One Of The Most Sinister Politicians This Country Has Ever Produced

Which Party Is Out To Destroy Businesses?

In the past two months, under this Tory government, Carillion has crashed costing 1,400 jobs and Toys R Us and Maplin have followed with the loss of 5,700.
Retail experts are now warning 20,000 high street stores could go over the next two years.
Northamptonshire County Council is one of the first of many local authorities to admit it is close to bankruptcy, saved only by savage cuts of £40million.
And this week the Institute of Directors and the CBI, which represents 200,000 companies, praised Labour’s post-Brexit economic vision saying they are “putting jobs and living standards first”.
Can someone remind me, which party is the one that’s the friend of businesses and which is out to destroy them?
( Brian Reade, 03.03.2018 )

The Number Of Homeless People Has More Than Doubled In The Last Five Years.

Last month, we heard how Tory-run Windsor council wanted to sweep every rough sleeper off its streets in time for the royal wedding.
Now we hear that Tory-run Bournemouth council have put bars on public benches to stop homeless people sleeping on them.
It’s as though they believe these poor sods are choosing this degrading, dangerous life.
And by shuffling them down the road the problem will go away.
Unless the root causes are tackled it won’t.

Their own Government’s figures show there were 4,751 people sleeping rough last autumn, a 15% rise on the previous year and more than double what it was five years ago.
Don’t they see the connection with austerity policies and changes to benefits, the rise in low-paid, insecure jobs, and out-of-control Rachman landlords?
Don’t they get that some people can hit rock bottom due to life-changing circumstances out of their control?
Or don’t they care?

The same people like to brag how this country has never been better off due to turfing out the last Labour government.
It doesn’t look like it does it?
( Brian Reade, 03.02.2018 )

One Of The Most Sinister Politicians This Country Has Ever Produced.

Because he was educated at Eton and Oxford and produces sentences peppered with classical references in the poshest of posh voices, with a distracted look that hints those he is speaking to are beneath his intellect, he is seen by many as an eccentric genius.
That’s how it is in this cap-doffing, know-your-place country.

BBC presenter Steph McGovern was spot-on this week when she said that British professions and institutions have an inherent bias against people who retain their working-class voice.

Boris Johnson consistently spouts gibberish yet is lauded because of how he gibbers it.
I can’t decide if he is the greatest advert for not wasting money on a public school education as it clearly doesn’t boost a child’s intelligence.
Or if he’s the best advert for doing so, as he shows the system is rigged for public school products to reach the top no matter how ignorant, so long as they sound right.

But I do think Johnson is one of the most sinister politicians this country has ever produced.
Made even more dangerous by a class system that makes those at the top feel utterly indestructible regardless of their many flaws.
( Brian Reade, 03.03.2018 )

Jeremy Corbyn Is An Anti-Racist, Not An Anti-Semite.

Firstly we need to restore some perspective.
The Labour party has thousands of Jewish members, many Jewish councillors, a number of prominent Jewish MPs and several Jewish members of its ruling council.
Many people at the heart of the Corbyn team, such as Jon Lansman, James Schneider and Rhea Wolfson are also Jewish.
Ed Miliband, the previous party leader, was Jewish (and suffered antisemitism at the hands of the press and the Conservatives).

I have been a member for five years and, as a Jew, have had only positive experiences.
Jeremy Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983, a constituency with a significant Jewish population.
Given that he has regularly polled over 60% of the vote (73% in 2017) it seems likely that a sizeable number of Jewish constituents voted for him.

As a constituency MP he regularly visited synagogues and has appeared at many Jewish religious and cultural events.
He is close friends with the leaders of the Jewish Socialist Group, from whom he has gained a rich knowledge of the history of the Jewish Labour Bund, and he has named the defeat of Mosley’s Fascists at the Battle of Cable as a key historical moment for him.

His 2017 Holocaust Memorial Day statement talked about Shmuel Zygielboym, the Polish Bund leader exiled to London who committed suicide in an attempt to awaken the world to the Nazi genocide.
How many British politicians have that level of knowledge of modern Jewish history?
( Joseph Finlay, a former Deputy Editor of the Jewish Quarterly, who co-founded a range of grassroots Jewish organisations such as Moishe House London, Wandering Jews, Jewdas and The Open Talmud Project, 02.03.2018 )

Government’s Analysis Suggests Our Economy Will Be Worse Off After Brexit.

So many lies and so much fear and ignorance about what Brexit meant were spread by both sides at the referendum that this country has seemed lost ever since.
Its sense of common purpose has gone and it’s slowly losing its marbles.
Europe asks us what we want but our Government can’t tell them because there is no united view, so there is no negotiating position.

A nation that was once admired for resolve and certainty is being mocked as a shambles.
And although many Leavers put that down to the sulking apathy of Remainers, it is really down to a Tory party that is terminally crippled over its view of Britain’s place in the modern world.
So paranoid and weak is Theresa May she won’t even publish her own Government’s analysis which suggests our economy will be worse off whatever the Brexit deal, in case the Brextremists try to sack her.

Britain may have voted for Brexit but until we have an idea what it looks like, how can we know it’s right for us?
You don’t look at a second-hand car you fancy online and buy it there and then.
You go and see it, kick the wheels, see if the mileage clock has been turned back and then decide.
Since June 2016, it has become clear that what we were asked to vote on was based on lies, fear, guess-work and emotion.

When a deal is struck we’ll have a more accurate picture of what Brexit means, risks, challenges, benefits, warts and all.
It’s surely in the interests of every Leave, Remain or Don’t Know voter to take a final, binding decision then.
( Brian Reade, 03.02.2018 )

The Tories Have Spent 70 Years Trying To Undermine The NHS.

Our PM declares we need a long-term plan for NHS and “we cannot afford to wait”.
That’s after chronic Conservative underfunding with a £20billion black hole and a freeze and cap on nurses’ pay.
Theresa May is not noted for long-term thinking or even carrying out her so-called statements, which change daily.

She declares she wants to raise more money for the NHS’s 70th anniversary.
But the Tories have spent 70 years trying to undermine its hospitals and staff.
Since the National Health Service was established by Labour in 1948, bitterly opposed by the Tories, it has mostly been managed by Tory governments, lurching from crisis to crisis, especially the 18 years under Thatcher and Major.

By the time they left power, people waited 18 months on average for an op.
Under Gordon Brown, Labour poured a huge amount into the NHS, restoring it to the European average healthcare expenditure.
It cut that wait to 18 weeks.
Labour then proposed further taxation by putting a penny on National Insurance, ring-fencing it for the NHS.
This was bitterly opposed by the Conservatives.

Now May is considering the same thing.
She says she wants a 10-year programme with extra taxation funding to be spent on hospitals and social services.
As we see so often, Theresa May and Theresa may not.

If she’s really serious about helping the NHS she can reverse her cuts to corporation tax, inheritance tax, the bankers’ levy and capital gains tax that will cost the UK £70billion by 2022.
By all means increase National insurance to pay for our NHS.
But don’t do it to subsidise tax breaks for a privileged and wealthy few.
( John Prescott, 01.04.2018 )