https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/25/margaret-thatcher-pushed-for-breakup-of-welfare-state-despite-nhs-pledge Thatcher pushed for breakup of welfare state despite NHS pledge The duplicitous Thatcher together with Howe, Rifkind, Hurd, Tebbit and the other accomplices of the Thatcher governments, conspired in secret to destroy our Welfare sate and our National Health Service. As I have long argued, this has been the ambition and objective of the Conservative party since 1947 and has over those years, been surreptitiously advanced with piecemeal privatisations of numerous departments and functions of the welfare system and by closures of wards and hospitals where departments and departmental responsibilities have been gifted to the private sector, under the cloak of improving the service and saving money within our NHS. Today, this malevolent aspiration of the conservative party and their business supporters, circling like vultures waiting for their oppor...
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Over 40% of former council homes now owned by private landlords as housing crisis deepens in the home ownership and rented accommodation sectors. Former council homes sold under Right-to-Buy are being on the private rental market There is a housing crisis in the United Kingdom. The "Right to buy scheme" is just one of the contributing factors. In the early 1980's many of us were predicting the very crisis which we are now experiencing. It is to the eternal shame of successive governments since 1979 right up until today, that hundreds of thousands of people today are unable to afford a home of their own, either owned or rented, due to the high price level of homes for purchase or homes for rent, particularly in the private rental sector. These high prices levels are the consequence of an acute shortage of houses being built, which is the undeniable result of decades of government neglect or even government intention to restrict the house building programme....
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/21/cameron-accused-of-misleading-steelworkers-over-80m-aid-fund Cameron accused of misleading steelworkers over £80m aid fund Steel workers at the Tata Steel plant in Motherwell Thatcher started this destruction of British industry and Cameron continues her evil work. Heavily State subsidised imports from abroad, this time it is steel, are allowed to flood into this country but the government refuses such support to our own industry. As a result, because our own industries are unable to compete with the cheap (on price and quality) imports, the government allows the plants to close and the workers to be made redundant. The government justification for allowing the extinction of the industry is the fallacious lie that the industry is noncompetitive and "market forces" must be allowed to determine the outcome. Not only does this country loose the manufacturing facility, it also loses the skills as...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rabbithutch-britain-growing-health-concerns-as-uk-sets-record-for-smallest-properties-in-europe-9544450.html Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for smallest properties in Europe Northfield House. Peckham I was brought up in a flat in Peckham, in fact, in the block shown shown here. Northfield house, Peckham Park Road , London SE 15. One of the 2 bedroom flats, was recently advertised for sale at £275,000, which no one around at that time would have believed to be possible. Not only the price, but the fact that a Council flat was for sale in the open market. That was in the days before the "Parker Morris" standards, but the flat was just adequate for mum, dad and the young John Yates. Progress decreed that from 1967 these "Parker Morris" space standards would become mandatory for all housing built in new towns, and be extended to all council housing in 1...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/06/margaret-thatcher-death-anniversary_n_5107497.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics&ir=UK+Politics Margaret Thatcher Death Anniversary One Year On Margaret Thatcher As Huffington Post seems to be marking the anniversary , perhaps I may add my contribution. On Monday 15th April, 2013 I wrote: I come to bury Thatcher, not to praise her. "I have not got an invite to the funeral. Perhaps "they" know what I think,write and say about the woman who destroyed whole societies in this country, decimated numerous UK industries, condemned hundreds of thousands of people to a life on benefits, made greed and selfishness acceptable, and declared that there is no such thing as society. The legacy of this evil woman lives on even today in the actions and attitudes of people like Cameron, Duncan-Smith, Schaps, Osborne and the rest. Division rules in the UK as Tories seek to "out Maggie, Maggie". Labour ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/unite-union-boss-len-mccluskey-threatens-to-launch-party-to-rival-labour-9231266.html Unite union boss Len McCluskey threatens to launch party to rival Labour Len McCluskey: General Secretary of Unite "a rival party could be created to challenge Labour if it does not win next year." The need for a new party on the Left of British politics is already clearly evident. Whether the Labour party win the next general election or not, is neither here nor there. By qualifying the suggestion of a new party, McCluskey repeats the very same duplicity which has plagued the present Labour party for decades. Namely that ideology and principle are somehow linked to winning elections and that such principles can be shelved or even discarded in order to achieve electoral success. That was one, but not the only one, of the reasons why I left the Labour party shortly before Blair became leader. Labour had degenerated from a party...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/27/unite-labour-possible-funding-cut "Unite" to consider cut in affiliation fees. Len McCluskey general secretary of Unite The Labour Party was destroyed by Blair, Mandellson, Brown, Campbell and the other conspirators of "New Labour", many of whom still sit in the Commons today. Len McCluskey is stating what many trade unions are now accepting as fact, rather than the rhetoric of Miliband minor and the rest of the party "leadership" are trotting out in seeking to preserve their positions. It is time that the TUC and all affiliated organisation followed the lead of Unite and dumped the Labour party completely.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/21/ed-miliband-change-labour-tony-blair_n_4834119.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Miliband To Radically Change Labour Party Far More Than Blair Blair and Miliband: Full circle Miliband has still not grasped the essential truth. The reasons for the disillusionment people feel about politics, the decline in numbers of people voting in elections, the growing perception of a rift between politicians and public has nothing to do with leadership elections within the party, reforms in the relationship between the Trade Union movement and the party or even Prime Ministers Questions in the Commons. The problems result from the inexorable shift in policy direction of the party to the so called "centre ground" in British politics. This shift, to a certain extent commenced by Niel Kinnock but certainly carried to extreme and disastrous lengths by Blair, Mandelsson, Brown and Campbell has resulted in working people, pens...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jan/31/ed-miliband-labour-union-funding-shakeup Ed Miliband's Labour-union shakeup Miliband will "look at the structure of Party Conference" The sooner the TUC dumps this current apology for a "Labour" party with its pathetic "leadership" the better. Milliband is sounding more and more like Blair with each passing day. The comment that he would, ""complete unfinished business of the past 20 years" and the proposal to introduce "sweeping reforms" designed to recast Labour's historic link with the trade unions, could have been written by Alastair Campbell. (With all the intrigue and conspiracies currently taking place, we may be excused for believing the phrase actually was produced from Campbell's pen.) Blair destroyed the Labour party and Milliband is just raking through the debris.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/embrace-culture-of-greed-says-boris-johnson-8968276.html Embrace culture of greed, says Boris Johnson Boris Johnson. "I stress – I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity." Johnson delivering the annual Margaret Thatcher lecture at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, Wednesday 27th November 2013 Boris Johnson seeks to emulate Thatcher. He appeals to the evil side of the "nasty" party, for a society where greed is good, where selfishness is encouraged, where division amongst people by envy and status is championed as a proper objective and where the excesses of business and government are regarded as appropriate and right for the advancement of the few at the expense of the many. Johnson is an evil man with evil intent...
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/10/ed-miliband-tuc-speech-lukewarm-reception Ed Miliband's TUC speech receives lukewarm reception Having watched the whole of Ed Miliband's televised speech to the TUC yesterday,(10th September 2013) and the subsequent session of planted questions, it was noticeable how restrained the delegates were in their responses to the Labour Party's leader. This is not particularly surprising when you consider that Miliband's offering was more froth than content and that the speech was full of cliche, feeble attempts at humour and patronising remarks about the "backbone of Britain", "the vision of our founders"and "hearing from the people who are your members" and at the end of a twenty minute performance, a reference to his " vision" of a one nation Britain . A poor performance which offered little, other than a vague reference that a future Labour government would legi...