This Filthy Business Is The Fault Of Cameron And Those Who Supported His Libya Adventure

Britain’s Huge Debt.

Britain’s personal debt mountain is £353billion.
To put that astronomical figure into perspective that’s more than three times the cost of the NHS.
One in six of us now owes money to someone other than our mortgage lender.
And the reason we’re in hock is that wages never picked up after the bank crash and are worth an average £40 less a week.
Ordinary people understood the need for austerity after our economy almost collapsed in 2008.
What they did not expect was to end up footing the entire bill while fat-cat bankers went on coining it with taxpayer bailouts.
So much for George Osborne’s mantra we were all in it together.
The truth is nothing really changed.
The same political elite carried on making the rich richer with tax breaks while cutting public services everyone else relies on.
( Sunday Mirror, 28.08.2016 )

Fire Officers Warn That Cuts Pose A Risk.
Chief fire officers have warned that further budget cuts pose a risk to community safety as official figures revealed the biggest increase in fire deaths for a decade.
The latest figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government show that 294 people died in fires in England during 2015, an increase of 21% compared with the 242 deaths recorded in 2014 and the largest increase since figures were published in 2001-02.
The chief fire officers from the six largest English cities outside London said the rise was worrying as the fire service faces budget cuts of up to 50% by 2020, from the 2010 benchmark.
( The Guardian, April 2016 )

Thanks To Cameron, Bully Bosses Are Getting Away With It.

The number of workers challenging unfair treatment has fallen by around 9,000 a month since fees of up to £1,200 were brought in by the Conservative Government three years ago.
A 73% drop in industrial tribunals for unfair dismissal, 71% for sex discrimination, 58% for race discrimination, and 54% for disability discrimination.
Bully bosses, thanks to David Cameron, are getting away with it.
In the U.S., there is basically one party, the business party.
It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
By and large, I am opposed to those policies.
As is most of the population.
( Noam Chomsky )

Laid-Back Italians Are More Productive Than The UK.
For all George Osborne’s bluster, Britain remains a low-wage, low-output economy.
British workers put in the longest hours in Europe yet produce less than any other major industrialised nation.
The French could take every Friday off and still produce more each week than we do.
And even the laid-back Italians are nine per cent more productive than us.
Of the original fifteen EU states, only Europe’s basket cases Greece and Portugal have lower hourly wages.
Instead of investing in plant and technology essential for long-term growth, business is investing in labour because it is so cheap.
( Nigel Nelson, 13.12.2015 )

Whole Communities Have Been Left Behind.

Our country has been let down and sold down the river by the Tories for too long.
When it comes to investment our government is as slow as the broadband in many of our homes.
Bulgaria has faster internet than we do, our railways are crying out for investment yet the privatised railways charge us the highest fares in Europe.
And our energy bills are a rip-off.
The new nuclear plant at Hinkley is state-funded by the Chinese and run by a nationalised French firm.
Our country wasn’t run by Brussels, it’s run by boardrooms across the world.
Whole communities have been left behind as high-skilled and secure jobs have vanished.
( Jeremy Corbyn, 04.08.2016 )

Drivers With Over 30 Points Are Still Allowed On The Roads.
Nearly 9,000 drivers in the UK are legally getting behind the wheel despite having 12 or more penalty points on their licence.
The number has soared by 25% since last year, and two drivers, from Liverpool and Basildon, Essex, are still on the roads despite both having accumulated 51 points.
When a motorist clocks up 12 points they have to attend court and can be banned for at least six months.
There are 12 motorists with 30 or more penalty points, up from eight last year.
( Daily Mirror, 12.08.2016 )

This Filthy Business Is The Fault Of Cameron And Those Who Supported His Libya Adventure.

It is almost physically painful to listen to our political leaders as they jut their chins, do their Churchill imitations, and march towards yet another disaster.
I ask all these people to see if they can arrange a weekend break in Libya, the country they ‘liberated’ a couple of years ago.
The Tripoli airport, alas, long ago closed and seems to have been burned down.
But perhaps they can hitch a ride on one of the pirate boats that criss-cross the Mediterranean, bringing uncontrollable legions of migrants to Italy, bound for Calais.
That filthy business, too, is the fault of our Prime Minister and those who supported his Libya adventure.
The disturbing scenes at Calais, as migrants battle to board British-bound ships, are David Cameron’s direct responsibility, and the responsibility of all those who uncritically backed his adventure.
Nobody goes to Libya, now a cauldron of blood and screams where no sane person will venture, a horror caused entirely by us.
( Peter Hitchens, 07.09.2014 )

Leaving would cause business uncertainty, while embroiling the Government for years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems that have nothing to do with Europe.
( Boris Johnson on Brexit, February 2016 )

British voters and European leaders should have one thing in common.
Not trusting David Cameron.
As slippery as a mud wrestler covered in grease.
The only thing open about Mr Cameron is his gaping mouth when he’s telling porkies.
( Daily Mirror, 18.12.2015 )

Twisting And Abusing Religion.
There are politicians who are twisting and abusing religion and different strains of the same religion in order to further their own political objectives.
And the tragedy for me, and that’s why you have these proxy wars being fought the whole time in that area, is that there is not strong enough leadership in the countries themselves.
That’s why you’ve got Saudi Arabia, Iran, everybody, moving in and puppeteering and playing proxy wars.
( UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson )

George Orwell was a patriotic, liberty-loving socialist who learned to loathe most of his Leftist comrades.
His writing, unlike theirs, was as clear as a newly cleaned windowpane.
That is because he, unlike them, refused to lie for the cause, and admitted its faults.
They loathed him for it when he was alive, and they always will loathe him for it.
( Peter Hitchens, 07.09.2014 )