Can public opinion change laws

 

Statistics show that there are now three million drug users in the country, and people are saying that the drug war is being lost and these same people are now demanding that the possession of drugs should no longer be a criminal offence. Isn't this the tail wagging the dog. Will parliament succumb to the will of these people? Perhaps, because many of our members of parliament have themselves done  or are doing drugs. We see and hear from people who say that drug use is not just the lower class but prominent people such as judges, bankers, lawyers, and many more in the professions. Perhaps we should have a referendum on the subject then the law abiding citizens can have their say, because I'm quite sure that the people who make and pass our laws are themselves in many cases biased. If these law breakers can change the law, then perhaps we should listen to the motorists. If there are again according to statistics two and a half million motorists who drive without tax and insurance, then this tail should also be allowed to wag that dog, and the law abiding citizen should have their voices heard under the same context. If the police can't catch this growing number of law breakers, then do away with the tax and insurance for all motorists, and let the police concentrate on more serious offences. But as a none drug using law abiding citizen I'm probably whistling in the wind.

Police commissioners

 

It would now seem that the election of police commissioners to replace watch committees  was a mistake as 16 of the 41 have elected cronies or close friends on salaries ranging from £45,000 to £64,000. In Northampsonshire  the conservative elected commissioner has elected 17 staff including four assistant commissioners. He is also planing three new offices each with staff of under ten to help fight drug crime. Other commissioners on salaries of £75,000 have also elected friends and people with no experience, many of these positions were not advertised. This at a time when police forces are having their budgets reduced or capped. Many of these forces have been told to find savings of £2.4 billion by 2015, yet these deputies salaries will be in the region of £458,000, again this at a time when police officers are being made redundant. This just goes to show that these elected officials have not got their priorities correct. These salaries will come out of their police budgets. Again this goes to show that these people were thinking only about themselves when the put themselves forward not the job. This at a time when less that 20% of the population voted. If these people were elected to keep an eye on the police then who as Juvenal said  "quis custodiet ipsos custodes" who will guard the guards themselves There is one thing for sure these elected people are basically corrupt and  more appropriately today as it is sometimes translated into,"who watches the watchmen."

Emission cuts

The Unite Nations Climate Change Conference delegates arrives in Doha, Qatar today to discuss emission targets. This in my opinion is a complete insult to the people of the world. 17,000 people from 194 countries will descend on Doha for five days. One has to ask certain questions about the hypocrisy of this organisation? Why do we need 17,000 people this works out at 87 delegates from each country why? How many plane, were required to fly these people into Doha? What amount of CO2 have they put into the atmosphere every year when they have these meeting at these exotic locations, they could hold these meetings at the United Nations Headquarters in America. How many of these delegates are just there for the holiday as they will do nothing, no talking or taking notes. Again this is just holidays for the boys and girls because as usual there will be no solution just idle chatter. These people do not lead by example they cause more pollution per person than the average citizen of the world does.  

Self publisist

First we had Louise Mensch who used her seat in  parliament to improve her appeal to the public at large, now we have Nadine Dorries who has flown to Australia to compete in I'm a Celebrity Get Me out Of Here, without informing her constituency or the Tory Party. She has had the whip withdrawn. But hopefully she will be dismissed from parliament as an MP. People like her are only after one thing apart from building up their bank balance is for self publicity. As an MP her first duty is to her constituency, but its quite obvious that they are the last people she is thinking about. If all goes well with her she could be there for a month, with luck she will be voted off first. Then when she returns she will have to face her constituency party and the conservative party. With luck she should be sacked, by parliament  This has to be done because if not more MP's may decide to take time off from  their parliamentary duties to increase their self interests. We are now getting MP's who are using their parliamentary positions to appear on game and celebrity shows. This has to stop for MP's who are in parliament, once they have left they can do what they want. If the public want to put up with their silly antics then so be it. 

EU Budget

The European commission wants the budget for the next seven years 2014 to 2020 increased, Britain's contributed would increase by £1.9 billion this at a time when most of the European countries, Spain, Italy, Greece, Portuga,l and the others have imposed strict targets on their own population. This just goes to show how out of touch the leaders of Europe are. But we get a silly bitch minister from Poland  Elzbieta Bienkowska saying that Britain was  the biggest roadblock to the timely conclusion of negotiations over the budget. She says that Britain is the only country saying No. This from a country that isn't a net contributor like Britain but one of the largest net benefactors. If Poland was a net contributor then perhaps she would not be saying such things. Its like you and I putting our hard earned money into a bank only to have some irresponsible person being able to withdraw our money. The EU budget is nearly £1 trillion and increasing, whilst people throughout Europe are loosing their jobs not one person working for the European Government has lost there job. Many of these, at least 4,000 are earning £86,000 a year. whilst many in Europe are without jobs and are likely not to get jobs whilst this economic situation persists, and with people in power like these many of them unelected and not answerable to the people of Europe. This really is an organisation that is only for the elite few.  

Gary McKinnon

 

Gary McKinnon was guilty of hacking into the Pentagon's computers and causing millions of pounds worth of damage. Teresa Mays refusal to extradite him to America has opened the flood gates to other criminals pleading that if they are sent to  jail even in this country could affect their mental health and that they may commit suicide. This again goes to show that if you are a criminal of any calibre just plead under the Human Right Act and you may literally get away with murder. He claimed that he suffered from  aspurges syndrome  that was diagnosed six years after his offence yet we've just extradited an alleged terrorist to America who was diagnosed with the same complaint. Will we be asking for his return? 

do or decline

 

Cameron says that Britain has to sink or swim or do or decline if we do not change our ways. When we had industrial actions in the seventies and eighties we were the sick man of Europe, but workers changed and there has been very little industrial action these days. The country is in a state not because of the unions or the work force but because of poor management at government level over the past thirty or so years. The financial services have got us into this mess, bosses who have with the governments connivance have sold the crown jewels. Businesses have moved to other countries where they can pay the workers pittance wages but make profits for themselves.Osborne has said that he will rewrite employment laws to allow bosses to offer jobs without work place rights in return for shares in the company. Does this just go how out of touch people like him are. Who in their right mind would agree to this. You sign up for how many shares per employee tens, hundred, or thousands, of shares the average employee would only receive tens of shares. He agrees and within weeks he could be dismissed with no come back. Again why would people agree to such things when the people economists talk about the country growing  by a certain percent year on year. Then we have the International Monetary Fund saying that the country's economy will contract by 0.4% this year. The bottom line is that these economist know absolutely nothing they haven't got the foggiest idea they see a number passing by and grab it. The big problem is that Britain has let to many jobs go abroad to third world countries, that is for the benefit of a minority of rich people who have their greedy fingers in the pie. You have only to look at the debacle over building a third runway at Heathrow or the talk about the Wests high speed rail link, The government dithers on these major projects not for weeks but years and as they dither, the cost escalate till they then say that it is no longer viable. But if you really want to see what trouble the country is in you have only to look at the energy situation. We are closing down coal fired power station from March 2013 ahead of the proposed time frame, what have we got to replace them nothing and don't think that wind turbines will provide the energy the country needs. By 2020 this country will be plunged into long periods of darkness with no electricity, and God help us if we get severe winters with power cuts. Hundreds of people will die. We have to build power stations today not talking about it. We led the world on Nuclear power,now we cant build them we have to employ foreign companies possible from China and Russia. We led the world on rail transport. Today we have eighty miles of so called high speed track whilst countries like France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan have thousands of miles of track. So the problem for Britain's decline isn't the workers of this once proud country its the incompetent people in power now and over the past  thirty years that have got us into this sad state. 

 

 

 

 

 

Pay them More

With the rail fiasco going to cost the beleaguered tax payer an estimated  £300 million that they will see nothing for this money. Three people who dealt with the bid have been suspended and we have a prat called Sir Gus O'Donnell former cabinet secretary who says that these people shouldn't have been suspended and that they and others should be paid more, this again at a time of austerity, but he's been one among thousands that are and have been grossly overpaid and are totally out of touch with the real world. Yes there are ministers like Justine Greening that should be checked out for some one who was totally out of touch and not up to the job, but what happens she is moved to another ministry. Will we never learn jobs for  the boys and girls who fail. In the real world they would have been sacked for gross incompetence and the loss of this amount of money. But not to bother its not their money is again the beleaguered tax payers.

Not fit for purpose

Today we see that the government is doing a u-turn on the rail franchise that was awarded to First Rail having won it fair and square. Now we see that there was an error in the way it was awarded. Three government "experts" have been suspended over this, perhaps the country would have more confidence if these people had been sacked for gross incompetence, but will it be an attempt to cover up this governments incompetence. Then we have the Afghan interpreter who was told after 14 months that he was not going to be allowed to stay in the country because the Border Agency said amongst other things that his English was to good, yet this agency allowed thousands of people into the country that will do nothing but bleed this country dry. We accept the scum of the world yet people who have served this country and put their lives in danger are turned away.Is it any wonder that people in this country do not vote because there is no point in their eyes. I know one thing that as each week passes it becomes more and more clear that this government is not fit for purpose and the quicker it is removed the quicker this country will get back to being a country fit to live in.

Austerity for who?

We continue to hear how austerity is going to get worse in the coming years for the average citizen of this country. Benefits are going to be cut for the poorest in our society, the middle classes are being asked to give up their child benefits earlier if there is someone in the household who earns more than £50,000 a year, and I'm quite sure that there are certain families in that wage bracket and above who might very well agree. Yet the biggest problem facing HMRC is what is becoming known as The Monaco Problem. That is the people who claim to be British citizens yet live and run businesses from this principality that the HMRC say is costing the exchequer  £1 billion annually in lost revenue.The people in authority say that they are going to put an end to this. These people are business people and well known celebrates in the music industry, Formular one racing, many of these people are donors to the Conservative and Labour Parties. So no matter how much the HMRC say that they are going to pursue these people, with the majority of them  drinking and urinating in the same cup as many of our political elite. So no matter what Cameron and Osborne say  these people will not be brought to book to pay their share of income tax that the HMRC say they are avoiding.  Its never going to happen. So people of Britain keep tightening your belts because you are going to be the ones to suffer for years to come whilst these others sun themselves in Monaco.One has to ask where is Tony Blair these days, and how long before other prominant members of this Parliament end up living in Monaco. Of course it will be purely  for the weather.

Crime and Punishment

With the tragic murder of two female officers in Manchester, there are some people who are calling for all  police officers to be armed, thankfully the police rank and file have dismissed this with an overwhelming vote of 82% of officers opposed to it. Then there are the people who call for the reintroduction of capital punishment some thing that I would support although I know that this will never happen. The really tragic thing is that if the culprit of this crime is found guilty will he be sent to jail for the rest of his life. The killer Harry Roberts who along with two other accomplices in 1966 murdered  officers David Wombwell, Geoffrey Fox and Christopher Head, received a life sentence today he is rightly so still in jail, yet there are people who have called for him to be released. There are so called experts who say that jail is not a deterrent because eight out of ten prisoners return to jail after committing further crimes. These are the same experts who say that murder has decrease over the past forty years. This I believe is incorrect. Why because over that period of time we have re-assessed or categorised murder with many so called murders being reduced to manslaughter. I now believe that such crimes should be re-categorised as some one who has died a death at the hands of others be it by stabbing, shooting, strangling, suffocating, or being mowed down deliberately by a motor vehicle. But more importantly these so called experts have to be asked why prison fails? Could the truth be that people return to jail because they receive a nice warm bed, three meals a day, televisions in their cells along with access to computers etc. If prison was a dark dank cell without all these amenities then there would not be many criminals wanting to return to prison, possible only the real hard cases These people are sent to prison as a punishment for the crimes they have committed against law abiding citizens. Today we have to many bleeding hearts who say that these people have to be reeducated I fully agree with that but not from a nice warm prison.    

Cameron Man or Mouse.

So Tim Yeo MP wants to know if Cameron is a man or a mouse, well most people already know the  answer to that question. Hes always saying that Britain is open for business, when the truth is far from that. We, the country  need a third runway at Heathrow, but he says that because it wasn't in the manifesto that he  will not build one, even though business opportunities from the emerging markets are  going to France and Germany. Twice as many flights leave Frankfort airport than Heathrow for China each week. 500,000  Chinese visitors visit France, whilst 700,000 visited Germany, how many came to Britain over a similar period 150,000. Brazilian companies invested $800 million in France whilst only $1.7 million in Britain., so who is the trying to convince when he says Britain is open for business? The truth is that Cameron is scared of upsetting his 11 conservative MP's who have constituencies in or around London that are under the glide path for Heathrow. These MP's such as Justine Greening the so called transport secretary are more bothered about their jobs than the country. The same applies to these wealthy people who do not want their landscape blighted or their homes invaded by the proposed route for the HS2 train. These same people never thought about the people who's homes were demolished to make way for the motorways that they now drive on. The country needs an expansion to Heathrow, or business and trade will soon leave this country, or not bother to come here. Likewise we need a high speed rail link from London to Edinburgh., the people who oppose these expansions are only bothered about their own little world I'm all right Jack, so F*** you. How many of these vociferous people who oppose the Heathrow expansion citing noise pollution never thing about it when they fly away from Heathrow on their holidays to America or the Costa Del Sol. When they are on the plane they don't think about the people left behind on the ground. Yes these people are the I'm All Right Jack that are slowly turning this once proud land into a third world banana republic, but one without the bananas. These people don't need to bother though because after spending, or should I say squandering  literally billions of pounds of reports, and enquires, and debates after debates. Heathrow won't have another runway if ever and if it does get the go ahead it will be ten years into the future as with HS2 that will again if it ever gets completed it will be thirty years off. By that time business and trade will have left for greener pastures leaving Britain a wilderness with buildings and infrastructures that were built in the Victorian age as the rest of Europe and the world move towards the twenty second century. 

       

Prince Harry Photos and security.

Prince Harry might have been on a break but questions have to be asked about his thinking? This man is third in line to the throne, some people are saying that he was an unwitting victim, that's not correct, he's a 27 year old man and must have known when he took his clothes off that there would have been people in the room, an alleged ten  males and fifteen women. How many of these were friends and how many were gate crashers, or hangers on? Reports say that he was covering the girl up with his body to protect her modesty, what a load of rubbish why were they naked in the first place? Why did his Royal Protection team not step in and confiscate the peoples phones and check them for this kind of thing, and delete any embarrassing photos.These protection officers are costing the country millions of pounds each year to protect these Royals. Perhaps we need to be getting answers to why they failed to stop this? A few months ago eleven of President Obamas Secret Service Agents checking out security in Colombia before his visit were reported drinking and cavorting with prostitutes, these agents were recalled immediatly to America and repremanded senior ones were dismissed for dereliction of duty, perhaps this should happen to Harry's protection officers. As for his cavorting about he hasn't done the Royals image any credibility but let's hope that Prince Charles has a quiet word with him. But more importantly about the photographs being shown in the Sun Newspaper, we want a free press and if the Royals and othere in these high profile positions don't want their dirty linen washing in the public domain make sure they know who their friends are before  they want to carry on in such a way.  

Can you trust the Tories on anything?

Extended opening hours during the olympics was not going to be carried forward after the Olympics. Mark Prisk told the Commons with equal clarity, "we have no intentions of making the measure a permanent one" This now looks like it could be a lie or just another load of rubbish from this government. Then we have information that Tories like John Selwyn Gummer now Lord Deben with their fingers in the windfarm construction is now the chairman on the committee for climate change, and Tory MP Tom Yeo earns £140,000 a year from his directorship with a green energy company. So these people can't have a neutral view of  rentable energy. Lord Deben was named by David Cameron as the preferred candidate to be the new CCC chairman. It only goes to show how corrupt these people could be when wearing two opposing hats on green energy. Who can trust Cameron's judgment when you look  at the debacle over the friends he has  during the News of the Worlds  fiasco, this certainly brings into the picture that he certainly hasn't got good judgment.

Still the lies continue

Cameron doesn't know how many school playing fields have been sold off. Whilst saying on TV how this country was going to gain more sportsmen etc through schools participating in the Olympic glory he said that only 21 playing fields had been sold off, then it turns out that the figure is 31. This from a prime minister who said that the Olympic games came in under budget. Another fact that he got wrong, just to publicise his ego. Then we read today that his much vaunted statement when in opposition that ministerial cars would be curtailed. "Politicians swanning around in chauffeur driven cars like they are the Royal Family." Tory and Lib-Dem ministers were told that the 24 hour limousine service of old would no longer be. Ministers have now lapsed in their commitment to use public transport, surprise surprise. Again does this not go to show what a lier this prime minister, but more importantly how out of touch he is with reality and the electorate. But more importantly  is the incompetence of this government, the quicker that he is brought back down to earth with a general  election, the better off we will be. Failed policies U-turns how long can he go on thinking that the electorate will continue to put up with it. Britain is failing at every walk of life because of the incompetence throughout these once proud, and competent   institutions.

Britain, Ecuador and Julian Assange.

So Julian Assange has been granted political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy, Britain has threatened to enact a 1987 law that gives Britain the right to to enter the embassy and arrest Assange. This could well be a big mistake if Britain was to do such a thing. Not only would it make us look stupid in the eyes of the free world but it would well fly in the face of international law that are sacrosanct to embassies throughout the world. But more importantly it could affect trade with many South American countries just at a time when Britain is trying to enhance, and strengthen  trade deals with many countries on this continent, and not withstanding the encouragement it would give to the Argentinian government over the Falklands debate. Imperialist Britain using strong arm tactics, would be the cry. Britain's biggest mistake was letting lawyers getting involved in the Assange problem in the first place. Britain should have honoured Sweden's request for his extradition. Never mind about the possibility of him being extradited to America from Sweden on charges of espionage, that would have been Sweden's and Americas problem. If Britain is daft enough to enter the Ecuadorian Embassy and arrest him, will these and other European countries support Britain? I very much doubt it.   

Louise Mensch MP, me,me, me.

Louise Mensch MP has decided that she is standing down as an MP after only two and a half years as one. Her reasons are that she wants to spend more time with her children and her husband of twelve months who works in America where she is now going to live. This self promoting woman must have known when she put her self forward as a prospective candidate for parliament must have known that there were long hours not a nine to five job, and as it turned out she wasn't going to stand again at the 2015 election so one has to wonder why she was only going for one period. Was it to get her snout in the trough for self importance, and contacts? Again she has whinged that long hours have not allowed her time for her children. How many women keep more than two jobs involving long hours away from their children just to keep them fed and clothed. Whilst on the Select committee into the James Murdoch hearing she left 45 minutes early so that she could pick up her children from school, although she had the money to employ a nanny, or a minder to do this. How would it look if female judges halted trials because they or the female barristers wanted to pick their children up from school, how could schools run if teachers did the same. When Parliament closes down for the summer recess, she has 12 weeks when the rest of the working population gets only two weeks summer brake. There are some people that applaud her personally, I hope that we don't see or hear from this woman ever again. She has done nothing to further the cause of women in the work place. With an attitude like hers would any business man worth his salt employ a woman over a man in today's economical climate. A young woman that might get pregnant and want her statutory maternity leave, or a middle aged woman that might want time off to look after her grandchildren. Big government departments might afford to employ these woman because at the end of the day its the tax payer that will be footing the bill, but in a small business its the struggling owner that has to find the money.   

We only think about ourselves first

After the debacle over MP's expenses now we have them having to pay back £230,000 in dodged tax, and again we come up with the usual excuses. Many have second jobs earning income on top of their parliamentary salaries of £65,738 for backbenchers and £134,565 for a minister. Some work as lawyer, or earn extra income from book deals, newspaper columns and TV appearances. This from members of parliament who are always complaining that they are tired from over work and are under paid. When the real reason for their alleged tiredness and over work is greed.Then we have the audacity of these people in parliament saying that people should stay at home and take their holidays in Britain. The government has spent £3 million on a campaign extolling the virtues of holidaying in Britain.Clegg is off to Spain for a week, before going to his property in France. Hammond is off to Spain, and Miliband is off to a Greek island for two weeks. Harriet Harman the shadow culture secretary is heading off to France missing most of the Olympic games. Cameron is spending a few days in Cornwall, before yes you've guessed it he's off to Europe with his family. These people are the epitamy of hypocrisy when they keep telling us that we are going through austere times, the vast majority of the public might be but our so called leaders are not practising what they are always preaching. Is it any wonder that the British public are getting more and more disillusioned with out political masters. Now we have Cameron shelving the Lords review prompted by the Liberal Democrats because a number of backbenchers said that they would not support the Liberal Democrats proposals for change, so Clegg says that the Liberal Democrats will not support the Conservatives proposals for boundary changes.  These from people who are supposed to be representing the people of this country, they are all acting like babies who are now taking their balls home. Is it any wonder that this once great country is now heading down the league of greatness. Perhaps we would do better if these members of parliament and ministers stayed away from the country permanently. 

Ashamed to call yourself British?

What is this country coming to, we have the Olympic games that was going to show case Britain at its best, according to Lord Coe. Then we have the venues with empty seats because they have been acquired by the corporate sponsors, so we are going to fill these empty seats with soldiers and teachers and school children. What message does that send out to the people who have in some cases spent thousands of pounds on tickets to see these empty seats been given away. Although they will have been paid for by the sponsors, but again so much for the vaunted "The Peoples Games" that Coe was on about. Then we had the debacle over G4S and the security fiasco, now we have lost keys to the Olympic stadium although we are being told that this has been fixed and security was not compromised. Now we have Border Force having staff replaced only weeks after we spent £42 million of tax payers money making people redundant because they were surplus to requirements. This after 450 staff were made redundant to meet governments spending cuts. Now it will cost more recruiting new staff,to fill these vacancies, that didn't require it in the first place if the people in authority had been doing their jobs properly, but   its tax payers money  we just give away £42 million as though it was nothing. But away from these fiasco's we have Durham county council saying that binmen have no longer to take the bins from 287 homes many of them pensioners because the wheelie bins have to be dragged down alleys and they may hurt their backs, because they may have to adopt "awkward positions" and could suffer muscular injuries wheeling the bins to the  front of  the houses, but its OK for pensioners to suffer these possible hypothetical injuries. Will these house holders have monies taken from  their community charge bills? I very much doubt it. The sad part is that if these binmen are not up to the job of wheeling a bin without hurting themselves then they shouldn't be doing the job. Whats in today's wheelie bins? Cans and bottles are put in separate containers, cardboard and paper are in different bags or containers, perhaps household food waste is put in the wheelie bins. Long gone are the days when the binmen had to lug a large metal bin onto their backs that contained tins, glass bottles, cardboard paper but they also had the ashes from the fire grates, and carry it down the backs before heaving the contents into the lorry and this in all weathers, with ash blowing into their faces on windy days. These were truly binmen who had the strength to do a job that today Durhams pensioners and old ladies are being asked to do. Is it any wonder that this country is slowly becoming the laughing stock of the civilised world. Cameron said that the Olympic opening ceremony paid respect to this country's heritage that was respected around the world. Today most British people with a sense of this history must only hang their heads in shame so much so that most would say that they are ashamed of today calling themselves British.

   

This country really has become a laughing stock

Its reported that a Fijian Soldier who served 13 years with the British army who is married to a British national with two children has been told that he must leave the country by 9 August because he fought with another soldier in 2010 that he was disciplined for has been told that he now has a criminal record. Yet we have a Taliban soldier who may have killed British soldiers and raped a 12 year old girl in this country can't be deported because it infringes his human rights. Then we have an Albanian robber who sneaked back into Britain to commit more crimes can stay because -yes you guessed- to protect his human rights. This man was found guilty of robbery in 2005 and was jailed for four years then offered a £750 payment to go home when he finished his sentence, but he smuggled himself back into the country living illegally here for years. What does this say about British justice, and the Border Agency, that is  supposed to protect our borders another cock up that occurs more and more. This they said was a country fit for heroes but the truth is that it is a country is now a country that is fit and welcoming for criminals and the scum of the earth. How long do the British people have to put up with this government attitude till some body in authority has the back bone to stand up and say enough is enough and take Britain's name off both the European and United Nations Charters on human rights. They may have been two pieces of legislation that Britain helped to draft but this is now being taken out of all context from what they were intended. Again is this because lawyers can make a good living out of it and we have judges who are totally out of touch with reality, and what is going on in the real world. The people in authority have to waken up before its to late and the police and other agencies can no longer cope with the rising crime. This week we had the report that serious crimes such as homicide are on the decline, but I believe that the average law abiding citizen does not believe these figures because there is now to much of people in power doctoring  figures to help their agenda.     

Dairy Farmers protest.

We all like to see cheaper food prices but I do feel a little sorry for the dairy farmers. One lady said that they had worked for 14 years seven days a week and had never made a profit. As they produce more milk the price has been reduced over the years by the super markets, till it has got to a point that they say that they are going out of business. If we lost all dairy farming in this country not only would the milk processors close down but we would have to import milk from abroad, so common sense says that we pay the farmers an honest amount for their milk or as consumers we will pay a lot more if it's imported not to mention the numbers of people who would be joining the unemployment register. 

Military buying is set to be privatised.

Its reported that Britain has moved a set closer to privatising the multimillion pound arm of government that buys and maintains all military kit. We may get excuses from Philip Hammond that private companies could save the tax payer millions of pounds in procurement but again is this just another kind of PFI that is good for big companies to cream off moneys for their share holders or the rich people who invest in such companies. We have seen how millions of pounds has been wasted with the PFI of fire stations and hospitals that are going bankrupt due to them being unable to meet their financial obligations, this again is tax payers money. The MoD over the years has made drastic errors in the equipment that it has ordered. Equipment that they decided that the military needed, contracts that have over run due to their incompetence not the manufacturing industry. We have seen the debacle over the Olympic games security that has fallen well short of what was required. The company G4S said that it was still taking its fee of around £57 million even though it had failed. The government said that it had contingency plans for such things happening. If that is correct then why wasn't this money paid for more police and army personnel to guard the games in the first place. A police spokes person said that if the £480 million paid to G4S had been spent on the police they could have hired another 15,000 officers for at least a year. In the late 1950's and early 60's the manufacturer of Bristol Bloodhound missile that was a successful project, was told by the government audit office  that Ferranti had made far large profits that  projected from the Bloodhound contract. Ferranti Chairman Sebastian de Ferranti agreed to pay back $4.25 million to the government in 1964. He was also told that if he didn't pay back the money they would not be allowed to bid for any more government contracts. Perhaps if this kind of audit was carried out today then many of these procurement contracts would not be in the mess that many of them have been in squandering money and long over runs, that have in some cases such as Nimrod have ended up with the public seeing nothing for the billions of pounds of their money. Putting contracts out to private companies will only result in more public money going into the pockets of a few well connected people. Once again its corrupt people at the top making sure that their fingers are in the greedy pie.

Olympic fiasco

Once again Britain can't get it right. The Olympic organisation for this event has been going on for about the past seven years, yet literally days before the big event we are finding that ticket sales are not sold out as Lord Coe said they were.The peoples games as he was always saying to the media, these games are for the people of Britain, yet people who bid for tickets originally were told that they had missed out due to the great demand, yet weeks late these "sold out events"  tickets were again on sale for these events. Now we are being told that there are about 400,000 tickets for some events that haven't been sold. But the biggest catastrophy must be G4S the company that bid for the security of the games. They now admit that they may not be able to provide the security that is needed, so more police and military personnel are being drafted in to fill this short fall.. Yet we have Teresa May and Jeremy Hunt saying that, we the government, have a back up plan in case of such a thing happening. If they have a back up plan why didnt we give the security for the games to the police and military in the first place, instead out outsorcing it to a company that bid for the contract for a reported £480 million of tax payers money. It was also reported that G4S would make a profit of around £53 million.as it now turns out they could loose about £50 million. If the police/military had been allowed to run the security then the tax payer could have saved £480 million. But again one has to ask why was a company, all be it the largest security company in the world earning billions of pounds fail. Why was the contract given to G4S unless there were people in positions of authority be they on the LOCOG or in the government? Does this again go to show how utterly incompetent these people at the top are? After all this so caled organisation and training, we has some atheletes being taken from Heathrow to the Olympic village a distance of 25 miles being on the coach for four hours because the driver wasn't sure how to get there. Wouldn't you have thought that the coach company would have had practice runs and employed drivers who knew the area? Again this just goes to show how Britain is sliding down the road of incompetence. The likes of May, Hunt, and Coe should all resign on the grounds of complete incompetence. They are the people especially Coe who are always saying that these games will show Britain at its best. They may believe this bullshit, and the only people they are fooling are themselves. The people of Britain are a lot smarter than than that.  You have only to open a newspaper today to see how incompetent these people leading our society are, the so called the great and the good, who pay themselves large salariesand at the end of the day also expect honours. I wouldn't trust  these people in authority to run a church fetes  tombola.

Corrupt NHS bosses

Nineteen NHS bosses have written a report suggesting terminating all staff contracts for over 60,000 doctors and nurses and re offering them contracts on different terms and conditions, with cuts of  up to 5%. Ending overtime and weekend, and bank holiday payments, and reducing the number of annual holidays. These kind of things are not acceptable to any worker no matter what their jobs are. The one thing that baffles me is why these so called nineteen NHS bosses don't lead by example and cut their salaries, by a similar amount, or even more especially as they are running some of these hospitals that they are in charge off into the ground with poor quality and undermining the hard working staff, so that morals are at an all time low. Again doesn't this just go to show how arrogant and out of touch they are as they sit in their ivory towers immune from the day to day workings of what these people have to endure. 

Britain a failed country

 Britain has become a failed country because of the corrupt institutions. The banks let us down, parliament is now more bothered about a shorter working week. Women MP's are now moaning about wanting nights off from the commons because they are tired and it will give them more time off with their families. What a shame, they knew the working hours when they took the job on as an MP knowing that it wasn't a forty hour a week job. As an American president said if you cant stand the heat stay out of the kitchen, as for these women MP's stay out of the commons and get back into the kitchen. We have speed humps being taken up so that Olympic officials can have a safe and bump free ride to the Olympic venue, again this is costing the tax payer £50,000 to replace them after the Olympics has ended. Why doesn't the IOC pay for this. Then we have the West Yorkshire Police buying seven cars for senior officers at a cost of £300,000 when the police are cutting jobs, this cost could help to employ another dozen officers. I'm quite sure that senior officers could afford to buy their own cars, on the salaries they are on. But again its showing that people in senior jobs are completely out of touch with the real world. Now we have the election process for police commissioners in certain areas of the country being hijacked by the political parties as they select their members for the positions. Michael Mates has been selected as the conservative candidate for the post of PCC in Hampshire at 78 years old. He's had is day in the limelight. If people like him are being selected by the main parties what chance has a well qualified and competent person  got of taking on the political institutions that doesn't belong to one of these parties. Now we have certain heads of the HMRC who have connections with companies that are running tax avoidance schemes. They people say that what these people is not illegal, but it smells of double standards with them wearing two hats.Then we have venture capitalist running care homes for children, with costs of an estimated £200,000 per child per year, yet these children are being shunted round the country to find the cheapest care homes whilst these venture capitalists  pocket the money, more profit. Again this is tax payers money going into the pockets of these greedy people. The care and well being of the child is their least consideration. The parties talk about democracy but it is just a con. Once you have put your cross on the ballet paper its the last democratic thing you can do for five, then you get the chance to vote again. With what goes on is it any wonder that the people of this country are getting more and more disillusioned as each year passes. Once there  was a difference between the Conservatives and the Labour party's now they are virtually identical with their policies apart from how the economy is run. Again the economic experts cant agree to anything that is put forward  so if these so called experts cant agree what chance has the average man in the street got of choosing who's policy  is right or wrong. You might as well close your eyes when voting and hope that your cross is at least in one of the boxes. Or do you just destroy your ballot paper as a protest. The sad thing in doing that is that you are still left with a party governing the country that you may not want, but are the opposition any better?  The old saying that you get what you pay for but sadly we are not even getting that today we are getting a political clique that is getting richer as it gets corrupter. Come back Guy Fawkes all is forgiven should be the cry from the tax paying masses.

Who has Alzheimer

We are being told that Alzheimer is on the increase and that over the next 30 years it could affect  one million people in this country alone suffering from it. These so called experts haven't taken into account the numbers of politicians, bankers, and other people high up in the establishments. Thousands of these people are on the edge of this debilitating  disease. Alzheimer causes amongst other things memory loss. Something that our politicians, etc  now suffer from." I don't recall that meeting or phone call" they say when asked what went on at meeting or other dubious phone calls, they have received when doing something that is a little dodgy. In their cases its called Collective Amnesia, and it seems to be a  growing disease suffered by the so called elite in our society today, that has already reached epidemic proportions that is now overtaking Alzheimer's. 

Does the leadership in this country know where its going.

This once proud country now seem to be in decline, we once had the best educational system in the world, not any more. We had the finest NHS system in the world not any more. We had the finest military in the world, probably the best banking system in the world, not any more. What we were once respected for the world over is now becoming a laughing stock in the world. The people in power still think like this because they are out of touch with the real world but more importantly the are both morally and politically corrupt. Greed is now ruling this country as never before. People are not after bashing the rich but are after getting them to pay what is correct. But whilst they try to find off shore places to put their wealth then flaunt it in the faces of the public who are struggling to pay their bills due to inflation and the banking fiasco which was caused  through no fault of theirs. The criminally rich get richer and richer and we get the likes of Cameron saying that he and the government  are going to sort it out when they are one of the reasons that we are going through  this disaster. You have only to watch them on Newsnight and Question Time and all they do is blame each other. When one of them comes up with facts the opposition will say "that's not correct."  At the end of the day who is the public to believe. We have Cameron saying that he is going to have a referendum on Europe, but perhaps not yet perhaps he means  some times never. Nigel Farage hit the nail on the head when he said that when he was in a voting booth putting a cross on a ballet paper, then he would believe Cameron. . What this country is more people in power like Nigel Farage, love him or hate him at least he seems to tell the truth. Some thing that our leaders in all parties seem to be lacking as they push their own agendas. 

How many enquires can the country stand

It seems that we are unindated with corruption and complaining from the top people, again from  the so called the great and the good.Camerons crony knew about the U-turn on petrol a week before his cabinet. A close and long standing friend Lord Feldman.who has also had dealings with a death tax dodges for the Tories. We have NHS bosses on up to £2000 a day when we have nurses loosing their jobs when hospitals are running up debts in the millions yet we can find the money to pay these obscens salaries to many of these people who have got the hospitals into this debt sisuation. Now we have got MP's saying that they want a four day week no working in parliament on Fridays. The average MP spends 30 to 37 hours a week in parliament and the rest of their time up to 40 hours a week in their constituances. Now this may all be well and good, but how many of these MP's also find time to do other work outside their duties as an MP? Barristers QC's etc.I have long since said that MP's should have no other kind of work when they stand for parliament. Its be an MP and give up your other proffession or continue with your proffessional work and dont stand for parliament. We want people who are committed full time to being an MP. If they did this then perhaps they wouldnt be so tired as many are complaining about. But again is this just people who are greedy in a different way from traders in the financial markets. We see that four traders have been sacked by RBS for financial irregularaties,and its just being announced that the chairman of Barclays Marcus Agius has resigned, again all well and good but will he have also had his contract paid in full?  But we need to see a few top heads role. But will these traders who have been sacked now complain that they have been sacked without a hearing and claim wrongfull dismissal and end up claming hundreds of thousands in compensation.We hear people saying that over the financial problems we need a Leveson type enquiry. It now seem that every time that there is a problem, phone hacking, media corruption,  People call for an enquiry perhaps it time that people took responsibility for their actions and resigned, and save us all a problem. These top people should remember that they are paid big bucks and just like the captain of a ship when things go wrong the captain is solely responsible for the actions of the people below him.

Who can we belive

The fuel u-turn is going to cost the treasury £550 million yet we were being told that to cancel the three pence increase was going to cost £1.5 billion to implement. Now with the sweep of a magical pen the government has removed £1 billion from the original estimate. Who can the people believe? The cost to implement the carriers for the navy with a cat and trap system was going to cost £2 billion even though the American admiral in charge of procurement  said that it would cost about £850 million nowhere near the MoD's estimate. So who in Whitehall or the Mod or in the Treaury knows what they are doing. Do these estimates, from these department come from ministers by just plucking a figure out of the sky to suit their agenda? Its now time that these government departments were told to explain how they arrived at such figures, when the truth is that they haven't got a viable honest explanation. Its not just one or two mistakes every time they come up with a figure it is either up graded or down graded within days and then we get government speak,as to why this happened, when the truth is that most of these government mandrins are blatant liers. 

Cameron just a born liar.

When Cameron was in opposition he said that he was going to make a bonfire of the quangos, he was going to save the country £2.6 billion. He was going to axe 262 of them. It emerged earlier that to axe them would cost £830 million double the amount first predicted. Yet he has created another 150 of them and taken on 4,500 bureaucrats since 2010., and you can bet that these are not £6.08 an hour salaries. Once again this man is all talk and no substance. Tax on Caravans tax on pasties a 3 pence increase on petrol in August. They were going to deal with the corruption at the top, people who avoid paying their fair share of income tax. We are all suffering austerity, he keeps bleating on, the only thing that is constant is his blaming of the previous government yet hes been in power two years now and its getting worse at the bottom but at the top its getting better and his cronies are getting richer and richer.  The people like Lord Mandelson who will have to name his clients who pay him for his consultancy advice. Then we had the likes of Jimmy Carr and the footballers such as Wayne Rooney, Danny Wellbeck, Steve Gerrard, Joe Hart and past footballers such as Gary Lineker, and Terry Venables. Then there are the pop stares such as Gary Barlow. The list of names is endless. All have invested millions in tax havens or tax avoidance schemes,  that result in avoiding paying millions of pounds to the Revenue and Customs. These schemes may not be illegal but are they morally correct. The  sad part is that these people the so called the great and the good in our society rub shoulders with royalty but have no qualms at the first opportunity of accepting the Lordships and Knighthoods the OBE's and MBE's that are bestowed on them, yet if they paid there correct amount of revenue due it could knock two  pence of the basic rate of income tax that would benefit everybody. No body is asking that the super rich should be screwed for more tax just for them to pay their correct tax. These are the people who are living high on the hog. A loaf of bread is the same price to them as to the poor. The really sad part is that as the Revenue and Customs shut  these legal loopholes down the accountants of these people find other ways round them. Perhaps its about time that the  Revenue and Customs employed these accountants because its quite obvious that they are a lot smarter than the accountants who now work for the Revenue and Customs.        

President Hollande a joker

President Hollande of France has called for an international military action in Syria This from a president who is pulling French soldiers out of Afghanistan 12 months ahead of other ISAF forces. Again is this France  saying that its OK for other countries to send their troops in harms way but we'll stop at home. Again this is just like the French to cut and run  as usual. For once the Americans are reluctant to get involved in another conflict. I am sorry for the people in Syria, but it is about time that the United Nations did something positive instead of all this hot rhetoric that it now seems to be the only thing it is capable of.    

Are we now becoming a country of need or greed

The British police force we are always being told is the finest in the world. Yet we have people being released from prison because officers have fixed the evidence to get a conviction or they deliberately misplace evidence or don't pass it on to the defence. Now we see that many of these well paid officers have one or more jobs. This also applies to many fire officers who do other jobs such as window cleaners. Again is this not greed when these police officers and fire officers are compared  to the rest of the public are well paid. We have people today poorly paid that have to do more than one job just to keep bread on the table. Now we have people who who have got the Olympic torches and are selling them from anything from £1000 to £153,000 on E-Bay the person who sold this one said that the money was going to charity, that's all well and good if it is true. Some of these torches have been sold even before the participant has carried out their part in the road show. Is this just people jumping on the band waggon before other people. The Olympic committee must take some of the blame. They said originally that these torches couldn't be sold but returned to the Olympic committee who would reimburse the cost to the torch bearer, but they soon changed their stance. We really are becoming a country of greed. before need.

Wrong snow wrong rain now it's wrong sort of wind

Now I've heard everything. We've had the wrong type of snow that caused havoc on our roads, we had the wrong type of rain to wet the ground and fill the reservoirs we had leaves on the lines that caused delays on the rail networks. Now Damian Green said that flights that were delayed because of the winds was responsible for the crowds at airports, due to late arrivals. Has this freak weather suddenly occurred over the past few weeks. Where did it come from, have changes in wind direction always been with us, or does Damian Green think that the public is that thick to except the incompetence of this government. If Cameron has any sense he'd terminate this ministers employment before he makes a laughing stock of not only this government but the country.

The stench gets worse with each passing day.

Completely out of touch with reality

This government is completely out of touch with reality, both Cameron and Osborne have fathers who have made their fortunes and who have made plenty of this money by investing in off shore tax havens.We have other members of the cabinet whose use of complex financial affairs to help protect their monies whilst the rest of us have to suffer in these so called austere times that they keep jokingly telling us we are all in. Cameron scrapped the Nimrod programme to save money when the programme was coming to fruition. If we couldn't afford the planes at least we could have sold them on and recouped some of the £3 billion cost as it was we got nothing back. Cameron  scrapped the carrier we had and sold off the Harriers at a knocked down price to the Americans after they had been refurbished and up grade at a cost to the British tax payer of over £600 million. These things go to show that they can't handle tax payers money, but know how to look after their own wealth. Now Cameron is saying that ministers have to find a further savings of £16 billion. Perhaps a good place to start to find this amount would be to stop the £10 billion the chancellor has promised to help bail out the Euro. Things like this do go to show how out of touch this cabinet of multi-millionaires really is out of touch with the real world. Never mind the pasty tax

Is this just arrogance

Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman and her family  had got a High Court injunction preventing reporting of their teenage son's drug taking claiming that it would breach the teenagers human rights to privacyy. Mr Justice Tugendat has lifted  the injunction saying that Jonathan's story could act as a warning to others. But more importantly doesn't this just go to show how arrogant these people in the public eye respond when it is their son or daughter that have committed an offence. If this had been allowed could not any person committing a crime complain that it affected their human rights to privacy. and as such their names shouldn't be allowed in the public domain. This is someone who probably has had the best of everything yet cries when he is caught, and sadly his parents who want to live by two laws, one for the man in the street people and one for the people in power. No wonder people are getting disillusioned with the so called political elite.  

Why stand for public office?

People use to stand for public office be it as a local councillor or as the member of parliament because they wanted to do some thing for their community or the country. Now it would seem and especially for those who stand for parliament do it mainly out of self interest. If people want to stand for public office then that should be the only job that they have especially members of parliament. They are always complaining that they do not have enough time, yet they can find time to write newspaper articles or carry on their work as QC. If people stand for parliament this must be their full time job, if they want to carry on working in the city or at another profession then don't stand for parliament. Many people say that we need business people and entrepreneurs. Why would entrepreneurs want to stand, their sole object is to make money. Now there is nothing wrong with that but do these people stand because their sole object is firstly to improve their business contacts, or to add to their circle of acquaintances, before their commitment to the people. There is now a growing concern in certain areas of public life where the public want to know what these people earn. If these people who stood for public office were informed that they would have to give up all other outside connections, how many would bother to stand. We have government ministers that are trying to hide what their wealth is. Most people don't want to know this but they may well want to know what they earn in public life. Boris Johnson earns about £150,000 + as mayor of London but earns over £250,000 a year writing for a national paper. He may well declare what he earns and pays in tax. But all people who stand for public office should do so only when they decide that this is their sole job and can concentrate on that for the good of the peole that they say they want to represent. But in today's greedy world do the public believe that is why these people stand or is it as I believe for their own self monetary advancement.    

Teachers saint or sinners

This week we have the teachers unions meeting, but have the general public any respect for them today. They are in many cases overpaid, they have more holidays than any other worker or profession. Six week periods then at least a  minimum one week off. Once they were held in high esteem but today in many cases they are a collection of an uncouth rabble. A few months ago a report stated that there were between 10-15,000  teachers that were not up to the job. If this report was true and accurate how did these teachers make it through university and teacher training college? But the really sad part and perhaps criminal, is that a growing number of teachers are being paid  to resign and waive the right to challenge their departure at an employment tribunal after a reference agreed with their head teacher. Again isn't this a criminal act with head teachers virtually lying? Then we have the compensation to teachers for accidents ranging from £3,500 to in one case £158,000 paid to a teacher who slipped on a muddy floor. These sums make the pay out to military personnel who have lost limbs in combat a complete mockery. Compensation of £12.6 million has been paid out to members of the NASUWT last year, a rise of 19.7% on the total value of settlements in 2010. Of this £10.8 million was paid out to 807 teachers in so called compensation agreements under which a teacher facing dismissal agrees to resign usually with an agreed reference from the head teacher and compensation. This amounts to an average of almost £13,500. Some teachers have been paid because a whiteboard fell on her head she received £11,000 in any other profession or job the person would have rubbed their head and got on with it. A boiling kettle balanced on top of a microwave on top of a filing cabinet was knocked over and the teacher in the staff room sitting  on a chair was awarded £7,000 How long had this set up been going on? and didn't any of these so called educated teachers know that it was unsafe and possible dangerous, but no because basically teachers are thick.They are cosseted in their own little world and don't know what its like in the big wide world that the rest of us live and work in.

Cameron a mistake as leader and Prime Minister

Every time Cameron opens his mouth he puts both feet into it. He talks about new snooping laws yet when the Labour government suggested something like this in 2007 the Tories were completely against it. The usual rhetoric about human rights and everything else. Now he's all for it. This is certainly a prime minister and government and a cabinet that is completely out of touch with the public on nearly every thing  that concerns them. The fuel crisis that they caused because of the fact that  Cameron doesn't know about the average person in the street and why? Because he's never had a proper job. They talk about the NHS being  safe in their hands yet he is ignoring the vast majority of doctors who disagree. Some people say that the NHS  is worth  £100 million if  the private sector gets its hands on it and they will only want the profitable side leaving the state to pick up the non profitable side.Then there is Frances Maude who doesn't know the difference between a petrol can and a Jerry Can, and his assumption that everybody who owns a car has a garage.Then we have Norman Tebbit who has hit the nail on the head when he wrote saying that Cameron is leading a government by chums, he left one letter out the letter P, perhaps he meant to say CHUMPS, which would be nearer the truth..

This government gets worse and worse

This government and this prime minister is completely out of touch with the average person in the street. There is a talk about the oil tanker drivers taking industrial action no matter who is to blame for this dispute. But then that idiot tells people to fill their petrol tanks up when the experts say that you shouldn't drive on a full tank, its un-economical, so how many drivers who never drive on a full tank suddenly fill up? Causing the petrol stations to have massive queues and for the stations to run out, then we have that complete idiot Frances Maude telling drivers to stock pile fuel in their garages with Jerry cans full an offence, never mind it being a fire hazard. A government spokes person said that his comments were a mistaken, didn't he know that a Jerry can contains 20 litres, did he mean a petrol can that holds a gallon, with gaffes like that, is it any wonder we are in trouble as a country. He shouldn't be in government let alone the cabinet. Then we have Andrew Mitchell the International Development Secretary has put his money into a network of privately owned companies that are at the centre of a landmark tax avoidance case. As usual with people like him these schemes may not be illegal but are they morally correct especially as he has said that its a disgrace that anyone should try to perpetrate such a scheme. These people should pay the right amount. George Osborne this week said that tax avoidance was morally repugnant Mr Alexander said ofthat everyone should pay their proper amount  tax. Again these remarks are aimed as the man in the street not the wealthy. Just look at some of the TV biggest names. Jeremy Paxman, Adrian Chiles, Fiona Bruce, Emily Matlis, and some of these people have the cheek to grill people on television about their avoidance of tax through these schemes. Is it any wonder that the people of this country are getting fed up with these hypocritical people, not because they are well off but because they desperately avoid paying their true dues in tax. Again all the hot air from Cameron and his ilk saying that they are going to close these loop holes is just rhetoric when the average honest man in the street knows that nothing will change. The poor end up as always paying for this upper class scum in our society. But they will continue to say that we are all in it together, but that is now wearing thin,. Surely its time for a revolution in this country because we cant trust anybody in the main parties any longer. Greed has certainly become the  God of the wealthy. 

Who can trust Camerons word

Who can trust Cameron's word? He talks about sleaze, open government how we are all in it together, yet he invites his rich friends to 10 Downing Street for supper and drinks It's only when he's caught out through some silly stupid MP talking to the media and is filmed talking about paying to see the prime minister that we really get to see what he's about. Have we forgotten the people he hired for ten Downing Street who were involved in the hacking scandal. Could he be arranging to line his own pocket with jobs once he leaves number ten just like Tony Blair, jobs for the well connected boys. But again he's instigating selling RBS off to Abu Dhabi consortium in the United Arab Emirates. for an amount that is only 26/27 pence a share  when the tax payer put in over £48 billion and said that the tax payer would brake even if the share price rose to 50 pence a share. This from a prime minister and government that criticised Gordon Brown for selling off British gold at $400 an ounce when the price rose to around $1500 an ounce a few months later they ridiculed him asking what he had lost the British people and he's heading down the same path. Again pot, kettle, and black spring to mind. Corruption at every level of this government but so long as he and his rich cronies are OK it's fine. 

A4E and money to burn

Margaret Hodge MP Chair of the Public accounts Committee said that the company A4E should be looked into due to the reports of a possible systemic fraud in its business dealings. She said that the owners of this organisation have turned themselves into multi millionaires taking large bonus and salaries from the £440 million that the government has awarded them for trying to get the unemployed into work in many cases for only a 13 week period. Why do we need private providers to get the unemployed people  into work? Surely these sums of money would be better being given to Job Centre Plus at least all this money would go to where it is required and would not have millions syphoned off into the owners of these  companies private bank accounts. We wont the unemployed putting into full time work not short term work, all this does is demoralise these people when their 13 weeks is up and the are returned to the ranks of the unemployed again. This must in time make these people wonder what is the point. This again only goes to show how out of touch the government is. After the budget 14,000 millionaires will benefit to the tune of £40,000 each is it any wonder that the unemployed who want jobs, the low paid, and perhaps even the so called middle class now see their taxes being given to the better off The Chancellor said that tax avoidance by the wealth as morally repugnant but is it illegal? No but why he says that they will close these loopholes you can bet that their accountants and the likes are finding more loopholes, for them to legally exploit. The point is why we have millionaires in government running the country, things will never change for the vast majority of working people. This government and this parliament is basically corrupt.  

Who can the electorate really trust

Ed Balls says that the chancellor has no readability yet how can we believe him.When he worked for Gordon Brown they took five billion out of the pensions every year and the unions did nothing so that should tell us something. Now we have George Osborne saying that they going to come down like a ton of bricks on the super rich who try to avoid paying their full tax by schemes that their accountants set up. This will never happen because Osborne is one of these super rich, so why would he do something that would damage his wealth? and that of his friends. Then we have Alistair Darling who went along with Gordon Browns schemes. Now hes received a twenty thousand pound pay off for making a speech to Asian bankers nice work if you can get it, this from a man who left us with a debt of over eight hundred billion. So what can he tell us that is of any importance about finance. Now there are reports of tycoon Assem Allan making a donation to the Labour party after meeting with Ed Miliband as he wants labour support to build a multi million pound property development. This meeting between them was made in secret. Now we will be told that there is nothing illegal about this but why are such deals done behind closed doors if it is not illegal? Is it because the likes of our leaders have something to hide as they build up their personnel wealth at the expense of the electorate who put them in these positions of power. We have the likes of Ken Livingstone facing a new query over his charity kickbacks,every day we hear more and stories about such things but as the old saying goes there is no smoke without fire. No matter how often these people say that they have nothing to hide so who do you believe the media in general or the politicians. We know have the prime minister talking about privatising the motorways and roads. Again this will only lead to a more costly programme for the general public We privatised the railways and all its done is increase fares and reduced services in certain areas but its made millions for the owners of the franchises. We have private companies that supply our water, electric, and gas, and these  services are abysmal yet costs increase. We had labours idea about PFI, building plans for schools and hospitals that are now costing the tax payer billions, and will do so for the next two decades at least. If roads are placed in the hands of private organisations the costs will increase with yet again these owners raking in billions but with very little improvement in the infrastructure. The one thing that you can be sure of is that the tax payers of this country will one again be out of pocket as the people who fund this will increase their wealth with very little improvement for  the rest of us.

  

Money money money...

Abba's song was  says money, money, money its a rich mans world, and that is quite true in today's world the sad part is that its not just the rich but the dubious and perhaps corrupt rich in today's society. We see and read about politicians from all parties fiddling their taxes by by funnelling them into tax loopholes that are set up by the rich and influential people in the know. We are always being told that we are all in the austerity bailout together. But more galling are companies such as the BBC that are making people redundant on large and in some cases hundreds of thousands of pounds in pay outs with licence fees money only to rehire these same people into the same jobs that they were made redundant from. The BBC insisted that it was only a few that had been rehired. Of course there is always an excuse, these people are hired on a  freelance

basis, or on part time contracts. As each week passes the media are finding these abuses of tax payers monies more and more, but we keep getting told that these so called anomalies are only a few cases. The great and the good the lords, wealthy business people are now jumping on these band waggons, and when the government say that they are going to look into these loopholes and close them the average man in the street knows that nothing will happen. Because the people who look into these things are themselves doing it, and if they do close a loophole then tell the media that they have carried out what they promised, but  they fail to say that another loophole has been found to circumnavigate  the one they have just closed down. This again only goes to show that that corruption is rife and thriving in Britain today. So who can the British tax payer trust. Sadly the obvious answer is none of them.

Jobs for the boys

Directly elected police commissioners will be allowed to work part time and earn  from £69,000 up to £100,000 a year the depending on the area Home Secretary Theresa May has announced. One again this is a government minister that is either corrupt or completely out of touch with reality. This at a time when the government is cutting police budgets and manpower to save money. Yet many of these elected positions may be going to people like Lord Prescott and former army officer Tim Collins. Others who may stand for election in various parts of the country are Jane Kennedy former Labour minister, Peter Guilfoyle a former Labour MP, Alun Micheal Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth is seeking the job in south Wales, whilst his son Tal is hoping to get the job in North Wales. What qualification do these people have that would entitle them to apply for these positions? That they may have help positions in various government departments or be a member of parliament.  The Senior Salaries Review Body report published last year said the posts were important and needed to attract competent candidates. In the case of Lord Prescott was a  boxing qualifications a required asset. Its not that these candidates may not be up to the jobs but why should these  positions carry such a large salary, especially if in some cases it is a part time position. Again these people already have in most cases a substantial pension, and moneys they probably have from righting their memories. How much money do these people need when the average citizen is struggling to meet basic house hold bills, in many cases due to the incompetence of these people who were in power, when inflation started to escalate. Again this is just high profile positions and jobs for the boys to keep them in the media limelight, so that they can go on chat shows and earn even more money in an even more corrupt society where greed is becoming more blatantly rampant.    

The old lie.....

With the tragic death today of six soldiers we get the defence secretary saying that these soldiers in Afghanistan are fighting to defeat the Taliban and therefore to make the streets of Britain safe from terrorism. If we had better Border Controls and more security on the streets we wouldn't need to be in Afghanistan a country that Britain has been to twice before and we didn't win then. The sad part is that with the death toll now at 404 British service personnel over the past eleven years and even sadder still this figure will rise before we withdraw in 2014. I believe that when Britain and the other ISAF forces who have suffered losses withdraw from Afghanistan, that within 18 months the Taliban will once again gain control of the country. Yet once again the government ministers tell us the old lie. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Things haven't changed since Horace's day or even Wilfred Owens. The lies still go on, and young men will die for a cause that was lost in 2001, but as soldiers they go where they are ordered to even if the politicians are completely wrong in their assessments of world events. As they say its easy to get into a war but a damn site harder to get out. Unlike the first and second world wars Afghanistan and Iraq have and are two conflicts that have both being instigated on lies. Its now time that certain politicians past and present were brought to account to stand for war crimes in the Hague.

How long before Cameron looses the Falklands?

In today's Times Major General Julian Thompson says that the Falklands will be lost if Argentina invaded. If Britain doesn't come to some kind of agreement with the Argentinian government this could very well occur. They have the military capability, with a marine brigade, a parachute regiment and some good special forces, they may not be as good as ours but how would we get ours there? We have a parachute regiment that in many cases the soldiers haven't made jumps because of the lack of aircraft. We have four Typhoons on the Falklands but as Julian Thompson points out all the Argentinians have to do is put the airfield out of use and we are in very serious trouble. We only just managed in 1982 to regain the Falklands after 74 days, with the loss of 255 British soldiers, 20 Harrier aircraft claimed 24 Argentinian planes, these planes flying from a carrier, both items of which we no longer have. Again isn't this just short sightedness on the part of a government and cabinet that have no military experience, or more important an historical knowledge. I'm quite sure that the service chiefs both present and past  warned of this but we have an arrogant and I must say prime minister that is not up to the job. He cut the Nimrod programme as the aircraft were nearly finished. If we couldn't afford them at least we could have possible sold them on and recouped some of the £3 billion instead we got nothing for that outlay. We sold the 82 Harriers to the Americans,( they know a good aircraft and a bargain when they see one). Cameron says that in the event of an invasion of the Falklands by Argentina, Britain has contingency plans. In his case it would be a white flag, because there is no possible way of retaking them. He could threaten to send a nuclear submarine, to do what? Launch a nuclear missile attack on  Buenos Aires, I don't think so. Like most of his plans for the economy, child benefits, income tax proposals, making the banks and the very rich pay more, he no sooner comes out with these proposals than he starts to back pedal on them and has to start to rethink them. He's a prime minister with nothing but rhetoric all bluster but no substance, the quicker he goes the better for the country in more ways than one    

Under this government everything is for sale.

Under this government it would seem that everything is for sale, at a price and the sad thing is that the public don't know all the answers or who the buyers always are. We have the NHS being sold off to people who are setting up private health clinics to cream off the best and profitable parts, the government deny this yet we have the health minister who's wife has her finger in one of the pies. Then we also have Cherie Blair trying to raise £65 million to open up her health clinic so that she can tender for contracts.  If this is not enough we had the security and prisons being sold to private companies such as G4S who a few weeks ago transported a dangerous criminal to court in an ordinary van instead of a secure van with police escort  why to save costs. The sad part is that this prisoner escaped and it was left to the public and police to recapture him again this was the public who had to pay for his recapture whilst G4S didn't spend a penny of their profits to pay to track him down. Now we have two police forces putting to tender for private companies to run certain jobs already done by the police and civilians seconded to the police who  do these jobs already. This is just a pack of lies this tender process could cost between £1.5 to £3.5 billion over a seven year period. The government experts say that putting it out to tender will in the long run save money, but again this is a lie. These private companies that now run parts of the security and prisons and the NHS and in the future the police Say that in the long run it will save the tax payer money and make them more efficient. These statements are lies and only benefit the people in the know who have friends and contacts in government and big business. These organisations that they are buying into are public services. If these organisations get to put their greedy fingers into more pies all it will do is make billions for these companies who's sole object it to make money. The vast profits they make would be better spent improving these services for the good of the public that they say they are helping instead of the minority owners and share holders. This government and this parliament as are many of it's ministers getting corrupter as each week passes. Greed has now seeped into every facet of government. Just look at what the PFI funding scheme is costing the NHS that some hospitals now haven't got the money to pay the interest owed, this money again would be better spent within the NHS not in the pockets of a minority of people who are creaming off the public. If this kind of thing was done by people in the criminal underworld parliament would be screaming for something to be done to catch these criminals. Well the British public know where the real criminals are today. In Parliament.

The true difference in British Class

The true difference in British class was revealed in today's media. Chris Huhne the multimillionaire MP who resigned as a cabinet minister before he stands trial for a motoring offence concerning driving penalty points he was alleged to have received  has applied for the £17,000 tax free severance pay that ministers are entitled to when they are no longer a minister and returned to the backbenches. Was this money intended when they were down graded by the prime minister in a reshuffle of posts not when a minister resigns. Is this not an MP abusing the severance payment scheme? This is shear greed on the multimillionaire part. Then we have the ten refuse collectors in Cleethorpes who found £2,700 in £20 notes and handed it in to the police after months of fruitless investigation no body had come forward to claim the money so it was returned to the employees who found it. Now these refuse collectors have opted to take £150 each and give £600 to the charity Help for Heroes and £600 to Green Futures an environmental organisation based in Grimsby. At a time of great austerity for most working class people  just goes to show the shear greed of people like Chris Huhne, and the charity and honesty of working class people over the rich and in his case greedy people. This is the true face of the British people. Is it any wonder that people are now loosing faith in the government and parliament in particular. If Chris Huhne is found guilty I hope that he receives at least a 3 year custodial sentence, then he will automatically loose his job as an MP or will we see some kind of rule change to protect the likes of him?

Conspiracy or secret corruption

Can we in the public trust any body in authority from the government to the police.We have with the Leveson enquiry things being unearthed that show that people in the police and in public life taking what is known as back handers. But this goes on all the time but the public don't know about it because many of these dealings are behind closed doors We have the likes of Peter Mandelson, Nick Rothschild and Russian Oligarchs meeting at private venues or on the Oligarchs yachts away from the publics gaze. Some of these meetings go back to Holland in 1946 when the Bilderberg organisation was first founded. Again an organisation that meets in private every year at various secret venues away from the publics eyes. If such things are going on with the rich and well connected are they meeting for the benefit of the worlds population or for a minority of rich influential people who are doing things behind closed doors because they are doing things that are for their benefits only the rich getting even richer for themselves. Yet they be making deals that affect the lives of millions of people? Are they doing deals that might involve the distraction of the NHS Nick Clegg said that competition within the NHS is the servant not the master. This is just politicians talk when the people like the Rothschild's, with the connivence of such people as Mandelson and the Blair's who meet behind closed doors are doing things that they are ashamed of or are on the verge of criminality. If they have nothing to hide then they would do these thing in the open.Today the people can't trust anybody in authority, because even jobs and positions that are advertised in the market are fixed. You have only to look at how the vetting for members of parliament is fixed by people who do what the party wants. Anybody who speaks and says what the people want will not get picked to stand. We are all in this together we are being told yet our unelected MEP are demanding a pay increase of 3% whilst thousands of people in Britain and throughout Europe are suffering from pay freezes or no jobs at all and in some cases see their benefits being cut. Yet these rich people are oblivious to the problems. Sadly this now applies to the people that we elect to represent us once in the system forget what they were elected to do. To look out for the people not the in some increasing cases the corrupt rich. How much money do these million and billionaires need to live off???

Oh what a tangled web......

Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practise to deceive. This statement may apply today to many of the so called great and good within our society. We have a prime minister who is pushing through enormous changes to the NHS against many of the people who work in it. Why? We have Andrew Lansley pushing through the agenda as Secretary of State for Health  whilst in opposition accepted £21,000 from John Nash  the chairman of private healthcare provider Care UK and founder of the private equity fund Sovereign Capital which owns several other private healthcare companies. Sally Low his wife has a PR consultancy  that has had dealings with food and drug companies She denies that she or her company has any dealings with the health sector? Then we have a high court judge called Cherie Blair who's company Mee Healthcare is trying to raise  £65 million for a chain of private clinics. This doesn't happen unless you are damn sure that you are going to get something from the NHS reforms.Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham  was moved to ask the Cabinet secretary to investigate another company called McKinsey. But since then he and his colleagues  have been silent because as one Labour source confirmed that they are to aware that when in power Labour also made heavy and extremely expensive use of McKinsey. It would seem that the proposed governments Health and Social Care Bill may be having trouble getting through parliament with over 1000 amendments to it but at the end of the day no matter who  the opponents of it are, there are it would seem to many well placed people from  all parties who are going to come out of it financially richer by millions of pounds and all at the tax payers expense and to the detriment of the patients. Because these companies sole aim is to make money, and if they see trouble they will cut costs to the detriment of the customer ie. the patients, and front line  staff. The trouble is that these healthcare companies are companies within companies and the owners are some times  as elusive in hiding their true identities whilst saying that these changes are long over due and it is for the good of the public and NHS, whilst the truth is it is for their financial benefits.  So Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practise to deceive. is a lot truer in more ways than one. So who can the public trust in power when it seems that these elected politicians, are literally all pissing in the same collective pot.    

Camerons jobs for dubious friends.

Today we seem to have a growing number of unemployed people, yet well connected people in the labour market who create agencies to get people into work are mainly looking after their own interests. We use to have an organisation called the Job Centre where out of work people went to seek employment. Over the years this agency has been revamped at a cost of millions, new signs, new logos etc, to be known as the Job Centre Plus. Yet this government run agency seems hard pressed to find work for people, but mainly because it would seem that it is only for the low paid and basically unskilled end of the jobs market. The skilled workers now go to private agencies that have mushroomed over the past decade or so. Companies such as A4e that is now under investigation. This company has been paid in the region of £180 million in tax payers money to find people work. The owner has taken £8.5 million is dividends. Now whilst all this may not be illegal but is it morally correct. How many millions  have the governments over the years paid to various privately run organisations. These organisations may find people employment but so did the Job Centre, sadly though over the years money may have  been withheld  from the Job Centre as it has been downgraded  and the money has been funnelled into private agencies. If all this money hadn't been put into private agencies who at the end of the day are only out to make a profit. If all this money had been given to the Job Centre so that if better resourced they could have reduced the number of people seeking employment. Instead they were left with the lower end of the jobs market, whilst the private agencies looked after the more lucrative upper end. This is similar to the PFI scheme that has and is creaming billions off into the private sector at the expense of the public who are having to pay billions to maintain hospitals and schools that were built under this scheme. When maintenance cost are totally obscene sometimes costing hospitals £400 to change a light bulb, because the PFI deal involved a private company to do such things. The NHS under this government is going exactly the same way and the so called improvements will only benefit those in the know and with their fingers in the pie. Again many of these are people who are well connected. Cameron said that the NHS was safe in his hands, but if that is so why is he not listening to the people who are really in the know. The doctors and nurses and other clinicians, but no he listens to the people who tell him what he wants to hear. Yes men and women.    

Somali Pirates.

David Cameron says that the days of Somali Pirates that have blighted the Indian Ocean for the past decade may son be over as he announced a crack down on on the pirate "kingpins"and their illegal financial flows. Wouldn't it have been much easier and more efficient to have the military especially the Americans flying fighters from their carriers in the area to attack and sink these vessels. If the pirates drown tough luck. These pirate vessels that use to ply  their trade 50 or so miles of the Somali coast are now travelling further out to sea by as much as 200 miles. A few months ago the Royal Navy intercepted and boarded a pirate vessel and arrested the crew of 12, then came the problem of who would jail them till they came to trial. Then the problem who would try them then the problem of if tried and found guilty who would hold them in their jails? Sink their boats and let them drown then these  problems are eliminated. But more importantly it would send out a clear message to other Somali pirates that they risked the same fate By sinking the pirates ships, you cut off the so called "kingpins" finances at source. Problem clinically solved, with no innocent collateral damage.

Compensation culture

It seems that the compensation culture is getting out of hand, now banks are facing massive payouts to deaf customers, who say that they are being humiliated and inconvenienced by a system that ignores their needs. Whilst most people would have a little sympathy with people who have medical problems through things that may not have been their fault, businesses can't always meet the needs of a minority of people even if it is a growing minority. In Britain there are an estimated 10 million people who suffer from some form of hearing loss, and there are estimated to be 80,000 who are profoundly deaf. Many of these 800,000 may be with older people who worked in the cotton mills or heavy engineering plants in the 1940's to 1970's when hearing protection was not available or compulsory as it is today under various government legislation. Health and Safety at work acts etc. yet today there is an  increasing number of young people who may be suffer hearing loss and don't know it yet. Why? because basically they are young and foolish. Hearing is one of the five senses that can't be repaired but more importantly when its detected its to late, the damage has been done and it will only get progressively worse over the increasing years. Eyesight can be corrected with glasses, or in severe cases laser treatment. Deafness cant be corrected, you can have hearing aids to improve the sound levels but deafness can't be repaired. So if we are paying compensation because some people might have in their opinion being slighted, then I am sorry for them. Yet will we continue to have to pay out to these people who are deliberately damaging their hearing not through workplace noise but through discos and Ipods, MP3 players and such devices that they now put in their ears and play well above the legal decibel levels. Decibel levels that are enforced in the work place but it would seem not enforceable on the discos or more importantly on the idiot individual who will do as they please, till the damage is done then complain that they want compensation of something they may have inflicted on themselves in their youth when  they have been told about the damage caused by sustained loud noise.