Royal Bank of Scotland rip off.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!
The government has sold (offloaded as they put it) 8% of OUR (the taxpayers) shares of the Royal Bank of Scotland for two and a half billion pounds which is a LOSS of two billion pounds.
Now as far as I was led to believe at the time we LOANED the "BANKRUPT" bank 45 billion pounds to bail it out or in other words keep it in business. We never purchased "shares" as is now claimed.
Now you have to ask, how come the shares of a bankrupt business are worth nearly twice as much as a business that is now showing profit??? and why are we selling shares (we did not purchase) at a loss and not getting the full 45 billion returned to us????
The answers are simple.
As I have said before, it was all one big con by the city slickers to make more money for them.
You will see soon that the government's city cronies will be buying up these under priced shares and selling them for a BIG profit that will make them even richer while the poor taxpayers who staked the money in the first place suffers the loss or takes the hit, so to speak.
We continually allow this to happen while they rub their hands in glee after counting the money they ripped off us, all the time knowing they have taken us for the fools we are, while all the time we go on accepting the austerity forced upon us without retaliation.
I think I will try for a loan from the R.B.S. and ask for the same payback terms. Would I get it, I think not, so why did they???????

Tory manifesto of doom.

Having heard the Tory manifesto I am now convinced that Mrs May has written her quick exit from number ten Downing Street. As usual her policies are all directed to the rich which is typical Tory practise but this time I don't think she has enough rich buddies to save her. The Labour manifesto was more down to earth and was more in line with the old Labour who supported the working man and the aged. Having heard both manifestos now I forecast that this election will be a closer run contest than the Tories think with the possibility of a Labour government once the shouting is all over. I did want Mrs May to take us out of the EU as I thought she was the best person to do it but my wish was that after we were out of the EU, she and her party would be out of government. I would also like to mention that two of the banks we lent money to have returned large amounts back into the coffers but this never seems to make any difference to the austerity that was brought upon us by the so called banking crisis. Surely if the austerity was brought on us by lending money to the banks it should ease when the money is being returned. NOT SO IT SEEMS! The puzzling thing is, the money was supposedly lent in cash to the banks but when we are getting our returns it is bank shares we are selling. We did not buy shares in the banks, we lent them cash so cash should be returned with interest. Is this not the way the banking system works? I would like to see someone who had borrowed money from the bank for a business loan telling the bank manager that he would sell him some shares in his business at a loss to repay his debt. That is the poor excuse we are getting when OUR money is being paid back, shares being sold at a loss as the bank is now showing a profit so we will now sell some shares even if it's at a loss.Is that not some way to do business? Nah don't think that would work the other way round. It was all a farce in the first place to invent a banking crisis only to make the rich richer and put the working man down because there was too much prosperity going on in his world and the rich did not like it. Something tells me the tide is about to turn.

Another Osborne rip off.

So George Osborne is once again ripping off the taxpayers by selling the RBS shares off at low prices to allow his already rich buddies another chance to get even richer quicker at our expense.
The problem I have with this apart from the obvious is the fact that we DID NOT buy shares in the banks when they supposedly went broke, we bailed them out by"LENDING" them billions, 45 if my memory serves me right so if Osborne thinks the RBS debts will be settled by selling shares at knock down prices he has another think coming.
If 45 billions was the money LENT then 45 billions should be paid back with interest as we are still paying interest to the IMF on money loaned to our government to help subsidize the money over and above the cash taken from the coffers that we paid into the banking system.
"MONEY WE HAD TO BORROW" or rather our criminal government ministers borrowed in our name to eventually make the rich richer.
Therefore it is my conclusion that whatever Mr CON Osborne loses in the selling of the shares the RBS STILL owe the difference plus interest.
After all since the recession caused by bankers the banks have been constantly paying off fines for one construed reason or other amounting to billions so if they can afford that yearly they can afford to return all money lent to by the taxpayer plus interest RIGHT REASON OR NONE!

LET US STOP BEING CONNED AND RIPPED OFF BY THESE SCROUNGERS AND CON MEN IN GOVERNMENT!
Osborne alone, already creamed off half a million pounds from the taxpayers by simply changing houses and we trust this twat with the coffers!
AYE RIGHT!

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Scotland the brave? THAT'S A LAUGH!

I never thought I would see the day when I would be ashamed to be Scottish, but now after my fellow countrymen had the chance to prove they could go it alone they failed miserably.
45% of Scottish people are hanging their heads in shame because the rest of the world is mocking them, all because the other 55% of the people did not have the backbone, the faith, or the vision to see what could have been an even prouder nation flourish on it's own merit.
Never can we sing "Scotland the brave," "Flower "o" Scotland" or any other patriotic song relating to Scotland with any conviction because the words have no meaning now.

We had our chance and blew it!
We listened to numpties and were taken in by their feeble promises now we are the numpties and soon the world will see us for what we have become, a weak people afraid to break free.
No more can we complain when our country get fleeced by Westminster, no more can we complain when the south of England flourishes with Scotland's wealth while our poor get poorer and our disabled and needy are neglected.
No more can we complain when we get Tory governments that have only one interest in Scotland and that is to drain it of it's resources.
It will be during these next few months that we see the promises broken and put on the back burner while the south builds it's new airports, railways and any other means it can think of to squander the wealth that has now fallen back into their hands, hands they are now rubbing with glee because a nation was so easily conned.
The fledgelings were afraid to fly the nest, afraid to fly solo, now there will be forever dependent on Westminster who like any parent birds will treat them with the contempt they deserve.
Aye once we were a brave and proud nation but now we have nothing to sing about.

SCOTLAND, RECLAIMING INDEPENDENCE!

It amuses me when I hear the words "WE WILL ALLOW SCOTLAND MORE POWERS" in the hope that it will persuade voters to wilt and be taken in by such nonsense.
ALLOW US? Who do they think they are addressing, some bunch of servants who are quite willing to accept crumbs from a cake that we baked with our own ingredients?
Scotland can have all the powers it wants without permission from Westminster by voting YES!
We were once a proud independent nation until we had the union forced upon us 300 years ago, we were, and still are a country in our own right NOT a Shire of England.

One TV commentator classed the union as a marriage but as we all know a forced marriage is doomed to failure especially when one partner tries to dominate the other as in Westminster dictating to Scotland.

With or without oil Scotland can stand alone but it is our oil and our oil alone that has reduced Westminster to the stages of groveling that we are now seeing and all because they have been shaken to the core by one poll that threatens to stop the gravy train that steams over the border from Scotland.

What the better together campaign has omitted to mention IS,the better together applies to England and the rest of the UK, NOT to Scotland, we have the cake, we don't need the crumbs, WE ARE BETTER.

Westminster wants the security of Scotland's wealth to better England's roads, railway systems and airports along with any other infrastructure they think will benefit the south because without it, the plans they have for London and the surrounding area will have to be put on the back burner until they establish themselves as a sound financial power in the world.
YES, England and the rest of the UK will have to prove themselves too in the financial and business worlds as a country reduced in size and wealth that they can manage on the budget they have been left with.
They rant on about Scotland having to establish itself when we get independence but we are an emerging power, a power the rest of the world is looking at with expectation knowing we can stand alone whereas the rest of the UK is diminishing as a power and when that happens to countries the world turns towards the land that will flourish because that land can help them flourish too.
Businesses will come to Scotland when they see Scotland prosper, banks will have more faith in our currency and eventually we will have a better credit rating than the rest of the UK.
Other countries will take inspiration from Scotland's success and break free from their oppressors by voting not fighting.
Wales and Northern Ireland will benefit from Scotland's independence by either gaining more power or breaking away from England altogether as has been suggested by some of these nationals.
We are not the first country to rebel and leave Britain and we won't be the last.
LET SCOTLAND SET THE STANDARD IN THIS PEACEFUL VENTURE FOR INDEPENDENCE THE WORLD IS NOW EXPERIENCING.
Gone are the days of  Great Britain and the Commonwealth where countries were conquered and downtrodden.
WE ALWAYS COULD STAND ALONE FINANCIALLY SO VOTE "YES" AND PROVE IT, NOT ONLY TO YOURSELF BUT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!

The oil on Scotlands west coast!

THIS HAS TO BE MADE PUBLIC!

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UK Defense Ministry Accused Of Blocking ‘Major Find’ Of Oil on Scottish West Coast

UK Defense Ministry Accused Of Blocking ‘Major Find’ Of Oil on Scottish West Coast
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14:16 06/06/2014

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GLASGOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti), Mark Hirst – A former Labour Member of Parliament in Scotland has told RIA Novosti there is a “major find” of oil and gas on the West Coast of Scotland which is not being extracted because of UK nuclear submarine operations.
David Lambie, 89, was a Labour MP for Ayrshire from 1970 until 1992 and told RIA Novosti that a member of the Conservative Government in the early 1980s leaked information to him about the oil discovery which, Lambie says, the Ministry of Defence, (MoD), has tried to cover-up.
“It was a Tory MP who actually contacted me in the first place,” Lambie told RIA Novosti.
“He was in the Government at that time and he couldn’t do anything about it. He wanted me to raise the issue,” Lambie added.
Lambie said that Scottish independence wasn’t a realistic possibility then, but he felt exploration would boost the local economy which in 1983 was blighted by mass unemployment.
“The exploration of oil would have created jobs on the West coast of Scotland at a time when we really needed them,” Lambie said. “As soon as the MoD heard about it and realized I was getting my information from a Tory MP and a member of the Government then the whole thing stopped.”
British Petroleum, (BP), who carried out a seismic and geological exploration survey over an area of 92 square miles south of Arran, a large island in the middle of the Firth of Clyde, said they no longer held the survey data. Lambie told RIA Novosti that the loss of the data was “curious”.
Peter Walker was Tory Energy Minister in the early 1980s and told the UK Parliament that consultation would be needed with the MoD due to the “importance of the area for the passage of British and US submarines to and from their bases.”
According to Lambie the MoD then moved to block any exploration in the area.
Lambie agreed that independence, and the resultant closure of Faslane and nuclear submarine operations, could open the door to exploration on the Firth of Clyde.
“The oil is in the area to the south of Arran,” Lambie told RIA Novosti. “It was a place where the navy people from Faslane (the UK’s nuclear submarine base) trained.
“The oil is still there, it must be there,” Lambie said. “Nobody is using it. The Tory MP who contacted me got hell for leaking the information to me.”
Lambie added, “The Tory MP described the oil identified as a ‘major find’.”
Jim Sillars, a former Labour and Scottish National Party MP, told RIA Novosti that he believed the British Government had deliberately covered up the extent of oil on the West coast of Scotland.
“There should now be a full blown exploration and explanation to the people in Scotland of what’s there in terms of oil and gas in the Firth of Clyde,” Sillars told RIA Novosti.
“You should be able, once we are independent and negotiating with Westminster, to demand a premium lease on the Faslane base until it leaves,” Sillars added.
Sillars said that a premium lease of Faslane to the UK Government by the Scottish Government should be made to reflect the oil revenues lost from the Clyde during the period oil exploration did not proceed.
“Once the base goes, as it will go under independence, then we can go full steam ahead and exploit the oil and gas and transform the economy on North Ayrshire, where the support industries would be established,” Sillars told RIA Novosti.
Meanwhile a survey of oil companies operating in the North Sea has found the majority of those surveyed believe Scottish independence would have a positive impact on their industry.
The survey by the Aberdeen and Grampian Chambers of Commerce found that small to medium sized oil companies were more favorable to Scottish independence than the large multi-national operators.

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The Naked Truth: Cameron:Is he the worst prime minister in British history.

David Cameron said his government would be the most transparent in British history!! HOWEVER the doughnut he put in charge of the DWP and then handed this serial failure and cock up artist the largest budget EVER for a departmental reform, must have not got that memo as for the last 3 months Iain Duncan Smith has bitterly fought against the publishing of a report that would have laid bare the calamity of Smiths personal wet dream the universal credit!!! and his twisted vision of how the most vulnerable in society should be punished and enslaved.
The report is said to be so damming that it has not even been given a rating of green, amber or red on its chances of succeeding or coming in on budget because it is now under threat of being scrapped altogether and started again under a new administration, with a bill of nearly half of a billion pounds simply written off!!
One senior civil servant who turned whistle blower described the whole department as in a state of chaos with Smith acting like a delusional emperor who is demanding what he wants without actually having a clue on how his civil servants are meant to make his demands happen.
One back bencher said that when Smiths department eventually gives up its dark secrets and the true amount of money that has simply been squandered and wasted and all the misery it has caused so many!!! people will then ask how this lunatic was given the keys to the public bank when he has been a total failure all his life!! The only thing that is transparent in the DWPs department is Smiths utter stupidity and arrogance...

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