Showing posts with label deficit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deficit. Show all posts

Monday, 2 January 2017

TORIES CREATE PURPOSELY NHS DEFICIT TO PRIVATISE Update 12 August 2020


Update 12 August, 2020 
T May had to resign and Boris Johnson was chosen. He seems to be even worse. He refused to buy sufficient, and in February, PPE and Ventilators which cost 60,000 lives. It includes 20,000 in Care Homes because Johnson decided to sent CV19 patients there to clear NHS's beds; without testing again whether they are free.

During Johnson's time the NHS gone worse despite always 'pledging' funds for NHS because he is planning to sell NHS to Trump. USA has one of the worst Health Care since it is mainly run by private Insurance and that Johnson wants to introduce to UK to give his friends a boost. 

Update 16 Jan., 2017 --
PM May speech of "Equal Society" became a joke when she denied there is such a great NHS crisis even after the Red Cross had to get involved to help out.

Stop pulling wool over our eyes telling the NHS is in deficit because of the ageing population or the health tourists or any other excuses.

It is in deficit since the Tory Government continuously pulling big sums of money out of the NHS. David Cameron had been doing it for years for various flagship which never resulted into any improvement but bound not to have put the money back again.

In 2012 Tory/LibDem Coalition had axed 5,000 nurses and doctors.  He hired private consultants, his friends,  to deal with it and paid them over £5million. It had a huge impact on the service. Then they had the bright idea to plug the hole with agency staff which costs three times as much. Somebody in the background must have made a huge amount of money at the cost of the NHS.

Furthermore, they sold  over 200 contracts which had a further massive impact on the NHS.

Now again Richard Branson, one of the blue-eyed boys of the Tories, bought another 200 contracts. Richard Branson has a legendary name for his badly and costly run train service but he was given another 200 NHS contracts. It is doubtful that he and the other contractors will give the same quality service as the NHS staff. Contractors are after most profit and therefore run it on a minimum staff, low qualifications and therefore lower paid. It is an open secret.

Another fine example what swindles are going on to bring the NHS to it breaking point is the salaries of chief executives. There are over 50 chief executives who earn over £500,000 per year plus benefits. Are the top surgeons earning that much? These people studied for years and highly qualified not like some jumped-up chief executive. The did not even give the nurses a 1 per cent pay rise.

A recent scandal was leaked that Katherine Percy, Chief Executive, was sacked and given a £190,000 golden handshake despite of her walking into another job as a special advisory in the NHS earning a £240,000 plus benefit package. How many other cases like that which the public did not hear about, but bound to bring the NHS into a financial crisis?

These are the real reasons which are bringing the NHS down.

David Cameron promised, in his last General Election campaign, to fund the NHS with £8billion a year. If he kept his word the NHS would not be in a financial crisis but as usual David Cameron never keeps his word. He also sold the NHS for £780million. Has the money gone into the NHS? I personally doubt it and so do many others.

Tories are determined to break the NHS and it is a miracle it has not happened yet with the pressure put on it. It is only due to the dedicated staff that it survived so far.

As the recently released paper showed Margaret Thatcher already planned to demolish the NHS and the Welfare state purely for the reason because it was established by Labour. Apparently, the Cabinet, who were all her most faithful, went into revolt. She shelved it but never forgot it. She must have left it for Cameron as her last will and legacy.

It also shows how the morals and principals in the Tory’s Cabinet have deteriorated. Today, none of the bats an eyelid seeing the NHS constantly and insistently being broken up, bit by bit, to achieve the final death of the NHS.

The real reason behind is to feather the nest of private insurers which then feather the nest of shareholders, guess who.

The result is that ordinary people will struggle to pay the high fees, and it will be when they got the monopoly, like in America and most go without it living in constant fear of illness and death.

Today, working people paying high amounts of National Insurance fees and the question remains where does the money go?  There is the NHS in deficit and the pension pot is empty. It is apparent, from the few samples mentioned above, that the money is squandered to serve the purpose to break up the NHS and the Welfare State.

It is so obvious because in the last budget the NHS and Welfare was never mentioned.

Sunday, 10 April 2016

TORY PRIME MINISTERS MOST DESTRUCTIVE


and he ruined this country. Why? What is the real reason behind it? Who is behind him and gives the command and he obeys to be a PM?




Now, new PM Theresa May does not seem to be making any difference as well.

It is absolutely incredible if you look back at only the very recent weeks of Prime Minister David Cameron self destructive actions


The very fact that he did not do anything positive to stop the British Steel Industry going to the wall despite of his continuous promises he is doing all he can. He refused to nationalise the industry to save 40,000 jobs which will a have great impact on families and the surrounding communities.

The Steel Industry is always the backbone of any country!!!

In the middle of the Steel Crises he invited Chinese President Xi Jinpin to London to sign a contract for two new Nuclear Power Stations which involves 80,000 tonnes of steel. There is no doubt that it would have saved the British Steel Industry.


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Even the EU tried to stem the imports of low priced steel from China with a higher import tariff but Mr Cameron refused to sign.

All his actions leaves you questioning for which country is Mr Cameron actually working? He calmly lets TATA India's Steel Giant sell or close down the UK branch.

People had been pressing for a referendum of IN/OUT EU membership for years. He went to Europe with a list of demand which did not cover the major impacts of EU ruling.


Even those small demands were watered down and he came back looking victoriously. The small achievement were only registered at the UN and not at Strasbourg which would have made it legal.

Mr Cameron's austerity and cutting back anything which moves in the last six years came home to haunt him. The deficit was the lowest for the last 67 years. The manufacturing output dropped and so did the economy.

You do not need Eton, Oxford or Cambridge to figure out that if you bring people down to starvation and homelessness there is no money to buy goods. Therefore the manufacturing suffers. They introduced Living Wage but at the same time cancelled Tax Credit or reduced it. Back to square one.


After losing 40 per cent of families' income of the first five years of the Tory-led Coalition the Tory Government is now introducing a further £12billion Welfare Cut.

Amongst all these scandals came a 11 million pages from secret accounts in tax haven Panama. The name was given of Mr Cameron's father being involved. Mr Cameron done the worst thing and denied any involvement at first. Days later he admitted to have £30,000 invested in Blairmore but paid his tax on it. and sold it

The public already lost belief in Mr Cameron's word due to endless promises which he had not indention to fulfil. Now after this scenario a great many people demand his resignations. If it comes to it there is no better because Boris Johnson and George Osborne are named. Beside the majority of the Tory Party voted for the £12billion Welfare Cut which is criminal to say the least.

On top of all this havoc created by the Tory Government Mr Cameron is desperately to win the referendum on EU membership.


He printed a 16 page leaflet of Bremain in EU. It cost the taxpayers £9million and will be send to all households. At the moment it seems it is the final straw to his destructive reign.

By now half of his Tory's MPs are campaigning for BREXIT and a third of his Cabinet.  Will it give him the message to change his politics?

Thursday, 31 March 2016

UK DEFICIT HIGHEST FOR 67 YEARS Update 24 Jan., 2018


SUMMARY - Now under Johnson, PM, everything is hashed up. Johnson due to CV19 eventual lock-down, had to borrow heavily but at the same time he handed out contracts, without tender and repayment clause, to his donors and spent £blns of taxpayers' money. Contracts which were hardly or never fulfilled. In other words his friends cashed in on the worst time UK experienced and 81,000 died from CV19 from Johnson's mismanagement. 

Update 24 Jan., 2018 - It had been revealed by Office of National Data that the present National debt has increased to £214,800,000,000 since May became PM.

May still stands in the House of Commons and tells nothing but lies plus criticising Labour after she/Cameron doubled the National Debt. Is there no way to get her and her zombies out fast to stop and save further damage and death due to her policies? Also to confiscated tax dodgers' money from tax havens to pay for the increase of National debt the Tories caused and filled their pockets with - £214,8trillion. 

Update 29 Dec., 2017 -- UK has now been degraded from the 6th to 7th place in the Credit Rating. It is even behind France and India. What kind of Government is this? Yet since 2010 they all just sit back and let it go on!

Update 22 Nov., 2017 -- Tories 'miracle' is despite all the cuts, austerity, new £12bn Welfare cuts from 1 April, 2017 and now Universal Credit which does not pay for 6 weeks they managed to increase National debt to £1,83trn. October 2017 shows an increase of £500bn. 

In 2009 the National debt was £800bn now £1,83trn. 

How on earth are they allowed to go on?

2,500 disable people committed suicide or starved to death
3 million rely on feed banks
Families are homelessness because of benefit cuts and spare Bedroom tax.
The Government increasing debts by the millions of pounds and nobody challenge or stops them
My Points of View: Another failed promise of a better economy plus increased employment. The figure of unemployment reduced is nothing but fabricated with sanctions, Zero-hour contracts etc being taken off unemployment

It was only in April 2015 when PM David Cameron and his party were criticising the Labour Party and Mr Miliband about their “failed” economy and at the same time they promised an improvement, reducing debts and deficit, in their General Election campaign.


On account of that Labour lost the election and the Tories won. It was nothing but lies and dirty smears with which they won.  

How could people fall for it and trust the Tories gains after having had already five years of austerity and Welfare cuts bringing them down to use Food Banks, starvation and homelessness with Spare Bedroom tax.

In my opinion: the voting result was rigged!!!

Labour faced a Global Recession in 2008 which got the GDP down to minus 2.6 and in 2010 showed a GDP plus 1 per cent. It vanished under the Tory-led Coalition Government within three months and the following year showed two recession and narrowly missed a third.  Despite of all that Mr Cameron blamed Labour for the "Credit Crush" for years even it was Global and started in the USA.

Today, it was revealed that UK Deficit during the last three months till December was £32.7billion = 7 per cent GDP.

The year 2015 the deficit if £96.2billion = 5 percent GDP and accounts for the highest since records began in 1948 despite of austerity and 40 per cent Welfare Cuts bringing the public down to rely on over 1,000 food banks, selling any big nationalised organisation

One promise during the Election campaign David Cameron kept was:  “We want to finish what we started.”  Well the result shows.

British import of goods, service and investments income was high and more than its exports.

At the same time the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show UK economy grows 0.6 per cent in the last fourth quarters of 2015.During the whole 2015 the economy grew 2.2 per cent and was caused by an increase in the service sector and a smaller contraction in industrial production.

The deficit records show more money going out than coming in the country and is different to the Chancellor George Osborn’s budget deficit.

A deficit is caused by dividends from profitable companies where they are sent back to their foreign owners and money paid to employees overseas by British companies.

The ONS stated: “The deficit had widened because income from the UK’s direct investments abroad had fallen, while payments to foreign investors in the UK has risen.”

Of course, this disastrous deficit account was straight away snapped up by Chancellor George Osborne and turned into a positive weapon to their advantage “UK should not be contemplating leaving the EU.”

He added: “Today’s figure expose the real danger of economic uncertainty and show that now is precisely not the time to put our economy at risk by leaving the EU.”

What is the Chancellor talking about/ EU Market are importing more than the UK export. Does he really believe that these importers would stop? If Brussels plays a heavy and stops the import it would a loss to the EU market and then there is always a World Market out there.

Germans and French demanding now a referendum for IN/OUT of EU.  The EU was a good idea in principle but failed their people by bringing the countries down into debts while squandering billions of pounds.  Mr Osborn does not talk about that.

Not to speak about the disastrous handling of economic refugees by Brussels which apparently does not want to know? It refuses to close the borders around Europe, refuses to sent back the boats like Australia, refuses to have a blockades by the navy but, again, demands £500million from the UK only to compensate Turkey with a total of £4,5billion.


Thursday, 24 September 2015

TORIES STILL INCREASE DEBT Update 28 Jan., 2018


NEW CHANCELLOR PHILIP HAMMOND

Update 28 Jan., 2018 -- The National Debt has now reached an incredible £214,8trillion and May and Hammond carry on as if there was nothing wrong.



Year 2014/15 -- £1,615TRILLION

Update 25 July, 2017 --
Another increase and the National debt reached now £1.8trillion. Tories answer to it will be more cuts and increase tax to bring the debt down but the National Debt will still increase.  

Update 30 Nov., 2016 --
New Chancellor Philip Hammond is no better. In his budged he announced an increase of debts between £50 and £65billion. It would reach £2trillion soon with all the cuts and austerity the National debts goes up alarmingly. ?????? 

It is incredible what is going on.


UPDATE: 20 May, 2016
For the year 2014/15 the debt increased by £115billion

In my opinion everybody expected an increase of borrowing since Chancellor George Osborne grandiosely reduced the corporation tax. It also would not surprise anybody if Mr Osborne reduces the corporation tax even further at the same time when he cut Welfare by £12billion and insists on austerity.

Analysts expected in August 2015 the borrowing figure to be down to £9billion but it was £12.1billion which was disappointing.

So far the total debt stands at £1,56btrillion and at the end of August it was up by £69.9billion on a year earlier.
a So fr in 2015 the total debt amounts to £1,56trillion and is 81.58 per cent of GDP. UK has to pay a £43billion of interest on the debt which amounts to 8 percent of UK tax income. It looks like as if the National Debt will increase by the same amount by the end of 2020 as before by the Tories first five years in office. David Cameron stated that the debt came down and George Osborne stated that they cut the deficit in half. The must have held the charter upside down.

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) claims there is a fall of income tax paid in August and the corporation tax is also down. The reason of it is that Chancellor George Osborne reduced the corporation tax which now comes into effect.

A Treasury spokesperson said: “Britain hard work is paying off with cumulative borrowing. £4.4billion is lower at that point last year. We have more than halved the deficit but there is more to do with debt remaining higher than 80 per cent of GDP.”

But Vicky Redwood for Capital Economics said: “The figure bringing the recent run of good news for the Chancellor to an abrupt end.”

The public sector net borrowing total of £12.1billion was significantly higher than the consensus forecast of £9.2billion.

The Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecasts in July that the £89,2billion in previous year.

“The government apparently to be making slow progress in reducing the bad deficit,” said Ross Campbell from the Institute of chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
“Sorting out public finance depends on robust tax receipts, so it is disappointing to see corporation and income tax revenues decrease.”

“The Spend Reviews in November is looking at expenditure but it must also take into account what income can be recouped or we risk turning deficit reduction into a three parliament problem.”


Monday, 6 January 2014

CALLOUS CHANCELLOR PLANS TO CUT PENSIONERS BENEFITS


UK's Pensions are on the 24th place of a list of 35 countries and by now even further down after all those cuts. 

The Pension was again cut with Pension Credit being included with pension payment but the actual State Pension was reduced by at least £20pw - in other words, the Pension Credit introduced by Labour in cases of proven hardship, vanished. 

Old Thatcher must jumping for joy how well her gang is doing.

George Osborne in his last Budget put a cut of £16bln of Welfare and £12bln of Council fund on already starving and struggling people but the real damage was done when newly 'elected' May implemented it the following April. She didn't have to do it.

George Osborne cut pension, paid by the people, in a country being the fifth richest in the world.

REFERRED TO IT IN HIS BUDGET AS PENSION REFORM. 

Head of the Department of Work and Pensions tried to "reform" already the benefits for two years and made a mess of it. It costs the taxpayer £800million and the cut-back cost many families their home and disabled people their benefits.  Over 1,000 disabled people died or committed suicide because of it. Yet he and his staff received a £44million bonus. Now he "reforms" the pensions. 

  
Ian Duncan Smith, it was reported, was up for fraud in 2008 because he claimed tax and expenses for his wife supposed to be working for a company. The company did not exists and he would have been in court but the expenses scandal broke and he somehow was "forgotten". Now he is the head of the Department of Work and Pensions throwing his weight about, ruthless.


UPDATE:  13 March 2015 -- A Chancellor who had been swimming in money since he was born and is now a multi-millionaire; but thinking of cutting the little few benefits pensioners enjoy such as winter fuel allowances, free bus passes and TV licences.

A Chancellor who tried to dodge to pay the full railway fares in spite of being able to write it off on expenses. According to the report it was not the first time he tried. Or is he so callous and dodge to pay the full fare and still write it off on expenses. It would not be a surprise.


A Chancellor who sends a taxi miles away to have his beefburgers bought at a special place and it would not be a surprise if that all goes down on expenses in other words being paid by the taxpayers.



Callous, ruthless is not even enough to describe this Coalition’s plans to cut pensioners' winter fuel allowances and Free Bus passes.  It is not surprising after they cut benefits of disabled people.  This government is beyond any humanity. Not only did they do nothing when their friends increased the energy prices by 10 per cent last winter and 31,000people died of hypothermia. They never objected or stopped another price rise of 10 per cent before this winter.  The great Prime Minister only comment to put on another sweater which was an insult to the intelligence of the public as if they are not able to think of it themselves. Besides, if your room is not heated properly no matter how many clothing you put on eventually the cold seeps through but, of course, Mr Cameron would have no idea about that.  First of all he does not pay for his gas and electricity and neither do his ministers therefore he has no need to turn the heaters down.

It is also a great insult to the pensioners because they gave their all in every way during the last war and now when they should be treated respectfully by the state; the country deserts them.  Well, done Messrs Cameron and Osborne, you can be proud of yourselves. Again they would not know what it feels like to live on the poverty line.  Mr Cameron is not only a multi-millionaire but will get a £500,000 pension as an ex-Prime Minister which again should be cut as austerity measures.  There is Tony Blair, John Major, and William Hague all having highly paid jobs and receive each £500,000 pension because they were PMs. It was said Mr Gordon Brown does not accept his £500,000 pension.

Already £1.500.000 saved.

How can Mr Osborne be so cold blooded and go, especially, to the Midlands where there is such poverty that by now even the food banks having to cut down their food parcels because there are too many needing food; telling them there will be more austerity. It is beyond any belief that a human is capable of such a heartless behaviour.

Since George Osborne and David Cameron are so eager to reduce the deficit why did they agree to 100 new Lords, mostly Tories and LibDem,  which cost £44million extra a year?  It was nothing but promoting their chums to be Lords, never mind austerity there.  The country has now almost 800 Lords and the chamber had to be reconstructed to house them all. Cost over £1million.  Surely 300 would be able to decide whether to pass a new ruling or law.  Now there would be a very drastic saving but you never hear a word about it from Osborne and Cameron. Teh food and drinks bill alone adds up to £7Million.

The same situation is with David Cameron to have 97 spin doctors who cost the taxpayers £4million. Labour had 68 but we do not hear anysthing about that, do we, Mr Cameron, and they cost £1.6million. Now, there is another saving and far bigger then from the old pensioners bus pass.  Realistically to cut the free bus pass is no saving at all because they only can use it in between rush hours, which means, filling empty seats.  Please use you calculators properly, Mr Osborne.

It will give extra fares when the pensioners have really to go somewhere but with their financially pressure they will use buses very, very sparingly and mostly stuck at home or walk. Has this government not done enough already to its people?

The EU statistic showed that UK has 2,714 bankers’ fat cats and Germany 212. These are only bankers and there are surely just as many in the industry and commerce. Most of them have an off-shore account avoiding paying tax. Mr Cameron forever talks about getting tough of tax avoiders. There would be a bonanza if David Cameron closes these tax havens in his own British Islands  How about Mr Osborne to go next doors and collect all the taxes which Mr Cameron gets back from the tax havens?

Yes, that is the result of this government and in spite of pressuring ordinary people into poverty which had not been seen since the war Chancellor George Osborne still carries on with austerity but not for them.

The other side of the coin is that after four years in power and preaching austerity cutting down on any benefit there was; the government has still a great deficit and borrows money it can not afford to pay the interest on. Apart from driving people into the ground with austerity which did nothing to reduce the deficit and as for the economy improving, it is nothing but a lie.

At the time of austerity, according to George Osborne, the MPs receive a 11 per cent pay rise.  This would bring their salaries from £65,000 to £74,000 per year plus expenses which are highly abused. Is this salary increase not outrages when the average worker's wages are frozen or even reduced or even unemployed? Would it not be right to apply austerity there which again would bring in more than the winter fuel allowances or free bus pass?  There are 650 MPs and a 11 per cent would add up to a great sum of money..

It is the sixth richest country and the people are starving and freezing to death this winter.

40,000 died of hypothermia in winter of 2014/15. The highest number for 15 years

Thursday, 21 June 2012

BRITAIN AXED MILITARY FORCES -- Update 26 Feb., 2015



UPDATE: 26 February, 2015 -- What kind of politic is that? The Government is spending over £30million  on adverts to recruit soldiers, RAF and Navy personnel. These recruits need training which cost additional money while the previously sacked army were fully trained.  This is sheer loony. The axed personnel are most probably still on benefit which is another waste of money.


UPDATE: 1 March 2014 -- In spite of all the redundancy the Government is still planning to axe 1,400 soldiers. Adding to the previous redundancies in the last three years it is adding a great number of unemployed people.  People who have been trained just for a particular job and have no other knowledge will find it hard to get a job especially in a situation of 2.5million unemployment. Yet, the Government make us belief in reducing unemployment.


UPDATE:  25 January 2013  ---  A further redundancy in the Armed Forces had been announced. There will be another 5,300 soldiers lose their job. This will bring down the total to 82,000 and is the lowest for 200 years. Where does the government think they find jobs in a high unemployed market? Most of them will end up as unemployed and receiving benefit. Then the government is surprised when the benefit payments double and treble. What kind of policy is this/


This is now the second time and in a very short time where armed forces being axed. This time about 4,000 personnel of soldiers and officers had lost their job. Quite a number were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan which was an illegal war started by Mr Bush and involved Mr Blair. It all cost too many lives and didn’t bring peace.

This time it is the RAF and Navy which are mostly losing their men. On the list are six RAF air vice-marshals and 30 group captains.

Overall the RAF are earmarked for 115 squadron leaders

The NAVY will not fare any better with being on the list for five commodore and 15 captains and all together 30,000 Royal Naval personnel.

It was also announced the 500 private and 400 Ghurkhas will receive their redundancy notice. It will especially hit hard the Ghurkhas who fought so willingly and known as the best force in the British Army. They are not allowed to receive British Citizenship and therefore most probably no financial benefits.  This is a disgrace if ever there was one.

In stage three it is the Army which will lose about 20,000 soldiers right across.
There are several points to said about this irresponsibility

The first point which comes to mind is that there is always money available to bail-out countries as well as foreign aids which do nothing but go into the pocket of the various governments.

The second point is the impact of human and military of these job losses. Again most of them fall on social benefit which costs money and does not produce anything.

The third point is that it will reduce Britain to a very low military power. Especially at a moment when there is still Afghanistan fighting going on. The Falklands in danger of being claimed by Argentine, Iraq, Egypt, Libya and Syria are an increasing threat to peace, trade and economy. Hard negotiation over all these dangerous developments will not work if these countries are aware the military force is not there.

The argument by the Coalition that part-time reserve would fill the gap if it comes to the worst is nothing but ludicrous.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman pointed out that the multi-billion deficit has to be reduced.  The plan is to reduce the Army by 82,000 by 2020, Navy and RAF by 5,000

Many of the overworked British Armed Forces applied for redundancy. Their fear of a future in an Armed Force having to work twice is hard of which they are already pushed to total exhaustion being under-staffed already.

On an overall view of the not very clever politics of the present government there are 15,000 policemen lost their job at a time of a crime wave never seen before.

The Olympics is coming up very shortly and the government counter argument to this was that the army would be deployed. On 12 June 2012 -- 4,000 Army personnel and 30,000 Royal Navy personnel lost their job. The Army is still fully deployed in Afghanistan and can’t put down their arms to go back to secure the Olympics safety.

Well let’s hope they know what they doing in practice and not just with statistics and on paper.

The last point is to make that the Ministry of Defence “found” £12billion. What happen to it? This £12billion was sitting there when everything was being paid. Therefore, is the ministry of Defence really in such a high deficit?



  

Sunday, 10 June 2012

UK GOVERNMENT CUTS PENSIONERS' PRIVILEGES



This is now the last and lowest trick planned by any government. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and George Osborne plan to stop the free bus pass for Pensioners. Cutting down on the winter heating supplement which helps hard-up pensioners not to freeze to death which was the case before. Not to speak of the already so-called Granny tax which George Osborne introduced in his last Budget.

All this is really disgraceful to go so far and cut the very few little extras pensioners have.

From a start, if he stops the free bus pass does he not realize that all there will be pensioners not using the transport. Therefore he will not have any extra money or not that much because a pensioner cannot pay £2.20 one way fare and with coming back it will be £4.40. This is if you can go straight. If you have to change buses it will cost your twice as much. Now no pensioner can afford that and they only end up sitting at home. The other point is that these free bus passes are only used during the day when busses are practically empty.

Now the next point of cutting down or completely stopping is the winter fuel supplement. This will increase the risk of old people dying of cold and it was the reason for introducing the winter fuel supplement. Of course, our glorious top three they will not know what hardship is. All their life they lived off the fat of the land.

Let me point out something to these great 'gentlemen' who make one mess after another. Today’s generation of pensioners have fought for this country and endured great hardship because of the rationing. They should be getting all the comfort in their old ages because if they don’t deserve who will? They should be treated with the greatest respect because if they didn’t do what they done for Britain these three great 'gentlemen' wouldn’t be where they are. So how dare they treat pensioners like that? Knowing very well that they can't fight back with strikes and therefore have to take what is handed out to them.

At one stage not so long ago it was mentioned to tax bonuses which those fat cats undeservedly get. The suggestion didn’t last five minute and it was wiped off their plan. If they had gone through with there would have received some real billions of money. However, it would have cut their friends even so they wouldn’t even miss it. So why not go back to this point Mr Cameron, Mr Clegg and Mr Osborne. No, instead Mr Osborne even reduced the level of taxes to top earners. It was reduced from 50p, which Mr Brown introduced, to 45p and Mr Osborne made straightaway a promise to reduce it to 40p.

THIS  IS  THE  KIND  OF  GOVERNMENT  WHICH  SHOUTS

ABOUT  AUSTERITY  TO   BRING  DOWN  THE 

DEFICIT  BUT  WON'T  CUT  WHERE  IT  SHOULD  BE.