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NuLabour Legacy!
The country has been destroyed read this today;
Nearly three fifths of voters say that they hardly recognise the country they are living in, while 42 per cent say they would emigrate if they could.
- Ann, London, 09/2/2010 04:29
Dickiebo; I just haven’t the will to say any more about what NuLabour has done to destroy our country. But, remember this; It is those people who VOTE Labour who have caused this misery!
Police Can Jump For Joy!
Controversial Met chief Ali Dizaei found GUILTY of perverting the course of justice
A top Scotland Yard officer’s career is in tatters this afternoon after he was convicted of threatening and falsely arresting a man in a petty row over money.
Commander Ali Dizaei, 47, was found guilty of perverting justice and misconduct in a public office after a trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court.
A jury found he attacked Iraqi Waad al-Baghdadi, 24, before arresting and attempting to frame him.
The corruption convictions will almost certainly spell the end of the Iranian officer’s controversial 24-year career.
Guilty: Ali Dizaei arrives at Southwark Crown Court with his wife Shy this morning
Dizaei, who has been suspended on full pay since September 2008, is now likely to be sacked from the Metropolitan Police for gross misconduct.
He emerged unscathed from a series of earlier inquiries, including a multimillion-pound undercover operation examining claims of corruption, fraud and dishonesty.
But the attempt to frame a young businessman who pestered him for payment over a website exposed him as a bully and a liar who abused his position.
The court heard how the two men met by chance in the Persian Yas restaurant, run by Dizaei’s friend Sohrab Eshragi, in west London, on July 18, 2008.
Mr al-Baghdadi approached Dizaei and asked for £600 he believed he was owed for building a personal website.
CCTV still of Waad al-Baghdadi (striped jumper) inside the Yas restaurant before Ali Dizaei challenged him to a street fight over £600 he said he owed him
The officer confronted the younger man in a nearby sidestreet where a scuffle took place and Mr al-Baghdadi was roughly arrested and handcuffed.
Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said Dizaei told Mr al-Baghdadi he would ‘f*** up your life’ and had ‘10 witnesses’ who would back him up.
In one of two 999 calls Dizaei asked an operator for ‘urgent assistance’ before starting to arrest Mr al-Baghdadi.
When officers arrived, Dizaei handed them the metal mouthpiece of a shisha pipe, held on Mr al-Baghdadi’s key ring, and claimed he had been stabbed with it.
But a doctor at Hammersmith police station concluded that two red marks on the officer’s torso were probably self-inflicted and did not match the pipe.
Dizaei told colleagues he had been attacked, leaving Mr al-Baghdadi in custody for 24 hours and ultimately facing prosecution.
When Mr al-Baghdadi was told he would not face any charge, he complained about his treatment and Dizaei’s web of deceit slowly unravelled.
Mr Wright said the officer was guilty of a ‘wholesale abuse of power’ motivated by self-interest and pride.
He said Dizaei tried to get the case dropped when he realised inconsistencies in his account had been uncovered by detectives.
Giving evidence, Mr al-Baghdadi compared Dizaei to bloodthirsty movie gangster Tony Montana, a character played by Al Pacino in the 1983 film Scarface.
He said many people were scared of the Metropolitan Police officer because of his status in the Iranian community.
The jury also heard that Dizaei rarely paid for his meals and left his unmarked car on a double yellow line while at the restaurant.
In his defence, Dizaei said he feared he was being targeted by his own colleagues because of his role as president of the National Black Police Association.
The senior officer represented Tarique Ghaffur as he threatened to sue former commissioner Sir Ian Blair for discrimination and bullying.
Dizaei said he suspected he was being followed, that his phone was tapped and that he might be attacked.
But the jury rejected his claim that the way complaints against him were handled could lead to a ‘miscarriage of justice’ and convicted him of both counts.
A long career mired in controversy
Convicted: Commander Ali Dizaei
September 2000: First reports emerge that Dizaei’s BMW car has been vandalised. The attack is linked to a racist hate campaign against ethnic minority officers.
January 2001: Dizaei is suspended over ‘a number of disciplinary and criminal issues’ including dishonesty, attempting to pervert the course of justice, personal conduct and integrity.
April 2001: Dizaei announces he will take the Met to an employment tribunal alleging discrimination over his promotion prospects.
December 2001: Dizaei is charged with perverting the course of justice, misconduct in a public office and eight counts of false accounting. He is also accused of submitting eight overstated travel expenses claims in 1999 for a total sum of nearly £2,400.
April 2003: Dizaei goes on trial at the Old Bailey. He is acquitted.
September 2003: A second criminal trial of Dizaei, relating to mileage expenses claims, is dropped at the last moment when prosecutors offer no evidence.
November 2003: A police misconduct report finds nine matters against Dizaei could be proved. But a secret deal is brokered between the senior officer and the force which means he will not face punishment. This is strongly criticised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). He later receives around £60,000 in compensation.
May 2004: Dizaei is given a temporary promotion to chief superintendent.
June 2006: Dizaei speaks out after a botched terror raid on the home of two Asian brothers in Forest Gate, east London. He calls for more rigorous analysis of intelligence.
August 2006: Dizaei claims the profiling of air passengers could create an offence of ‘travelling whilst Asian’. The Police Federation accuse him of inflaming moderate Muslim opinion and sensationalism.
December 2006: It emerges the Met tapped Dizaei’s phone calls on the force’s internal phone network during Helios as the interception is ruled unlawful by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.
June 2007: The Metropolitan Police Authority orders an inquiry over claims Dizaei failed to repay money he spent on a police American Express card and not keeping receipts.
It is alleged he spent more than £5,000 on clothes and perfume while on a trip to the United States.
July 18 2007: Dizaei goes to the Persian Yas restaurant in High Street Kensington, west London, with his wife after attending a Scotland Yard ceremony. He arrests Iraqi web designer Waad al-Baghdadi in the street.
September 12, 2007: Dizaei is suspended by the Metropolitan Police Authority’s professional standards sub-committee. It emerges he is the subject of three inquiries. They focus on the use of his company credit card, the Yas incident and claims he gave inappropriate advice to a defence solicitor representing a woman involved in a fatal hit and run.
September 19, 2007: Members of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA) say they have no confidence in top officers. They say colleagues are ‘appalled’ at the suspension of Dizaei whom they believe is the victim of a ’sustained witch-hunt’.
December 17, 2007: Dizaei files a claim of racial discrimination against the Metropolitan Police and accuses former commissioner Sir Ian Blair and MPA chief executive Catherine Crawford of colluding to suspend him.
May 21, 2009: Dizaei attends Bishopsgate police station to be charged with misconduct in public office and perverting the course of justice over the clash at Yas restaurant. The allegations follow an investigation by the IPCC.
August 5, 2009: Dizaei pleads not guilty at Southwark Crown Court. Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC sets a provisional trial date for November 30.
September 24, 2009: Substantial damages are paid to Dizaei over false claims he is a bigamist.
November 20, 2009: Dizaei is cleared of misusing his corporate credit card by an inquiry led by Dorset Chief Constable Martin Baker. It finds no evidence he acted dishonestly or without integrity.
December 28, 2009: A Sunday newspaper pays compensation to Dizaei over false claims of security breaches involving an illegal immigrant.
January 11, 2010: The trial opens at Southwark Crown Court.
February 8, 2010: Dizaei is found guilty of misconduct in a public office and perverting the course of justice.
Dickiebo; Just look at what the Black Police Association said on September 9th 2007! Between them, this bloody lot have been holding the police service to ransom. Clear the bloody lot out, then start on the so-called Equalities Commission. It surely is time where we are ALL equal!
Update; Dizaei got 4 years imprisonment. Hurrah!
Dizaei Done For!
Hero of Black Police Association Convicted!
Story to follow.
The Time-Bombs In Our Midst
British Slobs!
Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK.
The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire, will be anathema to the vast majority of the British people including many British Muslims.
Ditta claims: “You can go to any [Muslim] youth on the street and say, ‘Do you believe in Jihad?’ and he’ll say ‘Yes’. ‘Do you believe that al-Qaeda is a terrorist movement?’ He’ll say, ‘No’.”
Mohammed says that when he was released from prison he was welcomed home with flowers and presents.
Ditta and Mohammed are the angry voices of an extreme element of young British Muslims today. MI5 believes there are about 2,000 extremists in the UK who pose a potential threat.
Mohammed said, “I believe that my loyalties and priorities, even though I’ve been born and bred in England, lie with the Muslims.”
Ditta also expressed a similar view. “For me to say I’ve allegiance to UK or I’m a British citizen is to spit in a lot of people’s face because the blood has not even dried in Iraq or Afghanistan.”
Source: B.B.C.
Dickiebo: Welcome to NuLabour’s Multi-Cultural Britain! THEY (and, presumably their voters) celebrate “our rich, multi-cultural society!” ……………Is it me??????
Taking Tax Payers For A Taxi Ride!
Dame Liz Forgan was driven back from the performance at Stratford-upon-Avon to her London home at a cost of more than £4 a mile to the arts quango, which received £436m of government funding [i.e. YOUR money!]last year.
The cab ride is one of dozens of expense claims made at the council by Forgan and her predecessor, Sir Christopher Frayling, in 2008-9, a period when the council was slashing funding, or removing it altogether from more than 200 arts organisations.
Details of claims made public under the Freedom of Information Act show that Frayling also requested reimbursement of £500 for his own leaving present, a framed print by Tracey Emin, plus a further £115 for his farewell drinks.
He also claimed £460.72 to be driven to and from Glyndebourne opera house in East Sussex in August 2008. A first-class return from London to Lewes, the local station, is £41.50, less than a tenth of the cost of Frayling’s car journey.
During his final two years at the council, Frayling spent more than £12,000 on taxis, many of which ferried him to the Royal College of Arts, where he was rector until September last year. The Arts Council said that as its chairmen worked part-time, it was fair for them to be funded for transport to and from their other offices.
Frayling did not receive a fee or salary while at the council, but Forgan, former managing director of BBC radio, was paid £40,000 last year.
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, said: “These expenses are indefensible. At a time when public services are staring at cuts, people will find it hard to understand why they should pay for Arts Council bigwigs to live the high life.”
The council said of Forgan’s £431 ride: “She returned to her home in London by taxi because, at the time, performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company regularly finished after the last train to London had departed. She had four meetings while there.”
Peter Hewitt, the chief executive of the council who presided over its cuts, was awarded a £128,000 payoff when he left his post in 2008. This was in addition to his annual salary of £149,000 and £27,000 in pensioncontributions. At the time, the council said that money awarded to Hewitt was “separate” from the funding awarded to arts projects.
In the past few weeks, four regional directors of the council have received redundancy payments of between £150,000 and £225,000 in a restructuring of regional operations. The costs were split between the council and local authorities
Dickiebo; Keep paying, suckers.
Today’s Good News
Iraqi who killed two doctors in frenzied knife attack hangs himself just weeks after winning right to stay in Britain
An Iraqi immigrant who killed two doctors because he had received ‘a command from Allah’ has hanged himself just weeks after winning the right to stay in Britain.
Laith Alani, 41, was found dead last week at a secure hospital in West Yorkshire.
Alani has spent most of the last 19 years in a secure hospital after he killed two NHS consultants in a frenzied attack in 1990.
The Home Office wanted him deported on his release but in October he won the right to stay in Britain – because a tribunal ruled he would be a threat to the public if deported to his homeland.
It also ruled that sending him back to Iraq would also be a breach of his human rights.
The tribunal panel, led by senior immigration judge Lance Waumsley, made the decision because if he was sent home he would inevitably be taken off the medication which controls his behaviour.
Alani, 41, who was due to be released in the near future, has been receiving the drug clozapine on the NHS for ten years.
Alani killed consultant cosmetic surgeons Michael Masser and Kenneth Paton, to whom he had been referred for the removal of a tattoo on his arm. He became concerned about treatment delays and tried to remove the tattoo himself with a knife.
The doctors died at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in November 1990 after Alani was told he would have to wait to have the work done on the NHS.
Mr Masser, 42, who had a seven-year-old daughter, was stabbed six times in the throat and chest. His wife gave birth to their son six weeks before Alani’s trial in 1991.
Mr Paton, who had three children, suffered 24 stab wounds in his chest and abdomen.
At his trial, Alani admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was sent to Rampton maximum security hospital for an indefinite term.
In 2008 as part of a ’staged preparation for his intended release into normal society’ he was moved to a 12-bed residential care home for those with mental health problems.
Guest Post – Raedwald
Rendering unto Caesar
by Raedwald
Conscience has a right to freedom. For centuries, as churches attempted to force on men Christ’s work with the methods of Herod, the rights of those whose consciences rejected such teaching were often lost on the rack and in the faggot pyres. Post Enlightenment, we recognise the rights of individual conscience of all those who choose not to take the teaching of Christ, but we’re now in danger of imperilling the consciences of those that do.
A valid act of faith is a choice interior to man; we can sign a contract, join a firing-squad, pronounce an oath of allegiance all without any interior consent, but unwilling belief is an impossibility. Our bodies may serve Caesar, but our souls are God’s.
No Christian need be under any obligation to heed the assumptions behind Harman’s Equalities Bill in so far as these violate the sanctity of individual conscience and faith; being true to one’s conscience is one of the greatest duties we owe to our interior selves, and this is not a realm where Caesar has any authority.
Out of the Frying Pan………….
OK! So John Terry got sacked as England football captain, because he had an affair with the (former) partner of a team-mate. I have no probs at all with Fabio Capello’s decision. It’s for the ‘good of the team’!
Where I have a problem, is with the new England captain!!!!!
Rio Ferdinand
This man;
- Was thrown out of the England team by Manager Glen Hoddle, for being convicted for Drinking and Driving.
- Went with other young players to a resort in Cyprus. There they drank heavily, picked up girls, and filmed each other having sex!
- In October 2001, only days before England’s crucial World Cup qualifying-game with Greece, he broke curfew to visit strip clubs and bars in London with fellow England defender Ashley Cole and Arsenal reserve team player Paolo Vernazza.
- Two years later he was banned from driving for a speeding offence.
- Very shortly afterwards he appeared as a witness in a case involving an attempted rape, indecent assault and kidnap. The court heard that Ferdinand had been on a drinking binge in Leeds during which he had jumped on the roof of a car, pestered female clubbers and been in the company of a ’serious criminal’. He told the court: ‘I am well aware of my behaviour in the public eye.’ It was hard to believe.
- And his worst transgression - one which threatened his entire career - was yet to come.
- In September 2003 Ferdinand failed to attend a routine drugs test after training. He claimed that he had simply forgotten; preoccupied by those twin pursuits of wealthy footballers: shopping and moving house. The veracity of his excuse can never be proved, of course. In January 2004 he was banned from all competitions for eight months.
So, have I got this right? We sack a man for having an affair with his mate’s former partner, and replace him – presumably on moral grounds – with a ……. well, er………..pillar of society?
TaxPayers’ Alliance Bulletin
Criminal charges on expenses: a great day for taxpayers
You will probably have heard the momentous news by now: the Crown Prosecution Service are to bring criminal charges against three MPs and one member of the House of Lords. This is fantastic news for taxpayers, and a major victory for the TPA’s “Bring them to Justice” campaign. The filthy four are Jim Devine MP, Elliot Morley MP, David Chaytor MP and Lord Hanningfield. This is a really encouraging development, which takes us a big step closer to seeing politicians brought to book for their disgusting behaviour.
Matthew Elliott, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:
“It is excellent news that the CPS have decided to bring charges against these politicians. It is essential that MPs face justice, just like any normal person who had behaved like this. The taxpaying public wants to see justice done, and it is right that MPs aren’t able to simply wave repayment cheques and walk away from this. It has taken a long time to get to this stage, and the priority now must be for trials to be held as soon as possible. Anyone found guilty of breaking the law in their expenses claims should be punished severely for their breach of trust.”
All along we have never asked for much – we have simply argued that MPs and Peers should live by the same rules as ordinary people. If any normal person stole money or defrauded their employer, they would face the police and then a court. Some MPs seemed to think they could just mutter a hollow apology and wave a repayment cheque, then walk away as if nothing had happened. Today’s announcement from the CPS is another nail in the coffin of that arrogant assumption.
Good news also came yesterday in the form of Sir Thomas Legg’s completed audit of MPs’ expenses that will see the majority of them repay excessive claims from the last few years. It’s true that the audit itself was expensive, but it’s important to get all the past claims sorted out in order to institute a regular system of proper audits in future.
This isn’t over yet, of course. The trials still need to be held, and we are pressing for them to be held swiftly. If the defendants are found guilty, then they should be firmly punished. And finally, of course, we still need a new system to ensure that this kind of abuse can never happen again. Whilst those battles still lie ahead of us, we all deserve a moment’s reflection to congratulate everyone involved in reaching this monumental day – and particularly all of you around the country who have kept the pressure up in the face of an arrogant and detached political class. Well done!
Needless to say, we’ve been doing a lot of media appearances on the issue this week – and for those of you who are early risers, look out for TPA Campaign Director Mark Wallace on BBC One’s Breakfast News at 6.10am tomorrow. As these MPs are learning, we never give up!
Dickiebo; Bloody HURRAH! BUT – this is only a start!!!!!
I Love Germany!
Destruction Of England
Big Brother!
The TaxPayers’ Alliance
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Soldiers Off The Streets
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