(not satire – it’s coalition Britain)
Well now. Sir Stephen Bubb – the head of the association of chief executives of voluntary organisations – has written a letter to David Cameron about how disappointed charities are with the coalition government for not implementing Cameron’s so-called ‘Big Society’.
Not only are charities not being given a lead role in any Big Society – but in fact Sir Bubb complains that UK charities are now being ‘crippled’ by coalition austerity.
I’m sorry to say this – but I’ve got little sympathy for Sir Bubb and the organisations he represents. Because if charities really did fall for Cameron’s BS garbage – they must have been all a bunch of gullible idiots.
I’ll tell you what Cameron meant by his BS bollocks and it’s nothing to do with helping people with or without charities.
The Big Society was all about destroying the welfare state – pure and simple.
Or to put it another way:
Cameron’s Big Society is TOFFS paying SPIVS to rip off the PLEBS.
But if UK charities really have finally woken up to the reality of the coalition’s plans, a good start to make amends would be for any of them involved in the government’s slave labour ‘workfare’ scam to pull out of it immediately.
I won’t be holding my breath though.
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Well said again Tom….been saying it for ever that Spivs are in charge…keep up your great stuff x
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Bubb has a blub.
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While I agree entirely with your evaluation of the Big Society BS, can’t we get away from this ‘Toffs’ stuff which is also BS. I’ll state up front that I’m a working class lad from a council estate so hardly likely to be defending ‘Toffs’, but to my way of thinking it’s an spent term.
If it is meant to indicate that a person is from a privileged background, or privately educated, or both, then Blair, Milliband D, Milliband E, Balls, Clegg, in fact pretty much anyone from the higher political spectrum these days falls into that category.
Class war is over. Instead we appear to face ‘war’ in the dog eat dog, every man for himself sense. There are still Toff’s of course, but they no longer have an absolute monopoly on greed or mendacity, as such workers champions as Blair or Mandleson have proven.
Today the war is between those who obey government, and those who obey their conscience. Social background shouldn’t be a barrier to uniting all those of good conscience.
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You’re right of course Don. The spivs part I stand by though.
My problem is that I can’t resist a short, sharp soundbite – even though I know it will always fall short of the full truth.
I don’t apologise for that though – I don’t regard myself as the font of all knowledge.
I see this blog more like throwing out ideas – some good some bad – for discussion.
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Thanks for the support Patricia.
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Notwithstanding Don’s comment about toffs, which is more a statement of the nature of British politics, and twas ever thus – only Ramsay MacDonald, Lloyd George and Jim Callaghan (and, on second thoughts, John Major) are non-“toff” PMs since 1900 – the point you make is spot on. As an (ex) Lib Dem supporter I am deeply ashamed of what the party has signed up to and allowed itself to be conned into. I would have though that Cable would have had more strength to rein in Osborne, and Clegg to rein in the welfare cuts and tuition fee hikes , but they are too supine. Trouble is, I am not sure that Labour has a much better record, in that most of their spending was actually to the benefit of wealthy private sector organizations rather than the people they were elected to support.
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I would suggest your faith in Cable was somewhat misplaced, as with so many others he’s not a man to follow his conscience if it means the loss of his own career.
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I agree Don that ‘Social background shouldn’t be a barrier to uniting all those of good conscience’ and that many people use the word ‘Toff’ as you describe… but the term is more specifically used to mean an aristocrat. And in the UK that often means a descendant of William the Conqueror and the Normans.
Those are the rich people that Disraeli talked about in his ‘two nations’ speech .. and whilst they are very much hidden, they are still the owners of profound wealth and power.
‘158,000 families own 41 million acres of land, while 24 milion families live on the four million acres of the urban plot (6% of the UK).
It seems to be ‘a nation eviscerated by inequalities — where 40 per cent of all the wealth is owned by 5 per cent of the population and 70 per cent of land is owned by less than 1 per cent of the population.’
The difference between the current Eton-filled government and other recent ones is that the Toffs are overtly Toffs. As Paul Kingsnorth writes:
‘..we are still being governed by Normans’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/high-house-prices-inequality-normans
The wealth and privilege of the Ed Miliband/Balls/Major/Thatcher is just not comparable.
Btw isn’t Clegg descended from a raft of european aristocrats?
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The spiv bit I like.:-)
From Del Boy and Rodney to Bob Diamond and Gideon it’s a case of if the cap fits.
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Now that would make a good headline.
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I agree – here’s my take on Cable:
How much did cuddly Vince Cable know about the hanging of innocent Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa?
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It is indeed the way you describe it syzygysue, but ask yourself who it is that enables this system to continue? Who are the footsoldiers that do their bidding thus allowing such a small proportion of humanity to rule so many? In some shape or form it is probably you and I.
Rather than perpetuate the ‘them and us’ concept I rather like the idea that there is only ‘us’ as a society, and we need to renegotiate the terms between ourselves. To be in possession of fabulous wealth where others hunger is clearly unacceptable to ‘us’ as a society. Division merely allows the status quo.
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Warren Buffet thinks that it is his ‘class’ who are making war on us .. and that they’re winning 😦
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I’m old and sick and no longer have the strength to join the campaign needed to wake folk to the realities of what is being done in the guise of our ‘best interests’ as a nation. I have no religion but i’m a deist and pray to the provocative entity to give you and those stalwarts like you all the strength and encouragement you need to continue your good work.
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And for once I think he’s being sincere.
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So do I 🙂
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Thought that this quote from Michael Hudson was relevant in corroborating TOFFS paying SPIVS to rip off the PLEBS.
The political problem faced by rentiers – the “idle rich” siphoning off most of the economy’s gains for themselves – is to convince voters to agree that labor and consumers should be taxed rather than the financial gains of the wealthiest 1%. How long can they defer people from seeing that making interest tax-exempt pushes the government’s budget further into deficit? To free financial wealth and asset-price gains from taxes – while blocking the government from financing its deficits by its own public option for money creation – the academics sponsored by financial lobbyists hijacked monetary theory, fiscal policy and economic theory in general. On seeming grounds of efficiency they claimed that government no longer should regulate Wall Street and its corporate clients. Instead of criticizing rent seeking as in earlier centuries, they depicted government as an oppressive Leviathan for using its power to protect markets from monopolies, crooked drug companies, health insurance companies and predatory finance.
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/01/americas-deceptive-2012-fiscal-cliff-part-4.html#more-4114
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I think this short clip sums it up pretty well. 🙂
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Big Society is inspired by Saul Alinsky, the Marxist subversive who was Obummer’s mentor. Why are Camerloon and the nasties falling behind a Marxist ideology in the first place. Government-aided common-purpose trained useful idiots being sent out to re-organise society sounds like an overt communist take-over to me.
I’m not on the side of charities either, too many of them are fronts again for political agendas and eat up public donations on generous salaries to their executives and admin overheads. Charities are tax-exempt and therefore have to follow government agendas, they are not autonomic.
Unfortunately the welfare state was set up to fail. The purpose was to get the state involved in every aspect of people’s lives, using benefits etc, so that people look to the state for all their needs. The economic system is based on debt, and a lot of money, hence debts that can never be repaid, is needed to prop up a socialist system. The two work hand in hand to reduce the independence of individuals, to erode their civil rights and bring them down to a level of feudal serfdom. Macmillan was right in the 50’s to say we never had it so good – those days are gone for ever. Thatcher obeyed her masters in destroying Britain’s industries and self-sufficiency – again this flies in the face of what we think are Tory values.
Soviet Russia was never self-sufficient. It was a corrupt social system relying on huge handouts from the West to keep it going for as long as it did. Big Society appears to be modelled on the soviets (local councils set up to direct every facet of community life).
Iceland is hardly ever mentioned, Portugal has hinted at overturning demands by the IMF for austerity measures. People can’t join up the dots and instead leave it to Goldman Sachs to take charge. The fox is in charge of the chicken coop.
Big government, big society, big ideas are just terms for some “utopian” ideal which seeks to create a huge and invasive government entity which completely overshadows individuals and personal rights. And the funny thing is that it is the central banks who are engineering this big change. Welcome to China – the blueprint for world governance.
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Mind you Labour stuffed the charities as well when he said you can deliver millions of pounds worth of benefits and back to work, we can use charities and the charities were on board, even my little group of Paraplegic saw the £ sign and applied to get a bit of the back to work cash, 4Ae won the contract not the charities so did Remploy interworks as it tried to find a reason for being and of course the non charity the Shaw Trust
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You’re right. You won’t find me defending the last Labour administration very often.
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its the party system that needs to be broken do not vote for any party its always party first,plus they are all the same once in power.The people are mindless idiots conned time after time it takes very little to con them they listen to them at election time idiots look at what they did in power fools they will tell you black is white till in office then do what they want they do it time after time and idiots think they are a good person listening to the views they are fed total morons 90% why the hell do you think we are in this position look at the libs they even singed a doc but once feet under table went other way and still idiots listen to these prats unbelievable and still vote for them what fucking chance do we have when people are so thick
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Don ,I would love there to be no class war ,unfortunately whether we recognise it or not those in power are perpetuating a class war.I too have lived on a council estate (as have most people at one time or another )and I am totally sickened by the ever increasing unfairness and injustice within our society.It is those upper echelons of our society who are making life worse for the rest of us .When we look at the tax rises for the masses and the poorest (increased VAT ,bedroom tax ,increased contributions towards council tax ) and the tax cuts for the well off (abolition of the 50% tax rate ,cuts in corporation taxes etc ) then we can see a naked class bias at work.Add to that the destruction of the welfare state and an increase in corporate welfare then we can see that there isn’t much in it for us.
This parasitical class at the top must be recognised for what it is and sidelined.Additionally it is an error to lump Milliband E the son of an academic in with a real toff such as Cameron .Yes Labour has to do a lot more to encourage the involvement of working class people (the unions used to provide a route into Parliament for smart people whose backgrounds otherwise excluded them from such advancement ) ,though in this respect Labour’s recent failure to encourage working class people has come to reflect the post Thatcherite lack of social mobility.
As with our role in charities as with our employment generally ,working class people are now meant to take the crap jobs ,the non-jobs ..the scraps that are left after the sons and daughters of the wealthiest have had their pick.
The elite are taking the piss..we need to challenge and oppose them..
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Reblogged this on stewilko's Blog and commented:
Well explained, I think cameron and his conservative chums will have to have many excuses to get out of this. The mail and other outlets who follow this group of unethical, evil and corrupt individuals shoud be brought to justice. It all becoming similar to the naratives heard or read following WW2. Thankfully we now have the thecnology like WWW to tell our stories or pass the messages. Hopefully the messages of human suffering and more importanly the human cost of this governments polo
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