I read today that the wretched Government's figures were lies regarding the numbers of immigrants who are causing supposed havoc in our communities by getting handouts and being in the UK illegally. I have information from a family member who works with some of these poor souls in a medical situation and I know that we should be prepared to help with all the means at our disposal. I am ashamed of my fellow countrymen and women who want to deny help to those who have fled from their homes, with nothing in their pockets. When they arrive we give them vouchers for miserable amounts of food with no provision for warm coats or shoes.We house them in poor neighbourhoods with few facilities where they are often abused verbally and physically. It's scandalous! Most of them are eventually accepted legally, want to work and pay taxes like the rest of us. And all this in a supposed Christian country! Thank goodness I've no god to answer to!
The percentage of misuse and misappropriation of funds is, apparently, a drop in the ocean and I for one am prepared to lose some small amount to the wrongdoers in order to provide, fom my taxes, for those in need. No system is perfect after all.
Several government "worthies" are adding fuel to this misinformation. Not least our oleaginous Bullingdon Boy Cameron.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
Lobbying
Another Con! Sod it! The snivelling Tories are at it again! We were promised a cull against unfair lobbying of politicians @ Westminster. What happens, after oodles of cash has been spent on a review, is 10 pages (after all the guff is eliminated) of business as usual. The lobbyists pals of MPs can take them out to dinner, chat them up after copious alcoholic incentives (not to mention potential private underhand financial deals), and cut a deal to do the bidding of any old private company with a vested interest in lawmaking. Some people must have voted for these deceitful b.....ds but I can only find one I know, who has admitted to it! Needless to say, she is off my Christmas card list. Bl...y LibDems are worse because they pretend discomfort but go ahead and vote for crass policies anyway. I know one or two who voted for them; me included. Worse decision I ever made since I started fighting for decent NHS provision in the wilds of Argyll about 40 years ago. A hiding to nothing as no-one listens....aaagh!
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Tax Dodging
Tax Dodging : how does it work? I suppose it's impossible when you work in the Public Sector as your pay is put into your bank after tax has been paid. Most people wouldn't have the opportunity to try it on. Most people realise that taxes, like death, are inevitable. BUT many of these well-off toffs seem able to avoid tax. Gideon the Chancellor has been in the news recently depicted as The Artful Dodger; and very spooky he looked too.
It's a completely alien way of life and I suppose that's what the very rich rely upon. We the proles, couldn't enter their world due to lack of finances, even if it were morally acceptable. They have the sort of funds which can be spent paying lawyers to save them thousands of pounds in tax. Percentage - wise, I've probably paid more tax than many a millionaire. Doesn't bear thinking about....I was a Radiographer.
I was gobsmacked to discover that £70 BILLION is now owed in tax revenue. Yes £70 BILLION and these snivelling Tories are allowing it, to the benefit of their rich pals, whilst cutting services to people in need, like disabled children and young families struggling to make ends meet. Scurrilous LibDems (whoever they are?) just ride along beside their very senior partners, shuffling their feet with embarrassment, because they are incurably greedy for power and know they'll not have another chance of being this close to government, in their lifetimes.
Where are the Labour Party? Why aren't they banging on about this daily, in Parliament; in newspaper articles; on TV etc? I don't want to knock Ed Miliband and his gang. I just want them to shout louder and more often. Of course, added to all of this is the allegation that the BBC news swings to the right; not helped by the allegation that Nick Robinson was a leading light in his university's Tory association. The Labour Party have an extra mountain to climb if the media are insidiously putting further obstacles in the way of them getting their message across. It's not fair; but life isn't I suppose.
It's a completely alien way of life and I suppose that's what the very rich rely upon. We the proles, couldn't enter their world due to lack of finances, even if it were morally acceptable. They have the sort of funds which can be spent paying lawyers to save them thousands of pounds in tax. Percentage - wise, I've probably paid more tax than many a millionaire. Doesn't bear thinking about....I was a Radiographer.
I was gobsmacked to discover that £70 BILLION is now owed in tax revenue. Yes £70 BILLION and these snivelling Tories are allowing it, to the benefit of their rich pals, whilst cutting services to people in need, like disabled children and young families struggling to make ends meet. Scurrilous LibDems (whoever they are?) just ride along beside their very senior partners, shuffling their feet with embarrassment, because they are incurably greedy for power and know they'll not have another chance of being this close to government, in their lifetimes.
Where are the Labour Party? Why aren't they banging on about this daily, in Parliament; in newspaper articles; on TV etc? I don't want to knock Ed Miliband and his gang. I just want them to shout louder and more often. Of course, added to all of this is the allegation that the BBC news swings to the right; not helped by the allegation that Nick Robinson was a leading light in his university's Tory association. The Labour Party have an extra mountain to climb if the media are insidiously putting further obstacles in the way of them getting their message across. It's not fair; but life isn't I suppose.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Lansley's Deceit
The Right Article on Twitter has highlighted some awful truths about Lansley and his appalling Bill for the NHS. Well worth a look but it all makes me feel inadequate and frustrated because there seems to be very little backing for Andy Burnham from Ed Miliband in opposition. Labour looks to be running scared about Health care reform in England and the "discussion" needed to effect change in Scotland, is non-existent.
Tuesday, 3 January 2012
Scottish Help for NHS in UK
Just read an excellent article suggesting thet NHSiS has the opportunity to help save the NHS UK http://www.internationalfuturesforum.com/iffblog/?p=956 isn't it about time we held these discussions?
Monday, 2 January 2012
New Year - New Politics?
I'm so surprised, but I shouldn't be, about the apathy I am finding amongst my contemporaries about the present parlous state of our Politics in the UK. The snivelling Tories and their greedy pals who used to be LibDems are running amok; causing no end of misery and getting away with it due to their success at blaming the previous Labour Government. Labour should be shouting "LIARS" from the housetops, over and again so that the message gets through to communities battling against unnecessarily harsh cuts in public spending. An approach such as Alex Salmond would make to cut them down to size might be useful. They are too soft and polite.
The latest atrocity, hidden in small print, is the 49% story. Now, via evil machinations by Andrew Lansley, private companies will be able to profit even more from our NHS because hospitals will be able to raise up to 49% of their funding from private companies when previously it was 1-2%.
Please see "Concerned4Democracy".
Why aren't the politicians who really care about MY NHS jumping up and down about this abuse of power? How can we get them to care enough to shout louder?
The latest atrocity, hidden in small print, is the 49% story. Now, via evil machinations by Andrew Lansley, private companies will be able to profit even more from our NHS because hospitals will be able to raise up to 49% of their funding from private companies when previously it was 1-2%.
Please see "Concerned4Democracy".
Why aren't the politicians who really care about MY NHS jumping up and down about this abuse of power? How can we get them to care enough to shout louder?
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