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An inspiration for many of us and even today, her strength is unparalleled in modern times.
A woman who made a difference.
May she rest in peace
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
So very sad, Margaret Thatcher
An inspiration for many of us and even today, her strength is unparalleled in modern times.
A woman who made a difference.
May she rest in peace
Monday, 1 April 2013
Dear Mr Cameron!
Dear Mr Cameron
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I am writing from a combination of despair and optimism. I am sure you get many letters but I am hoping you find a few minutes in your day to read just this one. You don't need me to tell you, the country is in a mess, the financial crisis just won't go away! The European Union is a constant thorn in your side and if the celebrations associated with the Olympics and the Royal Jubilee can't cheer the people up, what the hell will?
You seem like a nice guy, perhaps too nice. The riots of 2010 and 2011 must have been a bit of a shock, maybe that tempers your response now. Perhaps your young family influences you to go easy but whatever the reason, it's time to think of their future. Whatever you do today will form the world they will live in tomorrow. Do you really want them to live in a country full of hate, perhaps a huge military power, founded on racial prejudice, a devolved council controlled enemy of Europe instead of a strong partner to be reckoned with? A country that despises everything outside of its own borders, perhaps thinking invasion of other nations is the only option to meet the excessive needs and demands of its people??
If you fail to act now, this grim, frightening future could become a reality.
Our country is crying out for a strong leader, take a leaf from Maggie's book!! Why else would the UK Independence Party be gaining such prominence and apparent support? It is oft theorized and even proven in the history books, times like this help extremists gain momentum. The UKIP's promise of leaving the EU and their ridiculous proposals around income tax are foolish but popular, hardly surprising. They promise to cut taxes dramatically yet expand the military and devolve power to the councils. There will be no central body overseeing crime and the justice system, an abolition of human rights in the name of prison reform!!! The voting public cannot see past their promise to exit the EU!
Ed is not your political enemy, the UKIP are. The public aren't seeing their fascist manifesto, they need you to open their eyes!!! Ed certainly isn't going to!
We all know the chances of them gaining power at the next election are close to nothing, well let's hope so, but what they will do is split the vote. It won't be the left wingers voting for them, but your Tory voters!!
Don't make your legacy another Labour Government!
The rise of the Unions, the strikes, even the Argies playing up again is all reminiscent of a past none of us want to see again. Blair's Government did their best to destroy the country and Ed Miliband will surely put more nails in the coffin if you let him. Even Denis Healey at 94 felt the need to speak out this week, despite his left wing past he actually stated some truths! It isn't often I find myself agreeing with a Labour politician!
The nation wants and needs Maggie back, her strength, her determination to keep Britain Great against all opposition. Smash them to smithereens! Stand up to Europe, tell them we are leaving, you know it is inevitable but leave now and lead from a position of strength. Negotiate a trading partnership relationship and stay friends, once you go through the farce of a referendum your hands will be tied and you will lose your bargaining power.
Stop placing so much emphasis on the financials, not yet, the debt doesn't matter for a little while longer, we will recover, we always do. People can only take so much and they have reached their limit.
...... you can be someone or you can become the PM who's just one of many in a long line!!!!
Please make the right choice for all of our sakes and make a difference!!!
Sincerely yours
JayJinx
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Scary UKIP gaining momentum....
I am speechless at the apparent response to a Daily Mail article... UKIP are b********, Maggie was good looking and Ed Miliband lacks his brother's charm: Denis Healey is still outspoken at 95
To which I replied:
I am surprised to have provoked any retaliatory comments at all but what these and many of the other responses demonstrate is the ignorance of the voting public and how an extremist party, reminiscent of Hitler's 1932 Government can come to power. Too many voters are stuck on a single theme "get out of the EU" and blind to the fact that the UKIP plan to create a highly militarised regime, flat broke, racist and devolved.
.... I AGREE with the sentiment to leave the EU, but Britain must first renegotiate terms for trade... and for the record, I am certainly no fan of Denis Healey but his politics seem relatively mild when compared to many politicians today.
OH and BTW.... It will be interesting to see all of those Brits who have taken for granted their right to travel and live freely around Europe suddenly being booted out.
To which I replied:
...... and from another who only call themselves "UK Rising".... who, incidentally, has 41 green arrows....
..... It is one hell of a leap to assume that because I fear the UKIP fascist doctrine that I vote Labour or am a Communist! When did Britain become "two party UKIP or Communist Labour"?.... I have never leaned to the Left in my life! Occasionally staggered in that direction perhaps but only due to one too many wines!
and so I posted a further comment:
It is very simple - if you want to know the truth about the UKIP, read their manifesto! It speaks for itself
It is very simple - if you want to know the truth about the UKIP, read their manifesto! It speaks for itself- Jay >>>>>>> And for us, the long suffering taxpayer.
.... I AGREE with the sentiment to leave the EU, but Britain must first renegotiate terms for trade... and for the record, I am certainly no fan of Denis Healey but his politics seem relatively mild when compared to many politicians today.
OH and BTW.... It will be interesting to see all of those Brits who have taken for granted their right to travel and live freely around Europe suddenly being booted out.
Unions Show Their True Selves
BBC staff on strike 'would have returned to work if Nelson Mandela died... but not for the death of Thatcher'
And I would suggest that is just how she would want it. It is certainly no surprise that striking unions would not break strike for the death of the woman who so effectively and efficiently killed their stranglehold on the country. If only the nails in the coffin had held stronger!
It is sad to see the Unions rising again, fed and nurtured by 15 years of Blair's Labour!! That UK teachers unions think its OK to teach kids to go on strike says it all, especially at a time when the country is down on its luck, struggling to get out of an ever returning financial crisis. Giving lessons in how to be selfish and look out only for yourself, they must be very proud!
Unions have never changed and never will, the men and women who run them are fat cats, self serving and manipulative control freaks. They wont go hungry when they call out their "brothers"... no .... they will still be getting their bread from the union funds!
That they suggest they would not break strike for the death of a highly regarded, respected and influential leader of the 20th Century says more about who they are than who she was and is.
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Maggie!
Shocked! I have just realised that a woman who inspired and influenced me has not even rated a mention here! Love her or hate her, she made a difference to the world we live in today... Well it is past time I gave her some well deserved attention....
There are some who would argue she lost her way, well perhaps in her last term things could have been different, we can debate that another time. Should that override the achievements?
Arthur Scargill, the trade unionist who was no friend of the miners. Scargill led the 1985/85 miners strike in a bitter battle with the Government, events that became a defining moment for the British trade union movement. His personal vendetta almost brought Britain to its knees, how is that something to be proud of? Ten people dead, including an innocent taxi driver taking a man to do an honest days work in the mines. Their history spoke for itself, after all, they went on strike during WW2, what did they care about loyalty to their homeland? Hopes were high, after all, they brought down the Heath Government in 1974! Maggie stood firm and Scargill was eventually defeated but at such a huge cost to the nation!
Maggie the Milk Snatcher! One of her earlier nicknames! As a pint sized recipient of our little bottles of milk, I have no recollection whatsoever of it stopping. A defining moment in my life? Apparently not! The little bottles of milk were representative of a post war era that was always going to end, Maggie was just brave enough to make that happen.
... there was Maggie & Privatisation, Maggie & Reagan, Maggie & Northern Ireland, Maggie & The Falklands, Maggie & Foreign Affairs and Maggie & the Poll Tax! And let's not forget Maggie & Malcolm Turnbull locking heads over Spycatcher and so much more....
So many discussion points... but finally let me touch briefly on Maggie & Terrorism... never did she give in to terrorism. Despite being a target in Brighton, she stood firm and never would Maggie have given in to fear and allowed a mile "no protest" perimeter around the people's Parliament, as implemented by Mr Blair's Government!
I admire Maggie for her intelligence, her strength her sheer determination and her many achievements. We need her like we have never needed her before...
.... and with her increasingly failing health, I will certainly shed a few tears when the inevitable happens.
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Margaret Thatcher, a brilliant, clever and determined woman!
I was 14 when Maggie came to power and 26 when they brought about her undignified downfall. Her values and passions were inspirational and I still firmly believe in everything she stood for. She made us proud to be British, something subsequent Governments have destroyed.There are some who would argue she lost her way, well perhaps in her last term things could have been different, we can debate that another time. Should that override the achievements?
Maggie and The Miners
Arthur Scargill, the trade unionist who was no friend of the miners. Scargill led the 1985/85 miners strike in a bitter battle with the Government, events that became a defining moment for the British trade union movement. His personal vendetta almost brought Britain to its knees, how is that something to be proud of? Ten people dead, including an innocent taxi driver taking a man to do an honest days work in the mines. Their history spoke for itself, after all, they went on strike during WW2, what did they care about loyalty to their homeland? Hopes were high, after all, they brought down the Heath Government in 1974! Maggie stood firm and Scargill was eventually defeated but at such a huge cost to the nation!
Maggie and the Milk
Maggie the Milk Snatcher! One of her earlier nicknames! As a pint sized recipient of our little bottles of milk, I have no recollection whatsoever of it stopping. A defining moment in my life? Apparently not! The little bottles of milk were representative of a post war era that was always going to end, Maggie was just brave enough to make that happen.
and then...
... there was Maggie & Privatisation, Maggie & Reagan, Maggie & Northern Ireland, Maggie & The Falklands, Maggie & Foreign Affairs and Maggie & the Poll Tax! And let's not forget Maggie & Malcolm Turnbull locking heads over Spycatcher and so much more....
So many discussion points... but finally let me touch briefly on Maggie & Terrorism... never did she give in to terrorism. Despite being a target in Brighton, she stood firm and never would Maggie have given in to fear and allowed a mile "no protest" perimeter around the people's Parliament, as implemented by Mr Blair's Government!
I admire Maggie for her intelligence, her strength her sheer determination and her many achievements. We need her like we have never needed her before...
.... and with her increasingly failing health, I will certainly shed a few tears when the inevitable happens.
photo credit: roberthuffstutter via photopin cc
Sunday, 10 March 2013
UK Independence Party - Manifesto
I am outraged to see the apparent support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP)! The British public are being blindly sucked in by their promise to 'get us out of the EU'. Well that is all well and good, but there are serious implications of doing that and the British people need to make an educated decision.
And my vote? Well, I agree, we need to change our relationship with the EU. Renegotiate terms, take back our own governance and protect our borders, we clearly cannot sustain benefit payments to masses of lazy people inbound from Europe but not through an extremist right wing political party like the UKIP.
So what about the rest of their policies? Have you actually read their Manifesto? Here are just a few:
And so to Immigration and Asylum.... "expel Islamic extremists".... yep - let's target a specific minority group and endorse and promote racial discrimination. Sounds like a similar approach to one adopted in Germany in 1932! Oh... and hey - they will "triple the number of UK Borders Agency staff to 30,000". Don't expect to get paid, but at least your tax will be low!
"Demand zero tolerance on crime and double prison places to assure this" - and this will be funded how exactly? Voluntary donations again? At least we won't have to worry about feeding the prisoners as they will also "Scrap the Human Rights Act". It just gets better and better! NOT! As the Crown Prosecution Service will also be abolished we won't have to worry about a national approach to crime so this should help keep the prison numbers down!
Anything left in the public coffers will be aimed at increasing the military, expanding the army by 25%, double the TA and boosting nuclear deterrent. Why? Again echoes of Germany 1932. Frightening!
Need I go on???? Sorry .... I can't bring myself to discuss their approach to Healthcare, the NHS, Education, Welfare or Social Security and Pensions. Investing £3BN in the road and rail systems sounds like a great idea - but where is the funding coming from - not taxes obviously? Making foreign lorries pay to use British roads? Yeh clever - that will stop them coming over in their droves, slow up the economy and of course, ensure similar charges are introduced for Brits traveling abroad!! If you can get a visa that is!
"Build more social housing" - oh great... a return to the days of sprawling council run estates, yippee! Lots of local and national referendums and let's introduce Proportional representation? Not very efficient but expensive... funded how?
And so finally, to their thinking on multiculturalism! Well that will be banned and no need for political correctness either. No doubt they have an enthusiasm to get women back where they belong too - barefoot, pregnant and tied to a kitchen sink perhaps?
What a country they plan to create - full of racial prejudice, parochial, devolved and broke!
I find this future terrifying and almost an inevitable result of the ongoing financial crisis. It is at times like this that these radical extremist groups gain power - again let me quote - Germany, July 1932.
And my vote? Well, I agree, we need to change our relationship with the EU. Renegotiate terms, take back our own governance and protect our borders, we clearly cannot sustain benefit payments to masses of lazy people inbound from Europe but not through an extremist right wing political party like the UKIP.
So what about the rest of their policies? Have you actually read their Manifesto? Here are just a few:
WTF? HOGWASH! Firstly, they give no indication of how they plan to protect British jobs or how they have drawn this conclusion. Reducing tax and abolishing VAT? Where precisely will the Government get its funding from?"Save up to £120BN by leaving the EU, no British jobs or trade will be lost""Reduce everyone's taxes with a 31% flat tax""Replace VAT with a 'Local Sales Tax' to help councils and local businesses"
"Create 1 million new skilled jobs with public and private investment..."Ermmm??? And these public funds will come from where exactly? At the same time, UKIP make it clear that they will be preventing foreign investment so dig deep Brits! Perhaps voluntary contributions, funded from your tax savings? Yes - I can see that happening!
And so to Immigration and Asylum.... "expel Islamic extremists".... yep - let's target a specific minority group and endorse and promote racial discrimination. Sounds like a similar approach to one adopted in Germany in 1932! Oh... and hey - they will "triple the number of UK Borders Agency staff to 30,000". Don't expect to get paid, but at least your tax will be low!
"Demand zero tolerance on crime and double prison places to assure this" - and this will be funded how exactly? Voluntary donations again? At least we won't have to worry about feeding the prisoners as they will also "Scrap the Human Rights Act". It just gets better and better! NOT! As the Crown Prosecution Service will also be abolished we won't have to worry about a national approach to crime so this should help keep the prison numbers down!
Anything left in the public coffers will be aimed at increasing the military, expanding the army by 25%, double the TA and boosting nuclear deterrent. Why? Again echoes of Germany 1932. Frightening!
Need I go on???? Sorry .... I can't bring myself to discuss their approach to Healthcare, the NHS, Education, Welfare or Social Security and Pensions. Investing £3BN in the road and rail systems sounds like a great idea - but where is the funding coming from - not taxes obviously? Making foreign lorries pay to use British roads? Yeh clever - that will stop them coming over in their droves, slow up the economy and of course, ensure similar charges are introduced for Brits traveling abroad!! If you can get a visa that is!
"Build more social housing" - oh great... a return to the days of sprawling council run estates, yippee! Lots of local and national referendums and let's introduce Proportional representation? Not very efficient but expensive... funded how?
And so finally, to their thinking on multiculturalism! Well that will be banned and no need for political correctness either. No doubt they have an enthusiasm to get women back where they belong too - barefoot, pregnant and tied to a kitchen sink perhaps?
What a country they plan to create - full of racial prejudice, parochial, devolved and broke!
I find this future terrifying and almost an inevitable result of the ongoing financial crisis. It is at times like this that these radical extremist groups gain power - again let me quote - Germany, July 1932.
Sunday, 17 February 2013
This is Democracy
What the!!!
Death threats to UK's top Muslim MP who voted for gay marriage
I hope Mr Khan does not fall victim to the pressures brought about by his religious choices. He is clearly somebody able to separate blind religious belief from political independent choice. Britain cannot allow Islam, Christianity or any other religious institution, large or small to mandate how people live and Church and State must remain separate.
Issuing a ruling against Mr Khan in the name of his religion attempts to remove his independence when attending Parliament. I would suggest Mr Bandhalevi should take some lessons in understanding the culture and society he has chosen to be a part of. If he prefers a society where his fatwa is acceptable, then he must relocate to a country that operates under religious law. Britain does not, it is a democracy and his attempt to change it through fear is simply unacceptable. It has taken many hundreds of years and a lot of suffering for Britain to evolve her political systems independent of religious influence. It is vital that this independence is retained.
What Mr Bandhalevi apparently fails to appreciate is that it is the very nature of British culture that allows extremist websites such as the one quoted in the article to exist and him to speak out. If I try to imagine a scenario where an atheist, agnostic or even a Christian expressed similar views, in a country governed by Islamic law I can't help but believe it would result in a quick beheading!
Bigoted views and sinister death threats contribute to racism.
Multi-cultural societies are the next phase for the human race and the only way this can be achieved is to learn to respect each others ways, not try and force others to live as you do. Threatening to kill somebody if they don't see things your way is, quite frankly, out dated, antediluvian nonsense and it has no place in the future of the UK or any other Western nation.
Death threats to UK's top Muslim MP who voted for gay marriage
I hope Mr Khan does not fall victim to the pressures brought about by his religious choices. He is clearly somebody able to separate blind religious belief from political independent choice. Britain cannot allow Islam, Christianity or any other religious institution, large or small to mandate how people live and Church and State must remain separate.
Issuing a ruling against Mr Khan in the name of his religion attempts to remove his independence when attending Parliament. I would suggest Mr Bandhalevi should take some lessons in understanding the culture and society he has chosen to be a part of. If he prefers a society where his fatwa is acceptable, then he must relocate to a country that operates under religious law. Britain does not, it is a democracy and his attempt to change it through fear is simply unacceptable. It has taken many hundreds of years and a lot of suffering for Britain to evolve her political systems independent of religious influence. It is vital that this independence is retained.
What Mr Bandhalevi apparently fails to appreciate is that it is the very nature of British culture that allows extremist websites such as the one quoted in the article to exist and him to speak out. If I try to imagine a scenario where an atheist, agnostic or even a Christian expressed similar views, in a country governed by Islamic law I can't help but believe it would result in a quick beheading!
Bigoted views and sinister death threats contribute to racism.
Multi-cultural societies are the next phase for the human race and the only way this can be achieved is to learn to respect each others ways, not try and force others to live as you do. Threatening to kill somebody if they don't see things your way is, quite frankly, out dated, antediluvian nonsense and it has no place in the future of the UK or any other Western nation.
Saturday, 5 March 2011
295 shopping days to Christmas
Just 64 days into 2011... 301 to go....
Already this year we have seen major earthquakes in beautiful Christchurch and The Philippines, revolution in the Middle East, the overthrow of an Egyptian dictator and we watch in horror as a Libyan madman turns on his own people. Australia's worst disaster with the flooding of Bris Vegas and Queensland. As if that wasn't enough our hearts filled with fear as Cyclone Yasi headed for our shores.... we've seen flooding in Victoria and a cyclone in Darwin... fires in WA threatened its capital...
Anna showed she has a heart while Julia showed she does not.... Kev confirmed he was an idiot as he waded through sewage and dirty flood water to impress a gullible media pack and then there's Tony.... not a man who thinks much before he speaks... I confess I prefer his fellow Rhodes Scholar, Malcolm...
And amidst all of this, the suggestion of a death penalty for Julian Assange described by Hills as "a bigger threat to the US than Osama Bin Laden"!! Has he really done something to justify such an enthusiastic response? A Western Government gone mad! A nation living in fear that responds to increasing world animosity with threats of war and violence yet never once stops to ask itself "why?"
And then there is the iPad2 and the bionic eye roll out, the controversial NBN and let's not forget Moonageddon!
What's next? The flood levy, carbon tax, higher inflation, falling house prices, higher taxes... oh joy....
OH and while I remember... don't forget.... its only 295 shopping days to Christmas....
Already this year we have seen major earthquakes in beautiful Christchurch and The Philippines, revolution in the Middle East, the overthrow of an Egyptian dictator and we watch in horror as a Libyan madman turns on his own people. Australia's worst disaster with the flooding of Bris Vegas and Queensland. As if that wasn't enough our hearts filled with fear as Cyclone Yasi headed for our shores.... we've seen flooding in Victoria and a cyclone in Darwin... fires in WA threatened its capital...
Anna showed she has a heart while Julia showed she does not.... Kev confirmed he was an idiot as he waded through sewage and dirty flood water to impress a gullible media pack and then there's Tony.... not a man who thinks much before he speaks... I confess I prefer his fellow Rhodes Scholar, Malcolm...
And amidst all of this, the suggestion of a death penalty for Julian Assange described by Hills as "a bigger threat to the US than Osama Bin Laden"!! Has he really done something to justify such an enthusiastic response? A Western Government gone mad! A nation living in fear that responds to increasing world animosity with threats of war and violence yet never once stops to ask itself "why?"
And then there is the iPad2 and the bionic eye roll out, the controversial NBN and let's not forget Moonageddon!
What's next? The flood levy, carbon tax, higher inflation, falling house prices, higher taxes... oh joy....
OH and while I remember... don't forget.... its only 295 shopping days to Christmas....
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S of Dorchester only received 17 arrows for that response... but they were all green! So many confused people but thank you for restating my point! ermmm... and I said "increasing the military" not decreasing!!!!!! .....