Today’s televised select committee proceedings showed us clearly what had happened in the UK Border Agency. It is typical of what is happening throughout the Civil Service. A massively overpaid “Chief Executive”, Rob Whiteman, is parachuted in on £240,000 a year. He has never had a day’s experience as an immigration officer in his life.
He is placed over Brodie Clark, a man with over 30 years experience, who is head of the Border Force. Whiteman needs to stamp his authority on a force which probably at many levels resents a total outsider being brought in. Was Whiteman, of Barking and Dagenham local council, really that much more capable than all of the thousands of existing Border Force people who actually knows the work? Absolutely anybody could predict Whiteman’s next move – he gets rid of Clark.
He does it by conflating two things. The longstanding fact that at peak times border controls have to be relaxed or airports would overflow in sewerage and planes drop off the sky. And a targeted pilot scheme, that sounds rather sensible, to relax certain controls on certain people to allow better targeting.
Getting rid of Clark necessitates exaggerating the problems, something which an immigrant demonising media is ready to help with. But this causes problems for May as Home Secretary. Not caring about anything but her own career, she reacts by heaping huge loads of manure on Clark’s head.
Whiteman managed, in appearing before a select committee today, to come across as even more horrible than the Murdochs. That you and I are paying his huge salary is appalling. Almost appalling is that the “independent investigation” into what happened is being conducted by John Vine, who was a party to the decision to sack Clark, and a party to some of the correspondence and minutes which Whiteman refused to give the Select Commitee because he was giving it to Vine’s investigation.
Read that last sentence again. Yes, incredible but true. Yet another new low for government whitewash?
This thing stinks.
The US Feds complaining they wont have enough “officers” on the ground come the Olympics?
I don’t doubt that they’re unhappy.It’ll take alot of officers to really ensure their false flag ops go like clockwork.
This Whiteman person sounds like a very nasty slug indeed.
They way he shat all over Clark was nauseating.Clark was the only individual who has emerged in a plausible and dignified light in all of this.
I’ve known the whiteman type all my life and loathe them.
Yep he sounds exactly the Common Purpose type.Networking and toadying their only real skills,and shafting anyone who get in their way. I bet Whiteman specialises in “blue-sky thinking”,”solution led solutions in a challenging global market dynamic”.He will always “boil the frog” and considers himself “the fat man in the canoe” in an insanely vain manner.
At the Xmas party he gets leery with anything in a skirt,sings Agadoo,vomits BEFORE going for a massive 4 course curry with his other Masonic brothers,and then sings gaudy bigoted songs on his slalomly unstately way home.
His taxi is alwas on expenses,too,i’ve no doubt.
Scum.
Oh, and Frank Gardiner is reporting on Iran under ‘covert attack’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15741989
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Total spook. Tom Mangold, ditto, after his Diana performances…
Anders,
Tom Mangold, was he not also the “close friend of Dr. Kelly”?
Anders,
The Saudi monarch used the poetic language of the Nejdi desert, urging Washington to “cut off the head of the snake”.
Evidently Frank left his brains in Saudi as well as his mobility! The same “poetic” crap was said about Saddam.
Alas Saddam had nothing to fight back with, and US nearly got whooped, and needed Putin to go on the telly and give moral support; “US cannot be defeated at this stage, it is not good for the world”.
These wankers are insane, why are they not wearing their long armed jackets?
Coming back recently from NYC to LHR it took me about an hour and a half to get through Immigration in London and I have a British passport. So much for open borders methinks.
Only 6 UKBF officers on duty for what looked like at least three planes of passengers and then I was told to go to the automatic scanner line where I waited with a phalanx of grumbling Europeans for s poxy machine to scan my passport which it had to do four times.
There was a group of Asian gentlemen on the same flight as me and thay had already cleared Immigration and were on thier way out just as I got to the carosel.
At least in the USA they are a lot more professional and the TSA are trained to be polite when they are asking you about your trip to the US. No wonder I am emigrating.
St Theresa is seeing more **** hitting the fan this morning. Sir Michael Scholar enters the scene on the accuracy of the drugs seizure statistics and I see we have Sir Gus looking for any candidates who smeared Brodie.
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I think she should have stuck to running the local village fêtes and conservative party fund raising. She would have been good at that.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/another-fine-mess-for-the-home-secretary-6262790.html
nobody actually wants the fucking olympics. nobody wanted the fucking millenium dome. nobody wants cameron and clegg. nobody wanted blair and broon. if that’s democracy give me the other one.
Who remembers the Cowboys and Indians films, when we were kids?
Me and my cousins always rooted for the Indians.
We saw the the Whiteman as the villain.
And right now, I see this white man as the villain against the Indians he stops entering this country.
These Indians come here to work, while the white man went to their country to invade, colonise, loot, pillage and enslave.
You don’t get many ‘Indians’ coming here from the Americas, because the White man went over there to do the above as well as genocide. Not many ‘Indians’ left alive there to come here for Whiteman in the border agency to refuse them enter and deport them back to the country that the white man stole from them.
A proposal from Hague to enhance the power of our secret state. Note the three uses of the word ‘alleged’ aat the beginning of the ZBC report.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15750731
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“May is lazy and callous” and a natural born liar!
This feels like its from the book 1984, the party members and the rest of us.
Relevant, I think:
http://www.straightstatistics.org/article/border-controls-still-no-answers
No answers. No comment.
Anders,
Tom Mangold, was he not also the “close friend of Dr. Kelky
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Yes, according to that “friend of Israel” (Mossad) Mangold and Kelly were once conjoined twins…
Reminiscences of Old Barkingian:
Tony Morris TGWU Convenor at Barking & Dagenham said, “Rob Whiteman, Chief Executive, has managed to earn himself a bad reputation among council staff wherever he has worked. At his old job in Lewisham before moving to Barking & Dagenham Council he was called ‘the jolly bastard’. His current staffs have christened him ‘Sir Humphrey Sponge Bob’.” [A reference to the popular Yes Minister TV character and the kids cartoon character Sponge Bob Smarty Pants].
http://www.labournet.net/ukunion/0505/barking2.html
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No doubt greasing his superiors and shitting on his subordinates played some part in inviting this comment.
What a good writer Chris Hedges. His father was a pastor so he obviously picked up the biblical cadences you can hear in this piece.
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This Is What Revolution Looks Like
http://www.truth-out.org/what-revolution-looks/1321384587
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…Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer.
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They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, tents, sleeping bags, suitcases, food boxes and clothes that were tossed by sanitation workers Tuesday morning into garbage trucks in New York City. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future.
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Our decaying corporate regime has strutted in Portland, Oakland and New York with their baton-wielding cops into a fool’s paradise. They think they can clean up “the mess”—always employing the language of personal hygiene and public security — by making us disappear. They think we will all go home and accept their corporate nation, a nation where crime and government policy have become indistinguishable, where nothing in America, including the ordinary citizen, is deemed by those in power worth protecting or preserving, where corporate oligarchs awash in hundreds of millions of dollars are permitted to loot and pillage the last shreds of collective wealth, human capital and natural resources, a nation where the poor do not eat and workers do not work, a nation where the sick die and children go hungry, a nation where the consent of the governed and the voice of the people is a cruel joke.
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Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt. Pay your loans. Be thankful for the scraps we toss. Chant back to us our phrases about democracy, greatness and freedom. Vote in our rigged political theater. Send your young men and women to fight and die in useless, unwinnable wars that provide corporations with huge profits. Stand by mutely as our bipartisan congressional super committee, either through consensus or cynical dysfunction, plunges you into a society without basic social services including unemployment benefits. Pay for the crimes of Wall Street.
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innocent muslims are being tortured and forced to confess to fabricated charges in Uzbekistan. Don’t make war with Iran, help get uzbeks rid off the karimov regime!
http://www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=hot&cid=3&nid=18379
You’re a tiger on the internet Komodo. Has Sponge Bob got thick glasses and a lot of face fungus? (:)
(:) was my failed attempt to produce one of these http://img.easyfreesmileys.com/bigsmiley.png
I to witnessed the attempted verbal assassination of Brodie Clark and it reminded me of the third degree given to Dr David Kelly PBUH by the Foreign Affairs Committee. Like David, Brodie was grilled as to who had given him authority to exercise his own judgement.
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The stench of conspiracy was obvious. I am also with Brodie.
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May is incompetent, an austerity witch and homophobic to boot – hang her out to dry before she resigns!
Fascists take the helm.
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BREAKING NEWS:Italy’s new PM Mario Monti says he has formed a new government and will himself be in charge of the economy
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Strangely in the same land where it originated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism
Spot on Mary, Monti was a former adviser to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Time to remember the words of Bettino Craxi who in 1992, told parliament that everybody in Italian politics was corrupt.
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Time to remind ourselves of bygone election run-ups and how agent Cameron et.al managed to raise over £5 million in just 2 months; a large proportion of that suddenly coming in from Finance and Healthcare companies.
May is incompetent, an austerity witch and homophobic to boot –
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Shirley you mean “homophobic old boot”? (can you buy kitten heel boots???)
O/T
Does this ring any bells?
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http://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/3306-brazil-forced-evictions-must-not-mar-rio-olympics
The trend is to employ local government CEOs for the top jobs. Now it’s Sir Bob Kerslake to replace O’Donnell.
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http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/regulation/kerslake-appointed-head-of-civil-service/6519018.article
{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kerslake}
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Tip to aspiring candidates for the top jobs – If you want to get ahead grow some face fungus.
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Mary- you may have thought that what adorns my chin is toxic drool, but it is in fact a beard. No more antibeardism, please.
hear hear Komodo, I also sport face fuzz over the winter month, each winter, a habit from my motoring times and a distinct advantage on a motorbike when Jack Frost bites.
you should try it Mary….:)
You people seem to be wasted separated by walls or licencees. But you seem open to dissimulation and misdirection. Try this, I suggested to the male head organ of the IMF’s own lawyer he might suggest the guy or his victim or both were under the influence of Monarch Programming. And he got off! Then a head of immigration somewhere in the USA was up for cleansing. I suggested he or his victim might be so compromised, separating actus rea from mens rea or in other words a set up undetectable because of brainwashing. I forgot to see what followed. And I said the same thing to the UK Head of Immigration’s employers ( oops, ) and await his fate completely unsure if it was to replace him with a Monarch Programmed ( or maybe Common Purpose?) drone. I understand from web surfing border agencies need controlling because there is a hidden trafficking economy, for whom for example green emerald earrings can say…let me pass..I am carrying something very important” and the staff will, whether aware or subconsciously have their heads turned away. I am kinda guessing about this, but the traces are here and there….Think of the film Johnny English Reborn ( I think it was) where someone on a mission says something and it receives (triggers is my point) a reply which facilitates entry. Ah, this is all too much but those that are on to it are being replaced at all levels? Maybe I should keep within my own compass. Er, please Google “How tall was Mengele?”
Hear hear!
Clark is obviously a thoroughly decent public servant.