Farming,Fascism and a Flagrant Example of Hypocrisy.

Fascism in the Farming Community.

The slaughter of the innocents?

Fascism is alive and well within the farming community. This was proved beyond doubt by the National Farmers Union attempt to put an injunction on anybody who wished to legally protest the badger cull. This reactionary organisation actually thinks it is acceptable to prevent freedom of movement and freedom of speech, to the point that they wanted an injunction that made it illegal for anybody, not involved with the cull, to walk along Public! footpaths or bridleways, within the cull zones, and to have anyone, for example, who walked into a village shop, within the cull area, and proceeded to voice their opposition to this barbaric slaughter, to be arrested.

The middle and upper classes remain conveniently and implicitly silent over the austerity measures currently being inflicted upon the poor, yet when actions are taken that affect their own comfortable and insulated lives,( e.g. fracking in Balcombe, HS2, the right to legally protest),  their mealy mouth words of freedom, fairness and democracy quickly collapse, to be replaced by the fascist jackboot.

The NFU condemns the protestors and the outcry over the badger cull and point out that thousands of Bovine Tuberculosis infected cattle are slaughtered each year. That is indeed sad, but the badger is just a convenient scapegoat, used to cover up  dirty farming practices that involve cattle being close quartered, sometimes all year round, never walking on grass, in unhygienic concrete pens that are breeding grounds for infection.

They also conveniently forget to mention the thousands of cattle that are shot each year because of laminitis and mastitis, the thousands of bull calves that are shot within a day of being born because they are of no use to the milk industry and that any animal that is considered ‘no longer profitable’ is shot and quickly disposed of.

“He who is without sin………….”


Petition to Have UK Wildlife Minister Benyon Removed From Office.

The Petition

Richard Benyon is the current UK Minister for Wildlife and Biodiversity. He is a multi-millionaire with over 20,000 acres of land around a Tudor built stately home which has been in his family for almost 300 years. 

Benyon has been involved in a number of environmental scandals. He sold off large areas of privately owned ecologically important habitat to be quarried for aggregate, outraging wildlife conservation groups across the country. The project covers 88 hectares of land, which includes ancient woodland and heathland vital to the conservation of rare species.

He has been publicly proven to be ignorant of even a basic understanding of British biodiversity, not knowing the names of the common fish species he is charged with protecting and declaring war on ragwort, a native and important plant species fundamental to ecology.

 Benyon is heading a scheme funded by DEFRA (or more accurately the tax payer) to capture and destroy Buzzards in an attempt to reduce their effect on pheasant poults reared by wealthy land owners for other wealthy land owners to shoot. How exactly does spending this money on killing our native and protected birds of prey help protect biodiversity? It doesn't and it costs 375,000 GBP.

I think the most helpful thing that could be done right now to protect British biodiversity is to have Richard Benyon removed from his position as UK Minister of Wildlife and Biodiversity.

If you agree visit www.ipetitions.com and please sign.

Three Possible End Days Scenarios For The recession.

Scenario 1: Sustainable  Growth.

This scenario is very unlikely under the current government due to its paucity of ideas for growing the economy. They’ve adopted the recession as a smokescreen, so they can drive through ideologically driven policies that punish the poor and vulnerable, while feather bedding the wealthy, which of course includes themselves. This scenario may lead to scenario three.

Scenario 2: Default.

The term ‘wiping the slate clean’ was first used by the Babylonians. When a debtor could not cover his obligations there was the option of cancelling the debt rather than having to sell land, farm animals or his wife. Debt cancellation is unlikely because the most protected species in this recession has been the bankers and the thought of having all debts cancelled would have them choking and spluttering on their Krug and caviar. Not only have they received billions in bailouts but they have been the recipients of another avalanche of money in the form of Quantitative Easing. This has resulted in, is the poor getting poorer while the rich have got richer, mainly asset rich, as all the wealth ascends to the few, rather than descending downwards, to the many, where it would be spent in the economy, leading to an economic recovery. Again this is the preferred outcome of the current government, who are guilty in aiding the misappropriation of the nation’s wealth for an elite few.

Quantitative Easing is never going to solve the problem of a tanking economy. The result is a banking economy with balance sheets awash with money, meaning that lending is not a priority, which in turn cramps the growth of small and medium businesses, slowing employment and leading to price inflation and wage stagnation, which slows spending in the economy and hampers growth.

The government crows about the current growth of 0.7% as if it was 27% or 37%. The small amount of growth may be leading to slightly better profit and loss performances for some businesses, but this is not being converted into an increase in wages or permanent full time employment and these are the two true markers of a recovering economy.

The proliferation of zero contracts, the high unemployment levels of 18-24 yr olds and the lack of a living wage means people are struggling to pay fuel, utility and food bills while the top 10% remained untouched by austerity. As the top 10% contain the asset rich bankers, hedge fund managers and politicians, then default and wiping the slate clean will never be considered an option, as although it would benefit the vast majority it would be detrimental to a select coterie of elite’s, and it is in the interests of this elite few, that the politicians are working for.

Scenario 3: Social Implosion.

This scenario, although not desirable, is a strong possibility, due to the continuing mismanagement of the nation’s wealth by the current government and their ideologically driven policies. As the wealth gap increases and policies are implemented that continually punish the poor and vulnerable for crimes they did not commit, yet the people,  who did commit those crimes, through these policies, are becoming even richer, people will experience a sense of frustration, an ever growing sense of social  injustice and discrimination, that may grow into anger and disillusionment that cultivates a need for retribution.

Ideally for the government, this would occur during the summer of 2014. This would enable them, using that well worn scaremongering phrase ‘national security’, to crack down on a relatively unprotected and uncared for section of the community, who are not target voters, whilst continuing to enlarge the police state, restrict and remove civil liberties and attempt to fool a gullible and infantilised public into thinking that they are the government of law and order, as opposed to being the government of the rich. This scenario would also be preferred by the ruling elite and the wealthy, as it would confirm their reactionary prejudices and give them a sense of undeserved justification that the crimes they committed against the nation were legitimate.

Ideally, for the country, this scenario will not arise, and in 2015, a sense of humanity, fairness and justice will prevail, and Britain will end up being governed by a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats, where policy can be implemented on the basis of fairness, equality and what is right for the nation, rather than hate based policy that is enacted purely in the interests of the rich and wealthy.

Clarissa Dixon who??

Why is the point of view of some crazy old bag lady, who apparently advocates eating badger road kill, given a platform to voice her opinion about the RSPCA and hunting? She is just a spokesperson for the Countryside Alliance, an organisation whose members enjoy chasing a sentient animal across the countryside to the point of exhaustion, then enjoys watching it being ripped apart by a pack of hounds, before smearing the blood of the murdered animal upon the foreheads of their spawn. These people have a mindset that is no different to that of the paedophile, rapist or wife beater. They enjoy the power and control they hold over a weaker, vulnerable victim, that is unable to defend itself.

A compliant, hunting fraternity friendly, right wing press, happily gives Dixon Wright a platform to voice her inaccurate and ignorant views, when she should stick to making road kill soup and shutting the F**k up!

Why Do We Have To Endure This Punishment?

Every summer we are faced with the dangers of opening a newspaper and being confronted with a picture of the Prime Minister, sitting outside some beachside cafe, gazing lovingly into the eyes of his wife. Firstly, every time I am caught out by it, I gag a little and bring up some sick, which means I have to clear my throat and rinse my mouth out before resettling my stomach. Secondly, it is insulting to our intelligence, particularly women. After all that’s who the photograph is for, is it not?. The Tory’s think women are so stupid that if they see a picture of a women with an oblong face and a man with a face like a three day old doughnut, gazing lovingly at each other, they will surely think ( note: the next part should be read with an Essex accent) “ oh look, innit romantic. Even though I despise the Tories and their self serving policies and I am disgusted by the crimes they are committing upon the weak and vulnerable of this once great nation, I really must vote Tory at the next election because Samcam and doughnut face are ordinary people, just like us. After all I’m the daughter of a baronet as well, and my husband is also a multi millionaire, who has never had a proper job. Yeah it’s lovely innit”.

The Laws of Cricket.

11 players of one team go out and 2 players of the opposing team go in. When one player that goes in is out another player goes in until 10 players of the team that are in are out. Then the 11 players that are out go in and the eleven players that are in go out until 10 of the 11 players that are now in but were originally out are out. Then repeat.

On the events that occurred at The Oval on Sunday. If the boot had been on the other foot and it was Australia who needed 21 runs from 24 balls, the crowd would have applauded the umpires for taking the teams off. Also the members of the crowd who booed the Australian Skipper, Michael Clarke, should be ashamed. At least he tried to make a game of it, which is more than you can say for the England team on the Friday of the test match. Admittedly he declared early because he was trying to force an Australian win and when he realised it had backfired he tried every trick, within the laws, to avoid a defeat. That’s he’s job, just like England captain, Alistair Cook, would have, if he was in the same position. It is the laws of cricket that should be booed, not the Australian captain; he should be applauded for at least trying to make a game of it.

The crowd booing was emblematic of the type of society we have created. A society that is full of infantilised adults, acting like irrational six olds and throwing temper tantrums just because they can’t get their own way. My advice to those kidults is simple. Grow up! You pathetic, puerile, childish morons!

“If we blindly follow the conventions of those that have gone before us, we will make the same mistakes and nothing will change.”