be paid not over a few years but over a generation, we have a perfect formula for a deep and growing anger. Expectations have risen a lot, over the last three decades; that’s going to have a big impact on how furious people feel about the hard years ahead. The level of future public spending cuts implied in Darling’s recent budget – which included the laughably optimistic idea that the economy will grow by 1.25 per cent next year – is greater than the level of cuts implemented by Thatcher. Remember, that’s the optimistic version. If we’re lucky, it won’t be any worse than Thatcherism.
John Lanchester



9/11: Unique Weapon
February 2009. The Queen’s Globalist weapons outfit BAE Systems will supply the US Navy with the latest mass murder weapon – The Electromagnetic Hypercannon - which some believe was field tested on 9/11.

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Nothing physically, recklessly, hopelessly blind
Nothing I couldn't say
Nothing why 'cos today
Nothing rhymed
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