More Lies and Hypocrisy.

The Daily Mail or Daily Heil, as some like to refer to it, due to its historical support of Fascism, has been running an 'expose' on the National Health Service of Wales. This is really nothing more than a party political broadcast on behalf of the Tory party, masterminded by the 'Aussie mongrel' and well known tobacco and alcohol lobbyist, Lynton Crosby, and his Reichsfurher, Prime Minister David Cameron.

Cameron has adopted the tactic of continually criticising the Welsh National Health Service, He has mentioned it over forty times during PMQ's ( Prime Minister Question Time), in an effort to divert attention from the deteriorating performance of the English National Health Service..

At times the Mail has been printing nothing but scaremongering myths, which have been quickly destroyed by the Labour Health Minister for Wales, Mark Drakeford.

What the Tories cannot deny is that they are not trusted, by the British people, on the NHS and that the majority of British people are fully aware of the Tories objective to privatise the NHS and remove the principle of health care being free for all, at the point of access, irrespective of circumstance.

These attacks by the Mail are nothing more than a smokescreen to hide the Tories poor performance on delivering healthcare to Britain, which is an appalling mess, due to the disastrous top down reorganisation, that the Tories mendaciously said would not happen.

Within this piece of Tory inspired propaganda was yet another abhorrent attack on labour leader Ed Milliband's deceased father. The Mail are happy to trawl any depths for their Tory paymasters.

Of course the Mail is famously rabidly anti-European Union as well, yet Daily Mail editor Dacre, seems to have no difficulty accepting subsidies from the European Union for his 14,000 acre Scottish shooting estate. In 2012 he received 300,408 euros as well as 13,000 euros in Direct Farm Payments. Add into mix, the off shore tax avoidance activities of the owners of the Daily Heil, the Rothermere family, and you have a heady mix of stinking hypocrisy and a clear example that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbornes' mantra 'we are all in it together' is utter, utter, bull crap.

Time Wasting Tactics?
There is an inquiry into child abuse that should have got underway many months ago which, if carried out impartially, professionally and demonstrates no bias, may possibly blow wide open a scandal that will revolve around 10 Downing Street, the Tory administration of the 1980's and will drag in celebrities, politicians and establishment figures of every hue.

Why hasn't it got underway yet? Well mainly because the Tories keep selecting people to head up the inquiry who are patently unsuitable, so it keeps getting delayed. Suspicious stalling tactics? you may ask. Trying to kick it into the long grass until after the next General Election, perhaps? I think you may have a point.

Prime Minister Refuses to Wear T-shirt.

Prime Minster, Cameron, has refused to take part in a magazine campaign where the main political party leaders take a selfie of themselves wearing a T-shirt that says 'this is what a feminist looks like'. I've got no problem with that. If Cameron hates women, then he hates women. At least he's being honest.

Tory Britain?
A man, who was laying on a hospital bed, hooked up to machines after suffering a severe heart attack received a call from A4E, a work placement firm working on behalf of the government, and told he must attend a work placement or he may lose his benefits. The person ringing was very 'persistent' that he attend.

Nice to know they care, ain't it.

"The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner".

A Freudian slip and the Scum that Bring Shame on Britain.

When the Tory Minister for Welfare let it slip that he thought some people who were disabled were not ‘worth’ the minimum wage ( £6.50 per hour) and that paying £2.00 an hour would be more appropriate, the fact that his name was Lord Freud would have been funny if it wasn't for the toxic message he was sending.

Several reactionary’s jumped to his defence, claiming that he had a point and some people with disabilities were ‘worth’ less and that his attitude certainly did not have a whiff and taint that reminded you of an attitude once held towards the disabled, as well as Jews, gypsies and homosexuals, by a certain European country not more than seventy years ago.

There are claims that the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband, when he raised it at PMQ’s  (Prime Ministers Question Time), was trying to make political capital, when all he was asking was whether the government held a position where they felt disabled people were worth less than able bodied people. Prime Minister Cameron, thrown by the question, assumed his normal response, when caught out, of braying angrily back across the commons like a stereotypical toff scolding one of the estate peasants, and yet again attempted to use his own disabled son as a shield.

Unfortunately, this attitude of Freud’s is not an unusual one in 21^st century Britain. There appears to be a growing attitude within society, that disabled people are nothing but spongers and that the blind person or the woman suffering from cerebral palsy are just feigning their disability so they can fraudulently receive disability benefit. There is a sense that people are becoming prejudiced towards anybody who doesn't fit their closed view of normality and are resentful and envious of anybody they consider different. It is an attitude that was faced by Asian migrants coming to this country, Afro-Caribbean migrants, Jewish migrants, Irish migrants, even the Huguenots. In fact anybody viewed as different by the indigenous population.  Yet again the ugly head of the small-minded Brit, always worrying about what other people have got, raises it head above the parapet. No wonder that ‘little Englander’ party UKip (United Kingdom Independence Party) is supposedly getting a handhold in British politics. This is the type of society they would relish, where the strong turn on the weak.

I thought Britain was suppose to be a nation of fairness and progressiveness and that we protected the weak and vulnerable.But it turns out we are a nasty nation of men and women who turn on the defenceless and helpless because we think the pittance they receive, in order to live, is slightly more than we would like and if we paid disabled people less then we could have more. Quite frankly it disgusts me. I am British, I'm proud to be British and proud that I live by values where I believe the weakest in society should be protected because that is right, fair, civilised and humane.

An example of this apparently growing, nasty, mean spirited and revolting attitude occurred in a Tesco supermarket in Swiss Cottage, London, last week. Where a blind person was shouted and screamed at by three members of staff because she came into the store with her guide dog, which was clearly marked by the dogs’ high visibility jacket (feel free to e-mail the company or store, to ask them why their training is crap and that their staff are idiots. I know I will). These vile and foul individuals refused to listen to her, told her to leave, and to never ever come back to the store. The only silver lining to this disgraceful occurrence was that other customers stood up on behalf of the customer and her dog. But what type of horrid and venal human scum do you have to be to shout at a blind woman and her dog and try to evict them from a store? Sadly the lady in question said this was not an isolated incident and that she has experienced several other instances of this particularly unpleasant, cruel and nauseatingly prejudiced attitude since she moved to London. I’m all for building a wall around the M25, to encircle London and keep the misanthropic scum from poisoning the rest of Britain. Perhaps we could put a roof on it as well to contain their stink.

There is anecdotal evidence that taxi and mini-cab drivers refuse to take blind people if they are accompanied by a guide dog as well as  thousands of businesses across the land flouting the laws that apply to guide dogs. Of course there is a simple solution.You hit the transgressors with massive fines or imprisonment.

All people are equal, irrespective of skill levels or intellect. Paying someone £2.00 an hour does not give anyone dignity, it strips them of dignity. We need an inclusive and empowered society where all people are treated with respect. That way people will strive to succeed, which, in turn, will enrich lives, businesses and society. You have to build people up not rip them down.

Of course Lord Freud has previous when it comes to ignorant and disparaging remarks about people in need of welfare when he accused users of food banks as people making a ‘lifestyle choice’ that gave them access to free food. The toxic idiot is obviously unaware about the rules around food banks where a referral from a welfare agency is required and you can only use a food bank twice within a twelve month period. But let’s not be surprised when a Tory ignores the facts in favour of spewing out a piece of noxious, bigoted and ignorant propaganda.

As a final example of this government’s illiterate policy making, I bring you the case of Remploy. This organisation, set up by a previous government, operated factories and workshops that made furniture and other goods. It employed 10,000 employees, who were all disabled.

This government, in the form of Iain Duncan Smith, Works and Pensions Minister, Gods self appointed emissary on earth ,and Lord Freud’s boss, closed Remploy down and made 10,000 disabled employees unemployed, thus stripping them of any dignity they may have had.

NOW HOW STUPID WAS THAT!!

The Great Intern Scam.

Internships are nothing more than slave labour used by businesses to keep costs down and a way of businesses and corporations to abdicate responsibility for the training of staff. Unpaid internships cause massive social division because they deny children of less well off families access to work because of the impossibility of meeting living costs, whereas the children of well off families are able to take advantage of unpaid work because their wealthy parents cover their living costs.

This is particularly the case in London where poorer, but probably more talented children, are unable to get a foothold on the employment ladder, leaving the employment field open  for the less intelligent and dimmer offspring of the better off. This in turn increases social division and restricts social mobility.

It is a disgrace that many politicians take advantage of this free labour and many corporations have a 3 month revolving door of internships ,when at the end of the three months, a batch of new interns turn up to replace the existing interns, who are cast out.

Businesses complain that Universities do not produce work-ready graduates, but that is just another way of saying that businesses can’t be bothered to invest in training new staff and they expect others to bear the responsibility and costs.

Unpaid internships should be made illegal, universities should include internships within their courses, and businesses should be made accountable for training their new staff and paying them at least the minimum wage.

This claim of penury by massive corporations is laughable. You can guarantee that the executives of these so-called cash strapped corporations will all be in receipt of massive salary packages while claiming they cannot afford to pay interns the minimum wage.

Unpaid internships are a con and an example of the ‘something for nothing ‘culture hypocritically practiced by big business on a daily basis. Internships restrict social mobility and contribute to the current social division this Tory government is so keen to create and profit from.

Ban them! Ban them now! They are a con!

Prison Tariffs.

The release from prison of Ched Evans, the footballer who has served two and a half years of a five year sentence for rape, has highlighted a problem within the British justice system.

It is not that he can return to a lucrative career playing football while his victim must spend the rest of her life living with the consequences of his crime. The situation would be the same if it was a plumber or a lawyer. They've served their time and no matter how distasteful it may seem, they have to be allowed to rehabilitate themselves and earn a living.

The problem is with the length of tariffs given to people who have committed violent crimes, and rape is a very violent crime. Five years for committing rape is a pathetic length of time to be given.

The tariff for any violent crime should be at least ten years, with at least 75% of the tariff served in prison. This is the problem with the Evans case, not that he is free to continue his lucrative football career, but that the sentence he was given was not sufficiently long enough for the crime he committed.

Ebola.
An Ebola epidemic will demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of western health care systems whether they be public or private. I'm glad I live in a country that has a public healthcare system free at the point of access. I wouldn't want to be living in the USA right now.

#Save Kimi Campaign

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Kimi is a little white fox cub, who, along with thousands of other fox cubs, Burberry, the fashion company, will have butchered soon, so that the fatuous, vacuous, sub human scum they call customers can flaunt their butchered pelts in the name of fashion.
  
https://help.four-paws.org/en/call-burberry-be-fur-free


Shooting Themselves in the Foot?
The Tories are hoping to make it illegal to post material, considered offensive, on the internet. Does that mean that we will be unable to read the next Tory manifesto on-line?

“You quazy wabbit”. (Elmer Fudd).

The Ukip Blackshirts are on the Ramble.

As this blog is read around the world by people from parts of the world as diverse as China, the USA, Australia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and South and South East Asia, I will start the current edition off with a definition of a British Political party that is currently causing a stir because it won a by-election that was the equivalent of taking candy from a baby.

Definition:  UKip, The United Kingdom Independence Party is a populist, xenophobic political party that is anti-immigration and anti-European Union, and has no coherent policies on the economy, education or health care, other than they consider the NHS (National Health Service) an aberration that should be abolished forthwith. It is a party, that if it was in government, would happily withdraw the United Kingdom from the international stage to become the North Korea of the northern hemisphere.

UKip claims to be an anti-establishment party and attempts to distance themselves from the major parties, who they claim are run by out of touch, privately educated, establishment politicians and backed by rich city donors. Fact: Ukip is lead by Nigel Farage, who is the son of a stockbroker, was privately educated at Dulwich College, and before he entered politics he worked in the City of London as a financier. Fact:: The major donors to Ukip are wealthy bankers who previously belonged to or made large donations to the Tory party. It is a party that perpetuates myths and lies and is predominately supported by ignorant inward looking ‘little Englanders' who either lack the facts or wilfully ignore them for the purposes of self interest.

I agree that Westminster politicians are a discredited political elite,currently attempting to ride to victory at the next General Election, on a tidal wave of populism, who are out of touch, backed by self interested wealthy donors, and have ignored the concerns of ordinary people in favour of promoting their own party political ideologue. The point is so are UKip. The only difference being, UKip do not have any Westminster politicians other than the recent winner of the Clacton by-election, Douglas Carswell, who happens to be privately educated with a background in asset management. Although he claims to be a campaigner against corrupt MP expense claims, he has some shady dealings involving his own expense claims ( Loveseat?) that could do with some explanations. So no change there then. Also he once referred to the party he now represents as ‘barking’. UKip are a populist charade whose policies, or what they have of them ,can be destroyed in a second by applying common sense and intellect. Something the majority of UKip supporters appear to be devoid off. 

The leader of UKip, Nigel Farage, is cut from the same cloth as Prime Minster David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg, as well as hundreds of other MP’s. You can find someone like Farage in the bar of every golf and country club or private members club across the land. He is not unique; people like him have existed in Britain for decades. In fact another one is Boris Johnson, currently Tory Mayor of London.

It is interesting how the so-called two most charismatic politicians in Britain at the moment ( that's the view of the deluded and hyperbolic press and media. Not mine), Farage and Johnson, are given such an easy ride by the predominately right wing media. Neither of them are ever held to account or challenged for the many unsubstantiated, politically inept, or errant and misleading claims they make and both are often allowed, by media commentators and journalists alike, to escape any rigorous or robust interrogation of their policies or views. Both are treated like jovial and hale comic turns who provide a few laughs along the way. The only difference between the two,it appears, is that Farage’s predilections seem to be a decent pint and a cigarette, whereas, it appears, Johnson likes to impregnate women who happen not to be his wife.  Make no mistake, beneath Farage’s and Johnson’s bluff exteriors are two very unpleasant and toxic individuals, who, if given the opportunity, would blight the lives of millions of Britons for decades to come.

  

Returning to the subject of the Clacton by-election, as well as the by-election held on the same day in Heywood and Middleton. The UKip victory in Clacton and the Ukip performance in Heywood and Middleton  are being held as  potentially political landscape changing events until you study the numbers and the facts. The Clacton win was a simple case of a standing MP changing his name badge and surfing a wave of misinformation and dissembling. An anecdotal example of this was when a journalist asked a Clacton constituent why he voted UKip. The voter replied ‘because of the immigrants’. The journalist then asked the voter how many immigrants he thought lived and worked in the Clacton area. The reply was ‘there must be millions’. Fact: Clacton is 97.7% white. Unless there are thousands of Eastern Europeans in Clacton, that simple, factually accurate statistic, demonstrates the level of ignorance present within the Clacton electorate. This ignorance is happily fed by UKip propaganda as well as a complicit right wing media. If you changed the name of UKip to National Socialists and went back 90 years, to 1930’s Germany, I think you would find the same level of ignorance would be present as well as a similarly self serving and complicit media.

The Heywood and Middleton result is a similar exercise in spin and misrepresentation of any meaningful analysis. Fact: Labour vote in the 2010 General Election 18499. Labour vote in 2014 by-election 11633. Tory vote 2010 General Election 12528 Tory vote 2014 by-election 3496. UKip vote 2010 General Election 1215. Ukip vote 2014 by-election 11016.  Liberal Democrats vote 2010 General Election 10474. Liberal Democrats vote 2014 by-election 1457. Analysis: Tactical voting.Tory and Libdem voters tactically switched their vote to UKip,  leading to the collapse of the sitting coalition government's (Tory/Liberal Democrat) vote. The reduced Labour vote was due to a low turnout, not Labour voters switching their vote to UKip. The turnout will probably be higher for the General Election next year, so expect Labours large majority to be restored. You would expect so-called professional media commentators and journalists to provide an accurate and rational explanation of voting patterns but instead all they could be bothered to do was crank up the hyperbole and misinform the public, many off whom are happy to be spoon fed this bullcrap. 

So you see, UKip claim to be an anti-establishment party with the interests of the ordinary man on the street at their heart. They claim to be the antidote to the Westminstercentric old world parties, who are lead by privately educated leaders, and backed by powerful and influential corporate interests and wealthy donors, which is strange, because UKip are also lead by a privately educated leader and are also backed by powerful and influential wealthy donors with corporate interests. UKip are hoping to benefit from an ignorant electorate who are susceptible to fear and scaremongering, and who are either unwilling to source accurate information or would just prefer Britain to be turned into a golf and country club version of the Third Reich, standing isolated off the northern coast of mainland Europe. No influence, no opportunity, no hope and with no chance.

UKip, Tories, Labour, Liberal Democrats. You couldn't slide a cigarette paper between any of them. They are all establishment parties beholden to big business, corporate interests and the wealthy. They have no interests in the 99%, other than to harvest their votes every 4/5 years so they can continue their ideological trashing of Britain to the benefit of a wealthy elite. A pox on all their houses.  

There is one difference between UKip and the other establishment parties.The United Kingdom Independence Party are evil and if it were allowed anywhere near the levers of power it would be an absolute disaster for Britain, rather than just the disaster that is currently looming on the horizon.

But I’m no expert; I’m just a man on the street.

Ebola.

I don’t want to say I told you so, but................

A post from my blog dated 8th April 2014.

A Prophecy?

The end of mankind will not be signposted by fiery thunderbolts, floods, famine and plague.

It will be destroyed by Hemorrhagic Fever, otherwise known as ..............

EBOLA.

Posted 1st July 2014.

 “A Nuclear Armageddon will not wipe the human species from the earth. The Ebola Virus will.”

Posted 28th July 2014.

It's Coming!!
Two doctors die of the Ebola virus in Liberia.

Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria. It's coming people! it's coming!

The Question is. Why the sudden panic? It's not as if they haven't had the facts or the time to get themselves organised.

"If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor". ( James).

The Week In Bits No 7.

' All in it Together' Bull Crap. No 34657.
The Tories brazenly declare that they will make the working poor pay for the deficit created by Tory donors and bankers by freezing tax credits for the low paid while giving tax cuts to the wealthiest in society (Tory donors and bankers). These tax cuts are all unfunded and if they had been made by the opposition would have been described as reckless, irresponsible and a 'con' by the Tories. Double standards?

Respect in Death?
A women outed as a troll by Sky news commits suicide and although now dead is still referred to as a troll, rather than her given name, by major media outlets. Several news outlets cry crocodile tears in a desperate attempt to justify their own activities and double standards and to cover their arses as the realisation of their own, apparently legitimate, trolling activities are brought into the spotlight.

Top Gear Tragedy.
 TheTop Gear production teamed are stoned and run out of Argentina because of a license plate on one of the cars being used for filming, that may or may not have been a reference to the 1982 Falklands War between Britain and Argentina. Jeremy Clarkson survived. He, the gerbil and that other one 'bravely' hid under beds in their hotel. They don't like it up 'em. Do they Mr Mainwaring?

Barefaced Lies?
Sacked Education Secretary, Michael Gove, brazenly claims, on a political discussion show, that the Tories are not privatising the National Health Service. His nose grows six inches.

Distasteful?
At the Tory party conference, Prime Minister David Cameron, distastefully invokes the death of his disabled son in an attempt to gain political capital. There are some topics that should respectfully remain private.

Name Calling.
Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt, calls Prime Minister David Cameron ' a low rent PR man' for accusing him of hypocrisy because he was educated at an independent school. Cameron may be 'low rent' but he is also high maintenance as he has currently cost Britain a National Health Service and a Welfare system and is now trying to remove our human rights.

A Damning Indictment
"WWF International is a willing service provider to the giants of the food and energy sectors, supplying industry with a green, progressive image … On the one hand it protects the forest; on the other it helps corporations lay claim to land not previously in their grasp. WWF helps sell the idea of voluntary resettlement to indigenous peoples," 

A damning indictment of the largest conservation charity, WWF International, and their links with major corporations such as Coco-Cola, Shell, Monsanto, British Petroleum, HSBC and Cargill in Wilfried Huismann's forthcoming book Pandaleaks.

Impartial?
For the first time in almost three years the Tories have a lead in the polls. The right wing press are crowing about the forthcoming election victory for the Tories. Unfortunately they conveniently forget to mention that it is only one poll result and that all other polls still show a healthy lead for Labour. They also conveniently forget to mention that the poll in question is a Yougov poll. The founder of Yougov is Nadim Zahawi, currently Tory MP for Stratford on Avon and, as a bit of added colour, was caught charging the taxpayer £5822 for heating the stables on his 31 acre £1 million home. All in it together are we Mr Zahawi?

Tuition Fees.
Germany abolishes all tuition fee's. Britain increases tuition fee's to £9000. Oh dear coalition government, oh dear. Germany leads the way again.

It's the new political correctness gone mad.
From now on it is no longer de rigueur to shout "it's political correctness gone mad" when you think the world is disappearing into a PC/ liberal morass. Now you must scream ' it's bloody human rights, that's what it is that's got us in this state ', preferably in a mockney accent last used in 1950's black and white films, when you feel another human being is being treated with courtesy and respect and you find it downright annoying. It's the law now.

"Last night  I saw my death,

I'll let you know when I see yours"