Page 1 Immigration Attorney Steven Landaal • Green Cards through Marriage and Family • Employment Visas • Monthly Payments Available Tel: (310) 395-2828 Looks who’s back! (page 6) See our ad on Page 3 California’s British Accent ™ - Since 1984 Saturday, September 17, 2016 • Number 1644 Always Free Cameron blasted for Libya debacle n 2011 campaign lacked ‘accurate intelligence’ and a ‘defined strategic objective’, says damning report from Foreign Affairs Select Committee The bloody collapse of Libya – which triggered a refugee crisis and aided the rise of Isis – was this week blamed on David Cameron’s blunders when he intervened to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. A damning report by a backbencher. extremist groups “should MPs condemns the 2011 In the report, MPs said: not have been the preserve military campaign for •They saw “no evidence of hindsight”. lacking both “accurate that the UK Government •There was “insufficient intelligence” and a carried out a proper action” taken to secure coherent strategy for the analysis of the nature of weapons abandoned by aftermath of removing the the rebellion in Libya”. the Gaddafi regime, which dictator. •There was no “defined contributed to the turmoil The disastrous results strategic objective” – and “increased terrorism” were “political and which meant a limited across the region. economic collapse”, tribal intervention to protect • Mr Cameron should warfare, the refugee civilians “drifted into a have been required to crisis, widespread human policy of regime change issue a formal “ministerial rights abuses and the rise by military means”. direction” to intervene, of Islamic State (IS) in •There was no attempt noting the Chief of the North Africa, fuelled by to “pause military action” Defence Staff, Lord weapons abandoned by when Benghazi was Richards, “dissociated David Cameron: the former Prime Minister, who stepped down as an MP this the Gaddafi regime. secured and seek a deal himself from that week, was blamed for the power vacuum in Libya which aided the rise of ISIS The Foreign Affairs to protect civilians and decision” in evidence to Select Committee reform Libya, with the the inquiry. the future, proclaiming: Barack Obama has Other political options concluded: “Through his UK instead “focused “Your friends in Britain called Libya the worst were available. Political decision-making in the exclusively on military worst mistake and France will stand mistake of his presidency, engagement might National Security Council, intervention”. Just six months after with you as you build apparently criticising Mr have delivered civilian former prime minister •Mr Cameron should sending in the RAF and your country and build Cameron personally for protection, regime change David Cameron was have used Tony Blair’s the Navy, in alliance with your democracy for the the UK’s role in allowing and reform at a lesser cost ultimately responsible for “contacts and influence” France – after the regime future.” the country to become a to the UK and Libya.” the failure to develop a to try to secure Gaddafi’s threatened to attack But the promise proved “s*** show”. The international coherent Libya strategy.” exit and a “negotiated the rebel-held city of empty as Libya collapsed Crispin Blunt, community must The scathing verdict solution”. Benghazi – a triumphant into a power vacuum, the Committee’s now get behind the comes just one day after •Many Libyans Mr Cameron was mobbed allowing Isis to seize Conservative chairman, United Nations-backed Mr Cameron’s sudden had taken part in the by cheering Libyans on a control of part of the said: “The UK’s actions Government of National announcement that he Iraq insurgency and visit with French president country and people- in Libya were part of an Accord to prevent the will leave Westminster fought with al-Qaeda Nicolas Sarkozy. smugglers to send ill-conceived intervention, country descending into immediately, breaking an in Afghanistan, which The two leaders migrants towards Europe the results of which are all-out civil war, Mr Blunt earlier pledge to stay on as meant the rise of militant pledged support for in rickety boats. still playing out today. added. 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Sept. 17, 2016 News from Britain Curry and claret-proof cash: Bank of England debuts the plastic fiver IN YET another sign of the times that some will find depressing, cash machines across the UK have begun dispensing the Bank of England’s first “plastic” banknote, CONTINUITY AMID CHANGE: Churchill gets pride of place on the new £5 note with the launch of working with the cash ready from day one. began printing polymer the revamped five industry to “facilitate Canada, where Mr notes in 2008. pound note on Tuesday machine readiness” for Carney formerly ran In Britain, paper fivers morning. those using the notes the central bank, began will stop being legal Bearing the image of IT CAN TAKE THE HEAT: Mark Carney dips a new in vending machines, circulating plastic notes tender from May 5 2017. former prime minister plastic £5 note into a tray of food as he buys lunch but it warned this was a in 2011 in what it said “The last print run was Winston Churchill and at a Whitecross Street market stall in London. significant task and not was a bid to combat well over a year ago,” the quotation “I have all machines would be counterfeiting. Israel said Ms Cleland. nothing to offer but As well as a host because she is the only blood, toil, tears and of additional security woman (apart from the sweat,” the new fivers - features that will make Queen) to feature on UK Cameron steps down as MP printed on thin, flexible the notes harder to banknotes. Jane Austen, polymer plastic - will be counterfeit, the fiver’s however, will feature on Former Prime Minister it would be difficult difficult, I think, to sit as able to withstand all of anticipated five-year the new tenner. David Cameron has for him to remain a backbencher and not be these. life cycle will reduce the Fans of polymer stood down as an MP, on the backbenches an enormous diversion BoE governor Mark future costs of banknote banknotes argue they are triggering a by-election without becoming “a and distraction from Carney noted the fiver is production, the BoE cleaner and more durable in his Oxfordshire seat big distraction and a what the government is capable of surviving “a said. About 440m of than the paper version, of Witney. big diversion” from doing.” splash of claret, a flick the polymer notes have less likely to distribute Mr Cameron, 49, the work of the new Mr Cameron said Mrs of cigar ash, the nip of a been printed, and can harmful bacteria and who resigned as prime government. May - his former home bulldog and even a spin be recycled into plastic harder to counterfeit. minister after June’s He denied his secretary - had been in the washing machine”, products when they Some respondents to EU referendum, said announcement “very understanding” and demonstrated its are withdrawn from a public consultation he did not want to be a was related to the when he told her of his resilience in person by circulation. held in 2013 by the BoE “distraction” for new government’s moves decision. dipping it into a tray complained they were PM Theresa May. towards allowing new Asked about his of chicken curry at a more durable too slippery, according He said Mrs May had grammar schools, a legacy, and whether he London food market. The launch follows to the central bank’s “got off to a cracking policy he rejected as PM. would be remembered He made no comment several years of research, website. start”, while she praised He said the timing was as the prime minister when asked about the public consultation and Victoria Cleland, the his “great strides” on coincidental, adding that that took the UK out of possibility of the fiver preparation by the UK’s bank’s chief cashier, social reform. there were “many good the European Union, ruining the curry. central bank, which whose signature will Mr Cameron, 49, has things” in the proposed he said he hoped his The notes are expected intends to launch a be on the banknotes, represented Witney education reforms. tenure would be recalled to last two and a half polymer £10 note in mid- insisted the fivers were since 2001, becoming “Obviously I’m going for a strong economy times longer than their 2017 and a £20 version by “not that slippery — and Conservative leader in to have my own views and “important social paper counterparts, and 2020. when you fold them they 2005 and PM in 2010. about different issues,” reforms” and that he according to Mr Carney Social reformer will stay in your pocket”. Speaking in his he said. had transformed a “can better withstand Elizabeth Fry features The polymer fivers are constituency, he said “People would know Conservative Party that being repeatedly folded on the paper £5 note, also 15 per cent smaller it had been a “great that and that’s really was “in the doldrums” into wallets or scrunched leading to protests than the paper notes. honour” to be an MP the point. As a former into a “modernising up inside pockets”. about its withdrawal The BoE said it was for the area, but said prime minister it is very winning force”. Hare and The Hounds Now featuring delicious, traditional handmade pies and pasties from Deli-SA. Chicken curry pasties, Cornish pasties, Steak & Kidney...and much more Teas • Candy • Pastries • Bangers • Meat Pies • Heinz Beans • China Teapots • Tea Cozies • Gifts Quality Imports from the British Isles..