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.