Phone Hacking Again

Now that parliament has gone on holiday till September will the phone hacking debacle go away. The obvious answer is yes, one thing for sure is that the population has lost interest in it. Apart from certain tabloids and magazines that have nothing better to print. I wish that parliament would spent as much time debating  the things that concern the majority of the population, not just a minority of 4000 or so people. The rising prices in domestic fuel bills when at the same time the utility companies are raising prices and crying how their profits are down due to the increases in the world markets. How do the people who are affected by these increases sustain such increases when they are being told that they can,t have a pay rise because the country is in trouble financially, and this is not as a result of their incompetence but the previous governments and the banks. People want answerer's to these problems not phone hacking. We know that we have corrupt politicians and some police officers at senior levels, as well as certain Lords who mix with the super rich yet don't want the public to know about that.These are the people who are trying to form a New World Order, you have only to look at the European Union to see how corrupt these  leaders are. They are the minority of people who hold sway over 360 million people in Europe, yet they are changing slowly what the EEC was originally intended for, that was going to benefit the whole of Europe. The European Economic Union.that principal has been eroded over the past fifty years. So that the power is now with a few hundred people and many of these people are not accountable because they have never been elected. These people meet in secret and behind closed doors to drink from the same chalice, and piss in the same pot. Then tell us that we have open and transparent governmental leaders  

Corruption and the Police

With the investigation by parliament into the phone hacking scandal and the police officers who have resigned could drag on for years and its not this first time that officers have been investigated with senior officers being sent to jail. In 1977 Detective Chief Superintendent Kenneth Drury was sent to jail along with 12  other officers for corruption and bribery others resigned. Today its senior officers not just cosying up to the media but to leading figures in society who have political influence. To much goes on in this country behind closed doors with people in political and social domain meeting for dinner parties and the like. The public never get to know what policies are being made that affects their lives. Policies that should be made and discussed in parliament not on the social circuit.

Phone Hacking Debacle

The on going phone hacking scandal is bringing up more information and resignations every day. It could be on the same scale as Watergate in 1972 when the affair brought about the imprisonment of the former Attorney General John Mitchell and the impeachment two years later of President Nixon. In 1963 we had the Profumo affair that saw the then minister for war John Profumo having to resign from parliament for lying to parliament, about his affair with Christine Keeler. Months later it brought about the downfall of Harold Macmillan's government. Though Profumo resigned from parliament he also resigned as a privy councillor, so as to save the queen being embaressed due to the fact that she would have had to revoke his position as a privy councillor. Today we have the phone hacking scandal that is bringing about possible prosecutions and the now resignation of Sir Paul Stephenson head of the Met. Yet we have a prime minister who took on Andy Coulson of the News of the World newspaper even though he was advised not to because he was carrying baggage from that paper over the phone hacking from four years previously. Perhaps it would be an honourable thing for this prime minister to fall on his sword as he is tainted with some of his dealings with at least some dubious people within his circle of acquaintances. Again I want my leaders to be like  Caesar wife above reproach and this I believe does not apply to the Prime Minister David Cameron. Who I believe should be tried if only for treason for the way that he has decimated Britain's Armed Forces, at a time when they are dealing with at least three on going major conflicts in the world. Its quite obvious that this person knows nothing about the history or the military of this country. 

Parliament and Priorities

With Parliament now spending time looking into the phone hacking debacle wouldn't it be more important for parliament to spend more time looking into things that affect more people than the 4000 who may have had their phones hacked into, of course this is wrong and it has opened up a can of worms that is involving people from all walks of life. Its showing that some of our police officers may be on the take which is illegal, so if they are committing criminal offences who can the public trust? Then we have the so called great and the good who have had dealings with Rupert Murdoch, go to his parties wine and dine with him or his cohorts, a minority of people who are not elected yet who hold to much power, and not for the good of the masses. But more importantly shouldn't parliament be spending more time looking into the cartels that supply our energy needs. They will not say that they are cartels but in all honesty who believes them when they put their prices up all within a percent or so of each other. Thatcher opened the industry to competition, but that does not happen. In any other free competition, such as super markets they reduce prices to get our custom. The utility companies put their prices up and say that it is due to world prices, then in the next breath announce profits in their billions. Not through efficiency but through theft. There are now or are going to be an estimated 12 million people in fuel poverty, or will be especially if we have another severe winter. We see recommendation being discussed in the European Parliament that will impact on the people of this country yet we see little debate bu our Parliament. The Bombardier contract is one thing that would not have happened in Germany or France, because their politicians are more astute to anything that affects their workers. Here politicians just shrug their  shoulders and say that they  are playing to the rules then watch as thousands of workers join the dole queue. We see Europe slowly trying to pass laws that make this country even poorer than it is. Migrants to receive British pensions when they haven't contributed to the system, Britain has protested but in the end European Law will over rule Parliament. British teams will have to display the European flag on their kit, they sat that this is only a proposal. Proposal today law tomorrow.  Now Brussels plans for Europe to take over our coastguards under some thing called harmonisation another word for them to take control of something that is British and one of the most reliable of such organisations in Europe as it is. Again European Bureaucracy getting out of control or to powerful for the betterment of the people. These things are called the Salami effect. keep taking little slices till they have the whole thing then it is to late to do anything. Wake up Britain, but wake up Parliament. 

Corruption at all levels of society.

As the on going debacle over Rupert Murdoch and his media empire drags more and more people into its web who can the people trust? We have senior police officers making excuses over the way they handled it. We have Andy Hayman who first looked into it, taking a job with the Times newspaper two months after retiring from the police, when there are probably plenty of reporters or journalists who were better qualified to work on that paper, but was he promised a job? We have senior ministers and MP's who are now criticising Murdoch, who only a few months ago were wining and dining with him. These same ministers and MP's are quite happy to take money for writing  articles for his papers. These same people who drink from the same cup and piss in the same pot as Murdoch and his cronies. These senior politicians who were quite happy to party with him, can they be  trusted yet they believe that they are the great and the good of society, when the truth is that they are as corrupt as the people in the criminal underworld. 

Ethiopia

This week it's 16years since the Live Aid concert for famine relief in Ethiopia. It raised an estimated £150 million. Today in the same country and other areas of the Horn of Africa we now see a reported 9 million people going hungry who are heading for a Relief camp in Kenya.Kenya is alleged to be suffering as well yet thousands of tourist go to this country and eat and drink well.Are these tourist oblivious to what is happening a few hundred miles away.But more importantly what did the £150 million that was raised all those years ago do did it help to provide wells for fresh water did it provide means for these people to grow their own food and provide declinations plants. Just giving them food was only a short term operation, that has come back to haunt this area of the world.

Pension Protests.

Its reported that over 750,000 demonstrated taking time off work and closing some government departments and schools. Yet all we seem to hear about are the so called well paid whinging teachers. One of them saying that they hadn't had a pay rise for two years well wake up and smell the coffee, so have millions of other workers. Then we had one who said that she didn't have to pay more into her pension to support the people with  private sector pensions. Again is this the calibre of teachers we have today? People in the public sector have pensions paid at around 13% contribution by the public, more than private sector employees are paying to their workers. 84% of public sector workers are in a pension scheme compared to 34% in the private sector. I think that that says a lot about who is getting the better pension deals. Again its the teachers who are complaining how hard they are done to. Lloyd's bank is getting rid of another 15,000 employees by 2015 this brings their numbers redundant to 45,000. In the public sector we have police officers and council workers loosing their jobs. How many teachers have lost their jobs due to financial cuts? Then we hear their union leaders say that teachers will leave the profession in droves. Where are they going to find employment when thousands of better qualified people are loosing their jobs? Once again doesn't this show how out of touch with reality many teachers are they live in an ivory tower, their pension has been protected year on year now they are going to have to contribute towards the pain we are all having to suffer.