| UK Politics, Business as Usual and the threat to that from the SNP and Jeremy Corbyn. While Osbourne is promoting Trident and portraying the SNP and Corbyn as a threat to national security, consider these quotes from the article linked below. - Despite near universal recognition now that the war in Iraq was a disaster, no major British social institution is headed by a single one of the majority of the population who were opposed to the war. - Every Cabinet Minister actively supported the war. - Of the fifteen Tory MPs who rebelled and voted against the war, not one is a minister. - There is not one single Permanent Under Secretary of a UK government department who was known to be against the war and most were enthusiasts. - Of the 107 bureaucrats in the BBC who earn over 100,000 pounds pa, insiders estimate that only five were opponents of the war. - There is no head of a major TV channel in the UK who was against the war in Iraq. - Every current editor of a UK national newspaper supported the Iraq war. - The Iraq test even extends into the heads of institutions apparently quite unrelated, such as City of London banks and insurance companies. There are a tiny number of heads of FTSE 100 companies who were against the war. - There is also a strong correlation between support for the Iraq War and support for austerity economics. There is a near-universal recognition in wider society that the Iraq War was both completely unjustified and a dreadful strategic blunder. Yet its support is a major pre-condition for membership of the governing elite. This is just one of several areas where the population is at serious odds with the establishment. It is not that there is an Iraq test. It is that Iraq is the touchstone for adherence to the neo-liberal consensus. So expect more media attacks on, and demonisation of, anyone who threatens to represent that population and disagrees with the establishment. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/09/breaking-the-depleted-uranium-ceiling/   Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Breaking the Depleted Uranium Ceiling »It is an astonishing fact that, despite near universal recognition now that the war in Iraq was a disaster, no major British social institution is headed by a single one of the majority of the population wo were opposed to the war. Every Cabinet Minister actively supported the war. [from: Google+ Posts] |
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