Portugal defaults...predictably!

So yet another member nation of the EU has predictably gone broke and still our Political Class support the unaudited, unaccountable elite socialist conglomoration which is hell bent on ruining our economy. Every time one of these financially weak countries go to the wall have you noticed how WE must pour money into their piggy bank.

Is it not about time that David Cameron came clean and gave us the lowdown? OK I will buy the line that we are broke because NoLab left us in the s**t and the bankers are corrupt. I will also buy the line that we have got to tighten our belts because I can recognise that NoLab vastly overspent.

I do NOT buy that we have to bail out Portugal. We are not in the Euro and Portugal's problem is a Euro problem. How can we be responsible for the excesses of the Political Class of another country? It means that any government in the EU can actually evade responsibilty by throwing their hands in the air and declaring we are broke so let the UK pay!

Our mainstream politicians continue to blow our taxes willy nilly on projects we can't afford. Two tribes attack each other in Libya and it is our responsibility to separate them. Pakistan has problems with terrorism and we have to give them aid. It is ridiculous and a nonsense.

I would not mind too much if we, as a country, were wealthy. I would not mind if we cared for our elderly, educated our children and protected our weak. I would not mind if we had an orderly society, a good quality of life or safety for our children but these aspirations are as yet not achievable.

We are bombing people in Libya but we cannot care for our elderly. We are for whatever reason pouring money into Pakistan (why Pakistan... who as we all know will forever hold their hands out and take free money) but we can't give our kids free education.

We see this in every city in this land. We have absorbed (for whatever reason) a million Pakistanis into our cities when most of them were unemployable. The only reason that they are here is free money and the indigenous population have known that from Day One.

When will David Cameron and all our mainstream politicians put the welfare of our own public first? When will they finally support the British people? All the efforts of the Political Class are aimed at expenditure abroad. They show little interest in our plight at home. I think that David Cameron should take a lesson from Jack Kennedy many years ago.

Ask not what your country can do for you...ask what you can do for your country!

It is time that you focussed on your own people Dave but...of course... when you have masters in the EU then it really is difficult. I have to say however that you are doing a much better job of masking the truth than your opposite number (Ed Miliband). You were chosen well but we will end up cursing you.

UK Uncut

I yearn for a movement from today's youth which is inspired by a love for their country and not by the lunatic ideals of the left wing. I would love to see a group of kids decide that the future that has been created by The Political Class is not what they want for themselves. I therefore hoped when I first saw the tactics of UK Uncut that we had at long last discovered a group of young people who did not resort to violence and who, with a bit of imagination, could protest with style (like the black brolly brigade).

To a certain extent they fulfilled my aspirations for them. They withdrew from the violence of the Union demonstration recently in London and do not want to associate themselves with 'Black Bloc' the other youth movement who seem to admire violence and destruction.

However, before I commit to a movement I like to discover who they are and what makes them tick. So I went onto YouTube, watched the videos and as each name came up when they were being interviewed I noted them down. Gradually I built up a profile of their leaders and sad to say that if you Google them follow their twitter conversations, read their blogs and discover their background then they are yet another left wing, trendy, right on, studenty organisation.

I will follow them with a passing interest but just a memo to Adam Ramsay. If I can do it old son then the police are also doing it. I believe that your organisation could have a future but stay away from the unions. They will buy your soul.

David Cameron and Pakistan

I just shook my head in despair this lunch time when I heard that David Cameron had been striding the globe again, this time visiting Pakistan. Of course as it is Pakistan one has to take them 'presents' and David went well armed with £650 million pounds of tax payer's money ostensibly to help them with 'educational' projects.

Is this not the same man who stands up in Parliament every Wednesday telling the British electorate that we have not got a pot to pee in and as NoLab left us with the largest decifit in our history we will have to 'cut' almost everything. Despite this he manages to find a spare £650 MILLION quid to shove into the grasping hands of a Pakistani politician! How can he expect that we would think that this is reasonable! We already shower foreign aid onto this country like no tomorrow.

He then compounds the felony by showering compliments on an 'old friend' that has spent the past 10 years pouring Taliban over the Afghan border against our troops. He is obviously playing a game that most of us have got no access to but I don't care what game he is playing he should leave this particular country to its own culture. They have no love for us and never will have. Yuck!

Proportional Representation

It is all well and good criticising our politicians for not creating a democratic electoral system.  If you are going to criticise the first past the post system then you also have to create a viable alternative. So I intend to create that alternative and illustrate just how an English Parliament would be comprised.

The English Parliament is the anathema of the europhiles because they want the destruction of the country England. They still fear the power of the English public even though the English public have acquiesced to everything that the europhiles have advanced. Why should the English not have their own parliament when their near neighbours, no their partners  in the United Kingdom have already turned their backs on the alliance?

They already have self government on so many issues which the British parliament fund. For example the Scottish administration trumpet that their students do not pay for their education and that they still have free prescriptions. This is not fair and is probably a result that English taxpayers are paying for these advantages which the Scots enjoy.

So do we not need an English Parliament? Should we not elect one and if we did how would it stack up? Well for a bit of fun I intend to construct an English parliament on the lines of proportional representation based on the election results of 2010. It will take a little time so please be patient but on an initial survey we in Loughborough have a shock. Andy Reed gets elected under proportional representation!!

Ancient Law and Our Law...

For some time now I have been directing passers by frequently to the Captain Ranty blog as he continues to expose the deceit upon which are courts are based. From time to time the legitimacy of our courts have been challenged by individuals (who I think have got a lot of courage) which led to the Birkenhead protests on 07 March where protestors 'arrested' the judge.

Down in Torquay another challenge took place where a guy called Max Cann used ancient laws to defend himself against motoring offences. He was locked up for his troubles (it is all on YouTube) but the court case was recently held and is reported here.

Mr Cann turned the court inside out by referring to ancient laws and walked away scot free. They didn't know what to do with him! His story is here. It is difficult for someone like me to understand how we could have corrupted the justice system in this country to such an extent. However, when we actually take the time to examine the system and challenge it then up pops all this fraud.

I sometimes think that the only place that we can discover the truth is on YouTube because the mainstream media (particularly the BBC) misconstrues the truth alarmingly. The reports on UK Uncut are a prime example of this. As usual the truth appears on YouTube. The modern camera with the facility to video is a wonderful tool and is demonstrated here.

This is happening all over the land. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions.

Town Hall Fatcats!

The Tax Payer's Alliance, the organisation which prides itself on keeping an eye on the public services so that they don't secretly squander our council tax on themselves, has published details of every town hall fatcat who earns over £100,000. Remember that is far more than a bog standard MP earns and doesn't include expenses.

Of course I just had to have a peep at our local  Leicestershire County Council. I actually have been told that last year they wrote to their former employees and told them that there would be no increase in occupational pensions because inflation had not gone up enough!!

So what did I find: Chief Executive £231,000, Director of Children and Young Persons Service £198,000 (27.7% increase), Director of Corporate Resources (what!) £176,000, Director of Environment and Transport £157,000, Director of Adults and Communities (what does that mean?) £157,000, Director of Community Services £141,000, County Solicitor £139,000, Assistant Chief Executive £110,000, Executive Director East Midlands Council, £109,000.

If that is not enough there are a further 10 positions which command six figure salaries but were not detailed in the report on Chief Officers. So we the Council Tax payers spend almost three and a half MILLION pounds and we have not filled a pothole, we have not paid a teacher and we have not collected a bin; all we have done is pay 19 employees!

So that's alright then!

PS Oh by the way the Chief Executive of Charnwood Borough Council is also on over £130,000. I just thought that I would cheer you up! Are you angry yet?

Alternate Vote (AV) v First Passed the Post (FPtP)

I don't know about anybody else but I can't make my mind up about the great British vote fight. I suspected that I was not being given all the facts so I decided to try a little research. When I was young there was no thought about AV because all the talk was about Proportional Representation (PR). Basically from what I can remember seats in Westmonster would be allocated on the percentage of the vote cast for each party.

So I did some basic and admittedly crude calculations based on a parliament comprising 650 members. I looked up the results of the 2010 election and calculated what the make up of our parliament would be if we had allocated seats according by PR instead of FPtP.

Here are the results:-

Party                        Current Seats         No of Votes    PR Result

1. Conservative             307             10,726,614            234
2. Labour                      258               8,609,527           188
3. Lib Dem                      57               6,836,824           150
4. UKIP                            0                919,546              20    
5. BNP                             0                564,331              12
6. SNP                              6                491,386             11
7. Green                            1                285,616              7
8. Sinn Fein                       5                171,942              4
9. DUP                              8                168,216              4
10. Plaid                              3                165,394              4
11. SDLP                            1                110,970              3
12. Ulster Unionists              1                102,361             2
13. English Dems                  0                 64, 826            1
14. Others (added together)   2               480,000            11 (approx figures)

So as usual the electorate are being stitched up by the Political Class. The only truly democratic system that would give everyone representation is being ignored. At one time it was the cornerstone of every LibDem manifesto and when you see the difference it would make for them one can understand why. Now however, Mr Clegg has had a sniff of power and there is no way that the Tories at Westmonster would agree to PR. We cannot have the electorate being properly represented can we?

Look at the figures in detail....over one and a half MILLION voters put a cross beside UKIP, BNP or English Democrat and didn't get a single seat! Nearly 300,000 voted Green and got Caroline Lucas (one seat). In fact 2.4 MILLION people voted and got Caroline Lucas and one Independent MP. Thie means that 8.75% of the population effectively became disenfranchised under FPtP.

They are even scared that AV may leave a chink open for a right wing 'extremist' (you know someone who doesn't want the EU or mass immigration) but of course Nick Clegg had to half heartedly campaign for a change in the voting system or he would have reneged on everything that he ever stood for before Cameron gave him a key to No 10.

So we have been allowed AV which doesn't begin to address the real problems of our undemocratic voting system. It will be confusing and I believe it could also be corrupted because once people start counting second, third and fourth choices anything can happen.

I don't want either so I won't bother.  What's the point?