THE MAN FEARED BY WESTMINSTER TO FERRET THE TRUTH IS NOW ON THE TRAIL OF
TRUTH OF DR KELLY'S DEATH.
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OUR HOUSE OF WESTMINSTER HAS A MAN OF
INTEGRITY AMONG A CROWD OF CORRUPT WASTERS AND TIME SERVERS.
We have already to hand a partial list
of the failure of our House of Commons over the last ten years to serve
the people in an HONEST and HONOURABLE way. Only a small band of honest
members with integrity show how the HOUSE should behave with their
sacred TRUST of service to the PEOPLE.
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Is this man the greatest man in
politics?
by
Peter Osborne
[Daily Mail-February 16, 2007]
From the Mandelson scandal to
MPs' expenses, Norman Baker's ferreted out more shady secrets about our
rulers than anyone...
DOUBTLESS there are innocent
explanations in certain cases. But after yesterday's publication of the
deeply embarrassing details about the MPs' expences claims, it looks
very much as if there is organised theft and corruption going on at
Westminster.
Needless to say the House of
Commons - led by the wretched Speaker Martin -fought a long campaign to
keep yesterday's details secret. Expensive lawyers were hired - again at
public expence - to make the case against publication
The rearguard battle would have
succeeded but for one man
Norman Baker
-the Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes.
He plugged away for two years for his
colleagues expences to be made public, and he eventually he won.
This morning Baker is the most
unpopular man in the Commons. When MPs reassemble after their mid-term
break next week, hw will get the same treatment as a prison nark. AND
YET- it is worth pondering the real reason why Baker is so unpopular .
IT IS BECAUSE HE IS A DEEPLY
HONEST MAN OF UTTER INTEGRITY WHO IS DETERMINED THAT BRITISH VOTERS
SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOVERNED.
Baker is neither flashy, smooth nor
glamorous. He does not sit on the FRONT BENCHES. But he is, in his own
way, the most ADMIRABLE and HEROIC MP at WESTMINSTER.
In a decent world, all of Britain's 650
MPs would be like the INDEFATIGABLE and INCORRUPTIBLE Norman Baker.
Shamefully there is only one of him.
YESTERDAY marked only the latest of
Baker's many victories over Britain's self-serving political
establishment. His greatest achievement was forcing Peter Mandelson to
admit his links to the Indian tycoon Srichand Hinduja, a revelation that
swiftly led to Mandelson's second and final resignation as a Cabinet
Minister.
For this, Norman Baker earned the
hatred of his own party , as well as most of the political class. He was
cut dead in the Commons corridors even by fellow Liberal Democrat MPs
for weeks afterwards.
You would think that an OPPOSITION
PARTY would have been overjoyed to see the demise of a Cabinet Minster,
but the shameful TRUTH is that they felt an instinctive sympathy for
Mandelson whom they regarded as a fellow member of the political ELITE
and therefore in need of protection from an outsider like Norman Baker.
It was a lonely and embattled time for
this
COURAGEOUS MAN
He was learning the hard way that there
are no rewards in life for TELLING the TRUTH, exposing hypocrisy and
DOING THE RIGHT THING.
He is a very modest man. When I rang
him yesterday and asked him to list his achievements, he wouldn't. 'I
don't keep a check of them,' he replied. I asked him for his secret, and
his reply was revealing.
'I have no particular ambition,' he
replied. 'I don't want to lead my party. I don't want to be in the House
of Lords. That gives you a tremendous liberation.
Before becoming an MP, he ran a branch
of Our Price Records, where he would help youngsters to find the latest
Showaddywaddy disc on the shelves, and he remains phenomenally
knowledgeable about pop music.
His political methods flow from early
interests. he has something of the obsessive nature of the amateur
enthusiast. he has a good head for detail and knows where , in the
great, dusty attics of Whitehall and Westminster, he will find the
buried nuggets he is seeking.
Physically he is not a striking figure.
He has a comb-over hairdo, a pretty terrible fashion sense and a nasal,
slightly irritating voice brushed by a faint West Country accent. If the
Archers ever introduced a character who was an accountant, he would
sound like Norman baker.
When he arrived in the House of Commons
in 1997 there was no shortage of people quick to write him off. Matthew
Parris, the former Tory MP -turned newspaper-journalist, sneeringly
discounted the unglamorous Baker as 'a bore'.
For the political elite of London, this
unprepossessing man had insufficient polish. He did not seem very
interested in things like expensive lunches and disloyal gossip.
He did not seem to be a man easily suborned. Nor to be brutal, was he
sexy or modern. That made the image-bending part cadres uneasy.
The truth was that Baker was aloner. Yes, he may be on the plain
side, visually. Yes, he may be an annoying ,unclubbable - scruffy even -
monk.
BUT PARLIAMENT NEEDS SUCH PEOPLE.
Baker's chosen seat on the Commons
benches is the end of the Chamber just below the sword-wearing Sergeant
at Arms, away from the seats occupied by his party leadership.
When the Speaker calls his name he
stands almost at a stoop, for there is little that is flamboyant or
confident in his demeanour. His out-of -date trousers, which do not
always match his jacket, flap around his shins.
He is sometimes to be found wearing
sports jackets or yellow ties or suede shoes - the wardrobe of a prep
school Classics master rather than a Blair-era politician. he never
matches the Labour and Tory thrusters for their sleekness and shine.
YET MINISTERS HAVE LEARNED TO LISTEN TO
CLOSELY TO HIM.
They have learned to beware giving him
a loose answer. They have grown to respect, if not exactly to admire,
the economy of his queries, the brevity of his often deadly
interventions, and his remarkable persistence.
All this may , to the stranger sound
insignificant. But to stand outside the pack in politics takes guts.
Baker persists with his campaigns despite often rancorous opposition.
SOMETIMES he will be heckled by Labour
MPs sitting just 5ft or so in front of him - he stands just in front of
Labour's 'awkward squad' bench - yet Baker sticks to his principles and
to his arguments and keeps pinging in his Parliamentary written
questions demanding factual replies from a civil service machine which
remains, despite Labour's worst efforts, the
SERVANT of the PEOPLE
Now he has won this victory over MPs,
Baker's latest campaign concerns the death of government scientist Dr
David Kelly at the height of the row between the present administration
and the BBC in the summer of 2003.
Baker's forensic mind has already
picked apart much of the evidence accepted far too readily by the partly
discredited Hutton Inquiry. He has identified key inconsistencies about
the police investigation, arguing that it is incredibly unlikely that Dr
Kelly did kill himself with his blunt gardening knife, as the official
version has it.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A CONSPIRACY -TOO FAR
BUT
Baker has a habit of being right. His
search for the truth about Dr Kelly recalls that long fight by Labour's
Tam Dalyell to discover the truth about the Belgrano.
Indeed, Norman Baker keeps alive the
tradition of the bloody-minded individuality in the Commons, as
practised by just such men as Dalyell.
NO PRAISE IS TOO HIGH FOR BRAVE
LONELY HONEST MEN LIKE THESE
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13th October,2007
So You Want Out
Of The EU
THEN WHY NOT SIGN THE
RENUNCIATION of EU CITIZENSHIP
WHY WE ASK YOUR SUPPORT
When we first saw the petition we reasoned
that it had no chance of success from No 10 but we supported it
in order to gauge the number of Britons who would publicly put
their name to a list which stated that they wished to
RENUNCIATE EU CITIZENSHIP and retain only BRITISH.-THAT
IS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. Some might say that to hide behind a
negative premise is both cowardly and playing into the hands of
the EU FEDERALISTS. DON'T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT- Place
your vote so ALL can see that YOU CARE. about YOUR COUNTRY and
YOUR FREEDOM.
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http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Optout
Details from petition creator
With the signing of the Maastricht
Treaty the people of Britain were given
DUAL CITIZENSHIP
-both
EUROPEAN and BRITISH
The extra tier of citizenship was
thrust upon the people without their consent -and in many cases
knowledge.
The PEOPLE of GREAT BRITAIN should be
allowed the option of opting out of the EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP if they so
wish. The GOVERNMENT will then be able to provide those who have opted
out with
BRITISH DOCUMENTATION
-only such as British (not EU)
passports, driving licences and other national documents.
EU laws will also NOT APPLY to those who
HAVE OPTED OUT OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP
[PETITION OPEN UNTIL
OCTOBER 08]
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FEBRUARY/07
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THE PEOPLE HAVE
SPOKEN-IS THE EU COMMISSION LISTENING?
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Ditch the EU TREATY after IRISH REJECTION
SAY VOTERS
by
Daniel
Martin
Political
Reporter
[Daily Mail-Wednesday, June
18,2008]
MORE THAN HALF of voters believe Britain should
drop the controversial European Treaty in the wake of its
rejection in last week's
IRISH REFERENDUM'
The poll comes as the Tories launch a last-ditch
bid in the
HOUSE of LORDS
today to delay the
RATIFICATION OF
THE TREATY.
And
10,000 people
have signed a
PETITION
on the
DOWNING STREET-
WEBSITE
within the past few days
JUNE16-2008
, calling on the
GOVERNMENT
NOT TO RATIFY THE BILL
[WHY DON'T YOU?]
Downing Street
website is
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Abandon-Lisbon/
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JUNE 18-2008
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Let the people speak!
www.makeitanissue.org.uk
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www.noliberties.com
[Latest Addition - June07]
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www.eutruth.org.uk
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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk
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www.speakout.co.uk
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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION
to the EU
www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs
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GORDON BROWN WANTS TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T
HE TRUST YOU?
HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ
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67% want powers back from
EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95%
of British people want a
REFERENDUM
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PETITION
FOR A
REFERENDUM
SIGN TODAY ON LINE
telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum
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July 18-2007
VOTE
-2007
TO
LEAVE
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE
TO SET YOU
FREE
THE
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
www.ukip.org
THE QUESTION THAT THE
VOTER MUST ANSWER
‘DO
YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE
CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’
-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?
TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE
FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER
BUT
SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS
WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.
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ONLY
PRO-PORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION
WILL
BRING
DEMOCRACY
BACK
TO
THE
ENGLISH
PEOPLE
*
SCOTLAND
-ITS PARLIAMENT -WALES-ITS
ASSEMBLY-ENGLAND-STILL
AWAITS ITS PARLIAMENT-WHY?
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Home
Rule
for
Scotland
WHY
NOT
HOME
RULE
for
ENGLAND
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Let the people
speak!
www.makeitanissue.org.uk
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www.noliberties.com
[Latest Addition - June07]
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www.eutruth.org.uk
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www.thewestminsternews.co.uk
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www.speakout.co.uk
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Daniel Hannan - Forming an OPPOSITION
to the EU
www.telegraph.co.uk.blogs
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GORDON BROWN WANTS
TRUST-BUT WHY WON'T HE TRUST YOU?
HELL ON EARTH IN IRAQ
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67%
want powers back from EU-ICM poll-June 21-2007-95%
of British
people want a REFERENDUM
*
PETITION
FOR A
REFERENDUM
SIGN TODAY ON LINE
telegraph.co.uk/eureferendum
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July 18-2007
VOTE
-2007
TO
LEAVE
THE
EUROPEAN
UNION
WITH THE ONLY PARTY WITH A MANDATE
TO SET YOU
FREE
THE
UK
INDEPENDENCE PARTY
www.ukip.org
THE QUESTION THAT THE
VOTER MUST ANSWER
‘DO
YOU WISH TO BE GOVERNED BY YOUR OWN PEOPLE, LAW AND CUSTOM OR BY THE
CORRUPT ,EXPENSIVE UNACCOUNTABLE AND CORRUPT ALIEN BUSYBODY BRUSSELS’
-SIMPLE IS IT NOT?
TO RECLAIM YOUR DEMOCRACY DON'T VOTE
FOR THE TRIPARTITE PARTIES IN WESTMINSTER
BUT
SMALL PARTIES THAT SPEAK THEIR MINDS
WITHOUT SPIN AND LIES.
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ONLY
PRO-PORTIONAL
REPRESENTATION
WILL
BRING
DEMOCRACY
BACK
TO
THE
ENGLISH
PEOPLE
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