Do we need to march!?

As the people of the 'affluent' west continue to see their living standards eroded by corrupt politicians and bankers I begin to wonder how much the people will accept before they say 'I am fed up with this'! What will it take before the masses suddenly begin to understand that they have been totally ripped off by the New World Order? 


As the economies of countries like China, India and Brazil take off into the stratosphere the 'old guard' of world peace struggle to meet their debts. The people are being systematically impoverished. Old fashioned 'Law and Order', old fashioned 'Fairness', old fashioned 'Morality' have all been under attack from a silent and secret foe which is attacking the principles of 'Christianity'. 


So as a pawn in this power game what can I do? How can I retain a semblance of sanity when all round me I see devilment. I am not a 'believer' but I do recognise the difference between good and evil. The basic principles of Christianity has served us well for centuries. The ten commandments have always been the building blocks for any decent society. 


How far will we, the public, allow the elite to descend into the abyss before we say 'This is not right'? What will it take before we have to defend our children, our property and our meaningful lives from well almost any threat?  Who is protecting me from the foreign invasion? OK so far it is not a direct threat but look at the London riots last year when the police melted into the background.


How long will it be before the banks apologise for losing your money? How long will it be before your pensions cannot be honoured? What will it take before you realise that you have been screwed beyond your imagination and your life is valueless?


I know you will think that I am a nutter and I seriously hope that I am wrong but this is the direction into which we are heading. I know that you all believe that in our society it could not happen but I remember the 1950's. In those days we had never heard the word paedophile and all children played happily, without any parental control, in the parks and streets.


In those days many men went to work in a hard, physical, environment and brought home a regular, guaranteed, wage packet. Thousands had a camaderie that served us well in two World Wars. Mum stayed at home and was always on hand to stabilise the family. Loyalty was the code and if anyone broke that code then they were dishonoured. The only people who ever broke that code had money and attended universities like Oxford and Cambridge (and still do).


If anyone had told me that the society of the 1950's could have been dismantled to such an extent that by 2012 criminals could commit over 200 crimes before they were jailed I would have scoffed. As you know I could continue with many examples. So if I say to you that we must reverse this trend because if we don't then one day you will be forced to barter so that your family will avoid starvation would you listen? 


If you continue along these lines someone will steal your house. If we continue along these lines some of you will beg for water in a country that has more water descend on it than almost any in the planet. The directors of these public utility companies would prefer to take millions in bonuses than mend the leaks and you accept that!


If you continue to believe that you are in 'safe hands' and that the Queen is still your monarch then I am sorry but you will deserve all that you get. Angela Merkel has more authority than Elizabeth Windsor. Get used to it! If you don't like it then change it or at least challenge it. We are the public and we can change it and challenge it. We can do it in any which way that we want. We can switch on and do it through the ballot box or we can get real and do what we have to do. 


We pensioners have power but we just do not believe it. If you want to save the nation then we must only do one thing we must ....MARCH!

So much Water and not a drop to Spare!

It is one of the world's great conundrums that a country like the United Kingdom, which probably has more water dropped on it than almost anywhere else, is so badly administered that in some areas they have imposed hosepipe bans! Yesterday in April many areas had so much snow that power was disrupted!

In my particular small area it actually rained/snowed all day. We had more rain yesterday than countries like Cyprus get in a year. You would really think that the companies licensed to distribute our water would be able to cope but half of England has had a hosepipe ban slapped on them because they refuse to address leaks which is costing us millions.

We are not a large country. In some terms we are tiny and yet in this era of high power technology our politicians have failed to address the need for water. They have failed to provide the public with a system which will transport water from the north of the country to the south. In February I drove back from Scotland for 200 miles with my windscreen wipers on 'fast' wipe. In the Lake District the water was tumbling down the hillsides. I well remember thinking then that it was probably a preclude to a hosepipe ban!

Now comes the news that the directors of the water companies who have failed the public have been awarded bonuses totalling millions of pounds! When is this nonsense going to cease? When will we elect a politician who will represent the public? Will we ever see Boris or Ken address the shortage of water and the profligacy of the water companies in their quest for votes in the run up to the election of the Mayor of London?

It is our own fault that we have no water in some areas. It is our own fault that a first class stamp in the UK now costs 60 pence. It is our own fault that we are the most ripped off public in Europe! You dear public keep voting for them and they keep giving you what you have voted for! If Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone or Brian Paddick win the election for Mayor of London then I will despair but I will still be able to pay my way. Many who have a vote will vote Com/Dem/Lab and vote for their own ruination.

We could get rid of them all at a stroke...if we would stop just for a moment to think about why we were voting and what we were voting for!

Apathy and Politics

There was a councillor from Derby on the local news this evening suggesting that we should change the day that we vote so that apathetic voters would be encouraged to turn out. I cannot believe that these political oiks live in their own dream world. They either don't get it or they refuse to swallow it but the reason that people don't vote are many and various and at the top of the list is that most of us have totally lost our respect for lying gutless politicians who are well past their sell by date.

They have given so many of the responsibilites of governing our country to Europe which means that their value as politicians has eroded. Our utilities have been sold off and our railways are being run for profit so the service is poor and the price is high. The roads are therefore packed and gridlock is nigh.

We are being exploited by almost everyone be it local councils, utility companies, banks, building societies and at the top of the list is our government who tax us unmercifully and then top it up with fines for almost anything deemed as a misdemeanour.

Trust in politics is at an all time low and even solid, tax paying citizens like myself feel disenfrancised. Neither major party will change anything. I keep waiting for David Cameron to announce some relief for the tax payers. I wait in vain for the hint of a policy on law and order which would meet with public approval. Can nobody halt the march of the politically correct bigots and give us back our national sense of humour? Who will tackle the rise in drunkenness and drug abuse currently destroying our youngsters.

Once again exam results have improved for the umpteenth year in succession and yet many of us believe that their is something desperately rotten at the heart of our education system. Let's face it I wouldn't trust the people marking the papers because there are far too many tales appearing in the press about inconsistent marking.

It goes on and on. In every sphere of government influence there are problems. Vast sums of money are being thrown at them but nobody seems to monitor what happens to it. We only see certain individuals getting very rich by picking up tax payers money which wasn't originally designed to end up on their pockets.

These are just a few of the reasons that people aren't voting and it wouldn't matter if you kept the polling stations open day and night for a week it wouldn't change anything. The people have lost trust in politics which is an appalling state of affairs for this so called home of democracy.

Increasing cost of Essentials

Today that excellent guru of finance Martyn Lewis appeared on BBC news and told the truth. He has an excellent track record of telling the truth and in my opinion he should be Chancellor but that is another matter. For at least two years Martyn has made a career out of warning us all that the High Street banks could not be trusted. He took them on almost single handed and quite rightly he has made a career out of it.

Today he spelt out the obvious but the point he made was really valid. It is not the job of the people running the utility companies that heat our homes, fuel our cars and provide us with water to ensure that the taxpayer is given a good deal. Their job is to assure that their share holders gain as much profit as possible and quite clearly they are doing a fantastic job!

When successive governments sold off the utilities which we are all dependent upon they sold us all down the river. We are now in the hands of private enterprise and we are consequently all dependent on a few individuals and we must hope that they have mercy on us. Obviously that is too much to ask because human nature is such that they will screw the public until there is nothing more to screw!

This is the cost of politics. They have taken so much from the country and now apparently there is little left. Both our major parties have screwed us all to the extent that we are in the hands of a few people who will never ever stand for election. Can you imagine a world without electricity, without water, without gas or even without petrol? Just how much are you prepared to pay for the essentials? Well I predict that very soon you will be paying it because nobody is regulating the prices that we will pay.

The people (according to Martyn Lewis) who are responsible for this destruction of our democracy are our politicians. They have created a political bubble where they remain protected from the public at all costs. When did people like Brown and Blair last expose themselves to the public gaze? They act like royalty but remember they actually campaign as socialists! That is why I coined the tag of NoLab for them because the New Labour party have absolutely no Socialist policies whatsoever.

In order to provide them with the funds to politicise the Civil Service, the Police, the NHS and almost every other walk of our lives they sold off everything to the private sector. They are not now responsible for any of the aspects of our life which we believe are absolutely essential.

To deflect from this desperate state of affairs they trump up issues like climate change but this will hardly effect us if we have no electricity, gas, water or petrol or if we cannot afford any of them!

When we get another election or if we ever get another election then David Cameron should be nailed down to explain what he has planned to ensure that we can maintain a decent and affordable standard of living. We should forget the peripherals and concentrate on the essentials. When they come for your vote ask them what they intend to do about the essential utilities and don't get fobbed off!!