Introduction

This is a follow-up to Colony Holidays and Tubby the Tuba where I talked about Colony Holidays (the CCHS), Chris Green’s part as Tubby the Tuba, and my fond memories of such a formative part of my life.

Recent News

Chris Green (Tubby the Tuba)

Chris Green, one of the two full-time driving forces behind the original CCHS, is now using his retirement to push forward the agenda for proper summer camps, ideally modelled on the CCHS concept, with modern changes suitable to our era.  (Currently, the ‘camp’ business is stuck at a crossroads of uncertainty, direction and funding.  Chris sees things in a much more positive light, as you’ll see from his booklet below.)

As part of this, he is asking former CCHS/ATE people and anyone else with an interest in the well-being of children, society and thus the world, to lobby their local MP by telling them about their positive personal experiences about CCHS, and other views on the matter.

He’s encapsulated his agenda in a booklet which I’ve reproduced here, (How Summer Camps Could Change Britain),  along with the original PDF files for download.  Please read and use these..  Their links are below:

• Letter to MPs February 2010 Suggested letter format to lobby your local MP on behalf of Chris Green’s summer camps’ initiative.
• How Summer Camps …inline This webpage as an inline PDF.
• How Summer Camps Could Change Britain 2010 A PDF file similar to the previous one, suitable for booklet printing.

For myself, I’ve already mentioned the high regard in which I hold Chris Green and his work with the CCHS in the post Colony Holidays and Tubby the Tuba, and how, in reality, it has formed a large chunk of my current persona.

I’ve also found a Facebook group here called Colony Holidays Remembered.  This is worth a check for any former Colony Holidays folk…!

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“Lord” Ashcroft Then

It’s ten years since Ashcroft “gave assurances” that he would reveal his er.. something or other, to William Hague -- according to William Hague in his famous Paxman interview -- See Below:

“Lord” Ashcroft Now

Today’s news is that if the tories win the forthcoming election, (and in a statement today, he finally confirmed he WAS a non-dom),  Ashcroft has promised to become fully “resident and domiciled” in the UK.  Try The Sun for more or the BBC.

“Lord” Ashcroft Conclusion

What this all means, of course, is that either;

• Ashcroft lied to Hague back in 2000 when Hague put him up for his peerage,
• Or that Ashcroft deliberately misled Hague about it all,
• Or that Hague colluded in the deception.

I cannot personally think of any other routes that would lead William Hague to state what he so emphatically said to Paxman last summer.  What says you?  I’m all ears.

However, it’s blindingly obvious (yet strangely ignored) that he hasn’t paid tax to our nation for at least ten years - and yet has a weird magnetic control over some of our affairs….

Labour Donors

Of course, the Labour Party have their own share of grey donors; all the way from Bernie Ecclestone back in 1997 to the Indian born Baron Paul with his own peculiar mix of richness, dodgy expense claims and donations.

The Labour queue is pretty long in financial scandal.

The stench of hypocrisy is becoming worse.

But what burnt the honesty cake for me these last two days, was the flag of patriotism being bandied about.

Patriotism -- the last refuge of a scoundrel.

In 1775 Samuel Johnson made this famous statement (reference here).  Yesterday, Tory leader Cameron said,

“It is an election we have a patriotic duty to win because this country is in a complete and utter mess, and we have to sort it out.”

• Which is a formidable statement to make given that the whole world is in a turmoil where the rich get richer and the poor have to pay for it, and yet Britain is not a “one-off” and actually, is “not that bad”, you know…
• Formidable because the starving poor are now castigated for hunting for food after earthquakes by a corrupt, politically charged and motivated media who employ brainless hacks to tow the editorial line.
• Yet in the UK, no-one starves unless through neglect.
• Anyone in Britain can get medical treatment and care on demand, with waiting lists at a fraction that they were when the Tories were last in power…

It’s a strange definition of the word “mess” -- but a typical usage of the word “patriotism”, by a squeakily clean, disturbingly smooth, scoundrel.

Want and Need

What we want and need is simple.

In a reworking of the slogan “No taxation without representation“, there should be a new slogan, that empathetically states that we do not need lobbying or interference in our governmental process from any person or organisation that does not  pay taxes;  i.e. it does not directly contribute to the material well-being of the country.

No Representation without Taxation!

This means:

• No positions of power.
• No quango membership
• No parliamentary membership.
• No political donations, directly or indirectly.
• No lobbying or ‘briefings’, directly or indirectly.

In other words,

Pay up , or shut up!

We all have to, the poor, long-suffering, tax-paying, public.

America

This is especially important for us, as where America leads, we follow.

Within the last two months, a legal judgement was made that made it perfectly proper for any business to promote any political party.  The logic was that if a company pays taxes, it should have representation, just as the founding fathers wanted.

The crucial irony is though, that grievous complaints have been raised in the USA that their due process of democracy was already being undermined by these huge corporations that now bankroll the electoral system.

Of course, the reason that the corporations won was due to the massive financial investment in lobbying that they undertook to ensure they won…….

Watch out Britain!  Q. E. D.

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Lockerbie Crater

Introduction

Last April (9 months ago), I contrasted the sling and arrows of fortune as they applied to an admitted mass-murderer and one convicted of mass murder who always protested his innocence.  (see Megrahi and Calley Compared and Contrasted)

Now, fully 9 months after the wholesale shock in the West at Megrahi’s early release (the personal recollectionally-challenged Vice-president Clinton was notable in her non-charitable words about all this), the journalists at the BBC have seen fit to look at the matter more closely.  (see ‘Flaws’ in key Lockerbie evidence)

Well this is great!  It looks like Megrahi was stitched up after all.  As he has always claimed.

Research

Another ‘expert’ has decided that there was no way that a crucial piece of evidence could have survived the bomb blast.  More importantly, the evidence wasn’t examined correctly and was just assumed to be “the bit that everyone was looking for”.

For me, the absolute key piece is that Megrahi was identified by someone in Malta who did not like him, several months after the bomb blast and even longer than after he’d met him!!!  In all the cases of  identification evidence, this has to be the most shoddy and flimsiest I’ve ever seen!!!

But the big questions are:

Why was none of this done decades ago?

What is wrong with us and our judicial system?

Why are so many innocents convicted for BIG crimes?

Of course, someone still did the heinous deed.  It just wasn’t Megrahi, that’s all.   But we all know where the solution lies.

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