Yes that's right kids! Our government has put beyond doubt that it does not give a shit about it's people, our future and our children's future. Yes, I am angry, yes this blog will be a fucking awful piece of writing, but honestly, I think I have a valid reason this time...
I'm in the process of writing another blog at the moment but when I saw the news that the plans to expand Heathrow had been approved, I had to vent. Geoff "Saddam Hussein has WMDs" Hoon has decided that his brilliant work in taking the UK into an illegal war for oil (shows that just because you have a LAW degree from Oxford doesn't mean you can't be an absolute fucktard) isn't enough of a legacy and that he needs to strengthening his position near the top of the New Labour league table of idiocy! The 3rd runway will go ahead. Now the evironmental impact of this is obvious for all to see so that's not what I'm going to concentrate on, other than to say that Heathrow's carbon emissions will increase by 7 million tonnes a year, and to put that into perspective the average household causes emission of around 5 tons through power generation and 5 tons through transport. So what Hoon has basically said yes to is something that will stop 1,400,000 desparately needed houses from being built if the UK is to meet it's target to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050.
Now I'm not usually one for looking at the human impact of whatever issue I'm bitching about, but one part of the article really shocked me. Cherry Lane cemetery doesn't actually lie in the area that would be built upon by the airport itself but the proposed roadway that would service the new runway and Terminal 6 would pass straight through it. This would mean the entire cemetery would have to "emptied", yes, every single body that lies there would be dug up and the best thing is that BAA have no current plans of what to do with the people's loved ones once they've distrubed them from the eternal sleep. So not only does our government not care about it's living citizens, it doesn't give much thought the dead ones either.
There's only one thing that can stop it from happening, regime change. Unfortunately it's a sad reflection on our country that the Tories now hold the moral highground, but they have at least come out and said that they would scrap the plans if they came into power, but until then all we can do is protest, sign up to Greenpeace's Airplot campaign, write to your MP, do all of the usual stuff, but this time do more.
The worst part of this whole saga for me isn't the effect on the people of Sipson or even the continued fucking up of our climate, it's been the final proof, if it was needed, of how the government is under the control of corporations. The British Airport Association was consulted by Hoon over the decision. Yeah that's right, the company that wanted the runway to be built was consulted on what to decide.. Honestly, what the fuck? Just what the fuck is it going to take for this government to change their habits of bending over for every corporation that they come across? It's going to take you. We're going to have to get ourselves on the streets and tell these disgusting excuses for human beings what we think of them, this is our country, not just theirs, they are our servants, we are not theirs and most important of all, they are accountable to us.
Friday, 16 January 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009
30 Years of Thatcher
Maggie, Major, Blair, Brown...Cameron?
The five names mentioned above should be familiar to everyone in this country, but the similarities of their policies are probably not:
· Margaret Hilda Thatcher became Prime Minister on 4th May 1979, she served until 28th November 1990, her policies were described as Neo-Liberalist.
· John Major became Prime Minister on 28th November 1990, he served until 2nd May 1997, his policies were described as Neo-Liberalist.
· Anthony Charles Lynton Blair became Prime Minister on 2nd May 1997, he served until 27th June 2007, his policies were described as Neo-Liberalist
· James Gordon Brown became Prime Minister on 27th June 2007, he still holds this position. His policies are described as Neo-Liberalist.
· David William Donald Cameron is set to become the next Prime Minister in Mid-2009 when the next general election is held. His policies are described as Neo-Liberalist.
Since it is now pretty much inevitable that Cameron will become our next PM, maybe this blog should be called (at least) 34 years of Thatcher. However, there is a small hope that the people of country will look at the candidates put before them and realise that the system that has brought about unemployment, recession and increases in terrorism on not just one, but two occasions now!
The Neo-Liberalist ideas of foreign policy and socioeconomic issues simply do not work. Thatcher’s privatisation brought unemployment to millions and ruined our public transport and financial systems, these policies were carried on by Major and by the Blair/Brown administration. Her government’s ideas of combating terrorism (detention without charge/reason, etc.), in the form of the IRA, did not work, Blair and Brown have tried to do the same with their ID cards and 90 day detention without charge. The scrapping of financial regulations (by guess who? Maggie of course!) brought on not one recession, but by continuation of these Neo-Liberalist ideas, has brought the country’s markets their knees again.
Why have we let this happen? Because the majority of our free press think there is a single distinguishing difference besides name between New Labour and the Conservatives, the truth is, when it comes down to it there isn’t one. However it can’t just be blamed on the Sun, Daily Mail, Mirror and other newspapers, we as the British people have to take responsibility for being led blindly by Rupert Murdoch through the last 30 years of governance.
We need to stop this pattern of re-election of the same system over and over again. Next time you read about David Cameron complaining about Gordon Brown’s fucking up of a certain situation, think would he have done it drastically different? Cameron supports the weakening of the FSA whose failure to see that Northern Rock’s investments would lead it to collapse, and in no uncertain terms created the conditions that we see now. How is taking the power of an organisation that didn’t have enough power in the first place meant to help? His ideal is the same as Thatcher, the same as every overpaid, Eton educated, hedge fund manager, to allow the markets to be free. Only by free market Capitalism can people be equal. In a system that favours the rich and allows them to become even richer, can the poorer become better off? Err, put simply, no!
Every example I can think of a country that has succumbed to its businessmen hasn’t become fairer, quite the opposite. The rich multinationals have come in and done what they do best, exploited the poor to increase their profit margins. Human life is secondary, money is everything. Do these people sound like they should be given responsibility for the social and economic welfare of a country? Let alone be allowed to roam our streets as free men?
I know I’m rambling a bit here but my overall point is that we can’t trust Cameron, just as much as we can’t trust Brown, just as we couldn’t trust that disgusting, piece of crap, liar, war criminal Prime Minister that we had before. We can’t trust the traditional news outlets either, yes the stories they report are real, but it’s the one’s they miss that are the most worrying. Accept for perhaps the Guardian, all of the British press is controlled by large media empires that perpetuate the myth of fear. Fear of everything around you and mistrust of anyone who thinks differently from the norm.
“There is a fist pressing against anyone thinks something compelling”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance”
Think. That’s all I’m saying, that’s all you have to do, just think things through before you take them on board as believable. Look at getting your news from a few different independent sources, the internet’s a wonderful thing.
Or don’t, and in 20 years time I’ll see you in the gutter for the next recession.
The five names mentioned above should be familiar to everyone in this country, but the similarities of their policies are probably not:
· Margaret Hilda Thatcher became Prime Minister on 4th May 1979, she served until 28th November 1990, her policies were described as Neo-Liberalist.
· John Major became Prime Minister on 28th November 1990, he served until 2nd May 1997, his policies were described as Neo-Liberalist.
· Anthony Charles Lynton Blair became Prime Minister on 2nd May 1997, he served until 27th June 2007, his policies were described as Neo-Liberalist
· James Gordon Brown became Prime Minister on 27th June 2007, he still holds this position. His policies are described as Neo-Liberalist.
· David William Donald Cameron is set to become the next Prime Minister in Mid-2009 when the next general election is held. His policies are described as Neo-Liberalist.
Since it is now pretty much inevitable that Cameron will become our next PM, maybe this blog should be called (at least) 34 years of Thatcher. However, there is a small hope that the people of country will look at the candidates put before them and realise that the system that has brought about unemployment, recession and increases in terrorism on not just one, but two occasions now!
The Neo-Liberalist ideas of foreign policy and socioeconomic issues simply do not work. Thatcher’s privatisation brought unemployment to millions and ruined our public transport and financial systems, these policies were carried on by Major and by the Blair/Brown administration. Her government’s ideas of combating terrorism (detention without charge/reason, etc.), in the form of the IRA, did not work, Blair and Brown have tried to do the same with their ID cards and 90 day detention without charge. The scrapping of financial regulations (by guess who? Maggie of course!) brought on not one recession, but by continuation of these Neo-Liberalist ideas, has brought the country’s markets their knees again.
Why have we let this happen? Because the majority of our free press think there is a single distinguishing difference besides name between New Labour and the Conservatives, the truth is, when it comes down to it there isn’t one. However it can’t just be blamed on the Sun, Daily Mail, Mirror and other newspapers, we as the British people have to take responsibility for being led blindly by Rupert Murdoch through the last 30 years of governance.
We need to stop this pattern of re-election of the same system over and over again. Next time you read about David Cameron complaining about Gordon Brown’s fucking up of a certain situation, think would he have done it drastically different? Cameron supports the weakening of the FSA whose failure to see that Northern Rock’s investments would lead it to collapse, and in no uncertain terms created the conditions that we see now. How is taking the power of an organisation that didn’t have enough power in the first place meant to help? His ideal is the same as Thatcher, the same as every overpaid, Eton educated, hedge fund manager, to allow the markets to be free. Only by free market Capitalism can people be equal. In a system that favours the rich and allows them to become even richer, can the poorer become better off? Err, put simply, no!
Every example I can think of a country that has succumbed to its businessmen hasn’t become fairer, quite the opposite. The rich multinationals have come in and done what they do best, exploited the poor to increase their profit margins. Human life is secondary, money is everything. Do these people sound like they should be given responsibility for the social and economic welfare of a country? Let alone be allowed to roam our streets as free men?
I know I’m rambling a bit here but my overall point is that we can’t trust Cameron, just as much as we can’t trust Brown, just as we couldn’t trust that disgusting, piece of crap, liar, war criminal Prime Minister that we had before. We can’t trust the traditional news outlets either, yes the stories they report are real, but it’s the one’s they miss that are the most worrying. Accept for perhaps the Guardian, all of the British press is controlled by large media empires that perpetuate the myth of fear. Fear of everything around you and mistrust of anyone who thinks differently from the norm.
“There is a fist pressing against anyone thinks something compelling”
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
“It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance”
Think. That’s all I’m saying, that’s all you have to do, just think things through before you take them on board as believable. Look at getting your news from a few different independent sources, the internet’s a wonderful thing.
Or don’t, and in 20 years time I’ll see you in the gutter for the next recession.
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