Prince Philip mocks people with disabilities

The Duke of Edinburgh made a joke at the expense of a comedian with an artificial foot, in his latest foray into politically incorrect humour.

Duke of Edinburgh makes joke at expense of disabled Royal Variety comedian Adam Hills

Telegraph | Dec 15, 2009

By Matthew Moore

Just days after it was disclosed that the Duke mocked the declining sight of a blind teenager, it has emerged he poked fun at the disability of an Australian entertainer at the Royal Variety Show in Blackpool.

After performing for the Queen alongside acts including Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and Michael Bublé last week, the comedian Adam Hills spoke to the Duke about his plans to return home.

Observing the comic’s prosthetic limb, the monarch’s husband reportedly joked: “You could smuggle a bottle of gin out of the country in that artificial foot.”

Hills, who has forged a successful career as a television presenter despite being born without a right foot, took the jibe in good humour, telling the Daily Mirror that he thought the line was “brilliant”.

Yesterday the family of Stephen Menary, an army cadet who was blinded in an IRA bombing, told how the Duke offended the 15-year-old at a tree planting event in Hyde Park in 2002.

After the Queen asked the teenager how much sight he had left, the Duke responded: “Not a lot, judging by the tie he’s wearing.”

Carol Menary, 48, Stephen’s mother, said: “After he said it there was just stunned silence. The Queen just looked at him open mouthed. I don’t think she could believe what he had said.

“My whole family were just shocked. We knew he has a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth so we didn’t take offence, but mocking the sight of a blind boy is something, even by his standards.”

Prince Philip is notorious for his public gaffes and over the years has offered his own unique advice to people all over the world.

In 2002, he asked an aborigine whether he was “still throwing spears”.

Book: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands behind coup attempt on Indonesian government

Prince Bernhard shown here on the left boxing, date unknown.

Historians quarrel about prince’s role in Indonesia coup

NRC | Dec 2, 2009

By Bart Funnekotter

The late prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, husband of former queen Juliana, was party to an attempted coup against the government of the young Indonesian republic in 1950, a book published this Monday asserts.

The Dutch writers, historian Harry Veenendaal and journalist Jort Kelder, base their conclusions on evidence that has been available to other researchers: archived diaries of a court secretary and military police reports describing the attempted coup d’état which mention the prince’s name in relation to the coup.

Prince Bernhard, the father of the reigning queen Beatrix, has always been a source of controversy. In 1976, after being accused of accepting bribes from the American aeroplane manufacturer Lockheed, he was stripped of his military titles. He also fathered two children with women other than his wife during their marriage.

The charges now levelled at Bernhard are the latest in a string of more and less substantiated claims concerning his supposedly unprincely conduct. By 1950, Indonesia had gained its independence from Dutch rule and normalised relations with its former colonial power. That a rag-tag crew of former Dutch and Moluccan soldiers nevertheless tried to oust the leadership of the young republic in a failed coup attempt on the Indonesian island of Java is a given. But whether the prince was involved remains open to debate.
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While Kelder and Veenendaal claim the matter has been subject of a cover-up conducted by the royal family, historian Cees Fasseur came to very different conclusions drawing on mostly the same evidence. Fasseur published a biography of prince Bernhard and queen Juliana last year. According to Fasseur “There is no evidence implying the prince was complicit” in the attempted coup. Veenendaal in turn has accused his colleague of behaving as if he were “prince’ Bernhard’s lawyer,” and his conclusions “ridiculous”.

‘Copenhagen Summit : On The Road To the Dark Age’

mindanaoexaminer.com | Dec 4, 2009

By Erick San Juan

Makati City, Philipines – THIS COMING WEEK, December 7-18, 2009 in Copenhagen , Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) the successor to the Kyoto Protocol and will be attended by 20,000 delegates from 193 nations, approximately 65 heads of government (including the Philippine President).

Amidst the climategate scandal of e-mails that hackers have revealed in the e-mail communications of “scientists” of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of East Anglia University in Great Britain , the summit will go ahead as scheduled.

In October this year, President Gloria M. Arroyo signed into law Philippine Climate Change Act of 2009 that would enable the country to better respond to disasters spawned by climate change. This law which is also known as R.A. 9729, seeks to influence climate change policy into the formulation of government agenda by setting up a National Framework Strategy and Program on Climate Change along with the creation of the Climate Change Commission that will coordinate, monitor and evaluate the government’s programs and actions to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.

Like other countries riding the bandwagon of climate change, it seems that the globalists are succeeding in their effort for world governance in which depopulation is the centerpiece. Why do we say this? The following quotes from the movers of the global warming scare, will give light as to why we are caught riding the bandwagon on the road to the dark age.

The global warming alarm was initiated at the United Nations in the 1980s.The “original” goal was to use it to achieve global governance and fund it through a global carbon tax.

In 1991, Maurice Strong, a key developer of global warming scare and one of the original members of the Club of Rome came out with the report – “The First Global Revolution”, which stated : “It would seem that humans need a common motivation…either a real one or else one invented for the purpose….In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.”

In that same report – “The First Global Revolution”, the concept of global governance was promoted which asserted that current problems “are essentially global and cannot be solved through individual country initiatives [which] gives a greatly enhanced importance to the United Nations and other international systems.”

Also, way back in 1974, Maurice Strong gave a speech at a college in Canada at which he said: “The ethic of abundant resources must give way to the ethics of scarcity and conservation” … “Economic growth is not the cure, it is the disease” He also said: “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”

“The world has cancer and the cancer is man.” – quote from A. Gregg as the opening to Chapter 1 of the “Second Report to the Club of Rome – Mankind at the Turning Point”, 1974.

Finally, “I hope [the Club of Rome] will continue for many years to come to spell out the unpalatable facts and to unsettle the conscience of the smug and apathetic.” – Prince Philip in his message to the Delegates, 20th Anniversary Conference of the Club of Rome (in “The First Global Revolution”). Prince Phillip has also made the statement: “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.” in the foreword to Fleur Cowles’ “If I Were an Animal” 1987.

It is now clear that the forerunners of the global warming myth mentioned above singled out humanity as the culprit and that economic growth through industrialization should take the backseat as climate change will transform into a weapon of mass taxation, as one writer put it.

To elaborate further our point here, the Chairman of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) of the London School of Economics said, “It’s always been obvious that total emissions depend on the number of emitters as well as their individual emissions – the carbon tonnage can’t shoot down as we want, while the population keeps shooting up.” In other words, the cheapest way to combat climate change is through family planning method of contraception. This was also featured as the main problem – the population, in
Al Gore’s video, An Inconvenient Truth, which is now being lambasted as a film of very convenient lies based on questionable data.

Six months before the Copenhagen summit, World Business Summit on Climate Change (WBSCC) was held and already came out with key decisions for the December meeting. It was attended by prominent world business leaders including Al Gore and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. The report by the WBSCC has been given to all the Copenhagen summit participants which is actually, has nothing to do about protecting the environment. Then what is the real agenda of this global sham?

“The Copenhagen Summit not only serves powerful corporate interests, which have a stake in the global multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme. It also serves to divert public attention from the devastation resulting from the “real crisis” underlying the process of economic globalization and a profit driven war without borders, which the Pentagon calls “the long war”. (Michel Chossudovsky)

The multibillion dollar carbon trading scheme of the world’s financial oligarchs is the real agenda of this climate change fiasco. The large financial conglomerates, involved in derivative trade, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Barclay’s, Citibank, Nomura, Société Générale, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are actively involved in carbon trading.(FACTBOX: Investment banks in carbon trading | Reuters, 14 September 2009)

A report from The Guardian also support this article, “the carbon market could become double the size of the vast oil market, according to the new breed of City players who trade greenhouse gas emissions through the EU’s emissions trading scheme… The speed of that growth will depend on whether the Copenhagen summit gives a go-ahead for a low-carbon economy. But Ager says whatever happens, schemes such as the ETS will expand around the globe.”

It is very real that this Copenhagen summit will lead us back to the dark age, where the tools of economic growth will be wiped out in the name of falsehood and greediness of the chosen few, who will feed on the unwilling victims’ fear of the ‘unknown’ – the “climate change”. As panic grips humanity, no one will notice the global governance of the few as they lead us to that new world (dis)order. God forbid!

Erick San Juan: culdesac0002@yahoo.com.ph

Town council bureaucrats ban gnomes

Linda Langford, 57, with two six-inch garden gnomes and the sign council chiefs mistakenly said must be moved from the front of her council flat

‘Our policy is that as long as there is not an excessive number of gnomes, they can stay.’

Council chiefs who mistakenly banned 6-inch garden gnomes over ‘elf and safety’ say sorry

Daily Mail | Dec 1, 2009

Council chiefs have apologised for mistakenly banning families from putting gnomes outside their houses over health and safety fears.

Linda Langford, 57, was told her two six-inch garden gnomes should be moved from the front of her council flat in case people trip over them.

The garden ornaments, one hitting an anvil and the other reading a book, have stood outside Miss Langford’s home in Tipton, West Midlands, for the last nine years.

Miss Langford, who lives in a two-storey block of flats, was stunned after receiving the letter telling her to remove them from the corridor outside her home.

A welcome plaque on her wall and her doormat were also marked as serious health and safety risks, according to Sandwell council.

In a statement, it defended the move saying that the removal of welcome mats and ornaments was potentially ‘life-saving’.

Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council said a letter sent to Ms Langford, which also instructed her to withdraw a pottery tortoise from a communal area outside her flat, had been based on a misunderstanding of its fire safety rules.

Sandwell’s housing chief, Councillor Mahboob Hussain, admitted that tenants in low-rise council flats should not face a blanket ban on ornaments in communal areas.

Mr Hussain, the borough’s cabinet member for neighbourhoods and housing, said: ‘A Sandwell Homes officer visited Mrs Langford to discuss items in communal areas because we were reviewing our fire regulations in flats.

‘Mrs Langford wasn’t in and the officer left a note, which incorrectly asked Mrs Langford to remove the items from outside her flat.

‘Sandwell Homes had slightly misinterpreted the policy on items in communal areas.’

The councillor said the authority’s aim was to use common sense in identifying fire hazards and to treat each case on its merits.

‘Our policy is that as long as there is not an excessive number of gnomes or similar items in communal areas, and as long as there isn’t a problem with these items being damaged through anti-social behaviour, they can stay.’

Before the apology, Mrs Langford said of the letter: ‘It is heath and safety gone mad – it’s barmy.

‘The idea that my two little gnomes are a fire hazard or that they are dangerous in any way is absolutely ridiculous.

‘All we are trying to do is make our environment a bit nicer to look at – nothing on the landing blocks the exits, it is certainly not dangerous in any way.’

Gnome expert Anne Atkin said she thought the idea of garden gnomes being a fire risk was absurd.

She said in all her years of collecting over 1,000 of the ornaments she had never seen one cause an accident.

She said: ‘I have been looking after gnomes and giving them a home for 31 years and have never once seen a gnome catch alight.

‘It is a ridiculous thought that gnomes could be a fire risk – they are made of pottery and are far too small to block an exit.’

Fiona McEvoy from the Taxpayers Alliance said the council should think more before it wasted time on similar decisions.

She said: ‘This is the epitome of local Government busy-bodying – surely our councils have more important things to concern themselves with than the harmless characters someone might chose to sit outside their home?

‘They have vital services to oversee, and we’d like to see those prioritised before they spend anymore time trying to identify potential trip hazards.’

Queen admonishes Commonwealth leaders to lead fight against changing climate

Queen tells Commonwealth leaders they are central to climate change fight. Photo: Annie Leibovitz

The Commonwealth has an opportunity to take a ”lead” in the international response to the challenge of climate change, the Queen told world leaders.

Telegraph | Nov 28, 2009

In a speech which launched a major gathering of presidents and prime ministers the monarch highlighted how their meeting, where the growing environmental threat would be discussed, was being held on the eve of the critical Copenhagen climate change summit.

Her comments came as Prime Minister Gordon Brown, also attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago, proposed a 10 billion dollar rich world fund to ”kickstart” efforts to tackle climate change.

Britain would contribute £800 million to the project which aims to encourage poorer countries to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions immediately.

The Queen, who is head of the Commonwealth, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, told delegates: ”The Commonwealth can be proud of the fact that in each of its six decades, it has shaped the international response to emerging global challenges.

”And on this, the eve of the UN Copenhagen summit on climate change, the Commonwealth has an opportunity to lead once more.”

The Queen, speaking in the capital Port of Spain, added: ”The threat to our environment is not a new concern. But it is now a global challenge which will continue to affect the security and stability of millions for years to come.

”Many of those affected are among the most vulnerable, and many of the people least well able to withstand the adverse effects of climate change live in the Commonwealth.”

The Commonwealth has been conscious of the threat global warming poses to the planet for more than two decades.

In 1987, heads of government commissioned a landmark scientific study on the effects of variations to the world’s climate. Led by British scientist Martin Holdgate, it was published two years later and warned of the calamitous risks of inaction.

The same year the Commonwealth leaders agreed the Langkawi Declaration on the environment which went on to influence the 1992 Rio Earth summit declaration.

At the last CHOGM two years ago the heads of government concluded that climate change presented a direct threat to the very survival of some of their 53 member states.

Twenty five of these are small island nations that are highly exposed and vulnerable to the effects of changes to the world’s temperature.

Last month President Mohamed Nasheed, leader of the Maldives – a Commonwealth member – held a cabinet meeting underwater to highlight the issue.

Mandy and Cherie attend shooting party with Gaddafi and Rothschild

Lord Rothschild with Lord Mandelson at a routine suare’ in Corfu. Mr Gaddafi was said to be the best shot while Lord Mandelson did not pick up a gun.

Lord Mandelson attended shoot with Gaddafi’s son

Lord Mandelson, the First Secretary, was last night at the centre of fresh controversy after it emerged he had recently socialised at a shoot with the son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

Telegraph | Nov 26, 2009

By Andrew Porter and Rosa Prince

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi attended the event at a stately home in Buckinghamshire, along with the financier Nat Rothschild, who is a friend of Lord Mandelson.

The extent of Government relations with Libya were exposed when, to widespread condemnation from victims’ families and President Barack Obama, the Lockerbie bomber was released in August.

Ministers had appeared happy for Abdelbasset al-Megrahi to go free on compassionate grounds in exchange for fostering closer business and trade links with the former rogue state.

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Cherie also joined the Rothschild family for dinner during Mandy’s stay.

The gathering at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, is revealed by Charles Moore, a Daily Telegraph columnist, in this week’s Spectator magazine. The home was built for the Rothschild family and also at the shoot was Lord Rothschild, Nat’s father.

Mr Gaddafi was said to be the best shot while Lord Mandelson did not pick up a gun. Last night Lord Mandelson’s office confirmed that he had attended.

A spokesman said: “We do not offer a running commentary on Peter Mandelson’s social engagements, but we can confirm that he has never taken part in a pheasant shoot, and never will.”

But opposition MPs again questioned the close relationship between Mr Gaddafi and the Government.

Douglas Carswell, a Conservative backbencher, said: “I think it is pretty astonishing that a minister of the crown should be present at a pheasant shooting party with the son of Gaddafi.

“It is particularly concerning given what has already happened with the Lockerbie bombing. There is already suspicion about the closeness of the links between the Government and the Gaddafi regime, and this will fuel those fears even further.”

Lord Mandelson has defended the Government’s position on Megrahi and has previously met Gaddafi in August, shortly before the release of the Lockerbie bomber, at the Rothschild villa in Corfu.

He admitted that the two had briefly discussed Megrahi’s case during the gathering of the rich and famous. But his spokesman insisted that the peer had not been involved in the decision to release the bomber, and did not know that he would be freed before learning of it from television reports.

The spokesman said: “There was a fleeting conversation about the prisoner. Peter was completely unsighted on the subject.”

Despite Gordon Brown maintaining that the release of Megrahi was entirely a matter for Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Justice Minister, the Conservatives demanded to know the extent of the meetings held in recent years between British ministers and Libyan counterparts.

It emerged that several meetings over trade and improved links between London and Tripoli had taken place.

Mr Gaddafi criticised the Conservatives for attacking Mr Brown over the release of the Lockerbie bomber. He called their behaviour “immoral.”

Waddesdon Manor was built for the Rothschild family in the late 19th century on farmland purchased by Ferdinand de Rothschild from the Duke of Marlborough, and resembles a French chateau.

Four generations of the banking family have lived there, and Queen Victoria visited in 1890.

Escaped killer was an aide to the Duchess of York

Convicted killer escapes from open prison

Murdered boyfriend in jealous rage

Jane Andrews was convicted of killing her boyfriend in 2000 after he refused to marry her.

news.com.au | Nov 24, 2009

By Ian Collier

Jane Andews and Sarah Ferguson / The Sun

A former aide to the Duchess of York who stabbed her boyfriend in a jealous rage when he refused to marry her has absconded from prison after a reported failed suicide attempt.

A CONVICTED murderer and former aide to the Duchess of York has absconded from an open prison in England.

Jane Andrews failed to return to East Sutton Park prison in Kent, England on Sunday night, Sky News reports.

Andrews was jailed for life for murdering her boyfriend Thomas Cressman, 39, at their flat in Fulham, west London, in September 2000.

She beat him with a cricket bat and stabbed him with a kitchen knife in a jealous rage after he refused to marry her.

Days after the discovery of his body, Andrews was found slumped in her car in Cornwall after taking an overdose of painkillers.

Andrews was the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson’s former dresser and worked for the royal family for nine years until she was sacked in 1997.

At her trial it emerged that the builder’s daughter from Cleethorpes fell into a spiral of depression and suicide attempts after her dismissal.

A spokesman for the prison service said: ‘Jane Andrews is believed to have absconded from HMP East Sutton Park on November 22, 2009, after being found missing at the 8pm roll-check.

‘Police have been informed and are assisting with the search.’

The Daily Mail reported Andrews was rushed to hospital after an apparent suicide bid last week. She was found slumped in her cell by inmates having swallowed paracetamol tablets.

It is believed she was unhappy about a move from Send prison to the open jail.

A source told the Daily Mail Andrews had enjoyed a comfortable existence at Send.

‘There were a lot of prisoners there she would consider her class,’ said the source. ‘I would have thought she would have been happier in an open prison but it’s full of junkies.

‘She’s a terrible snob and she ruled the roost at Send.’

Canadians think H1N1 risks exaggerated: poll

CBC News | Nov 12, 2009

Canadians are evenly split over the federal government’s handling of the swine flu, but more than half believe concerns over the risk of H1N1 are exaggerated, a new poll by EKOS indicates.

In the poll, conducted exclusively for CBC News, Canadians were asked their opinion of the public level of concern over the risks associated with the virus.

Fifty-three per cent said the level of concern about swine flu is exaggerated, considering the real risks involved with the virus. Thirty-seven per cent said the concern was consistent with the level of risk, and 10 per cent said the level of risk was understated.

More men than women thought the risk was exaggerated, as did younger Canadians compared with older ones, the poll said.

A third of Canadians surveyed said they will definitely get the H1N1 vaccination, but a quarter said they will not.

Ironically, older Canadians aged 65 and up are more likely to get the shot than younger Canadians who are considered at higher risk.

Canadians in Atlantic Canada and Quebec were also more likely to get the shot than those in other regions.

The poll also found that while 39 per cent of Canadians approve of the government’s handling of the virus’s threat, 39 per cent disapprove. About 22 per cent did not know or had no response.

Canadians had a more favourable view of their provincial or municipal governments’ handling of the issue, with 42 per cent indicating their approval and 35 per cent disapproval.

The H1N1 issue didn’t seem to have much effect on federal political party standings.

The Tories remain on top, dropping slightly to 36.6 per cent support from 37.4 per cent a week ago. The Liberals stayed virtually the same at 26.6 per cent (compared with 26.8 per cent) while the NDP was up slightly at 16.8 per cent from 16.3 per cent.

The Green Party gained, up to 11.2 per cent from 10 per cent support, and the Bloc Québécois dipped to 8.8 per cent from 9.4 per cent.

Respondents were asked which party they would vote for if a federal election were held tomorrow.

The survey of 3,502 people was conducted by telephone between Nov. 4 and Nov. 10, 2009, and has an error margin of plus or minus 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Both landline and cellphone users were included.

Ex-soldier who handed in gun to police faces five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”

Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun

thisissurreytoday.co.uk | Nov 17, 2009

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said: “I didn’t think for one moment I would be arrested.

“I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.”

The court heard how Mr Clarke was on the balcony of his home in Nailsworth Crescent, Merstham, when he spotted a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden.

In his statement, he said: “I took it indoors and inside found a shorn-off shotgun and two cartridges.

“I didn’t know what to do, so the next morning I rang the Chief Superintendent, Adrian Harper, and asked if I could pop in and see him.

“At the police station, I took the gun out of the bag and placed it on the table so it was pointing towards the wall.”

Mr Clarke was then arrested immediately for possession of a firearm at Reigate police station, and taken to the cells.

Defending, Lionel Blackman told the jury Mr Clarke’s garden backs onto a public green field, and his garden wall is significantly lower than his neighbours.

He also showed jurors a leaflet printed by Surrey Police explaining to citizens what they can do at a police station, which included “reporting found firearms”.

Quizzing officer Garnett, who arrested Mr Clarke, he asked: “Are you aware of any notice issued by Surrey Police, or any publicity given to, telling citizens that if they find a firearm the only thing they should do is not touch it, report it by telephone, and not take it into a police station?”

To which, Mr Garnett replied: “No, I don’t believe so.”

Prosecuting, Brian Stalk, explained to the jury that possession of a firearm was a “strict liability” charge – therefore Mr Clarke’s allegedly honest intent was irrelevant.

Just by having the gun in his possession he was guilty of the charge, and has no defence in law against it, he added.

But despite this, Mr Blackman urged members of the jury to consider how they would respond if they found a gun.

He said: “This is a very small case with a very big principle.

“You could be walking to a railway station on the way to work and find a firearm in a bin in the park.

“Is it unreasonable to take it to the police station?”

Paul Clarke will be sentenced on December 11.

Judge Christopher Critchlow said: “This is an unusual case, but in law there is no dispute that Mr Clarke has no defence to this charge.

“The intention of anybody possessing a firearm is irrelevant.”

British politician forced to apologize to the Queen for calling her ‘vermin’ and a ‘parasite who milks the country’

Labour candidate who described the Queen as ‘vermin’ and a ‘parasite who milks the country’ is forced to apologise

Labour candidate Peter White said the Queen was ‘a parasite’

Daily Mail | Nov 16, 2009

By Daniel Martin

A Labour candidate has been forced to apologise after describing the Queen as ‘vermin’ and a ‘parasite’.

Peter White, who is standing in next year’s local elections, posted the republican diatribe on the social networking site Facebook.

His offensive outburst came as he expressed his opposition to a campaign launched last week by Tory MP Andrew Rosindell to have the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, in 2012, declared a public holiday.

Last night Mr White was forced to issue a humiliating apology by Labour high command, and was threatened with deselection as election candidate.

The spat began late on Friday night when Mr White, former Labour election agent in Mr Rosindell’s Romford constituency, responded to a post on his Facebook homepage, advertising his Diamond Jubilee campaign.

Mr White wrote: ‘What is the point of celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of someone who is born into a position of privilege?

‘She is a parasite and milks this country for everything she can. She has more front than Margate asking for extra money from the civil list.

‘Maybe she should sell a couple of her properties. Maybe if she wants Buckingham Palace to maintained from public funds she should open it to the public.

‘Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with a public holiday but let’s have one that means something, rather than celebrating vermin….’

The comments met with a furious reaction from other visitors to the web page, and Mr White later deleted his comments. But they had already been saved by Mr Rosindell.

Mr Rosindell said: ‘People are absolutely furious that someone in such a position would publicly describe the Queen as vermin and a parasite. It is outrageous: a disgusting thing to say about the head of state.

‘If he is republican, he has the right to state his case. But the use such foul and nasty language against the Queen is simply offensive. Even most republicans respect the fact that she has been an excellent head of state.’

Yesterday morning, Mr White was still adamant that he had nothing to be ashamed of.

He told the London Evening Standard: ‘Maybe you could say I went too far, but that’s for other people to judge. I think that Republicanism is a valid viewpoint and there are plenty of people who agree with me.’

But in the afternoon – following intervention by the London regional Labour party, he released another statement.

‘The way I expressed myself was totally inappropriate,’ it said. ‘I regret what I said and apologise unreservedly.’

A spokesman for the London Labour party said his comments would be investigated and he could face deselection as candidate for the South Hornchurch ward at next year’s elections in the east London borough of Havering.

‘Peter White has been summoned to a meeting with key members of the local party and officers from the London Regional Labour Party,’ he said.

‘He will be required to explain his comments and they will consider his future.’

South Hornchurch is in the constituency of Dagenham and Rainham, currently held by former Labour deputy leadership candidate John Cruddas.

Neighbouring Barking and Dagenham Council is one of the BNP’s strongest areas: the far-right party is the official opposition.

A spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace declined to comment last night.
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