The Rich Tapestry of Life

Welcome to my page of random mutterings.

Those of you who know me will see a calm veneer. You will also know that I'm easily annoyed. I think it's healthy.

I allow myself to be annoyed most of the time. It doesn't take much. People who use the letter 'H' twice in 'Southampton', txt spk, Tom Jones, and suchlike annoy me in equal measure.

Here you will find tidbits that annoy me, amuse me, and enlighten me, and I shall share them with you, to annoy, amuse, and enlighten you.
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts

Monday, 11 October 2010

Tory Cuts. Labour Cunts. Malingerers.

So, now that the dust has settled a little bit after Mr Cameron and company announced last week that there are going to be cuts to the benefit system, I am now going to tell the world how I see things.

It's all very well for young Ed Miliband and his co-wankers to bang on about what's fair and what isn't, but none of his horse shit changes the fact that the previous government - the one that he and his lizardesque brother served in - are ultimately responsible for the monumental pile of shite that we're all wading through at the moment.  The fact that anyone still listens to them at all after the mess they left us all in never ceases to amaze me.

To me, it's very simple.  People who can't be bothered to get of their fat lazy arses and go to work should be made to work for their dole money. There's plenty they could do in all of our local communities to brighten the place up. I can think of lots of things like: clearing up dog shit and chewing gum. Removing graffiti, sweeping streets, helping old biddies with their shopping and such.

All these twats who bang on about how they're 'better off not going to work because I 'earn' more on benefits' will soon be whistling a different tune when they finally realise that you get nothing in this life for sitting around sponging from the rest of us.  Amazing how those who stand to lose the most appear to be the ones making the most noise. They're the same people who don't know what it's like to do a day's work, or have at the very least forgotten.

It absolutely disgusts me that people think it's okay for the rest of us to pay their way.  It's legalised bloody theft, if you ask me.  It's not a bloody Giro these wankers need, it's a good kick up the sodding arse.

It's all so bloody simple. If you're earning 44k per year... you don't need child support, and to my mind it's nothing short of fucking criminal to deny this. 

If you happen to be a rich pensioner, you don't need a winter fuel payment, or a free bus pass, or a free TV Licence.

And if you can walk, there's no reason why you're sat at home on your fat malingering workshy arses while Local Authorities could be making better use of your time than it would appear you're able to. 

Yes, start means testing people. Do it!  What are you frightened of? Someone finding out that you'll actually be okay without getting handouts from a Government that has inherited an economy totally crippled by socialist overspending and borrowing.

Times are fucking hard.  Deal with it.  Don't be so bloody stolid and at least have the good sense to recognise that Labour put us here. If you're looking to apportion blame, blame those who fucked the whole thing up, not those who are trying to un-fuck it.

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Petrol Prices, Labour Twats.

You'd think that since El Gordo claims to be a decent sort of chap he'd have a word with his man on the Commons Business Select Committee. Perhaps he'd like to tell Lindsay Hoyle to stop making such ridiculous remarks about the price of fuel at the pumps.

Lindsay told The Telepraph: " it's a complete disgrace".

Yeah! No shit, Sherlock.

And stated that "crude oil has gone up this year, but nothing like the rise in petrol prices. Motorists are being legally mugged at the forecourt by petrol companies."

What the phuck?! Legally mugged at the forecourt by petrol companies?

Lindsay, I'll give you a little breakdown of what us consumers are really paying for - just in case you need reminding.

If a litre of unleaded cost 108.9p, it would be split in the following way:

DUTY: 56.19p PRODUCT: 30.37p VAT: 14.2p RETAILER/DELIVERY: 8.24p

I can't be bothered to work out the exact percentages, but it doesn't take Einstein to figure out that less than one third of what we're spending actually goes towards fuel in my tank. Moreover tax, in one form or another, accounts for roughly 60 percent of the amount we're all forking out for fuel. How is this right?

I'd have to ask Hoyle who we're really being mugged by. To my mind, it isn't the Petrol Companies...

El Gordo talks about unemployment figures, and his track record of getting people back into work. It won't be long before we're all out of work because we can't afford to bloody well get there. Public transport is expensive, unreliable, and of poor quality, so why would we want to use that?

Anyway. Onto other El Gordo/General Election matters.

One of our best parlimentary orators since Churchill, William Hague, outlined in his 2009 conference speech exactly what El Gordo and his cronies have 'acheived' since 1997. It doesn't make pleasant reading:

- £22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain

- 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all

- The longest national tax code in the world

- 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds

- Gun crime up by 57%

- Violent crime up 70%

- The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe

- The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000

- The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world

- The only G7 country with no growth this year

- One in six young people neither earning nor learning

- 5 million people on out-of –work benefits

- Missing the target of halving child poverty

- Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead

- Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe

- Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads

- Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league

- Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths

- Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy

- The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat

- Fatal stabbings at an all-time high

- Prisoners released without serving their sentences

- Foreign prisoners released and never deported

- 7 million people without an NHS dentist

- Small business taxes going up

- Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe

- Tax rises for working people set for after the election

- The 10p tax rate abolished

- And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust

- Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth

- Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied

- Profitable post offices closed against their will

- One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe

- The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit

- Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street

- Dossiers that were dodgy

- Mandelson resigning the first time

- Mandelson resigning the second time

- Mandelson coming back for a third time

- Bad news buried

- Personal details lost

- An election bottled

- A referendum denied

So when listening to El Gordo and wondering whether or not to vote Labour, think of this list. Ask yourself if you'd like another five years of this? I'd rather phone Philip Nitschke, or maybe check into a Swiss death clinic...