Royal Bank of Scotland rip off.

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

Tory manifesto of doom.

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

Another Osborne rip off.

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

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

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Scotland the brave? THAT'S A LAUGH!

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

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

SCOTLAND, RECLAIMING INDEPENDENCE!

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

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

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

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

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

The oil on Scotlands west coast!

THIS HAS TO BE MADE PUBLIC!

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

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Facebook members know the truth

English: Iain Duncan Smith-Nightingale House-March 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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.

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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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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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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