A Shameless Liar

Boris Johnson has broken another pledge when he shelved plans to run late-night tube trains.
It is the latest in a string of campaign promises broken by the Tory Mayor of London.
During the 2008 election he also said he would protect the number of tube ticket offices – but he has removed 450 staff and reduced opening hours.
Other manifesto pledges included getting more police on the street and improving affordable housing stock.
But the number of police officers is set to be cut by 455 and he scrapped the affordable homes targets.
Bloated Boris is a shameless liar, as is his Tory leader Cameron.

The Crumbling Ruins Of Battersea

The crumbling ruins of Battersea Power Station serve as a stark warning of the fate of public services if Cameron and his bunch are unleashed.
The neglected London landmark is an awful private sector failure.
In 1988, Maggie Thatcher fired a laser there to signal work on a theme park due to open in May 1990.
Twenty years on we are still waiting for the big dipper.

Cameron is becoming a son of Thatcher.
With one breath he says there’s a great big dirty hole in the public finances and in the next wants us to feel he’s going to fill it with tax cuts.
The Tory con-man offers a few tainted crumbs from the rich man’s table for the many while planning huge tax cuts for the few.

Cameron’s lie that he has changed his party has been exposed.
Look behind the occasional black face and odd Tory northerner and you’ll find a brigade of Old Etonians.
Cameron’s big society is a posh school called Eton.
The Tory leader could form a cabinet solely with MPs from his exclusive £29,000 a-year college.
Tories are not people like you and me.
If you want to be abandoned on your own, vote Conservative.

Smarmy, Poisonous, Slippery

What the experts say about Tory David Cameron:

“I wouldn’t trust him with my daughter’s pocket money”.
(Jeff Randall, Sky News presenter)

“Naïve and vacuous”.
(Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph columnist)

“If anyone had said he might be Prime Minster, I would have told them to get some help”.
(Chris Blackhurst, City Editor, London Evening Standard)

“Smarmy, poisonous, slippery”.
(Ian King, Financial journalist)

“He was obstructive”.
(Patrick Hosking, Investment Editor of The Times)

“I have heard he is not, sometimes, as nice in private as you might think”.
(Michael Portillo, Tory central office)

“He never wasted his time chatting to people he thought were unimportant”.
(Francis Elliot and James Hanning, Cameron’s biographers)

“He was a bombastic bully, dismissive of those who didn’t agree with him”.
(Central office colleague who wants to remain anonymous)

“in the modern world the combination of Eton, hunting, shooting and lunch at Whites is not helpful when you are trying to appeal to millions of ordinary people”.
(John Bercow, Tory speaker)

“The Tory Party seems to be run by old Etonians and they don’t understand how other people live”.
(Sir Tom Cowie, founder of Arriva).

“He is an out-and-out opportunist. I don’t believe he believes anything”.
(Robin Harris, Tory research department)

“In my experience, he never gave a straight answer.
Whether he flat-out lied I won’t say, but he went a long way to leave me with the impression that the story was wrong”.
(Jeff Randell, Sky News presenter).

“Aggressive, sharp-tongued, often condescending and patronising”.
(Chris Blackhurst, City Editor, London evening Standard)

“He was a smarmy bully who regularly threatened journalists. He loved humiliating people, including a colleague at ITV he would abuse publicly as ‘Bunter’, just because the poor bloke was overweight”.
(Ian King, financial journalist)

Cameron told “Grotesque Lies”.
(Dame Joan Bakewell)

Tory culture minister Ed Vaizey said David Cameron was privately very conservative and only pretended to be moderate for political gain.
Mr Vaizey also suggested that Cameron’s wife voted for Labour in 1997.

“I don’t believe for a minute he believes protecting the NHS is a good idea”.
(Frazer Nelson, editor of The Spectator)

“His comments show Cameron is nothing but a second-hand car dealer”.
(John Prescott, Ex-Deputy PM)

“I had the misfortune to work for David Cameron for a couple of months just after he was appointed to the shadow education brief in 2005.
Being an ex-journalist myself, I’ve worked for some nasty types in the past….. he was undoubtedly the nastiest”.
(A comment made to Peter Hitchins, The Mail On Sunday, by a person who wishes to remain anonymous)

Unborn Babies Can Hear Your Voice

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Why do babies make adults talk in silly voices?

A new baby is like a second-hand car.
It comes complete with two-lung power, toxic emissions, disposable seat-covers and an easily-flooded carburettor.

There is a question mark and promise and wild possibility that exist in each new born infant.
There are magic and mystery in that frail bundle of flesh.
He has genius in his tiny head.
He can grow and he can learn.
The beauty of the world is in his face.

A baby is born with a need to be loved, and never outgrows it.

Unborn babies begin yawning after eleven weeks in the womb.

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared – twins.

From just 16 weeks, unborn babies can hear your voice and your partner’s too.
By six months, although the womb is buzzing with sounds, they can isolate your voices from all others.

Research by Imperial College, London, found that babies born to depressed mums were prone to unhappiness from birth onwards.

Taste starts to develop in unborn babies at 14 weeks.
What the mother eats passes into the liquid around the baby in the placenta and they take tiny sips.

In a recent study, unborn babies were found to stop their breathing movements for up to 30 minutes after the mother had drunk just one shot of vodka.
Alcohol should be avoided completely while pregnant.

Depression Is Sadness Turned Malignant

Three million people in the UK at any given time suffer from depression.
Figures show that middle-aged women suffer more from depression and anxiety than any other group.
But there are no good explanations why.
Before adolescence the incidence is equal.
After puberty women are twice as likely to suffer than men.

Depression is sadness turned malignant.
Sadness is a perfectly normal emotion and its function is to restore one’s emotional balance after the loss of something or someone.
But just as normal cells can become cancerous, sadness can get out of control.

Doctors diagnose depression if you have five or more of the following symptoms:
A depressed mood for most of the day.
Diminished interest or pleasure.
Significant gain or loss of weight.
Inability to sleep or sleeping too much.
Reduced control of bodily movements.
Fatigue.
Feelings of worthlessness or guilt.
Inability to think or concentrate.
Thoughts of death or suicide.

The most common cure is antidepressants,
Which should be combined with cognitive behavioural therapy.
And exercise, which releases endorphins.

Taxes Will Reduce Their Profit.

David Cameron says thousands of top businesses have told him they don’t agree with the increase in national insurance contributions planned for next year by Labour.
Of course they don’t – it will reduce their profit.

“We are coming out of a recession and the recovery has taken hold.
It doesn’t feel like it, but it’s happened.
The cycle is now growth”.
(Sir Terry Leahy, Tesco boss, announcing a ten per cent rise in profits).

I Pray The Lord My Soul To Take

Dear God, help me to keep my hands from picking and stealing,
And my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the lord my soul to take.

Dear Mum and Dad

I will love you
As long as I can dream
As long as I can think
As long as I have a memory
As long as I have a heart to feel
As long as I have a soul stirring within me
As long as there is time
And as long as I have a breath
I will love you.

I Must Give All I Can

To give is the reason I live.
To give all I can give
In return for the life that I earn.
I was born as a part of the plan,
With the heart of a man,
With a will to survive,
And I believe everything on this earth,
Having meaning and worth,
Made of concrete and air, is to share,
And to feel just to find I exist,
To be scribed on the list
Of someone with a place in the sun.

Here I stand reaching out for the sky
Till the day that I die.
I must give all I can.
When I go I’ll go out empty hand,
Leaving dust to the land,
Just the soul I have found leaves the ground.

People Have Short Memories

People have short memories.
But for those of us old enough to remember, the fear that existed among ordinary Britons the last time the Tories were in power can never be forgotten.
Divided communities, chronic unemployment, a crippling sense of hopelessness.
Interest rates doubled in one day to 15 per cent.
90,000 homes were repossessed.
More than three million people languished on the doll queues with no hope in sight.
The NHS was close to breaking point, hundreds of hospitals were closed down.
It was a government of self-interest.
Eighteen years of Tory rule created a society of haves and have-nots.
The result of those lost years was widespread civil disorder.

The biggest indicator that this is the same self-serving Tory party of old is that they are advocating cutting inheritance tax for 5,000 millionaires.
The Tories have given an idea of the services they will cut –
Children’s centres, care for old people, training and work schemes – services that Cameron and his rich mates may never have any use for but which have a major impact on the quality of life of millions of ordinary people.

David Cameron wants to be Prime Minister of this country with a huge influence over all our lives.
Yet he is still quite startlingly unknown and has never been in a ‘proper’ job.
Before he became leader of his party, he had held no office of state and had been in parliament for less than five years.
He arrived where he is now only because of his rich family connections.
He has no experience, no credibility, and will be a puppet for all the rich, greedy, selfish people in his midst.

The right to vote was something our forefathers had to fight for.
Don’t squander their legacy.
Vote for a party that will lead us safely out of this present recession, and one which cares for everyone in society – not just the privileged few.