Squeezing Every Last Penny From Out of The Big Issue Vendors. By Uncle Monty.

Squeezing Every Last Penny From

Out of The Big Issue Vendors.

Story By Uncle Monty.

Street Photos By Alex Albion.

~~~

And so it came to pass yet again at The Big

Issue at where its street vendors have no say

whatsoever about whatever it decides to im-

pose upon them, in whatever name or excuse it

can find to justify, for example, its latest and

arbitrary 5 pence increase in the wholesale price

of the magazine per copy to those badged vendors

on the cold, poor, and hard streets of the UK.

~~~

As stated elsewhere, 5 English pence, in and of

itself, won't buy you peanuts!! But, when the

wholesale price of The Big Issue was increased to its

vendors by 5p per copy a week ago last Monday the

amount of gain and sheer profit by The Big Issue is

staggering and almost mind-boggling no matter if such

harms whatever its own street vendors may

otherwise make for themselves.

~~~

At that 5p increase per copy at a 149,000 weekly circulation

at say 50 weeks, The Big Issue itself stands to rake in another

£360,000- per annum in pure profits at least and, of course,

at the cold expense and reduced financial gain of its own

nationwide street vendors scattered far and wide across
the mindless socialist face of the UK. If ever the term

"Champagne Socialism" bore an ugly face, then the movers

and shakers behind The Big Issue come out screaming

like mad at you ... and at its victimized vendors!!!
~~~

LSE's Beverly Brittan:

Long-Time Big Issue Buyer.

~~~
What The Big Issue has really done is to make-up for its loss of

donations and gifts by now putting the onus on its vendors to help

make-up for its lost profit margins at The Big Issue itself. While at

the same time, the vendors are being screwed out of whatever tiny

profit margin they may make. When the magazine was at retail

$1.40, most vendors got an extra 60p for themselves when cus-

tomers gave them two quid and told them to keep the change.

~~~

When the Big Issue then went retail to £1.50 at Xmas before last,

they got then only 50p extra if those same customers gave again

two quid. Now, the most they would make is 45p extra for the

same amount. My tiny profiit margin, like for most of my fellow

Big Issue vendors, is once again reduced due to the 5p per copy

increase. In my case, I will also now be forced to give The Big Issue

an extra £100- to £150- per annum to buy my usual weekly stock.

What that means is that I am forced to pay more, but get less

and less in my own pocket. What it also means for many

vendors is that they'll have less money to buy perhaps

needed food and they will have to spend longer hours on the

streets to meet The Big Issue's latest wholesale price increase.

Does The Big Issue really care? HELL NO!! Its bottom line is

always more money for those at the top and less and less for

those at the bottom that happens to be their

own street vendors.

~~~

Over the course of a year, I will automatically lose £100- to £150-

quid in profit because the Big Issue will now get what would have

been profit for me. Usually, I buy 50 copies per week, but because

of poor summer business and with the economy so generally very

poor, I have had to cut back to only 40 copies per week. Sales have

been pretty dicey despite the glowing letters in The Big Issue itself

declaring how some folkz are now buying the magazine for the first

time after seeing the BBC-TV program "Famous, Rich and Homeless."

Yet, I had at least two customers who said they would never buy

The Big Issue again, if it wasn't for me, after watching the same

program! They were disgusted! And, so was I. The rhetoric and

reality of The Big Issue PR spin is spinning out of control even

worse than New Labour's socialistic non-stop pychobabble!
~~~
From "The Faces of Homelessness."

By Uncle Monty. Photos By Alex Albion. ~~~
But above all, the latest wholesale price increase by The Big Issue to

its street vendors couldn't have come at the worst time for them nor

could it have picked a worst time during Britain's ongoing economic

downturn that hits the vunerable homeless to almost breaking point.

At the best of times, the majority of vendors are cash-strapped.

What The Big Issue has now done is not only to compound their

poverty situation but to also treat them so callously and curtly.

Beware then of the cosy rhetoric versus the cruel reality

against the homeless by The Big Issue.

~~~

The 75p profit for the vendor, when he or she sells a copy of The

Big Issue, is in reality nothing but chicken feed. In order to make say

a lousey £75.00 per week, he or she must now sell at least 100 copies

to the public. That's one hell of a weekly task to achieve for most of my

fellow vendors that I have known on the streets from over the past

4 or so years. Any vendor who says he or she sold 100 copies in say

a day is either living in Cockooland or was damn lucky for a change.

What is needed for such vendors is a sharp increase of profit for

their own pockets and not solely for their ecomonic slave

masters at London's Big Issue HQ at Vauxhall.

~~~

The Big Issue needs to be priced and sold at £2.00 per copy

from its present retail price of £1.50. Such would then give the

vendors another 50p profit for themselves and would encourage

vendors to sell more since he or she will rightly make more profit

and money to add to their own pocket and support. The danger,

of course, is the ever-present greed of The Big Issue which might

then want to up the wholesale price yet again because its vendors

are making just alittle bit more money and profit out of such a retail

price increase. All I can say, it's about time for heaven sake's to

give the vendors a break for a change!! Stop exploiting them by

squeezing every last penny from out of The Big Issue vendors.
~~~

British Cops Doing Yet Another

"ID" on a London Rough Sleeper.

Britain has now become a nation of hunters

hunting down the imaginary or real hunted.
~~~
Home Counties Big Issue Street Vendor.

In my own case as a badged vendor, I will now be forced,

let me repeat myself again, to pay at least another 100 to 150

quid more per annum to buy my usual weekly stock. That is a

loss of 100 to 150 quid in profit for me set against the prevailing

national economic downturn in the UK and the already

declining level of street sales due to low summertide trade and

ever-shifting customer base. While most businesses are cutting

back due to the negative state of the national ecomony, The Big

Issue’s only answer has been to sock it to their own vendors by

increasing the wholesale cost to their already strapped vendors.

This they are doing right at the worst time of the continuing

economic downturn and recession that is hurting the vunerable

vendors even more so than the general public.

~~~

I believe one of the real reasons for the lastest wholesale price

increase is to offset, at the vendors' expense, the substantial

drop in corporate and private donations to The Big Issue.

British and American charities across the board have been

hit badly be the ongoing decline of business and private

giving. In Britain, many charities are crying over each

other and their substantial loss of revenues, which in the

past they have recklessly squandered by sheer misman-

agement and outrageous misinvestment. Plus, there are

simply too many charities in England at where almost any

Tom, Dick or Harry can start another charity at the blink

of an eye! While I love all animals, how many dog and cat

charities, for example, do we really need? As for homeless

charities, their function seems to be more in line with keep-

ing their own charity and staff gainfully employed more

than in resolving the pressing issue of ever-increasing

homelessness. The business of homelessness is a growth

enterprise, much like the business of poverty, at where

billions of dollars have been ploughed into poverty

charities and their well-paid activists who seem to

mainly sit pretty while the grimness of poverty

and homelessness seems to be barely touched.

~~~

I understand, too, that The Big Issue has cut back on hiring

new staff. It has seen sales reduction of inserts and declining

donations, while the magazine has expanded to 11 full pages of

advertising in its 46-page issue of No. 856. It was in that same

issue, like a bullet to the the vendor's head, which announced

the following: "As of this week Big Issue vendors will buy the

magazine from us for 75p and sell it to you (the customer)

for £1.50, making 75p profit on each copy. This slight in-

crease in the price paid by vendors has been necessary

to cover rising costs and to secure the long-term future of

the services we offer." I see! So at only a "slight" increase

of £360,000 (or over half-million US dollars) in new

profits per annum for The Big Issue? Bollocks!!

~~~

The vendor has now been forced to become a gang-

pressed donor or giver, right? You bet! In my own case,

I am now forced to give The Big Issue another 100 to 150

quid more per annum for the mere pleasure of selling its

magazine. That in other words is money and profit taken

from me in the name of absorbing "rising costs and (to)

secure the long-term future of (The Big Issue) services ...,"

so we're flatly informed in the No. 856 issue without any

warning of such until that issue came out a week

ago last Monday.

~~~

And, what real services are they talking about? A

twopenny free haircut for vendors at their Vauxhall

H.Q. on a Saturday morning? Or having some young

college kid visiting your pitch to see if you're in need

of something like housing or hostel placement or

opening a bank account? I've yet to fathom out what

actual services The Big Issue really provides other

than alot of fancy rhetoric and clever spin and

even open show biz!!!
~~~

London Big Issue Vendor on The Strand.

~~~

Also on The Strand is Steve, perhaps unique

as Big Issue vendors go. He entertains his

customers so well at close to the famed

Trafalgar Square almost daily. At Xmas, he

becomes a first class Santa. Bravo, to him!!!

.Then we have above this young lad Michael Otterway at age 12, who stopped by last week at my Long Acre pitch to declare he was a first-time buyer of The Big Issue with his mom beaming at him and me! Obviously a very bright lad and he spoke much like he was a prep schoolboy rather than just some run of the mill British state school ignoramus that are all too common thesedays in today's "Broken New Britain." Welcome to my customer list, Michael!!
~~~
Uncle Monty With Two Nice "Nuns."
~~~
The Big Issue is oftentimes Back-to-Front, literally.
I may be back to add more comments regarding the ongoing situation of the street vendors now caught up in the latest profit squeeze against them by The Big Issue. In the meantime, I'll leave you with this item I discovered on the internet just yesterday:

:: Open Letter To John Bird of The Big Issue ::
And one last final thought. Why don’t you offer a stake in your (Big Issue) venture to all the homeless people who register to sell you magazine on the streets? That might make them feel that they are part of something big, that they are not alone anymore. And that would be a good thing, wouldn’t it? Yours faithfully, Alexander Nekrassov.

http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2008/04/25/open-letter-to-john-bird-of-the-big-issue/

Return soon, Uncle Monty. +William Wilberforce, 2oo9.

Historic Images. By Alex Albion.

My love for historic and esoteric photographs
exceeds all of my love for all things of modern
photography. Sometime in the coming future,
I may present a small selection of some of the
rare images that I have collected over the past
few years on my travels here and there.
The above rare historical image of two Russian
sailors of circa 1895 is a photographic gem, aside
from being perhaps rather all too gay for my person-
al taste. Nevertheless, such is a classic photo of the
late 19th century "studio photography" that was
very popular and widespread at that time both
in New America and Old Europe.
~~~

:: Welcome To Ugly "Broken New Britain" ::

More than 58,000 English boys phoned the NSPCC charity in 2007/8 with problems ranging from loneliness to violent abuse. Most calls to ChildLine are from girls - but during the past five years the proportion made by boys rose from one in every five to one in every three. Boys are most likely to call about bullying, with 12,568 cases last year. Head of ChildLine Sue Minto said: "Desperate boys call because they feel they have no-one to turn to. It's heartbreaking to hear their stories of rape and violent beatings, often by their parents."

~ ~ WHY BOYS RING CHILDLINE ~ ~
The most common concerns of boys calling in 2007/8:
Bullying, 12,568 calls - Physical abuse, 6,403 calls
Family problems, 6,016 calls - Facts of life, 5,362 calls
Sexual abuse, 4,780 calls - Sexuality, 3,510 calls
Loneliness, 1,817 calls - Rape, 1,803 calls

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Westminster Abbey Garden Party Helps Homeless. By Uncle Monty.

Westminster Abbey Garden

Party Helps Homeless.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Garden Party Photos
By Alex Albion.

+
For a thousand years, countless thousands of good
folks from many nations have come together at the
private college garden of England’s world famous
Westminster Abbey. Yet today, only a very tiny trickle

of folks actually get the invited chance to spend an

evening at the abbey’s college garden like I did just

yesterday to the swanky garden party that was held

there to raise much needed and well-deserved funds

for “The Passage.” Such is London’s well-known
and goodly homeless day centre for innumerable

homeless man and woman that seek its constructive
help, its good food, and its most practical, and even
pastoral, open care. At “The Passage,” it is indeed a

'passage' for many of the homeless off the streets

to getting a job again and to find shelter over their
wounded heads from their life’s wary ways and the
ever-present social stigma of homelessness
and raw rejection.
+
They came then did 600 supporters of "The Passage" at
paying £25.00 per happy head to enter the Westminster
Abbey swanky garden party that also saw me there!!

+
The Duncan Sandys.

Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Westminster.

+

Middle-aged women out numbered men.
Some of the professional woman dressed almost
like they were at Royal Ascot and I saw hardly
any "soccer moms" at the garden party for sure.
With their particular sound of making music, the
16-member British Salvation Army Band did
their Christian part in supporting the home-
less fund raiser for "The Passage" by simply
playing their drums, trumpets, and haunting
French horns. Priests, nuns, and Anglican clerics
played their part, too, by their religious presence
at the abbey college garden that provides an
excellent recreational spot for daily use by the
nearby preppies at The Westminster School,
which goes back centuries in giving toff education
to many of the English social elite much like those
at such other renowned British public or prep
schools has are found at Eton, Rugby, and Harrow.
+
Mich Clarke, CEO, The Passage.
+
While at the garden party, I personally encountered
quite a variety of quite different people such as Rev'd
Monsignor Vladimir Felzman, Audrey Evans, CEO,
of Sans Frontiere; Mich Clarke, CEO, The Passage;
Kate Maree, retired, H.M. Crown Court stenographer
and former homeless volunteer; Tony Platt, Senior
Honourary Steward at Westminster Abbey; Hon.
Claire Higginbottom, Dr. David Davenport, The
Abbey Rev'd Canon Robert P. Reiss (shown below
with your's truly); The Rev'd Canon Jane Hedges,
and Councillor Duncan and Mrs. Mary Sandys
(shown above) in their illustrious role as Lord
Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Westminster.
+
Rev'd Monsignor Vladimir Felzmann.
+
Each of the above-named people I not only spent
time chatting with, but did also photograph al-
most each and every one of them upfront. Bravo!
And they all had one thing in common: They have
either directly or indirectly done whatever they
can to help the homeless of London. Bravo, again!!
+
The 16-Member British Salvation Army Band.
+
Kate Maree, Ex-H.M. Crown Court.
+
American-Born Mary Brown.
The Mayoress of Westminster.
+
Westminster Abbey Minor
Canon Rev'd Jane Hedges.
+
Uncle Monty with Westminster Abbey
Minor Canon Rev'd Robert P. Reiss.
+
Inside The Private College Garden.
+
A summer evening with such 600 supporters
of "The Passage" showed me how powerful the
big issue of homelessness is to those many guests
I met at the garden party. I was pretty impressed
by their presence and especially after talking with
many of them about their desire and dedication
in helping the homeless in the best way they can.
Some of them have devoted a lifetime of human
service and friendship to the marginalised and
excluded people of London and elsewhere. Yet
none of them have seeked a pat on the back nor
a medal of honour nor any pubic recognition for
the good they have already done and they will
continue to do so no matter what at where ever
they are called to serve Christ's others. Without
them, the grim picture of homelessness would
be even grimmer in today's urban jungle of En-
land. But one thing money cannot buy is the
open mind and living spirit to do good works
for our less fortune humankind. The West-
minster Abbey Garden Party was a perfect
example of such good people despite all the
depressing news for those other folkz who
have been shoved aside to make way for to-
day's utterly materialistic and avaricious society
that now gobbles up the Soul of England every
day and much of the western world of
globalization with it ... and the oftentimes
ignored stark reality of global homelessness
of millions of folkz around the human globe.
+
The 2009 "A Night Under the Stars" concert is on
Friday, 27 November at The Royal Festival Hall from
7.30pm for "The Passage" Day Centre, which saw last
year's concert raise $80,000- to help the homeless.
The Day Centre's Founding Patron was His Eminence,
the late Cardinal Basil Hume of Great Britain.

http://www.passage.org.uk/

~~~
.

Squeezing Every Last Penny From
Out of The Big Issue Vendors.
By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
~~~
Five English pence won't even buy you
peanuts!! But, when the wholesale price of
The Big Issue was increased to its vendors by
5p per copy last Monday the amount of gain
and sheer profit by The Big Issue is staggering
and almost mind-boggling no matter if such
harms whatever its own street vendors may
otherwise make for themselves.
~~~
At that 5p increase per copy at a 149,000 weekly
circulation at say 50 weeks, The Big Issue itself
stands to rake in another £360,000- per annum
in pure profits at least and, of course, at the cold

expense and reduced financial gain of its own nation-

wide street vendors scattered far and wide across

the mindless socialist face of the UK. If ever the

term "Champagne Socialism" bore an ugly face,

then the movers and shakers behind The Big

Issue come out screaming like mad at you ...

and at its victimized vendors!!!
~~~

Read more of my upcoming full story soon on The

Big Issue after now completing herein my brief story

on "The Passage" from yesterday's great garden

party that took place to solely help the homeless

and didn't seek to make any financial profit

or gain out of them, not like some folkz

we know from elsewhere ...
~~~

Do good deeds everyone, Uncle Monty.

+St. Bridget, 2oo9.

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An Anglican Gathering of the Chelmsford Kind. By Uncle Monty.

An Anglican Gathering of the Chelmsford Kind.

Story By Uncle Monty.
Chelmsford Photos By Alex Albion.
+

Just for one moment, I almost expected the Archbishop
of Canterbury himself to arrive at Chelmsford Cathedral
to officiate at the uncommon Farewell Service to retiring
Bishop John Gladwin that included perhaps 750 well-wishers
and official dignitaries all gathered together for the beloved
Anglican bishop and his equally beloved wife Lydia.

+
Over many years as an avid Anglican, I have attended many

and varied Anglican events all around the world, but never

before had I atttended such a rare "Farewell Service" of the

Chelsmford kind that I personally witnessed to her own

retiring bishop. It was a sheer joy to feel at home at the

cathedral and even more of a joy to witness The Introduction,

The Gathering, The Liturgy of the Word, The Address, The
Tributes, and The Prayers of Intercession, that saw for me

the best that is today’s Historic Anglicanism

at the Diocese of Chelmsford.

+

Lord John Petre of Ingatestone.

The Queen's Personal Representative.

+
And, never before had I seen dozens of so many mayors and

mayoress all gathered together all at one time inside and out-

side the old cathedral with a rounded retinue of dressed bishops

and clergy of every kind participating in the unusual Farewell

Service to Bishop John Gladwin and his wife Lydia. There was a

sense of gladness and joy for The Gladwins that overshadowed

any public expessions of sadness of their impending departure.

Indeed the service was a celebration of them, not a monotonous

ritual of retirement words and dullrums. No sir, it was not!

Before being translated to Chelmsford, Bishop John had also

been the popular presiding Anglican Bishop of Guildford.
+
At Least Five Bishops or Clergy.

+
Among those paying tribute to the retiring Anglican bishop

was the Catholic Bishop of Brentwood, His Excellency, Thomas

McMahon, along with the open heartedness of Lord John
Petre, The Queen's Personal Representative, at the Fare-
well Service. His Lordship was most affable and I was

pleased not only to chat with him about his role as one of

Queen Elizabeth's Lord Lieutenants, but also for me to

portray him thru my camera lens at where he gladly let

me position him to allow me to freely get the kind of photo-

graphs I want to take of him. See the above photo/graphic

of Lord John, who by profession is a landed farmer at the

Ingatestone family estate. Without any trace of pompous-

ness, he was a delight to me to personally meet. In his

tribute, he brought the house down with gleeful laughter

of the things he said of the beloved Bishop John and his

fond wife Lydia. It was all fun and harmless that only

Lord Petre could have presented so informally, yet

so skillfully and so honestly, like he did.

+

The Rt. Rev'd Christopher Heudebourck Morgan,

The 12th Anglican Bishop of Colchester.

Among the half dozen bishops present, I met the bishops of Colchester (seen above), of Kenya, of Dorking, and of Chelmsford, and photographed them all individually. And while talking
of bishops and the call for the reduction of Anglican Sees in the United Kingdom, I do think that there are too many bishops prancing around at great cost to the Church that needs to come to end by natural attrition of retirement or death of such bishops at those shallow dioceses that are costing more than they are worth to keep. Then we have bloody New Labour who seem to always want to create a mess of one kind or another like their latest assault against the tradition and history of the English Church. They want to yank out of The House of Lords the historic presence of the bishops of the Anglican Church of England. How any of the English clergy or laity could actively support New Labour is beyond me. They are a grave and vulpine threat to everything the Church represents is the British Labour Party, which for the most part is almost totally anti-Church, yet bends over backwards to accommodate such foreign beliefs like Islam. While in America, American Anglicans of The Episcopal Church seem intent on going their own way on gay clergy and same-sex "marriages" and to hell with the Anglican Communion that seems now to be in tatters and despair under the weakening leadership of the present Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace, The Most Rev'd Rowan Douglas Williams. We need as worldwide Anglicans to get back to the basics of our faith and stop spending all our energies on the devisive issues of homosexuality, demands for female English bishops, expanding women clergy roles, and the further politicalization of the Church of England like banning clergy membership in the British National Party (BNP). The Church has no business dictating whatever political membership such clergy may privately hold. No wonder we see the rise of the Confessing Anglicans and GAFCON helping to provide "a home away from home" for the many disillusioned and/or traditional Anglicans both at home and abroad. I think eventually, the worldwide Anglican Communion will just disintegrate before our very eyes and then wonder why we could not save it from its final demise as liberal and conservative Anglicans pack their own bags and forever shun each other like Philistines and without any further Communion together or open communication. How truly sad!! Oh, I think the last time I saw Bishop John Gladwin was perhaps at last year’s Lambeth Conference that saw me disbarred by the hideous and mechanical press officer John Carter because he didn’t want an Anglican blogger like me to be freely admitted to report openly on the conference. It only takes one foul Anglican bureaucrat to spoil everything like Rev’d John Carter did. We’ve got nothing good to say about him! Last we heard, he was otherwise still working up at Harrogate at the Ripon and Leeds Diocese as its press communications officer. Well, I still say go to hell, Mr. Carter!!

+^ Not Quite The Queen! Gentleman Almost
Stooping to the Chairwoman of Harlow.
+
Now back to the Farewell Service to the good
bishop and his wife at Chelmsford Cathedral ...

Duke Ellington's "Reflection in D" and "O When The Saints Go Marching In ..." reverberated throughout the cathedral with dignity and harmony. The Rite of Penitence, The Bidding Prayer, The Readings, The Anthems, The Hymns, and Te Deum Laudamus, had all been duly heard by us all. Best of all was Charles Wesley's quintessentially-English hymn of "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling." Many of those present knew the words of the Wesley hymn off by heart much like I do. "An Anglican Gathering of the Chelmsford Kind," was like one of kind, just like the Farewell Service itself was to the much loved John and Lydia Gladwin.

After The Dismissal, The Cathedral Reception then followed that saw the gathering then gathered in their hundreds to share their presence among each others and whether they were Anglican or not. Light refreshments filled dozens of long tables for all the hungry guests. Then, bishops chatted bishops. Mayors chatted mayors. Dignitaries chatted dignitaries. And, lay folk chatted lay folk. Nobody seemed to want to go home as Saturday afternoon had now turned into a summer Saturday evening after more than three hours with each other. During that time, I had chatted to many different people that also included George Pullman, Q.C., Chancellor of the Chelmsford Diocese (shown below), and Dr. Daleep Mukarji, Secretary General of Christian Aid.

^ George Pullman, Q.C.
The Chancellor of the Diocese of Chelmsford.

+

^ The Rt. Rev'd Dr. Laurie Alexander Green, Anglican Bishop of Bradwell.
+

^ Some of the dozens of mayors at the Anglican Gathering.
+^ Labour Mayor of Dagenham.
+

Chelmsford Cathedral.

Here now at Colchester is where I and dear Elizabeth Middleton have ventured from Chelmsford to spend the whole weekend travelling here and there and attending, among other things, the above-mentioned Farewell Service. We've now also been to Colchester's lovely Upper Castle Park and to the historic 12th Century Anglo-Saxon ruins of St. Botolph's Priory. But that's another story, perhaps. Whatever, we leave you now after having been at an Anglican gathering of the Chelmsford kind and we're most happy we did. Our good wishes to Bishop John and Lydia Galdwin for you are both surely the most beloved true Anglicans we have ever encountered for quite sometime ... Kind regards and a blessed retirement for you after having served the Mother Church so well, indeed!!

With kind respect, Uncle Monty.
+Apostle to the Indies, Bartolomé de les Casas, 2oo9.

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His Only Grant Was To Grant Them No Freedom. By Uncle Monty.

His Only Grant Was To

Grant Them No Freedom.

By Uncle Monty.
::

Highlighting The Vile Case Last Week of the British Crown

Court Against Free Speech Under The Savage And Vicious

Sentence of Circuit Court Judge Rodney Grant At Leeds

Crown Court Against Two Who Dared To State Their

Unpopular And Provocative Far-Right Political

Views on The Internet.

::

New Labour’s socialist ideologue Harriet Harman, in her

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 25 May 2005 (pt 11),

named some 25 North Eastern British Circuit judges has being

licensed to try criminal cases of rape and other serious sexual off-

ences. Among those listed of four years ago, was a Judge Rodney

Grant, whose nasty name last week hit the world newspapers
and internet big time not for any just sentence against those

who had committed rape, but rather for his unjust anti-free

speech judgement against two British fellows called

Simon Sheppard, 51, and Stephen Whittle, 42.

::

Sheppard and Whittle have now become the first in Britain to

be convicted of inciting racial hatred online. The men printed

leaflets and controlled websites featuring racist material. Now

read support material of them at the heretical website:

http://www.heretical.com/

::

Two men jailed for online racial hatred campaign

after landmark ruling. By Jon Land.

http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-07-10-Two-men-jailed-for-online-racial-hatred-campaign-after-landmark-ruling

::
Grant's savage and vicious sentences of almost 5 years

imprisonment for Sheppard and almost 2½ years for Whittle

was loudly hailed as a British landmark race-hate case that was

happily handclapped by many New Labour liberals and their

radical leftist sympathizers. In my view, the pair were "legally"

court raped by judicial degree because of their anti-left views

and beliefs. If ever there was a political court trial, then Judge

Rodney Grant sounded more like New Labour's Harriet

Harman than an impartial British Circuit judge when

he passed his savage and vicious sentence

on the far-rightwing pair.

:: 6 Versions ::

http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/233691/

::
Uncle Monty declares:

::

Out of their earlier race hate court convictions,

Sheppard and Whittle then fled to California to seek

political asylum in America. For any native Englishman

to feel the need to seek asylum from their own country,

tells us how bad things have really gotten for those who

oppose New Labour's political tyranny and their forced

imposition of their dreadful multicultural and multiracial

society that now sees England like a modern hellhole

of the world's unwanted human scum now imposed

forever by New Labour against the true wishes of

the British people and their own true homeland.
::
A UK Far Rightist.

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We, in Broken New Britain, have now become no better than China, Russia, or Iran that seeks out their own citizens to criminalise and then detain them for their political and social views. Under the guise of so-called "race hate" laws, like the ones that saw Sheppard and Whittle unjustly and legally crucified by British Judge Rodney Grant at his Leeds Crown Court, the right of free speech is chillingly suppressed or severely curtailed by leftist lawmakers and leftist judges against those who would dare to write and speak differently to them. "But they incited hate against blacks and foreigners in England today," so the arguement goes for justifying such modern British laws and cruel sentences against race haters! Really? Cannot I, as a born Englishman, oppose all that I see that is inimical to my own country and her future as a British nation? Well, NO!! If you do, you can be branded and identified as a racist or a bigot or a Nazi or a Fascist, even though I am not one!! I simply oppose what I see and it matters nothing to me if such masses of immigrants are black, white, pink or blue. What matters to me is their overwhelming numbers that New Labour has almost criminally-imposed on the country that sees now over 2.2 million Africans alone invading the country freely due entirely to the ilk of Blair and Brown and their New Labour henchmen with absolute contempt against all who oppose their mass immigration policy. They are what I call "Mass Immigrationists," who have destroyed everything in their wake to achieve their own political ends at the expense of the true British people. Our courts, our prisons, our hospitals, our housing, our streets, our communities, our street gangs, our schools, our transportation, our workplace, our benefit rolls, our crime rates, and our declining society are now overwhelmingly crushed and dominated by the sheer numbers of millions of immgrants and foreigners now granted entrance to the United Kingdom by the law-unto-themselves British Labour Party. They are now the true enemy of Old Albion!!

My question is: If such white and black British Labourites, like Bambie Blair and Jackass Brown, love Africa so much, why don’t they move there? Why do they insist on forcing their love for Africans and Africa and their mass immigration agenda on the native British? Because they know they can get away with it like they have for the past 12 years in power. I utterly detest all that New Labour has done to destroy the England that I once knew. I will never, ever, forgive them. They’re simply leftwing political bastards of the worst kind ... I think.
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In the meantime, Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle will languish for years inside the overcrowded immigrant and foreigner-filled British prisons because of their political opinions. While those who commit serious street crimes and are oftentimes a danger to society are given soft sentences or released early by New Labour to make space for more political prisoners like Simon and Stephen who are now branded as "criminals" in what is now the rise of The International Socialist State of Great Britain (ISSGB). And so, Rodney Grant is part of that tyranny of ISSGB that works sickeningly against all freedom loving men and women in the world of England today.
Therefore, his only grant was to grant them no freedom. That he did to his utter shame and disgraceful name.

"Cocking a snook at British justice" or aka Rodney Grant.
http://myreader.co.uk/msg/1212655722.aspx

The neo-Nazi 'asylum seekers' By Jon Kelly. The BBC. Nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8010537.stm

British "Justice" Upside Down. ::
Truly vexed, Uncle Monty. +St. Swithin's.
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Summer Flowers of England. Flower Photos By Alex Albion.

Summer Flowers of England.

Flower Photos By Alex Albion.

Story Text By Uncle Monty.

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Flowers are closely intertwined with human

life. Where there are no flowers, life can be

quite unpretty and pretty drab, too. Human

ocassions like weddings, Valantines, burials,

Church Services, and Moms' Birthdays, are all

enchanced by the presence of lovely flowers or

nice plants. The worldwide floral industry

stretches into billions of dollars profit each

year. Best of all, flowers are more or less

available at all times and at all seasons of

the year. So if you want to send a bouquet,
either say in mid-winter or mid-summer,

you can. Though such bouquets are no longer

cheap to buy or to send like they once were.

Some flowers can be darn right expense, too,

like rare orchidaceous -orchid for example

that can fetch several hundreds of dollars

per stem.

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At Canterbury. The Compass Rose, no less!

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I’m sorry to say, but I don’t know the correct

or proper names of many of the summer flowers

and plants that I’ve photographed here over the

past 45 or so days. But that doesn’t distract one

bit from the sheer beauty of many such flowers

and plants. And that’s the reason why I wanted

to share such beauty with you, my many blog

readers from around the world. Looking at these

flowers and plants of England brings joy to our life

in their creation, their shape, their colour and their

delicate texture that no man can truly replicate

without the seed or the combination of rain, sun-

light, and summer days. All too often, modern

human being don’t stop to ever smell the roses

or even stop to look closely at what is free to

see as we walk down the street and marvel at

the wonder of such growing and glowing things

that are sometimes only very momentary and

then gone completely long before the dreary

days of winter’s cold shoulder and its bleakness.
Unless they’re evergreens, we don’t see them

again until next springtide and summertide.
But we could well be dead by then, so look and

enjoy them while you can like I do for it

could well be the last time you do or can.
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At Elephant and Castle.

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I might add that while I do not know the proper names of many flowers and plants that I have photographed at this summertide, I do know at least the common names of such popular flowers and plants as roses, lillies, pansies, carnations, chrysanthemums, tulips, daffodils, and azaleas. When we start getting into the science of flowers and horticulture I soon become lost in their scientific appellation and Latin signatures. Such are for professional gardeners and flower growers, but not for folks like me that couldn't even run an amateur garden plot at this point. That nevertheless is no bar to enjoying and appreciating flowers and plants of every kind no matter where they're from. The photos here of the flowers I present are also listed by the places I saw of them at in and around London or geographically not that far from the British capital like at Benjamin Disraeli's Beaconsfield and at the small seaside town of Margate.
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At Ilford. ~~~
At Epping Forest.

At Margate.

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At Beaconsfield.~~~
At Lewisham. ~~~
At the various places I trudged, I made a point of re-
cording some of the flowers and plants that caught my
eye for this short piece "Summer Flowers of England,"
which only covers a speck of all the various growing
things of the English summertide, 2oo9. My flower
intention here is to be simply light and fluffy
for a change ... Hope you like!!!
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Summer cheers, Uncle Monty.
+Sea Sunday, 2oo9.

Dear Ida Negri. Head Housekeeper, at
The Royal Masonic Hall, for 30 years!!
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Lovely Louisa Dunnigan, 19, daughter
of Professor of Film Brian Dunnigan.
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