WAR YOU DON'T SEE

John Pilger is I believe, one of the few remaining ethical mainstream journalists, who reports accurately and truthfully. The elite currently own the Mainstream Stream Media, the Government and the Banking system. The proletarian 99%  of "1984"continue to require but bread and circus. It seems like, it is probably all they will ever want while watching TV. The ruling elite or establishment worldwide know this, they have always known this.

Perhaps if we ourselves alone, remained with our inherited greed, in a shortsighted unintelligent way and we owned the mainstream media, things would remain same. For John Pilger and those of us who recognize an alternative intelligent form of greed and are aware of the Spirituality of Abundace, rather than our current religions of Austerity, things would be quite different, in reclaiming our natural freedoms and birthright.  

However the fact is we do not!. If our voices are ever heard on the mainstream media, they will be edited in such a way, as to be used against us. Should any individual among us become a real threat, we will be eliminated, liquidated, call it what you may. It is happening in British Occupied Ireland with journalists, human rights lawyers and political activists. This is the truth in the world we live in. I wish I was wrong but I can wish on one hand and shit in the other but guess which will be full ? 

John Pilger is a truth teller, we can all be truth tellers with some sort of audience, just for a little while more. We have choices but the sum total of historical experience demonstrates, we really have but one choice. Violence, eventually always produces a reactionary unending violence, as 800 years of British Occupation in Ireland and the reactionary struggle for liberation has clearly demonstrated, with heart breaking consequence.

The only alternative tool that I believe can free us is the truth or as the infuriating good book says, "The truth will set you free." Gandhi got a lot of inspiration from the Irish struggle but his doctrine of non-violence prevailed, as it appears Aung San Suu Kyi is in Myanmar. I personally listen and talk regularly to the Big Spirit, no not the Christian religion of my childhood, but I have recalling recently, that the only time the son of the Carpenter, really lost his cool and became violent, was with the money changers in the temple!

Right now my principal political concern is Marian Price and the reintroduction of internment without trial in Ireland, where traditional Irish republicans, like Martin Corey are being politically interned without trial. This truly is significant in Ireland's current political climate of creeping fascism under British occupation and in general. Marian Price an Irish resistance icon, is the demonized Tory version of the enemy of their scum state, political laboratory, probing for a reactionary violence, instead of its less reliable false flag operations, to manage the crisis of capitalism and inevitable Ponzi collapse.

Those passives of fear and indifference, who enabled the rise of Hitler, are again facilitating the creeping corporate fascism in Ireland and beyond, standing shoulder to shoulder, alongside the reactionary violence of the jackboot fascists in all their forms. We either become agents of truth and organize or we lead our children, into creating a global Nazi police state regime of eugenics. The Spirituality of Abundance basically states there is more than enough in this world for everyone's desires, managed intelligently, while the old religions of Austerity, lead to fascist eugenics, which believe that the world is currently over populated. 

There are currently very powerful people of the elite, who have plans to eliminate several billion. One does not have to be particularly bright, to see the choices each of us have, and the immediate actions of responsibility that we each need to take, before we loose the internet as a tool of the truth. Whether it be a false flag operation in Boston or wherever, we are running out of time in Ireland, for the truth tellers and truth seekers such as John Pilger with the truths that will set us free!

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WAKE to F**K up IRISH PEOPLE !

Ireland fares worst in Western Europe for surgical outcomes

 national | miscellaneous | other press  Wednesday October 03, 2012 17:15 by volunteer 13 

Irish patients have the highest risk of dying in Western Europe

October 3, 2012 By Dara Gantly

The first large-scale study to explore surgical outcomes across Europe has found that Irish patients have the highest risk of dying in Western Europe and the fourth-worst mortality rate among 28 European countries. Ireland is placed behind Poland, Latvia and Romania in the overall mortality table, published in a recent issue of the Lancet (2012;380:1059-65), but is worse off than Slovakia or Croatia.

However, within Western Europe, patients in Ireland had the worst mortality rates when compared with the UK, with an adjusted odds ratio of 2.61, followed by Italy (OR: 1.70), Belgium (1.65), Portugal (1.43), and France (1.36).

Overall, national estimates of death following general surgery have been too optimistic, the study noted. New estimates generated using a snap-shot of death after surgery in more than 46,000 patients from 500 hospitals in 28 European countries indicate that overall crude mortality is 4 per cent, which is more than double previous estimates.

In the UK, the mortality rate was 3.6 per cent, well above the highest previous estimates of between 1 and 2 per cent. Ireland recorded a rate 6.4 per cent.

Of the 856 Irish patients studied, 66 were admitted to critical care (7.7 per cent) and 55 died in hospital.

Lead author Dr Rupert Pearse from Queen Mary, University of London, stated that nearly three-quarters of patients who died were never admitted to intensive care: “Failure to allocate critical care resources to patients at greatest risk of death is a serious public health concern for patients undergoing surgery in Europe.”

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Study seems to prove that allocating resources to bankers & bondholders is causing higher death rate in Health System

 by T Thu Oct 04, 2012 21:00

There is a report carried on Channel 4 news website about this study. The most interesting quotes are:


....The researchers investigated more than 46,000 general surgery patients, who had all been monitored for up to sixty days after their operation.

In the UK, the post-op death rate was 3.6 percent, more than double the figure from an earlier study, which collected data over a much shorter time period.

The research also found a wide variation in death rates between countries,: patients in Poland, Latvia and Romania had the greatest chance of dying after surgery, while in Iceland the mortality rate was just 1.2 percent.

The study leader, Dr Rupert Pearse, blamed a lack of resources. "Nearly three quarters of patients who died were never admitted to intensive care", he said. "Failure to allocate critical care resources to patients at greatest risk of death is a serious public health concern for patients undergoing surgery in Europe."

The UK, which had the biggest number of cases involved in the study, was used as a reference point to compare the performances of other countries. Several other Western European nations had a worse record, including Ireland, Italy, Belgium, Portugal and France.

But the European Surgical Outcomes Study also found that heart patients, who are routinely admitted to critical care after a surgical procedure, have a much lower mortality rate of 2 percent.

So it seems in all countries a lack of resource after surgery is a big factor in the case of death since those that received critical care (-I guess that would be intensive care to most people), had a lower death rate.

And given that Ireland is in the poorer outcome end of the spectrum then that has to be because we are allocating those critical resources to bankers, speculators and bondholders rather than the patients that need it. And as we know more big cut backs are on the way to help pay off those poor bondholders

The study was carried in April 2011

Related Link: http://www.channel4.com/news/concern-over-death-rates-a...rgery

Graphic of Ireland's position in league table of death ratio after surgery

 by T Thu Oct 04, 2012 21:18

The graphic shows how far down the league table Ireland lies. It is from the Lancet study referred to in the above article
In the figures produced by the study for the percentage of people who died in hospital of those considered in the study was 6.4% for Ireland. The UK was 3.6% or almost half.

Adjusted odds ratio for death in hospital after surgery for each country

Irish Government Robbing, Sick, Children, Old Age Pensioners and Disbabled for Bankers

 by BrianClarkeNUJ - AllVoices Fri Oct 05, 2012 08:45

So essentially what all of this means, if recent announcements about cuts in Irish Government's Children allowance, Old Age pensions and disability benefits are correct, is that combined with these reports on hospital surgical care, the bankers take all of the most vulnerable money.

All of this with a supposed Labour in Government overseeing this daylight robbery. WAKE to F**K up IRISH PEOPLE ! Spain's leader says today, that they don't want a bailout, while their unemployment is nearly 25 percent ! The European system is untenable and the bankers will start another fascist war like last time, to get rid of several million unemployed, while making huge profits with their industrial war complex.

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LEAD FOLLOW OR GET OUT OF THE WAY

The British are using internment without trial again in British Occupied Ireland, under their new Stormont regime, while following the orders of British Viceroyal Villiers, who in reality is the head of their sectarian statelet. The British calculate that Provisional Sinn Fein are so cosy in British offices, with the Queen's shilling, within the Stormont regime, that they will not oppose the crown like the SDLP did, when they walked out of Stormont, last time internment was introduced. The British with a compliant meek Provisional Sinn Fein, whom they have apparently too much dirt on, will sit still in luxury on the Internment issue, so that they can then use these new procedures,  to systematically intern large numbers of Irish minded commoners of Her Majesty Viceroyal Villiers scum statelet.

If republicans were united together, internment would be defeated in the morning. Remember the H-Blocks where genuine Irish republicans, branded all nationalist politicians inside the British regime, as accomplices and part of the British regime’s repression? Do they not remember the slogans on the Hunger strike marches when Gerry Fitt is a Brit. Will they have to follow coffins (presuming they go to the funerals to get re-elected} of women and men now interned without trial again and call out another Gerry Brit? Can we get the grassroots out for support and force the now middle-class Provisional Sinn Fein, to remember their working class roots, to remember the principle and courage of their former comrades, breaking Internment without trial last time? It was the blood spilled on Irish streets and the lives given by previous internees that put them where they are today, which clearly many of them have forgotten.

The lessons of Internment injustice, the breeding ground of political violence, are the 40 odd most recent years in Ireland.How far do we have to take this, to awaken them from their luxury induced coma and personal power trips.They are meant to be guardians of the people power vested in them, not usurpers for personal use, gain and wealth.The British are banking on some more Irish bloodletting to justify their programmes of further guineapig internment, bloated so called security budgets, while they use Occupied Ireland as a stage once again to showcase their latest state of the art crowd control experiments on TV, while they market the bloody toys of Britain's industrial-war-complex, to their compliant neo-colonial, commonwealth collaborators.

We must unite behind ethical principled socialist republican leadership or will we be condemned to see many more Irish republicans interned without trial, along with their working class comrades on the other side of the Irish Sea. Provisional Sinn Fein has little time left to decide whether they lead, follow or get out of the way, they have sat on the fence far too long and allowed a certain Ford, a portfolio to abdicate their responsibilities. Anyone of them who saw the inside of a British prison, cannot yet have forgotten their spiritual call to a Peace with JUSTICE ! INTERNMENT is INJUSTICE ! Which side are you on ?

$10 Trillion War Reparations Due by Britain for Irish Holocaust

Ethnic cleansing in Ireland in one form or another is the basis of British rule in Occupied Ireland dating back to 1169. The racist British laws of 1367 were called the “Statute of Kilkenny” prohibiting marriage between the British and Irish under pain of death. The British regarded the Irish as subhuman, indeed some still do and while forced emigration today is their form of ethnically cleansing neo-colonial Ireland, in the 1840's there was systematic calculated British organized Holocaust that created a "disappearance" of 6,257,456 Irish persons which British mentored revisionist historians, airbrushed from history down to a million to a million and a half in one of the greatest examples of history being written by the victors, to hide British genocide and their holocaust in Ireland

Since British war crimes against the Irish are so numerous and their crimes against humanity so frequent, it would require a library to record all of it properly. This article is but a brief summary. When the Briish Oliver Cromwell came to Ireland, he celebrated his carnage of ethnic cleansing from the start, with statements like, “It has pleased God to bless our endeavors,” as he finished the mass slaughter in 1649 of 3,552 Irish inhabitants, after his arrival at the seaport town of Drogheda, arrogantly further declaring, “I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches.” The Drogheda massacre was just the start of a British policy of ethnic cleansing in Ireland. Cromwellian settlements followed with millions of acres of land, as in 26 percent of Down, 34 percent of Armagh, 38 percent of Monaghan being just an example of lands, re-allocated to English settlers. The owners of Irish birth were murdered or forced to Connacht in the west of Ireland, with the battle cry of, "to hell or to Connacht." where “they would starve to death.” Cromwell's biographer  wrote, “by far the most wholesale effort to impose on Ireland the Protestant faith and English ascendancy.”

In just three years, one-third of the population of Ireland was destroyed with thousands of Irish boys and girls, sold into slavery in the West Indies. Irish peasants were forced to pay rent, with home grown industries destroyed, because they “competed with British factories.” The first holocausts under Elizabeth I and Cromwell are forever in the psyche of the Irish race, with Cromwell’s British thinking being, that Irish Catholics are “barbarous wretches” unfortunately, passing onto the British mindset. The British Parliament legitimized the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing when it stated “The House doth approve the execution done at Drogheda, as an act both of justice to them and mercy to others who may be warned by it.”


When the forces of William of Orange won the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, it was followed by more confiscations of Irish land and the notorious “Penal Laws” of the late 1690s, with the stated intent, “The law does not presume any such person to exist as an Irish Roman Catholic.” Over time there were more failed, rebellions in Ireland. In 1845 the potato crop was blighted and a famine started which became the Irish genocide or holocaust in the manner of British management. Thomas Gallagher described this unspeakable British crime in  Paddy’s Lament in the following manner. “A famine unprecedented in the history of the world, a chapter in human misery to harrow the human heart, was about to start, and even little children could see its quick, sure approach in the nakedly fearful eyes and faces of their parents.”

While, “Food, from 30 to 50 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint from Ireland by 12,000 British constables, reinforced by 200,000 British soldiers, warships, excise vessels, and coast guards... Britain seized from Ireland’s producers tens of millions of head of livestock, tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry and dairy products-enough to sustain 18-million persons.” While 6,257,456 Irish persons starved to death and some others emigrated, the British occupied and aggravated the situation in Ireland for profit, to prevent famine from potato blight in England and most of all to systematically proceed to ethnically cleanse Ireland of native Gaelic Irish people.

A British journalist of the time, Thomas Carlyle, boasted,  "Ireland is like a half-starved rat that crosses the path of an elephant. What must the elephant do? Squelch it - by heavens - squelch it." "Total Annihilation;" screamed the Times leader of September 2, 1846 and its editor boasted in 1848  "A Celt will soon be as rare on the banks of the Shannon as the red man on the banks of Manhattan." On 23 March 1849 Villiers was awarded the order of the Garter by the queen of England for ethnically cleansing Ireland so effectively, departing from the usual practice, desired him not to surrender the insignia of the Bath, as he had so fully merited both distinctions.

Author Chris Fogarty placed the numbers “murdered at approximately just 5.16 million people, making it the Irish holocaust.” Distinguished legal scholars, like Professors Charles Rice of Notre Dame University and Francis Boyle, University of Illinois, believe that under International Law, the British pursued a barbarous policy of mass starvation in Ireland from 1845-50, and that such conduct constituted “genocide.”  Generally speaking among objective historians, the net population-loss figure of 6,257,456 is not susceptible to any significant challenge, because it derived directly from the British government's own censuses for Ireland at that time which was considerably understated to equate the numbers who otherwise emigrated.

Based on reparations agreed after World War II, according to the Potsdam conference and subsequent reparations made by Germany for the smaller Nazi Holocaust, relative to Britain's Holocaust in Ireland and a US$350 billion calculation in Iraq, a figure of 6 trillion pounds sterling ($10 trillion), is a conservative figure for British reparations with regard to their Holocaust in Ireland. Irish citizens are still waiting for their Neo-colonial governments to take up the cause of the Irish people a the UN fro Holocaust reparations.

AFTER THE PENIS BRITISH OCCUPIED IRELAND

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Theresa Villiers

A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe

 Theresa Anne Villiers was born on 5 March 1968. She is the daughter of George Edward Villiers and Anne Virginia Threlfall.2 She married Sean Wilken on 19 June 1999.She held the office of Member of the European Parliament for Greater London.1 From 19 June 1999, her married name became Wilken. She lived in 2003 at 32 Abdale Road, London, England.

Anne Virginia Threlfall is the daughter of Cuthbert Raymond Forster Threlfall. She married George Edward Villiers, son of Algernon Edward Villiers and Annie Augusta Merewether Massy, on 25 August 1962.
      From 25 August 1962, her married name became Villiers.
Children of Anne Virginia Threlfall and George Edward Villiers
Edward Richard Villiers+2 b. 6 Jul 1963
Henry Raymond Villiers2 b. 1 Nov 1965
Theresa Anne Villiers2 b. 5 Mar 1968

George Edward Villiers  25 August 1931
 George Edward Villiers was born on 25 August 1931. He is the son of Algernon Edward Villiers and Annie Augusta Merewether Massy.2 He married Anne Virginia Threlfall, daughter of Cuthbert Raymond Forster Threlfall, on 25 August 1962.

Theresa Anne Villiers (born 5 March 1968) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chipping Barnet and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.She was appointed as a Privy Counsellor on 9 June 2010.
Villiers was born in London in 1968, the daughter of George Edward Villiers and Anne Virginia (née Threlfall). On her father's side she is a descendant of the Honourable Edward Ernest Villiers (1806–1843), brother of George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon,Thomas Hyde Villiers, Charles Pelham Villiers and Henry Villiers.[4] She is also a distant relative of the actor James Villiers.
Growing up in North London, she was educated at the independent Francis Holland School. Villiers gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree with first class honours in 1990 from the University of Bristol, and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1991. After graduating she worked as a barrister and as a lecturer at King's College London (1994–99).
[edit]Member of the European Parliament

She was elected Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the London constituency in 1999, and was re-elected in 2004. She stood down after the 2005 general election when she was elected as the Member of Parliament for Chipping Barnet.[5]
As an MEP, her main interests were finance and financial services, the preservation of London's green belt, Cyprus, animal welfare and campaigning against the Euro and the European Constitution. She served as Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament between 2001 and 2002. She also served as a member of the governing board of the Conservative Party during this period.

“ Now is a crucial time for the talks and it is important that everyone who is a friend of Cyprus makes their support clear in the push for a just, lasting and balanced settlement in Cyprus which will see the whole island united again with a single sovereignty, a single international personality and a single citizenship. ”
—Theresa Villiers at Conservative Party Conference on Cyprus.
[edit]Member of Parliament

In 2003, following Sir Sydney Chapman's announcement that he would retire at the following election, Villiers was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Chipping Barnet. Although Chapman's majority at the 2001 general election was only 2,701 Chipping Barnet was considered a "safe" Conservative seat, and in the 2005 general election she held the seat with an increased majority of 5,960. She resigned her seat as an MEP, which under the list system was filled by the next candidate on the Conservatives' London regional list, Syed Kamall. She lives in the constituency, in Arkley.
[edit]Shadow Cabinet
In December 2005, following the election of David Cameron as Conservative leader, Villiers was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet after just seven months in Parliament, as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury. In July 2007, Cameron promoted her to Shadow Secretary of State for Transport.[citation needed]
[edit]MPs' Expenses: Second London home
The Daily Telegraph reported on 11 May 2009 that Theresa Villiers bought a £345,000 property in Kennington. In 2007-08 she claimed a total of £18,181 in parliamentary allowances for this second London home.
She also has a house in Arkley in her north London constituency of Chipping Barnet. The house, a semi-detached property that she bought for £296,500 in May 2004, is an 8 minute drive away from High Barnet tube station, from which commuters can reach Westminster in about 45 minutes.[6]
[edit]Political positions

Villiers supported the temporary suspension of Ken Livingstone by the Adjudication Panel for England, who examined the case after a complaint from the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Standards Board for England.
Since late September 2008, Villiers has dedicated a considerable proportion of her public announcements to aviation policy, specifically the expansion of airports in the South East of England. There has been considerable debate within Conservative Party grassroots membership about her policies. Many commentators have defended her policies as environmentalist and politically expedient (given the high number of marginal constituencies around London Heathrow Airport), while others have criticised her for putting businesses and even family holidays at risk by undermining Heathrow as a major international hub airport and intentionally supporting higher costs for flights. Criticism of Villiers's aviation policy was heightened when she spoke out against the Mayor of London's proposals for a new London airport based in the Thames Estuary, and alternative expansions at Gatwick and Stansted airports, favouring a high speed rail link from London to Leeds as an alternative policy.


"The European Union has been one of the greatest offenders in excluding developing countries from participating in European markets. There is simply no way that impoverished African farmers can compete with the subsidies given to farmers under the Common Agricultural Policy"
"The (European) Constitution is designed to create a country called Europe and give ever more power to Brussels at the expense of nationally elected governments. I think that's bad for democracy, bad for Britain and bad for Europe"


Voting Record — Theresa Villiers MP, Chipping Barnet (11500)
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6 May 2010 still in office Con 3 votes out of 498, 0.6% 498 votes out of 599, 83.1% 0 times
5 May 2005 12 Apr 2010 Con 23 votes out of 881, 2.6% 881 votes out of 1288, 68.4% 0 times
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House Date Subject Theresa Villiers Con Vote Rôle
Commons 11 Jul 2012 United Kingdom Borders — Sittings of the House (Thursdays) (9.30 am to 5.00 pm) Majority no Rebel
Commons 11 Jul 2012 United Kingdom Borders — Sittings of the House (Tuesdays) (11.30 am to 7.00 pm) Majority no Rebel
Commons 9 Sep 2011 Prayers — Clause 1 — Duties of the Secretary of State Majority aye Rebel
11 May 2010 Stopped being Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Transport
House Date Subject Theresa Villiers Con Vote Rôle
Commons 29 Oct 2008 Opposition Day — [11th Allotted Day — Second Part] — Canterbury City Council Bill (By Order) minority aye Rebel
Commons 22 Oct 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill Third Reading Majority no Rebel
Commons 22 Oct 2008 Deferred Divisions — Clause 68 — Commencement Majority aye Rebel
Commons 22 Oct 2008 Deferred Divisions — Clause 4 — Prohibitions in connection with genetic material not of human origin Majority aye Rebel
Commons 22 Oct 2008 Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] Majority aye Rebel
Commons 22 Oct 2008 Deferred Divisions — Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill [Lords] Majority aye Rebel
Commons 20 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks — rejected Majority aye Rebel
Commons 20 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Prospects for life of handicapped child must be given before abortion — rejected Majority aye Rebel
Commons 20 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks — rejected Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Sibling compatibility only regenerative tissue — rejected Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for sibling tissue compatibility Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Testing for gender-related illness Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Animal DNA may be inserted into an embryo Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Cannot use gametes or pronuclei — rejected Majority aye Rebel
Commons 19 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Human-animal hybrid licenses Majority aye Rebel
Commons 12 May 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Second Reading Majority no Rebel
6 Jul 2007 Stopped being Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury
6 Jul 2007 Became Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Transport
Commons 19 Mar 2007 Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations Majority no Rebel
Commons 7 Mar 2007 House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 6 (80 per Cent. Elected) Majority no Rebel
Commons 7 Mar 2007 House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 5 (60 per Cent. Elected) — rejected minority no Rebel
Commons 7 Mar 2007 House of Lords Reform — Composition Option 4 (50 per Cent. Elected) — rejected minority no Rebel
Commons 14 Mar 2006 Animal Welfare Bill — New Clause "8" — Docking of dogs' tails — Working dogs minority no Rebel
18 Jan 2006 Stopped being a member of the Environmental Audit Committee
16 Dec 2005 Became Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury
14 Jul 2005 Became a member of the Environmental Audit Committee
Commons 13 Jul 2005 Committees — Administration Committee — Pay for Chairmen of Select Committees minority aye Rebel
Commons 13 Jul 2005 Committees — Administration Committee — Pay for Chairmen of Standing Committees minority aye Rebel
Policy Comparisons
This chart shows the percentage agreement between this MP and each of the policies in the database, according to their voting record.

Agreement Policy
10% Abortion, Embryology and Euthanasia- Against
99% Business and community control of schools: For
100% Cap or Reduce Civil Service Pay and Conditions
100% Civil aviation pollution - For limiting
81% Control Orders
50% Crossrail - In favour
100% Deployment of UK armed forces in Afghanistan
100% Equal Number of Electors Per Constituency
28% European Union - For
64% Fully Elected House of Lords
100% Gambling - Against permissiveness
100% Hold a UK referendum on Lisbon EU Treaty
71% Homosexuality - Equal rights
0% Identity cards - For introduction
100% Increase VAT
100% Iraq Investigation - Necessary
1% Ministers Can Intervene in Coroners' Inquests
69% No detention without charge or trial
0% No Polls Clash With MP Election System Referendum
50% Nuclear power - For
30% Parliamentary scrutiny - Reduce
0% Post office - in favour of Government policy
100% Post office closures - against
100% Privatise Royal Mail
75% Promote Occupational Pensions
0% Proportional Representation Voting System - For
100% Referendum on Alternative Vote for MP Elections
50% Remove Hereditary Peers from the House of Lords
42% Right to strike
96% Schools - Greater Autonomy
21% Smoking ban - In favour
82% Stop climate change
0% Termination of pregnancy - against
31% Terrorism laws - For
100% The UK should not ratify the Lisbon Treaty
50% Transparency of Parliament
100% Trident replacement - In favour
100% Tuition fees - Set Upper Limit at £9,000 per Year
100% University Tuition Fees - For
0% Voting age - Reduce to 16
100% War - Parliamentary authority not necessary

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George William Frederick Villiers (1800-1870), Fourth Earl of Clarendon, c. 1864. Photographed by Watkins, c. 1864. Clarendon served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1847–52) and made efforts to ease disorder and distress during the f [...]	Photograph of an Irish labourer, c. 1850s. This rather gritty photograph gives us a good idea of what a typical labourer would have looked like during the Famine period. Such portrait photograp [...]	Charles Trevelyan (1807-86), photographed c. 1865. Trevelyan was Assistant Secretary at the Treasury during the Famine. Trevelyan has been associated with the inadequate relief policies of the Whig gov [...]
Sir Charles Wood (1800-85), by William Walker c. 1870. A Liberal, Wood served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord John Russell's government (1846-1852). He was responsible for keeping relief to a minimu [...]	Photograph of Lord John Russell (1792-1878), dated c. 1864. Russell was the Whig Prime Minister during the Famine (1846-52). In August 1847 Lord Clarendon wrote rather coldly to Lord John Russell: "We shall be [...]	'Deaths by Starvation', 1847 (artist unknown). 'Servants of the Lord, Rendering an Account of thier Stewardship during the Famine of 1847.' This view of the Famine contrasts sharply with that of Pu [...]
State Drawing Room at Dublin Castle. Reception in St Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle on the occasion of Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland in August, 1849.	Thomas Spring-Rice (1790-1866), First Baron Monteagle of Brandon. Engraved from a portrait by George Richmond. Monteagle was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839, and Comptroller General from 1839 to 1865. H [...]	George William Frederick Villiers (1800-1870), Fourth Earl of Clarendon. Engraved from a portrait by George Richmond. Clarendon served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1847–52) and made efforts to ease disorder and distress d [...]
Mezzotint of Sir Robert Peel. Engraved by William Ward after a portrait by John Ward. Sir Robert Peel, Conservative Prime Minister in 1845-6. His secret purchase of Indian corn hel [...]	Daniel O'Connell. Engraved from a portrait by T. Carrick. On 17 January 1846 O’Connell raised the matter of famine in the House of Commons: I have shown you our distress. I have shown you that there are no a [...]	William Smith O'Brien (1803-1864), artist unknown. 1848 witnessed revolution all over Europe. In Ireland, William Smith O'Brien called for the establishment of a National Guard, and an armed rising wa [...]
Sir Charles Wood (1800-85), by George Richmond. A Liberal, Wood served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord John Russell's government (1846-1852). He was responsible for keeping relief to a minimu [...]	James Hack Tuke (1819-96), after an early photograph. The son of Quaker William Tuke (1732-1822), English tea and coffee merchant and philanthropist. James entered the family business and helped in the ma [...]	Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston. British Prime Minister (1855-8, 1859-65). Palmerston was the eldest child in a family of two boys and three girls born to Henry Temple and Mary Mee. As well as their large Hampshire property, [...]
Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down. Mount Stewart was the home of Charles William Vane (1778-1854), 3rd Marquess of Londonderry during the famine. Lord Londonderry, one of the ten riches [...]	Powerscourt House, Co. Wicklow. Powerscourt at Enniskerry in Wicklow was was built for Richard Wingfield, a descendant of Sir Richard Wingfield, and a member of the Protestant Ascend [...]	Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865). British Prime Minister: 6 February 1855-19 February 1858; 12 June 1859-18 October 1865. He was the eldest child in a family of two boys and three girl [...]
Major Denis Mahon of Strokestown Park, Co. Roscommon In 1847, Major Denis Mahon paid £4,000 for the emigration of one thousand tenants to Canada. Nearly a quarter of the emigrants died enroute, many of t [...]	An Emigrant ship, Dublin bay, at sunset by Edwin Hayes (1853). A few emigrant ships sailed directly from Ireland, as is illustrated here. However, the majority of emigrants had to first cross to Liverpool.	The emigrant ship Peru leaving Cork for Melbourne, Australia. The emigrant ship Peru leaving Cork for Melbourne, Australia ca. 1847.
South Street quay, New York c. 1860. The South Street quay in New York was the main point of entry for Irish immigrants in the 1840s.	Quebec harbour, Canada. Quebec was the main port of entry for Irish famine immigrants in 1847.	Irish emigrant arriving at Liverpool c. 1871.
Crowded hold of a typical emigrant ship. Many emigrant ships took up to three months to cross the Atlantic. The crowded ship's hold was a breeding ground for diseases like dysentery and typhu [...]	Emigrant ship at sea.	Supplement to the Weekly Freeman entitled 'A Terrible Record'. ERIN-In forty years I have lost, through the operation of no natural law, more than Three Millions of my Sons and Daughters, and they, the Young and t [...]
'Scalp of Brian Connor, near Kilrush Union House'. 'Scalp of Brian Connor, near Kilrush Union House'. December, 1849.	'The Minister's Dream.' A cartoon showing Robert Peel struggling with the problems posed by potatoes and corn, and he is surrounded on all sides by political opponents.	'Government sale of Indian corn at Cork'. Government sale of Indian corn at Cork, April 1846.
British Army officers c. 1850s This photograph shows British Army officers as they would have looked during the famine.	Relief works at An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe), Co. Galway. In a scene not very different from one of the famine period: men break stones and women carry stones on relief works at An Cheathrú Rua (Carraroe), Co [...]	Interior of a cottage on the western seaboard, 1890. More than half a century after the famine, the houses of the poor had changed little. The cottage show here has earthen floors and little furniture. T [...]
Children in a cottage, Gorumna Island, Co. Galway c. 1895. Three bare-foot children photographed in their cottage on Gorumna Island, Co. Galway. The ragged children lean against a straw bed which rests on an e [...]	‘Little Eliza Morrison in the Orphan Asylum’. The bottom of the page reads: ‘What did they do to your mother in the poorhouse, Eliza?’ ‘They trampled on her and killed her, Sir.’	Village of Schull in west Cork. During the Famine, isolated towns such as Schull were usually the last to receive much needed relief. By 1849, the population of Schull parish had dro [...]
The Reverend Robert Traill and his wife Anne. Dr. Robert Traill was Rector of Schull, at the time of the famine. The town suffered exceptionally high casualties from famine and disease. By 1849, t [...]	Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary at the Treasury. Sir Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary at the Tresury. He was in charge of all famine relief in Ireland. Trevelyan has been associated with the in [...]	Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1847. Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Russell's government and responsible for keeping relief to a minimum.
Lord John Russell, the Whig Prime Minister at the time of the famine. In August 1847 Lord Clarendon wrote coldly to Lord John Russell: "We shall be equally blamed for keeping them[the Irish] alive or letting them die and [...]	Sir Robert Peel, Conservative Prime Minister in 1845-6. Sir Robert Peel, Conservative Prime Minister in 1845-6. His secret purchase of Indian corn helped prevent widespread famine in the first year of the p [...]	Ballinaboy School,Co. Galway in 1850. 'Ballinaboy School [Co. Galway], near the monastery, 10th August, 1850', established by the Rev. Dallas.
'Relief for Ireland'.	'A sketch of the poor assembled for soup at Poulacurra House on 22nd of february, 1847'.	'A group of peasants and beggars assembled in the kitchen garden of Poulacurra House, May 1847'.
'Food riot in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford'.	'The Irish Famine,' one of a series of four works in 1849-50 by the artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904). In this heart rending scene, an infant seems to be dying in the arms of its helpless mother.	'The Discovery of the Potato Blight' by Daniel McDonald c. 1852. Potatoes often appeared to be perfectly sound when lifted from the ground but were later found to have rotted in store, with disastrous consequences t [...]
'Irish armed peasants waiting for the approach of a meal cart'.	'Meal cart under military escort proceeding to a relief station in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary'.	Barrister O'Connell depicted a giant potato tuber.
Miss Kennedy distributing clothing to impoverished children in the town of Kilrush, Co. Clare. The correspondent for the Illustrated London News describes the scene in the winter of 1849: 'Another Sketch follows (of Miss Kennedy), which shows th [...]	Alexis Soyer's soup kitchen, Dublin, April 1847 Recipes for numerous varieties of soup appeared frequently in the national newspapers, all claiming to be nutritious and generally aiming at the produ [...]	Photograph of Reverend Edward Nangle ca. 1875.
'The Colony' on Achill Island, Galway. One of Achill's most famous landmarks is that of the Achill Mission or 'the Colony' at Dugort. In 1831 the Protestant Reverend Edward Nangle founded a [...]	Relief frigate Macedonian at anchor. By a Joint Resolution of Congress 3 March 1847, the 36 gun frigate Macedonian and the sloop‑of‑war Jamestown, were placed in civilian hand [...]	Charles Trevelyan, 1840s. Contemporary Lithograph of Charles Trevelyan.
Achill Island Village of Keel, Achill Island, Co. Mayo.	Protestant missionary settlement, Achill Island. A contemporary lithograph; 'The Protestant missionary settlement at Isle of Achill'	'The Cork Society of Friends' Soup House.' Quakers in England and Ireland responded quickly and generously to the need for direct food relief. The Quaker ironmasters Abraham and Albert Darby of [...]
Ireland wrestles with famine, while Mr. Balfour plays golf. A chromolithograph showing Erin wrestling with the spectre of famine while the Chief Secretary of Ireland, Arthur Balfour plays golf. Attributed to th [...]	Cartoon entitled, 'The Absentee: Scene Naples. Enter the Ghosts of starv'd Irish Peasentry [sic].' This chromolithograph depicts a wealthy landlord with his female companion seated on a chaise-longue. The table nearby is laden with food and drink. T [...]