Coming to a street near you, yea or nae?

http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=17933 

If this video is genuine then it is truly disturbing, unless you're one of the gullible who can't see anything untowards in the mess drowning Europe.

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Taken from the Vatican Times reportedly allegedly.

Parliament destroying the NHS

Dear Reader, It’s being called backdoor NHS privatisation. And if we want to stop it, what happens in Parliament this week is crucial. Some Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs have tabled a motion demanding the NHS privatisation plan be immediately withdrawn. [1] So far only 72 MPs have signed up. [2] We need to make that number grow, and quickly. In the last few hours, the legal advice paid for by thousands of 38 Degrees members’ donations has come in. The verdict seems clear. If the government forces through these new NHS privatisation rules, it will mean ministers breaking promises they made last year when they said doctors wouldn't be forced to privatise everything. [3] We’ve got the proof we need to show MPs that the government is breaking the promises made when the NHS law was forced through. Now we need to make sure every MP reads it, to convince them to sign the motion demanding these new privatisation rules are stopped. If MPs hear from thousands of us we can make sure that they sign up to block backdoor privatisation. Can you click here to send an email asking them read our legal advice and oppose the plans? https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises The government says their ‘modernised’ NHS is supposed to be about giving more control to local doctors and communities. But under Jeremy Hunt’s new regulations, the government will force GPs to open up every part of local health services to private companies – whether or not it’s what they or local people want. And it’s not just us saying this. On Sunday, the Observer newspaper reported an explosive letter from the head of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to the health minister, outlining concerns that “healthcare will be disrupted and hospital services damaged as a result of time-consuming, disruptive and unnecessary tendering processes,” and that these new regulations are “at odds” with reassurances previously given to doctors. [6] These are hardly the voices of radicals or political opportunists – so what’s it going to take for MPs to sit up, take notice and admit that something’s not right here? Let’s seize this moment and ask our MPs to listen to doctors, patients, legal experts and concerned constituents, before they make a big mistake: https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises We can stop this now, if we try. In the past week we've grown our rapid-response petition to over 230,000 signatures. We’ve chipped in to pay for expert legal advice. Now let’s make the talk in the halls of Parliament on Monday be about how many voters are getting in touch about these broken promises. Together, we can help those wavering MPs to find some backbone, and help even the diehard supporters of privatisation to realise the game is up. https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/nhs-broken-promises Thanks for using your voice, David, James, Hannah and the 38 Degrees team

Tell Ur MP

Thank you for emailing your MP in support of the Mash Beer Tax campaign. It would be great if you could also tell your colleagues, friends and family to do the same. Many MPs will no doubt have seen for themselves how much drinkers are having to pay - ten times the tax on beer in Germany - and how many pubs are closing. It is really important to remind them that the Government can do something about it. Every email really does count. If you would like to find out more about the campaign, you can do so at www.taxpayersalliance.com. Once again, thank you for your support. Yours sincerely, Matthew Sinclair Chief Executive, TaxPayers' Alliance

Friday Night and pissed, with no Prayer Meeting

In a nostalgic mood, having worn been badged RAR and having memories of great people. 

My site so if you don't like, it FO.

To the 20 thousand murdered Indebele the World have forgotten.  Pamwe Chete

Ex-soldier and daughter, 12, found living in graveyard

Ex-soldier and daughter, 12, found living in graveyard

And the electorate still vote for those who not only lie to us, but lie to themselves.

Small wonder this family can't get help whilst the politicos are ramping up the price of the poor man's tipple, swapping speeding tickets with spouses, fiddling expenses, trashing correspondence from constituents, lining their own futures, learning psychobabble - bullshits yo you and me - and quaffing champers in the only duty free smoking parlour in the country....

Attack on Pensioners

It was Sir Winston Churchill who decided that as most people's income went down after they retired from work, and in recognition of the years they had spent paying tax and National Insurance, he'd introduce additional tax relief for people over the age of 65.

In the last budget George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced he would axe a special tax break that pensioners have enjoyed since 1925. Currently this gives pensioners a higher tax allowance than the general population. So they can earn an extra £3,000 from pensions or savings, before paying income tax.

Baroness Joan Bakewell, campaigner for older people, called the changes "fundamentally unfair". "The claim that it makes things simpler for pensioners to understand adds insult to injury," she said.

The National Pensioners Convention has launched an 11th-hour bid to stop the Government raising £3.5bn from older taxpayers over the next  five years, and in doing so bringing 230,000 retirees back into the tax net. Its online petition has attracted 85,711 signatures. It is just 14,289  short of the 100,000 required for a debate in the House of Commons.

Neil Duncan-Jordan, a spokesman for the convention, said: "We want as many people as possible to sign the petition as we need to get the  plight of pensioners higher up the political agenda. We do not object to harmonising the tax regimes of those in work and people who are  retired. But it should not be done by penalising pensioners."

You can read more at http://tinyurl.com/d743kgs and/or you can sign the petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/31778

I've signed it, but the decision is yours whether you sign the petition or not, I'm just bringing it to your attention.

Blackpool top earners

Reacting to the report, Matthew Sinclair, Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:

“Taxpayers are still paying far too much for bloated bureaucracies that have been established in too many town halls over the last decade. It is incredible that some councils have even increased spending on high earning staff this year after a decade in which council tax doubled across the country and when every local authority needs to find savings and ease the burden. In those cases where it is the result of redundancy payments then we need to see the savings soon. Councillors need to insist that their local authority does more to find savings and cut back on staff costs that residents cannot afford.”

 Councils must cut spending and should look at pay – one of the biggest items of expenditure – as an area for savings. Previous TaxPayers’ Alliance research showed that over the 10 years before the financial crisis, the number of local authority staff with remuneration of more than £50,000 had increased more than three times as quickly as in the private sector. In 1996-97, the average local authority employed 7 people earning more than £50,000. This number rose to 20 by 2001-02 and again to 66 in 2006-07. In 2011-12, the number of people earning more than £50,000 was 71 – more than before the financial crisis.This research note looks at the progress being made by every local authority in the UK in slimming down bureaucracy. Overall, the total salary bill for officers earning £50,000 or more at local authorities fell by £270 million last year – a reduction of just over 12 per cent. But some of that reduction is accounted for by the large number of redundancy