This Government continues to show itself as incompetent, by rushing through legislation that is badly flawed. The Gagging Bill, is another piece of nonsense cobbled together by this Government, in an attempt to silence NGOs, Charities, Community groups, environmental campaigners and even Trade Unions.
Why the TUC is wrong on benefit sanctions…..
The TUC supports the Governments stance on benefit sanctions. Who do the TUC and the Labour Party really represent?
Britains low pay economy as the HB figures explain
Final Words on Sharon By Miko Peled
Some truths about Ariel Sharon.
Ariel Sharon, visit to the Temple Mount, October, 2000
I never understood how people could rejoice at the news of a person’s death. I happened to be in the UK when Margaret Thatcher died so I witnessed the celebrations. The expressions of joy as the news of the Iron Lady’s death spread around the country shocked me at first, as people were actually throwing parties to celebrate her death. As I visited different parts of the country, particularly Wales and Ireland, it occurred to me that when Ariel Sharon dies we may see similar outbursts of joy taking place.
Sharon has been in a coma since January 2006 when he suffered several brain hemorrhages that left him in a vegetative state. But now there is news that his kidneys are failing and concerns are expressed in Israel that there is a chance he will die soon.
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Why circa 100,000 men women and children are exempt from the Bedroom Tax..and the consequences!!
The ‘Bedroom-tax’, is not only morally wrong, it has always been a badly thought out directive, driven by the morally corrupt Iain Duncan Smith. Someone who had spent time being jobless and whose fortunes changed after his marriage. If an ex-officer of the British Army, could not find employment, how does he expect other to find work?
Benefits in the Future | Welfare after the Act
More attacks of the most needy in society by our morally corrupt Government.
How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria
This article on how the USA is trying to twist the facts, to support their push for military intervention in Syria. The whole should be read, though one sentence from the British Joint Intelligence Organisation sums the situation up:
“The two-page assessment by the British Joint Intelligence Organisation released August 29, pointed to this question:”There is no obvious political or military trigger,” it said, “for regime use of Chemical War on an apparently larger scale now, particularly given the current presence of the UN investigating team.”
Police State #NSA, #GCHQ, #UKBA
What little democracy we have in the UK, is slowly being removed. Ever since the Norman invasion in 1066, the Anglo-Saxons (not the so-called Anglo-Saxons are and US politicians claim to be) have fought for democracy and equality. Slowly, multinational corporations and their political allies have been turning the clock back to the days of the Witchfinder General.
The Birth of a Police State: UK Police to be Granted Sweeping New Powers
Is Britain turning into George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother?
The Birth of a Police State: UK Police to be Granted Sweeping New Powers.
A Selection Of Especially Stupid Sanctions
How do the politicians who push through these things, expect people to live?
Comment by the Rev Paul Nicholson, of Taxpayers Against Poverty via paurina.wordpress.com. I also endorse every word.
Ministers at the Department of Work and Pensions repeat ad nauseam their mantra: “It is not fair for taxpayers to be asked to pay for the cost of spare bedrooms, or housing benefit” which is high in central London because rents are high etc, etc. Therefore the poorest citizens are thrust into unmanageable debt by caps and cuts in housing benefit, possible eviction, forced migration, undue stress and misery. As a citizen who pays income and council tax, VAT and the excise duty on my evening glass of wine, I steam with indignation each time I am used by ministers to justify such draconian measures making people poorer.
I am glad my taxation is used to enable my fellow citizens, both in and out of work, to buy enough food, clothes, fuel, transport and other necessities, to pay council tax and the rent of secure homes, when they have no other means to do so; and bewildered by the short-sightedness of a policy which deliberately reduces the totally inadequate adult JSA of £67.50 a week by creating rent arrears, with debt-related mental health problems and high extra costs for a hard-pressed NHS.
The self-evident unfairness is the current policy of dumping national debt and deficit reduction on the incomes of the squeezed middle and poorest citizens, while the higher-paid taxpayers experience no financial inconvenience. Meanwhile the OECD reports that $11.5 trillion, including bonuses, is parked in overseas accounts and the Treasury is aware that£100bn of property in central London alone is registered overseas – both out of reach of the taxman. That really is unfair.
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