You Know What?

I cannot find the correct words in which to offer my most sincere heartfelt condolences to firefighter Stephen Hunt's family, colleagues and friends, Stephen was killed in an suspected arson attack in Greater Manchester over last weekend. My words seem trivial but they are sincere, they come from deep within me, as a mum I just cannot even contemplate the pain his family are facing right now, so to them I just want to say "thank you", your husband, dad, son, brother etc made a real difference in this life, not many of us can say this, no doubt many are walking this earth today who would not have still been here had it not been for the bravery of Stephen and his colleagues in the fire service everywhere. I am constantly in awe of their constant selfless acts of bravery under horrendous conditions, we run out, they run in, what words are there to describe people like Stephen that do not fall flat and sound inconsequential?

After each event or tragedy involving our truly wonderful public service employees, be they firefighters, police officers, nurses and not forgetting our armed forces (because they are public sector workers too), we are treated to the fawning concern of the Prime Minister, Clegg and Boris Johnson etc and I am sorry if this offends, but I am going to say it anyway, I'm sick of it, sick of seeing politicians using the brave men and women who put their lives on the line for our safety as political footballs. I hope that the PM's "concern" in sincere, from the bottom of my heart I do, I hope this for the families of those who have paid a high price and  those who have paid the ultimate price for protecting us and for those they left behind struggling to pick up the pieces of shattered lives.

I accept that as PM he has to say something, however, from now on I am going to turn him off as I really don't want to hear any more of the faux concern from Cameron, Clegg and London Mayor Boris Johnson and I refuse to allow them into my home, they are not welcome. I don't want to cast my eyes upon that default "sincere face" of Cameron's complete with curled top lip, that he seems able to conjure up at will (we saw that very same face when shortly before he became prime minister he faithfully promised a hall full of nurses and doctors that he would not be carrying out anymore top down reorganisation of the health service shortly before carrying out the biggest top down reorganisation in the NHS 65 year history!) But I would like to ask him this question: "How can you in all decency put that show on when you know that it is you and your government who have turned this country against our public sector workers, the very people you say you admire and respect when they sustain injuries or die"?  Have you no shame? You certainly are devoid of any kind of integrity!

David Cameron is good at putting on his sad face and speaking his sad  prepared words, but at the same time he and his government are stealing the pay and pensions of firefighters like Stephen Hunt at the same time as attacking the unions for doing their job in trying to represent and defend them. Does Cameron and Johnson think we do not know, do not realise, or are just too stupid to equate that the mealy mouthed words they utter happen to be diametrically opposed to what they really think of public services and public service workers and what they are doing to the NHS, welfare state, fire service, paramedics, teaching and the armed forces? Do they think we do not notice the closing of fire stations (12 in London alone) as well as reducing the number of firefighters placing those remaining at grave risk of injury and God forbid - death, as well as endangering the public?

David Cameron in Opposition pledging to save
Chase Farm Maternity unit.
It's now closing!

Does Cameron and Health Secretary Hunt honestly believe that we will not notice he is closing down hospitals, maternity units, walk in centres, or that they have destroyed NHS Direct and caused chaos in every single A&E in this country with their unwanted, unwelcome reforms that have so far probably cost this country over £10bn?  Jeremy Hunt closes down A&E at birth place of the NHS without even telling the local MP.  Or that the prime minister is closing down maternity units that when in opposition he promised us he would save if he became PM? Or that we will not notice we now have over 4000 fewer nurses than in 2010 and this is placing an intolerable burden on the remaining staff?


Does he think we live in "blissful ignorance" that he has halved the size of the armed forces and found stealthy ways of cutting their pay and increments? Or that he sacked many of our wonderful brave soldiers by email after smiling in their faces on one his impromptu visits, that  screams "hey look at me, how wonderful and caring a PM I am that I visit the troops in Afghanistan" before returning home and sacking them leaving the country open to terrorist attacks etc.

I was so heartened to see the thousands of ordinary men, women and children from all walks of life line those streets for Fusilier Lee Rigby's funeral last week, it brought it home even more how much we should treasure and respect the people brave enough to place themselves in danger for us.

But I cannot shake off the truth that these are the very public service workers, that many private sector workers have set about demonising after being continually and subliminally prompted to do so by the likes of Cameron, Clegg, Johnson and IDS. These are the people whose pensions people say they want to stop, these are the people who have had their salaries frozen for three years already.

At times like these I realise how much I vehemently dislike David Cameron for playing his political games with the psyches of our people, dividing them and turning them against each other and turning this country into a cold, uncaring, insensitive place that I no longer recognise as my people, as my country, just so he can improve his chances of re-election!

I have zero respect for Cameron and his Conservative party, to me they are a bunch of self serving money grabbing, power mad, arrogant people and the Liberal Democrats are just as bad, if not worse as they knowingly help them. Respect has to be earned.

Rest In Peace Firefighter Stephen Hunt.

Rest In Peace Fusilier Lee Rigby

You have the respect and admiration of the entire country

G4S , Serco & The Tory Press!

I am not under any illusion about our so called "free press", I've long since been under the impression that the "freedom" of the British press is only as free as the media tycoons who own it want it to be, they dictate what news is reported, and more to the point they dictate how it is reported! However, last Thursday when the news broke that the already disgraced private sector security company G4S, along with another private sector company Serco have allegedly been ripping taxpayers off to the tune of at least £50 million, more fool me, I did expect a strong media reaction from the press and the broadcast media. Why wouldn't I?  By rights any company suspected of, or found ripping off the public purse should be a huge story so I was astonished that it barely got a mention on the news and only made "also-rans" in the majority of the right wing Tory supporting press the following day. Only the Independent and Daily Mirror made it their banner headline and the Daily Mirror ran a huge story about it. Here and Here 

Papers like the Sun, Mail and Telegraph hardly mentioned it giving just a couple of inches column space (if that), yet these are the papers that when the public sector sneezes will run huge stories "accusing them of infecting the population with deadly viruses"! These are the papers that act morally outraged when just one person abuses the benefits system giving it huge banner headlines and running double page spreads inside, completely misleading the public about how small benefit fraud really is.

That self proclaimed "bastion of moral indignation and public outrage" the 'Sun newspaper' virtually ignored the brewing scandal about G4S and Serco, bizarrely, their banner front page headline about a window cleaner who has been banned from whistling! I kid ye not! Apparently David Dinsmore the new editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sun believes that a window cleaner's whistle is more important than reporting and exposing that *private sector companies* G4S and Serco have allegedly ripped the taxpayer off to the tune of at least £50 million. When he was editor of the Scottish Sun Dinsmore once said he doesn't get into bed with any political party, well by the look of this he's just turned the sheets back for him and David Cameron to climb into and if they fancy a ménages à trois, then Dinsomore can also take his "mate" Alex Salmond in with them! Looks like one Cameron friend and Tory supporter in the Sun's old editor Dominic Mohan is out, to be replaced with yet another Cameron friend and Tory sympathiser David Dinsmore. Move along folks no changes here. Rupert Murdoch maintains his vice like grip on the Tory party and they in turn kowtow to him at every given opportunity.

My question is this, why did the majority of the Tory supporting right wing press virtually ignore this story? We all know that if this was the public sector ripping off the taxpayer to the tune of £50m the right wing press would have been apoplectic with rage, yet because this is the private sector and the government happens to be the Conservatives, it has hardly been mentioned.

Is this the way that private health companies are going to be let off in the future when they under deliver or when there is financial irregularities?

G4S nearly ruined the London Olympics through abject incompetence. Now even when the Tory controlled government have called in the Serious Fraud Office to investigate £50m worth of irregularities, Serco and G4S continue to be awarded contracts worth millions of pounds by this government!

Why hasn't the Tory government immediately suspended any award government contracts while this is being investigated?

Why isn't the media and broadcast media covering this story? If this scandal is being deliberately dumbed down and kept low key by the media is it because the right wing Tory press and the private sector and the Conservative party are inexplicably linked in some way?

If this had happened in the public sector and if this was a Labour government would the right wing press and the broadcast media have kept as quiet about it as they have done? We all know the answer to that, they would have never shut up about it and they would have been screaming it from the rooftops, yet because it is a Tory government - nothing!

If this were the unions allegedly defrauding the taxpayer of £50 million would the right wing press and the right wing broadcast media remain so sanguine? For goodness sake, the Mail on Sunday  nearly burst a blood vessel because union chiefs have the audacity to receive a pension, apparently it's OK for G4S and Serco to allegedly rip off the taxpayer, but it's not OK for union bosses to receive a pension, which is all declared and above board and transparent (which is why the papers know about it)!

Look how the right wing press and Sky News has behaved over the Falkirk/Union/Labour story, they went into overdrive, yet there was no misuse of public money, there was no fraud,  where is the comparison with G4S and Serco? Where is the media objectivity? The Guardian, a supposed left leaning paper (ha bloody ha) kept agitating and agitating over the Falkirk union story until they finally made it escalate, they are just as bad (no wonder their circulation is plummeting).

The Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling has called for an investigation into G4S and Serco, how many times have we heard this with this particular government? What will happen? Will anyone senior take this up? Will the SFO hold a low key investigation, report to Grayling,  the story gets a few lines in a few of the newspapers and then the story gets kicked quietly into the long grass and it's business as usual? (Ripping off the taxpayer), but that's OK because these are private sector companies!

These companies are taking millions of pounds in contracts from the Conservatives, where is the transparency that Cameron promised us? Why has he said absolutely nothing about this? Yet if this was Labour, he would be out in Downing St with his lectern blabbing on attention seeking (David Cameron have lectern will travel).

How extensive are Conservative links to right wing newspaper editors and press owning tycoons?

Currently Viscount Rothermere who owns the Daily Mail and is seeking to take full control of the Daily Mail  & General Trust, told the Leveson Inquiry that he sometimes feels uncomfortable about the stories appearing in his papers and that they go too far. Does he feel comfortable I wonder, about this story not being given proper coverage in his papers, instead going for front page banner headlines trying to persecute civil servants?

• Viscount Rothermere owner of Daily Mail is a close friend and supporter of prime minister, David Cameron and the Conservatives
• Paul Dacre editor of Daily Mail and close friend of PM David Cameron
• Dominic Mohan former editor of the Sun has close ties with Cameron

• Andy Coulson former editor of the defunct News of the World and former PM's Director of Communications
• Rebekah Brooks former CEO of NI and former editor of the Sun Newspaper and close friend and "confidante" of David Cameron.
• Rupert Murdoch News tycoon owns NI and News Corp and part share holder of BSkyB,  News International and news Corp owns the Sun, Sun on Sunday, Scottish Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times first person to visit David Cameron in Downing street after Cameron became PM.
• James Murdoch BSkyB; and News International and news Corp owns the Sun, Sun on Sunday, Scottish Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times
• Lord Chris Patton Tory Peer and BBC Chairman parachuted into his position by David Cameron
• Craig Oliver, David Cameron's current Director of Communications. Former producer of ITN News at Ten,. Former editor of BBC flagship 6 O'clock News and News at Ten and BBC Global news.
• Tony Gallagher Editor of Daily Telegraph and friend of David Cameron. Aiden Barclay The chairman of the company behind the Daily Telegraph texted David Cameron before the last election to suggest the Conservative leader speak to the editor of his newspaper every day during the campaign to ensure his party's message was getting across in the broadsheet.

I could go on but you get the picture! David Cameron's links to the press in this country are deep and wide, it is one of the reason why Labour and Ed Miliband cannot get a fair hearing or fair reporting and their policies and comments are continually spun out of context.

I believe the PMs links to the right wing press in this country are the reason why the scandal of G4S and Serco were not reported properly. News is being deliberately dumbed down and kept from the British public, either at the behest of Cameron and number 10, or at the behest of newspaper owners and editors, or probably both.

We do not have a free press in this country, that is a big fat fallacy, what we have is the editors running the political lackey wing of the Tory party and the newspaper owners pulling Cameron's strings. It's obvious Cameron is not going to do anything to upset them, he lives in fear of getting a bad press - literally!

The Tory party itself is the political wing of the Banks, shadow banks, tobacco industry, oil industry, drinks industry, private health sector etc etc AND the press barons! Cameron is their puppet and he dances to their tune, as long as he does what they want, they will carry on giving him an easy ride in the press.

Don't expect Cameron to implement the Leveson press recommendations any time soon, you have more chance of winning the lottery 4 times in consecutive weeks!!

Meanwhile the public will continued to be lied to, ripped off and be treated like idiots by a party that pretends its a government, when all it is, is the mouthpiece newspaper tycoons, big business and the banks and multinational companies like G4S and Serco.

The press are actively helping the Conservative party to privatise the NHS, by continually misleading, misreporting and misrepresenting the facts and purposefully undermining the NHS, they are helping Cameron divide & rule this country by using diversion tactics.

Something Stinks in Westminster, it is the foul stench of Tory corruption!

The Day The Eaton Toff Class Warrior PM Went As Mad As A Box of Frogs On Live TV

David Cameron has been guilty of some awful Prime Minister's Questions (when he bothers to turn up for them that is), but yesterday he really excelled himself as he indulged his party and himself in some really bizarre distraction politics. He failed to answer one single question put to him, instead, often replying with extraneous comments.
As PMQs progressed a monomaniac red faced Cameron went as mad as a box of frogs on live TV, goodness only knows what other countries looking in made of him, he was an embarrassment to himself and this country! He couldn't seem to stop himself he went on like a thing possessed. In all he made over a dozen references to the Unite union and Len McCluskey in just half an hour.

Ed Miliband asked a serious question about why class sizes have doubled since 2010 and why the government are building one third of new schools in areas with surplus places and ignoring areas with a shortage of places.

Labour MP Stephen Timmis asked why demand for foodbanks had risen from 30,000 households before the 2010 general election to 350,000 households now.

However, while Ed Miliband and other Labour MPs may have wanted to ask David Cameron sincere questions about serious issues affecting the country and their constituencies, there was only one thing that Cameron wanted to talk about and that was Len McCluskey and the Unite union. For the second week running he proceeded to turn PMQs into his own political soap box trying to score cheap and nasty political points, he is making a complete mockery out of the whole PMQs procedure.

Finally when Conservative MP Richard Drax got up to ask a question and started off by mentioning Unite and the Falkirk constituency the Speaker  finally shut the the inappropriate comments down, but should have clamped down on Cameron immediately it became apparent and not left it so late, he allowed David Cameron to get away (yet again) with a shocking abuse of power. Each time Cameron deigns to grace the country with his presence in PMQs, he tells lies, he deliberately misleads, he misrepresents people who have absolutely no chance of reply and he abuses his power treating parliament, the public and MPs with total contempt.

Cameron should be careful because while union bashing may please him and his backbenchers, the general public are pretty indifferent to unions and a recent poll showed that 69% of people thought that Labour should maintain their ties with the unions. It is not only Labour supporters who are trade unionists, Tories are too and unions do not only represent public sector workers, they also represent  private sector workers too!

Each time David Cameron gets in front of that dispatch box he reveals himself as a cheap and nasty Eaton toff class warrior, he cannot hide his utter contempt for good decent hard working ordinary people. What was absolutely ridiculous about the whole attack is that clearly what went on in Falkirk is not acceptable to the Labour party and Ed Miliband acted swiftly to stop it, so Cameron's attacks are not only absurd they are bizarre. If only David Cameron had acted as quickly when his MPs have got into difficulties instead of backing them to the hilt even though he knows they were complete in the wrong. If anyone is shown up as weak, it is not the leader of the opposition who acted strongly and decisively, it is the PM who has never once sacked any of his MPs, even though they have found to be in serious breach, like Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt when he was caught deliberately misleading the House and telling lies.

It is also the astonishing hypocrisy of Cameron has he forgotten that his own party is in hock to the banks, shadow banks, big business, corporations, private health companies, oil barons, Drinks companies and tobacco companies?

Tory Donorgate a Comprehensive List

Has he forgotten the Tory party's involvement with the Midlands Industrial Council (MIC)?

Another List of Tory Donors - Ones That Exploit LoopHoles

What about Lynton Crosby, Cameron's own aide, who managed to get the PM to remove all reference to change of policy over the pricing of alcohol and tobacco from the queen's speech and is also involved in fracking?

Prime Minister's Aide Lynton Crosby Links to drinks and tobacco Companies

Lynton Crosby's Links to Fracking

Has David Cameron forgotten Peter Cruddas? The ex Tory Treasurer who was caught charging business people £20,000 for lunch with David Cameron and promising them they would be able to influence policy?

 Peter Cruddas, the Tories and cash for access scandal

Peter Cruddas, 'Banksters' and Spivs

NHS

The Tories and their links Private Health Companies

Nearly 40% of most powerful people in private health care have Lords and MPs in their companies.


And the internet is flooded with examples of how many Tory MPs and Lords have their snouts in the troughs of private industry and health care all hoping to influence policy, and clearly in some cases they have!

We have seen several major scandals hit the Tory party in quick succession, all involving lobbyists and all were written off by Downing St as deluded.

• Andy Coulson/Rebekah Brooks
• Jeremy Hunt Culture Minister/Adam Smith/Fred Michel and HERE
• Rupert and James Murdoch/NI/The Sun and NOtW
• Peter Cruddas
• Liam Fox/Adam Werritty
• Bell Pottinger/Lord Bell/Tim Collins and HERE
• 49 percenters

All have several things in common, all these people claim to have access to Cameron and or Osborne and the British government
All claim to be able to influence government policy and number 10 has denied it each time arrogantly referring to mounting evidence of wrongdoing and corruption within the British Conservative government as "bluster" and inferring that the people doing the claiming are "Walter Mitty like characters".

Cameron has said that none of these people influenced policy, but then he has a poor memory what about the Midland Industrial Council (MIC) scandal that rocked the Tory part BEFORE they were even elected to government? I have covered this extensively on this blog. One of the MIC members a businessman freely admits he donates large sums to the Tory party with a view to receiving something back and influencing policy

Who said that the government doesn't know that their donors do not want to influence policy?

Peter Shirley MIC Member and also a member of the "Tory" Taxpayers Alliance said:

'I’m a member of the MIC. I was absolutely amazed that it was David Cameron who came to the (factory) opening... We tell (Tory Ministers) that if they’re
going to have policies, we would like to know what the heck they are.'

Most "shadow ministers" have attended MIC meetings and George Bridges,
Cameron’s head of campaigns, is in regular contact with it...

Read more about David Cameron the MIC - Anthony Bamford, JCB HERE

Bankers. Spivs and Tories are "all in it together"



If  David Cameron wants to accuse the unions of being corrupt, even though they are completely above board, declare their accounts and pay their UK tax to the British Treasury (unlike half the current cabinet who have dealings with private health care companies and off-shore accounts) then bring it on and I haven't even started on how involved with Rupert Murdoch the Tories and the Tory mayor of London has become!

David Cameron's secret lavish dinners with party donors

The Tory Summer Ball, Grouse, champagne and a £90,000 bust of Cameron

When it all comes out about how involved Cameron and his Tories are in all kinds of contracts and lobbying etc that involve public money, David Cameron is going to wish he had never even set eyes on Lynton Crosby, let alone hired him. Lynton Crosby is yet another "Andy Coulson" waiting to happen and he'll go the same way! But Cameron will never learn because he is arrogant and inept and a blatant liar and he showed his breath taking arrogance in PMQs when he accused the unions.

Cameron has shown his true colours, he really believes that working class people should not have a union to represent them and he showed his utter disdain for the unions yesterday. he has also show us that he is a complete class warrior jerk who couldn't care less about the hurt and widespread despair and pain he is inflicting upon people across this country. This is not over, he has now needlessly provoked a fight he cannot win.

Cameron will come to rue the day he went as mad as a box of frogs on live TV in PMQs.

David Cameron's Lies and Arrogant Behaviour are Turning Prime Minister's Questions Into a Farce!

Last Wednesday in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) David Cameron let something slip that his mates in the right wing Tory supporting press have conveniently missed.

In response to a question about whether the PM's new Australian election strategist and spin doctor, Lynton Crosby has lobbied him on cigarette packaging and alcohol prices Cameron said:

"Lynton has never lobbied me about anything, except how to destroy the credibility of the party opposite, he just gives advice on destroying the Labour party, he's brilliant at that".

Lynton Crosby owns a tobacco and alcohol lobbying company and shortly after he joined Cameron and the Tories, their widely talked about Tory policy on plain cigarette packaging and alcohol prices was surreptitiously dropped from the Queen's Speech.

During PMQs the Speaker John Bercow for once pulled David Cameron up when he started to talk about Labour's policy rather than talk about the government's, (which is what he supposed to do, but very rarely does). However, the Speaker should also have pulled Cameron up about what he said about spin doctor Lynton Crosby. The prime minister is the House in PMQs to answer MPs questions he is not there to make thinly disguised threats to the opposition and he is definitely not there to operate some kind of party election broadcast on behalf of his own party using taxpayers time and money. Even if it were, surely Cameron's job is to point out flaws in policy not to "destroy credibility"?  But at least we now know how low this  arrogant man is willing to stoop in order to get himself re elected!

As Cameron himself has said that "lobbying is the next big scandal to hit politics" the question he was asked about Crosby was pertinent and the Speaker should have instructed Cameron to answer the question about Lynton Crosby and he should not have been allowed to fob the question off by making threats to the opposition. It seems odd that the government were going full speed ahead with minimum alcohol pricing and plain packaging for cigarettes, but as soon as Cameron hires Lynton Crosby who owns a tobacco and alcohol lobbying company, this policy is suddenly dropped and does not appear in the Queen's speech! (Something else Cameron's journalist buddies have conveniently on purpose  forgotten to mention in their hostile right wing rags)

With the prime minister telling so many lies, how are we supposed to know when he is telling the truth? How do we know that he is not lying through his back teeth about Lynton Crosby influencing policy for his lobbying company, when he has lied about virtually everything else?

The first week of June when the PM finally came back to the House after missing 10 PMQs, he started off with telling a deliberate lie about the NHS which he repeated twice. Two blatant lies made all the worse for the Speaker allowing him to get away with it and not least because he had already been rebuked for telling these lies and misleading the public by Andrew Dilnot of the UK Statistics Authority. Why is Cameron being allowed to make political capital out of telling lies in the House of Commons?

In last week's PMQs (19/6/13) Cameron was allowed to get away with opening PMQs with an  unprovoked attack on Labour's policy plan to stop people teaching our children who do not have proper teaching qualifications. Again he was allowed to set the questions and get away with it which is extremely unfair as the opposition has no power of redress and cannot challenge the PM each time he lies.

Here are just a few links to Cameron's deliberately lies in PMQs

• June 2013 - Cameron Repeats His £12.5bn NHS lie twice
• March 2013 - Mencap Accuses PM of misleading House in PMQs over 'bedroom tax' 
• January 2012 - Cameron lies to parliament (PMQs) about Housing Benefit
• April 2013 - Cameron misleads the House and the public over Welsh NHS
• October 2012 -  Cameron guilty of abusing his power in PMQs
• October 2011 - Cameron misleads public over private job creation in PMQs 
• June 2011 - PMQs Cancer Row MacMillan Backs Miliband
• February 2011 - Prime Minister's (Selective) PMQs Quotations
• April 2011 - Cameron Deliberately misrepresents former Labour MP Howard Stoate in PMQs
• April 2011 - PMQs Cameron accused by former MP of deliberately misrepresenting his views on NHS
• February 2011 - Cameron Accused of misquoting John Healy MP in PMQs over NHS
• November 2012 - Cameron lies about benefit claimants falling in PMQs when they actually rose!

Once upon a time those who deliberately lied to parliament and misled it resigned, but Cameron and his Government now treat parliament with contempt as they continue to tell lie after lie after lie. Time and again different people from the ordinary like me, to organisations such as Mencap and the UK Statistics Authority and the ONS have proved repeatedly that David Cameron tells blatant lies.

PMQs is not a platform for the Tory PM to use to get the Conservative message across, it is not a platform for him to use for political point scoring or electioneering, it is time set aside just once a week (when the PM bothers to turn up that is) to be used by the leader of the opposition and MPs of all parties to ask questions of the government of the day. The fact that Cameron thinks he can avoid answering questions and ask the opposition questions which he knows they cannot answer or defend and to use this time to deliberately lie to and mislead the public; and deliberately misquote and misrepresent others when he knows they have no chance of defending themselves and correcting the record, is an abuse of his power and it is about time the Speaker, John Bercow stopped him doing it.

David Cameron and his arrogance and his deception and abuse of power is turning PMQs into a farce and Speaker John Bercow is allowing him to bring the British parliament into disrepute - how long is the Speaker going to allow Cameron to get away with this?

Tax Dodging & Tax Breaks for the rich? Must be Another Tory Government!

And when are the Tories going to change the "It's all Labour's fault" record?

To hear David Cameron, Osborne, Clegg and assorted partisan by-products of this Tory-led Coalition government still insist on blaming the previous Labour government for "this financial mess" is becoming really tedious and not least because it shows two clear reasons why the current government should not be in charge of running this country.

1. If they really do believe that this mess was all Labour's fault, then they clearly do not understand what happened to to the global economy, the global banking structure, toxic loans, casino banking, shadow banking etc and this spells serious danger for us all because it means we will never be able to progress out of where we are now with a flat-lining economy under this current Tory led government.
2. If they do not really believe that Labour were responsible for global recession and banking collapse, then they are guilty of deliberately misleading the public, guilty of lying to the public and guilty of deliberately talking down and undermining the British economy and placing all our livelihoods and wellbeing at grave risk.

Yet the Conservative party and this Coalition government aided and abetted by Clegg, Cable and Alexander and all the Liberal Democrat MPs want us to carry on believing their lies and their deliberate misleading and misrepresentation of the facts because it suits them to do so and gives them the freedom under their manufactured excuses to rid the country of the NHS, the welfare state, state education, and to deliver us a privatised police service and greatly reduced and compromised military. It also allows this disingenuous government to divert attention away from the Tory supporting bankers, shadow bankers, private health care companies and the Tory supporting big businesses and corporations like Vodafone for example, at the same time as placing unfair onus on the people, nurses, lollipop ladies, dinner ladies, public servants, cleaners, refuse collectors, who were NOT responsible for this "mess" to force them to pay for cleaning it up.

It's telling that not one Tory supporting banker has been prosecuted for their part in the economic downfall of this country or for their part in the economic downfall of most of the world's economies. Other people in other countries have been prosecuted but none in the UK. Through their greed and lust for yet more money and more power they have delivered us all a huge a toxic pit of debt and they now expect the ordinary people in each of these countries to pick up the tabs for the mess they have created.

Of course the British Tories do not want people to know the real truth of what lays behind the global crash because they know that it is the very thing that they believe in, it's the very tenet that their party is built upon. "Conservative capitalism".  The Tories know fully well that it is global conservative capitalism that has produced the mess in each country. They know it is bankers, stock brokers etc playing  about and gambling with telephone number figures on spread sheets on the world's money markets that has really got us into this mess.

The Tories do not want us to know this so they do what the British Conservative party always does, they find a scapegoat and blame it all on them! In order to divert attention away from where the blame should really lay, they have made the Labour party, the poor, the vulnerable, the unemployed, the low waged, and the disabled their scapegoats, and now they are shamelessly using us all, not only to blame for the mess they have made of our economy but are also taking the opportunity to take away our public services like the NHS, welfare, state education, further education, university places which the Conservatives have never wanted. In order to get these policies through David Cameron blatantly lied about being the new "compassionate Conservatives" and as soon as they got power they began their mission to strip us all simply because they resent paying tax for it.

In the past few years many of these people have moved their huge cash reserves to off-shore banks where the British Treasury cannot touch them and among these people are those who actually donate large sums of money to the Tories to try and help keep them in power - why do they want to keep the Tories in power? because it suits them to do so and while the Tories are in power, none of the people who are truly responsible for the state of our economy will face prosecution. Even members of the current Conservative cabinet have off shore accounts and have been transferring their wealth into the names of their spouses to avoid paying tax! Even David Cameron's late father used off-shore umbrella companies to make the family fortune the same fortune that Cameron inherited. They do all of this and yet it is made light of in the Tory supporting press, yet the same Tory supporting press wastes no time in attacking those who they see as "benefit cheats, shirkers and scroungers" etc they use one sensationalist story and blow it right our of context to make it look like everyone who claims welfare is some how a cheat, while virtually ignoring all the Tory supporting bankers, shadow bankers and corporate tax avoiding cheats!

 But if you are self employed or run a small company, don't expect any help from George, he only helps his mates in the banking industry, big business and multi-national corporations, if you g have a problem with your tax, you will be pursued to within an inch of your life and threatened with bankruptcy, bailiffs and ruination, as "good old George" has instructed HMRC to squeeze you until your proverbial pips squeak!

For the last ten years Vodafone have been fighting tooth and nail to avoid paying the UK [Labour] government around £6bn in tax. Court case followed court case, and eventually HM Revenue and Customs won a decisive victory. Vodafone were on the ropes and all that was needed was a couple more government knocks to finally make the communication giant pay up. But instead of forcing through the deal, the exchequer, run by George Osborne, let Vodafone off. It was one of the most shameless, blatant and costly examples of corporate-government cronyism in years. But at a time when the government are insisting upon massive cuts in public spending, the deal is particularly hard to swallow. 

Vodafone are relatively open about their motivations. “The maximisation of shareholder value,” their website declares, “will generally involve the minimisation of taxation.” In India too, Vodafone have sought to avoid a further £1.6bn tax bill. However, the Indian authorities, unlike the British, have successfully pursued Vodafone for the money, forcing them to pay up.  Read More: UK Uncut

Osborne has been very generous to top earners and all of his mates in the cabinet too, he has given them a tax cut saving them around £100,000 per year in tax while forcing poor people to lose benefits, child tax credits and forced unfair unworkable taxes like the bedroom tax and benefit cuts on the poor in order to pay for it all. Vodafone's unpaid tax bill is over £6 billion and Osborne's cuts to our welfare budget is over £7 billion! George Osborne actually lobbying and threatening the Indian government  on behalf of Vodafone over its tax matters.

While if you are made unemployed you will be forced to work full-time for your job seekers allowance (approx £71.70 pw) at one of George Osborne's mates large companies like Poundland, or Argos, or Tescos etc. You get all the pain and his mates get all the gain (which is your labour for absolutely nothing), as the taxpayer picks up the bill for your JSA, which is giving Osborne's mates another nice little earner compliments of the Treasury and us mugs, the taxpayers!

From 2012 offshore financing structures such as Voadafone's, for instance were supposed to be taxed at no more than 5% (this is actually in the statute books), yet now we learn that even this paltry amount of tax didn't happen as George Osborne instructed that Vodafone be allowed to avoid paying tax for yet another year, despite making a revenue of over £40 billion this last tax year! George Osborne and the British Government is actually subsidising the largest companies to send billions of pounds into the world's tax havens and meanwhile we are supposed to believe all his and Cameron's guff, bluff and bluster about getting strict with tax avoidance?

Remember David Cameron in Davos said that businesses are "setting up ever more complex tax arrangements abroad to squeeze their tax bills right down....Well they need to wake up and smell the coffee", well obviously George Osborne thinks that Vodafone and other multinationals need not heed Dave's words and nothing has changed, it is all talk tough then and it is still talk tough now at the G8, but that's all it is, talk and with the Conservative government that is all it ever will be ....talk!

We have this ridiculous British government talking up trade with China and totally ignoring the massive bubble that is about to burst there, China is on an unsustainable path, their credit bubble is swelling and the Chinese government are building huge shopping malls and apartments that no one a can afford they have become known as "China's Ghost Towns and Malls", (see video below) it's inevitable that this will not be able to go on for much longer. China has now surpassed the US as the world's biggest manufacturer, we do considerable trade with China in raw materials etc, they are also probably single handed keeping our motor industry going.  It used to be said that when America sneezed the rest of the world caught a cold, I dread to think what the rest of the world is going to catch when China sneezes! Yet David Cameron and gormless George appear totally oblivious to this impending danger and rapidly swelling credit bubble.

I've mentioned on here before, the Conservative party is not a proper political party, it is merely the political wing of the banks, the shadow banks, big business and multinationals. The ruination of our public services will be entirely the fault of big business and the their political wing the British Conservative party. The privatisation of our NHS, state education and welfare will be sacrificed so these establishments can pay little or no tax. While we pay more for less and will be powerless to do anything about it as we are having our workers rights removed, our human rights and our rights as citizens and we are losing our public services. We will not even be able to challenge the establishment in the courts because the Tories have removed and cut most legal aid, rendering the legal process beyond scope of us ordinary folk. If you think this is bad, wait until you or you family needs medical treatment and you have no medical insurance, you'll be lucky if you are treated in some poor hospital somewhere "St Elsewhere". Wait until your children cannot afford a home and there is no social housing, because our idiot chancellor is not building nay but is borrowing more to subsidise his mates payroll bills in the big corporations etc. To say nothing of the credit bubble he is creating with his help to buy scheme, the scheme that allows foreigners and his rich mates to borrow cheap money from us the taxpayers to buy second homes.

This is the truth and it is this truth that the British Conservative party do not want us to understand.

Cameron's Kids Get Free Tennis Lessons - So That's OK then!

In today's PMQs Conservative MP Steve Brine asked Cameron on the Law Tennis Association's scheme to find the next British Wimbledon winner "we need more British tennis winners for British Tennis Competitions". After Cameron predictably toadied up to Andy Murray, he said: "More tennis is being played at his children's school and commends the LTA's efforts".

Oh well that's OK then as long as more tennis is being played in Cameron's kids school and the rest of our children can have more unqualified head teachers deciding to spend taxpayers money on already privileged middle class kids and on so-called Tory "Free Schools. I'm talking about those free schools being set up in areas that do not need extra schools to be attended by the children of over privileged well heeled parents - while other children in other areas and poor children in deprived areas are being denied the funding to build more schools, or extend existing schools to adequately serve the numbers of children needing to attend them!

This is all thanks to Gove and Cameron abolishing the previous Labour government's Building Schools for the Future programme and cancelling the plans and funding that had already been approved and granted to build these new schools. Previously independent fee paying schools are now being reclassified as "free schools"and parents were previously paying for their children's private education and are now being saved £1000's per term because the taxpayers are now picking up the bill for their for them, under this "free-school scam guise! I wonder how much tennis is played at these Tory created so-called "free" schools,  hockey, rugby and cricket too for that matter, while ordinary children and poorer children are missing out because of funding cuts to their sports programmes?

Gove and Cameron have obviously forgotten about what they did to school sport when they first came to assumed unelected power 3 years ago, so let me jog their memory. For the majority of ordinary children attending ordinary schools because of cuts in funding and this government abolishing SSPs,  games and PE in schools is being scaled back and we are also losing the sporting legacy of London 2012.

[In January 2013] "Exactly six months on from the start of the Games, an Opinium/Observer poll shows that only 10% of people believe the government has played its part in increasing support for sport in schools and communities in the runup to – and since – last summer's Olympics.By contrast, 55% say support has either stayed the same or been cut back since the coalition came to power. 

Among parents of youngsters under 18, the figures are even more stark. Only 17% of parents say government support has increased since 2010, while 65% say it has either stayed the same or been cut". The Guardian

Has Cameron also forgotten that when this Tory-led coalition government came to power they abolished the previous Labour government's highly successful free swimming programme which was available for ALL of our children at all of our council run leisure centres? (Yet another shameless attack on the poor)

Cameron and his government also shut down Labour's world-class system of School Sport Partnerships (SSPs) programme and only partially restored it because of pressure from celebrity sports stars!

Education Secretary Michael Gove withdrew £168 million for the SSPs as one of his first acts of government. Under Labour's successful SSPs, certain secondary schools were chosen as sports "hubs", which then co-ordinated expert teaching across all primary schools in their areas and organised after-school clubs. Gove abolished the target of at least two hours of PE per pupil per week. Under Labour, the proportion of children reaching this target had risen to over 90%.

Still I suppose cuts had to be made, the funding for Gove elitist parents "free schools" had to come from somewhere and who the hell cares about the kids from the local council estates?

Just as long as Cameron's kids get their free tennis lessons at school!

Esther McVey Tory Minister For Encouraging Hatred of Disabled.

There is not much chance of Esther McVey publishing this on her website so I thought I would publish it here. For those who do not know who this woman is, she is the Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department of Work and Pensions. A grand title for the general dogsbody and the junior minister that Iain Duncan-Smith and the DWP will wheel out to take the flak for their appalling, inept and wholly incompetent unfair, unworkable decisions. (a bit like the Chloe Smith and Jeremy Paxman slaughter)

[Ms McVey], I watched  and listened to your appalling deceit last week as you blatantly lied about how PIP is going to help the disabled get more of the money they are entitled to. 

There is much I could write and much proof I could provide that would clearly and unambiguously prove that what you are saying is false, but why bother? You would deny it, because you are so partisan and so deeply tribal, so profoundly scared that to remain objective will damage yours and your party’s re-election prospects at the next general election. 

You know you cannot pull the wool over the eyes of the disabled, they have your number, so you are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the general public, using the groundswell of hatred that you and your party have been building up against disabled people ever since you came to unelected power in May 2010. A word of warning “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”, you will be discovered for the low-lives you are and make no mistake, you will be judged on the cold hard viciousness you have been encouraging. 

You know what I am saying is true, you like Miller before you are an affront to feminism, but you Ms McVey are also an affront to your Northern roots. You will lose your seat in the next election, Karma can bite very hard when she wants to.

Esther McVey spends much of her time sucking up to her bosses the prime minister, 'Deckchair Dave' (on the off-chance that  he's actually in the country), and the much hated and vile IDS, in the vain hope that she will be noticed and promoted to something more senior in Government. I hope she isn't holding her breath, after all she "talks funny" and the Tories already have one token Northerner in the very large form of Eric Pickles. However, there may be a small chance of an opening for a female 'Northern brown nosing creep' I suppose, and Esther McVey, certainly fills that brief! Every time I see this woman on the TV what she is actually saying gets drowned out by her very loud metaphorical shouting and overt body language screaming; "hey notice me, I'm blonde, I'm female and I'm Northern, pick me, pick me, please pick me Dave, please, pretty please." It's like car crash TV and almost as embarrassing as watching the previous very public pleading for a Government position by the ex Tory MP for Corby, Louise Mensch, you remember her? She's the MP that flounced off when it became obvious that Cameron and his inner circle of strictly male, old Etonians (who recently jettisoned their only black adviser) were never going to fill top jobs with black people or women, much less a gobby gobshite like Mensch; still every cloud has a silver lining, the by-election she forced when she vacated her seat in Corby was then won by Labour and now Corby have what they deserve, a hard working Labour MP who puts their needs first and who actually spends time in the constituency.

May be Cameron and IDS thought that Esther McVey's past experience in her family's business of demolition and site clearance would be asset to the DWP?  After all they are the government who are viciously bulldozing the lives of disabled people and exiting leaving a trail of death, suicide and destruction behind them. What next for McVey? Kicking away blind people's white canes? Repossessing electric wheelchairs from people who can barely walk and also have minimal use in their upper limbs? Taking away disabled people's cars rendering them prisoners in their own homes and forcing many to give up the jobs they have struggled to hold? Too late, if she wants to get on in this hideous government she'll have to find new ways to assault the disabled as IDS is already doing all of the above!

Perhaps McVey will be the next Tory female MP to flounce off when she realises her aspirations for being "something" in a Tory government are never going to be realised? After all, there is only one top job that this government will allow to be filled by a female and Theresa May has already got that (and all the flak that goes with it!) I suppose the "token Tory Northerner in a tutu" can always go back to her TV career of making kids programmes, at least the kids know how to behave towards women and disabled people.

However, whatever she chooses to do, she should stop lying to defend  this government's cruel attack on disabled people in order to try and realise her own political dreams. She said:

I’d been invited to give a talk, as local MP and Minister for Disabled People about the new Personal Independence Payment (PIP) which is replacing Disability Living Allowance (DLA).  There is a lot of misinformation on social media which only serves to frighten people, so I was delighted to be able to talk with the group to put the record straight and their minds at ease.  Esther McVey

I wonder what was so different about this group to the other group that Esther McVey refused to meet?

Where is the "misinformation Ms McVey? Care to inform us as to when the truth became "misinformation"?  It appears that Ms McVey never tires of  attempting to defend the indefensible and ignores that it's her own government who are making the lives of disabled people hell filling them with fear and distress by railroading through changes that are designed solely to kick as many people off of disability benefits as they possibly can! To deny this in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, renders her stupid, gullible and just plain deceitful. She know it is happening, IDS knows it is happening, Deckchair Dave knows it is happening, this entire mongrel Tory Coalition 'pretendy' government knows it is happening. McVey must see it in her in-tray and electronic inbox each and every day, she just chooses to ignore it all, hoping it will go away.

What does Esther McVey the 'pretendy' minister for the disabled say to this comment written a by a distressed disabled person? Is she going to tell her she is scaremongering too?

I'm another one that cant stand her! When she was on the C4 Dispatches programme, she was telling so many lies about DLA etc I ended up crying after shouting at the tv at her, she made me so angry!  Lyn

These are not just one off comments here and there, the internet is littered with them, is McVey asking the public to believe that these people are all wrong and she is right? What kind of experience does she have that qualifies her to working with disabled people and their rights, problems hopes and dreams? How can a person that doesn't even mention the disabled and their rights in her entry in the Directory of MPs on the Parliament UK website and instead lists:

 “Law and order and sentencing, transport, education and city regeneration.”

as their main interests be given such a sensitive post?

McVey said she was looking forward to working alongside Mark Hoban the Tory Minister for red silk cushions, luxury curtains and expensive loo brushes.
Don't they make a "lovely couple"? McVey only there to try and boost her political career, and Hoban only there because he is pretty much useless anywhere else! Hoban freely admits that he doesn't even understand his own brief and all the changes his government are introducing, complaining that he "can't navigate his way around the benefits system" and admits if his constituents come to him asking for help with benefits he packs them "straight off" to Citizens Advice for help.

"We have a complex benefits systems," he said. Quite! Hoban admitted that in 2011 the government decided it would signpost people from jobcentres to food banks. Now that 500,000 families are turning up at the food banks – many as a result of welfare benefit problems – no wonder the minister admitted he was "keen to do some more work on how food banks operate". 

At full stretch, he will find. Shambles upon shambles. Yikes. Your life in their hands: The Guardian.

Still at least Mark Hoban will not be homeless and be left cold, hungry and disabled, or suffering with a psychiatric illness, without any means to get to the nearest food bank after his government performed a collective miracle akin to Biblical times and "cured" thousands of disabled people at a stroke of an Atos pen! Removing  peoples benefits, electric scooters, wheelchairs and cars, leaving them trapped inside their own homes, as well as inside their own bodies. I mean God forbid that should ever happen to any minister of this hideous government and that they should learn first hand, just what it is like to live and manage life with a physical or mental disability.

The Horrors of Atos

This Conservative led Coalition  government and this prime minister, David Cameron and his minions, IDS, McVey, Hoban, Hunt, Freud, Shapps etc have done more to divide this country than any other government in our history and in so doing they have put back a century all the progress which has been made in disabled rights in recent years. This government have caused bitterness, resentment and utter nastiness. They and they alone have created an environment where people now think it is OK to abuse disabled people because they see Cameron and his cronies doing it all the time. They see it on billboards on the Tory supporting press, they read it screaming out from banner headlines how so many disabled people have dropped out of the system, what they do not see or read, is the fact that David Cameron and Iain Duncan-Smith have been rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority for deliberately misleading (lying) the public over statistics concerning disabled people and their benefits.

And Esther McVey still wants us to believe this government are not deliberately targeting disabled people? She is just another liar who will say and do anything to further her career and tread on anyone (disabled or others wise) to get what she wants.

Welcome to Tory Britain 2013 

 Same Old Tories - They Haven't Changed 

and They Never Will!

In Answer To Will Hutton at the Guardian

In answer to the almost palpable angst of Will Hutton at the Guardian newspaper.

This country is being destroyed not by liberalism, conservatism (small c) or leftism, it is being destroyed by a bunch of over privileged Conservative (large C) buffoons, who have neither the compassion, the decency, the honesty or the intellect to govern this country and who are allowing corruption to profligate right at the heart of this current government in an absolute staggering short space of time!

This is not even subterfuge, this government openly really do think they are born to rule us and that we the workers should have no working rights, no right to a tribunal. no right to legal redress etc and to make sure of this they have taken away legal aid to make it even harder for us to gain access to our rights under the law from housing benefit, domestic violence, to bullying, to intimidation, to harassment and unfair dismissal at work and they are now forcing us to be grateful for any scraps of help they feel like throwing us, we are in fact becoming the undeserving poor who must be grateful for anything remotely humane showed to us! This government's arrogance is yet another 'attribute' that is contributing to the rapid social decay of this country, they think they are untouchable and for the moment at least - they think right! They are making hay while the Tory sun shines and are merrily ripping up the very fabric of our societies and communities across this country of *ours* and us like complete dullards are allowing them to do it under our very noses and some are even still voting Tory and thus for their own demise - priceless! How this government must spend most of its time behind closed doors whooping, banging table tops and laughing up their collective sleeves, not only at their passing of the bill that will destroy and privatise our NHS, but at us, and at the sheer stupidity that can grip the working class mindset. "I own my own house, so therefore  I must be a Tory and I'd better vote Conservative". Never mind that they are grinding us into the ground and kicking the luxury Ibiza sand outside the luxury Ibiza villa in our collective faces as they soak up their luxury break in the Spanish sun and all the rest of it, people, ordinary working people, nice people, still vote Tory because they have managed to get a mortgage on their own house! The fact that the way things are going their off-spring may not be able to afford to do that and may have trouble even renting a place to live, has still yet to sink in. The fact that the banks have been given billions in quantitative easing (QE) by this government and the Bank of England to ease the the problem, loan money out and then pocket the real money we pay the banks in interest on money which doesn't really exist and therefore helps the Tory bankers out (once again) has yet to sink in too! The fact that Margaret Thatcher created "housing bubble No.1" which caused the current crisis and now to get themselves out of a political hole they dug for themselves, George Osborne is merrily creating "housing bubble No.2" and when it bursts we will see property prices fall by as much as 50% creating the mother of all negative equity situations, has yet to sink in too. Not to mention the foreign investors now queuing up to take advantage of the British taxpayer by buying houses under Osborne's "help to buy scheme" and others who are taking advantage of Osborne's generosity with our money who are currently buying second homes and helping to store up huge problems for future governments to sort out, has yet to sink in too.

This present unelected government and this present unelected prime minister have caused more distress and heartache and carried out a deliberate strategy to deliberately divide this country than any other government before it and that includes the appalling Conservative Thatcher and Major years 1979 - 1997. When Lady Thatcher died, our unelected PM described her as a "true Conservative". Does Cameron even know what that is? Do we know what it is? For many the mere word "Conservative" (large C) conjures up such negative thoughts like; intolerant little "Englanders" union flag waving blue rinsed oldies at Tory conferences singing Land of Hope and Glory; hatred of gays; hatred of working classes, hatred of workers equality; hatred of welfare, hatred of state education, hatred of the NHS, hatred of anyone with a social conscience;  hatred of immigrants etc in fact it just carries on until we arrive at a situation where the word 'Conservative' could almost be used as a synonym for the words 'hatred and intolerance'!

What I cannot understand are the so-called Liberal Democrats, who are aiding abetting and assisting this hideous government to destroy state education, destroy the NHS, destroy workers rights and mislead the country over the true state of the economy and unemployment. How did that party  manage to get so sucked into this present government's vortex of greed and corruption? It's a truly staggering political volte-face, one I've never witnessed before and one which will probably in the end kill the the Liberal party stone dead!

Until we stand up, rise up and get this monolithically incompetent Tory government out, and until us the people start demanding more from our politicians *ALL our politicians*  nothing will ever change, we'll just continue moaning and taking it all sitting down. Some of us will look on what is happening in Turkey and wish that we were still a nation with a bit of oomph, like we used to be. What happened to our fight? We would never have taken this before, did the onset of the 1960's peace and love knock all the fight out of us? Did it make us so laid back that we simply lost track of what was and is still the most important cherished things about our own country? Did we parents in the 60's and 70's, breed a nation of politically correct  namby pambies that not only cannot stand up for themselves, have no idea how to stand up for themselves? Did we breed a bunch of politically neutral wets who are afraid to win in case we upset others but who can moan their heads off for England, but that's just about all? Example: Look at our football team, crammed full of the top premier league players but cannot play as a team and if they do win are almost apologetic for doing so - what the hell have we 60's and 70's parents done to our offspring, what have we given them to pass on to their children?

We never used to be like this, we are currently letting our ancestors down, the Tolpuddle Martyrs in the 1830's, the Jarrow crusade,  the first poll tax demonstrations and the 2nd modern Thatcher poll tax demonstrations etc. Look at the modern Jarrow march for jobs in 2011, some unemployed people finally threw off their shackles, got together and marched for jobs, did anyone come out and join them on their way? No of course not, most people are so politically naive (or ignorant of current affairs) did not even know what was happening, and even some of those who did just sat back and scoffed at these youngsters trying to get publicity for a very real cause of joblessness that is so affecting the younger generation  and we allowed the hostile Tory supporting press to mock them and their brave gruelling efforts; we allowed the press to ridicule them and do their level best to undermine them and their cause! Same with Occupy London, instead of concentrating on the message, we concentrated on what the Tory supporting press wanted us to concentrate on, the few protesters who left to go to their jobs in the day, or to return home at night. It is exactly the same way we are allowing this government and the right wing Tory press to stigmatise welfare claimants and the disabled, we are allowing our poor and most vulnerable to be insulted and referred to as "cheats, shirkers and skivers" when we should be standing up for our fellow human beings in a world that actually disables the disabled more and more! Why are we allowing the Conservative (large C) supporting press to undermine the working classes and anyone else who tries to stand up against this elitist Tory establishment?

We must keep alive the memory of the protests like the Peasants Revolt and the Jarrow crusade of 1936 and the Jarrow march for jobs 2011, this is when ordinary people took a stand instead of lying down to be trampled on, they took a stand against rising unemployment and grinding poverty and now as poverty and unemployment is rising once again, and we are seeing food banks springing up in every town and village across this country as a direct result of another elitist Conservative (large C) government, we need to do it again now, because our state education, and our NHS, and our wages and our standard of living which our working ancestors fought tooth and nail for, and in some cases gave their lives for, is being deliberately driven down and deliberately eroded  in order to enrich the Tory doning banks. Are we really going to sit back and take this while recessions delights the Tory hedge fund shadow bankers who make billions out of our misery, and Tory doning corporations  abuse workers and their rights and think they can pay them zero pay and our ordinary working rights are being stolen from us by a bunch of elitist millionaires, who call themselves a government?

This is not a real government it is a bunch of corporate lackey chancers doing corporate bidding and they are using us as modern day Serfs!

This Conservative party is not a proper government, it is the political wing of the bankers, shadow bankers and multi national corporations and if workers do not wake-up and realise this and fight against it, then we will be to blame for the catastrophe in an intolerant, uncaring cold, vicious society that we hand down to our future generations.

If this is what Will Hutton despairs of as he 'watches the erosion of the liberal views he holds dear' then I join him in that despair, because if we do nothing then we will indeed end up not caring about our friends and neighbours and we will move from being a "nation of shop keepers" to being a nation of people that walk by on the other side, with not so much as a backward glance! And this will be the real legacy of this most appalling, hideous Conservative (large C) government and "anything will go"!

Cameron and The Telegraph - Risible "Partners" In Shame!

David Cameron calling for calm and putting on his best "top lip curling - most sincere face" pleading for us not to be divided since Lee Rigby's tragic death in Woolwich, is political subterfuge and political opportunism of the most despicable order all rolled into one and that he is prepared to use such tragic circumstances to his own political ends is totally abhorrent. I find Cameron's pleas for unity to be absolutely gut wrenching and nauseating, especially because Cameron and his government (and that includes Nick Clegg and all of  the turncoat Liberal Democrat MPs) have done more to divide this nation than any other person and any other government, and furthermore, they have been doing this from day one of this mongrel Tory-Liberal Democrat Coalition. It has been so obvious and so well coordinated that it could well be an unseen, unwritten agreement between the two Coalition partners, discussed by the all male delegates from both political parties in the wake of the hung parliament after the general election in 2010.

Lately we have seen the BNP and EDL trying to "terrorise" the streets and take control of them apparently from Muslims and in so doing they attack the British police (such bright sparks).  Many BNP and EDL  members have found a home behind the thinly veneered face of Ukip, and while I do think this is an unintended consequence,  David Cameron has to take much of the blame for this happening as he and his tawdry, lying deceitful, corrupt government and the Tory supporting press have actively encouraged this kind of behaviour with their incessant attacks on immigrants and welfare recipients, so much so, that now some impressionable people think that it is OK to attack ethnicity and that it is OK to attack the poor, the disabled and vulnerable etc, because they see Cameron, Osborne and Clegg and Tory supporting press all doing it on a regular basis. Also what does it say about the Tories that many former Conservatives have joined Ukip and even some Conservative MPs currently want to form a pact with Ukip? Ukip the party that has been exposed as having 'unvetted' BNP and EDL members in their midst who show images of US president Barack Obama and his wife mocked up to look like chimpanzees and whose fb page contained racist jokes about destroying mosques, burning Muslims and knocking over a Pakistani with a bus? It is not racist to discuss immigration and welfare etc, but it is socially reprehensible to discuss it in such a way that it causes offence and misunderstandings to gain a political advantage out of it!

I am sick of seeing the press pussy footing around this subject and never actually reporting the truth, so let's just say it as it is, David Cameron may not be a racist, but he is not averse to using the tools of racism and the tools of social bullying to get him what he wants - votes! Why else would he employ tobacco and drinks lobbyist Lynton Crosby as his election strategist? Lynton Crosby the man alleged to not being averse to making a few racist comments about Muslims  himself?

I liken this hideous government to a political pincer movement, attack immigration on one side, while attacking welfare on the other, trapping the poor, disabled, vulnerable, low waged and unemployed in the middle and squeezing the life out of them, blaming them for all society's ills and offering them no hope of escape, just a long protracted death and the longer the better, because the longer it goes on, the more political mileage the Tories and Liberal Democrats can gain out of it for themselves. And all the while it goes on, the greedy Tory bankers, the Tory hedge funders and the leaching multi national corporations, (the faceless people who actually did much to help cause the global financial recession) are allowed to escape without one single prosecution, and yet Stephanie Bottrill, a grandmother who was forced to pay money she simply did not have in the hated Tory bedroom tax, and a man in Bedfordshire that owed Central Beds Council £1,300 in council tax arrears have committed suicide and hardly anything is said about this and yet these two desperately sad cases are the tip of the iceberg of how this government's policies are actually killing our citizens. If these cases and many like them do get a mention and are reported in the hostile Tory supporting press, the journalists spin the stories to blame the victims and their families and steer blame away from where it really lies - right at the heart of the British government! See Calum's List for the truth, I promise it will open your eyes!

Today, as if to prove everything I have written, the Tory supporting, (ordinary person hating), right wing newspaper, The Telegraph, have run a report on where your tax goes to pay for welfare in what appears to me to be a disingenuous and deliberately misleading way. It looks like yet another ignorant product of sloppy journalism  in a thinly veiled divisive and stigmatising attack on the recipients welfare. The Telegraph make a list of where tax goes and what it pays for, yet they use the statistics spun in a underhand way devised to deliberately occlude the biggest welfare expense of all - pensions. Pensions are by a long way the biggest spend and the biggest problem facing this country, yet the Telegraph want to gloss over this and try focus people's minds towards yet another underhand scathing attack on immigrants and the poor and vulnerable, blaming them for the problems in this country they simply did not cause.

Why does the Telegraph do this? 1) Because a lot of their readership is probably of pensionable age. 2) They seem to have picked up a lot of crazed Ukip supporters which they seem to be too scared to upset. 3)  If the Telegraph did truthfully focus peoples minds on pension payments alerting them to being the biggest expense in the welfare bill, people would quite rightly stop scapegoating the poor, disabled, vulnerable and immigrants, but if they did this, then  this probably would not fit in with their Tory bias agenda and that is their one dimensional tunnel visioned mission to have people believe that everyone on welfare is either a "shirker, skiver" or "benefit cheat"! When nothing could be furthest from the truth, as the vast majority of people in this country are decent honest and given the chance extremely hard working, they are not welfare cheats or skivers at all but this is not the impression the Tories or their Tory supporting editor mates want to propagate, it doesn't fit their agenda! In fact many of the people now on welfare are there as a direct consequence of this government's insane policies! Cameron making emotive statements like this:

 "The fraudsters who cost hard-working taxpayers £5billion a year were a “luxury we can no longer afford” 

is not only completely untrue as benefit fraud is approximately £3bn, the words are carefully chosen to stoke up resentment between ordinary people and it is this resentment that we are now seeing spilling onto our streets and it is a highly dangerous game that Cameron and his mates in the press are playing!

Of the welfare spend approximately 50% is spent on pensions. It is not only morally indefensible for the Telegraph to give the impression that Britain's welfare bill is out of control because of a *minority* of idle work "refusniks" and those who cheat the system, but it is simply mathematically incorrect! If we are to come down heavily on those who do cheat the system, then perhaps we should also come down just as heavily on newspapers and those in public life who deliberately falsely misrepresent figures and statistics? Take bows David Cameron, George Osborne, Iain Duncan-Smith, Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps etc, all Tory cabinet ministers who have recently been rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority for deliberately presenting  figures in a way which has  deliberately misled the British public.

In the same vein perhaps the Telegraph should be reported to the Press Complaints Commission for publishing a report they knew did not contain the whole facts and for deliberately trying to stoke up division and unrest between the people of this country, by deliberately publishing misleading figures?

I cannot say for sure what kind of game the Conservative party and their mates in the Tory supporting right

wing press are playing, but I know it is an extremely dangerous and divisive one. It's not only a game that will eventually bring fear, chaos and rioting onto our streets, it is a game that will see an end to state funded education, it's a game that is overseeing the full-scale privatisation of our NHS and our police, fire and ambulance services and it is a game that will see thousands of homeless people wandering our streets, it is a game that will see lengthening queues at soup kitchens and families forced to go to an ever increasing number of food banks to try and feed their families  and it is a tragic game where children will end up being taken into the care of social services because their family has become homeless through this government's insane policies and or can no longer feed them. clothe them, keep them warm or house them - it's a game that is a horrendous recipe for social catastrophic disaster in our country, and it is a game of division and fear and scapegoating of the innocent most vulnerable which is willingly played by David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg and their mates in the Tory supporting press, just so they can stand a chance of getting re-elected.



It may be unpalatable and something real people are loathe to do but it is a game that all those with a social conscience must take part in because we have no choice and we can use social media to win, because losing is just not an option. We can slay these risible politicians and we can show them, they work for us, not the other way around.

It's time to stand up and be counted people!