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).