Political Aspiration Vs Sell-out

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

Why is it that so many people that became politicians claimed they did so to change the world around them and failed so stunningly? We all understand the necessity for compromise yet they do not just compromise they acquiesce to the promise of more power which they misguidedly believe will allow them to achieve their aims and goals; the laudable ones they came into office for – yet the gradual erosion of these ideals literally means that our society will always be called in an endless spiral downward.

Party politics is mostly to blame for this endless drop in standards, why? That’s simple it is the natural order to be wanted to be a part of something as opposed to a part from it and what is lost in party politics is the ability to think completely objectively and thus to discern when something most certainly needs to be spoken out against. If we look at politics objectively what do we find; we find that the hooliganism we see in the Commons offers very little by way of leadership, indeed it seems to be more about who has the more witty riposte or the most intellectually ascribed putdown, it ceases to be about anything other than the personalities and that is dangerous.

Labour: what was this party originally set up to achieve? It was there to represent the common man the working man and woman to ensure that the standards under which they worked were not harmful or damaging to their health and well-being to ensure that they received adequate remuneration for the work they carried out, is this the Labour Party we now see?

Conservative: by their very name they are supposed to conserve yet what is it that they try to conserve, by all appearances it seems to be the wealthy. They like low taxation because it allows the wealthy to be taxed less they believe in harsher penalties for criminals yet we’ve seen very little of that recently and they claim to be a caring party yet what we have seen is an erosion of lifestyle at for the lowest 70% who earn the barest minimum, whilst those at the top seem to achieve an endless stream of unfettered finance.

Liberals: this is a party that believes in what? I’ve tried to ascribed to some of the values of the Liberal party yet fail when it comes to this notion that terrorists should receive all the same human rights as the rest of us this does not make us enlightened this does not make us better it just makes us gullible because we believe that if we have a higher standard we are better, but we’re not!

So what do I want from politicians? How about honesty, fairness, representation, decency and last but not least humanity true humanity not the sort they put out in press releases. Politicians fail to understand the most basic tenant upon which they are elected; they are elected to serve the people not to enrich themselves, their friends, their class, or those that might provide them with a financial means to achieve their aims and goals artificially.

Taxation as someone recently said on a radio programme, should be on the goods and services we purchase not on what we earn, not on our profits and certainly not on owning homes. If we pay tax on food, clothing, transport, energy, and services nobody could avoid taxation. So what do you think, is this perhaps the fairest way forward where people of lesser means pay less tax by virtue of what they buy whilst those that are purchasing big-ticket items are paying greater percentage to have their luxury, is that not fairer? I’m not hundred percent certain on how that would work but it does seem a lot fairer since the greater cost of an item the more tax you’d pay. I

What I do know is that our society is so incredibly unfair that it will explode we have seen what a small portion of the population are capable of during the riots across the country recently and whilst I do not condone in fact I found it loathsome to see what people were capable of; greed and thievery etc., It does show that if society wishes it can tear down every single basic and fundamental decency that it has taken hundreds of years to achieve, civilized society. We live in a society that is based on money until we don’t I believe suffering and hardship and death will be all that some of us have to look forward to. I do not count myself as being a resident in the last category even though I struggle, I am by no means destitute.

The two competing ideas revolve around helping yourself or helping others, they should not be mutually exclusive.

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Irony

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

What is irony? Politicians stating they are gaining trust when all the electorate is doing is protesting against the guys in power – guys being the operative word! What is wrong with the whole idealistic view that one can change the world when one joins politics? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, it is one of those annoying things sacrificed in order to ‘get on’ in the chosen profession. Another irony, political profession – surely it is a calling? Why do we give aid to other countries – to assuage our colonial guilt? How can it be that most politicians take the money of the masses and see themselves as some kind of arbiters of how the distribution should be carried out?

 

Taxation should be on spend not on earnings, or profits – if we place taxes on what we spend, on goods and services no one can avoid tax! Easy fix, will never happen because it is too easy!

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Justification is not an option

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

Change you can believe in – said Barrack Obama and for a while there I genuinely think he believed it. I am sure many politicians in the making set out to change the world and end up simply changing their bank balance and earning potential post Parliament or during.

I was interested and participating in politics but now a jaded cynic sits in the place of the once optimist.

I am not sure what the word means anymore – optimism. Companies in this country are being forced to the brink of collapse, there are no jobs, and the stores are making little profit because people are not spending. The cycle is worn, it is familiar, yet time and again we repeat it without a single alteration.

We let it happen and then we wallow in the despair it causes.

We pay one person £1.2 million and then give a bonus to ‘incentivise’ that person – I am not sure that many of us would need an incentive to do our job if the standard pay cheque was £1.2 million a year. Many of us would and do spend as much time working to improve our businesses and for little to no reward – just to continue in the paradoxical survival cycle.

MPs do not for the most part deserve our trust, our loyalty or our ignorance.  They will never change the systematic poverty cycle because it is not profitable – they will make war and build nuclear weapons because they can – spending billions on these useless weapons of mass destruction whilst allowing groups within their own population to die from hypothermia, cancer, and other pernicious  illnesses. They talk about the benefits cycle, not working causing poverty and generations of spongers – now turn that around – the ‘ruling classes’ have done the same thing yet they have wealth and position and thus are exempted from the normal rules.

Miliband is useless because he won’t ever be honest.

Cameron is useless because he won’t ever be honest.

Clegg is useless because of all of the above and more.

Realists understand that there will always be sacrifices and hardship along the road, yet when the structure of society is so heavily weighted against the masses by the few it will never just be a small sacrifice, it will always be the one that pushes you closer to the edge, until you are barely clinging on.

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Depression

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Hands up all those who have glibly said – I’m depressed. Diagnosed or self diagnosed? It infuriates that society as a whole has failed to be informed about depression and what it does to the home that has a clinically depressed inhabitant. Take me, I was diagnosed with depression in 2000 – probably having suffered from it without diagnosis for years before hand.

I self harmed when I was younger – finding a way to release the pain and suffering that constantly plagued my mind with the physical show of blood to combat the malaise. Only when one begins to come to terms with the illness can one truly understand the depth of its effects. Your mind can easily become confused and frustrated, overwhelmed and literally wild with the need to be free of the turmoil. From very precarious highs to incredibly dark and deep lows – depression is a formidable foe and one to be respected. The second you forget what it is, it will bring the very horseman of hell upon you.

Stigma is a word often associated with depression – too many think it is some madness and shameful to admit. Discrimination is rife I am now censored from discussing such blatant discrimination as I signed a COT3 or ‘gagging order’  upon the conclusion of interaction with a former employer.

Consider; physical injury occurs, reasonable adjustment is made – adjustment gives job for 3.5 years. Depression aka mental illness occurs, former adjustment withdrawn and so begins the long walk to discrimination as the previous physical injury becomes the tool of dismissal. Define temporary 3.5 years – a ‘temporary’ post that doesn’t exist. So it is nice to know that I was MI5 for so long hush, not a word – this is not a real job! It’s a temporary.

What the hell is temporary about 42 months? I have to confess to being utterly disillusioned with our legal system having so been a recipient of the dotted i and crossed t brigade. Just because so one is canny with paperwork does not make it right. How can I make people sit up and understand the agony of depression (not the oh I couldn’t get the nail varnish I wanted, depressed much) depression, but true depression? Worthlessness horror and terror are not conditions I am unfamiliar with – try walking around a supermarket with your house mate and finding yourself almost manic. Pure unadulterated terror ensues because now it is a battle to stop an outburst or physical assault on someone because they are in my space. I get manic about trolleys being too close, people being behind me and just the whole claustrophobic experience.

Help is hard to get and to find – I am in the 3rd stage of depression as I see it – acceptance. I will never lose this illness, I must therefore learn to get along with it as best as I can. Proviso I have a bolt hole, I think I can manage small steps – one by one, perhaps then my mind might find enough common ground to learn disciplined activities such as, study! Wish me luck …. if you even read it. Good night and good sleep!

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Referendum blues

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

What is it about our democracy that makes so many sheep? To actually go against the flow takes courage and compassion, so many in Parliament lacked that tonight. Is it any wonder that extremist parties get so much time to vent their venomous views when so few in the main parties have insight into the feeling of so many of the public?

Many are fed up with dictate from EU – the get rich quick MEPs and the spineless leadership of the United Kingdom to stand up for what so many of the people want. If leaving the EU causes a depression, so be it – at least it will be of our own making.
Is it not time we stopped and reviewed this whole car-crash that is the European gravy train? No one minds trading with EU – what we mind is being labelled. I am not European I am ENGLISH, I want my nationality to count for something. Is it not sad that American’s are so proud of their origin and we keep giving ours different labels – British, European – ENGLISH?

Frank Field said it well in tonight’s debate I too am bewildered that the political masters fail to recognise that I, like many am sick of everyone claiming the right of heritage elsewhere, whilst the English aspect is being ignored. My nationality has been removed from most forms and hijacked by a minority of racist minded ridiculously posturing narrow mentality thugs. I found myself in awe of some Labour politicians who spoke up loud and clear on their own view of an experimental endeavour that continues to plunge itself into a Orwellian state intent on its own import and mandate.
I feel disenfranchised from the England I live in because between the Euromantics and the Eurosceptics there is an arm wrestling match which fails to resemble anything close to where I come from – a brand of politics that does not represent the people and a cynicism of the press that squeezes and tries to manipulate at every turn. They want their agenda, and the parties are all so busy courting one image or the other they forgot how to be honest.
What’s broken in this country is morality decency and a willingness to help others whether in physical or in spirit, there is such little emphasis on dignity and honour that so many in tonight’s debate compromised the very notion of nobility by making all kinds of excuses as to why they would not allow a nation to vote on inclusion or exclusion of the European project. It, like capitalism is failing wholesale because the power hungry few with their millions fail to adjust their thinking inclusively to the smaller individual who seek fairness above all else.
What makes anyone worth more in society – why should politicians earn £67k a year whilst road sweepers earn £12k. What makes their responsibilities so much greater is complicating the lives of others, whilst road sweepers clean up messes so often left behind by the so-called educated classes. You think you are clever, studying all these disciplines long brought out by those that used the same tools to dominant and segregate wealth and power. You might be rich, but you are not no more entitled or efficient than the individual who cleans up the messes you make.
Each time political classes fail who picks up that failure and must be the beast of burden – not the rich, not those that can afford to retire now due to millions they’ve made, no, it is always the little person, the one that apparently does not deserve a say in how their lives are run. Someone must stop the minority, someone must stand up and tell them that they think they are clever, educated and fiscally knowledgeable, yet all they have achieved is hardship for those that can ill afford their cock-ups.

It is a dime a government, Labour spent too much, the Tories want to cut everything, whilst the Libdems seem to be content to sit on the fence and do U-turns on every single promise (except that is the modus operandi of all parties).

Who the hell do these people think they are, the elite who will never cede a vote to the little person because that little person might just prove to be smarter than all of the self styled great and mighty minds put together.

All those be they Labour, Tory, Green, or NI representatives, you gave us a glimpse of what democracy should be. A trickle will become a flood, stick to your guns and speak for those of us that apparently do not have a right to be heard because the chattering classes think they’re too good to listen to us.

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Enough Procrastination

Posted on August 16, 2011 by

Isn’t it time we stopped with long drawn out speeches of intent and actually did something? It is pointless posturing, threatening, and having barbs back and forth between the political parties! It is this nonsense and unruly behaviour that makes everyone think it is acceptable.

The ruling classes and yes, they still are – do not comprehend the most basic aspect of our society. We are supposed to be in a democracy yet we are not permitted a say. It is all very well to state we can ‘vote them out’ at the next election, but that is four years away and in the meantime I for one, sit disgruntled at the decision to send billions abroad, to fund trident nuclear weapons, so on and so forth. What cost a fair and decent society where we are capable of caring for our elderly, vulnerable and improve the living conditions across the country.

Cameron (I voted conservative by the way) needs to stop meeting with world leaders and meet his own people. Politicians are not accessible and that makes them the enemy in the eyes of many. The financial situation is the fault of everybody, Labour might have behaved with reckless abandon, sold off the gold at low rates, but at what point do we look forward and not backward?

Ed Miliband is trying to popularise himself as much as Cameron is and this is the problem. Instead of grass-roots activism, instead of going and talking to the country, they make flying high-profile visits, “Look at me, I care more than the other guy”, and little else comes of it. So we’re now having a commission, what’s the bloody point? What happened to having a National Conversation? Twitter is not the place, but it is good to engage, so kudos to Ed for that.

We need to address all the things that people find utterly unbelievable. They keep telling us it is tax payers money, so ask the tax payer before sending billions overseas, before paying millions to the EU and replacing Trident. A referendum for these issues could all be done at once – one single form, yes or no against each and that’s the people deciding.

The riots were a mixture of outright anarchy and thuggery combined with a ‘jolly two fingers at authority’ and theft. People died and some kids thought it was ‘fun’. The police need to be able to police. Not by consent, that is such nonsense – we need law and order and they need the funding to achieve it. I don’t think elected commissioners are the answer, just cost more money and no doubt will have a bloody great wage packet too.

I would like to see what our police think, grass-roots and higher ranks. They are the ones on the frontline and no one asks their view. It was wrong of the politicians to complain about the way it was policed. It is time we dealt with the issues without the big speeches and the puffing out of chests. It is pointless evicting families whose children rioted, it is time to engage them and make sure that they understand consequences, to ask them to work for their benefits cleaning up their community and learning a trade, perhaps painting, or working with local store keepers in understanding how difficult it is to manage a business, getting the balances.

Don’t apologise for what happened, fix it. Actions speak so much louder and with clarity that words will never achieve.

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Politics – The Prequel, Sequel, 1-1000000

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Seriously bored with politics because they achieve absolutely nothing by way of change. Worse than bored I am frustrated and disappointed. The entire reason for the existance of Parliament appears to be to line the pockets of the inhabitants and to maintain the status Quo. Whatever political colour they simply fail to understand the most fundamentally important aspect of social interaction – parity. W talk about the fall of communism and how oppresive it is, yet maintaining the status quo is oppressive. It is all about money, profit and bottom line – within that the loss of family, happiness and parity disappears.

Whilst it is acceptable to have such a difference in wage from the top to the bottom, whilst it is acceptable to have an unelected chamber claiming £300 a day for doing bugger all then we will never change away from the capitalist virus.

MPs do nothing. They lecture, they blame, they offer sarcasm and little else. The performance at PMQs is nothing more than uncontrolled partisanship that lends itself to the very worst of our society and frankly, take out the theft (although some might argue that expenses was theft and mostly unpunished) and you have the making of a mob.

Frankly the rich front benches of all parties need to start realising how detrimental their lack of action and bullshit are to the country. I am sick and tired of it, each time a partisan debate starts, for that see Livingstone who I think believes everything he says is crap, but says it anyway – Harriet Harmon was doing likewise on Newsnight apparently and last night Baroness Warsi and Diane Abbott decided to join in – I expect more from these people, but they always fall back to the old script because the rewrite would actually mean working for the people rather than with their parties.

It is time for change, not change we can believe in, change we can see. Wages need parity, less overseas aid, withdraw from EU if it is costing us so much – a true what we pay to what we get ratio. We can trade with europe without funding it.

The speaker is trying to stop the ranting and people like Andrew Neil like to bitch about it on Daily Politics – well I agree – that behaviour is systemic of the kind of anarchy we’ve seen on our streets. It is time to step up and behave like adults not take cheap partisan shots across the dispatch box.

Cameron, Clegg, Miliband – don’t you think it’s time? Will you show true leadership and work to help our country rather than yourselves? I am not holding my breath, but I can hope.

In the meantime, I don’t think I am in the minority in wishing our politicians would start acting like adults and not children or worse than children in the playground. STOP and think. My own MP has disappointed in such a way that I won’t be voting for him again. My local MP is Jacob Rees-Mogg – thus far he has avoided answering a single question, and left me struggling without assistance for my depression whilst speaking in Parliament in a debate demanding more money for the Royal Family. They don’t exactly need his help, but I did, and I didn’t get it. Shame on you Mr Rees-Mogg.

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