2013年7月25日 星期四

Maraget Hodges attack on the unaccountable BBC

Now, if Id declared a passion for -Gillian Anderson or Sharon Stone, she would have understood.But lusting over a 69-year-old MP for Barking called Margaret made her ask if I was suffering a reverse midlife crisis, in which I longed to wear beige slacks and start driving a -caravan-pulling M-orris Minor. 

Clearly she hadnt been listening to the radio report on the Chair of the -Public Accounts Committees latest mission C to drag those smug, -unaccountable BBC executives before her, ask why they have been playing -Fantasy Payoff with each -other and humiliate them until they curl up in the foetal position with quivering lips.I love Margaret Hodge because for months shes been the only politician who has stood up to the seemingly untouchable vested interests and vented the disgust the ordinary voter feels -towards them. 

And shes expressed it with the same passion and loathing you hear in living rooms, the office or the factory floor.During her eviscerating of tax-dodging -multinationals,We rounded up 30 bridesmaids dresses in every color and style that are both easy on the eye and somewhat easy on the chinabeadsfactory. she told a Google bigwig that his company was devious, unethical and evil.Wading with incredulity through Prince Charles accounts, she remarked with contempt that his tax -arrangements were as immoral as Starbucks.She slaughtered HM Revenue & -Customs bosses for their sweetheart deals that saved big companies millions, and their lax -attitude to the tax -avoidance of rich celebrities, saying ordinary people were being scammed. 

She laid into rip-off Government helplines, slated wasteful NHS Trust managers, even told fellow MPs the amount of holidays they take endangers democracy because it looks like were hardly working.But its her latest drive to find out who is responsible for BBC senior managers walking away with 60million worth of payoffs since 2005 I most admire her for.Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned customkeychain at their Weymouth store. This scandal is a blood boiler.One Tory MP described BBC bosses as operating an upper middle-class benefits system, which is spot on. But Id go further and call it an upper middle-class dinner party game, where people who have given nothing -towards the nations wealth or wellbeing, sat round after too many bottles of claret and drew figures on napkins of how much they would like to give each other. 

Then they guaranteed multimillion pound pension pots that already debt--saddled future generations will have to pay for, even if they dont watch the BBC.As Tories scour the inner cities for eight-child families on benefits to find scapegoats for our national debt, Hodge has been shaming the real scroungers who bleed our coffers dry. Shes been letting those at the top who take us for a ride know the depth of anger in the country.And as Ed Miliband reflects this summer on how to stop a resurgent Cameron hed do well to learn -lessons from her. 

Right now ordinary people dont believe that this Shadow Cabinet feels their pain enough. They dont believe they reflect the fury being felt outside Westminster towards the rich and powerful who take them for a ride.Instead of speaking in placatory soundbites, voters want to hear Labour talking in bar-room language. This is the language that somehow made Nigel Farage seem like a Messiah.Its the language Margaret Hodge uses to everyone in a suit who she believes is getting away with charmed robbery.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a graniteslabs can authenticate your computer usage and data.Its time Labour went on the attack, armed with facts,About jewelryfindings in China userd for paying transportation fares and for shopping. fuelled by anger and speaking for the majority of voters who feel screwed into the ground by those at the top. 

Cllr Malcolm Buckley, cabinet member for regeneration, says: Not only will this project help to deliver new family homes with a new school being provided as the homes are being built, it will also assist the proposed move by South Essex College to a new purpose built campus in the town. With the closure of the SEEVIC facilities, it has become even more important that the Council secures the future of South Essex College within the Borough. 

The addition of hundreds of students and staff into the town centre during the day and evening will assist shopkeepers at a time when the town is facing the same struggles as other places up and down the country, such as empty shops. The college move and the associated relocation of the market is a key element of our strategy for regenerating the town centre to make it a more vibrant and prosperous place. We are expecting that a planning application for the market move will be submitted shortly which will create a modern new market destination for the town that will complement St Martins Square and the western end of the town. The college and market moves will give a real economic lift to the town. 

Mike Goulding, Senior Area Manager at the HCA says: These proposals will bring positive things to Basildon, including more executive housing and a brand new town centre college. This investment will help to bring new business and new jobs into the area and we look forward to moving this project forwards. 

South Essex Colleges new campus will develop a new sixth form providing local youngsters with access to A-level provision in a range of subjects.Vice Principal for Curriculum at South Essex College, Wendy Barnes said: A new campus will bring more flexible teaching spaces and better facilities for our students.The young people of Basildon deserve the best we can offer and the best opportunities, we have that in Southend and well have that in Thurrock in September 2014. Simply put, we dont want future generations to be piggy in the middle and miss out in Basildon. 

The Council says a number of transport improvements have been identified through the proposals to improve traffic flow around Dry Street and the Nethermayne areas and Essex County Council also secured pinchpoint funding to ease lengthy delays during rush- hour.Cllr Buckley also said the amount of feeling about Longwood Equestrian Centre was understood and feels that the offer to provide assistance with its relocation is a way of showing that local views do count.You will see earcap , competitive price and first-class service.Danny Lovey, from the Green Action Group opposed to the development, told the Enquirer: There is so much to take issue with and it is just spin. 

This latest council and associated partners spin is designed to stop further opposition to the development of Dry Street which will not work. It is designed to undermine morale. What we are more concerned about is stopping the development in its tracks. 
Labour Councillor for Nethermayne Andrew Gordon said: Basildon Council has ignored the pleas of a vast majority of residents who are quite rightly outraged at the decision to build on such an important piece of land. 

A college being squeezed into the town centre will not be a silver bullet to the economic crisis it is currently facing.I am livid at the way the Council seem to be basking in glory over a decision that has gone against the wishes of so many residents. A decision that will decimate the wildlife in the area, result in the displacement of a valued equestrian facility and the Essex Air Ambulance landing site for Basildon Hospital, as well as bring traffic chaos no matter how many buses they put on for all these executives that will flock to Basildon!
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