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)