Who would have thought we would see the words 'Mandelson' 'SFO' and 'cover up' in the same sentence.

Peter Mandelson has asked government lawyers to begin compiling the evidence needed to bar some of the key players behind the Rover affair from corporate life.
The businessmen who ran the consortium, known as the Phoenix Four, are thought to have received about £40m in pay and pensions contributions during their time running MG Rover. They were quick to respond to the SFO's decision today by pointing the finger at ministers. They claim the government failed to support a rescue deal that they claim could have saved Rover from collapse in 2005.
Their comments clearly angered Mandelson, who said: "I sense rather a lot of buck-passing on the part of the Phoenix Four. I think what people will be asking themselves now is whether they as individuals are fit to conduct themselves as directors of companies in the future."The SFO's decision means that the government's long-awaited report will finally be published on 11 September.
Is it any wonder that MG-Rover collapsed when the company was forced to employ 1,500 too many workers?
It should also be noted that the Government gave MG-Rover absolutely no financial support whatsoever, the DTI (Patricia Hewitt) at the time said "we have better things to do with our money"
Probably Mandelson will be looking for a Good Day To Publish Bad News.
Interesting, the guy who behaved worse than being economical with the truth when it came to his mortgages and still managed to re-enter government, now he asks lawyers if it is possible to ban from boardrooms persons the SFO doesn't want to investigate! No double standards at all, surely!
The SFO is a political puppet that has been shown during the BAE investigation to be a slave to the political pay masters. They are a joke. Real fraud is going on all around them just look at the Banking sector and yet they take no action until the newspapers make it front page news.This isn't a democracy its government by headlines and spin.

Just put it on expenses Hazel it's no big deal!

Funny how everyone else has their crime taken over the phone when their vehicles get damaged but the 'lovely' Hazel gets a visit from cops in police 'vans'
What is it Orwell said....'we are all equal but some are more equal than others'
Nice to see Greater Manchester Police with it's 2 tier policing policy. If you're a normal person you do it on the phone but if you're 'famous' you get them turning up in droves.
And is her vehicle not within 15 yards of a junction thus contravening the highway code; it just goes to prove the old saying of one rule for the rich and another for the poor!
What is worse causing a few hundred pounds worth of damage to a car belonging to a woman that scammed the people she was meant to be helping or using a position of power to 'steal' (as that is what it is called for normal people), thousands of pounds from the tax payer?
She abused the trust of the people she was paid to serve, effectively sticking a rich manicured finger up at thousands of struggling single mothers and hard working families. She's greedy and secretly shared the ethos that most MP's no doubt subscribe to, 'that they are part of the elite and that normal rules don't apply to them, screw the average voter, if I can't use this power to make money then why have I worked so hard?'
This obnoxious woman is totally deluded if she thinks she has not been targeted and the residents have forgotten what she is. The sooner the voters knock that slimy smirk of her face for good the better it will be for us all.

kamikaze Gordon's bank merger produces £4bn loss.

Yesterday the Gordon Brown orchestrated merger of Lloyds and HBOS today saw the part-state-owned bank report a £4 billion loss in six months. But before this we had the Newcastle-based bank, which owes the taxpayer £10.9 billion, has a rate of arrears of 3.93% of its mortgage book – or 22,141 customers – compared with an industry average of 2.39%.It has repossessed nearly four times more homes than the industry average although the 2,522 homes it has in possession is down from the peak of 4,000 and fewer than the 3,620 at the end of last year.
While Barclays and HSBC continue to coin it, the basket cases we bailed out last year sink further into the shit.
Call me a normal guy 'with clean spectacles' and without any baggage.
Forget the Tory Party. They haven't been in power for a generation and when they went to war, they did it legitimately and knew how to fight and win within a couple of months.
The economy, the war, the banking crisis has been created by Liebore and kamikaze Gordon Brown is the godfather of this entire episode in our history.
kamikaze Brown has always wanted to give himself a legacy, what prime minister doesn't ... but the way history will treat them is very simple: Tony Bliar sent us to war and presided over a 'spendthrift' chancellor kamikaze Gordon who spent money like water. He treated a bubble like a normal day and spent, spent, spent, sold our gold reserves and 'stuffed' the country good and proper.
kamikaze Gordon then became the first UN-elected Prime Minister for a very long time and continued his 'spendthrift ways'. Hell, he even presided over the wasteful death of too many livestock, supports the continued abuse of the immigration system, continues to allow British Troops to remain without the proper equipment and due to his over opinionated friends they can't even fight a war without being subject to civilian lawyers. And then kamikaze Gordon topped it off by wasting money on doctors wages, selling off our gold, adding more to the human rights charter, creating a world of red tape and legislation and supporting criminal behaviour, he removed the expression UK and replaced it with British. And then came the Northern Rock saga and his own financial legacy he gave us the icing on the cake with the LloydsHBOS merger which cost us £4bn. And then we tomorrow RBS and guess what he's away on his hols!
Gordon Brown should realise that money is a 'privilege and not a right'. Stop abusing the fractional reserve system and if you want to play games - play monopoly instead.
Right now, I am a sickened pensioner looking for a new way forward; and I'm thoroughly open to offers from all sides of the political spectrum,providing its not Labour!
Help ... I'm a UK tax payer, get me out of here...

Happy birthday President Obama.

WND Editor Joseph Farah has produced the first major DVD documentary on the critical issues surrounding the constitutional eligibility of Barack Obama to serve as president – but it wasn't easy.

In fact, during the course of shooting and editing "A Question of Eligibility," the award-winning film making team, including veterans of many controversial movie projects, made the unusual request to keep its identity secret for fear of retribution from the administration.

"That's how hot this topic is," said Farah. "That's how hot this movie is."

California attorney Orly Taitz, who has filed a number of lawsuits demanding proof of Barack Obama's eligibility to serve as president, has released a copy of what purports to be a Kenyan certification of birth and has filed a new motion in U.S. District Court for its authentication.

Last week, a counterfeit document purporting to be Obama's Kenyan birth certificate made the rounds of the Internet, but was quickly determined to be fraudulent. The new document released by Taitz bears none of the obvious traits of a hoax.

Taitz told WND that the document came from an anonymous source who doesn't want his name known because "he's afraid for his life."

Taitz's motion, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, requests the purported evidence of Obama's birth – both the alleged birth certificate and foreign records not yet obtained – be preserved from destruction, asks for permission to legally request documents from Kenya and seeks a subpoena for deposition from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

"I filed the motion with the court asking for expedited discovery, which would allow me to start subpoenas and depositions even before Obama and the government responds," Taitz told WND. "I am asking the judge to give me the power to subpoena the documents from the Kenyan embassy and to require a deposition from Hillary Clinton so they will be forced to authenticate [the birth certificate].

"I'm forcing the issue, where Obama will have to respond," she said.

Mr President, where ever you were born please have a happy birthday.

Savage versus Jackboot Jacqui

Savaging Savage

Only Queen Elizabeth II can fix this.

Press reports that Britain is making nice with talk-radio host Michael Savage are greatly exaggerated. Some accounts insisted Mr. Savage was now welcome in Britain after being placed on an "undesirables" list of terrorists and criminals three months ago by then-Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who accused him of "fomenting hate."

Not so.

Mr. Savage, whose nationally syndicated program is heard weekly by 10 million listeners, says he's still on the list. His lawsuit against Ms. Smith is still on. And he still pines for a proper meaculpa.

"I feared this. The Labor government will not yet admit they made a big mistake in listing me alongside actual murderers. Talk is not murder. Murdering a reputation, is that murder or defamation?" Mr. Savage tells me.

"They leave me no option except to pursue my defamation complaint against Jacqui Smith. In time, I will clear my name, receive an apology from the British government - or the Queen - deliver a speech before the British Parliament and present the British people the gift of freedom of speech, for which their forefathers died. By my example, they will see how far their own nation has fallen under the rule of these coelenterates" - jellyfish, Mr. Savage says.

For once I agree with John Prescott.

Prescott rebukes Harman for saying woman should always have one of top two jobs in Labour Party

Please, will Harman's constituents get rid of her. Every time she opens her mouth, it is to launch an attack on men whether directly, or through discriminatory laws sugar coated as "equality laws".

I support the best people for the job, regardless of gender. Men and women can be equally corrupt and incompetent.

I have not heard too many people expressing the view that there must be a woman at number one or two in her party, irrespective of that woman's qualities, but she may be correct in believing ' I could do no worse than the present leader'; there are sure to be many in the electorate who believe they do could do better than the present kamikaze leader.
This woman is a total hypocrite.

Tax payers alliance report

There may be trouble ahead...

Everyone knows that the public finances are in a mess. Unfortunately, it looks like the Government still aren’t facing up to the scale of the crisis. At the time of the Budget, many senior economists criticised their forecasts for being decidedly optimistic. Now new research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research for the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows what could happen if things don’t work out that well: £2.1-£2.3 trillion in debt by 2017/18 and 3.2-3.8 million unemployed by 2011.

At the same time, the research shows that big tax hikes would have disastrous results for the economy. The 50p tax rate alone will reduce economic growth by 0.4 per cent of GDP, increase public borrowing by £1.8 billion a year and increase the base unemployment rate by 0.8 per cent by 2020/21. The answer has to be spending cuts. Politicians need to do more to set out plans that could seriously bring down spending. Even if the Treasury’s numbers are right the public finances are in a crisis, but if they’re wrong then they could be sleepwalking into another catastrophe. To read the full report, please click here.