Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Right wing extremists contagion ..................
Courtesy Independent............
Gregory Lauder-Frost exposed: The Tory fringe group leader with Nazi sympathies
Right-wing views and criminal past revealed of vice-president of the Traditional Britain Group
The right-winger whose association with Jacob Rees-Mogg caused the senior Conserative MP great
embarrassment this week has added to concerns about his group's relationship with the Tory party -
by launching a personal attack on the mother of Stephen Lawrence as "anti-English" and a "nobody",
as more damaging revelations emerged about his past.
Gregory Lauder-Frost, the vice-president of the Traditional Britain Group, claimed the decision to
award a peerage to the mother of the murdered teenager was an example of a modern fashion for
"filling the House of Lords up with spivs".
Mr Lauder-Frost and his organisation were a little-noticed Tory fringe group until the website Liberal
Conspiracy revealed that Mr Rees-Mogg had been guest speaker at one of its dinners - and
highlighted some of its questionable views.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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right wing extremists.........``the lunatic fringe``.........spot on......
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Brian Dixon
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that remarke could and I repeat could cover a majaraty of things.but every one has a right to a opinion.rightly or wrongly.
Keith Sansum1
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They have a right to a view as long as that view doesn't result in violence
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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`Others`carryout the violence .................
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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that's the problem reg
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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doesn't say much for that company
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Courtesy The Times..............
£800m cost of replacing sacked staff at Whitehall
Ministers spent up to £800 million parachuting in consultants and temporary staff last year,
despite giving big payoffs to tens of thousands of civil servants. Departments are laying off
workers but taking on expensive consultants — often earning more than £1,000 a day —
to do the same jobs in a "revolving door" at the heart of the Civil Service. Francis Maude,
the Cabinet Office Minister, announced a ban on the use of management consultants three
years ago as part of the Government's efficiency reforms. Yet the big four consultants —
KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and Ernst & Young — are now being wooed back by the Government
to complete difficult projects before the election. "They are determined to get everything done by 2015
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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the cost gawd blimey##
you are I can only dream of such pay offs
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Off-shoot of the `Bullingdon Club`?.......
Courtesy Independent.....
Revealed: The third man in THAT Traditional Britain photo - and what he says about the new loony right
As Tory membership plummets, young Conservatives are breathing new life into traditional, far-right group
When Jacob Rees-Mogg MP attended a black-tie dinner as a guest of the radical Traditional Britain Group, he sat next to Gregory Lauder-Frost, its vice-president and public face. But in the photo of the group, which Rees-Mogg strongly rejected after its views on race and immigration were reported, a mysterious third man appears. He wears a bowtie, moustache and an air of youthful insouciance. Until now, he has not been named.
Calum Rupert Heaton-Gent is a 20-year-old history student at the University of Sheffield who tweets as @WeltPolitik, with a profile picture of an obscure 19th century German politician. Last year, he joined the Traditional Britain Group's (TBG) committee. The next month, he attended its Enoch Powell Centenary Dinner, a black-tie bash addressed by Dr Frank Ellis, a lecturer suspended by Leeds University in 2006 after he linked intelligence to race.
Perhaps more worrying for the Conservative Party than Rees-Mogg's brush with the TBG, which says Doreen Lawrence, mother of the murdered teenager Stephen, "should be requested to return to [her] natural homeland", is the revelation that Heaton-Gent is a senior figure in the official Tory youth wing. He is vice chair of his university branch of Conservative Future, and deputy chair of its Yorkshire and Humber branch.
The full gallery of photos of the Rees-Mogg dinner reveal a face of the TBG far fresher than that of Lauder-Frost, a veteran rebel whose far-right pressure group, the Monday Club, was banned by Tory HQ in 2001. Like Heaton-Gent, members are almost all young, at ease in bowties, and have names with more double barrels than a grouse shoot. Moreover, they represent a new generation of disaffected Tories, rejecting party politics in favour of right-wing groups wise to the recruiting power of social media.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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never trust anyone called rupert, they are usually sinister individuals.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I used to love reading the Rupert bear books as a child lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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good stories keith, no finance johnnies to ruin them.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I used to visit my mums friend each week and she used to get the Rupurt books out
kept me quiet for hours lol
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Jan Higgins
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When I was young I used to get a Rupert Annual every Christmas as did my children when they were young.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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yES jan
those were the books I read
they also had smaller books as I recall
kept me occupied(im sure that was the intention lol)
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David Cameron condemned over 'ridiculous' reforms to lobbying
Courtesy Independent.........
New scrutiny for legislation regarded as a joke within £2bn industry
David Cameron's flagship law to end Britain's lobbying scandals is a "useless dog's breakfast"
and the Government should urgently postpone its current fast-tracked progress through Westminster,
according to the head of the Commons committee that has scrutinised the reform.
Graham Allen, who leads the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, has taken
the unusual step of recalling his committee ahead of MPs' return to Parliament next month, to hold
special evidence sessions involving leading figures from the UK lobbying industry.
"The new lobbying law is rushed and ridiculous," said Mr Allen. He told The Independent: "Instead of
addressing the Prime Minister's promise to 'shine the light of transparency' on lobbying, this flawed
legislation will mean we'll all be back in a year facing another scandal. It is a dog's breakfast."
