The privileged classes just don't know

Sparkling has been watching the Olympics and then asks if I have seen it.  No I reply, which is more out of stubbornness than anything else.  For I can not see there is any justification in 9.4 billion pounds being spent on it, when 9 high tech state of the art hospitals could of been built and ran and saved thousands of lives.  Bile rises up in me.  This country is not rich and is going through the worst recession in history.  The UK is in a new age in many respects and it will take at least ten to twenty years before we see a change, and it is not guaranteed that change will be for the better.  It could be we are now becoming an under developing country who's status is moving from innovator and producer to user and stagnation. Maybe it is the pessimist head I have put on which is effecting me.  Maybe everything will be hunky dory, but why do I feel this would be false optimism.  Just like the time Thatcher was in government and managed to degrade and make the working classes nothing more than something stuck to the bottom of her shoe.  There is only one common theme, Tory ignorance is it.

The privileged can not, and do not understand what life is like for the working classes or the unemployed.  They have not felt poverty, by virtue of their wealth.  Anyone who has been bought up from a privileged family or background will not understand how tough it can be.  They take for granted and acceptance when the light is switched on it will work.  The notion the electricity bill has not been paid doesn't come into it.  When a privileged person sits down to eat, they don't wonder about the amount of food on their plate, a person who has experienced poverty will.  But also in the experience of this they will have compassion for others.  They know what deprivation is, a privileged person never can.  They also know what it is like to be taken advantage of, to be discriminated against because they can not afford decent clothes.  They have not sat in overfilled classes and been taught by teachers who are worn out and are no more than child minders to teenagers who don't want to be there.  They don't know how depression and disaffection towards the future, effects those teenagers living in it.  They don't know what it is like to be waiting in a hospital for hours on end needing medical attention, or  not go on a holiday because it can not be afforded, year after year.  And Tory leaders have always lacked compassion to be completely loaded with their own ignorance.

If they don't know what more than half the country is feeling how can they run the country?  They simply can not.  The results of their poor decision making will make the poor even poorer, the vulnerable more vulnerable and the greedy richer still.

God save the Queen, but don't give a toss about the rest of us.

PC Harwood -Guilty as...

PC Harwood has been found not guilty of manslaughter, even though he is responsible for the death of an innocient bystander Ian Tomlinson on 01st April 2009.  Harwood attacked Tomlinson while Tomlinson was strolling away with hands in his pockets.  Harwood is known to have had 10 raised incidents during his carreer when he showed excessive violence.  Yet he still walks away clear.  I can't see how such a verdict has happened.  He must be guilty of something, his actions led to the death of Tomlinson.  Could this be another case of the judicial system protecting its own even when it knows its own are rotten?   When someone is attacked from behind, and they have not shown any form of aggression or provocation how can the assailant be allowed to walk away free?  To what extent can British justice ever redeem itself after such an event?  In a barrel of apples all it takes is one bad one and the rest turn.  This man should not be allowed to ever work in any law enforcing role, or one of authority.  The disbelief pushes me to the point of speechlessness.  Especially in considering had Harwood's actions been taken by another citizen who was not wearing a Police uniform then would the outcome of been the same?  Hell no.  Not in a hundred years.

This now leaves it up to the family of Tomlinson to decide whether to take Harwood through the civil court process.  Even to use the phrase of Health and Safety, because under such law Harwood again becomes personally liable for what he did.  In full reality this is what he should be accepting, full personal responsibility.  Instead listening to the news a character sketch is drawn of Harwood, he is a man who tends to see red.  Who has an aggressive streak and can not help himself.  Yet because someone can not help themselves it doesn't mean they be allowed to walk away from their actions with no punitive justice.  In this high profile case there indeed has been none.

A fund should be started up by the relatives of Tomlinson.  A war chest to which the public can donate monies so further legal action and prosecution can take place.  This has now become an event of the people versus the judiciary.  Harwood can not be allowed to get away with murder.

11 Days to the Olympics

Well it's only 11 days to the Olympics kicks off for real.  Like it's actually happening here in London.  What the rest of the world don't know is the farcical nature of the whole thing.  The 9.3 billion pounds spent on an event which barely any real Londoner can view in person.  Yet will be expected to carry on paying for the Olympic legacy over many years to come.  We all know London should not of won the event, lets face it 9.3 billion pounds could of been spent on something a hell of a lot more beneficial for the entire country.  For example half a dozen top quality hospitals spread up and down and all over the UK.  Hospitals with new standards and additional finance to support them.  Hospitals which would help take the country into the standard of NHS care it should have but will actually not have as it is continuously eroded by the present government.  9.3 billion pounds could of paid quite a bit towards a lot of surgery as well.

In the mean time it has come out in the wash the main security firm G4S is not up to the job.  This company employs the cheapest labour it can to make the most profit it can.  The security contract it has taken out is worth half a billion pounds.  Yet it pays minimum pay to it's officers.  I heard on the radio how a regular contractor to the Olympic venue walked through security with no problems, not just because he was a regular but because it seemed they didn't care two hoots about doing their job.  Young men in their late teens were larking about, they wore the uniforms but they didn't know or understand the full duties of their job.  The consequences, this is serious, very serious.  Theresa May looks like an idiot.  The government had a report on the capabilities of G4S about ten months ago.  It stressed concerns they were not up to the job.  And they definitely are not.  Nobody wants to consider what may happen at the event, nobody wants to consider the inevitable question which MI5 must be thinking about.  Has something already happened?  I think back to when the IRA bombed the conservative conference hotel some twenty plus years ago.

The road network in London will be gridlocked.  This is an inevitable event, there is not a single Londoner who does not know and believe this will happen.  The Olympic lanes are ordinary roads in a city which is close to maximum capacity.  The fear of not having Olympic lanes is that athletes would not be able to get to events.  Well I got news for you, this little topic will raise it's ugly head during the event and some emergency travel arrangements will have to be put into place.  Even if it means using a helicopter to ferry them from one place to another.  It makes me wonder if the rest of the world knows the concerns Londoners have, whether they are privvy to the same radio shows, discussions or news items in papers as we see and read here.  Traffic is likely to be blocked up for hours and I am taking a guess but some events could even be postponed.  Then again I'm a pessimist on this matter.  But as the saying goes, hope for the best and plan for the worst.  I recon some worse planning scenarios need to be thought about pretty quickly.

Angry Cameron and Duplicitous Osborne

Every time I see Cameron on TV I see an angry man.  Someone who does their best to justify who they are, how on earth this man got voted in as prime minister is a travesty.  I've harped on before how Clegg's coalition is the worse thing Lib Dems could of done and it will be another 70 years before they every get the scent of power again.  However, siding with someone who can not keep his cool and has only one excuse which is to blame the previous government is consistently ludicrous.

Cameron and his Tory representatives have constantly said the banks were given free reign by Labour. It was because of this the recession has gone on for longer than it should.  Had a different stance been taken then we would not be here.  However, examine this argument and you'll soon see how false it is.  Conservatives would never have allowed Labour to bring in as much regulation as would of been needed to have prevented the UK from being in the world recession.  The second point is, it is a World recession no a UK only recession.  Again the Tories don't happen to mention this point, unless of course Cameron happens to be in Europe telling the Germans, French, Spanish and whoever he can they should be doing what he says.  He has completely lost it.  What makes him think he can tell other people what to do.  He plainly can not.  People will do what they do.  Giving advise should always have a warning notice applied.  Nobody takes advice.  So don't even bother mate.  I'll give you some advice Camy, stop being so angry.  On camera it doesn't look good and shows how ignorant you are.  All I want is to see Ed Balls goad Cam a bit more.  It seems Balls has got Balls.  He knows exactly how to rile up Camy.  He can get under his skin, unlike Mr Milliband who should side step and let Balls take the lead once in a while more often.  I really would love to see Cam completely lose it and with the right kind of jibe from the right kind of persistent person he will.  Bring in the Paxman I say, the nasty side of Paxman all guns a blazing, there are very very few people who can take on Paxy.

In the meantime back at the ranch you will see Mr Duplicitous Osborne hiding under a stone somewhere.  He furnishes the front bench with a permanent smarmy cushion like smile, he thinks shit doesn't stick because of his Teflon suits, but the thing is Osborne side steps, back tracks and wallows in his own shit.  He has no plan for the country, no plan for the world and is like a rudderless ship ruling the UK with policies which have no thought at all.  He does have an idea.  Not a single idea on what to do.  How the hell are going to pay for an even longer period with this man in office?  Alone he will ensure this recession lasts another 5 years.  He has the kind of personality I have seen people I dislike enormously, people I would never trust, the kind of person who will seek to take advantage of others.  Who says they are qualified but in reality only managed to scrape a pass in the GCSEs.  It's all bloody doom and gloom with these two.

It will not take too long before there is another protest march through London.  When it happens it will be big.  Big enough to make the politicians stop again for a millisecond and wonder if what they are doing is the right thing.  However, if they are a Tory politician their failure of insight and listening to others will have little effect.  The next General Election can not come soon enough.

Witchcraft at the supermarket

It was with a little disbelief bordering on horror I heard a conversation taking place in my local supermarket. Two black females with about three children were discussing witchcraft.  One of them had the view as a Christian church goer she was sceptical of it existing.  While it seemed the other was curious and on the verge of accepting she actually believed such a thing did exist.  There was a persistence about this woman, it was as thought this witchcraft thing was something she was going to hang onto with relish because she had found something important or powerful.  It could well have been a belief system one upmanship she was practising while they walked down the aisle with shampoos one one side and headache pills on the other.  This is London I thought, this is a Western society I live in and here on my very doorstep was someone who was taking back the learning of hundreds of years of reason.  Witchcraft does not exist.  It is not real.  It is something used by a few to manipulate others and more so to those who are no educated.  Who don't understand things and hold beliefs which the UK had disbanded to mental illness also hundreds of years ago.  Such belief systems can not be compatible in today's enlightenment.  But they are.

Are such minds weak and feeble I ask myself.  This can not be true.  It could be due to upbringing and cultural beliefs which are completely alien to my own.  What is acceptable in one society and in one country is not always acceptable in another.  In regard to witchcraft there have been too many high profile news items of children being abused by relatives who thought their children were possessed.  There have been murders and torturing as well.  These are gross violations of human being by other mislead ignorant humans.  It is not enough for them to be sent to prison for such things should not be happening in the first place.  I am nearly fifty years old.  In my life I have not seen a single paranormal event, I have not witnessed anything of the nature.  I have gone from believer, to agnostic to atheist.  In a gradual process of understanding and enlightenment.  It begins at an early age, probably with the notion of the nativity, false belief is then rewarded by such things as the tooth fairy.  Cultural and religious ceremonies are used to bring groups of society together for a single purpose, family and friends are then bound as being part of an event no matter how false it is.  The christening of a child for instance.  They are there to ingrain or breed awe in those who attend so they have a deference.  If you don't hold such deference then these things would be the equivalent of anathema.  Personally, I've got to accept other people have their own ideas.   Even when I get to the point I do not want to advise such individuals beliefs are false, but don't because mentally this could damage them.  Maybe this is what the belief in witchcraft would do to those persons as well. 

It is sad we persist to hold onto false belief systems and  even try and make other people believe the same things.  When I walk down the street and am stopped by religious nuts I waste no time with them.  Unless I happen to be in a cantankerous mood.  I don't see atheists standing at tables trying to convert believers, but they have every right to.  I don't see Satanists standing in the high street but they to have every right to propound their beliefs.  If we are a tolerant and acceptant society even these groups should be allowed their say.  Equally I don't see tables where lesbian and gay people stand and discuss gender identity, but they have an equal right as well.  Such public lobbying of belief systems should therefore be banned unless all belief systems are invited to lobby as well.

An example of partiality, bias, old boy network, the Jeremny Hunt Story

The Levenson enquiry has been probing Jeremy Hunt.  An old chum of Cameron who became culture secretary after Vince Cable went and showed political bias while talking to under cover Telegraph reporters.  Emails and text from Hunt are unequivocal, he was bias from the start.  However, he doesn't believe he was.  His bias is there to see for anyone who has open eyes.  When I see Hunt he has an odd looking stare, the kind which makes me think he may even have a mental illness.  Particularly when he is someone who has two opposing sides and things it is quite OK for them to be existent in the same place at the same time.  He denies being bias in his decision making, although he had frequent contact and obvious bias to News Corp.   The reality is this is someone who does not have a grasp of reality and should probably be locked up in a quiet room with a specially adapted back to front waist coat.  The type which would take him a long time to escape from.  There is something crazy about him, something which is in denial and by it's very denial notions believes itself to be vindicated and right.  Cameron, can not sustain the damage he is getting from his dodgy bedfellows, it's a matter of time.  If Cam wants someone who can not tell right from wrong then Cam is probably in need of a cell for himself as well.  Mind in the incredibly short period of time he has been in power he certainly is good of making a complete hash of it all.

Hunt should do the honourable thing.  But he is dishonourable so he will not.  Odd there seem to be so many Tories with this trait.

Assad is a criminal

President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria continues to slaughter his own people.  Listening to the news is like hearing another article which could of been on Gaddaffi, except we all know Gaddaffi is dead.  Assad has the backing of the military and a minority group of Syria.  It has been reported today Assad's army have killed over 90 people in Houla, and it was confirmed by peace keepers 32 of these were children.  This man sat with Kofi Annan, they spoke of a ceasefire, Assad was asked politely, but he continues to kill.  This is a man who will one day be called to answer for his actions.  In the meantime the aid agency Doctors Without Borders are kept from entering Syria, so Assad purposefully allows Syrian people a lingering death even if they could be saved.  The European community are like always slow to act, they have an impotence which racks up European guilt.  The UN security council had a vote to take action, which must be unanimous.  However, two countries voted against it, China and Russia.  Syria sells them oil, they are friends and they do not want this supply cut off.  However, when it comes to human rights China and Russia don't have a clear conscience either.  The wait for action continues and during this struggle it is now reported some 12,000 plus people have slayed.

Assad's wife lives in the UK and supports her husband in every way.  Shame on you Asma Al-Assad how would you feel if your children Hafez, Zein and Karim were killed in heavy artillery?  But yet you play your part in this diabolical president's support.  She has been banned now from travelling in Europe so is stuck here in the UK, where her blood stained British passport is firmly rooted.  Here is a beautiful rich woman, who wears expensive designer clothes, but is rotten to the core.  One day just like Bashar your time will come Asma your time will come and there is an International Court who will have your name listed, your husband will be first..  An appearance at some future date could be on the agenda.

Syria was under Emergency law between 1963 and 2011, during this time the great dictator Assad had a damn built, now the largest lake is named after him.  Assad, is a member of a minority Muslim population known as the Alawi, approximately 12 percent, whereas the majority  are Sunni Muslims 74 per cent.   I once used to think if you were a Muslim then your belief was each other person who was a member of your religion was your brother.  This is a somewhat naive view.  Whether Muslim or not, Assad clearly prefers the power of his own people and his own people does not include the rest of the country.