http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/28/black-friday-fever-police-battle-shoppers?commentpage=1 Bargain hunting turns violent as American phenomenon comes to UK Raw greed Another imported "Ponzi" from the United States, artificially created to extend even further, the "Christmas Shopping" frenzy and make more profits for the stores and manufactures. Over the past week, my e-mail has been inundated with "junk" mail from practically every know on line supplier, advertising "Black Friday" bargains and screaming their "buy now" messages. It is a sad and almost sinister phenomena in British society which now, after only two or three years vigorous promoting has firmly established “Black Friday”, as a regular November event. The photographs and video reports of the fighting in Asda, Tesco and numerous other stores around the country, the police and security staff separating hysterical "s...
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/water-giants-make-2billion-profit-4703371 Water giants make £2BILLION in profit - but SEVEN of them didn't pay a penny in tax 4/5ths of this planet is covered with water. Yet some private companies, many of them ultimately foreign owned , make £billions in profits selling an essential commodity to the people of this country. Without water, we would all die and these privately owned companies are very much aware of that simple fact. The great obscenity of the privatisation of the water companies, is that a government took what the nation already owned, sold it to their friends in the city, who then offered shares for sale to a few small "investors" and control of the water industry to a small number of large corporations who have been milking the profits ever since. It is a gross perversity, that companies can make huge profits from the sale of water and collectively pay little if any tax. There are certa...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rochester-byelection-ukip-gains-second-elected-mp-as-tory-defector-mark-reckless-holds-kent-seat-9874341.html Ukip gains second MP in Rochester by-election Nigel Farage with Mark Reckless The career politicians of all parties from the Westminster “old boys club”, still do not understand what is happening in British politics today. Already, less than 12 hours after the result was declared, our television screens have been filled with politicians from the two main parties each seeking to outbid the others in their almost dismissive attitudes towards UKIP and their election win in Rochester and Strood. Within hours of the result, leading political figures, television pundits and the media, were dismissing the result with comments such as “well everyone knew that they were going to win” or “It is only a protest vote which is usual for a by election” or perhaps the most smugly preposterous comment of all tha...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/g20-summit-enter-putin-accompanied-by-four-warships-to-the-sound-of-mockery-9862465.html G20 summit: Enter Putin. Accompanied by four warships. To the sound of mockery There will be around 7000 delegates at the 2014 G20 Conference Another "G" some number or other gathering for a load of mostly nondescript, non entity politicians to meet together and shake hands, smile and try to give the assembled paparazzi the image of being very, very important. In reality of course, the "G" some number or other will be exactly the same as all the others. An almost endless round of hot air "meetings" usually over snacks, many photo opportunities for the family album, countless promises of financial or economic aid for some country, (which historically has been words promising aid and resulting in only a fraction of the promised assistance), side meetings over sandwiches, not cheese and Branson pickle I woul...
After 4 weeks, this is more than "teething problems". Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP). providing a "new improved service".?
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11597808.Residents_revolt_over_rubbish_service/ Residents revolt over rubbish service It is not only Portland that has a problem with the new waste disposal scheme operated by the Dorset Waste Partnership (DWP). I posted this in the letters section of Dorset Echo, this morning. The following is the transcript of an "online chat" which I had with DWP last week. The food waste was eventually collected and the bin was left lying on its side with lid open, in the middle of a public drive way. There will probably be another "online chat" this week as the food waste bin was again not emptied. A new "Report a missed bin collection" reference number has been issued and a complaint has been sent to DWP. They will respond "within 10 days". If DWP or anyone else thinks that we should have rotting food waste lying around the house, or stored in our garage until they are prepared to coll...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-29957695 Foodbank use for south west children 'quadruples since 2011' The Trussell Trust runs a charity which runs 28 Foodbanks across the South West Lying deep amongst the news stories the last 12 months, is the ongoing story which refuses to go away. Largely ignored by the press and television media, possibly by accident but more likely to be on the directions of some mysterious government department, the continuing scandal of the increasing number of people reliant on food bank charities is the subject which the Department of Work and Pensions and various other government departments and of course the ConDem Coalition government, would really like to go away and by adopting a policy of “if we ignore the situation for long enough the problem will cease to exist, in any case the usual charities can provide a short-term solution to the short-term problem”, they can pretend that the scandal of people in t...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-surcharge-osborne-accused-of-accounting-trick-to-claim-cut-in-eu-bill-9847485.html EU surcharge: Osborne accused of accounting trick to claim cut in EU bill The really incredible thing which never ceases to amaze me, is that these lying, cheating hypocritical career politicians, expect and believe that the rest of us will accept their weasel words as the truth. They claim a "victory" when all they should feel is shame.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lib-dems-want-to-have-their-own-ministries-in-any-new-coalition-9845455.html Lib Dems want to have their own ministries in any new Coalition Nick Clegg with Danny Alexander The Liberal Democrats seem to be very optimistic about actually having enough Westminster parliamentary seats to influence any discussions connected with coalitions after the next general election. Clearly a case of Danny Alexander and the other nonentities of the current LibDem part of this wretched coalition, preparing their positions for another sell out in a squalid bid to retain their ministerial cars, seats at the cabinet table (no matter who's cabinet it may be) and the other perks they have enjoyed over the last 5 years.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/04/will-cornick-sentence-youth-justice Will Cornick sentence disproportionate, say youth justice campaigners Will Cornick given 20-year minimum tariff for murder of teacher Ann Maguire. If the lunatics of the PC brigade are allowed to to set the policy of our criminal justice system, then perhaps we should just give Cornick a period of community service, ask him to appologise and compensate him for the trauma of being arrested. Teacher Anne Maguire Penelope Gibbs and those other individuals and organisations who share her views, do not serve society with their distorted views and opinions. In all aspects of life in everyday society, the PC brigade demonstrate a growing and dangerous influence which is, actually, damaging the social structure they are seeking to improve. Penelope Gibbs, who chairs the Standing Committee for Youth Justice (SCYJ) umbrella group of charities and campaign group...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-abuse-inquiry-theresa-may-under-pressure-to-give-investigation-greater-powers-9833677.html Theresa May under pressure to give investigation greater powers. Home Secretary: Theresa May As the much delayed inquiry into child sex abuse descends even further into the world of pantomime, another potential chair for this investigation bows to pressure and stands down from the post. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to find a suitable candidate to fill the role of chair for this essential inquiry, who has not had some contact or relationship with, or perhaps is related to, some “establishment” figure implicated in or otherwise involved in some form or other, at any level, with the allegations of abuse and the alleged cover up of these crimes. Fiona Woolf Elizabeth Butler-Sloss The perception prevails, rightly or wrongly, that “th...