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.
Showing posts with label Retirement and Pensions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Retirement and Pensions. Show all posts
Friday, 29 October 2010
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
in which Bludgeon is on the telly and Disasterdly kicks the cripples
Boris The Bludgeon on East Enders.
Peggy Mitchell: Ooo, aren't you the Mayor of London, I've been looking everywhere for you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I'm in local politics you know, there are lots of things I'd like to discuss with you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I have some ideas about developing the East End.
Bludgeon: (robotically) I-am-always-willing-to-discuss-London-issues-with-ordinary people. Please-contact-me-at-the-office-and-I-will-be-pleased-to-talk-two-you. I-am-off-duty-now.
Peggy Mitchell: One of the things I wanted to talk about was the way you are starting to question part of the London 2010 plan which was ratified by the Olympic Committee, might your interference at this stage not have implications for the games as a whole.
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: We are very worried about global warming. Why did you scrap the plans to extend the congestion charging zone? And most of us around here use the bus rather than cars, why are you scrapping larger, more fuel-efficient, bendy buses and bringing back the smaller, less fuel efficient, less safe, Routemaster buses?
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la- la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: Well well, would you believe it, the Mayor of London drinking in my pub, I am so lucky.
Disasterdly David looks after his "posh chums".
Yesterday was bash a cripple day as Disasterdly informed the world of his plans to bully the infirm and disabled.
Having targeted immigrants and single mothers during previous election campaigns the Nazi, Oops, sorry, the Conservative party have obviously decided that there are now enough members of both of those minority groups to have an effect on the outcome of a general election and so in order to please the Nazi, oops sorry, extreme right wing members of the party they have decided to target the group that the Nazis, yes, the Nazis, thought it would be okay to exterminate. By manipulating Darwin’s concept of ‘Eugenics’ the Nazi’s firstly compulsorily sterilised, and then gassed 250,000 people in the name of “the prevention of ‘hereditary diseased offspring’. It is a little known fact that the sweet old Tory hero, Winston Churchill, and his chums, supported the Nazi sterilisation program at the time, writing to British Prime Minister Asquith, asking him to advocate sterilisation of the “feeble minded.” The Americans started it all off, beginning in 1907, in the name of “The Preservation of Human Quality”. They sterilised over 60,000 between 1907 and 1970, yes, 1970.
So, in another society just 50 years ago Disasterdly’s son would have been murdered and his wife would have been sterilised. For someone who studied history at university he hasn’t learned much has he?
For those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's it is no surprise to learn today that in order to resolve financial problems caused by some of the wealthiest members of our society, Disasterdly has decided to reduce benefits, tax credits, and other financial assistance which benefits the lower middle and the working classes.
No mention here of plans to tax this country's high earners, or to plug the loopholes that allow wealthy foreigners to both live in, and to benefit from this country's facilities, for the payment of very little tax.
Those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's are also nearer to retirement. For many in this middle-class dominated society the thought of being able to continue working up until the age of 66 will come as ratification of some idea they may have already been cultivating.
However, for those who carry out the arduous, or the repetitive, or the physically challenging roles which provide the infrastructure and the tools on which the middle-class rely, and who will have been carrying out those roles since they were 16 years old (in some cases 15 years old), and for whom retirement is something to look forward to, this additional year will feel like a jail sentence.
The average bus driver, refuse collector, Carpenter, bricklayer, etc, etc, will have worked for at least five years more than those they support who earn salaries several times greater than their own wages. Those they support will retire with much more favourable conditions as well.
Many of those of us who have laboured in those physically demanding support industries are now infirm, unwell, or disabled as a consequence. I am sure that Disasterdly and his posh mates will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of now having two opportunities to bully us and remind us of our place in society, our place among the “insane, the blind, the deaf, the prisoners and the paupers”, the groups identified as targets for sterilisation by Churchill, his chums, and the entire USA government.
Influences:
“Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Born Equal?” BBC Two: 12th March 2009: Exec Producer Anne Laking: Series Producer Chris Granlund: Produced & Directed Kate Bartlett: Open University/BBC 2009.
Peggy Mitchell: Ooo, aren't you the Mayor of London, I've been looking everywhere for you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I'm in local politics you know, there are lots of things I'd like to discuss with you.
Bludgeon: Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm-Err-Umm
Peggy Mitchell: I have some ideas about developing the East End.
Bludgeon: (robotically) I-am-always-willing-to-discuss-London-issues-with-ordinary people. Please-contact-me-at-the-office-and-I-will-be-pleased-to-talk-two-you. I-am-off-duty-now.
Peggy Mitchell: One of the things I wanted to talk about was the way you are starting to question part of the London 2010 plan which was ratified by the Olympic Committee, might your interference at this stage not have implications for the games as a whole.
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: We are very worried about global warming. Why did you scrap the plans to extend the congestion charging zone? And most of us around here use the bus rather than cars, why are you scrapping larger, more fuel-efficient, bendy buses and bringing back the smaller, less fuel efficient, less safe, Routemaster buses?
Bludgeon: la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la- la la la-Dum Dum Dum-Tra la la.
Peggy Mitchell: Well well, would you believe it, the Mayor of London drinking in my pub, I am so lucky.
Disasterdly David looks after his "posh chums".
Yesterday was bash a cripple day as Disasterdly informed the world of his plans to bully the infirm and disabled.
Having targeted immigrants and single mothers during previous election campaigns the Nazi, Oops, sorry, the Conservative party have obviously decided that there are now enough members of both of those minority groups to have an effect on the outcome of a general election and so in order to please the Nazi, oops sorry, extreme right wing members of the party they have decided to target the group that the Nazis, yes, the Nazis, thought it would be okay to exterminate. By manipulating Darwin’s concept of ‘Eugenics’ the Nazi’s firstly compulsorily sterilised, and then gassed 250,000 people in the name of “the prevention of ‘hereditary diseased offspring’. It is a little known fact that the sweet old Tory hero, Winston Churchill, and his chums, supported the Nazi sterilisation program at the time, writing to British Prime Minister Asquith, asking him to advocate sterilisation of the “feeble minded.” The Americans started it all off, beginning in 1907, in the name of “The Preservation of Human Quality”. They sterilised over 60,000 between 1907 and 1970, yes, 1970.
So, in another society just 50 years ago Disasterdly’s son would have been murdered and his wife would have been sterilised. For someone who studied history at university he hasn’t learned much has he?
For those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's it is no surprise to learn today that in order to resolve financial problems caused by some of the wealthiest members of our society, Disasterdly has decided to reduce benefits, tax credits, and other financial assistance which benefits the lower middle and the working classes.
No mention here of plans to tax this country's high earners, or to plug the loopholes that allow wealthy foreigners to both live in, and to benefit from this country's facilities, for the payment of very little tax.
Those of us old enough to have lived through previous Tory government's are also nearer to retirement. For many in this middle-class dominated society the thought of being able to continue working up until the age of 66 will come as ratification of some idea they may have already been cultivating.
However, for those who carry out the arduous, or the repetitive, or the physically challenging roles which provide the infrastructure and the tools on which the middle-class rely, and who will have been carrying out those roles since they were 16 years old (in some cases 15 years old), and for whom retirement is something to look forward to, this additional year will feel like a jail sentence.
The average bus driver, refuse collector, Carpenter, bricklayer, etc, etc, will have worked for at least five years more than those they support who earn salaries several times greater than their own wages. Those they support will retire with much more favourable conditions as well.
Many of those of us who have laboured in those physically demanding support industries are now infirm, unwell, or disabled as a consequence. I am sure that Disasterdly and his posh mates will be rubbing their hands at the prospect of now having two opportunities to bully us and remind us of our place in society, our place among the “insane, the blind, the deaf, the prisoners and the paupers”, the groups identified as targets for sterilisation by Churchill, his chums, and the entire USA government.
Influences:
“Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Born Equal?” BBC Two: 12th March 2009: Exec Producer Anne Laking: Series Producer Chris Granlund: Produced & Directed Kate Bartlett: Open University/BBC 2009.
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