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.