Right to buy. another Osborne clanger

 

Another clanger by this Chancellor, his right to buy may be a good idea but its meant for the first time buyer to get on the property ladder. But again hes made it something for the better off. He says that he wants it to help kick start the building industry, this will only happen if the industry builds affordable housing, not half million pound houses. The limit on house price should be limited to houses costing no more than £250,000. The money has to be allowed for people who want to get their first house be it a terraced or semi. this will help the young to get on the property ladder. If it is allowed to be used on more expensive houses all this will do is push up the price of houses that are already at unrealistic levels throughout the country, and it certainly hasn't got to be used for people to buy a second house no matter what some people may infer. Its for first time buyers and this has to be made clear  beyond all reasonable doubt. There has to be no ambiguity what so ever.

Tenth Anniversary of Iraq invasion

 

 

The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and its celebrated with bombs, that have resulted with 167 injured and another 50 killed to add to the 116,000 that have already been killed let alone the hundreds of thousands that have been injure, and over 4,600 allied  troops that have been killed  and over 40,000 that have been injured, and Tony Blair tries to justify this and said that it was correct to remove Saddam Hussein. He and George W Bush should be standing in the dock in the Hague for war crimes. He now says that the west should invade Syria. This from a man who now struts the world as a peace envoy when it suits him. A man who helped drive  Britain to the brink of a financial collapse with his poor policies that may have helped his cronies improve their wealth but did nothing for the average citizen.He made himself a mulit millionaire with his secret deals some of them with  Colonel Muammar Gadaffi.  He even moves money around through his numerous companies so as to avoid paying his rightful dues.This from a man who lead the Labour party from 1997 spouting to the working class about the Conservatives greed,  yet he has the morals worst than a Conservative. Becoming a catholic can't wash the blood from his hands, but he thinks that it might ease his conscience.  

Cameron and the Press.

 

So Cameron cant agree with the two other leaders about press reforms is it any wonder when he has friends like Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson who have or had dealings with the press. But this again goes to show what poor judgement he has or is it arrogance. There is one thing for sure that if the Conservatives want to win the next election either on their own or in another coalition they have to dump him now. Its no use hanging on to a lame duck prime minister. As I've said before he could always get a job as a trick cyclist. 

Lord Ashdown and colleagues

 

 

Lord Ashdown is complaining about the unbearable pressure put on MP's and their families due to the workings of the MP's. and the changes to the second home allowances. Again this is a politician who is out of touch with the real world. He complains that the changes to the second home allowances means that many MP's are having to spend long periods of times away from their wives and families. How bloody sad I don't think. How many thousands of people in this country spend days, weeks, and months, away from their families depending on their work. Soldiers, and he was in the military, spend months away from their families, travelling sales men spend days away from their families and people working on the oil rigs spend weeks away from their families. All these possible hardships  come with the job and the same applies to MP's. If they don't want to be away from their families then don't stand as an MP, but for Gods sake stop whining and stop trying to make an excuse, for housing allowances. These other jobs don't get housing allowances for their families so why should overpaid MP's get them. He even tries to say that these restrictions will make it harder for women to become MP's. Again how sad I don't think. They know the rules and again if they don't like them then don't stand. If these potential people who want to become MP's are determined to become MP's then I have to presume that they are doing it for the right reason, not so that they can have their families or partners living with them every day. Again we have the debacle over  Chris Huhne is the public bothered about him we hear that people are sorry for him. Why? Chris Huhne and his then wife Vicky Pryce  knowingly broke the law, but for ten years protested his innocence before in the end pleading guilty. They feel sorry for his wife again why?  Shes not some timid stay at home wife  She a high flying  economist who has dealt with big business and governments, and as such she knew what she was doing. If there is any justice both of them will receive substantial terms of imprisonment, but sadly all they got was eight months each. This is a derisory sentence when they could have been given life sentences. So eight months is a joke and sends the message to other potential  driving point swoppers a no brainer its worth taking the chance.   

immigration

 

When people complain about immigration and the numbers coming into this country the do gooders always talk about the numbers of British people who live and work in Europe. Yet when they talk about the 750,000 Britain's who are in Spain they always fail to mention that these Britain's are mostly retired and have taken money with them into Spain and are not relying on benefits from this country. As for the Britain's who go to work in Europe they are mostly in permanent jobs. The biggest trouble goes back to the 1950's when there was an influx of people from India and Pakistan, these families not only brought their children, but most came with aged relatives who were never going to work but were drawing old age pensions and other benefits from a system that they had never contributed too. In the 50,s this might have been sustainable but today it isn't, and they were Commonwealth countries, and therefore had ties to Britain. The emerging countries from Eastern Europe have nothing in common with Britain. People in authority in Brussels say that there is freedom of labour  movement with in the EU. That immigrants have the rights to the same benefits of the member state that they reside in. Now that may be OK when people move from Britain to France or Germany or visa verse. If people from the poorer Eastern block countries come to the Western countries they receive larger benefits than they do in their country of origin. so is it any wonder that they come to the West, but would Western people move to what were the Eastern block countries where their benefits are less. I don't think so. When football players come to play with British clubs they need a work permit before they are eligible to play. So why doesn't this system apply to workers who come here, they need the permit before they are allowed into the country. Freedom of labour is a system that is loaded in the benefit of eastern people not western people and is therefore biased one way. Is it any wonder that people are not getting upset at the inequality of the system that the people in authority don't seen or don't want to accept.




 

How good is Camerons judgement

David Cameron says that he has every confidence in Sir David Nicholson the head of the NHS  even though people in the NHS have no confidence in his running of the NHS. If this  man was an honourable man he would fall on his sword, but he's not and he won't, perhaps the public will have to push him. But more importantly how good is Cameron's judgement, be employed Andy Coulson as his director of communications against the advice of people better placed than him. soon he had to go because of past misdemeanours.  He was the good friend of Rebeka Brooks even when she was implemented in the News of the World fiasco. How many more times has his judgement been brought into question over the past two and a half years? Perhaps he would be better as a clown in a circus riding a trick bicycle as he has done more U-turns than  past prime ministers added together. But he is in good company because he has a cabinet of clowns that have, and are dragging this country into a position that is making us the laughing stock of the world.

Olympic Legacy

So Sheffield Council is going to close then demolish Don Valley Athletic Stadium where Jessica Ennis trained over many years. She trained here and would have used these facilities at probably no financial cost to her. Now where is the so called Olympic Legacy that the prime minister and all these other dignitaries talked about at the time? This is the true fact, that people like Ennis who won gold medals but have since have made millions of pounds for themselves riding on the tax payers backs who subsidised her sport. It would be a nice gesture on her part instead of basking in this glory and criticising the council  she handed over a large sum of money from her wealth to keep this facility going  for the future generations who want to be future Olympians.