tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40475763510172730532024-03-12T21:39:19.556-07:00Get it off your chestthings that get on my wickDonald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-53423826012035086272018-06-05T01:44:00.000-07:002018-06-05T01:44:26.172-07:00Royal Bank of Scotland rip off.<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">HERE WE GO AGAIN!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Now you have to ask, how come the shares of a bankrupt business are worth nearl</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">y 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????<br />The answers are simple.<br />As I have said before, it was all one big con by the city slickers to make more money for them.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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???????</span>Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-25470974596553285612017-05-19T08:05:00.001-07:002017-05-19T08:05:08.000-07:00Tory manifesto of doom.<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background: url("https://www.blogblog.com/snapshot/bg-header1_left.gif") right bottom no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #c4663b; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 2em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;">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 close</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-size: 14px;">r 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.</span></div>
Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-90639521666743182992015-08-04T11:33:00.001-07:002015-08-05T04:59:01.032-07:00Another Osborne rip off.<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
"MONEY WE HAD TO BORROW" or rather our criminal government ministers borrowed in our name to eventually make the rich richer. <br />
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.<br />
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!<br />
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LET US STOP BEING CONNED AND RIPPED OFF BY THESE SCROUNGERS AND CON MEN IN GOVERNMENT!<br />
Osborne alone, already creamed off half a million pounds from the taxpayers by simply changing houses and we trust this twat with the coffers!<br />
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-7282053985526075892014-09-19T05:23:00.001-07:002014-09-19T05:23:14.593-07:00Scotland 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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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We had our chance and blew it!<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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. <br />
Aye once we were a brave and proud nation but now we have nothing to sing about.Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-3537433756353664502014-09-09T03:35:00.000-07:002014-09-09T03:35:16.384-07:00SCOTLAND, 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.<br />
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? <br />
Scotland can have all the powers it wants without permission from Westminster by voting YES!<br />
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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
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.<br />
Other countries will take inspiration from Scotland's success and break free from their oppressors by voting not fighting.<br />
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.<br />
We are not the first country to rebel and leave Britain and we won't be the last.<br />
LET SCOTLAND SET THE STANDARD IN THIS PEACEFUL VENTURE FOR INDEPENDENCE THE WORLD IS NOW EXPERIENCING.<br />
Gone are the days of Great Britain and the Commonwealth where countries were conquered and downtrodden.<br />
WE ALWAYS COULD STAND ALONE FINANCIALLY SO VOTE "YES" AND PROVE IT, NOT ONLY TO YOURSELF BUT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-29062193559467072502014-06-09T10:01:00.000-07:002014-06-09T10:01:10.270-07:00The oil on Scotlands west coast!THIS HAS TO BE MADE PUBLIC!<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
“It was a Tory MP who actually contacted me in the first place,” Lambie told RIA Novosti.<br />
“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.<br />
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.<br />
“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.”<br />
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”.<br />
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.”<br />
According to Lambie the MoD then moved to block any exploration in the area.<br />
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.<br />
“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.<br />
“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.”<br />
Lambie added, “The Tory MP described the oil identified as a ‘major find’.”<br />
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.<br />
“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.<br />
“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.<br />
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.<br />
“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.<br />
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.<br />
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.</div>
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David
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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.<br />
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!! <br />
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meant to make his demands happen.<br /> 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
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-78271834358437062502014-05-17T13:57:00.000-07:002014-05-17T13:57:34.594-07:00HOME TRUTHS FOR ATOS.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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My letter to ATOS when I was asked to attend one of their health assessments even though I was NOT in receipt of emploment support allowance.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To whom it
may concern.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The doctors
at my general practise who know ME and my medical history inside out, saved and
prolonged my life by correctly diagnosing my heart problem and advising me to
give up my work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They are
still monitoring and managing my condition and are continuing to investigate
and treat the added severe arthritis I am suffering in my back and various
joints of my body.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was born
and bred into the fishing industry of HARD graft where living constantly on
stormy seas, soaked to the skin on a daily basis took its toll on my body,
hence the arthritis and with little sleep along with irregular meals was a
likely cause of my heart condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Treading the
streets as a postman in all weathers did not do my health any good either.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">With
hindsight, if I had picked an easy job such as a TV presenter, DWP worker politician,
or even worked for ATOS, I would most likely still be able to carry out the
gentle tasks these jobs entail, the main drawback being for the latter two, my
conscience would not allow it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any medical staff
who works for a company, already publicly shamed and ridiculed, whose purpose
is to accept money from an unelected and unscrupulous government for overruling
the diagnosis of such honourable doctors, if having signed the “Hippocratic
oath” should be struck off, as by working in such an underhanded way they are
breaking the very oath they signed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If any of
the staff making these decisions have not signed the said oath, then they
should be taking NO part in this enterprise anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To make this
clear, I would like to point out that MY doctors, and the doctors at other
practises whose diagnosis are being questioned have the health and welfare of
their patients at heart and NOT any financial gain nor sympathy for unscrupulous
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>government ministers whose soul interest
is to increase the coffers at the expense of genuine disabled people. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Therefore
there is no one at a government paid company qualified to examine me, or even
question the opinion of my doctor or others during a short interview where some
disgusting decisions have already been made, and most likely in advance of
actually seeing the patient.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The money
being used to pay such companies comes from the coffers accumulated by the taxpayers
which include ME who worked and contributed into these funds during my HARD
working life as a commercial fisherman and latterly as a postman, jobs that
given the nature of them and my medical condition would have shortened my life
had it not been for the professionalism of the medical team at my practise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It angers me
that the very money the government is supposedly trying to protect is being
squandered by them on hiring a company who is quite willing to fleece the
taxpayers of that money by collecting bonuses for each disabled person they
discard, genuine or otherwise, from the government’s benefit system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MPs have
commented on the attempted benefit changes as “An unmitigated disaster of
extraordinary proportions” with 140m million pounds of taxpayers’ money being
written off, which does not include the money wasted on ATOS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ATOS was
supposed to weed out those who were cheating the system not attack the genuine,
some of whom committed suicide while others died as a result of losing their benefits.
Deaths caused indirectly by both the government and ATOS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adding the
amounts of squandered money together with the resulting deaths, it would have
been much better and less costly to leave well alone, but then again it would
have deprived companies like yours of millions of taxpayers’ money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not only do
we have unscrupulous ministers involved in this action but an unscrupulous
company who has lost all credibility in the eyes of the general public, so I
see no reason for any involvement of me by ATOS as they know nothing about me,
and would not learn enough about me during a short interview to overrule the
CORRECT decision of the doctors at my medical practise.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nor do I see
the logic in filling in a questionnaire or answer questions at a farcical assessment
that are mostly irrelevant to my condition and incapacity, or ability to pursue
a suitable occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is my
right however to have a credible assessment, which has already been carried out
by my own doctors whose only concern is my welfare with no other underhand
scheme behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is only
fair to warn you that all correspondence between us might be made public, or
used elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Donald
Swarbrick.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div>
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-48452418297674885322013-07-30T02:23:00.000-07:002013-07-30T02:23:05.884-07:00THE BARBARIC BEHAVIOUR OF ATOS.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/62261498@N07/6532389061" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="ATOS PROTEST BY ECAP" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="87" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7171/6532389061_87e5394ecb_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center;">ATOS PROTEST BY ECAP (Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/62261498@N07/6532389061" target="_blank">Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty</a>)</td></tr>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5190" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
All to often we are reading or hearing of <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-2"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5191"></span></span>
cases where seriously ill people are being told that they
are fit to work when it is obvious to even common laymen like us, that
these people have <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_%28medicine%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Chronic (medicine)">chronic illnesses</a> with no hope of being capable of
coping with any workplace, or working conditions.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5192" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
Another
thing that is not being taken into consideration is the fact that no
employer would want to hire someone who would not be able to <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-3"><span>guarantee</span></span> job satisfaction, nor, in most cases would the person who is too ill to work, want to burden an employer.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5193" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
Most
of these people would only be too glad to be able to work and, if
healthy, would need no enforcement from despicable government hatchet
men who have nothing else on their mind but to accuse them of being
skivers in an attempt to gain the support of taxpayers, while trying, in the process to do away with the benefit system altogether.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5193" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
A system we all paid or pay into with the promise of financial help should our health fail us and prevent our ability to work.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5193" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
The contemptable Ian Duncan Smith would rather throw millions more pounds to a large company like ATOS than give money to the genuinely ill who contributed to a national insurance system that HE has destroyed.</div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5193" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
Even the taxpayers do not want genuine people to be punished through these appalling methods, and have the sense to know when rotten government ministers like him are trying to con them.</div>
<div class="yiv4370692326yui_3_7_2_29_1374577507019_206" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5254" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
ATOS
is a big company hired by the hatchet men, but it is individuals at
ATOS who have the gall to ignore the advice of these genuinely ill people's general <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-6"><span>practitioners</span></span> and overrule that professional judgement, all for the sake of thirty pieces of silver.</div>
<div class="yiv4370692326yui_3_7_2_29_1374577507019_320" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5255" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
If these deplorable so called doctors, and nurses in some cases, at ATOS, <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-4"><span></span></span> were to be <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-5"><span>publicly</span></span>
named and shamed, then perhaps they would not be so keen to put
genuinely ill people through even more agony than they are already
suffering.</div>
<div class="yiv4370692326yui_3_7_2_29_1374577507019_320" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1375173922897_5255" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">
The doctors concerned have taken a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Hippocratic Oath">Hippocratic oath</a> (swearing to practise medicine honestly) and in partaking of these despicable actions, there are breaking the very oath they swore they would keep.</div>
It is time to bring them out in the open and have them face the <span class="yiv4370692326" id="yiv4370692326misspell-4"><span>consequences</span></span> of their actions, after all it is THEY who are coming up with the disgraceful decisions for ATOS even though they are being instructed and bribed to do so.<br /><div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;">
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-1934338799246025852013-06-27T03:36:00.001-07:002013-06-27T03:36:43.259-07:00In this together?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Osborne is still spouting drivel, using the phrase "In this together."</div>
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Proof of the pudding will be when THEY the politicians give up their benefits provided by the taxpayers.</div>
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They too get housing benefits when they scrounge money from the taxpayers to purchase houses in London.</div>
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Other
perks like cheap meals and booze in the Houses of Parliament, over
inflated salaries, gas guzzling expensive cars to run around in and over
the top heating bills for government buildings like Downing street and
other <span class="yiv5349800005" id="yiv5349800005misspell-0"><span>departments</span></span>, to name but a few, should be reduced and some done away with <span class="yiv5349800005" id="yiv5349800005misspell-1"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1372327520420_4696">permanently</span></span>.</div>
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What
makes them bigger scroungers than the actual needy is the fact that,
individually, their withdrawals from the taxpayers are enormous in
comparison.</div>
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No matter what they
would like to call their perks, they are still every bit as much WELFARE
benefits as the poor and needy receive although they may come from a
different purse.</div>
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The point is the money from all these purses come from the taxpayer, and until <span class="yiv5349800005" id="yiv5349800005misspell-2"><span>politicians</span></span>
also adhere to the severe cuts the general public have been burdened
with, then and only then will they be entitled to use the phrase "We are
all in this together."</div>
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-48370947368663415592013-05-12T03:34:00.001-07:002013-05-12T03:34:26.770-07:00The government insurance scam.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Speaking on behalf of, and in defence of the so called "baby boomers,"I would like to now expose the successive governments of Britain who exploited them during their working lives.<br />
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The majority of us worked hard all our lives paying taxes which was supposed to go into the government coffers which is the purse on which the country lives by.<br />
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We, also along with our employers made contributions in the form of insurance stamps which was supposed to go into a fund and guarantee us payment should we fall ill either temporary or permanently and also provide us with a deserved livable pension at the end of our working lives.<br />
We did not contribute into any of these systems so unscrupulous governments could use our money to squander on bailing out incompetent bankers, gift other prosperous countries such as India with hundreds of million pounds, or throw money hand over fist to terrorist who wish nothing but harm on the very people who they are scrounging off.<br />
The baby boomers contributions far outweighed the money being paid out to the pensioners and people of ill health in our day and the fund we were supposed to be contributing to should have grown.<br />
Instead the surplus was squandered by successive governments on other ventures with no regard to the future when we ourselves would become dependant on the fund we had invested in.<br />
Now the war cry is that the pensioners are a burden to the country and the younger generation who are feeling the pinch thanks to government policies feel we should pay along with the rest of the country.<br />
Well all I can say is, we have paid dearly for the pittance most of the pensioners of today receive, and are now being punished all because governments used our funds for other purposes.<br />
If an insurance company had pulled off a stunt like that it would find itself in the courts facing charges of fraud.<br />
So when you are berating or hear someone berating a pensioner, think again because someday that pensioner will be you.<br />
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Also any private pensions or work pensions some of us were lucky enough to contribute to was supposed to be for our benefit not to benefit governments who have plundered these funds too and hold them against us by means testing to save them money.<br />
It is time politicians wages and expenses were means tested too, then we would really be able to stop scroungers exploiting the system.<br />
After all according to them they are only in politics to fight for the rights of the people and to better the country.<br />
AYE RIGHT!<br />
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Every argument I hear from the "better together" brigade has the phrase "How will <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.95,-3.18333333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=55.95,-3.18333333333%20(Scotland)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> survive independently outside the security of the UK"?<br />
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The question I would like those in favour of Independence to ask is.<br />
How is the rest of the UK going to survive without the security of all revenues from Scotland?<br />
We do not only have oil, we also have an ever growing revenue from whiskey, and if we played our cards right in or out of the European Union, we have one of the greatest fishing stocks within that union which is being ruined by unnecessary quotas from Brussels.<br />
If we got Independence we should, and could protect our fishing stocks from the European fishermen who are just waiting to plunder and destroy our stocks just as they did their own.<br />
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Another benefit to an in dependant Scotland would be, not to have the burden of London consuming our welfare budget, what with the highest rental market for the unemployed and the dearest house prices for MPs who scrounge money from the taxpayers to pay for their homes and sell them for their own gain.<br />
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Scotland contributes billions more to the UK coffers than they get in return, and where is the money spent other than London?<br />
On the road and rail network throughout England, stopping at the Scottish border, the proposed high speed track being one example.<br />
So if you are a Tory MP, or spend lots of time travelling in England, or think you might benefit from the extravagance of London, be it welfare or property dealing, then "better together" could be for you.<br />
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If on the other hand you are a TRUE Scot and grudge every penny that crosses the border to boost the UK coffers that fall into the hands of rich Tories who have not one clue on how to put it to good use, or help Scotland, then you should seriously be thinking of voting for Independence.<br />
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We are more than capable of standing alone, which is more than the scaremongers from England can do, that is why they are so against an independent Scotland.<br />
Without our money they will have a bigger struggle on their hands to sort out their deficit than they have now.<br />
As for Scotland. We can rise above it all, we have the wealth to do so.<br />
I do feel sorry for the proud Scots who, through no choice of their own, who have to work and live in England, or elsewhere, even if they are likely return someday, still do not get the chance to vote and express their feelings on how the country of their birth should be governed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 216px;">George Osborne at Conservative Spring Forum 2006 in Manchester. (Photo credit: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgeOsborne.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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How generous of George Osborne in his
attempt to make things easier for the people of Britain to purchase their own
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Its a pity we could not all go down the
same route as him and use taxpayers money to buy, then sell with a £500,000
profit to pocket, with no repayments whatsoever to the coffers.</div>
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How he has the nerve, and arrogance to
stand up in front of <span id="yiv1611955574misspell-1"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1363945468023_1971">Parliament</span></span> and come out with
statements such as he did, after ripping us off, <span id="yiv1611955574misspell-2"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1363945468023_1957">beggars</span></span> belief.</div>
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Then again what else should we expect
from a Tory led government, whose most important goal is to, get richer,<var id="yiv1611955574yui-ie-cursor"></var> look after the rich, and trample on the
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-53076832421891669442013-03-19T05:24:00.000-07:002013-03-19T05:26:29.584-07:00The great Cypriot bank robbery.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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The action of plundering Cypriot bank savings goes to prove two points.<br />
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(1) The banks cannot be trusted with our money anymore.<br />
(2) It is proof positive that, as this was a motion put forward from Brussles through the European Union, that the EU is nothing short of being a dictatorship.<br />
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How do the banks expect us to trust them with our money when this Cypriot bank raid is an example of what to expect when our governments squander our tax and national insurance contributions.<br />
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If this robbery goes ahead it will have more severe repercussions than the option of allowing Cyprus to be declared bankrupt.<br />
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We have little trust in the banks as it is, what with the over inflated wages and bonuses of the top brass even when they are showing losses.<br />
That along with the bail out that has led to the shambolic state of the world economy, I think it would be very foolish of any bank, or EU proposal to go ahead with this theft of honest hard working peoples money.<br />
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It is totally ludicrous to think that when a government squanders its own coffers, accumulated by their taxpayers, that they can plunder the same taxpayers savings, all of whom knew how to budget and save for a rainy day, unlike the elected idiots that we get lumbered with nowadays.<br />
It is a sad day when the banks that we thought were keeping our money safe can not only close to prevent any withdrawals, but can steal from us too.<br />
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If this raid is successful in Cyprus, then it can happen to savers anywhere in the world, and it will probably be only a matter of time before it is enforced somewhere else.<br />
European leaders had better beware, because people do not stand for these disgraceful actions anymore and it will lead to mass riots, brought on by the incompetence of government and banking policies.<br />
The next thing you will hear on the news will be them wondering why it is happening, decrying the riots and coming out with some pathetic reason as to why the ministers who are the cause of them in the first place, should be listened to.<br />
Europe had better watch out, or it won't just be Arab uprisings that will be grabbing the headlines.<br />
There is already RIOT in the spelling of Cypriot, soon it will be on the streets, and rightly so.<br />
As for the dictatorship of Europe, it will eventually crumble just like all the other attempts of country unification.<br />
The USSR and Yugoslavia to name but two.<br />
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Another idle promise of an in out <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Referendum">referendum</a> on the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="European Union">European Union</a> by a government in a desperate attempt to get votes.<br />
Gordon Brown's government promised us a referendum on Europe but it was refused, so why should we believe the Tories?<br />
The very fact that government leaders are using a referendum on Europe as a pawn to gain votes, means that they are sure the general public wants the chance to vote on this important matter, and the very fact that they keep refusing us this vote is proof positive that they know the majority in Britain will vote to leave this shambles that has been stretched too far from the original <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_market" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Single market">Common Market</a> without our consent.<br />
These government ministers forget that they are elected and paid by us to look out for our interests, and by refusing us this vote they are not doing the job they are paid for, as it is going against the majorities wishes.<br />
The very pawn the Tories are using might be their downfall, as it has echos of a past fallen government.<br />
The Tories also seemed to have forgotten that the disabled people they are endlessly harassing, and the other middle classes, using needed welfare are voters too, and when it comes to the next election they will need more than the promise of a referendum to see them into another term.<br />
With their genocidal acts towards the genuine disabled they should be hanging their heads in shame, but scroungers like them who take our money in wages and expenses with little in return have no shame when they try to make out that it is the public who are to blame for the world financial crisis.<br />
Bring on the election NOW before this rich bunch of toffs do any more damage to the country.<br />
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Ian
Duncan Smith, David Cameron and George Osborne, are the ring leaders in
trying to smear the recipients of welfare payments by distorting the
true figures of how much the individual gets, and of how many are not
genuine.</div>
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George Osborne recently sold his house, paid for by the tax payers and
made a profit of around £5000,000.</div>
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Should this profit not be returned to the tax payers along with the tax payers money that was originally invested in the house.</div>
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Abusing
this scheme is worse than the 0.7% of people who are fraudulently
abusing the welfare system, as they do not skim £5000,000</div>
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a time off the tax payers.<br /> NOTE 0.7% fraudsters and not the 27% we have been led to believe.</div>
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All
politicians should be made to pay back all of the money, and profits
used to buy houses paid for by the tax payers when they have no more use
for them.</div>
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They are right enough in this respect when they quote, "we are all in this together."</div>
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They
too are guilty of ripping off the tax payers at every chance they get,
and should hang their heads in shame when they deprive genuine disabled,
and needy people of money that they are entitled to.<br />The people who
decry the unfortunates on benefits should be careful not to be taken in
by the government smear campaign as they never know when it might be
their turn to claim welfare should they find themselves out of work
through no fault of their own.</div>
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The only thing that these rich posh boys are in
together is feathering their own nests at our expense.</div>
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It is high time that their perks were ended which would add millions to the coffers.</div>
Then they would be entitled to claim that we are all in this together.<br />
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Read the articles below to help understand where I am coming from. <br />
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-55485461702645688572012-09-26T06:55:00.001-07:002012-09-26T06:55:24.072-07:00Party conference topics.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 150px;">LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 17: Demonstrators hold signs as British Prime Minister David Cameron makes a speech on welfare at on February 17, 2011 at Toynbee Hall in London. The Welfare Reform Bill is set to replace the current benefits system with a single Universal Credit,and to help people in long-term unemployment into jobs. (Image credit: <a href="http://www.daylife.com/source/Getty_Images" target="_blank">Getty Images</a> via <a href="http://www.daylife.com/" target="_blank">@daylife</a>)</td></tr>
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Anytime
welfare cuts are being discussed recently, it always seems to be the
pensioners and the disabled who are the main targets.</div>
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Bus
pass withdrawals, heating allowance reduced or banished are just two of
the cuts being directed at these people, most of whom have contributed
during their working lives to a welfare state that promised to look
after them in their old age or should they become unable to work through
ill health.</div>
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Nothing
is ever mentioned of the drug addicts, who also are issued with bus
passes AND ARE PAID EXTRA MONEY to keep dogs, most of which are of the
dangerous breed.</div>
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Millions
of pounds are sent to foreign aid to help the needy in other countries,
but the government seems intent on punishing the genuine needy in our
own country.</div>
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Why
should the people who have worked hard, paid taxes and insurance, be
the main targets when drug addicts who contribute nothing to society are
given handouts left right and centre with no questions asked, or ever
any
threat put on THEIR welfare benefits?</div>
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Should
the Government not be targeting the people whose predicaments are self
inflicted instead of making our poor pensioners and infirm even poorer?</div>
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Most of our pensioners paid dear during the recession of the seventies so why should they suffer now?</div>
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If the government wants to put their house in order, use a bit of common sense and leave our pensioners and disabled alone.</div>
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-10851199313505123012012-08-23T04:55:00.001-07:002012-08-23T04:55:36.579-07:00Power companies usual Autumn price hikes.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Autumn is not yet on us and already we have a power company informing us of well above inflation price rises, coming once again in time for the high winter usage when they make their annual killing.<br />
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Killing being the obvious choice of word because not only do they make a killing with their profits but they also are responsible for the deaths of many a poor pensioner who just cannot afford their unnecessary extortionate rip-off prices that are as predictable as leaves falling from the trees at this time of year.<br />
<br />
It is high time this extortion was put at an end, and one way to do it these days is for PEOPLE POWER to get together, start a facebook page and boycott the first company to introduce this years hike of 9%.<br />
<br />
If everyone left that company and spread their business between the other companies perhaps they would think twice before following suit.<br />
If they all announced it together, then we could vote online, the company to target first.<br />
Any company who thought they were going to lose all their customers, therefore putting them out of business would soon realise that PEOPLE POWER has far more strength than the power they are selling.<br />
<br />
Year after year they always come up with some feeble excuse to introduce these rises, even when they have announced huge profits for the year.<br />
<br />
Its time for the PEOPLE to make a stand against them, as ofgem who are supposed to do it on our behalf, are as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.<br />
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Let us start this year and show them what power really is.<br />
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Donald Swarbrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12599898195409972731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4047576351017273053.post-79395748773865111952012-06-22T02:56:00.000-07:002012-06-22T04:19:46.270-07:00Pension schemes.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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This Tory government, "I say Tory as the Lib-Dems have little to say in the supposed coalition" is railroading their way through every aspect of our lives making severe changes to anything they can think of whether it means savings or not.<br />
It has been so long since they were in power that they are acting like schoolchildren in a sweetshop, not that we could expect little else from a party that is run by arrogant fools who still act as if they are in the school playground, bullying people who they think are beneath them.<br />
They know full well that this short term they have will be the last for a long time, and all they can come up with is tactics that can only do more harm than good to our country, fleecing the poorer members of the public while looking after their own rich buddies, some of whom got us into this mess in the first place.<br />
<br />
The changes to the pensions are a disgrace and will benefit the government more that the workers by the time they have robbed it by overtaxing.<br />
Tax paid as you earn, tax on our work pension schemes when the money is in the bank and taxed again when the time comes to collect on a lifetime of hard work and saving accumulated in the expectation of boosting our lowly old age pension.<br />
<br />
Now people who have planned all their working life and contributed to the country's coffers through good times and bad are being forced to shelf these plans and told to work years longer for less reward while the government reaps the benefits of the money they thought they were accumulating to help ease their finances during their old age.<br />
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These types of changes should not have interfered with people who are nearing the end of their working lives but started with the new generation of workers who would know the score from the offset.<br />
This move is nothing short of fraud and extortion, and if it happened to be a private company or an individual that executed such a con the public would be up in arms over the matter and the culprits taken to court and jailed.<br />
<br />
This bunch will eventually get their comeuppance but alas all to late for the honest workers who saw this nation through the last recession and have earned their right to a decent retirement.<br />
<br />
The excuse that too many postwar babies are still alive now and are of age to collect their pensions is no excuse for punishing the new pensioners as their money was good enough to take and support the pensioners of their day, and all of the benefit system during their working lives.<br />
<br />
It has been common knowledge to all from the fifties that this day would arrive when the population of elderly would boom, so steps should have been taken from THEN to combat the problems that have arisen from the baby boom after the war, and not dumped on us now along with every other financial problem the world is going through at this time.<br />
<br />
Then again it takes brains to think that through and within the present government you could hardly make a decent brain out of all the people who sit on the front bench.<br />
There are more brains outwith politics than there are in it and the only time a government will make a success of running our country is when these people are listened to.<br />
<br />
Bickering in the House of Commons and acting like the spoiled schoolboys that they are only proves that they have no brains and that they should have learned a lot more about the realities of life before settling down to a cushy job where it seems only rejects from society are welcome.<br />
Prime Ministers Question Time in Parliament shows that the Prime Minister is the worst offender of them all. Any question he is asked is almost always ignored and answered by a sarcastic remark attempting to belittle the questioner, when all the time he is only belittling himself and showing his ignorance and immaturity for the job.<br />
Its time they grew up and did the job they aspired to in the playground and got rid of the arrogant "WE KNOW BETTER" attitude when they clearly DO NOT!<br />
<br />
They have never needed to budget and have no qualifications in the matter.<br />
Economics are OK in theory but a completely different matter when they have to be put into practice. <br />
Let the housewife who has to count every copper and plan how each one is spent, get her hands on the coffers, THEN we would have someone with a bit of common sense correcting the finances of the world and in no time at all the arrogant schoolchildren in Parliament and other failing governments would be shown up for the useless lot they really are.<br />
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We have been led to believe that next year the Nation of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.95,-3.2&spn=10.0,10.0&q=55.95,-3.2%20%28Scotland%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>
will finally be given the chance to vote for or against independence in
the promised referendum.</div>
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While I think we could go it alone if
all the revenue from our oil and our other assets like whiskey were
added fully to the Scottish coffers, I still fear for our future if <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.snp.org/" rel="homepage" title="Alex Salmond">Alex
Salmond</a> has the stupid notion of continuing to be a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union" rel="wikipedia" title="Member state of the European Union">member of the
European Union</a> as it now stands.</div>
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By
all means go back to the original "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_market" rel="wikipedia" title="Single market">Common Market</a>" under which we still
made our own rules, but the new Union is a step too far.</div>
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Whispers
of Salmond considering joining the failing Euro currency in the future
is another reason that I will be going against the chance of an
<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_independence" rel="wikipedia" title="Scottish independence">independent Scotland</a> this time around.</div>
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Alex Salmond has
always had the war cry of "Home Rule For Scotland" but if he thinks that
having the strings pulled by the same puppeteer in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.85,4.35&spn=0.1,0.1&q=50.85,4.35%20%28Brussels%29&t=h" rel="geolocation" title="Brussels">Brussels</a> that pulls
the strings for Britain is home rule, then he is sadly mistaken.</div>
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The
Scottish people who want "Home Rule" do not want to have our laws laid
down, or our prosperous industries like the fishing ruined any more by
foreigners who's goal seems to be to weaken our resources rather that
strengthen them.</div>
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Unless Salmond is prepared to have a fully independent Scotland, then he is wasting all our time and money with a referendum.</div>
Take note Mr Salmond!<br />
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The £250,000 answer to the European crisis.</div>
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Hitler started a war in his attempt to have a united Europe that he could dictate to.</div>
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Think of the millions of lives that could have been saved if he had come up with the idea of peacefully brainwashing European leaders into forming a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" rel="wikipedia" title="European Union">European Union</a> instead.</div>
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It
appears that, although we are being dictated to through Brussels, (the
headquarters of the Union,) it is Germany and France who are pulling the
strings.</div>
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Looking up from his pit in HELL, Hitler must be pleased with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel" rel="wikipedia" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a>, while kicking himself at the same time.</div>
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But alas, world wars or brainwashing to form a European Union, the outcome is the same.</div>
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A complete disaster! </div>
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It's
a pity our politicians hadn't the brains or fore site to realise that
this idea was always doomed to failure as is now proving.</div>
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If
the British public had been given the chance of a referendum (as was
their entitlement) at any of the changes made since we agreed to
the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_market" rel="wikipedia" title="Single market">Common Market</a> policy, Europe would not now be going through the
problems it now has to contend with.</div>
<div>
Proof positive that the
public should be listened to by the politicians who were voted in to
look after our interests, not to be brainwashed by other European
leaders into thinking that such a union would be a success for all
concerned.</div>
<div>
The foundations have been rocked so much now that
recovery is nigh impossible and if not sooner, it will be later when
total collapse occurs.</div>
<div>
When it does, Europe and the rest of the world will be far better off.</div>
<div>
We need to go back to individual countries, each with their own currencies and laws to create the competition for success.</div>
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The head man of "WHICH" has offered £250,000 to anyone who can solve the European crisis, so I hope he reads this and he, and the leaders of Europe realizes that even though it may take time it will have a better outcome than anything they have come up with.</div>
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I AWAIT MY CHEQUE!</div>
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The country strikes.<br />
Democracy or <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship" rel="wikipedia" title="Dictatorship">dictatorship</a>.<br />
<br />
We have an unelected government trying to run the country with an iron rod by threatening to alter the laws to make it harder for unions to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action" rel="wikipedia" title="Strike action">strike</a>, a feat already carried out by a Tory government under <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" rel="wikipedia" title="Margaret Thatcher">Thatcher</a>.
They have punished genuine <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability" rel="wikipedia" title="Disability">disabled people</a> by depriving them of mobility money that they desperately need and have come to depend on, and in the process it has cost the taxpayers more than it will save.<br />
All they have done since they took over office is come up with various methods of fleecing every last penny out of the general public and attempting to trample the most needy under foot to keep them at rock bottom where our non-elected government appear to think they should stay.<br />
Always in time of recession its the poorer who have to work and make sacrifices while the rich just keep on getting richer.<br />
The strike, and the fact that other strikes are planned is one way that the underdogs can show unity in a peaceful way against the dictatorship that is now running the country.<br />
The way things have been going recently, Britain can no longer call herself a democracy as the unelected government takes no heed of the people they are supposed to represent.<br />
They should think themselves lucky that its only strikes they have to contend with for now.<br />
We have seen what has happened to dictatorships recently, and if they continue on the course of action they are on, they might well see uprisings here, as the general public are not willing to be taken for fools any longer.<br />
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<br />Its two years now since Abdelbaset al-Megraghi was released from a Scottish prison, using the excuse of only having around three months to live.
<br />If it is not bad enough that he is still surviving, we have to have our noses rubbed in it by hearing that it is due to a drug that cancer sufferers in this country cannot obtain.
<br />Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond still maintains he is not embarrassed at the decision to release him, but he is not speaking for the majority of the Scottish nation who are.
<br />
<br />Another slur on the Scottish Justice system this week has been reported in the media and although it is more to do with the much abused <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights" rel="wikipedia">Human Rights</a> Laws it still is making a mockery of the so called justice here.
<br />
<br />"Limbs in the Loch" murderer William Beggs has won another day in court as he bids to have his name put on the voters roll of his home town Kilmarnock, which is the same town his victim came from and was murdered in.
<br />
<br />Since his imprisonment ten years ago he has been allowed to abuse the Human Rights Law at every cut and turn, amassing costs to the taxpayer through legal aid to the tune of over one million pounds.
<br />
<br />Altering the Human Rights Laws is overdue and bringing cases like this to the attention of the idiots who sit and make laws that can only benefit criminals should be made a priority before they are allowed to ridicule the system any more.
<br />
<br />Scum like Beggs brings out so much hatred in decent honorable people that they begin to think about bringing back hanging.
<br />
<br />This scum should have been <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging" title="Hanging" rel="wikipedia">hanged</a> then we would not have to see his face smirking at us from a newspaper every time he finds another way to ridicule these stupid laws.
<br />
<br />If not hanging, then thrown in a dark corner and forgotten about with a bit of bread and water to satisfy his hunger. That way he would have no time to rummage through the law books provided by the taxpayers for the luxury hotel they call a prison.
<br />
<br />Megrahi and Beggs are just two who have made a fool of Scottish justice albeit aided and abetted by others and even though it is too late to save face over these atrocious misuses of our justice system, it is not too late to alter the laws to accommodate the downtrodden that they were originally intended for.
<br />
<br />Its time to wipe the smirk off Beggs face, and all the other scum criminals who are making a mockery of our courts and our Politicians.
<br />Withdraw Their Human Rights as they do not deserve any protection through them, and do not allow them the benefit of legal aid.
<br />If they want to pursue any appeals or prisoners rights let them fight it with their own money.
<br />
<br />Common sense in our legal system is long over due and while Alex Salmond might not be embarrassed about it, the majority of his electors are, so its time they were adhered to as it is their money that is being abused and their way of life that is being affected by all this disgrace.
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<br />It beats me why the Human Rights Activist have any sympathy for these scum, but it is partly their fault that the justice systems of the world are being made a mockery in this way, and if it is allowed to continue all of mankind will suffer, directly or indirectly.
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<br /></div><div>Once again when justice is seen to be served in our courts the famous war cry from the Human rights brigade rears its ugly head.</div><div>They are now claiming that the sentences being handed out in court to the looters and rioters from last weeks disgrace are too severe.</div><div id="yui_3_2_0_5_1313565364751106">It is obvious that none of them suffered the loss of their business stock or were burned out of house and home by these criminals, nor would any of them have been terrorized by these thugs when being involuntary caught up in the riots. </div><div>Do they not realize that it is thanks to them that discipline has been taken from the home and justice taken from our courts.</div><div>The <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights" rel="wikipedia">Human Rights</a> Laws have been taken to the extreme by this minority and it is mainly because of this that these riots took place.</div><div>Thanks to them, parents are afraid to chastise their children, and our police forces are afraid to do their job in case of reprisals from the abused Human Rights laws.</div><div>The only way to prevent more of these riots taking place is to dish out severe sentences to these lawless mobs or it will become more common place.</div><div>Discipline begins in the home from where respect arises and these two important factors are what is sadly missing in today's society.
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<br />The main reason for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot" title="Riot" rel="wikipedia">rioting</a> in England is the lack of discipline in the past and the misuse of the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights" title="Human rights" rel="wikipedia">Human Rights</a> laws coming home to roost.
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<br />The police had to stand and watch the thugs run riot because thanks to the goody goodies, the police were too afraid of repercussion to their actions thanks to the misuse of the Human Rights rulings.
<br />The police are not living in fear of the thugs and criminals, they are living in fear of the very people they are trying to protect, who jump at every chance they get to find fault in everything they do.
<br />What good is a police force when it has come to this?
<br />It is time that offenders such as these and all convicted criminals were refused Human Rights, then maybe our police forces could go in with some confidence when having to deal with these situations.
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<br />These disgusting scenes will become more common place in our streets if sense is not allowed to prevail and punishment is brought back to all levels of our society.
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<br />There is never any justice dished out in our courts to appease the victims of crime and in recent years all criminals are able to seek refuge or compensation by using a law that was introduced to protect the downtrodden of this world, not to be abused by anyone who discovers a loophole.
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<br />Its time to wake up to this ridiculous abuse of the Human Rights law, use it for the purpose and people it was meant to protect or the consequences will become even more dire.
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<br />These recent events prove that you cannot fight violence with a softly softly approach when all you succeed in doing is be laughed at by criminals.
<br />Its time to take a stand and bring discipline back into our society, starting with the home, our schools and the courts.
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<br />The fools who think we should have sympathy for these thugs should be sent to the front line to face the thugs and see then if their tactics work.
<br />They wouldn't be so quick to shout about Human Rights for everyone when they were being attacked.
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<br />Use the law in a sensible way and maybe then we will all sleep easier at night.
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