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

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

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HOME TRUTHS FOR ATOS.

Atos (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

To whom it may concern.

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.

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.

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.

Treading the streets as a postman in all weathers did not do my health any good either.

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.  

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.

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.

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  government ministers whose soul interest is to increase the coffers at the expense of genuine disabled people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is only fair to warn you that all correspondence between us might be made public, or used elsewhere.

 

Donald Swarbrick.

 

THE BARBARIC BEHAVIOUR OF ATOS.

ATOS PROTEST BY ECAP (Photo credit: Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty)

All to often we are reading or hearing of  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 chronic illnesses with no hope of being capable of coping with any workplace, or working conditions.

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 guarantee job satisfaction, nor, in most cases would the person who is too ill to work, want to burden an employer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 practitioners and overrule that professional judgement, all for the sake of thirty pieces of silver.

If these deplorable so called doctors, and nurses in some cases, at ATOS, were to be publicly 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.

The doctors concerned have taken a Hippocratic oath (swearing to practise medicine honestly) and in partaking of these despicable actions, there are breaking the very oath they swore they would keep.

It is time to bring them out in the open and have them face the consequences 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.

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In this together?

10 Downing Street (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Osborne is still spouting drivel, using the phrase "In this together."

Proof of the pudding will be when THEY the politicians give up their benefits provided by the taxpayers.

They too get housing benefits when they scrounge money from the taxpayers to purchase houses in London.

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 departments, to name but a few, should  be reduced and some done away with permanently.

What makes them bigger scroungers than the actual needy is the fact that, individually, their withdrawals from the taxpayers are enormous in comparison.

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.

The point is the money from all these purses come from the taxpayer, and until politicians 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."

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The government insurance scam.

£17.5m Provided Assistance to Pensioners (Photo credit: DUP Photos)

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.

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If an insurance company had pulled off a stunt like that it would find itself in the courts facing charges of fraud.
So when you are berating or hear someone berating a pensioner, think again because someday that pensioner will be you.

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.
It is time politicians wages and expenses were means tested too, then we would really be able to stop scroungers exploiting the system.
After all according to them they are only in politics to fight for the rights of the people and to better the country.
AYE RIGHT!

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Scottish Independence.

Location map of Scotland, United Kingdom Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 170 %. Geographic limits of the map: * N: 61.0° N * S: 54.5° N * W: 8.8° W * E: 0.4° W (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Every argument I hear from the "better together" brigade has the phrase "How will Scotland survive independently outside the security of the UK"?

The question I would like those in favour of Independence to ask is.
How is the rest of the UK going to survive without the security of all revenues from Scotland?
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.
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.

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.

Scotland contributes billions more to the UK coffers than they get in return, and where is the money spent other than London?
On the road and rail network throughout England, stopping at the Scottish border, the proposed high speed track being one example.
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.

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.

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.
Without our money they will have a bigger struggle on their hands to sort out their deficit than they have now.
As for Scotland. We can rise above it all, we have the wealth to do so.
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.

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THE BUDGET. HELP TO BUY.

George Osborne at Conservative Spring Forum 2006 in Manchester. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

OSBORNES HELP TO BUY HOMES.

 

How generous of George Osborne in his attempt to make things easier for the people of Britain to purchase their own homes.

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.

How he has the nerve, and arrogance to stand up in front of Parliament and come out with statements such as he did, after ripping us off, beggars belief.

Then again what else should we expect from a Tory led government, whose most important goal is to, get richer, look after the rich, and trample on the poor and disabled.