GEORGE BARNSBY BLOG NO. 911 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9TH. 2009 INCORPORATING COMPAM (COMMITTEE OF PEACE AND MULTICULTURALISM) barnsby@blueyonder.co.ok
ARREST GORDON BROWN TORTURER AND NUCLEAR MANIAC NOW.
Brown’s suicidal efforts to blow us all up has been further exposed by
his latest proposals outlined by Professor David Elliott of the Open
University in a letter in today’s Guardian.
The Labour government has moved from a position of replacing older
nuclear plants to one of a radical expansion from the present 13% of
electricity from nuclear sources to 35-40% beyond 2030. Brown has indicated
that he believes the world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations and has
argued that Africa could build nuclear power plants to meet growing demands
for energy.
In 2009 a new UK Nuclear Centre of Excellence was announced to promote,
‘wider access to civil nuclear power across the world’ with an initial
budget of ?20million. Professor Elliott goes on the say, ‘As a life-long
Labour movement activist and long standing Labour Party member I have
struggled to live with New Labour policies. But these new policies on
nuclear power will, I believe lead to long term global security problems.
The policies could undermine energy security and environmental
sustainability since money, manpower and other resources will be diverted
away from renewables and energy efficiency’.
The Professor ends by saying, ‘I have made these points regularly in
various forums. But the commitment to an expanded nuclear programme is
deepening. I have therefore, reluctantly, decided to resign from the Labour
Party’.
Good for Professor Elliott. This BLOG and COPAM entirely agree with
his actions.
For an island surrounded by water and floating on coal it is madness to
think that we need nuclear power. And the present BBC programmes of Neil
Oliver showing the power of water as he moves around the coast of Britain
brings to mind the phrase as applied to Gordon Brown, that those the gods
wish to destroy they first make mad.
I WEEP FOR MY COUNTRY AGAIN TODAY.
I was far from exaggerating when I said last night that hundreds of
thousands of people had access to my BLOG and COPAM.
Besides my normal distribution the BLOG goes to Respect and Reprieve. It
goes to Intute and the US Monthly Review and in Afghanistan The Coalition
for Peace and Unity.
It goes also to My Space and Facebook and Convention of the Left all
with very large circulations. But there are also organisations of whom I am
quite ignorant and today I found that Wickipedia is also carrying the
message. And who else is there I do not know of all representing the
majority of the people of the world who say ARREST GORDON BROWN TORTURER AND
NUCLEAR MANIAC NOW.
THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
The splendid Observer and Guardian series of daily booklets covering
the origins of the war, the course of the war and the effects of it up to
the present day is a very worth while project which I shall want to discuss
beginning as I did with my own family and the war. I reached the stage of
stating that I lived at home with my Mother in Battersea when the war broke
out. That I was told on September 2 that I would not be called up until
October 39 and I was trying to contact my brother Sidney who had joined the
territorial army before the war and was called up before Sep 3 to ask him
where he was when war broke out.
It was here that a real life drama intervened for when I tried to ring
him his phone rang but he did not answer it. I immediately become most
concerned about my brother. He lives alone and might well have collapsed and
be dying in an empty house. So I rang Social Services at Carpenders Park
Watford and asked if anyone would go round to the house and enquire. In fact
it was the police who actually went round and discovered that he was alright
and he was by no means pleased at the action I had taken as he communicated
to me when he phoned the next day. But I was unrepentant and thought he
should have had some sort of emergency apparatus which indeed he had, but
it proved impossible to operate as a large area of Watford and Herfordshire
had been cut off from all communications and this was to continue for a week
or more. However by this time Sid had phoned my younger son William and sent
him money when he learned via my BLOG that Willie although still working as
a scaffolder was not able to work long enough or at a sufficient wage to
cover his family expenses. So calm was resumed and when communications were
restored in Hertfordshire Sid rang me and the usual good relations between
us was restored..
Sid told me that on the day war broke out he had already been called up
and was stationed near Leighton Buzzard with his unit which was a Defence
Casualty Clearing Station.
Between the outbreak of war and the phoney war which ended with Hitler
attacking the West and culminating at Dunkirk the fate of my family had been
that Sidney had been in France with his CCS and had been evacuated from
Dunkirk. My Mum had suffered the terrors of the London blitz and become a
munitions worker at Morgan Crucible in Battersea working twelve hour a day
shifts. While I was having an easy time on defence of Britain duties with
the 139th Field Ambulance Unit and when the air raid alarms were raised I
was watching the German planes fly overhead on their way to London sitting
under fruit trees in Kent, the Garden of England and reading a book, Marxist
in all probability!
MORE ABOUT THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Next Tuesday my very good friend Joe Davies and his wife Margaret are
off for a week to Holland and France to visit the battlefields where Joe had
served during the war. They will visit Anthem which was a battle lost and
Neimeigan where Joe has a number of friends from the war. The trip will be
paid for by the National Lottery Fund which most people will agree is as
good a way to spend the results of gambling as any other.
There was also a fund called Heroes which is prepared to finance a trip
for service people and their spouses to visit places as far away as Burma
and the Far East. I have been asked if I am interested, but I’m afraid I am
too ancient and decrepit to attempt such a trip. But our contacts with the
Burma Star Association are sufficient to ensure that any veteran such as Joe
who wants to venture to their old haunts will be able to go and we wish Joe
and Margaret and any other adventurous vet. bon voyage.
REMEMBER THOSE WHO DIED GAVE THEIR TOMORROWS FOR YOUR
TODAYS.