What do 5 million people have in common?
They are all to be banned from approaching Heathrow airport as members of the National Trust, Woodland Trust, RSPB, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
What a sight it will be to see commuters on the Piccadilly line, or lads nipping off for a knees up in a European city hiding behind a rubbish bin, or breaking down in tears confessing to our well armed police officers seeking out terrorists, that they forgot to cancel that direct debit that maintains their membership of the National Trust and therefore are law breakers in defiance of the injunction.
Motorists on the M25 and M4 will be swerving from lane to lane as they rummage in the glove box for the receipt they were given when they visited that bird sanctuary last year just in case they signed up to the RSPB.
What planet would a judge have to be on to allow that one to slip through under the guise of stopping Swampy and friends from disrupting CO2 gushing flights leaving the capital’s best known airport?
Apparently this one.
If this wasn’t actually happening, you’d have to wonder if you were still asleep.
Monday 30 July 2007
Monday 23 July 2007
No justice for dead workers
So the Government have conceded defeat and published an amendment to extend the scope of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill to allow Prisons and police authorities to be prosecuted over deaths of people held in custody.
This is indeed a right decision (arm up the back or not), but it is really an amendment to a proposed law that falls well short of holding the real criminals responsible - the directors and senior management who pocket the dosh whilst workers are mutilated and killed.
Lets take a look at the reality.
Firstly, the bill proposes criminalizing a firm as opposed to the managers or directors. We’ll see massive fines and public humiliation. What a load of tripe!
If you are a doctor or driver, or indeed the ordinary 5’8” in the street, you can be held personally liable for causing a death by doing something otherwise lawful so badly as to come under the legal definition of manslaughter. If this is the case, then why not someone like the head of an oil company who could be said to have run the company so badly as to be liable for deaths caused by his firm when they cut the safety budget?
If you are looking for logic in this proposed law, then you are looking in the wrong place. Try a glance toward who really holds the power – big business.
They wield power unimaginable to the ordinary citizen – they get what they want, when they want. Just look at the bribes scandals; the cash for honours; and now this poor cousin to the original quest and desire for justice.
Blair leaves office wealthy beyond the means of the combined wealth of thousands in the poverty trap and he lets his big business friends off the hook.
RIP all those who will never see justice, and those yet to die who will leave families in the same situation because our MPs were spineless.
This is indeed a right decision (arm up the back or not), but it is really an amendment to a proposed law that falls well short of holding the real criminals responsible - the directors and senior management who pocket the dosh whilst workers are mutilated and killed.
Lets take a look at the reality.
Firstly, the bill proposes criminalizing a firm as opposed to the managers or directors. We’ll see massive fines and public humiliation. What a load of tripe!
If you are a doctor or driver, or indeed the ordinary 5’8” in the street, you can be held personally liable for causing a death by doing something otherwise lawful so badly as to come under the legal definition of manslaughter. If this is the case, then why not someone like the head of an oil company who could be said to have run the company so badly as to be liable for deaths caused by his firm when they cut the safety budget?
If you are looking for logic in this proposed law, then you are looking in the wrong place. Try a glance toward who really holds the power – big business.
They wield power unimaginable to the ordinary citizen – they get what they want, when they want. Just look at the bribes scandals; the cash for honours; and now this poor cousin to the original quest and desire for justice.
Blair leaves office wealthy beyond the means of the combined wealth of thousands in the poverty trap and he lets his big business friends off the hook.
RIP all those who will never see justice, and those yet to die who will leave families in the same situation because our MPs were spineless.
Tuesday 17 July 2007
George is the only one with RESPECT here!!
We are told that Respect MP George Galloway is facing suspension from the House of Commons for 18 days, following an investigation by Parliament's standards committee.
The MPs say he "damaged the reputation of the House" in his comments about the inquiry into his Mariam Appeal charity. Apparently he should have looked a little closer at the money he received (all of which was used for the charity) before allowing the funds into the charity. Worse still, he actually had the cheek to enter a debate in an institution that is a debating chamber!
What an absolute joke!
Parliament - full of parties who have nominated peers who have (by sheer coincidence) provided them with a nice little wedge, and who have received donations from rapists and other dodgy characters - now feel that George Galloway’s conduct has damaged the reputation of that place.
I’m sure that the rapists, donors and lobbyists who have provided “support” to all the major parties must be laughing their socks off.
Catch a grip – parliament has the reputation it deserves and it’s not down to the alleged actions/omissions of one MP alone. The reality is that they simply can’t handle anyone who doesn’t fall over when they demand it.
Hear what the condemned has to say for himself: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,,2128329,00.html
The MPs say he "damaged the reputation of the House" in his comments about the inquiry into his Mariam Appeal charity. Apparently he should have looked a little closer at the money he received (all of which was used for the charity) before allowing the funds into the charity. Worse still, he actually had the cheek to enter a debate in an institution that is a debating chamber!
What an absolute joke!
Parliament - full of parties who have nominated peers who have (by sheer coincidence) provided them with a nice little wedge, and who have received donations from rapists and other dodgy characters - now feel that George Galloway’s conduct has damaged the reputation of that place.
I’m sure that the rapists, donors and lobbyists who have provided “support” to all the major parties must be laughing their socks off.
Catch a grip – parliament has the reputation it deserves and it’s not down to the alleged actions/omissions of one MP alone. The reality is that they simply can’t handle anyone who doesn’t fall over when they demand it.
Hear what the condemned has to say for himself: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/otherparties/story/0,,2128329,00.html
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