NEWSCORP: Alive and well and still pulling the strings among Britain’s elite

Savilegate & Plebgate show only too clearly that the Murdoch hobgoblin is out of its coffin once more

Those even now still incapable of spotting the Newscorp agenda in relation to the BBC/Savile farrago will doubtless be ‘appalled of Kettering’ about the Sun’s front page this morning, which features a Tweenies episode on the BBC including a ‘vile, sick Jimmy Savile’ character in it. The usual ‘fury’ and ‘outrage’ clichés were in abundance, and The Scum revelled in claiming that it had been ‘swamped with calls and emails’.

The Wapping liars had clearly gone to a great deal of trouble to wind up some of Savile’s former victims in order to feature more damning quotes about it being “a bloody insult” and so forth. This extract in particular is a cracker:

’52-year old mother of two Deborah from Gravesend, Kent said “The BBC needs a complete overhaul of management”, which is exactly what you’d expect Debbie in Kent to say, really. She probably also added that a two-speed internet, VXX ETFs, and the manipulation of the Libor rate were a dibollikal libatty in terday’s multkulchralsiety.

Only right at the bottom of a long column on this event does the dear old Currant Bun note that ‘the episode was first shown in 2001′. Ah, right: just the 12 years before the lid blew off Sir Jimmy, then. Fair enough, it’s a cockup and the BBC should’ve spotted the content, then binned the episode. But the impression given throughout the piece is that a gang of mad paedophiles still secretly running the BBC had made the episode recently in order to cock a snoot at the likes of Mum Danielle Davies, of Hull, East Yorks, who said: “I cannot believe how inappropriate this is.” The way you do in Hull.

Of course, having bred the thick-as-a-brick generation over the last 44 years, Rupert and his Pals can now benefit from using such knee-jerkers as yet more spitting slings and arsey arrows against the Beeb. It’s onwards and upwards as always for the Men from Murdoch….and not just on this front.

The Sun’s orchestration of the Plebgate affair is there for anyone owning just the one mad, wobbly terrorist eye to see, with another deviously misleading piece today underlining how Dave and his senior Mandarin Sir Jeremy Heywood had made zero effort to really get at the truth – which is, of course, entirely accurate.

What’s missing from the Sun lead is why that might have been, who was behind the false whistle-blowing cop, and whether or not the Whip he contacted was already primed to know the Newscorp story would break. The media set-up has Rupertbollocks plastered all over it, but this latest article merely contains the coy reference, ‘The Sun exposed last September’s confrontation’. But rest assured it didn’t plan the whole farce as yet another revenge on Traitor Cameron: ooooooo nonononononono. That’s why the Digger’s admirer-chums Jeremy and Boris were so quick to shout ‘political set-up’ and back Andrew ‘Plebs’ Mitchell to the hilt.

It’s merely another everyday tale of distortion and deception from those wonderful folks who brought you Hackgate, police bribery, threats against MPs, and deals offering Party support in return for a UK media monopoly. The last element of 3D bollocks is of course distraction, and most of the above serves to keep the paedo-focus on Camerlot and the Beeb, but well away from anything unearthed by arch enemy Tom Watson at the now infamous Elm Guest House in Rocks Lane, Barnes.

In fact, both the Murdoch Wappers and the Barclaysark Telegraphers have imposed a tight news blackout on events in south London. There are many reasons why this might be, but now isn’t the time to go into them. Suffice to say that – as during the early weeks of Hackgate – the Elm-ban is there because neither organisation particularly relishes the prospect of full-scale revelations about former Elmers.

Yesterday at The Slog: Westland fiasco dragged into Elm House probe

HACKGATES & PAEDOFILES: The importance of big scalps in fast-tracking cultural change.

Nailing the top bad guys brings help more quickly to the victims at the bottom

Anthony France became the 22nd Sun journalist to be held by Elveden detectives yesterday, alongside two officers from the police ‘specialist operations unit’. So that’ll be 22 hacks collared then, none of them working for the defunct News of the World, but all of them working for an organisation closely involved in Plebgate where doubtless some other officers from another unit will be hauled up before de Jerrdge in the near future.

But to date in Hackgate, the Murdoch/Cameron intimates arrested number just the two (2), Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks. Those found guilty and banged up total zero (0). The Big Scalps are still firmly on the sociopathic heads of those who run these rackets. In turn, I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for any Government whips to face Lord Justice Bacque-Botham in Court No 3 at the Bailey on charges of being an accessory to Andrew Mitchell’s stitch-up….or indeed Mitchell himself for perhaps (allegedly) telling media fibs about how many times he went in and out of the Downing Street gates on that fateful day, when crowds and swearwords came and went in inexplicably mysterious fashion.

Yesterday’s raid by the Met’s Fairbank Unit (interesting that they chose an infamous oxymoron for their name) on the premises of those helping abused care-home kids has immediately (and unsurprisingly) struck those close to the story is a little arse about face.  Given that the thing under investigation here is paedophilia-trafficking on an industrial scale, not volunteer organisations formed to represent the victims, you can see their point. There’d be a few raised eyebrows, after all, if Plod raided the Treasury while investigating charges of widescale tax evasion by a property development group. Or then again, perhaps not.

In relation to paedophile arrests too, Max Clifford faces charges; and while he is a seriously low-life leech on the careers of damaged celebs, he has always had one golden rule: he will not defend those who are paedophiles. So there is perhaps a trend here.

But the point with The Paedofile is the same as that with Hackgate: suspects questioned at or around the BBC, 56,098; perpetrators arrested beyond the confines of the BBC 0; suspect tendencies followed up at Sky News or in the House of Commons and Downing Street 0. We’re told (or I am anyway) that high-profile arrests in relation to the Elm Guest House saga will be revealed in short order. I would lay odds of 12-1 right now that some dead people will named, some celebrities will be charged, but none of those feeling a hoffissa’s hand on their collars will be serving politicians at Westminster.

Once again, no Heap Big Chiefs will be scalped. Once again, evidence has been seized and will be withheld. Just as the villains in Plymouth, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Humberside and Rotherham remain at large and/or ‘cleared’ on the basis of questionable evidence, so too do the Mandarins responsible for enormous pension fraud remain barely written about, let alone investigated or charged.

Nobody is a bigger parodying satirist of the Dave Spart school of comment that runs ‘the fundamental tendency of the boss class to exploit the children of the working people and twist their minds via media plutocrats towards a robotic, lackey acceptance of the capitalist narrative is once more apparent in the actions of their fascist agents within the ranks of the politicised ranks of the vicious police conspiracy in harassing the brave freedom fighters on our streets striving to create the Socialist’ etc etc etc. There will always be apologists for wrongdoers and wideboys, who insist that such people run things better, and are important to the point of indispensability. Perhaps every now and then they might even be right. But the importance of bagging Big Scalps goes well beyond such narrow arguments for or against.

This relates closely to a point I was at pains to make in the Palace of Westminster earlier this week. Two people were telling me how they have been blatantly swindled by the lawyers handling their alleged insolvency. A single mum explained how she wound up in prison for daring to question a truly eccentric decision by a secret family courts judge. A wife explained how her husband’s Council connections were screwing her out of a decent divorce settlement. There were at various times anything from 15-20 appellants in the room, all trying to get justice from various systems and corporatist institutions squashing their rights….for money, or worse. At the moment, they have only fine organisations like the Mckenzie Friends to help them – or already time-starved MPs who can raise their issues under Parliamentary privilege.

But while many argue that ‘the system’ creates the problems, it doesn’t: the system’s failings are only a symptom of the problem. The problem is one of culture. Only a culture of zero corruption tolerance can stop it….and not by simply putting ‘zero tolerance’ into the Annual Report. Corruption starts at the top. It is on the way to ending when the man or woman at the top is arrested, tried, found guilty, and goes down for a long time.

That and that alone is why taking Big Scalps is absolutely central to removing the misery of those being scammed in the lower echelons of a corrupt profession: because the crooks will either leave – or knock their rackets on the head in return for staying out of prison. And the victims will speak out with more confidence against the next get-rich-quick scheme operating at the expense of the system. And the senior ranks will be more attentive to their complaints. It is all, in the end, about changing the culture.

I’m prepared to suggest to the reader that, even though Bob Diamond has been forced to leave Barclays, I remain to be convinced that the Barclays culture will change, either temporarily or permanently. This is because Mr Diamond was not charged with any criminal financial offences, although he did seem to be very close to a great deal of the naughty action taking place. Today, Barclays’ new boss has told staff ‘they should quit the bank if they do not want to sign up to a set of standards’; but this is simply more signing, more mission statements, more notice-posting, and – yes – yet more bollocks. Everyone in the sector knows that Lord Green is still in thick with the Government, as indeed Stephen Hester is at the Treasury. Neither of these men is ever likely, in the current British econo-fiscal culture, to face any form of serious pursuit in the solving of alleged global crimes of manipulation and embezzlement.

The conclusion is obvious: try and then execute the senior Nazis, and you dramatically accelerate the process of denazification in Germany after 1945. Try  the Kray twins and jail them for life, and you very quickly restore cooperation between the East End’s police and public in 1965 London. Send the top Watergate criminals to jail (and force the President’s expulsion) and you protect the liberties of an America at war with itself in the early 1970s.

We don’t do this stuff any more. We won’t start doing it again until the culture changes. We won’t change the culture until some very influential folks are caught red-handed and go to prison, their lives forever ruined…..following which, their admirers feel the cold chill of pour encourager les autres on their backs.

See also Rossarian, Catch 22, Joseph Heller and so forth.

Previously at The Slog: Invasion of the body-politic snatchers

 

 

 

 

TORY CRIME CLAIMS: Why ’10% down’ simply doesn’t add up

Crime-cut bollocks, Newscorp double-agents, Plebgate stings, and guilty MPs:

The usual suspects won’t be rounded up – as usual.

The main headline on the Sunday Times front page last weekend asserted, ‘Crime falls 10% despite police cuts’. This is demonstrably untrue, highly unlikely to continue, and based on a dubious definition of crime. But it is just one more piece in the disturbing jigsaw of injustice that pervades politics today: what precisely is going on here between the police and the Government?

Delve into the Newscorp/Camerlot crime-cutting claim, and it very quickly starts to fall apart. First, these figures are provisional: the full like-for-like reporting figures will not be available until next April. Second, the falls of 10% are an average, and have only occurred in under half (19 out of 43) of the police forces analysed. No explanation is given as to why the other 24 weren’t included, and no data is being released about what happened there.

Third, we have all grown to distrust police figures, which often reflect Westminster priorities….especially if ambitious police constables are in charge of them. In October 2011, Plod was accused of air-brushing out some crimes from the previous period. (A riot during which 100 looters trashed a shop, for example, had been treated as ‘one crime’).

Fourth, the weasel word ‘recorded’ is, as ever, present. Literally tens of thousands of white collar and City crimes are never detected, let alone recorded….and many are not reported because the institution itself fears it may be found just as guilty as the perpetrator.

Fifth, the nature of crime is changing radically and swifty. City and commercial espionage is a massive growth area in which the police are rarely involved, with many software security firms handling the bulk of detection and prevention. Almost none of this crime is reported. Cash-card ID fraud is also growing exponentially: the only reason muggings and burglary are falling is that they are no longer worth the risk: ID offences are easier to commit and harder to trace.

Ultimately, however, the illogic of the Government’s response to these ‘data’ is precisely the same as that put forward by Tessa Jowell five years ago when preliminary results showed that 24/7 drinking ‘reduced’ drunk & disorderly offences. Not only were the data scant (and later overturned) A&E admissions were very clearly going up. It is plain daft to suggest now that cutting police numbers reduces crime: on that basis, we might as well abolish the police and watch crime disappear.

But broader issues continue to worry me about this issue. And by ‘issue’, I mean the entire subject of what the police do, what they are very obviously ill-equipped to do, and why this odd Plebgate affair feels more and more like a sting from one side or the other. Further, once again Newscorp is in there – the only newspaper to which the figures were revealed: why?

There are three very obvious areas that the Government would like to see Plod ignore: City crime, media crime, and systemic sex abuse crime. As to the media side of things, suspicions are growing in some quarters that the Conservatives set the police up to be caught over Plebgate…with the active assistance of Murdoch. Having been double-crossed by Newscorp over first the leak about Mitchell’s Downing Street altercation and now these crime ‘fall’ figures, the Met will think twice about feeling any more Wapping collars. Equally disturbing, however, is the obvious evidence suggesting that as far as tentacular influence and prosecution immunity are concerned, it’s back to business as usual in the Murdoch empire.

Systemic sex abuse in childcare homes is an area where several senior cops feel strongly that there have been cover-ups, and the Force should’ve done more. Some of them in turn, however, claim that word has come down the line to continue focusing on ‘apparently powerful’ public figures…the more from the BBC, the better. This too plays right into Murdoch’s hands, while maintaining calm in both major Parties that it will distract from endemic Westminster and Town Hall paedophilia.

Once again Tom Watson stands alone in the Commons on this issue, silent for the time being. Do not be surprised if he suddenly becomes the victim of smears and stings set up by a motley alliance of security collaborators and Newscorp tabloid hacks. We have seen the influence of former security officers in the care system cover-up before…as well as hack threats of retribution aimed at MPs during the Hackgate affair.

But it may well be the City dimension of crime where the Conservatives have most to protect and hide. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is not formally part of the police, but once things get ‘political’, it is usually very quick to call Plod in. Like the BBC over Iraq, the SFO attracted the wrath of the political class when it uncovered massive evidence of bribery paid to Saudi officials during a BaE deal in 2004. But it was the police who pushed things on, resulting in a blatant perversion of justice by Tony Blair in 2006 to get the investigation stopped. Ever since, the SFO has been quietly starved of the funds it needs to investigate small matters like rigging Libor, or the alleged dabblings of ‘The Insider’ Piers Morgan in the stock markets.

There are several people at or near the top of the Coalition Government (and one or two Labour elder statesmen) who would like both Operation Fairbank (the Met’s successor to Yewtree) and Operation Pallial (the North Wales care home investigation) discreetly scaled down. In turn, they want the trials of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to represent closure of the Hackgate affair. And finally, they are uneasy about any hint of future SFO/police involvement that might embarrass the Party further via its City links.

This group is said to include Jeremy Hunt, Michael Fallon, Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, William Hague, a Plymouth MP, two very significant Party donors, and the Prime Minister himself. They are indeed the usual suspects, but there is no sign of anyone being rounded up: only the rounding down of crime figures in a Murdoch title is in evidence thus far.

I’ve spent the last ten days trying to piece this jigsaw of influence and privilege together, and my frank view is that I’m still miles from sorting it out: almost certainly, nowhere near all the right motives have been uncovered in this piece. But The Slog has always maintained that libel-free speculation is a perfectly good journalistic tool: as the City boys are fond of saying, you have to speculate to accumulate.

So think of this as me trying to leverage the amount of jigsaw pieces in my possession. If you have anything to tell me, write in the strictest confidence to jawslog@gmail.com

Otherwise, stay tuned.

Earlier at The Slog: The Vix fix – more market manipulation