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In a sign of growing rifts within Labour, senior union figures and those on the Left of the party suggested that Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, had plotted Ms Haigh’s demise.

It was McSweeney rather than Starmer himself who told Ms Haigh on Thursday night that it might be best for her to resign after her the story of her conviction emerged.

One union source described him as a “shadow prime minister” for whom anyone on the soft Left of the party had become a target of efforts by extremists in the party to undermine SStarmer and that in collaboration with union leaders Morgan McSweeney, the PM’s chief of staff, plotted former transport secretary’s downfall.

It was Mr McSweeney who told Ms Haigh on Thursday night that it might be best for her to resign after her conviction emerged.

Describing Mr McSweeney as a “shadow prime minister [who] tells Keir what to do”, the insider added: “You’re a target when you’re on the soft Left.”

 McSweeney has become an increasingly powerful figure in government after winning a power struggle with his predecessor Sue Gray and sidelining  deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

The Boggart Bloggers suspected when we first read of Louise Haigh's undisclosed criminal conviction that there was more to the story than Haigh had admitted in her official explanation, and the far less innocent truth is why she had to resign as transport secretary.

So, on more than one occasion she claimed her work phones had been lost or stolen to her employer, apparently to get them to buy her new phones. The employer and fellow managers became suspicious so they called the police, and that is when she made up the story to the police about being burgled, which we can gather was all false. Her supposedly stolen phone was at some point discovered to be active and in her possession, and this is when the police decided she had lied to them. In the UK lying to the police is a criminal offence in itself.

Her entire official story for resigning is now that she was mugged and mistakenly thought her phone was stolen when it was not, but this is apparently a complete sham. This is in The Times newspaper. and on their website which is behind a paywall. They have done a good job of clearing away this politician's misinformation. This is from an MP who went after Boris Johnson for his lack of integrity.

Former Transport Secretary Louise Haigh, Picture vi The Times.

 

So she lied to her bosses, saying she had been burgled. Then she claimed to have been mugged and her phone stolen in the course of the mugging. Sometime later she discovered that the phone had not been stolen. When she turned it on the police were able to see that the phone was again in use. After an interview, the police referred the matter to the Crown Prosecution Service, which determined that an offence had been committed and that there was enough evidence to secure a conviction. Ms Haigh was found guilty of the charge of “fraud by misrepresentation”. She received a “discharge”, which I understand is the least punishment for a minor offence. But again there seems to be more to the story. Most people involved in active politis should know know that in the United Kingdom somebody with a conviction cannot stand for a seat in Parliament. You can guarantee that any conviction, however apparently minor the infraction, will be winkled out and exposed. It’s a resigning matter. End of story. It’s supposed to ensure honest politicians, which is one of the greatest oxymorons there is, but it is generally accepted that the lies should only start as soon as they’re sworn in on their first day. However, it has been suggested that, while working for the insurance company Aviva, Ms Haigh had recurrently reported loss of her company supplied phone. The company had begun to suspect that the phones were not lost but that she wanted an upgraded phone. It seems at first glance that even to charge her with an offence was curious, given her explanation. To be found guilty is even more curious. Now to have to resign her cabinet position after such a trivial offence and sentence is very strange, which lends some credence to the suggested involvement of Aviva. RELATED:

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16 May 2017

Spanish taxi drivers protest against unlicenced Uber cabs undercutting them

For several years the dodgy 'ride sharing' service Uber has been getting away with murder because politicians around the world feared being accused of standing in the way of progress by holding a high - tech startup to the same laws as other companies with a more traditional business model. While undrer the Obama administration, Uber seems to possess a free pass to ignore federal and state laws, in Europe the right of Uber to do what the fuck they liked because science' had a head on with European Union workers rights laws and regulations covering insurance and passenger safety.

Currenty the first globalised taxi service that claims it is not a taxi service but a socil media app for people who want to get into cars with total strangers and play carpool karaoke has been battling with Barcelona taxi drivers who have argued that UberPOP engages in unfair competition by using unlicensed (and therefore uninsured) drivers that are not subject of the same regulatory hurdles as a regular "transport company." And while Uber has historically taken the approach of just entering new markets and leaving drivers who signed up to the ride sharing app to deal with the regulatory hurdles, it looks like the lawmakers are finally catching up with them ...which we suspect will not be good news for Uber's private investors who recently shovelled $68 billion of money into the IPO of a company that had no reliable business model, no track record of profits and dividends and no real product or service to sell but earned revenue by taking a cut of monies illegally obtained by private car owners posing as taxi drivers from people too self interested to pay fares that allow properly registered and monitored drivers to make a decent living.

As Reuters reported earlier this month, the Court of Justice of the European Union's (ECJ) Advocate General Maciej Szpunar issued a preliminary opinion that Uber is actually a "transport service" under the terms of EU law and not just a ride sharing app. And the moment an Uber driver asks a passenger for money, it becomes a regulated transaction rather than a personal favour. The ruling is significant because, if it stands, it would require Uber to operate effectively as a taxi company and thus provide insurance to drivers and guarantee that they are properly licensed and complying with all safety regulations. Per Reuters:
"Although the opinion of the Court of Justice of the European Union's (ECJ) Advocate General Maciej Szpunar is non-binding, its judges usually follow such advice and are likely to reach a final ruling in the landmark case in the coming months."

If the ECJ rules that Uber is a transport service, this will impact on the Silicon Valley firm's operations in Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, and Finland where it still runs UberPOP, using amateur drivers to pick up riders.

The ECJ's final ruling cannot be appealed by Uber

While Uber has always argued in similar disputes that they are merely a 'market maker' offering an app for matching demand for rides with supply, the ECJ's Szpunar saw it differently finding that moment money changes hands the legal position of all involved in the transaction changes, the passenger is uninsured, the car owner, unless a licenced taxi operator, has invalidated private car insurance and the middle man is seen by law as a taxi service operator and an employer which requires it to comply with local employment laws. "Uber does much more than link supply and demand: it created this demand itself" adding that "Uber can thus be required to obtain the necessary licenses and authorizations under national law," the ECJ judgement stated.

The ECJ's Szpunar said that Uber's argument that it merely matches supply and demand between drivers and passengers was a "simplistic view of its role."

"The Uber electronic platform, whilst innovative, falls within the field of transport: Uber can thus be required to obtain the necessary licenses and authorizations under national law,"

"In effect, Uber does much more than link supply and demand: it created this demand itself," Szpunar wrote.

The service provided by Uber amounts to the "organization and management of a comprehensive system for on-demand urban transport," the ECJ said.

Regulating the software company as a "new economy" information service meant treating Uber as if it was simply an air traffic controller or market maker connecting drivers to passengers.

Instead, by forcing Uber to comply with myriad local transportation regulations – some dating back as long as a century – it must take more responsibility for certifying, insuring and paying its drivers, as taxi firms now do.

Meanwhile, Uber representatives were dismissive of the initial ruling saying that such decisions only serve to "undermine the much needed reform of outdated laws..."

A spokeswoman for Uber said it would await the ECJ's final ruling, but added it "would not change the way we are regulated in most EU countries as that is already the situation today".

And a ruling against it would "undermine the much needed reform of outdated laws which prevent millions of Europeans from accessing a reliable ride at the tap of a button," she added. Well whatever Uber may lack in terms of regulatory compliance, track record, proven business model and so on, they are not short of arrogance.

The real question as far as news reporters are concerned is just how long the negative news can continue to pile up for Uber before all those investors who just added nearly $13 billion to company coffers over and above the $68 billion opening valuation start to get a little nervous that the company is still burning a couple billion dollars a year after while not showing even an operating surplus let alone a balance sheet surplus from which dividends could be paid. Do we smell a repeat of Enron or Worldcom brewing?



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Human rights for robots? That's the craziest thing I ever heard, you might well be saying. but those unfailingly loony and dysfunctional fuckwits in the science academe are so convinced they can build machines (robots) with human attibutes they are demanding equal rights for animated tin cans. This over - the - top rant pusts a few things in perspective.

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.Dutch Socialists Calls For Government To Review EU Treaties

The Dutch Socialist Party is calling for a complete review and renegotiation of current EU treaties, to give the people a voice by means of plebiscites on matters affecting sovereignty, independence and the political nature of the European Union, a Dutch senator said on Tuesday.

Dutch voters make their feelings clear on E U neo - colonial expansion plans (Image source: russia-insider)

The Socialist Party is calling for treaty changes that will give citizens a chance to express their views on a new treaty on European cooperation," Tiny Kox said.

Commenting on the results of April advisory referendum on the EU-Ukraine association in the Netherlands and its subsequent review in the parliament, Kox noted that the country's government had little time left to consider the issue.

"Now, our government is running out of time, as Parliament awaits a final decision before summer holidays," Kox noted.

Over 61 percent of Dutch voters said no to the deal’s ratification, reflecting widespread unhappiness in most of northern and western Europe the the European Commission's plans to extend e U membership to nations in the middle east and north Africa. After the negative result of the national vote, the Dutch parliament rejected a proposal by the opposition to withdraw the ratification bill, providing the government with more time to review the matter.

The issue is likely to be raised at the two-day European Council meeting in Brussels due to start on Tuesday, though Brexit will dominate that meeting which may give the Netherlands politicians a little more time. Kox said that while speaking in the Dutch Parliament on Monday night, the prime minister refused to give clarity on the issue.

The European Union and Ukraine signed an Association Agreement in June 2014. It was formally ratified by all EU member states but the Approval Act for the ratification of the deal, adopted by the Dutch parliament in July 2015, has not entered into force yet.


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Cameron Plays Deal Or No Deal In Europe

Prime Minister's EU negotiations go on all night and into the morning. Cameron tells Daily Stirrer, "I wish these buggers would stop talking, I desperately need a shit."

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"I was here till 5 o'clock this morning working through this and we've made some progress but there's still no deal." - David Cameron.

That’s from British PM David Cameron, who was apparently up all night trying to make other European leaders understand why his country needs a better deal in order to poersuade the prople it is a good idea stay in the EU. Unless Cameron gets what he wants, what will enable him to sell the idea of surrendering national sovereignty to become a province of a Federal European Superstate ruled by a committee of unelected bureaucrats in to the British public he will not campaign for the UK to remain in the bloc ahead of an expected referendum on membership in June.

"Britain has always had an ambiguous relationship with the bloc, staying out of two of its most ambitious projects, the Schengen border free zone and the euro common currency,” Reuters reminds us. “Its exit would end the vision of the EU as the natural home for European democracies and reverse the continent's post-World War Two march toward ‘ever closer union.’"

Anyone familiar with the history of the European Union and how it operates will know and talk of democracy can be dismissed. The idea, from its conception in the 1950s was to merge the independent nations of europe into a single state, a bureaucratic dictatorship.

Cameron is mainly seeking changes that will reduce the UK's financial burden* as the second (of two) net contributors to the 28 member European Union it relates to refugees and other EU nations. "As I have said, I would only do a deal if we get what Britain needs, so we are going to get back in there," he said, after marathon talks.

*(Many widely varying figures are available, one even shows the economic basket case Italy as the EU's biggest net contributor when the Italian government has to borrow money every month from the EU simply to meet its obligations on public sector wages, unemployment and welfare benefits and old age pensions.)

"Paris has pushed for amendments to ensure Britain cannot veto actions by the euro zone countries or give City of London banks competitive advantage through regulation," Reuters goes on to note. "A group of east European states chaired by the Czechs is trying to hold back how far their citizens can be denied welfare benefits in Britain or have family allowances reduced."

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party and the UK press are pushing for reforms. "Britain's place in Europe has been allowed to fester for too long" Cameron says, but there's "now a chance to settle this issue for a generation".

"For now I can only say that we have made some progress but a lot needs to be done," EU president Donald Tusk said.

What is at stake on handing control of London's financial services sector to Brussels? Financial services account for 180 billion pounds ($258 billion) a year — about 12 percent — of U.K. economic output and contribute 66 billion pounds in taxes. In some areas, like foreign exchange trading (41 percent of the world total) and over-the counter derivatives (49 percent), London is the undisputed global leader. Opponents of a Brexit fear a departure would precipitate years of uncertainty and steady waning of influence and market share. Supporters of the leave campaign point to how hamstrung by idiotic EU bureaucracy the financial centres of Paris, Milan and Frankfurt and other major EU nation are as evidence that if we surrender more national sovereignty to the EU, bureaucratic control freakery will destroy our financial services industry.

One of the points at issue is 'passporting'. What is passporting and why does it matter? Under the current regime, any firm authorized in the U.K. firm is free to do business in any other European Economic Area state by applying for a "passport" from British regulators. For non-EU banks like JPMorgan Chase & Co., Credit Suisse Group AG or Nomura Holdings Inc., the ability to access the region’s 500 million customers from a base in London has been an important draw. Without it the globalists warn, many firms may seriously consider upping sticks. It has been shown however that because over - regulation and bureaucratic obstructionism are likely to harm financial trade more that being based in a non EU country, the big players will not leave. They simply fear that without Britain in the EU to veto further encroachment on business freedom by bureaucrats, European economies (except Norway, Switzerland and Britain) would contract.

In plain numbers what would Brexit mean for the banks? Every day more than a trillion dollars worth of euros change hands in London, close to half the global total, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The City’s global dominance of the foreign-exchange market would be threatened by any Brexit package that fails to guarantee a continuation of access to the single market, but like the ill considered economic sanctions on Russia, that would hurt E U nations more than Britain. Over-the-counter derivatives are another area being used by pro - E U scaremongers. About three-quarters of all trading in such instruments in Europe currently takes place in the British capital. Same rules apply however, it would be less of a disadvantage to investment banks than being hogtied by bureaucratic regulations in a more closely integrated EU economy.

UK market share of financial trades compared to Germany and France (from TheCityUK)

EU trade with Britain, imports and exports. The trend is for trade with the rest of the world to increase while trade with the EU declines. This is probably because EU bureaucracy is stranging economic activity throughout the 28 member economic bloc. (Source: HMRC)

But numbers aren't likely to sway the British people who are prepared to opt out of the ill-fated union, because many see the commitment to a more closely integrated group of nations as a stepping stone to the nightmarish prospect of a global government based on Marxist principles.

Cameron says he's "battling for Britain", but in reality he's "battling for the EU." With the future of the union already in question thanks to the festering migrant crisis, Britain may well be better off abandoning this sinking ship. "It's the EU in question, not just one country in the EU," French President Francois Hollande said on Friday.

A timely admission from the beleaguered French President, the EU needs Britain more than Britain needs the EU. Now British voters must decide whether they want their nation to go down with the sinking ship prepared to go down with the ship, or risk being called rats for leaving. We should remember when deciding which way to vote, rats are very good survivors.

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Now we learn that not only does Cameron’s give us no new terms and conditions at all, only clever wordplay, his agreement with the European Union (EU) could be thrown out by European judges, according to independent research by the House of Commons library.