The Cost of Dismantling the Welfare State does Not Add Up

This was my response to an article in The Gaurdian headlined as above.

It adds up if you are a Tory Boy and Dealer Dave Cameron is certainly one of those.


His comments "The thought of prisoners getting the vote makes me feel sick" and "People (on housing benefit) should not be living in houses they could not dream of owning" place him somewhere out there with Hitler. Dave of course plans to starve us to death instead of murdering us.

How can Nick Clegg continue to ally himself to the dealer while he is taking the food out of the mouths of children and the sick with one hand while slipping £35000 a year to the man who takes his photo with the other.

What we are paying for with the money Dave has stolen from us is the re-inforcement of Tory ideology.

Cameron was NOT GIVEN A MANDATE TO DO THIS. HE DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION. HE IS IN DOWNING STREET BY DEFAULT.

We saw how Thatchers destruction of the welfare state could not be repaired by Labour over 13years. Dealer Dave realises he probably only has one term to achieve his aims so he has set out immediately to undo the repairs Labour were able to afford to make.

The "URGENCY" behind his cuts is to protect the Banks and the Stock Market. The "Urgency" has nothing to do with the ordinary people of this country

Because of the actions of those with money in this country, those without money are being kicked while they are down.

The dismantling of the Welfare State, while stigmatising those too ill to work, and outrageously labelling as "work shy" those who are unable to find work, especially at a time when the actions of the government are about to cause millions to lose their jobs, are criminal.

It must be clear to even the stupidest fan of Dealer Dave that as the Job Market becomes flooded with those whose jobs have crumbled, that the disabled, the sick, and the long term unemployed will have no chance of obtaining the jobs that are available.

I still wait for an MP or a Paxman or a Non Murdoch Journalist to ask how these radical changes are being funded. If 85% of Incapacity Benifit desicions were overturned at tribunal how much did those tribunals cost, and how does that compare to the money "saved" from the other 15%.

WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER

This is the big society we are all in together.
1. A reduction in child benefit for the wealthy will be easy to cheat and there are no plans to check up or enforce it.
This is the big society we are all in together.
2. The children of disabled parents are having the food taken out of their mouths because their parents benefit is being reduced for up to three months while people without medical information decide whether they should "seek work".

This is the big society we are all in together.
3. A new "airport tax" has come in to force. The BBC has already had tax experts on radio programs telling those who can afford to fly how to get around the new tax.
4. The BBC broadcast the news that 85% of people in Burnley who had their disability benefit cut had it given back as soon as a judge sought medical advice about their disabilities. The BBC did not question what this must be costing. Knowing the exorbitant rates of legal costs, one suspects it is a lot more than the money saved from the other 15%.

This is the big society we are all in together.
5. You may have read or seen that Rupert Murdoch told 30 business men that he supports the way Cameron is carrying on Thatcher's work.
6. You will not read, or learn, via Murdoch’s many media outlets, that people newly diagnosed with schizophrenia are being told they must seek work they have no chance of obtaining. The alternative, to stay in psychiatric hospitals that have no room for them, because Thatcher shut all the big psychiatric hospitals down.

This is the big society we are all in together.
7. You will have heard about Cameron’s stamp down on immigration.
8. You are not being told that asylum seekers whose cases are taking too long to investigate are being told they can stay before the investigation is completed. Remember this when dealer Dave Cameron tells you there are less asylum seekers in the system.

This is the big society we are all in together.
9. Cameron and the other 20 millionaire members of his cabinet are worried that the value of their investments will fall.
10. I am worried that even though I have been told by specialists who deal with my back, and psychiatrists who help with my depression, that I should not attempt to work again: and even though I have been retired from two very different occupations on medical grounds, meaning I am uninsurable and therefore unemployable: that someone who has not had access to my medical notes WILL decide I must look for work when I am honest and tell them that on a very good day I can stand at my cooker, while leaning against my sink, long enough to fry an egg. Does that sound extreme, it is already happening to people.

This is the big society we are all in together.
11. William Hague’s mate Lord Ashcroft, the tax dodger who gives millions to the Tory party and said he would move to the United Kingdom if Cameron won the election, has decided not to move here after all. There has been no mention of whether the Government will now attempt to obtain the tax he owes.
12. Dealer Dave said on Wednesday that people on housing benefit, “Have no right to live in houses they could not have dreamed of if they were working”. Here in London this means that hundreds of old people who were once taxpaying workers but who have fallen on hard times, will be moved out the homes they have lived in throughout their lives and put into bed and breakfast. This will be coming to an area to you soon.

This is the big society we are all in together.

Davey boy gets his missus up the spout again

So, the MULTI-MILLIONAIRE who want's us to call him 'Dave' Cameron, and his (independently) MULTI-MILLIONAIRE wife Sarah, are expecting their fourth child.
Try doing that on the average wage during a recession.

So, the Australian MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Rupert Murdoch has bought the silence of Max Clifford so we will never know the extent to which Murdoch's ex employee, and Daves current image consultant, illegally tapped the phones of politicians while he was the editor of the tabloid News of The World.

At the same time the SUN owning voice of the common man, Australian MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Rupert Murdoch who also owns The TIMES, has financed an 'indepentent' documentary by Chanel 4 which sets out to make three resigned LABOUR cabinet ministers look as devious as Geoffrey Archer, The Hamiltons, and a bloke who's name I have forgotten, were made to look by the SUN in 1994 etc, etc. They are forgetting that the main focus of the anger of the common people was that the 1990's Gang of Four were all found guilty of lying in court. Us commoners are so used to the 'high ups' in every workplace fiddling their expenses that the financial aspects were not very important to us 'ordinary people'.

What MULTI-MILLIONAIRE ,Dave, and his (independently) MULTI-MILLIONAIRE wife Sarah, and their MULTI-BILLIONAIRE Australian friend Rupert Murdoch, don't seem to realise is that even us 'mindless' Twitter and Facebook users are able to notice the extent to which Disaster Dave and his family and friends are trying to reconstruct the succesfull campaign of Tony Blair, right down to the pregnancy of the glamorous wife.

Dave's favourite terms when discussing Gordon Brown are: 'EVERYBODY' - -  (doesn't like him), and 'NOBODY' - - (Listen's to him, believes him etc) - - ANY MORE. The usage of the terms 'anybody'; and 'everybody'; used in this context are of course the verbal weapons of the playground bully. Oh yes, and the tabloid headline writer.

“’Ere we go, ‘ere we go, ‘ere we go” (Or - things we are learning now that Dave has had to stop insulting the Prime Minister and reveal what Dave is really like.)

Do you remember the arrogant, smarmy, patronising way that Tory MP’s would speak to us when they hid behind Thatcher thinking she was invincible? Well: have you noticed that Cameron talks to us just like that too? Like the teacher the kids loathe and make fun of behind his back, mimicking his over emphasised hand gestures and his alien (to all but pals) accent.

You would think he would now welcome the chance to stop pretending to be important and become the “real thing” by handling a couple of recent controversies rising from his Patriotic, one Britain, party. You might expect him to have fully answered a couple of recent tricky questions, especially considering the way he has repeatedly wasted PM’s Question Time by making cheap jibes about the PM, and demanding on behalf of the people in the street, (who actually don’t give a toss about such trivialities), that the PM must answer ‘in person’ questions of great national importance about “issues” such as which way his handwriting slopes and whether he always remembers to say please and thank you to his secretary.

But no! Twice in a week he has said as little as possible in response to situations that offered him a chance to demonstrate how Patriotic and Egalitarian his leadership, and his party, will be if they win the election.

The first of these occurred two weeks ago when Nicholas Winterton, MP, made it very clear during a radio interview that he is not yet ready for the classless society Dave is inferring he will create. You’d have thought this was a situation just made for Cameron to show his mettle, but no, a mumbled response from Tory Central Office claiming the errant Lord was “out of touch” was all we got. Difficult for Dave though, because just a few days before he was busy claiming that you, and I, and, well, just about anybody who uses the internet is a lesser mortal than he and his chums.

It didn’t really surprise me. I can remember the deafening silence a few months ago when Dave’s old university chum Boris referred to the ‘ordinary’ people of London as “Hoi Polloi”.

Having missed his openings there you might have expected Dave to grasp with both hands another opportunity to demonstrate to the voter in the street just how patriotic he is. I am referring of course to the news that major Tory fund provider, Lord Ashcroft, had reneged on his agreement to become resident in the UK in exchange for his peerage. Dave could have taken the opportunity to tell us why avoiding payment of taxes, and using the profit to fund a political party, is different from fiddling expenses while working for a political party. He could also have told us why Ashcroft is saying he will move to this country if Dave’s party wins the election. I wonder if Dave has told him something that we, and his other pals, don’t know.

None of this really surprised me either. After all, Dave didn’t think twice about joining up with the power seeking Aussie, Rupert Murdoch, and, in this week of all weeks, the whole world is becoming aware of how Dave has planned to sell out the BBC to diminish the Beeb’s ability to reduce the profits of Murdoch’s Broadcasting and Newspaper Empire.

I guess we should all thank Dave for showing us in advance that if he wins we are due to return to the free market, anything for a profit, days of Thatcherism.