Thursday 29 April 2010

Brown's Crisis

What are the lessons we should learn about Mr. Brown's encounter with Mrs. Duffy? On the face of it she asked some very reasonable questions without malice and genuine concern. The answers she got also seemed reasonable for a Prime Minister fighting for his life. There were also friendly comments about her life and family. Why did he call her a bigot and then blame his aide "Sue" who has been at his side for years? It would seem to me to reflect badly upon the ruling elite in this country and their attitude to the people they are supposed to represent. The electors are to be wooed then forgotten about. We have had the scandal of the parliamentary expenses and the greed that it has displayed. We have the lack of honesty relating to the state of the country's finances. We also have the deceit about the EU Constitution referendum. We are desperately in need of a radical shake up of government. That is my bigotry!

Tuesday 27 April 2010

EU and the Economy

The following is a message from Lord Pearson, UKIP Party Leader. He is revealing the severity of the current financial crisis. When will the failed main parties take their heads out of the sand?



“It is dishonest to talk about repairing our economy without mentioning the colossal cost of our EU membership”.

In 2008, the latest year for which the Government statistics are available:

The Government spent: £707 billion
Less what it raised in tax: £540 billion
= a resultant ‘deficit’ of: £167 billion


A. The TaxPayers’ Alliance estimates the overall cost of our EU membership at £120 billion per annum (over-regulation, loss of our fishing, extra food costs of £1,000 per family per annum, etc.).

Of this, in 2008, £16.4 billion went in cash to Brussels.

£16.4 billion p.a. = “£45 million pounds a day” (gross) – our slogan

£45 million per day pays for 2,125 nurses, for a year, at £21,000 p.a. So “For the money we send the EU every day, we could pay the annual salaries of 2,125 nurses”.

But Brussels gives back some of what we send (e.g. £2 billion per annum for our farmers). If this point is raised, the following are the net cash figures:

In 2008 the Government says we sent to Brussels net cash of £6.6 billion. (= £18 million per day, = “857 nurses a day”)
-N.B. In the first “Leaders’ Debate”, Brown said Cameron’s proposal to cut £6.0 billion from public expenditure would send the economy into disaster

The net cash for this year is estimated at £9.7 billion

To “earth” this figure for voters, £9.7 billion = £26 million per day, which pays for 1,225 nurses a day. So the net cash we are sending this year to Brussels, never to see any of it again, pays for “1,225 nurses a day



B. There is also the Institute of Directors and TaxPayers’ Alliance “How to Save £50 billion”. This details £50 billion p.a. of cuts to waste, which could happen in the first year.

C. UKIP’s Budget and the Economy paper details £13 billion p.a., which could be cut by getting rid of a number of useless quangos identified by the TaxPayers’ Alliance.

D. Then there is £18 billion p.a. (for 40 years) for “global warming” (from the Government’s Climate Change Act)

E. And, £ 5 billion p.a. for the “Private Finance Initiative”


A + B + C + D + E = £206 billion per annum
We should be talking about saving say half this figure per annum, but our political leaders continue to argue about £6 billion.


Longer Term

By 2013 the Government estimates that the accumulated “deficit” –the National Debt- will have reached £1,300 billion (1.3 trillion; the “Black Hole”: £20,000 per man, woman and child). This will be roughly 90% of our annual Gross Domestic Product (what the country produces every year). The ‘deficit’ is still forecast to be running at £90 billion, and even that relies on the economy growing at 2.25% p.a., which it isn’t.

And just for fun, the above figures do not include some £300 billion of loans and guarantees made to UK banks which will not all be repaid; and “Quantitative Easing” (printing money) at £200 billion. On top of the £20,000 public sector debt per person, we have also racked up private household debt (primarily residential mortgages) of over £50,000 per average household.

We are in serious trouble.

Friday 23 April 2010

Rights

Hello everyone! You will know that we have rights and I am telling you that daily we are loosing them. We are not told this by the parties that have been ruling us on the direction of foreign powers. These right are being removed slowly and by stealth as ordained.

We have a right to be free
We have a right to have a sovereign head of state to whom we declare allegiance
We have a right to be a sovereign state without interference
We have a right to an elected government that undertakes to govern and create laws to the well being of all citizens
We have a right to lead our lives as we see fit so long as it does not impinge on the rights of other
We have a right to defend our nation and give succour to those in need

All these rights are being eroded and we have not been given the right to protest. It is now the time

Stop the undemocratic rule from Brussels which is responsible for up to 80% of new laws

Save £45m daily which is being handed over to the EU and so the extra 10 fold estimated expense in implementing these laws

Reassess the so-called consensus of global warming, now cooling, and listen to evidence from all real scientists and not economists and politicians so saving as estimated global cost of $47 trillion

There is no place for the break up of the UK. Devolved government has to be reassessed. As it is it is counterproductive and grossly expensive. We suffer from over government.

There is very little to choose between the three main failed parties, in fact there is no room for a cigarette paper between them. The SNP is hell bent on the break up of our country and if achieved will lead to financial crises. There is no such thing as independence within Europe. All lies

These are fundamental points and serve to point us all in the right direction for recovery after the disastrous fiscal policies of Mr. Gordon Brown. Then and only then can we start to make a dynamic change to the general good of all.

These are the beliefs of the UK Independent Party. Get back to the basics

Monday 19 April 2010

Manifesto

I strongly recommend that you read the UKIP manifesto. It is packed full of common sense giving a full programme of policies from the economy, law and order, immigration, health, education, defence, agriculture and fishing. Also included are animal rights and by no means least, the scam of anthropogenic global warming.

It can be read and downloaded from this site:

http://www.ukip.org/media/policies/UKIPmanifesto1304.pdf

A word of warning. There is media hype about the Lib Dems. I am willing to wager that this is a 10 minute wonder. Before long it will be remembered that of all the failed main parties this one is by far the most in favour of surrendering our country to the powers in Brussels. It is a party of national traitors.

Thursday 15 April 2010

Primary Care

How many of you, my dear readers, have heard some horrifying stories about NHS24? They are, of course legion and as such are deeply disturbing. It is the remoteness of it all that concerns me. When I worked in General Practice, my partners and I had care of our patients 24/7. We knew them all and their histories we carried in our heads. Woken at night by the telephone we usually knew who was at the other end of the line by their voice and we also knew that a diagnosis could rarely be gained by the call alone. I will not say that we did not prefer to stay in our beds but sleep would be impossible! Reluctantly we got up and the further away the patient, the better our mood as by the time we reached them we had quietened down! We were with them in the time it took to get dressed and be down the road in the car.

It is a different story now. First of all one has to go through all the various tiers of command with repeated confirmations of rank, name, number etc and while all this is going on you can hardly get a breath or your loved one is slowly choking and becoming more and more blue. The doctor will arrive hours later if you are lucky because he is miles away on another call. My advice has always been call the ambulance if you are getting no sense in a few minutes. This is wrong, of course, but is usually the only practical answer. Mind you, if you are seeking urgent attention during 9 to 5 and during week days only, you will normally get a good response. However it is not always practical to be ill during these hours!

How times have changed. My remuneration for a night call between 11pm and 7am was £5. For night duty now the fee can be in the order of £1000. Who are these doctors earning these fees? Many are your own GPs! I don't blame them as this is the system in which they work. That does not mean that it is in the interests of the patient as it is not. May be it is easy to say it now that I have retired but life in the good old days was hard but it was rewarding. We gained and I hope the patient did too.

We, the patients can be getting a raw deal and I strongly believe that the service given in the past far outweighs that given now. To get GPs to return to the former care regimes will be difficult but I would tell them the service offered would be so much better and they will feel so much more rewarded.

There is a real need to rethink the health service, cut out waste in the huge management costs, stop chasing crazy targets and just simply get down to looking after people. Lastly how often have you heard that "experts" have found a new way for you to live your life, only to have this corrected by another team of "experts" a short time later? Drives you mad!

Climategate

The report on the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia has been released and an insight comment on it is below. The inquiry was government sponsored and if like me you are suspicions, you will not be surprised about this report. Lord Oxburgh is very much an interested party in the whole politics and finance of this climate scam so I would suggest the report is treated with considerable scepticism. Notice the estimated world cost of $45trillion.

Disgraced MP Stephen Byers is the international president of Globe, a
powerful climate-change lobbymg body. Its directors include Lord
Oxburgh, head of an 'independent' inquiry into the controversial
Climatic Research Unit

Can we trust the 'Climategate' inquiry?

There has been a curious byproduct of the attempts being made by the
University of East Anglia to whitewash last November's embarrassing
leak of documents from its Climatic Research Unit. Since it set up not
one but two supposedly "independent" inquiries into the "Climategate"
affair, climate sceptics were intrigued but not entirely surprised to
find that almost all their members were committed, even fanatical
advocates of global warming, and hence unlikely to be over-critical of
the CRU's bizarre record.

Most recently, the sceptics have been particularly intrigued by the
background of the man chosen by the university to chair an assessment
of the CRU's scientific record. Lord Oxburgh declared on his
appointment that he is linked to major wind-farm and renewable-energy
companies. He admitted that he advises Climate Change Capital, which
manages funds worth $1.5 billion, hoping to cash in on the
"opportunities created by the transition to a low-carbon economy", in
a world market potentially worth - its website boasts - $45trilllion.

What Lord Oxburgh kept quiet about, however, is that he is also a
director and vice-chairman of a strange little private company few of
us had heard of known as Globe International. The name stands for
"Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment", and it
describes itself as a worldwide network to lobby governments to take
more drastic action on climate change. Globe is certainly
well-connected, as it showed just before last December's Copenhagen
conference by staging a seminar addressed by, among others, the
conference's chairman Yvo de Boer, as well as Nancy Pelosi and Ed
Markey, the leaders of the campaign to push a cap-and trade-scheme -
which could make a lot of people fabulously rich - through the US
Congress.

The international president of this lobbying organisation turns out to
be none other than Stephen Byers MP, now best known for his
description of himself on last week's Dispatches as "like a cab for
hire", happy to take £5,000 a day for using his influence as a
lobbyist.

Globe clearly knows how to pick its men. Its UK parliamentary team
also includes Elliot Morley MP, Globe's former president, and David
Chaytor MP, both of whom now face criminal charges for fraud in
connection with their expenses claims. Considering the record of some
of his colleagues, it is perhaps not surprising that Lord Oxburgh was
not too keen to declare his interest in this odd little outfit when he
was appointed to chair an inquiry as to whether the world can rely on
the evidence produced by the CRU to support its advocacy for global
warming. But I am sure we can all have every confidence as to which
way his inquiry's conclusions are likely to point.

Monday 12 April 2010

At It Again

Have you noticed that the LibLabCon Snip are at it again? Here we are entering another election where the single most important question is being ignored. Billions are being spent on the unelected rule from Brussels and still they prefer to glass over the whole fiasco. There have been promises to us, the electorate, to have a referendum on the single most damaging legislation giving even more control to the EU only to ignore these in a string of lies. I remind you, my readers, that the single most important deceit has been in the denial that the EU Constitution is not the Lisbon Treaty. I fear that none of the main failed parties can be trusted to ever give us a say in our relationship with the countries of Europe. Again I remind you that we have no say in our government and that those in Westminster and Edinburgh are no more than puppets on a string. However in two ways at least they are effective; raising taxes and wasting them. The current financial crisis has been brought about by sheer incompetence and overspending in the public sector. We are all being lead like lambs to the slaughter.

It is vital that our whole relationship with Europe is addressed and that we regain control of our destiny. One set of policies can never fit all the countries within the EU. I am willing to wager that soon we be will helping to bail out Greece Spain, Portugal and Ireland. With what and our £167bn deficit?

The so called main parties and media are frightened of us, UKIP. Why? It is because we seek to spell out the truth and bring some sense into government with straight talking. When it comes to voting we must vote with the heart and not to just keep some other party out. Until we do this there will never be any change in the government of our country. No vote is ever wasted in this way. After all it is our country that matters. Beware of the political elite! As I have said before, until we set the base line right we will never get out of the bit. Have a great campaign! I will be back with more.

Monday 5 April 2010

General Election 2010

The election is almost upon us and Gordon Brown cannot avoid the voters any longer. During his time first as Chancellor of the Exchequer and then PM , I fear there has been one disaster after another and now we are all suffering. He appears to have no insight. We desperately need a change but who do we have? There is "Our Dave" and the "Wee Nick" and really there is little to choose between them. There remain grave crises hanging over us; the economy, wars, national sovereignty, climate change, law and order, poor education, immigration and last and by no means least a bunch of politicians who we can not trust and who have been fiddling the system for years and years.

We need a change and some "straight talking". That is the slogan for the UKIP campaign and it says it all. Talk straight, giving the truth and options. First of all the country must balance the books. Certainly in times of economic strife the work force must continue to work constructively and not just push paper around aimlessly. There are far too many in government departments doing just this . Some 51% of the countries workers are in government jobs controlling us, the people. This is ridiculous. To make money and enrich the nation we must export, not just financial services. Having made wealth we must then use it to enrich our lives, and in so doing, that of others who have been less fortunate. There are two areas where this country is squandering money as though there is no tomorrow; that is the £45m spent daily on membership of the EU together with the extra spent in implementing the deluge of directives from Brussels, estimated at being 10x the initial cost, and the increasingly horrendous liability of the so called consensus of anthropogenic global warming. This cost is running into trillions of dollars and pounds. For what? A political belief that is being increasingly questioned by many, many scientists. To save in just these two areas would go along way in solving the crisis. We could again be in control of our destiny and start to meaningfully participate in world affairs. With just 8% of the vote in the unelected EU we are going nowhere.

Human rights has over reached itself and has to be responsible of the crime rates, poor education and the huge numbers of immigrants. Real asylum seekers are a different matter but those who come here because it is "nice to be here" and fleece the benefit system, I am afraid that there is only one way for them and that is on the first boat or aircraft back. We do not have the room for all these people, or the housing, jobs, education, roads, rail and certainly in times of drought, water. Electricity is soon to give up because of the carbon fear and EU regulation. Anyone who wishes to work in this country should have a work permit and a designated place of work. Further more they must speak the language, honour our customs and agree to bide by our laws. There is no place for ghettos and separate legal systems. There is no doubt all those who wish to work here and be part of our society are more than welcome.

During this coming election there is but one party that has the ability to see what is really the answer, or the honesty to speak of it. Desperately we need change and a complete new philosophy to get our beautiful country back into being a self governing national entity. No EU Vote UKIP!