I caught the latter part of the following conversation on the radio yesterday. One person pointed that disabled people will be amongst those hardest hit by the government’s cuts, using quite reasoned & well thought out arguments to put her case. When asked the other person disagreed and made disparaging remarks inferring that other charities would be making similar unwarranted claims over the summer. I immediately thought ‘typical Tory’ but he then went on to say the worst off would be the hundreds of thousands who will be out of a job.
Oh how David Cameron would laugh his head off to hear a perfect example of ‘divide & rule’! It doesn’t make any difference who will be the least, in between, or worst affected. What does matter is that millions of people will suffer genuine hardship because of what this government is imposing, now clearly (mis)lead by the Gruesome Twosome.
They are the only people who gain out of this facile kind of point scoring. It seems obvious to me that we must NOT fight amongst ourselves but must unite to fight them, and so get rid of this selfish, heartless, uncaring government AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Les
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Saturday, 7 May 2011
The morning after the night (and a bit of day) before
There are days when I hate politics! I go and stay up til 5 in the morning hoping to see the Gower result when BBC pulls the plug, and I was so looking forward to seeing the face of the person who came bottom!! But then that’s the media all over.
Seriously, maybe it's just me but have you noticed how TV especially doesn’t do political news. Instead they comment on what they want to report. I remember last year being really disappointed that they didn’t show Geraint getting Swansea West, then someone explained that they had expected him to lose, & when he didn't they simply weren’t interested. I know it’s probably pointless but one wonders if it’s worth telling them that it’s about time they gave us ALL the news not their selected tit bits!
As for t
he Welsh Assembly election results, I feel it’s been a day of ups & downs but on balance I think we have a lot to celebrate. Getting 31 seats was virtually impossible with the regional list system, and not only do we have 30 – personally I am really hoping Carwyn will hold his nerve and we go it alone – but we’re also 16 seats ahead of second place. And we comfortably won all three Swansea seats, Julie James getting in here in Swansea West, with the LibDem candidates only managing to do better than the BNP!
Les
PS Who’s for leafleting this weekend?!
Seriously, maybe it's just me but have you noticed how TV especially doesn’t do political news. Instead they comment on what they want to report. I remember last year being really disappointed that they didn’t show Geraint getting Swansea West, then someone explained that they had expected him to lose, & when he didn't they simply weren’t interested. I know it’s probably pointless but one wonders if it’s worth telling them that it’s about time they gave us ALL the news not their selected tit bits!
As for t
he Welsh Assembly election results, I feel it’s been a day of ups & downs but on balance I think we have a lot to celebrate. Getting 31 seats was virtually impossible with the regional list system, and not only do we have 30 – personally I am really hoping Carwyn will hold his nerve and we go it alone – but we’re also 16 seats ahead of second place. And we comfortably won all three Swansea seats, Julie James getting in here in Swansea West, with the LibDem candidates only managing to do better than the BNP!Les
PS Who’s for leafleting this weekend?!
Saturday, 30 April 2011
What Taxes?!
I nearly fell off my chair (I actually did the other week!!) when I read that David Cameron ‘doesn’t pay his taxes to keep alcoholics, drug addicts and the obese in the welfare system’. But it wasn’t his attitude to these groups that got me as we all know he’s heartless & uncaring of anyone who doesn’t fit into his elite world.
No, what nearly caused me to fall off my chair (again!) was the idea of him paying taxes. Yes of course he does but, and it’s a BIG BUT, he still takes home more than the rest of us can dream of plus having a vast personal fortune.
Believe it or not there is a positive side as the more he comes out with this evil claptrap then the more people will realise he is definitely son of Thatcher, only worse. ‘Not possible’ I hear you cry, to which I can respond in true pantomime style ‘oh yes he is’!
Les
No, what nearly caused me to fall off my chair (again!) was the idea of him paying taxes. Yes of course he does but, and it’s a BIG BUT, he still takes home more than the rest of us can dream of plus having a vast personal fortune.
Believe it or not there is a positive side as the more he comes out with this evil claptrap then the more people will realise he is definitely son of Thatcher, only worse. ‘Not possible’ I hear you cry, to which I can respond in true pantomime style ‘oh yes he is’!
Les
Friday, 15 April 2011
The Biggest Con Trick of All
With my business hat on I have just received an Interim Report from the Independent Commission on Banking and it certainly makes for interesting reading. (They gave a choice, either to read the full version at 214 pages, or the summary at 6 – ‘no brainer’ I think you will agree!)
So why ‘interesting’? Well, as you know in my recent blog I pointed out the umpteenth lie that the Tories have peddled, but this is the original – that the last government were responsible for the deficit. What a whopper!!!
This independent non-political review clearly and categorically explains that the crisis is totally and absolutely the fault of the banks. (As you all know the bank bosses get paid millions in bonuses, and for doing what? In any other business you’d be sacked for being so incompetent but with banking it would appear that you just get promoted to Chief Executive!) And indeed what the Labour government did, under Gordon Brown, was the ONLY course of action that could be taken, endorsed by this quote in the report: “to avert panic and ensure continuous provision of the basic banking services upon which the economy and society depends, governments and central banks injected vast amounts of capital and liquidity into the financial system”.
Not only did the Tories conveniently hide this they also omitted to tell Jill & Jo Public that if the banks had been allowed to collapse, and one can only assume this would have been the Tories dire course of action, it would be Jill & Jo’s money - our money - that would be lost. That scenario really doesn’t bear thinking about, so we can all thank our lucky stars that they weren't in power at the time!
Les
So why ‘interesting’? Well, as you know in my recent blog I pointed out the umpteenth lie that the Tories have peddled, but this is the original – that the last government were responsible for the deficit. What a whopper!!!
This independent non-political review clearly and categorically explains that the crisis is totally and absolutely the fault of the banks. (As you all know the bank bosses get paid millions in bonuses, and for doing what? In any other business you’d be sacked for being so incompetent but with banking it would appear that you just get promoted to Chief Executive!) And indeed what the Labour government did, under Gordon Brown, was the ONLY course of action that could be taken, endorsed by this quote in the report: “to avert panic and ensure continuous provision of the basic banking services upon which the economy and society depends, governments and central banks injected vast amounts of capital and liquidity into the financial system”.
Not only did the Tories conveniently hide this they also omitted to tell Jill & Jo Public that if the banks had been allowed to collapse, and one can only assume this would have been the Tories dire course of action, it would be Jill & Jo’s money - our money - that would be lost. That scenario really doesn’t bear thinking about, so we can all thank our lucky stars that they weren't in power at the time!
Les
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
How many more ConDem Fibs & Tricks?
Nearly a year since they got in and I’m getting angrier by the day as I discover yet another lie the Tories told in order to get elected. The latest one I’ve cottoned on to is that after all their hollow protestations about the previous government proposing to put up national insurance contributions they are doing it themselves. Such hypocrisy, what deceit!
And coupled with the false hope they peddled at the recent budget – the cost of petrol has actually gone up since then! – it could be seen as a very dismal time for all.
One glimmer of hope – surely they are going to be annihilated at the local elections in May in England? But then mustn’t count on it – the bastards might yet pull yet another con out of the bag!
Les
And coupled with the false hope they peddled at the recent budget – the cost of petrol has actually gone up since then! – it could be seen as a very dismal time for all.
One glimmer of hope – surely they are going to be annihilated at the local elections in May in England? But then mustn’t count on it – the bastards might yet pull yet another con out of the bag!
Les
Friday, 1 April 2011
Decisions, decisions …
I had a very surreal choice this morning – either to go and protest on electrification to Swansea, & cuts, or go & listen to David Cameron, who amongst other things would probably be ‘protesting’ his innocence over electrification to Swansea, & cuts!
Some of you might be getting really worried so let me repeat what I said in my last blog, no I am definitely NOT a Tory (and I don’t expect I would have actually got in anyway!) – the latter choice was through my business connections. And as it happens because of work commitments I didn’t do either.
Les
PS Did he really turn up, April 1st and all that? And after all this is Wales – does he know where it is?!
Some of you might be getting really worried so let me repeat what I said in my last blog, no I am definitely NOT a Tory (and I don’t expect I would have actually got in anyway!) – the latter choice was through my business connections. And as it happens because of work commitments I didn’t do either.
Les
PS Did he really turn up, April 1st and all that? And after all this is Wales – does he know where it is?!
Friday, 25 March 2011
The Budget – good for some?
When you read the (few) pro Labour Party newspapers it’s easy to be misled into thinking that the country is being run by a couple of Tory toffs with only a few brain cells between them, with their FibDem lapdog in tow. Of course it's true they did have that trigger happy idiot Bush running America for years. (People can blame Blair for a lot but it’s a shame we can't ever know what might have happened if Clinton had been there instead.) But after having a good laugh at the lampooning cartoons, we must be careful not to underestimate either of them.George Osborne actually played the right cards with Wednesday’s budget, coming out with quite a few things businesses wanted to hear – they in the main being Tory voters. Being in business myself (definitely NOT Tory in case you weren’t sure!) I do have total sympathy for other small companies who have been perilously close to going under because of fuel costs, so I have to support those measures in the budget that has done something to alleviate the situation. What I am not so sure about is the apprenticeships promise – sounds good but …
The government wants the private sector to take up all those who are going to be out a job because of their cuts. Apprenticeships – yes this is good news but just because they are available doesn’t mean that they will all be taken up, and even those that are, this certainly wont mean that they all automatically turn into a job. And incidentally the pay is just £2.50 an hour.
And pursuing this further, the notion that the private sector will be able to create enough jobs for all those who are going to be made unemployed – at least ½ million, and probably a lot more – is stupifyingly ridiculous!
So coming full circle it’s easy to see why I’m tempted to believe that the country is run by idiots after all!
Les
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