We're Back......!

Well its been a while, but we're back. You know how we said right at the beginning that we thought Nick Clegg was great....! Well obviously we were wrong, so, so wrong.

So with the financial markets now crumbling (again) and this time no excuses about it being Labour's fault Dave (fool!), Gideon refuses to change course, so hold on to your hats as the sh@t is about to hit the fan!

I read today that in the first 3 months of this year the government lost £650m in fuel duties because people had cut down their fuel usage. I would love to know what the figure is now, 4 months later. If its the same then they have lost about £1.5billion of revenue. So watch out for more taxes to compensate because Gideon isn't going to get his money in that he thought he would.

And of course, growth is virtually none-existent too!

So the Eds have their chance now, and as two Eds are better than one, lets hope that they can stick in the knife and we get the Election we need....!

£200m, really Gideon its a joke and its pitiful!

Steve Bell sums it up nicely. Enough Said!

The Banker's Friend

So, since Dave and his cronies came to power the Bankers have nearly trebled the amount of donations they made to the Tory party, to over £11million! Little wonder then that rather than repeating the Labour initiative to tax bonuses which raised £3.5billion in 2010, they have chosen only to tax them £800million.

These people are robbing the poor to pay the rich. £2.5billion would easily keep open the Libraries and Sure Start schemes which are being closed now.

Wake up Britain, we are slowly being Mugged by our own Government! There are only a few Bankers, but millions of people now being affected by the problems brought about by the Greedy Financial Institutions.

And don't get me started on the NHS Reforms.........

Save our Libraries, and Children's Sure Start

STOP THIS MAN!

Jeremy Hunt, the Tory Culture Secretary faces a court case if some people (Cherie Blair included) get their way for closing Public Libraries. He must be Stopped.

We have recently re-discovered our local library with our children, and what a great resource it is. Our local library is also the location for one of the Sure Start schemes. Due to the ConDems fanatical and miss-guided rush into cutting public services both the library and the sure Start face closure due to the amount of cuts being forced on local councils by Eric Pickles, surely the largest of MPs since Cyril Smith (RIP).

So much for the Big Idea from Dave about community. IT'S ALL LIES, and breaks all the pre-election promises. Having failed to convince us all that snow led to a dramatic contraction of the UK economy it is of course all down toLabour. But that is just not true, but then the ConDems just will not blame the bankers because who else can they get to fund their election campaigns and pay for their evening soirees in rural Oxfordshire?

This stinks, so don't sit on your bum, get out there and stop these people ripping the heart out of our children's future.

Your Country needs YOU!

Its all going "Pete Tong"

As some people may well recognise I tend to use some of the Guardian Cartoons in my posts. Steve Bell always seems to hit the mark! Whilst this shows that "the economy will not be blown off course" (quoting George Osborne); it also shows that the Sh*t (as in George) is about to hit the fan.

I am currently in Dubai, an emirate within the UAE. The beauty of having lots of oil, and at present therefore lots of money, allows the financial problems suffered here, just as elsewhere in the world, to seem an increasingly distant memory. I flew here on an Airbus A380, a fantastic airplane manufactured in Europe, some of it by BAe Systems. Amazingly quiet, roomy and comfortable, this airplane shows what British manufacturing can do.

In another division of BAe Systems diggers normally used to break up roads and demolish buildings are breaking up 9 airplanes that cost £4billion to develop at a cost of £200million. What a complete waste of money, and at a time where no other replacement is in place, except for turning to other countries to help us defend our own shores against attack.

This comes after the last flight of another great aircraft, the BAe Systems Harrier jump-jet. With what seems as amazing haste the entire fleet of these aircraft fly no more. Another British invention and result of foresight and manufacturing prowess lies forlorn and awaiting the diggers like the Nimrods.

My grandma didn't like Margaret Thatcher (I won't say what she used to call her, rhymes with "witch"), she saw her lay waste to the Mining Industry and a raft of manufacturing industries. As we have seen, the ConDems have prevented leaders in the Steel industry in Sheffield becoming one of the world leading businesses in specialist steel manufacturing, so is it any wonder that they seem hell bent on getting rid of other manufacturing industry because it "must" be done.

Meanwhile Dave's and George's friends in the Banks laugh at us all as they collect their bonuses and know that as the rest of us suffer from a 12% average pay cut, the most expensive fuel costs ever, the highest ever food prices and a seemingly headlong rush into economic hardship they have sufficient money to see it through.

Finally, this photo of Dave in Davos with his German counterpart seems to me to show a man who is asking everybody else what he should do........ after his buddy and spin doctor Andy Coulson resigned due to him being Editor of the News of the World at a time when phone hacking seemed to be the normal way of getting scoop news.

As Citizen "Wolfie" Smith used to say "Power to the People..." Maybe we should think of those words rather than sit back and be laughed at by the ConDem Cabinet, as they go home to their Oxford homes...

MANY HAPPY RETURNS BILLY.....

.......sorry Nick.  My family and I all hope you have a lovely day and you lay your head on your pillow tonight with not a care in the world..... unlike a lot of inhabitants of this lacklustre country, who cannot lay their heads without worrying about where we are all going to be in say 2 years time. 

My daughter, a University student, yesterday lost her part time job due to her company not being able to afford to pay her.  This Company, like a lot of others, are trying to work out whether to put their retail prices up or take the VAT hit of an extra 2.5% themselves and try and keep sales up, or at least level with what they have been selling prior to this increase.  They are in a no win situation.  Either pay themselves and reduce their workforce, or take a gamble, put their prices up and hope the consumer will not stop spending. 

One way or another the economy will be stunted with either limited growth or more unemployment.

BUT....... It is all Labours fault isnt it?  You know, that party who were in Government only 9 months ago.... oh please come back. We are all so so sorry for voting Liberal Democrat.  Funny thing is, we all know what we get with the Tory's (like I have said previously), but Nick, you are so unemployable now.  Your best mate Dave has pulled the biggest flanker on you in human history.....

Nick, maybe this is what you really saw on that breezy mayday in the Garden of Number 10, but you are such a hypocrite you saw beyond this to feather your own nest.  This is the image that I see everytime I am unlucky enough to see DC on the TV......

2011......can't wait, can you?

I get so inspired by Dave; he has told me (and you) that 2011 is going to be tough, but don't worry we will be better off because all of their cuts and taxes will improve our finances and we will be jolly and happy in time of the next election where obviously we will all vote for ConDem again.

Unless, of course, you have to make use of the NHS, once so wonderful now swamped (apparently) by flu victims, thanks to the ConDem folks not spending £600, 000 on the advertising campaign reminding people of their responsibilities of infecting people....

As an aside, I would love some comments on what the lady next to Andrew is saying.......

Unless of course you get the train to work and will be paying an additional 12.7% on your travel. This means that 20% of your salary is spent getting to work.....

No problem, use the car...... Sorry that would mean paying record prices for fuel due to the VAT rise, brought in by the ConDems.

Still, better to be a poor commuter than surrounded by fuming scousers.......

CONGRATULATIONS.....

to the England Cricket Team on retaining the Ashes

to Roy Hodgsons Liverpool for losing another game and Mr Hodgson subsequently blaming the fans..... well maybe he might have a point...

to Sepp Blatter for giving us hope that if we played fair and upfront we would get the 2018 Football World Cup.

maybe this should have been the envelope Mr Blatter opened......

to Vince Cable and the other so called Liberals who sold out for "fame", "fortune" and "financial reward" for creating a society like this.  Maybe this is Camerons "Big Society"

to George "Gideon" Osborne for screwing up the nations economy.  When he becomes the first of Camerons casualties maybe he could be Adolf in the next adaptation

to Gillian Duffy for getting her moment of fame when Gordon Brown (remember those good old days of Brown and Darling - you will all be telling your grandchildren about what this country used to be like) called her a bigotted woman......  well Gillian, hope you are proud of the outcome

to Mr Tumble for making me smile and thinking what an excellent job he does

AND FINALLY.........

to Dave and Nick......for making us all understand how low human beings can go.  Dave, we knew what you were all about, feather the nests of your cronies, cutting public services, cutting the education budget, cancelling new school buildings schemes, cutting, yes cutting NHS jobs cause you make it so difficult for the budgeteers to balance their books.... you did freeze council tax in some areas, but hello, the budget to those coucils were still cut so they will have to take the hit "internally", probably having to cut a few more jobs..... Nick, you made promises in your manifesto, you made promises in the TV debate, you made promises on the doorstep.  You broke them all.  Your answer to that was this is now a coalition agreement and not a Liberal Manifesto.  Basically you sold out for your bit of fame..... SHAME ON YOU FOR PUTTING US ALL IN THIS POSITION. SHAME ON YOU.....

THE CABLE GUY

VINCE OR JIM?

Which one of these "guys" would you rather be Business Secretary?

Well Vince, Nick Clegg thinks you have said the wrong thing in telling the "Telegraph" that you could single handedly overthrow the coalition!  That is an understatement.... probably the one of the year.  Why did you do it?  You spoke to two young women, who said that they were members of the Lib Dem party.  You told them your innermost thoughts about the state, yes state of the way this Country is being Governed.  You had never met them before.  You were a fool.  An old fool who was probably flattered that these two bothered to even talk to you after all the u-turns you have made.  In fact, these two women were probably the only ones willing to talk to you.....

Have a happy retirement.....

Dear Ed

.......... to get voted into Downing Street at the next election all you have to do is tell the truth.  Dont promise what you cant deliver and most importantly take Nick Cleggs keys off him.  He has abused his position as leader of the Liberal party so ground him.  Send him back to Sheffield - give him a map cause he probably wont visit during this parliament - and let him struggle like the rest of us.

LOYALTY

Loyalty is a long lost word in the English Language. 

David Cameron - same old Tory, same old values so not surprised

Nick Clegg - conned the British people into thinking he was a good man, a loyal man, a trustworthy man

Mike Ashley - no loyalty shown to the man who enabled his company (Newcastle Football Club) to get back to the top flight in football.  He then sacked him (Chris Hughton)

and finally....... the cause of my angst this evening..... Carlos Tevez.  Go and visit my other blog http://www.booteesandblankets.blogspot.com/ and see how I feel. 

Maybe you, the reader, writer and inputter might like to take time out and think about the people who you could add to this list......  feel free to leave a comment, maybe a name or three or four....   over and out.

BE PROUD....

KP MAKES US PROUD TO BE ENGLISH TODAY

JUDAS MAKES US ALL FEEL ASHAMED THAT WE VOTED LIB DEM IN THE LAST ELECTION

Welcome to Thatcher’s Britain (Mk.2)

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, so I know that she looks a lot younger and she has changed her facial features, and her hair is shorter; oh and she has changed her name to David and she dresses as a man, but trust me Margaret Thatcher is back as the UK’s Prime Minister.

The UK’s transport system is going to pot, riots are breaking out in London….. with more to come. The weather is causing chaos so another Winter of Discontent is on the way.

Margaret’s answer to all of our woes is of course to make sure he and his friends in the banking world are OK; as Lord Young said “we’ve never had so good”.

So with mass redundancies in the public sector, creaking railways, an under funded NHS, rioting students and bike sales rising due to job-seekers commuting we can all rest easy because the bankers will be getting their huge bonuses to keep the Porsche garages busy.

Margaret’s first reign completely wiped out an industry and a swathe of Northern communities died, so what’s going to happen 30 years later in her second term? The mines have gone, most other industry has gone, replaced by Public Sector call centres and government departments that moved out of London.

Just maybe those people who thought Margaret had changed will soon see that she only ever looks after her own……….

Welcome to ED.....

I think the Country should now be welcoming Ed Miliband, with open arms, as leader of the Labour Party.

He beat his brother David by such a small margin it was difficult to seperate them. 

The party will now veer off to the left, not too far I think, but far away from the sleeze and szmooze of New Labour - which is now well and truly dead and buried. 

The Tory's and their little followers (Clegg, Cable, Alexander etc.) will no doubt be pleased they can scare the country with story's of strikes and union involvement etc.  Maybe Ed and hopefully David Miliband will be able to bring a halt to the destruction and "death" this country faces under the ConDem's.

NOTE:     I kept the picture firmly in the centre of the page.

Billy, sorry Nick, Liar......

ATHIEST NICK MEETS THE POPE.....  should we all be surprised that the man, 5 months ago, who told us everything he stood for, we got all excited, voted for him and his party, and wham...... he changed his mind when he sniffed victory, he liked the smell of power and success.

Last year he told everyone he was an ATHIEST. He is now meeting the head of the catholic church!!!  This same head who likened ATHIESTS to NAZIS!!!! 

This all gets better.....  Today Nick, Mrs Nick and the little Nicks will hope to have a private meeting with the Pope......

I love people who stand for their principles and stick to them.....

I'm coming to get you......

It appears that David Milliband is feared by David Cameron, so New Labour still has some sway in Middle Britain.... But, it also appears that David and Ed Milliband's relationship as brothers is being tested by the Labour Leadership race.

Either way, these brothers could be Britain's saving grace to a 5-year term of the ConDem 'twins'. As the NHS is torn apart, as manufacturing suffers, as the October spending review looms we need Labour to help us in our hour of need. Strange isn't it that 70 years on the many are relying on the few again to save Britain.....

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Camerons on the birth of a beautiful baby girl, Florence. Fortunately for her she will never have to want for anything in her life, unlike thousands of newborn babies who will be born into "poverty" in Britain, and who are now worse off under the ConDem boys than they were under Gordon Brown and Labour.

Is it me, or do politicians suddenly become more appealing when they talk of their children......

Crispin Blunt MP

Crispin Blunt MP, Prisons Minister, has told his wife he is leaving her because he is gay.  He has two children.

Mr Blunt has decided it is time to tell the truth.  I feel very sorry for his wife and children, not because he is gay but because he obviously didnt just wake up a week ago and decide he wanted a gay life instead of a life with his wife.  His wife must now be thinking her life with him was false and a lie.

Why would anyone pretend to be something they are not - my answer to that question would be that he did not think he would gain so much in life, being a gay man with a partner (David Laws... esque), instead of being a married man with a couple of children.

                                         Here is another Tory fraud.  Add him to the list.

NHS DIRECT........

.......... sorry, there is no one to answer your call, we are re directing your call to an Indian Call Centre, when you are finally answered, if you understand the operator, please put your credit card details into the phone before we can stop your child choking to death.....

This is what will happen if that wonderful service NHS DIRECT is scrapped and replaced by a more "efficient" (less doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals on hand to help) and "cheaper" (re direct all our calls to India where you will be ok if your ailment is on a script in front of the call centre operative) service.

FROM THIS.........

TO THIS.........

This will take jobs away from operators and healthcare professionals who have provided a valuable service to the public since 1999, eleven years ago....  why must we now start going backwards in our approach to life.  Having this service must stop people running to their GP with suspected problems that they able to sort out by talking to someone on the phone. 

Andrew Lansley, what are you going to scrap next.  Maybe free prescriptions for children, only one trip to the doctors per month - or maybe before you get to visit your GP you have to put your credit card into a slot in his or her door to gain access and if you can't afford it you end up at some hovel, queuing for hours.....

for those who cannot pay......

for those who can pay......

will this eventually mean the difference between life and death?

One day, one decision that the Tory's and Nick make, could have a profound effect on someone's life.

That someone COULD be YOU.....

Today

David Cameron (aka - DC, Dave, The Prime Minister, Eton Boy) has said that his greying hair is something to be proud of.  He says it makes him more distinguished, probably more statesmanlike...... like,

John Major

Hitler

Stalin

Ferguson

Dave, I think I'd dye my hair if I were you....

Yesterday

So for most of yesterday, on the radio on the tv during a speech, Nick tried to convince us all that he was still a Liberal.....  Come on Nick, you need to do better than that.

..... today I mostly be ..... supporting Labour

......today I mostly be.... supporting the Tory's 

today, I mostly be the real me...... a chameleon

This is a fictional character that appears in comic books.......  need I say any more.....