Tuesday 31 July 2012

PHONE HACKING SAGA CONTINUES

UPDATE 1 SEPTEMBER 2012:  Another person had been arrest in connect with and bailed but the name had not been revealed yet.

Rebekah Brooks, pal of David Cameron, and Andy Coulson his ex-spin doctor will be charged over hacking Milly Dowler’s phone. There will be five former staff accused of hacking the murdered schoolgirl’s voicemail.

The ex-News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks will be charged with plotting to hack the phone of Milly and ex-Fire Brigades Union boss Andrew Gilchrist.

The Crown Prosecution Service will charge seven of the ex-News of the World staff plus private investigator Glenn Mulcaire. They will have to face 19 phone-hacking charges altogether.

Coulson, Brooks, chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck, ex-managing editor Stuart Kuttner and former executive Greg Miskiw are accused of hacking Milly’s phone and others.

The paper’s ex-head Ian Edmondson and former executive James Weatherup were charged with phone hacking of famous people but not with Milly’s phone hacking. Their accusations were of hacking voicemail messages of well-known people. The prosecution stated that there more than 600.

Some of the alleged charges were politions Lord Prescott, Dame Tessa Jowell and Mark Oaten. Stars were Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Stenna Miller, Sadie Frost, Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills and footballer Wayne Rooney.

Others were celebrity chef Delia Smith, 7/7 London bomber survivor Prof John Tulloch, George Best’s son Calum and Sven Goran Eriksson.

Police stated that Coulson, Thurlbeck, Edmonson, Weatherup, Kuttner and Miskiw appeared at the police station and were charged with conspiracy to intercept communications without lawful authority from October, 2000 to August 9, 2006. Mulcaire was not charged for legal reasons. However, he was charged for four other offenders and one involving Milly’s phone.

A Met police spokesman said: “Rebekah Brooks had been rebailed to return to a South London police station on a date in early August and has not therefore been charged today.”

The date of August 16 was set aside at the Westminster magistrate’s court in Central London for the eight accused to appear there. If convicted they could face up to two years in prison.

Mrs Brooks issued a statement strait away that she is innocence. Mrs Brooks and her husband are close friend of David Cameron and her husband goes horse riding with Mr Cameron.

Mrs Brooks said: “I am not guilty of these charges.

“I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship.

“I am distressed and angry that the CPS has reached this decision when they knew all the facts and were in a position to stop the case at this stage.

“The charge concerning Milly Dowler is particular upsetting not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crimes. I will vigorously defend these allegations.”

Brooks also faces three counts of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.  Mrs Brooks and her husband who is a race horse trainer, are accused of the same offence have to appear at Southwark crown court in London on September 26.

Downing Street did, for once, not comment regarding the charges made on Friday.  Wow, that makes a change – no comments – no white washing.

Lord Justice Leveson headed a public inquiry and it ended after 97 days, on Friday. It was held at the Royal Courts of Justice in Central London. He will produce his report as soon as possible.


JUSTICE BECOMING A JOKE



Apart from murderers the rest of the criminals hardly get any punishment anyway and prisons are almost luxury hotels. Even murderers get only 15 or 20 years and if they behave themselves their sentences is reduced. When they do get life it still doesn’t mean life any more.

Now, on top of all this, the High Court ruled their strict parole terms preaches human rights. Do these judges ever think about the victims?  How about their human rights? These are criminal who killed or raped and the judges feel their human rights are breached. The moment they committed a crime they lost their human rights. That is how it should be.

Senior judges disputing the facts that criminal who were sentenced to 15 years or more have to fight harder to get earlier release than those who were sentenced with life or indeterminate sentences. To be quite honest none of them should have their sentence reduced if they committed the crime and were sentenced accordingly.

The judgement issued on Friday, July 27, 2012 agreed to an appeal by an arsonist. If she wins it will open the gate for murderers and sex offenders.

Mr Justice Treacy stated it would discriminate the Human Rights Convention.  Apparently the Judge had not had a personal experience. If his loved ones would have been murdered, mostly savagely, or raped would he still think so? It is the victims of rape or the relatives of murder who have a life sentence to live with. Yet, the criminal mostly have no conscious to live with and many do the same again.

Ukip home affairs spokesman Gerard Batten demanded an assessment of the danger posed to the public. A very good idea but these criminals know what they are up against and play accordingly because all they want is to be free.

Mr Batten added further: “What we see here is the rule of lawyers not the rule of the law. It shows the judicial system is inadequate at protecting the public.”

Could it be again smoke screen made by the government to reduce their prison? Ken Clarke already trumpeted about the closure of one prison of 600. It seems that as long the books balance and never mind the public being killed or raped or burgled. As it is crime is already at a high record level.

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE ELECTORAL PROMISE – WE’LL BE TOUGH ON CRIME?

This Government broken as many promises as it put out.

Monday 30 July 2012

RUTHLESS CUTS ON DISABILITY BENEFITS Update 31 March, 2017


Update 31 March, 2017
Although the Prime Minister  change, Cameron resigned and Theresa May took over, the planned Disability Benefit cut of £30 a week came in force on 1 April, 2017. It means disabled people now receive £73 a week instead of £103 a week. It will have a devastating impact and suicides, starvation, homelessness will be the result. How can she do this to already hard-up people? 

Update - It still goes on. Carers for the very disabled people the benefit payments were cut. 2015 benefits for disabled cars were withdrawn. Disabled people were sent to Paraolympic in Rio but at home their cars were withdrawn.

So far the new Tory Prime Minister Theresa May has not changed these Welfare cuts on contrary the pensions and their benefits will now be cut.

The latest is now to cut the benefit for the sick and disabled people. This is the worst this Government can do.

There was a leak that doctors were advised to find seven out of eight disabled benefits claimants and stop it.
The idea behind the plan of the Coalition is to force people back into work. The government seems to forget or overlook that there is already a great shortage of jobs otherwise there would not be 2.5million unemployed.

For sick and disabled people it is twice as hard to get a job and now during the recession it is impossible.
Now comes the biggest cockeyed idea ever seen coming from the Government. They had the nerve to pay a French firm Atos £100million A YEAR for the testing. If it wasn’t so diabolically it would look like a joke.

If that doesn't stink to high heaven nothing will. To cut the benefit for disabled people and spend £100million not only an English company which might give more jobs but on a French company. Again David Cameron gives away money which would benefit the people.

Dr Big stated that he was told only one in eight should be so disabled that it is be recognized the person will never work again. When the Depart of Works and Pension was confronted with this statement they denied it and so did Atos.

Work minister Chris Grayling told the MPs that there is no target for decision makers.

Labour MP Tom Greatrex said on Thursday: “The Government had been caught red-handed.” He called for a National Audit Office investigation.

Friday 27 July 2012

DEMANDS CHANCELLOR OSBORNE STEP-DOWN -- UPDATE 26 May 2014




UPDATE: 26 May 2014 -- Looking back to this report from July 2012 the Chancellor has not improved and David Cameron, as always, stood by him. The great shout about the improved economy by 1.3 per cent is nothing in compare to Germany's three per cent and USA seven per cent. They took over from Labour with 2.3 per cent which vanished within three months.


The former Tory chief whip Lord Ryder gave a full criticism on David Cameron and Mr Osborne. He is accused of being obsessed with spin. He further ridiculed them stating that the Chancellor and Mr Cameron were watching 24-hour news. Lord Ryder thinks they are news editors and news managers but no strategists.  He recommended further that Mr Osborne should stop being a Tory election strategist.  He added: “The Treasury deserves a Chancellor to be there in a full-time basis.”

Mr Osborne is increasingly in demand to quit after the last figures this week showed another shrinking of 0.7 per cent of the economy between April and June. This marked as the deepest double-dip recession for 50 years.

After all these demands for Mr Osborne resignation various minister hinted they would be willing to step into his shoes. Vince Cable passed remarks that he would be willing to replace him. However, Mr Cable pointed out at the same time that they have a collective agreed policy and he will not make radically changes. He would plan to build on what George Osborne has already achieved.

Excuse me here for a minute. George Osborne achieved a double-dip recession and if Mr Cable plans to build on it there would be no use to change the Chancellor. Mr Cable's remark is absolutely incredible.

Former Chancellor Lord Lamont advised strongly for Mr Osborne to give up his strategy role. This again is incredible and unbelievable. Mr Osborne made a mess of the budget which is always the flagship to follow and should stand. Since his budget in March he did so many U-turn the public lost count. Yet, Mr Osborne has a strategy role in Downing Street. His budget was a mess of which he had months to prepare it; his economy is a mess and yet he has a strategy role.

Tory MP Nadine Dorries demanded replace Mr Osborne with Mr William Hague.  Another candidate was Defence Secretary Philip Hammond.

With all due respect but looking at all their records of achievement in their present job there surely won’t be an improvement.

A statement from the Chancellor said that he was focussing “110 per cent” on the economy but he had to take time out to meet the US Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney. Now we see how heavily Mr Osborne is committed and he had to tare himself away to meet Mr Romney. Was this at the Fund Raising Dinner or lunch for $17,000 to $25,000 per seat? If so will there be another parliamentary expense for the tax payers to pay?

Why Mitt Romney? They didn’t meet Mr Hollande when he was campaigning. I hope the people of the USA think before they put their vote.

The next news is naughty but a good laugh. According to an online poll for a national newspaper showed that the cat Larry at Downing Street beaten Mr Osborne by popularity votes. Larry had 24 per cent and Mr Osborne had 13 per cent. Maybe we should replace Mr Osborne with Larry.

Apparently the US has its vehicle in forward gear while the UK and Europe has it in reverse.

It is purely a result of decision makers making the right plans. Central Banks reduced their interest rates almost to zero in a very short time. While the Bank of England only cut the interest rate down to 0.25 per cent in the last few months.

President Obama’s administrators did not listen to calls to increase taxes and cut government spending. Instead they carried on with major infrastructure projects which brought billions of dollars to the economy.
Yes, they are closed to Asia which helped with exports but the UK having the European market but it is only half the export of which the other half should make a different.

The successful up-turn of the USA shows investors as safe haven and it can borrow at a rock-bottom price because of it.

Seeing all this evidence Mr Osborne still refuses to follow their footstep. He won’t use the golden opportunity to borrow cheaply to boost spending.

An expert Paul Dales, of Capital Economics said: “It is a good time for the UK government to borrow.
“And it could do this subtly by locking in long-term funding at these low, low rates.”





Thursday 26 July 2012

TAX AVOIDANCE AT OLYMPICS, LONDON 2012 -- Updated 10 March 2014



UPDATE: 10 March 2014  --  The Prime Minister and his friend the Chancellor always shouting about to bring the National debts down but let grandiosely the Olympics 2012 was off paying tax.

This, again, shows how David Cameron looks after his boys and has no serious intention of reducing the debts. Now and then David Cameron holds a big speech about roping in the tax avoiders who have their accounts in tax havens. At the same time he announced any sponsor will be treated as offshore. 


Tax avoidance is not always the same story for the top boys. A report revealed that Olympic sponsors avoid paying taxes up to £600million since it will be treated as offshore during the Games. 

Let’s faces it  the so-called sponsors make a multi-million business on the games there is no need to add tax avoidance. Especially since UK PM David Cameron made several speeches stating he is totally against it.

Doesn’t that show a double standard?

To crown it all the Government had new Revenue and Custom rules added  after the Team GB’s winning bid. Therefore, “corporate partners” like Coca-Cola, McDonald and Visa have a temporary exemption from corporation tax as “non-resident” companies. How can they be classed as non-resident companies when they have offices all over the UK?  This new ruling enables them not to pay taxes form March 30 to November 8. 

Furthermore, the new rules are also extended to foreign employees working for the firms and they do not have to pay income tax in the UK.

Wow, this is absolute incredible since the PM David Cameron axing the Police, Armed Forces, doctors, and Nurses who gave him nothing but loyal service and it is to “save” and bring the deficit down. There is also the other point again how quickly these new rules were put into place, Yet a new rule of cutting bonuses and overpaid salaries of banking and City boys is drugging on without any hope of being put through.

Author Tim Hunt said: “The real winner in the London Olympics is those companies who stand to make millions out of the greatest sporting event in the world.”

The same report also stated the London Organising Committee’s (LOCOG) own tax concessions account for a further £100min lost tax. It means a loss of £100m for the treachery.

Therefore Mr Cameron should never criticise anybody before sitting down and think and look at these facts.  The Treasury also contempt ordinary people paying cash-in-hand which avoids tax or VAT.  The Treasury and Mr Cameron should go after these people of top companies and rope them in. To criticise and at the same time knowing very well there were special rules arranged for big companies to enable them to avoid tax is not only incredible is ludicrous knowing very well them and their friends are the worst offenders.


Wednesday 25 July 2012

TORIES AGAIN POINTING FINGER AT ORDINARY PEOPLE


Again the Conservatives – nicknamed Tories – attacking the ordinary people. The Treasury Minister David Gauke pointed the finger at tradesmen who take cash-in-hand. He stated that it is morally wrong because they avoid paying tax. These few pounds which are lost are nothing against the billions being transferred into tax havens.  Why is not the Treasury Minister going after them? Now there would be a train load coming back. The answer to this question is obvious and clear.

It was also pointed out that David Gauke worked for six years at Maxfarlanes which advertises openly that they are experts in producing “tax-efficient structures for big companies” which could only means one thing – Tax Havens. But here comes the sponge to wipe the slate clean. The Company stated that Mr Gauke was not in the "Tax" department.

Labour MP Graham Morris contemns Mr David Gauke’s statement as a complete hypocrisy. He added: “It is a smokescreen to divert attention from this government’s abject failure to legislate for a general anti-avoidance principle.

“This Government of millionaires continues to condone the activities of the very wealthy individuals and corporate interests who avoid paying their fair share of tax.”

There a great number of Minister in Parliament admitting they pay cash-in-hand.  For once there was also no white washing from Downing Street and an aide admitted that PM David Cameron paid cash-in-hand but he has never paid at any time in his life to help them evade their share of tax.

Although it was admitted that Mr Cameron paid in cash but the real point of the matter is that tradesmen name the price of their work and add VAT. Since Mr Cameron paid in cash-in-hand he did avoid VAT and so did the rest of them. It is the other way round the tradesmen doesn’t avoid the tax it is the consumer and this case the PM and ministers.

The VAT on a £100 job which most of them are is costing £20. Ordinary people don’t think once and say cash-in-hand but for the PM and his Ministers to do so is a disgrace because they wouldn’t even miss it. Plus they claim it as parliamentary expenses. Yet they open their mouth and criticizing the tradesmen.

When David Gauke moved house he claimed the stamp duty on parliamentary expenses.
He claimed just below £10,250 in “mortgage payments” on a second home in 2006-7, of which the duty was £8,550. In other words the taxpayers paid for it.

He was cleared of wrongdoing which isn’t a surprise and has not had to pay it back which isn’t again a surprise.

London Mayor Boris Johnson defiantly fuelled the Treasury’s anger more and admits that he certainly paid a lot of cash-in-hand.




Monday 23 July 2012

DESERTER RUPERT MURDOCH -- Updated 6 May, 2015




RUPERT MURDOCH
UPDATED; 6 May, 2015 --  Now the coast is clear again after the trial which announced Rebekah  Brooks and several others not guilty, Mr Murdoch is back again in the UK and campaigning for the Tories.  while he was in the USA he contemned and ridiculed the UK. 

It is not surprising that Rupert Murdoch is deserting the ship. From a start he ran straight away to the USA not wasting time. However, will he be safer there because the USA also has an investigation going regarding his phone hacking of which did not know anything about it?

He decided now to resign as a director of the companies publishing The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times.

It is surprising that he was able to buy The Times and The Sunday Times since it is the flagship of the Elite or is it because it is?

It is thought that he will sell the titles and with that he is able to pull head out of the sling. Again a typical case of big boys slipping away. After all the harm that man had done to the public. Sorry, he did not know.

Labour’s Tom Watson said: “It’s hard not to draw the conclusion that Mr Murdoch is deserting his loyal staffs that is left to clean up the ruins after the wrong doing that has been exposed.”

The MP added that Mr Murdoch’s ex-colleagues will see it as a betrayal and so does everybody else.

Admittedly it should not been done but to bring the latest news the pressure was there for them to do it. Over that length of time the phone hacking had been done, surely some of the top must have been aware.

Now we come to the other side of the pond. Mr Murdoch also resigned his directorships at News International, Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corp Investments.

Does that mean, in USA Law, he also pulled his head out the rope there? Or has the USA a better Law than the United Kingdom?

They call it “house cleaning” and it is expected that News Corp splits into two.  Mr Murdoch kept his chairmanship at the News Corp. It certainly does look like Mr Murdoch with his manoeuvres got away. A fox could learn a few tricks there.

£20TRILLION -- NOW £36TRILLION IN TAX HAVENS 2012 Updated 6 August, 2020

Update 6 August, 2020
Since Boris Johnson is the new PM there is very little information on many subjects leave alone about fortune in Tax Haven.
However, to be sure, it has doubled and trebled. 
One small report stated that during Pandemic there were fortunes made. It is no surprise since Chancellor borrows £blns for various funds but there is nothing to be seen off.
Funds for PPE, Ventilators, test, track and trace, NHS, were all contracted out with no or very little results.
Is it the contractors who are cashing in at a worst time with 60,000 death so far? We will never know the true facts because by now the Free Press and Information hardly exist any more.

Update 31 March, 2017

It is now assumed that Tax Havens could have as much as a staggering £90trillion. Even to retrieve half of the previously £36trillion would cancel the national deficit, rescue NHS, schools, cancel poverty, starvation and homelessness. What is the use to have these huge amount of money sitting there?


Updated 6 Nov., 2016 --
The new PM Theresa May already spoke about prosecuting Tax Avoiders but will it be another empty promise. After all the big ones are mostly Tory's donors and the money is mostly in British Isles. 

It most probably almost doubled or even trebled again by now and David Cameron still keeps promising, since 2010.


If Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne would bring back only half the amount which is in Tax Haven it would wipe out the debts of Britain and show a great improvement in the economy and live of the people.  


The Fatcats would still have enough besides there are mostly their friends so what keeps Cameron from not to fulfil his promise to get firm with Tax Avoiders. It is because they are his friends and they would stop donate to Tory's coffers.  He let them take out £16trillion within two years and Osborne shouting about more Austerity and cut backs.  What about Austerity where it should be enforced?


AND THERE IS MORE

UPDATE:   23 November, 2014  --  The quoted £20trillion was in 2012 now with the great jump shown in the Telegraph Rich List it is nearing to £36trillion. Chancellor George Osborne announced that a new law will be passed through the House of Parliament. It will prosecute any Tax Avoiders who had deliberate avoided to pay tax.  This new law seems to have too many back doors. Beside tax avoidance was always a criminal offence.  Where is the difference apart from trying to look impressive. 




UPDATE: 9 December 2012  --  So far it is known that the Treasury prosecuted only one person of tax evasion out of 6000 cases. The public demands to name and shame them but the Treasury refuses to give the list of names, giving the excuse of privacy of taxpayers. These people are not tax payers but tax avoiders and therefore should not have the protection. PM David Cameron himself condemns it yet he does nothing about it. WHY? If the Treasury can prosecute one person they can do so the rest of 5,999 cases.


UPDATE 3 OCTOBER 2012 --  Has this government attempt to retrieve it since they revealed it themselves that there are £20trillion in tax havens? Surely everybody knows the answer.


A new research did find that the Super-Rich Global Elite have banked £20trillion in tax havens. No doubt there could be more which had not been discovered or accounted for.

Since the Prime Minister David Cameron had contempt the tax havens and people who using it will he stand by his words to bring them back to justice?

James Henry, who compiled the numbers for the Tax Justice Network, said: “The lost tax revenues are huge and enough to make a significant difference to the finance of many countries.”


He also discovered that the cash was moved around through an “industrious bevy of professional enablers”.  That man must be genius to be able to trace this money because these are highly professionals in every way.
It is now down to the Prime Minister to use this information especially since he brought in a new law of Tax Avoidance Clampdown. It was launched by Treachery Minister David Gauke. It had been linked to a Tory donor who was ordered to pay up £2million.

Another case was Hedge fund boss George Robinson who was ordered to pay his taxes on a Guernsey-based trust. He set it up but the judge ruled it was artificial

Well so far so good but will they pay up and only being ordered as it is the fashion of those big boys? Also will it be carried on and out sufficiently and not after a while slump into the back ground to be forgotten quietly? It seems the way when the big boys are up against it.  The same with the Libo interest fiddle which wasn’t a fiddle really but a fraudulent crime. When details start to emerge that even the Bank of England knew about it four years ago it died a sudden death because there would have been people in the top tree come to a fall. Under pressure the Prime Minister eventually agreed to an investigation but banned the two hardest inquisitors.  W H Y?

 Your thoughts and answers are as good as anybodies.

Nothing been heard of as it is the usual case.  The Prime Minister and the government has all the power in their hands to make them pay the outstanding tax back since there is prison for TAX EVASION. They imprison others well known people so why not retrieve £20 TRILLION?

CAMERON'S PLEDGE KEEP EU COSTS DOWN - Updated 8 June, 2015



UPDATED:  8 June, 2015 -- it is still  the same situation and yet the Tories were voted in again and even with a small majority. It does not make sense.  The FTSE is falling ever since therefore th economy has not improved as promised.

UPDATE: 11 Dec., 2013 -- The news came through, Mr Cameron agreed to pay another £10billion every year into the bottomless coffer of the EU because they are financially broke. Never mind about the broken UK economy and the poverty stricken British people who have to make a choice between buying food or heating their home. More money for the MEP who  use taxis to get from one city in Europe to the other right across. Who have higher salaries than the UK MP and more expense fiddles. Again the account was not signed and approved for 2012 because there was a discrepancy £95billion and went on for the tenth year. But gallant knight in shining armour has always money available for the EU, Foreign aid which never reaches the poor for which it is meant for and military conflicts. CAN ANYONE STILL BELIEVE ANY WORD HE SAID OR PROMISED?



There are nothing but unfulfilled pledges from the Prime Minister David Cameron.

This time the pledge was that he would keep the EU cost down.  He did nothing of the sorts and now the UK Taxpayers have to pay out £350million next year. This is an enormous amount for one country alone.

The facts are there will be an overall rise of 2.8 per cent in spending. This will mean that the amount the EU costs the countries is £108.7bilion. This is an incredible amount of money for the administration of the European Union. It is unbelievable that such vast amount of money has to be spending on it. There must be something more than meets the eye. It is well know that the EU members are living in top quality champagne, luxurious lunches and taxi rides no matter where. But surely it wouldn’t even add up to that amount.

Many of the Prime Minister's own Ministers of Parliament are livid that he could have missed and finally failed to cut the budget.

 Now there is where austerity should be applied and it would bring in more than cutting the benefits of pensioners, police or armed forces. Cutting Police and Armed Forces will only create unemployment which means social benefits’ payment. This is surely no saving.

A source remarked: “A Europe policy that this year sees an increase in EU spending is a sign of the Prime Minister’s weakness.”

Saturday 21 July 2012

BRITISH GAS ON RECORD PROFIT ALREADY IN 2012



 A forecast assumes that British Gas will have its profit improved by 33 per cent. The biggest supplier of gas will have made a £350million in the first six months of the year.

Its parent company Centrica will have made a profit of £1.45billion and this is an increase of 15 per cent on the same period in 2011.

In spite of having used more domestic energy because of the weather keeping longer cold than normally but it doesn’t explain the 33 per cent and 15 per cent increase on profits. This comes from increasing the prices and they have been increased.

A few percentages would have been acceptable but 13 per cent on electricity and 33 per cent on gas is criminal in an economical recession. Again this would be where the government should step in but not a word or stopping it. Last year David Cameron had a meeting with Gas and Electricity companies and he promised to get them to reduce the prices in view of the situation.

INSTEAD OF A REDUCTION THERE IS NOW SHOWING A SKY HIGH INCREASE.

British gas promised to reduce electricity prices by 5 per cent in January. In spite of looking ungrateful but this reduction of 5 per cent was after a 16 per cent rise on electricity and 18 per cent rise on gas in the previous August.  Do we now jump up and down?

At the end of the financial year Centrica should have made £2.8billion and British Gas about £590million. Centrica will point out that they invested £1.5billion to make sure there are new supplies.

But Richard Hall, of watchdog Consumer Focus, said: “Consumers are facing historically high energy bills which focus their attention on whether pricing is fair.

“Whole prices rose a little earlier in the year but are now falling. We have long questioned whether drops in wholesale costs find their way to household bills.”

This is all very well said but what will done? Something has to be done because people can’t pay high energy prices and get their wages reduced, lose benefits and/or lose their jobs.

There are quite a number of watchdogs out there studying all these price rises and putting all these statistics together and seeing that they charged over the moon but not one is doing anything drastically about it. Sorry, to have to ask the question: “So what are they really there fore?” Surely if all those watchdogs would get together and pressure the government some result must come out of it.

BIGGEST JOKE MONEY SPENT ON WAKE-UP CALLS


A company has received £330,000 money from taxpayers to wake-up young jobless with morning phone calls. It is part of 'Youth Contract programme Neets' which is for teens not in education, employment or training. This is provided by Pertemps People Development Group located in the North East.

A spokesman Paul King said: “In some cases we have kids who would literally be in bed all day. That is the reality. A call that physically wakes them up is part of getting into a routine.” Basically it is a good idea but they don’t seem do realize that there aren’t any jobs especially for youngsters.

Deputy .Prime Minister Nick Clegg says he wants companies hired to get young people in work to be “creative”. Again great sounding words but companies don’t work like that any more. They employ you if you have either the qualifications and then they turn you down if you don’t have the practically experiences. They employ you if you have the practically experiences and picked up somewhere the technically knowledge up.

In the olden days they took you on for a certain time and if you can pick up the knowledge of the work fine and good but now the companies don’t do this any more. You should have used that money to create jobs. 

Don’t you know there are 2.5 millions unemployed including one million youngster can't get a job? 

WAKE   UP   GOVERNMENT  --  WAKE   UP   NICK   CLEGG  --  WAKE   UP   CAMERON


Thursday 19 July 2012

CAMERON PROMISES, PROMISES AND NOW MAY updated 29 Sept., 2017

Now May does the same - all promises in GE2017, elected  and dropped them in Queen's Speech.

Looking back over the years nothing has changed. He still promises and does not keep it.


The UK Prime Minister David Cameron visited the troops in the Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He gave the troops a promise that seriously injured armed forces will be paid £130 a week for life. They will also get any further vital support for their injuries.

This would means for injured personnel to get top-of-the-range prosthetic limbs free on the NHS.

They will go straight to the front of the queues at hospitals.

Jobcentres will give unemployed people help to find work which fits the particularly injured person.

IVF for partner of servicemen who have suffered groin injuries.

Mr Cameron said: “The military covenant is all about the country saying to our armed forces we respect and revere you and we are going to do more for you.

“We are saying that with disability benefits the military will have a special set of circumstances so they get a special deal.

“It is one of the many ways we should respect our armed services for what they do for us.”

Brave and glorious sounding words as always Mr Cameron delivers but he is also known and too many times to promise and not deliver. Another thought comes to mind that the Government announced this month to make 20,000 regular soldiers and 17 major units redundant by 2020.

The Government will change the benefit system and a new one called Personal Independence Payment for all working-age people with serious disabilities. Under the new scheme any previous claimant will be re-examined and many their cash will be stopped.

The troops will not be re-examined and therefore face no humiliation or cash stopped.

Troop welfare campaigner Col Richard Kemp, ex-commander of UK forces in Afghanistan, said: “I welcome any move that offers added support to the brave men and women injured serving their country.”

Mr Cameron defended the plans for Army cuts, saying: “I think it’s in everybody’s interest to have a defence budget that really adds up.”  Ahhh such wise words. The defence budget would add up even more if they never entered the Afghanistan war or Iraq. Mr Cameron and his cabinet would have the biggest shock in their lives how much money they would have in the defence budget.

A fine example is Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin’s suggestion to bring the remaining 9,000 troops home next year and that alone would save £3billion.

At the same time Mr Cameron spoke in Helmand he also said that the troops would remain till 2014. Again he saving on his own people instead of caring about other countries.



Wednesday 18 July 2012

TORIES NEVER STOP FIDDLING Updated 3 April, 2017



PM Theresa May
Update 3 April, 2017
It was written in 2012 and Tories won GE2015 which is still suspicious. Cameron resigned in 2016 when the Public voted for Brexit and Theresa May became Prime Minister. Principles have not changed and Tories still fiddle, NHS, schools etc, and telling lies, Trident, unemployment.

Since they would not get the House of Lords Reform through in 2012 and as a paper called it the Byzantine chaos, they now try to fiddle the Parliamentary seats.

This makeover is purely for the sake of staying in power and it is, so we are told, against the constitution. 

The plan is to get rid of 50 Parliamentary seats and surprise, surprise, mostly Labour.  It doesn’t look like democracy anymore and we can’t help but getting suspicious of sailing into a dictatorship.

The government has decided to redraw new boundaries. Of course, it will be all to the Conservatives’ advantage and they will gain 20 seats. Although David Cameron, the other day, stated that he will drop this plan but over the two years he is in power he states one thing and does the other. It is so much so that the press are calling him constantly Dodgy Dave which is a disgrace for anyone to be called that and especially for a Prime Minister.

The Lib Dem Party which is part of the Coalition is threatening to oppose this act.  They see it as the retaliation for the failure of the House of Lord reform.

If they manage to get the boundaries changed and get 20 more seats it will certainly be decisive at the next general election.

If they win the next election and they seem to work towards it to make sure they do; they will take all the benefits off pensioners if not before. The NHS will be broken up and privatised. More cuts and more unemployment and recession will deepen. But the bankers and City boys will get their high salaries, shares and bonuses even if everything goes bankrupt. No cut-backs or austerity there. Furthermore, the monies will all in tax-free bank accounts and Britain losing the biggest slice of tax. 

MAKE  NO  MISTAKE

Tuesday 17 July 2012

NHS TRUST BROKE -- Update: 14 June, 2015


UPDATE: 14 June, 2015 --  
At the General Election campaign David Cameron promised to put in £8billions. 

The newly elected Prime Minister and his Tory Party have not shown any sign or effort to keep his promise even so the NHS is on the verge of collapse. 

Only the very dedicated nurses and doctors keep it going. They admit that they work extra unpaid hours. Would the Prime Minister or his MPs do this? No they claim extra expenses and big sums. 

Since the investment of £8billion is of great urgency it would be expected to be his priority. Instead, the first thing was to put an anti-strike law, fracking and without the people consent, snooping laws through as fast as posible and itching to sign the TTIP which includes the NHS and would bring £800trillion alone never mind if the people can not afford private insurance.

That is the real face of the David Cameron and his Tories who conned the people into voting for him spreading smears and lies about the Labour Party which would have brought back the NHS to its former glory.


The conditions of the cash strapped NHS is getting very suspicious. There is always billions available when a bank is in trouble. Billions available for the Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya’s wars. Billions available for the IMF to bail out Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. There are never any squabbles about not any money available, recession and austerity but comes to the NHS the doors close instantly.

There is now a new report about the critical conditions of the cash-strapped health service and had to be put into administration.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley stated that South London Healthcare NHS Trust was losing a £1million a week and was taken into the Department of Health. This Trust includes Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich and Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley.

There are some points to be disputed. One is the promise at the general election that the NHS is safe with us, meaning Conservative Party. Second, there was a report out the other day that over a £1Billion should be paid into the NHS and it is withheld.  Third, to sack doctors and nurses and then hiring Agency staff is financial suicide. Agencies charge twice as much. Surely Mr Lansley is aware of that if not he should be. Another point and this is the main point what happen to the huge sums of money paid to the National Insurance? People paid National Insurance all their lives and they deserve a National Health Service.

A suspicious mind thinks that this is all done on purpose. In order to break the NHS back and to move it along to be privatise. It is so obvious that the government is bent over backward to see it through.
Last year Chancellor George Osborne allowed £70billion to be poured into the banks under the ‘Merlin’ scheme. It didn’t work because the banks were reluctant to lend money and the consumers and companies to take on more debts. Nobody knows where that money went. No account given. Mostly properly it was used to pay these incredible salaries and bonuses.

Now again the Bank of England issued another £80billion to encourage consumers and companies to take a loan and to improve the economy. It is a good idea but if the order books are half empty hardly any company would saddle themselves with further debts. As for the consumers they hardly can pay their present way. So most properly it goes the same way.

These are huge sums all spend wrongly. The Prime Minister David Cameron will not intervene in spite of having one scandal after another. The public is pressuring to make Mr Cameron to stop these bonuses, sky-high wages, wasting money on wars which have nothing to do with Britain and bail-outs for countries in the EU.  Yet, no matter how much the demand is the Prime Minister sits back and does nothing.
All these sums should be spend on Britain and the NHS.

Apparently there are 22 more hospital earmarked for putting into administration. The administrator being sent from Mr Lansley could and would find out all the ins and outs of the hospital which makes it easier to be privatised. After all the Government is determined to privatise the NHS and of course Mr Lansley will do his best.

If privatised if will be like in America that the insurance are sky-high and many people can’t afford it. Mentioning Insurance something just crossed my mind that it would increase the insurance income tremendously and with the Fat Cats having share in every thing and every way they would be getting another load. Is that the root of the government determination to privatise?

Saturday 14 July 2012

UK PARLIAMENT BREAKS EVEN LONGER



The Members of Parliament (MPs) have even a longer holiday than the Queen. They are now on break till the 3 September. Then they come back for two weeks and go on a party conference season which will last till 15 October. Admittedly many work at home in their constituency

Not to mention about the special long break for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

The House of Commons will sit only for 151 days this year. This will be down from the previous year of 157. David Cameron sends MPs even one day earlier this year and it is assumed that he tried to avoid a revolt.

To rub salt into the wounds Home Secretary Theresa May told the public to stop moaning and work harder after this government produced a double-dip recession. Coming from her is even worse after all the plunders she made and still keeps her job.

William Hague also joined the insulting remarks by repeating Norman Tebbit’s infamous advice to the jobless “Get on their bikes.” In other words he told the jobless people to tour the globe. You couldn’t get more insulting, could you? Of course, somebody sitting all their life in a fat pot they wouldn’t know what it means not having a job or money.

The Foreign Secretary added further “It’s getting on a plane, go and sell overseas, go and study overseas. It is much more than getting on a bike. A bike won’t get that far. There is only one growth strategy – work hard.”

The Community Secretary Eric Pickles said: “Government can’t create growth, only the condition for growth. We are only to do this if we all work harder.”

Referring to this last ‘advice’ the government knows how to cut and reduced growth. Therefore it must know, or should know, how to create it.

Furthermore to the useless advice from William Hague; he should know because he was selling weapons to Argentina till April and only stopped because Argentina threatened to take the oil companies to court if they start drilling in the Falklands. To get on a plane takes money. To sell successfully abroad you have to have good contacts and with every country in the recession nobody wants to know about buying from abroad.

With all due respect but when you are in the government and represent the people which are from a different class and life you should know what’s it all about before you give advice. All these pathetic remarks and shallow advices people can do without. It also doesn’t show a great leadership of the government.



Thursday 12 July 2012

GOVERNMENT'S CARE REFORM BEYOND BELIEF -- update 14 June, 2015



UPDATE:  14 June, 2015 --
As if that was not enough wasted money of hard-up taxpayers; David Cameron started a Better Care reform and wasted even more money -- £2billion taken out of the NHS 

Read my report "ANOTHER FLAGSHIP SCHEME OF CAMERON IN CAOS "BETTER CARE FUND." 


http://ascandal-mariahardy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/another-flagship-scheme-of-cameron-in.html


UPDATE:  20 April, 2014  -- Looking back at another report which brings back incredible ideas and measures of the Conservative Party.  Mr Lansley wasted £7million while being a Health Secretary.  A huge amount of money for ordinary people which could have prevented quite a lot of hardship.



All these previous months the governments’ reforms or cuts were all already far beyond belief but this really goes way past it.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley had this diabolical idea to introduce ‘PAY AS YOU DIE’ scheme. It would mean that the elderly would take out a high interest rate loans for their care home. This sum would be retrieved from their estate when they die. The very fact that it is a high interest rate loan would have doubled and trebled the amount.  The scheme is really the last thing anyone can think up.

As it is Old Age Pensioners are losing their home for which they scraped and saved all their lives to pay for care homes. They were so proud to be able to give their children something.  This new scheme is even worse because it adds high interest rates to it. How can anybody be so evil?

The winners of all these schemes are the people who lived in council houses all their lives getting paid the rent by the government. The decent folk who tried to better themselves and bought their home get it taken away or is it stealing?

This is really the last thing any one can do to an elderly person. Not to mention the conditions and scandals people hear all the time about these care homes.  How they get treated there and for an estimated amount of £100.000.

Chancellor Osborne was accused of delaying to cap it. It was revealed that he refused several times to put in the annual cost of £1.7billion.

Economist Andrew Dilnot stated that the figure would not be above £700million. He added further that this would be far less than the thousandth of public spending.

Andrews Lansley political career has definitely something to be looked at. Since he puts the National Health Service up for sale and could not care less about the welfare of the patients he now fails the elderly and tries to squeeze every penny out of them. His political record shows a careless and shameful strategy. Yet, the Prime Minister is closing his eyes and lets it roll on until everything it ruined for the people but not for the Elite..


Wednesday 11 July 2012

DOCTORS SPEED-UP DEATH FOR ELDERLY




A group of doctors revealed to save cost elderly patients could be denied food and water to speed-up death.

Tens of thousand of terminal ill patients are put on the Department of Health. This includes a Liverpool Care Pathway but contrary to its title it is scheme it suppose to speed-up death.

The idea of LCP is to withhold fluid and drugs from patients in their final days. To withhold fluid is worse than withholding food.  As everybody knows to be thirsty is real torture. To withhold drugs could lead to agony when the patient has pains. Both methods are inhuman.

It is also assumed that this method could be extended merely to free beds and a group of six Care Doctors for the elderly have that suspicion.

These six doctors also say that older people are often free of pain and distress and therefore there is no need for LCP. They claim further not all doctors asking the patients and try to get consent while the patient is still capable to decide. In view of this lucking to do their job properly many patients carry a card stating that they do not want that treatment.

Dr Clifford Craig said: “If you are a cynical about it, as I am, you can see it is a cost-cutting measure, if you don’t want to have you beds filled with old people.” This warning came after Professor Patrick  Pullicino quoted a fine example when he took a 71 year old patients suffering from pneumonia off LCP and he lived for another 14 months.  He titled the scheme as “assisted death pathway rather than care pathway.”

The health department responded with that the LCP is not about saving money. They would say that under the present government trying to privatise the National Health Service. Although they deny this too and call it reform the NHS.  The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is still denying it and at the same time he appointed Naguib Kheraj. He is a banker and was a top man at Barclays during the cheating libor (interest rates fixing when one bank loans to another). That tells you everything on both accounts.




UK CHANCELLOR GEORGE OSBORNE -- UPDATED 23 May, 2014


UPDATE: After reading this report from 2012 it is interesting in respect that you can see nothing has changed ever since. 

Even after calls in 2012 for his resignation, which David Cameron did not accept, Chancellor George Osborne has not issued one good budget ever since. 

The country gone to ;pieces with his austerity but still will not change his policy. Even the IMF, Germany and France advised him to stop. Now, he and David Cameron dancing about that they achieved a 0,3 per cent improvement in the economy. 

While they are hopping about but ignore Germany three per cent and the USA seven per cent from countries which did not apply austerity. It proves it all while Mr Osborne still carries on with austerity and in spite of it all borrows billions of pounds more. 

Let’s go back to March, 2012 when Chancellor George Osborne announced his budget. A budget which surely had been prepared for weeks and read by quite a number of the top politicians. 

Eventually when it was read out there was quite an uproar in the House of Commons. Amongst the points which were implemented was the so called Granny tax. An addition which pensioners have to pay if they work on after their retiring age plus National Insurance. 

A number of other cuts of previously installed benefits by the Labour Party to help families with children. Additions such as 3p of fuel tax on petrol already sky high and so on.

Since budget was read there were so many u-turns it must be dizzy by now. This does not give a good picture of a financial expert or his colleges who work with him on it. It never happened before that so many points were cancelled after a budget.  In other words Mr Osborne made a mess.

If any ordinary person in a company would produce such an almost useless document he or she would be sacked. But Mr Osborne still carries on as the great Chancellor. Furthermore, the government had a double-dip recession in the first six months in spite the idea of austerity. Anybody with half the knowledge of politics and economics knows a cut-back slows down the economy. The Conservatives inherited not a great economy because of the credit crunch but not as dismal as they make it out. They could have built on it and improved the economy.

Now we come to the Barclays bank scandal where the libor (Interest rates charged on loans from one bank to another) was rigged by top executives.

At the Questioning Time in the House of Commons Mr Osborne tried to shift the blame onto Labour. This immediately backfired because Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls denied any involvement in rigging the Libor.

This statement was furthermore backed by the Bank of England’s deputy governor Paul Tuckers.  He claimed several time that Ed Ball or any of the Gordon Brown’s government were never involved. He emphasized that in 2008 he spoke several times with bank bosses because of the credit crunch.  However, he pointed out that neither the government (Labour) nor the Bank of England ever put pressure on Barclays or any other bank to rig the rates.

Surely Mr Osborne or his adviser should have thought such statement, if not true, has a very short life.  Looking at the almost useless budget and now the embarrassing statement being denied by all parties concerned it makes you wonder if Mr Osborne trying to commit political suicide? In view of this entire incompetent not one word is uttered of resigning or being asked by the Prime Minister to resign.

Mr Tucker stated further he was appalled by the revelations including Barclays fixing the Libor rate. He called it a cesspit and went further that it could be just the tip of the iceberg with corruption rampant across the City.

The Labour Party is now demanding a complete change in the City and Banks. 

Tuesday 10 July 2012

UK GOVERNMENT DEMAND CUT PENSIONERS' BENEFITS in 2012



Tory MP Nick Boles is a close friend of David Cameron and aught to be deeply ashamed of himself. Does ‘Shame’ exist in the Conservative party dictionary?  Definitely not.

In a speech held at the Resolution Foundation in London Mr Boles demanded to cut all benefits of Old Age Pensioners. Another one of the Conservative Party who show its real face and forgotten that especially this generation of OAP saved this country from invasion of Hitler and his Nazis. Their men fought bitterly with everything they got and even had not the Nazi Army. At home their families scrimped and scraped under most difficult circumstances. Now these glory boys swimming in tenths of million and haven’t got any idea what life is about want to cut the few privileges this generation receives.

Mr Boles suggested cutting the free bus passes which is only used during day time in other words when the seats are empty any way.

He wants to cut winter fuel payment which the Labour Party introduced to prevent OAP dying of hypothermia. If this is taken away those old people will die again as it happen before. Does Mr Boles have any conscience and his friend Mr Cameron including the Conservative Party?

Furthermore, he wants to stop free TV licence. The TV licence came into force because the BBC did not run any adverts but in the meantime they do have adverts and therefore the TV licence fees should be abolished. ITV does not charge any TV licence fees because they had adverts from a start.  So why the BBC is still allowed to carry on with the TV licence fees? Mr Cameron and his friends do not think and talk about this.

Mr Boles also demand to cut the free eye tests. Since the OAP are hard up as it is they cannot pay for eye tests and therefore bad eye sight will endanger their lives.

The whole plan and idea of Mr Boles is an absolute disgrace.

The Conservative Party, as always when they are elected, shows now their true face. Surely there isn’t one pledge from their election manifesto kept.

The moment they came into power there were cuts in Army, RAF, Navy, Nursing staff and lately 6,000 policemen in a crime ridden country already.

The NHS was already understaffed and they cut further nursing post. It is now so bad that doctors and nurses were forced to strike which didn't happen for 40 years and it proves that they don't have any other alternatives. 

Just as long as their books look right in 10 Downing Street.

Army, RAF and Navy again were already undermanned and lacked of equipments yet they had to fight in Iraq, Afghanistan and were sent into Libya. When they came back they came back they were sacked. Any of these countries had nothing to do with Britain and it caused nothing but hatred and terrorism against Britain while the ‘leaders’ of the government sat back in their cushy armchairs.

The most incredible point of it all is that with all these cuts they had a double-dip recession. But instead of sitting down and looking at the result and realizing it doesn’t work they still plough on.

Mr Boles also demands a £10billion general benefit cuts which again hits the worst off people..  
                         
This is really spiteful but it was the Conservative party previously when they closed all the coal mines, shipyards and privatised every government run industry. The result five million unemployed and all these privatised industries don’t work because their shareholders want the most profit.

How could anyone belief the Conservative Party have changed?






Saturday 7 July 2012

REMEMBER BANKERS' SCANDAL - UPDATE 2 March, 2015



UPDATED:  2 March, 2015 -  Now looking back none of the executives were prosecuted on the contrary, Mr Diamond received a very golden handshake of several millions of pounds.  Most probably all the others did too.

The sky high salaries plus millions of pounds of bonuses still goes on.


The Tories are still in this all together.  At the moment, with the General Election only two months away, their promises are raining down like a monsoon. The last lot of promises were never kept and neither will those, in my opinion.


For years these boys did nothing but cleaning up. David Cameron in his last election manifesto promised to stop these sky high and ridiculous bonuses after already received over a million pound salary. However, after the election nothing was ever said and done. Then the public became angry in 2010 and they were promised March 2011 a new law will be issued against such payments. March 2011 came and went and nothing.

In the meantime a group of young people organised themselves and called themselves OCCUPY. To draw attention to themselves they put up tents in front of St Paul’s Cathedral and stayed during a bitter cold winter. David Cameron dried to move them through the power of the Church but the Church refused. In other words they agreed with Occupy.

David Cameron and his friends slowly looked a bit high and try and to save their pride had to do something. Instead of putting a law through to stop these bonuses which were always excused as it takes time to put it through. They put through a court and it went very quickly through for Occupy to vacate the location. Now there you have a contradiction.

The country faced a double-tip recession but the sky high salaries and bonuses were always there and paid. We are not talking about a few thousands but millions.

Last year £70billion were injected into the banks to encourage the economy. It supposed to be there for companies and small businesses to get another loan to encourage their production. First of all the government does not seem to be aware when the economy is down very few businessmen would increase their overdraft or loans. Secondly, it came to light, that the few asking were turned down. May we ask the question what happened to the £70billion given to banks?

In view of all that the Chancellor George Osborne authorised a few weeks ago to inject £140billion into the economy. Soon the News came that a most unprecedented move from the Bank of England Sir Melwyn King gave a very contemning speech about the bankers.

Apart from that there must have been further action in the background because all of a sudden a scandal broke lose about Inter rates fixing. The chief executive of Barclays Bob Diamond was accused and had to resigned plus was another 14 others. Other banks Lloyds, HSBC and RSB were also involved and will under investigation.

The Serious Fraud Squad is now involved and stated that they could face serious criminal charges. Furthermore, the FBI in the USA is also involved and will request the 15 traders to attend their investigation. 

David Cameron commented last week that there will be no investigation as requested by the Labour Party. It seems now that the matter was taken out of his hands by the Serious Fraud Squad. However, will the Justice Department secretary Ken Clarke stand up to them? If ever the saying of David Cameron came true “We are all in this together” it is now. These traders were all close friends to David Cameron and his government and some of them great donors to the Conservative Party.

The Bank of England and its banking system were greatly respected throughout the world and the pride of Britain. Ever since Margaret Thatcher de-regulated it, it went quietly down hill and now hits rock bottom. The only thing which has to be done is to put all and every one of them of these rogue traders into prison and it would clear up the mess. Recuperating as much money as possible what they pocketed. That would give the banks back their respect for the people and the world to belief in it again.

The country relies on banks and City finances and going back to the old system, regulating the banks, will also stabilize the economy.
   
Hopefully, David Cameron and Ken Clarke are not becoming weak kneed again and for once stand up for Britain and its people as they always promising and talking about. This is now a great turning point.