ireland's IMF and European union (EU) bail out should be declined!
i know they are the UK's closest trading partner - i know they are our neighbours - but the dangers this bail out will throw up, make it impossible to be accepted.
protectionism EU rules state that a government cannot use taxpayer's money to protect a country's industry or businesses. yet when the euro currency is at risk, what does the EU do? steps in with billions in loans and props up that industry! when it affects the eurozone as a whole, then the EU resort to the protectionism that it stops countries from using!
federalism and the european federalist state - by the back door remember all the public outcry regarding the lisbon treaty? why bother giving the public a vote to say yes or no, to surrendering more powers to brussels, when the EU instead can bail out a country (with european taxpayers money dont forget) and control a country by the back door! "speculators are to blame for the banking crisis" - who is to say that these speculators are not being funded by the EU for the purpose of controlling any given country? - nothing to stop them what mechanisms are in place to prevent this? - none
the EU loans will generate revenue for the EU, growing its financial power and influence over countries who accept it the tying of government's hands to protect their manufacturing and service industries, by the EU, has made most countries within europe turn for employment and tax revenues, the life blood of any country, to the financial sector.... now most of europe is in this position, speculators and markets dictate policy. The EU is now in a strong position to dictate over each member country, as it can grow its own finances - making it stronger - and it can now rule over countries it bails out, as each country must now depend on the EU to save it from bankrupcy!
ireland's bail out the controls and power the EU will have over ireland, leave the country in a position where its government will be nothing more than a talking shop with a tiny percentage of the powers to shape its own future... similar to how scottish and welsh assemblies are towards the UK government. your local and county councils in the UK are dictated by civil servants - the councillors that WE elect can do very little apart from ask questions of the civil servants that are running the show, who never change with an election result. they are as toothless as government watchdogs - who do nothing to stop business and banking monopolies in the UK
ireland should refuse any EU bail out vigorously, to keep control of their own country!
the risk of war the EU know that the people across countries cannot and will not realise whats going on, until most countries are tied in to EU economic control. remember germany under adolf hitler? his party recognised that businesses and influence by one section of germany's population was starting to dominate the country - he mobilised the people to stop this - which led to world war 2
what happens when a country within europe, gets a party in power, who's leader recognises what the EU is up to? undermining their country and then stepping in to save it with a bail out and controlling their finances (and their futures) for decades to come! all will be well until that leader faces losing power in their country because the people rise up against the state, for taking away their powers without giving them a say - this leader will then play on this and mobilise the population of his country, to win the support of that country's people in their own elections for a government. an extremely dangerous position to be in!
so what is the alternative? make no mistake - the EU bail out of ireland is the first step of many - weve had greece's bailout and control, the mysterious speculators will move on to portugal, then spain, etc, until everyone but the big players in the EU are under the financial control of the EU.
protectionism DOES NOT WORK! the EU tell governments this all the time, yet use it to hold up their own currency!
germany are doing very nicely from manufacturing from all this, as many EU countries now rely on the financial sector to employ their people. the financial sector, governments and the mysterious speculators, know now that each and every country in financial trouble will be bailed out by the power mad EU and/or the IMF if there is no risk of failure, its a cant lose situation - banks should be allowed to fall!
in the UK we have those protected banks that took over other failing banks then received a bailout, going into customers accounts and taking money to pay off debts, even when the account is in joint names and the other person on that account has nothing to do with the debt!
the UK could be building up its ability to grow its own food - but the EU wont allow it and places financial penalties on the UK if it tries to do it the UK could be building up manufacturing industries - in many cases, failing manufacturing cannot be helped, as the EU wont allow it the UK could be building up the service industry by cutting tariffs and costs for countries investing here - the EU sees this as subsidising industry and protectionism and wont allow it
the EU is playing a very dangerous game - just as the financial sector should have no protectionism, the euro currency should not be protected, if it falls then it falls!
business only thrives and survives and grows without protection, there has to be some risk involved, this is a safety valve, as one fails another comes in and takes its place doing things a little bit differently.
as students march against tuition fees, a few points that demonstrators might want to consider:
- the fact that you are ALLOWED to demonstrate in large numbers - under that last labour government, the terrorism act was used to restrict any protest containing more than TWO people! a protest on the scale we are witnessing today, would have had to be authorised by the police weeks in advance, if and only if, the police permitted it, your protest would have been restricted to areas where the police allowed you to go. - 1997, labour in opposition campaigned and voiced support AGAINST tuition fees - months later, when they got into office as a government, they introduced them! - the labour government seeking re election, gave a manifesto pledge NOT to introduce top up fees - not three months after being re elected as the government, they introduced top up fees! - a labour government introduced top up fees, at £3000 a year, telling students that "only the very top universities will charge this, the majority will set their tuition fees a lot lower" - opposition parties warned that all universities will now charge £3000 a year tuition fees... most universities did, opposition parties were correct. - a labour government stated that they "had no plans to sell off the student loan book" - they sold off the student loan book to barclays, which means after 3 years of low interest protected student loans, they could in effect, charge whatever interest they wanted to, and in a worse case scenario, turn the farce that is student loan recovery in USA into the same here!
i didnt see, hear the students and lecturers up in arms about any of this... WHERE WERE YOU THEN?
harriet harman was today making sarcastic and witty one liners at the despatch box in parliament about all this... totally inappropriate!
these fees are not conservative dogma - they are not some idealogical plan - they are, like every other area of public spending, having to be introduced because - to quote liam byrne, the labour outgoing treasury minister, "there is no money left!"
the sheer scale of what the country has to BORROW each year, just to stay afloat is staggering, and the labour party are conveniently forgetting about it. 21 MILLION people need a form of tax credit just to get by each week/month - every single tax credit is paid for by borrowing! 1.4 MILLION extra civil servants employed by a labour government since 1997 - every single wage, holiday pay, sick pay, promotion, yearly bonus, office building they use, computer they use, phone line they use, etc, etc, are ALL paid for by taxpayers - all to replace manufacturing and service jobs that labour allowed to disappear as they chased the golden egg of financial jobs.
last year alone we borrowed £155 BILLION pounds, just to break even, stay afloat, etc. this cannot be allowed to continue. the longer it takes to sort out this mess, the more money the country will waste on interest payments.. one report states that if we carry on borrowing each year at the rate we are, we will owe a staggering £45 BILLION, in interest payments alone! - this is more than the total defence budget for our brave armed forces for an entire year!
i wonder if any of the students protesting today are studying: politics? These will know that the past 13 years of labour government have wiped away (not my opinion, but well documented by government advisors to two labour prime ministers in their own books!) everything, the "right of politics" has put in place, as they have to make conditions right so that people NEED a labour alternative... 18 years of conservative government almost wiped them out completely! just look at how blair/brown dumped all labour's old principals to get back in during 1997! finance? the bbc should interview some of these instead of quoting their own opinions as fact - id love to hear from students studying finance about why they think its fine to pay interest to foreign banks, instead of funding our brave troups involved in wars, that they post on their facebook walls that they like and support? (of course the £45 BILLION in interest could also apply to other areas like child poverty, elderly care, etc.)
id like to hear from students as to why they think they should be exempt from contributing to sort out the financial mess we are in? every other walk of life has to do their bit to help.... why not students?
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today's public spending review, announcing the biggest cuts outside of wartime, are vital if britain is to avoid a future of paying back interest on international loans, that were taken out by a labour government, for decades to come.
the argument about what caused the collapse, and the need for the borrowing has moved on from removing banking regulation powers from the competant bank of england. we cannot go on borrowing £155 BILLION pounds just to break even in our yearly budgets! interest alone after 4 years would cost us £43 BILLION pounds
upto 480,000 public sector jobs to go conveniently forgotten today, was the fact that the previous 13 years under a labour government, 1.4 MILLION extra civil service jobs had been "created" a fact brought home to myself yesterday, when contacting the warm front scheme due to the complete failing of installing us a new boiler. not only did they fail to keep me informed, as their "customer charter" (drawn up by yet more civil servants) states they should have - i rang a call centre customer service department, who proceded to tell me complete lies to get me off the phone. when i rang again today to make a formal complaint, again i was told a pack of lies, its basically everyone else's fault bar theirs. i rang the complaints team's direct number (a taxpayer funded phone line) - a call centre worker (another taxpayer funded worker) answered, telling me he would put me through to the complaints team on a different number (another taxpayer funded phone line) another advisor came on the phone (taxpayer funded job) spouting a complete pack of lies, but insisted that they would notify by email the warm front head office (tax payer funded computers and systems, requiring tax payer funded IT personnel to maintain it plus a tax payer funded back office/head office staffed with tax payer funded jobs) to send one email to the installation company.
the installation company later informed me that the paperwork was all present and correct (an hourly charge had been billed to the tax payer for this) when they received the job email via warm front back officers, they would then email yet another warm front department for a job authorisation number (more tax payer funded staff and offices) who would then take about a week to send back yet another email, with an authorisation number for the installers to order in the parts required to do the job.
the grant allowed is payable up to a maximum of £3500 under the scheme - which was the rough price of fitting a new boiler and two radiators - which can be bought privately for £1400 (so more expense billed to the taxpayer) so the fitting which would take about 4 hours comes in at approx £1100 cost to the taxpayer as well. rediculous youll agree and a huge waste of taxpayer's money for over staffing, property, phone lines, computer systems, etc. nowhere else would you find such waste.
every single civil service job is funded by the taxpayer - a fact lost on all those stating that today's cuts are "unfair" the public cannot go on funding vast numbers of non jobs - many of which are protected by their unions from doing other tasks that are easy to do, such as covering for an absent colleague. instead the unions think that its better to employ yet another person to do each individual job - as demonstrated by the job centre staff who fill out claims onto a computer system, but refuse to complete the task of colleagues also involved in processing claims.
earners of around £20,000 a year will be hit hard - utter nonsense! next year the amount earned that is exempt from tax rises to over £7000, this will be increased when its financially possible, up to a target level of £10,000 - which puts more wages back in the pockets of the worker. not a single mention of this at all on any news channel or media commentator. a household earning £20,000 wont be affected by the freezing of child tax credit allowances - as at £20,000 they wont be entitled to them, the working tax credit levels will not be frozen if memory serves me correctly. child benefit will still be payable as at £20,000 they are well under the £44,000 cut off level pupil premiums will apply for school children, etc.
welfare cuts are not fair! not fair? is it fair that low income working people have LESS disposable income after paying their regular bills than people who refuse to work and claim benefits? the welfare state is a safety net to catch people who have fallen on hard times for whatever reason - ITS NOT for funding people's lifestyles - where is the incentive to work? i know of people who claim benefits, who have had 4 (thats FOUR) foreign holidays already this year, the entire household works just 16 hours per week, twice a week they do a full shop at tescos, kids have all the latest toys, clothes, etc. when it rains they travel in taxis... you get the picture. it is a joke, that claiming a series of benefits leaves you better off than if you worked! people who work should be rewarded by keeping more of their money and be better off than someone claiming benefits.
dont even get me started on the thousands of people who claim incapacity benefits without even having to see a doctor....
cuts are just conservative ideology disgraceful argument! not a single person on the planet wants to make cuts and hurt people.. last year's £155 BILLION pounds of borrowing just to balance the books has made cuts unavoidable - according to the IMF (international monetary fund) labour's pre election plans for cuts, would result in an overall cut of 20% of expenditure... today's cuts come in at 19% thanks to efficiency savings in all departments across government. to cry foul and portray that labour stand for middle income families is laughable.... 13 years of their government have kicked the british people in the teeth - leaving us with a borrowing requirement each year so large, just to break even, that its not been seen by any government outside of world war two!
it is the private sector that creates jobs, NOT governments using taxpayer's money i end this rant with some mind numbing statistics:
* liam byrne - labour's treasury minister who declared "theres no money left" as humour (but factually accurate) for the new government - revealed just prior to the general election that after 13 years of labour in power, 21 MILLION people claim a form of tax credit, to live! * 1.4 MILLION extra civil service jobs created under labour - each and every single wage packet for these, has to be found out of taxpayer's money * civil service pensions - including the extra 1.4 MILLION civil service jobs created, have all to be paid into and for by taxpayer's money * every single civil service office block, call centre, telephone line, computer system, maintainance of these systems, sick pay, holiday pay, retirement pay off, pension, yearly bonus, travel expenses, training course, wage, subsidised canteen, job share, head office, complaints department, customer service department, etc, are ALL paid for out of taxpayer's money - just as each single benefit, tax credit, etc is paid for out of tax payer's money! * the past 10 years of a labour government have seen a near total reliance on the financial sector for britain's employment and sales... our manufacturing and services industries have been decimated like never seen before, to the point where we (britain) makes almost nothing of value to sell around the world) even our food mostly comes from abroad - this is all well and good when money is sloshing around, but since 2007 money is tight in the financial sector, every country that has a strong manufacturing base has faired very well coming out of recession. some countries like canada, havent even fallen into a recession.
Labour leadership election reveals some home truths!
Finally, at long last, right before the labour party elect their new party leader and leader of the opposition in parliament, we, the public finally get to see and hear some startling facts coming out of labour MPs at the "top" of their party.
Andy Burnham said Labour should be "honest" and admit there would have been "significant" cuts if it had stayed in government. not the full story though is it andy! not a mention, both now and at the trade union conference, from anyone connected with labour, about the £830 MILLION pounds worth of cuts in the higher education budget, just weeks before we voted in the general election!
Ed Balls said cuts would not create jobs and Labour should not "do the job" of the coalition for them. ed balls fighting for the leadership reveals exactly what blair/brown governments gave the public whilst in office - cover ups and denials! ed balls would rather tell lies to the public than face them with facts and use his well constructed arguments to support his view!
- we now know that ed ball's future schools building programme was completely unfunded - we also know that ed balls was told to factor in billions of pounds worth of cuts in his education budget, but ignored the order, instead prefering to do something so foolish, that ive never come across any other minister from any other government, do it before - allocate the funding for an education budget from the uncosted savings of other departments, before those government departments had even made these so called savings!
we now know that whilst attacking every single cut that the new government have been forced to make to try and balance the country's books, ed balls will continue to deny both responsibility for leaving them in such a state and deny that any cuts would have been brought in under his old government. farsical!
On the critical question of how best to support growth while reducing the deficit, Mr Burnham said Labour needed to be seen to be credible if it wanted to be listened to and "not oppose every cut". - sadly, this is once again complete hotair! on the 17th of june 2010, andy burnham started a series of points of view that "criticises every cut!"
he "urged" the new government not to protect NHS spending increases every year for the next 5 years, he opposed all other cuts in other health related services (even though there is a review on them and no decision has been taken as yet - and when it does it will be upto each individual health authority or primary care trust) and admitted it was "counter-intuitive for a health spokesman to be advocating less spending on the NHS"
so which is it mr burnham? do you even have an idea?
andy burnham continued... "Labour had agreed to protect spending only on front-line police, schools and health and should not pretend there would not have been cutbacks if it had stayed in power" so you agreed to protect spending on health - as you were the health secretary at the time of the election and you are now the shadow health secretary - at the same time as voicing your view that funding to the NHS should be cut? make your mind up for gods sake!
andy burnham continued... "Let's get some honesty in this debate," he said. "There would have been significant spending cuts under Labour and there would have been job losses under Labour." - that was labour's problem, they treated the public as if they were thick.... spent the entire election campaign telling people how bad the other parties were going to be for making cuts, after already pledging to halve the budget deficit! why only come out no mr burnham and tell the public this?
Mr Balls urged his colleagues "not to do the coalition's job for them" in government ed balls was all for a government of all the talents, from all sides of the house and all walks of life - as per usual, this was complete bollocks! now we have an elected coalition government making the cuts and in control of the nations books (whats left of them) ed balls wants no part in anything! shame that, as it shows clearly ed balls only has self interest and that of his party regaining POWER, rather than helping the country through its toughest budgets since the 1930s, a fact caused by 11 years of a labour government, of which ed balls was a major part of!
Asked where he and his brother disagreed over economic policy, Ed Miliband said he wanted more emphasis on tax rises - including a higher levy on banks - to bring down the deficit than Labour was arguing for at the moment - and you stood on a general election platform ed miliband, supporting the position labour takes as it did then, whilst OPPOSING it? truly bizarre, if i dont support something ill voice an opinion and change my position towards any party that takes my vote. you cannot have two completely opposing views on the same subject when you are in public life, the people vote for you if they agree with you and against you if they dont agree with your views. if you disagree with the leadership then why did you serve under them endorsing policies you did not believe in? hypocrit!
"The banks should be paying the price of the crisis, not people up and down this country," ed miliband no the labour party in government should be paying the price, they changed the rules that meant a bank could not over stretch on its own borrowings. the labour government you were part of, then created a housing boom by taxing pension fund profits (destorying pensions in the process) as people pulled money out of those and bought houses for their retirement, destroying communities, then to make matters ten times worse, gordon brown - with ed miliband's support in government - relaxed the rules on companies using their pension funds in other areas of their business. in expanding machinery or new computer systems, etc.
this is why thousands have found after paying in £30,000 and more in some cases, they are lucky to end up with a £2000 payout on their retirement!
does it really matter who gets the labour leadership? with the exception of diane abbot, i wouldnt touch any of them....
Posted on 17-09-10 @ 01:54 AM CST [link to post]
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dam! after reading through pages and pages of posts on the guestbook and lookin at all the pics we used to have up on here...... tis time for an update of the webshite me thinks.
look out for some new stuff and a return of some of the old favs... sniffin pages is to return! (odd, as someone only asked for them to come back a week ago) im testin new software out at the mo, before it goes live... sniffin will be back soon.
im also on the hunt for a new guestbook, any suggestions then leave us a message ta
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whilst doing some occasional searches for lost aunties and uncles, the amount of time and money that people spend finding out information that is their's to begin with, is astounding.
as is always the case - something is made more complicated, you will be sold a way of "making it easier" for a price that you could easily have avoided, if those selling, would not have complicated it in the first place!
first off, any records with information relating to families, should be and is the property of those concerned... not some website or listings company next, if you want to find all those people with links to family members, then a simple check on the census for that date, would reveal leads to relatives no problem at all.
for example, from 1900-1950, the census listed every person living in any one household.
now we have to pay to see who lived in each household - then we have to pay again to see details of those individuals that lived there... and so on and more money...
a perfect example of how wrong things are today, a family tree/ancestry system that charges you to view your own families information and creates a money making industry off the back of it...
- a font of knowledge that doesnt try to sell you something or gather information about you - genuinely interested in what youre doing, from the day that youre born - always there for you, in good or bad times
as youve guessed, mum is visiting this week, an impromptu visit, for the week, but surprising because i keep getting asked if shes interfering or messing with things, in her whirling dervish style, as she cleans, folds, washes things and asks me to lift heavy things... of course she is not interfering, i wouldnt have it any other way, the ultimate voice in our household, lord knows shes helped me out enough times, and continues to do so.
out of all the people on the planet, along with dad, mum has known me longer than anyone else. its impossible for her to interfere, because every viewpoint, thought, suggestion, etc, outranks my own.
i maybe knackered from extra work and jobs im being found to do, i may not have anytime to do anything as its all been assigned to other things that i apparently "could be doing" but its worth every minute as it comes from the heart with nothing but good intentions and to help me out.
