MPs Expenses affair - deep skullduggery afoot

[Magda Hassan]

Not sure I've mentioned this before but 'Media Lens' is one of very few organisations that I support financially. Output on the site is not large - just 2-3 articles per month but always long, thoroughly researched and devastating in their 'calling to account' of the main stream media. And especially the BBC and the so called 'progressive' media in the UK (The Guardian and Independent). After all it is hardly necessary to offer a critique of the rest to anyone with half a brain.

Thinking about the MP's expenses thing, a possible overall Deep State objective suggests itself (appart from the obvious one of making a discredited parliament and its members that much less likely to take personal risks confronting the SS's and calling their promptings into question). So far, if the polls are any guide the most obvious beneficiaries in terms of political parties with any chance of getting candidates elected, are UKIP and the BNP. This whole thing has blown up at pretty much the optimum time to make a serious impact on the British European Parliament elections. Further inevitable large gains by UKIP will drive an even bigger wedge between the UK and the mainstream European project, cementing the existing UK/US covert alliances etc. which will also have negative consequences for the Euro as a nascent Dollar replacement reserve currency. More electoral success for the BNP will further that effect and give the racist, facist far right a much higher domestic policy profile too.

Agreed on all counts Peter.

What is the coverage like there now? It seems to me from this distance that it has all been such a wonderful distraction from other crimes, much larger, still taking place. While the political featherbedding and corruption is endemic and must be dealt with it seems that the amounts are quite modest, considerably less than a few million pounds. Yet it is potrayed by some as the greatest constituional crisis since Suez/Profumo/Wallis Simpson In the mean time banks are still looting the public at a magnitude to the power of 10 compared to what the pollies could ever possibly hope to get away with. Media black out on Lockerbie trial, Bilderberg meeting, AfPak theatre of operations, the ever eastward march of NATO, Iraq war crimes, continued collusion between the church and state on keeping the victims of institutional violence and abuse without justice.