Time to leave the EU.

Jose Manuel Barroso is suggesting that the banks have another tax levied on them to help the euro and he has said that it won't just be confined to the euro zone meaning that British banks will have to pay this tax and as British banks are one of the largest dealers in Europe that Britain will have to pay the largest tax bill. We already pay £12.5 billion to help bail out the euro, now another £20 billion is being sought from us. If we tax the banks more then this money should  be used to help the British economy. Again this is European unelected leaders  trying to make laws without the consent of the population. Even German people are now beginning to realise that they are being made to pay a  price for failures that was  not a  fault of their making  or ours. If we have to tax the banks that money comes to us to reduce our deficit. Its  now about time that Britain thought hard about pulling  out of this undemocratic organisation that is a failing organisation an organisation that was set up for the benefit of a few thousand rich and influential people not for the masses. This organisation makes rules then changes them when they think that is not working.This again is bureaucracy not being thought out logically before these programmes are put in place, the vast majority of them without the full support of the European people. 

Nimby, Numby, Nomby, or should it be Numpty

Most people know these acronyms but as the big six energy suppliers inform us that the more people complain about not having new power stations or new power lines and pylons in in their areas. Then these companies say that the longer it takes to sort out these planing permissions all it does is push up the cost to the consumer. It's all well and good these people complaining that they are unsightly and that they are destroying the green belt is just a pack of lies. The truth is that they want the electric but not coming to them via new power stations or overhead lines in their vicinity. Its OK to build them in other areas but not in their  back yard, but they want the electric. Well if they  have that attitude then its a pity we can't cut these people off. They would soon change their minds if they could no longer get the electric to power their homes. Its all well and good to say that they want cables burying in the ground as opposed to pylons when the cost for a mile of overhead cable costs £1.6 million per kilometer compared to £18 million per kilometer to bury it. If these people want that then let these people foot the bill. My electric bills are steep enough as it is now I don't want any extra burden just so that these arrogant peole can have a nice view over the country side near them. Its the same as the people who don't want a third runway at Heathrow airport because it may impact on their environment, I'm sorry for that but don't buy a house under a flight path.  But again these same people who are against the runway don't bother when they are jetting off for their holidays by air. Then its OK, their  only grumble then will be the congestion due to a shortage of runway capacity. These people may be Nimby or Numbys or Nombys or the new one Bananas build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything. The voices of the new Luddites. or numptys who may have more money than common sense., and may be rich enough to incur an extra few hundred pounds on their electric bill. Well I've got news for them there are millions of people who don't have any spare capital to fund  this unnecessary burden.

No Common Sense

No body seems to care in government or parliament about the waste that they have made the British public incur over the past years. We have  or had a computer system for the NHS that would hold the records of 40 million patients. It cost £12 billion and it has been scrapped even before it was used. Now we have the debacle over the PFI scheme that has incurred costs in the region of £11.4 billion, that is to be paid to private companies who built some of our hospitals. That is now being questioned in some areas as hospitals may have to close wards and cut staff to pay this escalating costs. This bill is estimated to cost the tax payer over £70 billion by the time is is up in 2040, and the public will then own these new hospitals that will be over 25 years old. The increase in  cost is due amongst other thing  to inflation. We have seen how this has greatly increased some of the MoD's astronomical costs that have in some cases seen contracts terminated Nimrod is a perfect example, would you have thought that these Whitehall mandarins who are supposed to be the elite would have had fixed price contracts to stop runaway inflation costs and make these organisations who benefit from PFI schemes more accountable. But is that to simplistic a thing?  

Mixed up broken Britain

It doesn't matter what is going on in the world, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan troubles in Libya or pirates off the coast of Somalia. Britain is in both a financial and political  state, and the bottom line is that the people in power haven't got a clue how to mend it. We have the car manufacturer Jaguar announcing that they are going to build a plant for £350 million to build greener engines that will create 750 new jobs, that's great news for the manufacturing industry. Yet we have a manufacturing company that employs directly or indirectly thousands of jobs, and creates wealth for the country in the billions of pounds. What is it, its British Aerospace Plc. Yet we have the bleeding hearts who criticise this company and the arms trade. The arms industry has never made a gun or a devise that kills people, it is the finger on the trigger or on the button that does the killing not the weapon. Yet these people who want the arms industry abolished keep saying that if that were to happen, that the people in the arms industry could be redeployed. Where? If these hypothetical jobs that these people fail to mention where they were coming from where to appear then we could redeploy the 2.5 million unemployed into these hypothetical jobs, and reduce unemployment at a stroke. Its about time that these do gooders came into the real world. Again its OK for these do gooders to take the moral high ground over the abolition of the arms trade but its not their jobs on the line. Then we have the 100 or so activists who are supporting the illegals at Dale Farm in Essex, this is an illegal establishment where a group of 51  have lived and constructed structures without planning permission that the rest of the law abiding population  have to live with, and obide by. Again why has it taken ten years to get to this situation, because we go through the planning process and legal requirements that cost millions of pounds to the  tax payers  Then again we have the bleeding hearts who complain about the building of atomic power stations or the construction of electrical pylons that are blighting our landscape. They may well be unsightly to most people, but most people want electricity. If we bury these cables  underground which is quite feasible but at what cost? The National Grid is digging a 2.6 kilometer trench in the Wye Valley to bury a cable at a cost of £20 million per kilometer, ten times the cost to string an electrical cable from pylons. Again its OK for Chris Huhne to say that its up to the transmission companies to take more care of the environment and local peoples concerns about it, and more money will be found to reduce the visual impact of new lines on the environment,- money that will be added to the users bill. Thats you and I, as if we are not paying enough for our electricity now. Once again this is a rich minister who is totally out of touch with reality of real life for the average person. Then we have Vince Cable  the Business Secretary who says that the rich will have to bear more of the burden, that board room bosses will have to curtail their big bonuses especially those who fail or have failed yet pay themselves for failing. These are all well and good making platitudes like this to try and pacify the public at large but the the public  know that at the end of the day nothing will come of it, and why? Because these bosses and ministers  are all related by business connections somewhere down the line. Do people for one minute believe that Cameron, Osborne, Huhne, and the like, for all their hand ringing and mea culpas don't invest their wealth in tax free areas even though they have talked about closing or making some of these off shore banking facilities illegal. No body is talking about penalising  these entrepreneurs, its the bankers and such that have made millions for themselves,  in two word by dodgy deals that have left the rest of the counrtys hard working masses picking up the bill for their, in many cases corporate greed

     

The Arrogance of out of touch Huhne.

So Chris Huhne thinks its the fault of the lazy consumers for not being bothered to shop around to find the cheapest energy deals. This from a person who has increased the average bill by introducing a green tax that will do nothing to ease the problem. All this will do is build up the government coffers. Does he think  for one minute that the population is fooled into believing  that this tax will be for wind farms and solar panels. These constructions may be built by some energy company but they will be funded by even more higher energy bills. The sad part is that these companies should be taken back into state control, where their billion pound profits can be used for the good of the population not the share holders. The share holders would be paid for their share what they paid for them when these companies were floated on the stock market. They wouldnt' loose any money because they have also received dividends each year on their shares. The people who may loose out are the people in Europe. Why because sadly these companies are now mainly owned by European companies, who are ripping the British consumer at the expense of their European customers. Gas prices are on average 18% and electric prices are on average 11%. compare that with Europe. In Germany electric prices have been held at 0% whilst gas prices are being held at 11% . In France electric prices have increased by 3% and gas has been held at 0%.In Spain electric prices can't be increased more than 1.5% as set by the Spanish Government, gas at 0%. In Italy there have been no increases in both gas and electric prices. These energy companies supply about 11 million consumers in Britain. But Scottish Power, EDF, npower, E.on are owned by French, German and Spanish companies and do not increase their domestic consumers anywhere near as high as their British consumers. This isn't the fault of the Europeans is the fault of the weak British Government and the spineless energy secretary Huhne. He has said that he is in absolute favour of people making lots of money in a fair and competative market, again this remark from an arrogant millionaire. Then he goes on to say I'm absolutely against people making money by abusing a dominant position. Isn't that what the big six energy companies are doing If Huhne was honest he would say that these companies are all in a cartel but no body in authority will say that or challenge them. We all know that when one company puts is prices up the others will all follow in a few weeks at the latest. And he says this isn't a dominant market where people are making obscene profits. We all agree that companies have to make profits to survive, to reinvest etc, but where is the line to be drawn between profit and greed. I believe that is where a company says that is has made £1.5 billion for the first quarter of the year then announces large percentage increases. But the really said thing is that Huhne has said that these companies are justified in these obscene increases, but is he saying it because he believes it or is he saying it because he is cosying up to them and will expect a job with them in the future if he leaves politics or when he looses his seat. And who can trust a man that is alleged to have asked his ex wife to take his penalty points for speeding. This has still to be decided and the CPS have all the evidence but for some reason according to the police they are hanging back. Why? Could it be that as a government minister it will be hushed up wink, wink, nod, nod, you know what I mean? No body in power today especially members of this government or parliament can be trusted they are now amongst the most corrupt people in the country. At least the people who stole during the riots did it in a way openly. These people do it behind closed doors and try their best to make sure that it remains behind closed doors by trying to ban the media from publishing it.

Me, Me, Me,

A few years ago somebody once told me that he could write a 500 page weekly paper telling of all the good in the world and it would hardly sell a copy because today's generation are more celebrity obsessed. You have only to turn on your TV sets and see the absolute garbage of poor game shows were the brain dead enter to flaunt themselves in their stupidity. But can we blame them when they see other so called and in many cases talentless people telling us on chat shows and sadly their own shows how good they are. We have today read about Tamara Ecclestone talking about spending £1 million on a crystal bat for her £100 million pound mansion in America. Money that the father made. We see Jordan launching a magazine that is all about her and her tattoos and life style, come and look at me, and all my wealth that you have got me by buying my trash. Why is this generation obsessed with these false icons could it be because the media is bombarding us with ninety second updates every few hours on what is going on in Hollywood, or what this film star is doing, who is screwing who, who is divorcing who, and how much money can they get. Or the low life's in our society who are being paid six figure sums by the Red Banner newspapers to tell all. Even if half of it is untrue they have to embellish the story to sell papers. In a world where it would seem that every footballer or model have to adorne their bodies with some of the most grotesque tattoos, and when they get fed up with them they will have them removed. Yet the average person who is stupid enough to get a tattoo and then decide that he or she wants them removing will not have the money to have it done and will probable ask to have it done on the NHS because it is causing them stress in their everyday lives. Yet there are thousands of people who  have facial handycaps through birth defects or accidents that can't have it done. Then we have the people who want breast implants to make their breasts larger because they want to show off their bodies for vanities sake. Yet again there are thousands of people who require  cosmetic surgery because of  bodily defects that may have occurred during birth or an accident. We today are going down the road of me,me,me and sadly this is even applying to many of our parliamentary leaders and their partners, from all parties. You can see them on Come Dancing, Nancy Dell'Olio demanding an extra two iches on her stilettos, personally I hope she brakes an ankle becaus of it. The sad part would be that she would probably sue the BBC and if she won it would be my money that would help pay the damages because of her vanity and stupidity, and she is a lawyer, but obviously not one with much common sense.  Then we have the  X-Factore with mostly talentless people and all the other programmes that are turning this country into a population of brain dead people, or is that what the leaders want, because they do not want the population asking the more serious questions such as why are utility prices allowed to rise at the extent that they are, why are food prices escalating, why are  fuel costs going up faster that what it is on the world markets. Pensions benefits are decreasing. The average pension pot is in the region of £30,000, but the wealthiest pensions pots are now worth on average £500,000. Things are being increased not because of shortages but because of greed by certain organisations and people, but sadly our leaders walk in the same shoes as these people. It is truly time for the people of this country to waken up, because all that is facing you is penury, but by the time you come to your senses and realise it and start to complain those who got us into this debacle will be living it up on their multimillion pound yachts, or living on some exotic island away from it all and all  at your expense.        

Britain an Island of What?

Britain once knew where it stood in the world, we have politicians who still think that we are a world power and yet we can't run our own institutions>We have parents who don't send their children to school for whatever reason schools can apply to the courts to have the parents fined£50 if they don't send them this amount can be raised to £100 if they fail to pay within 42 days if they still refuse to pay it can be raised to £2000 and they can be sent to jail These institutions that are already at bursting point. Many parents refuse to pay and the courts are reluctant to send them to jail so they get off scot free. Weak laws carried out by weak government. Now there is talk about stopping their child benefits of £20.30 per week for the first, and £13.40 for the other children. Again a sop because nothing will come from these proposals. Why because of weak government, that has lost control Now we have talk about removing children from families where the parents are obese and so are their children.These children will be put into care and may never see their real parents again another idiotic proposal from a government that doesn't know how to handle the problem of obesity that is affecting a growing number of the population. Poor diet and junk food is one of the reasons. This may be true in part but who can afford to eat at McDonald's a couple of times a week? And as food prices increase this problem will only get worse.As poorer families suffer. But the biggest insanity of this country must be the report of a Para who lost both his legs and suffered brain damage in a road side bomb attack who was told that his compensation of one million pounds has been capped at just half that amount. Yet an RAF typist who suffered a repetitive strain to her thumb is set to receive £484,000. How these people can come up with an amount of compensation of that magnitude just beggars belief. But sadly this is how this country is now being managed. Is it any wonder that we are becoming the laughing stock of the world. The bigger the law breaker you are, the people who flout the law are not made to pay, but a man who served his country will suffer because of some brain dead bureaucrat who will save a few pounds on cutting his compensation but gives away millions to the scroungers and scum of the country. A country fit for heroes, the name hero should be replaced  with the words dead beat and scum. And that's being polite.The more we read about these atrocities with our monies the people of this country should rise up and tell their members of parliament that enough is enough. But sadly they or most of them have their noses in the trough that also covers their ears making them deaf to the real problems that are affecting the average honest hard working people of this once proud country.

Abortions

Whether you believe in abortions or not, it has to be to the detriment of the counrty that Britain has the worst record on abortions in the Western world and certainlt in Europe. Yet we spend millins of pounds of tax payers money on sex education and free contraception, yet we still have the highest numbers of children born to young mothers and not all out out of wedlock, even though conception in marrage is an old fashion concept. If we spend all this money on sex education and free contraception why have we the highest numbers of abortion in the western world? It's the womans right to decide, without consulting the father who may want the child, we are being told, or its a to easy  easy way to get rid of an unwanted child,  it doesn't matter what the reason. Then we again have the  so called experts who say that these women who have abortions will face long term mental problems in the future, it can't be guilt because many of these women have more than one abortion so it can't be because of a one night stand mistake. In 2010 there were 189,574 abortions these can't all be because of a one night stands or a drunken evening. These are mainly due to women and men who can't be bothered to take precautions. It doesn't matter what the statistics are, it is due to a lack or morals from a society that couldn't care less so long as the individual is ok. Lack of moral judgement in a society that is now governed by greed and self. The youth of today have little guidence from the leaders of todays society, many are our members of parliament or their wives  who scramble to get what they can an indulge and bath in the limelight of celebraty.

As I see it.

We are going to have the latest revelations next week from Alistar Darling the former chancellor. This in just a long line of past members of Tony Blair's, and Gordon Browns  governments. These people who are now out of government then  publish their memoirs,  telling  us how it was in cabinet. It would seem that they spent most of their time writing  for the day they were ousted. Their views are so contradictory to those of the other members of the cabinet it must make people wonder if they were all sitting at the same meetings. With the back stabbing, the snide remarks, and innuendos that went on it must make the average member of the public wonder how the country was run. Well we all know that without the revelations from these people, bloody badly. The one thing that does come out from all these peoples memoirs is that can you trust any of them to tell the truth, again the answer to that is no. But the really sad part is that these people who left the country in a financial mess receive hundreds of thousands of pounds, some times even running into millions of pounds for their memoirs even before they have sold a copy, and some go on lecture tours spouting their memories and speeches to the gullible foreign public when we got their lies for nothing, over thirteen or so years..