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Daily Record reports on 25th November 2008...

Fury of bus smash victim's family after driver works as trucker while awaiting trial.

A BUS driver who killed three people in a horror crash was allowed to work as a trucker while awaiting trial.

Philip Rooney, 49, was taken on as a driver for a dairy near his home in Lanarkshire, it emerged yesterday.

Last night, the husband of one of the victims of the crash, Dundee gran Chris Toner, said he was "amazed" at the news.

Rooney had at first denied any blame for the crash which killed Chris, 76, and two other people near Heathrow airport in January 2007.

But last month, just days before the trial was due to start, he admitted causing the deaths by dangerous driving.

Rooney, who was sacked by National Express after the crash, will be sentenced tomorrow at Oxford Crown Court.

The father of one, from Carluke, has been warned he faces a substantial jail term.

Jimmy Toner, 84, from Monifieth, near Dundee, said: "I would have thought he'd have been banned until they sorted it all out. But the law is the law and we have to abide by whatever decision is made."

A police source said: "You might think there's no way someone like this should be working as a driver.

"But in the case of a truck or van driver, there's nothing to stop it unless a judge makes it a condition of his bail."

At the interview for the driving job at Quothquan Farms Dairy, Rooney moaned he was "innocent until proven guilty".

Transport manager Bob Mooney said yesterday he gave him the benefit of the doubt - and added: "If I'd known he was going to plead guilty, it would have changed things. "

More than 30 people, mostly Scots, were taken to hospital, several of them seriously injured, after Rooney crashed the London to Aberdeen coach on an M25 slip road.

UK 1884 blogs on 24th November 2008...

National Express..Wins-British Tax-payers-Lose Again all round!



Immigration ‘heaven’ for National Express at London’s Victoria Coach Station…


* But Hell for British people during the worst credit crisis in history as National Express creams off vast profits from the British taxpayer


On any day of the week at London’s Victoria Coach Station an invasion of staggering proportions is taking place and the only benefactor is National Express, creaming off millions each year from the long suffering British taxpayer.

Over two dozen times in the last year, News Alliance investigators have travelled on several different coaches from London Victoria Coach Station to different parts of the country. On each coach, particularly at peak times, half of the ‘passengers’ are immigrants being redistributed to relocation centres around the country.

The cost to the British taxpayer runs into millions of pounds for the cost of subsidised travel tickets to relocation centres around the UK and National Express is the only winner, financially.

But the rest of the nation, particularly the indigenous population, has to pay not just a heavy price in terms of subsidised travel tickets but an even greater strain and burden on public-funded resources. The British taxpayer is being screwed both ways by the corrupt New Labour regime and only a General Election will stop this outrageous waste of money.

News Alliance contacted National Express to ascertain if any figures have been collated to show the number of immigrants carried in one year on National Express coaches. But in a fashion so typical of modern ‘Britain’, we were told “no such figures exist and have never been collected by National Express. We operate an equal opportunites policy and collecting the figures you mention could be seen as racist and damage the image of the company.”

Even transport companies under the spell the New Labour regime have adopted the ‘policies’ of the Marxist thought police who have transformed the art of political lying into a commonplace professional practice.

Of course, the denial of National Express that such figures are kept and they would have no idea how to collect such figures is another symptom of the spread of professional lying. There is no doubt that National Express has exact figures for the numbers of immigrants using subsidised tickets to travel on coaches around the country.

The Home Office and the Treasury pick up the bill on ‘behalf’ of the British taxpayer and all costs incurred for subsidised tickets are then paid each quarter to National Express. This is a simple fact of basic economics but the ongoing credit crisis proves that New Labour has no idea how to manage what is left of the ‘British’ branch of the collapsing global economy.

Having received no joy from National Express employees at London Victoria, and having telephoned the head office in Birmingham to be greeted with another bucket of pig-swill, we set off for the Passport and Immigration Service office on Belgrave Road in Pimlico.

We were told in no uncertain terms by ‘foreign-born’ employees at the office that if we attempted to take any photographs of the building we would be “arrested under anti-terror laws”. We explained that the building is paid for by the British taxpayer and is a public place and no law in England prevents an individual from taking photographs in a public place.

We refused not to take photographs of the building and went outside to take photographs whereupon the foreign-born security guards from the Far East, called on other security teams to call the Metropolitan political police to come and arrest us.

Having made our point for the day we retired to a safe distance and determined to return at a later date with long-range telephoto lenses to put the building under daytime surveillance to determine what the Passport and Immigration Service has to hide?

Once this operation has been carried out, we will publish the details of what we uncover together with the entire surveillance product in the public interest. We also intend to send in undercover activists wearing concealed pinhole cameras to ascertain why such secrecy is required….

The message that comes out of this latest engagement against the bent forces of HMG and its army of foreign employees is that they can watch us 24 hours a day but we cannot and must never be allowed to watch them.

Together with the wretched money-making scam that is National Express [immigrant] coach ’services’, yesterday proved to be a thoroughly productive day on the frontline against the Police State and its crooked economic assets.

We have also advised the British National Party’s Richard Barnbrook of our investigation so that he can raise the matter on behald of Londoners in the GLA.
Hat Tip News-Alliance

Martin Ferguson blogs on 20th November 2008...

Stop the bus?

There is a nasty myth that Scotsmen are tight [with money].

You’ve probably heard the yarns: copper wire was invented by two Aberdonians fighting over a penny; Jock McTavish dropped a 20p, bent down to pick it up and it hit him on the back of the head. And so on.

I am Scottish. And while I wouldn’t consider myself a tight-arse with cash, I do like a bargain.

Whenever I travel north from London (where I work) to Glasgow or Manchester I fly or take the train. But unless you book years in advance, both can be pricey excursions.

However, this week I was lured by an £8 National Express bus fare from London Victoria to Manchester, saving about £100 on the cheapest available air and rail fare.

Incredible. Right? Well, yes and no. For pure price, the inter city bus can’t be beaten. But I’m struggling to think of a more disappointing and incomfortable travel experience.

The five-hour journey (which would have been two-and-a-half hours on the train) was arduous. There was just enough room to read a tabloid newspaper. But no room for a laptop (or a power point in which to plug one) ruling out as a modern day business travel option.

Even in these tough economic times I can’t envisage any company encouraging its staff to travel by bus. It’s just too bloody time consuming, no matter how cheap the fare.

I have the return journey in a few days. I’m not looking forward to it. But I think it will be the last time.