Malalai Joya 60seconds interview 190809

Malalai Joya 60seconds interview 190809.pdf

Following my entry on Facebook on Afghanistan:

"I find words totally inadequate to describe the absolute futility of British involvement in both Iraq and Afghanistan. " read this fearless female MP’s last answer!

WHY AM I STANDING AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR THE EURO ELECTIONS 4 JUNE 2009?

WHY AM I STANDING AS AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR THE EURO ELECTIONS 4 JUNE 2009? [This is an open group eliciting innovative ideas to affect root and
branch reform of both European and British political governance on Facebook]

Dear All

I
am standing as an Independent Candidate for the Jury Team which is a
team [not a political party] of disparate Independent Candidates making
a stand for the common good – to change the political governance of
European and British Parliament.

Our liberty and freedom are
based on the Magna Carta. This introduced the idea that nobody is above
the law; not even the King or the Queen. Certainly not the MPs.

Why the name – Jury Team?

*
For nearly 800 years since that charter was signed, the jury has been
our fundamental protection against abuse by the government
* We have
kept faith with the jury system to reach important, judicious verdicts.
We trust them more than the decisions made by the paid elite.

Why the Jury Team?

* The politicians both in Europe and Westminster are disconnected and distant.
* They are out of touch with your needs.
* The political party system is broken.
* The parties are run by a small and increasingly cliquey group of interchangeable politicians.
* Less than 1% of the UK population belongs to a political party.
* Less than 20% of the electorate actually voted for the current government.
* The parties are just glorified employment bureaux for career politicians.
* Many of these would not be able to earn that much in any other career. That is why they milk the system.
* These MPs have to obey the party whip in order to get ahead. They become lobby fodder and patsies.
* They cease representing you and start representing themselves and their parties.
* The government always has the majority of MPs who are coerced by whips to vote for war, ID cards etc.
* This is not the parliament the British people desire and deserve.
* The Jury Team was founded to get real change in the European and British political governance.
*
The Jury Team is based on Nolan Principles [Selflessness, Integrity,
Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty and Leadership] to serve
their constituents and their country, not themselves or their party.
*
The Jury Team held an open on-line primary to select candidates for the
imminent European elections using the X Factor style text vote in which
most of you took part. As a result we are the candidates that you [the
public] selected.

We form a great jury. We are united by three guiding principles.

* Politics for the People
* Politics with Principles
* Politics without Parties

Built on these there are five policies for the European Elections:

*
The Jury Team MEPs will represent you, not any party line or whip, and
vote in line with the needs of constituents and the Country.
* MEPs
must be above any suspicion. Expenses to be approved only against
receipts to be published along with any outside earnings. Their pension
to be brought down in line with average for the European private sector.
* MEPs must be stopped going native on the gravy train. * MEPs should serve no more than three five-year terms.
*
Formation of external body with real teeth to keep MEPs honest. The
European Parliament should set up an Independent MEPs Complaints
Commission to investigate accusations about MEPs and their staff.
*
A mark on the ballot paper every five years no longer keeps the
politicians in check. You should be able to express what you think is
important. Referendums should be held whenever requested by 5% of the
electorate.

What would be my personal contribution?

In
line with my Independent Parliamentary Candidacy in May 2005 on the
platform of Equality, Diversity, and Social Inclusion and Social and
Political Justice I would further fight for:

* Making both the European and British Parliament truly representative of the very diversity that elects it.

* Directly elected House of Lords to make both houses fully accountable.

*
Directly elected Prime Minister but with proper regard to the British
funding constraints and indirectly implied obligations and undue
influence akin to the American model.

* Change in our electoral system in line with European model based on PR [Proportional Representation]

*
Separating the legislative and the executive – with British Cabinet
chosen by the PM but not not sitting in Parliament. This way the whips
will be eradicated and the House of Commons can properly begin to
scrutinise the House of Lords and holding the Government to account for
you – the people.

So, what can you do to clean up politics?

Make
sure that you, your family, your extended family, your friends,
colleagues and acquaintances come out to vote for the Jury Team on the
4 June 2009 to send a clear message to the European and British
Parliament.

Both Dr David Starkey and I are of the firm belief
that this is once-in-a-lifetime, unique, and unmissable opportunity to
bring on a British innovation, revolution and a root-and-branch reform
our political governance. That is what Tom Paine [a Founding Father of
United States] argued and struggled for in the 18th century.

Be
a stakeholder in this august opportunity. In years to come the citizens
of Britain will be proud to have innovated and implemented such a
change in our political governance preserving the public purse and,
with it, the public trust.

Anant M Vyas
Independent Candidate, Jury Team, South East England.
http://www.juryteam.org/candidate-profile.php?id=10561

Reform – The Week

Reform – The Week

This
week’s expenses revelations are a graphic
illustration
of a broader point – people are now aggressively questioning the value for money
of public institutions. As well as putting their own house in order, politicians
should take a closer look at all public expenditure and decide what really does
offer the taxpayer value for money.

Dale
Bassett, Editor

Quote of the week

“How
do you keep talented lower-class people at the bottom of the heap? You would
devise a system of education that values equality and solidarity more than
academic achievement … Young proletarians shouldn’t be educated beyond society’s
needs. Any sense of resentment will be soothed by feel-good qualifications. And
if the young people conceive that their qualifications should allow them into
university, this should be encouraged. But how to explain the lack of suitable
places? Aha! The concept of ‘parity of esteem’. This extends equality theory by
persuading students that the institution formerly known as Scunthorpe Catering
College is now a university and is as good as Cambridge.”

Simon
Carr, The Independent

10 LESSONS ABOUT MEPS’ LIVES

10 lessons

What Brian Wheeler learned from a week living the life of a Euro MP

European election candidates

Elections
for the European parliament will be held on 4 June 2009. Voters in the
UK will elect a total of 72 MEPs, a reduction from the current 78 due
to the enlargement of the European Union.

The UK is divided into 12 electoral regions, each represented by a
different number of MEPs. Click on the names below to find a complete
list of candidates in your area.

MORAL MORASS DEVOID OF MORAL COMPASS

Anant M Vyas
Is
Hazel saying that she recognises that she has stolen from the public
purse but rather than being repentant for being found out and offering to
reimburse the depleted purse, she’s asking the public to guard the
purse more securely so that greedy public servants like her cannot get
easy access to it? Does she have a moral compass?

Its like compelling the victim of robbery to fit competent alarm system!

BBC NEWS | UK | Minister faces flat sale pressure

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Communities
Secretary Hazel Blears has defended her position after coming under
fire for not paying capital gains tax on profit from the sale of a
London flat.

ELECTING MPs & MEPs FROM THE EXISTING PARTY SYSTEM IS LIKE KNOWINGLY APPOINTING DRACULA TO PROTECT THE BLOOD BANK

Anant M Vyas
"There
are those MPs who, despite their good intentions, have fallen victim to
an overly complex expenses system that has served to portray their
actions in an unflattering light" Sunday Telegraph

If you believe this then you will also believe that decent MPs like Martin Bell have no moral compass.

"The question you have to ask is who devised the system? MPs devised the system under their self-regulating arrangements"
Sir Alistair Graham, ex-chairman, committee for standards in public life

Quite right. Can any one expect Dracula to self regulate his propensity, gluttony and greed for blood?

BBC NEWS | UK | Minister faces flat sale pressure

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Communities
Secretary Hazel Blears is facing pressure after confirming she did not
pay capital gains tax on profit from the sale of a London flat.

ON THIS DAY 1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal. It relinquishes terrorism for day light robbery

Anant M Vyas
ON THIS DAY 1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal. It relinquishes terrorism for day light robbery.

BBC ON THIS DAY | 10 | 1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Members
of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the republican IRA, have voted to
accept the Good Friday peace agreement effectively acknowledging the
north-south border.

Select Anant M Vyas as your Member of European Parliament

Anant M
Vyas

TEXT  ANAVYA01  TO    86837

I am standing as a candidate through the help of the Jury Team. Any one in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can text and vote for me.

You can visit my profile on the Jury Team site and also check out this site as well as my Facebook profile.

I hope that you will support me where ever in this British isles you are and give me the opportunity to serve the wider community in the best way I know how.

Thank you

Anant

DHARMA WALK FOR FREE & NON-VIOLENT DEMOCRATIC BURMA – SATURDAY 6 OCT 2007

My photo & video coverage of the march in London UK.

 

 

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