The great Cypriot bank robbery.

Location map: Cyprus (dark green) / European Union (light green) / Europe (dark grey); inspired by and consistent with general country locator maps by User:Vardion, et al (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The action of plundering Cypriot bank savings goes to prove two points.

(1) The banks cannot be trusted with our money anymore.
(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.

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.

If this robbery goes ahead it will have more severe repercussions than the option of allowing Cyprus to be declared bankrupt.

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.
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
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.
Europe had better watch out, or it won't just be Arab uprisings that will be grabbing the headlines.
There is already RIOT in the spelling of Cypriot, soon it will be on the streets, and rightly so.
As for the dictatorship of Europe, it will eventually crumble just like all the other attempts of country unification.
The USSR and Yugoslavia to name but two.

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EU referendum.

Mobbing the Tories by American Patriots in 1775-76; the Tory is about to be tarred and feathered (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Another idle promise of an in out referendum on the European Union by a government in a desperate attempt to get votes.
Gordon Brown's government promised us a referendum on Europe but it was refused, so why should we believe the Tories?
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 Common Market without our consent.
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.
The very pawn the Tories are using might be their downfall, as it has echos of a past fallen government.
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.
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.
Bring on the election NOW before this rich bunch of toffs do any more damage to the country.

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Government scams.

English: George Osborne MP, pictured speaking on the launch of the Conservative Party manifesto for the 2009 European Parliament elections, at Keele University. (805x1207 px, 283,711 bytes) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 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.

George Osborne recently sold his house, paid for by the tax payers and made a profit of around £5000,000.

Should this profit not be returned to the tax payers along with the tax payers money that was originally invested in the house.

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

a time off the tax payers.
 NOTE  0.7% fraudsters and not the 27% we have been led to believe.

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.

They are right enough in this respect when they quote, "we are all in this together."

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.
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.

The only thing that these rich posh boys are in together is feathering their own nests at our expense.

It is high time that their perks were ended which would add millions to the coffers.

Then they would be entitled to claim that we are all in this together.

Read the articles below to help understand where I am coming from.

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Party conference topics.

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: Getty Images via @daylife)

Anytime welfare cuts are being discussed recently, it always seems to be the pensioners and the disabled who are the main targets.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Should the Government not be targeting the people whose predicaments are self inflicted instead of making our poor pensioners and infirm even poorer?

Most of our pensioners paid dear during the recession of the seventies so why should they suffer now?

If the government wants to put their house in order, use a bit of common sense and leave our pensioners and disabled alone.

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Power companies usual Autumn price hikes.

Transmission lines in Romania Of which the nearest is a Phase Transposition Tower (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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.

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%.

If everyone left that company and spread their business between the other companies perhaps they would think twice before following suit.
If they all announced it together, then we could vote online, the company to target first.
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.

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.

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.

Let us start this year and show them what power really is.

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Pension schemes.

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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.
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.
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.

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.
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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.
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.
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!

They have never needed to budget and have no qualifications in the matter.
Economics are OK in theory but a completely different matter when they have to be put into practice.
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.

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THE PROMISED REFERENDUM ON AN INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND.

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We have been led to believe that next year the Nation of Scotland will finally be given the chance to vote for or against independence in the promised referendum.

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 Alex Salmond has the stupid notion of continuing to be a member of the European Union as it now stands.

By all means go back to the original "Common Market" under which we still made our own rules, but the new Union is a step too far.

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 independent Scotland this time around.

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 Brussels that pulls the strings for Britain is home rule, then he is sadly mistaken.

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.

Unless Salmond is prepared to have a fully independent Scotland, then he is wasting all our time and money with a referendum.

Take note Mr Salmond!

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