Get Rich Quick Scheme:Scapegoat The Poor and Cash In.

The Tax Payers Alliance, an organisation that purports to work in the interests of tax payers is, in reality,  just another right wing lobby group pimping themselves out on behalf of big business.  Ask yourself how they are funded. They don’t make or sell anything. They don’t provide any tangible services. Erm, I wonder who funds them. It’s not rocket science, is it? Businesses fund them and that is who they are working in the interests of. The claim they are campaigning against government waste is just a front for their true aim which is to shrink back the state and slash all public spending.

They have just produced a report suggesting that people in receipt of welfare should be forced to work 30 hours a week for businesses or Charities. It is dressed up as trying to help people find work but really it is just another three card trick used to provide free and cheap labour for businesses, while forcing the taxpayer to cover the wage bill.

The obvious question that should be asked but is always conveniently ignored, is, if a business needs someone to carry out 30 hours of work, why doesn’t that business employ someone to work those hours, thus taking them of social security and reducing the welfare bill. Or, why not increase the hours of staff, who are working part time within the business, to cover those hours. The employee’s would be grateful for the extra money, which would be recycled back into the economy. Instead with have situations where paid employees are on minimum contracts and low hours whilst the people working the most hours within a business are people fulfilling workfare contracts and being paid for by the state.

The answer, of course, is just as obvious. Businesses would prefer to take advantage of free and cheap labour, which reduces their wage bill and fattens their profit margins in the same way companies, during WWII, used slave labour to fatten their own profits. There are no morals in business.

The irony is that the public bang on and whine about people, supposedly, getting something for nothing, yet willfully ignore businesses that are capitalising on the deprivations of the poor and are! actually getting something for nothing, while simultaneously driving down wages and employment conditions.

The claim is that the jobs are out there but they are being taken by immigrants. The truth is that there is approximately between 50-100 people chasing each job. These jobs are usually temporary and unsustaining, do not provide a living wage, and the worker is normally recycled back onto Jobseekers Allowance within 4-6 months.

Again, I repeat the question. If the jobs are out there to be done then why do not businesses employ people to do them? Again I repeat the obvious answer. Employers see workfare schemes as an opportunity to reduce the hours of paid employees and replace them with free labour, thus reducing the wage bill and enhancing their Profit and Loss sheets whilst letting the taxpayer pick up the bill. It is profiteering and exploitation of a compliant labour pool, “ Arbiet Macht Frei”. There are no morals in business.

There is another darker taint to this approach which involves punishment, piousness and political expediency. Politicians use the demonising of the poor, who are the victims of failed politicians and their policies, as an electoral tool to harvest votes. People in favour of forced labour do not see it as a way of helping people into work, but as a metaphorical punishment beating for a section of society they despise while also assuming a smug, superior attitude to those they consider less human than themselves, nothing more than fodder, while attempting to justify their own small minded and self serving, greedy attitudes. They complain about the disadvantaged receiving help from the state, yet willfully ignore the thousands of pounds, they themselves, have received in free money in the form of child benefits and family allowance. These same people would be the last to accept being thought of as no more than a resource, treated like cattle, and expected to take menial, poorly paid work that only provides subsistence wages, sacrificed on the altar of a market driven economy that nationalises debt and privatises profit.  How the bankers, the asset stripping hedge fund managers and financiers must be laughing as they quaff down champagne and binge on imported foi gras, in their dockland penthouses and on their country estates, while 1 in 5 British workers do not receive a living wage. That is over 5 million people. The stink of hypocrisy is stifling.

Attitudes, gleefully encouraged by reactionary think tanks like the Tax Payers Alliance and politicians, towards welfare, brings into harsh focus how, as a nation, we have become a country filled with greedy, small minded, selfish, hate filled, bullying cowards who consider the disabled as spongers and the poor as deserving of their fate, and will gleefully join in stigmatising them, but do not have the guts to confront, for example, wealthy landowners and farmers who receive millions of pounds in free tax payer money via Common Agricultural Policy subsidies, or corporations who avoid paying millions in taxes while using the infrastructure of the country to facilitate massive profits, or politicians who charge the purchase of a heated towel rail and some cushions to the nation instead of paying for them, like normal people have to, out of their own pocket. After all, cushions are hardly essential items, necessary to ensure competent governance of the country. Ironically, The MP, who apparently, couldn’t do his job without a nicely warmed towel and some comfy cushions is currently a minister, working within the Department of Work and Pensions and another irony is the case of the richest minister in the cabinet, Wildlife minister Benyon, who has been in receipt, via a trust, of thousands of pounds via agricultural subsidies. Talk about living a life on benefits. The stink of hypocrisy is, yet again, stifling.

99% of people in receipt of welfare would rather not be in receipt of welfare. They would rather be in receipt of a wage that allows them to be self sufficient. But this model does not fit the business agenda. Businesses are happy to allow the state to subsidise low wages, of course they are, it makes them rich. 99% of people want to work, despite what you read in the right wing press, who happily avoid the truth so they, like politicians, can abdicate responsibility for policies that benefit their class and their business buddies, but disadvantage the poor.

The way to get people back into work and alleviate the financial strain on the state is to create jobs that pay a living wage and allow people the dignity of labour. “A fair days pay for a fair days work”. The key word is fairness. For people to act in a fair and respectful manner they must be treated respectfully and fairly. That is the social contract that is binding to all parties. But if politicians and others choose to stigmatise a section of society for the purposes of self interest and fail to uphold their end of the contract by failing to create an environment where jobs that provide a living wage are available, then the social contract is broken and the victims response will be a simple “ get stuffed”. Why should they, not only, have to compromise their lives for the failings and benefit of others, but also be blamed for the greedy malpractices of a wealthy elite who are attempting to use the poor as a convenient smokescreen to conceal their avarice, as well as the crimes they have, and continue to, commit against the nation. Particularly if those same politicians are shown to be actively serving the interests, for the purposes of ideologue, of the wealthy elite, who, in turn, consider it acceptable to abdicate any responsibility to a society that has allowed them opportunities that would not be available in certain other societies. In most instances, these people just got lucky, fortunate enough to be the beneficiaries of inherited wealth or the circumstances they were born into, and have decided to pull the ladder up behind them to deny less fortunate people those same opportunities.

Scape goating the poor is easy; any ignorant yob can do it, and it allows people to conveniently turn away from the unpalatable truth. A truth they lack the courage to confront. They are cowardly scum who are actively involved in creating a dark soulless world, their children and grandchildren will have to endure. A world of powerless politicians, whose own field of influence will shrink down to nothing more than managing state spending and prosecuting wars in foreign lands, while power and influence will reside with multi-nationals, utility companies, and corporations, who will dictate self serving national and international policies, using politicians as gauleiters, whose job it will be to implement and execute those policies with extreme prejudice. The politicians payment for this service will be access to the riches generated by the many for the few. Blood money.

When this dystopian future becomes real and your great grandchildren are living in a world of zero hour contracts, a state controlled internet, a privatised health and police service that only the wealthy will be able to access, suppressed wages, ever rising utility and fuel bills, gated communities for the rich and barrios on the edge of towns for the disadvantaged, they will look their parents in the eyes and ask “why?”

 I expect the expedient response they will get will probably be “It was the poor; it was all the poor’s fault”.

 To paraphrase Einstein “The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again, but still coming up with the same result”. Be careful what you wish for. Your wishes may come true.


Badger Killers Cullers.

Currently a government authorised  badger killing spree is being carried out in the West of England. I was wondering what type of person enjoys chasing a beautiful sentient living creature through the countryside and blows it brain out. Look at the picture above and ask yourself, what type of person confronted by such beauty could happily point a gun and gladly wipe such beauty from this planet. I used the word ‘happily’ because I presume this is a career choice and they find killing other living creatures fun,enjoyable and fulfilling.

I find it worrying. Where are these people when they are not killing? What are they thinking? Are they free to roam amongst the general population? Are they held in secure accommodation at night or when they are not carrying out their butchery? Are we safe while people, who find killing pleasurable and enjoyable, are allowed to walk the streets, mix with our children and pets, without being monitored or tagged?

Don’t you see what could happen? Eventually, slaughtering badgers won’t be enough. Their unnatural needs and desires may not be met by massacring defenceless mammals; In order to nourish their abnormal cravings, they may feel the urge to escalate their killings.

These deviants are wandering around in the community, NOW! Free to satisfy their yearnings, to slake their thirst of unnatural desires. Perhaps by befriending your young child, or trying to date your daughter. Soon they may be in your house. Thinking, yearning, their needs and desires must be nourished, their urges must be fed. Until………….Bang!.... Bang!........ Bang! The culling has started again.

You’ve been warned. Heed my warning before it’s too late.