When Did Lord Gus O'Donnell Decide He Had The Power To Decide Our Futures?

I apologise for banging on but the more one thinks about  about Jeremy Hunt the ex Culture Secretary being parachuted into the role of Health Secretary by a prime minister now well  known for his appalling lack of judgement, the more barking mad it actually seems. There just has to be much more to this than meets the eye, what is behind Cameron's thinking or has he now totally lost the plot and this is just an outward sign of panic?

I don't think that former Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley is going to go that quietly either, I have a feeling he is mightily aggrieved and his ire will burst forth in the not too distant future with all kinds of revelations!

Hapless Jeremy Hunt The New Health Secretary

Even the most dispassionate of people will have to admit that Hunt's evidence to the Leveson Inquiry was atrocious, weak at best and false at worse and his appearances in the House of Commons trying to absolve himself of all guilt while forcing his adviser to resign and take the blame for him and his actions were utterly cringe-worthy and wholly lacking in morality. No satisfactory explanation over Hunt's previous involvement with the Murdochs and the failed BSkyB takeover bid has ever been given, maybe this is because there is no satisfactory explanation, and Hunt really is a slimy guilt ridden spineless slug with a red ministerial box?

Jeremy Hunt lied to the House of Commons and deliberately misled MPs and the public over his true involvement with the BSkyB bid and the Murdochs prior to taking on the brief. Hunt was just 12 hours away from approving the takeover bid before Murdoch was forced to withdraw it. There should be no coming back from this and David Cameron should definitely have demanded Hunt's resignation but astonishingly that was not forthcoming, it makes both men look seedy, shallow and downright shifty, as if they have something to hide, which obviously they have! We have yet to learn what, but in my experience this is only a matter of time.
Hunt even cosied up to and glad handed Rupert Murdoch outside the Aquatic Centre at the Olympic Games, laughing and joking as if he didn't have a care in the world. Once again sticking a metaphorical middle finger up at the electorate and treating the public with utter contempt.

Hunt Glad Hands Disgraced Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch
 At London Olympic Games

My guess is that something new will emerge concerning Hunt, Cameron and the Murdochs, Brooks, Coulson and BSkyB. Cameron would have probably preferred to get rid of him but because Hunt has taken a bullet for Cameron, or knows too much, or both, he cant, so promoting him and giving him the poison chalice of a completely ruined NHS (thanks to Lansley, Cameron and Clegg), was the next best thing he could do. Expect to see some serious problems occurring within the NHS for which Hunt will be forced to take the blame for.

Jeremy Hunt is about as popular with the public as a abscess on the end of the nose, just like Gidiot Osborne, Hunt was booed and jeered at the Paralympics. What made members of this millionaire "posh boy" Tory cabinet believe they were popular choice for presenting medals at the Games? Especially when they have caused so much distress, heartache and terror to disabled people, to such an extent that some have committed suicide? This government aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrat party have launched an astonishing attack on disabled people giving statements to the right wing press like the Sun, The Mail, the Telegraph and Times etc inferring that all disabled claimants are scroungers and lead swingers etc and they are having their claims refused. Like the soldier who lost a limb in Iraq who had his claim for DLA turned down because he wasn't considered disabled enough and could walk 400 yards unaided. The fact that he had to have a prosthetic limb to enable him to walk 400 yards never seems to have crossed the minds of those who call themselves doctors and who work for Atos. That is unsurprising when we have recently learnt that a doctor employed by Atos sent to assess a patient with a severe form of Chron's Disease  had not even heard of Chron's Disease, let alone understand how debilitating it can be. How can you call yourself a doctor if you do not know this? Where do Atos doctors get their qualifications from off of the back of a cornflakes packet?

Before the 2010 general election Cameron promised us we would be able to recall our MPs in the case of wrongdoing, this is yet another promise that has fallen by the wayside, or for sure Hunt would have been recalled. Cameron also promised us all a hands off government, instead what we have is a government that is so dictatorial that it is interfering in every part of our lives. What we have learned since the election is that Cameron is a liar, he has appalling judgement and he deliberately misleads us and reneges on all of his promises, far more than any other politician in the history of this country - what a record! Cameron is a prime minister that continues to defend the indefensible, he has put in charge of the NHS someone who sacrificed his adviser in order to get himself out of trouble. Jeremy Hunt has no scruples whatsoever and soon this country will have no NHS! I believe Hunt who's reputation is already irretrievably damaged, has been put in charge of the NHS to fully privatise it and whatever his hold over David Cameron is, it must be pretty serious and what we are seeing now is Cameron's attempt to oust Hunt by  any means possible and Cameron doesn't care if we lose the NHS in the process, in fact losing the NHS which the Tories have previously described as a "millstone around the neck" was and still is the main objective of Cameron and the Tories and now also the Liberal Democrats!

We read today in the Mail on Sunday that Boris Johnson is in cahoots with Zac Goldsmith and that Goldsmith may give his seat up to Johnson, this is to usurp Cameron from the leadership and PM of this country. I don't know how true it is, but what this clearly does show is that once again the Tory party is split right down the middle and as usual the EU has a lot to do with it. The Tories are once again pressing the self destruct button, they are so arrogant that they believe they can do anything and get away with it. Meanwhile the Tories they have their self indulgent  internal strife this country's economy is going down the pan fast, thanks to Cameron, Osborne and Clegg, who haven't got the first idea of how to run this country. This country is bad enough with Cameron as PM, I shudder to think about how bad it would become if the over privileged, out of touch, oafish, gaffe prone, philandering Johnson was PM! The country is going down as a direct result of Osborne's insane "fairynomics" and all these over privileged Bullingdon Boys can do is fight and squabble amongst themselves. It may go down well in well heeled Richmond (Zac Goldsmith's seat of privilege) but I doubt it will be viewed so leniently by the rest of the country's real people, who are worrying for their family and children's futures, or trying to pay the bills and hang on to their jobs etc - typical self indulgent Tories, it's as if no one else exists, only them!

It's hard to believe that in May 2010 when Labour handed over the economy to Osborne that despite the worse global recession for over a 100 years and a banking collapse brought about by the greed of the Tory bankers, this economy was handed over in recovery and strengthening growth. It's even harder medicine to take that if we as voters had not believed Cameron and Cameron had not blatantly lied and was then granted leave to get away with his lies and the country had stuck with Labour, the country would be in a much better and stronger position now, instead of the muddle, mess mayhem and chaos brought about by the sheer incompetence of Cameron, Osborne and Clegg.

I detect a growing feeling of no confidence in David Cameron or this so-called coalition government and if the Liberal Democrats were not tied into this government by their greed and lust for power at any price, they would have walked away from it months ago forcing a general election; instead, they are actually enabling the Tories to stay in government, to worsen the economy and to destroy the NHS, education and welfare. Cameron, Osborne and Clegg changed our terms of parliament to fixed five year terms, they did not do this because they thought it best for the country, they did this to protect themselves in parliament and award themselves longer terms in power, which makes what the Liberal Democrats are doing by enabling the Tories to stay in power with their wrecking ball even worse! If the Liberal Democrats had any kind of feelings of duty and loyalty to the British public they would walk away now, the fact that they haven't and are clinging on to Cameron's Bullingdon Boy coat tails for dear life, says an awful lot about them and yet still they seem unable to grasp the true depth of the feeling of utter contempt towards them and their party by people in general and especially their own now former party supporters.

We have a government who has systematically failed to understand the difference between governing and ideology. The economy, the NHS, education, welfare, defence, police and transport, in fact all the major infrastructures of our country are greatly suffering as a result and are the subject of barking mad insane policies which most people see immediately will never work in a month of Sundays. By now it must be apparent even to the hapless and hopeless Cameron, Osborne and Clegg that you cannot govern a country on ideological terms alone, yet they who have self imposed themselves and charged themselves with the running of this country in the absence of an overall majority appear to be the only people unable to understand this.

I wonder if the former Cabinet Secretary now Lord Gus O'Donnell, must be ruing the day he ever interfered in the constitution of this country to make it easier for Cameron to grab the reins of power? But then maybe not as Lord O'Donnell is the man who wants amendments to the Freedom of Information Act to make it easier for civil servants to be undetected when they make a "fudge" of accurately reporting the minutes, accidentally, or accidentally on purpose! O'Donnell overstepped his brief to make it easier for Cameron and he was awarded with a peerage, and the country is awarded with the most incompetent, over privileged, out of his depth unelected prime minister in living history.

We should not have been forced to have a coalition government! Contrary to the utterings of biased politicians, the country did NOT actually vote for a coalition government, not one single ballot paper included the choice for a coalition government or hung parliament, in simple mathematical truth this is just how the votes stacked up, it is numerology NOT the electorate voting with clear intention for a hung parliament or coalition government and I am sick of listening to the protestations of mealy mouthed Tory and Liberal Democrat politicians using this as excuse for their horrendous mistakes and attacks on the ordinary people of this country when they are implementing profoundly insane and unpopular policies! In the immediate aftermath of the 2010 general election and in the absence of any party holding a clear working majority, the Tories being the largest party should have governed for the time being and then called another general election at a later date, instead, aided and abetted by O'Donnell and the microscopic 57 seats of the Liberal Democrat party this ill fated coalition government was formed and forced upon us. Subsequently they stitched things up designed things, so even a sitting lame duck Tory government cannot easily fall foul of a vote of no confidence in parliament and the will of the people is now being totally ignored by Cameron who promised us small government who would not interfere in our daily lives (what a complete joke and oh, the utter irony of that!)  Where in Gus O'Donnell's job description did it say he was invested with the power to do this and inflict what he personally wanted onto the general public? One man dictates what happens and overrules what the entire electorate of this country says, and he isn't even the subject of a public vote! It is insanity and Cameron should not have allowed him to do this, but then Cameron was and still is the beneficiary of O'Donnell pushing too hard for the formation of this coalition government. It was simply not in his brief to make public statements about the kind of "strong governance" that Britain needed at that time post the 2010 general election. His only say about that was through his vote at the ballot box just the same as everyone else, and now he should also take as much blame as the hapless hopeless incompetent and almost "fascist like" politicians he helped foist upon us for the demise of this country that Cameron & Co have inflicted upon us and for its continuing demise under a government that a growing number of people do not want, are afraid of and yet are now totally powerless to do anything about.

When was it that Gus O'Donnell the man who has spoken so many wise words about the meritocracy of the civil service did decide to overstep that doctrine and dictate to the electorate what we should have or not have and use scaremongering to cover up his own appalling mistakes over foisting David Cameron, George Osborne and Nick Clegg upon us?

The time has come for these people to call a general election and allow the people to decide if we wish to carry on being governed by this terrible confused muddled chaotic government, who announce a policy in the morning and denounce it by coffee time, or lunch-time at the latest, in a series of u-turns. However, we will not be given that chance, not while the Liberal Democrats continue to enable this hideous government to threaten the livelihoods and equilibrium of an entire nation.

If O'Donnell ever writes his memoirs, will he list as a direct consequence of what he did to enable the most dogmatic dictatorial, yet wholly incompetent government to establish power and governance in this country, disabled people have had their benefits stopped, many living in fear, some have even committed suicide, the unemployed are being forced to work for nothing as the government gifts others people labour to their corporate friends under the threat of sanctions and our reputation for caring and looking after our most vulnerable is now laying in tatters in the gutter along with the NHS. The NHS which this government O'Donnell enabled are destroying and privatising and giving to their mates in the private healthcare industry. "What else has Gus O'Donnell done to make himself feel proud"?

Thanks Gus for rendering us utterly impotent to do anything about this hideously incompetent baby fascist government for another 2.5 years. If that was your intention, you did it well - what a legacy you have bequeathed us!

Hunt as Health Secretary? You Have To be Joking Cameron!

New Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - How Long Will He Last?

Just back from holidays, but want to say that I am absolutely astounded that Jeremy Hunt the ex Culture Secretary,  who lied to and deliberately misled parliament over his "cosy" dealings with the disgraced media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and News International's BSkyB bid has been made Health Secretary.

Hunt being somewhat of a political lightweight, a stranger to the truth locked in with dubious dealings with Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks really should have ruled him out of this position, obviously though Hunt's "loyalty" to his boss and probably taking a bullet for him over Cameron's own position inside the murky world of the Murdochs has made Cameron overlook best practice once again.

Either Hunt has taken a bullet for Cameron, or his close association with the Murdochs has furnished him with knowledge of Cameron's inside dealings with the Murdochs and NI, which Cameron is terrified will come out and which in turn has put him (Hunt) in a position where Cameron is too scared to demote or sack him. Cameron should have sacked him a couple of months ago but failed to do so. Both of them should not make themselves too comfy because the BSkyB issue has not gone away and is due to come thrusting back onto the front pages in a huge way very soon!

How long will it be be before Hunt's appointment to the NHS all ends in tears? Unfortunately though, the tears will be our tears because it is us who use, depend on and rely upon the NHS, not these millionaire posh boy cabinet members, they have money, they have choice, they always have options - we don't!

Hunt is the man who has co-authored a book with the much reviled Daniel Hannan, the man who deliberately misrepresented our NHS to American viewers on Rupert Murdoch's (who else?) Fox TV on denationalising and privatising the NHS. Hunt does not want a a national health service, he wants a system like they have in America, which would spell disaster for the majority of ordinary people in this country. Why did Cameron put him in charge of the NHS, when the NHS is already steeped in Tory mire and incompetence?

The appointment of Hunt to Health Secretary has shown that David Cameron is a prime minister with a serial lack of judgement. I cannot think of another person who is more politically and intellectual unsuited to the role of Health Secretary except for the outgoing Andrew Lansley or Cameron and Gidiot Osborne themselves.

Whatever else this appointment shows, it demonstrates that one, Cameron is totally bereft of any kind of judgement and two, that Cameron is definitely privatising the NHS by means of using the back door. People really need to wake-up to what the Tories, enabled by the Liberal Democrats are doing, if they don't, the next time they or their family need the NHS, it may not be there without a price!

Dave & "Bouncy [Thug] Boris"

Cameron At the Olympics

Growing tired of all this "bouncy Boris the lovable rogue" stuff, it's past time the broadcast media (namely the BBC) and the right wing press (particularly the Evening Standard) done their jobs properly and actually reported what this man actually is and let me just point out that "lovable rogue" is not how I would describe the Mayor of London, "a great big fat liar with deliberately wayward hair" would be nearer the mark!.

How else would you describe a man that plots with his friend and self confessed psychopath Darius Guppy how to have a journalist beaten up to scare him from reporting the truth?  Johnson was more concerned about the harm this revelation could do to his reputation than he was about the wellbeing of the journalist that Darius Guppy wanted to have beaten up! He needn't have worried though because the media didn't really bother themselves about reporting it properly (perhaps they were worried they may get beaten up by a vicious psychopath too?)

Boris Johnson plots with self confessed psychopath to have a journalist beaten up! See Here

It shows how out of touch so called "top Tories" are to want Boris Johnson as their leader and possible prime minister of this country. Does it not matter that Boris is a thug and a liar? Is this the way all these monied people behave or are these people so completely out of touch with reality that they just do not see what problems that Boris Johnson as PM would cause this country?

Boris Johnson the man who sticks his middle finger up at us then belligerently invites Rupert Murdoch the disgraced media tycoon and his wife as his personal guests at the swimming finals, when competing Olympian swimmers families seeking tickets were turned away.
Murdoch whose company is the subject of several police Inquiries where criminal charges have already been brought against the PM's former employee Andy Coulson and the PMs "close friend" Rebekah Brooks, for phone hacking, among the hacked phones was the phone belonging to murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. The press and the BBC presumably think this is OK behaviour, but if a Labour politician under a Labour government did this, the press and the Tories would never shut up about it.

For two weeks we saw "Call me Dave" swanning around the top Olympic venues occupying VIP seats and trying to cash in on Olympians well earned glory with photo shoots etc, (managing to jinx all the events he attended), we probably could have had at least another 3 or 4 gold medals if he had stayed away!

Dave must have found it hard work because he has now jetted off on yet another foreign holiday, how many has he taken this year? It's hard to keep count as Cameron is more out of this country than he is in it.

It's uncanny how he always manages to be out of the country when there is bad news, like rising unemployment, rising inflation and the deepening of the double dip recession with what he describes as "disappointing economic figures" he helped make in Downing street. I wonder if he will tell us all to "roll up our sleeves and work harder" when he comes back? Or will the man who told us "we must all take responsibility for our own actions" spend his time on holiday thinking up new ways to blame the previous government; the Eurozone; the snow; the sun; the Jubilee; the extra public holidays; the public sector; the Civil Service; Gangs; poor parenting; disabled people, the unemployed; single parents; the elderly (for not dying); single parents; immigrants; extra bank holidays; the banks; workers rights; people for needing a living wage? etc etc etc.

If the Olympic Games had gone wrong we would have seen Johnson, Cameron and "Hunt" queuing up to blame the former Labour government, as it is they went well so they have taken all the praise themselves and not once have given any recognition to the former Labour government for winning the bid and putting in the first 5 years of vital planning and organisation, the building of the venues etc which they did and did superbly, in fact one of the only really important decisions that needed to be made was about security and the Tories almost managed to cock that up, having to call in the troops at the last minute, over 11,000 of them! Now those same troops and police will be looking forward to their redundancy notices this government is giving them by way of a thank you for having their leave cancelled and their families upset. Good job the Games would not be held in a couple of years because there wouldn't have been the troops and police to fall back on as the Government would have sacked most of them.

Say 'Thank You' To Labour Boris Johnson!

Most of what has happened with regard to the London Olympics has been a positive experience for the Capital fortunately recording few negatives, however, a couple of the negatives that there were have been pretty damning.

The horrendous problems caused by the security company G4S, and the mishandling of Olympic Games security by Tory Home Secretary Theresa May and Tory Mayor of London Boris Johnson were fortunately sorted out by the drafting in of tens of thousands of troops but there now must be a parliamentary inquiry into how this problem which nearly wrecked the entire Games was allowed to happen and get so far apparently "undetected". The Home secretary must answer why she gave one answer to parliament when the opposite of what she said was the truth, once again we have a member of the Tory government deliberately found to be misleading parliament.

Both the Prime Minister and Boris Johnson used the Games and athletes as free publicity for themselves to a distasteful degree.The PMs attempts to cover himself in glory of sport have to be a joke, ever since he and his party assumed power they have cut sports funding to schools. In fact one of Cameron's first cuts was to cut free swimming which Labour introduced for children and pensioners. Then they cut the number of hours that sport had to be taught in school, then they cut the funding and also tried to cut the Schools Sports partnership that Labour introduced, they only partially reinstated it when there was a huge outcry from famous sports stars. All this was in the two years leading up to the Olympic Games - totally farcical!

David Cameron displayed an uncanny knack of turning up to watch athletes who were tipped for possible gold quickly putting paid to their prospects as their hopes, dreams and hard work turned to a pile of ashes. This little phenomena became known on Twitter Sphere as the #CurseofCameron.

There seemed a real malice behind  Boris Johnson using the Games to shamelessly flout himself, he is not a "nice man", he is opportunistic and an attention seeking thug and a total incompetent; a "Norman Bates" in an ill fitting suit wearing his mother's scarecrow bleached blonde wig. He is a pretendy 'jovial' clown who never does anything unless there is something in it for himself!

To deliberately invite disgraced media tycoon Rupert Murdoch to the Games was an insult of the highest order, but to take him to the final of the swimming, where tickets were sold out to the public months back and where even the relatives of swimmers taking part could not get a ticket to the event was an act of sheer selfishness and inappropriate behaviour. Murdoch's News International is currently the subject of the Leveson Inquiry and several police investigations, where charges to high profile figures have taken place. The problems go straight to the heart of British Government with the prime minister's former chief of communications Andy Coulson, and the PM's very close friend Rebekah Brooks, both face serious charges of phone hacking, perverting the course of justice and illegally paying police offices for information.

The sight of the Culture Secretary, the beleaguered Jeremy Hunt pulling up outside the Olympic Aquatic Centre in a taxpayer funded chauffeur driven limo was irksome enough, but to see him jump out and warmly greet Rupert Murdoch was deeply offensive, especially when just a few weeks previous he was forced to defend the position he took by trying his best to grant Murdoch his BSkyB takeover bid, which would have effectively handed Murdoch the coverage of the lion-share of the UK's print and broadcast media and he came within 12 hours of doing so, until he was forced to call a halt to it. Jeremy Hunt was found to have deliberately misled parliament over the Murdoch BSkyB takeover bid, yet there he was meeting and warmly greeting the man he tried to give advantageous treatment to!

I also find the defence of beleaguered security company G4S by the Home Secretary, Theresa May and Boris Johnson to be somewhat puzzling, why would they want to defend the company they both accuse of nearly wrecking the Games by not providing the security they were contracted to provide? Several times Boris Johnson has defended this company and he was at it again today in a post Olympic Games press conference.

I also find it absolutely astonishing that Johnson could publicly thank the company who nearly wrecked the Games, but not publicly thank the for former Labour government for putting together the winning bid and not thank the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and Tessa Jowell for all their hard work and for undertaking the mammoth part of the organising of the Games. The building of the venues and for keeping them all on track, on time and under budget. It is absolutely incredible that Johnson gushed about failed security company G4S and did not mention once the absolutely sterling efforts the former Labour government made to get where they got in just 5 years. Lord Seb Coe also sat beside the Mayor this morning and accepted the accolades, yet not once did he even mention the five years of toil put into these Games by Labour, Livingstone and Tessa Jowell, it was the former Labour PM, Tony Blair who appointed the Tory peer Lord Coe to his position, one would have expected him to mention the people he worked so closely with.

In fact, Johnson thanked the world and his mate for their involvement in the Games and deliberately left out the people without which these Games would not have taken place. I bet if things had gone badly wrong they would have turned around and blamed the former Labour government quickly enough though!

It was the former Labour government who appointed Danny Boyle to organise the Olympic Games opening ceremony, an inspired choice as the ceremony was widely talked about and acclaimed as on of the best.

The papers and TV are full of the many fantastic achievements from Team GB's world class sporting attempts and triumphs, quite rightly so, after all their efforts and total dedication and gruelling training regimes lasting years day in day out, month in month out, high days and holidays, they deserve every accolade they are now being paid, what a great pity the British Pm and the London Mayor are now tarnishing the Games, with their self promotion and greed and battle to win all the glory for the athletes and former Labour Government's hard work.

Mayor Johnson may just yet have some questions to answer over G4S, questions that no matter how many times he tells people to "put a sock in it", will not go away.
Why are Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Theresa May so keen to defend G4S? In fact why was G4S so keen not to offend their Tory paymasters? What are they hiding?

One more thing that Cameron, Osborne and Johnson have to thank the former Labour government for, is that the spending going on in the capital dues to the Olympics, was being spent courtesy of the Labour government, ironically, this may just save the undeserving Tories from sliding further into the mire of their Tory made double dip recession!

Conservative Links to Standard Chartered - Quell Surprise!

United States Regulators have named the London listed bank Standard Chartered as a "rogue institution", which has profited from Iranian transactions.

As is getting depressingly predictable we find with every scandal involving banks or other private sector corporations there is usually Conservative party involvement.

While these links may or may not mean anything, what they do clearly demonstrate is that the Conservative led government has extensive links to the City and to the financial sector.
The City makes up the lion share of donations to the Tory party. With this in mind how can this government possibly stay impartial?

How can this government inflict these harsh cuts on the most vulnerable people in society, while behaving like pigs with their snouts in the trough? Every single time there is something amiss like this, barely a scratch to the surface and the pus of Tory corruption oozes out.

Sir John Peace - Chairman Standard Chartered PLC:

Nominated for a Knighthood in Queens Birthday Honours list By David Cameron - Knighted in 2011 For services to Business and to the Voluntary Sector.
Sir John is also Chairman of Burberry group and Experian PLC.  David Cameron's government awarded Experian PLC a lucrative government  "Bounty Hunter" contract  to hunt down supposed "benefit cheats". The company will receive a payment from the taxpayer for every "cheat" it identifies.


Peter Sands CEO Standard Chartered:

There is almost unanimous agreement in Europe bankers bonuses need to be curbed, however these measures are strongly opposed in the City. Banking chief executives, apparently led by Standard Chartered CEO, Peter Sands voiced their concerns about this directly with David Cameron.
They said that curbs on bonuses in the City will drive up salaries and spark "an exodus of talent" from London, to Geneva, New York or Hong Kong. Apparently the banks blandishments are said to have convinced George Osborne who is reportedly against these reforms.
In the aftermath of the Libor scandal, it seems that the Conservative led Government is siding with the banks. Behind the scenes the banking Industry is successfully bending the ear of Whitehall.
According to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism they are "confident that Britain’s financial services industry spent in excess of £92.8m engaging with the political process in 2011. And that over 800 individuals lobby Whitehall and regulators". 

Monday June 25th Peter Sands Standard Chartered Chief Executive has breakfast with David Cameron, where he reportedly told Cameron what would most threaten the City, is if the UK left the European Union. It was after this meeting with Sands that Cameron started to backtrack on his vicarious atonement to the right wing of his party over an EU referendum.

Simon Lowth - Independent Non-Executive Director 

Joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 May 2010. Simon is currently interim Chief Executive Officer of the pharmaceutical company  AstraZeneca PLC. AstraZeneca PLC donates to the Conservative party.

Also has connections with McKinsey & Company, which is a revolving door for the Tory party. Many of  McKinsey & Company's clients also donate to the Tory party.

Paul Skinner - Independent Non-Executive Director 

Joined the Board of Standard Chartered PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 3 November 2003. He is Chairman of Infrastructure UK, a division of HM Treasury,   mandated to bring a strategic focus to infrastructure development in the UK.

David Cameron is the younger son of stockbroker Ian Donald Cameron and his wife Mary Fleur (née Mount, born 1934, a retired Justice of the Peace, daughter of Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet). Connections with Cameron's family and Standard Chartered date back to the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China which became Standard Chartered Bank in 1969.

Here we see "lobbying" rearing it's head yet again in connection with the financial sector and the Conservative party.

Angela Knight CBE (Former Conservative MP)

Libor emails best of British 
Angela Knight has been instrumental in the creation of the Business Finance Taskforce (BFT) – an elite group comprising senior representatives from HSBC, Lloyds, Santander and Standard Chartered.

Conservative Peer - Lord Chris Patten - Current BBC Chairman

"Please relay our heartfelt thanks to Lord Patten for his participation in our forum. He was fantastic!...From the moment I met Lord Patten at the Grand Hyatt upon his arrival he was gracious and easy-going…Lord Patten was kind enough to stay on at the end of the event to interact with our clients and senior executives, taking photos with his many admirers and speaking with as many people as he could…Many thanks for all your help throughout the planning of this signature event. 

It was a huge success for Standard Chartered and I look forward to working with you again in the future."

Standard Chartered Bank

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"We were absolutely thrilled with the evening as a whole. Mr. Patten was exceptionally cooperative, articulate and informative. Our guests are still commenting on how enjoyable the afternoon was." 

-Julie L. Semmel, Clover Capital Management, Inc.

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Iain Anderson, director, Cicero Consulting Inc 

Aberdeen-born Anderson heads Cicero Consulting, which is believed to be one of London’s most powerful financial lobbying firms. Among Cicero’s clients, according to the Association of Professional Political Consultants register, are Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Standard Chartered, the Swiss Bankers’ Association and TheCityUK. 

Prior to running Cicero, Anderson worked on Kenneth Clarke’s two leadership bids for the Conservative Party. Living in Notting Hill, London, Anderson is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, prolific tweeter on foreign affairs, business and politics and a self-declared aficionado of Nice, France, and the opera.

Thanks to Margaret Thatcher who deregulated the banks, London has earned the reputation of being the money laundering capital of the world.  

The UK's many laws and regulations have never been effectively enforced by financial regulators, the banks and other financial institutions know they can get away with paying lip service to the rules. The British Conservative-led Government is so indebted to the Financial sector, the shadow banks, the hedge funds, the venture capitalists etc for their financial funding to the tune of millions of pounds that isregularly paid into the Tories bank accounts that they have allowed their position to become  heavily compromised. Is it any wonder why the Prime Minister, David Cameron has refused to order the full judge led independent inquiry into the Barclays Libor scandal that Labour have persistently called for? Cameron is absolutely terrified of what will be revealed about his party's connections to the Financial sector, this is why no real and proper Inquiry will be forthcoming. Cameron treats the British public with arrogant contempt, maybe it's about time our so-called investigative journalists done a full expose' on Cameron, Osborne and the entire Conservative party? (And any other party that has done wrong)

Sources:The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
              Standard Chartered Bank
              The Daily Telegraph

Is Prime Minister David Cameron About to be Toppled By Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt & Rupert Murdoch?

London Mayor - Boris Johnson With Disgraced Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch at
Olympics Swimming Finals
Treating the Public With Utter Contempt!

Just when you think the Conservatives cannot treat the public with yet more contempt - they do!

First we saw the fiasco of empty corporate seats at events in the Olympic Games at much sought after events. Now it has been revealed that Conservative London Mayor, Boris Johnson has given Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng free tickets to watch the finals of the swimming. These tickets have been some of the most sough after tickets in the Games, with fans who applied months ago being turned down disappointed and the families of swimmers taking part have only been issued with one ticket per swimmer and have also been turned away.

Rupert Murdoch's News International is under police investigation and is the subject of the judicial Leveson Inquiry. Apparently none of this matters and as usual the mayor has treated not just Londoners, but the entire country with disdain, doing exactly what he wants, when he wants and how he wants. In 2010 Johnson has previously described complaints about Murdoch's newspapers hacking the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and others including top politicians and celebrities as just "codswallop", so I guess we all know where he really stands on this.

It appears that Rupert Murdoch awards people who have sided with him in the past, especially over the hacking and now email hacking accusations. His CEO Rebekah Brooks and former defunct News of the World newspaper editor, Andy Coulson, both saw big rewards, her by becoming Murdoch's CEO and him by landing a top job with David Cameron after being forced to resign from the NoW over the hacking affair. David Cameron's judgement was called into question yet again after he ignored advice from several people not hire Andy Coulson. Cameron run into serious difficulties becoming flustered when he appeared at the Leveson Inquiry over questioning about his extended close personal contact with Rebekah Brooks.  Both Brooks and Coulson have since been charged with several charges, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice amongst them, they will both appear in court at a later date to face trial.

This situation is about as serious as it gets, yet apparently it is not enough to make Boris Johnson think that perhaps he should not be seen to be giving these much prized tickets away to a billionaire media mogul who he made his gust of honour and who's s company is currently under police investigation over deadly serious charges which could result in Rupert Murdoch's licence to publish newspapers in the UK being revoked!

An internal City Hall investigation is currently underway after it was revealed that Mayor Johnson had deliberately failed to declare other meetings with Rupert Murdoch. The meeting at the Olympic Games is apparently another such meeting that was deliberately withheld from the public in the run up to the games.

In another incident the enclosed link will reveal Conservative Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, pulling up in his ministerial limo outside the Olympic Games swimming centre and warmly glad handing and greeting no other than Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng!

You will remember that not so long ago Jeremy Hunt (tipped as a future Tory leader) was fighting for his job after it was revealed that he had deliberately misled parliament over his connections with James Murdoch and News International and the Murdochs bid to buy the remaining shares in BSkyB. Hunt was found to have lied, but Cameron refused to order a full independent inquiry because he knew that all roads would lead back to him and if Jeremy Hunt was found guilty of lying and misleading, then so too would Prime Minister, David Cameron.

Conservative Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt Meets Disgraced Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch
Outside Olympic Games Aquatic Centre

In the video you will see how warmly Hunt greets Rupert Murdoch.

What this reveals is that this mayor and this Conservative led government is treating the public with utter contempt. They are bare faced entertaining their corporate mates and probably bankers at the Games and at taxpayers expense and at the expense of those families of competitors and at the expense of spectators who tried in vain to get tickets but were turned down, after being told none were available.

Boris Johnson has said he is promoting London, I would dispute that, what this shows is that the people we have running this country are blatant liars and that they "are all in it together" the corporations, the bankers, the hedge funders, the media tycoons and the only person that Boris Johnson is promoting is himself. It was revealed when Rupert Murdoch took to twitter that he was considering backing Boris Johnson to replace David Cameron as the Conservative party leader and Prime Minister, in fact there is already talk underway that preparations are currently being made to parachute Boris Johnson into a safe Tory seat to enable him to usurp David Cameron.

It's staggering news! We have the London Mayor a disgraced media mogul who owns the Sun and Times newspapers and others in the Tory party plotting about who will be our *unelected* prime minister and it looks like Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt is also involved. Yet the BBC which is being run by Tory Peer Lord Patton and other "hidden" Tories neglecting to break such a huge story which will have enormous ramifications, not just for the Tory party, but for the entire country? It looks like the "long knives" are already sharpened and out for incompetent David Cameron to be replaced by self styled "clown/buffoon" Boris Johnson and hardly a mention in the broadcast media or right wing press?

We are entitled to ask; "just what the hell is going on"? Why does the entire Conservative led government and the entire Conservative party believe they have the right to treat the public with such utter unbelievable contempt? Not only do we have the most shambolic incompetent government in the history of this country, but they have been allowed to get away with so much by the broadcast media and the right wing press, that they now believe they are invincible and can do what they like, when they like - I hope people remember this when it comes to voting at the next election.

How "tough" is Chris Grayling's "love"?

Chris Grayling, Conservative minister for Work and Pensions has spoken out about how he has "tough love" for the disabled people he hopes to force back to work.

Mr Grayling owns and lets out two terraced houses in Wimbledon for which he receives rental income of at at least approximately £5000 per month, approximately £120,000 per year. He also has his generous parliamentary expenses and his cabinet minister's salary. If that is what you get for "tough love" then no doubt many sick, disabled and terminally ill people would love to have that kind of "problem".

Grayling also claims for a flat in Pimlico, close to the House of Commons despite having a home just 17 miles away, a car and driver at his disposal. Why does he need this flat, it is a completely unnecessary expense, especially as he is taking away the much needed and depended upon benefits from the disabled, the sick and the terminally ill. Then again perhaps he feels the strain of a gruelling day at the office spent taking disabled people's rights and benefits away from them? He also charged the taxpayer for a new water and electrical systems which he said had failed "leaving the place needing a major overhaul", why shouldn't we the taxpayer (including those dreadful scrounging fakers the disabled taxpayers) be forced to pay for his luxury refit? Perhaps this is why he is forcing 70,000 more people to work for nothing or face losing their benefits, in order to pay for it all?


Grayling also made a complete ass of himself as well as offending those who live on Moss Side by inferring that they are all a bunch of thugs involved in gang warfare and shootings and comparing them to Baltimore, when Baltimore had 191 shootings in that year, compared to Moss Side, who had er....none!  I'm not sure the people of Baltimore were over enamoured with his description of them either! Not to mention his attack on gay couples and how he thinks that bed & breakfast owners should be able to dispense their own brand of "tough love" and discriminate against gay people if they want to.

I wonder when the news will emerge about Grayling's possible breach of the ministerial code, all 7 of them? He obviously sees nothing wrong with awarding contracts to companies that donate to him or the Conservative party, one company he awarded 14 contracts to donated £27,000 to him in the run up to the 2010 general election.


Thousands of jobseekers have been referred to a mandatory work scheme that has done nothing for their employment chances, has made them as likely to claim benefits over the long term as those not on the scheme, and has led to a proportion subsequently signing on for sickness support, government research has found. Between May and November last year, more than 1,600 people had their benefits cut for up to six months for refusing to start a placement or leaving it before it finished. One in five of those who failed to start MWA were sanctioned. This means that there is possibly thousands of people who are coming off of the unemployment register and not being counted in the unemployment statistics, is it any wonder we are sliding deeper and deeper into recession, yet seeing the weirdness of the unemployment figures reducing? No  wonder is it, the government are fixing the stats.

Disabled people, chronically and acutely sick, mentally ill people and to our utter shame terminally ill people have all been forced back to work by Atos at the behest of Chris Grayling if they refused, Grayling  had their benefits stopped. What a wonderful  way for a supposedly civilised country to be acknowledged in the way we treat the people who need our help the most, it makes me ashamed to be British. Does Chris Grayling need to be a neurological surgeon to understand that ill people need time to recover properly and terminally ill people need time to die with dignity and with all that we can give them to make their passage easier? I cannot tell you how profoundly angry that these Tory bastards, in this bastard mongrel government are doing this in my name. Where is this in their Tory manifesto?  Where does it appear in the mongrel coalition agreement, that we gave our consent to treat our most precious vulnerable people in this way? And why are the Liberal Democrats aiding and abetting and enabling the Tories to behave in this dictatorial heartless fashion? Fascists the lot of them.

What a self serving arrogant two faced shit Chris Grayling is and who does he think he is talking down to people telling them they need "tough love"? Love he doesn't know the meaning of the word. He is not a parent, he is a politician, people do not need his tough love and they certainly do not need him making their lives hell and forcing them to live in fear of their government. Atos is wrong, this government have got it wrong, 32 disability claimants have died after being forced back to work by Atos and Chris Grayling. How can this government hold their heads up when headlines like "Worked to Death" are appearing about them and their policy?
In April this year the Mirror investigation team reported that 32 people a week die after failing the test for incapacity benefit, more than a thousand ­sickness benefit claimants died last year after being told to get a job by Atos. How can Atos get it so wrong when all these people are dying trying to appeal their case after being told they are fit to work by Atos?  How much longer is this outrage going to be tolerated by the government and by the public? 

If the minister has nothing to hide and he thinks he is right then why this?

The employment minister Chris Grayling has been accused of trying to censor a Ministry of Justice courts service information video that helps people appealing against decisions to remove their disability and sickness benefit.

Emails and letters between Grayling and MoJ civil servants, seen by the Guardian, appear to show Grayling wanted to remove parts of the educational video, produced by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service, giving advice on how to be more successful in the appeals process. Emails from the minister's account complain about the video's "tone" and "negative comments" towards the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) even though the sections in dispute were agreed to be factually true. 

The censorship allegations come after Channel 4's Dispatches programmeon Monday alleged that Atos, the firm involved in medically assessing sickness and disability claims, had developed a target culture to ensure enough people were being taken off benefits. The BBC's Panorama, also aired on Monday, further questioned Atos's assessment procedures and found one case in which a man died of his serious heart condition five weeks after Atos found him fit to work for the second time. Hundreds of thousands of people have appealed against benefit decisions in the past few years and, according to the latest figures, about 30% are successful. Read full report - The Guardian.

Can you believe that we in Britain in 2012 have people so afraid of what their government will do to them that they are committing suicide? Well believe it because it is true.


It's OK for Chris Grayling though, able bodied, well off in an extremely well paid job, why should he worry about the people he is persecuting?


David Cameron's focus on alleged fraud and over-claiming to justify cuts in benefits is fuelling abuse against disabled people, sick people, terminally ill, the poor, the vulnerable and the unemployed. This is all part of a plan to shove people down, where they think the poor belong and give more to the rich, their mates the Tory donor bankers, hedge funders etc.


Don't let him!

More Cameron Skullduggery Which Will Ire the Tory Right!

Prime Minister, David Cameron, knows very well that his failure to secure an overall parliamentary majority for the Conservatives at the last election when he had everything going for him (including most of the press) and given the Tories position in the polls and in people's minds now, makes it even more unlikely that the Tories will win a general election outright in 2015. (If this current ensemble last that long of course!) The Conservatives need to make a polling deficit of around 10% and then add a further 7% to win and it's not looking good. One of things that could help hand the Tories another hung parliament is their planned boundary changes.


When Cameron first assumed power with the help of Nick Clegg the Liberal Democrat leader, one of the first things they did was to announce 5 year fixed term parliaments at the same time they said they intended to change the boundaries and reduce the number of constituencies and MPs. This Cameron is doing to his own and the Tories overall advantage. However, this is being met with stiff opposition even from Tory MPs as it means in the boundary changes some will lose their seats, this also applies to Liberal Democrats, but by far the biggest losers will be Labour MPs.


Things have been seriously tricky for the so-called "coalition" government this past few months, making it even more likely that Cameron will do everything in his power to stay joined to the Liberal Democrats, he knows he is more than likely going to need to "buy" their seats again.

On all fronts Cameron is making overtures to the Liberals, he even risks making himself look farcical over Europe in order to try and appease himself to the Tory right and the Liberal Democrats at the same time.

However, there is still much standing in the way of Cameron's desire to be relected, despite the fact that he and his chancellor and Deputy PM, Nick Clegg have proven to be one of the most incompetent and wholly inept government's this country has ever seen in its entire history!

One of the reasons is the Tory right are threatening not to vote for the Boundary changes if Cameron goes ahead with the Liberal Democrats Lords reform. Just before parliamentary recess we saw the government go down to its first major defeat over this issue. As a result, and to appease Nick Clegg, Cameron has promised to give Nick Clegg another shot at getting the Lords reform through parliament, Cameron has said this will be last chance, however, Cameron lies about everything so believing anything he says is foolhardy and also the Liberal Democrats are adamant the Tories must stick to their promise of Lords reform, which was written in the Coalition Agreement - so stalemate! Odd how both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives can break all other pledges they don't particularly like in the agreement, like there being nothing in it about carrying out the biggest reforms in the entire history of the NHS etc; etc; and that doesn't seem to bother them, but can get their wigs off and get their proverbial knickers in a twist about the issue of Lords reform!

Cameron knows he may need the Lib Dems to form another coalition at the next election, so he is putting in the groundwork now.

Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg and leader of the Lib Dems has his constituency in Sheffield Hallam and is facing a tough battle to hang on to his seat, 3 major issues are conspiring against him retaining his seat: 1) Sheffield Forgemasters...2) Tuition Fees...3) NHS reforms.

Clegg hopes that his constituents will forgive him from reneging on an £80 million loan promised by the former Labour government to Sheffield Forgemasters in order for them to buy necessary machinery etc; to secure orders and jobs for the future and replacing it with a £36 million loan from the Tories failing Regional Growth Fund. Clegg has been the target of intense criticism in Sheffield over the loan and the loss of jobs that have resulted.
Sheffield Hallam is also a university town and students are extremely angry at the way Nick Clegg blatantly lied to them and then broke his pledge over tuition fees and there is strong anti-Clegg vote.
There is also extreme public anger at the way the Lib Dems again reneged on saying they were not going to support the Tories NHS reforms bill, to turning completely about face and helping the Tories ram it through parliament and this resentment, far from going away is intensifying.

So the news today that Cameron is planning to shut their Tory HQ in Sheffield is revealing! This will probably mean that they do not intend to field a Conservative candidate against Nick Clegg at the next general election and will probably urge all their Tory voters to turn out and vote for Nick Clegg in an effort to keep Labour from winning the seat.
By trying to save Clegg's job in this fashion, this act by the PM will be seen by Tory right wing MPs as yet more kowtowing to the Liberal Democrats in favour of keeping Clegg in a job and him and the Lib Dems onside. It is also widely believed that if Clegg does lose his seat and Cameron is still in place after the next election that he will offer a job of Britain's European Commissioner to him, in yet another bribe to keep the Lib Dems onside. As Clegg is an ardent pro European, this will again anger the right of the Tory party, who want to pull out of Europe altogether!

However leaving all the internal factions and squabbling going on inside the Coalition government, there could  be more going on here than first meets the eye!

Keep an eye out for the Tories or Lib Dems starting to pull out of constituencies where either of them are the  are the third party, if this starts happening across the country we will know that a secret deal has been struck and this will be an open attempt to manipulate the electorate into returning another Tory led coalition government.

There actually could be more traction to the supposed rumour that Cameron, Clegg and the so called "master political strategist" Tory chancellor, Gidiot Osborne have struck a deal to either combine the two parties after the next election (if successful), or there is an agreement in place that a "Coalition candidate" could suddenly start appearing on ballot papers.

Make no mistake, Cameron loves power, it's all he wants, it doesn't matter to him that he is a useless, over privileged, out of his depth incompetent and narcissistic pm, in fact it is because he is a narcissist that he will do anything and anyone to cling onto power that he sees as his divine right. He knows if this cat gets let out of the bag now he will be in serious trouble with the Tory right, but preparations must be made and this is a way of doing them in secret and when people realise it will be too late.

Only one thing could scupper Cameron's plans and that is a generalised and catastrophic implosion of the Liberal Democrat vote at the next election, rendering their number of MPs to be totally irrelevant and unable to be of much use to Cameron in a numbers battle.

Even though Labour are ahead in the polls now, they can take absolutely nothing for granted and must work hard to get as many Lib Dems votes as possible as well as the swing voters.

Have The Tories and Private Security Firm G4S Got Some Kind Of Understanding?

The government may think that they have got away with their shocking failures over security for the Olympic Games - they haven't.


They may have played down the comments of crass US presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, even though he did not actually say anything that wasn't entirely true, which must have been all the more jarring as the Tories and American Republicans are all supposed to be on the same side. Whatever else Mitt Romney is or isn't, he is a man with a hugely successful managerial profile. The man just saw the same total incompetence in David Cameron's Tories as the rest of us have seen and spoke out!


I still haven't heard a dissenting word from the government complaining about how G4S  let the country down so badly and caused us major  embarrassment when the eyes of the world were upon us! Also we still haven't heard a dissenting word  from G4S to describe how the Tory government left it to the very last minute to order thousands more security guards! They did not inform G4S until last December that they needed thousands of extra security staff and the Tory government also left it until then to give G4S their official contract with the finite number of  people they required. IMO, I believe G4S probably put hiring on hold until the government and LOCOG officially confirmed the numbers they wanted, they were hardly going to employ a further 10,000 people and pay for their training etc; if they were not needed, why would they? It would have cost them millions. The Tories cannot complain as this is privatisation in all of its corporate glory, this is what the Conservatives want for this country. This is what will happen in the NHS, police, defence and fire services, in fact it already is! Lookout for the future major life threatening cock-ups ahead!


In an act of  lunatic bizarre behaviour, the Conservative government *FAILED* to put any one person in overall charge of security at the Olympic Games!!! I would find that a staggering admission even in more genteel days and a certain recipe for disaster, but to do this in these days of heightened terror threats is sheer off the wall utter lunatic and reckless wanton incompetence!


Other reasons why the Tories left it so shockingly late to secure proper staffing levels with G4S is because they were hoping to do security on the cheap with thousands of unpaid volunteers and also no doubt the thousands of people sent to work for nothing on workfare programme (helping to skew the unemployment figures, the largest drop in unemployment being in London), when these did not materialise in sufficient numbers they panicked and went to G4S. 


It's odd that there is still not a peep out of G4S or the government, no mudslinging and knowing that mudslinging is the Tories default position to get themselves out of trouble is making me seriously wonder why? Could it be because each side is holding secrets about each other that they do not want the public to know? I'd request a  freedom of information request but suspect the reply would contain the excuse that as this is a security issue they will not divulge that information.


 G4S are probably scared of not winning future lucrative government contracts and this I suspect could be behind the Tories reluctance to blame them for this fiasco. I would not be surprised if the Tories bribed them to keep quiet with promises of future work. I have heard that the government have already or are about to award G4S with a huge national contract to oversee and round up school pupil truants. This could have the effect of many Educational Welfare Officers (EWOs) who work with such children and their families losing their jobs. Many EWOs have already lost their jobs due to government cuts in funding to local authorities and as a result, inevitably truanting and unauthorised absences is beginning to creep up again!


If this is the case and G4S are keeping quiet in order to secure more government contracts, we will in time get to know but yet again we are seeing exactly how this corrupt and sleazy Tory government works!


At the height of the  G4S debacle over this government leaving security of the Games until 2 weeks before they were due to start, Conservative London Mayor Boris Johnson was praising G4S to the hilt and telling us how wonderful they were.


If that wasn't enough we had Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt the liar who deliberately misled parliament over the BSkyB failed takeover bid also saying how wonderful G4S was and how they were now watching them closely and how much they had improved and it wasn't necessary to bring in the extra thousands of troops on standby blah blah blah, only to announce one week later the government were going to bring in these troops after all! Again how are we supposed to have confidence in this government when none of them appear to know what they are doing? What is more Hunt announced this news at exactly the same time the Metropolitan police announced that they would be charging Tory PM David Cameron's two close friends with several charges related to phone hacking.


This government is mired in corruption and sleaze and gross incompetence right up to their grubby necks and
there is something seriously sinister about the Tories and the company G4S and no doubt other private companies muscling on lucrative government contracts and siphoning taxpayers money away from critical areas where it is so vitally needed and paying it into their shareholders bank accounts.


I understand when parliament sits again in September this subject will be revisited, I hope so, because this shockingly incompetent Tory led government needs exposing and as I have pointed out on many previous occasions, the Tory coalition partners the Liberal Democrats have the power to end this corrupt sleazy Tory government and the Liberal Democrats need to seriously think about walking away - now, while there is still something to salvage.


If they fail us now, just as they have failed us on the trebling of tuition fees, EMA, welfare reform and NHS privatisation reforms, then they will be even more unpopular than they currently are.

Platitudes Are Not Enough Mr Cameron!

Proving Once and For All That Two Knobs are Definitely NOT Better than One!

The recent bad news on the economy will probably be smothered by the Olympics, or at least that's what their 'smugnesses' Chancellor George Osborne, and the Prime Minister, David Cameron, will be hoping. I'm waiting for the inevitable, every last scrap of good Olympic news will be claimed by Cameron, Osborne and the Tories and if there is any negative news, say if Cameron fails to secure orders for this country or something major goes wrong he will blame it all on Labour, it's a foregone conclusion.

David Cameron, talks the talk but consequently fails to walk the walk each and every time. If there was a gold medal awarded for guff and gaffes Cameron would win it everytime, he's a disastrous PM. He couldn't even get it right with Mitt Romney and they are supposedly on his side! Romney was right of course, the Tories terrible organising of Olympic security has been utterly atrocious, and Romney was only saying what the rest of the world is saying behind our backs and it is the government's fault too. Cameron refused to meet the left wing French President Francois Hollande, when he came to London to campaign, preferring instead to endorse former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, I bet yesterday Cameron wished he had refused to meet right wing presidential candidate Mitt Romney as well!  It's unbelievable that the government did not appoint any one person in overall charge of Olympic security. Leaving the security of Londoners, athletes and spectators to just two weeks before the start of the Games is mind blowing and monumentally stupid, unfortunately however, no less than people have come to expect from the Tories, especially this prime minister and Theresa May the Home Secretary who's job it actually was to ensure that security for the Games was being properly addressed. I am still waiting for them to try and blame Labour for the mess the Tories have created, why not? They blame Labour for everything else, despite being in power for over two years now.

Theresa May is another Tory cabinet minster who makes calamitous mistakes and then blames her staff. (Remember Culture Media and Sport Secretary, Jeremy Hunt sacking his aide?) May has blamed her staff at the UK Border Agency for everything that goes wrong after forcing millions of pounds worth of cuts on them which led to serious staff shortages, which have now resulted in inexperienced staff allowing eight terror suspects into the UK just prior to the Olympics and no one knows where they are. This is truly alarming and I just hope and pray that everything goes off well, the alternative is just too much to even think about. She also blamed and forced the "resignation" of Brodie Clark, according to Theresa May nothing was her fault then, and apparently nothing ever is her fault now. We have an inept government made up of ministers who find it impossible to believe that they are at fault and who cannot take responsibility for their own actions.

David Cameron is no better, in fact, he has been away with the fairies in cloud cuckoo land for months! While his chancellor, George Osborne, has been residing with Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander and Vince Cable in "La La Land", where life is beautiful all the time and they "haven't" been instrumental in trashing the UK's economy, it wasn't them, it was Gordon Brown's fault, despite the fact they inherited an economy in recovery, with growth and falling unemployment from Labour and Brown, now over two years later the economy isn't in recovery any longer it is mired in the worse and longest double dip recession for over 50 years! The Conservative cabinet have all been closing their eyes to the gathering storm which they have created in the British economy, in the hope that it will all just go away.

I can't make up my mind if the three men at the top and their lacklustre Lib Dem apologists complete with ready made Tory wets, are just stubborn, belligerent or wholly reckless! These three men who appear to be residing on planet loony most of the time, who have had the best of everything and attended the best private schools in the country and have never wanted for a thing in their lives, really do believe their own hype. They believe that they are so safe in their own jobs, that they can sack over 750,000 public sector workers, while placing the livelihoods of millions of others in peril, that they just do not care and feel it is their right to treat the people of this country with shocking contempt.

There has been no end to the complete disregard in which this contemptuous Conservative led government have treated the British people. All the evidence over the past two years has pointed to Osborne getting everything continually wrong, yet he has ploughed on regardless and without a thought for the people whose lives he is blighting. Ordinary families worried about buying their shopping, paying the mortgage/rent and struggling to clothe their children, fill the car up and pay for the ever soaring cost of gas and electric, don't want mealy mouthed platitudes from Cameron, Osborne and Clegg and they don't want to listen to them trying to pass the blame onto others, they want practical help and they want it now, but neither Cameron, Osborne or Clegg has the ability or the intellect needed to deliver that help, so these people are left to struggle on their own and have been abandoned by the government that created the mess and who have no solution to getting us out of it. 


When he is actually in this country (which isn't very often) David Cameron enjoys posing as some sort of benevolent Father of the Nation, who can don his mask of concern at the drop of  a hat, twist his thin upper lip in that fake look of contriteness to try and show us that he "gets it," really, he does, except that he doesn't, it is all an act, all for show and all just completely false. Cameron is taken us all for granted and has become dangerously complacent, after all it wont be him or his family, or his ilk that will suffer as a result of his and his government's appalling and shocking incompetence, it will be us and the poor and the vulnerable, those least able to cope with it, what a truly shocking indictment of him and his government.


Yet all of this will not stop him from taking every photo opportunity the Olympic Games will give him over this next few weeks, you can bet your wages (if you still have a job) that his face will pop up with GB athletes whose hard work, dedication and training have helped them win a gold medal, lapping up every last bit of good publicity like the fatcat he is that got the cream. Just like he popped up out of nowhere last weekend when champion cyclist Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France. News had only just come through of Wiggins victory when Cameron popped up in a TV news interview cashing in on Wiggins well deserved glory, it was truly nauseating, previously to this the whole economy was entering meltdown and Cameron was nowhere to be seen!!! Probably too busy "chillaxing" or bozzing down the pub, or playing Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja to bother about us and the economy.

Hostility towards the Conservatives (and the Liberal Democrats) is growing as Cameron and Osborne's insane and unnecessary austerity measures take hold, soon all but the very rich elite (who Osborne just helped with a tax cut) will be affected by the vice like grip this government have imposed on workers and their families.

Cameron and Osborne are pushing the economy into an abyss and it is us, not them, who are paying the price.
The Tory doning Bankers, the Tory doning hedge funders, the Tory doning City financiers who caused the Global economy to falter under the weight their immense greed for obscene amounts of money - are allowed to carry on much the same as they have always done, no wonder they support the Conservatives for government!