They still don't get it do they?, or do they?
After nearly a week campaigning the three "big" parties have not touched on any issues important to the people of Britain.
The Tories have promised to reverse some of the proposed increase in National Insurance and an endless debate continues how to save the supposed few billions this would cost.
I don't like to say it but I agree with the Tories.
National Insurance is a tax on jobs and in my opinion should be reduced much further giving money to businesses and workers rather than having it squandered by the government.
How to pay for it? Easy, come out of Afganistan and stop foreign aid some of which goes to China.
No mention of these options and we have not touched on waste such as the £ 40,000 to be spent on discipline at Hawkley Hall school.
A cane would sort this out at no cost.
Or the 5 a day fruit and veg coordinators who have been shown to have had no effect on the consumption of vegetables and fruit, and the multitude of non jobs we currently support with our taxes and council taxes.
Why do these parties not speak about these things.
The latest Tory idea is to give married couples £3 per week as an encouragement.
I believe in marriage but can they not think of things more important or relevant to our people?
Immigrants taking most of the new jobs,
Young people unable to get jobs,
Our soldiers being killed in an illegal war,
Industries closed and relocated abroad,
Housing going to immigrants rather to people who BELONG here and whose families have paid taxes all their lives.
No go areas in our towns where English people fear to go.
Crowded streets and inadequate infrastructure because of increased numbers of people.
Our children's education suffering because of an influx of foreign children who do not speak English and often bring diseases like TB with them
I could go all night but none of these issues have been discussed, instead they waffle on about a billion here and a billion there.
For God's sake we as a country owe more than a TRILLION pounds, and nobody mentions that.
I think this silence is because they have no answers to the problems because whatever they say they caused them.
The BNP has the answers, Come out of Afganistan, stop foreign aid and leave the EU.
SORTED Most of the budget would be paid and that is before we have started on waste.
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Friday, 9 April 2010
A GORDON BROWN FAN
A teacher asked her class how many of them were fans of Gordon Brown.
Not really knowing what a Gordon Brown fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.
The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different…again?
Little Johnny said, ‘Because I’m not a Gordon Brown fan.’
The teacher asked, ‘Why aren’t you a Gordon Brown fan?’
Johnny said, ‘Because I’m a Nationalist.’
The teacher asked him why he’s a Nationalist.
Little Johnny answered, ‘Well, my Mum’s a BNPer and my Dad’s a BNPer, so I’m a Nationalist.’
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, ‘If your Mum was a moron and your Dad was an idiot, what would you be then?’
Little Johnny replied, ‘A Gordon Brown fan.’
Nicked from HERE
Morg
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OUR GENERAL ELECTION CANDIDATES
Our three candidates in the General Election are pictured below.
On the left is Dr Charles Mather standing in Wigan, Ken Haslam standing in Makerfield and Gary Chadwick standing in Leigh.
We will be standing on several main issues which have not as yet been addressed by the other parties. Some of them are listed below.
1 BRING OUR TROOPS HOME. We do not believe we should have our soldiers fighting an unwinnable war in someone else's country, costing the lives of our young men and thousands of Afgan people.
We have no interests or rights there and the war causes increased resentment among Afgans and muslims leading to terrorist threats here.
We understand muslim resentment at our involvement in their lands.
2 AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO IMMIGRATION. Our country is full up and can not sustain a rapidly growing population especially one with so many competing cultures.
More jobs would be created for native British people. Pay levels for the lowest paid would rise and make it pay to work and give a sense of purpose to our youth.
If foreign specialists WERE NEEDED they could come on a temporary basis but would NEVER be given citizenship, as is the case with British ex pats working abroad.
3 DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Who cost £ billions in benefits and legal fees, not to mention the pressure on housing.
4 DEPORT FOREIGN CRIMINALS. Australia and other countries do it so why can't we?
5 SCRAP THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. Which give more protection to criminals than to victims.
6 A REFERENDUM ON EU MEMBERSHIP. We believe we should leave the EU but continue to trade with them as do Norway and Switzerland, very successful countries, but our people should be given the choice, that's democracy!
7 STOP ALL FOREIGN AID. We are in debt and have to borrow the money we give to places such as China, a county with massive assets, India with a space programme and many billionaires some of whom own British industrial companies.
8 INCREASE OLD AGE PENSIONS. Many old people live in poverty after working and contributing for a lifetime often for little pay. If we took the measures above we could pay for an increase and cut the budget deficit at the same time.
9 IMPROVE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. Cut out the "non jobs" in government and with the savings made renew our infrastructure and coastal defences. That way we would have a return on our investment and reduce unemployment.
10 BRING BACK LOCAL DEMOCRACY. At present 83% of our laws are made in Europe, and most of the rest are made in Parliament without any democratic mandate. We believe many regulations could and should be made locally in order to give people a more influential say in local government.
Of course ther are many other policies and the above ones will be fleshed out. They are just a part of our basic programme. I will speak on these and the others in later blogs.
On the left is Dr Charles Mather standing in Wigan, Ken Haslam standing in Makerfield and Gary Chadwick standing in Leigh.We will be standing on several main issues which have not as yet been addressed by the other parties. Some of them are listed below.
1 BRING OUR TROOPS HOME. We do not believe we should have our soldiers fighting an unwinnable war in someone else's country, costing the lives of our young men and thousands of Afgan people.
We have no interests or rights there and the war causes increased resentment among Afgans and muslims leading to terrorist threats here.
We understand muslim resentment at our involvement in their lands.
2 AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO IMMIGRATION. Our country is full up and can not sustain a rapidly growing population especially one with so many competing cultures.
More jobs would be created for native British people. Pay levels for the lowest paid would rise and make it pay to work and give a sense of purpose to our youth.
If foreign specialists WERE NEEDED they could come on a temporary basis but would NEVER be given citizenship, as is the case with British ex pats working abroad.
3 DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Who cost £ billions in benefits and legal fees, not to mention the pressure on housing.
4 DEPORT FOREIGN CRIMINALS. Australia and other countries do it so why can't we?
5 SCRAP THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. Which give more protection to criminals than to victims.
6 A REFERENDUM ON EU MEMBERSHIP. We believe we should leave the EU but continue to trade with them as do Norway and Switzerland, very successful countries, but our people should be given the choice, that's democracy!
7 STOP ALL FOREIGN AID. We are in debt and have to borrow the money we give to places such as China, a county with massive assets, India with a space programme and many billionaires some of whom own British industrial companies.
8 INCREASE OLD AGE PENSIONS. Many old people live in poverty after working and contributing for a lifetime often for little pay. If we took the measures above we could pay for an increase and cut the budget deficit at the same time.
9 IMPROVE OUR INFRASTRUCTURE. Cut out the "non jobs" in government and with the savings made renew our infrastructure and coastal defences. That way we would have a return on our investment and reduce unemployment.
10 BRING BACK LOCAL DEMOCRACY. At present 83% of our laws are made in Europe, and most of the rest are made in Parliament without any democratic mandate. We believe many regulations could and should be made locally in order to give people a more influential say in local government.
Of course ther are many other policies and the above ones will be fleshed out. They are just a part of our basic programme. I will speak on these and the others in later blogs.
British democracy: no better than Uzbekistan's
Postal ballot-rigging, partisan officials, censorship of candidates … no independent observer could call our elections free and fair.
By Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan
The returning officer is almost always the chief executive officer of the local authority.
The problem is that, de facto, those chief executives are party-political appointments. Particularly in the long-term New Labour rotten boroughs of the north, local government appointments are a New Labour nexus. Bluntly put, the New Labour council of a northern town is almost never going to appoint a Tory chief executive.
[ ...]
... I do not accept local authority chief executives as genuinely independent returning officers.
I will continue to use Blackburn as an illustration, because I have an intimate knowledge, having stood there in 2005. An independent candidate standing against Jack Straw in the coming election, Bushra Irfan, has already been told by the local election office that she will not be able to exercise her right to place her own seals on the ballot boxes, as the hasp only has room for the council's seals.
She has just erected an election banner on her own property. Within hours, council officials arrived to dismantle it on the grounds that it did not have planning permission. This ignores the fact that election advertising for a "pending election" is specifically exempted from need for planning permission. But aside from that, one wonders whether other planning issues in Blackburn draw the same instant hit-squad response from the council?
[ ... ]
So, there we have British elections today: an unfair electoral system, censorship of candidates' electoral addresses, little real political choice for voters, widespread postal ballot-rigging and elections administered by partisan council officials in a corrupt political climate.
Don't be surprised if New Labour do that little bit better, when the votes are counted, than you might expect. As Joseph Stalin said, it is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.
So are British elections still free and fair? If this were a foreign election I was observing, I have no doubt that my answer would be no.
It may be in the Guardian, but it's well worth going to read it all (plus comments)
HERE
Morg
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The problem is that, de facto, those chief executives are party-political appointments. Particularly in the long-term New Labour rotten boroughs of the north, local government appointments are a New Labour nexus. Bluntly put, the New Labour council of a northern town is almost never going to appoint a Tory chief executive.
[ ...]
... I do not accept local authority chief executives as genuinely independent returning officers.
I will continue to use Blackburn as an illustration, because I have an intimate knowledge, having stood there in 2005. An independent candidate standing against Jack Straw in the coming election, Bushra Irfan, has already been told by the local election office that she will not be able to exercise her right to place her own seals on the ballot boxes, as the hasp only has room for the council's seals.
She has just erected an election banner on her own property. Within hours, council officials arrived to dismantle it on the grounds that it did not have planning permission. This ignores the fact that election advertising for a "pending election" is specifically exempted from need for planning permission. But aside from that, one wonders whether other planning issues in Blackburn draw the same instant hit-squad response from the council?
[ ... ]
So, there we have British elections today: an unfair electoral system, censorship of candidates' electoral addresses, little real political choice for voters, widespread postal ballot-rigging and elections administered by partisan council officials in a corrupt political climate.
Don't be surprised if New Labour do that little bit better, when the votes are counted, than you might expect. As Joseph Stalin said, it is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.
So are British elections still free and fair? If this were a foreign election I was observing, I have no doubt that my answer would be no.
It may be in the Guardian, but it's well worth going to read it all (plus comments)
HERE
Morg
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Thursday, 8 April 2010
TALES OF DIVERSITY
I am starting a series of articles as they come in on the benefits of diversity.
There may be times when there are intervals when nothing has been told to me but others when a lot comes in.
These are all what I have been told from people's personal experiences.
I will call these snippets of life in Britain "Tales of Diversity" copying the famous Roal Dahl's "Tales of the unexpected"
1 A foreigner goes into a crowded doctors surgery in Wigan and says, "I want see doctor"
Receptionist replies "you will have to wait 15 minutes."
The foreigner says "I see doctor NOW".
Eventually he settles down and waits and is called.
He replies "Tell doctor wait. I on phone"
2 Woman in Essex, recently unemployed after working without claiming for 29 years goes to job centre and asks about her National Insurance contributions.
Black woman says,"fill this form in".
Woman replies I only want to keep my NI paymwents up. I am not after money.
Black woman says. "ring any of these numbers on the phone over there"
After many attempts to get through she gets a connection. At the same time she hears a phone ringing near the black woman.
The phone is answered and it is a clerk near the black woman.
Question. Why did the black official not refer the British woman to the side counter?
Was she trying to humiliate the British woman who had paid into the system for 29 years?.
It seems like it.
Surely civility and cooperation would have been easier.
AN ADVANTAGE OF DIVERSITY
There may be times when there are intervals when nothing has been told to me but others when a lot comes in.
These are all what I have been told from people's personal experiences.
I will call these snippets of life in Britain "Tales of Diversity" copying the famous Roal Dahl's "Tales of the unexpected"
1 A foreigner goes into a crowded doctors surgery in Wigan and says, "I want see doctor"
Receptionist replies "you will have to wait 15 minutes."
The foreigner says "I see doctor NOW".
Eventually he settles down and waits and is called.
He replies "Tell doctor wait. I on phone"
2 Woman in Essex, recently unemployed after working without claiming for 29 years goes to job centre and asks about her National Insurance contributions.
Black woman says,"fill this form in".
Woman replies I only want to keep my NI paymwents up. I am not after money.
Black woman says. "ring any of these numbers on the phone over there"
After many attempts to get through she gets a connection. At the same time she hears a phone ringing near the black woman.
The phone is answered and it is a clerk near the black woman.
Question. Why did the black official not refer the British woman to the side counter?
Was she trying to humiliate the British woman who had paid into the system for 29 years?.
It seems like it.
Surely civility and cooperation would have been easier.
AN ADVANTAGE OF DIVERSITY
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