Chancellor of the Exchequer is a fucking liar

17 September 2007 approx 6.00pm BST
Statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on financial markets
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/newsroom_and_speeches/press/2007/press_95_07.cfm

This is part of the Statement that relates to Northern Rock

Careful examination shows that it is not what it seems - note "should it be necessary"- "would put in place arrangements " - "would guarantee "

In relation to Britain and Northern Rock, the Financial Services Authority has repeated again over the weekend and today that Northern Rock is solvent and with a sound long term loan book, but has had short term liquidity difficulties. The support I authorised the Bank of England to offer Northern Rock last week is designed to overcome these short-term difficulties, and to enable it to do its business in the normal way.

As I have said on many occasions over the past few days, people are able to get their money out if that is what they want to do.

I want to put the matter beyond doubt. (Ho.Ho.Ho.) In the current market circumstances, and because of the importance I place on maintaining a stable banking system and public confidence in it, I can announce today that following discussions with the Governor and the Chairman of the FSA, should it be necessary, we, with the Bank of England, would put in place arrangements that would guarantee all the existing deposits in Northern Rock during the current instability in the financial markets.


Weasel words .... anybody who leaves their money in NR must be brain dead.

Again we get the empty and pointless and deliberately misleading claim ..."the Financial Services Authority has repeated again over the weekend and today that Northern Rock is solvent ". It is not the role in life, nor their job to determine solvency, of course anyone may take a view but it is worthless. Only the Directors can take a view - if they trade whilst insolvent they risk heavy penalties and can be disqualified.

If the CEO said they were sovent he can be prosecuted - if the Chancellor , the Pope, etc., says that it has no meaning or worth to anyone.

Lying fucking politicians.

"Dodgy Dossier" authorship disclosures reveal lies told to Hutton and Butler enquiries by Sir John Scarlett and others.

Lord Patel reported on March 3rd 2007, how Chris Ames had worked diligently to produce the "Iraq Dossier" which is a website ....

" dedicated to telling the truth about the British government's September 2002 dossier Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction - that it was, after all, "sexed-up" by the government's spin doctors. "

Ames goes on in exquisite, clear, authoritative detail how the true authorship of the "dodgy dossier" was other than that claimed at both the Hutton and Butler whitewashes enquiries.

"Although the government still insists that the dossier was the work of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) and/or its chairman Sir John Scarlett,(pic of Sir John) the truth is that four government spin doctors were on the inside of the drafting process. The took part in the actual drafting the dossier and the oversight meetings. It has now been established that one of them - John Williams of the Foreign Office - produced the first full draft. The claim that the JIC wrote and approved the dossier is a fabrication."

A small footnote and confirmation can be found in a story - "Iraq dossier penned by ex-Standard reporter" on Jun 21 2007 at ic-Kent newspapers online in an "Exclusive report" by Mark Dearn.

Tory MP for Billericay John Baron publicly named ex-Standard reporter John Williams as the man responsible for one version of the 50-page dossier, and not intelligence chiefs, as had been previously thought.

Mr Baron said Mr Williams, then director of news at the Foreign Office, wrote a draft which was then sent on to Sir John Scarlett, chairman of the joint intelligence committee, who wrote the final version the day after.... resulting in this .. a pic from Day 1 of the invasion.

However, Foreign Office apparatchik and Margaret Beckett's rubbing rag, media "Rentagob" Kim Howells says the dossier was not based on the Williams draft, which he claims was "already redundant".

Mr Baron said his evidence showed "spin doctors" worked on the dossier and that it was "sexed up", contradicting the findings of the Hutton and Butler inquiries. (i.e in plain language exposing the lies)

Mr Williams worked at the Medway Standard from 1973 to 1977, working under editor Gerald Hinks. He did his professional training at the newspaper.

After leaving the newspaper, then known as the Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham News, Mr Williams went on to be political correspondent at the London Evening Standard, and then political editor at the Daily Mirror before becoming the Foreign Office's director of communications in 2001. He now runs his own company, West One Communications.

The Foreign Office are noticeably reluctant to disclose Mr Williams "draft" dossier so that we may make a reasonable comparison of the contents of both - which only confirms the view that it's publication would confirm the claims of Chris Ames and John Baron. - and many others.

No doubt further discreditable revelations will appear as Blair heads off to the horizon - it would certainly interesting if the (now ex) Attorney General and lying Scouse bastard, Lord Goldstone decided to reveal exactly what advice he gave about the legality of the Iraq invasion and why, and why exactly the BAE corruption enquiries were so brutally terminated.