Meaningless Titles Are Given To Celebrities To Disguise The Knighthoods And Peerages That Are Quietly Delivered As Payback To Political Cronies

Guilt Is Not A Tory Characteristic.

West Ham chairman Karren Brady told the club’s fans not to get too nostalgic about leaving their old ground Upton Park, for the Olympic Stadium.
“I feel no guilt about moving as I know this move is the right one,” said the woman who secured the stadium which cost taxpayers £701million, for £15million plus £2.5million-a-year in rent.
With the taxpayer also picking up the tab for all the running costs.

So taking such obscene amounts from the public coffers, when her firm will earn £100million from TV alone this summer, leaves her with no guilt.
Even though she voted in the Lords for savage tax credit cuts for those who desperately need state support.
Proving that guilt is not a Tory characteristic.
It’s simply what they make others feel.
( Brian Reade, 14.05.2016 )

What Did Osborne Do?

To Thatcher’s children, the market is always right and Government intervention is wrong.
Rubbish!
When I was Transport Secretary, the head of the company building the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, or HS1, demanded £1.2billion on top of the £1.8billion he’d already been given or the project would collapse.

I refused, took HS1 into public ownership, issued Government bonds to raise finance and completed it on time and budget.
What did Osborne do?
He sold it back to the private sector!

GNER and National Express moaned they couldn’t make the East Coast rail route profitable.
Labour took it into public ownership, the service improved, passenger satisfaction increased and it made £1billion profit for the taxpayer over nine years.
Then Osborne sold it back to the private sector!
( John Prescott, 03.04.2016 )

Meaningless Titles That Refer To Some Lost Empire.

Once again we’re debating whether England’s national anthem should be something more inspirational than a mumbled, monotone plea to God to save a rich old woman.
Which qualifies every song from Terry Wogan’s Floral Dance to the Tweenies theme tune.
Jerusalem appears the favourite alternative, and as beautiful and stirring a socialist hymn as it is, there might be problems with English football fans using it to taunt Germans about how many Jews the Nazis displaced there.

Plus UKIP would no doubt cite “dark satanic mills” as a warning to multiculturalists about foreign child abuse rings in old northern cotton towns.
The good news is that no one seems to be opposed to ditching GSTQ, apart from that aristocratic ventriloquist’s dummy Jacob Rees-Mogg, who told the Commons it was a vital link to our “immemorial history” and if we scrapped it “we may as well go the whole hog”.

Actually, make that great news.
Because going the whole hog, and questioning why we still indulge most of that antiquated, ceremonial guff, is just what this country needs.
And how apt we have the debate in a week when two of the finest English performers of recent decades, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, died.

Because these two Londoners who rose from humble beginnings to forge global artistic profiles, didn’t just die with dignity from the same disease at the same age.
They died without Queen’s Honours’ List letters hanging around their names.
Actor Rickman reportedly turned down a CBE, as did Bowie, who also refused a knighthood.
Which makes them wonderful, principled human beings.

How I respect honours refuseniks for eschewing meaningless titles that refer to some lost empire, which are given to celebrities to disguise the knighthoods and peerages that are quietly delivered as payback to political cronies.
Bowie said when he turned down his knighthood: “I’d never have any intention of accepting anything like that. It’s not what I spent my life working for”.

Words of a true artist who would have felt his work tainted by being bracketed in the same Establishment club that had once frowned on his sexuality and lifestyle.
But what a national disgrace that we don’t have a respected, democratic, non-Masonic way of honouring distinguished talents who refuse to buy into the blatantly corrupt and secretive honours’ system, run by, and for, Establishment lackeys.
( Brian Reade, 16.01.2016 )

Cameron’s Pig-Headedness.

It took five years for the Tories to tax Google but they’re taxing December’s flood victims now.
The £5billion damage was made worse by their refusal to implement the Pitt Report’s recommendations after the 2007 floods.
That was compounded by Osborne cancelling flood protection projects, reducing resources and failing to sort out insurance in at-risk areas.

Now Cameron is refusing to claim from the EU Solidarity Fund because his Tory Eurosceptics would kick off
Italy, Bulgaria and Romania claimed £40million for their recent floods and Labour secured £127million from the fund in 2007.
But thanks to Cameron’s pig-headedness, Brits will now have to cough up increased council tax to pay for the damage.
Floody idiots.
( John Prescott, 31.01.2016 )

Turning Britain Into A Giant Car Boot Sale.

Flogging Britain at knock-down prices in the Tory one-party chumocracy is another “major success” for George Osborne after his cosy tax gift to Google.
The Chancer of the Exchequer selling on the cheap the public assets we all own is giving away the tablecloth and even the table itself after Maggie Thatcher disposed of the family silver.

Turning Britain into a giant car boot sale, with City speculators picking up the likes of Royal Mail and Eurostar, lines the pockets of fat-cats.
But it will cost us dearly in the long run.
Treasury boasts of the “biggest-ever sale of publicly owned corporate and financial assets”, should have fraud cops battering down the Chancellor’s door.

Why?
Because by incredible coincidence, the winners are the private in-equity pirates, hedge fund sharks and assorted spivs, including financiers of Osborne’s Tory Party. And the losers are we taxpayers.
Robbed blind, again.
( Kevin Maguire, 01.02.2016 )

Scargill, The Scousers And Doreen Lawrence Were Right All Along.

The release of 30 year-old papers tell us the private thinking of Thatcher’s government of the 80s, and confirm they were a callous, prejudiced, self-serving elite whose main motivation was defeating groups they viewed as enemies within.
Two years ago we learned they had a secret plan to crush the miners’ union by closing 75 pits, and were prepared to use the Army to achieve that goal.
Turned out mad man Scargill was right to be mad all along.

Two years before that we learned they chewed the fat on how to kill off Liverpool.
Or as her close confidante Sir Geoffrey Howe put it: “I cannot help feeling that the option of managed decline of Merseyside is one which we should not forget altogether”.
Turned out those paranoid Scousers were right to be paranoid all along.
And now we learn that when debating the alienation of young black people in our cities, Oliver Letwin argued there was no point giving them extra funding because it would only end up being blown on the “disco and drug trade”.

Letwin’s logic being that rioting is a non-white activity borne of “bad moral attitudes” endemic among black people.
How right Doreen Lawrence has been all these years to question why the white Establishment put such a cheap price on her murdered son’s life.
The Tories’ many allies try to pass off Letwin’s almost criminal racism by saying he’s a one-off who’s prone to gaffes.
Yet he is the PM’s chief policy adviser.

So how can an Old Etonian who is as remote from the reality of modern Britain as a blind, 97-year-old, solely Gaelic-speaking Outer Hebridean with Alzheimer’s be the main man Cameron turns to for advice?
(The clue is in the school).

As Thatcher’s heirs seek to complete her work by destroying the state, dismantling the NHS, crushing the unions and empowering the bankers (look how Osborne has ditched the probe into their Wild West behaviour) to protect their elite, Letwin is the spiritual link to their heroine.
A bearer of the prejudiced flame.

I hope that everyone outside of that elite who helped elect them in May feels good about themselves.
Especially those in the flooded parts of the north, who believed the savage cuts they voted for would only affect welfare scroungers.
Yet now realise that Osborne was slashing vital funds from every budget that didn’t affect him and his chums.

And with you being irrelevant northern oiks, hundreds of miles from the only flood defence that matters, the Thames Barrier, who cares?
As Johnny Rotten said at the last Sex Pistols gig: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
( Brian Reade, 02.01.2016 )

He’s Not As Nice In Private As You Might Think.

Was anyone really shocked at David Cameron referring to the Calais refugees as “a bunch of migrants”?
This is someone who was supping champagne and eating caviar on Concorde with the Gettys when he was 11.
Who no doubt, whenever he left Eton, had to get a fag to hold a hanky to his nose to hide the ghastly smell of the plebs wafting over from the Slough estates.
Michael Portillo once said of him: “I’ve heard he’s not as nice in private as you might think. It was said by people beneath him”. 
( Brian Reade, 30.01.2016 )

Duff Information From Intelligence Forces.

There was a beautiful irony in the small print of the 30-year-old state papers from 1985.
The Thatcher government was warned by intelligence forces that milk bottles were being stolen in London and Merseyside to be used in the making of petrol bombs for future riots.
But it turned out to be duff info.
The bottles were just being stolen by skint families for their, erm, milk.
Perhaps partly because when Thatcher was Education Secretary she stole milk from school classrooms.
As they like to say in looney left-hating circles, you couldn’t make it up.
( Brian Reade, 02.01.2016 )

His “Cunning Plans” Always Get Exposed As Being As Daft As His Haircut.

If you Google the word “gullible” you’ll find a picture of the Chancer of the Exchequer looking at you.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a week-long egoist for billionaires, George Osborne hailed the “major success” of getting Google to pay tax on its 10-year profits of £7.2billion.

If it were any other company, it would have paid 20% corporation tax of £1.5billion.
Instead he let it cough up an extra £130million on top of the measly £70million it had already paid.
That’s a tax rate of about 3%.
Compare that to Italy, where Google is being told to pay £113million in tax on profits of £760million.
That’s a tax rate of 15%, five times more than what Osborne agreed.

If the Chancellor had followed Italy’s lead the UK taxpayer would get £1billion.
That would build more than 4,000 council homes, guarantee a 3% pay rise for every nurse in the UK until the end of this decade or fund the flood defence projects they cancelled.
Even the French are demanding Google pay three times as much tax than Osborne settled for.

So why did the internet giant get such a good deal?
Well, I went online and googled “Tory, Google and links” to see if I could find any clues.
When the Tories were in opposition, Google paid for Cameron to attend their annual conference twice, in 2006 and 2007.
Then in the first two years of the Conservative-led coalition, Tory ministers met Google executives 23 times.
The Prime Minister saw them three times.
Osborne four.
Then between January 2014 and September 2015, Google met Government ministers 25 times.

Google was effectively meeting a Government minister once a month.
Within six months of coming to power, Osborne was writing joint articles with Google boss Eric Schmidt.
It seemed Google had joined the Coalition.
In a way it had, Schmidt was made a member of the PM’s Business Advisory Council, and three years ago he attended a tax avoidance summit at No 10.
A bit like inviting King Herod to a childcare seminar.

And in 2011, Osborne went to Google’s Zeitgeist conference and excitedly hailed “the impact that you are having, as internet entrepreneurs, innovators, technologists, on the world of government and politics”.
He wasn’t wrong.
Many senior figures have moved between Google and the Tories.

Former Tory leader Michael Howard’s political secretary Rachel Whetstone, a close friend of Cameron, became Google’s spin doctor and policy chief.
She just so happened to be married to Cameron’s No 10 director of strategy Steve Hilton.
And Cameron made Google’s former MD of Europe, Joanna Shields, his digital advisor and then a peer so she could become one of his ministers.

Why move to a tax haven when you can cut a deal with HMRC which is championed by the British Chancellor in a billionaire Swiss ski resort?
Talk about mates’ rates.

Osborne boasts about the Northern Powerhouse, then cuts funding to Northern councils by up to 40%.
He brags of a National Living Wage when it’s just a rebranded minimum wage (brought in by Labour) subsidised by tax credit cuts.
Osborne is the Baldrick of the Tory Party.
His “cunning plans” always get exposed as being as daft as his haircut.
( John Prescott, 31.01.2016 )

The British Public Must Wake Up.

Tory ministers such as Business Secretary Sajid Javid are false patriots.
He has blocked the increase of European tariffs on Chinese steel which would have made Britain’s steel industry more competitive.
The British public must wake up.
They have swallowed the Tory lie blaming the unions, benefit claimants and immigrants for all of our problems.
All this does is play into the hands of the corrupt, wealthy elite.
The fact that the European Commission is on the side of our steelworkers and others must surely send out a signal that to leave the EU would be a catastrophic own goal.
( Derek C. Ray, 15.02.2016 )

Do The Tories Hate The UK?
So, in the space of a couple of weeks the Tories lobby the EU against taking action on corporate tax avoidance and now so-called Business Secretary Sajid Javid stops any EU action against the Chinese dumping cheap steel on the UK and European markets.
Do the Tories hate the UK, apart from the City of London that is?
( Bill Edmunds, 15.02.2016 )

A Complete Embarrassment.
What a bunch of spineless, hypocritical Chinese puppets Cameron, Osborne and Javid are.
It seems they would rather have people on the dole than upset their mates in Beijing.
They are a complete embarrassment to this country.
( Dean Simon, 15.02.2016 )