tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42985979434850861422024-02-19T02:03:39.407-08:00South West LibertariansGuthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.comBlogger206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-17352309770635568142011-06-03T01:02:00.000-07:002011-06-03T01:02:05.156-07:00What they are not telling you as members of LPUKOn the 19th May 2011, an ‘emergency’ meeting was called to appoint new members of the NCC and it was to be conducted in a clear open and transparent manner. It was also to be supervised by ‘impartial’ members of the Party acting as observers. Sounds great.<br />
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Except it was anything of the sort, this was a fairly unsophisticated attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on a crude coup based on smears.<br />
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One of the officers being proposed was not actually a member of the Libertarian Party, and neither was one of the impartial observers. Yet gamely they ploughed on proposing each other as officers of the party without a shred of legitimacy or even pretending that any of the proceedings were in line with the constitution.<br />
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Everything had the blessing of the Electoral Commission it was stated. One member of the NCC actually asked direct questions as to the legitimacy of the observers and of the proceedings only to be fobbed off .<br />
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Ken Ferguson who was still under a motion to remove him as Communications Director for breaches of the Data Protection Act was acting as ringmaster and allowed to vote. Ferguson rushed the ‘good news’ of the new appointments online, before the minutes were even drafted, congratulations all round (despite nobody being willing to accept the poisoned chalice of being treasurer)<br />
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Except just one fly in the ointment, a call from the Electoral Commission allegedly saying that due to poor Parliamentary dafting (??) the registered officers remained the same, and unless the transfer of officers was in line with the procedures of PPERA, the Act that governs registered political parties, the ‘new NCC‘ would be rejected by the Electoral Commission. And they were.<br />
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The small group around Ferguson, who now sees himself as leader in waiting, have been a little shy of announcing this gaffe that they discovered for themselves after having been repeatedly told that they were acting unconstitutionally on the 20th May. So currently the LPUK is a ghost ship, with various proposals to rip up the constitution and turn it into everything from an internet party to a committee led workers collective that will certainly ensure its rapid demise.<br />
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Various requests to turn the donation button back on and put moderation on the site to prevent further defamation and harassment were met by a blank refusal by the 'communications' director.<br />
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The truth is that the NCC announced by Ferguson had no validity has been known since the 20th May. The open and transparent ‘new leadership’ has decided not to make this public.<br />
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With no income and memberships flowing into the new unauthorised account, which is not declared as an accounting unit to the Electoral Commission, the insolvency situation has become even worse.<br />
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Faced with a blank refusal by Ferguson to stay within the constitution, together with electoral and civil law, and in line with Ferguson’s proposed ‘new constitution’ that suggests that registered officers will have no power, but are simply there to carry the can personally for breaches of of those laws, coupled with the suggestion that the party does not need more than £200 a year just to run his website, the Nominations Officer yesterday decided to call it a day and do the decent thing, and publish a public apology. <br />
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Except of course there was no way that this was ever going to be published on the LPUK website whilst under the control of the ‘Communications Director’, whose sole aim appears to be only to communicate what is acceptable to him and censor the rest.<br />
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The membership lists were handed over yesterday to the remaining registered officers and the following apology was made by Simon Fawthrop.<br />
<blockquote>An Apology To Andrew Withers, the NCC, Membership and Supporters.<br />
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I want to make an apology to Andrew Withers, he is and always has been Party Leader as recognised by the EC and relevant legislation and the Party Constitution and I had no right to try to elect a new Leader and Treasurer. I also wish to apologise to the NCC and the wider membership and supporters for misleading you all about the position of Party Leader and Treasurer, I was wrong and it was not in my power to seek to fill those positions that I thought were vacant.<br />
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It was my misunderstanding that Andrew had resigned as Party Leader and that we needed to appoint a new Leader and Treasurer to be compliant with the relevant legislation. I now know that Andrew had not resigned and, furthermore, cannot resign. This means that Andrew is and always has been Party Leader and, with the resignation of John Watson, Treasurer.<br />
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As such the NCC meeting that I convened to find replacements for Treasurer and Leader was against the letter of the Constitution and means those NCC elections are not and have never been valid.<br />
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Obviously having been so wrong I cannot continue in any capacity within the Party and I have informed Andrew that I am resigning with immediate effect as Data Officer and Membership Secretary. Furthermore, I will step down as Nominations Officer as soon as a replacement is found. I am sure there are many members willing to take on those vital roles.<br />
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Once again, I apologise to Andrew and those I have misled and I wish you all well for the future.<br />
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Regards,<br />
Simon</blockquote>This is great shame as Simon has been a consistent and effective membership secretary for over two years, yet again another officer forced out by a small cabal who maintain that they are for openness, transparency and the continuance of the Libertarian Party, but act in exactly the opposite manner. This situation has been known to them for nearly two weeks.<br />
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The South West Branch has organised a meeting of its members on the 18th June to try an map out a proposed future for the party, the Scottish branch are doing the same in July.<br />
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Clearly things cannot go on as they are, the insolvency caused by the deliberate cutting off of funds needs to be urgently addressed or the party de registered. If it is to continue it may need to be restructured into a federal model. Clearly the ‘internet party’ has to cease.<br />
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What is certain is that the SGM to change the constitution called for 18th June 2011 has no validity constitutionally and would not be recognised by the Electoral Commission.<br />
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As the existing registered officers have only a short term intention to stay in office to either attend to funeral arrangements or to seek a more viable model for the lpuk to exist, within its constitution and comply with electoral law, the future of LPUK still remains uncertain.IanPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17911432983440475284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-66431008944184766302011-06-02T03:59:00.000-07:002011-06-02T03:59:17.705-07:00Meeting Of South West Libertarians June 18th 2011There will be a meeting of past and current members of the South West Branch of the Libertarian Party in Bristol on June 18th 2011. Venue to be arranged.<br />
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Only one item on the agenda a response to the proposed tearing up of the party constitution as proposed<a href="http://lpuk.org/2011/05/party-future-a-blueprint-for-renewal/"> here.</a>Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-42341878775943861322011-01-22T10:50:00.000-08:002011-01-22T10:50:26.898-08:00Without A Hint Of Irony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbC35IPOqjUjogJWqrW9zJ0LSg6EZ6b2wN-E4Bua8ePvyeEgXyp76F_7eKbMFRE9SdSAJ_W0V4M012wJIP7TWIX_d2L2KRZ_oEaHdl2_CU3Y5cjhM-sRw8zCReNolKRBTB9qaWhyDd5o/s1600/Russian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpbC35IPOqjUjogJWqrW9zJ0LSg6EZ6b2wN-E4Bua8ePvyeEgXyp76F_7eKbMFRE9SdSAJ_W0V4M012wJIP7TWIX_d2L2KRZ_oEaHdl2_CU3Y5cjhM-sRw8zCReNolKRBTB9qaWhyDd5o/s400/Russian.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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I was in the new Bristol shopping centre with my youngest son who is back from University for the weekend. There was a bit of a commotion going out side Barclays, by Anarchists for more State Intervention (Anarchists ??)<br />
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After a lot of pushing and shoving with the Police they decided to target Lloyds Bank next, then Nationwide (this is a mutual not a bank you idiots) then they started running through the shopping centre yelling and shouting for what they were worth, an activity called steaming, this resulted in some other ne'erdowells joining in and shops starting to close their doors in case the guardians of the revolution decided to liberate their goods.<br />
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Without a hint of irony, members of the Socialist Workers Party stood by trying to sell their newspapers. The latest in fashionable chic is apparently a Palestinian scarf (denotes level of righteousness) a soviet era military fur hat with cap badge whilst shouting for freedom (remember gulags) and troops out of Afghanistan (Soviet troops being ok in Afghanistan then) topped off with a Serbian army surplus wintercoat (don't even go there)<br />
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As Lenin said 'useful fools'.<br />
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Highlight of the day - Anarchist withdrawing £50 from HSBC cash point, without the hint of irony.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-20306986859046795932010-12-10T01:41:00.001-08:002010-12-10T01:41:21.167-08:00A Quiet Revolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIegLJLaQVXMYW0U2rO0P77vVaiYdItSk0nigZwPFJjQKu7aMjDk6xOEbD9wHnrzERFwq0fTMi88zZTICF1eLmy30fVmTEqR056cl4yxEEx9JFCfSb9y-YTP45dBtndx0v_6wHxREwRXM/s1600/Steve+Baker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIegLJLaQVXMYW0U2rO0P77vVaiYdItSk0nigZwPFJjQKu7aMjDk6xOEbD9wHnrzERFwq0fTMi88zZTICF1eLmy30fVmTEqR056cl4yxEEx9JFCfSb9y-YTP45dBtndx0v_6wHxREwRXM/s320/Steve+Baker.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><br />
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Yesterday evening I was on the 'frontline' of the end of the failed <br />
fabian experiment in Westminster. The dregs of the student protests were<br />
still being kettled, Police had helicopters up, tube stations closed <br />
and vans full of back up, yet they still managed to drive a couple of <br />
VIP's into the middle of this maelstrom of heightened emotions.<br /><br />
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This morning Boris and Stephenson of the Met were having a discussion<br />
on Radio 4 about yesterday, was it just me or was Stephenson making a <br />
lot of threats about how 'tooled up' his men were. Was he seriously <br />
advocating that the Met start shooting protestors ?<br /><br />
I saw bizarre sights such as 'anarchists' demanding more state subsidy for education. How does that work then ?<br /><br />
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Labour created a massive expansion of the State that was built on <br />
nothing more than a bubble, to have 50% of the young 'doing a degree' <br />
was only going to devalue standards and to damage the marketability of <br />
having a degree. There is nothing left that the hard pressed taxpayer <br />
can contribute to a 'bust' state. What we saw on the streets was nothing<br />
more that demanding money with menaces, and Labour were at the front of<br />
this egging it on, as usual bearing no responsibility for their <br />
actions.<br /><br />
Meanwhile at the National Liberal Club a quiet revolution was occuring organised by the <a href="http://www.cobdencentre.org/">Cobden Centre.</a> <a href="http://www.lpuk.org/">Libertarians</a>, Members of the <a href="http://www.adamsmith.org/">Adam Smith Institute</a><br />
and other representatives of Classical Liberal organisations met for an<br />
informal social event to make contacts, talk and make futue plans. The <br />
talk was was of honest money, Mises and Hayek and of course the failing<br />
<a href="http://mises.org/books/bagus_tragedy_of_euro.pdf">Euro experiment.</a><br /><br />
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The keynote speech was by Conservative MP<a href="http://www.stevebaker.info/"> Steve Baker</a>, one of the few 'good guys'.<br /><br />
The Toast was to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cobden">Cobden</a>'s vision of 'Peace and Free Trade'<br /><br />
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Fabianism has failed, the Labour party derided Cobden the result is an impoverished nation and war.<br /><br />
For one battered Liberal (not the fake 'Liberal' Democrats) the long <br />
march is now on its second faltering step.<br /><br />
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I hope that you will join us <br />
in rebuilding 'Liberal' Britain.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-66499319798114098402010-11-27T04:01:00.000-08:002010-11-27T04:01:13.286-08:00Press Release - Andrew Withers new Party LeaderThe Libertarian Party annual AGM and Conference is taking place today in London. The following press release was issued at 12.00 today.<br />
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<blockquote> <strong>Acceptance of Party Leader of the Libertarian Party by Andrew Withers</strong></blockquote><br />
<blockquote> I would like to thank the Party for the confidence that it has shown in me in electing me unopposed. It is with regret that I cannot take up the post until we have resolved the the extraordinary decision by the Secretary of State Dr Vince Cable on the 12th November 2010 that he objects to me being Party Leader, Treasurer or Tea-boy in the Libertarian Party. </blockquote><br />
<blockquote>In his eyes I am unfit to do so without supervision from his department. Mr Cable was given until 4pm yesterday via his solicitors Osborne Clarke, to withdraw his extraordinary objection from the Bristol District Registry, as he has no powers in Law over the Libertarian Party according to both his own Counsel and Counsel that has volunteered its time on behalf of the Party. I have to tell you no such undertaking has been received, to use a phrase.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> All that was received was a letter that informed me yesterday, it was up to me to withdraw this from the Court, being a very simple person I did not understand the logic of this. I was instructed by a District Judge to include all of the organisations here,in America, in South Africa, in France that I am an executive member of. This includes charitable, political, blogs etc etc. Vince Cable's boys just objected to the lot without fear or favour on the 12th November.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Liam Fox MP, my local MP asked to be kept informed of all developments following his attempts to get Mandelson and now Vince Cable to drop this sorry saga after nearly five years. Incredibly my friends, the District Judge ordered a telephone conference to be heard on Dec 3rd to settle the issues at dispute. Vince's boys so far have objected to the telephone conference call, and refused to comply with another Court Order. As a party that believes in the supremacy of the rule of law, it is only right and proper that we await the directions of the Court on December 3rd, and that Vince Cable explains to the Court the reasons why on grounds of national security, public safety or in the interests of democracy he can overturn the will of members of the Libertarian Party and Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights. </blockquote><br />
<blockquote>I will remain Leader Designate.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Why are we here, a very small band of Libertarians formed into a party that will never in my lifetime seize office under this benighted system called Parliamentary Democracy.<br />
We are here because we are right in philosophy. In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down because Stalinism and Communism had had its day and people wanted freedom, the banking crash built on a mountain of public debt has brought an end to bureaucratic socialism and public and private debt as a way of life.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Now is the age of Liberty, but it is going to be a long fight because vested interest from the three statist parties wish the merry go round to continue. Labour only just lost the election under a corrupt voting system, Con Demery is not going to last, and unless things change dramatically the Social Democrats are going to leave the crumpled warm bed of David Cameron into the soiled sheets of Labour, breaking promises as they go.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> I am a Constitutionalist, I believe that none of us count because we have no recognition in Law as individuals because we have no Constitution. We are the neo serfs. The exchequer is broke, we are to be taxed out of recession, yet we are still fighting foreign wars and we are going to give Ireland £7Bn to save the eurozone ? Did anybody consult you ? Do you approve. Shut up- just give us the money.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> How do they get away with this ? because the State has the monopoly of violence, we are all frightened of the State. Whereas the State should be frightened of us the voter.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> De Menezes was a stain on our country, as was Iraq and Afghanistan. We have a Ministry of Defence not a Ministry of War ! Our troops are badly equipped, badly paid and neglected in old age and injury. The only legitimate function of the State is Defence of a free country. Politicians love being associated with the Military, it makes them look hard, the trouble is our civilian police force are playing more to the Force and less to the Civilian part of the equation. When did Dixon turn into Judge Dredd on our streets.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Libertarianism needs re-branding in the UK, the Stalinist left call us right wing, we are neither of the left or the right. David Nolan who tragically died last week put us on a different axis that of Liberty to Authoritarianism. We despise the big State who ever is running it in favour of minimal government that is local and accountable.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> We have the obscenity of so called Anarchists taking part in violent demonstrations in favour of large state hand outs. These are not Anarchists, they are simple leftist thugs demanding by violence what they cannot achieve by the ballot box.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Yesterday Cameron issued his first D notice, these are issued in time of war. He is no longer an authoritarian virgin. The Libertarian Party must oppose both nationally and locally. We are small very small but perhaps history will show that we kept fanning the flames of classical Liberalism in a seventy year long downpour of bureaucratic socialism.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote> Ends</blockquote><br />
<strong>Notes for editors</strong><br />
1) The Libertarian Party was founded on November 21st 2007 and officially launched on January 1st 2008. The party’s website can be found at:<br />
<a _mce_href="http://www.lpuk.org/" href="http://www.lpuk.org/" title="http://www.lpuk.org/">http://www.lpuk.org</a><br />
2) Further details of the party’s policies can be found in our manifesto:<br />
<a _mce_href="http://www.lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php" href="http://www.lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php" title="http://www.lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php">http://www.lpuk.org/pages/manifesto.php</a><br />
3) The Libertarian Party UK is a minarchist party utilising political philosophy based on support for individual liberty.<br />
Wikipedia: <a _mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism</a><br />
Press Enquiries can be sent to <a _mce_href="mailto:media@lpuk.org" href="mailto:media@lpuk.org" title="mailto:media@lpuk.org">media@lpuk.org</a> or by telephone +44 845 299 7650IanPJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17911432983440475284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-7037869863737319192010-11-05T06:54:00.001-07:002010-11-05T06:54:46.837-07:00Gregg Beaman To Stand In Oldham East For Libertarian Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8f4lwxPvaqPBRWQhRTHjgGZVk0videtFWbCYiQI2rOY8s6mQ1ANnJw2rzgavhu_fedFdp0Ju3Ii5Sp2N-mTosBSWRn7QI0GeP7AlgjqOrIpDNSUe5Fio9OFZP5Xsbgj_jnF9D3HMVtJH/s1600/greggbeaman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8f4lwxPvaqPBRWQhRTHjgGZVk0videtFWbCYiQI2rOY8s6mQ1ANnJw2rzgavhu_fedFdp0Ju3Ii5Sp2N-mTosBSWRn7QI0GeP7AlgjqOrIpDNSUe5Fio9OFZP5Xsbgj_jnF9D3HMVtJH/s320/greggbeaman2.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br />
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Following the welcome news that Phil Woolas now ex MP has been gound guilty of electoral wrong doing<br />
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Gregg Beaman has announced his decision to run for the Libertarian Party in Oldham East.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-36806665665838203742010-10-16T23:45:00.000-07:002010-10-16T23:45:22.422-07:00Did You Vote For 'Change' ? Political Crimes Still Get You the 'Sack'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Via <a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2010/10/katharine-birbalsingh-forced-to-resign.html">Cranmer</a> and <a href="http://lastditch.typepad.com/lastditch/">Tom Paine </a>this morning the inevitable story that Katherine Birbalsingh has been forced from her post for thought crime of actually doubting that the Fabian destruction of education is 'good' for children.<br />
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The Tories promised you change, but the dangerous politicised public servants and their weak bosses are still in post, fulminating against the inconvenience of the ballot box. There has been no change and they are being paid by you the tax payer.<br />
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As one of the few countries in the world that does not have a Constitution, Katherine is not afforded the right of free speech under the Constitution, and she could scamper off to Court to not only claim constructive dismissal and declare the action of the school unconstitutional.<br />
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Unless Cameron acts this morning to end this farce every teacher had better keep their political opinions to themselves.<br />
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Brown gone, Cameron arrives- The State still rules and the State is red in hue and claw.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-15919432120710318742010-10-08T22:52:00.001-07:002010-10-08T23:07:23.032-07:00Libertarians Like People<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vi0meiActlU?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vi0meiActlU?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="480"></embed></object><br />
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This from party member <a href="http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/2010/10/libertarian-magic.html">Dick Puddlecote</a>, which proves that citizen's action works.<br />
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We are an independent lot down here in North Somerset, this junction is three miles from my house, Portishead also regularly wins the best flower display.Just getting rid of these lights has made a huge difference to traffic flows because people can be trusted not to slam into each other.<br />
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As Chaiman of <a href="http://clevedonpride.org.uk/">Clevedon Pride</a>, we 'seized' control of the 'Town Square, three years organised public events for flowers, Christmas lights arranged to have the rubbish strewn municipal 'pond' filled in and planted out. Yesterday some of our 'chaps' were out watering and planting out spring bulbs.Hose pipe donated by local business as were the bulbs, manure by the local stables, not a diversity officer or Health & Safety Officer in sight. Not everything has to be done by Municipal Socialism<br />
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The Square is now a nice place to sit, walk, shop and a cafe culture has sprung up<br />
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We cooperate with 'local government' were neccessary, but largely just get on with it. Clevedon Pride is now a normal part of the local landscape, we do not have litter 'police' fining people, CP arranged litter to be picked up by volunteers, then amazingly the level of littering started dropping dramatically as it became unacceptable to litter.<br />
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This will be held at the Punch Tavern, 99 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1 DE on 27th November, as we rotate for the third year back to London, from York 2008 and Bristol 2009.<br />
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You will need to register and pay £10 to off set costs by <b>Nov 1st</b> to receive your voting card and agenda. I do not propose to take money on the day.<br />
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Please pay via our account at HSBC noting your membership number and LP2010 as the reference.<br />
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It is envisaged that Libertarians of the non member variety can be invited but cannot obviously vote, hence the voting card.<br />
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Postal votes are obtainable from 1984@lpuk.org for NCC positions.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-71571984158306543542010-10-01T06:52:00.000-07:002010-10-01T06:52:12.007-07:00The Polish Nightmare<div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLT1EjhpmhYaNrbw3TTU73QgZRfA2TDHtXi5J6YumcRt1spj05CXLdJ3Kvs96eNhXC1lGfqimH7UT4uQojaqBkQfNJ-mA6yyLaj3f77jzQrmU83oGS2rfABz1DAvD6fwAej1GTIMOxfWs/s1600/Get+In+The+Car.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLT1EjhpmhYaNrbw3TTU73QgZRfA2TDHtXi5J6YumcRt1spj05CXLdJ3Kvs96eNhXC1lGfqimH7UT4uQojaqBkQfNJ-mA6yyLaj3f77jzQrmU83oGS2rfABz1DAvD6fwAej1GTIMOxfWs/s320/Get+In+The+Car.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the grim league table of primal fears, there is one undoubted winner – losing your child. To do so in a foreign country when your language skills are not perfect, and you do not truly understand the ‘system’, nor the full extent of official powers, is the ultimate nightmare.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Young Alicja and her husband Aleksy* are living and working in the UK. They work hard; long hours, he at night and she during the day, and share the care of their young child.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yesterday they returned home to find an official letter roughly shoved through their front door informing them that an anonymous neighbour had reported them to the authorities for ‘going out drinking at night and abandoning their child’ and telling them to contact the ‘North Somerset Safe Guarding Children Board’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They were quite literally terrified and in tears. Neither of them drink or smoke, their child is never left with strangers – the shift system they work means that one of them is with their child at all times. They knew they had done nothing wrong – but would the authorities believe them, or believe the anonymous comments of one of its own English speaking citizens?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They come from Poland, a country which in recent times was communist run, where you could be denounced to the authorities without any right to defend yourself. They had heard the stories of English child protection teams snatching children and forcibly adopting them – ex-pat communities the world over are a source of horror stories concerning your host authority.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not surprisingly, their first reaction was to hide their child with friends and then appeal for help from within their community.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was their good fortune that the first person they contacted happened to be a friend and neighbour of Andrew Withers, Deputy Leader of the Libertarian Party. It was equally their good fortune that the Honorary Polish Consul in their area is also a member of the Libertarian Party. Accidentally knowing the right people saved them hours of frantic worry – I wonder how well they would have fared had they not been given the help of people who could field an array of titles at the bottom of their e-mails?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first telephone call made elicited the astounding response – “Whoops! Sorry, wrong Polish couple”. It seems the stasi official who had pushed that letter through their letterbox had been looking for another Polish couple in the same road – “Yep, they sound Polish, that’ll do” – a breathtakingly slip shod and negligent attitude from a public servant charged with such draconian powers as removing your children!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not surprisingly, it was demanded of this official that he return to see Alicja and Aleksy in person to both apologise and reassure them that their child was safe. This was agreed to – but true to form, the official didn’t arrive, they have heard nothing more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Somewhere in Bristol is a young Polish couple who have been anonymously denounced to the authorities. Perhaps justifiably, perhaps not. They will be equally terrified when the letter finally goes through the right letter box.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We don’t know who they are. We don’t know whether they also have the ‘right contacts’ to deal with this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your child being taken from you by the authorities is not on a par with having your gas supply cut off, or a parcel delivered when you are out – a note pushed through your door is a cold and callous means of telling you that ‘they’ – the North Somerset Safe Guarding Children Board – have received an anonymous complaint. To do so when you are perfectly well aware that the recipient of your note is “one o’ they Polish” and possibly doesn’t speak good English is unforgiveable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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These were father and son, Samuel and Ralph (nee Adolphe) Miliband, Ralph was born in Brussels of Polish-Jewish émigré parents. Both his parents lived in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw, before his father, Samuel Miliband, joined the Red Army in the Polish–Soviet War.He is buried in Highgate Cemetery close to Karl Marx.</div><br />
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Ralph went on to become a darling of the New Left, a sociology academic. Having fled totalitarianism in the East arriving in a still relatively Liberal Britain, Miliband Senior set about propounding a Socialism to reproduce in Britain what he had fled from in 1940. Today one of his bland off spring (it really does not matter which) will complete the Miliband family's ingratitude to this country by presiding over a Labour party that has produced a Stasi state in the last thirteen years,wrecked the economy and produced an irresponsible dependent population. To cap it all launched the type of aggressive wars of occupation that Miliband senior fled from.</div><br />
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The Socialism that has influenced the Milliband clones is of a variety that is intellectual, high flown and theoretical. Its consequences of sink estates, poverty and wasted tattooed lives are of very little consequence to such 'East European' intellectualism. Intellectualism has only found root in Britain in the last sixty years of State Welfarism, because it allowed such ideologues to find financial support by finding 'employment' in ever growing State institutions and Quangos.</div><br />
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In Liberal Britain we once had learned academics who espoused the rigour of research in the arts and sciences, and embraced the liberal values of tolerance started in the age of Reason and Enlightenment.</div><br />
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This Labour Party election is almost North Korean in outlook, favoured sons of a political elite being anointed. That it is why it has been a boring and inconsequential 'election'. The real power lies with the Bob Crowe's of this world, the pay masters of the 'Nouveau' Left. They know that their overt hatchet faced class warrior rhetoric will not find favour with the people of this country, so they need the fresh faced Peter Pan's of politics (achievable by never having worked outside of the cloisters of Whitehall) to be the 'nice' facade of the brutalism of Bureaucratic Socialism.</div><br />
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What of the Conservatives and their erstwhile allies the Social Democrats ? Rather than fight on the grounds of individual Liberty, Cameronism has swung behind the 'Social Democratic Centre'. When Cameron was elected as Party Leader, the Conservatives were looking for somebody to ape Tony Blair, and they found him.</div><br />
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We now have a Prime Minister who would rather pander to a bloated State and Welfarism, than maintain our defence forces. Defence is the only valid reason for a State to exist. By Defence I mean the defence of our Home Islands not wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan. These entanglements should be ended immediately. Bring the troops home, re-equip properly, pay the armed forces a living wage, and ensure that unlike the Wars of Wellington, The Crimea, First and Second World Wars the Servicemen whose lives have been wrecked and that of their dependants are paid a Military pension, that far outstrips that of a dole to sustain the dull, lager drinking fraternity.</div><br />
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The Acid Bath I refer to in the title is a political system that has very little legitimacy, it is a system of interlocking Whitehall elites. The Acid does not allow the Greens, UKIP, the far Right,the far left, Liberals, Libertarians, Nationalists a say in any National debate because we are denied a voice.</div><br />
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I am currently standing as Leader of the Libertarian Party. A party I hope to persuade to adopt a change to the Libertarian & Constitutional Party, to fight for not only Libertarian Policies but for Constitutional Reform and to introduce a Swiss Style Constitution where the State is subordinate to the Canton (County), the Canton subordinate to the Individual.</div><br />
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•Cheltenham Borough Council: £11m<br />
•Gloucester City Council: £2m<br />
•Tewkesbury Borough Council: £1m<br />
•Stroud District Council: £3m<br />
•Cotswold District Council: £2m<br />
•Gloucestershire County Council: has investments in Iceland, sum not yet confirmed<br />
•Bristol City Council: £8m in Landsbanki<br />
•North Somerset Council: approx £3m with Landsbanki<br />
•Cornwall County Council: £5m in Landsbanki (from total investments of £360m)<br />
•Dorset County Council: £28.1m in form of temporary loans to Landsbanki and Heritable<br />
•Wiltshire County Council: £8m with Heritable<br />
•North Wiltshire District Council: £4m (£3m with Landsbanki and £1m with Heritable)<br />
•Exeter City Council: £5m in two banks (£3m in Landsbanki and £2m in Glitnir)<br />
•Plymouth City Council: £13m in three institutions<br />
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•Purbeck District Council: £2m (£1m in Glitnir and £1m with Landsbanki)<br />
•Restormel Borough Council, Cornwall: £4m with Landsbanki<br />
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On what grounds ' she slipped over herself ' she deserved it 'cos she was giving me verbal' The camera always lies.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-12063470254315919302010-09-07T08:49:00.001-07:002010-09-07T08:49:39.153-07:00Wiltshire Police Sgt Andrews Gets Six Months<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXA8bqtr3eQAVL-g0MedDzhCsUoE0DpUDU8RJ541PGIDwTrwoEVMQQ82LLvVtecZxpWRfgQzprpyNLY5R9HcFNtVJPR6cWCdL6XRuRKXkiGY383UYw7Ha0qCxbrsin3s6t1zV2xdFAg8/s1600/Somerville.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuXA8bqtr3eQAVL-g0MedDzhCsUoE0DpUDU8RJ541PGIDwTrwoEVMQQ82LLvVtecZxpWRfgQzprpyNLY5R9HcFNtVJPR6cWCdL6XRuRKXkiGY383UYw7Ha0qCxbrsin3s6t1zV2xdFAg8/s400/Somerville.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514198579488571986" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mark-Andrews-Police-Sergeant-Jailed-For-Six-Months-For-Assaulting-Woman-In-Police-Station/Article/201009115718717?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15718717_Mark_Andrews%3A_Police_Sergeant_Jailed_For_Six_Months_For_Assaulting_Woman_In_Police_Station">Lets see whether the tough guy gets thrown around his cell.</a><br /><br />Tomlinson's attacker ?Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-75148106325617869682010-09-07T03:31:00.000-07:002010-09-07T03:32:28.181-07:00Tax Blunder Rebellion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEbIx4H2CLeupPeXpzWxnBwERVEPIGmSOjs45TUOMsq7Y4dagPMZPshuoPaVMhyphenhyphennEHDye_PMpinjXD5CXJMukjjv6rJWemrBb4PBRIKPV1-NfPP7p0Nkh35bp6OkTnMK5Qdrk_mKuX6Q/s1600/TaxMan-640x1024.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFEbIx4H2CLeupPeXpzWxnBwERVEPIGmSOjs45TUOMsq7Y4dagPMZPshuoPaVMhyphenhyphennEHDye_PMpinjXD5CXJMukjjv6rJWemrBb4PBRIKPV1-NfPP7p0Nkh35bp6OkTnMK5Qdrk_mKuX6Q/s400/TaxMan-640x1024.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514115089254401186" /></a><br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-state-will-decide-how-much-money-you-get">Anna Raccoon</a> site in the hope people are going to start waking up.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Start</span><br /><br />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 <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7985181/HMRC-could-take-direct-control-of-pay-cheques-after-tax-errors.html">the deranged world of government gone completely insane:</a><br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br />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?<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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:<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br /> But accountants said recipients should act swiftly to use a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309639/Tax-blunder-rebellion-Experts-urge-1-4m-pay-taxmans-mistake.html">little-known loophole</a> which forces HM Revenue and Customs to abandon ‘out of the blue’ demands and effectively write off the money.<br /><br /> 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.<br /><br />Enough is enough. It is time to starve these incompetent thieves of our hard-earned money!Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-65174170717552857952010-09-06T06:57:00.000-07:002010-09-06T07:07:03.013-07:00Not Dixon Of Dock Green In Wiltshire Then<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3GDlGqAbbN4?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3GDlGqAbbN4?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />It just goes on and on and on.<br /><br />This police constable being an ex soldier appears to have completed his Police training at Abu Ghraib.<br /><br />She is lucky to be alive after being thrown against the concrete floor, much as <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson">Ian Tomlinson</a> was. I am sure that the Home Office could have rustled up another medical incompetent like <a href="http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23872239-ruling-to-be-made-on-g20-pathologists-fitness-to-work.do">Patel</a> to say she died of a heavy nose bleed and it was natural causes.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/deaths_report_0809.pdf">According to the IPCC</a><br /><br />In 2008/09 there were 92 deaths during or<br />following police contact, of which:<br />• 40 were the result of road traffic fatalities<br />• 3 were the result of fatal police shootings<br />• 15 were deaths in or following police custody<br />• 34 were other deaths following police contact<br /><br />Like the military casualities we only get to hear about the deaths not the 'wounded' or maimed.<br /><br />So next time you see a Police Car with 'Serving the Community' or some such slogan remember the above statistics.<br /><br />Apparently the going tarrif for a assault carried like above is six months.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Pamela Somerville, 57, was left with blood gushing from a head wound after Sergeant Mark Andrews pulled her by the wrist across the floor of Melksham police station in Wiltshire and threw her into the custody suite. A camera cell showed Somerville lying briefly unconscious after her head hit the floor and then staggering to her feet, dripping blood.<br /><br />The officer, a former soldier, 37, was convicted of assault causing actual bodily harm at Oxford magistrates court in July, and is due to be sentenced on Tuesday. He faces a formal disciplinary hearing next month and is currently suspended on full pay.<br /><br />Another officer at the police station reported the incident to a supervisor.<br /><br />Somerville had been found asleep in her car in July 2008 and denies refusing a breath test. Charges were later dropped, and the police have apologised</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/05/police-sergeant-suspended-assault-woman">The Grauniad</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-7wN3CZQpR9dqeWr4pYaP1bmmARm_s6ISeDOENLryK4Oi7Kc99p3w3jom9KphgjIScIQIudNGI_wxVhtYM45QJIoIRyNduPiKepBckCSXNQoE7LBtmy9DEvqpuzUsqErzMafrH-hL5s/s1600/dixonofdock.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-7wN3CZQpR9dqeWr4pYaP1bmmARm_s6ISeDOENLryK4Oi7Kc99p3w3jom9KphgjIScIQIudNGI_wxVhtYM45QJIoIRyNduPiKepBckCSXNQoE7LBtmy9DEvqpuzUsqErzMafrH-hL5s/s400/dixonofdock.jpeg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513801546613429650" /></a><br /><br />Salute or Preparing a Karate Chop ?Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-91700973022029282122010-08-30T02:59:00.000-07:002010-08-30T03:08:47.107-07:00Bonfire of Quangos will not light.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSS64RjxtqPMEoBbzeErP3LhiO04ca4ofZQlTuFeUuU7Toh3WDl7Z1b4ziTlnAs1HAYzgjIwvS14ZSXVeVu5-knR8sSNBeYjins0hK417rr2HxOKfGZqQIS_UX2ndqM4_gkEr7T-D8pM/s1600/Large_bonfire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSS64RjxtqPMEoBbzeErP3LhiO04ca4ofZQlTuFeUuU7Toh3WDl7Z1b4ziTlnAs1HAYzgjIwvS14ZSXVeVu5-knR8sSNBeYjins0hK417rr2HxOKfGZqQIS_UX2ndqM4_gkEr7T-D8pM/s400/Large_bonfire.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511142491587220002" /></a><br /><br /><br />Vote for change said iDave.<br /><br />Con-Dem are failing in the face of inertia from the resistance from the 'public sector'.<br /><br />Most Quangos will not face dissolution for two years, which will be halfway through Con-Dem's term of office (if they do not fall apart)this is hardly radical shrinking of the State.<br /><br />Large Corporations are now calling for their cosy relationship with the big banks to be maintained, wich the Banks not to be broken up.<br /><br />Corporatism does not like competition and new entrants to the markets hence the resistance.<br /><br />Over the next eighteen months we are going to see the steam run out any pretence of a radical agenda that either the Tories and <a href="http://lookingforavoice.blogspot.com/2006/11/lib-dems-call-for-bonfire-of-labours.html">Social Democrats</a> had in shrinking the state.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-66985733325630816272010-08-22T01:21:00.001-07:002010-08-22T01:21:54.769-07:00Still Fighting 'them' on the beaches<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEr-UksfoDqtrrFVM_AAOirYpospXG49qtTallY5Xov9iEczRckVjU-8gxnpQwDU7_Fb3TlADZBADrjoy-fKx_0OvBnKvyO-SINW8KQ6DdY0fao1sd6FYfTEZV-k6zIb3jWt35pW2Dqlfu/s1600/Raccoon-Soldier-227781.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 276px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEr-UksfoDqtrrFVM_AAOirYpospXG49qtTallY5Xov9iEczRckVjU-8gxnpQwDU7_Fb3TlADZBADrjoy-fKx_0OvBnKvyO-SINW8KQ6DdY0fao1sd6FYfTEZV-k6zIb3jWt35pW2Dqlfu/s400/Raccoon-Soldier-227781.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508144666053859490" /></a><br /><br />The War goes on ! The war against Fascism (The marriage of the big State with big Corporations) we were told ended in 1945. Another skirmish has broken out, that the Libertarian Party is pleased to be part of-<br /><br />All the links in the following article reproduced in full are to be found here on the <a href="http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/fighting-them-on-the-sandwell/#comments">Anna Raccoon site</a><br /><br /><br /><br />70 years ago this week, Winston Churchill made his famous speech immortalising the words ‘Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.’ He did so to rally every man and woman in these Isles to support the war effort:<br /><br />“because we have been nurtured in freedom and individual responsibility and are the products, not of totalitarian uniformity, but of tolerance and variety.”<br /><br />Sheila Martin was a fragile babe in arms when her Mother heard those words. Too young to understand the menace behind the Messerschmitts and Heinkels screaming overhead and disturbing her slumber. She was the intended beneficiary of Churchill’s words, one of the generation of children that depended on the bravery of British men such as her Father, away in France fighting for the freedom, tolerance and variety that was Britain’s hallmark.<br /><br />Today, Sheila is once more fragile; she is 70 years old and was widowed 30 years ago. She tells me she has survived five heart attacks; she suffers from asthma, angina and high blood pressure. She only smokes the occasional cigarette these days, partly for health reasons, partly because her minimal state pension doesn’t stretch to any more.<br /><br />70 years after Churchill’s speech was made, she has retired from a lifetime of hard work.<br /><br />She was part of that unsung army of hard working, clean living, decent individuals, who cheerfully got up every morning and trudged off to put in a decent days work for a paltry wage as a ‘Mrs Mop’, raised her family, nurtured her marriage, made ends meet, saved little, but asked little in return, save the freedom, and tolerance that her older relatives had fought to provide. She is not a politically aware lady, nor insolent, nor ambitious for financial rewards.<br /><br />In common with other ‘Smokers’ who may not like the new laws prohibiting them from smoking where others may be offended by the practice, she respected the law of the land, and complied. She is no campaigner against such laws.<br /><br />Thus it was that she found herself standing at a bus stop, waiting for the bus which would take her home, and taking the opportunity to smoke a cigarette in the open air – there was no bus shelter. She could no longer smoke a cigarette on the top deck of the bus. She had not been able to smoke a cigarette with the cup of tea she shared with her daughter in town. Now she must stand in the road to enjoy the ‘freedom, tolerance and variety’ of the British Isles.<br /><br />She only smoked half the cigarette; as the time drew close for the bus to arrive, she ‘nibbed’ the cigarette, letting the lit end fall to the ground, and thriftily stowing the other half of the cigarette in her handbag for a later occasion. It was her last cigarette until pension day.<br /><br />Two of Sandwell’s famed ‘enforcement wardens’ approached her – a man and a woman. They told her that they were issuing a ‘Fixed Penalty Fine’ of £75 under Section 87 (1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 as amended by Section 18 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005. This mouthful of gobblygook was lost on Sheila; she had no idea what she had done wrong and put the piece of paper in her pocket.<br /><br />Once home, friends and neighbours clustered round to read this piece of officialdom. Sheila still had the ‘end’ of the cigarette, with its precious inch or so of un-smoked tobacco in her handbag, so how could she be accused of littering the street – it had to be the cigarette ash they were talking about?<br /><br />I have spoken to Sandwell Council, they tell me that they do not issue fixed penalty notices for cigarette ‘ash’ – I am sure they don’t. I am equally sure that Mrs Martin is telling the truth when she tells me that the half cigarette with its ‘butt’ was still safely in her handbag when she returned home. So we are left with the quandary of whether the ‘lit’ end of a cigarette, which will become cigarette ‘ash’ within seconds, constitutes parliament’s intention when they defined litter as including:<br /><br />In section 98 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (definitions), after subsection (5) insert—<br /><br />“(5A)“Litter” includes—<br /><br />(a) the discarded ends of cigarettes, cigars and like products, and<br /><br />(b) discarded chewing-gum and the discarded remains of other products designed for chewing.”<br /><br />If a court holds that it does, then every smoker is liable for a £75 fine every time they smoke a cigarette in the street. I do not believe that to be parliament’s intention.<br /><br />On Friday, the threatening ‘Final Demand’ from Sandwell Council, warning her that she now faces a £2,500 fine plus costs (and possible imprisonment if she does not pay that) expired. The next opportunity for Mrs Martin to contest this matter will come in ‘some months time’ – the council cannot tell me when her case will arrive at the top of their back log of cases to appear in the Magistrates court.<br /><br />Sheila Martin is frightened, intimidated, and feels helpless in the face of this prosecution. She is in delicate health, aggravated by stress, and I have asked the council to reconsider their decision to press ahead with what may well be an interesting test case defining a cigarette end, but which will be at the expense of a frail and elderly person. They have referred me to their ‘revised Enforcement Policy’ – which makes for terrifying reading, a fine example of the totalitarian government Sheila’s Father fought so bravely to prevent. (available HERE)<br /><br />Nick Hogan, who I was instrumental in rescuing from prison after similar council action, has joined with me, the Libertarian Party and the Sunday Mercury, to ensure that Sheila suffers as little as possible from the council’s intransience.<br /><br />We have already arranged for some very high powered legal representation for her, to put her mind at rest, and I have promised her that she will go to prison ‘over my dead body’ – she is obviously unable to pay this fine, or incremental increases of it, and I have personally guaranteed her that somehow I will make sure that she doesn’t have to pay it herself, nor go to prison.<br /><br />There is no need for money at present, all the legal beagles so far involved are kindly donating their time and expertise free of charge – although if there are any other lawyers out there who would like to join the team, this is one broth that will not be spoiled by too many cooks. My e-mail address is on the contact section of this blog.<br /><br />70 years ago we were prepared to ‘fight them on the beaches’ – how appropriate that today we prepare to f’ight them on the Sandwell……’Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-56656826951563092142010-08-13T03:19:00.000-07:002010-08-13T03:27:30.536-07:00CCTV- Just Turn It Off If You Cannot Afford To Run It<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdsiaf5cBIlhJVrZ138GJirjP8GGu7KgcGoTTUNM4hbnAVrRpWVYi0WhJu6UXjelm5h_FzLUFGwnZyuBhMepQKqbrDe7cSVoJf5iLCs-6sgBzBTrD24d5rDUwjboRIN8hUuftfLVK_EY/s1600/The-Lives-of-Others.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdsiaf5cBIlhJVrZ138GJirjP8GGu7KgcGoTTUNM4hbnAVrRpWVYi0WhJu6UXjelm5h_FzLUFGwnZyuBhMepQKqbrDe7cSVoJf5iLCs-6sgBzBTrD24d5rDUwjboRIN8hUuftfLVK_EY/s400/The-Lives-of-Others.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504839041366564354" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2010/08/town-asks-volunteers-to-man-their-cctv-room.html">Malmesbury in Wiltshire </a>wants 'volunteers' to man their CCTV cameras at the local prison.<br /><br />Anybody who 'volunteers' for this sort of activity should be immediately banned from going anywhere near CCTV.<br /><br />Just turn it off.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-24617122346079409002010-08-12T23:41:00.001-07:002010-08-12T23:41:26.201-07:00The Non Aggression Axiom<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLCEXtpTNYU?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLCEXtpTNYU?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><br />H/T <a href="http://theuklibertarian.com/">The UK Libertarian</a>Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-55060581653840901062010-08-09T00:50:00.000-07:002010-08-09T00:51:25.345-07:00Not A Good Weekend For Confidence In The Police<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1301210/There-wasnt-blood--Detective-weapons-expert-David-Kellys-body-gives-interview.html">A retired Policeman</a> who stood guard over the body of Dr David Kelly has now admitted that there was very little blood that would justify Kelly dying in this manner thus confirming the statements of the two paramedics who attended on scene, and fuelling further controversy and confirming the view of a group of Doctors that he could not have possibly died in this manner.<br /><br />Coe also now admits that there was a 'third man' on scene in contravention of his earlier evidence to the largely discredited Hutton enquiry, and he is still refusing to name this man.<br /><br />Lastly that he was instructed to search Kelly's house for sensitive documents relating to Iraq.<br /><br />Whatever you weigh this up, and don't forget that Hutton delivered the BBC up to the Blair Government, there is an almighty stench still hanging over this whole affair.<br /><br />It appears that obsfucation and not telling the truth and the whole truth is now endemic within the Police and security services.<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="display: block; margin: 0pt;" data="http://www.kyte.tv/f/" height="364" width="416"><param name="movie" value="http://www.kyte.tv/f/"><param name="flashVars" value="p=2021&c=396762&l=102030&s=992320&tbid=6765"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></object><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.devilskitchen.me.uk/2010/08/thank-goodness-we-have-police-to-uphold.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheDevilsKitchen+%28The+Devil%27s+Kitchen%29">Two policemen have been suspended</a> following this attack on a retired businessman who they accused of fleeing from the scene of a 'stop' ( Note the speedo bottom right, he stays within the speed limit at all times, until he stops voluntarily , but this does not stop the 'road rage' incident and criminal damage that ensued.<br /><br />Was there a reason for this TV cop response, possibly <a href="http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/archive/2004/09/30/Gwent+Archive/4601150.Pensioner_set_to_sue_police/">this episode concerning Mr Whatley</a> a few years earlier may provide a salient clue.<br /><br />On current form as with Jean Charles De Menezes, Balir Peach and Ian Tomlinson it will be the fault of the victim, rather than the assailants dressed up as law officers.<br /><br />ACPO the private limited company that runs the Police in this country as so to avoid the intrusions of the Freedom Of Information Act have threatened to resign if elected Police Commissioners are brought in. The Libertarian Party has long had this as policy, and ACPO should be closed down in the public interest as a private limited company.<br /><br />The Police have been itching to crack heads eversince February 2009 with the outrageous statement referring to a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/23/police-civil-unrest-recession">'summer of rage'</a> by Super Hartshorn.<br /><br />This is not policing by consent under the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles">Peelian Principles</a>. The Police are in serious danger of turning themselves into a paramilitary force at the hands of repressive government. In the case of Kelly searching for sensitive 'Iraq' documents is the job of SIS not the civilian police.<br /><br />Some 'hard cases' in the force seem to take some pleasure in<a href="http://article.wn.com/view/2010/08/02/Special_constable_guilty_of_assault_on_soldier_video/"> assaulting members of the forces </a>who have been involved in action in Afghanistan in an almost tribal proving manhood test.<br /><br />A relative of mine who served in the Highland Light Infantry in World War Two said that when the Police assaulted one of their number prior to D Day, they took a covered truck and two bren guns, and shot up shop windows in the high street of a south coast town scattering the police on duty. What did they care, as far as they were concerned ninety per cent of them were going to killed in the next month when the invasion started. Lets hope that we don't get to that level of retaliation, fortunately the Army has a bit more control over its members than do some Police Forces.<br /><br />The fact that Mr Whatley's solicitor has released the sickening assault to the media, shows the level of confidence that he has in getting the two policemen concerned sacked and convicted, that he feels in neccessary to appeal to the public.<br /><br />The Police should remember the 4th Peelian Principle<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to the necessity of the use of physical force.</span><br /><br />The last Labour Government tore up the rule book, the Libertarian Party wants Peel back.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-68738814853765120602010-08-04T00:20:00.001-07:002010-08-04T00:21:08.973-07:00Note From The Treasurer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSW_vKLW51uWZhO-ovve5hyphenhyphenlKVurzk3-GWHdwzn1FH5ssMuEGsM-7btV25fId7P1FRjvFw77E2zKaZFR6EcDaAOjP9WjKUnKWp-mU32_c-9tdMPzY4itKIyPdGRNdf-V8oMmXFfuYk1xY/s1600/LPUK+LOGO+99.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSW_vKLW51uWZhO-ovve5hyphenhyphenlKVurzk3-GWHdwzn1FH5ssMuEGsM-7btV25fId7P1FRjvFw77E2zKaZFR6EcDaAOjP9WjKUnKWp-mU32_c-9tdMPzY4itKIyPdGRNdf-V8oMmXFfuYk1xY/s400/LPUK+LOGO+99.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501450735233714370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />I would like to thank everybody, Member and supporters who so generously made a donation to the Party in July, however made. We do not get the support of major companies or unions and are totally reliant on your generosity.<br /><br />There is so much more that the Libertarian Party can and must do. Tim Carpenter and Andrew Withers have been on mainstream TV and Radio in the last few weeks, so we are slowly prizing the door open.<br /><br />We are painfully aware that we are in a difficult economic period, which is why I am trying to build a war chest for next May slowly and surely. Therefore every pound we collect in is so valuable.<br /><br /><br />Please keep the donations coming in of whatever size. Whilst I am speaking to some serious donors it is your £5, £10 , £20 plus that keeps us going.<br /><br /><br />Direct bank transfer to:<br /><br />sort code 40-28-20<br /><br />account 92635313<br /><br /><br />Please put your surname and if you have one a membership number as a reference.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-60193484913311736192010-07-22T08:04:00.001-07:002010-07-22T08:04:24.427-07:00<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2AuRz2sLaE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_GB&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/P2AuRz2sLaE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_GB&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-62796505208843663822010-07-15T07:29:00.001-07:002010-07-15T07:29:48.917-07:00Food For Thought<object width="512" height="400"><param name="movie" value="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="config_settings_addReferrerToPlaylistRequest=true&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_widget_settings_widget=empstandard&config_settings_skin=silver&config=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fplayer%2Femp%2Fconfig%2Fdefault%2Exml%3F2%5F26%5F20959%5F21121%5F1%5F20100621093512&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_language=default&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fnews%2F10630643%2B%2Fplaylist%2Esxml&config_settings_showShareButton=true&config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&config_settings_showFooter=true&config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_pageType=eav6&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_settings_addReferrerToPlaylistRequest=true"></param><embed src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/external/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="512" height="400" FlashVars="config_settings_addReferrerToPlaylistRequest=true&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_widget_settings_widget=empstandard&config_settings_skin=silver&config=http%3A%2F%2Fnews%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fplayer%2Femp%2Fconfig%2Fdefault%2Exml%3F2%5F26%5F20959%5F21121%5F1%5F20100621093512&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_language=default&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fplaylists%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fnews%2F10630643%2B%2Fplaylist%2Esxml&config_settings_showShareButton=true&config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&config_settings_showFooter=true&config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_pageType=eav6&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_settings_addReferrerToPlaylistRequest=true"></embed></object>Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4298597943485086142.post-69650168786286692622010-07-09T00:51:00.001-07:002010-07-09T00:51:25.621-07:00Fund Raising<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1d3Vevu0IbSNCQz9ykYQuovzgwNkAWWhw9uI1AxoOSfHMTwxwJzxsilETW4kK96wQ7yHjOxMbyCEF6F3Ba5pZbA3S4iny17RsgHWKx5-c3XSkZ7EWjxAdyVdH7fCe5Z_y0NZ7ztDp3Bei/s1600/LPUK+LOGO+99.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1d3Vevu0IbSNCQz9ykYQuovzgwNkAWWhw9uI1AxoOSfHMTwxwJzxsilETW4kK96wQ7yHjOxMbyCEF6F3Ba5pZbA3S4iny17RsgHWKx5-c3XSkZ7EWjxAdyVdH7fCe5Z_y0NZ7ztDp3Bei/s400/LPUK+LOGO+99.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488305635449888754" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Thanks to all of you who responded for the recent call for funds Members and supporters alike. Please keep it coming in.<br /><br /><br />Our account number is 92635313 Sort Code 40-28-20<br /><br />Our immediate target is £2000. We are looking to open a permanent office to handle donations and all the other administration and membership applications.<br /><br />Times are hard but every £5 , £10 and £20 is income in the right direction.Guthrumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17499979740864497256noreply@blogger.com0