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By Mal Fletcher, published 15/7/2016Theresa May’s previous record as head of MI5 and Home Secretary suggest that she is a serious and conscientious politician, driven by a sense of duty and a desire to produce benefits for all in society.
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Posted by Alan B., Friday, 15 July 2016 9:43:51 AM
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A nice enough essay.
Mr Fletcher, like most punters, gets his facts mixed up in matters of security intelligence. Where he says "Theresa May’s previous record as head of MI5" WRONG!! Here's a list of former DGs of MI5 https://www.mi5.gov.uk/former-dgs - and she ain't on it. Having political authority (as a UK Gov Secretary/Minister) over different agencies doesn't make her "Head". Otherwise as PM she could now be described as the "Head" of each and every 1,000+ Government agencies (and Departments) in the UK. The UK's Security Service do indeed prefer "MI5" because the actual acronym would be the unfortunate "SS". Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 15 July 2016 6:17:32 PM
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What a boring last 30 days we've had:
1. BREXIT 2. a well hung Federal Erection 3. Haguing Chinese over their Sea 3. Nice, not nice at all, and 4. Terrible Turks couping Who's responsible? God!! Posted by plantagenet, Saturday, 16 July 2016 3:11:53 PM
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Turning to Australia's own PM, Malcolm Turnbull, the company he keeps no longer convinces any that he is a centrist man of the people.
A measure of Malcolm's independence from big money interests is his rehabilitation of colourful ICAC identity Arthur Sinodinos. Like Sinodinos Turnbull is a very wealthy ex-merchant banker. According to Wikipedia Arthur's past indiscretions identified at ICAC, have not been excluded him from his rehabilitation as Cabinet Secretary under Turnbull. Such indiscretions would bar merely ordinary, relatively poor, Australian citizen from senior public office. Wikipedia advises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sinodinos : "Sinodinos was the Assistant Treasurer in the Abbott Ministry.[4]" On 19 March 2014, Sinodinos stood aside from his role as Assistant Treasurer prior to giving evidence as a witness before [the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)]. During the enquiry Sinodinos advised he was unaware of a $74,000 donation made to the Liberal Party by Australian Water Holdings, despite being Deputy Chairman on a $200,000 salary. At the time of the payment Sinodinos was also Treasurer of the Liberal Party.[19] He formally resigned on 19 December 2014 as Assistant Treasurer and was succeeded as Assistant Treasurer by Josh Frydenberg." "He re-entered Cabinet as its Secretary on 21 September 2015 when he was appointed by Malcolm Turnbull." Onya Malcolm. Its the company the rich keep who keep them rich. Posted by plantagenet, Sunday, 17 July 2016 3:00:22 PM
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Plantagenet saying it is "their sea" just marks you as an irrelevat supporter for a major 20thC genocidal maniac in Mao.
Posted by McCackie, Monday, 18 July 2016 9:10:36 AM
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Before getting carried away by Ms May's demagoguery, read this:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45128.htm Posted by ybgirp, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:42:26 PM
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Could it be, we finally have a conservative Leader who finally understands that trickle down economic theory just does not work in practice, that greed and pettifogging opportunism will almost always triumph over idealism or a nonsense, if truly believed mantra? And none more nonsensical than the old hoary one, the government has no business in business!
Simply put, the Government needs to get back to the core responsibilities and business of government, rolling out cash cow essential service, affordable housing, rescuing the water the flows from the skies from the hands of greedy paper shuffling profit demanding barons!
We need to go back to the future, when we the people owned and operated all our power stations and energy provision for the powerful social good and and increased manufacturing opportunities, jobs and growth it gave us and indeed controlled the flow of capital and at its natural cost to us!
Given it is these two economic pillars alone every western style economy rest on as its only true support!
Private enterprise and a free market system can lift billions from the yoke of enduring poverty and it has, but it must be regulated free enterprise and a world of increasing opportunity! Rather than the virtual white anting for unearned profit of the very economic pillars that support ours and indeed, every other western style economy!
And let's return cash cow essentiaL cash cow essential service to the rightful owners, we the people, and because that's where true social justice has its very foundation!
One just doesn't need good ideas or vision to corner an absolutely essential market; just entirely counterproductive profit gouging greed!
Alan B.