Agenda 2019

  http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/23/iain-duncan-smith-wrag-benefit-cuts?guni=Keyword:news-grid%20main-1%20Main%20trailblock:Editable%20trailblock%20-%20news:Position4:anchor%20image  550,000 people currently considered too sick to work face losing financial support Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith   Iain Duncan-Smith crawls out from the woodwork with yet another pernicious proposal designed to inflict financial hardship on those least able to resist and to punish people for being sick. This is not in itself, unusual in this ConDem coalition country, where the demonisation and marginalisation of those sections of society, the sick, the disabled, the unemployed and any other benefit claimants are considered to be prime targets for cuts to the welfare system in the name of austerity and "saving money". In the case of Duncan-Smith, he alone stands out as the undisputed leader of the drive for harsher and harsher measures and takes the...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/21/labour-cameron-gay-marriage-bill Labour saves David Cameron again. Gay marriage bill survives after Ed Miliband votes against amendment What is happening to Labour? They abstain on a vote and help the Tories to retrospectively change the law on Welfare reforms following the Poundland fiasco, and now they vote with the Tories to prevent another  government defeat, this time on a gay marriage bill amendment. I would have thought that it is not the function of the Labour party to support and maintain a government who are every day, attacking working people with pernicious austerity measures, attacking the sick and disabled with vicious cuts to services and support, attacking benefit claimants with reductions in payments, and attacking people deemed to have spare bedrooms. I left the Labour Party some time ago as they had drifted away from the core values and principles that I supported. It now seems that they have become ...

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/27/david-milibands-resignation-tories-_n_2961783.html?utm_hp_ref=uk David Miliband's Resignation Signals Labour 'Lurch To The Left', Claim Tories The Milliband brothers.   Conservative MPs have seized on David Miliband's decision to quit parliament as evidence the Labour Party is "lurching to the left" under the leadership of his brother. (Huffington Post 28th March 2013) Tory bigots doing what Tory bigots always do when seeking to divert attention away from their own incompetence and ineptitude. The "reds under the bed" cliches have been around for decades and are as shallow now as they have always been. Moreover they are fallacious and puerile in suggesting that Labour has "lurched to the left". If that were the case, the party membership would have increased by thousands overnight as all those disillusioned activists who have left the Labour party in droves since 1990 and ...

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/9936333/Helicopter-rescue-poised-for-privatisation.html Britain’s search and rescue operation is currently run by the Royal Navy, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and the RAF. "The contract is expected to be awarded to Bristow, a US listed company. If Bristow is selected, the news will come as a bitter blow to UK rival, Bond Aviation, which is owned by private equity firm KKR." £3bn privatisation project for helicopter rescue across the UK. The privatisation obsession reaches new insanity. The "friends" of the Tory party must be rubbing their hands in anticipation of huge profits for such a small "investment".

                          http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coalition-shaken-as-cameron-ducks-out-of-vote-on-lords-7932344.html   Stephen Crabb, Philip Dunne, Bill Wiggin and James Duddridge, just who the hell do these thugs think they are?        It is one thing to have a whipping system to ensure support for or against any particular government proposal. It is quite anot her thing to have what seems, from their reported actions, to be something more resembling a group of “enforcers” from the plot of a cheap Hollywood B movie. No matter what some MP's may subsequently say, it is outrageous and, to me at least, completely unacceptable, that an elected member of Parliament, a representative of the people, can be ejected from the parliamentary estate as a result of what is no more than a fit of pique on the part of the PM and his thu...