Courtesy of David Forward who may remember next time we have a minority SNP government here in Scotland. I'll forgive him though but only because he can make me smile on bad hair days.
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Saturday, 1 May 2010
A Few Facts About Gordon Brown
Sent to me by a person who was a life-long labour voter but says he will never vote labour again:
A few interesting facts about Gordon Brown
(Margaret Thatcher knew what the Banks were like and in the 1988 Finance Act she bound the Banks up in regulation to prevent them from being reckless!!!)
Then Gordon Brown became Chancellor on 6th May 1997
1. Gordon's banker friends said "We want all these regulators to go, we don't want regulators watching everything we do" AND GORDON SAID OK
So, Gordon announced on the 20th May 1997 (2 weeks after becoming Chancellor) that the six regulatory bodies would be broken up and a new Financial Services Authority would replace them. The FSA had virtually no powers over the Banks and he also took away the powers from the Bank of England to enforce regulation on them. The result is the devastation we are all suffering today.
2. We used to have a Monopolies and Mergers Commission
Then Gordon's banker friends said we don't want the Monopolies and Mergers commission telling us who we can and can't "Take Over" AND GORDON SAID OK
So, in 1998 Gordon scrapped the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and created a replacement called the Competition Commission, with very much reduced powers and different ideas of what used to be regarded as a "Monopoly".
The result is the Massive Corporations we have today who are ruling and shaping our lives for their own benefit and profits. Not to mention the massive Monopolies held by some of these corporations through the forced purchases of all their competitors.
3. We used to have pension regulations, which included something called "The Pensions Cap".
The result is the Massive Corporations we have today who are ruling and shaping our lives for their own benefit and profits. Not to mention the massive Monopolies held by some of these corporations through the forced purchases of all their competitors.
3. We used to have pension regulations, which included something called "The Pensions Cap".
The pensions cap set a limit on how much pension any scheme member (including directors) could get from an occupational pension scheme, irrespective of how high their earnings were. It was there to protect the ordinary members pensions. To prevent Directors paying themselves obscene salaries and then draining the pension funds with huge pensions.
Then Gordon Brown's banker friends said that they wanted the pensions cap removing so that they could get pensions related to their obscene earnings.
(The whole Pensions industry gave him warnings of the effects it would have. Even the Inland Revenue put forward objections) BUT GORDON SAID OK
Because Gordon never likes to disappoint his banker friends.
So Gordon took away the Pensions Cap in 2005 and then some of his friends were able to leave their boardroom positions with huge pensions!!!
For example Fred Goodwin was apparently entitled to a pension of over £700,000
If Gordon had left the pensions cap in place that would have been a mere £125,000
Well done Fred and your mates!!!
(The Superannuations Division of the Inland Revenue have kept a record of what it should be, in readiness for when we get a new chancellor who sees fit to re-instate it. George Osborne has pledged to do that). The record of Pensions Cap limits are available to view on the Revenue's website.
Then Gordon Brown's banker friends said that they wanted the pensions cap removing so that they could get pensions related to their obscene earnings.
(The whole Pensions industry gave him warnings of the effects it would have. Even the Inland Revenue put forward objections) BUT GORDON SAID OK
Because Gordon never likes to disappoint his banker friends.
So Gordon took away the Pensions Cap in 2005 and then some of his friends were able to leave their boardroom positions with huge pensions!!!
For example Fred Goodwin was apparently entitled to a pension of over £700,000
If Gordon had left the pensions cap in place that would have been a mere £125,000
Well done Fred and your mates!!!
(The Superannuations Division of the Inland Revenue have kept a record of what it should be, in readiness for when we get a new chancellor who sees fit to re-instate it. George Osborne has pledged to do that). The record of Pensions Cap limits are available to view on the Revenue's website.
4. The result of this is that along with Gordon's "Tax Raid" on pension funds starting July 1997, over four thousand UK company pension scheme's have closed their doors to new members and many of them have had to close down altogether, leaving millions of workers without any pension provision. This man Gordon Brown "professes to be a socialist and "for" the working man.
The working man's main form of long term financial security had for many years been his company pension scheme, something to look forward to at the end of a life of hard work, his reward, light at the end of a long dark tunnel. Gordon has put an end to that by destroying the most valuable asset of the average British worker.
5. It is one of the greatest travesties of justice that this man, who pretends to be 'for the working man' has in fact been his worst enemy for the last thirteen years and will leave a legacy that we will be clearing up for man years to come.
The real injustice is that it's all been done in areas which are totally out of sight to the general public and beyond the understanding of many.
GORDON RELIES ENTIRELY ON PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE TO GET AWAY WITH HIS INDISCRETIONS.
GORDON'S MOTTO: "DENY EVERYTHING AND ADMIT NOTHING" SEEMS TO WORK QUITE WELL!
GORDON RELIES ENTIRELY ON PEOPLE'S IGNORANCE TO GET AWAY WITH HIS INDISCRETIONS.
GORDON'S MOTTO: "DENY EVERYTHING AND ADMIT NOTHING" SEEMS TO WORK QUITE WELL!
6. LASTLY, WHAT GORDON LIKES TO CALL THE "GLOBAL BANKING CRISIS"
Have you noticed that we were the first to be in it and are the last to be out (and whether we are out is very speculative!)
As he has openly admitted, The Royal Bank of Scotland was the world's biggest bank.
So when RBS and HBOS were about to go BUST in October 2008 and they had to be bailed out overnight so they did not take the entire country down with them, (that by the way was almost certainly a decision made by the hierarchy in Whitehall for which Gordon loves to take the credit).
As the world's leading banks now all lend money to each other on a collosal scale, isn't it obvious that the worlds biggest bank going down would have a devastating effect on all the others it dealt with. This "world's biggest bank" had also sold bad mortgage books to other banks.
Most of the Banks in Europe which ran into crisis were dragged into it because of the crooked dealings of our big banks. A fact that both Germany and France were quick to remind Gordon Brown of at the G20 emergency meeting shortly after the crisis.
There are many other of Gordon's indiscretions, far too many to list here, but perhaps the few biggies shown above will give some insight into how Gordon operates.
By the way have you noticed how he has suddenly become interested in Social Issues now an election is looming and seems to be able to promise the world when, as Alistair Darling put it a few days ago, there is not a penny left in the bank!!!
Think very carefully before casting your vote for this man who is probably the most extreme capitalist of the past century while pretending to be "for the working man".
GORDON WORSHIPS THE SUPER RICH AND POWERFUL AND CANNOT SAY NO TO THEM.
Have you noticed that we were the first to be in it and are the last to be out (and whether we are out is very speculative!)
As he has openly admitted, The Royal Bank of Scotland was the world's biggest bank.
So when RBS and HBOS were about to go BUST in October 2008 and they had to be bailed out overnight so they did not take the entire country down with them, (that by the way was almost certainly a decision made by the hierarchy in Whitehall for which Gordon loves to take the credit).
As the world's leading banks now all lend money to each other on a collosal scale, isn't it obvious that the worlds biggest bank going down would have a devastating effect on all the others it dealt with. This "world's biggest bank" had also sold bad mortgage books to other banks.
Most of the Banks in Europe which ran into crisis were dragged into it because of the crooked dealings of our big banks. A fact that both Germany and France were quick to remind Gordon Brown of at the G20 emergency meeting shortly after the crisis.
There are many other of Gordon's indiscretions, far too many to list here, but perhaps the few biggies shown above will give some insight into how Gordon operates.
By the way have you noticed how he has suddenly become interested in Social Issues now an election is looming and seems to be able to promise the world when, as Alistair Darling put it a few days ago, there is not a penny left in the bank!!!
Think very carefully before casting your vote for this man who is probably the most extreme capitalist of the past century while pretending to be "for the working man".
GORDON WORSHIPS THE SUPER RICH AND POWERFUL AND CANNOT SAY NO TO THEM.
"I Fight Every Day for My Future"
Iain Dale's title on his blog, post showing this video, was 'Brown Shows His Inner Weakness (Again).
As you can see mine is "I fight every day for my future"(1:11). That says it all to me.
Another party faithful meeting when labour remove a heckler from the room. For all his years in politics I would have thought Gordon Brown was capable of handling one single heckler, but alas no.
He sounds utterly desperate, but of course he is. For so long his desire was for the electorate to endorse his prime ministerial appointment. There's no doubt his support is slip-sliding away.
(I have removed the note that was here originally as Julian informed me that the information was incorrect).
Thank You Very Very Much Mick O'Leary
AT THE RYANAIR CHECK IN
I WAS STRANDED IN SPAIN
THE VOLCANIC ASH
HAD GROUNDED ME PLANE
AND RYANAIR SAID
WE’D BE WAITING A WEEK
I WAS IN SHOCK
I COULDN’T SPEAK
SO I HIRED A LIMO
AND SAID WHAT THE HELL
I WAS CHAUFFERED DIRECT
TO A FIVE STAR HOTEL
I CHECKED IN AND SWAMPED
DOWN CHAMPAGNE
SAID CHARGE IT TO RYANAIR
O’LEARY IS PAYIN
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THANKS FOR THE CHAMPAGNE AND CAVIAR
THANKS FOR THE MASSIVE FREE MINI BAR
MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY
POOR MICK WENT BANANAS
ALL OVER THE NEWS
YOU CAN NOT CHARGE RYANAIR
I FLATLY REFUSE
BUT HE CHANGED HIS TUNE
THE VERY NEXT DAY
HE SENT OUT HIS SPOKESMAN
TO SAY HE WOULD PAY
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THANKS FOR THE SLIPPERS AND DRESSING GOWN
THANKS FOR THE SERVICE TO TURN MY BED DOWN
MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY
HOTEL BILLS ARE FLOODING
TO RYANAIR
AND POOR OUL O’LEARY
IS PULLING HIS HAIR
HE WENT MAD WHEN HE SAW
THAT A CASTLEBAR GIRL
HAD RICE KRISPIES FOR BREAKFAST
AND CORN FLAKES AS WELL
SO I SAY THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O’LEARY
THE FANTASTIC ROOM SERVICE DESERVES A MENTION
AND THAT MASSAGE RELIEVED ALL MY TENSION
MICK O’LEARY
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MICK O ‘LEARY
No Smoke Without Fire
Baroness Ashton has been forced to deny rumours that she is poised to quit following widespread criticism of her performance as the EU's foreign affairs supremo.
Brussels sources said the Labour peer, appointed to the new £328,000-a-year job six months ago, was on the verge of resignation after opponents claimed she was not up to the job.
Some suggest Lord Mandelson, who long harboured ambitions for the job himself, has been spearheading a campaign to undermine her.
Surely the UK Business Secretary wouldn't behave so shabbily against one of his own? On the other hand, we all know that he enjoys forward planning. Where better than the arms of the EU to spend his senior years and accrue another few million to add to his already substantial pension pot.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Who Is Really Surprised?
First we have an irresponsible MP who has been tweeting postal vote results and gives the excuse that she was "over-excited." Kerry McCarthy is defending Bristol East. She was anointed as labour's 'Twitter Tzar' - someone who would encourage labour support through the social media Twitter.
I understand all PPCs are given the electoral rules and Ms McCarthy has no excuse. She knows she committed a crime because she has deleted the offending tweet. Surely the people of Bristol East will not vote for a woman who is so ignorant of electoral law. In case you are unaware Ms McCarthy is a qualified solicitor.
That's not all. Police have been alerted to postal vote fraud claims in London. They are 'assessing' 28 allegations but the result of their inquiries will not be known until after the election. No surprises there then and let's not kid ourselves - the practice will be spread throughout the UK in one way or another.
In Tower Hamlets alone the London Standard found some homes where up to 10 so-called 'ghost voters' have been registered on the electoral roll without the knowledge or consent of the people who live there. The report isn't talking about the odd property being targeted in this way but perhaps hundreds.
Canvassers have also been knocking on doors asking those who answered to sign forms. They are targeting homes where English is the second language.
There has been an upsurge in downloads on the postal voting website which some insist is due to Nick Clegg's sudden popularity. I'm a cynic.
I've said before that the postal voting system is wide open to fraud. We must stop postal voting fraud and the only way I see that happening is for postal votes to only be available to those who can prove they will be out of the country on election day, who are receiving disability benefit/DLA or who have some other good reason not to attend their local polling station.
Earlier today I had an email from a friend in England. She said she had had a canvasser at her door asking her to complete the form and they would 'do her the favour' of posting it on her behalf. I shan't disclose the party involved.
An independent Scotland should curtail the use of postal votes. We all have a duty to vote and the majority of the population have no problem making their way to a polling station to do so. I know every party offers a 'chauffeur' service for those who have difficulty for any reason.
Labour introduced this postal vote culture but it's one which should be halted now. It's too open to fraud. The police refusing to take immediate action also concerns me.
Do you really want a country, in another couple of generation's time, governed on the results of postal votes?
It Still Hasn't Stopped Raining
The Politics show produced this last year. Nothing changes. Not for the labour party anyway.
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