The strange and loudly telling silence of the sleazed ethnic post-holders - Keith Vaz, "Baroness of Bethnal Green" Pola Uddin and Shahid Malik - 1

The strange and loudly telling silence of the sleazed ethnic post-holders - Keith Vaz, "Baroness of Bethnal Green" Pola Uddin and Shahid Malik - Part

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London Saturday 16 May 2009

Baroness of Bethnal Green is very silent this weekend. Not even agreeing a prepared script to be put on the BBC in her name! Unlike 8 years ago when she did exactly that.

To aid Keith Vaz.

She said he was a victim of racist press coverage.

Why?

Because the press was reporting on Keith Vaz and his very own sleaze.

And how did ‘Baroness of Bethnal Green’ get involved with Keith Vaz?

What was he to her?

How had they met?

They could not have met by natural circumstances.

Those must have been arranged for them.

Both belong to the same British party. Both owed their presence in the British Parliament to their claims that they were approved ethnics.

And the rest as they say, is sleaze.

But how many ethnic people have any real say on what their alleged representatives in Britain get up to?

Clearly the ‘baroness’ - or Keith Vaz for that matter - and other tokens of ethnic ‘fulfillment and achievement ‘keeping themselves very quiet this weekend.

Not even the very remarkable departure from office of Shahid Malik yesterday [Friday 15 May 2009] produced a single byte of sound from either ‘Baroness Uddin’ of Keith Vaz.

But then would they ever have done?

Would any of them have really solidarised with Shahid Malik at the hour of his personal need?

And would Shahidf Malik himself have solidarised with any other allegedly fellow ethnic feeling the pressure of racist prejudice?

Who would have answered Shahid Malik’s double-edged question - ‘why are the media outside my house?’ he put to Carrie Gracie of BBC News where he was treated to the full interview not long before he was forced to ‘stand aside’?




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5332099/Shahid-Maliks-fate-sealed-by-growing-dismay-in-Downing-St-MPs-expenses.html

Shahid Malik’s fate sealed by growing dismay in Downing St : MPs' expenses
The fate of Shahid Malik was sealed just after 10pm on Thursday night. That was when officials in Downing Street started digesting, via the Telegraph website, the full allegations levelled at the Justice Minister.

By Andrew Porter, Political Editor
Last Updated: 9:36PM BST 15 May 2009
In the words of one of those present: “The alarm bells started ringing immediately.”
Television screens in Downing Street were showing the late evening news bulletins, which were detailing the demise of two senior politicians.

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The expenses investigation had claimed its first scalps in former Labour minister Elliot Morley and Andrew Mackay, a close aide to David Cameron.
But the latest revelations were to eclipse them both. Mr Malik, the MP for Dewsbury, was about to become the first ministerial casualty of The Daily Telegraph’s exhaustive investigation into MPs’ expenses.
The problem lay with the three-bedroom house in Dewsbury which Mr Malik, who is Jack Straw’s deputy at the Ministry of Justice, had designated as his main home.
By claiming that his main home was in his constituency he was able to nominate his London home as his second home, allowing him to use expenses – the maximum of £66,827 over the three years he has been an MP – to furnish and keep it. Among the items that he had claimed for was a £2,600 home cinema system, including a 40-inch flat screen television. The Commons fees office agreed to pay half. He also claimed for a £730 massage chair.
Meanwhile, he was renting the Dewsbury house from Tahir Zaman, a businessman who lived next door, and who had in 2005 been convicted of renting out a building to a family of five which was “uninhabitable.” He was fined £450 and ordered to pay costs.
There was another problem obvious to most people in Number 10, but clearly not Mr Malik. The landlord had told The Telegraph that Mr Malik paid a discounted rent, understood to be under £100 a week.
It meant that while the taxpayer was funding his London existence with payments of £443 a week, the minister was paying a minimal amount for his rent, risking a breach of the ministerial code, which states that no minister should accept “gifts or hospitality” which could place them under an “obligation” to someone else. Before Gordon Brown went to bed he was alerted to the latest problem. One person who was not going to bed was Mr Malik. He had been contacted by Sky News and was asked for a reaction to the revelations. This was to be the start of an astonishing round of television appearances in which he would defend vigorously his expenses claims. Mr Malik told Sky News that he had acted within the rules and denied that his job was on the line.
He added: “I think this is a bit of a non-story to be honest.”
Labour Party sources had also – prematurely and seemingly without reference to Downing Street – let it be known that they did not think there was a problem. This must have emboldened Mr Malik as he went to bed. He had agreed to allow the Sky cameras into his home first thing in the morning to further defend his position. In the Cabinet Office at 7am Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, and the most powerful civil servant in the land, was starting to immerse himself in the Malik case.
By 8am he had spoken to the Prime Minister and given his initial thoughts on Mr Malik’s position. It was not positive. Meanwhile, Mr Straw had also spoken to Mr Malik, as had the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice. The ministerial code was the issue.
Some in Number 10  were aghast when they saw Mr Malik popping up on the morning’s various television news channels. He told Sky, the BBC and GMTV that he was innocent. He said: “I’m going one million per cent by the book. It’s a non-story in the sense that I could have been one of 500 MPs. I don’t know why the Telegraph focused on me. Of course I feel that my reputation is tarnished, but my integrity is intact. I’m not in it to make money, I’m here to make a difference.”
And what of the “£800 massage chair?” How did that fit in, he was politely asked by an interviewer. He replied: “You see, I’d have more respect for you if you were honest about the figures. You know full well it is £730.”
But his career prospects were getting bleaker by the minute.
Sir Gus told the Prime Minister that it was serious enough to ask Sir Philip Mawer, the independent adviser on the ministerial code, to rule on a possible breach.
Mr Malik was told that he would have to stand down until the inquiry reached its conclusions. Last night no one in Number 10 expected him to return as a Justice Minister.