CREDIT RATING, CURRENCY AND WELFARE.

The weekly political 'laugh in', Question Time, a TV programme with a panel of mainly party political minds being quizzed by a hand selected audience of a mainly left wing persuasion. This week, one of the non-whipped panellists, Peter Hitchens, stated, correctly, that the United Kingdom is in terminal decline. We can accuse the majority of the western world for being in the same situation.

The response from the audience is generally: 'What can the Government give us to make our lives better?'Socialism has been doing exactly this for far too long. Thousands of single parent families, exercise a fecklessness, totally arrogant, showing only a side that suggests that they automatically deserve all this largesse. The more children produced, the greater the return via benefits. The 'Pinkoes' love this; buying votes with OPM (other peoples money). The part of the equation that is missing is the question: Where does the money come from? No prizes for guessing; the rest of us of course. As with any left wing organisation, the European Union is the greatest exponent of this ploy. It then spends millions on propaganda to impress the gullible young minds, which appear to be endless. Hitler and Goebbels would have loved this kind of operation.

Finally, Britain was bound to succumb to losing its AAA credit rating. The only two survivors in the old western community, as the author understands, are Germany and Canada, and Germany will ultimately be dragged down by the chaotic Euro. The UK, I'm sure, was lucky to hang on for so long. Had Labour been returned in 2010, the rating would have been lowered at that point. Remember, it was the last Labour Government that left us with a £4.8 trillion debt. This is growing, partially, in an endeavour to pay off that debt. Unfortunately, with a lower credit rating, this will now take longer, if at all. Wrap up all this downside with quantitative easing, which was always going to produce inflation. The going is about to get really rough. Only a government who will reduce the tax burden, get us out of the throttling grasp of Brussels, to free up our internal market, giving us more money in our pockets hopefully, would create a different atmosphere. Removing us from this sense of entitlement, which, as a nation, we cannot afford.

THEN WE HAVE RIDICULOUS GREEN TAXES TO CONSIDER.

LAW LORDS vs LOGIC.

As the United Kingdom continues to dig, making the financial hole into which the economy was plunged by the last Labour Government much deeper; this practise continues to be exacerbated by the courts, ruling in favour of people who don't want to work.

The current Government has successfully been running a scheme encouraging young folk, very often post-graduate students, to work for some national organisations, which leads to a job interview at the end of the few weeks period, regularly culminating in full time employment. This was introduced to justify their benefits payments. The scheme has been running for awhile with considerable success. Enter the 'Human Rights Act' stage, far left; a 'smarty pants' post graduate, having been assigned to the local branch of the Poundland chain for shelf stacking duties. She considered this to be a kind of slave labour. One wonders if she has read her history, for example: the horrendous conditions in which certain people were held during the second world war.

Following the latter's first court hearing, claiming these foul deeds against the Government, the case was dismissed. Not giving up on her quest, she took the case to the Appeal Court, at more cost to the state, where she had some success. The Law Lords found what they considered to be a remote discrepancy with the operation of getting people off benefits. So we can now add a further person to the list of the 'hard done by brigade', who will be living at the behest of taxpayer GB. We have suggested, previously, that these retarded purveyors of the law must thank the public, quite clearly, possibly shown on main TV channel news broadcasts, for their continued hard work to cover the costs of their rank stupidity. Furthermore, at the judge's own expense, they should be obliged to attend a concentrated course on economics; because the author, for one, is thoroughly fed up with picking up the pieces of their dimwittedness.

LAWYERS MAKE MUCH MONEY FROM LEFT WING DOGMA.

WE DON'T BUY BRITISH ANYMORE.

Although this is not a criticism of Mark Carney, Governor elect of the Bank of England, one naturally wonders why it is that we can no longer produce someone of the correct calibre to fill the post. The answer to that, one suspects, is that a 'Brit' is obliged to think in terms of welfarism, which got us into this mess in the first place.

Mr. Carney is a Canadian, and considered, internationally, to be the best in his sphere of operation; getting badly broken economies out of self-inflicted 'Black Holes', the very fingerprints of socialism; something which is in the DNA of all socialists. One can only hope that he will be his own man, pointing out that throwing money at problems cannot continue. Although from what has been said so far, we can't expect interest rates to rise to assist the hard pressed senior citizens, not overlooking his penchant for printing more money; heaven only knows where that will lead us. If the history books are correct, the aftermath of the Weimar Republic will give us a clue. Never forget, low interest rates are in place for people to get further into debt.

Naturally, the new Governor was quizzed by Governmental Treasury Committee; it's amusing to watch the members having their few minutes in the spotlight as such things appear in news broadcasts. Mark Carney will receive a salary a little north of £800,000, plus a housing allowance, which will give him an annual income slightly over a million pounds. One of the committee, Teresa Pearce (Labour), was soon hounding him on this point, presumably implying that he is just another 'fat cat'. This is someone who, hopefully, will guide us out of the mess her party forced upon us. Strangely enough, there was no mention that this remuneration package is roughly equivalent to what some so-called footballers take home every month. Which sums up the priorities of this backward nation.

WILL IT WORK? TIME WILL TELL.

BOY MEETS BOY.

This is not a theatrical production, but one by the current coalition government of the United Kingdom. What same sex marriage has to do with the price of bread is totally mystifying to the author. Prime Minister David Cameron, however, is convinced that homosexual relationships should be blessed in the same way that boy and girl partnerships are enshrined in marriage, which to many is a religious contract.

We have the excuse that religious sects will be able to opt out. This may be possible, but many challenges will be made, bringing about hordes of additional lawyers specialising in 'human rights' law, which will be boosted by backing from Europe. All of which will prove to be a vast cost to hard pressed taxpayer GB. We then have the prospect of teachers being forced to recommend the success of same sex marriages. It can only be assumed that those educationalists who are rightly uncomfortable in so doing, will be replaced by some who will be overly enthusiastic at the opportunity. Heaven only knows what confusion will be done to the children. Then, of course, we will have the reaction of the more responsible parents. Will they now have a say regarding an opt out? Remember this, so far the public has not had the opportunity, nor will it get such a chance, to comment on this ridiculous insult to nature.

My mother was always clear about one thing, nature sorts itself out. The situation regarding the lack of young men seen in the immediate aftermath of the first world war was fairly soon resolved by natural forces. There are no doubt numerous examples in the animal world who don't have the imposition of a little 'tart' of a Prime Minister forcing legislation upon a weary electorate; neither, I'm sure, would the current legislation have impressed the late biologist William Donald Hamilton; who thought that defiance of nature will only bring trouble.

BEWARE: NATURE WILL ALWAYS COME OUT ON TOP.

TOYS OR TOOLS?

Occasionally, one reads in the national press, interesting items regarding the way the public goes about its day to day routine. Increasingly, with many folk, they can't proceed more than a few minutes at a time without referring to their mobile/smart phone. There is now a high proportion of many so-called advanced societies who are totally reliant upon these silly toys. It could be challenged that they are rarely used for gaining intelligence, which is available, in many cases, where confirmation is to hand on line. Unfortunately, the function is generally for passing the time of day, a pointless act to overcome the owner's boredom; in addition, they interrupt normal conversation.

Professor Paul Dolan, a psychologist at the London School of Economics, is convinced that, apart from getting in the way of normal social intercourse, they are having an effect on the human psyche. The toy has overtaken the normal human process. Have I any messages? Have you seen this 'round-robin? It's never ending. Very little of this has much to do with ones' daily routine. Jeffrey Janata at the University Hospitals in Cleveland's faculty of behavioural medicine, has found that mobile owners can imagine that their phone is ringing when it is in 'off mode'. Furthermore, they can get the same sensation when they have not got their phone with them. It is also suggested, from research, that too many mobile calls in the evening can disturb the night's sleep.


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