Tory's Reek Of Desperation.

Nothing has been more effective at shining a harsh light on Tory desperation and their nasty ideological political expediency than their attempt to use the deaths of six children to try to gain political capital, whilst continuing to demonise the low paid and welfare claimants.

The grotesque efforts of the Tory’s and the reactionary right wing press to try and blame the Philpott murders on The Welfare State, has been truly disgusting. You may as well attribute Michael Philpot’s violent nature and domestic abuse to his time in the military and blame it on the Armed Forces.

The house flipping Osborne, as always, is foremost among the torch bearing, pitchfork wielding crazed villagers, as he ignores the truth and continues to brazenly lie to the nation. The boy Gideon is now delivering his speeches in a sort of weird ‘cockerny’. I think the lying is a habit he may have caught off Cameron, who is becoming quite proficient in the art.

Some of the facts Osborne chooses to ignore are, that Jobseekers Allowance makes up only 3% of the welfare bill whereas Working Tax Credits make up 22%. Tax payers are subsidising large multi nationals and big business, who instead of paying workers a living wage, choose instead to pay share holders large premiums. The tax payer is making a rich large share holding class richer while the government is making ‘hard working families’ poorer and forcing them to rely on tax credits, whilst those same companies deny the exchequer £11 billion a year in tax revenue. The wealth gap just keeps getting bigger.

I will expect, in the very near future, for Tory’s to start insisting the minimum wage will have to be frozen or reduced ‘to keep us competitive in the global race’. It is self serving crap, being fed to the compliant right wing press, who happily add it to their menu of anecdotal bulls**t about welfare claimants and immigrants. Ready yourself for the headline ‘Bulgarian immigrants responsible for death of Princess Di’. It’s coming, believe me.

The saddest part of the filth and lies the Tory’s have been peddling is the number of right wing morons who lap this crap up and seem unable, either through choice or lack of intellect, to rationalise the lies and dissemination, and discover the real truth. A classic example was a right wing commentator speaking on the radio, claiming that low paid workers were tired of financing welfare through their taxes. The woman blithely ignored the facts that if they were low paid then those same workers would also have been in receipt of welfare in the form of Working Tax Credits, Child Tax Credits, Child Benefit and perhaps help with housing and council tax costs. And if they were low paid, they may not even be contributing through direct taxation. This is the level of stupidity currently being displayed by supposedly intelligent individuals. It is truly frightening how stupid these people are.

Over the next two years, leading up to the election, there will be a direct correlation between how badly the government is doing and the level of scaremongering and demonising they indulge in. That’s if they make it through the next two years. The cuts that have been implemented last week and those that have already been implemented since 2010 will lead to major hardships for many people. Add to that, employment rights being stripped, unemployment rising while millionaires receive massive tax cuts, the continued dismantling and privatisation of the NHS, food prices, fuel, gas and electric price increasing while executives and bankers continue to receive massive bonuses, families facing evictions due to the Housing and Council Tax reforms, interest rate rises and the introduction of Universal Credit, which will take an average of between £100-£150 per month from median earners, MP’s claiming thousands per year on expenses ( see previous blog referring to expenses claimed by employment minister Hoban) while the public are having to make the choice between heating and eating, educational standards beginning to drop because Gove thinks it the 1950’s  and sections of the public may reach  boiling point, look at the wealth of the 10% and consider enough is enough and start looking for scapegoats among the establishment and political classes.

Good people can only take so much.

Hold on. It could be a bumpy ride.

 I see George Osborne Is Putting His Degree in Stating the Bleeding Obvious to Good Use.

Osborne has said that the majority of people are against benefit abuse. Well surprise, surprise. Who would have thought it? Of course people are against benefit abuse, who wouldn't be. I’ll tell you what the Public are also against.

·         People avoiding million of pounds in Inheritance Tax through a trust fund.

·         People who use the MP expense system to ‘flip’ their house and make over £400000 in clear profit.

·         People who use the death of six children for the purposes of political gain.

·         People who park in disable bays when they are not disabled.

·         People, who have never had a proper job, yet are millionaires through inherited wealth, and prejudge others, based on anachronistic class stereotypes.

·         Oh yeah, and people who speak in a false ‘cockerny’ accent when in fact they are going to inherit a baronetcy.

More Bul**hi* From the Racing Fraternity.

When the national hunt chaser Battefront was pulled up at Aintree and then promptly collapsed and died, the racing community proffered the excuse that it could have happened while the horse was in the training yard on a normal day. That is self serving bull crap.

 On a ‘normal day’ Battlefront wouldn't be expected to run for 4 miles at full tilt, driven to the point of exhaustion whilst carrying a human being on its back and expected to jump fences, some of which are more than seven feet high.

I studied a sad and haunting photograph at the weekend. It showed several horses jumping a fence during last year’s Grand National. In the middle of the photo was a horse, a white blaze down it face, its eyes staring wildly, as it attempted to clear the fence. The horse was called Synchronised. I was witnessing it last moments. Seconds later Syncronised was dead. It clattered to the ground and suffered fatal injuries. If you look into the face of the horse you can see the fear. Horses are intelligent animals. It probably knew.

Thankfully, all the horses got around safely this year. Although there were still fatalities during the meeting.

If I do watch the Grand National, I watch for one thing and one thing only, that the horses clear the fences safely. If a horse goes down, I look to see that it gets up. If it does, I am happy and grateful. What happens to the jockey when it is unseated is of no concern to me at all. If a jockey gets it skull caved in, I couldn't care less. The jockey gets to choose.

The horse doesn’t.

The Awkwardness of Nelson Mandela.

The illness of Nelson Mandela is creating difficulties for many right wing politicians. I have recently seen a get well card sent by The British Conservative Party. It read

“Dear Nelson,

Hope you get well soon”,

From The British Conservative Party.

We didn't really consider you to be an extreme criminal terrorist and radical, of whom some members of the party were lobbying for your execution until that pesky apartheid thing ended and the fascist government of South Africa collapsed to be replaced by The Rainbow Nation, forcing us to revere you as a great statesman rather than glory in your state sponsor judicial killing. (drat and blast).

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Kim Jong-Un Is One Crazy Kid.

Somewhere in a darkened room in North Korea a bunch of heavily braided military types and a fat kid are having a right ‘ole laugh. After threatening the USA with a nuclear missile strike all they have got to do now is get hold of a nuclear missile from somewhere that works.

Why this sabre rattling is taken seriously is mystifying. Even the nutcases in Pyongyang aren't so stupid not to know that a missile strike would lead to Pyongpang being leveled in an hour. And a war with America would last about a week at best.

On the plus side, a war with America or South Korea, would eventually prove very beneficial for the poor benighted people of North Korea, as once it’s over and the Kim il’s-whatever are removed or killed, both Korea’s could unify and become one country again and the North Koreans could at last taste freedom and a cheese burger.

Paolo Di Canio Is Not A Fascist.

Di Canio is not a fascist. If your political belief system is based on an extreme nationalist authoritarian ideologue that requires its citizens to be subjugated and give up their liberties in favour of The State and a small self serving political class, then that doesn’t make him a fascist.

It makes him a ……oh, I see.

21^st Century Road Signs.

Slow! Rolling Stones concert ahead.