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Competing for the title of "Most nasty".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/08/conservative-welfare-cuts-analysis  The Tories claim they are making things fairer but their plans to save £10bn rely on penalising poorer children with siblings   They have always been a nasty, authoritarian bunch of  self centered tyrants.  Its just that over the past few years some of them have become even more nasty and authoritarian (if that's possible). It seems that there is a competition between   Duncan Smith, Osborne, Rabb, Schapps and a few others to be the most nasty.

Osborne champions a return to days of old

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/08/george-osborne-workers-rights-shares  Workers to be forced to give up their rights over unfair dismissal, redundancy and requests for flexible working and time off for training. Being forced to lose some maternity rights and all access to unfair dismissal tribunals as proposed by George Osborne is another step in the  return to the bad old days. The Tory party and its rabid right have always been the champions of ensuring that working people are" kept in their place" by legislation and anti Trade Union measures and that the employers are allowed to operate without restrictions. .All in exchange for continued and increased contributions to the Conservative party funds.

The begining of the end of Health and safety in the workplace.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-plans-to-cut-thousands-of-health-and-safety-inspections-8120984.html Hundreds of thousands of businesses are to be exempted from health and safety inspections under moves announced by the Government today.  This is not "a radical plan plan to curb red tape". It is a plan to expose workers to potential workplace dangers in "hundreds of thousands of businesses" where unscrupulous employers are driven by the greed to make more profit, at the expense of the safety of their workers, who will have no recourse to law. How much these "hundreds of thousands" of companies have contributed to party funds in order to promote this new legislation is a matter of speculation. Do not be confused or pushed into accepting the government myth that these measures are solely  to protect business from "compensation culture" claims. The first and foremost consideration is, as it has always b...

Government restrictions, but only to those nations of whom we disapprove.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/09/block-on-exports-surveillance-equipment#post-area  The continuing export of British-made surveillance technology has been thrown into question after the government admitted it had moved to restrict sales of spying software to  Egypt .    Eric King of the campaign group Privacy International is calling for further action by the government. Gamma's FinFisher software can secretly take remote control of a computer, copy its files, intercept Skype calls and log every keystroke. The continuing export of British-made surveillance technology has been thrown into question after the government admitted it had moved to restrict sales of spying software to Egypt.  but it is odd the way in which sales of our "equipment" are acceptable and encouraged when being sold to despotic dictatorial  regimes of whom we approve, but are immediately stopped or suspended when the tyrant is overthrown and the people e...