Since when did the UK become a fascist country ?

In the wake of sickening news that the Conservatives propose to cap benefits it is clear that their policy of divide and rule is taking grip.
As with public sector pensions - where any decent thinking person realised that the issue was that many private sector pensions were too low - it is not that benefits are too high, the problem is that in many parts of this country wages are too low and rents are too high.Never mind that this travesty was never put before the electorate.
Never mind that they don't have a mandate to tear up the Welfare State.Just mind that it is both utterly immoral and a weasel-minded betrayal of the people of this country who fought for a better future during the last war.
Since 1948 we have had a universal system of collective entitlement: we all pay in, we all get something out when we need it.
It is the mark of a civilised society that it takes care of its most vulnerable members; the young, the elderly, the sick and the unemployed.
When did we DECIDE to stop doing this ?
This government is an utter disgrace.
Just as the people of this country defied the vilely warped regime of Hitler I spit in their millionaire faces with utter contempt.
HOW DARE THEY !!!!!

Moral capitalism ? Someone's having a laugh !

The hammer of the disabled, David Cameron, is now to make a speech about moral capitalism ?
Surely that is a oxymoron if ever I heard one.
That's like saying "here's a friendly shark".
Strewth !
BBC report of the issue

It's the economy stupid !

Cameron was it again yesterday.

Blaming the country's present economic problems on profligate spending by the previous government. 

No, no, no. A thousand times no.

Spending under the previous government was neither spectacularly high nor spectacularly low - broadly it was on a par with Lady Thatcher's Conservative administrations. In short it was affordable and when he was in opposition Cameron pledged to match the spending until 2010.

No, our present difficulties were caused primarily by the recklessness of the banks and other financial markets and institutions.

We now suffering cuts because the country bailed out the banks. That is why we have such a large deficit - and to address another lie - it is not at an historic high, even for peace time.

The problem is that Cameron has reversed the growth policies of the previous government with the result that growth has flat lined, inflation is rising and so is unemployment.

In the first few days of its administration the coalition scared the living daylights out of consumers by raising the prospect that we could end up as another Greece - not only did this destroy consumer confidence it was also utter twaddle. 

Greek debt, as a perecentage of GDP, is over twice the size of ours - and Greek borrowing is through high interest, short term, loans whilst ours has always been at lower rates over much longer periods. There was never the remotest possibility that we would go the same way as Greece.

However, we now have the worst of all worlds - a stagnating domestic economy, a European financial crisis and a struggling economy in the States.

Where, pray, is the growth supposed to come from ?

Yet the British public, in its infinite stupidity, still thinks that Cameron is the best person to deal with our economic situation.

Pah, let's see if that holds when the cuts really start to bite next April.

Steve Kelly 6th October 2011.
Review of the speech in The Guardian

Golden Handshake Shuffle

An, unapologetic, sarcastic exposition of deregulated, free market, 'laissez faire' economics.

Or to put it another way - it's a bit political - and it contains one expletive in the text - so please be warned.