Enforcement of Bank of England Act 1694…

The purpose of gathering these Early Day Motions (EDMs) is to gather names and ‘profiles’ of potentially supportive MPs:

1. Regarding the FOUNDATION of The Rule of Law in a democracy:

• 108: Law and Human Rights
  to bring to justice those who commit crimes against humanity – which, hopefully, includes victims of financial exploitation and legal oppression at home

2. Regarding the CAUSES of Dishonest Money and National Debts as the deadly embrace between the Bank of England and the Treasury:

• 597: Enforcement of Bank of England Act 1694 – a repeat of our EDM 1297 in the last Parliament
• 568: Long-Term Government-Backed Savings addresses the dilemma of short-term vs long-term financial thinking
• 573: Sustainable Budgeting is an interesting way of formulating what we put together as Green Credit for Green Purposes and submitted to the Treasury Select Committee in January 2007
• 646: Debt Management touches on the ridiculous self-regulation of financial organisations
• 650: Financial Transaction Levy, also called the Robin Hood Tax, is the minimum effort that bankers could make, but…

3. Regarding the EFFECTS of Money as Debt also known as Credit as the Rule of Money instead of the Rule of Law:

• 516: Reporting of Fraud hits the core of the dilemma of many victims: nobody is responsible for complaints, and the police doesn’t investigate. Tabled by Mike Crockart who is the MP for Edinburgh West, its signatories form the basis for a potential All Party Parliamentary Group
• 617: Pensioners’ Parliament is a critique of Ministers and a remarkable initiative by a new generation of  “grey panthers“, organised by the National Pensioners Convention
• 637: National Housing Federation Estimate of Level of Homelessness. This EDM doesn’t even address the 175,000 repossessions that lead to homelessness!
• 642: Disclosure of Payments to Governments by Oil, Gas and Mining Companies points at the corruption that exists in Africa and other developing regions. Such corruption and greed would, of course, not emerge if we had Honest Money in circulation
• 654: Conduct of Private Loan Companies criticises especially www.wonga.com
• 660: Loan Sharks not only asks for capping the cost of credit but also suggests alternative sources

4. Regarding Unnecessary Spending Cuts

• 268: Citizens Advice Bureaux are requested to make an 11% cut
• 643: Housing Benefit and Poor Households is an obvious consequence of the ‘austerity budget‘ which would not be necessary, if the Treasury did not bow down to the Bank of England and its ever more increasing desires for power as the Government’s government – like all the other central banks, under the ‘leadership’ of the central bank of all central banks: the Basel Bank for International Settlemens…
• 703: Public Expenditure and Employment in the Construction Industry – to which our Green Credit for Green Purposes submission to the Treasury Select Committee is the ‘obvious’ solution…
• 706: Spending Cuts and Disabled People - no matter which issue, no matter which spending item – it is not necessary!
• 710: Global Poverty Project Campaign – if there was the understanding and the political will – no problem!…
• 750: BBC Pension Scheme – it’s so easy to do something that affects the quality of lives of others, as long as you don’t need to face them…
• 810: Impact of Spending Cuts – at least some people care!
• 1143: Public Sector Spending – as long as we live with Dishonest Money, the people in public positions will abuse their power… [this EDM has mysteriously disappeared...]

5. With respect to Policy:

• 891: Government Economic Policy – a good analysis of how the UK follows Washington and could use ‘public investment’ instead (rather than ‘public credit‘)…

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