Congratulations to the Prime Minister of Greece in offering a referendum on the EU or the punitive terms of the so called rescue of the Greek economy.
At least he is offering the Greek people a say on the way their country is run.
I know the Greeks and other European peoples wish to run their own countries in their own way under their own rules and not dictated to by the bureaucrats and bankers of the EUSSR.
A Greek exit from the Euro will cause hardship but that currency and idea is destined to fail in any case and all will suffer including us who are not even in this web of deceit.
There are the shoots of democracy in Europe and the southern Europeans, being more volatile take to the streets more readily when oppressed in the cause of democracy. This latter concept has been lacking in Europe for the past forty years with more powers taken from elected representitives to the unelected EU bureaucrats.
Our MPs with a few honourable exceptions have been hoodwinked or bribed into believing in this untenable concept and with luck will get their come uppance soon.
The unimaginable sums supposedly owed do not exist. They are just lines of computer jargon, created out of thin air by the bankers who then charge interest on them condemning millions to poverty.
Now back to Greece.
The "experts" say that if Greece goes back to the Drachma nobody will trade with them as it is not backed by assets. They say Greece will not be able to buy essentials such as oil and food.
Do they think the Greeks are thick? Do they think they have wasted all this money they have had out of the EU and spent it?. Do they think the Greeks did not see this coming?.
What do you think they did with the money they were supposed to pay in taxes to support the banks but witheld?
They converted it into solid assets such as property and gold and hidden it.
I believe Greece has a lot of money which they have decided they will not give to the EU and the banks and underneath all this are quite wealthy as a nation.
If I were a Greek a year ago that is what I would have done, taken my money and put it in tangible assets and I am sure many Greeks have done the same now.
There is enough capital in Greece to start again with the Drachma.
So the Greeks in striking a blow for democracy will with luck begin to destroy the Orwellian EU concept and we will be able to look forward to a continent of friendly nations unconstrained by the banks and commisars of Brussells.
The people will not fight each other, only their treacherous rulers.
Greeks, we back you in your quest and to quote a Tory quisling we really are all in this together, apart from him and his ilk.
Yes there will be problems at first and some hardship but nothing in comparison to what could await us if they (and we)fail to rid ourselves of the EU yoke.
I congratulate the Greeks.
YOU HAD THE FIRST DEMOCRACY.
NOW START THE SECOND.
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
NOT THE DOCTOR'S JOB
The news that the government is insisting that GPs encourage people on long term sick benefit troubles me for several reasons.
As an ex GP I had to dissuade far more people from working than the other way round.
Nowadays perhaps there is a perverse incentive for people who are unemployed to register as sick as to do so brings more in the way of benefits. In addition there are fewer jobs and those available so low paid as a result of competition from Eastern European workers living ten to a house making it impossible for a British worker to keep his household going on the wages offered.
The new instruction also supposes that most GPs do not encourage their patients back to work.
GPs already do this.
Many of those off sick are the result of the decimation of heavy industry and the jobs on offer are more of a clerical or scientific nature which their previous work did not prepare them.
If you are thrown out of a factory job at the age of 50 as a result of the business being moved abroad you are unlikely to be able to land a job paying a living wage. In other words many who have tired their bodies out with heavy but not very intellectual requirements are being asked to compete with fit young Poles who are well educated and computer literate.
You can not really ask our people to learn a new trade at 50 or do heavy work with their already abused bodies. These older people, prone to disease have paid in to the system while working and are less able to cope with any work available.
A GPs job is dependent on a good relationship with his patients and this new "advice" hinders that relationship. It would encourage the doctor to label their patients as workshy. In addition the doctor would take responsibility if the diagnosis was wrong and could end up in court if for instance a patient died after being told he was fit for work.
There are of course many people who are scroungers, usually young people, neurotic public employees who play the system to say nothing of third world immigrants and these people should work (or be thrown out), but the GPs should not be the gate keepers, and have the responsibility.
This duty should be performed by doctors working for the social security who can impartially assess people and give a second opinion without jeapordising the GP patient relationship.
The system I agree is a shambles and has been created by governments over the last decades to massage the high unemployment rates and now the state is paying the price.
A system should be devised, hard on young scroungers and immigrants who have not paid in but compassionate to the older people who HAVE contributed but lost their livelyhoods owing to government mis management.
It should be changed but it is the responsibility of the State and not the doctors.
As an ex GP I had to dissuade far more people from working than the other way round.
Nowadays perhaps there is a perverse incentive for people who are unemployed to register as sick as to do so brings more in the way of benefits. In addition there are fewer jobs and those available so low paid as a result of competition from Eastern European workers living ten to a house making it impossible for a British worker to keep his household going on the wages offered.
The new instruction also supposes that most GPs do not encourage their patients back to work.
GPs already do this.
Many of those off sick are the result of the decimation of heavy industry and the jobs on offer are more of a clerical or scientific nature which their previous work did not prepare them.
If you are thrown out of a factory job at the age of 50 as a result of the business being moved abroad you are unlikely to be able to land a job paying a living wage. In other words many who have tired their bodies out with heavy but not very intellectual requirements are being asked to compete with fit young Poles who are well educated and computer literate.
You can not really ask our people to learn a new trade at 50 or do heavy work with their already abused bodies. These older people, prone to disease have paid in to the system while working and are less able to cope with any work available.
A GPs job is dependent on a good relationship with his patients and this new "advice" hinders that relationship. It would encourage the doctor to label their patients as workshy. In addition the doctor would take responsibility if the diagnosis was wrong and could end up in court if for instance a patient died after being told he was fit for work.
There are of course many people who are scroungers, usually young people, neurotic public employees who play the system to say nothing of third world immigrants and these people should work (or be thrown out), but the GPs should not be the gate keepers, and have the responsibility.
This duty should be performed by doctors working for the social security who can impartially assess people and give a second opinion without jeapordising the GP patient relationship.
The system I agree is a shambles and has been created by governments over the last decades to massage the high unemployment rates and now the state is paying the price.
A system should be devised, hard on young scroungers and immigrants who have not paid in but compassionate to the older people who HAVE contributed but lost their livelyhoods owing to government mis management.
It should be changed but it is the responsibility of the State and not the doctors.
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