people should analise why rupert murdoch's sun backed "new labour" in the first place ? tony bliar and GORDON BROWN sold the idea of the public private initiative to the city of london, so they could invest in public infrastructure at a taxpayer garranteed return of 14 to 17 % nice little earner if you can get it. privately owned school academies, privatisation of air traffic control, privately OWNED hospitals and further deregulation of banking. that's why murdoch backed bliar and brown's "new labour"! but this is all theatre left and right. if you were a genuine politician with the concerns of your constituents and the public at large, you would be hounded as an extremist by the "free" press owned by the murdoch's and co and if you opposed cuts in social welfare or benefits and bailouts to banker's, or foreign wars of occupation, gordy, mandy and co would expel you from "new labour"
This country is broke, has been badly financially mismanaged. £25,000 owed in tax by EVERY household in the UK to clear the national debt.
Twat needs to live in the real world IMO whatever happens HUGE tax and VAT rises on the way.
And if the Irish vote "yes" for the Lisbon Treaty this time, there could be a President Bliar :shock:
Can it get any worse ffs?
Hello ?
Cutting public spending seems to be everyones choice....
Where does it go ?
It pays the salaries of public servants (and pensions)
It runs the various public services.
It also employs, directly and indirectly (building roads etc etc) large amounts of people.
Who pay tax, and national insurance, and by spending their wage/salary pay other taxes.
So large amounts of that money actually end-up back in the exchequers bank account. And those working are also not paid benefits.
Cut public services and you increase unemployment...directly or indirectly.
Now onto the bail-out cash....you remember...the money we bought bank shares with so that they could continue to operate (even though the bankers had shown themselves to be unable to operate a food stall in a famine (quite literally)). Hopefully the shares will be put onto the market as soon as they are able to sell them...so much of the bail-out cash goes back to the exchequer.
kenty, with respect, your naivity beguiles me. this country is'nt run by elected politicians in westminster ! they are puppets of a much higher power. as are the unelected puppets in brussels and the congress in washington. whilst you pay attention to imigration, crime, social disorder and "new" labour and the "modern" conservatives, the real ruler's get away with fraud and theft on a gigantic scale. your future and the future of your children and grand children are being destroyed and all you have to look forward to is hardship and destruction unless you can see the wood for the trees.
if you think that cameron, like the americans did with obama, will bring about "change" i.e. refute the authority of europe for "your" sovereign government, think again. it was ted heath who joined europe and had a referendum, margret thatcher who signed the masstrict treaty and it's international private banking interest's that control them all and will decide what's best for capital and profit not sovereign government's ! respectfully dave
Having sold all the gold, GB is now selling the family silver :shock:
... and, guess what...
He's telling his dutiful followers that this will save the UK economy :shock: :shock: :shock:
This guy has seriously lost the plot. I can recall him, in opposition, going mad at the Conservative administration for selling BT and the Rail network!
He obviously now understands that is f*cked beyond belief and is doing everything in his power to screw up the next administration.
He couldn't care a flying f*ck about the people in Britain.
To show you how much they have lost it ....incapacity benefit is no more. It has been no more since last October. It has been replaced by employment support allowance. The main feature of ESA is that EVERY claimant has to have a medical assessment (except those who are registered disabled...so far).
The assessment is NOT done by the claimants GP, NOR by an nhs doctor, it is done by a commercial occupational health company (French).
A claimant may well be ill, but the assessment is to determine IF that claimant can do ANY work. If he/she can, they are then denied benefit. Since the OccH company are paid by results.........
The ESA form is 52 pages long.
the Council tax benefit form is 40 pages long, as is the housing benefit form. The form for obtaining free prescriptions (yes: The unemployed no longer get free prescriptions automatically) is 42 pages long (free prescriptions on low income)
If the TOTAL household income (not counting the claimants benefit) is more than then CT benefit and Housing benefit are not paid.
Jobseekers allowance (dole) is
Employment support allowance (incapacity benefit) is
If you are near, or are over, 60...then you may be offered pension credit instead of JA or ESA....accepting it ( would be a mistake....what the government gives with one hand it takes back with the other.
And you thought it was all roses in the benefit culture....
