New Labour: Same Old Same Old

Have the Labour Party learnt nothing?

Has Gordon Brown learnt nothing of Blair's scandals?

Oh today we had a nice speech, carefully crafted, to show how Brown is "new."

And pig's have wings in abundance. This is yet more spin - as Brown spins that this means the end of spin!

How else can he say he understands the concerns of communities facing change (nice words for people swamped by immigrants) whilst saying in almost the next breath how proud he is of the liberalisation of society, and of his commitment against "racism."

This really was the "all things to all men" speech worthy of Tony Blair himself!

Why is it whenever politicians say they're "listening" you know they won't do anything for us - but only for big business, immigrants, homosexuals and all the other special interest groups that tick the right boxes?

Mr. Blair is leaving office. Behind him he leaves the investigations centred around his fund-raiser "Lord" Levy.

As Mr Brown takes office there is fresh unease over the man he has chosen as his fundraiser, "Sir" Ronald Cohen (pictured here).

The more things (so we're told) change, the more they stay the same.

Today's Sunday Telegraph says the Charity Commission are investigating Cohen's Charity (the Portland Trust) set up "to promote peace and stability between Palestinians and Israelis."

Cohen made his millions in Apax, a private equity firm - aka the rampant buy and sell-off arm of Capitalism which makes obscene profits via asset-stripping companies and throwing workingmen on the dole.

Only this week the cream of the asset-stripping Capitalists were harangued by MPs and asked why, in the boastful words of one of them, they "pay less tax than their cleaners."

Interestingly the other Trustees of the Portland Trust are businessman "Sir" Harry Solomon, the "historian" (and kosher holocaust promoter) "Sir" Martin Gilbert and David Freud an ex-banker.

Spot the Palestinian eh?

Yet more sleaze and yet more Kosher dodgy dealings at the heart of this government. Seems New New Labour is set to be a carbon copy of New Labour.

We shouldn't be surprised, but we should be outraged.

Links

Watchdog to look into Cohen's Charity

Ronald Cohen at Yad Vashem bash

Brown and Cohen at Jewish Schools bash

Cohen at Yad Vashem in Israel

Capitalist Asset-Stripper and Tax Avoider at HM Treasury

Puff-piece on Cohen sponsored by Coutts Bank