Reading the news again

Why do I never learn? I read the blooming papers again and now I am completely depressed and lost the will to live...

First of all, I think Cameron can stuff his bloody Big Society somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine. Basically this is the largest rip off and privatisation scheme since Margaret Thatcher. Cameron and his fellow millionaires in the Government has come up with this master plan of a huge mega car boot sale of the public resources that in effect is a closing down the state, to bargain prices for the rich.

Hands off the NHS, education and our forests. This is not for Cameron to sell because it is not his property; it belongs to the people of Britain and its taxpayers.

The Government scare the councils by setting hard cuts in their budget and they go into some sort panic sale as well and sell off our libraries, supportive housing and public buildings.

The localism in Cameron’s Big Society sounds like a grand scheme to leave people to fend for themselves as best as they can, a state of ‘the survival of the fittest’. He creates a hard core capitalism and move us back to the times when the aristocrats ruled on the backs of the rest of the people.

The localism will be hardest felt when it comes to NHS changes where the GPs will be in charge of 80% of the budget that the Primary Care Trusts used to manage. That means that each GP will get a petty cash box to use for their clients so next time you go to your GP you might be told, ‘sorry mate but the money is finished and you can’t have any treatment for your cancer. You could try to get it privately or maybe you have private health insurance that might cover for it? Otherwise you will have to wait until next budget year, it’s only seven months away and you might be able to get treatment then but only if you put yourself on our waiting list. If you are lucky the cancer has not spread that much by then.’

What is so flaming Big about that type of society?

I then moved on and read about the huge pay some people in public office rakes in, despite economic crisis. I mean the BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons claimed £12,000 in expenses alone. That is more than most people earn per year! And then I read that the Council bosses earn more than £185K! Blimey, that can cover the housing benefits for a family for 336 month (28 years) or four families for 7 years!  I have said it before and I say it again, the problem is not lack of money it is the distribution of money that is the problem.

As if that was not enough, the sodding sport commentators at Sky Sport go and verbalise their sexism on air! And why is that men thinks that the epitome of intelligence is the offside rule, which any bloody moron can understand. It is not exactly complicated like splitting an atom or like string theory, is it? Big up for Sky to sack the chauvinist pigs and gets them off the air!

Then I saw a front page in Evening Standard: ‘Tory MP blasts feminists bigots’. In the article you could read that MP Dominic Raab said feminists are ‘obnoxious bigots’. He thinks it is time for men to burn their briefs. What planet is he from, the same as ET?

All I have to do now is to come up with a great plan to kick the Government out of the office of power. Any ideas?

Cameron’s New Year

Cameron told us in his New Year’s speech that we have a hard year ahead of us with cuts in public services. He try to tell us this is for the people and that we are “in this together”, which is rather a lie. What his plans means is that the poor pay and the millionaires in the Government and their rich friends remains more or less unaffected by the cuts. The conclusion is that people to Cameron is only people above a certain income level, the rest of us are just riff-raff.

The VAT increase will hit the poor the hardest. If you are on minimum wages, disability benefits or unemployed then the increase of VAT will eat into your already small amount of money. As a result, poor people will have to cut down on food and necessities and the children living below the poverty line will increase.

I find it immoral of a Government to neglect its people so brutally. It is almost like the way Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette neglected the starving people in France. Cameron should be concerned about creating a too large tension between rich and poor.

Yes, there is an economical crisis and we do need to take actions but the question is; what actions do we need to take? I suggest we stop the lavish spending on keeping the military in Afghanistan and Iraq, curtail bankers pay and bonuses, increase taxes on incomes above 80K. My point is the problem is not lack of money; it is the distribution of the wealth that is the problem. Poverty is only possible when the few take more than they are due. Poverty is not an immorality that needs to be punished; it is a consequence of an unequal society.

We are not in this together because if you are poor you suffer more than if you are rich. Cameron’s talk about togetherness therefore becomes very hollow.

Cameron’s plan to ruin the NHS with his silly plans of what he calls reforms. But the word reform implicates improvement and Cameron’s plans will certainly not improve NHS, instead it will make it harder for people living in poor areas to get equal access to NHS as people in rich areas. The NHS plans combine with the movement to move poor people out from rich areas makes the inequality even worse.

The inequality in access to public services makes me think about Rousseau and the Social Contract. My question is why should the poor people living in a poor area with less access to public services pay the same tax as the rich people with higher access to public services?

When you add the silly suggestion to allow employers to sack “underachievers” that do not meet their targets during their first two years of employment, the situation becomes very grim!

2,498,000 people in the UK are unemployed and if you add all the people on long term sickness, ESA, lone parents and carers to the mix, then we talk about a lot of people. When these people try to get into the work market they will face these new insecure employment contracts. Obviously, the employers will purposely set their target very high and then the workers will underachieve, which allows the employer to sack people as they please. This will leave people at their mercy and it will also make it very difficult for the young people to build up any good pension qualification because they will struggle to make the necessary working years required.

Cameron also plans to stop the right to claim housing benefits if you live in popular central areas. Cameron say They should be moved to the cheaper areas, which means far from work places with increased travel costs and up-root children at a point when the family already suffers hardship.

Cameron also suggests people should lose benefits if They do not take the jobs! But if he increases the cost of studying it will lead to an increase in uneducated people. Who will employ these uneducated people? Just because there are jobs available does not mean that the unemployed are qualified to do the jobs available.

Cameron also would like to limit the time people can live in social housing. Surely, that would result in families being up-rooted and children from vulnerable families being forced to change schools and friends, which will put an increased pressure on people unable to pay the bankers high rents. The result, which might be what Cameron actually is after, would be a creation of migrant workers that can be used by the rich as cheap labour. How convenient for them.

The Government’s We (the rich) and Them (the poor) mentality is frightfully similar to the propaganda broadcasted in Rwanda before the Hutus genocide of the Tutsis, claiming the Tutsis were evil, whipping up hatred in people against Them. To talk in terms of ‘we and them’ by politicians is dangerous. Cameron is creating myths about how bad the others are, which in this case is the poor and lazy welfare cheats and spongers! It reminds me of how the Irish migrants were viewed during the potato famine. The poverty was seen as the Irish’ fault and God’s punishment for low morale!

His propaganda against Them makes us focus on the wrong “baddies” and takes away attention from the real parasites in society, the rich that take their wealth to tax paradises to avoid paying their dues.

Cameron’s politic is aiming to create a poverty dispersal system were all poor people will be forced to move to the outskirts of the major cities and to live in some sort of ghettos. We have to resist and stop these wicked plans of the Government before it is too late.

The Government and their supporters need to sit up and reflect that if you do not share your stability with the poor then the poor will share their poverty and instability with you. You could call this a spill-over effect of poverty and Somalia is a good example of this, where the poverty had created the Somalia piracy.

Greed and selfishness in the “free” market is irrational because you cannot take without giving back or it will come back and bite your ass.

The International bankers have become the new aristocracy and they should be made to pay their fair share of the burden of the crisis. Not just use the society and the market as a play ground for the rich. To the rich as say, “Neglect the poor on your own peril.” 

Happy New Year!

The social services have housed my friend Maria in a hostel in Westminster to keep her safe from her abusive and unsafe home environment. She is what social services used to call a young vulnerable person.

Two weeks before Christmas Maria called me and told me that she had been evicted from the hostel. Apparently the hostel is closing down because the council do not want residents in the borough living below a certain income level!

So that is how the richer boroughs are going to solve the cuts and the economical crisis. Just kick the poor people out! Well, that should solve the problem nicely.

Send the poor to the poor councils and do as they done in Paris with their growing ghettos in the outskirts of Paris with their annual riots and where young girls walking alone are seen as fair game for gang rape. That should sort the poor out and force them of their lazy backs and give them a nice incentive to work.

As if poverty is a moral defect rather than a result of the unequal power structures in the country.

What the Government and its millionaire MPs are trying to do is to increase their wealth on the back of others’ work and the poor. Cameron keep on saying we are in this together but actually, some people has to take the blunt of the cut backs whilst others continue to attend their glitzy Champaign parties asking themselves “where is this economical crisis everybody is talking about?”

The overall assets of a country belong to its people in an equal share but the Government is building a society where the rich take from the poor and give to rich.

Cameron needs to be aware of that when you neglect the poor you do it on your own peril. It is just so much a person can put up with. I do not think that poor people silently will sit at home and starve to death. There will be a point when you have to fight back. That fight can take the form of increasing demonstrations but also riots and crime waves. If you are locked out from all avenues to earn your money by working, you will have to take it from those who stack their wealth on piles in tax havens such as Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Liechtenstein.

The Tory Government will bring us back to a pre-industrialism relationship between the rich and the poor and as history told us this will lead to revolution, social unrest and famine.

The rich are completely alien to the state of the country to the point where Prince Charles and his darling Camilla goes for a drive to the Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium in their royal car straight through the well known and planned student demonstration. Completely oblivious to the fact that the streets of London would be filled of young people fighting for their right to education and their right to be able to make a decent living and that the posh royal car gliding past would be a sore eye. The photo with Camilla’s face in a complete shock and surprise is just a proof of how distant the rich are from the harsh reality of the people. What did she expect? That the commoners would take a break in the demonstration to cheerfully wave at her on her route to her free ticket at the Royal Variety Performance?

I do wish we all could have a Happy New Year but I am afraid that will not happen as long as we have a Tory Government.

Robin Hood where are you when we need you?