As a follow up to my last article on Pensioners I have had a major debate with Dr Richard Bailey on Facebook I have copied it below
Richard Bailey Oh dear!
Monday at 20:54 · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke I sense sarcasm?
Monday at 23:10 · LikeUnlikeRichard Bailey Words fail me!
Monday at 23:17 · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke Or are frightened to voice your true feelings?
23 hours ago · LikeUnlikeRichard Bailey I suppose it is PC nonsense to point out that the figures you reproduce are false (they refer to two entirely different groups), and the conclusion you draw is morally objectionable.
Apart from that, I have no problem!
22 hours ago · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke If that is the case give us all the correct figures and condem the circular. Is it morally wrong to put the interest of British Tax paying Pensioners before people who enter this country illegally and are therefore criminals?
22 hours ago · LikeUnlikeRichard Bailey As soon as you mix together genuine refugees with illegal immigrants, you are being either confused or dishonest, Martin.
My problem with the figures is that they are wrong precisely because they conflate two separate groups.
I agree that pe...nsioners deserve a lot more.
I agree that illegal immigrants should be detained and if necessary sent back.
But I also believe that it is simply incorrect to imply (as you do) that refugees are the same group as illegal immigrants.
And it is morally wrong to use the situation of refugees to promote some unconnected social and / or racial agenda.
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21 hours ago via · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke Why is it being dishonest if the two groups get the same ammount? or if they don't supply the evidence all well and good saying the figures are wrong but you have to prove it Plus in my opiniom a refugee is an illegal immigrant and should b...e treated as such until our Government decide their status
Of course it racial If you are British you are in the country legally had you not noticed its Johny Foreigner who are illegal immigrants. What social agenda is their?
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19 hours ago · LikeUnlikeRichard Bailey You aren't following my point. Martin. The two groups are different: one is legal, and pays taxes; the others aren't and don't.
There is no point talking about 'figures' unless we are clear what is being discussed.
But if you do want some f...igures, see Sue Skipper's recent post:
Immigration: The facts we are never told
* There are between 310,000 and 570,000 illegal immigrants in the UK, according to Home Office estimates
* If allowed to live legally, they would pay more than £1bn in tax each year
* Deporting them would cost £4.7bn and leave acute shortages of cleaners, care workers and hotel staff cIf allowed to stay, the net benefit of nearly £6bn would pay for 300 new schools, 12 district hospitals or 200,000 new nurses
* Nearly 50% of foreign-born immigrants leave Britain within five years
* Migrants fill 90% of low-paid jobs in London and account for 29% of the capital's workforce. London is the UK's fastest-growing region
* Legal migrants comprise 8.7% of the population, but contribute 10.2% of all taxes. Each immigrant pays an average of £7,203 in tax, compared with £6,861 for non-migrant workers
* There were 25,715 people claiming asylum last year. If allowed to work, they would generate £123m for the Treasury
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13 hours ago · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke I will check out the stats before I comment
If all these immigrants left our own indiginous population would get work at reasonable rates instead of having 3 million unemployed who claim unemployment benefit and do not pay taxes all your im...migrant labour is doing is paying for British to be on the dole which no doubt some enjoy
There would no longer be bed shortage and school class sizes would go down and we would not need 300 new hospitals
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12 hours ago · LikeUnlikeRichard Bailey Which indigenous population? You're German. I'm Irish. We are a nation of mongrels! As far as I can tell, each influx of 'immigrants' has brought something new to the country. And long may it it continue!!
12 hours ago via · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke You are quite aware of what I meant by indigenous as reagard top my myself I have English, Germanm and Irsih in me but I am mainly from the Angla saxon tribe mother came from Westphalia. Yes immigrants in the past have made a big contributio...n to England and they positive part of our history in a time when we needed them. That is not the case now we have millions of British Subjects unemployed which have created a non working under class and please do not quote how much better foreign workers are and how hard they work most under cut our workforce a great deal work for 6 months and return home as you said so do not pay tax and then return 6 months later. Some have created gheto's in our inner cities not speaking our lanquage or understanding iour history or culture. England is having to biuld more houses and hospitals, schools to accomadate this influx and please do not tell me they are paying their way because not all of them work, plus a big number work in the balck economy.
You want get out more and meet real people who are struggling to bring up families some from your days in Karate then maybe you will understand what is happening
Richard Bailey Martin, it's a shame you're returning to the ploy of explaining away people who disagree with you as being due to them not talking to enough / the right type of people.
It's also dodgy, as I'm willing to bet my man parts that I meet more pe...ople and from a wider range of social groups than you every year!
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7 minutes ago via · LikeUnlikeMartin Clarke What a reply ofcourse I am expalining away people who disagree with me would not be much of a debate if I did not.
I expect you may meet people from different social classes you are a much travelled man and of of course once again I stay in ...Sittingbourne and have never travelled or met people out of my small group therefore I must bbe inferior to you or maybe you do not know who I meet and associate with but I bet my man parts I have more connection with the working man and his problems then you
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Monday, November 08, 2010
Illegal Immigrants get more then Pensioners
The following is an email sent to me not the first time I have read. One thing is for sure nothing will be done all the time we are beholden to the European Court of Human Rights
So ‘Pathetically’ True …
OH BRITAIN
We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,
Are you aware of the following?
The British Government provides the following financial assistance: -
BENEFIT
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Weekly allowance
£100
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£250
Weekly Spouse allowance
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
£25
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£225
Additional weekly hardship allowance
£0.00
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£100
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
£6,000
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£29,900
Please read all and then forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby for a decent old age pension.
After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country
for the last 40 to 60 years.
Sad isn't it?
So ‘Pathetically’ True …
OH BRITAIN
We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,
Are you aware of the following?
The British Government provides the following financial assistance: -
BENEFIT
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
Weekly allowance
£100
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£250
Weekly Spouse allowance
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
£25
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£225
Additional weekly hardship allowance
£0.00
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£100
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT
BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER
£6,000
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS / REFUGEES LIVING IN BRITAIN
£29,900
Please read all and then forward to all your contacts so that we can lobby for a decent old age pension.
After all, the average pensioner has paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country
for the last 40 to 60 years.
Sad isn't it?
Local MP on Reform Committee
Date: 8th November 2010
Release: Immediate
Subject: MP appointed on Regulatory Reform Select Committee
Local MP, Gordon Henderson has been appointed to an important Parliamentary committee which scrutinises regulatory proposals before they are approved by the Government.
The Regulatory Policy Committee provides independent scrutiny of legislation and advises ministers on whether there is sufficient evidence and analysis to support a new regulation, before they decide in favour of moving ahead with it or not.
Mr Henderson said,
“The Regulatory Policy Committee is an important part of the Coalition Government’s commitment to a “one-in, one-out” approach to new regulations.
“Ministers recognise the way in which red-tape is slowly strangling businesses and they are determined to control and reduce the burden of regulation. The “one-in, one-out” system requires any new regulatory cost to be compensated for by cuts in the costs of old regulations.
“The Regulatory Policy Committee will examine the likely impact that any new regulation is likely to have on businesses and advise ministers whether the costs outweigh the benefits.
“I have set as one of my priorities during the next five years to forge strong links with my local business community and I have visited a large number of companies in the last few months to find out what problems they face. The recurring complaint I receive is about the amount of red-tape imposed on them.
“Being on this committee will give me a real input into the Government’s battle to reduce the costs imposed on our local business by government regulations.”
....ends....
Release: Immediate
Subject: MP appointed on Regulatory Reform Select Committee
Local MP, Gordon Henderson has been appointed to an important Parliamentary committee which scrutinises regulatory proposals before they are approved by the Government.
The Regulatory Policy Committee provides independent scrutiny of legislation and advises ministers on whether there is sufficient evidence and analysis to support a new regulation, before they decide in favour of moving ahead with it or not.
Mr Henderson said,
“The Regulatory Policy Committee is an important part of the Coalition Government’s commitment to a “one-in, one-out” approach to new regulations.
“Ministers recognise the way in which red-tape is slowly strangling businesses and they are determined to control and reduce the burden of regulation. The “one-in, one-out” system requires any new regulatory cost to be compensated for by cuts in the costs of old regulations.
“The Regulatory Policy Committee will examine the likely impact that any new regulation is likely to have on businesses and advise ministers whether the costs outweigh the benefits.
“I have set as one of my priorities during the next five years to forge strong links with my local business community and I have visited a large number of companies in the last few months to find out what problems they face. The recurring complaint I receive is about the amount of red-tape imposed on them.
“Being on this committee will give me a real input into the Government’s battle to reduce the costs imposed on our local business by government regulations.”
....ends....
Sunday, November 07, 2010
Atheist Richard baily
If any of you are on my facebook go to Richard Bailey via Atheist Ireland. Richard and I are having a great debate
Thursday, November 04, 2010
Coalition is Rubbish
I was a Conservative and was quite excited when we had this Coalition Government but they seem be turning native i.e. getting used there position of power. They have become as arrogant as all previous Government ministers and MP’s in that they believe they know what is best and treat the Electorate like stupid little children totally ignoring the will of the people.
There are two things more then anything else that affects the Democratic will of the people of Great Britain
1) The European Court of Human Rights, this loathsome Act continually over turns our laws and in most cases to the determent of the British People
2) The European Union most of our laws are now made by the EU once again to the detriment of the British People. With 80% of the population of GB wanting a Referendum on the EU and 70% of those wishing to leave why doesn’t our government do something? Simple when the British Politics they join the EU gravy train what did Cameron promise A cut in the EU budget but instead he got us an increase.
We need what Switzerland does in that on any major issue there is a referendum.
Not all are like the ones have mention local MEP Daniel Hannan is outspoken critic of the EU and local MP Gordon Henderson is not frightened to represent the wishes of his constituents just read below his stand against Prisoners getting the vote.
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Date: 3rd November 2010
Release: Immediate
Subject: Gordon Henderson warns Government over votes for prisoners
Local MP Gordon Henderson has warned the Government he will vote against any legislation that allows those convicted of serious crimes, such as murderers, rapists and paedophiles, to vote in elections.
Mr Henderson’s warning came after the Government announced that it was looking at ways to implement the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said that Britain is breaking the law by refusing to give prisoners the vote.
Mr Henderson said:
“I am most unhappy that we are being dictated to by a foreign court. Britain is a sovereign nation and the Westminster Parliament should decide how we treat those who break our laws.
“I think that my constituents will be as appalled as I am if serious criminals such as murders, rapists and paedophiles are allowed to vote.
“Prison has two functions, the first is to punish prisoners and the second is to try to rehabilitate them. Part of the punishment regime is to deprive inmates of their liberty and their right to take part in the democratic process.
“If you let prisoners vote then the level of their punishment will be reduced and that simply cannot be right, which is why I warned the Government that when legislation is placed before the House I will vote against it, whether or not we are given a free vote.
“However, I do believe that it is probably right for some prisoners to have a vote in certain circumstances. For instance, people who are on remand should be entitled to vote because they have not been convicted and I think there is an argument for allowing a vote to those prisoners who have almost served their time and who are transferred from a secure prison to an open prison, as part of the process of adsorbing them back into Society.”
Ends
Note to editors:
Gordon Henderson made the following statement in Parliament:
“The shadow Secretary of State for Justice urged during his question that any legislation that comes forward should be subject to a free vote. I do not really care whether there is a free vote or not, because I shall vote against any such legislation.”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/03.htm#d2e1561
There are two things more then anything else that affects the Democratic will of the people of Great Britain
1) The European Court of Human Rights, this loathsome Act continually over turns our laws and in most cases to the determent of the British People
2) The European Union most of our laws are now made by the EU once again to the detriment of the British People. With 80% of the population of GB wanting a Referendum on the EU and 70% of those wishing to leave why doesn’t our government do something? Simple when the British Politics they join the EU gravy train what did Cameron promise A cut in the EU budget but instead he got us an increase.
We need what Switzerland does in that on any major issue there is a referendum.
Not all are like the ones have mention local MEP Daniel Hannan is outspoken critic of the EU and local MP Gordon Henderson is not frightened to represent the wishes of his constituents just read below his stand against Prisoners getting the vote.
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Date: 3rd November 2010
Release: Immediate
Subject: Gordon Henderson warns Government over votes for prisoners
Local MP Gordon Henderson has warned the Government he will vote against any legislation that allows those convicted of serious crimes, such as murderers, rapists and paedophiles, to vote in elections.
Mr Henderson’s warning came after the Government announced that it was looking at ways to implement the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said that Britain is breaking the law by refusing to give prisoners the vote.
Mr Henderson said:
“I am most unhappy that we are being dictated to by a foreign court. Britain is a sovereign nation and the Westminster Parliament should decide how we treat those who break our laws.
“I think that my constituents will be as appalled as I am if serious criminals such as murders, rapists and paedophiles are allowed to vote.
“Prison has two functions, the first is to punish prisoners and the second is to try to rehabilitate them. Part of the punishment regime is to deprive inmates of their liberty and their right to take part in the democratic process.
“If you let prisoners vote then the level of their punishment will be reduced and that simply cannot be right, which is why I warned the Government that when legislation is placed before the House I will vote against it, whether or not we are given a free vote.
“However, I do believe that it is probably right for some prisoners to have a vote in certain circumstances. For instance, people who are on remand should be entitled to vote because they have not been convicted and I think there is an argument for allowing a vote to those prisoners who have almost served their time and who are transferred from a secure prison to an open prison, as part of the process of adsorbing them back into Society.”
Ends
Note to editors:
Gordon Henderson made the following statement in Parliament:
“The shadow Secretary of State for Justice urged during his question that any legislation that comes forward should be subject to a free vote. I do not really care whether there is a free vote or not, because I shall vote against any such legislation.”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmtoday/cmdebate/03.htm#d2e1561
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Russian navy captures Somalian pirates Then disposes of them!..
End of problem! Amazing video! Court held on the High Seas
A brutal but effective way to deal with the piracy mess. Looks like the Russians get their act together before we even have a clue.
Just like Hiroshima , an act like this can save a lot of lives and prevent major future loss of life and property. An historic and effective
Way of dealing with the lawless. They did make one mistake. They should have saved one pirate and sent him home with the story...
Read the info below the link before watching the film clip.
RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURES SOMALIAN PIRATES
This videotape shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties.
All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat.". All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves.
The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed to it.
The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hung.
I would think from now on, Russian ships will not be targets for Somalian pirates
A brutal but effective way to deal with the piracy mess. Looks like the Russians get their act together before we even have a clue.
Just like Hiroshima , an act like this can save a lot of lives and prevent major future loss of life and property. An historic and effective
Way of dealing with the lawless. They did make one mistake. They should have saved one pirate and sent him home with the story...
Read the info below the link before watching the film clip.
RUSSIAN NAVY CAPTURES SOMALIAN PIRATES
This videotape shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because they feared there could be casualties.
All explanations are in Russian with a single exception of when a wounded pirate says something in English and the Russian soldier says "This is not a fishing boat.". All conversations between the commandos are in Russian. If you don't understand Russian, the pictures speak for themselves.
The soldiers freed their compatriots and the tanker. The Russian Navy Commandos moved the pirates back to their own (pirate) ship, searched the pirate ship for weapons and explosives, and then they left the ship and exploded it with all remaining pirates hand-cuffed to it.
The commandos sank the pirate ship along with the pirates and without any court proceedings, lawyers etc. That is, they used the anti-piracy laws of the 18th and 19th centuries where the captain of the rescuing ship has the right to decide what to do with the pirates. Usually, they were hung.
I would think from now on, Russian ships will not be targets for Somalian pirates
Monday, November 01, 2010
Pill for 13 year olds
Contraceptive Pill for 13 year olds
Yes it has been reported that a Health Department on the Isle of Wight are to issue 13 year olds with the pill without consulting their parents or Doctor and people like Peter Tatchell of Gay Pride are campaigning to have the age of consent brought down to 14.
I may be 60 and old fashioned but has nobody yet worked out the more detailed sex education you give to children the more they will try to experiment and giving them the pill at 13 purely for contraceptive purposes will say to kids OK you have taken the pill now you can have as much sex as you want without getting pregnant. How long before it is a legal requirement as soon as girl reaches puberty she will have to take the pill and through peer pressure forced to have sex.
It no surprise to me that the more intimate sex education you give, that there will more under 16 pregnancies and do not blame the kids, blame the bureaucrats who are obsessed with sex, sometimes you must wonder if they get some sort of stimulus out of this obsession. 18 years ago I was a School Governor and I can remember arguing with the Chairman when we came to sex education He argued that they talk about sex in a loving relationship I argued that we should talk about sex with in marriage need less to say I lost but I am told that now even Loving relationship is not even mentioned. Having Sex is something you do for fun like playing a computer game.
When I was in my teens we new next to nothing about sex we had the basics taught but that was it, most of us had married parents in fact I did not know anyone who did not have married parents. Sex was meant to be in the marriage bed and that was it. Of course young people will try it out but one they would be very careful who they told and it was still considered ungallant to brag about a conquest, courtship was long none of this moving in together after a few weeks. If your parents found out you were having sex there would be all hell to pay and if you got pregnant you got married no questions asked, mind you in those days you respected your parents. Yet I knew no one who was under 16 who was pregnant, if a girl was sleeping around she was termed “Old Bag” or a “Hoare” as for being a single mother it was unheard of in those days we had the quaint old fashioned notion that you had children in marriage, Marriage that where a Man and Women said vows mainly in a church to stay together and remain faithful even in my day that did not happen all the time. If a girl got pregnant outside of marriage she would bring instant shame on the Family sadly even in my early days the Father would not be castigated which he should have been as it takes two to Tango. It seemed old right for boy to sow his wild oats but not a girl that’s some thing I never agreed with
I expect the majority of you reading this will be saying that Clarkee must be a dinosaur and the modern person has the right to do anything they like. So what have we got?
1) The highest teenage pregnancies in the Western World
2) Various forms of VD at an all time high
3) Aids in both male and female , no longer just Homosexual disease
4) Women with children with multiple fathers
5) All time high of single mothers
6) All time high of unwanted babies
7) All time high of abortions
8) Sex becoming just become a pleasurable act rather then an act of love
Of course you have the knock on effect more houses to cope with single mothers, more people claiming housing benefits plus other benefits, more time and money dealings with sexual transmitted diseases etc.
When I speak to younger people about this, they just laugh and tell me I jealous because I missed out because I stayed with one women only. Well it is true I have been married for 40 years with 3 children from one women, I do not have sexual diseases, I do not have any unwanted children and I do put women hood on a pedestal who are not be treated just as sex objects and I have old fashioned Christian morals Yes looking at to days society I am a dinosaur but I just wonder how many people out there would like to be dinosaur as well. Just think it will be Saturday soon and I will miss getting boozed up, having a good old snort plus have a joint then finish of the evening by a good lay with near total stranger, followed by Kebab and then throwing up every where and I am jealous to have missed all that?
Martin Clarke
Yes it has been reported that a Health Department on the Isle of Wight are to issue 13 year olds with the pill without consulting their parents or Doctor and people like Peter Tatchell of Gay Pride are campaigning to have the age of consent brought down to 14.
I may be 60 and old fashioned but has nobody yet worked out the more detailed sex education you give to children the more they will try to experiment and giving them the pill at 13 purely for contraceptive purposes will say to kids OK you have taken the pill now you can have as much sex as you want without getting pregnant. How long before it is a legal requirement as soon as girl reaches puberty she will have to take the pill and through peer pressure forced to have sex.
It no surprise to me that the more intimate sex education you give, that there will more under 16 pregnancies and do not blame the kids, blame the bureaucrats who are obsessed with sex, sometimes you must wonder if they get some sort of stimulus out of this obsession. 18 years ago I was a School Governor and I can remember arguing with the Chairman when we came to sex education He argued that they talk about sex in a loving relationship I argued that we should talk about sex with in marriage need less to say I lost but I am told that now even Loving relationship is not even mentioned. Having Sex is something you do for fun like playing a computer game.
When I was in my teens we new next to nothing about sex we had the basics taught but that was it, most of us had married parents in fact I did not know anyone who did not have married parents. Sex was meant to be in the marriage bed and that was it. Of course young people will try it out but one they would be very careful who they told and it was still considered ungallant to brag about a conquest, courtship was long none of this moving in together after a few weeks. If your parents found out you were having sex there would be all hell to pay and if you got pregnant you got married no questions asked, mind you in those days you respected your parents. Yet I knew no one who was under 16 who was pregnant, if a girl was sleeping around she was termed “Old Bag” or a “Hoare” as for being a single mother it was unheard of in those days we had the quaint old fashioned notion that you had children in marriage, Marriage that where a Man and Women said vows mainly in a church to stay together and remain faithful even in my day that did not happen all the time. If a girl got pregnant outside of marriage she would bring instant shame on the Family sadly even in my early days the Father would not be castigated which he should have been as it takes two to Tango. It seemed old right for boy to sow his wild oats but not a girl that’s some thing I never agreed with
I expect the majority of you reading this will be saying that Clarkee must be a dinosaur and the modern person has the right to do anything they like. So what have we got?
1) The highest teenage pregnancies in the Western World
2) Various forms of VD at an all time high
3) Aids in both male and female , no longer just Homosexual disease
4) Women with children with multiple fathers
5) All time high of single mothers
6) All time high of unwanted babies
7) All time high of abortions
8) Sex becoming just become a pleasurable act rather then an act of love
Of course you have the knock on effect more houses to cope with single mothers, more people claiming housing benefits plus other benefits, more time and money dealings with sexual transmitted diseases etc.
When I speak to younger people about this, they just laugh and tell me I jealous because I missed out because I stayed with one women only. Well it is true I have been married for 40 years with 3 children from one women, I do not have sexual diseases, I do not have any unwanted children and I do put women hood on a pedestal who are not be treated just as sex objects and I have old fashioned Christian morals Yes looking at to days society I am a dinosaur but I just wonder how many people out there would like to be dinosaur as well. Just think it will be Saturday soon and I will miss getting boozed up, having a good old snort plus have a joint then finish of the evening by a good lay with near total stranger, followed by Kebab and then throwing up every where and I am jealous to have missed all that?
Martin Clarke
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Housing Benefit Cut a good idea
When the Governement announced it was to crack down on housing benefit and the figure of £400 maximun for a 3 bedroomed house I naturally thought that was per month and thoght that was draconian but when I realised that was per week or approx £1734 pcm I couldnot believe it. Who in their right mind would pay that much rent for a 3 bedroom house here in Sittingbourne where rents are high the average is £800 pcm. So why is that idiot Boris Johnson complaining about? If someone can pay over £20,000 a year on rent they must have some job I would have thought with living costs etc you would have to be on over £50,000 and by deffintion there job must be highly skilled, if they were made redundant you would expect them to find a job relatively quickly maybe even moving to a different part of the country.
So who are these long time unemployed who live in such expensive houses? If someone live on state benefit or as like to call Charitable handouts they should be moved to areas where the living expenses are cheaper. I here that some of the reasons for not moving them is that they have family in the area, well they must be rich relations, the children at a nice school well there are nice schools in the sticks, they need medical treatment are we to believe they can only get this in well of area's?
Why don't people realise that sucking of the state is costing us to much money and the real poor will not be hurt by this cap on housing benefit.
So who are these long time unemployed who live in such expensive houses? If someone live on state benefit or as like to call Charitable handouts they should be moved to areas where the living expenses are cheaper. I here that some of the reasons for not moving them is that they have family in the area, well they must be rich relations, the children at a nice school well there are nice schools in the sticks, they need medical treatment are we to believe they can only get this in well of area's?
Why don't people realise that sucking of the state is costing us to much money and the real poor will not be hurt by this cap on housing benefit.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Thomas Jefferson
This was sent by Curt Shearer
Think how this applies today
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe . Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson (Wish the last government had read this)
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson (To right we have 4 types of Parliament, County Councils, District Councils, Parish Council plus all the Quangos and we must not forget the corrupt European Union)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
He said that in 1802 and it has taken over 200 years for us to listen
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Think how this applies today
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe . Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson (Wish the last government had read this)
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson (To right we have 4 types of Parliament, County Councils, District Councils, Parish Council plus all the Quangos and we must not forget the corrupt European Union)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
He said that in 1802 and it has taken over 200 years for us to listen
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Minimum Wage
A complaint was made about a small businessman not paying the minimum wage to his workers, so a Government official visited him to investigate the accusation
The Government official asked: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them."
The Small businessman replied: "Well, there's my worker who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him above the minimum wage plus give him free room and board
"Then there's the mentally challenged worker. He works about 18 hours a day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about £10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a pack of beers every Saturday night so he can cope with life.
He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.
The Government official asks: "That's the person I want to talk to...the mentally challenged one.
Small businessman : "That would be me."
The Government official asked: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them."
The Small businessman replied: "Well, there's my worker who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him above the minimum wage plus give him free room and board
"Then there's the mentally challenged worker. He works about 18 hours a day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about £10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a pack of beers every Saturday night so he can cope with life.
He also sleeps with my wife occasionally.
The Government official asks: "That's the person I want to talk to...the mentally challenged one.
Small businessman : "That would be me."
Thursday, October 28, 2010
BANANAS Super Food
Banana Facts-amazing
I am going to eat a banana in one minute. What an amazing fruit?
A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on:
Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!
This is interesting..
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin.. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness.. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance.. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS
PS: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe....polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !!!
I am going to eat a banana in one minute. What an amazing fruit?
A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas. He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain. Read on:
Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!!
This is interesting..
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier.
PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.
Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin.. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness.. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance.. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!
So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"
PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS
PS: Bananas must be the reason monkeys are so happy all the time! I will add one here; want a quick shine on our shoes?? Take the INSIDE of the banana skin, and rub directly on the shoe....polish with dry cloth. Amazing fruit !!!
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Richard says Martin you can not Spell
Thought you would interested in my latest bout with Richard Bailey on Face Book
This time it is about the Royals
Richard Bailey They are a phenomenally wealthy, publicly funded, work-shy, in-bred, unelected, public institution.
God bless 'em, I say!
II expect you would like to see a President and guess where he would come from Yes one of the Political Parties most probably with money educated at a Public School and Unniversity Good God am I seeing a pattern here
Richard does stir up a debate Great Stuff
This time it is about the Royals
Richard Bailey They are a phenomenally wealthy, publicly funded, work-shy, in-bred, unelected, public institution.
God bless 'em, I say!
Martin Clarke Lets have an elected President then you will see the expenses
Richard Bailey That's the spirit, Martin. If you can't make an actual argument just rely on cliches!
Martin Clarke They are a phenomenally wealthy, publicly funded, work-shy, in-bred, unelected, public institution NOW THAT IS A CLICHE a very tired one at that
Richard Bailey I know what to buy you for Christmas, Martin: a dictionary!
'work-shy' is an interpretation of their work patterns (admittedly using a certain colloquialism gut effect). Everything else I wrote is just FACT.
They can't be cliched because the...y are not frequently trotted out in place of an argument. And they are TRUE.
On the hand, implying that a US-style president is the only alternative to the monarchy is misleading. The Irish model (figurehead, without constitutional powers) if the most popular form I'm waste of.
That it will be more expensive is just guesswork. How could you possible know? What we do know is that the Irish President costs a tiny fraction compared to the Queen (not to mention her hangers-on).
And the pop about envy is so weak that it doesn't deserve a reply.
Therefore= cliche!See more
Martin Clarke I appolloggise for my bad speling unlike you I didnot have a Public School education or went to university and I am so grateful that I know some one of your such high intterlect and apprciate you ciorrecting me so I can keep learning otherwise I will have no future it seems Jane Austin could not spell and had bad grammar just think how famous she could have become if she had. As you you know I come from Kent and once worked on a farm so I expect my diction is incorrect as well. Thankyou
II expect you would like to see a President and guess where he would come from Yes one of the Political Parties most probably with money educated at a Public School and Unniversity Good God am I seeing a pattern here
Richard does stir up a debate Great Stuff
At last an MP who speaks for the people
Date: 22nd October 2010
Release: Immediate
Subject: Local MP leads rebellion against European budget increase
Local MP, Gordon Henderson would like to see the Government unilaterally reduce the United Kingdom’s contribution to the EU budget for 2011 by the average percentage cut imposed on Whitehall departments.
Mr Henderson also insisted that if the European Commission and Parliament are not happy with the Government’s decision and kick up a fuss, then the Government should hold an immediate referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the EU and let the British People decide our future once and for all.
Mr Henderson’s demand was made in a speech in the House of Commons, where Mr Henderson told fellow members that the EU Commission proposed to increase the EU budget next year by 5.8%, which in real money represents an increase of £6.2 billion pounds. The UK alone could expect to pay nearly £2 billion more in the coming year.
Mr Henderson expressed his concern that during an era of financial uncertainly and austerity, the British Government were expected to hand over to the European Union billions of pounds to waste on grandiose schemes such as the European External Action Service and the Institute of Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for which incidentally he said, the United Kingdom is being asked to cough up £800,000 next year.
Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Justine Greening MP said:
“In the wake of the worst financial crisis in living memory, there is no justification for an increase in the EU's annual budget of nearly 6%.
“We are already talking to our partners in Europe and in our group-the European Conservatives and Reformists. The Whip in charge of that group assures us that they will be voting against a rise in the European Parliament when it comes before them.”
Mr Henderson said, “I am delighted that the Government recognise the stupidity of the European Commission’s decision to increase its budget next year, however, I would like them to go one step further and actually reduce the amount British tax payers are expected to give Brussels.”
Mr Henderson was one of 34 Conservative MP’s who voted against the Government position.
....ends....
Note to the Editor: A full transcript of Gordon Henderson’s speech follows:
SPEEECH ON EU BUDGET
Mr Speaker, over the last few months we have spent a lot of our time debating one or other aspect of the financial crisis in which the country finds itself.
Britain has a huge deficit and the British public have collectively built up a mountain of personal debt. All in all we are in a real mess.
The Government has set out on a series of measures to reduce the National Debt and I know that many individuals, including people in my own constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey, are trying hard to cut their own indebtedness. These are tough times for us all.
And we are not alone; many other countries around the World, including many in Europe, face huge financial challenges and are struggling to balance their books without pushing their national economies into another recession.
So in this era of uncertainty and austerity, what does that organisation of probity and good governance, the European Commission do? It proposes to increase the EU budget next year by 5.8%, which in real money represents an increase of 6,102 thousand million pounds! That’s right; £6.2 billion pounds.
Mr Speaker, what planet do European Commissioners live on? I’ll tell you where: They live on the planet of self indulgence. They live in a cushioned climate of privilege in which the Brussels gravy train doesn’t stop long enough for them to see what is happening in the real world.
To be fair our own British Government at least recognises the stupidity of the European Commission, as the Economic Secretary to The Treasury wrote in her briefing notes: “...the Government is very concerned by the proposed increase in payment appropriations of 5.8%”. Very concerned? I would be absolutely lived!
So at least one out of three cheers for the Treasury for that statement, but sadly, Mr Speaker, I can’t bring myself to give them any more cheers, because my Honourable Friend lets herself down by going on to address the profligacy of the EU by saying that the Government will propose that the EU Budget remains at cash levels equivalent to the 2010 Budget.
I bet all those ministers who have been tasked with producing a twenty percent cut in their department budgets are a bit narked about that one. I am sure that in the present economic climate that they would be delighted to be given a zero growth budget.
Mr Speaker, like many other honourable and Rt. honourable members, I have been inundated with letters and emails complaining about the proposed cuts in benefits, increases in tuition fees and changes to public service pensions.
There is a great deal of disquiet out there and coming from a constituency which has some of the most deprived areas in the South East within its boundaries, I share some of that disquiet.
But I am happy to go into bat on behalf of the Coalition Government and argue the case for those cuts because I think that in their heart of hearts most of the people in my constituency understand that we have no choice but to push through those cuts if we are to reduce the mountain of debt we inherited from the previous Government.
But Mr Speaker, I would not be able to look my friends and neighbours in the eye if we drove through a programme of painful cuts in our public services, while at the same time bunging the European Union billions of pounds to waste on grandiose schemes such as the European External Action Service and the Institute of Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for which incidently, the United Kingdom is being asked to cough up £800,000 next year.
Mr Speaker, next year the European Commission proposes to spend over £7 billion pounds on administration. By my calculation the United Kingdom’s contribution to those administration costs will be around £1 billion. If Government departments and public bodies in this country are being asked to cut their administration costs, then it is surely right that the European Commission should be expected to do the same.
Now I know that my honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury will say that the British Government will be pressing the EU to deliver greater value for money. But does anybody in this Chamber really believe that our friends across the English Channel in the European Commission will actually listen to them?
And when the Draft Budget is eventually presented to the European Parliament for debate later this year, do Treasury ministers really think that anything other than a small group of British MEP’s will take a blind bit of notice of their view?
I think not, which is why I would like to see the Government unilaterally reduce the United Kingdom’s contribution to the EU budget for 2011 by the average percentage cut imposed on Whitehall departments.
If European Commission and Parliament don’t like it and kick up a fuss, then we should hold an immediate referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the EU and let the British People decide our future once and for all. Perhaps we can hold it on the same day as the AV Referendum!
Mr Speaker, I support this amendment and would urge members on all sides of the House to do the same.
Release: Immediate
Subject: Local MP leads rebellion against European budget increase
Local MP, Gordon Henderson would like to see the Government unilaterally reduce the United Kingdom’s contribution to the EU budget for 2011 by the average percentage cut imposed on Whitehall departments.
Mr Henderson also insisted that if the European Commission and Parliament are not happy with the Government’s decision and kick up a fuss, then the Government should hold an immediate referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the EU and let the British People decide our future once and for all.
Mr Henderson’s demand was made in a speech in the House of Commons, where Mr Henderson told fellow members that the EU Commission proposed to increase the EU budget next year by 5.8%, which in real money represents an increase of £6.2 billion pounds. The UK alone could expect to pay nearly £2 billion more in the coming year.
Mr Henderson expressed his concern that during an era of financial uncertainly and austerity, the British Government were expected to hand over to the European Union billions of pounds to waste on grandiose schemes such as the European External Action Service and the Institute of Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for which incidentally he said, the United Kingdom is being asked to cough up £800,000 next year.
Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Justine Greening MP said:
“In the wake of the worst financial crisis in living memory, there is no justification for an increase in the EU's annual budget of nearly 6%.
“We are already talking to our partners in Europe and in our group-the European Conservatives and Reformists. The Whip in charge of that group assures us that they will be voting against a rise in the European Parliament when it comes before them.”
Mr Henderson said, “I am delighted that the Government recognise the stupidity of the European Commission’s decision to increase its budget next year, however, I would like them to go one step further and actually reduce the amount British tax payers are expected to give Brussels.”
Mr Henderson was one of 34 Conservative MP’s who voted against the Government position.
....ends....
Note to the Editor: A full transcript of Gordon Henderson’s speech follows:
SPEEECH ON EU BUDGET
Mr Speaker, over the last few months we have spent a lot of our time debating one or other aspect of the financial crisis in which the country finds itself.
Britain has a huge deficit and the British public have collectively built up a mountain of personal debt. All in all we are in a real mess.
The Government has set out on a series of measures to reduce the National Debt and I know that many individuals, including people in my own constituency of Sittingbourne and Sheppey, are trying hard to cut their own indebtedness. These are tough times for us all.
And we are not alone; many other countries around the World, including many in Europe, face huge financial challenges and are struggling to balance their books without pushing their national economies into another recession.
So in this era of uncertainty and austerity, what does that organisation of probity and good governance, the European Commission do? It proposes to increase the EU budget next year by 5.8%, which in real money represents an increase of 6,102 thousand million pounds! That’s right; £6.2 billion pounds.
Mr Speaker, what planet do European Commissioners live on? I’ll tell you where: They live on the planet of self indulgence. They live in a cushioned climate of privilege in which the Brussels gravy train doesn’t stop long enough for them to see what is happening in the real world.
To be fair our own British Government at least recognises the stupidity of the European Commission, as the Economic Secretary to The Treasury wrote in her briefing notes: “...the Government is very concerned by the proposed increase in payment appropriations of 5.8%”. Very concerned? I would be absolutely lived!
So at least one out of three cheers for the Treasury for that statement, but sadly, Mr Speaker, I can’t bring myself to give them any more cheers, because my Honourable Friend lets herself down by going on to address the profligacy of the EU by saying that the Government will propose that the EU Budget remains at cash levels equivalent to the 2010 Budget.
I bet all those ministers who have been tasked with producing a twenty percent cut in their department budgets are a bit narked about that one. I am sure that in the present economic climate that they would be delighted to be given a zero growth budget.
Mr Speaker, like many other honourable and Rt. honourable members, I have been inundated with letters and emails complaining about the proposed cuts in benefits, increases in tuition fees and changes to public service pensions.
There is a great deal of disquiet out there and coming from a constituency which has some of the most deprived areas in the South East within its boundaries, I share some of that disquiet.
But I am happy to go into bat on behalf of the Coalition Government and argue the case for those cuts because I think that in their heart of hearts most of the people in my constituency understand that we have no choice but to push through those cuts if we are to reduce the mountain of debt we inherited from the previous Government.
But Mr Speaker, I would not be able to look my friends and neighbours in the eye if we drove through a programme of painful cuts in our public services, while at the same time bunging the European Union billions of pounds to waste on grandiose schemes such as the European External Action Service and the Institute of Gender Equality in Vilnius, Lithuania, and for which incidently, the United Kingdom is being asked to cough up £800,000 next year.
Mr Speaker, next year the European Commission proposes to spend over £7 billion pounds on administration. By my calculation the United Kingdom’s contribution to those administration costs will be around £1 billion. If Government departments and public bodies in this country are being asked to cut their administration costs, then it is surely right that the European Commission should be expected to do the same.
Now I know that my honourable friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury will say that the British Government will be pressing the EU to deliver greater value for money. But does anybody in this Chamber really believe that our friends across the English Channel in the European Commission will actually listen to them?
And when the Draft Budget is eventually presented to the European Parliament for debate later this year, do Treasury ministers really think that anything other than a small group of British MEP’s will take a blind bit of notice of their view?
I think not, which is why I would like to see the Government unilaterally reduce the United Kingdom’s contribution to the EU budget for 2011 by the average percentage cut imposed on Whitehall departments.
If European Commission and Parliament don’t like it and kick up a fuss, then we should hold an immediate referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the EU and let the British People decide our future once and for all. Perhaps we can hold it on the same day as the AV Referendum!
Mr Speaker, I support this amendment and would urge members on all sides of the House to do the same.
Friday, October 22, 2010
Budget hurts thanks to Labour
The Budget Strikes
All of us were bracing ourselves for the budget, already our Judo Club has had to drop its prices to keep members, I have several flats which I rent two of which are occupied by unemployed people who receive housing benefit they may have to move out because they will not receive the full rent, mind you in some cases cutting back on their luxuries i.e. takeaways, Alcohol, Sky TV might do them a favour health wise.
Yet I accept that we all have to make sacrifices but several things have annoyed me :
1) The press reported that a women in a wheel chair harangued the PM about losing benefit but had anyone asked what her income was and what her disability was? She may be genuine but a lot are not
2) That degusting wasteful European Union areproposing a 5.9 per cent increase in its budget at a time when public services in this country are being slashed and a lot of that goes on Jollies for the bureaucrats
3) Foreign aid budget to cost every family £500 with 17 foreign aid fat cats are earning more than £90,000 plus all the corruption, on TV the other day we were told in the Sudan the aid is used to blackmail Christians into become Muslim i.e. to Christian villages change religion or starve, how many of these countries receiving aid are also buying war planes, tanks etc. Time has come to recognize that Charity starts at home and if we are support these countries we need to over see them even take over their government.
4) Labour politicians who stand and condemn the cuts its because of them we are in this mess
5) Finally the Unions who screaming about Job Losses where they were when Immigrant Labour was taking British peoples jobs? 1.5 million foreigners have returned to take on Jobs while 5 million Brits are unemployed, unions start looking after the working man rather then getting involved in political strife
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
All of us were bracing ourselves for the budget, already our Judo Club has had to drop its prices to keep members, I have several flats which I rent two of which are occupied by unemployed people who receive housing benefit they may have to move out because they will not receive the full rent, mind you in some cases cutting back on their luxuries i.e. takeaways, Alcohol, Sky TV might do them a favour health wise.
Yet I accept that we all have to make sacrifices but several things have annoyed me :
1) The press reported that a women in a wheel chair harangued the PM about losing benefit but had anyone asked what her income was and what her disability was? She may be genuine but a lot are not
2) That degusting wasteful European Union areproposing a 5.9 per cent increase in its budget at a time when public services in this country are being slashed and a lot of that goes on Jollies for the bureaucrats
3) Foreign aid budget to cost every family £500 with 17 foreign aid fat cats are earning more than £90,000 plus all the corruption, on TV the other day we were told in the Sudan the aid is used to blackmail Christians into become Muslim i.e. to Christian villages change religion or starve, how many of these countries receiving aid are also buying war planes, tanks etc. Time has come to recognize that Charity starts at home and if we are support these countries we need to over see them even take over their government.
4) Labour politicians who stand and condemn the cuts its because of them we are in this mess
5) Finally the Unions who screaming about Job Losses where they were when Immigrant Labour was taking British peoples jobs? 1.5 million foreigners have returned to take on Jobs while 5 million Brits are unemployed, unions start looking after the working man rather then getting involved in political strife
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Monday, October 18, 2010
My reply to Skipper
Martyn Skipper posted in HATED BY THE DAILY MAIL
Martyn Skipper 17 October 21:33
I'd like to invite all my gay, socialist, unemployed Polish friends to join... oh yes, and all my intelligent, democratic, free-thinking friends too!
My reply
do not have any Homosexual Friends, I do not have any socialist Friends, I do not know any unemployed Polish I do know many unemployed British People but I see they are not included in your list, obviously as someone who did not go to Uni and left school at 15 to take an apprenticeship I am not one of your intelligencer, I have yet to find out what democratic means as for free thinking that was abolished under Harriet Harman
So I expect I will have to reject your invitation as I do not fit any of the categories
Will continue to read the Daily Mail and the Sun the largest circulating newspapers or as some say the Peoples Newspapers will leave the small circulations newspapers like the Guardian and Independent to the Left wing Professional Nerds
Martyn Skipper 17 October 21:33
I'd like to invite all my gay, socialist, unemployed Polish friends to join... oh yes, and all my intelligent, democratic, free-thinking friends too!
My reply
do not have any Homosexual Friends, I do not have any socialist Friends, I do not know any unemployed Polish I do know many unemployed British People but I see they are not included in your list, obviously as someone who did not go to Uni and left school at 15 to take an apprenticeship I am not one of your intelligencer, I have yet to find out what democratic means as for free thinking that was abolished under Harriet Harman
So I expect I will have to reject your invitation as I do not fit any of the categories
Will continue to read the Daily Mail and the Sun the largest circulating newspapers or as some say the Peoples Newspapers will leave the small circulations newspapers like the Guardian and Independent to the Left wing Professional Nerds
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Middle Class Whingers
I am getting sick and tired to listening to the whinging of the so called middle class professionals First it was our children's university fees should be free we can afford to pay, Yet the same children have gap years and spend a good proportion of their time and money having fun and getting drunk. Next they demand Child allowance because £50,000 a year earnings is not enough. I can understand why anyone should get Child allowance why should the state pay you to have children, yes help those on low income but it should not be universal. The latest 3 professional beat up a man in a tube for fun and laughed afterwards and did they get prison oh no just 4 months suspends wonder what they would have got if they unemployed kids from a Council estate
Friday, October 08, 2010
New Immigration Laws
It's just a matter of choice!!!
Subject: New Immigration Laws
New Immigration Laws: PLEASE read to the bottom or you will miss the message
1 There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps,
no health care, or other government assistance programmes.
Any burden will be deported.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal
to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... Options will be restricted.
Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens
naturally born into this country.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
9.. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a
foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our prime minister
or his policies. These will lead to imprisonment and deportation.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &,
when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged.
All assets will be taken from you.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Too strict?......
The above laws are the current immigration laws of the Muslim countries !
These sound fine to me, NOW, how can we get these laws to be British immigration laws??
Map Of My Country:
Let me make this perfectly clear!
THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
And, because I make
This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE,
IN MY COUNTRY!
Welcome!
To come through legally:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3. Get a job!
4. Live By OUR Rules!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like immigrants
Have in the past!!!
AND
7. Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime
savings of welfare benefits to you.
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
When will BRITS STOP giving away
THEIR RIGHTS?
We've gone so far the other way...
Bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
But it seems no one cares about the
BRITISH CITIZEN
that's being offended!
WAKE UP BRITAIN
If you agree..... Pass this on.
If you don't agree.. Delete it!!
Subject: New Immigration Laws
New Immigration Laws: PLEASE read to the bottom or you will miss the message
1 There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps,
no health care, or other government assistance programmes.
Any burden will be deported.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal
to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... Options will be restricted.
Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens
naturally born into this country.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
9.. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a
foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our prime minister
or his policies. These will lead to imprisonment and deportation.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &,
when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged.
All assets will be taken from you.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Too strict?......
The above laws are the current immigration laws of the Muslim countries !
These sound fine to me, NOW, how can we get these laws to be British immigration laws??
Map Of My Country:
Let me make this perfectly clear!
THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
And, because I make
This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE,
IN MY COUNTRY!
Welcome!
To come through legally:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3. Get a job!
4. Live By OUR Rules!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like immigrants
Have in the past!!!
AND
7. Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime
savings of welfare benefits to you.
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
When will BRITS STOP giving away
THEIR RIGHTS?
We've gone so far the other way...
Bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
But it seems no one cares about the
BRITISH CITIZEN
that's being offended!
WAKE UP BRITAIN
If you agree..... Pass this on.
If you don't agree.. Delete it!!
I answer Richard Bailey
Richard Bailey wrote an article on Facbook condeming MigrationWatch an organisation I support the attached letter explains why. I told Richard I would contatc MigrationWatch and here is their reply
Who is:
Sally Bercow, political commentator and wife of Commons speaker John Bercow MP aspiring Leftwing Labour Polatician
see article at bottom of page
Dear Martin
Thank you for writing to us. With regards to Sally Bercow's comments our full response is now on our website www.migrationwatch.com
I'm glad you are a supporter. Our focus is on immigration numbers. Our work is based on official statistics from such sources as the Home Office and the Office of National Statistics. With all statistics there is room for debate about what the numbers mean for the future which gives groups in favour of immigration room for spin. What is fact however is that net migration to the UK in 2009 was 196,000 people and as a result the UK is becoming a more congested and constrained place to live.
Unlike the huge pro-immigration lobby, primarily funded by the British taxpayer, we receive no funds from the government, nor from the lottery, and have no intention of seeking them. We intend to remain entirely independent but this means that we rely on public donations to support our work. We are the only rational body making an effective case against the massive levels of UK immigration. Our administrative costs are minimal and we do not use any part of donations to pay fund raisers. Every penny goes directly to the cause.
If you feel that this is an important issue and would like to continue helping you can send us a donation in the following ways:
You could call 01869 337007 and donate by credit card or send a cheque to MWUK, PO Box 765, Guildford, GU2 4XN. If you prefer internet banking our account number is 01442587, sort code 30-90-42. A standing order form can be found at:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.com/pdfs/Standing_order_Jun04.doc
Regards
Matthew Pollard
Executive Director
Migrationwatch UK
Article from the Times Oline
Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent says
Sally Bercow reveals past full of binge-drinking and one-night stands
John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, has been criticised by MPs after his wife gave an extraordinary interview to launch herself as a Labour politician.
Sally Bercow, 40, described her battle with drink and fondness for one-night stands in her twenties, and criticised David Cameron as a “merchant of spin”. MPs reacted with astonishment, pointing out that Mrs Bercow lives in Speaker’s House at taxpayers’ expense and questioning whether this compromised the Speaker’s independence. Mr Bercow was a Tory MP before becoming Speaker, but was elected with support of Labour MPs.
In the interview published today, Mrs Bercow said that she wanted to get rid of “skeletons” from her past before standing as a Labour councillor in Pimlico, central London, in a bid to become an MP at the next election. She said: “I was a big binge drinker in my twenties. I started drinking at Oxford, being a party girl, and it got out of control.
“I got a grip for a while, but in the mid-Nineties I was working in advertising and I would drink wine at lunch then go out and drink a bottle in the evening, most evenings really. I had no stop button.” Asked whether this was as excessive as she had implied, she added: “Well, OK. It was sometimes more like two bottles, except I promised John I wouldn’t say that. Have I mucked it up already?”
She became teetotal in 2000 after realising that she had put herself in danger. “I was an argumentative, stroppy drunk, picking arguments with my bosses over stupid things. Plus I’d lose my judgment and put myself in danger. I’d fall asleep on the Tube and end up in Epping or Heathrow. And I’d get into unlicensed minicabs in the early hours. All the things we’d tell our daughters not to do.”
Mrs Bercow also confessed to casual sexual encounters because of alcohol. “The weren’t romantic. They were more like flings. I wasn’t looking for love. But it’s true that I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I’d think, ‘Why not?’ and we’d go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end. It was all very ladette — work hard, play hard.
“I want to run for Parliament as a Labour candidate so this has all got to come out and I’d rather tell it myself,” she told the London Evening Standard.
Mrs Bercow has been criticised recently for the way that she presented her qualifications on her CV, but she denied any intention to mislead. She also rebuffed criticism of her spending on a redecoration of Speaker’s House that she said was necessary because the dark red upset her autistic son, Oliver, 5, one of their three children.
She suggested that David Cameron was a fake. “He favours the interests of the few over the mainstream majority. I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isn’t in the interests of most ordinary people.” She also said that Mr Cameron could send his children to private school because there was no “real commitment” to state education.
Mr Cameron did not support Mr Bercow’s candidacy but a spokesman refused to be drawn on the issue and said that the party was supportive of the office of Speaker. Mrs Bercow may not send her children to grammar schools in her husband’s Buckinghamshire constituency because she opposes selection.
She revealed that after dating Mr Bercow for six months “he dumped me for being too argumentative. But you have to remember that he was a right-wing headbanger at the time. He’s much more rounded and moderate now, and he’s rethought a lot.”
Asked how it might work if she was an MP while her husband was Speaker, she said: “He’d be so tough on me though. I’d never get a question when he was in the chair. I’d have to wait till the deputy speaker was in.”
Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP who opposed Mr Bercow’s selection as Speaker, said: “We desperately need to restore authority and respect to Parliament. What this interview has done is remove any painstaking progress Parliament has made and reduced the Speaker and his office to that of a laughing stock.
“How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling, self-obsessed interview?”
Who is:
Sally Bercow, political commentator and wife of Commons speaker John Bercow MP aspiring Leftwing Labour Polatician
see article at bottom of page
Dear Martin
Thank you for writing to us. With regards to Sally Bercow's comments our full response is now on our website www.migrationwatch.com
I'm glad you are a supporter. Our focus is on immigration numbers. Our work is based on official statistics from such sources as the Home Office and the Office of National Statistics. With all statistics there is room for debate about what the numbers mean for the future which gives groups in favour of immigration room for spin. What is fact however is that net migration to the UK in 2009 was 196,000 people and as a result the UK is becoming a more congested and constrained place to live.
Unlike the huge pro-immigration lobby, primarily funded by the British taxpayer, we receive no funds from the government, nor from the lottery, and have no intention of seeking them. We intend to remain entirely independent but this means that we rely on public donations to support our work. We are the only rational body making an effective case against the massive levels of UK immigration. Our administrative costs are minimal and we do not use any part of donations to pay fund raisers. Every penny goes directly to the cause.
If you feel that this is an important issue and would like to continue helping you can send us a donation in the following ways:
You could call 01869 337007 and donate by credit card or send a cheque to MWUK, PO Box 765, Guildford, GU2 4XN. If you prefer internet banking our account number is 01442587, sort code 30-90-42. A standing order form can be found at:
http://www.migrationwatchuk.com/pdfs/Standing_order_Jun04.doc
Regards
Matthew Pollard
Executive Director
Migrationwatch UK
Article from the Times Oline
Sam Coates, Chief Political Correspondent says
Sally Bercow reveals past full of binge-drinking and one-night stands
John Bercow, the Commons Speaker, has been criticised by MPs after his wife gave an extraordinary interview to launch herself as a Labour politician.
Sally Bercow, 40, described her battle with drink and fondness for one-night stands in her twenties, and criticised David Cameron as a “merchant of spin”. MPs reacted with astonishment, pointing out that Mrs Bercow lives in Speaker’s House at taxpayers’ expense and questioning whether this compromised the Speaker’s independence. Mr Bercow was a Tory MP before becoming Speaker, but was elected with support of Labour MPs.
In the interview published today, Mrs Bercow said that she wanted to get rid of “skeletons” from her past before standing as a Labour councillor in Pimlico, central London, in a bid to become an MP at the next election. She said: “I was a big binge drinker in my twenties. I started drinking at Oxford, being a party girl, and it got out of control.
“I got a grip for a while, but in the mid-Nineties I was working in advertising and I would drink wine at lunch then go out and drink a bottle in the evening, most evenings really. I had no stop button.” Asked whether this was as excessive as she had implied, she added: “Well, OK. It was sometimes more like two bottles, except I promised John I wouldn’t say that. Have I mucked it up already?”
She became teetotal in 2000 after realising that she had put herself in danger. “I was an argumentative, stroppy drunk, picking arguments with my bosses over stupid things. Plus I’d lose my judgment and put myself in danger. I’d fall asleep on the Tube and end up in Epping or Heathrow. And I’d get into unlicensed minicabs in the early hours. All the things we’d tell our daughters not to do.”
Mrs Bercow also confessed to casual sexual encounters because of alcohol. “The weren’t romantic. They were more like flings. I wasn’t looking for love. But it’s true that I would end up sometimes at a bar and someone would send a drink over, and I’d think, ‘Why not?’ and we’d go home together. I liked the excitement of not knowing how a night was going to end. It was all very ladette — work hard, play hard.
“I want to run for Parliament as a Labour candidate so this has all got to come out and I’d rather tell it myself,” she told the London Evening Standard.
Mrs Bercow has been criticised recently for the way that she presented her qualifications on her CV, but she denied any intention to mislead. She also rebuffed criticism of her spending on a redecoration of Speaker’s House that she said was necessary because the dark red upset her autistic son, Oliver, 5, one of their three children.
She suggested that David Cameron was a fake. “He favours the interests of the few over the mainstream majority. I do think the Tory party is for the privileged few and what it stands for isn’t in the interests of most ordinary people.” She also said that Mr Cameron could send his children to private school because there was no “real commitment” to state education.
Mr Cameron did not support Mr Bercow’s candidacy but a spokesman refused to be drawn on the issue and said that the party was supportive of the office of Speaker. Mrs Bercow may not send her children to grammar schools in her husband’s Buckinghamshire constituency because she opposes selection.
She revealed that after dating Mr Bercow for six months “he dumped me for being too argumentative. But you have to remember that he was a right-wing headbanger at the time. He’s much more rounded and moderate now, and he’s rethought a lot.”
Asked how it might work if she was an MP while her husband was Speaker, she said: “He’d be so tough on me though. I’d never get a question when he was in the chair. I’d have to wait till the deputy speaker was in.”
Nadine Dorries, a Tory MP who opposed Mr Bercow’s selection as Speaker, said: “We desperately need to restore authority and respect to Parliament. What this interview has done is remove any painstaking progress Parliament has made and reduced the Speaker and his office to that of a laughing stock.
“How can we ask the people to trust us, when the man who holds us to account has such poor judgment that he allowed his wife to give such an appalling, self-obsessed interview?”
Monday, October 04, 2010
Pepare for change
Prepare For Change..THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL EMAIL!
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come!
1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. The same thing about downloading music from iTunes. Some want a hard copy CD. But quickly changed their minds when they discovered that they could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they're always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.
6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates simply self-destruction. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. The older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing all lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.
In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7 "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again!
All we will have that can't be changed are memories!
Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come!
1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.
2. The Check. Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with checks by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.
3. The Newspaper. The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.
4. The Book. You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. The same thing about downloading music from iTunes. Some want a hard copy CD. But quickly changed their minds when they discovered that they could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.
5. The Land Line Telephone. Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they're always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.
6. Music. This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates simply self-destruction. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalog items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. The older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."
7. Television. Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing all lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.
8. The "Things" That You Own. Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider.
In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.
9. Privacy. If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7 "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits. And "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again!
All we will have that can't be changed are memories!
Friday, October 01, 2010
PAKISTAN and did you know
PAKISTAN
Please take time to read this whole article. It was a real eye-opener for me. It is worth reading it. It certainly is food for thought.
By Patrice Lagacé - La Presse – Montréal
Before talking about the disaster in Pakistan , I would like to tell you about this marvelous “killing machine” called F-16. You know what a F-16 is, don’t you? Well, it’s one of the most popular fighter planes in the world.
They cost approximately $40 million each. And of course, during its lifetime, it will have cost one and half the purchase price for maintenance, repairs (and windshield washer – you wouldn’t believe the insane price of each can of windshield washer that these toys use).
So, coming back to the disaster in Pakistan . Terrible! If we weren’t talking about a muslim country, we could refer to the flooding as being of biblical proportions: 20,000,000 disaster victims. Just appalling.
Over the last two or three days we’ve been hearing voices accusing the West ( Canada and United States ) of a lack of generosity towards a very seriously afflicted Pakistan . People are being told off in Canada , France and Great-Britain. In yesterday’s La Presse, my colleague Marie-Claude Malboeuf mentioned that a humanitarian coalition had barely collected $200,000.00 for Pakistan whereas, during the same period of time, a phenomenal sum of $3,600,000.00 was collected for Haitians after the earthquake that devastated their country. The NGO (non-governmental organizations) are “stamping their feet”. They are getting impatient. They are clamoring of catastrophe and cholera. The most tragic thing is that they are probably right.
Internationally, the UNO has collected only 40% of the 460 million dollars needed for urgent aid. Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister of England has berated the international community for its stinginess: “The reaction of the international community is deplorable.”
But I’m extrapolating. I was talking about the F-16. Quite recently, a country acquired a brand new fleet of twenty or so of these fantastic killers in the air.
Which country was this now?
Yep, PAKISTAN .
Before going any further, I’m warning you: the writer of this article is a naïve journalist. A naïve journalist who admits it candidly and who wants to know: If Pakistan had $1,4 billion to acquire fighter planes from Lockheed very recently, why doesn’t Pakistan have $460 million to help its own “drenched” citizens?
I apologize to the Red Cross, to CARE, to Oxfam and other non-governmental organizations, but I, for one, will not give one red penny towards the humanitarian relief in Pakistan .
I will NOT give a penny to help Pakistan because Pakistan never had any problem buying military equipment or getting financial help to buy some.
I don’t mind helping Haiti , a small country that has nothing (except corrupted rulers). I don’t mind giving for help to Africa ; it’s the least I can do.
I will not give to Pakistan as I will not give to the New Orleans fishermen who have lost their source of income since the oil disaster caused by BP in the Gulf of Mexico .
Zachary Richard (a Cajun singer from New Orleans ) is going to produce, with the help of many Quebecois singers, a CD which profits will be given to the New Orleans fishermen. Then, they’re planning a charity concert. Concerts are very nice. Musical charity is very nice too. And I do sympathize with the New Orleans fishermen.
But here again, it’s your naïve journalist who is talking. I wonder why I should give one penny to the inhabitants of the richest country in the history of humanity, whose source of income was annihilated by a giga-multinational company with a market valuation of $120 billion US, and belonging to one of the most lucrative industries – energy – on this planet. It seems to me that the United States of America , that BP, that the energy industry have enough money to compensate the New Orleans fishermen and their families and the offspring of their families until 2060, at least.
But let’s come back to PAKISTAN . On July 19th, the New York Times published a condemning article on the tax system of Pakistan . A banana republic tax system, where the rich concocted a way to avoid paying taxes.
I’m not talking about not paying a little income tax… I’m talking about total tax evasion. I’m talking about a country where 10 million people should be paying taxes, but only 2.5 million do. And all of this is legal. The rich managed to come up with a plan which dispenses them from paying taxes. The New York Times mentioned that average – average! - worth (?) of Pakistani parliamentarians is $900,000. Nawaz Sharif, the Opposition leader, and a millionaire hasn’t, for his part, paid any income taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007. “This system favours elitists, (a system by elitists for elitists) says Riyaz Hussein Naqvi, Pakistani a retired public servant who worked as a tax collector for 38 years. It is a distorted system in which the poor pays for the rich.”
What The Times did not mention but which you probably already know – I know that you read the international news in dailies with great interest – is that Pakistan already has nuclear arms. In fact, it owns countless nuclear missiles.
So, if I recap all this…
Pakistan is an oligarchy (a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes) which exempts the rich from paying income tax. Pakistan has money to buy F-16’s. Pakistan has money to keep an atomic arsenal capable of destroying half the planet!
I am not that naïve after all… Pakistan has the means to help its own people.
Note from Pierre (the fellow who send this article around): If I remember well, on September 11th 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed by terrorists, yes I do remember very well having seen live television coverage showing adults and children from Iran, Pakistan and other muslim countries, dancing in the streets and having a whale of a time because the United States had been touched right in the heart. They were elated because thousands of Americans were killed.
Well now that they’re in deep shit, they ask for our help!!! And what will they do to us in five years, in ten years?
NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
then there's the cricket !!!!!
Please take time to read this whole article. It was a real eye-opener for me. It is worth reading it. It certainly is food for thought.
By Patrice Lagacé - La Presse – Montréal
Before talking about the disaster in Pakistan , I would like to tell you about this marvelous “killing machine” called F-16. You know what a F-16 is, don’t you? Well, it’s one of the most popular fighter planes in the world.
They cost approximately $40 million each. And of course, during its lifetime, it will have cost one and half the purchase price for maintenance, repairs (and windshield washer – you wouldn’t believe the insane price of each can of windshield washer that these toys use).
So, coming back to the disaster in Pakistan . Terrible! If we weren’t talking about a muslim country, we could refer to the flooding as being of biblical proportions: 20,000,000 disaster victims. Just appalling.
Over the last two or three days we’ve been hearing voices accusing the West ( Canada and United States ) of a lack of generosity towards a very seriously afflicted Pakistan . People are being told off in Canada , France and Great-Britain. In yesterday’s La Presse, my colleague Marie-Claude Malboeuf mentioned that a humanitarian coalition had barely collected $200,000.00 for Pakistan whereas, during the same period of time, a phenomenal sum of $3,600,000.00 was collected for Haitians after the earthquake that devastated their country. The NGO (non-governmental organizations) are “stamping their feet”. They are getting impatient. They are clamoring of catastrophe and cholera. The most tragic thing is that they are probably right.
Internationally, the UNO has collected only 40% of the 460 million dollars needed for urgent aid. Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister of England has berated the international community for its stinginess: “The reaction of the international community is deplorable.”
But I’m extrapolating. I was talking about the F-16. Quite recently, a country acquired a brand new fleet of twenty or so of these fantastic killers in the air.
Which country was this now?
Yep, PAKISTAN .
Before going any further, I’m warning you: the writer of this article is a naïve journalist. A naïve journalist who admits it candidly and who wants to know: If Pakistan had $1,4 billion to acquire fighter planes from Lockheed very recently, why doesn’t Pakistan have $460 million to help its own “drenched” citizens?
I apologize to the Red Cross, to CARE, to Oxfam and other non-governmental organizations, but I, for one, will not give one red penny towards the humanitarian relief in Pakistan .
I will NOT give a penny to help Pakistan because Pakistan never had any problem buying military equipment or getting financial help to buy some.
I don’t mind helping Haiti , a small country that has nothing (except corrupted rulers). I don’t mind giving for help to Africa ; it’s the least I can do.
I will not give to Pakistan as I will not give to the New Orleans fishermen who have lost their source of income since the oil disaster caused by BP in the Gulf of Mexico .
Zachary Richard (a Cajun singer from New Orleans ) is going to produce, with the help of many Quebecois singers, a CD which profits will be given to the New Orleans fishermen. Then, they’re planning a charity concert. Concerts are very nice. Musical charity is very nice too. And I do sympathize with the New Orleans fishermen.
But here again, it’s your naïve journalist who is talking. I wonder why I should give one penny to the inhabitants of the richest country in the history of humanity, whose source of income was annihilated by a giga-multinational company with a market valuation of $120 billion US, and belonging to one of the most lucrative industries – energy – on this planet. It seems to me that the United States of America , that BP, that the energy industry have enough money to compensate the New Orleans fishermen and their families and the offspring of their families until 2060, at least.
But let’s come back to PAKISTAN . On July 19th, the New York Times published a condemning article on the tax system of Pakistan . A banana republic tax system, where the rich concocted a way to avoid paying taxes.
I’m not talking about not paying a little income tax… I’m talking about total tax evasion. I’m talking about a country where 10 million people should be paying taxes, but only 2.5 million do. And all of this is legal. The rich managed to come up with a plan which dispenses them from paying taxes. The New York Times mentioned that average – average! - worth (?) of Pakistani parliamentarians is $900,000. Nawaz Sharif, the Opposition leader, and a millionaire hasn’t, for his part, paid any income taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007. “This system favours elitists, (a system by elitists for elitists) says Riyaz Hussein Naqvi, Pakistani a retired public servant who worked as a tax collector for 38 years. It is a distorted system in which the poor pays for the rich.”
What The Times did not mention but which you probably already know – I know that you read the international news in dailies with great interest – is that Pakistan already has nuclear arms. In fact, it owns countless nuclear missiles.
So, if I recap all this…
Pakistan is an oligarchy (a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes) which exempts the rich from paying income tax. Pakistan has money to buy F-16’s. Pakistan has money to keep an atomic arsenal capable of destroying half the planet!
I am not that naïve after all… Pakistan has the means to help its own people.
Note from Pierre (the fellow who send this article around): If I remember well, on September 11th 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed by terrorists, yes I do remember very well having seen live television coverage showing adults and children from Iran, Pakistan and other muslim countries, dancing in the streets and having a whale of a time because the United States had been touched right in the heart. They were elated because thousands of Americans were killed.
Well now that they’re in deep shit, they ask for our help!!! And what will they do to us in five years, in ten years?
NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
then there's the cricket !!!!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Come back Churchill
Labour back to Union Power
So Ed Miliband is the new Labour Party so back to the days when the Unions rule the Labour Party, one good thing is it will keep Labour out of power for a decade at least.
The joke about the Labour conference they are telling this pretty insipid Coalition Government how to save the economy yet they are responsible for the mess we are in as for the Unions they are flexing their muscles ruining everyone holiday plans so their members can keep their freebies and threatening massive disruption if the government make any cuts. Yet where were they when British companies and their share holders were sacking British Workman and replacing them with cheap foreign labour? No where they could not be seen being non PC and being anti foreigner it was better for them to see British Subjects suffer.
The Unions could have done a lot of good stopping the evil side of Capitalism, here in Kent we have most farmers refusing to employ British Subjects and we have factories in Sittingbourne who are doing the same, they have the regular excuses we only deal with agency workers, British do not want the jobs they are to lazy, British want to much money and only want to work a 40 hour week yet the truth is they make a bigger profit with foreigner workers this is called greed, These companies to not even consider their fellow British Subjects, they are there to be trodden on and if need be left to live in squalor and hunger. Having your own business is not just about profit but is by helping yourself you help your fellow countryman.
Now we have an open door to benefit tourists: EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts, if the Tories had honoured their pledges and got rid of this terrible Human Rights Act we would not be in this mess and this Coalition Government tell us they will prevent it happening, Pigs might Fly when will the British People stand up against this European Union Dictatorship we are honouring the people of the Battle of Britain for saving us from a European Dictator 70 years later we have one and have been invaded by people who are not wanted.
WHEN OH WHEN will another WINSTON CHURCHILL appear and get rid of these EU quislings
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
So Ed Miliband is the new Labour Party so back to the days when the Unions rule the Labour Party, one good thing is it will keep Labour out of power for a decade at least.
The joke about the Labour conference they are telling this pretty insipid Coalition Government how to save the economy yet they are responsible for the mess we are in as for the Unions they are flexing their muscles ruining everyone holiday plans so their members can keep their freebies and threatening massive disruption if the government make any cuts. Yet where were they when British companies and their share holders were sacking British Workman and replacing them with cheap foreign labour? No where they could not be seen being non PC and being anti foreigner it was better for them to see British Subjects suffer.
The Unions could have done a lot of good stopping the evil side of Capitalism, here in Kent we have most farmers refusing to employ British Subjects and we have factories in Sittingbourne who are doing the same, they have the regular excuses we only deal with agency workers, British do not want the jobs they are to lazy, British want to much money and only want to work a 40 hour week yet the truth is they make a bigger profit with foreigner workers this is called greed, These companies to not even consider their fellow British Subjects, they are there to be trodden on and if need be left to live in squalor and hunger. Having your own business is not just about profit but is by helping yourself you help your fellow countryman.
Now we have an open door to benefit tourists: EU warns Britain it can't stop thousands more migrants claiming welfare handouts, if the Tories had honoured their pledges and got rid of this terrible Human Rights Act we would not be in this mess and this Coalition Government tell us they will prevent it happening, Pigs might Fly when will the British People stand up against this European Union Dictatorship we are honouring the people of the Battle of Britain for saving us from a European Dictator 70 years later we have one and have been invaded by people who are not wanted.
WHEN OH WHEN will another WINSTON CHURCHILL appear and get rid of these EU quislings
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Down with Wind Farms
I had to remove the article on Moslem's in Paris for the safety of my family you can find what you want on YouTube type in Muslims in Paris
Revealed: Wind farm power twice as costly as gas or coal
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315711/Wind-farm-power-twice-costly-gas-coal.html#ixzz10oBM4HkB
Get rid of these ugly inefficient monstrosities
Revealed: Wind farm power twice as costly as gas or coal
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315711/Wind-farm-power-twice-costly-gas-coal.html#ixzz10oBM4HkB
Get rid of these ugly inefficient monstrosities
Monday, September 27, 2010
Positive discrimination
Positive discrimination in the work place is not only a disgrace and unfair but totally undemocratic
This has been my opinion for years I believe that people should be judged on their ability not on there sexual persuasion, sex or ethnic origin. Those who support this scheme continually suggest that these are very large minorities in the work place this may be the case with Women and maybe ethnic minorities but this definitely not the case with Homosexuals and I quote 23 Sep 2010 ... Figures from Office of National Statistics tell us that 1.5% of Britons say they are gay or bisexual much lower than the most commonly used estimate of 5% to 7%. No one in their right can call that a large minority so why are White Heterosexual Men treated so badly? What is wrong with being chosen on your ability?
Positive discrimination has the opposite effect, some one who is Homosexual, female or of an ethnic background gets a job you automatically think they got their because of what they are rather then what they a capable off, which could be totally untrue. Modern firms and government agencies want the best, so make it illegal for a Job application to ask your sexual persuasion, your country of origin (are you a British Subject will suffice) or your religion
Martin Clarke
This has been my opinion for years I believe that people should be judged on their ability not on there sexual persuasion, sex or ethnic origin. Those who support this scheme continually suggest that these are very large minorities in the work place this may be the case with Women and maybe ethnic minorities but this definitely not the case with Homosexuals and I quote 23 Sep 2010 ... Figures from Office of National Statistics tell us that 1.5% of Britons say they are gay or bisexual much lower than the most commonly used estimate of 5% to 7%. No one in their right can call that a large minority so why are White Heterosexual Men treated so badly? What is wrong with being chosen on your ability?
Positive discrimination has the opposite effect, some one who is Homosexual, female or of an ethnic background gets a job you automatically think they got their because of what they are rather then what they a capable off, which could be totally untrue. Modern firms and government agencies want the best, so make it illegal for a Job application to ask your sexual persuasion, your country of origin (are you a British Subject will suffice) or your religion
Martin Clarke
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Battle of Britain Bredgar Boy
Did any of you watch the programme on BBC about the Battle of Britain featuring the Mcgregor brothers well what you may not have known was the Wing Commander teaching him to fly Cliff Spinks lived in Bredgar and I believe went to Borden Grammar School, I did not know him but I worked with his father when I was 15 his dad Ron spoke about him often and if he were alive he would be a very proud man. The reason I write this is to make people realise that TV is not just for Celebrities, Footballers and people with little or know brains from Big Brother but every now and again real people appear who have done something practical in their lives and this case served his country all his adult life and his father was a Tractor Driver, Cliff shows if you want something bad enough you can get it
This man twists the truth
Dear Editor
In Last weeks EGG Barry Pearson in a piece entitled “Get a Grip on the real Issues” totally misrepresented what I said in an article in your paper I never said I thought we should get rid of ½ of the Police, I am not going to repeat my letter just to say that he can read it again on my Blog martinclarke.blogspot.com. The ‘Stop the Rot’ report published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary showed that last year, 3.5million incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported, this proved what I was saying that the Police are mismanaging their resources, can I also point out that for over 15 years I have been complaining through your letters page about cyclists on Foot Paths and the danger they impose, in your paper last week their was a report of an incident that proved my point , this was where a man and women on cycles kicked a girl because she was in his way on a pavement apart from being a Thug it shows cyclists on pavement are a danger, menace and rude but thankfully after a 15 year wait the Police will applying the law of the land by fining them if they are on the pavement, maybe the next thing is to check road worthiness of cycles and whether they have lights.
To finalise Barry Pearson should get to grips himself this country has massive debts mainly brought on by his Labour Government and we all must pay for the their mistakes and the European Union is an issue we pour Billions of pounds into this inefficient bureaucracy and very little back in return by withdrawing form the EU we could invest that money in correcting our own debt
Martin Clarke East Street Sittingbourne
In Last weeks EGG Barry Pearson in a piece entitled “Get a Grip on the real Issues” totally misrepresented what I said in an article in your paper I never said I thought we should get rid of ½ of the Police, I am not going to repeat my letter just to say that he can read it again on my Blog martinclarke.blogspot.com. The ‘Stop the Rot’ report published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary showed that last year, 3.5million incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported, this proved what I was saying that the Police are mismanaging their resources, can I also point out that for over 15 years I have been complaining through your letters page about cyclists on Foot Paths and the danger they impose, in your paper last week their was a report of an incident that proved my point , this was where a man and women on cycles kicked a girl because she was in his way on a pavement apart from being a Thug it shows cyclists on pavement are a danger, menace and rude but thankfully after a 15 year wait the Police will applying the law of the land by fining them if they are on the pavement, maybe the next thing is to check road worthiness of cycles and whether they have lights.
To finalise Barry Pearson should get to grips himself this country has massive debts mainly brought on by his Labour Government and we all must pay for the their mistakes and the European Union is an issue we pour Billions of pounds into this inefficient bureaucracy and very little back in return by withdrawing form the EU we could invest that money in correcting our own debt
Martin Clarke East Street Sittingbourne
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
No plans to Scrap NHS Direct Helpline
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP, Gordon Henderson has received a number of calls from constituents worried by rumours that the Government plans to scrap the NHS Direct Helpine.
The speculation began when the Secretary of State of Health, Andrew Lansley, announced an introduction of a new telephone service for patients to access non-emergency NHS healthcare, using a three-digit number – 111.
Shadow ministers immediately seized on Lansley’s statement as proof that the NHS Direct Helpline was to be abolished, but this has been strongly denied by the Government.
Mr Henderson said,
“I would like to reassure local people there are no plans for the NHS Direct as an organisation to be closed down, however, it is the Government’s intention to eventually replace the current NHS Direct telephone number (0845 46 47), which is costly to patients dialling the number from landlines and mobiles phones, with the new 111 number.
“When detailed plans are made to roll out the service nationally, we expect NHS Direct and its staff to play a key role in taking the new service forward.”
The speculation began when the Secretary of State of Health, Andrew Lansley, announced an introduction of a new telephone service for patients to access non-emergency NHS healthcare, using a three-digit number – 111.
Shadow ministers immediately seized on Lansley’s statement as proof that the NHS Direct Helpline was to be abolished, but this has been strongly denied by the Government.
Mr Henderson said,
“I would like to reassure local people there are no plans for the NHS Direct as an organisation to be closed down, however, it is the Government’s intention to eventually replace the current NHS Direct telephone number (0845 46 47), which is costly to patients dialling the number from landlines and mobiles phones, with the new 111 number.
“When detailed plans are made to roll out the service nationally, we expect NHS Direct and its staff to play a key role in taking the new service forward.”
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Pope, Peter Tatchell and Me
Popes Visit
As someone who was brought up as a Roman Catholic I obviously have in interest in the Popes Visit not particularly where he goes but what is says and what other people say about him. I have to admit I stopped going to Mass when I was about 19 years of age, not through any revolt against the Church I just preferred to go to the Cinema with my mates and my girlfriend now my wife. So eventually got out of the habit of being a Church goer plus back in the 1960’s the Mass was still in Latin, yet I never really lost the faith, that became apparent to me when my Mum was dying some 6 years when I was panicking because no one had called her priest to give her the last rites. Both my parents were Catholic my mother was religious, my father went along with my mother when she insisted my brother and myself went to Mass plus all the Holy Days of Obligation, he detested the church. His father a 6ft 2ins 18 stone Irishman would insist on him and his sisters attending Mass twice every Sunday and would take the belt to them if they were late, funny enough he never spoke of this it was Aunts and other people who told me. What he did tell me was that his school life was horrific being beaten by Nuns and the Teacher, I heard many a story from my Aunts how when one particularly vicious Women Teacher was beating my father his two sisters jumped on her back to stop her, so when my mother suggested sending us to a RC School my father put his foot down and said NO. Thank God things have changed since then.
The Popes visit was marred by the Sexually abuse scandals by Priests, a terrible thing for the those who had been abused, I remember talking to my mother about how can a Priest be a member of the IRA and why doesn’t the Church throw them out she would always reply “They are wicked Human Beings not the Church” very true but what also was wicked was the Churches idea over covering up these hideous crimes and letting the guilty go unpunished. This happened on a local level I mentioned my father beatings at school by a Miss Lodge the local Catholics new about this but nothing was done, when I was about 14 a priest came to our door and asked my father for a donation to Miss Lodge who had just died my father replied “ I would not give the dirt of my shoes for that evil vicious cow” then slammed the door in the priest face. This caused uproar with my mother who shouted “Cannot do that to a priest” he replied “ I can and I have and tell them lot not to come round here again” Yet he still wanted a Catholic funeral, so even he knew the difference between Man and Church.
My point is that cover up were not unusual in the Church nor come to that any institution but what I find really nauseating is that so called celebrities, left wing activist are using the abuse of those people as a stick to beat the Catholic religion and promote their own agenda people like Peter Tatchell the leader of the Pink mafia, Stephen Friar the Homosexual Actor who is promoting his book and Sally Berkow wife of the speaker who believes being Bisexual is normal and a group who should have special rights, I feel they are as disgusting as the paedophiles priest because they are revelling and benefiting form peoples misery.
The Pope had many good things to say especially about preserving Christian Festivals, he went on condemn our obsession with being hedonistic and let’s look at his attitude on Sex, he preaches sex should be within marriage an old fashioned idea and I expect all you youngsters and older ones who can not maintain a relationship laughing their heads off. Yet if you only have one partner for life and remain loyal there is little or no chance of catching a Sexual disease, Children would in most cases be brought into this world because they are wanted (This is not always the case suggesting a good argument for contraception in marriage) not born as a by product of some passing sexual encounter, Homosexual can not marry so a lot of Homosexual diseases would decrease, society as whole would benefit because there would be less single parents needing state handouts etc.
Yet our left wing friends, our atheist friends and our secular friends do not want this they believe the new religion should be Hedonism (Pleasure seeking, high living, intemperance, self indulgence, profligacy, self satisfaction, self gratification, self denial all word s meaning Hedonism) and since the 1960’s this has been their agenda a small group of fanatics who now have become the heads of our Government, Schools, Town halls etc and what have they succeeded in doing:
1) Sex has become a pastime like going out for beer something you enjoy doing when ever you like and with who ever you like.
2) Drugs are part of the norm with this group
3) Sexual disease is just an occupational hazard
4) There is no such things as a perverted sexual act every taste must be gloried and each of these must be classified and given separate opportunities like positive discrimination in jobs.
This has now given us Sexual Disease at its highest ever recorded levels which has to be paid for by us taxpayers not only the treatment but the research as well, imagine how much money could be saved and redirected to illness which is not self inflicted. The youngest teenage pregnancies record in the free world and this in spite of massive publicity of contraception, which is now being offered to girls as young as 12 without parental consent. This is costing the taxpayer millions in maintaining what used be called Bastards (children born out of wedlock) it is also costing the environment because no longer do we have one house for a child in most cases two houses are required one for the mother and one for the father. Catholic adoption agencies being force to close because they will not entertain the Social Experiment of Homosexuals adopting children. All surveys have found that the best environment to bring up a child is in a Married family this is followed by a Man and women in a long time relationships. Are estates are filled with one parent families with feral kids who real family becomes the gang they are in. This may not be the case all the time some single parents do a good job in bringing up their children but they are a very small minority. All this started because a group of academics and celebrities wanted the justification to have sex with anything that walked or slithered across the ground male, female or animal.
So there you have it the old religions which have their faults or the new religion of Hedonism. I know which one I will stick with.
Martin Clarke
As someone who was brought up as a Roman Catholic I obviously have in interest in the Popes Visit not particularly where he goes but what is says and what other people say about him. I have to admit I stopped going to Mass when I was about 19 years of age, not through any revolt against the Church I just preferred to go to the Cinema with my mates and my girlfriend now my wife. So eventually got out of the habit of being a Church goer plus back in the 1960’s the Mass was still in Latin, yet I never really lost the faith, that became apparent to me when my Mum was dying some 6 years when I was panicking because no one had called her priest to give her the last rites. Both my parents were Catholic my mother was religious, my father went along with my mother when she insisted my brother and myself went to Mass plus all the Holy Days of Obligation, he detested the church. His father a 6ft 2ins 18 stone Irishman would insist on him and his sisters attending Mass twice every Sunday and would take the belt to them if they were late, funny enough he never spoke of this it was Aunts and other people who told me. What he did tell me was that his school life was horrific being beaten by Nuns and the Teacher, I heard many a story from my Aunts how when one particularly vicious Women Teacher was beating my father his two sisters jumped on her back to stop her, so when my mother suggested sending us to a RC School my father put his foot down and said NO. Thank God things have changed since then.
The Popes visit was marred by the Sexually abuse scandals by Priests, a terrible thing for the those who had been abused, I remember talking to my mother about how can a Priest be a member of the IRA and why doesn’t the Church throw them out she would always reply “They are wicked Human Beings not the Church” very true but what also was wicked was the Churches idea over covering up these hideous crimes and letting the guilty go unpunished. This happened on a local level I mentioned my father beatings at school by a Miss Lodge the local Catholics new about this but nothing was done, when I was about 14 a priest came to our door and asked my father for a donation to Miss Lodge who had just died my father replied “ I would not give the dirt of my shoes for that evil vicious cow” then slammed the door in the priest face. This caused uproar with my mother who shouted “Cannot do that to a priest” he replied “ I can and I have and tell them lot not to come round here again” Yet he still wanted a Catholic funeral, so even he knew the difference between Man and Church.
My point is that cover up were not unusual in the Church nor come to that any institution but what I find really nauseating is that so called celebrities, left wing activist are using the abuse of those people as a stick to beat the Catholic religion and promote their own agenda people like Peter Tatchell the leader of the Pink mafia, Stephen Friar the Homosexual Actor who is promoting his book and Sally Berkow wife of the speaker who believes being Bisexual is normal and a group who should have special rights, I feel they are as disgusting as the paedophiles priest because they are revelling and benefiting form peoples misery.
The Pope had many good things to say especially about preserving Christian Festivals, he went on condemn our obsession with being hedonistic and let’s look at his attitude on Sex, he preaches sex should be within marriage an old fashioned idea and I expect all you youngsters and older ones who can not maintain a relationship laughing their heads off. Yet if you only have one partner for life and remain loyal there is little or no chance of catching a Sexual disease, Children would in most cases be brought into this world because they are wanted (This is not always the case suggesting a good argument for contraception in marriage) not born as a by product of some passing sexual encounter, Homosexual can not marry so a lot of Homosexual diseases would decrease, society as whole would benefit because there would be less single parents needing state handouts etc.
Yet our left wing friends, our atheist friends and our secular friends do not want this they believe the new religion should be Hedonism (Pleasure seeking, high living, intemperance, self indulgence, profligacy, self satisfaction, self gratification, self denial all word s meaning Hedonism) and since the 1960’s this has been their agenda a small group of fanatics who now have become the heads of our Government, Schools, Town halls etc and what have they succeeded in doing:
1) Sex has become a pastime like going out for beer something you enjoy doing when ever you like and with who ever you like.
2) Drugs are part of the norm with this group
3) Sexual disease is just an occupational hazard
4) There is no such things as a perverted sexual act every taste must be gloried and each of these must be classified and given separate opportunities like positive discrimination in jobs.
This has now given us Sexual Disease at its highest ever recorded levels which has to be paid for by us taxpayers not only the treatment but the research as well, imagine how much money could be saved and redirected to illness which is not self inflicted. The youngest teenage pregnancies record in the free world and this in spite of massive publicity of contraception, which is now being offered to girls as young as 12 without parental consent. This is costing the taxpayer millions in maintaining what used be called Bastards (children born out of wedlock) it is also costing the environment because no longer do we have one house for a child in most cases two houses are required one for the mother and one for the father. Catholic adoption agencies being force to close because they will not entertain the Social Experiment of Homosexuals adopting children. All surveys have found that the best environment to bring up a child is in a Married family this is followed by a Man and women in a long time relationships. Are estates are filled with one parent families with feral kids who real family becomes the gang they are in. This may not be the case all the time some single parents do a good job in bringing up their children but they are a very small minority. All this started because a group of academics and celebrities wanted the justification to have sex with anything that walked or slithered across the ground male, female or animal.
So there you have it the old religions which have their faults or the new religion of Hedonism. I know which one I will stick with.
Martin Clarke
Friday, September 17, 2010
Tatchell tells a queer story
I read an article today where the Pope is to perform a ceremony of beatification on Cardinal Newman and that odious Gay Mafia Leader Peter Tatchell had to get his say, in that Cardinal Newman was Homosexual where is his proof he is trying to convince people that every famous man through history was queer. Him along with the Labour government were responsible for banning Catholics from running adoption agencies because they did not agree with Homosexuals adopting children, the majority of people in the UK feel the same, vulnerable children should not be put in to the care with those who are in an unnatural relationship.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Gypsy v Traveller
In this weeks local paper MP Gordon Henderson complained that so called travellers should not have preferential treatment with planning regulations and he is totally right yet my main problem is with the word traveller? Surely the word means to travel so why do they want a permanent base? The last Labour government made the ridiculous assumption that a Traveller was a Gypsy and should be treated as an ethnic minority, one could argue that a true Romany Gypsy is ethnically different to the rest of English population as they can trace their linage back hundreds of years but these so called Travellers need none of that all they need is a caravan and no permanent abode to claim special treatment.
My son’s God Father is a proper Romany Gypsy plus an ex international Judo Player he no longer takes to the road he lives in a very nice house in Bexley his daughter is a lawyer and his son is a Doctor putting paid to the myth that all Gypsies are thick but his parents were of old stock. They would travel around Kent in their caravan during fruit picking and harvest time taking on work and then return to their permanent home in Bexley for the winter. That has all stopped because all our Farmers in Kent will no longer employ them or local women to do these jobs; they now have thousands of Easter Europeans workers so much for loyalty to the indigenous population.
Can I make a suggestion if these so called travellers want to build a mobile home park let them go through the relevant planning and then give up their rights to classified as a special group, the rest well as someone who own caravan let them do what I do. When I use my caravan I travels to various campsite etc where I pitch my caravan most site have adequate washing and toilet facilities and after a period move on to another site. I expect some entrepreneur could build a lot of extra caravan sites in the UK for them to travel to, as with most sites a maximum stay of 3 weeks would only be allowed the owner would take a fee part of which would go to the local council to help pay Council Tax. These travellers would not get any benefits unless they had paid NI and Income tax, what they would get would be food vouchers and sufficient fuel to get them from site to site, any collection of scrap would be registered with the owner of the camp who would inform the local authorities to see if they had the correct license and there earning could be taxed in fact you could go one step further every one selling scrap to a scrap yard would have to prove they are paying tax otherwise 25% could be deducted at source and paid direct to the revenue. A school hut could be on sight with a resident teacher and a local Doctor could be brought in to visit the site once a week this could all be included in the pitch hire.
Once a network of these sites were built there would be no need for illegal pitching someone illegally parked would have 2 days to move on otherwise they would have their caravan confiscated These so called Travellers are no more then hedge bumpers and give real Gypsies a bad name .
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
My son’s God Father is a proper Romany Gypsy plus an ex international Judo Player he no longer takes to the road he lives in a very nice house in Bexley his daughter is a lawyer and his son is a Doctor putting paid to the myth that all Gypsies are thick but his parents were of old stock. They would travel around Kent in their caravan during fruit picking and harvest time taking on work and then return to their permanent home in Bexley for the winter. That has all stopped because all our Farmers in Kent will no longer employ them or local women to do these jobs; they now have thousands of Easter Europeans workers so much for loyalty to the indigenous population.
Can I make a suggestion if these so called travellers want to build a mobile home park let them go through the relevant planning and then give up their rights to classified as a special group, the rest well as someone who own caravan let them do what I do. When I use my caravan I travels to various campsite etc where I pitch my caravan most site have adequate washing and toilet facilities and after a period move on to another site. I expect some entrepreneur could build a lot of extra caravan sites in the UK for them to travel to, as with most sites a maximum stay of 3 weeks would only be allowed the owner would take a fee part of which would go to the local council to help pay Council Tax. These travellers would not get any benefits unless they had paid NI and Income tax, what they would get would be food vouchers and sufficient fuel to get them from site to site, any collection of scrap would be registered with the owner of the camp who would inform the local authorities to see if they had the correct license and there earning could be taxed in fact you could go one step further every one selling scrap to a scrap yard would have to prove they are paying tax otherwise 25% could be deducted at source and paid direct to the revenue. A school hut could be on sight with a resident teacher and a local Doctor could be brought in to visit the site once a week this could all be included in the pitch hire.
Once a network of these sites were built there would be no need for illegal pitching someone illegally parked would have 2 days to move on otherwise they would have their caravan confiscated These so called Travellers are no more then hedge bumpers and give real Gypsies a bad name .
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A Policeman replies
A Policeman sent me the following a response to my article
I totally agree with you. I paid 11% of my wages for 34 years of my service towards my pension. My police pension does not provide me with sufficient money to retire completely, I have to work, so why not do what I have been trained to do and at a much lower wage than a police officer. I can't see a problem I actually save the police £10,000 a year.
I totally agree with you. I paid 11% of my wages for 34 years of my service towards my pension. My police pension does not provide me with sufficient money to retire completely, I have to work, so why not do what I have been trained to do and at a much lower wage than a police officer. I can't see a problem I actually save the police £10,000 a year.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Police Pension
I recently wrote a letter about the Police in that article I suggested that it would not be a good idea to let the Chief Constables be responsible for their own cost cutting as the first one to be cut would be the ordinary PC, if the papers are to be believed that is exactly what is happening I Told you so.
What annoyed me was the Sun condemning retiring Police Officers calling them greedy because they had a good pension and then went back to the Police Force oops sorry Police Service as Civilian workers. Well the Sun want to check their facts because the Police Pension is paid for by the individual Policeman he has a considerable amount taken out of his pay packet, a Copper on the beat etc reach his peak at 50 and when he entered the Police Force he signed up knowing that he could retire at 50. It makes good business sense to take ex policeman on in a civilian role they know the job and do not need top be retrained.
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
What annoyed me was the Sun condemning retiring Police Officers calling them greedy because they had a good pension and then went back to the Police Force oops sorry Police Service as Civilian workers. Well the Sun want to check their facts because the Police Pension is paid for by the individual Policeman he has a considerable amount taken out of his pay packet, a Copper on the beat etc reach his peak at 50 and when he entered the Police Force he signed up knowing that he could retire at 50. It makes good business sense to take ex policeman on in a civilian role they know the job and do not need top be retrained.
Martin Clarke Sittingbourne
Friday, September 10, 2010
Pensioner v Illegal Immigrants
Are you aware of the following?
The British government provides the following financial assistance: -
BENEFIT BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN UK
Weekly allowance £100 £250
Weekly Spouse
Allowance £25 £225
Additional weekly
hardship allowance £0;00 £100
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT for Pensioners £6,000 for Illegal Immigrants£29,900
If I were a refugee, why would I look for work? It is us that have paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years. We haven't just arrived
The British government provides the following financial assistance: -
BENEFIT BRITISH OLD AGED PENSIONER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS LIVING IN UK
Weekly allowance £100 £250
Weekly Spouse
Allowance £25 £225
Additional weekly
hardship allowance £0;00 £100
TOTAL YEARLY BENEFIT for Pensioners £6,000 for Illegal Immigrants£29,900
If I were a refugee, why would I look for work? It is us that have paid taxes and contributed to the growth of this country for the last 40 to 60 years. We haven't just arrived
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