Budget Day What a Day to announce things on

From the Cons who would do the same to you given half the chance.

And our guest blogger today is Russell Grant
Set for 12.30 pm 22nd April, 2009

The chart is intriguing, what else but Sun/Taurus at the zenith of the chart - hows about that for a chart dealing with finance and wealth! But I am drawn to the colossal quartet of Uranus/Moon/Mars/Venus in Pisces squared by Pluto (Cap) disassociate. I think we can reasonably say that with the Part of Fortune involving this gruesome set-up in a mutable/cardinal T Square there will be more ducking/diving than the most sneaky spiv could ever spin. Secrets abound (remember how accurate my G20 interpretation was regarding authority and the police, it has come back to haunt them as I suggested) - the same will happen here: a web of spin, gloss, secrets even lies and sooner rather than later the chickens will come home to roost as the Labour Government will have laid the biggest egg since Easter. Whatever figures, stats, facts come from the Dispatch Box, you'd be advised not to believe them, pie in the sky, wishful thinking, just like the last time.

There is very little honesty in the chart and when the Sun (ruler of the chart) in Taurus exactly squares the Leo Ascendant, the fixity is rigid. There are lots of theatrics in this chart: there's no business like show business, but show business is all about creating a fantasy so people can forget their troubles. This budget merely stores them up for the future. A heavy chart with refuge found in the Saturn trine Mercury, realism - so the more realistic and honest Chancellor Darling is the better but will he be? Can he afford to be? Doubtful, as the rest of the chart is great for a movie premiere than a serious piece of down-to-earth politics. But that's the problem with the chart, it doesn't want honesty and openness too afraid of the consequences, but holding onto power (Pluto) is a risky business when you have squares to Mars/Venus/Moon/Uranus it could all blow up in the Govt's face. I am intuitively drawn to the South Node of the Moon rising in the 1st - what we learn from others? It is squared by the Sun Taurus and quincunx Pluto Cap - so basically this is a Govt who learns nothing from no-one as they always think they know best. This budget is about a Govt forcing the British - 'take the medicine as we know what's good for you, you have no idea what's good for yourself.' That fixed Sun/Ascendant is typical of a bully who refuses to budge and gives no options. With the Moon (public) conjunct Uranus/Venus/Mars how much longer will the British stand for this kind of medicine? Once the fantasy sugar wears off and they see the light, that's Goodbye Mr Brown you've had your chips.

New Smear Email nails Labour Lies

Damning proof that vicious dirty tricks website did involve highest levels of party

News of the World exclusive.

Well well Been caught telling porkies?

A new email shows that Labour's General Secretary Ray Collins chaired a secret meeting to create the Red Rag website now ensnared in the Smeargate scandal.

So the party chairman was involved What does that mean? Why should a bigwig like that want to get his hands dirty unless it was delegated and asked for by someone even higher up.

And it exposes the LIE, put out by Downing Street, and repeated by government ministers this week, that the smears were just a minor aberration cooked up by a couple of renegades acting alone-and which would never have seen light of day.

Draper claimed: "The idea that it was a big project orchestrated in Downing Street is ridiculous."

However, our revelations show that Collins knew about the Red Rag site more than four months ago and did NOTHING to stop it-in fact he did the opposite.

Collins also tried to distance himself from Draper last week.

"I want to reiterate that Derek Draper does not hold a position or role with the Labour Party and this will remain the case," he said.

Yet the General Secretary himself recruited Draper last year to try to set up a unit inside the Labour Party to attack the Tories using the internet.

We can reveal that despite internal opposition Collins granted Draper a pass to Labour Party HQ in Westminster, and even allowed him a Labour Party email account.

Both were quietly rescinded by Collins this week after furious protests from staff following our Smeargate revelations.

The Red Rag site was borne out out of those foundations, and was set up on November 4, 2008, weeks before the secret meeting.


Lies, Denial, and Skullduggery Why do we have these people in power?

From a labour party insider

"Whelan is back as Gordon Brown's unofficial Mr Fix-it, and he's now so powerful that he's effectively running the party.

"If anyone in the party was still daft enough to believe the Downing Street line about this being minor, this email finally exposes that lie." Whelan was copied in to the vile emails between McBride and Draper and his role in the meeting at the Unite HQ raises further questions about how closely the union was involved in the dirty tricks campaign.

He is political director of Unite, which has two million members.

It is now the largest donor to the Labour Party, and it's cash is effectively paying the near-bankrupt party's wages as it struggles to manage debts topping £16million.