Twitter: The Views and Opinions Expressed...........

Before I continue I must make a declaration. I do not use Twitter and I have no wish to. It may be considered a suitable conduit to use by some, to air their views, but I myself am not at all interested in whether somebody had scramble eggs for tea, or a strangers opinion on the latest Dr Who episode, although I do agree it is a good tool that allows many people to air their views on subjects in very quick time and can be used for positive means.

However, the main conversation around Twitter is invariably about the levels of abuse some people are faced with and the types of extreme views that can often be read on it. Some feel that Twitter abdicates their responsibility as a publisher by allowing abuse to be broadcast and do not censor tweets that contain examples of racism, sexism, homophobia and misogyny. But it is not Twitter’s responsibility to act as the worlds censor. Twitter's only responsibility, if a crime is committed, is to aid the police fully whilst they conduct their inquiries. After all, even if a Twitter account is deleted, each tweet has a unique identifier and can still be traced.

Normally, examples of abuse make the headlines when a ‘celeb’ has been abused, an obvious example being when a man was arrested for making unpleasant comments about the dead father of the diver Tom Daly. The police sprung into action and arrested a man for being nasty and unpleasant, which I do not think is actually a crime at the moment, although I’m sure many ‘celebs’ would love to see it added to the statute book. The police, however, are not as quick to act when a member of the public is abused and you get the feeling that the level of justice received, and time devoted, is not based upon the crime committed or the level of abuse, but by the public profile of the alleged victim.

People are often surprised by the levels of hate witnessed on Twitter and many attempt to portray it as just a small coterie of inadequate and sad individuals banging away at keyboards in their bedrooms late at night. They are described as ‘trolls’ or dismissed as ‘keyboard warriors’ in an effort to reduce and pigeon hole them as losers. It is an attempt to diminish, because people cannot accept the cold facts that most abusers are normal people, living normal lives and ,‘celebs’ in particularly, cannot accept that they may be disliked by some of  their target audience, so attempt to belittle anyone who is critical of them or their work. I think it is probably a defence mechanism adopted to bolster their fragile self esteem. This tactic of demean, deride and dismiss is encouraged within most areas of the media, where journalists and broadcasters adopt an arrogant and self serving approach, bordering on pomposity, towards online journalists and it is also a variation on a tactic that was, and still is by some, used by the majority of the public in order not to face the truth about paedophilia, where they are happy to depict a paedophile as a dirty Mac wearing monster, out on the street, when the unpalatable and statistically proven fact is that the monster is probably already in the house.

This is also the case with most racists, homophobes, sexists and women haters. They are not all sad individuals without any friends and poor levels of hygiene but instead they are ‘the man down the pub’, they are lawyers, call centre workers, builders, shop workers, they are husbands and sons, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, a case in point being the two men that were found guilty last year of online abuse of the ex-footballer Stan Collymore. The two men standing in the dock were not unwashed, unshaven, unemployed and uneducated, but two students currently studying Law at university. Although that may not now be the case if they both have criminal records. The point being, racism, homophobia, sexism and misogyny have always been prevalent within all sections of society and still are. Twitter gives people the opportunity to broadcast their ‘isms’ nationally and internationally whereas previously they had to confine their prejudices to the pub, the workplace or the home. Twitter is not responsible for the message, it is only the conduit used to carry it. Don’t blame the messenger; blame the people who mistake freedom of speech as having the right to say whatever they want without any responsibility attached.

The question is, ‘why are people so angry and so full of hate?’ I do not have the statistical breakdown by race, gender, colour, sexual orientation or religion of all online abusers. Those statistics do not exist but I will take a punt and say that I would not be surprised if it was proven that the largest section of abusers were white, straight and male, not to say that women, homosexuals and ethnic minorities cannot hold their own when it comes to hate filled and irrational points of views.

 So why so much hate towards strangers? All hate is predominately fuelled by fear, whether it be a fear ‘they’ are taking ‘our’ jobs, ‘our’ homes, ‘our land’ or, taking it to an extreme, the fear of being harmed or killed, the fight or flight instinct. It is innate within us all. When I was a kid growing up on a large council estate, every autumn ‘travellers’ would form an encampment on the outskirts of the estate and every year we would go and fight them. I never really knew why, I just felt obligated as a local kid to go and fight the incomers who were, apparently, different to us.

 Add into the mix a frustration and anger at an unfulfilled sense of entitlement and we might be getting closer to understanding, if that is the right word, why there is so much hate, anger and intolerance directed at immigrants ( taking ‘our’ jobs, homes?) women ( taking men’s jobs?), welfare claimants ( taking ‘our’ money?), or Islam ( taking ‘our’ land?).

This is just a hypothesis, I do not know the answer and neither do you, but I think people feel disenfranchised, powerless, and angry, and have a sense of resentment and injustice, gleefully fostered by politicians and the media, that they feel the need to exorcise by hitting out at people they perceive, incorrectly in most cases, as the perpetrators who are the cause of that resentment, rather than addressing the ‘real’ reasons for their own evident discontent, which is a government that governs for the few and not the many and the fact, that some find hard to come to terms with, that we live in a progressive society where gender equality, race equality and acceptance of someone’s sexual orientation should be a given.

 If that hate, anger and frustration could be positively channelled into confronting and challenging the real evils in this world, such as immoral self serving politicians, tax avoiding multi nationals and corporations, the tax dodging wealthy, illegal loggers, dolphin slaughterer’s and the suppurating and evil smelling sore that is the right wing press, we could build a fairer and much more meritocratic society and perhaps we would all be far more happier with our lot.

 Until then, the abusers are just going to have to suck it up and try to move on. It’s the year 2014, not 1914, which of course was a perfect exemplar of what happens when we allow hate, greed, intolerance and the political expediency of the few to profit over common sense and the interests of the many.

 Thank you for taking time out to read my frequently inane and often absurd ramblings.

Election 2015: Battleground NHS!

Apparently the Tories have sorted out the economy and we are now living in a land of milk and honey (on minimum wages and zero hour contracts? it must be magic). Unfortunately we are now being subjected to, not only the triumphal braying of the inbred, but the never ending scaremongering of how a Labour government, if elected, will spend all our taxes on gold plated mopeds and kittens for the poor. Which is strange really because last time they were in power they spent most of our money on schools, hospitals and Surestart centres. But the Tories have never let the facts get in the way of a lie.

The real battleground on which the next election should be fought will be the future of the NHS (National Health Service). It is a war that is partisan and ideological and if lost by the left will lead to generations of future children trying to survive in a society with a USA style, marketised health care system where health outcomes for the poor will worsen decade after decade after decade, leading to life expectancy levels within a large section of society reverting to pre WWII levels. Well, that’s what the Tories hope will happen.

The main reason the Tories want to wage an ideological war on the NHS is very simple. They hate paying for the health care of the poor. They also see privatisation as a way to make a quick buck for themselves and their friends and family. Hence the salient fact that many Tory MP’s work for private health care firms. Where they get the time, I do not know. I thought being an MP was a full time, pressurised job, which is why they want an 11% pay increase. This involvement with private healthcare will, and does, lead to impartial decisions being made which detrimentally affect the patient.

The United States health care system is a perfect example of how a profit driven system is tailored to the wealthy, how a large percentage of the population are denied access to health care, leading to suffering and early death, how private health care leads to the cutting of corners for the purpose of increased profits and how big business colonises a sector for the benefit of the few and disadvantages the many.

Examples of malpractice in the US are frightening. There was the hospital, that in order to avoid treating a woman with psychiatric problems, put her in an ambulance, drove her across town, and dumped her outside another hospital, before speeding off. Or the man who is selling his restaurant to pay health costs for one of his waitresses because she has a tumour but does not have health cover to get it treated, so would be’ allowed’ to die a slow painful death in the richest nation on the planet. Add to those examples the many instances of people being denied treatment because of pre-existing conditions and you have a dysfunctional pernicious system tailored for the benefit of the few. The USA pays almost 15% of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product) on healthcare, yet its healthcare outcomes are some of the worst within the western world. The UK spends about 8% of its GDP, but do you know of any teenage girls in the UK, left to die of a brain tumour, or patients being dumped outside hospitals because Health Trusts do not want to treat them.

A UK/USA trade pact will lead to American medical firms and health insurance companies flooding over here and colonising the health care market. Their main objective will be to make money off the backs of the sick and infirmed, not provide the best healthcare in the world, which is what the NHS currently does provide. A highly paid health Insurance executive from the US doesn't care about dirt poor children from Arkansas dying of leukaemia, do you think they’ll be that bothered about health outcomes amongst the poor in Lambeth or Liverpool. Their one and only concern is the bottom line.

In 2013, 75% of all NHS contracts have been taken up by private companies. The long term effect of privatisation will be services considered profitable will be cherry picked while Cinderella services, like varicose vein treatment for the elderly, will be left to wither on the vine. Openness and transparency will diminish because companies will withdraw behind a veil of secrecy in order to protect current and future contracts and avoid scrutiny, while whistle blowers will be hunted down. Bad performing companies will hide statistics, and instances of deaths and malpractice will be concealed and, because of legal aid cuts, victims and family will not have access to justice which will lead to high profile examples of malpractice and abuse such as Mid Staffordshire Hospital and the recent care home abuses being concealed and perpetuated with impunity.

There have also been failures in private health care provision, the PIP breast implant fiasco and the out of hours service in Cornwall that had to be taken back into public care and where the taxpayer was left to pick up the tab, to name two high profile examples.

Other drawbacks of a privatised system that a public system does not suffer from are the fragmentation and diminishing of services, the lack of connectivity and communication between services as well as a reduction of staffing levels to facilitate the profit motive. It is evident that when profit motives are involved staff levels are always streamlined which will lead to worse health outcomes and an increase in deaths. The current government claim they have employed more nurses but it is just more spin. They have had to employ more nurses and other medical professionals because so many are leaving the NHS due to the top down re- organisation.

Another concern is hospitals that are allowed to supplement their budgets by charging for private care which could lead to private work being prioritised over NHS treatment, which in turn will create longer waiting lists.

 The National Health Service is one of the greatest and most humane inventions the world has ever seen. Before voters exercise their mandate in 2015 they need to ask themselves a simple question. Do they want  to be the architects of a world where their children and grandchildren’s first concern before calling a doctor about their sick baby is where their credit card is or if they can afford to pay for treatment, the worst scenario being a delay in consultation leading to that child dying of a deadly illness such as meningitis.

It has been proven that contracted out services or privatised industries have always lead to less value for the consumer and higher prices, along with large profits for the private companies, prime examples being water and utility companies and train service providers. This is always the case when the profit motive is involved.

It is the duty of all civilised nations to provide a health care service free at the point of access based on clinical needs not on the ability to pay. It is the duty of every voter to use their mandate to benefit society and to fulfill their part of the Social Contract, not for their own benefit but for the benefit of future generations.

Your grandchildren's future is in your hands. Do not let them down.

The Butchers of Japan.

Currently hundreds of dolphins are being butchered and slaughter in a cove in Taiji, Japan. They are herded into a cove, kept imprisoned for days, before being dragged up on to a beach where a metal pole is driven into their spine and they are left to suffocate and die in extreme distress and agony. The people that perpetrate, and those that condone, this brutal barbarity are sub human scum. It is the same type of inhuman treatment that was meted out by the Japs, upon POW,’s during World War II.

The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree, does it.

Coalition Hypocrisy No:2,657,672.

Chief Secretary of the Treasury, Danny Alexander, otherwise known as the ‘ginger rodent’or 'Beaker' has claimed, since the coalition was formed, almost £ 10000.00 in travel expenses for ferrying his children around. Alexander lives down in London for part of the week when parliament is in session, so presumably he is separated from his family. It is a job he chose to do but I can understand the need to stay connected to his family by ferrying them down to London to stay with him. However there are two questions that need answering.

Q1: Why does a man, who is paid almost £ 120000 + expenses per annum, charging the country to pay for ferrying his kids around because his job takes him away from home? It is his choice to be a Member of Parliament. Many people work away from home but do not have the luxury of forcing the country to foot the bill.

Q2: Presumably Alexander stays in a rented property while in London, which he charges the cost to the taxpayer. When his children come to stay do they sleep in their own bedrooms or on a Z-bed in the front room? I ask this question because, with the introduction of the Bedroom Tax, people in receipt of Housing Benefit who have bedrooms that are not occupied seven days a week must pay extra or if they cannot afford it they risk eviction. This affects fathers who are separated from their children and only see them when they visit at weekends. So why is Alexander charging the country for under occupied bedrooms when surely he should be paying for the extra bedrooms himself.

This type of example demonstrates the hypocrisy that festers at the core of an out of touch coalition government whose motto is ‘Do as I say, not as I do’.

The Minimum Wage.

There is a current discussion doing the rounds about whether the minimum wage should be increased. Those opposed to an increase defend their position by suggesting it will cost jobs. A preposterous defence if ever there was one. Firstly, let’s make it clear, any employer who pays the minimum wage is really saying to that employee ‘you know, if I could pay you less, I would’. They defend poverty wages by suggesting paying more will put the company and jobs in jeopardy. It’s just scaremongering and self serving bull crap. You only have to walk into the car park of any Head Office and look at the cars in the executive parking bays to discover the disparity in pay in most companies and where the money can be finance an increase in the minimum wage. The fact that employers do not even value their staff enough to pay them 5p or 10p above the minimum wage shows the contempt they have for the people who make it possible for the ‘execs’ to drive top of the range motor cars and to be able to slink of home at 4.30 pm.

In A Tory World.

Recently, on a radio discussion show, a right winger accused another panelist of being ‘a bleeding heart liberal’.

 Only a Tory could think that caring about the plight of others was some type of crime against humanity. Only a Tory could think, that by accusing someone of being a caring individual, they were actually insulting them.

Thank you for taking time out to read my frequently inane and often absurd ramblings.

Benefit Street and Hypocrisy

The Channel 4 programme ‘Benefit Street’ is yet another example of the lazy generalisation and the demonization of an unrepresented minority within our society that allows politicians, employers and the nation in general to abdicate responsibility for their policies, attitudes , the provision of a living wage and to turn their heads away from some inconvenient facts.

 ‘Benefit Street’ is a televised Daily Mail view of the world, a paper whose readers should, perhaps once or twice, lift their heads up and look around and perhaps they may form their own opinions rather than allowing themselves to be fed pernicious, reactionary inaccuracies and generalisations. But I suppose thinking for themselves would be too much to ask of their particularly small brains.

‘Benefit Street’ is just another example, of which there are many being perpetuated by the media, both visual and written, including, sadly, the BBC, and of which this government is happy to see perpetuated as they continue their policy of ‘divide and rule’ by turning rich against poor, black against white, Christian against Muslim, gay against straight, poor against the poorest, and those on welfare against those who do not claim.

Of course there are many people who are part of the section of society who does claim welfare benefits, but yet wilfully pretend, or ignore, the inconvenient facts that they are in receipt of benefits. These are the true hypocrites. The people who happily jump onto the bandwagon of stigmatising and persecuting other welfare claimants but conveniently turn a blind eye to the Child Benefit they are in receipt of, or the Working Tax Credits they receive, or the pension they receive along with the warm weather payment, free bus pass or free television licence, or, if you’re a farmer, the taxpayer funded subsidies benefits you receive for not ploughing a field. It’s easy to pick on the weak and defenceless. That’s what cowards and bully’s do. These are the same people who gather behind the fascist banners of the BNP, UKIP and the Tory party, hoping to see some ‘leftie’ skulls being broken. They’re the same people who if you caught them alone in an alley they would cower and whimper like the serial masturbator’s they know themselves to be.

 And of course, let us not forget the biggest benefit claimants in the land, The Monarchy, and their enablers, the claim addicts supreme, the politicians, who happily allow the tax payer to cover the costs of their food, heating, TV licences, mortgages, rent, light bulbs, heated towel rails, bath plugs and dirty videos while implementing policies that make poverty a crime and treat the working classes as undeserving criminals who must bear the brunt of austerity while the ruling and the political classes, as well as the wealthy, are allowed to escape any austerity measures and are free to continue to accumulate wealth within an economy that they trashed and destroyed.

I am fully supportive of our welfare state. I support the payment of Child Benefit, disability allowances, JSA and pensions, a country should be judged by how it treats its poor, the elderly, the disabled and the vulnerable, although I do recognise that there is a very small minority who play the system, of which evidence was apparent within the programme. What I cannot abide is someone who, if, for example, they have two children, will be in receipt of upwards of over £50000 in benefits, yet attempt to claim the moral high ground by claiming to have worked all their lives and never received a penny in benefits, even though this is patently untrue, or an Employment Minister who happily partakes in the persecution, through lies and misinformation, of a vulnerable section of the community while purchasing some cushions and a heated towel rail and charging them to the tax payer. This is nothing but stinking hypocrisy being perpetrated by frauds who expect others to keep their part of the social contract yet consider it acceptable for themselves to break their part of the agreement for political or personal gain. Their motto is ‘do as I say, not as I do’ when it should be ‘I’m a stinking hypocrite, do not believe a word I say.’

All I ask for in this argument is for honesty. For people to portray the facts and speak truthfully, but all you get are people distorting the truth, exercising their own prejudices, conveniently ignoring their own hypocrisies and tailoring the argument to their own self serving agenda while punishing a defenseless minority for the purposes of personal or political gain.

Perhaps Channel 4 or the BBC would like to make a programme called ‘Tax Dodge Caribbean Island’ and highlight the billions in tax avoided and evaded by Big Business and the wealthy, although I doubt the Daily Mail and their tabloid cohorts would review it. Probably because the tax arrangements of certain newspaper owners and media types do not bear particularly well when scrutinised.

‘ Do as I say, not as I do’. Hey? Why don’t we all live by that motto? As well as ‘What’s yours, is mine.’ That’ll have ‘em fainting in the shires.

Stupid Gove.

Apparently, according to Education Secretary Michael Gove, we have all been cruelly mislead by devious socialist historians into believing that WWI was an orgy of carnage where millions, lead by inbred upper class simpletons, were driven into a charnel house of slaughter, when in fact no one died at all except a cow in Ypres. And Gove should know, because before becoming an MP, he was a journalist, so he’s a bleeding expert on the subject!!!!!!

More Hypocrisy.

In this age of austerity, The Mayor of London, Boris ‘buffoon’ Johnson, a man notorious for fathering children with women who happen not to be his wife, has decided he would like to waste thousands in taxes on the purchase of water cannons. No doubt he is in fear of some type of uprising, ‘a London spring,’ perhaps by all the women he has had extra marital affairs with. Why else would he want to divert thousands in tax payer’s money which could be used to improve the quality of life for Londoners? I expect Londoners will feel almost obligated to riot now, just so they can get their money’s worth. After all it seems a shame to let the water cannons gather dust in some wharf side warehouse if there’s a chance of putting the tax dollar to work while getting a new pair of trainers and a shower into the bargain. Just don’t forget the shower gel and your swimming costume. And pick a nice hot day my ‘cockerney’ friends. It’ll be fun.

Plebgate.

PC Keith Wallis, the officer found guilty of misconduct in public office has resigned. The MP involved, Andrew Mitchell, wants to know why the police tried to ‘fit him up’.

Mr Mitchell, the answer is probably because you are a rude, arrogant, pompous snob who believes he is entitled to abuse a police officer with total impunity. If you had treated people in the manner you yourself would wish to be treated then we would never have had to suffer this apparently, never ending saga. Let us hope you have learnt your lesson and in the future you behave more respectfully towards people who are only doing their job. A job which, although is far harder to do than yours, receives only a fraction of the remuneration you receive. So do us all a favour and stop whining on and on and on and on an...................

You’re not special, you’re a civil servant.

Thomas Hitzelsperger.

The international footballer has let it be known that he is gay. The media reported that he had ‘admitted’ he was gay, as if he had been doing something wrong and had decided to come clean. It feels like we are still living in the dark ages when somebody announcing they are gay is news. As a society we are not as progressive as we like to pretend.

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

Government End Of Year Report.

Economy:  Grade. D.

Osborne ( The Chancellor Of The Exchequer) has lately been suffering from extreme bouts of triumphalism and smugness, which is strange considering he has not hit a single forecasted target, is currently overseeing the largest fall in living standards since the Victorian age, driving people to food banks ( the 7th richest economy, are you sure?) and has accrued more debt in 3 years than the previous government managed in 13. Osborne has overseen an economy where work is no longer assured for more than a few months and where people have no idea how much money they will earn in a weeks time let alone a month or year. This has, through the use of zero hour contracts and short term contracts, lead to the creation of a slave class that is no more than a resource to be dipped into by employers and then cast aside for the purposes of profit. Still, at least the millionaires and Tory party donors are happy with their tax cuts.

Must do better or maybe just f£*k o&&.

Work and Pensions.  Grade. D-

Work and Pensions Minister Duncan Smith has overseen the demonisation and stigmatisation of a section of society that the Nazi's or Hendrik Verwoerd ( Father of Apartheid) would have been proud of. Whilst he himself lives in a mansion free of charge he has subjected the poor, the disabled and the vulnerable to a tyranny of hate mainly through the Bedroom Tax, but also by using them as scapegoats for an economic collapse perpetrated by the banking industry , who have been allowed to get off scot-free with their crimes.Add to that, the millions wasted and the incompetence involved, in the implementation of Universal Credit, along with the fabrication of unemployment figures and you have a picture of utter failure.

Just f*** o%% IDS.

Health.  Grade. D-

What is there to say about the Minister For Murdoch. The top down reorganisation that the Tories promised, in their manifesto, would not happen. The privatisation and destruction of possibly one of the greatest and most humane inventions the world has ever seen ( The National Health Service), Accident and Emergency closures, care in the community collapsing, leading to the elderly suffering unimaginable hardship and deprivations, mainly because of the introduction of zero hour contracts and grasping private companies putting profit before care. Hunt is gleefully bringing the NHS to it's knees and he is enjoying it.

Education.   Grade. Fail.

What is there to say about Gove, other than he seems to want to return education to the 1950's, of which he seems to have a rose tinted view of, and teach children an unchallenging, unquestioning, patriotic view of Britain's place in world history whilst ignoring all the nasty bits. And anybody who allows that well known breast spotter, Toby Young, anywhere near the education of children, particularly young girls, must be an utter world class kn**H**d.

Housing. Grade. Fail.

Failed to build any low cost or social housing and allowed landlords to profiteer on the back of welfare, by failing to regulate rents while creating another housing bubble with the 'help to buy' scheme which allows people to rack up tax payer guaranteed debt which may create another economic collapse when interest rates rise.

Immigration. Grade. Fail

What an absolute horlicks this governments immigration policy has been. Using Ukip ( United Kingdom Independence Party) induced tactics, such as 'go home' advertisements on the sides of vans, simply because they would rather electioneer than implement a robust policy, demonstrates the frightening level of incompetence that is prevalent within the current government. They constantly fabricate figures and ignore the elephant in the room by failing to acknowledge that immigration within the European Union cannot be controlled, therefore immigration cannot be controlled effectively. Instead they pander to the far right by employing reactionary scare tactics in an effort to look tough. It's a joke.

Foreign Policy. Ungraded.

Cameron tried to drag us into another Middle Eastern war, ( do these people ever learn) but was thwarted by Parliament, ( thank christ).

Department for Media, Culture and Sport.  Grade. C.

The legalising of gay marriage was a success and surprising, considering the Tory party is full of homophobes. The constant BBC bashing is nothing more than political expediency and is becoming tiresome in the extreme.

Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Grade. Fail.

The badger slaughter was a disgrace and nothing more than a veil used to cover up dirty farming practices by tax payer funded benefit claiming farmers. Also the failure of this government to make it illegal to shoot hares during the breeding season is a disgrace. One bright spot was the sacking of bird slaughtering Wildlife Minister Benyon. May he rot on the backbenches for an eternity and a day.

International Development. Grade. C.

Although sending money to countries that can afford a space program is ridiculous, I do not consider myself to be part of the group of knee jerk reactionaries in this country who would deny the poor and impoverished a leg up just because those self centred fools cannot afford the latest flat screen television or mobile phone.

 Transport. Grade. D-.

HS2, what can you say? Spending billions on a massive vanity project just so you can get to Birmingham 20 minutes quicker, seems like a punishment not a benefit. 

Prime Minister. Grade.  D-.

An editor of a right wing tabloid, ( yes! that's right, right wing tabloid!) describes Cameron as ' a chancer and a political opportunist'. I think you can apply that tag to nearly all the front bench. Cameron is a vote chaser, he goes where the money is. His motives are personal and in the interests of himself, not of the nation.

His greatest crime is to have made poverty a crime and treats the poor as criminals. Which, when you consider he is a multi millionaire of inherited wealth who has not had a proper job in his entire life, is pretty vomit inducing. The shame will stain his soul for ever.

End of report.

Suicide

Suicide figures have increased dramatically since the current government came to power. Some people have suggested that the victims are selfish for taking their own lives. It is wrong to accuse a person of being selfish if they believe they are living a pointless life with no hope. They have the right of self determination. It is the accusers who are being selfish. There attitude is that they expect someone to carry on living a daily life of desolation, pain, isolation, hopelessness and futility because if they choose to end it then the accuser will be effected negatively. It is the accuser who is selfish not the person considering taking their own life.

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. 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!

      
EU farm Subsidies and the feudal state.

These subsidies should be scrapped. As they are paid to landowners, the more land you have the more money you receive. It’s a 21^st century feudal system where the serfs pay, in taxes, thousands of pounds, to the biggest and most wealthiest landowners.

Every household in Britain pays over £200 a year to keep wealthy landowners in the style they have become accustomed to. Some of which happen to be Tory MP’s.

 So the Lords of the Land are not that bothered if we don’t doff our caps or tug our forelocks anymore, as long as we keep coughing up the money, so they can continue to ‘live their lives on benefits.’

Joke.

Date: 23^rd November 2000

Place: Manchester United Training Ground.

United Manager Alex Ferguson:  Why’s Beckham looking so happy?

Asst Trainer: Dunno Boss

AF: Look at him. He’s looking pleased as punch with himself.

Ferguson walks towards Beckham.

AF: Hey Becks, why are you so happy with yourself?

David Beckham walks towards Ferguson with a broad smile across his face.

DB: Well Boss, last night me and Victoria finished a puzzle. On the box it said 5-7 yrs, but it only took us four years.

Ferguson turns and walks away shaking his head.


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