Are The Chickens Coming Home To Roost?
Anne Harris, the Editor of the Irish Sunday Independent calls them the “coping class” and the Irish Times calls them “the squeezed middle”. They are the ordinary working people of the country who go to work, pay their taxes and vastly increased taxes they are, after the bankers, developers and successive governments have flagrantly ruined the financial basis of our country. These people are bringing up their families on an ever decreasing income but on the whole behave themselves and just get on with life as best they can. These are the people any government would expect to bring them out of a crisis. They do not rebel, they might moan but generally they just get on with it.
Recently however this vast majority, this huge uncomplaining mass of people, have been starting to think and to wonder why it always is, when trouble abounds, they are the first people to get their arses kicked. The answer is of course that like the family dog, their arses are kicked because they are there and the government and establishment hope they will remain there. But there are signs, faint signs possibly as yet, but signs that this tolerant behaviour is being cast aside and the average thinker wonders whether it is because the plutocracy’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Various things have been happening in this big wide world of ours recently to suggest that the wealthy, the bourgeoisie, the establishment who never suffer in the hardtimes, have had their day after their various antics have come to light and no longer will the coping class just cope, they will rebel with disasterous effect on those who choose to govern. Even the big prop of our capitalist classes has had its strength eroded mightily. The Christian Church, that harbinger of decent life and a definite ally of the system so far, has blotted its copybook and dampened its trousers in its headlong pursuit of hedonistic values and can no longer be relied on to capture the imagination of people.
It is well known that the press have had a very powerful grip on the minds of most for a long time and the government and establishment have been using this grip to their advantage. The popular press have been feeding garbage and titillation to the people for a long time and helping to keep the public’s eye off the bigger picture which is the rape of the many by the few.
However the Tory inspired Leveson Inquiry into media culture and ethics, and its relationship with the police and politicians, is bringing more unexpected worms out of the woodwork than Mr Cameron really wanted when he set it up in the wake of the phone hacking scandal that brought down that superb merchant of trash, twaddle and sleaze, The News Of The World. An interesting thing here, and it shows the rubbish that this weekly newspaper set out, was when the Murdoch’s, in their zeal to regain lost ground, closed the newspaper down. Their customers of trite did not switch to another paper but just stopped buying an alternative. It shows what that group of people wanted with their Sunday breakfast.
One of the above worms mentioned by that most unlikely of witnesses called by the inquiry, Mr Paul Staines or his alter ego Guido Fawkes, the archblogger, was in his condemnation of the British press. He told the story of photographs of Mr Christopher Myers, one time aide to William Hague the Foreign Minister, who had been sharing a room with his boss whilst out on the hustings, which had come into Mr Staines possession and placed Mr Myers in a compromising situation. Now I am not interested in the ins and outs of Mr Hague and his friends because all that has been mulled over in the press for years, but these photographs are interesting. Mr Staines sold these photographs to the News of the World for £20,000. At that time Andy Coulson, one time editor of the paper who had resigned because of pressure from the phone hacking furore and was now David Cameron’s press advisor seems to have used his influence to persuade the paper to spike any story that could come out of the photographs. The photographs were never published and Mr Hague gave out a press statement about his happy marriage and all the papers covered it, but again the News of the World fought shy.
What also came out of last weeks press runs was the bravery of Richard Ingrams, who has been pushing boundaries for over 50 years, first with Private Eye and now for the last 20 years with his monthly magazine The Oldie. He tells the story of another man long encumbered by innuendo and gossip about his perverted sex life but who always managed, being a pillar of the establishment, to keep his story out of the newspapers. Jimmy Savile, that doyen of Tory Party ministers, who told everybody he came into contact with on these matters that if he went down he would bring the upper echelons with him. The Oldie ran the story of the BBC scoop that never was. The story of Jimmy Savile and pubescent girls from a remand home in Essex, whom he used to invite into the BBC studios and abuse them during breaks in his television rehersals, was withdrawn at the last minute by BBC senior management because it implicated both the BBC and two living celebrities. Now everybody needs to be concerned at this facet of his libido because Savile’s whole persona, created from 25 years at the BBC, was in his handling and dealing with children and if this story is true, and I think it is, his whole image would need to be removed from public life. Rumours of this man’s mores have been circulating for years. Even I ran a story on 23 April 2010 on this topic and Jimmy Savile’s contribution which was backed up for me by a restaurateur in the New Forest who often used to cook for Ted Heath, when Jimmy brought a new batch of boys down for Ted to savour.
The real problem with all this news is that it is getting to close for comfort for those at the top of the tree, those who have been, by doubtful means, controlling your every breath. Take for example that thorn in the side of the Scottish legal system, Mr Robert Green and his campaign for justice for Hollie Greig, a young Scottish Downs Syndrome girl who was horribly abused for many years by a large ring of top of the range paedophiles in Aberdeen, which included judges, police officers, social workers and teachers. He was recently found guilty of breach of the peace at Stonehaven Sheriff’s Court after undergoing something like 20 court appearances, costing well over £500,000 in public money and involving 64 prosecution witnesses and engaged the services of most of the top brass of the Scottish Justice Department. All this for a breach of the peace hearing. The only top dog who did not appear was the former Procurator Fiscal of Scotland, Elish Angiolini, whom Robert wanted to call as a witness but was not allowed by Sheriff Principal Edward Bowen, who at the trial did not declare his relationship with Angiolini. This was the same Elish Angiolini who resigned in mysterious circumstances last May when supposedly at the height of her powers as Procurator Fiscal.
Robert however has now managed to pin down Miss Angiolini and has had a file opened on her and been granted a crime number by Lothian Police. Now where does Angiolini live but in Dunblane, scene of terrible circumstances 16 years ago, when a lone gun man, Robert Hamilton, shot and killed 16 children and a teacher. Hamilton was a suspected paedophile who was implicated with George Robertson, or to give him his full title, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, one time Labour Defence Secretary and Nato Secretary General, who disappeared off the radar very quickly in 2004. George also lives in Dunblane, along with, it seems, some very important people. Not bad for a town of 8,000 inhabitants. I wrote a blog posting about this particular coven entitled Paedophilia, The Hollie Greig Scandal, The Dunblane Massacre And The Scottish Cabal on 4 April 2010 which proved to be the most popular piece I have ever written. It is still there in the top 3 most widely read blogs of mine after two years and so are all these people we have spoken about, but there time will come. Their chickens will eventually come home to roost especially when the coping classes rise up.
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