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.    

What would you do if you were Greek

With having faced a five years of recession and now the possibility of 10 years of more austerity what would you do as a young Greek person? Unemployment is the highest in Europe,  unemployment at  19% of the work force. Benefits, pensions, wages have all been reduced by 20% and possible worse to come. So if I was single and young I'd be heading for the Northern countries of Europe, Germany, France, Holland, Finland, and the United Kingdom, why because at least the benefits in these countries are better than at home. If this were to happen a mass Exodus from Greece on a scale probably never seen since the end of the Second World War, could the European Union handle it or would the boarders go up? Only time will tell, but again will it be to little to late. 

UK Border Agency.

Again is this just another failure by the people running the country, and this also means the previous government. Britain now seems to fail at every level., and what is the governments solution? To split the organisation into two entities. The UK Border force is to become a separate law enforcement agency. The truth of the matter is that it doesn't matter how many times is reorganised and at what cost. New logos, new uniforms etc. It doesn't matter either what Yvette Cooper says, or what Theresa May says or what reports are filed, or what is recommended. Till people at the top who have failed are sacked, and without any compensation. These people  are paid large sums to run this and other organisations, and the more this happens the more it goes to show that these so called experts, or best people for the job only goes to show that they are not the best people for the job and are not fit to run these organisations.  They are not fit for purpose, and as such the organisations they fail to run properly are not fit for purpose and till these people are dismissed for their failures, then this will continue to occur, year after year, and at more billions of pounds for their failure.

Ban on term time holidays

This government is talking about banning parents from taking their children out of school during term time when holidays are cheaper than at holiday time. There is talk about withdrawing benefit payments but there would be quite a lot of opposition to this idea. Schools can already take court action with fines imposed on parents who's children regularly miss lessons.They can be fined £50 and if they refuse to pay they can be can fined £2,000 or face a prison sentence But many refuse to pay and the courts are reluctant to put parents in jail. More than 8,700 parents were found guilty of letting their children skip school between 2005 and 2009. Only 55 parents were jailed. There is no need for Michael Gove to bring in new legislation all that is required is for the courts to carry out the powers that they already have and show a bit of back bone.

British Justice.

Most people in the country have heard of Abu Qatada the Muslim cleric and I use that term very loosely, who Britain is trying to deport to Jordan to stand trial in that country where he has all ready been found guilty of  crimes. He is now under house arrest hereafter being released  from custody, he has to remain in his house 22 hours a day and is only allowed out for two hours. This is estimated to be costing the British tax payers £10,000 a week. He can't be deported to Jordan because of rulings by the European Courts of Human Rights because of the risk that evidence obtained by torture could form part of any future trial. All this seems to fly in the face of retired business man  Chris Tappin, who I believe most people will not have heard of, myself included till this Saturday. Next Friday he will be escorted, by British police to Heathrow Airport where he will be handed over to US Marshals and taken to America for trial on alleged terrorist acts. The company he once owned exported  five batteries from Texas to Amsterdam, with the paper work all in order. This was done for a man called Robert Gibson a British business man through a firm called Mercury Global Enterprises (MGE) this was unbeknown to Gibson the vendor,or Tappin was a front for US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency to entrap business men  engaged in illegal export of controlled technologies. The Americans say that these five batteries costing $25,000 to export were going to be used in Hawk air defence missiles. All that now aside he is going to be extradited on a US-UK extradition treaty signed in 2003 by Tony Blair and George Bush. Mr Tappin's extradition was allowed to proceed by a magistrates court, the High Court, the Home Secretary and the European Court of Human Rights.. At no point could  his lawyer fight the case on its merit or test the evidence. This must be a denial of justice, but it would seem that since (9/11) the Americans have got paranoid, and if you are not with them then you must be an enemy. Now although most people would sympathise with the Americans, this extradition. Must be on dubious grounds and should be looked at very closely before he is extradited. Not only that but he could face a long term in prison perhaps years before he is brought to trial. Is allowing this extradition under these conditions what we call British Justice. A known guilty terrorist can't be extradited yet an innocent business man can?

         

Cameron all bluster and nothing else.

David Cameron the Prime Minister  said that he was going to listen to the people like no other prime minister before him . He may have made this statement but nothing will come from it. This government set up a web page where if over 100,000 signatures were collected they would or may act on it. The optimum word being may as it turns out they only act on things that they like not what the people want. This Monday he has invited people and organisations to Ten Downing Street to talk about the new proposals for the NHS reforms but he hasn't asked or invited the main people. The British Medical Association, Royal College of Nursing the Royal College of General Practitioners, all he has invited are the "yes" people, people who will not give him a argument, then he will tell the people that everybody he has spoken to in the NHS are in agreement, with the government this only being a half truth. Some thing that this prime minister is good at. Half truths whilst he smiles and tries to convince everybody that he isn't like Tony Blair or Gordon Brown he listens, but doesn't act in what is best for the country, just a few of his corrupt friends, that is something he has in common with the last two prime ministers. So nothing changes.

Football and sport

Britain it would seem have become more obsessed with football and sport in general just look at the amount that has been spent on the Olympic games that will only benefit the the South of England and London in particular and when you hear Lord Coe saying things that you know are only to his advantage as some one who is dealing with them. Prices have increased at nearly all the hotels and other establishments and why are 80,000 tickets being allocated to business you know that it is only for the benefit of certain well placed peole not for the masses.