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JACQUI SMITH - THE LEAK FACTOR

As any fule kno: if you fill your country with cheap foreign labour in the good times, then when the bad times come they will either make a disaffected mass of alien unemployed or, if retained in work, be attacked by out-of-work indigenes. One thing is certain: in green alcohol-fuelled Britain - 'there's gonna be a fight'. Further, Jacqui - being two-and-six short of a man - will have NO IDEA WHY.

Ooo, scary times, hurricanes in the States, do we care? Another lecture from Jackie Smith our home secretary...so what? I like Alistair Darling's language of telling us how bad it really is, I believe him because he is for the chop and has nothing to lose.

FUNDAMENTALS

How about looking into what may be at the root of much that's going wrong today, instead of just reporting the consequences? I appreciate that the Newsnight team has limited time/resources, but some of this warrants more scrutiny than US politics I suggest.

A VOTE FOR FUNDAMENTALS #3

How many of you in the Newsnight Team have investigated your deepest motivations? How many would dare?

Each walk of life has its underlying stereotype. There are a set of professions that 'interfere' with the lives of others (I will not list to avoid offence). Politicians fall in this group. Will Newsnight look at 'What Politicians Really Want'? You can't fail to notice that, after the clergy, they are a funny lot.

In passing: I went into science. You can hide from emotion and make logic your god.

"The Irish Republic may need to hold a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty, despite its rejection by voters in June, an Irish minister says."

Has the Treaty changed ? or have they been told to do it again till they vote the right way this time ?

What is going on over there , whats the No camp saying ?

Hard times ahead? Depends whether you believe what Darling told The Guardian or
what he told The Stornoway Gazette .....



Not a very good time either to pick a fight with Russia. Why on earth are we doing
this? Has Gordon Brown lost his marbles?

How many times do Ministers need to be reminded that Georgia attacked Ossetia
not vice-versa .........

Perhaps you should interview Valery Gergiev (conductor of the LSO) and
the only South Ossetian I have seen
recently - conducting Prokofiev at the
Edinburgh Festival before he dashed
back home to conduct a requiem for
those who died when Sakashvili and
the Georgian army attacked his town.

This is about oil and pipelines as ever.

Charles Clarke MP might have some insight into the crisis that beset the Attlee Govt sixty years ago ...... his father Otto was
then at The Treasury. Apparently Cripps
at one point suggested to Attlee that he might resign as PM and become The Chancellor of The Exchequer ..........

Tony Benn and/or Anthony Howard will probably remember all the ins and outs.

WHAT ARE WE SIGNED UP TO? (#5)

Does anybody know? If Major or Brown or some other limited-intellect has signed a document that says: "No referendum shall be taken as binding on, or even relevant to, EU matters" then it is surely time to fill the Tunnel with cement and make all the ferries one-way? Your move Newsnight.

Deal with something significant and send a crew to the London Hilton where 9 of the 10 men alive who have completed 100 first-class centuries will be celebrating over dinner tonight (boycott, amiss, hick, abbas, gooch, graveney, edrich, turner and ramprakash). but where is sir Viv Richards?

If only we had that Feodor (#9)! We could do with something good in the news.

is Scot right? Are women over 50 finished in TV News?

how ageist is the uk? Everyone knows men over 50 are finished in manual work. So women over 50 are finished in beauty work?

NATIONAL PRIDE

Whilst somewhat ebbing from the news, it should be noted that from 1934 to 1961 was known as Staliniri, and that Gori was Stalin's birth-place. Georgia's attack on Tskhinvali was far more than just waving a blue-flag to a bear, and Russia's occupation of Gori should be seen in the same light perhaps now that it's trying to recover its pride after what was done in the early 1990s.

The fact that Russia is now considering selling its S300/S400 system to Iran, which lies South of Georgia via Armenia (Russia's ally) and that Iran is keen to join the SCO, should wake a few people up.

Well Selina Scott (57) is suing Channel 5 for age discrimination, Moira Stewart was dumped a couple of years ago, and even Nick Ross (60) was dumped by Crimewatch for being "too old." I doubt the public looked upon any of those people as being too old - they think of them as a national treasure!

Jeremy Paxman is next ...please

GEORGIA - FALKLANDS?

Viewed from outside Britain, I imagine Maggie's reaction looked a bit OTT. But surely no one would liken the Thatcher nationalism as in anyway similar to Putins?
What good fortune the Gibraltar issue never quite boiled over. Oh wad some power the giftie gie us . . .

HOT NEWS - SCIENTIST PROVE THEMSELVES RIGHT!

We are warmer than we were. We have not been warmer than we are (over more than a thousand years). The only thing they forgot to prove was that 'we dun it'. Doh!