Showing posts with label Tory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tory. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 February 2022

A message to a Tory voter

Imagine a few years from now, you've been to the doctor's, it was a little niggle, didn't seem much to start out at, then comes the waiting to find out more. Weeks pass, months even. An appointment arrives and a specialist takes a sample or two. There's another wait, this time a little shorter and you're called by the doc again to come in and have a chat. The doc says it's cancer, but they caught it a little late, you can have treatment to extent your life but it's inevitable. You will die. 

Then it dawns on you. You had voted Tory to protect the NHS, you had voted Tory to keep your job, you had voted Tory because it was your patriotic duty to do so, to keep the foreigners out, to keep Britain for the British. Yet, your specialist was not British, the nurse who took your bloods was not British and you're still dying. You voted Tory. The lie reaches it's conclusion. Were there really enough doctors and nurses to see you earlier seeing the specialist would of been quicker, getting on a waiting list would of been shorter and your life would of been somewhat longer.

Worse still now imagine it's not you but someone you love in your family, your partner, a child, an uncle or aunt, your mum. All because you voted Tory against your own best interests. You voted to decimate your own health care, you can't afford a private operation and why should you because you've been paying tax all your life. But the Tory reality is wealthy people pay little if any tax. They ensure their money is theirs and nothing is skimmed off by the state. A little like those very big corporations, the ones who have made a killing and made multimillionaires even wealthier. The likes of posh talking people. The likes of those who run tabloid newspapers. The very newspapers you read each day telling you to vote Tory. So lets ask the question. When did those millionaires and those newspaper owners become interested in you and your health? When?



Sunday, 23 August 2020

Imoral, misguided or just plain corruption

Boris Johnson has been in power as the head of government for more than a year. He won the Tory leadership contest first and then in December 2019 went to a General Election. So we should only count the days from the GE date rather than the leadership date. He won against an opponent who was toxic to the electorate middle ground. Corbyn, and Corbyn did not consider standing himself down regardless of the heap of negative press which came out of the majority of newspapers. His far left stance was old Labour and granted he whipped up support from the younger generations, he was never going to win those kingmaker mid-political-spectrum-votes. The consequence, a whopping 87 seat Tory majority and a disastrous result for Labour. Effectively now, Boris can do anything he likes in government. To cement his control Boris kicked out the experienced voices of reason, the ones who had level heads and might rebel.

Brand new MPs were engaged in Parliament with fresh willing-to-please faces. The sort who'd never been so high in politics before, eager to side with their master, do what he asks, because it is the Tory party that matters. It is power that matters and he has it all. Yet, in reality Boris is not running the country it is his special advisor Dominic Cummings and what Cummings says Boris follows.  Boris has no strategic plan of where to take the country is area of expertise is jingles the sort which sell tabloids and editors like, especially the "get Brexit done" which no doubt in many years time will be inscribed on a tomb somewhere.

With this government what normally would of been sackable offences and front page news has little value. In years gone by a scandal hitting the headlines would of led to being hounded out of office no longer is this the case. The old news cycle of yesteryear would reveal snippets of information over a few days, papers got their teeth into the story, pressure would mount up and the culprit ignominiously be kicked out of office. But the master of distraction is Boris, he termed the throwing a dead cat on a table.

It's a story which distracts from the primary news, simply a magicians method of misdirection. The news cycle has rapidly changed from hour to hour rather than day to day.  This government ensures the reigns of press are particularly weighted to the Tories as well. Yet we go from one disastrous news item to another, both in themselves they'd singly ensure a change of minister but rapid distraction is like a magician shuffling a deck of cards keeping them in office. We simply forget what happened, we stop shouting at yesterdays news and are aghast at today's news. With so many inept individuals in cabinet, making so many egregious decisions there is always something new to put in print, and so the distraction process of incompetency ensure they stay in power. They have all been promoted beyond their ability, more so than schools' exams fiasco.

Looking across the pond we see similar diversion methods being used by Trump, again a man not fit for office.  British government no longer plays by the rule of honour. Which is Johnson's choice, as the PM sets the culture and the rule book has been thrown out. Services which should go to public tender are given to colleagues to make a quick buck. Independent legal teams such as the Good Law Project are crowd funded are doing their best to bring these persons to account. Yet, these acts of appropriation should not be happening in the first place! This is so outlandish there must be a conscious decision making process going on behind it. It cannot be because of some misguided vision of the world because it is happening repeatedly.  Jobs for the lads can be seen as Cummings farming out contracts to friends.

How can this be right? How can they be getting away with running a government as though it is their own version of Monopoly and they have the cash tin? Again it comes down to an 87 seat majority and a disregard for unstated rules of behaviour and what can only be judged as corruption.

Test, Track and Isolate was taken up by Dido Hardy Harding a pitifully bad executive of Talk Talk who negligently allowed customer data to be hacked, her husband also an MP is on the 1812 committee and is an advocate of privatising the NHS. She also was on the board advocating the Cheltenham Festival take place just as Covid 19 had hit the country.

Rishi Sunak used to be a corporate hedge fund executive working for the Children's Investment Fund management. Which had been blacklisted for tax avoidance. He was also involved in the attempted raid on an American company's pension fund. Something he may consider to put in place for British pensioners in the future. After all he has to try and pretend he's interested in making the books balance. I doubt though whether he has as much money as his multi-millionaire wife. In government, he plays the art of doing what he's told he has no control over budgets he just likes to look competent. Then there was the case of Chris Greyling, the only man to ever buy a cross ferry contract for a company which owned no ferries and then to not get himself voted onto the intelligence committee because for once MPs did
actually vote conscientiously for the best person for the job Julian Lewis. There's talk Cummings wanted another puppet and access to the MOD. What a slap in the face that must of been? It stung so hard the Tories removed the whip from him. He is effectively chair of the highest defence committee in the country with no party. As for Dominic Raab who can ever forgive him saying he would prosecute the Dunn parents using the full weight of his Office for daring to challenge the manslaughter of Harry Dunn and requesting Anne Sacoolas come back to Britain to face justice. His judgement is despicable, he is a nasty individual. His quick wittedness is legendary especially for the time he admitted on prime TV only just realising the importance of the Port of Calais
in BREXIT negotiations. Lastly, lets also not forget the bumbling Matt Hancock a man who likes to lie to your face. He could never have passed his Maths at school because tests sent out in the post are counted as completed tests. He goes on camera and has the appearance of the pupil who didn't do his homework and has to answer questions from a teacher. It's getting to the point the most benign Tory backing interviewers such as Nick Ferari make Hancock look like an idiot and they don't mean to.

This is the worst successive Tory government we've had since the ones before and nobody would of thought it possible. A further three years of this government will lead to riots in the streets, will lead to marches on parliament and will lead to an absolute break down of civil society the like this country just has not seen and would never of thought possible. God help us all, if you believe in a non-existent useless entity that would be the most useless thing to say. A little like our government.

Thursday, 2 January 2020

Pinning the tail on the political donkey

So we come into 2020 with the last part of the decade being the most politically toxic it has been for
many years. It is easy for me to say Cameron who was full of arrogance and no substance, May the uptight leather jean wearing recluse and now Johnson the narcissic PM were not and are not my representatives of good politicians or heads of the British political system. None of them deserve a place in history none of them have the qualities of a leader I'd follow in any situation. Unless it just happened to be a clown show. Johnson's run has only just began and the worst part of all he has managed to pull on board voters over from Labour to Tory. Voters who will over the next 5 years have much time to realise the mistake of their ways. It's been stated madness is doing the same thing over and over again and hoping there will be a different result. Since 2008 the Tories have been in power and the stagnation of the UK economy continues, it's not getting better for anyone unless you happen to be a millionaire megalomaniac sitting in the highest seat of power we have, i.e. parliament.

If there were a hell, in December 2019, a very special place was made for those incumbent Labour voters who changed their mind and voted the Tories into power. A strength which has seen them now gain an 80 plus seat majority. This is in my mind the most disgraceful behaviour a traditional Labour voter can have and with no doubt such voters will have to contend with the deceased souls of their families who are no doubt raging with fury. Those ghosts will become poltergeists in the next few months. I personally feel each one of these individuals will in some way get to feel the results of their actions pretty soon, but will likely deny those results.

Getting the Tories into power has never been about Brexit, this is just what Hitchcock would call the McGovern. A reason for the story to be strung along. The Tories being in power is to as usual ensure Tories are better off in this world than those who they see as plebs. With the next 5 years they will financially kill Britain, selling off everything they possibly can and making money on everything they possibly can and say it is an efficiency measure. The death of the NHS is but a 1000 sword strikes away, as they under fund it yet at the same time say it has the biggest injection of cash resources it's ever had. A true statement which can be said every single year by every single government, easily satisfied by just giving the NHS more money but ensuring it is below inflationary measures. Effectively the NHS will be starved of resources, if you want health care you will have to personally buy into private health care which costs on average £1500 per year per member of your family. Of course if you have a pre-existing illness this will not be treated.  At present we have suffered 10 years of austerity now we're about to leave the EU then our free trading agreements will also end, so will the quick entry and exit of goods and services from and into the UK as tariffs will need to be added. Tariffs which the purchaser will be required to pay for not the government, so wait and see your shopping basket go up.

The right wing tabloid media had a wonderful time in the election of December 2019, they touted fear politics and Corbyn was the easiest target to hit. Democracy has been attacked successfully. This was not a game of pin the tail on the donkey blindfolded. In this scenario the donkey was endowed with the biggest backside in the world and the blindfold was lost, a huge spot light focused on that bottom and with the stench of a recent big shite even the visually impaired didn't have a problem hitting the mark. However, the thing with the tabloid media is it eats up news more readily than any machine can make news. It doesn't take long before the same tabloid media starts to throw out verbal crap on the disgraceful behaviour of their own Tory MPs, who will with no doubt provide lots of news worthy items. Very much like being stuck on an island of cannibals who've just finished of their rival tribe now looking eye fully at their over fat great uncle who will nicely fit in next week's cooking pot.

As the children's party ends each beautiful little child walks away with a goody bag, a little cake some sweets and perhaps a small prize they won from the events of the afternoon. Maybe even a paper cut out donkey tail, they are happy. However, for those who voted Tory but live ordinary working class lives, those who believe in a just and equal society but still voted for this government their disappointment or perhaps guilt for doing so will become a large burden on their back to carry around. They are not going to be able to seek medical attention for it because there will be no GP surgery there to attend. Maybe we'll see a resurgence of modern day witch craft, a return to ignorance and bigotry long ago removed through education. But of course there will be little education about either as classroom sizes increase. Oh dear what Britain becomes in the future will be something Hercules would have a problem carrying on his back.

Saturday, 24 August 2019

Trade with a lunatic they call a president, ha!

It is beyond belief America has an orange turd as president, one who can barely read, is a narcissist and believes he has a hot line to a non-existent super entity many refer to as god. Oh dear. Lately as Britain moves towards the inevitable cliff edge we call BREXIT, which is the ultimate in self-flagellation in my opinion, the notion has been we can negotiate a trade agreement with said turd. The erroneous justification is to have respect for the office of president. Even if there is no respect in the actual holder. Lets get this absolutely straight, a corrupt villain who loves to negotiate hard deals with those who are in desperate situations rubs his hands together in anticipation he is about to shaft the entire UK and fist pump his way to heaven, is this who you would have us negotiate with?  Whether Bozo Johnson will have any insight into the obnoxious idea of do or die, and die being a hell of a more salient reality is also another dilemma. For the single reason of having to deal with the orange turd we should just call the whole thing off and stay in the EU. Until said lummox has been put to rest and with such permanence we'll know he'll never return. Perhaps on a never ending golf course where he can cheat at every hole and is always declared the winner. It's not just that he's president, his craving for attention is greater than a toddler who is running off with it's parent's shoe and thinks it's fun.

Nobody really knows what WTO rules mean, lets face it. Life is short and nobody in their right mind would bother to look them up. Yet this seems to be the get out of jail excuse for those who have voted to leave the EU. Unfortunately, they to have not the inkling of what WTO rules mean. They are pulled out of a hat as if to say, this is the end of the conversation, I've won and you are the loser. The issue is we will all be losers and the country will become a much less of a financial powerhouse, even if the same voters believe we are a power house. Fact is, we do an awful lot of trade in the world but this doesn't make us rich, because the deficit is increasing. Our borrowing continues and equanimity still has not been reached. Perhaps the reality is, it never can be reached the way we are going. The economic model this country is living on is dying. The constitutional model our political system is run on is also in the last throws of a poisoning. Each and every inhabitant of this country wallows in ignorance, or should I say some a lot more than others. There are 66 million people here, our elderly population is growing disproportionately, our working population doesn't earn enough to pay the taxes to look after said elderly. Something has got to give. Maybe a cliff edge BREXIT will do it. There will be less access to medical supplies from the EU and there will be less access to food from the EU. The ultimate result will be an increased mortality rate, the vulnerable, elderly, young and disabled will surely be picked off as casualty figures. This is a very real issue. I don't understand why those who voted just don't get it. My prediction is, a substantial increase in mortality during the first years of BREXIT, an increase in poverty and the gradual re emigration of EEA nationals back to their own countries to get away from a UK which will effectively become a developing or rather declining sick man out of Europe.

Monday, 18 June 2018

Chope the misgenist dinosaur

Sir Christopher Chope is the latest nasty Tory MP to be put in the wringer. Quite rightly to, it was his shouting out of the word, "Objection" which led to the prevention of a private members bill against
upskirting. The only MP in the entire commons to object and prevent a very necessary piece of legislation. For no real reason than he wants to be known as the MP who has killed more private members bills than anyone else. He doesn't care what their content is, he doesn't care that some of those bills are actually very good pieces of legislation. It's thought when Chope shouted out his "objection" he didn't actually know what upskirting was and didn't know why he was objecting. This is probably a fact rather than a thought. He is after all an MP who is out of touch with reality and out of touch with his own constituents. Who are probably all wondering why this man is still their MP.

Chope is MP for Christchurch and has been since 1997. Further he is the typical far right back bench Tory MP, he's voted against same sex marriage five times, voted against employers of 250 or more from publishing the pay of women versus men, voted in favour of the bedroom tax and voted against assisted dying. From 11.09.17 to 03.10.17 Chope visited the petrol pumps 8 times and at each filling took £45 of petrol this is a total of £360 which he then claimed as expenses. His record of filibustering and blocking private members bills is so long as to be more the modus operandi of a career convict waiting for the next victim to come along so he can mug them. This man is a dinosaur, the British Museum have been called in twice to authenticate he is still alive and not actually a fossil. If you are a constituent of Christchurch how proud you must be to have him as your representative. Unless of course you happen to have shown your disgust by decorating Chope's office with the obligatory string of knickers, which no doubt he likely considered putting in his desk draw for later.When he's tucking into his cup of tea and packet of biscuits just thinking if only he were a higher order knight rather than a third class just about knighted knight. They type which has no honour and should not be in parliament in the first place.

The fire hose outside Chopes office is probably there for a reason, just in case his staff enter and feel the need to douse him in cold water. This individual should not be in office and to prove it he has been reprimanded by May. Further the government are going to publish the exact same private members bill word for word. Why is such a man still in office? He is a misogynist of the first order and someone who is not representative of the British voters.

Christchurch constituents, do us a favour and show this old fuddy duddy dinosaur the bottom of your boot.






Monday, 7 May 2018

Working Class and Tory

There is one political thing more than any other which gets my goat. Which makes me want to scream "are you crazy" it is when working class voters go out and select Tory candidates at elections. Be this local elections or government elections. When I hear of an individual doing this I get angry and want to call them a traitor. I know anger does no good and understanding is the better option. Through understanding it might be possible to discuss and sway opinion, but stifling the red mist can be a difficult thing to do. So a mist arose when a caller to the LBC radio station announced to Nigel Farage he was a Tory voter and he was only on an income of £8.50 per hour. Further he stated voting Tory was a result of him believing he was voting for the good of the country and voting on policy. Opinion may well be this man is misguided in his belief, for it is Tory governments which increase the national debt and increase poverty.

In 2001 national debt of GDP in the UK was at it's lowest at 30 per cent, this was during a Labour government when Tony Blair was prime minister. Now in 2018 as a proportion of GDP the national debt is approximately 85 per cent, and the debt outstanding is £1.6 trillion. Debt has never been as high as this under any Labour government, so to say it is good for the country and Tory policy done it, is completely wrong. Tory policy has done nothing but bring this country to its knees. Poverty in the UK is now affecting 3 million people, there is more child poverty than there has ever been. Lets not for get it was a Tory government which removed the Education Maintenance Allowance, monies which kids used to get so they could stay in education, pay for their books, and generally be able to sustain themselves without cadging pocket money from parents. Waiting times for NHS treatment have got longer and longer, the policing budget has reduced to such a low level it is common for there to be a stabbing or shooting on London streets every single day. In March 2018 there were 22 murders in London, this figure is noticeable because it is higher than New York. London had effectively become the murder capital of the world. So when a working class man says it is Tory policy which is good for the country this shows no more than just an individual who hasn't done his research, hasn't looked at the facts, or has been highly selective, which is pretty true of the Tories anyway.

Another option to consider is that these working class individuals believe by voting Tory it in some way makes them better than those who don't. Perhaps this is because they have fallen under the spell of the Tory propaganda machine. Actually believing what they are told, the likes of Guido Fawkes for instance or even Sky TV. It's like there is a simplicity of mind, they are taken in by arguments which don't stand up to reason because reason has not been applied. They accept correlations and don't know what a correlation is, but it sounds convincing enough. Then are influenced by rich prestigious powerful people on the news or on TV, but at no time think to ask who these people represent and why they say the things they say. The buffoon millionaire Boris Johnson he says things which are funny and outlandish, he's an odd one out but what he says because it is taking the mickey out of someone else because it is said in such a jovial way is listened to, until of course his opinion leads the to the even longer sentencing of a British National held abroad by a radical government. Boris is a man with as much tact as a bover boot, he doesn't think and just says it, he should never in a million years been allowed to have been given the mantle of foreign secretary. A slip of the tongue and an inability to be diplomatic when diplomacy is the currency of life has pushed the UK backwards into the laughing stock of international politics. When historically the UK has been the most highly oiled diplomatic machine in the world. How can a working class man vote Tory and not see this, and not know and understand the media is and always will be tainted by a bias and has to be fact checked on everything, has to be questioned. Even the BBC, the aunty of the national should be evaluated on what it says, especially when it tells you in the Local elections it has been a disaster for the Labour party when in fact the Labour party had done pretty well. Something is a miss, something doesn't add up.

The only way a Tory party machine can win elections is if it lies and it convinces working and poverty stricken voters they should vote Tory. Keep the voters in ignorance, spin a few false facts, make the Labour party appear to be spend thrifts who want nothing but to make hard workers pay more and for business to take the brunt of Taxation and more Taxation paying for everything. Yet under this Tory government there can be seen no success story for business, they haven't grown and prospered and with the result of BREXIT this country is about to lose the biggest trading partner it has. The result means even less business, fewer jobs and more poverty. The worst is yet to come, it is not here yet. I voted BREXIT because I was fed up of paying more money into the EU than the country was getting out of it. I was under the niave conclusion such a club should be neutral, but it isn't and it seeks to lift up the poorest EU countries by just giving them subsidy after subsidy. The gravy train of subsidy doesn't work, yes we have just shot ourself in the head in what is no more than economic suicide. As 27 other countries go to war against us for having the temerity to decide not to be in their club. The vote was also on two other factors, immigration in the UK which has become higher under this Tory government than any other government, hitting an all time monthly high of 333,000 net migration at one point and lastly as a vote against a toffed up millionaire arrogant bastard called David Cameron, who has had so many oporunities in his life has no idea of what it is like to want breakfast cereal in the morning only to find there was, not only no milk but no cereal either.  The Tories by definition have never known what it is like to be deprived of food and to just about get by. But they will talk the talk and walk the walk as if they are here for the working classes, as if they are here for the just about managing, 

They aren't they never will be and once working class man you understand this then you will no longer be a traitor to your own kind, your life will get better standard of living improve and you'll never boast again how you voted against your fathers.

Tuesday, 6 March 2018

Shipley West Yorkshire - are you proud of Philip Davies your MP?

It is odd how certain places in acquire a stereo type image. Anyone would think Yorkshire of all places would be a friendly down to earth left leaning place. A place where being neighbourly and looking after each other was a norm. Yet somehow Shipley has elected in a Tory MP. Well, it is their privilege to elect whomever they want, however Philip Davies has got a bit of a name for himself. He's the one who likes to prevent as many private members bills single handedly. No matter what they were for. An example would be fellow Tory Nusrat Ghani, who tried to stop the use of the term 'honour killing' for simply it is a misnomer, there is no such thing in it and it should be called out for what it is, murder. The use of the word honour bestows an aura of justification not criminality or evil doing, there can never be any honour in killing. Even though we all think about it at times to our relates the vast majority don't do it. Then there was the occasion when Davies talked and talked and talked, by doing so he filibustered Caroline Lucas's bill in which she wanted to make sex and relationship education mandatory for kids. In fact you'd of thought such a bill to be quite reasoned, Davies didn't think so. He did the same to prevent the Istanbul Convention from ratification. This set a high bar for which violence against women should be dealt with. In a bill to allow free hospital parking for carers he did it again and in another bill to ensure landlords made their properties fit for human habitation he again gassed long enough to kill the bill. In fact it looks like Davies is the original Kill Bill.


So why Shipley, why, have you allowed this man to continue as your MP? People of Shipley is this who you really want to represent you, because it really does look like here is a man who represents himself very well. Do the people of Shipley also think and speak and feel the same way as Philip Davies? Because it is hard to believe they can for this behaviour is pretty low. To take this further there is now a video of a very distraught Luisa Omielan who tried to interview Davies, in a brief and upsetting interview she tried to understand why it was the NHS was suffering from cuts to it's services. Luisa had witnessed her own mother die in a NHs hospital and she was seeking to understand Philip Davies position on the matter. But it didn't end up as one rational person talking to another. Philip Davies shouted, accused and blocked Luisa from leaving with her camera recording of
events that had taken place. It can only be because Davis had shown his underbelly, not only is it yellow and cowardly it was the belly of a bully a man who tells doesn't listen and certainly is not worthy of the post of being an MP. A man who represents Shipley and you have to ask should this man have any power at all in the corridors of Parliament, for it seems there is more compassion in a sewer worker than this individual.

Now Luisa Omielan is a comedian by profession and she's not a hard wing left sympathiser, she does care about the NHS and her experience of it was on a personal level, an intimate level. In witnessing the decline and death of her mother. This is a person who had something to say and her voice should of been heard. Perhaps she should of asked to speak to Jeremy Hunt instead, but then surely any Tory MP should be able to show compassion to another individual and hear what they say. Followed by giving their astute political opinion on the issue raised. In this instance her interview with Philip Davies was scheduled and set in his diary so he had time to consider an answer. The interview wasn't about him being accosted out of the blue by a member of the public it was about him accounting for himself in what is a reasonable request. He didn't rise to it as a gentleman and certainly not as an honourable MP.

People of Shipley, seriously, is this who should continue to represent you?

Friday, 16 June 2017

The incompetent Teresa May

It seems like Theresa May is being hit by the most unfortunate of circumstances, the kind of events which determine an individual's personality, the kind which are a bare all to the world. So it is. First came the decision to have an election when her poll ratings were stratospheric, not a bad decision some might think however, this led on to the election campaign. During which May was shown to dislike the prospect of a face to face confrontation with the other party leaders, she preferred to say it was the electorate that mattered. Her case would be put to the voters and she would only take questions from the voters. Stating this was a little like dodging a bullet, unsucessfully. This bullet didn't hit her in the head but it did disengage her ear from her head instead. For May's performance on TV was disasterous, she came across as the Maybot, spouting of cliched comments and then there were some embarassing questions to which she physically shrinked in front of the cameras. Where as Corbyn had ascerbic questions and a pan full of flaming fried rice thrown at him, yet he stood his ground particularly on the issue of not wanting to kill millions of people with nuclear weapons. May however wouldn't mind pressing the button providing she also allowed her fellow wealthy people to get in a last fox hunt before the end of the world.

So that counts two events, calling an election and then barely turning up for the campaign. A third bite of this pretty vingery cake was when May decided to get in bed with the Democratic Unionist Party. Who could be termed as a strong if not far right wing faction of the Tories, a party which has endorsements from the such like as the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), the Red Hand Commandos and the Ulster Defence Force. Lets also not forget to mention the DUP are creationists believing creationism should be taught in schools, abortion made illegal, there should be no such
thing as same sex marriage, capital punishment is acceptable, perhaps they'd use capital punishment against the LBGT community if it was considered an appropriate method of making them normal heterosexual again and so have become kingmakers for May. In an obvious quirk of fate where the media had previously chastised Corbyn of perceived terrorist sympathies we now have an actual prime minister who is actually supported by a part of right wing terrorists if not interlectually challenged. Further the agreement with the DUP is not a carte blanche support for every policy May's government will put forward, but rather a selective when they coincidentally agree with the Tories. So May's government have to ensure their policies are right wing enough to get that additional support only an extremist would consider reasonable. Of course by siding with the DUP May has now successfully thrown into the air a question of whether the Good Friday agreement will continue unharmed, for if the IRA start counting their bullets we are all in the shit.

And lets throw a fourth and highly sensitive event she has face planted her poor version of humanity, i.e. the towering inferno of death Glenfell Towers, where at least 30 people have died and with the actual numbers likely to exceed 100 and more. At Glenfell when May visited she did not talk to a single survivor for imagine if she had, the tabloids would of gotten her in an extremely embarressing situation because relatives would of wanted answers and compassion. May spoke to the fire services but could show no humanity to the survivors or residents of this area. When May left a church in the area, she ran out of a side door to shouts of "May's a coward." There is no compassion in May, not for poor or working class people, she comes from the same cloth as many Tories. The one which arrogantly has written through it, "I am better than you." So it is, May has thumped a nail in her own coffin the likes of which can not be removed. The other nails she put in varied from small to medium, the Glenfell Towers one is a big rusty nail and she has not only smashed it in the lid she cut her fingers on it and is now being poisoned. Probably not fast enough for the likes of many.

So after one very arrogant Cameron we now have an equally arrogant and disasterous May, Cameron was the worst PM for the working and poor classes but May has now outstripped him. When will she go? When will this woman be thrown out with the very dirty bath water?




Monday, 1 May 2017

Teresa May doesn't like the public

It is painfully obvious Teresa May does not like to canvas and certainly doesn't like to engage in the throws of a debate which could lead anywhere. For her politics has to be controlled, it has to be engineered and a script written. She must be prepared before she gives a speech or an interview, and in doing so knows exactly what she will talk about and will not talk about. This has been evident in her interview with Andrew Marr when told nurses were using food banks her response was to say the reasons were complicated. So the thought of having a TV debate is terrifying, she really doesn't like the stress of the camera or a debate which could meander off to anywhere. She is afraid and so she should be. For in reality even Cameron's debate with Corbyn was somewhat lacklustre so the same would be more so with May. When going off script she is like a cat thrown in the sea.

Whether the electorate or media like it or not, opinion polls are always used as guidance to tell us where we are now. Yet the last election showed they were woefully wrong. Their predictions completely missed the target and why might this be such a salient point? For simply the nasty Tory party have been shown to hold a twenty point lead, so what if they are so wrong now and what if this lead is no a lead at all. There is a gamble when any election takes place, but there is more of one when it was not needed. May just did not have to go to election, she has forced it because she saw an opportunity and she still believes the opportunity exists, that she will not only win but in doing so will completely wipe out Labour, perhaps for a generation. All because Labour have lost momentum even thought they have Momentum, they are not showing votes in the polls. Like any good Tory, May has ensured the relevant boundary changes have happened to help strengthen her position, to put her party back in power. She also sees the force of the media as backing her and has a hubris of invincibility about her. Corbyn appears as always to be his own worse enemy, but perhaps so is May for now we are getting to see her spots, getting to see exactly how wide that yellow streak is down her back. Like a chinese general Loa Tzu, she believes she is in a fight she can not lose. However she may well lose because of her own actions. By alienating the media, by engaging in BREXIT talks with the same stupidity you'd only normally see from Trump. She has made it seem BREXIT equates to a vote for the Tories, but this is losing the plot entirely, BREXIT and voting Tory are two very different things. Perhaps she hopes by clouding the waters no one will see her slight of hand as she pulls out of the hat a red white and blue bunny rabbit.

Mark my words, if May doesn't do a TV show and doesn't debate on live TV she will come off the worse for wear, just as she is now looking rather craggy and old. She needs to take a seat, sit on the sidelines and keep her trap shut. But of course she can't, this will be her downfall.

Sunday, 10 July 2016

Immigration it's now an open debate

The discussion about immigration is no longer an elephant in the room and rightly it is being examined in greater detail since the referendum. The reason for this is a sudden increase in hate crime. Unfortunately this has given those who voted 'remain' to then make the outlandish and false remark that BREXITERs are racists. It is again a gut reaction and there must be an English word for false accusations made by people who then want to justify their stance. A little like Cameron's exceptionally misleading comments on poverty or spending on the NHS, although in small part right they are also large part wrong. They are so misleading as to be lies. So accusing an out voter of being a racist is without foundation, especially when there were 17 million who did decide this way.

Those who voted out of the EU did so for multiple reasons and yes one of them is because of immigration. Something we all have a view on and we all have different experiences on. The first premise which must be made in such a circumstance is immigration has historically been a good thing for the UK. Perhaps in thirty years time from today we could look back and say the immigration here and now has also been a good thing. However, it may not feel this way at all at this moment in time. Not now, not if you happen to be a white working class or rather poverty class individual who can barely scrape enough together to make ends meet. At a time of forced austerity by a government which clearly does not care for the working classes and the poverty stricken.

Any vote by any BREXITER based primarily on the immigration issue is one of psychology. It is  based on the concept of scape goating and is all about opportunities and motivation. I recall growing up, having to attend secondary school in a class which had in excess of over thirty pupils. A class where for the most part it was supervised baby sitting. Learning is not conducive in such environments.  Today there is the example of a 28 year I know who got his first entry level job at the age of 23 and is still in the same entry level job. He gained a qualification which I could not recognise it's called BTEC.  He is afraid to leave his job because it took him a long time to get it. He has the potential to do better but didn't have the educational opportunity and was bought up in a poverty family situation.  It is the failure of opportunity of an individual's potential which then leads them to resigned poverty, institutionalised by a system which does not help. Of those young voters who voted out 25 percent did so.  This is not so minor a number for the Remainers to consider it insignificant. Yet they do and they like to think it was younger progressive people who voted to remain in the EU and not some of their own age who also voted out. Let us also consider it is entry level jobs which are being taken up by EEA national immigration to the extent there are real incidents of jobs being advertised in other EEA countries first before being advertised in the UK. There is something very wrong going on here.

My personal experience of immigration is based on things which happen every day in my life. Such as getting on a bus yesterday. Living in a part of London which years ago would of been considered the suburbs but now is probably just as much inner London as inner London can be.  There were fewer white English males on my bus than many other ethnic groupings. Even though the actual bus driver was a white English male, the people on the bus were of all mixed groupings. I certainly heard Polish being spoken, Turkish and then there were African's whose tongue I can not decipher, probably Nigerian but Africa is a continent with 49 countries in it. In probability I would say they were likely Nigerian because England now seems to be a place Nigerian's are coming, something I know as I have worked with many for many years. This daily bus ride is not a one off, it is a regular occurrence and it does feel that I am no longer a majority in my own country.

My BREXIT vote is something I will stand by, because indeed immigration has played a part in it. I don't see myself as a racist and treat people as I would like them to treat me. I understand the need for humanitarian protection for refugees, but I do not accept economic migration.  As with losing weight. Eating food is essential to live, but having too much is not good for your health.

The last year has seen the UK take in 333,000 migrants whereas 30 to 40 years ago this would of been in the tens of thousands. So tell me REMAINERs are these levels acceptable?

Twenty plus years ago I had a conversation with my Turkish neighbour, he'd had a quadruple heart bypass. He said he was is a specialist ward. While he was in hospital and waiting for his operation there had been an emergency and someone had jumped the que, the patients laying in beds were told they in turn would have a delay to their operations. He was bitter as he described what happened, another immigrant had been given priority. So it would seem there now immigrants to the UK who are in turn pissed off at yet further immigrants coming in after them. It is one of numbers and one of sustainability, but it is also one of political government and opportunity for all. Something Tories don't seem to give a damn about.

Saturday, 29 June 2013

Making the poor even poorer

The Tory government as always proves it is in government for the rich.  They vilify those who get welfare benefits, picking on a few extreme examples to stir up scape goat feelings against all the poor. They have hit Tax Credit payments and so reduced the income for 70 per cent of working families. The minimum wage is still kept excessively low and has not increased in line with real inflation. It is now considered lower than a living wage, the minimum wage is in fact a pauper's wage and less. The Tory party have been careful not to anger pensioners and kept their welfare benefits and incomes sacrosanct. There is good reason this has happened as it a fact pensioners vote more than any other part of the nation. However, there are rich pensioners who claim benefits they don't need to actually receive. Just as there are pensioners who have not contributed to society by working their entire lives. Just as there are people quite capable to work who have chosen not to work and continue to receive benefits.

If the UK continues on this course there are some inevitable consequences.  The poor will continue to get poorer. Crime will increase, the toll on the NHS will get higher, state pensions, state welfare, state education and income will all reduce. The deficit we are told is going down, but the word "deficit" is used to describe the amount of money still being lent by the UK to survive.  The future fuel energy costs of the UK will increase as there is no sustainable plan to encourage green energy. In winter people will die in their homes because they are unable to heat them. The building projects of the future do not exist.  The UK needs homes. So those who own property will see the values increase but will not be able to move home because the costs of a new home would be too high. Proportionately fewer and fewer new mortgages will be taken up. Over crowding in properties will increase. Landlord's will maximise the income of properties by illegally converting them or building sheds in gardens. Ghettos will grow and gentrification of the better places will increase. Society is gradually becoming segregated by choice and poverty.

Here is a fact. Poor people spend more money than rich people do. Poor people have no choice, because they are poor the proportionately spend higher amounts. This in turn goes back into the economy instantaneously. It is the poor who create liquidity, not the rich. Yet this is not recognised. Certainly not by the Tory's.  The future is very bleak if another term of Tory takes the ballot box. Given the hubris of the entire present cabinet I cross my fingers and truly hope they don't.