The week of silly suggestions

Yes, it has been a week of silly suggestions coming out from the Conservative Party Conference. I have become scared of listening to the news in dread of hearing yet another stupid idea of theirs.
First, they suggested that inmates should work for private companies. Apparently, it's time for prisoners to get out of their beds and start to work and a small fraction of the profit from the prisoners’ work will go to victim support. But does this not mean that the punishment for the prisoners kind of increases? They been judged to stay a certain time behind bars as a punishment for their crimes but now the Government suggest they should go to the salt mines and do some slave work as well. Will this result in shorter time behind bars then, or?
They already have this system in place in America and there we can see some worrying results. The industry has developed into a new form of slavery where black and Hispanic inmates are exploited as cheap labour. In America you can also see a strange situation where crimes go down but jail population goes up. Read more about the effects of the Government’s suggestion will have in an article by Vicky Pelaez on Global Research website
Secondly, the conservatives want to make the GPs responsible for the local NHS budget. Instead of having a democratic system where tax payers get NHS care based on “equal rights for all” decided by elected politicians the conservatives would like the GP to decide who will get treatment and who will not. As if postcode lottery was not bad enough as it is. I live in a poor area in South London and many people in my area suffer from poor health, often generated from their poverty. The conservative’s new suggestion will mean that my GP will not be able to provide treatment and care for all people that need it. Instead the doctor has to choose between his patients. I can only see this suggestion as being extremely unfair. So inequality must be what the conservatives mean when they talk about ‘Together in the National Interest.’
Thirdly, Cameron wants to cut down on benefits for everyone that can work so that they can no longer live on other peoples taxes! But what he actually says with such statement is that people on sickness benefits are fraudsters that really are fit and healthy but just too lazy to work, which is not true. Most people on sickness benefits are really sick.
What about the MPs deductions for toilet seats, reparations on their homes and other silly deductions, are they not an obvious abuse of tax payers’ money?
The question here is; who is the real parasite in this society? The sick and poor or the rich and greedy?
Personally, I have worked and paid taxes since I was fourteen and I have no children, I do not drive a car, I live in the city and I don't smoke. Should I then, according to Cameron, pay less tax than the people that does all the above?
But if we all discussed like that, nobody would have to pay taxes and then the state will fall apart and we get anarchy. I think Cameron and his friends' own greed got the better of them on the conference and they all got a major brain fart!
And when it comes to the cut in child benefits for families with one ‘high’ earner, don't even get me started!

This is the reason why I have spent the week watching the history programmes on Demand on 4 and stayed clear of the news.

1 comment:

  1. Just wait until Bloody Wednesday when the Tory vermin escape from their cages to destroy our public services.
    Pity we seem to have gone soft and that the once great British public have swallowed the line that the cuts are inevitable and will meekly accept their fate. We should be like the French and rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    As a diversion see how many names you can put to the faces in my quiz. Keep battling Sarah.
    Regards
    David

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