No Body Knows

No body knows least of all the average person in the street, but again it would seem neither do the so called economists. Now some are predicting a double dip recession that will throw the world into another financial crisis worst than the one we are just allegedly coming out of. We have all sorts of predictions and recommendations or suggestions how to avoid these things occuring. Now some are saying that the German  Government should reduce VAT  and impose higher taxes on savings to get the German people to stop   saving and encourage  the German people to start spending. The Germans are not a frugal nation but again they are not a nation that spends for the sake of spending like the citizens of certain other European Countriesa that have got Europe and other parts of the world into this financial situation. Germany has the lowest unemployment in the EU and the stronger wage growth. Germans are failing to carry their weight in the global economy because they don't consume enough, according to a report to be published this week by Fathom Financial Consulting. Germany has run a net trade surplus of 3.4 percent of GDP. If it were to switch that surplus into a defecit  of the same magnitude it would raise the level of non-German eurozone GDP by 2.4 per cent. If Germany is doing better that other EU countries because the Germans do not spend on items that they do not want, why should we critisise them, and want them to do so? So that they can pull the rest of Europe out of the self inflicted mire because of their greed. Because these nations citizens wanted to be like Viv Nichols to spend, spend, spend. That may be well and good if you have the money, but to continue to spend, spend, spend, when you dont have the money is rank stupidity, and to ask the German people to join that camp is even more criminal. This is like saying to them we are in a mess so please come and join us. I dont think so. 

The Runaway Gravey Trains

We the people were promised  a new and dynamic government with this coalition. Cameron was going to sweep away the Bonfire on the Quangos, it hasn't happened, we now have more people with over the top  salaries that the average person can only dream about. We have government ministers literally spending billions of pounds on their gold credit cards over 170,000 of them funded by the public. They are to numerous to mention, but its not only government ministers the police have credit cards funded once again by the tax payer, where the police spent £51.60 on designer lingerie, £1,258.94 on a lawn mower trips to Edinburgh Zoo £163.80 the list is endless, again this is running into millions of pounds. When the military is cutting back on defence spending or so we are being told where front line soldiers are being made redundant, what are the top brass doing.Nothing they are using helicopters for a trip of 16 miles costing £659, this is just one of the abuses by these overpaid Air Marshals and Admirals and Generals who have the use of aircraft chauffeur driven cars costing the tax payer millions of pounds this is their cosseted life style, that Cameron was going to curtail, but again it was only talk, why? because he like many of our ministers and senior people in the military, financial and diplomatic circles all eat at the same table, drink from the same poison chalice and piss in the same putrid pot, of their making, whilst the masses get poorer and poorer. Whilst many are now going to suffer over the coming months to pay their increased  fuel bills Cameron is off on his fifth holiday this year whilst many people can't afford one holiday. After the riots we have Cameron saying how he is going to fix it, then we have Tony Blair sticking his ten pence worth in. When his New Labour Government policies had more to blame for these troubles than Thatcher's  policies of 30  years ago. Policies that served Blair very well, can anybody name one of Thatchers policies that the Labour Government when in was in opposition said they would repeal. Not one. The government may change the policies or promised policies will change, but never do and those that do only benefit the rich and the criminal element in our society, as for the average honest tax payer. Keep paying because nothing will happen that will brighten up your daily lives. Oh yes we have the Olympic Games coming in 2012 that may brighten up some peoples faces for ten days or so, the only people who will benefit apart from the athletes are some businesses in the capital and surrounding areas as for the rest of the country keep paying your taxes because this is just another white elephant, that the government hopes you will enjoy because it deflects peoples view of what is really going on in the country.     

      

Energy Prices

We see today that Npower is to increase gas prices by 15.7% and electric by 7.2% and this after they announce increaes in profits. This is the fifth company of the six major energy companies to announce increases, and they say that they are not a cartel. It's about time thay parliament investigated these companies. We are seeing an increase in wind farms and turbines that cost in excess of a million pounds each and we are being told now that these costs will have to be passed on to the public over the next twenty years. Then prices will fall and if you believe that then you will believe that the moon is really made of cheese. If the government and parliament don't do something now then they will have troubles on their hands that will make last weeks riots seem like a picnic. There are going to be an estimated 12 million people heading for fuel poverty this year and that figure could increase if we have a severe winter and the government is completely oblivious to these peoples needs, believing what these companies when they say that its market forces that are causing these increase when in truth it's one word. Greed.  

Riots and who to blame.

With the riots now over hopefully and 1700 people have been arrested and the trials going on, its now that the blame mongers come out of the woodwork. Its due to poor housing, poor job prospects, hooligans, bad parenting gangs, people have a grudge against the police for what ever their reason rightly or wrongly. There is one thing that these "experts" seem to forget for every person they blame for many of the above reasons they forget the men women and children who live in these same conditions and do not cause any trouble, who live good honest lives and try to bring their children up to respect authority and law and order, but more importantly what is right and what is wrong. There is one thing for sure that we do not get much leadership from the top. We still have politicians who are only looking after themselves, who are still claiming expenses for items that they could pay for out of their salaries. We have recalled parliament to discuss the riots, we've had enquiries into the still on going phone hacking, yet parliament doesn't seem to want debate things that are more important to the average citizen. The increase in Utility bills the increase in fuel prices even though the price of oil has fallen. When parliament starts to debate these things then perhaps people will again start to have some respect for our leaders. We had David Starkey on Newsnight being berated for saying what he thought, caused some of the troubles he was called a racist, yet he's not. Then a few nights earlier we had Darcus Howe giving his point of view yet this is a man who has was given a  three month prison sentence in the sixties for assaulting a police officer going about his lawful duty, he has had three wives and has seven children by four different women, and said amongst other things that having children by various women was part of the Afro Caribbean culture. Yet he wasn't criticised, could it be that the authorities are scared of such people who don't know right from wrong. There is one thing for sure the Britain that the world thinks we are has gone for ever thanks to Tony Blair and his clique and others Britain is now heading down the path of a third world banana republic.    

Self Publisist

Today we seem to live in a world where certain people who have reached the publics eye try to maintain their position by apperaring in mundane game and quiz shows. This kind of thing is prolonged by these people going from show to show. The Chat shows are the worse, you come onto mine and I will come on yours so that the fickle public are having their brain cells destroyed by these people. Now we have the commons speakers wife Sally Bercow wanting to appear on Big Brother another show for failed or failing stars. In her case the last three letters of her surname say what she really is. Cow. 

Cameron the liar

When Cameron came to power he said that there was going to be a bonfire of the quangos, this has turned out to be a damp squib.The MoD has made 520 people redundant yet have hired another 1573 people? The Foreign Office has made no body redundant but has taken on another 295 people the list is endless so far 1570 people have lost their jobs but 4538 have been hired. Charlotte Cane a quangocrat has just left her job as director of resources at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, what ever that is? with a £225,000 payoff, then steps straight into another job at Engineering UK. The list is endless of people who are getting financial remunerations for doing next to nothing that benefits the country as a whole. With figures like this getting banded around the government then tells us that in the first ten months Whitehall budgets have been cut to the tune of £3.75 billion. Who do you believe when in the next breath former aid to Tony Blair Sir Michael Barber was paid £5,505 a day to advise the government on dolling out its vast foreign aid budget, after consultation his pay has now been reduced to ££4,404 a day. Four other consultants have been paid £910,000 for 250 days work. This at a time when British workers are having their salaries cut or frozen. This is only the part of the iceberg that we see what goes on behind closed doors? Again this from a government and prime minister who promised open and transparent government but all we get are more lies. Surely this is time that the people of this country started to do something instead of taking all this crap.