Cameron, Osborne and Carney Must Think We're Barmy!

Austerity is here permanently for you 'plebs'
says David Cameron

Cameron's natural instincts to suck up to big business was evident last week when Mr Cameron gave a speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet where he said that "austerity was permanent". It isn't even the fact that Cameron hails from a long line of privilege and property and country estates, and has never wanted for a single thing in his whole existence on this Earth that people found so galling and so utterly offensive, it was the fact that there he was in white tie and tails, delivering his austerity speech to a room full of bankers, hedge funders, big business, equity companies and all manner of City types stood behind a gold lectern to a room full of privileged people who had just dined on the very best fillet of beef with a celebration of British mushrooms washed down by the finest wines and champagnes, while standing next to the Lord Mayor bedecked in her gold chains of office sitting on her gold throne with plush red velvet upholstery.That dinner that 'our Dave scoffed down' could have probably paid the food bill for a family of four for a whole week.  It was like something out of a Dickens novel and so out of touch is David Cameron and his advisers that none of them even thought about, let alone recognised the insulting nature and the paradox of such thoughtless actions.

Once again while the leader of the opposition Ed Miliband was out and about meeting and talking to ordinary people and owners of small businesses about the things that concern them and worry them.  As well as bringing a debate and a vote to parliament on energy prices and trying to get a vote through parliament to force the government to abolish their ill thought through bedroom tax which is causing such despair and pain to nearly three quarters of a million people.

The leader of the opposition Ed Miliband has successfully driven energy costs right up to the top of the agenda, if it were not for Mr Miliband and Labour, the prime minister David Cameron and the Tory Coalition would not have done a single thing, they would have just sat back and allowed the energy conglomerates to put energy prices up just the same as they have done every year. All Cameron has done in previous years is have the energy bosses in for coffee and biscuits at the taxpayers expense, waffle about cooperation and self regulation and that's it the energy bosses go on their way free to charge us what they like.

The water companies only came into Cameron's and the government's panicked sights when Ed Miliband gave an interview to a local paper mentioning them see HERE.
Never has it been clearer that the general public want and need a government that is capable of standing up for the public against big business and the energy conglomerates which have been ripping us off for years. This government is not the Coalition and it is certainly not the Tories who are in cahoots with big business as we can see 'our Dave'  is never more comfortable than when he is sucking up to big business.

Living standards are being purposefully driven down by Cameron and his government in order to falsify the unemployment figures so that his mates the businessmen can employ two people for the price of one.
While Ed Miliband was trying to raise the problem of the cost of living crisis for ordinary people Cameron was out wining and dining the very people who are purposefully keeping wages low. Much the same as the other week when Miliband was offering his head on a platter to be kicked by the energy companies while trying to get the government to act on energy costs, Cameron's chancellor, George osborne was busy in the EU making arrangements to take the EU to court on behalf of Britain's bankers to help safeguard their huge bonuses and is now forcing the taxpayer to pay over a million pounds in bankers legal fees.

And we, the people who work and keep this country going and we the people, the nurses, the doctors, the cleaners, the school dinner ladies, the road sweepers, the factory workers, the local authority workers etc who NEVER caused this problem caused by the bankers greed who helped crippled the global economy, are told that we must face a lifetime of austerity and what is more we must pay to bail the banks out and then pay again for their legal fees while Tory chancellor George Osborne fights their case in the law courts so they can keep their huge salaries and massive bankers bonuses.  What do you expect when this particular government and this particular Tory party are in the pockets of big business, the corporations, the energy conglomerates, many make financial donations to the Conservative party, why wouldn't they scratch each others backs? The British Conservative party is just the political wing of the establishment; big business, the corporations, the energy conglomerates, the multinationals, the private healthcare companies and the banks and hedge funds! See HERE

You couldn't really make it up.

Also during last week we are forced to listen to George Osborne's political sidekick of a Governor of the Bank of England telling us our glasses are all half full and the 'recovery' has taken hold because? Well he said so, based on his predictions - can you actually believe that? (It's not as if the Bank of England's predictions have even come true in the past.)

What 'recovery' is Carney talking about?

This sudden and highly suspect fall in inflation is a misnomer too, they say the price of food has gone down, well would someone tell that to the supermarkets because my bill is rising week upon week. Since the horsemeat scandal the price of meat has rocketed and not fallen back to previous prices there is no reason for this either, it's the supermarkets making money out of us another rip-off. Everything in my shopping basket is more expensive than it was a year ago.

Unemployment is falling and employment is rising we are told - really?

The faux rise in employment is a deception and a deception of the British people by this their government on a massive scale

There are several reasons for the rise in employment and none of them good. Mainly these 'new' jobs which are supposed to be being created are mainly public sector jobs being reclassified as private sector jobs and these job transfers are mainly taking place in education and the NHS. Take a cursory look at companies like Care UK and Virgin Care, they have taken over huge swathes of NHS contracts and staff and suddenly those NHS staff who worked for the public sector are now classed private sector and the government is using these figures to tell us that employment is rising and that 1.4 million 'new' jobs are being created, they are not it is a blatant lie, the public are being deliberately misled. (If the staff object to being taken over by the private sector they are told to resign.)

Then there is deception of falling unemployment - it is not falling, in fact, I would bet my house that unemployment has actually been rising this past year and I say this for several indisputable reasons:

Workfare - The government are forcing thousands of people onto workfare contracts, people are being forced to work full-time for their JSA and these people are NOT counted on the unemployment register. According to the Labour Market's Statistics the number of people on government supported training and employment programmes and classified as being in 'employment' rose by 8000 to 168,000. This is the highest number in unpaid work since 1998. This means that over half of the 47,000 the ONS and the government say that unemployment has fallen are currently on unpaid workfare programmes. You can see how eax ch month these figures are being deliberately distorted. Adding 168,000 to the jobless tally suddenly gives a different picture to the true state of the economy and unemployment in this country!
If people do not enter these full-time unpaid work schemes (which prevent them looking for properly paid full-time work) then their job seekers allowance is sanctioned, meaning it;s cut. Thousands have been sanctioned because they have attended job interviews and they have seen their JSA cut, which is why the claimant count is falling. The government Department Work and Pensions (Iain Duncan-Smith) are literally forcing people off of the unemployment register in order to deceive the public.

Zero hour contracts - over a million people on zero hour contracts are classed as working even though they may not earn any pay for weeks. They are deliberately left off  unemployment register by the Office National statistics (ONS) because even though they may not earn any wages for weeks they are still technically classed as 'employed' and are prevented from claiming JSA by the DWP. It is the government (DWP) who classify those on zero hour contracts as working, so do not forward the numbers to the ONS.
These workers cover care workers who often wait for work or report for work and are told on the day they report for work that there is no work for them at that time.

Self Employment - rising numbers of people being pushed into self-employment by jobcentres are masking the true state of the jobs market and these people are not counted on the unemployment register, even though they may not be earning a penny and they are also prevented from claiming JSA, or any other benefits, because they are technically classed as working when they are not. These people are labourers, builders, temps, hairdressers, shop workers etc. There has been a 9% rise in self-employed people since the start of the recession in 2008.

Part-time work and underemployment -  there is another rise in the number of part-time workers who would otherwise work full-time but cannot find full-time work, these people are not counted on the unemployment register, they are 'underemployed' and are now being forced to find hours of work (which are often not there ) or risk losing part or all of their tax credits. This is another way the government (DWP) is deliberately misleading the public over those claiming benefits count.

UK 'Unemployment Fall' masks Plight of Unemployed 50 year Olds - More than 400,000 people aged over 50 in the UK who are registered as unemployed (according to the latest labour market data). These people are classed as long-term unemployed and are now under threat of sanctions by the government (DWP) of having their JSA removed if they do not either attend the Jobcentre for 30 hours per week spread over five days per week, or pick up litter on the streets for 30 hours per week for their JSA, which is between £56.80 and £71.70 per week according to government figures. Hopefully it will not be your mother, father, or grandparent treated in this fashion in order to help this government falsify data and mislead the public.


Out of the jobs which are being created most are low waged so the employer can treat his workers like some kind of BOG-OF *buy one get one free* or because they pay terrible wages (which the taxpayer is forced to subsidise through tax credits) employers can afford to hire two people for the price of one. Wages have been falling for 40 out of the 41 months David Cameron and the Tory Coalition have been in power and this is not by accident, it is by design!

None of which is good for the economy, now the Mark Carney can waffle on about glasses half full if he wants to, but it is the real people out here who will tell him when the economy is doing well and thus far there is NO recovery for us and until all of the above changes, there will be no proper and sustained recovery. if people are being affected badly by the cost of living crisis and are forced into low paid jobs and workfare schemes etc because at the end of the day it is just a matter of simple economics of supply and demand. If people are on low wages and struggling to pay their bills and are already using credit on cards and on loans from payday lenders, how are they going to buy things in the shops? Already last week in what went widely unreported there are signs of a consumer slowdown, which do not quite fit in with Mark Carney's overly optimistic view of the economy, in fact Carney did not even mention the 0.7% surprise fall in retail sales! If people have no spare money, they either tighten their belts and do not spend, or they simply cannot spend or they borrow to spend and all three spell disaster for a weak economy and the UK economy is weak, because this false recovery is built of misleading unemployment data.

What Mark Carney did not say last week was eight important and worrying factors with the UK economy

1. Retail sales fell by a surprise 0.7% in October 
2. Fall in exports and rising imports widening trade gap 
3. Manufacturing growth spurt fails to offset bad year for Britain's factories  
4. Credit card debt rising 
5. Use of payday loan companies rising 
6. Personal debt is rising and threatening recovery
7. [George Osborne's politically motivated] Housing Bubble
8. And the true numbers of unemployed is being masked.

A really terrifying factor of this deception is that Carney has said once unemployment reaches Carney's magic 7%, he will raise interest rates! So in effect it looks like the government have been so successful in falsifying the true unemployment data that Carney's magic 7% unemployment will be met some 18 months sooner than expected. If Carney raises interest rates on the back of these misleading unemployment data, it will prove catastrophic for the UK economy, but if he doesn't raise interest rates people, (especially savers) are going to demand to know the reason why - leads me to this question: "Is Mark Carney, who chancellor George Osborne placed in position at the BoE as Governor, part of a political cover-up on the true state of unemployment in this country today? I see that Carney and the BoE are already trying to row back from the interest rate problem.

The only reason we have a little growth is because of the utter insanity of Osborne trying to buck the housing market with his Help to Buy and Funding for Lending schemes. These are driving a debt fueled false 'recovery' built on consumer spending which is built on credit.
The chancellor has virtually given 95% mortgages underwritten by the taxpayers to people who cannot afford to live and save for a deposit at the same time. If they cannot afford to live and save for a deposit at the same time then they certainly cannot afford a mortgage.
He has sanctioned people who already own their own houses who want to trade up and is underwriting their mortgages up to £600,000. Osborne is already said to be going to borrow a further £248bn in just five years, (more than the previous Labour government did in their entire 13 years), how much more will he have to borrow by underwriting mortgages? Bearing in mind Osborne has already lost the UK our triple A status which makes our borrowing more expensive.

None of which are helping first time buyers (which the market depends upon), Osborne is causing the price of houses to rise out of control, especially in London and the south east, but house prices in general across the country are now starting to rise as people gradually push out from London and the south east in order to get and affordable property.

What will happen to all these people who are already overstretching themselves to buy a house under the government HTB and Funding for Lending schemes if interest rates rise next year as unemployment falsely falls to 7%? If the bubble bursts because people will no longer be able to afford houses, then thousands of people are going to be left struggling to pay mortgages which are in negative equity - it is the same old story'

A return to Tory boom and bust! George Osborne hasn't learned a thing and neither have the people clamouring for mortgages borrowing money from the government they cannot afford to use as deposits for mortgages on property they cannot afford.

It will be 2008 all over again (only much worse) and this time it will be entirely the fault of George Osborne, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and the Conservative Coalition government because it is them that have deliberately sparked a housing bubble by underwriting loans and subsidising the private sector construction industry with taxpayers money. What will happen if the government who is acting as guarantor for thousands of mortgages and loans suddenly starts having to cough up for people that have defaulted on their mortgages and loans? It means of course that we the taxpayer will have to pay to bail them out.

Osborne was meant to be rebalancing the economy but it is as far from being rebalanced as we are from the sun and we are being kept in the dark about the true state of this economy.

Yet where did the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney mention any of this in his glass half full speech?

Cost of Living Crisis? "What Cost of Living Crisis" Says Climate Secretary Greg Barker

The out of touch Tories lurched further to the right this morning as the Climate Secretary, Greg Barker tells Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News that "there is no cost of living crisis".

He also called Ed Miliband an "idiot" for wanting to implement a 20 month energy price freeze while the energy market is restructured and reset and the necessary legislation is passed through parliament to support it along with the introduction of a new energy regulator with 'more teeth' to keep the energy companies in line.

When challenged by Mr Murnaghan, Mr Barker said that he and the government are doing something about the soaring energy costs as they have "sat down with the Big 6 and asked them to find ways of regulating themselves".

So the Tory-led Coalition government's answer to the energy crisis and the cost of living crisis is twofold:

1. Deny there is a cost of living crisis;
2. Make up their energy policy as they go along

Mr Barker had ample time on Sky News to explain to those who are being severely affected by the sharp decline in their standard of living and who are struggling to pay their bills with escalating cost of living and to reassure them and to explain to them what the government were doing to help them and he failed on all counts, instead, he sat there for 10 minutes blaming Labour for everything and had absolutely no answers.

If the minister would care to explain to those people who are being driven to using expensive credit cards, or worse still taking out payday loans in the Tory created "Wonga economy" to pay their bills, heat their homes and feed their families why he believes there is no "cost of living crisis", I'm sure they would be very 'grateful'. 

It's OK folks there is no cost of living crisis, just like hundreds of thousands of people are not being forced to use food banks to feed their families. I wonder if the minister thinks it is an over exaggeration that the Trussell Trust is also reporting that some people are even handing back food that needs cooking because they have no money to buy the gas or electric required to cook it?

But hey, there is no "cost of living crisis" - apparently.

Footnote: Can someone please send the Tory Coalition Government and their Liberal Democrat enablers a memo informing them that they have been in power for over THREE YEARS, and blaming Labour for the GLOBAL RECESSION and the international BANKING collapse is wearing very thin - time they took responsibility, if they can't handle the pressure then call a general election.

"Broadsword Calling Dodgy Dave Boy" - Phone Hacking - Leveson

Scene From "Where Eagles Dare"

At the fourth day of the hacking trial: (yesterday)

Yesterday in the Prime Minister's buddies Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks at the  phone hacking trials, it was stated that a "complicated and risky security operation" to move alleged 'evidence' from one place to another was being carried out by the NI  security team and Charlie Brooks (Rebekah Brooks' husband). However, it had been thwarted by a cleaner near the Brooks London apartment complex.

The cleaner apparently discovered a bin bag of material (said to be laptop, a mobile phone and papers belonging to the Brooks's etc) stashed near the waste bins, he handed it to his supervisor who called in the police.

The operation was being coordinated by Mark Hanna, the head of NI security, and Charlie Brooks using someone posing as a pizza delivery man. When the bag of material was left by the bins in an underground carpark beneath Brooks's home, the bogus "pizza delivery man" sent a text message saying "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" - "Pizza delivered and the chicken is in the pot".

How odd that Charlie and Rebekah Brooks should choose the "Broadsword calling Danny Boy" line which was taken from a line played by Richard Burton in the film "Where Eagles Dare" because it happens to be a film that prime minister David Cameron once said he has watched 17 times. Of all the thousands and thousands of films made they had to choose that one! Wow what a "coincidence"!

Rebekah Brooks is a 'close friend' of the prime ministers and looked adoringly on and reduced twice to tears when David Cameron made his speech to the 2009 Tory party conference.

Between 130 and 150 texts were sent by the prime minister from number 10 to Rebekah Brooks but were never submitted to the Leveson Inquiry! I wonder is they were all "coded messages"?

Welcome To Breadline Tory Britain 2013

With all the furore over energy prices and now water bills, it's about time someone mentioned those who are forced to buy their energy through prepayment metering by the energy companies.

Often it is the weakest, the poorest and the most vulnerable in our society who are forced to purchase their energy like this. For example: The low-waged; the disabled; the elderly; the unemployed and single parents, those forced to live on benefits and also those "hardworking people" the prime minister talks so glibly about who are struggling with the soaring cost of living. These are the people who are existentially being hit by these price hikes much harder than people who pay directly by direct debit.

As these people have been placed on prepayment plans by their energy providers they will end paying more than the price hike for their domestic fuel bills. Prepayment means they will be asked to pay for their gas and electricity before they actually use it.

Those consumers who have been placed on prepayment metering have usually been placed on them because they cannot afford their energy bills or may have been late paying their bills on a few occasions. These consumers often have no choice and and the metre[s] will be installed by their energy providers whether the consumer wants them or not.

The energy companies take the view that they will not terminate supply for non-payment but will install a prepayment metre. Often the rate of gas or electricity consumption is set on an estimation of how much the consumer is likely to use, plus the metre is also set to recoup any debt owed to the company. So if the consumer buys £15 of electricity or gas on their card/key to top up their prepayment metre and they owe the energy company for a previous bill, the energy company will automatically take half of that payment to recover any arrears and for standing charges. The consumer may be left with as little as £7.50 for gas or electricity out of their original £15.00. This process will continue until the debt is cleared. So if the debt is around £100  it may take at least around 16 weeks to clear. That is 16 weeks of often the poorest, the disabled, the low waged, the unemployed and often some of our most vulnerable consumers of gas and electricity who are already experiencing fuel poverty being forced into even more fuel poverty while the debt is collected. Unfortunately the energy companies do not usually make adjustments for seasonal collections of debt, so the arrears could be being collected through the deepest of our winter months, exposing people to the risk of hypothermia!

Many of these metres are placed outside in awkward to reach places or inside in awkward to reach places making it very difficult for the elderly or disabled to reach. This also has hidden problems and dangers if the consumers does run out of gas for any reason it will mean relighting pilot lights on gas boilers before normal supply can be fed through to their heating systems, often people, especially the elderly and the disabled have great problems reigniting these pilot lights especially if they have back boilers as this means laying on the floor to reach the pilot light and this means they will be forced to sit in freezing cold conditions until someone can come and help them. (if indeed they have anyone that can help!)

This is not all, because these vulnerable people are on prepayment plans and metres, the energy companies say it costs more to collect their bills so people will usually pay more for their energy. if they cannot afford to buy tokens or re charge their card or keys then they will not have any energy. Also during the coldest months when people need to buy more gas and electricity to keep warm, then the more energy they purchase, the more of their money will be taken off of them to pay off their arrears.

There are also hidden costs, the nearest charging point may not be near and consumers will be faced with the additional cost of getting to their nearest charging point. If people are on both gas and electricity prepayment plans then the charging points for gas and electricity may even be located in separate locations adding to the problems.

What is the government doing about this very serious problem? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! As usual David Cameron is standing by and allowing his friends the in the energy companies to make even more money out of our most vulnerable people.

Not only is Cameron and this hideous government doing nothing to help these people, they are actually making their situations worse by cutting their benefits, even though many of these people will actually be IN WORK!

Iain Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions has made these peoples lives intolerable in many different ways will be making it impossible for these struggling people not only to feed and clothe their families and themselves this winter, but to pay something as basic as their fuel bills will also prove impossible.The hidden costs of the Tories and Liberal Democrats welfare reforms are many and varied.

Bedroom Tax - thousands of people are now being forced to pay between £14 and £24 per week or between £56 and £96 extra per month out of their low wages or benefits for extra bedrooms if they are deemed not to be needed by the DWP. Many of these people are working on low pay or are disabled and need their bedrooms and thus far it has not created one single situation where it has actually helped anyone, there are no smaller properties for people to move into. It is one of the nastiest ill thought out, ill conceived pieces of legislation in the entire history of the British parliament. Yet still this government will not admit they have got it wrong and get rid of this ludicrous policy. (If the Labour party win the next election they have promised to repeal the bedroom tax) 96% of people affected by the Tories bedroom tax have nowhere to go, in effect they are trapped and are now falling into arrears with council for non payment of bedroom tax as well as falling into arrears with domestic fuel bills.

Housing Benefit Caps - Starting in July 2013 and earlier in some pilot areas, the government introduced a cap on the amount of housing benefit you can receive. At first, the benefit Cap will only affect those in receipt of Housing Benefit, however later, it could also affect those who are in receipt of Universal Credit. if the cap affects  you then your benefit will go down. Again this not only affects those who are entirely in receipt of benefits, it also affects those on low wages who receive help with their rent and council tax.

Working Families Tax Credit Cuts - Due to government changes the new rules on working tax credits from April 2013 will hit around 212,000 low income families according to information published in the House of Commons Library. This will reduce income on average by around £2,600 per year. This affects ALL those "hard working people" that David Cameron keeps talking about. Up until now providing one partner works at least 16 hours per week, they would be eligible for tax credits, but now couples will need to work at least 24 hours between them to apply, with one partner working at least 16 hours. It means that "hardworking families" will see their incomes fall by around 30%.

Council Tax benefit cuts - Are forcing people to stay on the side of the law or to break it in order to feed, liable for charges between 10% and 30% of the full bill.  Again many of these people are IN work earning low pay and have been forced into this position by this government. How much money are councils losing in non payment and in chasing people for payment? how much money is taking all of these people to country costing the country? How are people already struggling to live going to manage having to pay higher fuel bills and some are paying the bedroom tax and some are also now being charge council tax on top of everything else. how will they manage?

People Queuing outside Peterborough Magistrates Court
Answering Summonses for non payment of council tax.
It's not they won't pay it is because they CAN'T pay!

clothe their families and heat and light their homes. More than a 100,000 people have been issued with court summonses for non payment of council tax. Many people whom have never been in council tax arrears in their lives before now suddenly find themselves in debt owing large amounts and hundreds are turning up on council office doorsteps to protest, or are being forced to form queues outside Magistrates courts where they will be tried and fined EXTRA money for non payment of council tax bills. Most of the people who are being fined do NOT have the money to pay the bill in the first place which is why they are now being forced to court. An estimated 1.9 million who did not have to pay council tax before the changes now find themselves deeply in debt with their incomes cut and no way of paying for soaring food prices and soaring energy prices.

As you can see some of David Cameron's and the Tories and Liberal Democrat government's "hardworking families" can be clobbered at least 4 times each and the total effect on their weekly incomes will be absolutely devastating, can anyone in this absolutely ludicrous insane narcissistic government please explain how on top of all these cust, people are going to be able to pay to keep their homes warm and lit? How will all those on prepayment metres cope with the soaring costs of energy on top of all of these cuts?

Why isn't someone doing something about the energy companies charging vulnerable people MORE per unit of energy ABOVE the price everyone else pays?

The devastating verdict is in just one year this Tory led Coalition Government has pushed a million people into absolute poverty and all the progress the previous Labour government made in tackling relative child poverty has ground to a halt. In their first year this Government have pushed a million people into poverty and it is getting worse.
Now more than 5 million people in Britain are being paid less than the minimum wage, thanks to the Tory and Lib Dem Coalition Government's naked attack on peoples living standards and their deliberate driving down of wages.

How are these people going to afford to heat and light their homes?

A recent Oxfam report says that austerity will drive more than one million children into poverty. The Oxfam report says George Osborne's cuts and tax rises are "massively increasing" inequality in the UK and the Government's austerity policies will push a further 800,000 children into poverty. Oxfam warns that by 2020  there will be an additional 800,000 children - up from 2.3 million at present - and 1.9m more adults living below the breadline.

How are these people going to afford to heat and light their homes?

Food Banks - Over 350,000 people received emergency help from the Trussell Trust food banks between April and September 2013. Inquiries  for help at foodbanks has tripled this past year. The level of poverty and deprivation in the country is not acceptable, it is scandalous. Michael Gove should hang his head in shame for accusing people of not managing their money properly, they have no money to manage he and his government have seen to that! And his wife filling her fridge and cupboards with junk foods throughout the summer and writing about it is just callous and shows how out of touch this hideous government is.

The Trussell Trust has also reported that people have been giving back items that need cooking because they cannot afford the gas or electricity to cook them, this is an absolute abomination, we are the 7th richest country in the world and we are forcing the poor, unemployed, the elderly, the disabled and the vulnerable to pay for the greed of the bankers.

And what is George Osborne's answer to this while Ed Miliband is fighting the Government and the energy conglomerates to try and get a better deal for people? George Osborne is away with the fucking fairies in the EU taking them to court to safeguard bankers mega bonuses and just to add insult to injury, Osborne is forcing the taxpayer to pay over a million pounds in bankers legal fees!

The government is grabbing money from poor people hand over fist at the same time as they have given a huge tax concessions to millionaires handing them at least a £100,000 cheque tax cut. I bet they do not have to worry about turning the heating on, or worry about having enough power to cook the food a food bank gave them!

Today it is reported that cabinet ministers have been claiming thousands of pounds for energy costs, while Tories are all in it together!

Nadhim Zahawi laughing with the PM
after the millionaire claimed £5882
back in energy costs

 our poor and vulnerable are freezing cold and cannot cook their food, and one millionaire Tory Nadhim Zahawi claimed  £5882 off of the taxpayer in just 12 months, more than four times the average household bill! Yep those











I am so glad they think the situation they have caused in this country to be so funny, they laugh while millions struggle in despair and the winter hasn't even started properly yet!

Someone needs to do something and do it fast, if they do not then people are going to die of starvation and hypothermia this winter.

And why are the energy conglomerates charging people with prepayments metres MORE for their energy? It is a bloody disgrace!

EXCLUSIVE! Lynton Crosby - David Cameron and the Macquarie Group

David Cameron and Lynton Crosby

Yesterday the leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband added to the pressure that he has placed prime minister David Cameron under by turning his attentions to the cost of water. In a letter to a newspaper yesterday Mr Miliband wrote:

"I think the water industry is something that should be scrutinised to make sure it is working properly and make sure it is working properly for the benefit of consumers, because I know concerns have been raised." Read Here for full story.

Up until  Ed Miliband's article appearing in the Exeter Express and Echo yesterday, David Cameron had not shown the slightest interest in the cost of water and rising water bills and has wasted three years doing absolutely nothing about them. If David Cameron was so concerned about the Conservative privatised utilities that have brought us all escalating energy and water bills why didn't he act before yesterday evening?

Now in a sudden and panicked press release Downing Street announced that the government are looking into ways to reduce water bills. I wondered what was behind that panicked press release surely Number 10 realised that they just looked as though they had jumped the gun after being caught lagging behind Ed Miliband once again? After a little digging I came up with this:

The Australian owned  Macquarie Group  who purchased Thames Water is one of Lynton Crosby's (the prime minister's spin doctor's) clients. 

Lynton has worked for FTSE100 and ASX companies, brought in to counsel strategy and direct research. His work has included multi-million dollar programs; public affairs work; as well as lobbying. His clients included QANTAS, Macquarie Group and Coles See Here.  

The Macquarie group wanted to increase water bills by £29 to pay for the so-called super sewer, but this is just not true. I first raised how private companies were ripping us off on Ayes last August "Tory Led Coalition Helps Foreign Companies to Rip Us Off"  I told about how George Osborne the Tory chancellor allowed Thames Water to offset loans against their tax bills, loans that were NOT even taken out in this country! Lynton Crosby's client the Macquarie Group pay no corporation tax and hardly and UK tax either!

I wonder what is David Cameron's response to the fact that his spin doctor and close lobbyist friend Lynton Crosby's connections to the Tory privatised water industry and is there any area at all that Lynton crosby does not represent?

Isn't it time that Lynton Crosby resigned or is David Cameron and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats going to continue ignoring all these very serious conflicts of interests concerning Lynton Crosby?

Lynton Crosby also has interests in:

• Tobacco Industry 
• Drinks Industry
• Private Health Companies (H5) and the NHS
• Fracking
• Links to Syrian Rebel fighters
• Offshore tax havens
• YouGov Polling Company

Crosby uses and owns a mysterious offshore tax haven based in Malta. The company 'Rutland' is run from the offices of a trust firm specialising in "wealth preservation" and hiding the true identity of company owners. Read more Here The paper trail linking Lynton Crosby, Malta and a secret offshore trust HERE 

Shortly after Crosby was hired by David Cameron, the government proposed policies on plain tobacco packaging, and minimum alcohol pricing which were due to be announced in the Queen's Speech was dropped.

The New Zealand PM John Key has a few things in common with David Cameron: They both have had 'dealings' with Lord Ashcroft; they both promised to go ahead with plain tobacco packaging and then suddenly went cold after heavy lobbying from Lynton Crosby's clients in eh tobacco industry one Philip Morris. They both have dealings with Lynton Crosby. John Key and David Cameron met years ago when they were both at Oxford University and reaffirmed their 'friendship' when they were both opposition leaders. It looks like they are both taking Lynton Crosby's advice to "get the barnacles off of the boat". But this Lynton Crosby scandal is not going to go away, he is fast becoming the barnacle on the Tory boat and I suspect this story will gather pace as the 2015 general election approaches.

Conflict of interests began to emerge after Lynton Crosby started work for the Conservative Party. Not long after he took up his role the Tory-led Coalition government shifted its position in favour of private health companies by trying to sneak NHS regulations through the House forcing services out of the market. At the time experts expressed surprise at the sudden shift in position. It then became clear in a 'leaked document' why this happened when it was disclosed that Lynton Crosby's company told its client how to exploit perceived 'failings' in the NHS in 2010, based on an opinion poll. Read More at The Guardian. This resulted in Crosby's clients being rewarded lucrative NHS contracts by the government.

Lynton Crosby has his tendrils all over fracking too. Mr Crosby's lobbying firm, Crosby Textor, represents the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, an oil and gas lobby group campaigning aggressively for fracking. The Tories are very keen on fracking, so keen that just a few weeks after the Conservatives hired Lynton Crosby, George Osborne offered companies like APP above a 50% cut in tax if they come and frack in the UK (they can frack anywhere they like as long as it is not at the bottom of a Tory MP's drive apparently).

And surprise - surprise Mr Crosby is also the director of nine companies including Crosby Textor and its subsidiaries *as well as YouGov, the pollsters*! 

"Strangely" and "coincidentally" the Conservative's hiring of Lynton Crosby is almost *instantly* reflected in the downward trend of the Labour Party's polling results. Polling companies can legally change the way their data and methodology is read and used and YouGov have done that several times this past few months, each time it seems to be followed by a further narrowing in the polls for Labour. Con incidence? you a make your own mind up! Polling companies can also be selective where and who they poll which will lead to fluctuating poll results and coincidentally YouGov has been fluctuating wildly over the past few months, sometimes in stark opposition to many of the other pollsters. I am not saying YouGov are doing this, I am simply pointing out that YouGov can get the results it wants by simply asking questions in a specific way or by polling people from certain areas. Also if you perpetually report that Labour are slipping in the polls and it is hysterically reported in the press then this in itself could have a downward trend on polling. It is one of the reasons why I believe the Labour lead is probably higher than YouGov state, especially as the Lord Ashcroft polling of the 40 Tory - Labour marginals gives Labour 32 wins out of 40 and has them 14% ahead, something looks wrong with YouGov's methodology.

Crosby Textor's chairman, Robert Champion de Crespigny, was in 1999 found to have acted unlawfully when he bought out a rival gold mining company. Mark Fullbrook, the group's London managing director, is former head of campaignin for the Conservative Party.

David Cameron's support for the Syrian uprising has also been brought into question after it was revealed that Lynton Crosby's company work for the rebels. The UK branch of Lynton Crosby's lobbying empire represented the Syrian National Council See Here and Here.

After david Cameron lost the vote, Downing Street was engaged in a furious and foul mouthed attack on Ed Miliband after Mr Miliband refused to back David Cameron and William Hague's 'war cry' to help the US bomb Syria. Downing Street accused Ed Miliband of being a "copper bottomed s***"  and a "f******* c***" when the Labour leader told the PM that his party would not back the vote on whether to take military action on Syria. (Since Miliband's refusal to back the government's and the US's bombing Syria campaign, Syria has destroyed its chemical weapons making facilities and is now starting to destroy all its chemical weapons - none of which would have happened if Ed Miliband had given in to the PM's bullying and haste over military action in Syria.)

What has also never been answered by David Cameron and number 10 is just how much time Lynton Crosby has spent there. A "Tory spokesman" has told the FT last May (2013) that Crosby spends about half of his time working inside number 10 the heart of the British government and the other half working at Millbank the Tories official headquarters. Yet still to this day david Cameron refuses to answer questions about his top aide. Why does an aide hired by the Conservative party need to spend so much time inside number 10? By strange coincidence it was last May that the government shelved plans for plain tobacco packaging along with plans for minimum alcohol pricing.

With the prime minister's spin doctor Lynton Crosby's connections to the tobacco industry, drinks industry,  private health companies (H5), Syrian rebel fighters, the water companies and now the banking industry it explains why David Cameron and the Tory led Coalition government are very reluctant to produce a list of the companies that Lynton Crosby is involved with and it also explains why the government are reluctant to take on bankers of any description, from any country, and why, when Ed Miliband was fighting hard for energy consumers rights and cost of living the Tory chancellor George Osborne was arranging to take the EU to court over bankers mega bonuses and forcing the British taxpayer to pay the legal bills, which are expected to run into at least a million pounds. It appears the Conservative party's connections to the banking industry span globally and their fingers are in pies all over the world - in one way or another!

The Conservative Party is inexplicably linked to the once nationalised but now privatised utilities, utilities that were privatised under Margaret Thatcher. Rail under John Major and now the NHS, education and the Royal Mail under David Cameron.

Angela Knight a former Tory MP was once the mouthpiece and apologist for the banking industry, is now an apologist for the energy conglomerates.

Yes this the Tories and their mates are certainly "all in it together" and the Liberal Democrats are helping it stay this way too!

According to the propaganda from the Conservative government at the time of privatising all these industries they told us privatisation would "drive prices down and increase efficiency through increased competition". This excuse has been repeated frequently over the past 35 years since the Conservative privatisation programme began (interrupted by 13 years of Labour government). Not only for water, but for gas, electricity, the railways and more recently Royal Mail and it is being used as an excuse to sell off great swathes of our NHS to private companies. Instead of going down each and every one of these facilities has soared in cost, both to the consumer and to the government, so the taxpaying public are hit with a double whammy.

It is only now since Ed Miliband stuck his head above the parapet and forced the cost of living up the agenda over energy costs and now water prices, that criticisms made of privatisation at the time during successive Tory governments about profiteering, corruption and general misconduct by some companies involved are more than justified. What terror does that fill you with for our NHS, education, firefighters, paramedics, police and defence?

The wheels are finally beginning to fall off of the Tory privatisation programme and predictably there is great reluctance on behalf  of the Tory led Coalition government to do anything about it other than follow where the leader of the opposition Ed Miliband, leads. In fact, rather than learn their lessons over privatisation, the Conservative government with the help of the Liberal Democrats are in the process of privatising state education, the NHS and Royal Mail.

All we get from the government are mealy mouthed platitudes and useless rhetoric about bringing household bills down and running after Ed Miliband shouting "we'll bring down water bills too", this government seriously needs to get a grip. Cameron has lost control of the country and now big business is taking over and it doesn't bode well for the future.

This latest outcry over the cost of living and the Tory privatised utilities is justified as were the criticisms made of it at the time of their privatisation, but the sobering question now is, do we as the general public ignore those same voices and much the same kind of criticisms that are currently being screamed by hundreds of voices from hundreds of campaign groups who are trying to warn us about the Conservative privatisation agendas of education and the NHS?

If we ignore the clarion cry against these privatisations now, just what problems are we setting ourselves and more importantly our children and grandchildren if we stand back and watch while the NHS and education is being privatised by stealth under our very noses by the same Conservative party ethos that brought us the privatisation, sell-offs, rip-offs in water, gas, electric, rail and now mail? We are condemning our future generations to privatised healthcare where only the rich are covered by the size of their wallets.

The solution to the terrible consequences of Tory privatisation is first and foremost stop them from privatising our NHS and state education. We can do this by voting Labour en masse at the next general election, as only the Labour party have promised to repeal the Tory's privatisation NHS reforms (Health and Social Care Act 2012) if they win the next election. By the same token Ed Miliband has also promised to take on the privatised energy companies and to control them with effective legal legislation after imposing a 20 month price freeze in order to get restructuring of these industries and the installation of a new regulator to control them through parliament.

The choice is clear and the choice is ours, the Tories and their false recovery and seriously deceitful unemployment stats, the party for the rich and sod the poor (no change there then), or the party that genuinely will try help everyone - Labour?

What's The Use of Speaker John Bercow?

One again in last Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) David Cameron failed to answer one single question, instead, he preffered to ask his own. This was yet another wasted week when the cowed John Bercow failed to intervene to compel Cameron to actually answer the questions and not ask them. How long is this going to be allowed to continue and doesn't Mr Bercow realise that treating the leader of the opposition in this way is not only contemptuous to Ed Miliband and the Labour party, it is treating the whole of the British public with contempt?

Each week David Cameron is asked questions by Ed Miliband and Labour MPs and each week he ignores them and replaces them with his own questions, or gives replies to questions he has not been asked. Cameron does this in order to get his own message out about something he wishes to talk about, it is a serious breach of parliament and his power as prime minister and it is time he was stopped, and no ifs or buts either! John Bercow should call time on the PMs abuse of power - now.

The public, and Ed Miliband and the Labour opposition are entitled to be treated with respect and they are entitled to see and hear the prime minister actually answer the questions he is asked. People are suffering out here and it is offensive to see a care a damn, glib prime minister being a PR man for his chosen companies and CEOs and treating us all with utter contempt. Harsh truths are: People are using foodbanks to feed their families. Others are turning off, or turning down heating leaving the elderly and the young exposed to hypothermia as their standards of living plummet thanks to this PM, and his chancellor who are deliberately driving down wages and cutting benefits. The result of Cameron's policies is now mass suffering and will even be the deaths of many people and yet he is simply allowed to get away with his reckless crass behaviour. Cameron is not a proper prime minister, he is a pimp for the energy conglomerates, the banks and the big businesses.

Each week David Cameron lies and deliberately misleads the House and the British public and each week he is simply allowed to get away with it. Two examples:

1)...Number of Private Sector Jobs Created: 

It's seriously deceitful of David Cameron to refer to the creation of one million jobs in the private sector as the prime minister does, as they are not all the result of an increase in employment but are more to do with the a change in the way the statistics are compiled.

Cameron says one million but his chairman Grant Shapps says 1.4 million and on national TV Tory Nadine Dorries says 1.6 million.
They are all wrong, but you would think they would be clever enough to sing from the same hymn sheet.

So how many new jobs have been created?

According to the Office National Statistics evidence there has not been one million private sector jobs created it is only 659.328

According to the ONS, 196,000 people were recategorised as a result, meaning that "the reclassification therefore results in a large fall in public sector employment and a corresponding large increase in private sector employment between March and June 2012."

Since 2012 it is not only in higher education that former public sector jobs have been reclassified, this process is now also taking place in mainstream education. Teachers formerly employed in state schools were classed as public sector employees they then join free schools so they are then reclassified as private sector teachers. This is also taking place within the NHS on a very large scale. When companies such as Richard Branson's Virgin Care take over NHS services the staff formerly employed as public sector workers etc,  nurses, care assistants and all ancillary staff  are then no longer public sector workers, they are reclassified as private sector workers.

The Prime Minister must also stop using statistics from February; March; April and May 2010, these are jobs which were created under the former Labour government and NOT this government. To use these figures is disingenuous and is deliberately misleading the British public. 

Jan-Mar 2010 28,807 Feb-Apr 2010 28,842 Mar-May 2010 28,930 Apr-Jun 2010 28,975 May-Jul 2010 29,118 

When you exclude these months then the total number of 'new' jobs created falls sharply to just 855.328 and from this total you must subtract the 196,000 from Higher education which gives a figure of 659.328. However to get to a proper figure the government MUST subtract all public sector workers jobs in mainstream education and the NHS etc that have simply been reclassified as private sector jobs, because they are simply NOT new! The net remaining figure is a far cry from the ridiculous lie that David Cameron keeps perpetuating.

2)... Energy policy

On energy David Cameron and the government's energy policy and answer to the the fact that a growing number of people are finding themselves in fuel poverty this winter  is to tell them to find ways of getting themselves on the lowest tariffs, but meanwhile they should wear an extra jumper and confine themselves to one room in order to keep warm.
For many months now the Labour party have already been helping people to switch tariffs and they have also been helping people to form cooperatives in communities so they can buy energy in bulk and bring down the cost. Labour do not make any money from this scheme, it is solely to help people with their energy costs.

While Cameron has been hobnobbing with energy company bosses, becoming their PR man and taking their sides, even in opposition the Labour party have been trying to give practical help to people facing a really hard struggle.

Cameron is lying to and misleading the public and the House each week, it's about time John Bercow did something about it.

Each week David Cameron is becoming increasingly arrogant, rude and deceitful; Each week he is becoming more of a bully; Each week his bombastic rhetoric is becoming more and more empty, meaningless and prescripted by his deceitful lobbyist spin doctor Lynton Crosby; Each week David Cameron completely and deliberately abuses his power.

And each week 'Independent' (Tory) John Bercow allows him to get away with his abuse of power, what is the use of Speaker John Bercow? Telling MPs to be quiet doesn't really cut it, perhaps Labour MPs would quieten if the PM actually stopped lying and answered the questions he is asked?

For whatever use John Bercow is we may just as well go the whole hog and install a stool-pigeon stroke lap dog in the Speakers chair and save the country his wages!

Welcome To Conservative 'Sweatshop' Britain!

George Osborne and Boris Johnson
In
Communist China

Welcome to Conservative Britain in 2013 where the rich are getting richer and the "plodders, the poor and vulnerable" are getting screwed daily. The true saviours of this country, those who work in the public and private sectors alike and who toil in the offices, the factories, the hospitals, the schools and the shops doing a myriad of different jobs all interdependent and equally as important as the next, are being treated no better than rat droppings on steps of 10 Downing Street. These people are being used by the Coalition government to divide our country in order to allow the introduction of right wing dogma from a particularly nasty extreme right wing Tory controlled government.

The writing is there and is clearly written on the wall and it's now time to look closely at the evidence!

David Cameron, George Osborne and their banker and corporate buddy mates are laughing assassins who smile while they stab "hardworking people" in the back. Look past the Tory bluff and bluster and you will see how they are insidiously removing workers rights and driving down pay and conditions. They are also being helped by right wing fanatical press tycoons who have vested interests in retaining Conservatives in Downing Street.

The Tories (enabled by their poodle lap dogs the Liberal Democrats) are busy passing laws and changing the rules to enable them and the bosses of industry to control workforces across the country by using intimidation and fear of job losses. Slowly but surely they are rendering the workers of this country impotent. This country is not progressing, it's regressing and slipping back in terms of education, healthcare and working rights. Bosses and business leaders have gained carte blanche from this government to use the fear of job losses as some kind of metaphorical cattle prod to force change of contracts and loss of pay and conditions while keeping the workforce in their 'rightful place. Some may think this is happening to other people (not them) so they don't worry too much and then suddenly out of the blue it's their turn to be treated like dirt and pushed around. The way things are going soon people will not be able to call on any union for help and all workers rights will have been previously stripped and they will have been left impotent and utterly powerless! Those that knock unions need to think very carefully about this.

Divide and rule is all part of the Conservative plan of course and has been from the start. Right from the start it has been the Tories agenda, to weaken people then set worker against worker, the private sector against public sector; turn workers against the unemployed, able bodied against disabled people, young against the old. Those on benefits were held up to be ridiculed and the public invited to abuse them with insults and to spit venom at them, like some kind of virtual modern day equivalent of olden day stocks where people were once pelted with rotten fruit. Today those stocks often take the form of the extreme right wing newspapers like the Sun, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and the Express, where gullible and vulnerable people have been fooled into inviting reporters into their homes to have their stories taken they have been led to say things and then their words have been twisted and spun out of all recognition. These people are then plastered all over the newspapers and then pilloried by inviting 'rotten fruit throwing' in the shape of comments from the nasty "hang 'em and flog 'em brigade", who really do live under the misinterpretation that this government 'doesn't' mean them. Well one day they too will be in for a very nasty shock.

Once divide and rule was established it was followed by the gradual removal of workers rights. Employment law reforms have been announced by Liberal Democrat Vince Cable (no less) which will allow company bosses to exploit and bully workers. Companies now have stronger legal protections to pay off who they accuse of being  under-performing staff, or simply invent stories to get rid of staff they don't require any longer and employees rights have been eroded and now any employee is open to this kind of abuse. Workers face a drastic cut in how much compensation ordinary working people can claim if they win a case for unfair dismissal and that is only if they can afford to bring the case in the first place! Bosses have literally been given a license to discriminate against their workforce by this Conservative controlled Coalition government.

Ordinary workers are being blamed and treated as if the global recession and international banking collapse is their fault, they didn't cause it, but they are being made to pay for it while those that did cause it are allowed to get away with their crimes. Not one single banker in this country has been prosecuted for their part in the demise of the global economy and the Tories have allowed them to get away with it. In fact just a couple of weeks back, while the leader of the opposition Ed Miliband was sticking his head above the parapet getting a kicking from the energy companies, the banks, and the Tories for trying to get a fairer energy deal for the consumer (us), George Osborne was busy defending bankers bonuses and arranging to take the EU to court on behalf of the bankers and forcing us the taxpayers to pay the millions in legal charges. On the same day that Osborne announced he would be defending bankers bonuses at the European Union, Michael Spencer a former Conservative Treasurer who has donated at least £5 million to the Tories was named as being in the middle of a political and financial storm after his firm was named by City watchdogs for its role in the Libor interest-rate fixing scandal. Yet where on the BBC, ITV or Sky News was this reported? You can't really make this up! Meanwhile the workforce who actually keep this country running are being kicked, right left and centre!

There is a clear erosion of trust and hard fought for rights in the workplace and the Government are allowing bosses to get away with this  in clear cut cases of abuses of power, and it will not create one proper job with one proper wage/salary, all that is being created is low paid and more often part-time work, or worse still zero hour contract positions but the government know this of course. They are giving the green light to company bosses to change your working contracts, cut your hours, cut your pay and cut your pensions and if you think this is an overreaction then you only have to look to Grangemouth for confirmation. Grangemouth is not a one off, this kind of practice is now sweeping right across this country and mark my words it is coming to a private company, a public service, a hospital, a school, a factory, or a shop near you! The odds are being deliberately and heavily stacked against the workforce and in favour of the companies. Many of these companies are also being allowed to get away with paying little or no tax to the Treasury and to make matters worse, George Osborne has pledged to lower corporation tax, which means they'll be paying even less to exploit their workers!

Take Grangemouth and Ineos for example: Ineos has been allowed to avoid paying UK tax for years and its finances are a complete mystery yet this has been ignored. How many workers and small businesses would be allowed to get away without paying their tax? What about Vodafone they owe the British Treasury at least £6 billion and still more in interest, yet Osborne instructed their tax to be written off. Top Tory donor Sir Christopher Gent and personal friend of George Osborne and David Cameron was the former CEO of Vodafone!

Ineos and Jim Ratcliffe are out of control and they are holding Scotland to ransome. They've created a climate of fear and have forced decent working men and women into signing away their rights and pensions for which they have saved all their working lives - is this right? Think it cannot happen to you?

Last July the Government brought in rules that will now cost you between £160 and £250 to lodge a claim for unfair dismissal, with a further charge of between £230 and £950 if the case goes ahead and if you are forced to take your employer to tribunal for discrimination, detriment and dismissal, these claims attract even higher fees. The Ministry of Justice also charges fees of £400 to lodge an appeal and £1200 for a full hearing. Question: "How many people who have been unfairly dismissed will have the money to challenge for unfair dismissal at a tribunal?" The Government and Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, Vince Cable have in effect stymied those affected and removed any chance of challenging corrupt practices and they have got away with it, mainly because this Tory controlled government have managed to divide and rule the public and the workforce we are nothing but lowly pawns in their power games!

The scales are being loaded in favour of the banks, the bosses, the conglomerates, the corporations and the multi-nationals. What happened to the workers of Grangemouth could now happen to any worker anywhere in this country, workers are left bare and and badly exposed and defenceless and open to abuse. All those ordinary people call yourself workers, or middle class or whatever you want who are cheerleading for this Tory led government need to realise it could be their turn next and probably will be! Not too many companies are going to carry on paying their workers properly and provide proper pay and conditions when they can get away with paying nothing on zero hour contracts or are being sent a regular supply of full-time labour from Jobcentres under the guise of a government workfare scheme!

Health and safety in the workplace, workers rights, pay and conditions are all up for change.

It appears that business leaders of big companies want all the gain of trading within the EU but do want to accept any responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of their workers in the workplace and we have a prime minister in the shape of David Cameron and a government hell bent on seeing that these unscrupulous companies get what they want. Once again we see the PM on the side of big business at the expense of the workers and people of this country.

Recently a taskforce of six business leaders delivered its report to David Cameron with 30 recommendations for cutting health and safety regulations to make it easier for their businesses.

Among those recommendations was:

• Acquired rights directive changed so that companies being taken over can change employees can have their contracts changed more easily by their new employers.
• New rules on workers rights and pregnant worker proposals should be axed.
• Removing the right of the company to have written health and safety records
• No right to sick leave
• More rights to hire people on zero hour contracts
• Drop plans for strict rules on food labelling
• Remove unnecessary proposals on shale gas

Can you see a picture emerging here?

1. Divide and Rule
2. Drive down pay and conditions
3. Remove Workers rights
4. Stack the odds in favour of the companies and their bosses
5. Make it difficult for workers to claim unfair dismissal
6. Relax Health and Safety Laws
7. Reformed disabled peoples rights in the workplace as well as stripping them of every benefit they can possibly be stripped of.
8. Drive the workforce who the Tories laughingly refer to as "hard working people" by fear and intimidation eg: work for peanuts or pick litter up in the streets, or work on a government workfare scheme full-time just for your JSA - your choice!

So what is it all about?

Recently the chancellor came back from communist China telling us we British are "second rate" people and Britain is a second rate country and we should all be more like China. Strange because just a week previously he was accusing Ed Miliband of "getting all his policies from Das Kapital"! But then George Osborne is nothing if he is not inconsistent! 

What we are witnessing is an unspoken Conservative ideological agenda in action. Having successfully and deliberately divided public opinion, setting one half of the country against the other, private sector vs public sector, employed against the unemployed, and encouraged a hate campaign against those on benefits using the specific Tory hate campaign rhetoric; "shirkers, idlers; wasters, skivers; scroungers" etc the government have successfully split public opinion and divided us and are now in the process of imposing their draconian austerity and their agenda in devaluing much of the British workforce. Cameron, Osborne, Clegg, Cable and Alexander have moved to deliberately drive down the wages and salaries and terms and conditions of working people both in the public sector and the private sector, in order that they can now encourage investors from countries like China where the workforce is treated as expendable commodities and to ensure that the companies already here and British companies etc can compete with the Chinese companies in terms of low wages and virtually non existent fair working conditions.

Get ready for sweatshop Tory Britain 2013, it's here and if we allow it, it will be here to stay.

We are at a crossroads as a country, do we carry on blindly accepting the false Tory narrative that Britain is broke? That the worst global recession for 80 years and the international banking collapse was somehow all the previous Labour government's fault and if we don't 'do something' then we will end up like "basket case Greece"? (We could never have ended up like Greece because we are a Sovereign country with our own currency and were kept out of the Eurozone by Gordon Brown who tried to warn other countries against joining it). Or do we say "enough is enough" and stop allowing this unscrupulous dishonest incompetent Conservative government to walk all over us and keep feeding us their lies? If we carry on as we are in around five years time few will have job security (except those at the top), the NHS will have been lost to Tory privatisation, as will state education and the police, fire and paramedic services as much of the prison service and the probation service have already been privatised. If we do nothing in a few years time our entire country will be being run by companies like G4S, Serco and Capita and we will have become a low paid demoralised sweatshop economy.

Why else do you think that the Tories are hell bent on privatising everything? The Tories "small government" means selling off all the county's assets to foreign investors (electric, gas, water, BT, the Railways, now the NHS, education, Royal Mail and partly state owned bailed out banks), so they can devalue the workforce, rule by intimidation and fear of losing our jobs and or homes and thus creating a two tier economy in a two tier society. remember the next job could be yours and you have no protection anymore and few rights you are now free to be abused by your boss and this applies to public and private sector alike. Pensions, sick pay, holiday pay either gone or under review - 'Conservative sweatshop Britain'

Living in an unequal society is bad for us, bad for our children's futures and ultimately will be so bad for society that it will push people over the edge, look forward to civil unrest, lawlessness, looting and rioting on our streets as hungry people try to feed their families, think I am wrong? Think back to the summer riots of 2011, not quite the same, but see how easy it is to ignite when people feel they have finally had enough? Think back to the Conservative party's and Margaret Thatcher's poll tax riots of 1990, the lessons of history are staring at us in the face.

How much do people want their children to grow up in a grossly unequal society where they feel grossly undervalued and have little or no prospect of getting a proper job with proper pay and proper conditions?

People must force themselves to think about the legacy they are handing their children if we allow this Conservative government to proceed unchallenged. It is not the legacy of the great 2008 global crash we should be worried about, it is the legacy that is now being mapped out in Downing street by a former PR con man in Cameron and an ex towel folder in Osborne aided and abetted by corrupt lobbyists and government advisers from banks, hedge funds, private equity companies, private health companies, energy conglomerates and corporations and a party called the Liberal Democrats who no longer knows it's arses from its collective elbows. We are being overrun by people from Eton who haven't a clue what it is like to live on the breadline or in fear of the postman and the next big energy bill falling on the mat, or finding the money to feed the family. Look at the sudden rise in the number of foodbanks and thousands queuing up to get long life food to feed their families on, this is all down to this government and their dogmatic agenda.

People must ask themselves if they really want their children to live in a country with little or no proper healthcare/NHS or adequate state education? Because this is what is happening, right here and right now and if we do nothing to stop it, so it will be and so it will be because we allowed it to be so!

This government are mapping your child's future out now, think about that and ask yourself do you really like the kind of selfish, harsh nasty society they are making? Sweatshops, part-time work, low paid work, zero hour contracts? Government workfare litter picking schemes? Being forced to work full-time for companies for under £80 per week JSA, the same companies who make hefty donations to the Conservative party coffers.  A country with little or no social  housing and virtually no chance of buying a place to live? What will be next, estates filled with boxes like in shanty towns where people are forced to live because they can no longer afford to live anywhere else?

Where is panicking George Osborne's 'Help to buy'  'Funding for Lending' schemes leading us? Another crash timed for just after the next election when interest rates will suddenly be increased by Osborne's Patsy Bank of England Governor Mark Carney?

Yet more ready made excuses to impose more austerity measures on us? Reduce our working rights, pay and conditions still further? Allow more Chinese companies in to set up their own sweatshops to supply their own cheap shops which will start springing up on every single High Street in every single part of this country, while Osborne reduces their tax burden and increases ours?

Allow more foreign investors in to create a monopoly of our markets, and force us to pay even more for our gas, electricity and water? The Tories have *ALREADY* subcontracted part of the running of this country out to these energy conglomerates and now they are allowing in the Communist Chinese Government and the French Government to place a stranglehold on what price we will pay for our electricity for the next 35 years. While in their respective countries they enjoy cheap energy because we in Britain are being forced to pay for it.

Ask yourself how many bosses in the Conservative supporting CBI, the banks, multinationals, energy conglomerates, corporations, hedge funds and private equity funds do you see waiving their pension rights? Their multi million pound bonuses? Their multi million pound pay packets? How much bedroom tax are these people forced to pay for their mansions?

Ask Sammy Laidlaw the boss of British Gas conglomerate Centrica who just hiked the price of our gas and

electricity  by 10% by pleading poverty for his energy company while forgetting to mention his company is both the producer and buyer of energy, so they set the price and buy off of themselves and refuse to tell us for how much. Mr Laidlaw has just applied for permission to build a second huge heated swimming pool in the grounds of his sprawling Cotswolds mansion. Don't be too hard on him though, after all he must try and spend some of the £5 million he earns each year (at our expense).

Eton educated as our prime minister and chancellor Sam Laidlaw has the PM covering his back and sticking up for him and his swimming pools and his millionaire lifestyle. The irony of him heating two huge swimming pools while David Cameron tells us to put on an extra jumper and stay in one room to keep warm rather than stand up to these energy bosses and force them to put their prices down. While this government deliberately drive down our standards of living and allow the cost of living to get completely out of control because the PM is in cahoots with all the bosses and the bankers. Until last December, Centrica boss Sam Laidlaw whose father was Chairman of BP Oil, was a close adviser of David Cameron in Downing Street.

Sam Laidlaw once had  words of praise for David Cameron, when he sat on the PM's business advisory council.

“The Budget we’ve just had was very supportive of business, and I think people need to judge by the track record rather than by some of the rhetoric. Business needs to be behind the Government as well.”

We are being governed by "predators" who have rigged the system and who are being aided to rig the system by the Conservative prime minister.

We are in effect gradually slipping back to the Victorian sweatshop age, no wonder George Osborne looks up to that age with such affection, it looks like he Cameron and Clegg have modelled their entire Tory controlled government ethos on it.

So if you want to work long hours in unacceptable conditions for low pay and you don't mind that this is all your children will have to look forward to, then vote Conservative at the next general election and give them permission to carry on devaluing our country and devaluing our workers and citizens, while standing up for the energy conglomerates, corporations and big business. Meanwhile I leave you to the words:

It is a national evil that any class of Her Majesty’s subjects should receive less than a living wage in return for their utmost exertions… where you have what we call sweated trades, you have no organisation, no parity of bargaining, the good employer is undercut by the bad and the bad by the worst; the worker, whose whole livelihood depends upon the industry, is undersold by the worker who only takes up the trade as a second string… where these conditions prevail you have not a condition of progress, but a condition of progressive degeneration.

Winston Churchill.

At least one Tory knew the value of our people.

Another Weekend and Another Coalition 'Crisis'

'PerNICKio'
"Coalition Crisis"

Must be the weekend because the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has popped up again to try and con us all into believing that there is yet another 'coalition crisis'. Clegg has had more crises than he's had hot dinners! How many 'crises' to date have the Liberal Democrats had?  One seems to come along every week.

What do these crises ever do? What do they prove? Apparently zero, nada, zilch, nothing! Absolutely nothing, because as each Lib Dem crisis come and go, nothing ever changes, things stay exactly as they were before. I think the Liberal Democrat 'crises' need crisis management to make them appear more authentic.

Can you think of one single Liberal Democrat Coalition crisis that has developed into anything remotely useful to the British people?

This week's crisis is apparently because Nick Clegg doesn't like "free schools" and the fact they are not obligated to follow the national curriculum or employ properly trained teachers. It's an odd one because the "now you see me - now you don't" slippery dodgy 50,000 monetary reasons why not to trust the Liberal Democrat Education Minister David Laws (who caused his own faux crisis nicked £50,000 from the taxpayer was given a holiday from the HoC for 7 days and then awarded a job in cabinet) was fully backing the coalition government's free school policy in the HoC just a few days ago. Very odd because Nick Clegg  is the Deputy Prime Minister who would like us to know that he has a hand in all matters of education policy and who at every chance he gets slips in: "pupil premium - pupil premium - pupil premium" (three times - you count), doesn't seem to realise that this policy was announced at the beginning of the coalition, so why has it taken Nick Clegg the DPM over three years to decide he doesn't like it and cause another coalition "crisis" now? Could it possibly be because his master the Prime Minister wants to try and drag Labour, Ed Miliband and the energy crisis off of the front pages and the top of the news? In fact Labour have been saying for many months that these free schools should only be opened in in areas where school places are needed and that they must have qualified teachers and follow the national curriculum. Does "Nick agree with with Ed"? Pity Nick didn't agree with Ed over the NHS, then perhaps the Liberal Democrats would not now be fully endorsing the Tory privatisation and fire sale of our NHS to their mates in the private healthcare industry. Pity Nick doesn't agree with Ed about repealing the health and Social Care Act (which Nick voted for and which is now destroying the NHS)
Pity Nick doesn't agree with Ed over freezing energy prices. Pity Nick doesn't agree with Ed about sacking Atos. pity Nick doesn't agree with Ed about repealing the bedroom tax. Pity Nick doesn't cause a coalition crisis over the soaring use of foodbanks under his watch or the rapidly rising homelessness. Or those being forced into debt and are having their lives blighted with court summonses and CCJs through no fault of their own.

The only crisis I want to see is the back of the Liberal Democrats at the next general election, it's too late now for them to cause a real crisis and walk away from the cruel out of touch Tory government which Nick and all his crises are helping to keep in power.

However, there is a general election coming up in 2015, so we can expect to see an increase in the number of  these man made Lib Dem crises.

I wonder what the Liberal Democrat "coalition crisis" will be next weekend?