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.