A Deliberate Policy To Impoverish The Public Sector And Hurt The Poor

A Creeping Form Of Tax.
London authorities are accused of generating income via controlled parking zones, bus lanes, congestion charges, parking tickets and so on, in lieu of traditional business rates and council taxes, which are politically more unacceptable.
It is a creeping form of tax which is undemocratic, bears no relation to ability to pay and is one of the small things that is really undermining the quality of life in London.
Parking tickets and fines are intended to improve traffic flow, not to raise revenue or penalise people carrying out their legal business.
( Edwin Floors )

The Increase In The Number Of Motor Vehicles.
In 1890, the average distance travelled by a UK citizen in a year was 13 miles.
A century later, many people would expect to cover the same distance every day.
The car had much to do with this.
By 1950, there were 2.26 million cars on British roads.
Some 20 years later, the number had increased five-fold, to 11.51 million.
By 2000, there were 26.5 million cars on our roads.
This equates to an increase in private motor vehicles of 1,200% within 50 years – in the same period road capacity rose by just 33%.
( Martin Handler, January 2016 )

Tories Have Always Put Themselves First.
If we truly lived in a country which works for everyone, the NHS would not be under-funded and parents would not be buying their children textbooks schools can no longer afford.
If we truly lived in a country which works for everyone, low-income families would not be paying for austerity while the better off get richer on low interest rates.
If we truly lived in a a country which works for everyone, workers would not be exploited by zero-hours contracts while bankers line their pockets with fat bonuses.
The Tories have always put themselves and their rich cronies first, and nothing Theresa May has done so far changes that view.
( Sunday Mirror, 23.04.2017 )

Failure Of ‘Big Society’ And ‘Shared Society’.
When over 100,000 children live in precarious housing such as other people’s living rooms, B&Bs or temporary shelters, where entire families kip on the floor, we have to admit that David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ and now Theresa May’s ‘Shared Society’ is more than a failure, it’s a social catastrophe.
( Orson W. Field )

Afternoon Tea.
The concept of afternoon tea is attributed to Anna Maria, the Duchess of Bedford who in 1841 began to regularly partake of tea and a light snack during the late afternoon to sustain her during the long hours between breakfast and evening dinner.
It became a social occasion, with friends joining her at Woburn Abbey and also at her London residence.
The practise became widely copied and evolved into elaborate society affairs with crust-free sandwiches and slithers of cake and scones presented on delicate china.
Guests would receive formal invitations and were expected to conform to contemporary etiquette concerning everything from what to wear, to how to pour the tea.
( Best of British Magazine, January 2016 )

Is Atheism A Religion?
Atheism, of course, is a ‘religion’.
Once you form a group and give yourself a label, and then promote your beliefs and condemn all others, whether it be a creator or an idol or a massive stroke of luck, then that becomes a ‘religion’.
Something is a religion if it has a position on a creator and/or the afterlife.
Atheism certainly does.‬
‪If they don’t have a position on the existence of a creator or the afterlife, they’re not religions.‬
‪You can believe in evolution without taking a position on a creator or the afterlife.
But evolution can take on a religious dimension if it is proposed as a reason to either reject or accept belief in a creator or the afterlife.‬
‪There is an Atheist ‘Church’ in London, and writer Alain De Botton unveiled a Manifesto for Atheists, listing ten virtues, or as the press dubbed them, ‘commandments’.
( Rose Winfold )

A Deliberate Policy To Impoverish The Public Sector And Hurt The Poor.

David Cameron sings for his roast poodle supper in South Korea, by telling businessmen that Britain can’t spend money today it may need tomorrow, when such a concept has never had to cross the mind of the banker’s son with a tax-haven trust fund who married into aristocracy.

He tells emergency service workers who lay down their lives every day that to ask for their first effective pay rise in nine years is “selfish”.
As Cameron told the South Koreans, the policy he introduced which caused untold misery and death is “so-called austerity”.
A deliberate policy to impoverish the public sector and hurt the poor, all in the name of bailing out and enriching the banking class.

Not all public sector workers have felt the pinch though.
Were I a paramedic who came home after scraping bodies off the M6 to hear Tory MPs cheering the vote that stopped me getting a pay rise I’d be raging.
Because this is the seventh year my pay would have been capped at 1% or frozen, meaning a real-term cut of 9% since 2010.

Meanwhile, an MP’s basic pay has gone up £11,000 in that time (to £76,011) with inflation-proof rises and a 10% hike in 2015.
A hike Cameron called the “going rate” for a highly demanding job.
Yes, so demanding that his co-austerity architect George Osborne recently managed to do it while holding down five outside jobs.
( Brian Reade, 08.07.2017 )

Five Billionaires Own 80% Of UK Media.
Rupert Murdoch, Fred Barclay, David Barclay, Jonathan Harmsworth, Richard Desmond.
The five billionaires who own 80% of the UK media.
Their influence on elections is huge, yet they and their companies are registered abroad.
They pay no UK tax, and that’s how they want it to stay.
Which is why they back the Conservative Party.
( Wilfred Soon )