It was clear, as if we did not know, that our Labour Prime Minister has been bought by big business. The recent conference of money men in London gave stark evidence of his selling out to corporates and equity, for the sake of national growth!
This has been followed up by more demands in the media for cutting 'welfare' and implementing the cut of the Winter Heating Allowance ('WFA') from 'rich pensioners.' Tat is those bringing in more than £13,000 a year! The Tory Woman Chancellor claimed £5000 to heat her own large mansion recently. Maybe she does not understand how other people live?
Press outrage at the young not being able to buy a house while the aged live happily in a large one continues. No mention of these young earning more in a year than the aged ever earned. No mention of the aged taxes paying for those young 'uns education or the roads they drive their cars upon, the aged did not have cars back then, they did not earn enough! The right wing press, owned by billionaires living abroad to avoid taxes, attacks the benefit scrounger while keeping the dim witted eyes from noticing their tax dodging.
As yet, nobody mentions those FreePorts, the ones the corporates and big business will own, avoid tax on for 10 years, and keep all profits to themselves. No mention either of their new lawgiving status where they control that area, not the government close by. Unions beware!
The BBC have announced the end of another programme, 'Hardtalk,' on the BBC World Service. This was a programme that asked deep and honest questions of many politicians and others. Now it has been ended. The entire BBC new output has been silenced now. No interviewer who asks a question that does not fit with Tory and Labour policy is allowed. Joseph Goebbels would be pleased.
Those rich people behind the scenes who now run the country have control over the government, the press, and now the BBC. They already have ITV and SKY under control. However, most people still trust the BBC in spite of this damage in the newsroom.
Here we are, a coup has taken place, one that gave us Brexit, which killed the nation economically and lost all sovereignty, gave control to the wealthy, blinded the stupid by offering them 'boats,' while taking all their 'rights.' The noose is tightening, most still do not perceive this.
What you say is probably absolutely true but looking back at 2014 we were all moaning then and likewise in 2004 not to mention 1994 and probably before that except my memory is a bit hazy of that time now. One thing reading political memoirs has shown me is that the public rarely has the slightest clue about the real issues. I recently found a book on a wall called "Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn" so naturally I took it off the wall and later read it. I discovered that despite following Corbyns Labour party very closely I had been as wrong as could be about what I thought was going on. When I think of all the time I wasted on Twitter! !!!! I then promised myself that if that slimebag, Trumpist, divisive, cruel bunch of so called Tories which we endured for 14 years were got rid of, I'd stop reading the news till there was some definite result from whatever Starmer & Co. decide to do. We have already seen the result of what the Tories did large as life and twice as horrible. Maybe Starmer's efforts will work in the long term and make the poorer less poor and the whole country more prosperous and less divided. Or maybe Starmer and his crew will suddenly all emigrate to Panama and set up arms dealerships. Who knows. But I'm not going to waste any more time speculating.
ReplyDeleteJenny, I'd keep quiet about the Panama arms deal if I were you, Keir might go for that! We never get to know all that goes on in the background, we scan at a distance. The 'State' always has more options than any other and only strong men like Salmond can cope with that. It is not a happy outlook today, the rich rule us now.
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ReplyDeleteTeach the fans to shout..'finge que el portero es guatalmateco!'...pretend the goalie is Guatamalan!
If Streeter wants to start jabbing fatties, he could start with himself....but have you seen that the new government wants to start 'encouraging' mental heath patients in the charge of the NHS to get back to work....goodness me, by the time you get mental health assistance from the NHS you are more on the rocks than the victims of the Cornish wreckers....
If you want to get people back to work then you stop the Speenhamland system of outdoor relief which subsidises exploitative employers which might then allow families to start to live on one income and give a proper home life for their children. You provide proper social housing...not outsourced to housing associations who are happy to remove people from their communities to boost their funds....and you return utilities to national ownership with price controls, while getting rid of the green subsidies making scammers rich.
No chance under this government of chancers.
Fly, Many have seen that goal and some will use the Spanish picked up in Lanzarotte to encourage him! He may not succeed...
ReplyDeleteYes, that is a great idea, send mental patients work councillors. Those I met when unemployed did not encourage me much. Box ticking and little else, it will be the same here.
Social housing is dead since Thatcher, she is responsible for all this today.