The love of money

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261906/Goldman-Sachs-bankers-reward-staggering-8-3billion-bonuses.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261996/Three-rail-bosses-line-1-2m-pay-packages-commuters-race-rocketing-fare-rises.html

Want to make famous people richer?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261040/Would-pay-100-message-Mark-Zuckerberg-Facebook-trialing-charges-users-send-messages-directly-VIPs-inboxes.html

In this article Facebook is to trial a service where you pay to send famous people a message in return for a fee.

Could Cameron be showing signs of delusion?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257854/David-Cameron-wants-seven-years-Downing-street-push-enormous-reform-agenda.html

According to the Daily Mail website:
- Cameron wants to serve as Prime Minister until 2020
- to push on with the reform agenda
- to press on with same sex marriage
- press on with benefits cuts for the wealthiest
- press on with overseas aid
- tomorrow will set out the top priorities for the rest of his term
- expect to introduce a cap on elderly care costs at £75,000
- implement pension and child care reforms
- change our role in Europe
- introduce a 'deport first, appeal second' system for deportees, appealing only if they faced serious harm

According to my thinking this means:
- we will stay in Europe and have no referendum
- he will continue to marginalise the poor and those on benefits
- he will continue to push the Church of England to 'get with the programme'
- he will continue to allow the public services to remain demoralised, because all organisations 'get demoralised at times.
- he will increase our worship of GDP
- he will increasingly using globalistic, universalistic language
- rising homelessness, benefit cleansing, food prices, foodbanks and debt will be under his watch
- reduced workers rights to improve GDP, but not people's security
- more powers to check your behaviour and pre-reprimand you

If rail companies do not make large profits, their senior staff certainly seem to do very well thank you!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256881/On-gravy-train-Rail-bosses-line-big-payouts-fares-soar.html

Statements from 800 police officers to be taken to investigate Plebgate

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256996/800-elite-police-officers-face-questioning-Plebgate-affair-amid-conspiracy-claims.html

Doublespeak : Fare increases not all that bad according to the government

http://www.independent.co.uk/hei-fi/news/train-passengers-angry-over-ticket-price-rises-while-rail-minister-says-fares-are-not-nearly-as-expensive-as-is-being-presented-8435117.html

Has this government outcast many of those on benefits or out of work?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/odd-job-uk-booming-black-market-economy-is-propping-up-jobs-figures-8432186.html

Gay marriage : now the ruling elite shows us its ultimate sanction

Interesting.....now we see true democracy at work!

If this act is really invoked then it will be clear we will now know how the ruling elites of Britain are the Emperors of this country. "There are no gods but the ruling elite in Britain", This act has been used before for fox hunting - so such Emperors have been around longer than I thought.

I will never be a Britianist!

Freedom will be shown for what it really is.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9766783/Coalition-may-use-nuclear-option-to-force-through-gay-marriage-law.html

Maria Miller, the Culture Secretary, has signalled that the Government might be prepared to use the Parliament Act to get its planned “equal marriage” legislation on to the statute book if it is rejected in the Lords.

The Act, which has been used only seven times in the past century, is sometimes described as the “nuclear” option of parliamentary process to break stalemates between the Commons and the Lords. It asserts the superiority of the House of Commons by allowing Bills that cannot clear the Lords to become law, but is intended to be used only in exceptional circumstances.

The Act was last used by the Blair government to force through the ban on foxhunting after years of acrimony over the issue.

Despite predictions that almost half of Tory MPs will vote against same-sex marriage in a free vote, the proposal is likely to secure a majority in the Commons with the support of Labour and Liberal Democrat members. But the situation in the Lords is less clear, with almost equal numbers of Tory and Labour peers but a large independent contingent as well as 26 Church of England bishops.

Some peers have already predicted that the Bill could be sunk in the Lords even if it passes the Commons. Mrs Miller has been asked repeatedly in recent days whether she would rule out using the Parliament Act but has sidestepped the question by saying that she was confident the Lords would back the measure.

An official statement from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said only: “We do not foresee that this will be the case and have no plans to do so.”
David Cameron’s popularity among homosexual voters has risen since he backed same-sex marriage, according to a poll for Pink News, an online publication for homosexuals. Just 11 per cent voted Conservative at the last general election, but this would rise to 30 per cent if a vote were called tomorrow.

Hypocrisy exposed of our ruling elite

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252912/George-Osborne-DOUBLED-number-Treasury-staff-figure-salaries-election.html

Roman Catholic Church very angry with Government over plans for gay marriage

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9765509/Gay-marriage-plans-are-totalitarian-says-Archbishop-of-Westminster.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9765682/Catholic-leader-accuses-Cameron-of-Orwellian-tactics-on-gay-marriage.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gay-marriage-public-say-church-is-wrong-8431263.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/dec/25/archbishop-attacks-david-camerons-same-sex-marriage-plans

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253043/Leader-Catholic-Church-Archbishop-Westminster-Vincent-Nichols-attacks-Governments-plans-gay-marriage-undemocratic-shambles.html

Possible revolt over Tory plans for more toll roads

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252663/Osborne-faces-Cabinet-revolt-road-toll-plans-Ministers-fear-repeat-pasty-tax-fiasco.html

The Enemy exposes himself more : NHS Senior staff have pay rises, while nurses have pay freezes

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252522/NHS-wages-Executives-enjoy-2-pay-rise-taking-average-salary-74-600.html

PM tries to appease Christians; actually he is beguiling them

"Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" Matthew 7:16

Even Satan quoted the Bible to Jesus when he was tempted.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252685/PMs-Christmas-bid-calm-Christian-anger-gay-marriage-David-Cameron-quotes-Gospel-St-John-annual-message.html

How government resources are being used to target the poorer and easiest

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2252335/More-tax-staff-cutting-child-benefit-chasing-dodgers-Controversial-changes-eat-resources-chasing-millionaires-avoiding-tax.html

The row over ‘middle-class’ child benefit cuts deepened last night, with claims the controversial Coalition changes will eat up more manpower than chasing millionaires avoiding their taxes.
Treasury Minister David Gauke has admitted more than 450 tax officials will be needed to implement the ‘high-income’ benefit cuts from next month at a cost of more than £11 million a year.
He also signalled no new staff were being taken on, prompting fears people have been diverted from other vital work within Revenue & Customs.
Last night, Labour seized on the figures, saying that even the Revenue’s affluence unit – set up to target wealthy individuals trying to evade or avoid tax – had only 300 staff.
They also contrasted the benefit cutbacks staff with the Revenue’s ‘offshore co-ordination unit’, which focuses on citizens who hide money offshore to avoid UK tax – claiming that it would only have 100 staff by 2015.
Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said: ‘It’s shocking that HMRC is employing more staff to take money from hard-working parents than it does to clamp down on offshore tax avoidance and evasion.’
A Treasury spokesman accused Labour of using ‘disingenuous’ figures: ‘They ignore the fact the Coalition is investing nearly £1 billion in HMRC to combat evasion and aggressive avoidance.’

The benefit changes, which take effect on January 7, will affect around one million families.
Households with one person earning £50,000 or more will no longer receive full child benefit, worth £1,055 a year for one-child families.
But under the cutbacks, parents affected will keep receiving child benefit unless they notify HMRC by January 7 that they want to opt out. If they do not, any overpayment of child benefit will be clawed back in extra tax.

Prince Charles calls for health services to treat "mind, body and spirit"

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/prince-charles-calls-for-health-services-to-treat-mind-body-and-spirit-8429781.html

Perhaps he should have thought of that while he committed adultery.

As we are now a secular state, we need to bring in morals that are from God, but we deny Him in doing so. We do this at our peril.

Tories want an "electric fence" between retail and investment banks.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20803548

Notice how the Conservatives have turned back on their manifesto of April 2010, based on my research below. It says "The Conservative Party has consistently argued that there is a case for banning retail banks, with their guaranteed deposit bases, from undertaking some of the riskiest “casino” banking activities."

Clearly the Conservatives are not banning retail banks from undertaking some of the riskiest activities, they just want to put up an "electric fence" between the two sets of activities.

And why are metaphors becoming more and more literal? Why is ring fencing now becoming "electric"?

I found this in their document "Change for the better in financial services" by the Conservative party in April 2010. Notice how the government is basically not prepared to take the lead, unless it is implemented internationally, or rather by USA first. Do we really want "universal" banks? How do feel having a bank more powerful than our government, or is this a ruse to garner support for a Universal World Government?

Who is the audience that this government is really playing to?

"

“Volcker Rules”

The Conservative Party has consistently argued that there is a case for banning retail banks, with their guaranteed deposit bases, from undertaking some of the riskiest “casino” banking activities.

Economists and policy makers agree that allowing ‘universal’ banks to use their deposit base – which is implicitly guaranteed by the government – to fund their riskier investment banking activities, exposes depositors and taxpayers to significant risks.

However, given the interconnectivity of the banking system we have always believed that a structural solution to this problem would have to be agreed internationally.

“I believe that there is a case for separating some of the riskiest investment banking activities - such as large scale proprietary trading - from retail banking. But it would not be sensible or indeed effective to impose that separation unilaterally, so we will continue to examine the case internationally.”

We welcome President Obama’s calls for a financial reform package in the United States to include the “Volcker Rules” which would enact this type of structural separation. In his remarks to Wall Street last week, President Obama restated his commitment to this reform:

“To that end, the bill would also enact what’s known as the Volcker Rule – and there’s a tall guy sitting in the front row here, Paul Volcker – who we named it after. And it does something very simple: It places some limits on the size of banks and the kinds of risks that banking institutions can take.”

Gordon Brown has repeatedly ruled out any separation between retail and investment banking activities without undertaking any analysis of the issues. We believe this is a mistake and a Conservative Government would work with the G20, the United States and the European authorities to look at how the “Volcker rules” could be implemented internationally."

Good, the tide is not going the government's way over benefits

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/less-than-half-the-public-back-george-osborne-on-decision-to-raise-most-state-benefits-by-less-than-inflation-8426259.html

George Osborne has failed to win the support of the majority of the public for his decision to squeeze most state benefits, according to a survey for The Independent.

When the Chancellor announced this month that most benefits and tax credits would increase by one per cent – which is less than inflation – for the next three years, the Conservatives were confident that the move would be highly popular, supported by a clear majority of the electorate.
But according to ComRes, the public is split down the middle. While 49 per cent agree that the Government is right, a surprisingly high 43 per cent disagree and eight per cent say they don't know. The benefit uprating Bill will be published today and Labour will vote against it in the Commons in the new year.
The squeeze on benefits is less popular among women than men. While men support Mr Osborne's decision by 52 to 43 per cent, women back it by a smaller margin – 47 to 44 per cent.
Although 69 per cent of Tory supporters agree with the decision, it is opposed by most Labour voters (54 per cent) and Liberal Democrat supporters (65 per cent). The basic state pension is not affected by the squeeze and will go up by 2.5 per cent in April. Despite that, those aged 65 and over oppose the below-inflation increase for most other benefits by a margin of 46 to 41 per cent. Opposition to the benefits squeeze is pronounced among those aged 18 to 24, with more than half disagreeing with the move, but it is supported by a majority of people in other age groups.
Mr Osborne, who has positioned the Tories as on the side of "strivers", told his party's annual conference in October: "Where is the fairness, we ask, for the shiftworker, leaving home in the dark hours of the early morning, who looks up at the closed blinds of their next-door neighbour sleeping off a life on benefits?"
Some Labour MPs have expressed fears that their party would be walking into a trap set by Mr Osborne by voting against the benefits squeeze. However, their fears may be allayed by the poll's findings.
Senior Labour figures believe opinion is changing as voters realise that 60 per cent of the people affected by the clampdown are in work and receiving tax credits rather than unemployed. Liam Byrne, the shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, said last night: "People are starting to see through George Osborne's attempts to play politics with social security. This Government has failed on jobs, put up the dole bill and is now taxing strivers to pay for their failure."
Labour will mount a new-year campaign contrasting the below-inflation rises with Mr Osborne's cut in the 50p top rate of tax on earnings above £150,000, which takes effect at the same time next April.
Yesterday, David Cameron defended the one per cent rise in benefits at Prime Minister's Questions, admitting it was a "difficult decision" but pointing out that tax credits and public sector pay would increase by the same amount.
Ed Miliband claimed the Chancellor's "tax on strivers" would hit working families. He told the Prime Minister: "The reality is, in the third year of your government more children are going hungry and more families are relying on food banks." He attacked Mr Cameron as "very out of touch" with ordinary families.
Mr Cameron replied: "What is out of touch is denying the fact we had a deficit, left by your government, that we have had to deal with. We have been able to do it at the same time as cutting taxes for the poorest in our country, increasing child tax credits and freezing the council tax to help those families." He insisted the richest people would pay more in tax under every year of the Coalition than during any year of the previous Labour government.
Pressure groups seized on Treasury figures suggesting that working families would be the biggest losers. Imran Hussain, head of policy for the Child Poverty Action Group, said of today's legislation: "This is a poverty-producing Bill. It will hit all low-income families hard in the pocket and can only drive up child poverty.
"With so many struggling with rising living costs the Government should be helping, not hurting, all families. In the long run, we cannot cut the deficit by shredding the life chances of our poorest children."

Now we know why Cameron wants to stay in EU : USA says so!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9754042/Britain-will-be-weaker-without-EU-says-USA.html

Laughing all the way to the bank

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249858/The-Queen-wears-Tory-blue-historic-visit-sit-Cabinet-meeting-ministers-whip-round-buy-placemats.html

 

How the ruling elite want to be above the law

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/9743909/Maria-Miller-expenses-Telegraphs-side-of-the-story.html