Is Britain The Most Corrupt Country In The World?

Gangs Are Taking Advantage Of Police Cuts.

The man responsible for tackling UK knife crime says cut-backs are hitting efforts to make the streets safer.
Police numbers are down 40,000 since 2010.
That includes 17,000 officers, so there are fewer ‘bobbies on the beat’.
Chief Constable Alfred Hitchcock, the National Police Chiefs Council’s lead on knife crime, said gang members were taking full advantage.
He said, “If the chance of getting caught isn’t as high, you are more likely to offend. It is a big concern.”
( Sunday Mirror, 12.06.2016 )

Is Britain The Most Corrupt Country In The World?

Britain is the most corrupt country in the world, according to journalist Roberto Saviano, who spent more than a decade exposing the criminal dealings of the Italian Mafia.
Mr Saviano, who wrote the best-selling exposés Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero, made the comments at the Hay Literary Festival.
The 36-year-old has been living under police protection since publishing revelations about members of the Camorra, a powerful Neapolitan branch of the mafia, in 2006.

He told an audience at Hay-on-Wye: “If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth you might tell me well it’s Afghanistan, maybe Greece, Nigeria, the South of Italy and I will tell you it’s the UK”.
“It’s not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s not the politics but what is corrupt is the financial capital, 90% of the owners of capital in London have their headquarters offshore.

Jersey and the Cayman’s are the access gates to criminal capital in Europe and the UK is the country that allows it.
That is why it is important why it is so crucial for me to be here today and to talk to you because I want to tell you , this is about you, this is about your life, this is about your government.”

Prime minister David Cameron faced growing calls for the UK to reform the offshore tax havens operating on its own Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories, as Britain hosted an Anti-Corruption Summit earlier this month.
The UK ranked 10th in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2015, which measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide.

Mr Saviano also weighed in on the EU referendum debate, arguing a vote to leave would make the UK even more exposed to the organised crime.
He said: “Leaving the EU means allowing this to take place. It means allowing the Qatari societies, the Mexican cartels, the Russian Mafia to gain even more power and HSBC has paid £2billion Euros in fines to the US government, because it confessed that it had laundered money coming from the cartels and the Iranian companies. We have proof, we have evidence.”
( Peter Yeung, 29.05.2016 )

Migrants Are Not To Blame.

If you or your family are struggling to get an affordable home, it’s not migrants who are to blame.
It’s politicians who have failed to build enough homes.
Under David Cameron’s Government new house builds have fallen to their lowest level since the 1920s.
If your son or daughter is in an oversized class at school, ask Michael Gove, former education secretary, why his Government is making the deepest cuts to the education budget since the 1970s.
Our public services are reeling from the impact of six years of Tory cuts, which have damaged our economy in the process.
( Jeremy Corbyn, Sunday Mirror, 12.06.2016 )

Freedom Of Speech Has Been Eroded.

Esteemed Oxford Professor Timothy Garton Ash says that due to counter-intelligence laws, freedom of speech has been so eroded that Jesus Christ would be banned from speaking at his university today.
Wouldn’t worry, Professor, because I reckon Jesus would take one look at your admissions process, realise it’s easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than a poor kid to make it into Oxford, and ban himself.
( Brian Reade, 04.06.2016 )

Michael Gove is an ideologically driven Neo Con and, ahead of the Chilcot Report’s publication, we would be wise not to forget he championed bombing Iraq within days of a 9/11 attack master-minded by Saudis.
( Daily Mirror, 02.07.2016 )

Among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.
( Barack Obama, May 2016 )

He Conned Many Voters With His Lies.

What a chiselling, selfish little coward Boris Johnson proved to be.
The crawler who backed Brexit to wear the Tory crown is a charlatan clown, leaving us to bear the cost of a PR stunt that backfired.
Families will pay a high price for Britain heading out of Europe after he fronted a campaign he barely believed in and conned many voters with his lies and inventions.
So he deserves every letter of each word of scorn heaped on his tatty mop.
( Daily Mirror, 01.07.2016 )

His Cruel Austerity Set A Disastrous Course.

They say all political careers end in failure.
But there are few, if any, Prime Ministers who have been the architects of their own downfall in such spectacular fashion as David Cameron.
Let us be clear, this referendum was his choice.
But his failures, even before this week, were substantial.
His cruel austerity set a disastrous course.
Cuts were targeted at welfare support for Britain’s poorest.

His handling of the NHS was reckless and failure to invest in affordable housing a national disgrace.
The truth is, Mr Cameron chose to balance the books on the backs of the poor.
It is ironic those same people came back to bite the Prime Minister on Thursday.
David Cameron was simply swept away by an outpouring of rage from the electorate.
And so, after six years, Mr Cameron will be remembered only as a failure, the Prime Minister who lost Britain’s place in Europe.
( Jack Blanchard, 25.06.2016 )

You don’t achieve peace by planning for war.
I believe in a nuclear-free Britain and a nuclear-free future.
( Jeremy Corbyn )

Despite his promise of withdrawing all British troops from Afghanistan, soon-to-resign, warmongering PM David Cameron has done another U-turn and is sending more troops there.
456 UK troops have died in Afghanistan since 2001.
( Orson W. Field )

When you destroy Unions there will be no standard at all, nobody left to negotiate decent jobs for the middle class.
( Bernie Sanders )

You Want An Itemised Bill ? That Will Be £8.00 Please.

Imagine shopping at Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Asda or Tesco.
And when you pay for your shopping being told it will cost you an extra £8.00 if you want an itemised receipt showing the purchases you have made.
And then being told it will cost you another £6.00 for ‘processing’ your payment.
This is what greedy British Telecom and other money-grabbing providers charge their customers, many of which include the elderly, the poor, and the disabled.
British Telecom, built and paid for by the people and once part of the Post Office, and then sold by the Conservative Government to their wealthy, fat-cat mates.
( Edwin Floors )

Violence Ends Up Defeating Itself.

Violence never brings permanent peace.
It solves no social problem.
It merely creates new and more complicated ones.
Violence is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding.
It seeks to annihilate rather than convert.
Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.
It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible.
It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue.
Violence ends up defeating itself.
It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
( Martin Luther King Jr. )