More Right Wing Hypocrisy

The Tory yelps and screeches, as they try to label Ed Milliband a Trotskyite, would be hilarious if it didn't demonstrate the stinking hypocrisy of the Tory’s and their collaborators within the right wing media as well as demonstrating a lack of veracity and integrity along with a level of immorality and scaremongering that, frankly, is disgusting.

They scream ‘Red Ed’ in an effort to tarnish him and frighten the public into believing he is some sort of communist bogey man that has arisen from the past waiting to infect us all with the red scourge, when all he has done, in reality, is suggest that he will help people struggling with household bills by freezing gas and electric prices if he should come to power in 2015. It’s hardly threatening to nationalise all private property and remove elected parliaments. Is it?

Another example of rank Tory scaremongering is their risible accusation of Stalinism, aimed at Miliband, because he threatened to compulsory purchase land banks from house builders if they refused to build much needed new housing on them. The Tory’s conveniently forget they are currently trying to push through the HS2 rail project, which will cover over 200 miles, south to north, along the spine of the nation, involving hundreds of compulsory purchase orders being issued. So, according to Tory definition, we can label the vanity project, that is HS2, a Stalinist project.

The right wing press are happy to act as the Tory’s Einsatzgruppen’s, with their shrieking headlines about the apparent onrush of communism, but yet again, they parade levels of hypocrisy that are truly disgraceful. The obvious current example being the Daily Mail’s treatment of Ed Milibands father Ralph. The Daily Heil attack Ralph Miliband as ‘the man who hated Britain’ yet conveniently forget he fought for Britain during WWII, whilst serving with the Royal Navy, while the Mail’s Editor-in-Chief, Paul Dacre’s father spent the war as an entertainments correspondent in London, probably hiding away in some sleazy Soho bar.( how did a fit 18 yr old avoid the draft?)

The Tory’s scream socialism if they think public money is going to sections of society they consider undeserving (the poor) yet are happy for public money to be used to guarantee private mortgages, fill the coffers of private companies such as G4S, Serco or Work Programme companies, use state funds to build infrastructure, such as HS2 or Olympic stadiums, as well as giving tax breaks to married couples and the wealthy.They have no qualms about handing over millions in public funds to ideologically suspect people to set up academy schools, but they cannot abide the thought of less fortunate people benefiting through cheaper fuel bills or cheaper housing. In short they are happy to be the recipients of public money, the mantra being 'poor people claim benefits, middle class people receive benefits',  they just don't like other people benefiting from it, who are not of their ilk.  They will gladly ignore the effects austerity is having on social care, the care for the elderly, the marginalisation of the disabled and demonisation of the poor while they themselves suffer no effect, as 80% of the cuts are being imposed on the bottom 20% of the population. They parade their smug 'i'm alright jack' attitude with pride.

You would think, from the squealing right wing reaction, that Miliband had said that all gas and electric would be free from 2015, instead of frozen. Miliband’s message to the utility companies is that their massive profits would be the same in 2015/2016, as they will be in 2014, but that consumer interests comes before shareholders. Profits will still be made, investment will still be available and dividends will still be paid. The utility companies will still be very wealthy and cash rich, but ordinary people will be better off as well.

At the root of this ridiculous and over hyped reaction is the Tory’s drive to corral their wealth and protect it, aligned to a fear that Labour are talking about enacting popular policies that affect, positively, people’s daily lives. This is the freedom Labour has. They can enter policy areas that entrance for Tory’s would be ‘verboten’. Tory’s cannot affect policy in areas such as banking, energy, retail, hedge funds or business because they would be attacking their paymasters, the large Tory donors. This is why they concentrate on welfare, the NHS, and immigration. These are the few areas Tory’s can ideologically change, without fear of affecting their voter base or their bank balance, whereas Labour can talk about price freezes,a living wage or taxing the bankers without fear of a backlash from backers or the majority of voters. The right wing use disingenuous tactics, also used by Republicans in the USA, such as terms as ‘socialist’ or a ‘liberal’, in an attempt to frighten the public, as if moving to the left would be a catastrophic evil and the right wing cause is just and good. After all that well known right winger, Mr. Hitler was a lovely chap and all those generals running right wing junta’s were just being playful when they were dropping bound and gagged dissidents from helicopters, into the sea.

Right wingers will happily champion any policy, no matter how morally bankrupt it may be, if they see there is a buck to be made and it will not affect  their vested interests, no matter what side of the Atlantic they’re on. And they will gladly disinter the rancid ghosts of McCarthyism or Stalinism, in an attempt to scare the ‘plebs’, to facilitate it.  What they cannot stomach is the thought that poor people, somewhere, may benefit from any initiative they are asked to contribute to, hence the right wing hatred of the NHS and the BBC, especially if there is a danger they themselves may miss out. The Tory’s specifically and the right wing in general, are greedy, greedy people and like spoilt indulged children, they never want to share, and will lie and scheme in order to feather their own nests. 

Cameron’s Bluff Has Been Called.

The Tory backbencher Adam Afriye has called out Prime Minister Cameron on Europe. Cameron’s promise of a referendum on Europe in 2017 was nothing more than a bribe to the electorate to buy votes and an attempt to staunch the flow of Tory’s migrating to UKIP. Many Tory backbenchers felt it was nothing more than a lie and come 2017 the referendum would be punted further into the long grass. Afriye will fail with his Private Members Bill. He has no real support, apart from a small coterie of Tory backwoodsman who spend their days on the back benches whittling, playing duelling banjo’s and chewing baccy. But it has highlighted Cameron’s lack of integrity.

American Idiots.

How stupid or how selfish do you have to be, as a politician, to take an action that forces your government to close down? While the Republicans are busy allowing ideologue and self interest get in the way of rational thinking, thousands of ordinary citizens are being pushed into debt and the possibility of house repossession, leading to homelessness. How selfish do you have to be to allow your ideologue facilitate the eviction of families and trashing of lives?

The irony being, the reason for the Republicans egotistical and self-centred action, Obamacare, is going ahead as planned, allowing millions of low paid and poor Americans to be able to, at last, access healthcare.

Something that should be freely available to any citizen of a civilised nation in the 21^st century. Americans should hang their heads in shame for allowing it to take so long.

Wild West?

On the subject of stupidity, quite how a woman suffering from post natal depression is gunned down by police in Washington is beyond me. Sometimes the USA comes across as a big country full of frightened small people. Boo!!! Yeah, see, made yer jump. Yarrgh! I’m already in the house. OOOOOO!!!!! I’m coming up the stairs to get you. OOOOoooo!!! Bunch of scaredy cats.

Formula 1

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Prince Harry.

During the Taliban attack on Camp Bastion, which resulted in the death of 18 soldiers and destruction of millions of £££’s in hardware, it was at first suggested that Prince Harry had to be rushed to a safe house. This proved to be inaccurate, so I was comforted to read that he had actually managed to sleep through the entire 5 hour long fire fight.

 The Taliban launch an attack to assassinate him, leading to the death of 18 soldiers and Harry can’t even be bothered to show up.

RIP

Yesterday, Wildlife Minister benyon was sacked. My response is blunt. Good Riddance, you bird slaughtering, animal murdering, self interested scumbag!! Now you can spend more time in your counting house, counting the millions you receive in taxpayer funded benefits, through the Common Agricultural Policy.

Congratulations.

Congratulations to Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, on his recent election victory. The Azerbaijani Electoral Commission is so efficient it decided to publish the results 24 hrs before the polls actually opened. Outstanding. 

Definition of a Tory.

Someone who says government doesn't work then gets elected and proves it.