The Barnsby Blog

BRITAIN AND US ACTED AS VIGILANTES IN THE INVASION OF IRAQ.
One of Britain’s most authoritative judicial figures has delivered a
blistering attack on the invasion of Iraq describing it as a serious
violation of international law and accusing Britain and the US of acting
like a ‘world vigilante’. Lord Bingham in his first major speech since
retiring as the senior law lord rejected the attorney-general’s defence of
the 2003 invasion as fundamentally flawed
Contradicting head-on Lord Goldsmith’s advice that the invasion was
legal Bingham stated, ‘It was not plain that Iraq had failed to comply in
in
a matter justifying resort to force and there were no strong factual
grounds or evidence to show that it had’. Bingham went on to say that
Britain and the US decision to unilaterally decide that Iraq had broken UN
resolutions ‘passes belief”.
He went on ‘If I am right in that the invasion of Iraq by the US, the UK and
certain other states was unauthorised by the Security Council there was a
serious violation if international law and the rule of law’. The war that
was waged was clearly illegal and the determination of George W Bush and his
Neocons to invade those he called ‘the circle of evil’ successively was
foiled by the Iraq army which made it impossible to claim a victory for the
war which has continued to this day, and Bush was forced to recognise that
he required satellite forces of which the so-called government of Iraq was
the most important . But that ‘government’ was illegal because the security
council of the United Nations continued to maintain that the war was
illegal.. And this remains the position today and the case for arresting
Bush Blair and Brown and charging them with crimes against humanity is
overwhelming.

MARADONA COMES TO TOWN.
The two greatest living players are undoubtedly Pele of Brazil and
Maradona of Argentine. Each has his champions, but for those with a
political bent the answer is clear. Maradona is a political man, a friend of
Castro and Chavez and enemy of George W.Bush and US Neocons.
Maradona will be in Scotland this weekend as manager of his country’s
team playing Scotland and helping to manage Scotland will be Terry Butcher,
captain of England on that fateful day in the 1986 World Cup quarter final
when Maradona’s ‘hand of God’ scored the first goal and then an exquisite
second goal sealed England’s fate.
Terry is in no mood to forgive Maradona even at this distance when
Scotland play Argentine in a friendly international match. He will only go
so far as to say that for Argentina players to have Maradona, the greatest
player Argentine ever had coaching his country’s team was something special
for the team who will want to impress their new boss, their hero, their
idol. But Butcher thought that the game would be an excellent test for
Scotland who would be taking the game to them. Revenge would be sweet . We
are not looking to play second fiddle,we are looking to do well in the game
and I want to beat them. A worthy aim and I have every sympathy with
Butcher.
But I must remind him that this is the player whose favourite saying is, ‘I
trust second only to God, Fidel Castro’. Certainly Maradona will be a very
welcome visitor to Scotland this week end. And all of us who oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will watch Maradona’s progress as a coach with interest

ARREST GORDON BROWN NOW - DIANE ABBOTT
FOR PRIME MINISTER.

Why are there so many fools and knaves who share Brown’s illusions that
he is important. He is in only one respect. Now that George W Bush has been
reduced from the most powerful tyrant in the world to a blithering idiot by
the stunning victory of the new US president Obama, Gordon Brown and Tony
Blair have now become the second and third most important war criminals in
the world, because they support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan despite the
views of most sensible people that these wars are illegal, racist and
unwinnable. A further reason to arrest Brown NOW is that he is a Nuclear
Maniac prepared to take the risk of seeing the world blown to smithereens in
another Holocaust.
Now there is now yet another reason to put Brown under lock and key -
Somali pirates have reappeared and captured a Saudi-owned Aramco tanker.
Here there are two dangers one is that a ship loaded with nuclear arms will
be captured and sold to the highest bidder who will then hold the USA,
Britain and other western powers to ransom, or if they fail to respond blow
up targets that they, the Pirates have chosen.
All these dangers have been aired in this BLOG, but most members of the
Commentariat, as Media Lens christened them because of their almost
monopoly powers of providing ordinary people with news and when we
complain are so contemptuous of public opinion that they do not reply to me.
Such people include the chief executive and chairman of the BBC, the head of
ITV, the news commentators, Paxman, Marr, Wark, Kearney and Jon Snow of
Channel Four. Also the head of the Learning and Skills Council, Sir Trevor
Phillips the chair of the Commission of Equality and Human Rights because he
will not let us know whether he is for or against the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
When Obama won his great, but limited victory as US president. I took a
breather. Some people have warned me that by writing a BLOG every night I
was putting my health at risk and perhaps I should only BLOG on a five day
week or perhaps only once a week.and catch up on my reading. It seemed
appropriate since my last BLOG on Friday dealt with the English Revolution
of the seventeenth century and the fact that Obama seemed to be following
the same path as Oliver Cromwell who after executing Charles 1st reneged and
eventually destroyed the Levellers who were the working class ‘root and
branch’ of the revolution.
I was all the more willing to take a break as I had on my long list of
unread books Ricky Tomlinson, the builders’ strike leader of the 1970s who
won the strike with flying pickets but who later was charged with
conspiracy, imprisoned and in effect tortured, because he would not agree to
plead guilty of the charge he never committed - that of conspiracy.
This corruption, starting with the highest authorities in the land, the
Civil authorities acting on behalf of the prime Minister, turned the
‘Shrewsbury Two’ into political prisoners, and I propose tonight to continue
to read Ricky’s book. Partly because its modern day equivalent has been the
conspiracy of the government to close the first multicultural college in
Britain. But Bilston Community College did the same as the Shrewsbury Two
and refused to plead guilty to what they were charged with - illegal
activities - and it looks as if we shall be as successful as the builders
were in proving the charges against them were totally fabricated.
Conspiracy in high places leads to local people thinking they can get
away with it and in Wolverhampton the complicated structure of competing
‘regeneration’ bodies has led us to ask the chief executive, Richard Cross
who runs and who controls the City?, something he is stupid and stubborn
enough not to reply to. For when at least a dozen regeneration bodies are
claiming to control the city yet resources are withheld from them,
illegalities are likely to occur . So Cross, who was appointed by we know
not who and has a salary of ?200,000 or more should want to be open with
the those who pay his salary and not risk the charge of giving back handers
to this rather than that desperate applicant.
In fact the financial situation is so desperate that I expected friends
such as Ken Purchase and Rob Marris two of Wolverhampton’s MPs and George
Galloway who I respect for daring needs (no pun intended) would hold the
same views as I do and be prepared to contact me and assure me we were
building a united front against Brown and the remaining New Labourites who
support him. The question of our third MP, also smells somewhat. Dennis
Turner was made a lord and Pat McFadden took his seat without question or
election. The national labour party has rules about selection of MPs. There
must be selection and an election. Neither took place in the case of
McFadden. Whether these Labour Party rules have any legal standing I do not
know, and perhaps I can pass this over to Rob Marris, my MP, who is a
solicitor, bound to reply to me and usually does. He already is acting for
me in the case of the Ombudsman who can only take up a case in if an MP acts
for him and this is about my complaints to the BBC.and the Parliamentary
Ombudsmen What about ii Rob? I see at the bottom of your last letter to me
you print, Voted by MPs as ‘Back Bencher of the Year’ 2008.
Congratulations. Its a pity you support the war in Iraq! which is racist as
well as illegal.
Thus we come to our final point which is that only the working class
can save themselves. Diane is one of us. Her modesty in not standing as
Prime Minister becomes her, compared with the Tory Toffs Cameron and Osborne
who support the war in Iraq, and Cameron will have only two choices if ever
he become Prime Minister - to get out or be chucked out.
Let’s get Dianne to a democratic forum where we can argue the case that
she will be standing for us working people as well as herself and if anyone
can nominate a better candidate I am prepared to listen.

THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION.
Nothing fits more perfectly in my mood today than the article in the
Guardian today on Revolution. I have just returned from a celebration of the
life of Kenneth Albert Francis Evans (1921-2008 ) whose family celebrated his
life and work by holding a splendid secular funeral for him . Ken was a
proud proletarian Wolverhampton Communist. He attended school in
Wolverhampton, and spent much time travelling to London with his mother and
training to box with his father commencing the sport competitively at around
the age of fourteen. At 18, about the time he was called up for the army he
met his beloved wife Dorothy. They were married in 1940. It lasted until
Dorothy’s untimely death in 1964. In 1941 their cherished daughter Dorothy
was born. Two days after her birth Ken was given two days leave to meet his
daughter., but he wasn’t to see her again until she was 5 years old
following his discharge from the army disabled.
He fought with the Royal West Kents in Naples and Tripoli. He was
wounded in a minefield explosion having to send many months hospitalised in
Naples with serious injuries to his head and arm. During their marriage Ken
and Dot travelled widely to London, Paris and Italy. Ken had a life-time
love of his family and opera and the arts. He was also a member of the
Wolverhampton Communist Party standing on numerous occasions in the local
elections. Due to his injuries Ken had a number of menial jobs before having
a long and successful career as a laboratory manager at Tarmac Ltd. Ken
continued to live in Merridale Court until 2004 when ill-health dictated
that he needed 24-hour care. He died on Wednesday 5th of November 2008 with
the wonderful staff of Wentworth Lodge around him.
It was quite a coincidence that I had mentioned Ken in my last BLOG.
Dot had phoned me the night Ken died knowing that Ken and I were the
greatest of friends. although she said she would quite understand if Esme
and I couldn’t go, but I was determined to go if I could. The topic of
conversation was my 90th birthday, which falls on Thursday 29th January
2009 which I am determined to celebrate at the Sir Jack Hayward banqueting
suite at Wolves ground. This idea was first put into my head by another
great proletarian Wolverhampton character, Frank Spittle who had held his
diamond wedding ceremony at Wolves. I reckon that if I live to celebrate
this particular birthday it will be a party, but if I don’t live it will be
a wake. In discussing the pros and cons of this situation I mentioned that Ken Evan’s name arose because the 85th birthday event which took place
at 141 Henwood Rd. involved a meal bought in from the restaurants at the
bottom of the road was very successful because all guests except me and Ken
had Chinese or Indian meals.
Ken would, of course, have come to my 90th had he lived. But I wanted
to invite Dot and the rest of Ken’s family to my event, which I have done
today and they say they will be happy to come.
Another coincidence has been that Frank Spittle has in the past few
days had a heart attack and I feared for his life, but happily he has
recovered. He is a member of perhaps the most important sporting family in
Wolverhampton for which three generations have represented
England at rifleshooting, and other sports and whose connection with the
Wolves goes back to the days when as a lad of five he became their first
mascot. Frank is most critical of the councillors and officials who took
over the unique Hall of Fame and eventually reduced Aldersley Stadium to a
practice track instead of an Olympic games standard for both rifle-shooting
and track events (see BLOG 624 for fuller details). Frank, like the majority
of us is opposed to the war in Iraq and this is where events begin to tie
in.
Although most of us are happy that Obama the black candidate has won
the US presidential election we are afraid that since he belongs to the
upper crust of US society he will renege on his promises to end the wars and
in fact do what Cromwell did in Britain, which was to renege on his
promises, even though he made England the most revolutionary country in the
world by executing King Charles 1 and thus hastening our progress from
feudal, Catholic state to Protestant first capitalist nation in the world
and we became the first working class in the world.
These events are the subject of the Devil’s Whore Channel 4’s new 4
part drama written by Peter Flannery. It shows that revolutions made by
non-working class leaders will be betrayed unless the working class ensure
that the change is root and branch. This was the situation at the English
Revolution of the seventeenth century and bids fair to be repeated today
with Obama. But revolutions go through man stages and I would like to trace
ours through my life time. During the Second World War there was a political
truce. I was stationed near Braintree and near Canterbury at the time.
During the 2nd.World War there was a political truce, so that when Tom Driberg ignored it and won a famous victory at Maldon I
think was the name of the constituency, it was a sign that people were not
too happy with the progress of the war where the main complaint was the lack
of a Second Front to aid the Russians. Driberg was also a homosexual who
escaped prosecution by threatening to expose all the other MPs who were the
same. Driberg was a true radical and when the war ended I believe he held
his seat at the 1945 election and Harold Quinton, the good comrade who sent
me left-wing literature during the war became one of the few Communists to
be elected.To Braintree Council. Similar developments took place at
Canterbury where the, Rev. Hewlett Johnson who was anathema to people until
the Germans attacked the Soviet Union and on the following Sunday the Red
Dean presided over a divisional church parade which I attended and I was
able to assure high officers who I knew that Hitler had made the greatest
mistake of his life and victory was certain for the allies. But it was a
close run thing as the Russians suffered horrendous losses as the allies
refused to open a second front in France.
It was at this point that I personally took a hand by publishing a
Soldiers’ Paper which called for a Second Front not simply to help the
Russian but in the knowledge that if the Germans conquered the industrial
areas of Moscow and Leningrad the wheat and oil of the Ukraine and the
Caucasus, the German fascists would win. These papers led to my being
detached from my unit and being sent abroad where I spent four years in
Burma and India. The question I asked then, and continue to ask is - were
these soldiers’ papers the first since the days of the Levellers whose
papers annoyed Cromwell, who in his lurch to the right eventually destroyed
these left-wing working class organisations. I still have no answer to this
question.
Our present position is that Obama who seems to be acting as Cromwell
did and reneging on his promise to end the wars, in this case the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and it will take the US working class to be the root and
branch proletarian element who will ensure the radical change need to usher
in the unbelievable riches of the modern world of peace and
multiculturalism is achieved.
The woman to lead this transition in Britain is the proletarian Diane
Abbott who has all the qualifications for the job, but who we must persuaded
to stand. Let us hope that we shall be successful in persuading her .

DIANE ABBOTT FOR PRIME MINISTER.
It is gradually being pointed to people that while the great black and
white hope , the new President of the USA is black that there are degrees of
blackness. This was pointed out today in the Guardian by Linda Colley who
resides in the USA and who, like many of us, fears that Obama, magical
though it be to have the first black president may well disappoint us unless
constant pressure is exerted. Linda points out firstly that he is only half
black, his mother being a white woman and secondly that he comes from the
upper crust of the US ruling elite and went to an Ivy League University,
Harvard. Truly a member of America’s upper crust.
We have had the situation in the US where although both Houses of
Congress have been controlled by Democrats that, in the words of Michael
Moore so many Democrats acted like Republicans that it was touch and go
whether Obama became president.
Britain has the problem of a Labour Party, most of whose members have
not been Socialist and in the period of New Labour have indeed been Tory and
the left-wing of the party have been unable to shift them with the result
that the Labour Party has been self-destructing . Today the leader Gordon
Brown advocates nuclear power stations to heat our homes and nuclear power
to fire our American nuclear war systems and face the ultimate disaster of
pirates or terrorists seizing weapons and igniting them so that we all go
up in flames.
In these circumstances Gordon Brown and his Cabinet who follow his
policies must be arrested NOW and put out of harm’s way. The best possible
alternative is a 100% black female with sufficient talent and experience to
become Prime Minister. Fortunately we have such a candidate in Diane Abbott
and I have asked Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil who chairs the programme
The Week if they would support Diane for Prime Minister. This would set in
train a democratic discussion on whether Diane, who is at present being
disadvantaged by racism is the best candidate, whether she can be persuaded
to stand or whether there is any other black person equally or better
qualified. This is what I would call democracy.

PROBLEMS IN WOLVERHAMPTON.
Jo Davies asks me to raise on my Blog the problem of hooliganism in
Wolverhampton. A mob calling themselves the Low Hill Youth have been
terrorising their neighbourhood brandishing knives and guns during acts of
violence and intimidation. Five youths were brought before the court and a
forty page dossier listed a catalogue of crimes, much of it racially
motivated including throwing a brick at a moving car hitting the woman
driver on the chest. Firing a ball bearing gun pellet through the window of
a Low Hill family. Attacking a girl in a park, punching and kicking her to
the floor as others filmed it on mobile phones. And so it goes on. The
district judge said that it really made you want to send people like them
to prison. But he was only able to impose three year anti-social orders
because all of the victims were afraid to take the stand.
Both Joe Davies and John Mellor a former policeman and councillor were
for ‘zero tolerance’ approach to yob behaviour. But I am not too sure. Yes
I think such yob behaviour should be punished, but remembering that Low Hill
is one of the most deprived areas of Wolverhampton, I don’t think this is
the answer to yob behaviour. Will Joe Davies agree with me that discussions
between the yobs, other Low Hill people, the social services, the police and
all others concerned is the only way forward and would he agree to join such
talks.

GORDON BROWN WAR CRIMINAL AND HYPOCRITE
It made my blood boil to see Gordon Brown at the
Cenotaph when he Bush and Blair were responsible for the continuing
slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan. That Brown would have the bare-faced
cheek to associate himself with the 90th anniversary of the ending of World
War One and to insult the dead of that war by having war veterans Bill
Stone 108, Henry Allingham 112 and Harry Patch 110 at No.10 Downing Street
while he (Brown) is permitting slaughter abroad is an insult to all those
who died in that war.

NATO , THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
A letter in the Guardian by Michael McGowan former Labour MEP for Leeds
suggests that Tony Blair is in no way part of the solution of war in the
Middle East, but is part of the problem. He suggests that Obama remove him
from the international scene and provide the Middle East which is desperate
for peace with a historic opportunity.

RUSSELL BRAND AND PEACE.
I was very surprised, but very pleased to be able to see one of Russell
Brand’s shows on Channel Four the other night. It confirmed my belief that
he is a
political man, opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, willing to
apologise and resign if he makes a mistake, which is more than can be said
of Mark Thompson the chief executive of the BBC , or other members of the
commissariat as Media Lens calls them, the all-powerful commentators such as
Paxman, Marr, Wark, Kearney and Jon Snow of Channel 4 who refused to
challenge Blair about the wars when interviewing him and remove our
democratic right to be heard by not replying to me. Russell on the other
hand has resigned and I was most happy to note that, while acting
outrageously in a way not appealing to us fuddy-duddies his act had a moral
intent and purpose, such as objecting to how the old are treated in Britain
and other social issues. We should be pleased that he is on our side and
with other doughty champions of liberty in the US such as Michael Moore,
Chomsky and Gore Vidal will help keep the new president of the USA on the
path of peace and freedom.

THE FRIENDSHIP OF ROY KEANE AND PAUL INCE.
Paul Ince is on my list of ethnic minority people whose irresistible
rise
and rise will continue. I start with Theo Walcott who has already achieved
my aim of being a regular English football international. Others include
Benjamin Zephaniah, the Rasta poet who I tip to be the next Poet Laureate,
and Osama bin Laden who I would like to see Head of the United Nations. now
that Bush and his Neo-Cons have been removed. The one who got away was Lewis
Hamilton the Formula One motor racing World Champion.
My aim for Paul Ince is that he should become the manager of England,
once the foreigner and Mafia supporter who occupies that position at the
moment , Fabio Capello, is removed.
The friendship of Paul Ince and Roy Keane dates from the
time when they played together with Manchester United in 1994. In 2002 Paul
became the first black captain of Wolves. In 2006 he became player manager
of Macclesfield which was rock bottom of all League teams and subsequently
passed out of FA control. In that year Roy Keane retired as a player and
became the manager of Sunderland. In 2007 he won promotion to the
Premiership. In 2007 Ince avoided relegation on the last day of the season
and became manager of MK Dons of League Two. In 2008 Ince won promotion and
was named manager of Blackburn. Ince appreciates that at every step in his
career as a manager Roy Keane has phoned him or left texts.in continuation
of their friendship as players who both thought that they bonded and this
gave them the confidence to win. Ince says that these days people are
prepared to talk to him, but back in the dark days only Roy Keane was his
friend and mentor who encouraged him at every stage of his career.
Today they meet as rivals, both at the wrong end of the Premiership.
But whatever way it goes, this marvellous example of friendship will survive
and be an inspiration to others in an industry more noted for its enmities
than friendships.

KEN EVANS FUNERAL.
This will take place on this Friday 14th November at 2-50pm at Gornal
Wood Crematorium. We hope to be there together with others who knew our
comrade.

FIRST REACTIONS TO OBAMA’S STUNNING VICTORY
I have already stated my reaction as giving the possibility of an
immediate end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan even though he does not
obtain full control until January and has a warmonger as his VP who would
take over if Obama were assassinated. But I find that everyone I talk to
from conservatives to radicals are pleased that Obama won and feel that he
is capable of tackling the two main questions, namely the wars and the
economic crisis. Whether Gordon Brown, the war criminal, is among that
number I do not know but he and Blair are now tiny pygmies, although their
arrests are necessary at once since they both support nuclear weapons and
destruction of the world if by chance or intent these weapons cause another
holocaust.
As usual, I turned to today’s the VOICE the most influential paper of
African-Caribbean’s and the Diaspora who have an entirely unique approach to
the question. Dotun Adebayo, one of Britain’s most listened-to black radio
talk show, says that Barak Obama is their leader as well as America’s. Why
do they need a white guy at 10 Downing Street to represent them when they
now have the most powerful man on the planet to represent them.
I would agree with them, but would suggest that they can go one better
than the Americans and have both Obama and the black woman Diane Abbott to
represent them at No.10 if they throw off their final inferiority complex
and see that us whites as well as blacks need both Obama and Diane Abbott
to represent us in the marvellous new multicultural world we can inherit.

NINETY YEARS TOMORROW SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR ONE.
The BBC is treating this event with the seriousness it deserves. This
was an imperialist and racist war which entailed more suffering and horror
than the world had before known. My own father served throughout that war
and we have, on my website my mothers account of what my father went through
particularly after 1916 when he was entitled to retire, but by the
viciousness of training camp guards who wanted to maintain their cushy jobs
at the rear he was court-martialed for a trivial offence and sent back to
the trenches. My father survived that only to die in the influenza epidemic
of 1922.
Yesterdays programme told of a young black man who was one of the
first blacks to play football in a public school and who was subsequently
recommended to become an officer. His determination to succeed as the first
coloured man to become an officer was ended by him being killed at the
Battle of the Somme, and cries out for us modern anti-racists to remember
and celebrate the life of Walter Tull.

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
Today’s programme has been on those who refused to fight and were
branded cowards. The question has become topical and raises also the
question of those who refused to serve in the Second World War. These I have
been proud to write about in my book Socialism in Birmingham and the Black
Country 1850-1939. Of the First World War I have the names of over 20 Black
Country COs which I print below. Birmingham was a greater centre of
resistance to war and I was personally acquainted with some of the
Birmingham WW2 war resisters and I hold much of the material relating to
war resisters. Here are the names. ASTON GR and GO both of Wolverhampton.
BELL HW, Walsall. COOPER, WA W’ton. GEE , GEORGE AND LUTHER, both of
Smethwick. JAMES G..DOUGLAS of West Bromwich. JONES R Gornal. HINTON AH
and HOLMES AC both of Smethwick. KEELING HA Walsall. LOVEGROVE JC,
Smethwick. MILLINGTON W. West Bromwich. MORLEY AC and PAYNE BC Smethwick.
POND RE Wolverhampton. ROBERTS AE and TAYLOR JH both of Walsall. SIMCOX JH
Smethwick. TURNER S and TURNER WH both of Smethwick. WAPLINGTON JAC and
WESTWOOD JH both of Smethwick.

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WOLVERHAMPTON THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN BRITAIN. RAISED BY ITS OWN BOOT
STRAPS FROM THE PERCEIVED CAPITAL OF RACISM IN THE DAYS OF ENOCH POWELL
(1964-1976) TO THE INTELLECTUAL, EDUCATIONS, SPORTING AND BUSINESS CAPITAL
OF BRITAIN 2009.
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OBAMA, COMMUNISM AND WHY THERE WAS NO BLOG LAST NIGHT
There was no BLOG last night for a number of reason. First the stunning
world wide significance of Barack Obama’s victory. This makes
possible the ending of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere and
although Obama doesn’t take power until January the Democrat’s absolute
majority makes it possible, if they are willing, to stop the wars
immediately. In fact I believe there have been no deaths since and I would
pray, if anything could make me pray, that these wars are over, even though
he took a war monger as his vice-president.
Obama’s victory is so all embracing and has the support a majority of
the people of the world, that this is a turning point in world history that
I welcome an opportunity to rejoice and reflect. The greatest terrorist in
the world has been toppled and I have said that if the three most important
terrorists, Bush, Blair and Gordon Brown were put under lock and key terrorism
would virtually disappear. Since Bush has now been rendered impotent, and
indeed on the day that he leaves the White House is liable to be arrested
and charged with Crimes against humanity before the Court of Human rights,
Blair and Brown are only tiny minnows compared with Bush, but they still need
to be arrested NOW, since they are Nuclear Maniacs who are prepared to
contemplate the extermination of the globe if Somalie Pirates hijack a ship
load of nuclear weapons and sell it to the highest bidder So for me on this
marvellous day there was both reason to send a jubilant BLOG setting out the
achievement of most of the things my BLOG has helped to achieve, but also
reasons why I should relax, take the self-imposed pressure off myself and
look forward to perhaps doing not a daily BLOG but a weekly one.

A SAD DAY.
Today has also been a sad day for me. It began with news that Frank
Spittle who was to have taken me to Wolves and discuss the arrangements for
me to have my 90th birthday party in the Sir Jack Hayward banqueting suite,
had had a heart attack and was seriously ill. Frank is one of my best
friends and was the first mascot the Wolves ever had when he was about five
years old. He is also from one of the best known sporting family in
Wolverhampton and has been part of the campaign to publicise Wolverhampton’s
sporting heroes, from Percy Stallard who revolutionised road cycle racing in
Britain and the world, Greg Silvester the Downes Syndrome athlete who is the
only Wolverhampton athlete who has ever carried the Olympic torch part of
the way to Australia. Frank was the rifle shooting champion and three
generations of his family have worn an England badge in three different
sports. Only a few weeks ago we managed to get his criticism of the
councillors and civilians who took over from the athletes and reduced
Aldersley Stadium from an Olympic standard in both rifle shooting and track
events to one where athletes can only practice on to my BLOG. Frank is a
modest man who perhaps himself ought to be in the unique Wolverhampton Hall
of Fame and we are sure all his many friends will want to wish him well.
So that was the first sad bit of news . The second was the news from
his daughter that Ken Evans had died. Ken was a staunch Wolverhampton
Communist who was wounded in the campaign in Italy in the Second World War.
He bore the effects of it for the rest of his life. Details of his funeral
will be posted on this BLOG. We will want to pay proper tribute to Ken with
an outline of his life.
But worse was to come as I phoned round to comrades almost forgotten to
tell them about Ken. In Telford I found Anne Cowan wife of John, always
known as Jock. John had been a member of the factory branch at Boulton Paul, known as Pender,
which had a good record of increasing war production during the Second World
War, but in Jock’s day was involved in a witch hunt by the People newspaper
which tried to smear the branch at the height of the Cold War of being
foreign agents working on behalf of the Russians. Jock, it seems, who has
for many years been suffering from Parkinson’s disease had been in hospital
in Telford and then been admitted to a home not of his or Anne’s choice and
in this rural area where social services are not of the best he was dumped
into the only home available and they are both engaged in a struggle to get
Jock into a decent home. Anne enquired about Jack Price another member of
the Pender branch and I was able to tell her that Jack the upright Guardsman
who bought himself out of the Guards, and who on the death of his wife
engaged himself in some rather reckless climbing adventures and that Jack
was still a Communist who was active in the Community and rejected the sort
of non-Communists with whom I am always happy to associate with in building
united front against warmongers and racists.

ARSENAL AND WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS.
Then my day once again changed completely and dramatically. I hurriedly
dressed and went to my friend Larry’s house a few houses from me and knocked
on his door hoping that since he had Sky he would be watching the Manchester
United v Arsenal game, he being an avid Man.U. supporter. Yes, he was at
home and, yes I would be welcome to watch the match with him. I was quite
prepared to see Arsenal lose and hoped it would not be by a large margin,
allowing for the troubles that Arsenal have had recently. So I was quite
astonished to learn that Arsenal were a goal up. Eventually after a great
deal of nailbiting Arsenal won 2-1 and Wolverhampton headed the Championship
by 2-0. The key factor is that both these clubs are determined that they
should remain in British hands instead of being owned by nabobs, potentates,
oligarchs or criminal Thai embezzlers at time when capitalism is in crisis
and football clubs can go bankrupt and disappear as easily as can banks.
So the day ends on a high, with the knowledge that my two sons will go
with me next week to sort out the details of the 90th birthday party on January
29 next year and that a new raft of people have been informed and will be
welcomed. This BLOG will go tonight, but whether there will be another until
the end of next week will depend how I feel and my only duty lies with
ousting Brown and his New Labour fellow warmongers and replacing Brown with
an anti-war female and black whose name can only be:

DIANE
ABBOTT

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WOLVERHAMPTON THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN BRITAIN. RAISED BY ITS OWN BOOT
STRAPS FROM THE PERCEIVED RACIST CAPITAL OF BRITAIN IN THE DAYS OF ENOCH
POWELL (1966-1974) TO THE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, SPORTING AND BUSINESS
CENTRE OF BRITAIN 2009.
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THE JOY OF OBAMA.
The near impossible has happened and no one can express his relief and
joy as the man who did as much as anyone to make it come true. I pass you
over, therefore to my good friend Michael Moore:
Who among us is not lost for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy.
Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep
despair.
In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of
slaves, it was an unexpected moment shocking in its simplicity; Barack
Obama, a good man, a black man said he would bring change to Washington and
the majority of the nation liked that idea. The racists were present
throughout the campaign and in the voting booths but they are no longer the
majority and we will see their flame of hate fizzle out in our lifetime.
There was another important ‘first’ last night…. Never in our history
has an avowed anti-war candidate been elected in a time of war. I hope
President elect Obama remembers that as he considers expanding the war in
Afghanistan. The faith we now have will be lost if he forgets that the main
thing he did was to beat fellow Dems in the primaries and then a great war
hero in the general election: The people of America are sick of war. Sick
and tired. And their voice was loud and clear yesterday.
It has been an inexcusable 44 years since a Democrat running for
president has received even just 51% of the vote. That’s because Americans
have not really liked the Democrats. They see them as not having the guts to
stand up for the working class which they say they support. Well here’s
their chance. Its been handed to them in the form of a man who is not a
party hack. Will he now become one of then or will he force them to be more
like him. We pray it is the latter.
All week long I have been inundated with questions about what I shall
do now that Bush has gone. Are they kidding? What will it be like to work
in an environment which encourages , nurtures and supports film and the
arts? What will it be like to have the freedom to be whoever you want to
be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom. We’ve entered a new era and our
collective first thought is that Anything is Possible. Every citizen can be
guaranteed health care. We can stop melting Ice Caps. Those who committed
war crimes will be brought to justice. Anything is possible.
But this is the week to revel in it. We have little time, however. Be
humble. Do not treat the Republicans as they have treated us in the past
eight years. Show them the grace and goodness that Barack Obama exuded
throughout the campaign. Though called every name in the book he refused to
lower himself to the gutter and sling the mud back.
Thanks to everyone who made this victory possible. Huge damage has been
done to the USA. Millions have been affected by lost jobs, died from lack
of health care or sent to fight in foreign lands. It won’t be easy. But what
a way to start. But wow. seriously wow. Welcome Barack Hussein Obama, the
44th President of the United States.
I would like to add my personal thanks to the people of the US.
They’ve removed the most gigantic war criminal of his age. Compared with
Bush, Gordon Brown and his cabinet are minions. They have no future. The
world belongs to the Multiculturists. I also share Michael Moore’s concern
with the arts. I might be able to stop doing a daily BLOG that is a hymn of
hate to warmongers and return to my first loves of multiculturalism and
history.

KEN EVANS.
All who knew Ken will be saddened to learn of his death. Ken was a
devoted Wolverhampton Communist who was seriously wounded in the Italian
campaign of the Second World War and suffered the effects for the rest of
his life. Our sympathies go to his daughter and other members of his family.
Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly and I hope to be able to
write a life of Ken, shortly. Old soldiers do die, unfortunately, but we
shall not let Ken’s life disappear.. Ken would have thoroughly approved of
our campaign to:

OUST GORDON BROWN. DIANE ABBOTT FOR
PRIME MINISTER.

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WOLVERHAMPTON THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY IN BRITAIN. RAISED BY ITS OWN BOOT
STRAPS FROM THE PERCEIVED CAPITAL OF RACISM IN BRITAIN IN THE DAYS OF ENOCH
POWELL (1966-1974) TO THE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, SPORTING AND BUSINESS
CENTRE OF BRITAIN IN 2009.
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OBAMA THE HOPE OF THE WORLD.
Today is the day when the killings can be ended, the bombings stopped
and peace be restored to the world. Of course, it is still possible that
Obama could be assassinated and the Vice President, a supporter of the wars
would take his place. But even if this happened we would be far removed from
the situation I wrote about in my BLOG No.586 when I argued that it was
absolutely necessary that George W.Bush, the most important war criminal in
the world and Gordon Brown the second most important criminal should be
arrested at once, because not only were they war criminals but were also
Nuclear Maniacs who were quite prepared to see the world blown up by Somalie
pirates getting hold of a cargo of nuclear weapons and flogging them to the
highest bidder. Today George W.Bush is in the shredder, he can do no more
mischief. But Gordon Brown still struts himself on the stage and is prepared
to see us all blown up so that Britain is now the main danger to world
peace. I have been goading George Galloway and Ken Purchase to see Brown
off, either by the normal democratic process of voting him out in Parliament
and replacing him with an anti-war prime minister. The problem with this is
that the whole Brown cabinet are all pro-war and other MPs associated with
the Labour Party such as the Socialist Campaign Group and Labour Briefing
are subject to the same charges that have been levelled at Obama, either
that they have no experience or that they are too light weight. But this has
been ignored by the US electorate and ought to be ignored in Britain,
particularly as we have a ready made candidate in Dianne Abbot who goes one
better than even Obama since she is both black and female. There is reason
to suspect that Diane has been targeted by racists since she tells me that
she is not able to stand, but she is an extraordinarily well qualified
candidate to stand being an active member of the Socialist Campaign Group as
well as a regular contributor to the Voice, the most influential weekly
paper of the African-Caribbean community and its Diaspora.
But returning to Obama even if anyone were racist enough to
assassinate him the situation would be entirely different from those of the
Kennedy’s. First Obama would immediately become a martyr idolised not only
by blacks but all white liberals. Thus whether alive or dead Obama has
transformed the world, and so it is to be hoped that this is the last day of
the wars in Iraq, Afghanist and elsewhere. And is it too much to hope that
Dianne Abbott joins the two black males, Obama and Lewis Hamilton who have
transformed the world this week.

MY 90TH BIRTHDAY PARTY.
Assuming that the world still exists next January negotiations are
afoot to celebrate my 90th birthday at the Sir Jack Hayward suite at
Molineux Stadium in January.The idea came to me after my friends, Frank and
Brenda Spittle celebrated their diamond wedding there last Friday.
There will be differences between the two events. My birthday party
only takes place every five years and only a general invitation is issued.
The family is involved in the preparations and when I was 85 the party was
at my home and we had no idea how many people would turn up. This was no
problem with food as a take-away meal was obtained from restaurants at the
end of the road, and it was found that only me and Ken Evans wanted an
English meal while everyone else wanted Indian or Chinese.
So it looks that we shall negotiate a buffet where we have an idea of
many who will come, but need to allow for many who we do not know will
attend. And among many other contacts we know of jazz fans who will attend
from Bilston, Wolverhampton, Birmingham and perhaps London as well as long
lost Friends of Bilston Community College as well as all those who opposed
the closure of the W’ton Race Equality Council. So there is little chance
that it will be a flop.
Ignoring lots of other things we once again end with our plea:

OUST GORDON BROWN - DIANE
ABBOTT FOR PRIME MINISTER

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> WOLVERHAMPTON THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY ON BRITAIN. RAISED BY ITS OWN BOOT
> STRAPS FROM THE PERCEIVED RACIST CAPITAL OF BRITAIN IN THE DAYS OF ENOCH
> POWELL (1966-1974) TO THE CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, SPORTING AND BUSINESS
> CENTRE OF BRITAIN 2009.
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>
> THE DAY THE WORLD WAS CHANGED AGAIN ?
> I thought the day that changed the world was the day the American
> people voted for a US Democratic Congress, but since then there have
> enough Republicans and Democrats who acted as if they were Republicans
> (to use the words of Michael Moore) to make the possibility of a
> Republican victory which would turn the Racist clock in the US back to the
> days when blacks were tortured and lynched.
>
> TURNING THE CLOCK BACK IN WOLVERHAMPTON.
> The same thing applies to Wolverhampton. A victory on May 1st
> dethroning Labour and instead giving a ruling coalition of Tories and five
> Lib-Dems gave Wolverhampton a unique opportunity of having an anti-Iraq
> war coalition of Tories who oppose the war in Iraq, the five Lib-Dems who
> never supported that war and Labour councillors who oppose the war.
> However the council is not controlled by the Councillors, but by Cabinet
> members another foolish New Labour invention that deprives non-cabinet
> councillors and the body of voters the possibility of control of the city.
> However, like the US election today all is not lost and much hinges on
> what happens today.
>
> CHANGING THE WORLD TODAY.
> Today depends whether voters in US win a physical battle to be able
> to stay in line for many hours and to overcome physical intimidation of
> election officials determined to make it as difficult as possible for
> voters to exercise their democratic right. We in Britain suffer other
> disabilities such as the removal of our hard earned political rights by
> stealth by the European Union and we will see what is happening in this
> very day.
> Rafael Benitez who manages Liverpool FC which is owned by two warring
> Americans. Tom Hicks and George Gillett is afraid that the failure of
> these two gentlemen to resolve their contractual issues will de -stable
> the team’s efforts to win the Premiership title. Chelsea, present leaders
> of the Premiership and owned by the Russian oligarch, Abramovitch, whose
> vast fortune is now rapidly declining have a different sort of problem.
> Chelsea’s chairman, Bruce Buck, declared less than a month ago that scouts
> are an integral part of the game. Chelsea, it seems, have lost 15 of their
> 35 scouting staff, but insisted that the move was planned and had nothing
> to do with the credit crunch that has decimated the wealth of Abramovitch.
> Frank Armeson however,Chelsea’s director of football development points
> out that when he arrived at the club only six of the 50 players on
> Chelsea’s books were internationals. Today 40 out of 50 players are
> internationals. The recruitment of a scouting network at the club is the
> most important thing at a club Arneson has said. Abramovitch has said
> that he is personally unaffected by the financial crisis, but Armeson has
> said that Chelsea must, sooner of later be affected by the credit crunch.
> Chelsea are also affected by the ever more labarynthinian financial
> methods to limit the personal finances of either victory or defeat . Hence
> Chelsea may be more successful this year than last and so might need the
> services of Risk-Management Companies to hedge their exposure to
> multi-million bonuses payable to players in return for success in
> competitions. But this has been a main reason for the general crisis of
> capitalism which has devastated capitalism itself. It started with hedging
> against risks, but it is clear that risks cannot be insured against
> ultimately, and just as banks can be bankrupted and disappear, so can
> football teams. And the bigger they come, the faster they fall. So watch
> out Chelas, who lost again tonight, Liverpool who only drew, Aston Villa
> who lost, Manchester United who lost this week-end and worst of all
> Manchester City who are owned by a Thai billionaire who has been found
> guilty of corruption and whose government is requesting his deportation to
> Britain. All the more reason to advocate the woman and black at that who
> suffers the discrimination of racists for
>
> DIANE ABBOTT FOR PRIME MINISTER.