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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