Revolution not on TV

Well, we certainly know who it ISN'T. For example it isn't big corporations like Starbucks and Amazon, who were recently exposed as being mega tax-avoiders. Also, it isn't big business types like those who support the Tories and pay large sums into the party election funds. Many of these hide a lot of their money in offshore tax havens, and the unpaid tax provides the cash which goes to the Tories. The sums involved amount to many millions, if not billions. Chancellor Osborne will always steer clear of highlighting this kind of tax dodging, as will the so-called Taxpayers' Alliance, which is essentially a Tory lobby group anyway.
The real taxpayer, rather obviously when you think about it, is someone who pays tax on any income they earn. This includes pensioners, who pay tax on their state pension, but it also includes trade union members, who pay tax on the low wages they get from their trade or employment. These are two of the groups being hit by Cameron and Osborne's austerity, not the bankers and financiers of the City of London. It is worth bearing this in mind when the Tory tabloids (and the spokesmen they regularly slot into Sky News and the BBC) berate the unions about 'holding the country to ransom'. A lot of the general public don't really understand the agenda underpinning this, and how ordinary people can be cajoled and controlled by the media repeating Tory mantras.

When an inanely smiling senior executive stands up and announces that they'd like to say sorry and that the company's policy is now to "REBUILD TRUST" - you should ask yourself why they didn't use the words "become WORTHY OF TRUST!"

After throwing in the towel last year as a Tory MP, and thus creating a by-election which the Tories then lost to Labour, Louise Mensch now pops up in The Sun as a 'loyal Conservative' (her own words).To Mensch's quirky way of thinking, 'Cameron fought a dignified campaign' in Eastleigh, as against Labour's Ed Miliband who didn't because he 'ran a comedian who made hateful remarks about Margaret Thatcher'. Mensch reckons this shows no respect for voters in southern England.
Never mind all the voters who can't stand the sight of Thatcher, or the fact that the said comedian's remarks were written years ago when he was young and radical. Mensch deliberately selects an acutely negative angle to build up her hatchet job on him. Labour didn't expect much change in Eastleigh anyway as it's been a traditionally hopeless seat for many years. But it's being claimed as 'a disaster' for them by the Tories. Cameron's 'dignified campaign', by the way, involved deploying the same Thatcher allegation at Labour, with some Tories even accusing the Labour candidate of being a terrorist! And a Lib Dem smear story was also introduced to the media shortly before the Eastleigh polling day. Hardly dignified, Louise. Just the usual dirty tricks tactics expected of desperate politicians. And the Tories ARE desperate. They'll be wiped out in 2015, despite all the efforts of our lying media to aid and assist them. And UKIP will help to wipe them out.

Anyone tuning in to BBC Radio 4's TODAY programme around 8.30 this morning (Saturday) could be forgiven if they thought they were listening to a Party Political Broadcast. On behalf of the Conservatives, that is. TODAY had taken an extended orchestral metaphor posed by Tory strategist Tim Montgomerie the other day and put it to music. Thus we heard Montgomerie speaking of Cameron, Osborne and other Tories as musicians in a symphony while their selected instruments played behind his words. All quite emotive really, if you happened to be a Tory supporter. It was basically a five minute Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Tories by the BBC! And the broadcaster keeps saying it is impartial?! Well, it could've fooled me, especially as it regularly has Tory spokespeople on air to support what the Cameron government is cack-handedly doing.

"We're on the right track now" David Cameron said in his New Year's speech.
Well, if it was the economy he meant then the above clipping, from Saturday's
Daily Express no less, seems to indicate otherwise. Cameron has to talk
positive of course because to admit he and Osborne haven't a clue would be
conceding defeat. He's also said recently "We have a tankfull of gas". Being
the gasbag he is he'll never be short of gas personally. Meanwhile the doom-
clouds gather for us in 2013. Expect weapons of mass distraction, especially
smoke, to be much in evidence to hide Coalition incompetence. The £ will
likely be devalued too.
No way will Cameron and the Tories win the 2015 election.

Anmer Hall, a listed mansion with 10 bedrooms, swimming pool, tennis court, stables, and
various other extras is to be a 'gift from the Queen for William and Kate. It should get them
nicely on the property ladder, although a flat or maybe a small bungalow might have been
more in keeping with austerity measures hitting others. Yes, we're all in this together all right,
only some are more in it than the rest of us. No mention of scroungers or taxpayers' money
when it comes to these people, and the Queen and Co. keep getting their income topped up too!

Rent and utility bills increasing, austerity cuts ongoing into the far future, and now whopping railfare increases to put even more financial pressure on Janet and Joe Public. The Coalition-zapped 99% will need more than the memory of the Olympics and Kate Middleton's forthcoming Royal birth to sustain them during this blitz. But we should all cheer up, because George Osborne says he's winning the deficit battle. Yet even if he is (which I seriously doubt), will it actually make any difference to us? Will utility bills and railfares go down at some point, along with taxes and bank charges? My own view on Osborne's performance is that he's flying by the seat of his pants regarding economic policy, and some day very soon those same pants are going to fall around his ankles. Trust me. It seems like an obvious thing to say but people need a decent income to pay their bills and buy things, otherwise their level of personal debt just rises and rises. Prevalent credit card use masks this, but it is nevertheless an economic fact. Pay levels in the UK are far too low, and continue to cause problems for many  working families. Instead of trumpeting that benefits are too generous (they're anything but) the government should be making genuine provision for increasing wages. Any employment generated so far consists mainly of low wage part-time jobs, which simply maintains the financial crisis level of people moving into these jobs from benefit status. And there are still not enough work opportunities anyway to cater for employment demand. Visit your local Jobcentre and see what's on offer if you doubt this. 

With rightwing pundits like 'Toxic' Leo around it's really perilous to be poor. If he can find just
one scrounger in a million then for sure that's who he'll write about. He's very clever, but equally very sly and dangerous. And he certainly doesn't show mercy.

As George Osborne continues to go easy on the banks he simultaneously wreaks hardship on innocent people. This is done under the banner of 'fairness'. Yet it is banks and bankers worldwide who have wrecked economies with their financial plundering. And UK banks STILL hold back funding to businesses after receiving economy-boosting billions in QE money from the Bank of England. Banks are the root cause of the economic crisis. After that, in the UK's case, the problem lies with Osborne's pig-headedness not to alter his failed policy. If the chancellor genuinely wants to reduce our deficit, which is far smaller than that of America (trillions!), he could use measures such as a Financial Transaction Tax on banks in the UK. Yet he won't. Instead he tells lies about the economy and remains ideologically focused on cutting welfare to millions of innocent people. I hope he ends up on the dole sometime soon. And without anything in the bank to fall back on.

He's conveniently pushing aside any criticism of the bankers and the City of London in general. The bankers caused the mess, which is why it's a global problem. Unless Labour have some secret CIA team operating.