Federal High court fixes Sept. 30 to hear Saraki’s case

Abuja – The Federal High Court has fixed Sept. 30 to hear the case filed by the Senate President, Sen.
Bukola Saraki, asking the court to stop the Code of
Conduct Tribunal from trying him.

Saraki is charged with false declaration of assets by the Code of Conduct Bureau at the tribunal.

The judge, Justice Ahmed Mohammed, after listening to
arguments from counsel to parties in the matter, ruled
that the suit was ripe for hearing.

“ Since all the parties have filed relevant documents, this case is ripe for hearing and in order not to waste the court’s time, the case is adjourned to Sept.30 for
hearing.’’

Counsel to Saraki, Adebayo Adelodun, had said that in
spite of the notice served on the tribunal by the Federal
High Court, it had gone ahead to entertain the matter.

He drew the attention of the court to a statement made
by the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar,
that the court could not summon it because it had
coordinate jurisdiction with the court.

Counsel to the Federal Government Taiwo Abidogun,
however, argued that Ministry of Justice, Code of Conduct Bureau and Code of Conduct Tribunal had not received any notice from the court.

Abidogun said that was why the tribunal sat on Friday
and issued a bench warrant against the Senate President.

He said that even if service was made, it must have come after the tribunal had risen.

Mohammed, however, corrected Abidogun and provided
evidence to show that the notice was actually served the respondents.

Okonjo Iweala speaks about her new jobs.

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, on Monday, expressed joy over her new job to join the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

The former finance minister, had also announced that she will also be joining US investment bank, Lazard’s
sovereign advice division.

Okonjo-Iweala who tweeted via her Twitter handle,
@NOIweala said: “I’m excited to join GAVI to immunize
300 million more children in the next five years and save 5 million to 6 million more lives.”

The new portfolios, however, follow her second stint as
Nigeria’s finance minister, which ended in May after the
Goodluck Jonathan-led government was voted out of
office. Okonjo-Iweala has spent the past three decades working on fiscal management and governance systems in Africa through 25 years at the World Bank, most recently as a managing director, and twice as finance minister in what is now the continent’s biggest economy.

She has although, recently come under sharp criticisms
particularly by Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, over issues bordering on alleged corruption in the last administration.

Okonjo-Iweala has argued that her work on transparency and anti-corruption as finance minister under both Mr Jonathan and Olusegun Obasanjo has been unfairly “brushed aside.”

Do you know you’re helping to pay for that wedding you’re invited to!

Going to a wedding? Then you may find yourself paying dearly for it. As the average price of what was once a simple ceremony soars to millions of Naira, shameless brides are turning to ever-more greedy tactics to make guests shell out for the privilege of coming to their nuptials.

Just last mouth, a close friend went to China Town, Ojota, to view some of their latest ‘exclusive’ fabrics, when she saw the exact lace material she just shelled out some N120,000 to pay for the aso-ebi for another friends daughter’s marriage.

“I almost became apoplectic at the difference in prices,”
she shrieked down the phone to me when she got home. “Modele (the friend) charged us NI20,OOO for five yards when the selling price was just N50,OOO”. On and on she went, but she knew she wouldn’t get my sympathy. I have always cringed at the idea of forking out a huge chunk of my pay packet for the ‘privilege’ of wearing the same wedding gear as other guests who I don’t even have anything in common with.

On top of which you know you might not get value for
money but you buy it anyway because it’s now pay back time – you’d dolled out wedding packages your friends had gladly paid for and you’re bound to return the gesture – broke or not! With the top-up on the aso-ebi, you help to cover the costs of the meals and a share of the entertainment. Bank details are often
printed at the bottom of the invitation so you can pay in advance!

“It’s brazen,” says Dorcas, a wedding planner and it also takes away from the pleasure of the event. There is a big difference between the usual ‘envelope’ you give to the celebrant, to having to fill in a bank draft to pay for your entertainment in order to attend the wedding! One couple.whose event I covered asked all the relatives to bring a dish.

Inevitably, everyone brought coolers of delicacies and
some few savoury wishes which were gobbled up in
minutes. By the time some late-corners sauntered in, all
the foods were gone and some had to send for food at
the nearest eatry.

“And if you ever wondered why that crystal glasses you bought your friends never make an appearance at their dinner parties, it’s because they probably never existed.

With so many couples living together before getting
married, there is no longer the need for those wedding
staples of knives, forks and nice set of crockery. But
brides will still put household items on their wedding lists, while secretly planning to take their cash value instead.

This is something most shops that offer weddings lists
will agree to if they’re very familiar with the wedding
planner. With the planner’s help you can cash in the
toaster, the iron and the dinner service, pool the proceeds and buy a nice wide-screen telly instead.

“Of course, budgets can be tight and brides always seek to cut costs, but some money-saving efforts are so rude it’s astonishing. One of the newest tricks is covertly providing champagne for guests on the high table – but no one else. And if you ever wondered why waiters at weddings happily take your orders for drinks only to vanish into thin air, it’s because they are so used to the tactic they don’t bet an eyelid at such request. People.think that their guests won’t notice, but it’s obvious it’s most annoying.

It’s also quite common for brides to ask for a huge
polystyrene wedding cake with real icing on it. It looks as if they’ve spent a fortune on state-of-the-art cake but only one of the smaller tiers is actual cake which they cut through!

“Brides-to-be also make the most of the friends they
have, happily tapping on the skills of all their friends and friends-of-friends for everything from doing their hair and make-up to bagging a free MC. There is no job too small to be requested as a contribution to the big day or in lieu of a gift.

But what happens when you have so many friends and
relatives but not enough space at the hall? Brides who
want to let would-be guests down gently send out letters for the engagement ceremony, and if yours arrive without the ‘card-admits-one” invite, you’ll know you haven’t made the cut. This short-listing method basically boils down to ‘the more important you are, the more stages of the wedding you get invited to’, with only a select group of people attending the whole thing.

The rise of electronic communication means that not just an e-mail, but a ‘one-size- fits-all’ email seems to be an acceptable way of expressing gratitude for gifts no matter how expensive. I believe that if someone has been generous enough to buy you a present or hand over a hefty cheque, the least you can do is sit down and write them a decent ‘thank you’ letter.

Clever Or Clueless?! (Humour)

After suffering from severe headaches for years with no relief, Trevor is referred to a headache specialist by his family doctor. ‘The trouble is,’ Trevor tells the specialist, “I get this blinding pain, like a knife across my scalp and … “. He is interrupted by the doctor, “And a heavy throbbing right behind the left ear?” “Yes! Exactly! How did you know?

“Well, I myself suffered from the same type of headache
for many years. It is caused by a tension in the scalp
muscles. This is how I cured it: every day, I would give my wife oral sex.” “Is that all it takes?” says Trevor. “Oh no,” says the doctor. “When she came, she would squeeze her legs together with all her strength and all the pressure would relieve the tension in my head. Try that every day for two weeks and come back and let me know how it goes.”

Two weeks goes by and Trevor returns, grinning. “Doe,
I’m a new man! I haven’t had a headache since I started
this treatment. I can’t thank you enough.” “That’s fine,”
says the doctor. “I was glad to pass on a personal cure.” “By the way,” says Trevor, standing up to leave. “You have a lovely home.”

Saraki Trial: Code Of Conduct Tribunal Erred By Disobeying Order Of ‘Superior’ Court – Agbakoba, Adegboruwa

A former President of the Nigeria Bar Association, Chief
Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has faulted the Code of Conduct Tribunal for declaring itself at par with the Federal High Court.

The former NBA president was reacting to the issuance of a bench warrant for the arrest of Senate President Bukola Saraki by the CCT on Friday.

Represented by Mahmud Magaji (SAN) and another ex-NBA President Joseph Daudu (SAN), Saraki had raised objections to his trial by the tribunal citing the non-appointment of a substantive Justice Minister and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) as well as a pending ruling of the Federal High Court, which had summoned both chairmen of the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCT and a Deputy Director in the Federal
Ministry of Justice, Musiliu Hassan, who filed the case at the tribunal on behalf of the Federal Government.
In his ruling on Saraki’s objections, the presiding judge,
Justice Danladi Umar, said that the tribunal took notice of the fact that there was no AGF at the moment.

He further held that the absence of the AGF does not stop the filing of a criminal charge adding that in the absence of the AGF, the Solicitor General can institute such charge.

On that ground, the tribunal knocked off the accused’s
argument. On the issue of a pending ruling, the tribunal held that the Federal High Court has the same jurisdiction with it, and hence, it was not binding by its ruling.

Justice Umar, therefore, gave the go-ahead for the trial to continue.

Reacting to the ruling, Mr. Agbakoba said the CCT was wrong to say that it was a court of equal jurisdiction with the Federal High Court.

“There are two kinds of courts in Nigeria, superior and
inferior. All the superior courts are defined in Section 6 of the constitution; it does not include the Code of Conduct Bureau, it does not include the National Industrial court”, he said.

According to him, “The Code of Conduct Bureau is not a
superior court; it is an inferior court and because it is an inferior court, it is amenable to the judicial review jurisdiction of a superior court of record like the Federal High Court”.

The Federal High Court, the former NBA president noted, is empowered by law to review the judicial work of the Code of Conduct Tribunal because it is an inferior court.

This same line of argument was supported by Ebun
Adegboruwa, who described the Tribunal’s action as an
assault on rule of law.

“What the Code of Conduct Tribunal did in spite of the order of the High Court amounts to judicial abuse of the due process of the rule of law and amounts to judicial rascality on the part of the serving judge of Code of Conduct Tribunal”.

Adegboruwa said the Tribunal was under the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court, adding that the option left for the Tribunal was to approach the court that gave the order to either challenge it or vacate it.

He said, “It will amount to total anarchy for the parties
affected by an order to decide whether or not to obey the order. So, to that extent, the bench warrant issued against the Senate President is ultra vires, it has no place in law and cannot be enforced, because if the order of the High Court to the tribunal was not enforced also the bench warrant of the tribunal to the Senate President cannot be enforced.

You cannot use wrong to achieve a right

Low On Cash: My Hotel Experience 18+

Lisa was in a tight spot, a very tight spot. She had run up a bill at the Friendly Hotel in New York in excess of the funds she had available.She had contacted her parents in Australia and they had promised to wire the money to her the following morning.

However, that was not good enough for the sleazy hotel manager Louis who threaten her with the police and the prospect of spending that night in the local slammer.

“If you go there,” Louis sneered, You’ll be sleeping with rats, cockroaches and body lice – but”, he paused and placed his handon the cheek of her bum, “If you let me cum in your mouth I will let you stay here for the night, and I might give you a ten percent discount on your bill.

”Lisa began to think that rats, cockroaches and body lice wouldn’t be all that bad in comparison and turned him down flat.

Louis’s faced turned crimson and he grabbed her wrist and started to drag her across the lobby. “OK – just because I’m a nice guy I’m going to let you work in the laundry until eight o’clock in exchange for your room and a meal.

”As they descended the steps into the basement he told her that if she changed her mind about the blow job she knew where his office was.

He then swung open a big steel door and a cloud of hot steam met them. Through the haze she could see a very tall broad shouldered man who appeared to be stirring several large boilers with a paddle.

“I’ve brought you an assistant Carl – work the ass off her,” with this he literally threw Lisa into the room.

The floor was covered with two inches of water and all the equipment looked like as if it had come out of the Ark.

Carl nodded to her as Louis slammed the door and then he took her over to a large machine with wooden rollers and demonstrated how she had to take the wet sheets he had boiled and wring the water out of them Lisa had to turn the large wooden handle and it was tough. 

She didn’t know how she was going to survive the shift but she decided that anything was better than giving oral sex to that monster Louis.

As a back packer in South America she had been in a few tight situations before but this was the worst. Australia was beginning to look better and better to her and she wondered if she’d ever want to leave her parent’s home in suburban Melbourne ever again.

When she filled a hamper full of sheets she was supposed to pick it up and take them to a drying room to hang up, however, she didn’t have the strength to lift it and her tight mini skirt didn’t help the situation. Carl glanced over as she bent for a second attempt.

He could see her thong and he caused him to wipe a little additional sweat from his brow.The temperature in the room was overpowering and although Lisa had put on a top that concealed the fact that she was not wearing a bra, now soaked with perspiration the full shape of her rather large breasts was revealed, and her nipples stood out invitingly.

Carl went over and helped her with the basket. She looked at him admiringly as he picked it up as though it weighed nothing at all.

At around six feet four, quite good looking with a mop of jet black hair and muscles any bodybuilder would have been proud of, Lisa was quite attracted to him. And she was certainly not going unnoticed herself.In the drying room there were clothes lines strung across the room and a huge fan in the wall. Here she pegged up the sheets,pillow cases and table cloths until her back felt it was breaking.

When she returned to the other room Carl was nowhere to be seen but then he came through the door carrying two mugs of coffee and some sort of pastry. His English was some what limited and he just handed one to her with a faint grunt.

He then invited her to perch herself on a pile of laundry waiting to be dunked in the boilers and so they sat together for a little break. Lisa held up her coffee mug to him, smiled and said thank you. Carl smiled back, staring at her for a few moments before sipping on his coffee again.There was no doubt he found her attractive, as most men would.

Lisa was petite, pretty and she had great tits.As for her opinion of him, she just wondered how big his dick would be if it was in proportion to the rest of his body. She was soon to find out as he got up and walked over to a drain for a piss. He turned his back to her but she still caught a glance of his enormous dong as he did the most extra ordinary thing. When he’d finished he cupped some water from one of the tubs in his hand and gave it a quick rinse.

Lisa quickly got up, grabbed a towel from a nearby pile of laundry and volunteered to wipe it for him.If she thought it was big before she started it turned out to be massive after she’d dabbed it with a towel. As she gently dried him off she looked up at him with those pale blue eyes of hers and smiled. The expression on his face was priceless. One of utter amazement.

Lisa couldn’t bring herself to leave him with that enormous boner and so she dropped the towel to the floor and knelt on it. Then she took his balls gently in her hand and guided the end of his dick into her mouth. Carl’s body jerked and he grabbed on to her shoulders and she slipped it further and further into her throat.She slowly worked her tongue around it as she withdrew and then swallowed it over again, and again, and again.

Big Carl was breathing heavy as his dick was getting a real tongue lashing. He was beginning to feel fire in his veins and not wanting to come just yet he shoved Lisa away from him and started to rip off his clothes. His physique was breath taking and she hurriedly took off her flimsy things as he looked on.

Before she saw what was coming Carl picked her up and tossed her in the air like a rag doll.She ended up with her legs around his shoulders and her cunt pressed up against his face. Carl’s tongue proved to be almost as big as his dick and it moved rapidly around the petals of her flower before exploring the inner depths.

Her body was shaking all over as he continued to tease her with a mixture of licking and sucking, sometimes gentle, sometimes more roughly. She was dying for him to fuck her and her dreams came true with an unexpected twist. He turned her body around and placed her face down on a table piled with laundry then he rammed his dick in her ass as far as it would go.It was a bit of a shock but it felt nice as he began to work his way in and out and his powerful arms wrapped around her to play with her breasts as he did so.

After ramming it again her well rounded bum for a while he roughly turned her over and drove it into her flower with one big thrust. Lisa gasped, she’d never felt anything quite that big before. Her boyfriend back home certainly didn’t have the breadth or the length – she was beginning to wish he did. Carl was getting excited, his dick was going at quite a pace and the force of each thrust was moving the table across the room.

As he looked down at Lisa’s beautiful tits swinging from side to side he seemed to lose control and increased not only the speed but the power behind each stroke. He was literally crashing into her cunt. Lisa held on to his arms that were soaked with sweat and arched her back as she was about to have a monster orgasm.

She started to scream “O fuck,” and Bruno screwed up his face as he himself was about to shoot his load at the same time.

When he made that last final thrust he bellowed like a bull and he broke her grip and put his powerful hands around her wrists and pull her forward as if he wanted to force it in that extra inch. Lisa thought she might never walk again after the battering she’d taken but he helped her off the table and like a gentlemen,picked up her clothes and gave her a smile and a nod of gratitude as he handed them to her.

They’d just finished redressing when Louis stormed into the room.

“Your money has come through early,” he snarled, “Better come to reception and settle your bill.”

“Where do you sleep,” she asked Carl, using both speech and sign language. He pointed to another door in the dark dismal basement.

“Well tonight you can sleep in my room and we’ll have dinner and wine. Mr. Louis will look after that – won’t you Mr. Louis.

The poor man didn’t know what to say, he just foamed at the mouth a little. Carl on the other hand had a big smile on his face.

A Matter of Sex Education 18+

Alex was out of work and desperate for a job and so when his uncle, who was going into hospital for an operation onhis knee, asked him to fill in for him for a few weeks he was excited. It was only a janitors job but it was at a small private progressive women’s college and every one of the students was over the age of consent.

Alex was a real looker and he attracted a lot of attention on his first day and even a couple of wolf whistles. The job itself was incredibly boring for someone who had been trained as a graphic designer but he had to pay his bills and so he gave it his best. However, when an opportunity came up for a little extra cash he jumped at it – even before he knew what it was about.

It turned out that the school was a little more progressive that he realized and a Ms. Justina, the teacher in charge of health education, made him a proposal that he was ill prepared for.

“I’m looking for a fit, good looking young man like yourself to besort of a training model for my sex class.”

“Sex class?”

“Yes – although most of my students have had more pricks than a secondhand dartboard some are still are a bit naive and it’s my job to make sure they all go out in the world with a healthy respect for sex.”

“What do I have to do,” he asked, a little apprehensive.

“Well most of the time you just stand there naked and I point out and demonstrate things using your body.

”Jeff began to think of the “The Meaning of Life,” and he wasn’t quite sure if he was cut out for the job.

“You will be doing me an enormous favor,” she said, addressing the doubtful look he had on his face.

Justina was really a gorgeous looking woman, probably in her late twenties with a fair set of tits and long slender legs.

He certainly wouldn’t have minded demonstrating his sexual prowess with her in private but he was a bit scared of what was expected of him in public.

“You will stand on a little plinth,” she said.“Naked,” he interjected.“Yes and as I talk about the penis, the scrotum and other things connected to sexuality and point them out with my finger.”

“Finger?”

“Yes it’s a lot safer than a wooden pointer – I know that from experience.

”When it got down to discussing the remuneration he got a lot more enthused – it was quite generous and so despite still having some misgivings he agreed to take the job.

On the following Wednesday he reported to Justina’s room and found around 15 women, ranging from 18 to 25 sitting there waiting in eager anticipation for the class to start.

Justina directed him to go behind a screen and take off his clothes, although he thought the screen was a bit redundant as they would all be seeing his bare ass and dangly bits quite soon.

When she called him to come out from behind the screen his nerves of steel turned to jello, and so did his legs. Much to the amusement of the class he emerged with his hands over his balls and in a slightly stooped position.

There was a lot of giggling at first and then when Justina came over to him, removed his hands from his scrotum and made him stand up straight, there were cries of “Wow” and “OMG.”

Alex did work out quite a bit so his body was nicely toned and his dick, although looking a little bit shy in the face of the admiring crowd, it did show enormous promise.

“Now I want you to take this class very seriously,” began Ms. Justina, “You will all have to face up to sexual relationships at some point in your life,” she paused and winked, “If you haven’t already done so, and today I’m going to explain how you can make those relationships more meaningful.”

“Do we all get to fuck the model,” asked a cheeky looking red head at the back.

“Now behave – I have promised Alex that no harm will come to him.” she smiled, giving his bum a little pat before proceeding with her lecture.

She began by describing the male anatomy and everything was fine until she started to finger his balls and lift up his dick. Red faced and unable to control his reaction the girls cheered when his dick rapidly expanded and appeared to be reaching for the ceiling.
“Now class – you can see that the penis reacts to the slightest stimulation so you don’t have to be rough with it.

You’ll notice that Alex isn’t circumcised, a practice that is in rapid decline, and although the skin draws back as the penis gets larger you can help it to do so like this.

”As Alex closed his eyes and was about to die from embarrassment, she took her thumb and forefinger and gently pulled back the skin.

“It looks like if you’ve done that before Miss,” piped up the red head, again to laughter and applause from her classmates.

Ms.Justina ignored them and continued to explain how to give a hand job. Fondling his balls she worked his dick up and down which caused him to take short sharp breaths which some members of the class imitated.

She just did it for a short while and then she went on to explaining fellatio or giving a blow job.

“Has anyone here ever given a man a blow job,” she asked looking around.

Of course the cheeky redhead had. “Well come here and give us a brief demonstration.

”Alex would liked to have dashed out of the room but that would be the end of his job because he wouldn’t be able to face any of the students again. And so he stood quite still even though he was beginning to tremble.

The redhead took off her glasses and came forward with a little smirk on her face. She first cupped one hand around his balls and used the other to grab his dick and then she just engorged it in her mouth.

After a few strokes Ms. Justina interrupted her and Alex gave a big frustrated sigh.

“Seana – you don’t go at it like a bull at a gate – you start off gently. Let me show you.

”Justina dropped down to her knees and just put the end of her tongue into Pete’s Eye and tickled it a little bit. Alex was beginning to wobble and had to fight to keep his balance. She then picked it up and began to lick it from his balls to the tip before plunging it into her mouth.

After a few sucks she stood up leaving Alex as frustrated as hell with perspiration beginning to drip off the end of his nose.

“Now would anyone else like to demonstrate their technique.

”An incredibly good looking woman, a little more mature than the others came forward. She had a low cut top and so he could see her beautiful tits as she went to her knees.

When her  full  sensuous lips  began to nibble the end of his throbbing cock he was dying for it to go all the way in. Eventually it did. It was as though she had swallowed it right to the hilt. And then she started to work it as though she was really savoring the experience, which prompted the other students to chant, “Make him cum – Make him cum.

”Ms. Justina, who seemed to be enjoying it as much as anyone else, told him to let his sucker know when he was cumming and it didn’t take long for that to happen.

To the cheers of the class he came all over the woman’s face and she was laughing and offering a taste to anyone who wanted one.

As Alex  stood their panting with his knob still dripping Ms. Justina asked how many of the girls were wet. They all stuck their finger up their skirts for a quick test and the result was unanimous.

“OK let do a mass masturbation,” she said sitting down on a chair next to Alex and promptly began to finger herself.

The entire class followed her example. Alex became very aroused by the sounds of their groans and shouts as they came one after the other and he had a real urge to cum again himself.

After the class had been dismissed Justina locked the door and turned to him,“I suppose you’d like to get rid of that before you go back to your other duties wouldn’t you.”

“I sure would.”As he said it Justina was tearing off her clothes and she flung herself onto a small rug in front of her desk.He didn’t poke her right away he lowered himself on the top of her and sucked her tits. She loved it as he went from nipple to nipple, licking and sucking and stroking.

Alex then licked a trail right down to her pussy, parted the lips with his fingers and stuck his tongue in as far as it would go.Justina was groaning and moaning as he flicked the petals of her pussy as if his tongue was a hummingbird’s wing. She began to shake with her ass gyrating all over the place as she had an earth moving orgasm.

Alex didn’t give the shaking a chance to stop he just drove his dick into her. She gasped as she felt the width and the length of it and even more when he started to drive it in at a furious pace.

“OMG,” she cried out, “OMG.”

Alex was so anxious to cum and he kept ramming it hard and fast until he could feel his sperm racing up his tubes and shooting deep inside of her.

Justina yelled out, “O fuck,” as he made that final thrust, and shaking uncontrollably she held on to him tight as it continued to ooze into her cunt.

When it was all over and they were both dressed she paid him for his efforts and asked him if he could be there the following Wednesday.

He left her in no doubt that he was only too happy to help further the aims of higher education.

Jeff started looking forward to those Wednesdays as well as helping some of the girls out with their homework.

Great Britain at The Peak

BRITAIN has within a week, set three new records. Wayne Roonney by scoring his fiftieth international goal for England in the Euro 2016 qualification match against Switzerland, set the record as the country’s highest goal scorer. Queen Elizabeth II after scoring sixty three years and seven months on the throne, became its longest serving monarch, erasing the record of her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria.

But the major record was set by Jeremy Corbyn, who as an  outsider in mainstream political leadership, and
opposed by party heavy weights, scored a landslide
victory; 59.9 percent of the over 500,000 votes, to win the leadership of the British Labour Party.

Ironically, the record-setting Queen Elizabeth was an
accidental Queen; she would not have ascended the throne had her father’s elder brother, Edward, not fallen in love with American, Wallis Simpson and deciding to abdicate rather than live without her. King Edward VIII was crowned in January, 1936. He was bent on marrying Simpson, but there were obstacles.

She was not British, had no blue blood, was lower class and was no virgin. In fact, she was twice divorced, had a string of relationships with Italian, German, and British lovers, and had sexual preferences.

The opposition to the marriage, championed by Prime
Minister Stanley Baldwin, hinged its campaign on the King as the nominal head of the English Church, and the Church forbidding divorcees from remarrying.

The King suggested a morganatic marriage in which neither Simpson nor her issue would have a claim to the throne and its riches. This went to parliament and was defeated.

He decided to appeal directly to the British people, but
Baldwin told him that would be unconstitutional.

Rather than abandon his love, and remain the British
Monarch, King Edward on December 10, 1936, after only 326 days on the throne, signed the Instrument of
Abdication. He told the British people that he could no
longer remain their king without the woman he so deeply loved. He wrote a poem for Simpson saying it was better to live with her, rather than own ”A crown, A sceptre and a throne”

The lovers moved to France where they married in June
1937, and where Edward died in 1972 at 77, and his wife followed fourteen years later.

With the abdication, the “spare tyre”  Prince Albert, was crowned King George VI. His death on February 6, 1952 led to the crowning of his elder daughter, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary as Queen Elizabeth II.

But the sun had long set on the monarchy whose duties are mainly ceremonial; opening parliament, holding weekly consultations with the Prime Minister, marking the Queen’s birthday, celebrating the birth of new princes and princesses and doing philanthropy.

The monarchy has largely kept itself alive by shutting its mouth on politics, riding through scandals like
Squidgygate, Camillagate, and Fergie, and of course
managing its stupendous wealth. Queen Elizabeth II took the throne in the morning of her youth, ruled a declining world power through to the sunset of her life, and in the twilight, sets a record that the British can caress.

The earthquake in Britain is actually the rise of
Corbynism. Corbyn who has been the Member of
Parliament representing Islington North for the past thirty two years, is a nightmare to the British establishment. As the possibility of Corbyn winning the Labour leadership loomed, former party leader and ex-Prime Minister, Tony Blair, led the ‘stop Corbyn by all means’ charge.

An alarmed Blair, whom Corbyn charges with executing an illegal war in Iraq, told voters that Corbyn is a man of the past who lived in Alice Wonderland and that voting for him would mean the party losing the next elections. He went as far as recommending that Corbyn supporters should get “heart transplant”. Now it is Blair that would need that heart transplant, as Corbynism is the grave digger of Blairism.

Corbyn a former trade unionist who worked in the
National Union of Public Employees and the National
Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, is despite his
years in politics, a new broom that threatens to sweep the Thatcher and Blair years into the dustbin of history. He campaigned on a platform of renationalizing the railways and public utilities, ensuring no corporate tax evasion and using the increased funds to wipe out austerity.

The politician who has maintained a regular column in the MORNING STAR for over thirty years, wants to ensure public spending for infrastructure, restore public sector cuts and welfare programmes, introduce a living wage, abolish University tuition fees, restore student grants, reopen shut coal mines and get Britain out of all wars whether in Iraq, Afghanistan or Syria.

He intends to carry out Unilateral Policy on Nuclear
Disarmament and scrap Britain’s Trident Nuclear Weapons Programme. He says the 11,00 jobs supported by the programme, can be replaced by socially productive jobs in renewable energy.

Corbyn wants an Homeland for Palestinians, and although he wants Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom, he believes that people have a right to self- determination, hence his support for a united Ireland. He says the debacle in Ukraine is self- inflicted and the expansion of NATO to include former Warsaw Pact countries was a mistake. “NATO expansion and Russian expansion – one leads to the other, and one reflects on the other”

He wants Britain to take in migrants from war torn
countries adding “ Real leadership starts from seeing
humans, understanding the problems they face and
working internationally to meet those challenges. Pulling up the drawbridge and condemning the outside world isn’t leadership, it is cowardice and shameful.”

All three; Queen Elizabeth II, Rooney and Corbyn, still
have records to set. The Queen still has more days,
months or probably years on the throne; Roonney is likely to score more goals, and Corbyn, likely to stage more upset in British, and perhaps, European Union politics.

The future of Britain does not depend on how long the
Queen reigns or the football career of Rooney, it will be
guided by the ideas of Corbyn and how far the British
people are prepared to run with those ideas.