One of the things I have come to realise over the years is that so many of our leaders do not have a clue about the reality for so many people. Whether it be business, banking or democracy. They are either; too stupid, too ignorant, too arrogant, naive or they just don't care, I think it is a mix of all these.
Now I know my posting are usually negative and if you read them you might think the world is a dreadful place, but I generally don't think this. I suppose I feel very frustrated by the decisions made by a very small group of people and how so many of these idiotic, ill thought out; laws, regulations and diktats massively affect us and our lives.
I also believe that the reasons for many of the changes in our laws and the rules that are forced on us are done for more sinister reasons. I have mentioned before The Lisbon Treaty; this treaty is massive and incredibly destructive, it removes the ability of nations to make their own decisions and basically destroys democracy. This treaty was drafted by Eurocrats, and its author, former President of France Giscard d'Estaing openly admits that it was written so it would be incomprehensible.
What concerns me most about all of this is that the majority of the population are ignorant of what is going on, and this has been a deliberate ploy by the politicians and the broadcasting media. I wrote about the BBC before and one of the things you will notice if you have ever watched it is, they very rarely, if ever criticise the EU.
Over the years the EU has grabbed more and more power. If the people of a certain country were given the opportunity to have a vote on a treaty and they rejected it they were made to vote again. The eurofanatics have driven on relentlessly in their euro dream of complete political union, and they are determined that nothing or no-one will get in their way.
This determination to take all power and to take total control is now starting to bring disaster to many countries. The euro was never going to work, as any semi competent economist will tell you there has never been a successful currency unless it is underpinned by fiscal and political union. The European Central Bank is currently buying 'bad debt'; they are buying Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Irish bonds because no-one else will buy them. They have done this to try and save their economies but it isn't going to work, the ECB has only a limited amount of money and cannot continue to spend billions every week on this bad debt. On top of this Europe's banks are under immense pressure and the ECB is expected to help them as well. This just cannot continue; regardless of whether you are the most ardent eurofanatic, the ECB and the countries of Europe just do not have the money.
Unfortunately for us this lot in charge do not care, they only care about one thing, and that is continued integration and the continued dream of complete political union. Well, whether they like it or not the simple fact is the euro dream isn't going to happen, it eventually is going to collapse, and I believe it is going to happen very soon.
Yesterday it emerged that Angela Merkal's coalition was in crises as she no longer had enough votes to secure backing to her and Sarkozy's Eurozone 'rescue' plan. Merkel's Bavarian sister party the CSU have rebutted the Franco-German plans and said that EMU countries in crisis should be allowed to default.
So the country that holds the power and money has basically had enough, this means the euro as it stands cannot continue. I have to be honest I have mixed emotions about this. On the one hand I am happy about the euro collapsing as this may start to bring an end to the insanity of the euro fantics dream, but on the other hand it will bring misery to many millions and millions of people.
I hope that what is happening in Europe will eventually give David Cameron a reality check, but I think it unlikely. He is in partnership with the complete eurofanatics, and if you read my previous post you will see what I think of them.
Let me highlight the idiocy of the eurofanatics, and the EU. The EU has brought out a regulation that will force about 1800 petrol stations to change their petrol pumps. The reason for this regulation is to stop these pumps releasing tiny amounts of chemicals into the atmosphere. Instead of ignoring this EU diktat (which any other country in the EU would do) our supine leaders will just enforce this regulation regardless.
This to me shows that those in charge really do not have a clue. As our economy continues to see no growth our politicians and civil servants continue to hamper business with more and more regulations which heap more and more cost onto many businesses, thus hampering growth.
The recent example of the government handing a multi-billion pound contract to build railway carriages for the Thameslink project to a German company highlights the complete idiocy of those in charge. I don't think anything will make these people change, I suppose the only thing that could make them change is if something happened to affect them personally. But until they are going to lose their jobs or houses nothing will make them change, and this is because they are totally insulated from the reality of everyday life. My only hope is that we start to see the people of this country wake up and elect a party that really cares about the people it is supposed to represent.
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Friday, 26 August 2011
Incompetent idiots
I have written a number of times about this issue, I have stated facts and figures, I have stated why I am against it and still it continues. And that is mass uncontrolled immigration!
If you are a regular reader of this blog you might ask yourself, what else can be said? I have written many times about this issue and why I am totally against mass immigration. If you want to know what I think and what I believe should be done about it please look back at my previous postings.
The government announced yesterday that net immigration has increased into this country in the last year, up from 198,000 to 239,000. This is after they stated they were going to reduce it to the 'tens of thousands from the hundreds of thousands.' We can now see that there is nothing they can do about this issue, without taking some radical steps. This isn't going to happen, even if David Cameron had the balls to do something about it, he can't because he is in a coalition with immigration loving liberals.
I have always wondered what world the liberals live in. And I have come to the conclusion that it is a complete fantasy land were everything is; rosy, nice, pink, lovely, squidgy, beautiful, soft, gentle; basically a land were normality does not exist.
If the liberals were in power and had their way they would allow complete uncontrolled immigration (we do have a little bit of control at the moment, not much mind you). They have stated that they would allow anyone who wants to come into this country to do so. How they would stop the more crowded parts of this country becoming even more crowded is to encourage them to go and live in the least crowded parts, like the north of Scotland.
If you think I am making this up, I am not! They stated this quite openly in the run up to last years general election. So let us look at the massive flaws in this ridiculously ill thought out and bone headed policy. Firstly, we cannot force anyone to move anywhere they don't want to, so you can encourage them as much as you want but if they don't want to move you can't make them. Secondly, people go where the work is, there are reasons why the north of Scotland is sparsely populated, it is because there is no work and nothing to do. Thirdly, there are currently 2.5 million people unemployed, why do we need more people coming into this country to do work that isn't there?
On this point of work, government figures have shown that 98 per cent of jobs created under Labour went to foreigners, this government have continued this tradition and two thirds of jobs created in the past year have gone to foreigners. The government have stated that they have created 400,00 new jobs in the past year; that may be true but as you can see the majority have gone to foreigners. That is why unemployment is not going down!
The reason I titled this post incompetent idiots, is because I simply believe that the people running this country are that. We have men and women sitting doing jobs that they have no qualification to do, or if they have the relevant qualification they have no experience in doing the job, but somehow end up in charge and running a government department and making decisions that effect millions of people.
Just because someone has a qualification in something doesn't necessarily mean they will be any good at it. I am a fireman and I have worked with someone who had the right qualifications, they completed the right courses and then they were put in charge of a fire station and firemen. And you know what, they were completely useless, they were so bad, firemen refused to work under him; he eventually had to be moved into an office job.
There are other examples I could use, and this is my point. Many are given the opportunity to prove themselves as able politicians but are simply not suited to do it. Gordon Brown went to university and achieved a good level of education, but made an almighty mess of this countries finances. And the same could be said of many, many politicians, they try new initiatives, they make grandiose promises, but when it comes to the crunch many, many times they make a complete mess and fail. So maybe this shows that many in charge should not be, and are just not competent to be in charge.
If you wanted a new central heating system put in your house, who would you call? A plumber of course, you call the right man for the job. But many of our politicians end up doing work they are just not suited to be doing.
And this brings me back to the issue of immigration. David Cameron and his colleagues are insisting they are doing something about this issue, but the facts speak for themselves and show they are not, they are in fact getting worse. David Cameron cannot control immigration and is lying to us over this issue, he is insisting that things are going to change, but they won't. So, as far as I can see he is not able to do the job he was elected to do, he has promised many things, and has failed to follow through on those promises (by the way he has just broken another promise to shut down all social media sites during riots; he can't do this because of the human rights act). So he has shown, like his predecessor that he is unable to do the job, so surely he should be sacked.
If you employed a builder to build you a house and he kept promising that he would build it by a certain date, but never followed through with what he said, would you employ him? And this is the problem, many politicians promise much but deliver little, most of the time I think it is down to sheer incompetence. Is it not about time we started to look at a different party, maybe if people took a bit more interest in politics they would look at a totally different political party. As far as I can see the three main parties have had their way for so long and have only made a complete mess, surely it is about time we had change, I am sure someone else couldn't do any worse.
If you are a regular reader of this blog you might ask yourself, what else can be said? I have written many times about this issue and why I am totally against mass immigration. If you want to know what I think and what I believe should be done about it please look back at my previous postings.
The government announced yesterday that net immigration has increased into this country in the last year, up from 198,000 to 239,000. This is after they stated they were going to reduce it to the 'tens of thousands from the hundreds of thousands.' We can now see that there is nothing they can do about this issue, without taking some radical steps. This isn't going to happen, even if David Cameron had the balls to do something about it, he can't because he is in a coalition with immigration loving liberals.
I have always wondered what world the liberals live in. And I have come to the conclusion that it is a complete fantasy land were everything is; rosy, nice, pink, lovely, squidgy, beautiful, soft, gentle; basically a land were normality does not exist.
If the liberals were in power and had their way they would allow complete uncontrolled immigration (we do have a little bit of control at the moment, not much mind you). They have stated that they would allow anyone who wants to come into this country to do so. How they would stop the more crowded parts of this country becoming even more crowded is to encourage them to go and live in the least crowded parts, like the north of Scotland.
If you think I am making this up, I am not! They stated this quite openly in the run up to last years general election. So let us look at the massive flaws in this ridiculously ill thought out and bone headed policy. Firstly, we cannot force anyone to move anywhere they don't want to, so you can encourage them as much as you want but if they don't want to move you can't make them. Secondly, people go where the work is, there are reasons why the north of Scotland is sparsely populated, it is because there is no work and nothing to do. Thirdly, there are currently 2.5 million people unemployed, why do we need more people coming into this country to do work that isn't there?
On this point of work, government figures have shown that 98 per cent of jobs created under Labour went to foreigners, this government have continued this tradition and two thirds of jobs created in the past year have gone to foreigners. The government have stated that they have created 400,00 new jobs in the past year; that may be true but as you can see the majority have gone to foreigners. That is why unemployment is not going down!
The reason I titled this post incompetent idiots, is because I simply believe that the people running this country are that. We have men and women sitting doing jobs that they have no qualification to do, or if they have the relevant qualification they have no experience in doing the job, but somehow end up in charge and running a government department and making decisions that effect millions of people.
Just because someone has a qualification in something doesn't necessarily mean they will be any good at it. I am a fireman and I have worked with someone who had the right qualifications, they completed the right courses and then they were put in charge of a fire station and firemen. And you know what, they were completely useless, they were so bad, firemen refused to work under him; he eventually had to be moved into an office job.
There are other examples I could use, and this is my point. Many are given the opportunity to prove themselves as able politicians but are simply not suited to do it. Gordon Brown went to university and achieved a good level of education, but made an almighty mess of this countries finances. And the same could be said of many, many politicians, they try new initiatives, they make grandiose promises, but when it comes to the crunch many, many times they make a complete mess and fail. So maybe this shows that many in charge should not be, and are just not competent to be in charge.
If you wanted a new central heating system put in your house, who would you call? A plumber of course, you call the right man for the job. But many of our politicians end up doing work they are just not suited to be doing.
And this brings me back to the issue of immigration. David Cameron and his colleagues are insisting they are doing something about this issue, but the facts speak for themselves and show they are not, they are in fact getting worse. David Cameron cannot control immigration and is lying to us over this issue, he is insisting that things are going to change, but they won't. So, as far as I can see he is not able to do the job he was elected to do, he has promised many things, and has failed to follow through on those promises (by the way he has just broken another promise to shut down all social media sites during riots; he can't do this because of the human rights act). So he has shown, like his predecessor that he is unable to do the job, so surely he should be sacked.
If you employed a builder to build you a house and he kept promising that he would build it by a certain date, but never followed through with what he said, would you employ him? And this is the problem, many politicians promise much but deliver little, most of the time I think it is down to sheer incompetence. Is it not about time we started to look at a different party, maybe if people took a bit more interest in politics they would look at a totally different political party. As far as I can see the three main parties have had their way for so long and have only made a complete mess, surely it is about time we had change, I am sure someone else couldn't do any worse.
Thursday, 25 August 2011
David Cameron and broken promises
I just wanted to add to my list of David Cameron's broken promises, and particularly what he said when he promised the British people a referendum on the Lisbon treaty/EU Constitution. So here it is, this is what he said on 26 September 2007 in The Sun newspaper. He picked The Sun deliberately because he knew it had the most readers of any paper and would have the most influence over the outcome of an election.
'I’ve got a couple of simple questions for Gordon Brown.What makes you think you can break your promises to the British people? And what makes you think you can change the way our country is governed without asking the British people first? There’s a simple answer to both questions: Arrogance. And when it comes to Europe, arrogance is what we’ve seen from Labour time and time again. It’s the arrogance that says: “We, the powerful elites, know best.”It’s the arrogance that puts more and more decisions in the hands of bureaucrats that no one’s ever heard of and no one can ever get rid of if they do a bad job. And it’s the arrogance that Gordon Brown displays when he says we don’t need a referendum on the European constitution.
Labour’s last Election manifesto could not have been clearer on the EU constitution. It said: “We will put it to the British people in a referendum, and campaign wholeheartedly for a Yes vote.”And just two months ago, Gordon Brown said: “The manifesto is what we put to the public. We’ve got to honour that manifesto.“That is an issue of trust with me and the electorate.”Now he’s done a massive EU-turn.
I think this kind of shameless arrogance is the big cancer eating away at trust in politics. Who can be surprised that people have less faith in politicians if they break their promises so casually? Why should anyone bother to vote if the real decisions that affect our lives are made somewhere else? This is the 21st Century. People are demanding? and getting? more and more control over their lives. Many decisions that once used to be made by the “powers that be” are now in your hands? And that’s a great thing.
These days, no one should have to take what they’re given any more. That’s why I believe so strongly that we should have a referendum on the European constitution. Because it would transfer power from our elected Parliament to the EU’s unelected bureaucrats, I would campaign for a resounding NO vote. And because it includes the power to transfer even more power from Westminster to Brussels, without even the need for a new treaty, this could be our last chance to stop the EU juggernaut. Gordon Brown should be in no doubt: If he’s got the courage to hold an early election, as he should, our referendum pledge will be right there in our manifesto, giving the British people a clear choice.
But we shouldn’t have to wait for a General Election to get the referendum we need. Today we are launching a new campaign, “Don’t Let Brown Let EU Down” to keep the pressure up. Labour MPs in Parliament today were elected on a manifesto promise that their Government would hold a referendum on the European constitution. So let’s hold them to it. By going to our website, conservatives.com Sun readers can see if their local MP is Labour, then send them a letter asking them to tell Gordon Brown to keep Labour’s manifesto promise.
When Parliament returns in the autumn, we will hold a vote demanding the Government gives Britain a referendum on the European constitution. Sun readers will then be able to judge whether Labour MPs and Gordon Brown can be trusted. When he took over as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown told us he would be “humble” and that he would listen to the people. Well, if he breaks his referendum promise now, everyone will know that was just the same old spin from a Labour Party that hasn’t changed.'
Well there you have it, I think we can pretty much say that David Cameron is just the same as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, if you needed proof there it is, in black and white.
'I’ve got a couple of simple questions for Gordon Brown.What makes you think you can break your promises to the British people? And what makes you think you can change the way our country is governed without asking the British people first? There’s a simple answer to both questions: Arrogance. And when it comes to Europe, arrogance is what we’ve seen from Labour time and time again. It’s the arrogance that says: “We, the powerful elites, know best.”It’s the arrogance that puts more and more decisions in the hands of bureaucrats that no one’s ever heard of and no one can ever get rid of if they do a bad job. And it’s the arrogance that Gordon Brown displays when he says we don’t need a referendum on the European constitution.
Labour’s last Election manifesto could not have been clearer on the EU constitution. It said: “We will put it to the British people in a referendum, and campaign wholeheartedly for a Yes vote.”And just two months ago, Gordon Brown said: “The manifesto is what we put to the public. We’ve got to honour that manifesto.“That is an issue of trust with me and the electorate.”Now he’s done a massive EU-turn.
I think this kind of shameless arrogance is the big cancer eating away at trust in politics. Who can be surprised that people have less faith in politicians if they break their promises so casually? Why should anyone bother to vote if the real decisions that affect our lives are made somewhere else? This is the 21st Century. People are demanding? and getting? more and more control over their lives. Many decisions that once used to be made by the “powers that be” are now in your hands? And that’s a great thing.
These days, no one should have to take what they’re given any more. That’s why I believe so strongly that we should have a referendum on the European constitution. Because it would transfer power from our elected Parliament to the EU’s unelected bureaucrats, I would campaign for a resounding NO vote. And because it includes the power to transfer even more power from Westminster to Brussels, without even the need for a new treaty, this could be our last chance to stop the EU juggernaut. Gordon Brown should be in no doubt: If he’s got the courage to hold an early election, as he should, our referendum pledge will be right there in our manifesto, giving the British people a clear choice.
But we shouldn’t have to wait for a General Election to get the referendum we need. Today we are launching a new campaign, “Don’t Let Brown Let EU Down” to keep the pressure up. Labour MPs in Parliament today were elected on a manifesto promise that their Government would hold a referendum on the European constitution. So let’s hold them to it. By going to our website, conservatives.com Sun readers can see if their local MP is Labour, then send them a letter asking them to tell Gordon Brown to keep Labour’s manifesto promise.
When Parliament returns in the autumn, we will hold a vote demanding the Government gives Britain a referendum on the European constitution. Sun readers will then be able to judge whether Labour MPs and Gordon Brown can be trusted. When he took over as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown told us he would be “humble” and that he would listen to the people. Well, if he breaks his referendum promise now, everyone will know that was just the same old spin from a Labour Party that hasn’t changed.'
Well there you have it, I think we can pretty much say that David Cameron is just the same as Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, if you needed proof there it is, in black and white.
The BBC and left wing, politically correct bias.
One thing I and many people have noticed is how left wing and politically correct the BBC is. This was highlighted by a recent event that many in this country were rejoicing about; England thrashed the Indians at cricket to become the number one side in the world. You might think this rather unimportant, but many people love this sport (myself included) and think this is something that should be celebrated.
Not the BBC of course, in its sports coverage the BBC didn't show any of this series and only gave about a minute to it on its news bulletins. Newsnight (the BBC's flagship news programme) gave a lot more time to this event, and what was Newsnight's response to this great success? Did they highlight the fact that only ten years ago England were the laughing stock of world cricket, languishing at the bottom of the world rankings? Did they look at how England have restructured its whole set up to bring us to this pinnacle of excellence? Did it celebrate a magnificent four nil thrashing of the number one cricket team in the world? Of course not!
Newsnight gave a substantial amount of airtime over to asking why there were no Asians in the team. There then followed film footage from Birmingham and the studio with comments bordering on racism. We heard Asians blaming class discrimination, lack of facilities, bigotry by cricket clubs and the fact that the England cricket team was packed with ex-public school boys (many like Tim Bresnan and Matt Prior did not attend public school).
Maybe the simple fact is that many are not good enough, or many do not feel English and wouldn't want to play for England anyway. What I do find strange is that one of England's captains (Nasser Hussien) was born in India, maybe they should have highlighted that FACT! Rather than focusing on something which is someones politically correct, left wing, liberal opinion.
Unfortunately this does not surprise me; I have watched many programmes and news bulletins and witnessed a bias in favour of left wing dogma, even when talking about so called factual subjects. I have watched a news report by the BBC, and later watched the same story on ITN or Sky and seen that it has been reported differently with no left wing bias.
I used to watch Question Time on a regular basis, but got so fed up with the left wing bias I very seldom watch it. I am amazed that the BBC, which is supposed to be an unbiased, neutral organisation gets away with this, but I am not surprised. One of the problems we have with the BBC, politicians, all public sector bodies is that they are 'institutionally left wing'.
A number of years ago Lord Macpherson looked into the case of the mishandling of the Stephen Lawrence murder case. A black boy was murdered in London by 5 white men, and for whatever reason, probably incompetence more than anything they walked free from court. The government commissioned an inquiry into this appalling miscarriage of justice and Lord Macpherson who chaired it came up with the conclusion that the Metropolitan Police was 'institutionally racist'.
Likewise if a commission looked into the behaviour of the BBC, they would come to the conclusion that this publicly funded body is so biased towards a left wing point of view that the majority of their output could be called left wing propaganda. I believe this to be a problem for this simple reason that the BBC holds massive sway over public opinion and has a responsibility in its news broadcasting to inform the general public of facts not opinion. The left wing politically correct agenda of the BBC is most obvious when reporting on; Israel, immigration, climate change, education, the EU, the recent riots; basically anything!
Now I do not have a problem with the BBC airing programmes in which they let people air their opinions, this is what the BBC is for. But what I do have a problem is when anyone who appears on a current affairs programme; Question time or Newsnight for instance and states a point of view that does not go along with the politically correct, left wing consensus is harangued and verbally abused. I have watched many times as someone states a perfectly reasonable point of view which is right of centre, and the reaction from those watching is complete shock.
The problem with the BBC promoting this left wing, politically correct agenda is that so many people who hold a point of view that is different to this believe that their viewpoints are in the minority and somehow extreme. I have sat and spoken to people about the issue of immigration and their concerns and they have started to automatically speak in a whisper, as if what they are saying is wrong, dangerous and subversive and if they were overheard they could end up in prison, or at the very least sacked from their job for holding such a point of view.
The BBC has a responsibility to bring balance but unfortunately they do not, and this is the problem. Many who work for this organisation only work and talk to those who hold their point of view and anyone who holds a different view point are seen as wrong, so they will always be seen as extreme, so will very rarely be given the opportunity to bring balance. This is why the BBC should be reformed, but unfortunately this left wing balance runs through government so it is unlikely to change.
Not the BBC of course, in its sports coverage the BBC didn't show any of this series and only gave about a minute to it on its news bulletins. Newsnight (the BBC's flagship news programme) gave a lot more time to this event, and what was Newsnight's response to this great success? Did they highlight the fact that only ten years ago England were the laughing stock of world cricket, languishing at the bottom of the world rankings? Did they look at how England have restructured its whole set up to bring us to this pinnacle of excellence? Did it celebrate a magnificent four nil thrashing of the number one cricket team in the world? Of course not!
Newsnight gave a substantial amount of airtime over to asking why there were no Asians in the team. There then followed film footage from Birmingham and the studio with comments bordering on racism. We heard Asians blaming class discrimination, lack of facilities, bigotry by cricket clubs and the fact that the England cricket team was packed with ex-public school boys (many like Tim Bresnan and Matt Prior did not attend public school).
Maybe the simple fact is that many are not good enough, or many do not feel English and wouldn't want to play for England anyway. What I do find strange is that one of England's captains (Nasser Hussien) was born in India, maybe they should have highlighted that FACT! Rather than focusing on something which is someones politically correct, left wing, liberal opinion.
Unfortunately this does not surprise me; I have watched many programmes and news bulletins and witnessed a bias in favour of left wing dogma, even when talking about so called factual subjects. I have watched a news report by the BBC, and later watched the same story on ITN or Sky and seen that it has been reported differently with no left wing bias.
I used to watch Question Time on a regular basis, but got so fed up with the left wing bias I very seldom watch it. I am amazed that the BBC, which is supposed to be an unbiased, neutral organisation gets away with this, but I am not surprised. One of the problems we have with the BBC, politicians, all public sector bodies is that they are 'institutionally left wing'.
A number of years ago Lord Macpherson looked into the case of the mishandling of the Stephen Lawrence murder case. A black boy was murdered in London by 5 white men, and for whatever reason, probably incompetence more than anything they walked free from court. The government commissioned an inquiry into this appalling miscarriage of justice and Lord Macpherson who chaired it came up with the conclusion that the Metropolitan Police was 'institutionally racist'.
Likewise if a commission looked into the behaviour of the BBC, they would come to the conclusion that this publicly funded body is so biased towards a left wing point of view that the majority of their output could be called left wing propaganda. I believe this to be a problem for this simple reason that the BBC holds massive sway over public opinion and has a responsibility in its news broadcasting to inform the general public of facts not opinion. The left wing politically correct agenda of the BBC is most obvious when reporting on; Israel, immigration, climate change, education, the EU, the recent riots; basically anything!
Now I do not have a problem with the BBC airing programmes in which they let people air their opinions, this is what the BBC is for. But what I do have a problem is when anyone who appears on a current affairs programme; Question time or Newsnight for instance and states a point of view that does not go along with the politically correct, left wing consensus is harangued and verbally abused. I have watched many times as someone states a perfectly reasonable point of view which is right of centre, and the reaction from those watching is complete shock.
The problem with the BBC promoting this left wing, politically correct agenda is that so many people who hold a point of view that is different to this believe that their viewpoints are in the minority and somehow extreme. I have sat and spoken to people about the issue of immigration and their concerns and they have started to automatically speak in a whisper, as if what they are saying is wrong, dangerous and subversive and if they were overheard they could end up in prison, or at the very least sacked from their job for holding such a point of view.
The BBC has a responsibility to bring balance but unfortunately they do not, and this is the problem. Many who work for this organisation only work and talk to those who hold their point of view and anyone who holds a different view point are seen as wrong, so they will always be seen as extreme, so will very rarely be given the opportunity to bring balance. This is why the BBC should be reformed, but unfortunately this left wing balance runs through government so it is unlikely to change.
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Unemployment and excuses
The government has released the latest unemployment figures and these have shown that there has been a rise of 38,000, and it doesn't look like there is going to be a fall in the near future. There are a number of reasons for this increase, and I think the main one is the simple fact that we are in a recession.
The government, Labour and many other people are stating the reason for this are many reasons, but one thing isn't being debated is the effect immigration is having upon our economy and unemployment figures.
I truly believe we are sitting on the edge of a precipice of immense proportions, and if something isn't done about it and done soon these riots that have occurred are going to look like a picnic in comparison to what could happen. What do I mean? Well let's look at some facts, under Labour we had massive economic growth and many jobs were created, mostly in the public sector, but 98 per cent of all jobs created went to immigrants. There were three main reasons for this, those coming from abroad would work for less so employers would employ them on this simple basis. Two, the government increased benefits so much many were better off if they didn't work. And three, many of those on benefits became lazy and didn't have any work ethic.
The number of immigrant workers has reached a record high of 4.1million according to figures from the Office of National Statistics. In the last year 100,000 British people have lost their jobs, but nearly 300,000 foreigners have found work. This is a horrendous statistic and is just not being addressed.
It is feared that unemployment is going to rise by a further 150,000 over the next year. A report by the British Chamber of Commerce released yesterday stated that many school leavers and graduates are unemployable and warned 'In general, younger people lack numerical skills, research skill, ability to focus and read, plus written English.'
Nearly half of 2000 small firms being polled by the BCC said they would be 'fairly or very nervous' about hiring someone who had just finished their A-levels. I think this is appalling, this year for the 29th year in a row has seen an improvement in A-level results, this should raise alarm bells. Only a few years ago if someone went to college, worked hard and managed to get themselves 3 A-levels they were deemed intelligent and very employable, that doesn't seem to be the case today.
There are two issues here; one is the fact that we are continuing to see a rise in unemployment among British people and an increase in employment amongst foreigners. And secondly many people in this country are unemployable.
The simple fact is there is nothing we can do about about employers employing foreigners, as long as we are part of the EU; I have spoken about this before, and until we leave nothing will change. The issue of unemployable British people can be addressed; currently we have a situation in which many have no need to work, this needs to change. Employers argue, and rightly so that they should be able to employ whoever they want, and if the British worker is not capable or willing to do the work they should be able to employ a foreigner. And I agree, if I was running a business I would employ the best person for the job. But this does not solve the fundamental problem of unemployment and unemployable British people.
So what is the solution? As I have stated above there are many who do not need to work so don't, there needs to be a fundamental change in how these people look at life. Many think the world owes them a living, and do not feel they need to take any responsibility for their own life or their families. They pay no rent, pay no bills, pay nothing for their food, they get it all for free off the tax payer. And this is the problem, they take no responsibility and don't need too, well I have a simple solution, if someone does not take a job that is offered to them and has no genuine reason for not doing that job take all their benefits away from them, and their council house, they either starve or work. You might think that sounds harsh but I believe this is the only way someone will work.
The issue of school/college leavers not having the basic skills in reading, writing and maths is a travesty and an outrage, and successive governments, particularly the previous one has to be held to account for this. The government and education system has failed hundreds of thousands of young people, and this needs to be addressed, but until there is a fundamental rethink and change in how we educate our young people nothing will change. The reason I think things are unlikely to change is, I was listening to a debate about the recent riots and a governor of a local school who was a local councillor stated basically that everything was great in her school and nothing needed to change.
The fact that there are many people who are incapable of working doesn't mean that is the same for everyone that is unemployed. And here comes the crux of the issue with immigrant workers; there are many young people, middle aged and older people who are capable and able to work but the simple fact is there is either no jobs or employers who are only willing to take on British workers. The fact of nearly 300,000 foreigners gaining work and 100,000 British losing their jobs speaks for itself.
The public sector is going to continue to cut workers, this means even more looking for work. Whether the government or employers like it or not this issue of immigration needs to be addressed or we are going to end up in a hole we cannot climb out off. We will continue to see a growth in an underclass who will never work and sees work as totally abnormal. We will see a growth in social problems as those who would love to work not being able to simply because there are no jobs or employers who are not willing to because they are British, and see no future. We will see more disenfranchised people who have no hope, so do not care about their community and then descend into crime and then riot. This all sounds rather depressing but the roots of the issue are not being addressed and until they are I cannot see things changing.
The government, Labour and many other people are stating the reason for this are many reasons, but one thing isn't being debated is the effect immigration is having upon our economy and unemployment figures.
I truly believe we are sitting on the edge of a precipice of immense proportions, and if something isn't done about it and done soon these riots that have occurred are going to look like a picnic in comparison to what could happen. What do I mean? Well let's look at some facts, under Labour we had massive economic growth and many jobs were created, mostly in the public sector, but 98 per cent of all jobs created went to immigrants. There were three main reasons for this, those coming from abroad would work for less so employers would employ them on this simple basis. Two, the government increased benefits so much many were better off if they didn't work. And three, many of those on benefits became lazy and didn't have any work ethic.
The number of immigrant workers has reached a record high of 4.1million according to figures from the Office of National Statistics. In the last year 100,000 British people have lost their jobs, but nearly 300,000 foreigners have found work. This is a horrendous statistic and is just not being addressed.
It is feared that unemployment is going to rise by a further 150,000 over the next year. A report by the British Chamber of Commerce released yesterday stated that many school leavers and graduates are unemployable and warned 'In general, younger people lack numerical skills, research skill, ability to focus and read, plus written English.'
Nearly half of 2000 small firms being polled by the BCC said they would be 'fairly or very nervous' about hiring someone who had just finished their A-levels. I think this is appalling, this year for the 29th year in a row has seen an improvement in A-level results, this should raise alarm bells. Only a few years ago if someone went to college, worked hard and managed to get themselves 3 A-levels they were deemed intelligent and very employable, that doesn't seem to be the case today.
There are two issues here; one is the fact that we are continuing to see a rise in unemployment among British people and an increase in employment amongst foreigners. And secondly many people in this country are unemployable.
The simple fact is there is nothing we can do about about employers employing foreigners, as long as we are part of the EU; I have spoken about this before, and until we leave nothing will change. The issue of unemployable British people can be addressed; currently we have a situation in which many have no need to work, this needs to change. Employers argue, and rightly so that they should be able to employ whoever they want, and if the British worker is not capable or willing to do the work they should be able to employ a foreigner. And I agree, if I was running a business I would employ the best person for the job. But this does not solve the fundamental problem of unemployment and unemployable British people.
So what is the solution? As I have stated above there are many who do not need to work so don't, there needs to be a fundamental change in how these people look at life. Many think the world owes them a living, and do not feel they need to take any responsibility for their own life or their families. They pay no rent, pay no bills, pay nothing for their food, they get it all for free off the tax payer. And this is the problem, they take no responsibility and don't need too, well I have a simple solution, if someone does not take a job that is offered to them and has no genuine reason for not doing that job take all their benefits away from them, and their council house, they either starve or work. You might think that sounds harsh but I believe this is the only way someone will work.
The issue of school/college leavers not having the basic skills in reading, writing and maths is a travesty and an outrage, and successive governments, particularly the previous one has to be held to account for this. The government and education system has failed hundreds of thousands of young people, and this needs to be addressed, but until there is a fundamental rethink and change in how we educate our young people nothing will change. The reason I think things are unlikely to change is, I was listening to a debate about the recent riots and a governor of a local school who was a local councillor stated basically that everything was great in her school and nothing needed to change.
The fact that there are many people who are incapable of working doesn't mean that is the same for everyone that is unemployed. And here comes the crux of the issue with immigrant workers; there are many young people, middle aged and older people who are capable and able to work but the simple fact is there is either no jobs or employers who are only willing to take on British workers. The fact of nearly 300,000 foreigners gaining work and 100,000 British losing their jobs speaks for itself.
The public sector is going to continue to cut workers, this means even more looking for work. Whether the government or employers like it or not this issue of immigration needs to be addressed or we are going to end up in a hole we cannot climb out off. We will continue to see a growth in an underclass who will never work and sees work as totally abnormal. We will see a growth in social problems as those who would love to work not being able to simply because there are no jobs or employers who are not willing to because they are British, and see no future. We will see more disenfranchised people who have no hope, so do not care about their community and then descend into crime and then riot. This all sounds rather depressing but the roots of the issue are not being addressed and until they are I cannot see things changing.
Sunday, 7 August 2011
Hopeless, incompetant and useless.
Over the past couple of years I have watched in amazement as our politicians and leaders have lurched from one crises to another. As you may have realised the world is staring at a very dangerous economic situation and unfortunately for all of us those in charge don't really know what to do.
What I have realised over the years is that so many of those who reach the pinnacle of power do so because of how they look, whose palm they have greased and what they say and how they say it. They do not get there through ability and competence, if they did I think we would have a totally different looking government.
How I have come to this conclusion is very simple, I just look at the decisions many of our politicians make and weigh it up against good old fashioned common sense and I have found that they are somewhat wanting. I have mentioned Gordon Brown in the past and looked at many of his decisions he made whilst Chancellor and Prime Minister and a lot of what he did was down right stupid. Here are some examples of his stupidity (and I don't choose these with the benefit of hindsight, I thought they were stupid at the time).
1. Selling 395 tonnes of gold at its lowest price for twenty years; that same amount of gold sold at today's prices would be have raised approximately an extra £13 billion.
2. Taking away the dividend tax relief on private pensions, thus destroying one of the best private pension systems in the world.
3. At a time of massive economic growth instead of paying off the national debt and putting some aside for a rainy day he spent and spent and spent.
4. Handing billions of pounds in benefits to the poor, thus creating an underclass that didn't need to work so they didn't.
There's four quick examples, I am sure if I spent more time I could come up with a lot more. But let's not be too harsh on poor old Gordon he did at least do one good thing and that was to keep us out of the euro, I have to thank him for that. Unfortunately for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland their politicians didn't do the same. The simple fact is these countries are in a mess of immense proportions and their politicians and those running the EU will not admit that the only option for these countries is to leave the euro zone and devalue their currency. But those in charge of the nut house (or EU) are more concerned with carrying on with their dream of total political union and they are damned if they will let these countries leave the euro.
The reason I believe our politicians don't know what to do is because I believe many don't have a clue, this is because most have only ever lived in the political world and have never done any other type of work. Many leave school, go to college then to university and then they work for some political organisation and then become an MP or MEP. They have never spent anytime working with normal people so they have no understanding of what the reality is like for you and me.
You only have to look at the 3 main leaders of the 3 main parties, then look at those who sit at the top of these parties and it doesn't take long to realise that most have come from very privileged backgrounds. Now don't get me wrong I have nothing against people from privileged backgrounds doing well but I believe that we have an imbalance. I also believe that many who run the EU are doing so for themselves rather than for the people of Europe, this is borne out by the euro crises. If any of these europhiles had any intelligence or compassion they would allow the southern European countries to leave the euro, but they won't. They would rather the people of Europe suffer massive unemployment and economic stagnation than admit that maybe they have got it wrong.
They will blame everyone else but themselves, they will make excuses, they will bluster and even say that those who state the blindingly obvious, that the euro in its present form is dead in the water are 'anti-European'. And this is the problem, these are the people making the decisions and I have said it before and I will say it again 'THEY DO NOT CARE'.
So how do we get out of this mess? I could sit here and state my opinion, but it is such a mess it is very difficult to know what to do. I don't think closer political integration, as some are calling for is the answer, this would give to much power to Germany to dictate the direction of those within the euro zone. This would mean a death of democracy, and if you take the ability of the people to set their own destiny we will see the rise of extreme nationalism and that can only lead to war.
I believe there has to be a fundamental change within the leadership of these countries, too many of those in charge are not willing to listen to the people and unfortunately because of this we will continue to drift towards economic oblivion. I have stated before what I think should be done and if you want to see what I think click on this link http://evanheasley-powertothepeople.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-fix-our-economy.html
I don't want to sound arrogant and I don't think I have all the answers, but I believe that our politicians, economists, bankers and so called financial experts have made an immense cock up of things surely I couldn't do any worse.
What I have realised over the years is that so many of those who reach the pinnacle of power do so because of how they look, whose palm they have greased and what they say and how they say it. They do not get there through ability and competence, if they did I think we would have a totally different looking government.
How I have come to this conclusion is very simple, I just look at the decisions many of our politicians make and weigh it up against good old fashioned common sense and I have found that they are somewhat wanting. I have mentioned Gordon Brown in the past and looked at many of his decisions he made whilst Chancellor and Prime Minister and a lot of what he did was down right stupid. Here are some examples of his stupidity (and I don't choose these with the benefit of hindsight, I thought they were stupid at the time).
1. Selling 395 tonnes of gold at its lowest price for twenty years; that same amount of gold sold at today's prices would be have raised approximately an extra £13 billion.
2. Taking away the dividend tax relief on private pensions, thus destroying one of the best private pension systems in the world.
3. At a time of massive economic growth instead of paying off the national debt and putting some aside for a rainy day he spent and spent and spent.
4. Handing billions of pounds in benefits to the poor, thus creating an underclass that didn't need to work so they didn't.
There's four quick examples, I am sure if I spent more time I could come up with a lot more. But let's not be too harsh on poor old Gordon he did at least do one good thing and that was to keep us out of the euro, I have to thank him for that. Unfortunately for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Ireland their politicians didn't do the same. The simple fact is these countries are in a mess of immense proportions and their politicians and those running the EU will not admit that the only option for these countries is to leave the euro zone and devalue their currency. But those in charge of the nut house (or EU) are more concerned with carrying on with their dream of total political union and they are damned if they will let these countries leave the euro.
The reason I believe our politicians don't know what to do is because I believe many don't have a clue, this is because most have only ever lived in the political world and have never done any other type of work. Many leave school, go to college then to university and then they work for some political organisation and then become an MP or MEP. They have never spent anytime working with normal people so they have no understanding of what the reality is like for you and me.
You only have to look at the 3 main leaders of the 3 main parties, then look at those who sit at the top of these parties and it doesn't take long to realise that most have come from very privileged backgrounds. Now don't get me wrong I have nothing against people from privileged backgrounds doing well but I believe that we have an imbalance. I also believe that many who run the EU are doing so for themselves rather than for the people of Europe, this is borne out by the euro crises. If any of these europhiles had any intelligence or compassion they would allow the southern European countries to leave the euro, but they won't. They would rather the people of Europe suffer massive unemployment and economic stagnation than admit that maybe they have got it wrong.
They will blame everyone else but themselves, they will make excuses, they will bluster and even say that those who state the blindingly obvious, that the euro in its present form is dead in the water are 'anti-European'. And this is the problem, these are the people making the decisions and I have said it before and I will say it again 'THEY DO NOT CARE'.
So how do we get out of this mess? I could sit here and state my opinion, but it is such a mess it is very difficult to know what to do. I don't think closer political integration, as some are calling for is the answer, this would give to much power to Germany to dictate the direction of those within the euro zone. This would mean a death of democracy, and if you take the ability of the people to set their own destiny we will see the rise of extreme nationalism and that can only lead to war.
I believe there has to be a fundamental change within the leadership of these countries, too many of those in charge are not willing to listen to the people and unfortunately because of this we will continue to drift towards economic oblivion. I have stated before what I think should be done and if you want to see what I think click on this link http://evanheasley-powertothepeople.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-fix-our-economy.html
I don't want to sound arrogant and I don't think I have all the answers, but I believe that our politicians, economists, bankers and so called financial experts have made an immense cock up of things surely I couldn't do any worse.
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