The real benefit scroungers and cheats

Who are the real benefit scroungers?  Yes there are people out there that have never worked a day of their lives.  Yes there are junkies and alcoholics who are a drain on resource they don’t know what day of the week it is and will never be clean or sober enough to ever work.

But almost everyone on benefits wants to work but just can’t find a job no matter how hard they try, how many applications they fill in and how many interviews they go on. These are people who want a job, want to contribute to society and make a better life for them and their family.  These are not the scroungers who are bleeding the system dry and have to pay for everyday things “TOOTH PASTE” and cleaning their own cloths

David Lidington conservative Member of Parliament for Aylesbury attempted to justify his claims of fairness:

    “I think the principle remains right that while staff should always behave with courtesy towards people seeking to claim benefits, it is also right that we should expect people who are receiving benefits to be subject to the kind of disciplines that apply to people in work even if they are on low pay”.

But are Conservative MPs subject to the same disciplines? Benefit claimants living off around £70 a week may find it difficult to accept lectures on fairness from MPs like Lidington.  The MP for Aylesbury once claimed £1,300 of public money for his dry-cleaning. He also made claims for toothpaste, shower gel and body spray. Lidington has been criticised for claiming almost double his salary in expenses. From an objective standpoint, Lidington is a benefit claimant costing us a massive amount more than an ordinary claimant.

Also, if we’re talking fairness with public funds, the Conservatives’ austerity programme has piled on more debt than every post-war Labour government combined.  Chronic under-investment in public services (cuts) only increases debt.

If people have jobs which pay at minimum the living wage they would not be on benefit. They would pay tax and national insurance.  They would not need council tax or housing benefit.  They would spend their money on goods and services and in turn this would boost the economy. 

Common sense, the conservative government don’t do common sense they do greedy short term line your pockets first “F**K YOU” approach.  The rich get rich everyone else gets F**KED.

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May has revealed who’s guiding Brexit

Theresa May has revealed who’s guiding her Brexit negotiations: God. But fortunately, LBC host James O’Brien had a truth bomb at the ready:

What if Sadiq Khan came out and said ‘I’ve decided to hire a night Tsar because Allah told me to’?

Bravo. The corporate tabloids and their readers would likely be in uproar over such a comment from the London Mayor. For O’Brien, this outrage should apply to Christianity having influence over politics as well as Islam. His point is that any religion should be kept well away from parliament:

That chills me to the core when politicians come out and cite some form of divine legitimacy for their political decisions. Such claims of divine legitimacy appear to have been dangerous in the past. Tony Blair’s old long-term political agent said the former Prime Minister viewed Iraq as a “Christian battle”. O’Brien noted the similar claims of Blair’s American counterpart in his LBC commentary:

It’s like George W. Bush saying that God told him to invade Iraq. The political commentator finished his two cents by elaborating on the double standard. And he was unequivocal:

If you wanted to give me a slap for saying Theresa May probably shouldn’t bring God into conversations about Brexit, then you also have to be in favour of and cheerleading if someone of a different faith, and I’ll pick a Muslim mayor off the top of my head, says that he uses his faith in order to make his political decisions. You can’t like one and not like the other. Religion either has a role in public life or it doesn’t.

In short, O’Brien thinks faith should be separate from politics. But Karl Marx would argue that religion does have a fundamental political function. For the ruling elites. Religion suppresses ordinary people because it teaches that social justice will be achieved in the afterlife. It gives people false hope and encourages passivity. While this is worth considering, May appropriating Christianity for her own legislative decisions takes the politicisation of religion to another level. As O’Brien argues, there is no place for it in a modern society.

Thanks to the Canary

Please follow the link to see the full video

http://www.thecanary.co/2016/11/29/now-may-revealed-whos-guiding-brexit-obrien-sums-outrage-single-sentence-video/

40 Scottish Labour MPs Were "F*cking Useless"Claims Current Shadow Cabinet Minister

A good bit stuff from the Huffpost that I had to share.

Labour was facing major embarrassment today after it emerged that one of its current Shadow Cabinet ministers had described its former MPs in Scotland as “f*cking useless”.

The revelation, which is sure to be pounced on by the SNP, came from an academic who had exclusive access to senior party figures for a new guide to the 2015 general election. Philip Cowley, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London said that he’d asked about Labour’s disastrous performance north of the border.

Prof Cowley, who was co-author with Dennis Kavanagh of ‘The British General Election of 2015’, told students at the book’s launch this week that he got a surprising reply from the unnamed Labour MP.

“There was an interview with a Shadow Cabinet member. This is a current, serving Shadow Cabinet member, who told us the result in Scotland had an upside. “This was after the election. And we naively said ‘how could it possibly have an upside?’ “And he said - and this is a direct quote - ‘well because it’s got rid of 40 fucking useless MPs”

Referring to the recent Labour analysis of why the party lost the last election, Prof Cowley joked: “You won’t find that in Margaret Beckett’s report.” Labour lost all but one of its 41 seats in Scotland in May 2015, as the SNP scored one of the most stunning political victories in living memory.

Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish National Party won 56 out of the 59 seats as voters flocked in record numbers to her party’s message. Only Ian Murray, now Shadow Scotland Secretary, was the only Labour MP to survive the SNP ‘tsunami’.

Among the casualties were Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander, who was defeated by Mhairi Black, and Shadow Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy, who lost his own 10,000 majority to the SNP.

The SNP’s Shadow Commons Leader Pete Wishart pounced on the remarks, telling HuffPost UK: ‘’Labour’s election disaster in Scotland was inevitable following their toxic campaign alliance with the Tories in the referendum and their extraordinary support for George Osborne’s austerity and cuts - hitting families and communities hard.

“They let the people of Scotland down again and again. Their woes continue – now finding themselves locked in a battle for second place with the Tories for the Holyrood elections.

“With their plans to shift the burden of Tory austerity onto workers by hiking taxes on the low paid being comprehensively rejected, their situation is only going to get worse.’’ Other former ministers and shadow ministers who lost seats included Cathy Jamieson, Gregg McClymont, Margaret Curran, Tom Harris and Tom Greatrex.

And among those who lost was also Katy Clark, the left-wing MP who is now Jeremy Corbyn’s political secretary. Buoyed by Mr Corbyn’s victory and the election of Scottish leader Kezia Dugdale, the party has been trying to win back support.

But polls suggest it will receive another drubbing in the coming Holyrood elections for the Scottish Parliament in May, losing possibly all of its constituency seats. In-fighting over Labour’s failures at the last election has seen some argue that the party directed valuable resources in Scotland when it should have been defending seats like that of Ed Balls and others in England.

Some Labour MPs are pushing hard for a more distinctive English message for the party, with former Shadow Education Secretary recently calling for a referendum on an English Parliament, amid fears it will take years to recover in Scotland.

At the book launch this week, Prof Cowley also revealed that Ed Miliband’s reaction to poor polls presented by pollster Stan Greenberg was “Why do you have to be so negative?”

He said that the Prime Minister had a very different approach to negative polls. “Compare that with David Cameron’s reaction when presented with some really quite difficult polling in 2011 on the NHS. Cameron scribbled on the memo: ‘Give me the right language in speeches, and physically attack me - underlined - with the right words before an interview. I will do what I am told’.”

Prof Cowley said that some would see that remark as a sign of a shallow cynical politician. “For me it’s a sign of a pro,” he said. “It’s a sign of someone prepared to listen to expert advice. And maybe it’s one of the reasons that he will be Prime Minister, by the time he leaves for something close to 10 years, and Ed Miliband won’t be.” He added that in January 2011, Labour led by an average of 5% in opinion polls, but went on to lose the election by 7%. Labour are currently behind by 8% points.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/02/12/40-scottish-labour-mps-we_n_9216594.html