A Fairer Society?

David Cameron is constantly telling us all that his governments welfare reforms are designed to create a fairer society for all hard working people in this country.

So! What is he in fact, stating?

Is he advocating that the sick, the disabled and the 2.7 million people without a job should be treated unfairly? I think he is. His current round of welfare policies bare this out.

Firstly, he attacked the disabled with the help of ATOS, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atosa French multinational IT and Services Corporation who were commissioned to re-assess thousands of disabled people in Britain. They use a formula that had already been proven as a failure when used in America.

We know that at least 50% of assessments are overturned on appeal at tax payers cost. Most recently we have come to learn that this appeal process has been changed to discourage disabled people from appealing at all. As it is, hundreds of thousands of disabled people have refused to go through the process and been forced to claim JSA. These less able people are forced to fight for jobs that even the able bodied cannot find, mainly because they do not exist.

Only last year, David Cameron also saw to it that the company, 'Remploy' was no longer able to employ disabled people. This company is one of very few companies in this country that provided work for disabled people.

Is this fair? Of course not! Such policy and action is only leading to more pain, poverty and despair for thousands of people who already suffer from disabilities that are definitely not fair.

Then we have David Cameron's policy of 'Workfare' where unemployed people are being forced to work for free for huge corporations or lose their already meager benefits of £53 per week for a single person. A sum we all know is impossible to live on despite what Ian Duncan Smith states otherwise.

This policy was challenged in the Courts and found to be unlawful. So! What did this government do in order to not have to pay back some 200,000 unemployed people that they had left penniless?

They pushed through a law on retrospective benefits compensation, that was illegally taken from those unemployed claimants of JSA.

Is it fair? Of course not. It only leads to further pain, suffering and despair for people searching for work that 'Workfare' has made sure simply is not there.

Now we have 'The Bedroom Tax' that David Cameron claims is not a tax at all but a charge on excess space in all social housing (council houses) where tenants receive benefits. Ie:- are unemployed, disabled and poor.

We are talking about the unlucky 1 in 10 of people who are forced through poverty, due to little or no work where they live, or who have a disability through birth, accident/injury in life, that find themselves in a position where they cannot work in jobs that do not exist.

This Tax on the poor is affecting some 600,000 of the poorest families in Britain.

Is it fair? Of course not. These people also now have to find extra money to pay a proportion of Council tax on their social homes. Money that is expected to be paid out of benefits that, according to government regulation, is the minimum amount an unemployed person/family should be allowed in order to live.

These two extra burdens on social housing tenants is leading to a form of economic cleansing where people have to move away from their local areas and communities.

The government is effectively destroying local communities (AGAIN) and ruining the lives of millions of people,(AGAIN) including our elders who, if they are below pension age, would not be able to keep their homes that they had raised their families in for decades.

David Cameron and his cabinet ministers/MPs/government, are deliberately and maliciously conducting a campaign of character assassination and vilification against anyone who receives any benefits at all. I state this, but in fact, his hate filled campaign is precisely directed at the disabled, the unemployed and the poorest people in this country, whose cost to maintain only represents a very small percentage of the total 'Welfare' bill. Ie less than 3% of the total Welfare bill.

David Cameron neglects to tell people that over 40% of that Welfare bill is paid in pensions and subsidies to the elderly.

David Cameron neglects to tell people that over 20% of the Welfare bill is paid to the low paid. Hard working people, who through his policies, are now more than £600 per year worse off than when his, 'hung, drawn and divide them government', came to power in 2010. *This figure has quadrupled 

Is it fair? Of course not. People who are forced to neglect their family life to do two and more low paid jobs and also have to claim 'working tax credit' just to survive, are left in hopeless despair. 

*Note* Since written, there has been massive increase in Workfare/O Hour Contracts/Internships (working for free) Short term contracts (No Security) and hundreds more disabled and sick people thrown off the register, so reducing unemployment by 1Million.

This government is responsible for thousands of unnecessary deaths of people who simply could not afford to live any longer.

This government is responsible for dismantling our countries National Health Service, by privatising it.

Doctors and nurses are prevented from speaking out about changes that affect the care of patients by gagging orders/clauses in their contracts.

Hundreds of people die needlessly and in inhumane conditions every day under this regime. We have seen it with our own eyes at 'Staffordshire Royal Infirmary'. Lessons should have been learned and transparency created by changes within the health service, as a whole. This has not materialised.

Profits should not dictate medical services and treatment. Now that budgets are in the hands of the senior Doctors, where many have been proven to have financial conflicts of interests, in medical practices up and down the country. Inevitably profits will dictate treatment.

Patients have been encouraged to take out private medical insurance and/or pay for treatments themselves. People on low incomes and the poorest cannot afford such luxuries. A two tier NHS is here and not going away unless changes are made to make equal care for all, 'An integral Ethos of Our Health Service, Now!!!

We cannot afford to wait for a general election to bring about such change. * I Can Say That Again! :)  Privatisation of our health services makes short cuts in care, pay! Good for patients? Not in any way.

*note* Now, for the first time in British history, we have our Junior Doctors out on strike because of a dangerous for patients and staff, contracts is forced on them.  Thousands are leaving Britain for fairer societies around the world! And who could blame them?

Is it fair? Of course not. It will only lead to further deaths and despair. A two tier health service where those who pay, live, and those who don't, die young, is both unethical and immoral.

David Cameron (No One Tool) is responsible for implementing austerity policies that have ruined A DECADE of social infrastructure progress.

Researching produced this highly worth reading and relevant document, outlining an ethos that the Labour Government came to power on......Budget 2003

Building a Britain of economic strength and social justice

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/bud_bud03_index.htm

Unfortunately for us all, more warmongering got in the way of this bright new future that this document reveals...BUT WE CAN FIND IT AGAIN

David Cameron and his government, have dismantled/destroyed most of the progress of the past decade. It is now about to annihilate our countries economy. *Note* Shaky economy with a bigger deficit A weak economy that his rich friends will benefit from, until 'they'decide when our lives may be improved with small shows of progress and recovery. (ie Investment, but only once the daylight robbery has been sated) *Note* No land grabbing inferred here, folks! :)

David Cameron will not be turned from this destructive course and refuses to listen to people who know how to effectively bring about change for the good of the country. We need sustained economic good sense, driven not by greed, but by a vision that encompasses 'A Fairer Society for ALL our Citizens'.

David Cameron has forced millions of young people to give up all hope of further educating themselves. Effectively closing the door on millions.

Is it fair? Of course not. Two generations of people without hope for the future is what no government should create.

David Cameron is responsible for giving all his millionaire friends and colleagues a 5% cut in their tax bills worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

*Last budget down to 15%!

Is it fair? Of course not. He has paid for it with all the aforementioned despair. He leaves the majority of people in this country without hope.

Crime will rise. Hatred will flourish. The roots of growth will never rise from barren ground. He has turned the clock back and put the people on self defeating attack. He makes us cruel. He must be sacked.

Is it fair? Of course it is. It is the only way to end this governments policy of despair.

To steal from the poor to give even more to the rich, is immoral. Ethical governing is the only way forward. Therefore, David Cameron and his government must, and will go. The sooner the better.

After all! We 'ALL' want a Fairer Society for ALL.

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The Bedroom Tax and Further Attacks on Social Housing

Ordinary working class people who happen to live in ‘Social Housing’ are being attacked, because of this hideous tax.

 Once upon a time a Council House was considered yours for life.  It was yours in all but name on the deeds.  Somewhere you could finally call home. My grandmother was one of the first in the country to be given a council house.  She was very proud of her semi-detached, red brick, 3 bedroom home.  It was quite small but had a neat little front and back garden, a lock up outside room/shed/workshop, and a coal bunker.  She also had a tidy little garage that took up part of the back garden.  But most importantly, it was home for her and her young family.  Yes! Her children grew up and left home, but it was still her, her husband (granddad) and her youngest daughter’s (Auntie) home, until the day she died.  By this time she had purchased her little red brick house, but if she had not, it would have continued to be her secure and family home.

Now this, ‘ConServingOnlyThemselves’ government want to abolish this right to Council housing, completely.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-quietly-ban-scheme-offers-6985519.

When you listen to Tories talk about this issue, the overwhelming feeling is that these people do not think the working classes have a right to settle in any ‘community’.  It is perfectly acceptable for these people to move on after five years, (term of max tenancy)  or before, as soon as their income improves. They say it is to make way for more ‘needy’ younger families, and it is only fair! What they don’t allow into discussion, is the fact that many of these young families would be the ones who would lose out from the right to live in their parents Council house, once the parental tenancy ended, as it did in my late grandmothers example, above.

These advocates of getting rid of life long social tenancies, often also believe the right to buy, by Council tenants, should be abolished, too.  More attitude of, “fine for me, not at all right for the plebs to own their own home!” They quote cases where ‘their own’ class (middle/moderates) bought them all up! They use terms such as exploitative and (greed) as being justification for abolishing the right of the working class to own their own council homes.  

A typical Tory

tactic that must be addressed by the Labour Party, in strong terms,  if we are to save Social Housing from this Tory, ‘vulture culture’  we are forced to live in today.

In the meanest of times,

This Bedroom tax is worse than the old forgotten ‘Window Tax' where people were charged extra for each window in their homes.  The window tax resulted in many homes blocking in their windows.  This bedroom tax will sweep away all hope of community life for every working class family in the country.  It is destructive and immoral.  It has demeaned all tenants in the media as scroungers who should be grateful to be housed at all! (The propaganda machine is grinding mercilessly away at every opportunity - Channel 5/3 and BBC worst culprits)

This cruel tax will ultimately force people to move away from their friends and families.  It is resulting in young families losing their family links and security within their own communities.  They become detached, living far away from Granny and Grandad, uncles and aunts, cousin, and friends that they have known all their lives.  This tax is destabilising young children’s lives by uprooting them from everything they know and cherish.  In many instances this is happening all because a brother or sister left home.  Or perhaps a parent died. Those left behind, such as single parents who already struggle to survive in these times of forced austerity caused by no fault of their own making, are left with two choices.  Either pay the tax and tighten their already tight belts, or move away.  Cut all ties.  Live in cramp, basic housing, somewhere they know no one.  The social infrastructure of their whole lives, gone.  No family to support them, no friend’s close by, and their children forced to uproot and start new schools.  These families become the ‘Outsiders’ who often never take root. 

This Tax is a shabby and shameful tax by a Conservative government who serve only their own interests.  They put the boot in and kick the working class out into the cold.  It is time to fight back! Force these over privileged Tory brats to scrap this evil tax.

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To be, or not to be a ‘Moderate’ in Our newly growing Labour Party?

It would first seem appropriate, definitively, to explore for the benefit of those MPs and member supporters who have recently been seen to overstep the overwhelming view of the ‘Moderate’ defining line, to explain that to be a moderate means to be ‘Reasonable’in most reasonable peoples opinion.  It means to think on the ‘Centre  Stage’ of our democracy, of the people, for the people. 

You moderate MPs stand there in our name, to be moderate, and preserve our way of life by fighting for secure, fair and equal opportunity and care, for everyone, including the sick, the disabled, the elderly, the vulnerable, the young and the poorest in society.    .    If we cannot take care of everyone, we have no right to call ourselves civilised.  We are 100% behind Jeremy Corbyn’s Leadership, because he is wise and his ideas and policies are in line with our own values.

To vote against the overwhelming view of your constituents, your Party and your leader, with a Conservative’ Government that has taken our country further into a very dangerously escalating war, is to make you a moderate no more. 

To be or not to be a Moderate in ‘Our’ newly flowing Labour Party depends on the true moderates, showing these Tory philosophers, the door.  In the nicest possible way, of course! 

This newly energised Labour Party membership, want more than just the scraps from the tables of the establishment ‘War’ whores. 

We want fair play.  We want transparency.  We want a compassionate society. We want a safe and secure working environment with a living pay.  We want economic success but not at the expense of the oppressed, and the gain of the greedy deranged. 

We want the basic human rights that our ancestors fought for in previously manufactured ‘World Wars’.  We, the people, are reasonable; we want all MPs representing us to say ‘NO MORE’ to War, and ‘YES’ to social happiness, health and economic success. 

There is no alternative, nor turning back. This is the wish of the majority of supporters of the Labour Party.  To all you rebels, please stop rocking our LeaderShip, or you will be overboard before you know it.  Not a threat, just a prediction. We Labour supporters do facts the best, not fiction along with the rest of the right wing Tory bias press.

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