Subsidy to the Banks: £100bn. Cuts to the NHS: £20bn. Sound fair to you?
UKuncut staged protests all over the UK today in an Emergency Operation against Andrew Lansleys proposed attack against the NHS.
In Camden the protests were staged outside the three main banks. A friend of mine had made a monopoly board, where we flippantly bought up a hospital for a couple of hundred pounds or picked a card from the 'No Community Chest' to be told that due to funding cuts the heart operation in desperate need would have to wait a further six months. Couldn't buy the railways because they were already sold.....
I was dressed like a corpse, in black, surrounded by people dressed as doctors, nurses and patients who were all drawing attention to the £100bn subsidy the government pays to banks.
I kept my flyer so I could share with you what I learnt:
A recent BBC investigation found HSBC used a tax loophole to divert millions of pounds of NHS money to a Guernsey tax have.
In 2010 a company set up by HSBC made more than £38m from its 33 PFI hospital building schemes and paid only £100,000 in UK tax - less than half of its 1% profits.
Stuart Gulliver, the new chief executive of HsBC, recently received a honus of £9m - which could pay the annual salary of 400 nurses.
"Lansley - Leave our NHS alone. It's the banks that are sick!"
Andrew Lansley's Health and Social Care Bill would open up health care to multi-national private companies.
Big business and banks get bail outs and evade paying £120 billion in tax each year but the government says public services have to pay for the crisis.
You know they aim to cut £20 billion from the NHS.
What does this mean in your area?
How many health workers will lose their jobs and hospitals close?
Here, have the full story and some pics:
My lovely Camden in the Sun - The Sun! Cuts kill: the dead lying on the monopoly board:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3606829/Sick-protests-over-NHS-cuts.html
And lots of pictures of my lovely Camden in the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391822/Banks-siege-anti-cuts-protesters-rally-support-NHS.html
And some super ones here:
http://pcseuston.org.uk/photos-and-video-from-uk-uncuts-emergency-operation-in-camden/
The message is getting through. I very much hope it does so on all levels. I applaud UKuncut for their intelligent visual forms of "civil disobedience". I do not applaud government policies that require a need for it.
Showing posts with label Political parasites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political parasites. Show all posts
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Monday, 23 May 2011
The pain in declaring work
The figures I give may shock you ok, but don't give me a hard time about it please, I've already got it in the neck from people in my own family and of course, our Government.
I went to the CAB last week and basically, the more I work, the worse off I will be. All figures below are from the print out they gave me should I increase the hours I work at the pub (£6 an hour)
Right now, I receive £531 a week in benefits. I know, you think that's way too high so you're pissed off at me. Rrrah rrah rrrrah, scrounger, parasite, layabout, workshy.
3 hours: £18. Income support: 67.50. tax credits: 59.36. Housing benefit: 346. council tax: 20. Work Income and benefits: 531.16 The first £20 is discounted, so in effect, am £18 better off.
4 hours: £24: Income support: 63.50. The rest same. WI/B: 533.16
5 hours: £30; I/S: 57.50. The rest same. WI/B: 533.16
7 hours: £42: I/S: 45.50...WI/B 533.16 (You have to do the maths but I'm not winning if end result is the same)
15 hours: £90: I/S:0 Tax credit: 59.36. H/B: 346. C/T:20 = WI/B 535.66. £20 better off.
Work work work only ever £20 better off.
Then, hang on....
16 hours: £96. I/S: 0. Tax credits: 133.42. H/B: 319.95. C/T: 11.99. WI/B: 581.66 = Here I am better off by £10 from the 3 hours I worked, taking in rent & council tax I am now paying. So £10 better off whilst being £10 worse off than the hour before....
30 hours: £167.68. I/S 0. Tax credits: 125.09. HB.278.77. C/T: 0. WI/B: 591.84. = Minus rent, council tax I receive: 500.84. So £30 worse off than I am now and still hugely reliant on housing benefit. .
At 30 hours I would most certainly be paying full price, no concession for school meals, after school clubs, out of school clubs and there you have it, the trap may of us are in, where work does not pay.
Tomorrow I have to go declare my pub work.
I don't want to do it because I know it is the first step to a life of working poverty, never mind the growing separation from my child; his school shows, all kinds of things.. who'll take him to kung fu? Maybe you think he doesn't have a right to go.
The fact that thousands, millions of others are in a similar situation to what I am or will be, doesn't make me feel better at all.
Skip skip skip to the lou....
skip skip skip to the lou
skip skip skip
My symbolic husband is not an easy system to be married to
Maybe I'll just leave it there
No hang on
The pain in declaring, I said. The headache that follows.
I do understand why some poor perhaps don't do it.
I do not understand why the rich don't either:
1.2 bn: annual cost of benefit fraud
40bn: annual cost of tax avoidance
I went to the CAB last week and basically, the more I work, the worse off I will be. All figures below are from the print out they gave me should I increase the hours I work at the pub (£6 an hour)
Right now, I receive £531 a week in benefits. I know, you think that's way too high so you're pissed off at me. Rrrah rrah rrrrah, scrounger, parasite, layabout, workshy.
3 hours: £18. Income support: 67.50. tax credits: 59.36. Housing benefit: 346. council tax: 20. Work Income and benefits: 531.16 The first £20 is discounted, so in effect, am £18 better off.
4 hours: £24: Income support: 63.50. The rest same. WI/B: 533.16
5 hours: £30; I/S: 57.50. The rest same. WI/B: 533.16
7 hours: £42: I/S: 45.50...WI/B 533.16 (You have to do the maths but I'm not winning if end result is the same)
15 hours: £90: I/S:0 Tax credit: 59.36. H/B: 346. C/T:20 = WI/B 535.66. £20 better off.
Work work work only ever £20 better off.
Then, hang on....
16 hours: £96. I/S: 0. Tax credits: 133.42. H/B: 319.95. C/T: 11.99. WI/B: 581.66 = Here I am better off by £10 from the 3 hours I worked, taking in rent & council tax I am now paying. So £10 better off whilst being £10 worse off than the hour before....
30 hours: £167.68. I/S 0. Tax credits: 125.09. HB.278.77. C/T: 0. WI/B: 591.84. = Minus rent, council tax I receive: 500.84. So £30 worse off than I am now and still hugely reliant on housing benefit. .
At 30 hours I would most certainly be paying full price, no concession for school meals, after school clubs, out of school clubs and there you have it, the trap may of us are in, where work does not pay.
Tomorrow I have to go declare my pub work.
I don't want to do it because I know it is the first step to a life of working poverty, never mind the growing separation from my child; his school shows, all kinds of things.. who'll take him to kung fu? Maybe you think he doesn't have a right to go.
The fact that thousands, millions of others are in a similar situation to what I am or will be, doesn't make me feel better at all.
Skip skip skip to the lou....
skip skip skip to the lou
skip skip skip
My symbolic husband is not an easy system to be married to
Maybe I'll just leave it there
No hang on
The pain in declaring, I said. The headache that follows.
I do understand why some poor perhaps don't do it.
I do not understand why the rich don't either:
1.2 bn: annual cost of benefit fraud
40bn: annual cost of tax avoidance
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The Street where they cut everything
BBC I aired a documentary last night about what happened to a street in Preston, in northern England where all council services are cut for six weeks.
It was good; a fly on the wall type thing where residents are given a sum of money and have to decide where to spend it now that all council services have gone. No-one to collect the rubbish, no street lights, no-one to clean graffiti. All pretty simple until that sum of money is "cut". Who gets the help? The pensioner, the single mother or the disabled parent of a resident who lives in another village? Different people, different needs. We know that don't we? (I hope)
It made uncomfortable viewing because it got nasty. Of course it did. Programmes like this like to show neighbours pitted against one another, neighbours at war; it makes good telly.
Unsurprisingly the street didn't have a resident billionaire. It didn't have a resident millionaire for that matter. No, they live five miles away in gated communities. They don't feel the effects of cuts, they just read it in the news, if the news reports it that is. Muggings are so commonplace they don't make it on any page these days, even if the victim's dead.
What I want to know though, is did Dave watch it?
Did Dave watch this programme about the consequences of his Party's ideological cuts?
Dave, the architect of the Big Society. You can still catch it on iplayer Dave because it's not really me who needs to know all this.
It's you.
It was good; a fly on the wall type thing where residents are given a sum of money and have to decide where to spend it now that all council services have gone. No-one to collect the rubbish, no street lights, no-one to clean graffiti. All pretty simple until that sum of money is "cut". Who gets the help? The pensioner, the single mother or the disabled parent of a resident who lives in another village? Different people, different needs. We know that don't we? (I hope)
It made uncomfortable viewing because it got nasty. Of course it did. Programmes like this like to show neighbours pitted against one another, neighbours at war; it makes good telly.
Unsurprisingly the street didn't have a resident billionaire. It didn't have a resident millionaire for that matter. No, they live five miles away in gated communities. They don't feel the effects of cuts, they just read it in the news, if the news reports it that is. Muggings are so commonplace they don't make it on any page these days, even if the victim's dead.
What I want to know though, is did Dave watch it?
Did Dave watch this programme about the consequences of his Party's ideological cuts?
Dave, the architect of the Big Society. You can still catch it on iplayer Dave because it's not really me who needs to know all this.
It's you.
Monday, 9 May 2011
UK has 20 new Billionaires!
According to the UK Rich List 2011, the number of UK billionaires has risen from 53 to 73!
My goodness, you'd never know the country was in crisis would you, with care centres, play centres, libraries, disabled people's mobility allowances oh my god the list is endless, funding for all these things being slashed, in order to pay off a debt because there's no money.
No money.
My arse.
If the Duke of Westminster, for example, was to share the spoils of his £7bn fortune and give every UK adult a million pounds sterling, he'd still have so much left to spread around some Local Authorities.
Indeed, if the top ten were to put their hands in their pockets, we might not have a debt "crisis" at all.....
If Philip Green, the "efficiency tzar".... oh what's the point....
Different worlds, different... but had a dream where I was told to write to Clegg one last time, so I've spent the morning doing that.
Well, for what it's worth, I don't know but I'm still Leader of the I Don't Know Party so it's worth a punt.
My goodness, you'd never know the country was in crisis would you, with care centres, play centres, libraries, disabled people's mobility allowances oh my god the list is endless, funding for all these things being slashed, in order to pay off a debt because there's no money.
No money.
My arse.
If the Duke of Westminster, for example, was to share the spoils of his £7bn fortune and give every UK adult a million pounds sterling, he'd still have so much left to spread around some Local Authorities.
Indeed, if the top ten were to put their hands in their pockets, we might not have a debt "crisis" at all.....
If Philip Green, the "efficiency tzar".... oh what's the point....
Different worlds, different... but had a dream where I was told to write to Clegg one last time, so I've spent the morning doing that.
Well, for what it's worth, I don't know but I'm still Leader of the I Don't Know Party so it's worth a punt.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Osama bin laiden in the Sea?
On first hearing the news yesterday afternoon that Osama bin Laden had been killed by American forces, I went to Facebook and asked:
"Is it true?"
Dumped in the ocean? No direct evidence apart from bloodied sheets?
I am someone who no longer believes anything she's told. I am also someone who is so incredibly gullible she believes everything she's told.
Anyway, much of the world is delighted. If it is true, so am I (though I'm against the death penalty - lock up in a dark cell forever to deny them a life I say). It's taken long enough to find the orchestrator of so much destruction.
I can only hope there aren't reprisals but there's bound to be. It'll add to the catalogue of horror we are told about daily on the news.
The World is weeping, fighting, dying, at war in endless ever decreasing circles
I guess that does make evil people easier to find and bring to account...
Well, you hope so anyway
"Is it true?"
Dumped in the ocean? No direct evidence apart from bloodied sheets?
I am someone who no longer believes anything she's told. I am also someone who is so incredibly gullible she believes everything she's told.
Anyway, much of the world is delighted. If it is true, so am I (though I'm against the death penalty - lock up in a dark cell forever to deny them a life I say). It's taken long enough to find the orchestrator of so much destruction.
I can only hope there aren't reprisals but there's bound to be. It'll add to the catalogue of horror we are told about daily on the news.
The World is weeping, fighting, dying, at war in endless ever decreasing circles
I guess that does make evil people easier to find and bring to account...
Well, you hope so anyway
Friday, 8 April 2011
Politics is deteriorating my language - f%*king f*^k f^*k
I didn't fall asleep watching Question Time last night but spent much of the programme shouting 'oh fuck off' at the television. No, not the television, get a really bad picture on the television even when the aerial's in prime position. I was saying "Oh fuck off" to my laptop (courtesy of Iplayer, thank you BBC).
The cut in corporation tax wasn't mentioned once.
Just the need to wipe out the deficit the last government left behind.
I'm sick of fucking hearing it.
Blue, Yellow and Red, on these cuts, seems to me they're all on the same fucking hymn sheet just trilling different fucking harmonies.
I'm sick of fucking hearing BOLLOCKS.
On Wednesday, I returned from a lovely morning distributing flyers for Zen Boot Camp and a coffee with a friend and a restful read of my book in the sunshine but picked up a copy of the Evening Standard when I did so.
"Worse off Wednesday" - Cuts Cuts Cuts. Slash Cut Families First
Couples with children will see their net income fall by £3,865
Lone parents will lose £2,142 a year
"Treasury minister Danny Alexander piinned blame for the economic crisis on Labour and insisted the cuts and tax hikes were fair. He said "We had a cataclysmic economic problem left by the previous government, with a huge budget deficit..." (p2, 6 April)
Oh fuck off, I'm fucking sick of fucking hearing it.
And then I read, to my own "OH FUCK OFF" crescendo:
"A treasury source said of the IFS report (that said "London is particularly hard hit by cuts to housing benefits"): "Do you think it's fair for a family to receive over £400 a week in housing benefit?"
Do you think it's fair? Do you?
Do you think it's fair that 1000's of families and individuals are going to be evicted and there are no fucking affordable homes to pour them into?
Do you think that's fair? Do you????
Right, enough f ing and blinding from me for one day.
Top tip over the Easter holldays, do not read or watch any media, any political media whatsover, not if you don't want to fucking swear infront of the children. Try and leave it all behind, enjoy the sunshine..
I will leave the subect with this pie chart though. You need to see it. You need to see how unfair this coalition is being. How this deficit doesn't have to be pared down simply by screwing the taxpayer.
And a bonus for you, I'm not sure Benefit Scrounger swears. There is objectivity in what she writes. It's very good:
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-much-tax-is-paid-by-workers-and-how.html
The cut in corporation tax wasn't mentioned once.
Just the need to wipe out the deficit the last government left behind.
I'm sick of fucking hearing it.
Blue, Yellow and Red, on these cuts, seems to me they're all on the same fucking hymn sheet just trilling different fucking harmonies.
I'm sick of fucking hearing BOLLOCKS.
On Wednesday, I returned from a lovely morning distributing flyers for Zen Boot Camp and a coffee with a friend and a restful read of my book in the sunshine but picked up a copy of the Evening Standard when I did so.
"Worse off Wednesday" - Cuts Cuts Cuts. Slash Cut Families First
Couples with children will see their net income fall by £3,865
Lone parents will lose £2,142 a year
"Treasury minister Danny Alexander piinned blame for the economic crisis on Labour and insisted the cuts and tax hikes were fair. He said "We had a cataclysmic economic problem left by the previous government, with a huge budget deficit..." (p2, 6 April)
Oh fuck off, I'm fucking sick of fucking hearing it.
And then I read, to my own "OH FUCK OFF" crescendo:
"A treasury source said of the IFS report (that said "London is particularly hard hit by cuts to housing benefits"): "Do you think it's fair for a family to receive over £400 a week in housing benefit?"
Do you think it's fair? Do you?
Do you think it's fair that 1000's of families and individuals are going to be evicted and there are no fucking affordable homes to pour them into?
Do you think that's fair? Do you????
Right, enough f ing and blinding from me for one day.
Top tip over the Easter holldays, do not read or watch any media, any political media whatsover, not if you don't want to fucking swear infront of the children. Try and leave it all behind, enjoy the sunshine..
I will leave the subect with this pie chart though. You need to see it. You need to see how unfair this coalition is being. How this deficit doesn't have to be pared down simply by screwing the taxpayer.
And a bonus for you, I'm not sure Benefit Scrounger swears. There is objectivity in what she writes. It's very good:
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-much-tax-is-paid-by-workers-and-how.html
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Ooh, jobs for all the unwanted?!!
You must know by now how cynical I am about the government contracting private providers to cream a tidy little profit off the backs of the nation's unwanted (well, just glide down the "work" label if you don't..)
Well, I just popped into Guardian online for the day's news and Polly Toynbee has spelt out our worst fears. The biggest private providers have won contracts, despite missing targets the last time round (though making handsome handsome profits!)
It makes grim reading because you know the Tory machine couldn't give a flying fairy cake, indeed encourages these "enterprises", especially if they operate at the cost of everyone else but Toynbee tells it so well I post the link for your delectation!
(Be warned, when I read it my chest tightened, bang bang, goes the ribcage, can't breathe...can't breathe... but it might not have the same effect on you!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/04/benefits-bonanza-big-serco-welfare
"It's time these welfare scroungers stopped sponging off the state.I don't mean the poor and sick, I mean Deloitte, Serco, and the rest of their kind." A person comments after my own heart!
Well, I just popped into Guardian online for the day's news and Polly Toynbee has spelt out our worst fears. The biggest private providers have won contracts, despite missing targets the last time round (though making handsome handsome profits!)
It makes grim reading because you know the Tory machine couldn't give a flying fairy cake, indeed encourages these "enterprises", especially if they operate at the cost of everyone else but Toynbee tells it so well I post the link for your delectation!
(Be warned, when I read it my chest tightened, bang bang, goes the ribcage, can't breathe...can't breathe... but it might not have the same effect on you!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/04/benefits-bonanza-big-serco-welfare
"It's time these welfare scroungers stopped sponging off the state.I don't mean the poor and sick, I mean Deloitte, Serco, and the rest of their kind." A person comments after my own heart!
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Census due in today
The day I was going to send it, I saw the video below on one of my friend's facebook pages.
It's due in today. Today. A Sunday.
I wish I could boycott this census, but I don't have £1000 nor do I have the guts. I'm ashamed to admit it, but then our Government should be ashamed of itself aswell.
It's due in today. Today. A Sunday.
I wish I could boycott this census, but I don't have £1000 nor do I have the guts. I'm ashamed to admit it, but then our Government should be ashamed of itself aswell.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Bank bail in...
Saturday morning a bunch of us, I say 'us' I mean 'us' you know, people, you know what I mean... well a bunch of us piled into Natwest bank in protest at the cuts/bonuses, every unnecessary thing that's happening at the moment!
The shop floor was turned into a creche! Kids reading, drawing, a sing song at the end as they banged or blew through their instruments. All under the watchful gaze of the press!
My son wasn't with me, sadly and also luckily. A guy from the One Show approached a dad who we might see on the telly tonight!! I wouldn't have had the balls I don't think to be on the telly... or maybe I would've had, don't know! I was too busy smiling at the beautiful juxtaposition of being at a bank protest having written about bank greed just a few days earlier.
The protest was organised by ukuncut though I heard about it through an invite on facebook:
A Feminist Big Society Bail-in.
It was great! Reading the press, there were other sit ins around the country. One bank was turned into a laundry and another into a school where protesters turned up in school uniform ready for a history lesson from a lecturer from the London School of Economics.
The Mail was present where we were and delivered a decent write up for once!: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360925/Activists-turn-40-British-bank-branches-creches-classrooms-shelters-job-centres-protest-bonuses-cuts.html
Go to: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ and have a read around their website or subscribe to the newsletter or anything really. Just don't be angry about it all, all by yourself!
The shop floor was turned into a creche! Kids reading, drawing, a sing song at the end as they banged or blew through their instruments. All under the watchful gaze of the press!
My son wasn't with me, sadly and also luckily. A guy from the One Show approached a dad who we might see on the telly tonight!! I wouldn't have had the balls I don't think to be on the telly... or maybe I would've had, don't know! I was too busy smiling at the beautiful juxtaposition of being at a bank protest having written about bank greed just a few days earlier.
The protest was organised by ukuncut though I heard about it through an invite on facebook:
A Feminist Big Society Bail-in.
It was great! Reading the press, there were other sit ins around the country. One bank was turned into a laundry and another into a school where protesters turned up in school uniform ready for a history lesson from a lecturer from the London School of Economics.
The Mail was present where we were and delivered a decent write up for once!: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360925/Activists-turn-40-British-bank-branches-creches-classrooms-shelters-job-centres-protest-bonuses-cuts.html
Go to: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ and have a read around their website or subscribe to the newsletter or anything really. Just don't be angry about it all, all by yourself!
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Work to Welfare
The bill goes through today doesn't it? Read it in the Mirror yesterday after having to swallow the stories of the bankers bonuses and the self same bank planning mass redundancies to 'cut costs'.
Newsnight ran a story on the whole work to welfare thing on Tuesday night.
"6 million people will be getting up to go to work tomorrow but 6 million won't have to, they can stay in bed," or something like that. Paxman's brilliant most of the time but I really wanted to kick him in the shins for saying that.
I have no time now to chat about the punitive measures facing so many millions of us.
The newsnight report didn't address many of the barriers facing us and certainly didn't mention all this happening at a time of rising unemployment.
There aren't millions of jobs to go round and even for the shitty ones there's intense competition.
When I was watching it though, I was thinking of housing and how this massive, massive, MASSIVE issue, which is going to affect millions upon millions of people, is just being swept aside.
It's what the government wants. It wants everybodies attention diverted from the massacre it's creating.
Biff Baff Boof.
No, not you Paxman.
The Tory party.
Newsnight ran a story on the whole work to welfare thing on Tuesday night.
"6 million people will be getting up to go to work tomorrow but 6 million won't have to, they can stay in bed," or something like that. Paxman's brilliant most of the time but I really wanted to kick him in the shins for saying that.
I have no time now to chat about the punitive measures facing so many millions of us.
The newsnight report didn't address many of the barriers facing us and certainly didn't mention all this happening at a time of rising unemployment.
There aren't millions of jobs to go round and even for the shitty ones there's intense competition.
When I was watching it though, I was thinking of housing and how this massive, massive, MASSIVE issue, which is going to affect millions upon millions of people, is just being swept aside.
It's what the government wants. It wants everybodies attention diverted from the massacre it's creating.
Biff Baff Boof.
No, not you Paxman.
The Tory party.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Political reality
Over in Hammersmith and Fulham, the Tory run council is selling off nine buildings that house charities (Evening Standard, 8th feb, p8).
"Critics say the move will force the closure of up to 30 community groups and leave thousands of vulnerable residents without support."
"One of the buildings, Palingswick House, which houses 22 charities, is expected to be sold to author Toby Young's West London Free School." Oh, that's alright then...
Over here, in my 'hood, the Labour run council's not much better. It plans to sell its council offices in Kings Cross and build brand spanking new luxury offices in its place, with leisure centre and library apparently, oh lucky staff! (Camden New Journal, 27 Jan P. - sorry can't find my copy! Tis on internet though!)
Meanwhile children's centres are threatened with closure and painfully, community centres are shutting down forcing pensioners and disabled out protesting. Watch this heartbreaking youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMR98WIOvJc
A similar thing is probably happening near you, probably happening in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Oh I Don't Know
I Don't, Know
Anything
I Don't Know
Party
"Critics say the move will force the closure of up to 30 community groups and leave thousands of vulnerable residents without support."
"One of the buildings, Palingswick House, which houses 22 charities, is expected to be sold to author Toby Young's West London Free School." Oh, that's alright then...
Over here, in my 'hood, the Labour run council's not much better. It plans to sell its council offices in Kings Cross and build brand spanking new luxury offices in its place, with leisure centre and library apparently, oh lucky staff! (Camden New Journal, 27 Jan P. - sorry can't find my copy! Tis on internet though!)
Meanwhile children's centres are threatened with closure and painfully, community centres are shutting down forcing pensioners and disabled out protesting. Watch this heartbreaking youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMR98WIOvJc
A similar thing is probably happening near you, probably happening in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Oh I Don't Know
I Don't, Know
Anything
I Don't Know
Party
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Rhetoric
Cameron in the Sunday Telegraph:
"I have given local authorities much more power over what to do with their money and I feel perfectly entitled to say to them, in my opinion, when you're making reductions, you should reduce the scale of your chief executive's salary, rather that cut the Citizen's Advice Bureau." (p.4)
Grant Shapps, fellow Tory in Guardian (25th Jan) (on homelessness in particular)
"While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/25/homelessness-funding-cuts-councils)
Not long now... the acceptance of responsibility...blame blame blame blame your fault your fault your fault blame blame blame as millions of people are cut until they're bleeding in the coalition cutting process.
"I have given local authorities much more power over what to do with their money and I feel perfectly entitled to say to them, in my opinion, when you're making reductions, you should reduce the scale of your chief executive's salary, rather that cut the Citizen's Advice Bureau." (p.4)
Grant Shapps, fellow Tory in Guardian (25th Jan) (on homelessness in particular)
"While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/25/homelessness-funding-cuts-councils)
Not long now... the acceptance of responsibility...blame blame blame blame your fault your fault your fault blame blame blame as millions of people are cut until they're bleeding in the coalition cutting process.
Valentine's Day
On Valentine's Day a consultation about DLA reform will end, spelling disaster for some our most disabled country folk. Yeah! The coalition loves disabled people!
Go here for more information: http://onemonthbeforeheartbreak.blogspot.com/
I must direct you to a really amazing political blog, funny, informed, a voice so powerful.
Today Sue Marsh's article is one we should all read about taxes! I'm hopeless with economics but Sue is a very talented writer who can render the complicated uncomplicated.
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/02/shocking-tory-tax-trickery.html
Better still, grab yourself a cup of tea and just delight in many of things she has written!
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/
Go here for more information: http://onemonthbeforeheartbreak.blogspot.com/
I must direct you to a really amazing political blog, funny, informed, a voice so powerful.
Today Sue Marsh's article is one we should all read about taxes! I'm hopeless with economics but Sue is a very talented writer who can render the complicated uncomplicated.
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/2011/02/shocking-tory-tax-trickery.html
Better still, grab yourself a cup of tea and just delight in many of things she has written!
http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.com/
Monday, 24 January 2011
The Tory Peer and the Single Mother
Brave, brave woman!
In yesterday's Sunday Mirror, a single mother lifted the lid on her seven year on-off affair with the married Leader of the House of Lords because time and time again she's appealed to him for help, on behalf of countless mothers, that the CSA be amended.
The article in the Mirror a few weekends ago saying we'd be charged to use the service enraged her like it did me. It prompted her to speak and not just for herself.
Brilliant. Brilliant.
We, lone parents, have the Tory line shoved down our throats. "Family values," "the sanctity of marriage," "Tax breaks for married couples." Their favourite: "Broken Britain"
Lord Strathclyde himself quoted as saying, when in opposition to the Labour Party: "Where in this programme is the desperately needed action to bind families and rebuild our broken society?"
The bare faced hypocrisy of the man. The bare faced hypocrisy of the whole party.
It really is, the "Do as we say don't do as we do" party
This multi millionaire complained to her about his ministerial salary, saying it was "just" £134,000 a year.
Why don't you volunteer? Article about the closure of libraries in yesterday's paper too, the Tories saying 'volunteers' can keep our libraries going.
An article about how as part of Cameron's NHS reforms, hospitals are axing free anti-natal classes to save money. Alright for them, Mrs C no doubt went private.
I thought of seeing if the story was in another paper yesterday but quickly realised, no! No, it's the most amazing scoop!
This single mother would'n't have done this soley for the money, maybe not for the money at all but I hope you paid her well!
Oh to have her courage! To out a peer and shame a Party! This story I found interesting!
Here's the link if you missed it (which will be reproduced in a good many other papers this morning I should imagine. I wish her the very best of luck!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/01/23/lord-strathclyde-s-affair-with-single-mum-115875-22868930/
In yesterday's Sunday Mirror, a single mother lifted the lid on her seven year on-off affair with the married Leader of the House of Lords because time and time again she's appealed to him for help, on behalf of countless mothers, that the CSA be amended.
The article in the Mirror a few weekends ago saying we'd be charged to use the service enraged her like it did me. It prompted her to speak and not just for herself.
Brilliant. Brilliant.
We, lone parents, have the Tory line shoved down our throats. "Family values," "the sanctity of marriage," "Tax breaks for married couples." Their favourite: "Broken Britain"
Lord Strathclyde himself quoted as saying, when in opposition to the Labour Party: "Where in this programme is the desperately needed action to bind families and rebuild our broken society?"
The bare faced hypocrisy of the man. The bare faced hypocrisy of the whole party.
It really is, the "Do as we say don't do as we do" party
This multi millionaire complained to her about his ministerial salary, saying it was "just" £134,000 a year.
Why don't you volunteer? Article about the closure of libraries in yesterday's paper too, the Tories saying 'volunteers' can keep our libraries going.
An article about how as part of Cameron's NHS reforms, hospitals are axing free anti-natal classes to save money. Alright for them, Mrs C no doubt went private.
I thought of seeing if the story was in another paper yesterday but quickly realised, no! No, it's the most amazing scoop!
This single mother would'n't have done this soley for the money, maybe not for the money at all but I hope you paid her well!
Oh to have her courage! To out a peer and shame a Party! This story I found interesting!
Here's the link if you missed it (which will be reproduced in a good many other papers this morning I should imagine. I wish her the very best of luck!)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/01/23/lord-strathclyde-s-affair-with-single-mum-115875-22868930/
Wednesday, 20 October 2010
Fair's FAIR
Sourced from facebook friends who read the papers:
1.2 bn: annual cost of benefit fraud
40bn: annual cost of tax avoidance
Banks will avoid paying £19bn on tax of future profits by offsetting their losses against (your) tax.
6bn: Tax avoided by Vodafone after negociating with Inland Revenue
2bn: Amount 15 million tax paying individuals must pay (averaging £1500 each) after Inland Revenue mistakenly over charged them last year.
4bn: Estimated value of retail tycoon (Topshop owner) and Government "waste tsar" Sir Philip and Lady Green's collective assets.
40p: Average hourly wage paid to Topshop workers in Sri Lankan sweat shops
The opportunities of Disaster Capitalism the Tories have been waiting for: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/18/conservative-financial-crisis-opportunity
23 milionaires out of 29 in our cabinet of 'we're all in it together' slash and burn politicians.
It's clearly stiggers desire to depress you this morning....
1.2 bn: annual cost of benefit fraud
40bn: annual cost of tax avoidance
Banks will avoid paying £19bn on tax of future profits by offsetting their losses against (your) tax.
6bn: Tax avoided by Vodafone after negociating with Inland Revenue
2bn: Amount 15 million tax paying individuals must pay (averaging £1500 each) after Inland Revenue mistakenly over charged them last year.
4bn: Estimated value of retail tycoon (Topshop owner) and Government "waste tsar" Sir Philip and Lady Green's collective assets.
40p: Average hourly wage paid to Topshop workers in Sri Lankan sweat shops
The opportunities of Disaster Capitalism the Tories have been waiting for: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/18/conservative-financial-crisis-opportunity
23 milionaires out of 29 in our cabinet of 'we're all in it together' slash and burn politicians.
It's clearly stiggers desire to depress you this morning....
Cuts delivered by the Cabinet
Did you know, for I didn't before the Sunday Telegraph informed me, that of the 29 members in the cabinet, 23 of them are millionaires?
Yes, as they wield the axe, they will not get hurt at all.
More galling perhaps, if you don't find that galling, is that the security, minders, bodyguards they need to protect them from the new wave of burglars and muggers we will see, are paid from the purse of the 'squeezed middle', the 'working poor', you and me.
Repeat after me:
I am a millionaire
I am a millionaire
I am a millionaire
(Law of Attraction... You have any better suggestions?)
Yes, as they wield the axe, they will not get hurt at all.
More galling perhaps, if you don't find that galling, is that the security, minders, bodyguards they need to protect them from the new wave of burglars and muggers we will see, are paid from the purse of the 'squeezed middle', the 'working poor', you and me.
Repeat after me:
I am a millionaire
I am a millionaire
I am a millionaire
(Law of Attraction... You have any better suggestions?)
Friday, 17 September 2010
The coalition "does God"
The coalition "does God" apparantly, according to the Tories Party Chairman (Times, 16 Oct). Labour did not "do God", instead "acted as if faith was confined to 'oddities, foreigners, and minorities'" (Two out of three for me then..)
So, the coalition "does God".
Is that why it's directing it's biggest cuts to lone parents? (The loss to household incomes, according to the Guardian on 11th Sept is a whopping 11.2% for those like me, with single pensioners coming second with cuts of 8.7%, couples with children 5.0%, single no kids 4.9%, couple pensioners 4.8% and last and very least, a couple with no kids at 3%.)
Is that why it's turning a blind eye to tax evaders (worth £70bn) and tax avoiders (worth 25 bn, estimates by Tax Research UK in The Times 13th Sept). Basically letting rich tax dodgers go free?
The coalition's God is not my God
God help me and my God help you if you are anyone like me.
So, the coalition "does God".
Is that why it's directing it's biggest cuts to lone parents? (The loss to household incomes, according to the Guardian on 11th Sept is a whopping 11.2% for those like me, with single pensioners coming second with cuts of 8.7%, couples with children 5.0%, single no kids 4.9%, couple pensioners 4.8% and last and very least, a couple with no kids at 3%.)
Is that why it's turning a blind eye to tax evaders (worth £70bn) and tax avoiders (worth 25 bn, estimates by Tax Research UK in The Times 13th Sept). Basically letting rich tax dodgers go free?
The coalition's God is not my God
God help me and my God help you if you are anyone like me.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
MP's lose allowances
MP's will not be entitled to a second home if they can commute to work. The poor things! Life's just not fair for them is it?
They'll lose their cleaning allowance too. Oh no! How ever will they manage? They should be donning their marigolds to get the country in order, not sinking their hands into last night's washing up. They have dishwashers you say? Oh they'll have to pay that back then.
Oh could life for them get much worse?
Well not immediately is the answer to that, for none of the new rules come into effect for another five years.
By which time do you think my son and I will be entitled to any home?
Answers on a postcard.
They'll lose their cleaning allowance too. Oh no! How ever will they manage? They should be donning their marigolds to get the country in order, not sinking their hands into last night's washing up. They have dishwashers you say? Oh they'll have to pay that back then.
Oh could life for them get much worse?
Well not immediately is the answer to that, for none of the new rules come into effect for another five years.
By which time do you think my son and I will be entitled to any home?
Answers on a postcard.
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Politicians expense claims
I am so overjoyed expenses is back in the news, that the media is hanging out Gordon, Dave and Nick's washing for us all to see.
It would be nice if someone would say these politicians are the parasites, not us who they routinely nail to the wall.
Oh a girl can dream, a girl can dream.....
It would be nice if someone would say these politicians are the parasites, not us who they routinely nail to the wall.
Oh a girl can dream, a girl can dream.....
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
RBS chief gets £9.6 million bonus
This is, how does one put it? Disgusting?
Stephen Lester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, gets near £10 million in bonuses while thousands of his staff are made or have been made redundant in 'cost cutting' exercises.
Getting £9.6 million when the taxpayer had to bail out the bank.
Words fail me.
I'm surprised I'm even commenting
Stephen Lester, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, gets near £10 million in bonuses while thousands of his staff are made or have been made redundant in 'cost cutting' exercises.
Getting £9.6 million when the taxpayer had to bail out the bank.
Words fail me.
I'm surprised I'm even commenting
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