NIMBYISM

Britain today is becoming a country of self centered people. The £34 billion high speed train that is planned to go from London to Birmingham has hit the buffers if you'll pardon the pun because of the people with wealth who do not want it running through their gardens, these self centered people who don't bother when thousands of people have had their housed demolished to make way for motorways. These similar self centered people who are opposed to the third runway as Heathrow airport, who cancellation is prompting British Airways to move its operations to Madrid in Spain who's airport has four runways. These same people who are opposed to the third runway because it may impede on their lives with noise and disturbance to their tranquil way of life. These same people who don't bother about all this when they are jetting off on holiday to America or the Bahamas. These same people who leave in one year a carbon footprint that most people don't leave in twenty years. These are the people that are driving Britain to become a third world country, let alone a third world power. Other countries are driving their economies into the twenty first century these nimby people in Britain are driving us back into the nineteenth century. 

I'm alright Janet and John.

So hypocrisy isn't just left to the members of parliament and the CEO's of large institutions. Now the secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) appropriately initialled named as Christine Blower has taken an increase of £9,000 taking her pay up to £103,000 a rise of 10% as teachers start to go on strike to protect their pensions from government cuts. The union said that the pay increase was because she had moved up the pay scale and because of her length of service. MP Nicholas Boles accused her of "breathtaking  insensitivity" I think she is just waving two fingers at the people she is supposed to represent. Again its just arrogance on the part of another  over paid union leader, out of touch with the country and the working masses. 

MP's and pensions

Its reported in today's paper that MP's are proposing to ring fence their pensions as 750,000 public sector workers are pay more.Mp's pay up to 11% in pension contributions, An 11.9% contribution entitles MP's to retire on their full salary of £65,738 if they work for 40 years.Very nice. We will just see what goes on and whether MP's are looking after the country and the people as a whole or are again just making sure that they are well looked after.

NHS and costs

We keep hearing how the NHS is short of money yet we spend £3 billion on the treatment of drug adicts £730 million on providing methadone £1.7 billion on benefits to these adicts and a further £1.2 billion looking after their children. We spend millons on free contraception and sex education yet we have the highest pregnancy rate of single girls in Europe. We spend millions on medication to wean people of alcohol and tobacco. Yet at the end of the day no matter how much the state spends on these treatments the only thing that will make these people stop are the people themeslves and that comes from will power and that doesn't come in a package or a medicine bottle. We spend millions of IVF treatment, that was unheard of 25 years ago. Now I am sorry for people who can't have children through natures way but perhaps that's how nature works and if we tamper with it it brings other problems. We are spending over £2 billion treating the third world with preventative medicine with mass immunisation agains certain diseses. We hope to save the lives of an extra over 4 million children by 2015, all well and good, but this means an extra 4 million mouths to feed in an area of the world that is struggling to feed itself now. Europe sees mass immigration from underdeveloped countries with people looking for food and jobs in a world that no longer requires mass labour because of automation and robotics in industries that a few years ago were labour intensice. We see things increasing in price countries that have nenver known want now see the possibilities of going short of these things especially with fuel and food becoming more scarce. When these commodoties become even scarcer the people won't bother where they come from they will demand that their governments  go and get them no matter the cost  even if it means military force to get them. We are living in very sad but more dangerous times.

Money for immunisation programme.

Its all well and good Cameron giving £814 million for an immunisation programme to try and rid African countries of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children. We are giving more money than any other country in the world USA £275 million,  France £89 million, Germany £45 million. The programme hopes to save between 1.9 to 4 million lives by 2015. The programme has to be applauded.  In a world where one in seven children will go to bed hungry where one in four live in poverty, the statistics are endless. But now in a world that politicians and experts are saying that there is going to be a possible food shortage especially with the worlds climactic changes etc. Will these countries that now have trouble feeding their population be coming back in the future and be asking for food aid etc, when they have another 4 million mouths to feed. Perhaps we should first of all try and help these countries to increase there own food production  and provide them with desalination plants, in areas of drought. This will cost billions and I'm quite sure that Bill Gates will help as he is providing billions of dollars for this immunisation programme and other projects. 

How thick are the British?

The law of the country are now under attack it would seem from every position. There are now worries that the legal system concerning jurors is now getting to a state were certain jurors are using the Internet to contact friends and relatives to see what they think that the person they are trying may be guilty or not. Some have even e-mailed their friends on facebook to say that they are bored with jury service or that they have found the person guilty even before they have heard all the evidence. These things are against the jury system. Jurors are forbidden from discussing the cases even with close family and friends. The one way to stop such things happening is to inform jurors that if such a thing were to happen not only would they be found in contempt of court but they WOULD face a long term of imprisonment to deter such things. Then we now have the law saying that Britain cannot deport crooks and illegal immigrants because it might impact on their human rights. 102 killers and thugs have won the right to stop in this country because deporting them would impinge on their rights to a family life even though some of them have no families.One Bolivian criminal even escaped deportation because he owned a pet cat. Blackpool council evicted a family because they were terrorised their neighbours over a number of years. Now the family have won legal aid to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights They are expected to possibly win a huge payout in compensation even though they have admitted using abusive language and even death threats. They claimed that Blackpool council breached their "rights to respect for private and family life." Has this country gone completely insane? What about the "rights to respect for private and family life" for their neighbours. This country is now becoming a laughing stock to the rest of the world. Its about time that Britain removed its name from these insane Human Rights Acts, and brought in a Human Rights Act using Common Sense.  

Europe needs a leader.

According to Tony Blair Europe needs an elected leader, but will the 336 million people of the 27 European countries elect this person or will it be left to the countries leaders to do it? He said that it would give Europe a clear leadership and enormous authority on the world stage. "The rational for Europe today is about power not peace" something Blair has always wanted power. He says that there is five areas where Europe should forge closer links.These are tax policy; social reforms; forging a common energy policy; a common defence policy; and a common immigration and organised crime policy. These are areas that would be hard to implement NATO is under threat from the Americans who are saying that member states should be paying more and not relying on America to fund the biggest part of the costs. Immigration has failed with the Schengen agreement of open boarders, that now allows people from non EU countries to flood into Europe, as certain member states allow thousands of these immigrants EU documentation especially when the immigrants say that they want to go to Britain. He says that Europe can't compete with the growing economies of  China, India, Brazil and Indonesia. This is possible quite true, when the governments of these countries do not respect their populations wishes, or force through policies that the EU countries would not tolerate. Poverty  wages, forcing millions of people of their land and out of their houses to build things like the  Gorges dam  project in China. India spends £10 billion on armaments and £I billion on trying to put a man on the moon when there are billions of Indians living in poverty. The EU can never compete with these countries till they are placed on a fair footing in wages and social mobility, and democracy at the Western countries have. The one thing that Blair does in speeches like this is to try and find more power for himself. This from a man that left Britain nearly bankrupt with his policies, who left office only to turn himself into a multimillionaire. With speeches and writing, and working for the big institutions. Yes Blair wants this but not for the good of the 336 million people of Europe but for himself and his clique.