BLAKELOCK MURDER ARREST

A 40 year old man has been arrested  - but not charged – on suspicion of the murder of PC Blakelock at Broadwater Farm in 1985. That would make him 15 at the time. His identity is not known.  Strangely he has been released on bail which is unusual when suspected of murdering a policeman. Ask Winston Silcott.

BARKING MAD AS LEFT SAYS ‘VOTE HODGE’

That last refuge of the scoundrel is now up and running on the Left with the fuckwitted strategy of ‘ Vote Margaret Hodge to Keep Griffin out’. Here’s a post from Socialist Unity:

We really don’t want to see Britain’s first BNP MP elected. A united anti-fascist grassroots campaign behind Margaret Hodge that is determined to fully expose Griffin, was necessary to crush the BNP. I think we should be urging a vote for the candidate best placed to defeat Griffin – Margaret Hodge.

They just don’t get it do they. People are voting BNP precisely because of loathsome scumbages like Hodge. the idea they will suddenly swing behind her to defeat Griffin is risible – she’s a much better recruiting sergeant for the BNP than Griffin will ever be. Expect much more of this VOTE LABOUR TO STOP THE BNP  as Labour’s campaign grows increasingly desperate.

ROTTEN PARLIAMENT or A FEW ROTTEN EGGS

On March 11th the three Labour MPs charged with expenses fiddles appear at Westminster Magistrates Court. We need to be there too so we can make these three emblematic of the whole rotten system right at the start of the election campaign. Ideally they’d be put in the stocks and pelted with rotten food. Since the magistrates are unlikely to order this we may have to bring our own.Rotten idea. Westminster Magistrates Court. 9am March 11th.

JOHN RETY HAS DIED

 

I received very sad news this morning from Emily Johns saying her father John Rety died of a heart attack last Wednesday:

Dear Ian

I have been trying to find your e-mail and hope this gets to you. I wanted to let you know that my father John died very suddenly from a heart attack on Wednesday. He knew so many people and I am not sure how to contact them. If you could let anarchist circles know that would be very kind. We haven’t sorted a funeral yet, but will put details on the Torriano Meeting House website. I’m sure that many people would like to hear the lovely interview you did with John on Resonance.

John Rety was the first anarchist I ever met and therefor directly responsible for everything! I loved John – he had that same twinkle in his eye and that same proper East European anarchist accent at last year’s anarchist bookfair as he did when I first met him on an Aldermaston march 46 years ago.He edited Freedom, he was THE TORRIANNO POET, he played chess, he laughed and when I interviewed him on Resonance FM last year he expressed himself so beautifully by shrugs and eyebrows and body language that I had to remind him he was on the radio! For me he was the best editor of Freedom and his passing leaves hardly anyone – apart fromthe similarly indefatigable  Donald Rooum – left of that generation of anarchists who were the backbone of Freedom in the 50s and 60s like Philip Sansom, Alan Albon, Arthur Moyse and all. When I first met him he was racing around Trafalgar square with a very jaunty silk red and black neckerhief around his neck and John always had style – and my partner Jane shouts out ‘ He was courteous’ which is a rare complement to an anarchist. During the Resonance interview I asked him when he first became an anarchist? ‘During the war in Budapest’ he said after many minutes of expressive thought ‘I think I was part of the resistence( aged 9!). I pressed him further ‘ Didn’t you know if you were part of the resistence?’  ‘Well’ he said ‘ I was running around delivering packages to people hiding in ruined buildings so i think i must have been’. Our movement has suffered a sad loss – a very fine, honest,funny, steadfast human being has died. JOHN RETY.

If you click on Resonancefm on the side panel you can hear John’s interview – it’s No. 2

LIVERPOOL LABOUR’S LUCIANA NEVER HEARD OF BILL SHANKLY!

This is a cracker. Labour has parachuted into the safe Liverpool constituency of Wavertree

 

LUCIANA BERGER, former president of NUS, ex-girlfriend of Euan Blair and curent girlfriend of multi-millionaire Labour culture minister – and ex-Tory – Sion Simon. When questioned by the local media LUCIANA was non-plussed as to who BILL SHANKLY was ( he went to school with my dad stupid) or who performed ‘Ferry Across the Mersey’ This has so enraged Ricky Tomlinson that he is to stand against her for the Socialist Labour Party under the slogan ‘Berger? My arse’.  He could even win I reckon giving Arfur’s Stalinist rump it’s first MP. I’ll be keeping close  tabs on this one. Lucky Luciana benefited from an all woman short list pushed through by Harriet Harman. Strangely however Harman has not insisted on an all woman short list for Erdington in Birmingham leaving the door open for her….er,husband….Jack Dromey to be selected for the seat vacated by Sion Simon…….current squeeze of…er…..Luciana Berger!!!!

ROTTEN PARLIAMENT MPs WILL CLAIM PRIVILEGE FROM PROSECUTION!!

This is fucking brilliant. As if we needed more ammunition on this ROTTEN PARLIAMENT  it materialises that the three Labour MPS facing prosecution are going to claim PARLIMENTARY PRIVILEGE from prosecution under a law of 1689! It sort of slid out un-noticed in the DPP’s announcement yesterday:

Mr Starmer said: ‘Lawyers representing those who have been charged have raised with us the question of Parliamentary privilege. We have concluded that the applicability and extent of any Parliamentary privilege claimed should be tested in court.’

This is sure to go down a storm with the punters- ONE LAW FOR THEM ANOTHER LAW FOR US. Comrades the election campaign beckons. This is the best ammunition we could hope for – GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY!  NINETY DAYS TO END THE ROTTEN PARLIAMENT!

GEOGRAPHY QUIZ ANSWERS!

Congrats to INTERNATIONALIST on getting ST.PIERRE and MIQUELON first and coming mighty close to the second with BOUVET ISLAND. WALKER wasn’t too far away with Norway’s claim to QUEEN MAUD LAND but territorial claims on the Antarctic are disallowed as just claims.The answer is…….roll of drums………PETER l ISLAND off the coast of Antarctica and succesfully claimed by Norway in 1929 a year after Bouvet island. It is said that more people have landed on the moon than PETER l but amateur radio geeks have landed their several times of late. Quite why Norway has a legitimate claim to these islands at the other end of the earth is beyond me……..but dontcha just love the idea of finding an unknown bit of rock and claiming for the Norwegian Crown? Maybe Argentina will invade PETER l and I bet the Norwegian aircraft cariers won’t be steaming south too quick. I now await the avalanche of counter claims to the answer!!!

NO TO THE VATICAN – MARCH ON FEB.14th

Only just heard about this:

GEOGRAPHICAL QUIZ 3

Firstly what a photo finish end to the Hartmann quiz – with HENRY with right answer timed at 9.40pm just pipping INTERNATIONALIST at 9.41pm and REGINOLD at 9.44pm.If Henry e-mails me an address his prize will be winging it’s way before twilight.

Now here’s a two-parter for the Geography Quiz:

1.What is the only part of North America north of Mexico not part of Canada/USA/Greenland?

2. What was the last territory to be sucesfully claimed in the southern hemisphere by a country in the northern hemisphere outside of war?

Can anyone stop Henry – and can Henry do it without photos??

NO TAKERS FOR SWP’s RIGHT TO WORK CAMPAIGN