As the "Hackgate” juggernaut trundles on gathering speed, crushing all before it, Ed Miliband has clambered aboard the steamroller by calling for the breakup of Rupert Murdoch's News International media group. We don't intend to go into great detail on this – there are far better places to follow the story, John Ward's excellent “Slog” blog being one of the best that we know of (see link below) – but we do wonder why it has taken Ed so long to call for these measures.

On this issue at least, the English Radicals are in complete agreement with the Labour leader – in our view Rupert Murdoch's empire is too powerful, has been a negative, dumbing influence on British and English cultural life for decades, and by all accounts has been overly influential in British politics also – can anyone remember the last time a political party came to power without the support of Rupert Murdoch's tabloids?

As the arrests and resignations seem to involve people ever higher up the “food chain” with each passing day, one wonders – is there any limit to how high this contagion will spread? How far back does it go? Have certain British police and politicians been puppets dancing to the tune of a foreign puppet master? Did these puppets dance out of friendship alone, or could there be other reasons?

Just as we agree that Ed Miliband is right to call for the break up of News International, we would also point out that there is another institution in this country that is controlled by foreign interests, constantly abuses its position of monopoly and power, lacks accountability, whose top people are rarely brought to account for their stupidity or crimes, no matter how heinous. One that HE is part of - the British Government.

The EU is the malign foreign puppet master that makes the British government dance to its tune, safe in the knowledge that there are enough traitors (eager for EU jobs after leaving British politics) in the ranks of all the major parties to carry its agenda, no matter who is in power at the time.

His predecessors in the Labour party, Blair and Brown, were the Prime Ministers of Britain from 1997 to 2010, and are still to face juries for their respective roles in the invasion of Iraq that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and hundreds of British service personnel, and the gross economic mismanagement that resulted in our present debt mountain.

The British Government - a centuries-old, centralised, oligarchy - has only recently had its supreme authority challenged, by separatist parties in Scotland and Wales – and continues to deny the funding, and therefore the possibility, of local or regional government in England with any meaningful powers or purpose. They do not wish to give the English what they have given to the Scots – a parliament consisting solely of MP's representing constituencies from their own nation.

Little wonder that News International should have such a close relationship with successive British governments – as can be seen above, they both have remarkably similar cultures. Ed Miliband is likely to discover that his own party has some very dirty laundry stashed in a closet with regards to dealings with these people, as many of the wrongdoings were perpetrated before the Tories took office.....and it's not unthinkable that somebody as high as Cabinet level was aware, or involved.

So Mr Miliband, as you have seen the light regarding News International - can we take it that should you come to power, you will “walk the walk” by breaking up the British government's centralised monopoly on power, kick out the evil foreign influence, and ensure that wrongdoing on your watch is punished? Or are you merely just a soundbite politician like Cameron, “talking the talk”, with no intention of changing anything once in office?

And talking of Mr Cameron – his recent statement in the House of Commons regarding the whole News International scandal, when he uttered his famous slogan: “We’re all in this together” – was perhaps an unfortunate choice of words, considering how high up the buck is likely to stop!

Just before this article was due to be uploaded to the ERA website, it was learnt that the original whistle blower in all this business, ex-News of the World reporter Sean Hoare, was found dead at his home today. Unbelievable, and very frightening. Our sincere condolences to his family.




Link to John Ward's “Slog” blog:  http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/







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After the unveiling of yet another political suit with no real life experience as leader, the Labour Party is making believe that it is a ‘new generation’ ready to lead the fight against the ConDems. What rubbish! Gathered around the Shadow Cabinet table at Westminster will be the same people who have spent the last thirteen years in office making the poor poorer and the rich richer, whilst throwing billions of taxpayers pounds at the glorified bookies’ runners who run the banks. The same people that led the Labour Party away from its working class roots to lick the boots of the rich and privileged. The same people that destroyed the pensions of thousands, and penalised the elderly who had saved and supported themselves for over fifty years. The same people who gave ninety per cent of all new jobs to immigrants whilst allowing the sale of English companies such as Cadburys and calling on English workers to take pay cuts.

Typically the ‘new’ Labour leader, Ed Milliband, used his first speech to stab the people who elected him in the back, warning the trade unions that he would not support their campaign against the savage cuts planned by the ConDems. Once again same Labour; abandoning the millions who look to it in defence of their interests, against the Sunday Times Rich List, sorry ConDems cabinet, that runs the country on behalf of overseas bankers and speculators. No wonder his brother, the banana expert, retired to the back benches, who would want to be associated with this discredited shower of losers? Ed Milliband was no doubt taking lessons from his mentor Neil Kinnock, who when Labour leader also abandoned the grass roots in the face of the last extreme right Tory regime. Kinnock was so good at his job he was sent packing to the house of the failed – the European Commission – in another five years Ed Milliband will join him. It is sad to see the thousands of genuine Labour members and supporters putting their weight behind this lightweight leader, when will they ever learn that modern politicians do not care for the millions of ordinary people; they all want to be Tony Blair and use politics to amass a fortune, regardless of the lives lost or destroyed in the process.

What Labour members and supporters need to realise is that it is not a new leader, or a new generation that is needed to protect their futures but a new politics. A new politics that gives more power to local communities, breaks up the banks and the building societies and takes them back to their local roots. A new politics that puts people ahead of profits and that encourages every citizen to play a part in the building of a new future. A new politics that brings our soldiers home from foreign wars and puts the emphasis on fighting crime on our doorstep instead. We call upon anyone thinking of joining or supporting Old Labour to abandon those who would abandon you and join the only organisation willing to fight the ConDem dictatorship as it prepares to target the elderly and the vulnerable. We, in the English Radical Alliance, will be supporting our communities in this dark hour, and we call upon all who oppose the unnecessary cuts to join our campaign.
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