POLITICIANS NOT SAFE IN DEMOCRACY NOT TODAY

It is a very sad day when MP Jo Cox died because she believed in democracy and was also fighting for migrants. RIP. It is very sad if a 41 year old lady gets gunned down and stabbed several times. What has this society come to?

This event raises a string of question about the safety of politicians. At the House of Parliament they are safe without a doubt because of security checks and armed police.

One fact weighs heavily against democracy at the present. If you have democracy you got to have a strict and just Justice. At the moment it does not exists. Drug dealers, burglars, rapists and paedophiles get mostly a warning after umpteenth convictions and if they get a prison sentence it will be halved to a few months. Murderers get life but life means 15, 20 or 25 years and on good behaviour will be reduced.

If they can claim a mental health problem, some do have and some claim they did not know what they were doing in that moment, they go into a mental secure hospital like most probably this murderer will. But his action of building a gun does not show he did not know what he was doing. Therefore the Justice needs a real wake-up and the Government to stop closing down prisons especially with a situation we have at moment. People seem to kill for the least reason.

The danger lurks when they are in their own constituencies. A survey revealed that 43 MPs out of 239 were victims of actual or attempted attacks.

This is an unacceptable situation when a MP cannot voice their opinion and fight for other people without being attack by somebody who does not agree with it.

The question is how to protect them? In short it is impossible. MPs are constantly exposed at the street or when they keep surgeries. They have to meet the public constantly.

The only idea which the Common authorities could come up with to have an aide with them when they have the surgery meeting. A Panic button which connects them direct to the Police and MI5 would also give them some protection.

All in all it has come to a terrible state in having a democracy and not being able to protect its politicians totally. Due to a number of movements the freedom which the previous generation knew is going to disappear slowly but definitely. It is exactly what these various groups want to strike fear and rule by fear.

Finally, the conclusion is that British democracy means MPs will not be safe anymore. Even democracy itself becoming doubtful the ways the Government is overruling all the time and Brussels is ruling more and more the UK.

Source Evening Standard

ANOTHER DIRTY TRICK TO DISABLED PEOPLE Updated 5 Feb., 2018

Update 5 Feb., 2018 -- Ester McVey has now replaced David Gauke. It is the fifth time since 2016. McVey is a controversial figure. She voted for all the cuts that had been made. A demand has been made for her resignation.  

Update 4 Oct., 2017 -- Damien Green was replaced by David Gauke in June. MPs asked for a delay of the new Universal Credit which suppose to include all benefit payments and payable every two weeks or one monthly. Mr Gauke ignored the plea and will roll it out within one month or two.

The new Universal Credit bound to be for the advantage of the Government and include more benefit cuts. 

Update 11 April, 2017 -- PM May cold bloodedly let the proposed cuts on Personal Independence Payment go ahead which hurt the most vulnerable disabled people. 900 care workers leave their job every day but surely PM May and DWP couldn't care less otherwise she would not have agreed to it.

Cuts to child care, housing benefit and disabled people from £102 per week to £73 came into effect from 1 April, 2017. Its a £30 pw cut which will have a devastating effect on already worst off people. Do not forget they will also have to pay spare Bedroom Tax. There will be an endless stream of death from starvation, homelessness and suicide.


Updated 7 Oct., 2016 -- The Department of Work and Pensions Secretary is now Damien Green.

UPDATE: 19 July, 2016 --
Piti Patel is now the new DWP Minister but will report back to Ian Duncan Smith who is the DWP Secretary.

By all previous accounts the two could not be better match and is worse for the poor and disabled. Both were in several scandal of claiming money -  taxpayers' money.

Is it another dirty trick that thousands of disabled people are being blocked to get through to the benefit line.

The Tories are really excelling themselves in efficiency and perfectly run departments. Wherever they can cut and causing a mess to already under hardship people they do it.

Callers can not sign up for the Personal Independence Payments (PIP) 18,949 times due to "heavy demands" from January till April which equals 4,700 a month.

It cuts out 1.7 per cent of all calls to the Department of Work and Pension (DWP). Furthermore the PIP line charges 45p a minute. Has any of the high-earners of Government thought about it and realised what it means for a hard-up disabled person to pay 45p a minute? They just have not a clue because all their expenses are paid by the taxpayers on top of it.

These two points above alone are sickeing but typical Tories. They will not cut the over 50 chief executives of the NHS earning £500,000 each plus bonuses but cut and squeeze every penny out of people. Yet, at the same time, swinging great speeches about their concern with the hard-working people.

The free PIP claim line only 0.04 per cent got through. What clever ideas all round.

Another scandal Ian Duncan Smith charge 45p to talk about benefits. ISD hopped about when Chancellor George Osborne announced the £12billion Welfare cut and resigned when Osborne done a U-turn with the pension. He is that kind of character.

Only very recently the Independence Living Allowances had been change to PIP and as always the result is a mess withholding payments which are urgently needed. As they say "there is always a method in the madness" and the changeover must be beneficial to the Government.

Statics show that Tories' cuts to help disabled people have increased to over £24billion since 2010 and Cameron can be proud of the achievement as well as of the cost of 2,300 peoples' lives by either suicide or starvation. It will be worse when the new £12billion Welfare cut come into effect.

What a record for a Prime Minister who supposed to be there for the benefit of the people.

This year, with the new £12billion Welfare cuts on top of already hardship comes into effect it is estimated that half a million people loose a further £1,500 a year in support. What do these fat cats think people live on? There are over one million people fed by foodbanks to keep them alive and in a seventh richest country.

It is pointless to write down the DWP spokesman statement which was such a load of rubbish and offensive to the disabled people.

Yet, the Prime Minister paid out £700million to Serco and G4S when both delivered rotten services.

He also was determined to enter the bombing of Syria which brought nothing but enemies and each mission costs £500million.

He grants MPs, every year, another rise of 10 per cent who have all the expenses paid for by the taxpayers.

Now 26 MPs are under police investigation accused of fiddling 2015 Election Expenses.

The Government is nothing but a disgrace to the country and its people

REFORM OF UNIVERSAL CREDIT TOO FAR

SUMMARY - Its almost uncountable the numbers of DWP Secr since CONservative are in power and everyone of them is as bad if not worse as the one before.

Update Nov., 2018 - Amber Rudd replaced Ester McVey as DWP Secr - no improvement. Universal Credit still in a mess and people losing their benefits and live; by either starvation or suicide. 

David Gauke was replaced by Ester McVey who seems to be even worse. She won a Bedroom Tax court case against a couple whose wife is seriously disabled. The court expenses are paid by taxpayers

David Gauke worked for a finance company which helps tax avoiding. Nice guy. May knows how to pick them.

Update 6 Oct., 2017 -- Damien Green was replaced  by David Gauke who decided to roll out the Universal Credit despite objection from a number of MPs.

The objection is mainly that payments are withheld for six weeks. How on earth do those fatcats think already down trodden people manage. 

Ah, said wise May, there is a phone line to ask for earlier payment  but it cost 55p per minute. Under pressure from Labour May promised to drop the 55p per minute fee but accordingly, so far it did not happened.

Again, wise May, how will people pay for it and most of the elderly or very old people would not know about it.

All this before we even find out how much we lost and it bound to be a loss for us and a massive gain for May and her money-thirsty
Zombies.

The Winter Fuel Payment had been cut by £100 even after an announcement that 40,000 people died of hyperthermia, last winter, and the energy prices increased by 10 or 15 per cent.  It scarce you to think what will be the outcome of this winter. But they could find the money to print an eight-page leaflet for all sorts of advice. The leaflet was printed with NHS and the cost must have come out of NHS not DWP or heaven forbid from May's handbag.

The Welfare Secretary is now Damian  Green. It is doubtful there will be improvement because he is praising Ian Duncan Smith for his excellent work.

The Resolution Foundation said: "Universal Credit has been taken too far from its original purpose and veered off track because of the cost cutting."

It was announced at a time when the Government announced a further cut.

The new Welfare secretary Stephen Crabb said: "The payment was transforming welfare and getting people into work faster." The problem is that people in work are so low paid; they are starving or cant afford the rent and get homeless. Do Tories have brains apart for their own advantage.

The statement is such a humbug when 3 million unemployed less all the various methods of bringing the figure down with such as Zero-hour-contracts and so forth.

Last month, March, the unemployment has even risen by 61,000. A month where unemployment usually falls because of building sites and outside jobs starting again.

In view of those facts how can Mr Crabb make a statement like that? Surely he knows the full situation.

The original plan was for Universal Credit to replace six benefits - Job seeking Allowances and Employment and Support Allowances with a single payment.

After a long delay and costing an enormous amount of money it is gradually introduced across the UK and is now available to new job seeker in every Job Centre.

It is hoped that the reform be finalised by 2021.

Although the Resolution Foundation had supported the original plan but said now "which have been driven by the government's desire to secure further saving in the Welfare budget....have taken it too far from its original purpose.

"Unless it is reversed Universal Credit risks being reduced to little more than a very complicated vehicle for cutting the benefits bill."

Surely, the fact was obvious to the public from the start and the one and only purpose for the reform.

Welfare ex-secretary Ian Duncan Smith belied his own resignation statement. He went, literally, hopping mad when Chancellor George Osborne announced the £12billion Welfare cut but when Mr Osborne reversed some of the Welfare cut in March budget Mr Smith resigned stating to pressure of "salami slice" welfare.

The government said more than 450,000 people have made the claim for Universal Credit and more than 9,500 new claims every week. This is not a success story but purely due to pressure from the government.

Mr Crabb said: "Universal Credit is transforming Welfare and is central to our vision for our society where people of all background can earn a decent wage and provide for their families, where claimants moving into work faster and earning more then under the old system."

Has it ever occurred to Mr Crabb why people are on unemployment benefit because there are no jobs to be had?

Again, surely it is in their vision but it will bring families down to greater hardship.

The only way to create employment is to stop austerity which would bring back demands for goods to buy and increase manufacturing. At the moment manufacturers are rapidly reducing staff or going bankrupt all together

UK had 6 years of it and it brought nothing but highest debts for 8 years and highest deficit for 67 years despite of austerity and cut backs. Not a success story and if the Government wants to ride the country into inflation it is on the right road.

Labour Party has more sense and promised to stop austerity

CAMERON'S SPEECH ON EU'S MEMBERSHIP- Update 13 April,2013

PM DAVID CAMERON

UPDATE: 13 April, 2013 --  UK Prime Minister David Cameron is this weekend at the German Chancellor Angela Merkel's official country seat to hold further discussion about the EU membership. Will it make any difference? NO, apart from getting out of the EU it will be always more than costly which the taxpayers have to foot the bill and they are more than cash strapped. They are so badly off that a great majority have to decide whether to buy food or heat their homes.   It is a disgrace to cut down incomes and benefits to that extend. 

UPDATE:  25 January 2013 -  Well, well, well, Brussels really showing its teeth now.  They threatening  the UK to fine it a £250,000 a day because they haven't applied their full law on gas and electricity. According to the Department of Energy it would make the electricity and gas bills even higher. Or is it another story trying to justify another increase?

If any one still had any doubts about getting out of the EU they surely must change their opinion now. Furthermore, Brussels will also control the press and journalists will be fined heavily if they don't comply with their rules. Well, free press was always the mark of the Western World.

IT WAS NOTHING BUT A VOTE CATCHING SPEECH  AND FULL OF HOLLOW PROMISES.

The long awaited speech of David Cameron was finally delivered. Yet, there was nothing new in it. Everybody is aware that Mr Cameron does not want to get out of the EU.

He did make a great point about given the public the referendum they had been demanded for a long time but it is not the straight forward IN/OUT referendum. He still wants to sneak in his hopefully newly achieved condition. He still thinks he can persuade Brussels to give Britain back certain powers which they took off this country. He couldn’t have heard or listen to the announcement from Brussels that they will not do anything like that because otherwise all the other countries will demand changes in their rules as well.

Even after Merkel quickly reassured David Cameron that she will try and negotiate on behalf of Britain to change Britain’s mind not to exit the EU. The point here is that Merkel wants to keep Britain in the EU for not to lose the contribution and if necessary another bail-out. It is not only Merkel’s negotiation but the other 28 countries have also to agree. This makes it most unlikely. Furthermore, Merkel knows if Britain exits the EU others will follow.

However, whether Merkel, David Cameron or Mr Obama want to keep Britain in the EU or not it is the people who should have given the opportunity for a long time to decide.  The Conservative promised to give an IN/OUT referendum in their last election manifesto but as all their other promises it was not kept. It was promised again for March 2011 but again nothing happen.

The public elects a party to govern the country but it is the public’s wishes the leader supposed to carry out. It is wrong that David Cameron thinks Britain should be kept in the EU and therefore ignores the people’s wishes.

The speech today was a waste of ink, paper and time. The people knew his attention already and to tangle a carrot in front of the public’s noses about an in/out referendum but also with some included decision of new regulations and after the next election was all totally unsatisfactory.  The public is not that naïve any more when is David Cameron delivering a speech with concrete facts and stands by it?

People wanted an in/out referendum now and not after he signed another treaty soon for the next seven years. Brussels interfered enough with the Law and justice which cost a fortune on legal aid and benefit; with the fishery to throw dead fish overboard because it was already over the quota; to give French fishermen the right to fish in British waters; having to pay Child benefit for children not even living in Britain; fruit having to be unformed seizes and tonnes of fruit being wasted; and many more other crazy ideas and made law but the best is yet to come. Brussels plans to control the press and journalists will be find if they step over the rules.

BRITAIN GETS ALL THAT FOR ITS EU MEMBERSHIP WHICH COST A FORTUNE AT A TIME WHEN FAMILIES HAVING TO GO TO FOOD BANKS TO SURVIVE. 

The people want out of it and at the same time want to save the money since Britain is in an economic recession and yet David Cameron refuses.  This policy does not make sense.

WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON?

BORDER AGENCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN

UPDATE:  29 March 2013 -- At long last the government made plans to replace the Border Agency. Whether it will be an improvement needs to be seen. It took too long to make this decision and too much taxpayers' money had been wasted. The best thing would to return it to a state control.  Surely it must be cheaper and hopefully more efficient.

With all due respect and sympathy most of the private companies taking over from a government department have sooner or later a scandal.

Dr Reid the Home Secretary at that time stated already in 2006 that the Immigration and Nationality Directory which then changed over to the United Kingdom Border Agency was not good enough.

It clearly showed a complete failure. Today after six years it is completely out of control of our borders. The Home Affairs Select Committee found that the UK Border Agency has a case-loads comparatively to the population of Iceland.  This is a more than a shocking situation. It doesn’t even give the basic of competence. To put it into a figure it would be around 300,000 cases still to be dealt with.

Furthermore, the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration stated the UKBA has no idea how many illegal immigrants had gone through the net and entered Britain.

The UKBA have only one choice. To let legal people enter Britain and stop illegal immigrants. Yet it can’t even cope with that. Now comes to the point that when the backlog hasn’t cleared by 31 December it will be forced to damp around 80,000 files. Now if that is not lunacy and no politics at all what is?  They might just as well open the borders and save the money paid to the UKBA.

There are now around 3milion immigrants in the UK admittedly such an influx must be a hard job to deal with but immigration is not going to slow down. It has to be dealt with efficiently and that is only by the UKBA st the moment.  Next year the EU opens its borders of Romania and Bulgaria which has about 29million people altogether. Most of them will come to Britain because the word is out that benefits are easier to get here.

Maybe the UKBA should cut its great numbers of directors and employ more workers.

TORIES INSULT JOBLESS PEOPLE AGAIN

The government is determined to cap one per cent on welfare benefit rises for over the next six years.  In their calculation it would save £11billion for the taxpayers. It was revealed Friday, 21 December 2012.

It will be one of their main issues for the next general election and challenging Labour in their manifesto.

The end affect would be millions of jobless people, part-time and low income workers and families on tax credits would lose a great deal of money.

Now comes the insult to jobless people and low-income who in spite of already under great pressure trying to cope. The Tory chiefs who have no idea what the real life is like because born into wealthy families and of their fat income from Parliament and any other various earnings had the nerve to state that many middle-income voters are fed up with work-shy scroungers ripping off the welfare system. How dare they after they increased the unemployment and their salaries from £65,000 to £72,000?  Now they demand a £20,000 per year for expenses and not to be accounted for. This £20,000 alone would be a top salary for ordinary people.

How dare they point the fingers at jobless people who send application after application for a job. There is no doubt there are scroungers but they are a small minority but there are also in top earners, even more so. What about the tax avoiders who cost the country billions? They always seem to overlook that the Tories created 2.5million unemployment and rising while Labour had 1.5million in the worst crush happened for a long time.

According to their calculation it saves £700 for every working household and the cap was already extended till 2015.

This move already infuriated Labour but also caused further tension with the Coalition. The LibDem already blocked the planned freeze of the benefits.

This one per cent cap was already in Chancellors George Osborne’s budget and will come into effect next April, 2013. To be enforced till the end of 2015-16 financial year.

This proposal will mean nothing but austerity but so far all their cuts the country had a double dip recession and most properly will have another one at the end of December. In September heralded a 0.5 per cent increase because of the Olympics, Paralympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration. They did not even pay the taxes on the Olympics to ease the taxpayers’ burden or the deficit.

In 2013 the Parliament decided to introduce a bill to make the cap by law. Labour is already drawing their sword and opposes such a move. As a defence the Tories pointed out that Labour would increase the debts with their spending plans forgetting or conveniently ignoring that while the Tories or Coalition are in power that debts are steadily rising by £500billion in spite of their enforced austerity.

CAMERON'S IN/OUT REFERENDUM ON EU -- Updated 1 June, 2016

PM DAVID CAMERON

UPDATED: 1 June, 2016 --
Vote for the IN/OUT of EU is on 23 June, 2016 and already scandals appear that non-British people have received voting cards. Is it a slip-up or not. Can we have one guess?

UPDATED: 22 May, 2015 -- Well, the voters fell for it again and hopefully for all our sake Cameron will deliver this time. Time will tell.

UPDATE: 16 February, 2015 - - There are definitely great changes on the way. PM David Cameron promised now to bring the referendum forward to 2016, Ian Duncan Smith, head of the Department of work and Pensions, found all the right keys on his I.T. to set up the promised Universal Credit and is able to pay the people their due money in only a few months' time. Banks and Corporations start paying their taxes and the Treasury already received hundreds of thousands of pounds. Will the voters fall for this again? Hopefully not. Remember 2010!

UPDATE: 22 December 2014 -- The referendum on IN/OUT of the EU being amended and the Labour Party demands more amendments. Details are not given to the public. The major issue is, in the public eye, that David Cameron promised in his election manifesto in 2010 he would give the people of Britain a referendum if he won the election. It could have been a major point for people putting their mark in the wrong box. As you can see his promises were never met. 

Now it is 2017 by which he is hoping to be elected again. Would the public fall for another promise which might or most probably might not be kept again?  In General the public had the worst austerity and nothing but false promises. It might change now because the election is coming closer.

UPDATE:  22 June 2013 --  David Cameron put now an IN/OUT referendum to the vote of House of Commons MPs. The many stages are called reading and the first reading of IN/OUT was almost unanimously voted for OUT. The second reading for 2017 was turn down by the majority. Everybody demands it now and had been demanding it for long time. David Cameron dragged it out and now it is too late for passing it through the various stages to be effective before the general election in 2015. It was nothing but a election stunt and Cameron thought he could get away with it.Now he will sign another treaty for seven years throwing tens of billions of pounds to an EU which nothing but squanders money by the millions and billions. Well done Mr Cameron.

UPDATE:  4 April 2013 -- Does David Cameron really still believes he can retrieve the power from Brussels or is he only trying to blind the public to stretch the time till he can sign for another seven years? The public is up in arms and wants out because of the money wasted in 

At long last David Cameron announced his true intention of not having an in/out referendum on EU. It was revealed during the PRIME MINISTER QUESTION TIME.

The House of Commons has a rule of having a Prime Minister Question time in Parliament where he has a duty to be accountable to the British People when he is questioned by MPs. The Speaker of Commons points at the MP who had raised his/her hand and is then allowed to put his/her question forward.  Prime Ministers can be evasive but still have to answer the question.

Mr Cameron did not comply with this rule when asked by the Labour MP Chris Bryant about the links between Downing Street and Mr Murdoch. Mr Cameron’s answer was that until he receives an apology for accusation he will not answer the question. This was against the rules of the Parliament but Mr Cameron, not so surprisingly, got away with it because the Speaker John Bercow did not call David Cameron out of order and made him answer the question. 

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It was totally out of order because the very name Prime Minister Question Time says it all and is part of democracy.

Then Labour MP Natasha Engel put the question to Mr Cameron that Education Secretary Michael Gove stated if there would be a referendum on in/out of EU, he would vote to leave.  She asked the Prime Minister how he would vote.

This time Mr Cameron answer was that he does not want an in/out referendum because he is not happy to leave the EU. At long last Mr Cameron speaks his true intention as before he was hedging all the time.  No wonder the press calls him ‘Dodgy Dave’.  A Prime Minister is there to state openly his intention and inform the public. And not dodging and diving, thinking the public does not see it.

He has done the same with signing papers granting Scotland the right for an in/out referendum of the United Kingdom. Soon after that he stated that he does not want Scotland to leave which is completely contradictory.  Deep down he does want Scotland to leave because there is the majority of Labour voters which would or could dip the scale in the next general election.

Regarding the EU Mr Cameron stated further that he thinks the majority of the public wants a new settlement with the EU. The new settlement will be in a referendum put to the people to vote on. It will also be put into his next manifesto. Mr Cameron safe yourself for both, the time and paper. As he so arrogantly put it that the ‘majority’of people will not vote on either of it.

Mr Cameron also enlightened the public that he intends to put it into his manifesto which is  a pledge to seek  to negotiate the repatriation of significant powers from Brussels. This will be followed by a new referendum to choose between the “new deal” and the status quo. However, there will be no mentioning of in/out of the EU on the pallet papers.

Doubtfully these pledges and promises would stop the Tories’ MPs migrating to the UKip who are determined about the in/out vote.  Mr Cameron still thinks that he can smokescreen with fine words and pledges. The public never seen one pledge fulfilled from the last election manifesto. Also the words to pledge to seek negotiation to repatriate powers from Brussels are to thin to be believed.  Mr Cameron seems to be turning more and more into a man who convinces himself during his speeches and feels full of pride about having delivered a great speech but as they say "action speaks louder than words".

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE -- Update 15 August, 2014

UPDATE 15 AUGUST, 2014 -- All those private companies which David Cameron already introduced made nothing but a mess. They try to work with a minimum staff to reach the highest profit for themselves and the shareholders. It is obvious the staff tries their best but can't cope. It is this breaking up the NHS for gaining shares in these private companies for the fat cats to receive more dividends because otherwise it does not make any other sense. These private companies are definitely show no improvements in service, on the contrary. 

The National Health Service was given to the people as a thank you for their incredible effort they made during World War 2. This government or coalition has no right to touch it. It is the people and for the people of this country.

there is every week a report in the papers that a private health firm is somewhere of the NHS and either can't cope with the amount of work or one sent thousands of medical reports to another private health firm without permission. It is also known that these contracts usually get signed after a contribution is given the Tory Party.

There is no doubt that most of the governments have worked that way to some extent but this Government takes it to the extreme and their coalition partners do not stand up and oppose this scandal. After Margaret Thatcher broken most of the top industries or privatised them like the gas, electricity and railway there is now only the NHS left which Margaret Thatcher tried to do the same but the revolt brought her down and made her resign. Now David Cameron seems to be hell bend to finish her diabolical work.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the Tory Party is not interesting in welfare of this country or its people but themselves. The very fact that there is always a contribution going into the coffers of the Tory Party proved it.

Furthermore, to spent £3million on a management consultancy which decides who to sack or whose wages are to be reduced. This money was spent by the Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust alone which must have been forced by the government to do so. Furthermore, it should have been done by the hospitals directors who get paid high wages and the public ask what are they doing and what are there for? It seems that on top there is directors and management consultants and a great deal of wasted money which could benefit the NHS.

Furthermore, the number of private companies operating there and in other government departments showed quite a number of scandals already. The company employ the minimum of staff and therefore are not able to cope with the jobs. The reason behind this to get the maximum profit for themselves and their share holders. 

I can only repeat what had been written above. The NHS was given to the people and it is the people's and not the government. They have no right to break it up. Are David Cameron and his friends really above the law that they can’t be touch and stopped than this is not a democracy?

AGAIN BANK BONUSES PAID OUT

The root of the problem lies with Margaret Thatcher having de-regulated the banks. Ever since there has been nothing but financial chaos.  The public has been up in arms about these undeserved, massive bonuses and David Cameron had been promising time and time again to put a stop to it but nothing ever happened.

This time the bonuses were even paid out at the Bank of England. The staff receives a £25million over five years.  This had been in spite of not foreseeing the credit crunch and the Chancellor George Osborne manage a double-dip recession and will have another on in September.

The statement released by the Bank showed executives having received up to £30,000 a year performance related pay added to their salaries.  This is utterly undeservedly since they did not take measures to forestall the credit crunch and the recession.  Yet they get a performance-related pay. In the commercial world they would have got a dismissal and that would have the right bonus.

Furthermore, the figures showed that in just last year their bonus increased by 4 per cent to £4.9million but the country’s economy is in a recession. 

Sir Mervyn King and his team couldn’t even see the financial crisis and had to revise the economy forecast 12 times over the past year.  For all that failure they receive a performance- related pay. Has there ever been such a financial mismanagement in any government?

But wait a minute because here is the famous wipe the slate clean. A spokeswoman said: “Staff on a two year pay freeze which began in 2011. Bonus payment is based on individual performance. The pot has been frozen at six per cent of the total salary bill for the last three years.”

An utter non-sense in every word. If they didn’t see the financial crisis coming and didn’t forestall it why did they get a bonus at all? Furthermore they get paid a salary for the work they do and they just do the work they are there for. So, why a bonus? They don’t do any extra work and by the looks of the result they didn’t even do that.

Yet, David Cameron the great knight in shining armour would not dare to stop it. It is still sticking together and you scratch my back and I scratch yours. It always was going on but nowadays it has gone out of control and the country is going down rapidly.

DAVID CAMERON DEFENDS FOREIGN AIDS Update 17 May, 2016

UPDATE: 17 May, 2016 --
Every turn a dirty trick.

The reason for David Cameron defending Foreign Aid was now revealed.

According to the report Foreign Aid is given to private firms for infrastructures in poorer countries.

These private companies are not paying any taxes and the City of London is completely in control and offers the service at a high price. In other words a lot of the money is flooding back which leaves these countries in great debts and is unrepayable.

A summit was held at 10 Downing Street last Sunday with PM David Cameron and other international leaders.  The meeting was about to tackle the growing malnutrition in the developing world.

At the moment there is great criticism about the hand-out of £12billion for foreign aids. The point they are making is that at the moment Britain has great financial problems and the government is cutting right across the board.  This created more than great hardship amongst families, pensioners and disabled people. Therefore a cut-back on foreign aids would also be justified and not an increase. 

It is not only that £12billion been given to counteract the malnutrition of the developing world it is that these monies have been given year after year and therefore there should be a sign of reduction.  The coalition should look a bit closer and not just send money.  These aids were given for decades since the 1950s and therefore there should be a much better living standard by now. No way was that money handed down to the needy.

 

Let’s just take the £12billion this year given only by Britain. At the end when all the other countries add their money it must be an enormous amount. This money then divided up and given to the various developing world countries is more than a substantial amount.  Then again exchanged into their money  it becomes huge but the cost of living in those countries are low and the labour therefore if it would have been handed over it would surely eliminate the struggle almost in one year.  Yet this has been going on year after year for decades.

The governments have a great responsibility when they spent the tax payers’ money to make sure it gets where it should go. Obviously looking still at malnutrition, illnesses, lack of schooling, running water it definitely hasn’t.  Therefore the Mr Cameron and all the other leaders should sit down with them and ask for proof of spending and explanations why it is malnutrition still exist to that extent.

Many of these developing countries have incredible political mismanagement and it is not a big guess where the aids’ money is really spent on.  Why then send more money every year?  Especially now when there is great hardship amongst people of Britain and will be increase when all the cut-backs bite.

It is a scandal that millions of people starving and the objection is not so much about not giving foreign aids. The objection is that it never or hardly reached those people while in this country people also having great hardship.  There were many facts coming out of Africa and Asia that the governments living an incredible luxurious lifestyle.  Or some countries are having a weapon supply which could put the whole western world in shame.  Or like India built a nuclear rocket while Britain couldn’t effort it and furthermore they called the £250,000 aids chicken feed. Surely £250,000 if passed on directly to the poor would have eliminated a lot of hunger and poverty. So what did they do with the money and why was again aids sent after that insult.  £250,000 exchanged into rupees would have bought a lot of bowls of rice.

All these points show really the root of why the foreign aids should be reduced for one thing and also to make sure it reaches the poor. 

If they would do this they would have to spent far less money and it would be really used for what it is for. 

  

ENERGY CIVIL SERVANTS BONUS 2012

Ever since this Coalition came to power there is nothing but increase of food, VAT, council tax, petrol, gas and electricity bills but they straight away the reduced the minimum wage which companies were delighted to follow, on the basis take or leave it. It is definitely not improving the economy as it shows the third recession this year. What are they trying to head for?

Another dirty trick, the government sits calmly back and let it happen.  Also another typical case of them and us. The high ranking energy civil servants are getting a bonus of £1m.

There was also an increase of their bonuses from £825,648 in 2010 and to £958,783 in 2011.

No matter how the public is complaining including some ministers the government will just not do anything about it. The whole idea of having a government is to control it all this. They have enough departments which supposed to be responsible to stop any overcharges and price rises but none ever do anything effective.

David Cameron made a great issue of a meeting with all the energy suppliers last year to force them to bring the prices down.Not only nothing happened afterwards but as a matter of fact the prices went up.

Now we even find out that the top energy civil servants are getting a bonus. First of all they don’t deserve any bonus because they just doing their job and they receive a salary. Secondly it is again only the top energy civil service, we were advised, and the lower ranking or office workers do not. W H Y?

The country is now in the third term of the recession and the ordinary families are more than struggling, especially with the sky high gas and electricity bills. Furthermore, it was already promised that there will be more rises in energy’s bills. The households have already been hit by an average of £200 increase.

Furthermore, the government is planning to stop the winter fuel supplement for pensioners. A generation who fought like hell for this country to prevent Hitler invading.  They deserve everything now to lead a worry free life in their last few years but what do they get from this Coalition all the benefits taken away.

THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES.

Furthermore, the government thought of some more cuts but now they call it replacements which they try to hood-wing us hoping the public will not notice it.

The £1.1billion grant scheme will be replaced with a £540million towards cutting bills. They really must be thinking the public is stupid but it only shows their arrogant attitude.  Ministers even had the audacity stating the Energy Company Obligation is more an efficient way to help the poor. Well even the biggest bucket of white paint will not white wash this.

IT  IS  ANOTHER  CUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COUNCIL TAX BENEFIT CUTS 2012

It is said they are planning to cut the council tax benefits. This would hit around six million households with low-income. These households either have qualified for no paying or reduced paying council tax.  It will hit the poorest or poor,

The infamous Coalition demanded from the councils to reduce the benefit bills by 10 per cent. This will have to be found either be reducing their service or payouts to poor families.

The chief of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson, thought it could be done by either taking 10 per cent off the council tax benefit which causes more hardship but it will even cause more problems for families who receive a 100 per cent council tax benefit.

Labour peer Baroness Hollis called it completely unfair.

The Tory MP Bob Neil on the other hand thought it would give the councils a chance to get people back to work.

Which planet does Mr Neil live on?  Apparently he has no idea what it means to live on a low income and therefore shouldn’t put out remarks like that. Furthermore, has he ever look out of his Parliamentary window and noticed there are no jobs available. There is unemployment of 2.5million and they are not all scam and skivers as those sitting in the fat think. The people they are withdrawing any benefits from in order to so-called “get them back to work” is another smokescreen to cut. There has been cases in the paper and quite a number of it where people with all sorts of qualifications and experiences have written and tenth or hundreds of applications to avail.

SO WHERE DOES THE TORY MP BOB NEIL LIVE?

LIVING ON MINIMUM WAGES

Reducing wages and increased prices made workers coping with the lowest level of spending for nine years.

Although every politician blood pressure goes up when they hear about statistics and Unions’ statement but the politicians should learn that there is always some truth and facts in it.

The Office for National Statistics revealed that the average Britain has £3,640 left after taxes in the first three months of this year. According to their find it reduces down to the level last seen in 2003.

People definitely have cut back on their spending but the income was still reduced further. It is thought it is five times faster than the reduced spending .

Food prices when the Coalition came into power rose almost 50 per cent straight away and nothing was said and done. At the moment the food prices rise on a 3.1 per cent but this is not the point because rose already sky high.

The union Unite stated that three-quarter of people earn less than a year ago. Therefore People’s money runs out by 21^st of each month. It was found that 30 per cent of people cutting back on food to make ends meet.

NOW THIS IS SURELY UNACCEPTABLE ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER SPENDS BILLIONS OF POUNDS ON EU, AIDS AND WARS WHICH HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH BRITAIN.

This is not meant as a vendetta against the Conservatives the Labour is not perfect but an awful lot better and  if they were would have been voted in the UK would not have to struggle like that. Anybody knows that cutting back do not work. As this report show above the family cut back on food and clothing which then backlashes on the retail market and show losses which they did in the last quarters. Shops close because trading dropped. The retail market then reflect on manufacturers. It is a never ending vicious circle. To repeat again cutting back does not work. It is even realised by other countries and they start slowly but definitely to pick up.

Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: “Ordinary men and women working two jobs to get by and they and their families are being hammered twice. Once for the bankers blowout and then again by cuts to services that sustain our communities.

“Over and over again this government is trampling all over the ordinary people and squashing their hope.  WE need to say an emphatic – NO. – this is not what we voted for.”

Unite is urging people to join the TUC march against the government cuts in London on October 20.

MP Chris Leslie, Labour’s Shadow Treasury minister said: “Millionaires will soon get a tax cut but millions on middle and low income are paying more because of the rise in VAT and cuts in tax credits.”

This last statement really shows the callousness of the Coalition. Mind you the Conservatives behaved just the same towards ordinary people when they were in power the last time. They destroyed most of the major industries which were the pride and envy of the world.

It was most surprising that they got in again even though they just scraped in. It was still surprising after all they done to the ordinary people previously. Hopefully the voters have learned this time their lesson.

BRITISH GAS ON RECORD PROFIT ALREADY IN 2012

 A forecast assumes that British Gas will have its profit improved by 33 per cent. The biggest supplier of gas will have made a £350million in the first six months of the year.

Its parent company Centrica will have made a profit of £1.45billion and this is an increase of 15 per cent on the same period in 2011.

In spite of having used more domestic energy because of the weather keeping longer cold than normally but it doesn’t explain the 33 per cent and 15 per cent increase on profits. This comes from increasing the prices and they have been increased.

A few percentages would have been acceptable but 13 per cent on electricity and 33 per cent on gas is criminal in an economical recession. Again this would be where the government should step in but not a word or stopping it. Last year David Cameron had a meeting with Gas and Electricity companies and he promised to get them to reduce the prices in view of the situation.

INSTEAD OF A REDUCTION THERE IS NOW SHOWING A SKY HIGH INCREASE.

British gas promised to reduce electricity prices by 5 per cent in January. In spite of looking ungrateful but this reduction of 5 per cent was after a 16 per cent rise on electricity and 18 per cent rise on gas in the previous August.  Do we now jump up and down?

At the end of the financial year Centrica should have made £2.8billion and British Gas about £590million. Centrica will point out that they invested £1.5billion to make sure there are new supplies.

But Richard Hall, of watchdog Consumer Focus, said: “Consumers are facing historically high energy bills which focus their attention on whether pricing is fair.

“Whole prices rose a little earlier in the year but are now falling. We have long questioned whether drops in wholesale costs find their way to household bills.”

This is all very well said but what will done? Something has to be done because people can’t pay high energy prices and get their wages reduced, lose benefits and/or lose their jobs.

There are quite a number of watchdogs out there studying all these price rises and putting all these statistics together and seeing that they charged over the moon but not one is doing anything drastically about it. Sorry, to have to ask the question: “So what are they really there fore?” Surely if all those watchdogs would get together and pressure the government some result must come out of it.

BIGGEST JOKE MONEY SPENT ON WAKE-UP CALLS

A company has received £330,000 money from taxpayers to wake-up young jobless with morning phone calls. It is part of 'Youth Contract programme Neets' which is for teens not in education, employment or training. This is provided by Pertemps People Development Group located in the North East.

A spokesman Paul King said: “In some cases we have kids who would literally be in bed all day. That is the reality. A call that physically wakes them up is part of getting into a routine.” Basically it is a good idea but they don’t seem do realize that there aren’t any jobs especially for youngsters.

Deputy .Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants companies hired to get young people in work to be “creative”. Again great sounding words but companies don’t work like that any more. They employ you if you have either the qualifications and then they turn you down if you don’t have the practically experiences. They employ you if you have the practically experiences and picked up somewhere the technically knowledge up.

In the olden days they took you on for a certain time and if you can pick up the knowledge of the work fine and good but now the companies don’t do this any more. You should have used that money to create jobs. 

Don’t you know there are 2.5 millions unemployed including one million youngster can't get a job? 

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JOBLESS PEOPLE GOT BAD TREATMENT -- Updated 20 June, 2014

UPDATED:  20 June 2014 -  it would be interesting to find out how many jobless people did get a job after they volunteered during the Olympics?

Dozens of people were willing and volunteered as unpaid stewards for the river pageant on Sunday. They were hoping this would lead up to a paid job at the Olympics.

Their coaches came arriving two hours earlier than expected. It was a dreadful weather on Sunday. Cold, windy and raining. The volunteers had no other choice but to bed down under the bridges.

The ex-Deputy PM Lord Prescott pointed out that the treatment of the volunteers is “totally unacceptable” He stated further:”I am deeply concerned that a private security firm is not only providing policing on the cheap but show duty and care to its staff.” He demanded further, from Home Secretary Theresa May to find out if it broke security industry rules.

One steward said:”It was cold and wet and we were told to get our heads down.”

This is an absolute disgrace.

The security firm Close Protection UK admitted to the blunder and apologised to them forced to wait. They, however, had the nerve to state: “We are not in the business of exploiting anyone.”

Now how about that statement. There will be very few people who buy it.

Lord Prescott won’t it rest at that. He demanded an inquiry. Gail Cartmail, of the union Unite, said: “They were just damped there in London. Taking advantage of people's desperation to find work is despicable. There needs to be an investigation to ensure there is no repeat of this during the Olympics.”

However, Lord Prescott is known to follow things through and this time the Home Secretary Theresa May won’t get off the hook until he has a satisfactorily answer and put it right for the people.

It is a shame that such beautiful river pageant had to be marred by greed again.

DEPORTING FOREIGN CRIMINALS

Since every country has its own fair share of criminals it doesn’t want foreign criminals as well. So why is a country like Britain not allowed to deport them?

According to the statistics around 4,000 foreigners who committed crimes in this country can’t be deported. This high number not only is a danger to the country in committing crimes again but also very costly because they mostly live on benefit including their families.

Further information was revealed that about 1,500 foreigners are imprisoned every month. This again puts a strain on the prison service as well as cost on benefit. Out of the 1,500 only 375 are deported when they finished their sentences. It is also reported that one criminal escaped nine times and cost and effort were spent to catch him again.

Everybody, including MPs, wants a foreign criminal deported the moment the sentence is served. As a matter of fact it would even safe a lot of time and money to deport the person the moment he/she is convicted of a crime. The moment the person commits a crime all the appeals and privileges should be taken away. That person does not acknowledge or appreciate the better life style in this country. Why should a person have to right to appeal against deportation? The abused the law in this country. They know fully well that they are in a foreign country and therefore should abide by the law.

The worst interfering body is the Human Rights Court. Yet, France and Italy are deporting them and defying the decision of HRC why doesn’t Britain? When they defy the decision they have to pay a few hundred pounds which would justify it by saving benefits.

The government is forever calling for austerity but they will not safe money where it should be saved.

PLANS TO CUT DISABILITY BENEFIT

These plans have been for a long time on the table of the Coalition and it is a disgrace to apply austerity on Disability Benefits.

If anybody deserves financial help are the disabled people. These cuts are not small and they would amount to about £80 to £120 per week. It is the last resort any government could do to save money on the worst off people

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The Work and Pension Secretary Ian Duncan Smith plans to cut the disability allowance for 500,000 people. This includes also soldiers who fought hard in wars which were illegal and gave their limbs for the country.  This is really the lowest of the government action. They really crossed the line of respectability.

They always shout about austerity yet there is money of £40billion freely given to IMF.  £2.6billion given to a private rail company to stop them going bankrupt. Why would they? The shareholders and top management receive big dividends, salaries and bonuses instead of re-investing. Top earners were given a tax reduction from 50 per cent to 45 per cent and promised further reduction to 40 per cent in the next budget.

Yet, the worst off people like being disabled and pensioners are being treated at their worst.  These people in the present government haven’t got a clue what hardship and reckon with every penny means because they are all multi-millionaires. They are so remote from reality you’d think they live on another planet.

Even after the coalition's great loss of council seats in the last local election they still don’t see it or don’t want to. From a start austerity and improving the economy is impossible. Surely they must know this. They all went to the best of the country schools like Eton, Harrow, Oxford and Cambridge. Don’t they teach them anything there? Their actions certainly don’t show it.