YEAR 1

1997 May 01.05.97 Labour wins general election by a landslide: 419 Lab / 165 Con / 46 Lib / 29 Others / 10.5% swing / 179 majority 02.05.97 Blair arrives at Downing Street to ranks of flag-waving Labour stooges 06.05.97 Chancellor George Brown raises bank rate 0.25% to 6.25%, hands setting bank rate to Bank of England, mortgage rate 7.6% 09.05.97 Blair reduces prime minister's questions to 1 session per week 13.05.97 The 2 IRA MPs told swear the oath of loyalty or no offices at Westminster 14.05.97 State opening of Parliament 15.05.97 BT & BAA to challenge Chancellor's plan to impose a Windfall Tax, some other utilities thinking about it 19.05.97 Bank of England loses power to regulate financial services; govt. to outlaw tobacco sponsorship of sporting events 20.05.97 Chancellor ends self-regulation in the City 21.05.97 First new-style PMQ; MI5 puts recruiting advert in The Times 23.05..97 Blair tells the EU that the UK wants to participate – on his terms 25.05.97 Chancellor forced to postpone Budget over Windfall Tax problems 30.05.97 Govt. to abolish recommended retail prices 1997 June 01.06.97 New ruling: all Cabinet 'kites' must have PM's approval 04.06.97 Govt. opposes EU plan to impose works councils on firms with 50 or more staff 05.06.97 Govt. talking about banning beef from Europe as BSE precautions there not stringent enough 06.06.97 Bank of England raises lending rate to 6.5%, building soc. rate up to 7.95% 08.06.97 Outrage over BNF plan to fly plutonium over cities to reprocessing plant 09.06.97 Blair to make £250K profit on sale of house in Islington 12.06.97 Labour planning to make 'rich' pensioners pay for NHS treatment 15.06.97 John Prescott upset because the BBC read papers on privatizing the Tube, which he left in a studio 19.06.97 William Hague elected youngest Tory leader for 200 years 22.06.97 Govt. making noises about scrapping legal aid to end fraud 30.06.97 Hong Kong becomes Chinese again at midnight/5 p.m. British time; BA ground staff vote to strike 1997 July 02.07.97 First Budget – Blair/Brown Stealth Tax campaign begins, £5.2 billion Windfall Tax, VAT on domestic fuel reduced to 5% 06.07.97 Riots in Ulster after Drumcree Orange parade allowed to proceed, policewoman shot & wounded 07.07.97 Labour abolishes selection of school intake by ability; more riots in Ulster 08.07.97 Headline inflation in June up from 2.6% to 2.9% 09.07.97 Blair backs a ban on foxhunting; start of 3-day BA strike 10.07.97 100,000 pro-hunting protesters in Hyde Park; bank rate raised 0.25% to 6.75%; Orange Order calls off marches in Republican areas of Belfast 11.07.97 IRA shoots up army/RUC patrol in Belfast 15.07.97 Ofwat suggests one-off 10% cut in water bills as compensation for profiteering 16.07.97 1.6 million unemployed in June 18.07.97 One-third of hospitals in England have run out of cash 19.07.97 IRA promises another cease fire from noon tomorrow 20.07.97 Better-off parents of students will have to pay £1,000 for tuition fees 21.07.97 Chancellor Brown steals £1B from Lottery for his fiscal black hole; Govt. to review £1.3 billion of road-building plans; IMF wants Chancellor to extend range of VAT 30.07.97 Scrapping of Recommended Retail Prices ordered 31.07.97 Blight destroys large part of potato crop; 3 High Court judges award Spanish fishermen compensation for being banned form British waters 1997 August 01.08.97 31 new Labour peers created; 1,000 lb IRA bomb defused in Co. Fermanagh 03.08.97 Foreign Sec. Robin Cook adultery shock-horror 04.08.97 Cars without tax discs to be clamped or crushed 07.08.97 Interest rated up again to 7% 11.08.97 Petrol price to go up 6p/litre (27p/gallon) by end of following week 12.08.97 Inflation up from 2.9% in June to 3.3% in July; British Tourist Authority to drop the Union Flag 13.08.97 Fiddled unemployment figure 1.55 million, lowest for 17 years 14.08.97 A-Level pass rate at 16th successive record level 17.08.97 Outrage: Millennium Dome covering to be made in Germany 21.08.97 Germans lose £6M Dome contract to US firm – the price is up to £14M now but the covering will last twice as long 22.08.97 The Germans want £2M compensation and the 'US' firm is Japanese-owned 25.08.97 Egon Krenz, last leader of DDR, gaoled 6 years for manslaughter of escapers 27.08.97 UK top oe European asthma list, London world's 9th most expensive city 31.08.97 Death of Princess Diana in car crash in Paris 1997 September 06.09.97 Funeral of Princess Diana 09.09.97 British Airports Authority pours cold water on plan to rename Heathrow 11.09.97 Scots vote 'yes' for a parliament on a low turn-out 16.09.97 South Armagh police station destroyed by Irish terrorist car bomb 18.09.97 Hit Squad sent to Hackney to run failing schools 19.09.97 Welsh vote 'yes' to a parliament by 0.6% – 25% of whole population in favour 21.09.97 Govt. junks plan for English regional assemblies 25.09.97 Irish terrorists attack 2 Belfast police stations 29.09.97 House prices up 13% on 1996 level 30.09.97 Labour to scrap internment law for Irish terrorists 1997 October 01.10.97 Owning a pistol over .22 calibre becomes a criminal offence 05.10.97 Millennium Dome expected to cost £1 billion, double the estimate 08.10.97 US drops the IRA from its list of banned terrorist organizations 13.10.97 Blair cosies up to Gerry Adams in Belfast; First of Millennium Dome's masts erected 14.10.97 £300 million moved from Defence budget to NHS 20.10.97 Chancellor Brown switches on new Stock Exchange computer dealing system, market drops £10 billion 22.10.97 Prime Minister jeered at Stock Exchange over Monday's losses 23.10.97 Hong Kong stock market crashes, FTSE down 3% & below 5,000, Wall Street down 2.3% 28.10.97 MoD admits unlicensed drugs given to soldiers in 1991 Gulf War; Stock markets recover, led by US 29.10.97 Govt. asks Brazil to extradite Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, 68 30.10.97 2 Irish terrorist bombs, Londonderry & Armagh; Govt. lifts exclusion orders on Irish terrorists 1997 November 01.11.97 Airport Tax doubled, £10 to Europe, £20 long-haul 05.11.97 Formula One exempt from ban on tobacco advertising 06.11.97 Bank rate up to 7.25% 11.11.97 New Labour forced to repay £1M donation from Bernie Ecclestone but the task of delaying a ban on tobacco advertising at Formula One races is accomplished; Inflation 3.7% in October 12.11.97 Brazil says 'no' to Biggs extradition 13.11.97 Revealed: Labour was offered a 2nd gift of £½ by Bernie Ecclestone 16.11.97 Blair forced to apologize for tobacco sponsorship mess 17.11.97 Grant-maintained schools, which New Labour wants to abolish, best in league tables 18.11.97 Hospital waiting lists up, contrary to Labour election promise 23.11.97 Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 17-45 at Green Bay 24.11.97 Stock market down £16 billion 25.11.97 Mini-budget, £20 apiece to pensioners to buy fuel + vague promises 1997 December 01.12.97 New Labour's assault on savings begins with the abolition of Personal Equity Plans; Welsh farmers protest over ban on beef on the bone 02.12.97 Labour smash & grab on PEPs to follow when ISAs created 03.12.97 Govt. bans sales of beef on the bone – vanishingly small BSE risk 04.12.97 Farmers' blockage spreads from Wales & Scotland to England 07.12.97 Farmers' pickets at ports remain peaceful 08.12.97 Complaints about the railways at a record high 10.12.97 47 Labour MPs vote against govt. on cutting lone parent benefits 11.12.97 G. Adams & other IRA leaders entertained at 10 Downing St 13.12.97 Republicans rioting again in Ulster 16.12.97 3 Irish terrorists gaoled for planning lorry bombs; Labour MP M. Sarwar arrested for election fraud 17.12.97 Agriculture Minister Jack Cunningham blows £100,000 on a new logo 22.12.97 Irish terrorist Patrick Magee, 1984 Brighton bomber, allowed home for Xmas; Demo by disabled at Downing St. gates 24.12.97 Severe weather, 100+ mph gales, power lines down 26.12.97 Lots of hunting, not much protesting 27.12.97 Irish terrorists killing one another in Maze prison & Co. Tyrone 28.12.97 Mass cull of chickens in Hong Kong to combat bird flu outbreak 30.12.97 Day of terrorist funerals in Ulster 31.12.97 More terrorist attacks in Belfast 1998 January 02.01.98 Home Sec. revealed as the father of a teenage dope dealer exposed by the Daily Mirror; Troops on patrol again in Ulster 06.01.98 Labour planning to privatize inner-city schools 07.01.98 Strong pound blamed for putting thousands of Vauxhall jobs at risk 06.01.98 UK presidency of EU begins 06.01.98 Prime Ministers tells Robin Cook he can't take his mistress on foreign trips 13.01.98 Inflation 3.6%, government misses its inflation target of 2.5% for 8th successive month 15.01.98 Blair welfare roadshow hits the streets 16.01.98 Care In The Community to be scrapped for the dangerously demented 17.01.98 Govt. backs down on banning no win/no fee legal actions and stopping legal aid for civil cases 18.01.98 White House accused of leaks to the IRA 20.01.98 Protest by farmers in London 21.01.98 IRA rejects Blair peace plan for Ulster; new sex scandal involving President Clinton; an affair with a White House staffer 26.01.98 Bill Clinton denies everything 27.01.98 Govt. sends out winter fuel giros to pensioners dated 1995; Lords vote against a ban on beef on the bone 28.01.98 Robin Cook in trouble over abuse of expenses; John Prescott threatens to nationalize EuroStar 29.01.98 Govt. to phase in public sector pay rise; Blair decides to hold an inquiry into Bloody Sunday 30.01.98 Agriculture Sec. Jack Cunningham threatening butchers selling beef on the bone 1998 February 01.02.98 DPM J. Prescott wants to replace Council Tax caps by local referenda on high spending 08.02.98 Death of Enoch Powell, 85 09.02.98 Chancellor Brown's new kite – higher National Insurance for higher-paid 10.02.98 IRA kills second-in-command of UDA 11.02.98 Blair promises to throw G. Adams out of peace talks if IRA proved to be behind latest killings; Hospitals refusing to give people appointments in order to stay within govt. waiting list targets 13.02.98 RUC chief says IRA was behind murders in Ulster 16.02.98 IRA threatens legal action if thrown out of Ulster peace talks 17.02.98 Judges required to reveal links with Freemasons 20.02.98 IRA thrown out of peace talks; 11 injured by IRA bomb in Co. Down 23.02.98 Centre of Portadown wrecked by IRA car bomb 25.02.98 Letter bomb at Royal Mail centre in Belfast 26.02.98 33 blood products removed from the market over fears of CJD transmission 27.02.98 Paratrooper Lee Clegg's conviction unsafe, retrial ordered 28.02.98 Original large 50p coin no longer legal tender; Midnight deadline for handing in small calibre firearms; compensation to be paid 'eventually' 1998 March 01.03.98 Save our Countryside march in London; No reduction in drink-drive limit 02.03.98 Prescriptions up 15p to £5.80 in April 04.03.98 Sale of Gt. Western Trains blocked as of no benefit to passengers; Govt. gave away £736M on privatization 13.03.98 Fox hunting bill collapses; Quick Whitehall whitewash – John Prescott & family totally innocent 16.03.98 Passport controls for people leaving the UK to be scrapped 17.03.98 Second Budget: taxes up on tobacco, petrol, etc., U-turn on ISA top limit 19.03.98 Blair ticked off for undeclared junket to British Grand Prix 2 years earlier 20.03.98 Prescott plans to bring private enterprise into running the Tube; £14K tax bill for Lord Chancellor – for enoying the benefits of his hugely expensive office refurbishment 22.03.98 Govt. plans to streamline asylum-seeker screening – out within 7 days of rejection; Russian President Boris Yeltsin sacks his entire cabinet! 24.03.98 Labour ditches Blackpool as party conference venue 31.03.98 Oil price down, OPEC cuts production for the first time in a decade 1998 April 02.04.98 980 lbs of explosives found in car bomb at Dun Loughaire 07.04.98 Unionists say no to Ulster peace formula – Blair steps in 10.04.98 Peace deal reached in Ulster 13.04.98 Death Sir Ian MacGregor, Coal Board boss who stood up to striking miners in 1984 14.04.98 Irish govt. releases 9 gaoled IRA terrorists; NUT votes to strike in pursuit of 4-day week 16.04.98 Exports at 7-year low due to high value of pound 20.04.98 French & Germans squabbling over control of Eurobank 28.04.98 Monthly trade balance deeper in the red than during '91 recession 30.04.98 10,000 EU staff to strike over linking pay to performance

YEAR 2

1998 May 02.05.98 Euro launch and an international row – the French want their man to head the Euro bank 04.05.98 European parliament threatens legal challenge to dirty deal on Euro bank 05.05.98 Blair roughed up in Commons over Euro bank deal 07.05.98 Local elections – nothing much for Tories, Liberals the losers 13.05.98 Use of British blood products banned over CJD fears 17.05.98 It's Official: Everyone is paying more tax under Labour 19.05.98 Inflation in April was 4%; Strikes threatened at ports & airports over abolition of duty-free goods 22.05.98 Record vote in Ulster on peace deal 28.05.98 £3.60/hour minimum wage is too low say unions, too high say employers 1998 June 01.06.98 Report on CPS: minor crime pursued more vigorously than violent crime 02.06.98 Chancellor G. Brown promises a Budget surplus every year; spending ministries furious 03.06.98 BBC technicians threaten to black out World Cup 04.06.98 Bank rate up 0.25% to 7.5%; BBC strike, no live programmes 07.06.98 Rolling Stones call off British tour as protest against Labour's tax juggling 08.06.98 Protest against diesel tax – lorry drivers go slow on M6 then M1; RMT threatens rail strikes 09.06.98 Environment minister M. Meacher proposes Refuse Tax; Foreign Office ministers face contempt of Parliament charges over refusal to answer questions about illegal arms to Africa deals 03.06.98 World Cup opening match: Brazil 2, Scotland 1 11.06.98 Labour decides to sell of the Royal Mint, air traffic control, the Commonwealth Development Corporation and motorway service station 15.06.98 Inflation in May up to 4.2% 22.06.98 MPs vote to lower the age of consent for homophiles to 16 23.06.98 Trade gap £3.8 billion in 1st quarter of 1998 – worst for 5 years 28.06.98 More troops sent to Ulster for marching season 30.06.98 England put out of World Cup by Argentina on penalties, TV audience 26 million 1998 July 01.07.98 First meeting of Northern Ireland Assembly 03.07.98 Volkswagen completes takeover of Rolls Royce 05.07.98 Government in cash for access scandal 09.07.98 Bank rate held at 7.5% 10.07.98 6 Irish terrorists arrested, planning to bomb the Tube 13.07.98 Chancellor vows to squeeze public sector pay and spend vast amounts on NHS, education, etc. 20.07.98 DPM J. Prescott unveils transport white paper 21.07.98 Govt. working party suggests changes to licensing laws, including 24-hour opening 22.07.98 Lords reject 16 as age of consent for homophiles 24.07.98 Executed WW I deserters to get names on war memorials but no mass pardon; Entrance charges for museums to be scrapped 'by 2001' 27.07.98 FO officials take all blame in arms for Africa scandal, politicians innocent of everything 28.07.98 Cabinet reshuffle, yet more Blair cronies inserted 29.07.98 Scotland Yard investigation of corrupt police officers to include CPS 30.07.98 Labour unveils self-serving, first annual report of bogus achievements, ignores youth crime, unemployment, the economy, school class sizes, NHS waiting lists, and all other bad news 31.07.98 Govt. scraps all but 37 of 140 road-building schemes 1998 August 01.08.98 Blair & family use Queen's Flight for junket to Italy 03.08.98 Tony Blair appoints crony as Business Minister for Scottish Office; not an MP 07.08.98 Irish murderer of Lord Mountbatten freed from gaol; US embassies in Kenya & Tanzania bombed 10.08.98 US puts $2 million bounty on embassy bombers 11.08.98 Stock market plunges again 14.08.98 Lab Party row over closed sessions at conference 15.08.98 28 people killed by Irish terrorist bomb at Omagh, highest number killed in 30 years 20.08.98 US launches air strikes on Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan & Sudan 21.08.98 Global stock market slump 23.08.98 Moslem terrorists threaten strikes in West 24.08.98 Shops reopen in Omagh 25.08.98 Terrorist Abu Nidal arrested in Egypt 26.08.98 Russians besiege banks to withdraw savings 28.08.98 Russian President B. Yeltsin on TV – he won't quit; Labour MPs force Blair to tone down planned anti-terror laws 30.08.98 Big perks on offer to Labour donors – It's official! 31.08.98 Wall Street plunges; N. Korea fires missile 1,240 miles – over Japan August-September stock markets plunging around the world 1998 September 01.09.98 Share prices plunge again 02.09.98 Blair rushes anti-terror law through Parliament in 1 day 07.09.98 Has BSE spread to sheep? Or is that just scare-mongering? 10.09.98 PM slows down reform of Lords & freedom of information; Bank rate remains 7.5% 11.09.98 16 terrorists released from gaol in N. Ireland 15.09.98 Bank of England hits inflation rate target! 16.09.98 Blair barracked by redundant workers on 'moral boosting' trip to his constituency 17.09.98 Shortage of nurses serious but govt. refuses to raise pay rates 21.09.98 Trial by TV of Pres. Bill 'Slick Willy' Clinton 23.09.98 European Court of Human Rights awards caned British boy &poun;10,000 29.09.98 Serb massacre in Kosovo exposed 30.09.98 DPM Prescott promises to shake up the railways at Labour conference 1998 October 01.10.98 World stock markets plunge again 02.10.98 NATO firepower massing for a go at the Serbs over Kosovo 05.10.98 Share prices down again 06.10.98 Business failures up 3% in first 9 months of year 07.10.98 Labour plans to use 1/3 of lottery money instead of tax money; Chancellor Brown forced to ditch guesses on growth 08.10.98 Congress to launch impeachment inquiry against Pres. Clinton 09.10.98 Russians ask for food aid from EU; Another Italian govt. collapses 11.10.98 Police exhuming bodies wholesale in Hyde re Dr. Shipman inquiry 14.10.98 Bangers & mini-rockets banned in run-up to Bonfire Night 15.10.98 BBC outbid, loses home Test matches to Channel 4 & Sky 17.10.98 Gen. Pinochet arrested in London on Spanish warrant 20.10.98 Bank of England – no cut in interest rates 21.10.98 A day at the Millennium Dome will cost £22 26.10.98 Alan Meale, MP, exposed as sleaze-monger when PPS to DPM Prescott; Exposed: Mandelson diluting pro-union changes promised by Labour 27.10.98 Welsh Sec. Ron Davies questioned by police bizarre sexual adventures on Clapham Common on 26/10, resigns next day 31.10.98 Iran ends all dealings with UN weapons inspectors Inflation in October 3.2% 1998 November 02.11.98 Welsh Sec. Ron Davies blames his genes & media intrusion in a Commons statement 05.11.98 Interest & mortgate rates down 0.5% 06.11.98 Blair launches £700M campaign to connect every classroom to Internet by 2002 09.11.98 Civil service 'sick note' culture threatened with crackdown 11.11.98 Unemployment up by all means of measurement 12.11.98 Lords reject Euro elections by picking a party instead of a candidate 16.11.98 Government gives £120M to farmers, whose total income has dropped by £2 billion 17.11.98 Govt. to cut Territorial Army by one-third; Lords reject voting for party instead of people for 4th time 18.11.98 55 second apology from Paymaster Gen. G. Robinson for failing to disclose incomes; Lords sink Euro elections bill with 5th rejection 20.11.98 Charges dropped against man accused of robbing R. Davies 21.11.98 Govt. to raise motoring insurance premiums to pay for NHS road accident treatment 24.11.98 Govt. puts evicting hereditary peers from Lords on its list at State Opening of Parliament 25.11.98 Lords reject amnesty for Gen. Pinochet; EU tax commissioner wants same VAT rates everywhere 26.11.98 Gov. of Bank of England says no more interest rate cuts 30.11.98 EU wants to ban leaded petrol from 2000 – motor industry says substitutes not effective 1998 December 01.12.98 Germans & French want to end UK veto on EU tax changes; 200-point fall on stock exchange 03.12.98 Countries using euro cut interest rate to 3% except 3.5% in Italy 04.12.98 Ulster deal surrendered over surrender of IRA weapons; French & Germans want UK's EU refund cancelled 06.12.98 Predicted: lowest Xmas spending ever 07.12.98 P. Mandelson bottles out of privatizing the Post Office 09.12.98 Home Sec. J. Straw says Gen. Pinochet must face extradition hearing 10.12.98 Bank rate down 0.5% to 6.5% 12.12.98 Govt.'s Action 2000 wants punters to stock up with 2 weeks' food in case of Millennium melt-down 15.12.98 Lords reject Euro election bill for 6th & last time 16.12.98 USA attacks Iraq with cruise missiles 17.12.98 RAF Tornado fighters attack Iraq 18.12.98 Russia withdraws ambassador to Britain over Iraq 20.12.98 Life back to normal in Baghdad after 'war' ends 21.12.98 P. Mandelson in trouble over secret £373,000 loan from Paymaster Gen. G. Robinson 23.12.98 Mandelson & Robinson obliged to resign 28.12.98 US jets shoot up Iraqi missile batteries after fired upon 30.12.98 Deputy PM J. Prescott advises govt. to spend its way out of trouble 31.12.98 The euro launched 1999 January 03.01.99 Black hooker says Pres. Bill Clinton is the father of her child 04.01.99 Crony Lord Falconer put in charge of Millennium Dome, Charlie Whelan, Brown spin-doctor, resigns over leaks about Mandelson 07.01.99 Impeachment of Bill Clinton begins slowly; Bank rate down 0.25% to 6.0% 08.01.99 Peter Mandelson declared innocent of cheating on his mortgage 09.01.99 £6.4M French inquiry says no one to blame for Princess Diana's death 10.01.99 DNA test shows Bill Clinton not the father of the hooker's kid 11.01.99 Ex-wife's book calls Robin Cook a serial adulterer & drunk 12.01.99 Germany pressing for majority voting in EU and end to British veto 14.01.99 Clinton impeachement trial proper starts 16.01.99 Another Serb massacre uncovered in Kosovo 18.01.99 Yugoslavia expels Kosovo peace monitors 19.01.99 Inflation up to 2.6%; Former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken pleads guilty to perjury 20.01.99 Tests show education standards down in State schools 22.01.99 Jack Cunningham, Cabinet 'enforcer' received freebies from BNFL, Lord Sainsbury, Science Minister, has interests in GM foods, for which he has responsibility 23.01.99 Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards says Mandelson is innocent 24.01.99 6 members of International Olymic Committee to be asked to resign for corruption 25.01.99 MPs vote to lower age for homophile sexual consent 26.01.99 First Moslem MP on trial for fiddling election expenses; Blair tells public sector to think of job satisfaction, not more wages 29.01.99 Spanish blockade border at Gibraltar 1999 February 01.02.99 12% for some nurses, big pay rises for some head teachers; £15K severance pay for Mandelson 03.02.99 Beef on the bone ban to remain for 6 months 04.02.99 Bank rate down 0.5% to 5.5%; IRA admits 'ex-members' have stolen weapons 05.02.99 New Labour hypocrisy exposed – took cash from GM food developer 06.02.99 Monica Lewinsky gives evidence to Clinton impeachment attempt 07.02.99 BMW demands £200M for Rover or the jobs go to Hungary 09.02.99 MPs bash Foreign Office over arms sales to Sierra Leone 11.02.99 Blair sends tanks to the Balkans to fight the Serbs 12.02.99 Govt. refuses to do anything about GM foods; Clinton impeachment attempt fails 14.02.99 Safety inspectors have found problems at 70+ GM crop testing sites 15.02.99 Blair endorses GM foods; Huge council tax rises on the way 16.02.99 Govt. postpones commercial planting of GM crops for at least 1 hear; Inflation 2.6%, missing 2.5% target 17.02.99 Royal Society reissues report on GM foods, which govt. has ignored for 5 months 18.02.99 4 tons of GM soya dumped at Downing St. gates 19.02.99 British citizens told to get out of Yugoslavia before the bombing starts, Kosovo talks get nowhere 21.02.99 5 suspects arrested over Omagh terrorist bombing 22.02.99 Home Sec. Jack Straw's injunction against leaked Lawrence report collapses 23.02.99 Govt. to spend tens of millions of pounds on preparing for the euro; Worst trade gap for 10 years 24.02.99 Much-leaked report on Stephen Lawrence murder published 25.02.99 Informants' names & addresses included in Lawrence report 26.02.99 Duty-free reprieved for 18 months but now subject to VAT 27.02.99 3 men arrested in Irish Republic over Omagh terrorist bombing 1999 March 03.03.99 Blair admits taxes have gone up under Labour 04.03.99 EU/US banana war breaks out 05.03.99 EU threatens retaliation against US over banana tax; Robin Cook in trouble for getting leaked reports from Commons committees 09.03.99 Budget – tax on petrol & cigarettes up, Brown abolishes married couple's allowance and mortgage tax relief – most people are losers 14.03.99 Labour ready to do a U-turn on GM foods – 3 year voluntary ban on tests?; Labour's Stealth Taxes killing off a previously healthy road haulage industry 15.03.99 All 20 EU Commissioners resign over report on fraud & corruption 16.03.99 EU President Jacques Santer & EU Commission say they are not responsible for the waste, fraud & sleaze in their empire 17.03.99 Truckers threaten to clog London as a protest 18.03.99 Visiting the Millennium Dome will cost £20/head plus public transport cost for getting there. 09.03.99 EU President Jacques Santer out of a job, will stage come-back as Luxembourg MEP; Labour MP Fiona Jones convicted of election expenses fraud 22.03.99 Lorry drivers protest against vehicle & diesel taxes in London; Home Secretary Jack Straw blocks early release from gaol of 4 IRA terrorists 23.03.99 The Cancellor fiddled the Budget figures – taxes are up, not down; Courts over-rule Straw & the IRA terrorists walk 24.03.99 NATO air raids on Serbs over Kosovo 25.03.99 Italy gets cold feet over continuing bombing of Serbs 28.03.99 British Summer Time starts; estimated 25% of Kosovan Albanians now refugees, attacks on Serbs continue 29.03.99 IRA reveals where 9 of its murder victims are buried 31.03.99 Government does £150 million rescue deal for Rover's Longbridge plant 1999 April 02.04.99 US computer programmer charged with creating Melissa email virus 04.04.99 Refugees from Kosovo to be given temporary asylum abroad, 20,000 going to UK 05.04.99 Assault on savings – Tessas & PEPs abolished; 2 Libyans suspected of Lockerbie bombing sent to Netherlands & arrested 06.04.99 Blair picks raving federalist to head European Commission 07.04.99 World Trade Organization approves US sanctions in banana war 08.04.99 Interest rates down to 27-year low in UK, down from 5½% to 5¼%, down 3% to 2½% in eurozone 09.04.99 Govt. block Sky bid for Manchester United 11.04.99 NATO finds mass graves in Kosovo 12.04.99 Lorry drivers' blockade in 7 cities over taxes: Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Middlesborough, Newcastle, Plymouth, Truro 13.04.99 Snow on first day of cricket season!; Lords throw out attempt to lower homophile age of consent to 16 16.04.99 Serbs making final push to expel Albanians from Kosovo 17.04.99 Nail bomb injures 50 people in Brixton market 20.04.99 Inflation up to 2.7% in March due to Budget 24.04.99 Nail bomb in Asian quarter of East End of London 25.04.99 Latest food scare – gene transfer from GM foods to create antibiotic-resistant superbugs 27.04.99 Tesco & Birdseye/Walls cut GM food ingredients from their ranges 28.04.99 Man with rifle arrested after shooting up Hanworth, West London 29.04.99 Fiona Jones cleared of election fraud and gets her seat back; Cadbury's bans GM foods 30.04.99 Death of Sir Alf Ramsey, World Cup-winning England football coach

YEAR 3

1999 May 02.05.99 British tourists warned: US beef contains cancer-causing growth hormone 03.05.99 Body of George Mallory found on Mount Everest 05.05.99 MEPs reject plan to cut their expenses 06.05.99 Elections for Scottish & Welsh parliaments 07.05.99 Chancellor Gordon Brown announces sale of 50% of Britain's gold reserves as a prelude to joining the euro 09.05.99 EU president wants an EU army 11.05.99 Labour to ban compulsory team games in schools 13.05.99 Europe willing to risk trade war over ban on hormone-laden US beef 17.05.99 British Medical Association wants an open-ended moratorioum on GM crops; IMF warns Britain that joining the euro could be a disaster 18.05.99 Commons committee says don't stop growing GM crops 19.05.99 Home Sec. wants to end the choice of a trial by jury 20.05.99 67 Labour MPs vote against govt. on bill to reform disablement benefit but majority still 40 21.05.99 3 Irish students gaoled for 20+ years for bombings in 1998 24.05.99 Home Sec. Straw unveils watered down Freedom of Information Bill 25.05.99 Govt. blocks cut in junior doctors working hours to 48/week; Brown caving in over German demand for 20% tax on offshore investments 27.05.99 Chancellor's 7th May announcement of gold sale has dropped price & ensured that the July sale will be at a loss 28.05.99 First body of 'disappeared' victim of IRA murder returned 29.05.99 Thunderstorms, hail, high winds and power blackouts 1999 June 02.06.99 Hypocrite Blair attacks grammar schools 05.06.99 5 men arrested after a woman killed by a terrorist bomb in Portadown 06.06.99 NATO tells Serbs: leave Kosovo and sign a peace treaty or the bombing will be stepped up 07.06.99 61% of British people against the single currence; 25 acres of GM crops destroyed after Soil Association thretens to unendorse neighbouring organic crops 08.06.99 Jonathan Aitken gets 18 months in gaol for perjury 09.06.99 Milosevich agrees to take Serb troops out of Kosovo Thursday, 10.06.99 Europeans elections, votes to be counted on Sunday; Bank rate down 0.25% to 5% 11.06.99 Turn-out in European elections 23%, lowest ever 12.06.99 British troops enter Kosovo 13.06.99 Big gains for Tories in Euro-elections 14.06.99 Mass graves found in Kosovo 15.06.99 Inflation 1.8% headline, 2.4% underlying 17.06.99 Revealed: Serbs killed 10,000 people in 100 massacres in Kosovo; Death Screaming Lord Sutch, 59 18.06.99 Carnival Against Capitalism in London, mobs go on rampage 22.06.99 Brighton bomber Patrick Magee released 20 years early 24.06.99 Greg Dyke, Labour party financial donor, made next Director General of BBC 25.06.99 British & Irish PMs trying for peace deal in Ulster not involving surrender of IRA weapons 26.06.99 46 unlucky winners share National Lottery jackpot 27.06.99 Labour scraps Housing Benefit to make poor people get a job 28.06.99 Home Sec. orders Passport Office to work evenings & weekends 29.06.99 Home Sec. obliged to apologize for passport-issuing shambles; Bodies of 2 people murdered & 'vanished' by IRA found 30.06.99 Deadline for a deal on Ulster missed 1999 July 01.07.99 Queen opens Scottish Parliament; end of duty free in EU; Peter Mandelson cleared in sleaze report – had mortgages of £600K and a salary of £43K, but no sleaze involved! 02.07.99 Peace deal of sorts for Ulster, but has to be sold to Unionists & IRA 05.07.99 Tornadoes over West Midlands 06.07.99 Chancellor Brown's sale of 25 tons of Britain's gold reserves made at 20-year low price of $168/troy ounce 07.07.99 Blair leaks plan to privatize the Post Office; Librans admit murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984, diplomatic relations restored 08.07.99 Blair to get foxhunting banned to mend fences with DPM John Prescott 09.07.99 Volvo found guilty of price-fixing by Office of Fair Trading but no penalty 10.07.99 Man arrested in Dublin over plot to poison drinking water in England 12.07.99 Revealed: Labour received £1M donation from anti-foxhunting group; US & Canada ban UK meat, fruit & chocolate over EU ban on hormones in their beef 14.07.99 Deal with Argentina, flights to Falklands resumed; Worldwide ban on British beef lifted 15.07.99 Unionists boycott Assembly meeting to nominate Ulster govt. 16.07.99 Govt. drops plan to cut drink/drive alcohol limit in half 21.07.99 IRA threatens to call off cease-fire 22.07.99 EU survey shows British car prices a rip-off 23.07.99 Tories win Eddisbury by-election; Passport Agency stripped of Charter Mark 26.07.99 Lorry blockade in London; Blair govt. publishes comically rosy report on its first 2 years 27.07.99 Govt. sells off 49% of Air Traffic Control; 7 IRA suspects arrested in USA on arms-smuggling charges 28.07.99 Govt. admits experiments on GM salmon 30.07.99 IRA murder in West Belfast 31.07.99 Tornado in Kent 1999 August 01.08.99 Water companies get the power to put meters into empty houses 02.08.99 Blair loses interest in English regional assemblies 03.08.99 French & Germans refuse to lift ban on British beef imports 04.08.99 Blair crony recommends £24/year digital TV tax 09.08.99 Charles Kennedy elected Triv-Dem leader 11.08.99 Total Solar eclipse 13.08.99 US & British airlines on alert for Islamic bombers 16.08.99 Petrol went up 10p/gallon in last week, set to do the same this week 18.08.99 BSE cost to taxpayer calculated at £4 billion 19.08.99 RailTrack threatened with £40M fine unless more trains run on time 25.08.99 Labour & Blair approval ratings dip below 50%, Tories no better loved 26.08.99 Waiting times to get on NHS waiting lists have soared 29.08.99 US & Japanese public turning against GM crops 30.08.99 Eurostar ripping off British passengers by charging them more 1999 September 01.09.99 France maintains ban on British beef 02.09.99 140 illegals arrested in crack-down at Dover 08.09.99 Bank rate up 0.25% to 5.25% 12.09.99 Lord Sainsbury's research lab has had £1M of taxpayers' cash for GM research 13.09.99 Flights to Florida cancelled because of Hurricane Floyd 14.09.99 Police want zero tolerance of speeding 17.09.99 Govt. forced to give £80M aid to farmers hit by low livestock prices 19.09.99 Govt. flies a kite: 50 mph rural speed limit 21.09.99 Revealed: only £1M of the govt. aid to farmers is 'new' money 22.09.99 Tickets for Millennium Dome go on sale: £20 / £57 for a family of 5 23.09.99 Junior doctors' strike off after deal on pay and hours 27.09.99 European Court rules that British armed services cannot exclude homophiles 28.09.99 Labour conference at Bournemouth swamped by pro-hunting protesters 29.09.99 Eurotunnel wants to build another Channel tunnel!! 1999 October 01.10.99 French refuse to lift illegal ban on British beef; government does nothing 04.10.99 French ordered to lift their ban or face a fine in the EU court 05.10.99 26 bodies recovered from Paddington train crash 08.10.99 EU backs down from threat to take the French govt. to court 11.10.99 Peter Mandelson sneaks back into Cabinet as Northern Ireland Secretary 12.10.99 French want to ban British beef until August 2001 15.10.99 Blair threatens to sue the French over their ban 18.10.99 Murderer Winston Silcott awarded £50,000 from the police 19.10.99 Farmers blockade Poole ferry terminal 20.10.99 French riot police stop unbooked demo by British MEPs in Paris 21.10.99 Somerfield supermarkets stop selling French apples 25.10.99 Police finding terrorist arms dumps in Irish Republic 26.10.99 French farmers blockade Calais as anti-British protest (with police help) 27.10.99 7th Earl Lucan declared officially dead 28.10.99 Lords rule that UK must pay Spanish fishing quota jumpers £100,000 29.10.99 EU science committee says French ban on British beef is wrong 1999 November 01.11.99 Govt. spending £10 million on booklets telling people not to panic over the Millennium Bug 02.11.99 Govt. backs down from ban on fox hunting 03.11.99 Large Labour rebellion over govt. plan to cut benefits to the disabled; Germans retain ban on British beef imports 04.11.99 Bank rate up 0.25% to 5.5%, Euro Central Bank puts rate up 0.5% to 3% 05.11.99 Surviving hereditary peers in House of Lords named 07.11.99 Arrest of Gen. Pinochet switched £2B shipbuilding order from Clyde to France 10.11.99 French double-cross Blair; ban on British beef remains 16.11.99 EU Food Commissioner launches legal action against the French 17.11.99 Queen's Speech: massive tax rises for access to cities, roads & parking spaces 18.11.99 Cherie Blair pregnant, shock, horror!! 23.11.99 George Cross awarded to Royal Ulster Constabulary 24.11.99 Oil companies accused of putting up prices by stealth 25.11.99 Blair signs up to Anglo-French defence pact, ignoring NATO 26.11.99 Euro close to parity with dollar 27.11.99 Ulster Unionists vote to share power with IRA/Sinn Fein (subject to disarmament) 28.11.99 Govt. to create criminal DNA database – the police say it will cost twice the amount of money on offer 29.11.99 Germans blame collapse of euro on the British 30.11.99 Euston station closed by rioting anarchists; Govt. to unban beef-on-the-bone by Xmas 1999 December 01.12.99 Blair admits NHS treatment to be rationed by cost 02.12.99 Euro slips below parity with dollar, down 16% since launch 03.12.99 Germans upset by British refusal to allow tax on savings 04.12.99 World Trade Organization talks in Seattle collapse; Passport cost up by one-third 07.12.99 Governor of Bank of England says Britain prospering outside euro-zone 09.12.99 Boris Yeltsin rattles nuclear sabre at Chechnya 10.12.99 Britain isolated in Europe – no support over beef 12.12.99 Farmers outraged: Safeway, Sainsburys & Somerfield all selling French turkeys 13.12.99 Royal Mail announces rise of 1p in first class mail to 27p in April 2000 14.12.99 It's official: taxes are up under Labour 16.12.99 Men over 60 to get £100 winter fuel payment after Eurocourt ruling 17.12.99 Fish prices to soar after EU cuts North Sea quotas by 70% 20.12.99 Temperature down to -14 deg.C in places 21.12.99 N. Hamilton loses "cash for questions" libel action against M. Fayed 22.12.99 Mandelson gives 125 IRA terrorists a 12-day holiday from gaol 25.12.99 White Xmas Official!, a few flakes of snow on London Met Office roof 26.12.99 Floods & high tides kill 6 in UK 28.12.99 20,000 credit card swipe terminals crash – Y2K software problem 29.12.99 Eurostar trains will not run for hours on either side of the year end 30.12.99 Millennium Wheel fails safety check and won't run 31.12.99 No major Millennium Bug problems abroad as new year starts, except mobile phones out in Japan. 2000 January 01.01.00 The Millennium Dome opens to celebrate Blair's bogus new millennium 03.01.00 Public upset by 2-hour queue for 7 minutes in the Body Zone @ Millennium Dome 04.01.00 Large fall in share prices when dealing starts, no sign of Millennium Bug 05.01.00 Flu epidemic, operations cancelled, only 11 intensive care beds in whole country 07.01.00 Millennium Dome to be sold at vast loss to taxpayer 09.01.00 Gordon Brown fiddle exposed – indirect taxes excluded to 'prove' tax burden lower under Labour 11.01.00 General Pinochet to be released on medical grounds 13.01.00 EC abandons attempts to make French drop ban on British beef 14.01.00 Exposed: Labour spin doctors' attempt to suppress criticism of NHS by Labour peer 17.01.00 Nurses get inflation-busting pay rises, NHS gets no extra cash to pay for them so services will be cut 18.01.00 First rise in reported crime for 6 years, Home Sec. J. Straw told to fix it or get out 19.01.00 Blair abandons ethical foreign policy, will sell Hawk aircraft parts to Mugabe of Zimbabwe 20.01.00 House of Lords rejects Home Sec.'s plan to restrict trial by jury 22.01.00 Majority of RAF aircraft unable to fly – overstretched & underfunded under Labour 23.01.00 Govt.'s ban on bee-on-the-bone may be illegal 24.01.00 Driver of vanload of Irish terrorist weapons & bombs busted in Co Tipperary 26.01.00 Joining the euro would cost British industry £100 billion/yer Britain In Europe admits 27.01.00 Millennium Dome wants another £60 million. Attendances bring in £5K/day, break even = £20K/day 30.01.00 Super Bowl 34: Rams 23, Titans 16 @ Atlanta 31.01.00 Dr. Harold Shipman convicted of 15 murders; Cpl. Lee Clegg cleared of all crimes after 7 years 2000 February 01.02.00 EU threatens to isolate Austria if Freedom Party allowed into ruling coalition 03.02.00 Austrian president approves coalition including Freedom Party 04.02.00 Dome to get £32 million instead of £60 million demanded 06.02.00 Irish terrorist bomb at hotel in Co Fermanagh 07.02.00 Lords throw out Labour's attempt to abolish Clause 28 10.02.00 Interest rate up to 6% 12.02.00 RAF pilots using the Internet to lodge protests about lack of equipment & low morale 13.02.00 Chancellor G. Brown admits his Stealth Taxes are hitting the middle classes 15.02.00 IRA abandons pretence of decommissioning and pulls out of Ulster peace talks 22.02.00 Lords vote against giving candidates for Mayor of London a free mailshot; DPM J. Prescott creates new quango for rail safety but leaves most of responsibility with Railtrack 24.02.00 Kent council to raise council tax to pay for housing asylum seekers 25.02.00 Irish terrorist bomb at army barracks in Co Londonderry misfires 27.02.00 Street crime at highest level for 5 years – blames on fall in stop & search by police 28.02.00 Labour denies U-turn on GM crops 29.02.00 Blair claims NHS crisis is a media myth! 2000 March 02.03.00 Gen. Pinochet flies home, cost to taxpayer £75M in legal fees & lost trade with Chile 03.03.00 Govt. in shambles over aid to Mozambique, delays & overcharging by MoD 04.03.00 Blairs' injunction against Mail on Sunday too late to prevent distribution of their ex-nanny's memoirs 06.03.00 Govt. abandons plan to pay the bill for asylum seekers; Ken Livingstone to stand as independent candidate for London Mayor 07.03.00 Prime Minister Blair promises to get everyone on the internet by 2005; J. Prescott unveils plan for 200,000 brown/greenbelt homes in SE over 5 years, 1 million over 20 years 08.03.00 Millennium Dome borrows £28M more 09.03.00 Govt. to spend £20M on preparations for a switch to the euro, but no timetable announced 11.03.00 Education Sec. D. Blunkettt abandons plan to end selection in secondary education 12.03.00 Police task force to clear London of homeless & beggars 13.03.00 Number of heart bypass operations falling due to shortage of ITU staff 14.03.00 Prime minister admits tax burden up under labour 16.03.00 500lb IRA car bomb found in Ulster; Ken Livingstone elected London Mayor; Tories win Ayr by-election, Labour 3rd 17.03.00 Germany lifts ban on British beef imports 21.03.00 Budget day, public spending up, middle classes will pay 22.03.00 Report on NHS boards: Labour stuffing them with its own supporters 23.03.00 Another Clause 28 defeat for Labour in House of Lords 24.03.00 Govt. rubber-stamping asylum applications to make processed cases exceed new claims for first time in 2 years 26.03.00 Chancellor's promise of 10,000 new nurses exposed as recyling earlier pledges 27.03.00 Vladimir Putin new Russian president; 2-year Bloody Sunday inquiry starts; magistrates told to increase fines in line with income 29.03.00 Govt. abandons plans for nuclear sell-off 30.03.00 Trade Sec. S. Byers accused of lying over BMW's plans for Rover; Two-thirds of businesses don't back govt's plan to join the euro 31.03.00 Average Council Tax up 6.1% – 3 times inflation 2000 April 02.04.00 3 million endowment mortgages will not pay off the loan amount 05.04.00 Chancellor G. Brown's tax changes make families £13/week worse off in new tax year 07.04.00 Barclays Bank closes 171 rural branches 10.04.00 Govt. to throw £10M at bogus asylum seeker problem 12.04.00 Queen presents George Cross to Royal Ulster Constabulary 13.04.00 Commons Treasury Committee tells Chancellor G. Brown to stop lying about the tax burden 17.04.00 People from Zimbawe begin to make asylum claims in Britain after murders by Mugabe's thugs 19.04.00 Farmer Tony Martin convicted of murdering a serial burglar 26.04.00 Millennium Dome running out of cash again 27.04.00 Postal rates up 9%, govt. sells new mobile phone licences for £22.5B

YEAR 4

2000 May 01.05.00 Anti-capitalism riots in London & Manchester 04.05.00 Ken Livingstone elected Mayor of London, heavy Labour losses in local elections 09.05.00 Queen opens Millennium Bridge but not ready for public yet 11.05.00 Millennium Dome needs more Lottery cash 13.05.00 EU proposes 10% cut in British fishing fleet, twice cuts for Italy, Spain & Portugal 18.05.00 Govt. kept quiet about GM contamination of oilseed rape crop 20.05.00 Mrs. Blair has her 4th child 22.05.00 Millennium Dome to get £29 million more 28.05.00 Farmers to sue govt. over contamination of oilseed rape crop 29.05.00 Home Sec. announces plan to cut police pensions & overtime 30.05.00 Govt. to do U-turn on £140B of axed road-building plans 31.05.00 Home Sec. drops plans to confiscate passports of hooligans 2000 June 01.06.00 Bomb under Hammersmith Bridge causes chaos 03.06.00 500 British troops to be withdrawn from Ulster 04.06.00 3" of rain on Fri. & Sat. cause massive floods in W. Yorkshire & Co. Durham 07.06.00 PM Blair show-handclapped at Women's Institute for making political speech 09.06.00 Blair backs anti-hunting bill before govt. inquiry completed 10.06.00 Millennium foot bridge over Thames opened 11.06.00 Millennium bridge closed – swaying like a novelty fairground ride 13.06.00 10% of hospital patients damaged by medical errors in NHS at a cost of £2 billion/year for fixes 15.06.00 Another female cop collects £500K compensation in out-of-court deal 17.06.00 Air traffic control computer fails 19.06.00 58 Chinese illegal migrants found dead in lorry at Dover 22.06.00 Oxford decides not to give an honorary degree to Blair 24.06.00 72% against joining the euro in poll 28.06.00 Motoring organizations back fuel boycott on Mondays from August as protest against tax level 30.06.00 Blair announces instant fines for drunks & hooligans 2000 July 03.07.00 Blair backs down on instant fines for drunks & hooligans 04.07.00 Labour MPs line up to attack expenditure on Royal Family 06.07.00 Prime minister's son, Euan, arrested drunk in London 10.07.00 One-third more public sector staff retire on health grounds than in private sector 11.07.00 Inflation boosted by 18% rise in petrol price 14.07.00 Motorists trapped by speed cameras had their human right abused! 18.07.00 Chancellor Brown unveils £43 million public spending as election bribe 19.07.00 Bank of England warns: Brown spending spree may push up interest rates 20.07.00 Transport Sec. J. Prescott to spend £180 billion over 10 years 21.07.00 Cost of running PM's office now £10 million/year 25.07.00 Air France Concorde crashes after takeoff in Paris due to debris on runway 27.07.00 £761 million Millennium Dome sold to Japanese bank for £105 million 2000 August 03.08.00 Chancellor Brown marries in secret at home 04.08.00 Queen Mother's 100th birthday 05.08.00 Government blew £105 million trying to buy 2006 World Cup 08.08.00 Government postpones 'no fault' divorce system again 11.08.00 Police chase 500 lb IRA bomb out of Northern Ireland 14.08.00 EC bans export of pigs from England, swine fever outbreak in E. Anglia 16.08.00 Unemployment fiddled to 5-year low of 1.07 million 17.08.00 Brown's benefits swipe-card scheme wasted £1.6 billion 20.08.00 NHS hospitals reusing single-use equipment to save money 22.08.00 Labour's compensation culture has forced car insurance premiums up by 25% 28.08.00 UK petrol prices highest in Europe 29.08.00 Exposed: Labour is fiddling NHS waiting lists 2000 September 02.09.00 Police refused to give their DNA to national databank 04.09.00 Police ordered not to make arrests at Notting Hill carnival 05.09.00 Millennium Dome wants another £47 million of National Lottery cash 06.09.00 'Dome Secretary' Lord Falconer clings to job after Dome branded a disaster 07.09.00 Oil price at record $35/barrel, farmers blockade Stanlow refinery as protest 09.09.00 Petrol stations running out of unleaded due to blockades 10.09.00 Panic buying as petrol pumps run dry 11.09.00 3,000 UK petrol stations closed 12.09.00 Japanese bank pulls out of Millenium Dome deal 13.09.00 Blair's promise to end fuel crisis in 24 hours proves to be just hot air 14.09.00 Refinery blockade ends, govt. told to cut tax in 60 days, or else! 15.09.00 Poll: 75% blame government's high taxes for fuel revolt 16.09.00 Labour down to level with Tories in polls after botched handling of fuel crisis 17.09.00 Govt. to rush through laws to prevent further fuel blockades 18.09.00 Govt. abandons plans for guaranteed fuel deliveries 19.09.00 Labour in trouble over lying about donation from F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone 20.09.00 2 explosions blow out windows at MI 6 HQ in London 21.09.00 Chancellor Brown lies about lying about the Ecclestone donation to Labour funds 24.09.00 Blair admits the Millennium Dome was a flop but no apology 28.09.00 Lords reject govt. plan to restrict trial by jury 29.09.00 N.I. Minister P. Mandelson offers amnesty to IRA killers on the run 30.09.00 Labour ahead again in opinion polls 2000 October 01.10.00 Minimum wage up 10p to £3.70/week 02.10.00 European Charter on Human Rights now in force in UK 03.10.00 No inquiry into mis-selling of endowment mortgages 05.10.00 Constitutional court in Belgrade declares election void, 1M protesters oust Slobbered-on Milosevich 07.10.00 Germany beats England 1-0 in last ever match at old Wembley stadium 09.10.00 Panorama names 4 Omagh bombers 11.10.00 Death Donald Dewar, Scottish First Minister 12.10.00 Major floods in Kent, Sussex & Devon 15.08.00 Govt. stockpiling fuel against another blockade 17.10.00 4 killed, 100+ injured when train derails at Hatfield 18.10.00 Resignation of Railtrack boss refused; line at Hatfield known to be defective 20.10.00 Tories admit they got privatization of railways wrong 21.08.00 Govt. to make 'no fault' payments to CJD sufferers 23.10.00 Labour installs Michael "Gorbals Mick" Martin as Speaker of Commons; Railtrack to get £15B over 5 years, including £8B for safety 25.10.00 Row over Labour MPs winning thousands of pounds from bets on election of Speaker 26.10.00 Railtrack blames Hatfield derailment on leaves 28.10.00 Massive disruption of railways as Railtrack repairs cracked rails and surveys tracks 29.10.00 90 mph gales in Channel and south of England 30.10.00 Labour govt. says no tax cuts for 5 years and massive borrowing to fund public spending 2000 November 01.11.00 Panic buying of petrol as PM Blair slags off fuel protesters 02.11.00 Petrol stations closed, out of fuel 03.11.00 River Ouse breaks flood defences, 3,000 evacuated 04.11.00 Govt. to throw £50 million at flooding problem 07.11.00 Millennium Dome diamond heist flops 08.11.00 Chancellor Brown gives away £5 BILLION to buy votes at next election 09.11.00 Chancellor applies stealth taxation via increased National Insurance rates 10.11.00 Police mount major operation to keep fuel protesters out of London 12.11.00 Police allowed to recruit people with minor criminal convictions 13.11.00 Fuel protesters' 60-day deadline for tax reduction expires 14.11.00 Blair ready to sacrifice UK veto to buy popularity in EU 15.11.00 Ditching sterling for the euro would cost the UK £36 billion 17.11.00 Gerald Corbett, Railtrack boss, quits 18.11.00 Bethlehem cancels Xmas because of violence in Holy Land 20.11.00 The idea of an EU army condemned by politicians & the military 22.11.00 Blair yah-boos Mrs. Thatcher when she speaks out against an EU army 23.11.00 Petrol price to rise 20p/gallon in new year 24.11.00 German admits 2 cases of BSE 25.11.00 Hague climate conference collapses 29.11.00 Blair ready to surrender UK 17 vetos at Nice summit 2000 December 01.12.00 EC wants 74% cut in fishing quotas 02.12.00 Intelligence services want to store recordings of all phone & internet traffic for 7 years 04.12.00 Blair worried that NHS can't cope with demand in the winter 07.12.00 Govt. proposes giving police forces a share of speeding fines 08.12.00 4 people killed in severe storms 11.12.00 Bodged Nice treaty agreed at last minute; Charges against Gen. Pinochet thrown out of court 13.12.00 US Supreme Court stops recounts in Florida, Al Gore loses, George W. Bush to be next president 14.12.00 £269M more Lottery cash for Millennium Dome 15.12.00 EU imposes huge fish quota cuts 17.12.00 Postal strike in Coventry, London next 19.12.00 Camelot given licence to run National Lottery for 7 more years 21.12.00 Official figures show G. Brown sitting on £15 BILLION to buy next election 25.12.00 Sainsburys, Woolworths & other supermarkets open on Xmas Day 27.12.00 Judges choosing not to use Labour's law to gaol three-times-caught burglars 28.12.00 Snowy chaos, sea freezes in Whitehaven harbour, Cumbria 2001 January 2001.01.01 Millennium Dome directors, even sacked ones, to share £1M in bonuses 2001.01.02 Lord Hamlyn revealed as Labour's £2M donor 2001.01.04 More £2M Labour donors named 2001.01.07 Inflation-busting ticket price rises on railways 2001.01.09 Blair pelted with rotten tomatoes in Bristol 2001.01.10 Home Sec. Straw tells police to resume stop & search policy 2001.01.11 Bank rate remains 6% 2001.01.14 Blair wants to remove the House of Lords' veto 2001.01.16 Govt. abandons no-fault divorce reforms; violent crime on the increase 2001.01.17 Blair absent when Commons votes to ban hunting with dogs 2001.01.19 Home Office decides all DNA & fingerprint records will be retained by the police, even if the suspect is cleared 2001.01.20 President George W. Bush sworn in 2001.01.24 Northern Ireland Sec. Peter Mandelson obliged to resign again – allegedly lied about passports for the Hinduja brothers 2001.01.25 Europe Sec. Keith Vaz embroiled in passport scandal with Mandelson 2001.01.29 Opinion polls say Blair govt. seen as sleazier than John Major's govt. 2001.01.31 Commons report says UK has become a magnet for bogus asylum seekers; One Libyan agent gaoled for life for Lockerbie bombing, another acquitted 2001 February 2001.02.04 Labour tells Europe Minister Keith Vaz to sort out sleaze allegations or quit 2001.02.07 Blair wants the euro introduced within 2 years of the next general election 2001.02.09 Revealed: Keith Vaz, salary £82K per annum, owns 5 properties worth £1M 2001.02.12 Blair announces abolition of comprehensive schools 2001.02.13 Inflation (excluding housing) at 1.8%, lowest level since 1976; Home Office deporting just 12 bogus asylum seekers/month – 100,000/year arriving 2001.02.15 Legacy plc bid for Millennium Dome flops; Dome still costing the taxpayer £3M/month 2001.02.18 Lord Irvine in trouble for soliciting donations for Labour party – told the judiciary should be impartial 2001.02.19 Foot & mouth fount at pig abatoir in Essex – the government's response is to try to contain the bad publicity;Labour poll lead 15% 2001.02.21 UK quarantined in response to foot & mouth outbreak 2001.02.22 Labour poll lead 20%; further US/UK air strikes on Iraqi missile sites 2001.02.23 Panic over possible panic buying of food following ban on farm animal movement; boss of Huntingdon Life Scientist attacked in own home by animal rights terrorists 2001.02.24 First Mass cull of animals, carcases burned to prevent spread of foot & mouth 2001.02.26 Animals imported to Europe from UK being destroyed, 6-month ban on export of British meat & livestock on the way 2001.02.27 All horse racing cancelled for 1 week; another Commons debate on banning foxhunting; govt. giving £188M to farmers 2001.02.28 Revealed: the £188M is a recycled announcement, not new money; 26 foot & mouth outbreaks confirmed 2001 March 2001.03.01 Schools short of 10,000 teachers; 10% of NHS hospital treatments go seriously wrong 2001.03.02 The army finally brought in to organize foot & mouth culls 2001.03.03 Foot & mouth in France & Belgium, 52 outbreaks in UK 2001.03.04 Irish terrorists explode taxi bomb at BBC TV Centre, London; Home Sec. Straw soliciting £500/head donations for Labour from lawyers 2001.03.07 Budget – pre-election giveaway 2001.03.09 Hammond Report whitewashes over all sleaze in Hinduja passport scandal 2001.03.10 123 outbreaks of foot & mouth, 713 farms under restrictions, 141 farms under investigation, prices soaring 2001.03.11 50% of petrol stations didn't drop their prices after the budget 2001.03.12 Parliamentary Commissioners says Keith Vaz obstructed their sleaze investigation but clear him anway; Wall Street in meltdown 2001.03.13 US bans animal imports from EU 2001.03.15 One million animals to be slaughtered to prevent spread of foot & mouth 2001.03.16 11% pay rise for MPs; farmers refuse to allow slaughter of healthy animals in Cumbria & S. Scotland 2001.03.17 Govt. threatens rebellious farmers with arrest 2001.03.18 New Labour video makes Mrs. Thatcher the Antichrist and Wm. Hague her son; Keith Vaz in trouble over 50 dodgy passport applications 2001.03.19 Army called in to assist with cattle cull in Devon 2001.03.20 Trade Sec. Stephen Byers to sue Daily Mail for exposing sleaze over his expenses 2001.03.22 Biggest share price fall for a decade in London & New York 2001.03.23 Prof. King, govt. chief scientists, predict 50% of 62M farm animals may have to be killed 2001.03.25 Survey of doctors says New Labour made the NHS worse 2001.03.26 The army now burying dead sheep; House of Lords votes against ban on foxhunting and for self-regulation 2001.03.27 Britain's school system 'worst in Europe' due to teacher shortages 2001.03.29 US withdraws from Kyoto agreement on greenhouse gas emissions 2001.03.31 The funeral pyres of dead farm animals may be pumping toxic dioxins into the atmosphere 2001 April 2001.04.02 DNA test proves that Hanratty did commit A6 murder; Blair puts back council elections to June; 942 foot & mouth cases 2001.04.04 Rail fares to rise 5-10%; 1,019 cases of F&M 2001.04.05 Bank rate down 0.25% to 5.5% 2001.04.06 1,084 cases of F&M, Blair & ministers trying to promote tourism 2001.04.07 4 of 40 starters finish Grand National 2001.04.11 Govt. fiddle to get jobless total below 1M exposed; revised figure 1,000,700 2001.04.12 Govt. stopped publishing F&M slaughter figures on 09/04 2001.04.13 Govt. admits wrecking rural tourist industry 2001.04.15 Irish terrorists plant small bomb in Hendon 2001.04.16 Major fire at Conoco Humber refinery, Immingham 2001.04.17 Petrol prices rise 5p/gallon in response to refinery fire & US shortages 2001.04.18 NFU refuses to be rushed by govt. into F&M vaccination 2001.04.19 Govt. claims that F&M outbreak under control on Day 60 2001.04.21 F&M found in wild deer 2001.04.22 Burning of F&M carcases suspended: dioxins release risk? 2001.04.23 Slaughtermen suspected of having F&M 2001.04.24 Blair wants to give free CDs and trainers to yobs who restrain themselves 2001.04.25 Govt. shamed into dropping "slaughter on suspicion" policy 2001.04.26 Blair unveils baby bond bribe and People's Peers (usual leftie suspects) 2001.04.27 Cellular phones and pagers switch to "07" numbers 2001.04.28 Dennis Tito on ISS after paying Russians $20M for the trip 2001.04.29 Census Day – tens of thousands of forms not yet delivered 2001.04.30 Blair backs "No Tolerance" policy for expected May Day protests

YEAR 5

2001 May 2001.05.01 Violent May Day protests in London, 60 arrests 2001.05.03 Labour-controlled Commons Standards & Privileges Committee whitewashes Geoffrey Robinson 2001.05.04 European Court gives relatives of dead IRA terrorists £10K each 2001.05.07 Govt. blames bad weather for poor harvest, dearer bread and less creamy milk 2001.05.08 Blair announces general election at London school photo opportunity, not in Commons 2001.05.10 Bank rate cut 0.25% to 5.25% 2001.05.17 No new cases of foot & mouth reported, 1,607 on record 2001.05.21 Trade gap £7.78 billion, worst since records began in 1697 2001.05.22 Revealed: EU plan, drawn up by Labour-chaired committee, to harmonize VAT & income tax 2001.05.24 Vehicle insurance rates to rise 25%, blamed on Labour-fostered compensation culture 2001.05.27 Asian-white riots in Oldham & Aylesbury 2001.05.28 2.5 million Census forms still not returned 2001.05.29 7 new cases of foot & mouth reported 2001.05.30 Jeffrey Archer perjury trial begins

2001 June 2001.06.01 Farmer who caused F&M outbreak to be prosecuted; Fuel protesters blockading again 2001.06.03 BBC's Panorama upsets Labour by exposing lies told about NHS 2001.06.05 Asians go on rampage in Leeds 2001.06.06 £ down to $1.39: fear of Blair devaluing to join euro 2001.06.07 General election, lowest turn-out since World War I 2001.06.08 Election result: Labour 413 (-6), Cons. 166 (+1), Lib.52 (+6), Others 28 (-1); Wm. Hague quits as Tory leader 2001.06.09 F&M outbreak in previously clear area of Somerset 2001.06.11 Blair takes big pay rise—restraint over; £ slumps to 15-year low of $1.3713 2001.06.12 Unions up in arms over Blairs rise; Inflation up from 2% to 2.4%; train guards to strike on 25/06 and 04/07 2001.06.13 Govt. abandons hospital waiting list targets 2001.06.16 Govt. drops plan to let pubs open 24/7 2001.06.19 New Home Sec. D. Blunkett to scrap double jeopardy rule for murder retrospectively 2001.06.20 Parliament and inquiry into Shipman murders (re)open 2001.06.21 Schools face 4-day week due to teacher shortages 2001.06.22 Census shambled: full data expected on only 50% of forms 2001.06.24 Asians on rampage in Burnley 2001.06.25 Bread price up 20%—supermarkets stop loss-leader tactic 2001.06.27 Blair fails to buy off TUC leaders at Downing St. dinner; his Cabinet Office spending up £73M 2001.06.28 MPs vote themselves £4K pay rise before taking 3 month holiday 2001 July 2001.07.01 David Trimble resigns as NI First Minister over failure of IRA to hand in weapons 2001.07.02 No Irish terrorists have surrendered their weapons 2001.07.04 Home Sec. Blunkett threatens "no remission" in "get tough on criminals" policy 2001.07.05 MPs vote themselves extra £31K in salary, expenses & pension 2001.07.06 The recession as deep as in 1990s 2001.07.07 More riots in Bradford 2001.07.10 Ulster peace talks dropping apart 2001.07.12 Blunkett to reform the police; riots in Ulster 2001.07.13 Green Goddess fire engines deployed in Liverpool—firemen strike 2001.07.14 Police to get tranquillizer dart guns as alternative to firearms 2001.07.16 Labour MPs revolt to reinstate committee chairman sacked by Blair 2001.07.17 GMB union cuts funding to Labour by £250K/year 2001.07.18 Total clear-up rate for police less than 25% on official Home Office figures 2001.07.19 Lord Archer gaoled for 4 years for perjury 2001.07.20 Yobs riot in Bristol 2001.07.22 F&M clean-up on farms stopped—cost now £800,000,000 2001.07.23 Vets & farmers tell Blair he was wrong to stop clean-up 2001.07.25 Share prices at 3-year low; Report on NHS waiting lists—treatment for seriously ill patients delayed to massage figures 2001.07.29 91 deg.C at Heathrow; Police injured in Bradford riots to sue for compensation 2001.07.31 Home Sec.'s power to exclude undesirables breaks Euro Convention on Human Rights 2001 August 2001.07.01 Govt. gives more concessions to IRA in new Ulster peace process package: amnesty for killers, no weapons hand-over 2001 September 2001.09.02 100 migrants in assault on Channel Tunnel 2001.09.04 Education spending lowest proportion of GDP in 40 years 2001.09.06 UK to pay millions to Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe to stop illegal seizure of white-owned farms 2001.09.07 Judge rules that asylum seekers locked in detention centres deserve compensation 2001.09.09 F&M outbreak in Leicestershire—first in 4 months 2001.09.10 FTSE plunges below 5000 briefly; investors told to sit tight 2001.09.11 Terrorist attacks on USA with airliners, World Trade Centre destroyed, Pentagon damaged. There is a persistent rumour that Tony Blair was behind the attacks to distract attention from the August flare-up of foot & mouth disease after Blair declared the epidemic over in May.     Blair puts UK "on target" with America for war in Iraq 2001 October 2001 November 2001 December 2002 January 02.01.03 SWT trains on 2-day strike, Transport Sec. Byers on holiday 02.01.07 RMT 48-hour strike 02.01.08 House prices up 15.5% in 2001 02.01.09 Postal workers threaten strike 02.01.10 Govt. to rethink Lords reform plans after 121 Labour back-benchers revolt 02.01.11 Govt. threatens rail unions with compulsory no-strike deal 02.01.13 Blair admits returning railways to British Rail standard will take a decade 02.01.14 UK declared foot & mouth disease free; President Bush chokes on a pretzel 02.01.15 Bloody Sunday inquiry heading for £200 million total cost 02.01.17 11 terrorist suspects arrested in Leicester 02.01.21 Blair gives IRA MPs offices at Westminster and allowances 02.01.22 Labour signals tax rises in the budget 02.01.24 Labour smear campaign against patients who complained about Whittington hospital 02.01.27 Blair pledges to fix NHS by the next general election 02.01.28 Labour in cash-for-access sleaze row over Enron 02.01.29 RMT threatens national rail strike; Labour in more Enron-related bother 02.01.30 Millennium Bridge reopened 2002 February 02.02.01 Independent clinic offers separate MMR immunizations for £60 02.02.04 RMT calls strike 02.02.05 Home Sec. proposes 'entitlement' ID card 02.02.06 Transport Sec. Byers' decision to force Railtrack into insolvency to cost the taxpayer £5 billion 02.02.07 Postal workers vote to strike; Byers says PPE for the Tube will go ahead 02.02.08 MP Keith Vaz suspended from Parliament for a month – code of conduct breaches re the Hinduja brothers 02.02.10 Blair in another 'cash for favours' scandal 02.02.12 Euro stability pack binned, Germany allowed to break the rules; inflation in Jan up from 1.9% to 2.6% 02.02.13 Govt. threatens 2 million homes with a flood tax 02.02.15 Labour spin-doctors Jo Moore & Martin Sixsmith forced to resign 02.02.18 Banks threaten to foreclose on part-privatized Air Traffic Control system 02.02.20 Blair hints at tax rises for the NHS 02.02.21 Blair admits taxes will have to rise 02.02.22 The police reject Home Sec. Blunkettt's cuts in overtime and allowances; Appeal Court rules fines for lorry drivers with stowaway illegal migrants illegal under Human Rights Act 02.02.24 Police plan mass lobby of MPs over Blunkettt's cuts 02.02.26 Byers backed by prime minister 02.02.28 First plastic bullet fired by mainland police shot at man with knife in N. Wales 2002 March 02.03.01 Blair begins Mandelson rehabilitation despite new questions outstanding from 2nd inquiry; prescriptions to cost £6.20 from April (up 10p) 02.03.05 Labour MEP defects to Tories over 'spin doctors and bullies' 02.03.06 Revealed: Home Office asked Belgians to give Mr. Mittal details of a secret corruption investigation! 02.03.07 House price annual rate soaring, 16.9% in Feb 02.03.08 Labour admits hospital waiting lists on the increase after promising to cut them 02.03.13 Police protest rally in Westminster 02.03.14 Teachers' protest march in London 02.03.15 EU Summit in Barcelona – Blair on his own over going to war with Iraq 02.03.16 UK military leaders tell Blair war with Iraq will fail; EU approves Galileo sat-nav system 02.03.17 No change in Iraq WoMD situation for 3 years so Blair orders exaggeration of the threat; EU refuses to back Blair on going to war with Iraq 02.03.18 Royal Marine commandos to be sent to Afghanistan; Commons votes to ban hunting 02.03.20 Blair & Cabinet duck emergency debate on sending troops to Afghanistan; Labour poll lead down from 17 to 9 points; Revealed: NHS Cancer Plan cash used to pay NHS debts 02.03.21 Home Sec. announces spot fines of £40 & £80 for yobs 02.03.24 Transport Sec. Byers gives Railtrack £300 million of taxpayers' cash to aid sell-off 02.03.25 11% tax rise for company cars using fuel cards 02.03.26 Sir M. Wood, head of Foreign Office legal dept., warns Foreign Sec. J. Straw that war in Iraq would be illegal; Labour plans to sweep away controls on gambling, Blackpool will become another Las Vegas and the Treasury will rake in £1.58 billion 2002 April 02.04.06/07 It was revealed in 2013 that Blair met Bush at the president's ranch at Crawford, Texas, and agreed to join the US military campaign against Saddal Hussein with no pre-conditions. He then lied about his intentions with the result that the British army went into the March 2003 war without proper equipment and preparation, there was no plan for managing the post-Saddam Iraq, 100,000 people were killed, and a decade of bloodshed followed.

YEAR 6

2002 May 02.05.02 Blair scraps Westminster lobby system; 33% vote in Local elections, not much change 02.05.03 Death of Barbara Castle, 91 02.05.07 Revealed: PowderJect Pharmaceuticals made 2nd £50K donation to Labour ahead of £22M vaccine purchase contract 02.05.09 John Prescott unveils plan for regional mini-parliaments in English regions; Stephen Byers continues to lie to Commons and get govt. backing 02.05.10 7 killed in Potters Bar train crash 02.05.11 New donations scandal for Labour over Daily Express takeover 02.05.13 Labour ditches plans to reform the Lords 02.05.17 Compromising letter to The Times exposed as a Labour forgery 02.05.21 Blair's fund-raising crony Lord Levy to vet donations to Labour party 02.05.23 Govt. accused of covering up Mandelson's part in Hinduja passport scandal 02.05.24 The United States won't be invading Iraq 02.05.26 Govt. to give away the Millennium Dome for nothing and throw in a £200M bridge across Thames?; Mandelson wants to take over Byers' job 02.05.27 Distribution of new £5 notes halted – the serial numbers rub off 02.05.28 Liar Byers resigns; EU rules that 8,600 fishing vessels must be scrapped 02.05.29 Govt. gives the Dome away for nothing; Cabinet reshuffle 02.05.30 Pig farmer Bobby Naugh, who started £20B foot & mouth epidemic, convicted of 9 offences 2002 June 02.06.01 Greens force Blair to back on over GM technology 02.06.03 Lots of Jubilee celebrations for Queen; Labour trying to smear the Gibraltar govt. as part of a 'Lose The Rock' campaign 02.06.04 Official Jubilee Day 02.06.06 Euro Parliament building, Strasbourg, harbouring Legionnaires' Disease 02.06.08. Blair govt.'s popularity at lowest ebb since 2000 fuel price protests 02.06.09 1,000 police stations (30%) have closed in last 10 years 02.06.10 Emails smearing Paddington rail crash survivor found at Dept. of Transport 02.06.13 EU reject's UK's plan for getting tough with migrants 02.06.14 Shares plunge £34 billion; FTSE at 4630.8; Knighthood for Labour donor Gullam Noon 02.06.16 Landslide win for Chirac's party in French general election 02.06.20 Blair's first televised press conference under new system replacing lobby briefings 02.06.23 Home Office figures show conviction rates have plunged since 1980 – CPS blamed 02.06.27 Railtrack shareholders to sue govt. over 'compensation' package 02.06.28 Pig farmer who caused foot & mouth outbreak gets 3 month curfew 02.06.30 Measles cases quadruple as parents shunning MMR 2002 August 02.08.15 Sir M. Wood tells F.O. officials in writing that using force in Iraq without legal justification would be an act of aggression 2002 September 02.09.01 First Dodgy Iraq dossier: the September Dossier, which claimed that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction, which could be deployed for use in 45 minutes. 2002 October 02.10.04 Sir M. Wood, in a memo to ministers & F.O. officials, warns that using force in Iraq requires a new UN Security Council ruling 22.10.04 The Attorney General tells Blair: the concept of a UN "unreasonable veto" of war with Iraq is nonsense 2002 November 02.11.08 UN passes Resolution 1441 authorizing resumption of weapons inspections in Iraq, Sir M. Wood advises this is not a sufficient legal basis for using force 02.11.11 Lord Goldsmith protests about positive 'Chinese whispers' put about by Blair advisors when he remains negative about the legality of war in Iraq 02.11.12 Foreign Sec. J. Straw tells Lord Goldsmith that Iraq must do as it's told "or else" 2003 January 03.01.02 London binbag killer arrested 03.01.04 Govt. flies "flood-plain tax" kite over developers 03.01.05 Death of Roy Jenkins, Labour luvvie, 82 03.01.06 Home Sec. threatens 5-year gaol sentence for carrying firearms 03.01.07 7 North Africans arrested in London over ricin poisoning plot 03.01.09 Weapons inspectors find nothing in Iraq, war postponed 03.01.11 British fleet heads for Persian Gulf 03.01.13 6 more Ricin Gang suspects arrested 03.01.14 3 more Ricing Gang suspects arrested 03.01.15 Blair lies to Commons about legality of war with Iraq 03.01.16 UN inspectors find empty chemical-carrying shells in Iraq 03.01.17 Saddam goes on TV to be defiant 03.01.18 Anti-war demons is UK, US & Japan; Mayor Livingstone proposes 7-year Olympic Tax for London 03.01.19 US willing to let Saddam Hussein go into exile 03.01.20 Finsbury Park mosque raided, 3 arrests, stolen passports & credit cards found 03.01.21 Blair threatens Iraq with nuclear retaliation; Lord Goldsmith submits draft legal advice to Blair & Straw saying war in Iraq would be illegal without a further UN resolution 03.01.23 5 more Moroccans arrested in Italy 03.01.24 Foreign Sec. J. Straw tells US Vice-Pres D. Cheney that Britain will go to war in Iraq without a 2nd UN resolution; 16 Al Kaida suspects arrested in Spain 03.01.25 Slammer virus criples the Internet 03.01.27 UN weapons report on Iraq – nothing yet 03.01.29 Straw writes to Sir M. Wood ordering him to stop arguing and produce a legal argument to justify the government's intention to invade of Iraq 03.01.30 Shoe-bomber R. Reid gaoled for life 03.01.31 Bush & Blair planning war in 6 weeks 2003 February 03.02.01 Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up in atmosphere during landing 03.02.02 US & UK show plans for 2-day bombardment of Iraq; Defence Sec. Hoon eager to go nuclear 03.02.04 Commons throw out Blair's "House of Cronies" plan for Lords 03.02.05 Gen. Colin Powell presents US 2evidence" against Iraq to UK 03.02.06 Blair repeats unreasonable veto claim on BBC TV's Newsnight 03.02.06 Lord Goldsmith writes to Straw telling him that Sir M. Wood has a duty to warn him when he is planning an illegal action 03.02.07 Blair pledges to halve number of asylum seekers admitted to UK 03.02.09 US falls out with France & Germany over plans for Iraq 03.02.11 Tanks at Heathrow airport, over-reaction to Al Kaida plan to shoot down an airliner 03.02.12 Confused govt. messages over terror alert 03.02.13 Gatwick airport, north terminal closed, passenger with grenade in luggage 03.02.14 Heathrow closed for 90 minutes, false alarm 03.02.15 Britain's biggest ever demo in London against war with Iraq; demos all over the world 03.02.17 Congestion Charge in London started; France threatens veto of UN resolution on Iraq; Blair's popularity rating 20% 03.02.20 US/UK give Iraq 21 days to disarm 03.02.24 Govt. White Paper on energy – no more nuclear, more renewables 03.02.26 122 Labour MPs vote against Blair's war plans 03.02.28 Iraq will destroy its missiles 2003 March 03.03.01 Iraqi missiles destroyed 03.03.05 Budget delayed to April 9th 03.03.07 US/UK set March 17th deadline for war in Iraq; Lord Goldsmith tells Blair that a case for invasion can be made based on existing UN resolutions but it might not hold up in court 03.03.09 Bush phones Blair, who declines a chance to pull out of the coming war. 03.03.10 Claire Short not sacked from Cabinet after attacking Blair for war-mongering 03.03.11 US ready to go to war alone if Blair can't manage it; Lord Goldsmith ordered to give a definite yes or no on invading Iraq 03.03.13 Goldsmith delivered the required 'yes' 03.03.16 US, UK, Spain hold Sunday war summit in Azores, war if nothing heard from UN on Monday 03.03.17 Intelligence info received: Iraq's WoMD disassembled & dispersed, ignored by Blair; Saddam Hussein given 48 hours to step down; Foreign Sec. Robin Cook quits cabinet; Lord Goldsmith, arm twisted by the Americans, tells Parliament that invading Iraq would be legal 03.03.18 Gen. T. Cross tells Blair his invasion plan is inadequate and the invasion should be postponed, ignored; Blair wins Commons vote on invading Iraq, 2 more ministers resign but not Short, and the bombing starts 03.03.20 Iraq invaded on the basis of manufactured evidence of a threat to the West from Weapons of Mass Destruction 03.03.22 US special forces in Baghdad; anti-war demo in London 03.03.23 Iraq parades US prisoners and dead on TV; Large arms dump found in S. Belfast 03.03.25 Home Sec. Straw warns Blair: no thought has been given to what war with Iraq will achieve 03.03.27 UK forces win 14-0 in biggest tank battle since WW2; Saddam's yacht & Iraqi navy sunk 03.03.31 Lord Sainsbury gives Labour another £2.5M, total donations now £11M 2003 April 03.04.01 Firearms amnesty for 1 month; US in contact with Iraqi forces at Baghdad 03.04.03 Baghdad airport taken; UK citizens told to stay away from Hong Kong & Guangdong – SARS out of control 03.04.04 Saddam does walkabout for TV; Minor Cabinet reshuffle 03.04.06 Basra, Iraq, under British control 03.04.07 'Chemical Ali' dead 03.04.08 Saddam survives assassination attempt?; All 5 members of IRA gang convicted of bombings in 2001 03.04.09 Saddam statue in Baghdad toppled; Budget – tinkering but no visible changes 03.04.10 Iraqi asylum seekers to be repatriated; Ulster peace deal collapses – IRA won't give up weapons 03.04.14 Govt. blamed for A-Level grades crisis – rushed in 'reforms' without proper trials 03.04.15 Fire Brigade Union rejects 16% pay rise offer, more strikes to come when Iraq war over; Govt. says NO euro referendum in this parliament 03.04.17 Widespread strikes by guards on railways 03.04.18 Forest & moorland fires all over UK 03.04.19 SARS virus has killed 12 in Hong Kong 03.04.20 US troops find $656M stashed in one of Saddam's palaces; China admits lying abour SARS rate & deaths 03.04.21 US ex-general Jar Garner takes charge of Baghdad 03.04.22 Papers found in Baghdad allege George Galloway MP in Saddam's pay 03.04.23 WHO declares Toronto SARS no-go area 03.04.24 Tariq Aziz surrenders to US forces 03.04.27 Saddam's wife & daughters expelled from Syria 03.04.29 President Putin savages Blair (verbally) in Moscow; France, Germany, Belgium & Luxembourg set up NATO military rival 03.04.30 Leaked phone taps show up New Labour's cosy relationship with US Republican party; US inveils Road Map for Middle East peace

YEAR 7

2003 May 03.05.01 Gains for Tories, Libs & BNP in Local elections; Blairs blames IRA for postponement of Belfast Assembly elections 03.05.02 President Bush says the shooting is over in Iraq; Labour lost 839 seats in Local elections 03.05.05 Former lance-corporal wins first ever pension for Gulf War syndrome 03.05.06 Labour suspends George Galloway MP over anti-war remarks; EU wants to impose VAT on postage stamps 03.05.07 63 Labour MPs vote against foundation hospitals 03.05.08 Immigration Minister admits Home Office's asylum system is a catastrophe 03.05.10 Revealed: NHS Trusts rigged A&E efficiency ratings in March to retain funding 03.05.12 Clare Short resigns from Cabinet 03.05.14 UK to bid for 2012 Olympics 03.05.15 Blair makes euro economic test a Cabinet issue not a Brown decision 03.05.18 Welsh Sec. Peter Hain says there is no chance of a referendum on the EU Constitution 03.05.20 Fire Brigade Union accepts 16% pay rise 03.05.22 9 Afghan asylum-seeking hijackers freed by Court of Appeal 03.05.23 Parliament surrounded by concrete blocks as defence against suicide car bombers 03.05.24 Nul points for UK in Eurovision Song Contest 03.05.27 High-tech digital cameras to be used to trap road-tax dodgers; Blair in Iraq after US admits Weapons of Mass Destruction won't be found 03.05.28 Blair accused of spicing up dossier on Iraq's weapons 2003 June 03.06.01 Blair attacked by Short & Cook over Iraq 03.06.03 Foreign Affairs Cttee investigating Iraq weapons story 03.06.06 The Pentagon had no information on Iraq's weapons before the war 03.06.07 Downing St. preparing apology for dodgy dossier on WoMD 03.06.09 UK not to join the euro, Chancellor Brown announces 03.06.10 2 killed, dozens injured by failed Israeli attempt to kill Hamas leader 03.06.11 Public sector staff will have to work to 65 for a full pension 03.06.15 Army defuses Irish terrorist bomb with twice power of Omagh bomb in Londonderry 03.06.16 The Speaker orders Blair to the Commons to explain his constitutional meddling 03.06.17 Blair admits taxes will rise still more to 'improve' public services 03.06.18 Top Saddam aide A. Mahmud arrested 03.06.22 Saddamists say Mahmud gave himself up with Saddam's surrender terms 03.06.23 Labour MPs in revolt over Blair's university top-up fees 03.06.24 Straw names A. Campbell as dodgy dossier author 03.06.26 Labour announces cuts in tanks & ships for military 03.06.28 BBC journalist A. Gilligan threatens to sue leader of HoC for libel 03.06.30 More strikes threatened as DPM J. Prescott unveils plans for 'modernizing' fire brigade 2003 July 03.07.03 US puts $25M bounty on Saddam &15M on sons Uday & K'say 03.07.05 18 killed by suicide bomber at Moscow rock concert 03.07.07 Labour-controlled Commons cttee says A. Campbell innocent 03.07.11 Blair promises more tax rises for New Labour's 3rd term 03.07.13 IRA bomb-maker arrested at Ramallah, Palestine 03.07.14 Budget creep means 2 new aircraft carriers will cost £4M not £3M 03.07.15 League tables show no improvement in 2/3 of hospitals despite £8B more cash 03.07.17 "History will forgive us", says Tony Blair 03.07.18 Body of Iraq weapons expert Dr. D. Kelly found in suspicious circumstances 03.07.22 Uday & K'say Hussein killed in Mosul 03.07.24 Rail regulator postpones West Coast Mainline update for 1 year to save cash 03.07.28 Death of Bob Hope, 100 2004

YEAR 8

2004 August 04.08.01 Steve Moxton, who revealed the Romanian visa scandal, sacked 04.08.02 Major terrorist alert in London based on information from Al Qaida man arrested in Pakistan 04.08.03 Most of the information for the London alert exposed as over 2 years old 04.08.05 Water bills to rise 13-20% over 5 years 04.08.12 Peter Mandelson made EU Trade Commissioner 04.08.22 Royal Mail misses all 15 targets for April-June 04.08.23 Troops begin training to cover fire brigade strike 04.08.26 Fire brigade strike off 40.08.27 President Bush bans Tory leader Michael Howard from White House over Iraq war 2004 September 04.09.02 Lord Chancellor's job not to be abolished; Home Sec. Blunkettt plans to give criminals satellite-monitored tags 04.09.08 19 British soldiers under investigation by Scotland Yard for murder & brutality in Iraq 04.09.14 European Commission planning to bypass UK opt out from working time directive 04.09.15 Police violence at demo in Parliament Square, demonstrators invade Commons as Labour rushes through anti-hunting bill 04.09.16 UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan declares 2003 invasion of Iraq illegal 04.09.22 Video released of Ken Bigley (kidnapped in Iraq on 16/09) asking Blair to save his life 04.09.23 Doctors want the 'appointment within 48 hours' policy scrapped 04.09.29 Another video of Ken Bigley released: chained & caged 04.10.19 Gambling Bill published – restrictions on slot machine numbers, cash prizes and casino membership to be abolished 2005 February 05.02.05 Blair calls general election on May 5th 05.02.06 New Labour still in denial over postal voting fraud 05.02.08 New Labour candidate for Blackburn with Darwen in May 2002 gaoled for 3 years for vote-rigging 05.02.11 Blair promises to clean up his postal voting mess, but not until after the election 05.02.13 The murderer of DC Steven Oakes revealed as a bogus asylum seeker on the run 05.02.14 Labour apologizes for the death of DC Oakes 05.02.15 Govt. chucks £150 million at failing Rover car company 05.02.19 Police chiefs summoned to Whitehall for emergency conference on postal voting fraud 05.02.23 One-third of households in England will pay more Council Tax after New Labour's rebanding exercise 05.02.26 Fuel price protesters picket refineries 05.02.27 Attorney General's full advice on Iraq war leaked – Blair's lies exposed 05.02.28 Relatives of service personnel killed in Iraq demand Blair's prosecution 05.02.29 Blair claims no one told him that doctors have to make an appointment within 24 hours to meet one of his govt's arbitrary targets 05.04.05 Govt. reduces number of regional super-casinos from 8 to 1; Culture Sec. T. Jowell forced to do deal with Tories to save Gambling Bill

YEAR 9

2005 05.05.05 General Election: Labour majority vastly reduced, start of Blair's decline 05.07.07 Islamic terrorist suicide bombers attack London transport system 05.07.21 Second wave of Islamic terrorist suicide bombers in London fails due to defective bombs 2006 06.03.21 [C4H] Scotland Yard investigates allegation that Labour party broke 1925 law banning sale of honours 06.04.13 [C4H] Head teacher Des Smith arrested

YEAR 10

2006 May 06.05.04 Local elections 06.05.05 Cabinet re-spin: Clarke, Straw, Hoon & Prescott sacked or downgraded 06.05.07 Blair accuses Brown supporters of plotting a coup 06.05.08 Revealed: Twice as many foreign prisoners at large as Charles Clarke admitted 06.05.11 Parliamentary Report on July 2005 bombings: no one to blame 06.05.12 Blair & Brown agree to higher pensions if delayed to 68 06.05.15 Brown put in charge of sorting out the Home Office 06.05.18 5 Nigerian illegal immigrants working as cleaners at Immigration & Nationality Directorate; one-third of Post Offices to close 06.05.19 New Home Sec. John Reid decides to abandon police force mergers 06.05.21 Sir Alastair Graham, Standards In Public Life Committee chairman, accuses Blair of not taking standards seriously 06.05.22 Tom McNulty fired sideways from Immigration to running the police 06.05.23 John Reid admits Home Office "not fit for the purpose" 06.05.24 Shortlist of super-casino sites published – public consultation will determine where to put them, not whether to have them; 46 Labour MPs vote against government's school reforms 06.05.26 Government overpaying £1 billion per year in benefit, 1/3 fraud, 2/3 bungling 06.05.30 Lord Woolf wants ministers to stop criticizing judges, Lord Phillips wants fewer criminals to go to gaol; government blunders & mismanagement have wastee £20 billion, including £ 14 billion on the NHS computer system 06.05.31 John Prescott, the minister without a job to do, surrenders Dorney Wood 2006 June 06.06.01 Dept. of Work & Pensions warned in 2000 about giving National Insurance numbers to illegal immigrants but did nothing 06.06.02 250 police raid house in E. London, terrorist suspect shot & wounded 06.06.06 Dave Cameron applauds Blair & Brown's promise of public sector wage freeze 06.06.09 Brothers from raid on 2nd freed without charge 06.06.16 NHS computer already 2 years late and will cost £12 billion, double the budget 06.06.19 Home Sec. J. Reid puts off police mergers decision to the autumn 06.06.21 G. Brown in trouble for promising to buy new nuclear weapons 06.06.28 Mr. Justice Sullivan frees 6 Iraqi terror suspects from house arrest on human rights grounds 2006 July 06.07.01 Revealed: DPM Prescott given cowboy outfit by super-casino bidder Philip Anschutz, owner of Millennium Dome 06.07.04 The Lord Chancellor will be replaced by a Lords Speaker 06.07.05 Revealed: Prescott's ODPM pushed Anschutz casino bid 06.07.10 Revealed: Lord Levy told Gulam Noon to hide a £¼ million loan to Labour; police mergers definitely off, G. Brown won't find the necessary £800 million 06.07.11 Labour chooses to go nuclear in Energy Review 06.07.12 [C4H] Lord Levy arrested 06.07.12 Petrol prices soar; Revealed: Prescott did discuss casinos with Anschutz organization 06.07.14 [C4H] Revealed: Lord Sainsbury and ex-Labour party chairman Ian McCartney have been questioned 06.07.16 [C4H] Blair says Labour hasn't sold honours for cash donations/loans 06.07.12 Home Information Packs downsized, cost reduced from £1,000 to £300 06.07.12 Figures showing huge rise in street crime overshadow Reid shake-up at Home Office; Hottest ever July day 06.07.12 Sir A. Graham rules that Prescott breached ministerial code 06.07.21 [C4H] Labour lender Sir Christopher Evans arrested 2006 August 06.08.02 Ban on deportations to Zimbabwe lifted 06.08.03 Bank rate up to 4.75% 06.08.04 Prisons 680 places from full up 06.08.06 Jenson Button wins Hungarian Grand Prix 06.08.07 Local Govt. Assn. says C-Tax will have to rise to pay for Labour's flood of migrants 06.08.08 3 News of World journalists arrested for hacking royal voicemail 06.08.10 24 British Moslems arrested for planning to blow up airliners in US, airport chaos 06.08.13 Scores of flights cancelled, govt. blamed for security shambles at airports 06.08.18 Royal Mail introduced Price & Weight pricing 06.08.23 Supermarket food prices up 10% since May 06.08.24 40% of primary school pupils leave unable to read, write and/or do maths 06.08.26 Labour party tells Blair he's making the public 'uncertain' 06.08.29 Revealed: Millennium Dome operators faked document of support for their super-casino from religious leaders 06.08.30 Govt. U-turn: drivers can use motorway hard shoulders 06.08.31 38 saboteurs arrested at Drax B power station 2006 September 06.09.01 15th British soldier killed in Afghanistan; Blair refuses to set departure date 06.09.02 Wembley Council report – super-casinos will be a magnet for gangsters, drug dealers & prostitutes 06.09.05 Blair promises to resign on May 27th and stand down on July 26th 06.09.06 7 Labour PPSs quit to embarrass Blair 06.09.07 Blair forced to announce he's definitely going to go, but no timetable 06.09.08 US Senate report declares that Saddam Hussein has no links to Al Qaida; Charles Clarke assumes leadership of 'Stop Brown' movement 06.09.11 Police think Jihadistas using paint-balling centres for combat training 06.09.12 Blair bombs at TUC 06.09.13 Lord Falconer dilutes privacy laws 06.09.14 New Tory tree logo unveiled 06.09.16 John Hutton, Work & Pensions Sec., touted as latest Blair replacement 06.09.18 Defence Sec. D. Brown admits NATO underestimated Taliban strength in Afghanistan; Royal Mail launches online stamp service for public 06.09.20 Cabinet tells Blair & Brown to stop feuding 06.09.21 Gloucester Police convicted of racial discrimination against rejected white recruit 06.09.22 Attorney General approves phone-tapping evidence in court cases 06.09.25 "Well, that's a lie!" Cherie Blair at Labour conference, Manchester, re G. Brown 06.09.26 Romania & Bulgaria to be allowed to join EU on 2007/01/01 06.09.28 Will John Reid bid for the Labour leadership? 06.09.29 [C4H] Ruth Turner, Blair's director of external communications, questioned 2006 October 06.10.02 US bans online use of credit cards for gambling, £3B wiped of shares of British online gaming firms 06.10.05 Jack Straw in trouble for telling Moslem constituents to lose the veil 06.10.06 Govt. forcing councils to introduce fortnightly refuse collections by stealth 06.10.07 Blair promises the Army anything it needs; Army highly sceptical 06.10.11 Johns Hopkins University survey: 650,000 Iraqis dead since 2003 invasion 06.10.12 General Sir R. Dannatt, new head of Army, sais British troops must leave Iraq 'soon' 06.10.13 Blair pretends to agree with Gen. Dannatt 06.10.14 Tory donors 'out' themselves 06.10.15 New Labour starts sniping at Gen. Dannatt as routine character assassination 06.10.16 Home Office admits: 2 terrorists subject to control orders on the run 06.10.18 'Save our post offices' petition on Downing St. website now has 4 million signatures 06.10.19 NICE refuses to fund in England, a cancer drug available in Scotland & Wales 06.10.20 Nurses threaten strike over govt.'s 1.5% pay offer 06.10.24 Police force ratings published: Humberside & Northants worst 06.10.26 Labour lets councils have an elected mayor without a referendum 06.10.28 Irish police dismantle IRA bomb 06.10.30 British consulate staff evacuated from Basra 06.10.31 Labour votes down an attempt to impose an Iraq war inquiry 2006 November 06.11.01 The Commons speaker, a.k.a. Gorbals Mick, limits the scope of questions to the prime minister for party political reasons 06.11.02 Lord Hutton denies that his report was a whitewash 06.11.04 [C4H] Labour donor & Attorney General Lord Goldsmith insists he will have the final say on prosecutions 06.11.05 Saddam Hussein sentenced to hang 06.11.06 Blair says he doesn't want Saddam Hussein executed 06.11.07 Talks to impose 48 hour working week maximum in EU collapse; US mid-term elections 06.11.08 [C4H] Police say no cash for honours charged before Blair quits; Democrats take control of US Congress & House of Representatives; D. Rumsfeld quits 06.11.09 Bank rate up 0.25% to 5% 06.11.12 [C4H] Revealed: the police have found evidence that the Labour party tried to hide loans from its auditors 06.11.14 Home Office plans to downgrade 25 crimes to a spot fine or 'apologize & go free' 06.11.15 Blair's last Queen's Speech 06.11.16 [C4H] Police announce that they have questioned 90 people and gained significant & valuable material 06.11.17 Blair tells Al Jazeera the Iraq war has been a disaster 06.11.19 2012 Olympics to cost £8 billion & rising due to cost of land, etc. 06.11.23 Revealed: another Labour scam: party being funded from local councillors' allowances 06.11.25 52% of Scots & 59% of English want Scottish independence 06.11.29 Illegal migrants wreck Harmondsworth detention centre, W. London 06.11.30 G. Brown wants 1.5p/mile Stealth Tax from motorists 2006 December 06.12.03 MPs want 66% pay rise to £100K 06.12.04 Blair pushing for Trident nuclear weapons renewal 06.12.06 Pre-Budget report; Dept. of Education report – primary school standards slumping 06.12.14 [C4H] Blair questioned by police on day of release of the Stevens report on Princess Diana's death 06.12.15 Brown denies soliciting honours for his pals 06.12.16 [C4H] Blair & Lord Levy telling conflicting stories 06.12.19 Revealed: Blair let Bush talk him out of Iraq troop withdrawal timetable 06.12.23 Labour repaying £1M loan to arrested Sir C. Evans 06.12.26 Saddam Hussein loses appeal, to hang in 30 days 06.12.28 Foreign Office report: British troops needed in Basra until at least 2008 06.12.29 Saddam Hussein hanged for mass murder 2007 January 07.01.02 Govt. want tougher driving test to reduce teenage road deaths; rail fares up 5% 07.01.02 Govt. planning annual Council Tax increases based on home improvements 07.01.09 The Home Office has failed to add 27,000 Britons convicted abroad to the Police National Computer 07.01.10 The Home Office refused to give the police funding for adding the above data to the PNC; bank rate up to 5.25% 07.01.11 Assets Recovery Agency to be abolished after 4 years of failure to recover assets from criminals 07.01.12 Revealed: the Foreign Office holds records of Britons convicted abroad but it refuses to share them with the Home Office 07.01.14 President Bush admits that invading Iraq & Afghanistan made terror attacks more likely 07.01.15 Police & health experts' report – super-casinos will cause a crime wave and an epidemic of problem gamblers 07.01.17 Govt. hands armed forces training contract to crony company Qinetiq to buy Welsh votes 07.01.19 [C4H] Ruth Turner arrested; suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice 07.01.22 Catholic church threatens to close adoption agencies over New Labour's obsession with same sex 'parents' 07.01.23 The gaols full – courts told to stop delivering prison sentences 07.01.24 Blair crumbles; no exemption to same-sex adoption for Catholic agencies; thousands of criminals to get out of gaol early 07.01.25 [C4H] Police recover deleted and concealed 'cash for honours' emails from Downing St. computer system 07.01.26 [C4H] Blair questioned again; Judges complain about Home Office interference over sentencing policy 07.01.27 [C4H] Document bearing hand-written notes by Blair seized by police 07.01.30 [C4H] Lord Levy arrested again; suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice; Manchester shock winner of super-casino contest, not Blackpool 07.01.31 The Govt. decides to pay even more to GPs to persuade them to do evening & weekned work again 2007 February 07.02.01 [C4H] News of Blair being questioned by police on 26th January released 07.02.02 Blairs purchase 5th property, 1,000 turkeys dead of bird flu in Suffolk 07.02.02 DEFRA in trouble for slow response to H5N1 bird flu outbreak 07.02.05 New Labour starts messing about with the school curriculum again 07.02.06 The SUN exposes Ministry of Defence lies to inquest on British soldier killed by US Air Force in Iraq in March 2003 07.02.12 Downing Street website crashes as people flood to sign a petition against road pricing 07.02.14 £20 million political show trial of Col. Jorge Mendonca over mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq collapses – judge throws the case out of his court 07.02.15 Mr. Justice Sullivan rules that Labour's 'consultation' on nuclear power for the 2005 energy review was a sham 07.02.16 First Sea Lord warns that Britain will have a navy the size of Belgium's (3 ships) if New Labour's cuts continue 07.02.17 News of Lord Goldsmith's affair raises fresh doubts about the impartiality of his advice on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war 07.02.20 [C4H] Ruth Turner questioned again; Blair decides to ignore the 1.8 million signatures on the petition against road pricing 07.02.21 Having wrapped himself in Lady Thatcher's achievements, Blair fails to attend unveiling of her statue in Commons 07.02.22 New Labour's policies blamed for a rise in deaths of MRSA and C. difficile in the NHS; Blair sees no reason to regret invading Iraq on the basis of manufactures evidence and takes no responsibility for having failed to make plans for what to do after victory 07.02.23 Bishop T. Burns, the army's most senior RC chaplain, accuses the govt. of risking the lives of troops in Afghanistan & Iraq by giving them obsolete vehicles and poor quality or insufficient clothing, body armour and equipment; Parliament condemns Blair's secret attempts to persuade President Bush to base 'Star Wars' anti-missile systems in Britain 2007 March 07.03.01 Chancellor gives public sector below inflation pay rises 07.03.02 [C4H] Attorney General obtains injunction against BBC to stop the broadcast of a leaked email 07.03.05 [C4H] BBC Injunctions lifted, the story was about Lord Levy allegedly bullying Ruth Turner into changing her story 07.04.08 Cameron knee-jerk; Patrick Mercer sacked from front bench 07.04.09 EU to ban sale of incandescent light bulbs in 2009 07.03.11 Revealed: Gordon Brown & Tessa Jowell have been conspiring since 2005 to conceal the true cost of the 2012 Olympics, now up to around £9 billion from the 'selling' price of £2.4 billion. 07.03.12 Govt. lifts TV advertising ban on casinos, betting shops and internet gambling; BBC reporter Alan Johnson abducted in Gaza 07.03.13 Lord Goldsmith condemned for a £20 million political witch hunt against the British troops who were acquitted of abusing prisoners in Iraq 07.03.14 Blair needs Tory help to get Trident replacement bill through Commons 07.03.15 £2.2 billion of Lottery 'good cause' money grabbed for £9.3B Olympics 07.03.16 Gordon Brown abandons the 2-year review of Council Tax by Sir M. Lyons in fear of the reaction to more screwing of the middle classes at the May local elections 07.03.17 Protest march by junior doctors with no jobs over the shambles created by Labour's meddling with their training 07.03.20 Inflation (incl. housing) at 4.6%, highest for 16 years; Revealed: Home Office issued 10,000 passports to terrorists & fraudsters 07.03.21 Budget; 10p income tax band abolished, basic rate down 2p to 20p, Brown takes a further £2 billion from taxpayers, puts 50% tax on casino profits 07.03.22 3 British Moslems arrested re 2005/07/07 terrorist bombings in London 07.03.23 15 British naval personnel hijacked by Iranians in Iraqi territorial waters 07.03.24 Last British troops leave Bosnia-Herzegovina 07.03.25 [C4H] Revealed: Blair threatened to resign as PM to avoid police interview under caution 07.03.26 Paisley & Adams agree to power-sharing govt. in Ulster from May 8th; Revealed: Culture Sec. Tessa Jowell tried to buy off Labour super-casino levels with a promise that Blackpool will be next 07.03.27 Parents, especially in London, are buying £400 stab vests for their children as the police aren't protecting them; Blair wants all school children to be monitored for criminal tendencies 07.03.28 Lords reject Manchester super-casino plan, and associated plans for smaller casinos, by 3 votes; Iranians parade female prisoner on TV 07.03.29 UN refuses to condemn Iranian govt.'s hijacking; Home Office to split off a Justice Dept. 07.03.30 Network Rail fined £4M for Paddington rail crash; Iran broadcasts badly edited 'confessions' by hijacked naval personnel 2007 April 07.04.01 Postage 34p 1st class/24p 2nd class (up 2p/1p), prescriptions up 20p to £6.85 but free in Wales 07.04.02 CBI rejects Ed Balls' claim that it lobbied for Brown's pension grab in 1997 07.04.04 Hijacked 15 released by Iran 07.04.05 4 British troops, 2 men & 2 women, and a Jordanian interpreter killed by terrorists in Iraq 07.04.07 Teachers vote to strike over imposed 2% pay settlement 07.04.08 MoD decision to let Hijacked 15 sell their stories to the media condemned as part of New Labour's campaign of 'vulgarization of Britain' 07.04.09 MoD U-turn – the rules to be redrafted to prevent future media sales 07.04.10 Blair accused of letting the Hijacked 15 sell their stories as part of a government spin operation 07.04.12 Revealed: The MoD was planning the sale of the Hijacked 15's stories while they were still prisoners in Iran 07.04.13 General Sir M. Rose: 'New Labour's moral cowardice has all but destroyed the nation's armed forces'; Blair denies knowing anything about selling the Hijacked 15's stories but doesn't explain why he didn't put a stop to it when he found out 07.04.16 Defence Sec. Des Brown almost apologizes to Commons for the Hijacked 15 media sales shambles; Health Sec. Praticia Hewitt apologizes for the junior doctor training shambles 07.04.17 Inflation 3.1% in March, 15-year high, Retail Price Index 4.8% 07.04.18 Labour votes down pensions lifeboat 07.04.19 One-third of home now have fortnightly refuse collection with Labour eager to spread the trend 07.04.20 [C4H] Police dossier handed to DPP, police want to prosecute Lord Levy, R. Turner & Sir C. Evans 07.04.22 [C4H] Revealed: Full tex of New Labour's 1997 favours for cash plan – Blair & Levy at the heart of it 07.04.25 Revealed: Downing St. and the Home Office are leaking details of police counter-terrorism operations for self-promotion reasons even though leaking this information is a criminal offence; Blair admits breaking his pledge to provide NHS dentistry to everyone who wants it 07.04.26 The NHS is shrinking; there are 17,390 fewer staff, including 6,000 fewer nurses, than in 2006 due to debt problems; Robbery is increasing as Labour's street crime initiative has run out of cash and gone out of fashion. 07.04.27 Judge releases 2 Libyan terrorist suspects on bogus human rights grounds 07.04.29 Home Sec. John Reid chickens out of running for Labour leadership 07.04.30 Five terrorists gaoled for fertilizer bomb plot, MI5 missed a link to the 7/7 suicide bombers

YEAR 11

May 2007 07.05.01 Blair says he'll resign 'next week'; No inquiry into the lies the government told about the 7/7 terrorist attack; Brown, last month's denouncer of celebrity culture, unveils his list of celebrity backers 07.05.02 Former Defence Minister G. Hoon says Iraq is a mess because Bush & Blair had no post-war plan 07.05.03 Labour wiped out in local elections in England, Labour/Liberal coalition Scottish Executive responsible for election shambles in Scotland 07.05.04 SNP wins 47 seats in Scottish Parliament, 1 more than Labour; 100,000 ballots ruled invalid 07.05.07 Death of Lord Wetherill, first Commons speaker of the TV era 07.05.08 Stormont devolved parliament reopens in Ulster with I. Paisley (DUP) as 1st Minister, M. McGuinness (IRA) as 2nd Minister 07.05.09 Ministry of Justice (split off from Home Office), opens for business; the minister, Lord Falconer, doesn't want criminals locked up 07.05.10 Blair announces that he is quitting, but not until July; Bank rate up 0.25% to 5.5% 07.05.11 No charges against the 11 police officers involved in the de Menezes shooting in London 07.05.14 Leftie John McDonnell offers himself as pantomime horse Labour leadership candidate against Brown 07.05.15 Health Sec. P. Hewitt forced to scrap online application system for junior doctor jobs 07.05.16 There will be no Labour leadership contest 07.05.17 Government to close 2,500 post offices 07.05.18 MPs vote to exclude themselves from Freedom of Information Act 07.05.20 Chairman of BMA obliged to resign over junior doctor training fiasco 07.05.22 Government postpones HIPs due to a state of shambles 07.05.28 NHS cutbacks have left £500 million unspent 07.05.29 Five British security staff kidnapped by police/militia infiltrators in Baghdad 07.05.31 Col. Jorge Mendonca, DSO, quits the army – the target of a govt.-inspired witch hunt June 2007 07.06.02 [C4H] Police want Blair as a witness in a cash for honours trial 07.06.03 Doctors demand cash from patients for evening & weekend appointments; Pres. Putin revived cold war, threatens to target missiles on Europe 07.06.04 £400,000 2012 Olympic logo unveiled to universal derision 07.06.05 Pres. Bush taunts Pres. Putin over cold war revival 07.06.06 Lord reverse govt. decision, vote for lifeboat for victims of collapsed pension schemes 07.06.07 Revealed: Blair did a secret deal with Gadaffi during his farewell junket aimed at sending the gaoled Lockerbie bomber A. Mohmed back to Libya; Pres. Bush rejects G8 carbon dioxide emissions targets 07.06.08 Attorney General Lord Goldsmith denies concealing from fraud investigators, payment from BAe's slush fund to a Saudi prince adding up to £1 billion 07.06.12 Blair launches whinge at 'feral beast' news media for daring to stop buying his spin & lies 07.06.13 House of Lords rules that prisoners of British troops anywhere in the world can sue the Ministry of Defence on human rights grounds. 07.06.15 MPs ordered to reveal how they spend their 2nd home allowance as an anti-fraud measure 07.06.17 Revealed: Blair knew that the USA had no post-war plan for Iraq when he told the nation (before the invasion) he was 'satisfied with Bush's post-war planning' 07.06.19 Germany still trying to sneak the much rejected constitution into the latest EU treaty; 25,000 criminals to be released from gaol 18 days early and paid £200 apiece for the loss of free bed & board; MoD finds no one to blame for kidnapping of 15 naval personnel in March by Iranian pirates 07.06.20 President Bush suggests Blair as a Middle East peace envoy – universal derision. 07.06.21 7th terrorist suspect on a control order drops out of sight 07.06.22 Attorney general Lord Goldsmith to quit under a cloud with Blair; Blair forced to back out of a dirty deal with the French on competition at EU summit 07.06.23 Exposed: Blair's 'concessions' in the revamped EU constitutional treaty are not legally binding and worthless; Brown reneges on pledge to hold a referendum 07.06.24 'Chemical' Ali Hassan sentenced to hang 07.06.25 Lord Hunt admits that New Labour's pledge to end mixed sex wards in the NHS has been abandoned 07.06.26 Extensive flooding blamed on govt.'s failure to strengthen flood defences and massive flood defence budget cut 07.06.27 Blair finally forced out of office 07.06.28 C4H Revealed: Blair was questioned by the police for a 3rd time in the first week of the month but it was covered up to avoid 'tainting' his exit pantomime 08.10.11 Sleaze Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that Blair lied about his part in giving Formula One an exemption from a ban on tobacco advertising after meeting Labour £1M donor B. Ecclestone, the head of F1. 08.10.27 Sleaze The Commons Speaker, M. 'Gorbals' Martin (partisan Labour) decides that Blair won't be called to account and he can be allowed to get away with his lies. 08.11.30 Revealed Tony Blair was warned in 2002 that an Olympics in 2012 would bring little economic or social benefit to Britain, but he went ahead with the bid anyway. 09.01.23 The Consultative Group on the Past, set up by Blair's Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain, in June 2007, thinks that the British taxpayer should pay cash to relatives of dead Irish terrorists to make them feel better. £300 million is required for the cause.  • Blair's Bloody Sunday inquiry, set up in January 1998, has blown £200 million of taxpayer's money and it has yet to deliver the whitewash. 09.01.25 Four Labour members of the House of Lords, which is now stuffed with Blair cronies, are exposed as sleazy after falling for a Sunday Times Cash For Legislation sting.

   

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