Thatcher Set Out To Destroy Entire Industries In An Appalling Act Of Political And Social Vandalism

Another Scandal By A Tory Government Minister.

UK Chancellor Philip Hammond took a personal stake in a food technology company just months before it won a share of a £560,000 Government grant and he became Chancellor.
Mr Hammond, when he was Foreign Secretary, took the 15% stake in Cambridgeshire-based Hydramach in October 2015, according to records at Companies House.

Months later, in April 2016, Hydramach was one of eight companies which won the grant to develop low fat and low sugar soups, ready meals and sauces from Innovate UK, a tech start up quango run by the Department for Business.

The fact that Mr Hammond took a direct stake in a company when he was a Cabinet minister with the possibility of receiving advance knowledge of Government plans for start-up companies is scandalous.
( The Telegraph, 11,01.2017 )

Poverty, Depression And Suicide.
Margaret Thatcher was determined to break the miners and engineered their crippling defeat. The Ridley plan detailed how they would fight, and defeat, a major strike in a nationalised industry.
In 1984, The National Union of Mine Workers went out on strike for a year over planned pit closures and their defeat marked the end of serious union might.
The coal industry was sold off and gradually shut down.
Communities had their hearts ripped out when the pits closed and many have still not recovered. High unemployment still haunts many former pit villages along with poverty, depression and suicide.
( Wilfred Soon )

Thatcher Set Out To Destroy Entire Industries In An Appalling Act Of Political And Social Vandalism.

The roots of the financial chaos can be traced directly back to October 27, 1986, when the biggest revolution in the financial markets took place.
Margaret Thatcher saw London being over-taken as the centre of world finance by New York and she decided that it’s problem was over-regulation.

The big bang saw an overhaul of the system with a ‘light touch’ approach to regulating banks and trading bonuses went through the roof as “greed is good” became the mantra and the markets became a casino.
Weak banking regulations led to the irresponsible lending that triggered the crisis.

On May 4, 1979, Margaret Thatcher strode into number 10 and Britain changed forever.
She will never be forgiven for crushing millions under her heels.
She set out to destroy entire industries in an appalling act of political and social vandalism.
Thatcher’s legacy is the drug abuse and crime in communities deliberately stripped of work and dignity.
( Orson W. Field )

It’s no coincidence that there are over 70 Tory MPs who are private landlords and the Conservative Party, including Mrs May, voted AGAINST a proposed Bill by Labour to force private landlords to make their properties ‘Fit for human habitation’.
( Rose Winfold, January 2016 )

The Tories Are Trying To Con The North Again.

The day Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced the cost and new route for HS2 from London, the Institute of Fiscal Studies reported the growing inequality between North and South.
Southerners now have average incomes 25% higher than northerners.
Talk about Mind The Gap!

But like Thomas the Tank Engine, Failing Grayling chuffed away with gusto.
He thought HS2 was “good news for everyone” and was “proud that it would be built and operated by the private sector, at a cost of £55billion and in over two decades”.

I recall a previous Tory Transport Secretary in 1996 said the same about HS1, the High Speed Channel Tunnel Rail Link from London to the tunnel in Kent.
They promised this Eurostar service would go to Scotland.
They even bought the sleeper train for it.
Yet within 12 months, the private company said it was going bust and demanded £2billion more of taxpayers’ support because it failed to estimate passenger growth and future costs.

It was my job as Transport Secretary in 1997 to sort out the mess.
I told them they could go whistle for the money and instead took HS1 into public ownership.
I reorganised its governance and finances without its extra demand for public subsidy.
We got it delivered on time and on budget without extra taxpayer money.

It became so profitable that Cameron’s Government privatised it.
But the route never extended to the North and we had to flog the unused sleeper trains to Canada!
Now the Tories are trying to con the North again.
( John Prescott, 23.07.2017 )

The Union of Jewish Students Receives Funding From The Israeli Embassy In London.
“The Israeli embassy in the UK gives money to the Union of Jewish Students,” pro-Israel activist Adam Schapira says, speaking to an undercover reporter.
This comes to light in episode one of Al Jazeera’s groundbreaking film ‘The Lobby’.
The UJS has long been an important part of the Israel lobby in the UK, so it is little surprise that evidence has emerged of financial links with the embassy.
UJS’s constitution commits it to “inspiring Jewish students to making an enduring commitment” to Israel.
( Asa Winstanley, 12.01.2017 )  ..  electronicintifada.net

Building Fire Safety Regulations Cut By The Tory Government.

In February 2017, ministers posted on a government website details of their ‘anti-red tape’ agenda on new-build properties.
In a separate report fire safety inspections, the Conservatives said, had been reduced for some companies from six hours to just 45 minutes.
The move, titled Cutting Red Tape, was part of the Tory plans to abolish a ‘health and safety’ culture that they claimed was hurting money-making businesses.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron promised to abolish the ‘albatross’ of ‘over regulation’.
He said in 2012 that a Conservative government would: ‘Kill off the health and safety culture for good’.
More than 2,400 pieces of regulation have been scrapped since Cut Red Tape began.

Sajid Javid, the business secretary, launched the Cutting Red Tape initiative in 2015 following the Conservative election victory.
On the official government website it said that it “aims to get rid of unnecessary bureaucracy”.
“It intends to shine a light on out of date legislation and confusing implementation of it, such as unhelpful government guidance or needlessly complex inspection regimes, to ensure they make sense. Businesses with good records have had fire safety inspections reduced from six hours to 45 minutes, allowing managers to quickly get back to their day job.”
( Charles White, 16.06.2017 )

A Disgraceful Political Swindle.

On 10 July 1958 in Grosvenor Square, London, the first 625 parking meters in the the UK commenced operations.
Charges were 6d for an hour and 1s for two hours.
Overstaying by less than two hours incurred a 10s penalty, rising to £2 for a four hour transgression.
Parking there today costs a minimum of £4 per hour, with a penalty of up to £120 for outlasting the welcome.

The first person to appear in court for a parking meter offence was 19 year-old Elizabeth O’Dwyer on 25 October 1958.
She couldn’t drive and did not own a car.
She was the secretary to a local businessman who had parked his car at a meter.
Realising that he was likely to overstay, he asked Elizabeth to put some more money into the meter for him.

This was not permitted by the by-laws, which forbade replenishment.
You had to vacate the space for at least an hour before bringing your car back.
Elizabeth was spotted putting her pennies in the slot by a meter attendant – not then known as traffic wardens.
The Westminster Council meter attendant had no powers to directly issue a summons and called for the police.

Two constables arrived and Elizabeth was arrested and subsequently summoned to appear in court.
The presiding magistrate thought the whole issue a waste of time and discharged her, but not without ordering her to pay 2s court costs.
Traffic wardens first appeared in September 1960.
There were 40 of them and 344 tickets were issued on day one.

The then chairman of the RAC was the volatile Wilfred Andrews, who loudly decried the whole practise as, “A disgraceful political swindle”.
Residents’ parking zones first appeared in Kensington and Chelsea in 1966.
The 1984 Road Traffic Act determined that henceforth parking offences were to be treated as civil, rather than criminal, cases.
( Martin Handley, January 2016 )