A message for George Osborne

Balls to austerity;
Balls to taking our rights;
Balls to taking our jobs;
Balls to cutting our services;
Balls to bankers bonuses;
Balls to cutting the ILF;
Balls to Met Police;
Balls to cuts to Access to Work;
Balls to cuts to Social Care;
Balls to the Bedroom Tax;
Balls to Workfare & Sanctions;
Balls to Forced Treatments;
Balls to Maximus, Atos & PIP;
Balls to Child Poverty & inequality;
Balls to low pay & exploiting workers;
Balls to anti-homless laws;
Balls to stifling protest;
Balls to migrant bashing, racism & Islamophobia;
Balls to cuts to Housing, Education, NHS, Legal Aid, Womens Refuges, CAMHS and much much more

Are The Tories Really Helping The Poorly Paid Workers By Taking Them Out Of Tax?

Question Time (Grays, 02 July 2015) - The Unasked Question

Facebook comment from David Bradley

I'd like to share with the readers of this blog this great comment from David Bradley that he has graciously allowed me to repeat here for your enjoyment.

"The Prime Minister has announced a National Minutes Silence on Friday for those effected by the Tunisia Attack.

"38 people have died so far including 18 British (expected to rise to 30).

"Especially grief stricken is Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP who was hoping for more survivors to be disabled so he could hound and bully them out of benefits and into his ever growing, unrecorded list of deaths."

The politics of austerity by guest blogger Tom McEnroe

I’m proud to present the first guest contribution to this blog and I’d like to thank Tom McEnroe for feeling that he could voice his opinion here.

Since the financial crisis in 2008 until the present moment, the people of the UK have been terrorised by the present government, right wing think tanks and a supportive mass media into believing and accepting that this country is bust and has no choice but to inflict austerity on the nation and its people. That "austerity" has not affected the rich, the extremely rich, politicians or indeed, the Monarchy. What it has done though, is decimate jobs, stilted growth and infrastructure; sliced damaging cuts into the NHS, and Welfare claimants, lowered wages AND continued to double the debt it inherited.  It has demonised the unemployed and working poor of this nation as if they, and not the bankers and Hedge fund managers, were somehow responsible for this state of affairs. 

We are constantly being told, "We have to make some very unpopular, but necessary decisions, as a government in order to tackle this financial problem."

In regard to that, let me just say this: in 1945 this country managed to create, introduce and implement the NHS, it did likewise with the Welfare state AND managed to build 100,000 new homes - all at a time when we had 5 times more of a financial burden due to war debts.  Social progress created under a truly socialist government.  Why can't this happen today?  Because the banks, the powerful and wealthy oligarchs who control government, won't allow it. There is no private money to be got from socialist ideologies. There is however, money to be made from privatising the NHS, cutting back on the Welfare state and restricting the creation of affordable social homes so that private landlords can push rents up to the ceiling.

This extremely right wing, Conservative government has inflicted more socially damaging and draconian policies than even Margaret Thatcher ever dreamed she could get away with.

And all in the name of "austerity!" All in the name of saving the country.

It is a political philosophy based upon an outrageous lie, AND a betrayal of the very people they were elected, in good faith, to serve. And one which may very well lead to the break up of this United Kingdom. If it does, the rich and the greedy have only themselves to blame.

A quick look at the political Left and Right

Below is an experiment in putting across information in a vlog way.  It's not a long piece and looks at what I see as the differences between the political Left and Right as well as giving you an idea of what I want this blog to achieve.  I hope you like it.

Please do let me know if you'd like to see more of this vlog approach.

Submissions welcomed!

This is a call to anyone who's interested in joining me in trying to start a dialogue on how we can change the electoral system of the UK to something a little more democratic and a lot less corrupt.  Of course, there's also a discussion on how we need to change society as a whole too and all the stages we need to take to get to a better society as well.

I try not to push a particular political stance but, since I am against the current administration, I tend towards a disdain of the political right-wing even though I have areas of agreement with the right; however, I am open to submissions from all areas of the political spectrum as I believe that every ideology has something to contribute to a better society.

If you'd like to submit something I'd be happy to publish it on this blog to open up a massive dialogue.  The only stipulation is that your submission is not offensive to groups or individuals or generally offensive.

Please send your submissions (with your name/pseudonym) to vor.comments@gmail.com