Same Old Tory's: We Hate Poor People.

The spending review had nothing to do with economics. It was all about short term policy and fishing for votes. The reason they claim to ring fence Health and Education  is because if they didn’t, it would damage their voter base and increase defections to UKIP.

The welfare reforms are just stunts. More populist examples of the Tory’s demonising of the poor for political expediency. It is truly disgusting. Withholding benefits from non English speakers will increase spending because people will be needed, to check compliance and administer it. Stopping the Winter Fuel Allowance for ex pats living in warmer climates is pathetic, bordering on hilarious. I am not sure how they will differentiate between pensioners living in the mountains of Andalucía and those living in Marbella, but I don’t mind going there as a Warm Weather Inspector. Meanwhile, well off pensioners, living in Torbay, because they might vote Tory, are handed sacks of money that should be earmarked for lifting children out of poverty. In fact I’m sure, if it gets very cold, Tory’s will probably offer up their children as kindling. Just as long as the pensioners vote Tory and don’t defect to UKIP.

The final strand of the welfare reforms is to make jobseekers sign on weekly instead of fortnightly, therefore doubling the workload in Jobcentres. I presume new advisors will be employed, thus increasing the Public Sector wage bill, although as the budget has been cut, I’m not sure that the funds exist.

If Osborne spent more time trying to generate growth, which would lead to more jobs, rather than dreaming up electoral stunts that are motivated by his ideological hatred of the poor and vulnerable. If he poured more time and resources into gathering unpaid taxes avoided by corporations, rather than spending his days working out how much Inheritance Tax he is denying the nation  through his trust fund. If he created an economy where a living wage was paid, so people didn’t have to top up low wages with benefits and could plan their futures, instead of waiting by the phone, because all they have is a zero contract job and they are unsure how much they will earn, if anything, next week, this in turn means they cannot set up standing orders for gas and electric and take advantage of lower tariffs, because they can’t guarantee money will be in their account.

 If Jeffrey and Zippy had any idea the struggles people were confronted with, on a daily basis, they might think that making policy that is in the national interest would be the right approach, but instead all they can do is spend their days coming up with half baked, badly thought out, short term policy, that feeds the Tory hate gene and only benefits their rich friends and families.

Osborne’s economic policy is failing. Without growth there are no jobs. Without jobs there is no spending. Without spending there is no recovery. It really is that simple.

Over the next 24 months the Tory’s will be producing more of these crude pointless empty electoral stunts, which will produce no long term benefit for the country. Their election campaign strategy will be to prove to the public that they are just as racist, just as misogynistic and that they hate foreigners and welfare claimants, just as much as UKIP. The economy will not grow. In fact if interest rates start to rise, which they may, the economy will start to collapse, as mortgage defaults rise, as unemployment rises, because ‘zombie companies’, those companies that are only just managing to service their current debt, will go under, and families will be swamped by debt, as they try to keep their heads above water.

 But as all the major UK political parties are trying to straddle the centre line of the political motorway and are virtually devoid of any original ideas, after all the Labour and Liberal Democrats are no different to the Conservatives, they’ve just had the hatred removed, I think we are all doomed.

So hold tight, it could be a bumpy ride up to the next election, and after it, I think we are heading for a major motorway pile up, involving many fatalities.

 I suggest you mirror, signal, and get the hell outta of here, pronto.

Another Example of Police Corruption: Surprise! Surprise!

The revelations that the Metropolitan Police carried out an undercover operation to find evidence that could be used to smear the family of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, by racists, is of no surprise to many.

For many years now the police, with political consent, have considered themselves as a government sponsored armed militia, responsible for protecting the interests of the rich and powerful, to the detriment of the general population. They consider themselves to be a police force, there to subjugate the public on behalf of the establishment, rather than a police service, there to serve the public without fear or favour.

There can be no doubt that there are honest hardworking officers that have served, but the ever increasing litany of abuse and criminality  committed by the police, has risen to a point, where a large minority of the public has lost all confidence in the police, seeing them as nothing more than a racist right wing institution, that is mired in self interest or the interests of the ruling elite and their paymasters,  who, in turn, are content for them to act in a manner that would put the East German Stasi in the shade.

To go undercover to prevent crime or to bring criminals to justice is acceptable and brave. But to attempt to infiltrate organisations because their legitimate aims or political views are contrary to the police is disgusting and disturbing behavior. In the Lawrence case, the police were infiltrating anti racist and anti fascist groups. Why? Because the police believe that anybody who is against racism or fascism is a danger to society? That the police are pro racism or pro fascism? It’s crazy. They should be offering assistance to these groups, not treating them as enemies of the state. It shows the police in a very unflattering light and shines a harsh light on police culture and thinking.

When you consider other examples of police malpractice, it is truly frightening.

·         Hillsborough. Evidence statements altered. Attempts made to smear the dead.

·         Miners strike. Evidence fabricated. False arrests. Evidence of Police brutality.

·         Phone hacking. Bribery and corruption.

·         Over 1000 deaths in custody, since 1990, without a single officer being prosecuted.

·         The murder of Ian Tomilinson. The subsequent lies and dissemination of false evidence. The person responsible for Tomlinson’s death walked free.

·         The murder of Charles De Menezes and subsequent attempt to smear him as a terrorist.

·         The incompetent original investigation of the Stephen Lawrence murder.

·         Kettling legitimate protestors and members of the public. Imprisoning them for upwards of six hours as well as photographing members of the public, which was judged as illegal by the Supreme Court last week.

·         The Mclibel case, where police infiltrated a protest organisation, for the purposes of undermining and discrediting them.

·         Infiltrating environmental organisations, or animal rights organisations who, in the eyes of the establishment, have the temerity to prioritise the interests of the planet and it's inhabitants, over the profit & loss sheets of multi nationals and energy companies, using the names of dead babies as aliases and having sex with supposed targets.

The right wing juntas of South America were rightly condemned for the torturing of, or the extra judicial killings of civilians, considered ‘enemies of the state’ such as political opponents, often by tying them up, and throwing them into the sea from helicopters, as well as the monitoring, harassment and imprisonment of so-called ‘agitators’.  We are quick to judge sovereign states such as China and Russia for their human rights records.

 Yet our own ruling class use ‘soft power’ in an equally abusive and corrosive manner by covert surveillance of those considered as ‘threats ‘to the establishment, attempts made to shut down legitimate protest and freedom of speech by criminalising protestors, using the scaremongering tactics of so-called ‘terrorist threats ’to national security or by employing Tactical Assault Groups to beat and brutally assault members of the public and suppress freedom of speech , using tactics, that are no different to those currently being used in Bahrain, Turkey and Egypt.

It is heartbreaking, that a generation gave their lives to fight fascism, only for the political pygmies of subsequent generations to create a state where government monitoring of the population is considered acceptable, where police kill and commit criminal acts with apparent impunity, where the right to protest is curtailed, where freedom of speech is considered, by elitist politicians, as a luxury, the public can do without, and where the interests of the rich and powerful are considered paramount and are keenly protected by a paramilitary police force who seem, still, to consider all black people as prospective muggers or drug dealers, all Asians as potential jihadists, any woman who is the victim of rape, as bringing it on themselves and, unless you are a member of the establishment, the monarchy, or the ruling elite, the requirement of any victims of crime to prove they are worthy of the police even bothering to investigate the crime perpetrated against them.

One of the many unsettling aspects about revelations about police infiltration of groups considered to be either political activists or critics of the police is the evidence produced by members of these groups that the police infiltrators would attempt to incite criminal acts and advocate acts of violence by otherwise peaceful protestors.

So instead of fulfilling their part of the social contract, by protecting us, the police ripped it up, and were responsible for endangering us.

Finally,this whole distasteful episode puts to bed the hoary old chestnut " if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" The Lawrences had nothing to hide but it didn't stop them from having their privacy invaded and being abused and violated by the state. Did it!

Trenton Oldfield.

What a disgraceful decision to deport Trenton Oldfield, the protestor who stopped the boat race last year, when he is married to a British woman who is pregnant. This is another example of the hypocrisy of the ruling elite. Just because he had the temerity to disrupt a boat race full of posh blokes, in order to protest about elitism and spoil their fun, he is deported. Where is his right to family life?

If he had protested, by streaking during a football match, he would have got no more than a slap on the wrist, but because he decided to spoil some chinless, inbred hoorays fun, he gets the book thrown at him, in an attempt by politicians to cow the public into submission.

In the same way the person who stole a bottle of water during the riots was unjustly imprisoned for 6 months, as a warning to the ‘prols, to know their place’, the same can be said about the treatment of Oldfield. It’s another example of the establishment trying to subjugate and control the populace for the purpose of self interest.

An PM MP misappropriates hundreds of pounds in taxpayers money and receives no criminal sanction whatsoever, yet a man spoiling a toffs canoe race gets imprisoned, followed by deportation.

These are the double standards and hypocrisy being employed by the ruling classes for their own personal expediency and gain.

The boat race is a joke anyway. The same two teams get to the final every year.

G4S and the Lincolnshire Constabulary.

It is claimed, that the reason G4S have been able to make large savings, by taking on work outsourced by Lincolnshire Constabulary, is because of their greater ‘flexibility’. What this means in plain English, is that wages are driven down, employment rights are withdrawn, employment contracts are either zero hours or short term, pension rights are non-existent and workloads are excessive.

 This leads to a decentivised and demotivated workforce, which in the field of law and order, could lead to miscarriages of justice, crimes going undetected or, even worse, not even investigated, due to cost constraints, as well as abuses by the police going undetected or ignored, for fear of someone losing their jobs or contracts not being renewed. Self preservation will prevail over justice being delivered.

I have already noted earlier, the unsavoury and frightening fact that over 1000 deaths have occurred in custody since 1990, without a single police officer being brought to justice. How low paid and demotivated civilian staff, fearful of losing their jobs and who would probably be intimidated by the police officers they work with, be in anyway, a constructive addition  to the maintenance of law order in this land, as well as reducing the levels of deaths occurring in our police station custody suites, is difficult to see.

A further question, that needs to be asked, is why the contract between G4S and the Lincolnshire Constabulary, which is paid for, out of public money, is kept secret, hidden from public scrutiny. What have they got to hide?

"The rioting's on the wall". (anon)

Construction Industry Blacklist Shame.

Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Sir Robert McAlpine, Kier and Lang are just some of the major UK construction companies who have been subscribing to a blacklist that left people without work for years, destroyed lives and families and consigned children to hunger and poverty.

The victims of the blacklist were union members, union representatives, shop stewards, workers who highlighted health and safety concerns on sites, as well as people who were considered political agitators and even some animal rights activists.

A secret blacklist that is, according to some construction workers, still in operation today has denied people work for years and driven many out of the industry and yet nobody has been brought to justice. A covert, unlawful and confidential blacklist, that was paid for by construction firms and was in operation on major infrastructure projects such as the Olympic site, the Dome, and The Jubilee Line, which were all funded with public money.

The files were managed and maintained by a small firm in Droitwich in the West Midlands called The Consulting Association run by Jim and Mary Kerr. Jim Kerr, who is now dead, is the only person who has suffered any sanction, under the Data Protection Act, for the existence of the list. He was fined £5000, including legal fees, a fine which was paid by Sir Robert McAlpine Construction, who suggested that he take the blame, to keep McAlpine’s name out of the courts and media.

Over 3000 workers were put on the list, without being told, and many of the details were inaccurate and unverified. Often a worker would be added to the list for simply challenging his foreman or line manager, often malicious and often resulting in their contracts being cancelled. Workers who were, or who had been, involved in Industrial Tribunals or who raised health and safety issues were added to the database. Often details such as vehicle registration plates and relationships were held on the files.

Construction firms were invited to join by an existing member. An annual subscription fee was paid and £2.00 was paid for each name checked against the list. Each company would have a contact, usually a senior executive within human resources, who would feed information about a worker in and that information would be shared across the industry.

Unions may have also provided names for the list and also had several opportunities to investigate the blacklist but failed at every opportunity, even though the union, Unite, still believes that a blacklist may still be in operation.

It has been four years since the blacklists was uncovered, and still no construction company, nobody from the companies, who fed the names through, or none of the company executives, have had to face any form of punishment. Nobody on the blacklist has received any compensation for their lives being destroyed and the current government refuses to take on the construction companies concerned, many of whom may well be donors to the Tory party.

This is an example of corporate greed and political cowardice, where corporations and politicians are happy to ruin livelihoods for profit and personal gain. It is shameful that no justice has been seen to be administered. If corporations are allowed to flaunt the law with impunity then why should other citizens act in a law abiding and responsible way. 

It is yet another example from businesses and politicians of “do as I say, not as I do”.If governments and corporations rip up the social contract then why should any of us play by the rules.

G8 Summit.

The G8 summit is nothing more than 'bread and circus's' with added water cannons and a massive police presence. Anybody expecting to read, anytime soon, the headline ' Google and Amazon promise to pay full tax liability after G8 Summit", are dreaming or mad.

"The majority of benefit fraud is committed through need. All tax evasion and avoidance is committed through greed."  (anon)

 Hypocrisy: The Buboes That Infects the Right Wing.

I’ll start by recounting a call made to the Stephen Nolan radio show that is broadcast on BBC Radio 5live. Nolan was hosting a phone-in about whether well off pensioners should be entitled to the Cold Weather Payment. A caller rang in saying how young people on benefits were a bunch of lazy scroungers and how he had paid into the system all is life and that the payment was his entitlement.

Fair enough, you may stay. That’s his point of view and he is entitled to it. Or you may think, yet another reactionary and generalised point of view from some silly old sod, high on vapour rub and Werthers originals, who conveniently forgets that during his working years he was the beneficiary of, among other things, better pay relative to the cost of living, better employments rights, higher levels of employment, lower house prices, a safer society and a better quality of life, that young people, living in the 21^st century, can only dream of.

He then went on to trumpet his achievements in putting three children through university and regaled the listeners how if it wasn’t for him this world would be a far worse place than it is now. In truth he was nothing more than a braggart and a boor, whose self opinion was grossly inflated.

His bar room boorishness wasn’t his biggest crime though. That was hypocrisy, because he has obviously decided to employ a degree of selective memory in which he conveniently forgets to add into the equation ‘of what he is entitled to’, the 54 years of Child Benefits he has been in receipt of for his three children, as well as the nine years of university education he didn’t have to pay for. Add into the equation the 33 years of free primary and secondary education his children would have received, not to mention his own, and the ongoing free healthcare, he, his wife and family have access to, and you get an idea how one-eyed  the right wing are.

If you were to total the cost in education, benefits and healthcare the caller and his family have been in receipt of, you would definitely need a calculator that could display at least five zero’s because the figure would be in the tens, probably hundreds, of thousands.

I have no problem with people who are honest with the facts, I respect them, even if I disagree with their point of view. But people who conveniently misuse or ignore statistics, distort the truth, are duplicitous with facts, and adopt an attitude of double standards, because it doesn’t fit their own self centred narrative, should just shut the f*c& up.

Dangerous Dogs.

“Dogs need a hug, not a thug”

Big Brother Bul*s**t.

The defence that increased surveillance should not be a problem, because “ if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” is so incredibly moronic, that anybody who spouts it should be ceremonially slapped about the face several times.

People are not concerned about being ‘watched’ electronically, they are concerned how the information that is gathered, will be used by self serving officials and politicians. After all we do not have a particularly glowing record when it comes to the abuse of powers by politicians, civil servants, corporations and media organisations.

Hillsborough, phone hacking, police corruption, privacy invaded by newspapers, The WMD dossier and Iraq war, the MP’s expense scandal, The Birmingham Six, the fixing of LIBOR rates, the miss-selling of endowment policies and PPI, The Guildford Four, deaths in custody, the missing CCTV footage in the murder of Ian Tomlinson and the lies disseminated by the police,Stefan Kisco,the West Midland Crime Squad, the murder of Charles De Menezes and, AGAIN!, the lies told by the police, the fixing of utilities costs…….. do I need to go on.

These were all committed by, supposedly upstanding, reputable and responsible institutions, organisations or individuals, yet they are all examples of corruption and criminality, perpetrated for personal gain, upon the general public, where information or evidence gathered, was corrupted or withheld by authorities, organisations or corporations.

“And we’re supposed to be happy to hand over our private and personal information to these people and not be concerned as to whether it will be used responsibly and not abused for personal, political or financial gain”.

“ if you have nothing to hi…………” Oh *uc% £ff.

 The Woolwich murder would never have been uncovered via electronic surviellance because it was concocted in a backroom between people meeting face to face. There was no electronic evidence to gather. What the authorities need to do is get out into the communities, engaged with them, and return to some good old fashion police work.

Oh Australia !

A plane lands at  Sydney Airport. The pilot speaks to the passengers over the intercom.
" Ladies and gentleman, we have just landed in Sydney. Due to the time difference and attitudes of  Australians, could all passengers put their watches back 70 yrs. Thank you" 

“There is enough for our need, but not enough for our greed”. (anon)

The Great Tory Badger Slaughter.

 Soon to be dragged from a sett near you and butchered.

As the badger slaughter goes ahead and newly born badger cubs are left to starve in their setts because the nursing female adult badgers, having been shot several times and still not been killed, have crawled away to die in agony in the woodland somewhere, my thoughts turn to the poor farmers.

 Now that their wish has been granted by their friends, local MP’s and old school chums (The Government) and the slaughter can commence, what will they use as an excuse now to feed their victim complex. I suppose they can only hope that the science is proved right, and hundreds of badgers will escape the massacre, evacuate the kill zone and spread Bovine Tuberculosis to areas that, until now, had been TB free. Then they can return to the airways and carry on their never ending droning and whining about how tough it is to live on thousands of pounds in benefits, (Common agricultural policy subsidies. Subsidy sounds so much nicer than benefits, doesn’t it), and how annoying it is, when the payments are delayed, they can’t buy a new plated 4x4 for the wife.

Of course this current crime against wildlife is just a prelude to the long term objective of eradicating the badger from the entire country (“it’s all about money old sport”). Once the badger has gone they can start on deer, squirrels, rabbits, foxes and then probably the working class.

Ideally, the Tories would like to turn the countryside into one giant grouse moor so that chinless hoorays like, Wildlife Minister benyon, can satisfy their perverted predilections and spend their weekends butchering birds for fun, (what larks, hey benners, snort, snort).

Making benyon Conservation Minister is the equivalent of appointing Josef Goebbels as the editor of The Jewish Times, although as Goebbels also had no respect for lives, I suppose there is a certain type of symmetry.

The chances are that the cull will descend into anarchy. When people see the images of piles of blood-soaked badger carcasses, the Youtube videos of dogs being sent down into badger setts to drag out cubs, tales of badgers, having been shot several times by the so-called ‘marksmen’, but still managing to crawl away to eventually die in agony, and the recounting of how the badgers screamed as they were being shot, the majority of the public, who are against the cull (do we live in a democracy?), will make their feelings felt.

The reputation of farmers, who like to portray themselves as the ‘guardians of the countryside’ will plummet and some people will, quite rightly, want to remonstrate  face to face, with farmers and landowners, who want to ‘gut’ the countryside, for profit, of animals beloved by people, young and old, and who have formed a magical part of our childhoods and folklore. Many people are very angry.

 This of course will give the farmers an opportunity to step up the whining about how ‘townies’ are being nasty to them, how townies don’t understand the EU subsidies,  the countryside and how it’s not, boo hoo, fair. Farmers accuse ‘townies’ of not understanding the countryside and tell them to keep their noses out, yet they are happy to accept the ‘townies’ taxes in the form of benefits subsidies, which keep their businesses afloat and allows them to have a standard of living that millions of town dwellers can only dream of, as well as conveniently ignoring the facts, that the majority of people who live in the so called ‘countryside’ are against the cull, as well as being anti foxhunting and all other blood sports. On the point of being in receipt of tax funded benefits subsidies, the principle is simple, “if we have to pay, then we have a say”.

On a more serious note, the science doesn’t add up. The experiment that was undertaken in Eire proved Pertubation (badgers fleeing the kill zone and starting up setts in new areas that were previously free of TB) will increase; the levels of TB within the stock will stay the same. The pro cullers claim that the test areas are bordered by hard areas that are supposed to contain the badger population within the kill zone, but these so-called ‘hard areas’ are motorways and rivers. I’m pretty certain badgers know how to cross a road and it’s been demonstrated that badgers can swim, so the plan is flawed from the beginning.

Also a test cull that was carried out in Southern Ireland, showed marginal differences, the levels of TB in the south remains the same as in Northern Ireland, where no cull took place. It’s simple, culls do not work. What does work is vaccination. But of course vaccines cost money and farmers don’t want to pay for vaccines and the government doesn’t want to fund the research required, even though millions of pounds have been wasted in culls and reports.

And then there is the elephant in the room. No one can deny the distress it must cause some farmers to see their animals being destroyed, particularly if that animal has a calf. But it cannot also be denied that as soon as a cow loses its profitability then it is slaughtered without any concern for the cow. One of the key elements of the milk industry involves the separation of calf and mother at an early age, and bull calves suffer an even worse fate. So there is an element of crocodile tears from some in the farming community.

Farmers and ministers alike, choose to ignore that 60% of Bovine Tuberculosis is caused through poor animal husbandry. Cattle being kept in unsanitary and unnatural conditions, packed into concrete barns, never seeing grass for months, if they see it at all, living in a fetid cloying atmosphere that promotes and accelerates infection. The main cause of TB spreading, is the dirty practices of farmers who put profit above the welfare of their animals, refusing to invest in vaccination which would end the suffering of farmers and cattle alike. Guardians of Countryside, I think not Mr. Farmer.

This cull is another example of farmers, MP’s, landowners and the establishment knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing. They have no concerns for what the public think, their only concern is for their bank balances, and they are not going to let Toad, Badger, Ratty, Mole or in the case of The Ginger Prince, Hen Harriers,( even if it is a criminal offence to kill them), get in the way of their avaricious greed.

Canned Hunting.

In South Africa they carry out the incredibly unpleasant pastime of Canned Hunting. This involves lions, and other game that have been reared in cages, being let out in fenced enclosures to be shot by gutless spineless cowards, normally men, but not exclusively, from the back of trucks or other places of safety. This is an extension of what wildlife minister benyon does when he spends his leisure time slaughtering captive birds. These so-called 'hunters' are in no danger whatsoever from the lion, which normally wanders listlessly around, bemused at being freed, for a few minutes, before these gutless scumbags and sorry excuses for men blast  away at it and then congratulate each other for being so 'brave'. Some animals are shot with bow's.
Obviously the rifles and bows are an extension of the incredibly small penis's these retards are in possession of and killing animals from the safety of a truck is replacement therapy for their sexual inadequacies and latent, 'probably' unfulfilled sexual yearnings, they experience towards their mothers. What a bunch of sad fuc*s!

Working for Big Pharma.

Over 70 MP’s and over 100 peers in the House of Lords have links with private healthcare companies. How can members of parliament, who are being paid or are in receipt of directorships, be in anyway impartial? Who are MP’s more likely to work in the best interests of? Their constituents or private oil, tobacco, pharmaceutical, investment or healthcare companies who are currently paying MP’s children’s school fees and mortgages and who, when the MP’s leave politics will offer them non-executive board positions in payment for services rendered.

Something Stinks?

Strange how the Tory policy for minimum alcohol pricing, plain cigarette packaging and a register of lobbyists should be dropped, coinciding with the arrival of Tory campaign manager, Lynton Crosby. The Australian's company, Crosby Textor, has lucrative ties to the tobacco and alcohol industries. A conflict of interests just waiting to happen.

Changes to the Legal System.

Whereas once you were innocent unless proven guilty, now you are guilty unless proven rich.

Swedish Free Schools.

Due to losses incurred, three Swedish free schools are to be closed by the private equity company that ran them. Is this really a surprise, after all, a private company’s first loyalty is to its shareholders. Parents and the education of their children is an unwanted distraction that gets in the way of making money. Now hundreds of children are having their education disrupted because a bunch of speculators, trying to make a fast buck, have decided to jettison them. Are you watching Gove?