Terra Firm no.20: The Wholesale Corruption of the Brutish Establishment

This work marks a change in policy for mundiclubpubs. The mc has decided to publish works some of its works which are only in a preliminary state. This is because it is becoming increasingly absurd leaving so many almost completed works, with masses of interesting quotes, sitting in a computer for anything up to five years. At the very least such quotes ought to be made available for others to use. This is the first ‘draft' publication so, be warned, it is patchy - some sections are more draughty than others. Please treat this work primarily as a source of quotes and new ideas - preliminary elaborations of geocentricism.

The section ‘Brutland is the Dirty Man of Europe' first appeared in tf10 p.25 and the section ‘Scientific Corruption' also appeared in the same section p.24. The first has been extensively rewritten and updated.

Two of brutland's starkest characteristics are its corruption and brutality. This might come as a surprise to those who believe brutland is a modern, civilized country with a proud heritage, cultural sophistication, first class technological innovations, and citizens with a stiff-upper lip and strong respect for the law. Whilst brutality pervades the country with a flood of blood, corruption is much less visible. Over the centuries this country's ruling landowning aristocracy has built up powerful bonds of loyalties between its members and they seem far more successful in burying corruption than other ruling elites without this tradition. It is not often that corruption is exposed but even when it is, it is rapidly buried. Members of the ruling aristocracy can even commit murder and get away with it as those eton lads manage to do with lord lucan.

The main hypothesis of this work is that brutland's violence stems from political corruption. In the past the mc regarded his issue as much too anthropogenic but the recent spate of national disasters brought about by the country's landowning elite has not only made this a very prominent issue but is clearly connected to critical anthropocentric issues. The first part of this work looks at the corruption whilst the second part highlights the barbarism.

The Wholesale Corruption of the Brutish Establishment

The country's old boys network is established at public schools, consolidated through oxbridge universities, reinforced through freemasonry, and culminates in the house of commons, the house of lords, government quangoes, and company directorships. The old boys' network is a two faced phenomenon - when the tory party are in power it is known as the quango gravy train and when labour is in power it is known as cronyism but basically it's the same thing with the same people except the latter includes more trade unionists.

The windsors have been described as .. "the most selfish, ruthless, cold, arrogant family in the land. That in the 21stc there is nothing more ridiculous than tax paying citizens bowing and scraping to these pampered accidents of birth."[2]; .. "the uncritical press coverage of the queen mother's pageant was published on the same morning as a coruscating report from the united nations, condemning the level of censorship under which british newspapers have to operate, along with this country's pitiful record on freedom of information. Did you know that one of the most thorough books ever written about the windsors - The Royals by Kitty Kelly - cannot be bought in britain? It's a best seller in the u.s. but not only has it never been published here, british booksellers will not even import it for fear of prosecution. And why is it effectively banned in this country? Because .. it reveals them for what they are - a wealthy, self centred, dysfunctional, thoroughly unpleasant, and not very likeable family."[3]

"Playboy prince andrew has been ordered by the queen to dump his dodgy pals and their murky world of cocaine, crime and casual sex before he damages the monarchy for good. The queen and prince philip were furious after their son was pictured cavorting with topless beauties and touring red-light districts during a holiday in phuket, thailand. But there were appalled when they palace investigations revealed his new found friends have notorious links to hard drugs. These include

Pop singer jenny frost, whose armed robber and drug addict ex-fiancé served seven and a half years in dartmoor prison

britpack actor sean pertwee, who was expelled from three schools, is alleged to have regularly snorted cocaine and is described as "a nasty, nasty piece of work"

his wife jacqui hamilton-smith, a fun loving aristocrat who dated pop star robbie williams at the height of his drink and drug addictions;

record producer nellee hooper, notorious in showbiz for moving in heavy drug using circles;

stunning model erica baxter, who lived with singer jason donovan while he was in the grip of a terrible addiction to cocaine and ecstasy, and

socialite ghislaine maxwell, daughter of britain's biggest crook and disgraced tycoon tober maxwell, who escorted andrew to a sleazy "hookers and pimps" party in new york."[4]; "Freeloading prince andrew today faces the overwhelming fury of the queen, her top officials and other senior royals over his shameless playboy antics. Andrew rakes in £300,000 a year from taxpayers."[5]

On top of this undemocratic structure there is political corruption as each political party seeks to appoint its own supporters to these quangoes. Tory governments from 1979 to 1997 appointed huge numbers of tory party members to government quangoes, "The government has also used its power of patronage to reward political supporters. Thus christopher benson, chairman of the sun alliance group which donated £280,000 to the conservative party was appointed to the funding agency for schools. A report by the ‘independent' stated that of the 185 nhs trust chairs examined, 62 had clear links with the conservative party."[7] It has been estimated that there are .. "40,000 tory-appointed members of quangoes - unaccountable public bodies."[8] When the labour party was in opposition its submission to the nolan committee investigating government sleaze will .. "demand rigorous scrutiny to halt John Major's "quango gravy train". It will also demand a detailed register of the 40,000 Tory-appointed members of quangoes - unaccountable public bodies."[9] In the 1980s one of the benefits for middle class people joining the tory party was in the hope of being offered a £10,000 a year sinecure on a tory quango. Some of the recruitment to fill posts on the tories' quango gravy train was done at tory party political meetings.

Given that pharmers are the world's biggest Earth rapists it might seem a little odd that they are given responsibility for protecting the environment. This is yet another reason why the blame for global burning is currently being placed not on pharmers but on industry, "Lord de ramsey .. has been chairman of the environment agency since 1995 and also chairs the 6,500 acre family farming business in cambridgeshire." Ramsey seems to be a big supporter of genetic engineering which is even more environmentally destructive than prairie farming, "The boss of the environment agency is allowing genetically modified crop experiments on his land for a second time. Lord de ramsey. the chairman of the government watchdog, sparked fury last year when it was revealed he was allowing gm food giant monsanto to carry out experiments on his land. Despite the row he is now renting 60 acres of his estate in abbots ripton, cambs, to a swedish firm which is carrying out three tests on oilseed rape."[12]

.. "his (Bernie Ecclestone) Formula One Constructors' Association does run the grand Prix motor racing throughout the world, and he is one of those who decides where, how and when each race is held. In 1993, the government of the state of Victoria, which is Thatcherite, gave Ecclestone the right to hold the Australian Grand prix in Albert park, the most popular park in melbourne, serving some 30,000 people. The Victorian government struck a £21 million deal with Ecclestone entirely behind closed doors. An extraordinary act of the state parliament was hurried through that exempted the Grand Prix from Australia's Freedom of Information Act and from all laws governing environmental impact studies, pollution and planning controls. more than 1,000 great trees, including healthy English elms, have already been torn up. (The premier of Victoria is Jeff Kennett. His close friend is Ron Walker, national treasurer of Kennett's Liberal (conservative) party who is .. joint managing director of one of the biggest shareholders in the huge Crown casino, which stands near the proposed track in Albert park."[13]

.. "the uncritical press coverage of the queen mother's pageant was published on the same morning as a coruscating report from the united nations, condemning the level of censorship under which british newspapers have to operate, along with this country's pitiful record on freedom of information. Did you know that one of the most thorough books ever written about the windsors - The Royals by Kitty Kelly - cannot be bought in britain? It's a best seller in the u.s. but not only has it never been published here, british booksellers will not even import it for fear of prosecution. And why is it effectively banned in this country? Because .. it reveals them for what they are - a wealthy, self centred, dysfunctional, thoroughly unpleasant, and not very likeable family."[14]

It's quite amazing to appreciate that the landed aristocracy in brutland had an effective veto over all democratic legislation throughout the entire 20thc. And there doesn't seem any sign of this changing in the future given mcblair's political vacuity. Although most of the unelected, hereditary peers have been kicked out of the house of lords, mcblair allowed nearly 92 of them to stay on .. primarily to block any labour party legislation he might be forced to adopt by disgruntled party activists. In 1997, mcblair adopted the tories' two year spending plans; extended this for a third year; and allowed hereditary tories to stay on in the house of lords when he could easily have got rid of them. Mcblair carried out the biggest sabotage of labour values throughout its entire life. So appalling was his sabotage of his own political powers he could even be regarded as a traitor to decency.

"Tony blair is to create 50 labour peers to put an end to embarrassing defeats in the lords at the hands of the conservatives. The prime minister has run out of patience with the upper house which has defied the government 10 times in four months. All but 92 hereditary peers were expelled last november .. They still have 232 peers to labour's 182 .. (The conservative lords prevented the government's reform of clause 28). "The government would have won but for the votes of hereditary peers."[15]; According to lord strathclyde, leader of the opposition in the house of lords .. "the house defeated mr blair 36 times in the 1999-2000 session."[16]

Tory mp Neil Hamilton .. "is said to have taken up to £60,000 from harrods boss mohamed al-fayed, some of it stuffed in envelopes. He denies the claim. He also told lies about a luxury freebie at mr al fayed's ritz hotel in paris. The man at the heart of the tory sleaze scandal said yesterday: "I could hire these conservative mps like hiring taxis off a rank." Disgraced northern ireland minister tim smith resigned from politics on wednesday after he admitted that he had been a paid al fayed "taxi".[19]

"People once described the church of england as ‘the conservative party at prayer'. Agriculture may be described with some justification as the ‘conservative party at work'. For generations, the party's grandees have come mainly from the farming and land-owning classes, and even those who are businessmen or professionals ten to take up agriculture as hobby-farmers (some authors have said that as many as 70% of conservative mps have commercial links with the food and farming industry."[20]

"The bodies of millionaire mp michael colvin and his wife nichola lay in the charred wreckage of their country mansion last night. The couple died .. in an inferno which turned the house into a blowtorch in the early hours. The £3 million house was so badly damaged that parts will have to be demolished .. It is feared that dental records may be the only way to identify the mp and his 62 year old wife. Detectives dampened speculation that mr colvin was targeted by arsonists because of his support for blood sports. He was chairman of the pro-hunting council for country sports, former vice-chairman of the british field sports society, allowed his land to be used by the fox hunt and bred pheasants and partridges for shooting parties on his estate. .. on their 1000 acre estate .. tangley house in the village of tangley, near andover .. One villager said, "Michael owns most of the buildings around here, including the pub. Michael colvin was one of the last tory "squires from the shires'. Educated at eton and sandhurst he served in the grenadier guards. Then he settled into the life of a landowner with a wife whose father, shipping magnate nicholas cayzer, was among britain's richest men. In his 20 years in parliament mr colvin concentrated upon farming, defence and field sports issues ... He repeatedly spoke up in the media for prince charles And he sparked anger with a vitriolic attack on princess diana, blaming her for the break-up of her marriage to the prince. In 1997 he was fined £1,000 with £14,000 costs for polluting a water supply by discharging 200,000 gallons of waste from a slurry pit."[21]

In the mid 1980s it was estimated that in brutland every year over 170,000 people died of heart disease; over 70,000 were afflicted by strokes; and over 10,000 people died of bowel and colon cancers. The response to this carnage of the pharmer dominated tory government was to dismiss it, "So far the government's reactions to the national advisory committee on nutritional education and the committee on medical aspect of food policy reports have been pitiful."[28] Far from wanting to combat this epidemic the tory government went out of its way to make things worse. The government's reaction .. "to the (e.c.) butter surplus was similarly irresponsible: the cut price xmas butter scheme helped to offload some 40,000 tons of surplus - or, put more bluntly, it encouraged people, especially the poor and old, whose diets are in any case less than ideal, to harm their health."[29]

"Alan Dickinson, former head of the Neuropathogenesis Unit in Edinburgh, told the inquiry in London yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture failed to consult the best-qualified scientists and had wasted millions of pounds by entrusting research to inexperienced people. Dr Dickinson said his decision to retire as director of the unit two years early in September 1987 was prompted in large part by his despair at the "research shambles" created by government policy. The last straw, Dr Dickinson said, was the realisation that the Ministry of Agriculture was determined to put the Central Veterinary Laboratory (CVL) in Weybridge, Surrey, in charge of research into BSE. Scientists at his unit could have provided proof of the nature of the disease within "a few days" - instead of the year taken by the CVL - if they had been given brain tissue from the first suspect cases, he claimed. Instead he was not told about BSE until nine months later." [31]

The situation has not changed fundamentally with the succession of the labour government in 1997. Far from trying to restrict the consumption of meat and dairy produce, the labour government continued to encourage people to consume this rubbish, "The average brit eats three ounces of cooked red meat - beef, lamb, pork, beefburgers and sausages - per day. The COMA panel (the committee on medical aspects of food and nutrition policy) .. recommended people who ate five ounces a day should cut down. Then professor philip james, architect of the new food standards agency, persuaded ministers that the advice should be strengthened. He said the committee had been railroaded by the meat industry. James suggested guidelines similar to those from the world cancer research fund, which backs daily consumption of less than three ounces."[32]

Clearly the fact that the "architect of the new food standards agency", professor philip james, tried to .. "persuade ministers that the advice (on reducing the consumption of red meat) should be strengthened" and that he claimed that .. "the committee had been railroaded by the meat industry."[35] was enough to make him highly suspected amongst the labour government's mincing spin doctors and may have been an indication of the political trouble that would result from setting up an independent agency. The government has shown decreasing interest in the establishment of an independent food agency.

After the election of the labour government blair gave jeff rooker the post of minister of food in the maffia. With tessa jowell at health he created a group called the joint food standards and safety group. Rooker stated that, "It is the embryo of the Food Safety Agency."[36] So far so good but, unfortunately, he soon came down with a nasty dose of maffia corruption. Rooker argued that he didn't want the new agency to face the same dilemmas as maff had done when it was responsible for representing both consumers and producers so this meant preventing it from investigating certain activities on pharms, "So we've left veterinary products and pesticides outside its remit, although we've given the FSA long-stop powers that it can use if it thinks things are not being done by the regulatory authorities to prevent food contamination."[37] It wasn't long before rumours started spreading that the independent food agency would no longer cover the entire food chain from the ‘pharm to the plate' but would stop outside the pharmers' gate.

In january 1999, "Meanwhile the Government will next week risk the wrath of the retail food lobby when it publishes a draft bill on the new £100 million a year Food Standards Agency, to be funded by a tax on 600,000 food shops and restaurants. Margaret Beckett, Leader of the Commons, has confirmed that the draft bill will undergo a period of consultation with interested parties of weeks, not months. The FSA has been devised to raise standards and meet complaints that Maff is hopelessly torn between its responsibilities to food producers and consumers. Maff has been in conflict with the Department of Health over which will be the FSA's parent ministry, but at a pre-Christmas cabinet committee meeting the tussle was resolved in health's favour. But the bill is still not free of controversy after Mr Brown's efforts to get the Treasury - not the industry - to bear the £100 million a year cost of policing the food business failed. The Food and Drink Federation lobby group has described the fee as a ``food poll tax'', which would be passed on to customers in higher prices."[38]

Blair appointed cunningham as secretary of state for agriculture to push through the gatt reforms on agriculture but rather surprisingly cunningham turned out to be far too much of a threat to the interests of the Animal slaughter industry. He not only threatened to reduce pharmers' dependency on welfare state benefits, he set up the bse enquiry and banned bse-on-the-bone. But what really put the wind up pharmers was that, "Jack addressed the annual meeting of the Soil Association, the first minister to do so."[39] Conventional pharmers were horrified that cunningham could give any credibility to a bunch of chemical-free hippy farmers.

The meat cleaver brigade eventually had enough of cunningham and pressured blair to get rid of him. They blamed him for triggering off illegal blockades of ports around the country even though this had been due to the rising value of the pound. After the countryside march labour's spin doctors began gloating about his departure to their friends in the right wing press. Soon after the ruralites' demo, "Tony blair was forced to defend the criminalization of T-bone steak lovers yesterday in an embarrassing row with the church. He said the beef ban would stay, even after the bishop of leicester condemned it as an attack on individual freedom on radio four. The rt rev tom butler .. said the ban was as sensible as a "dinosaur-on-the-bone ban". Increasing pressure on jack cunningham, widely tipped for the sack in a cabinet reshuffle, mr hague twice challenged mr blair to back him - to no avail."[40] A couple of months later there was another article prompted by labour's spin doctors foretelling his departure, "Here is a mystery. Why is it that when the Prime Minister in the commons last week was asked to comment on labour's success in getting the european commission to recommend lifting the ban on british beef, he made no mention of his agriculture minister jack cunningham? Indeed, when encouraged directly by a labour backbencher to give mr. cunningham credit, mr. blair still contrived to avoid doing so. A clue to the above mystery may be found in mr. cunningham's hasty and ill-advised decision to stop people eating beef on the bone. From all accounts it appears this was a unilateral decree by the agriculture minister, which was not first communicated to downing street. Now that the european commission has declared in effect that british beef from younger cattle is BSE-free, it is surely time to recognize jack ‘boots' cunningham's ban on eating t-bone steaks for the pointless, fatuous, dictatorial edict it is, and repeal it."[41] Cunningham was moved to a new position in september 1998.

"The chief executive of Britain's biggest investor, the Prudential Corporation, challenged the government to regulate the City which he said was incapable of stamping out fraud."[43]; "The very nature of money laundering makes it hard to estimate how much goes on but experts believe that drug trafficking alone accounts for $500 billion worldwide. Most of that will go through London at least once in the laundering process."[44]; "Accountants are helping to launder crime proceeds of £500 billion every year through the financial markets of the west. Sikka said, "Many fraudsters could not get away with their crimes without the help of their accountants and many of them are British."[45] also hints that a cabinet minister in one of margaret thatcher's governments organized a cover-up of money laundering allegations against a major accountancy practice. Police statistics show that last year accountants gave far fewer tip-offs than bankers, lawyers and independent financial advisers, even though accountants are usually the best placed to spot a fraud. (Accountants) face prison sentences of up to five years for non-disclosure, or 14 years if they are found guilty of aiding and abetting money laundering. So far no one has yet been prosecuted."[46]

"At their peak, in 1984-5, oil revenues contributed £16.5 billion (at today's prices) to the Exchequer. In 1992-3, thanks to falling oil prices and reduced demand, only £1.3 billion was collected in corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and royalties - less than in 1979-80. In 1992, the income from petroleum revenue tax was negative. The oil companies actually received more from the taxpayer in reliefs than they handed over. If you add sales of public enterprises of local authority land and property, the gross income since 1979 comes to more than £90 billion. This is greater than total revenue from the North Sea (£71 billion)."[48]

"Company bosses whose negligence leads to fatal accidents will face corporate killing charges under new laws proposed by jack straw, it was revealed last night. Firms could be hit with massive fines and directors held responsible may be banned from the boardroom for life. But the home secretary stopped short of pledging to jail guilty bosses."[52]; .. "the crown prosecution service spokeswoman said there was "insufficient evidence" for a realistic prospect of conviction of either an individual or a rail company." The cps decision comes as the public inquiry into the tragedy begins today. Along with the 31 deaths, 250 people were injured when a thames train collided with a morning rush hour great western express near paddington station last october. Director of Public prosecution davod calvert-smith yesterday called for a charge of "corporate killing" to be introduced. That would allow companies to be held responsible for deaths of employees or customers, even if no individual could be shown to be at fault."[53] British transport police amassed 500,000 pages of evidence during its investigation into the crash so there was not a lack of what would ordinarily be called evidence. What the problem was that prevented a prosecution was a rather bizarre law which holds that there has to be proof of a motive from people in a company. Since it is virtually impossible to prove a motive for murder this means that nobody is ever likely to be held responsible for the deaths they cause. This treatment of company directors contrasts markedly with the treatment of suspected terrorists in conspiracy trials where one judge indicated that a mere nod or a wink between two people was enough evidence to convict them of being involved in a conspiracy. The state uses conspiracy laws only to prosecute people it doesn't like.

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