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(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
I can’t really understand why flooding hasn’t been more of an issue during the Newark by-election campaign.
While southern parts of the UK such as the Thames Valley and Somerset got plenty of government cash after they were hit by flooding, northern areas such as Southwell in the Newark constituency were all but ignored.
But don’t just take my word for it.
In a little reported comment during a meeting yesterday with flood hit residents, Cameron himself admitted the area had been “forgotten“.
And a letter written by a local councillor to Tory Secretary of State for Communities Eric Pickles about the government’s decision to refuse financial help for victims of flooding in Nottinghamshire while dishing it out to Thames Valley and Somerset victims didn’t even get a reply from Pickles.
If the Tories really are heading for a comfortable win in Newark – all I can say is the voters there must have very, very short memories.
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This is interesting.
Anyone here from Newark? It might be worth reminding your friends and neighbours about this…
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But it is reported that farmers in Somerset are still waiting for government compensation to arrive
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Yes i think it was countryfile last week that reported that no monies had been received by the Somerset farmers to date.Equally though,they also said that there was a mountain of paperwork to wade through,should farmers have the time or the inclination to complete it all.
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And how strange they ignored West Yorkshire during THEIR flood. We weren’t as important as how The Sound Of Music ended, it seems. Love, Barbara Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 21:59:09 +0000 To: barbara1926@live.co.uk
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The answer is obvious… The number of Newark voters who are actually at risk of flooding is tiny, so electorally it’s not an issue. Voters in England don’t give a sh*t about their society, only about themselves.
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Funny how Cameron promised Somerset voters that “MONEY WAS NO OBJECT” over their flooding problems.
That of course speaks volumes about the so called deficit, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/18/truth-money-iou-bank-of-england-austerity
The real question though is, Why are all the politicians lying to us about the so called deficit?
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We have had deficits for 300 years with no ill effect on UK’s economy.
A deficit is not a national debt.
So that is not a lie but a lack of knowledge by us, the public and politicians, when real economists keep telling them and us, a deficit is not a national debt.
Austerity never happened as we’ve seen in the billions wasted on welfare reform admin, instead of paying off national debt, even if one actually existed, because if it had been the case, how come we wasted money on welfare reform admin by the billion.
The Tories and Lib Dems still deny welfare reform is causing starvation, when it is obvious that sanctioned off benefits means nil money to buy food, and medical professionals in England and Wales are reporting increasing hospital admissions for starvation that takes over a month without food to cause a medical problem and threaten death.
Also the forensic proof of the growing incidence of Rickets in children, proves they are going hungry. The Save the Children Fund last Christmas had a TV appeal to feed the children of the working poor in the UK.
That has had the knock on effect of putting sick people in hospital or mental health facilities, instead of leading independent lives for far less funding from just paying benefits.
The state pension denied women at 60 from 2013, when half of women are within the working poor, and majority reason over 50 not in work are either disabled / chronic sick or early retired on small works pensions, has not saved one penny in tax or helped to pay off the national debt.
The National Insurance Fund is ring fenced so cannot be emptied to pay off the national debt, which even the Pensioners Convention believe. The NI Fund is not a tax and therefore cannot be used for general expenditure by government.
The NI Fund, the sole source of the state pension as shown by needing NI credits to get the pension payout, has been in funds for decades, not needing a top up from tax.
So the loss of food and fuel money by women from 2013, is in contrast to women MPs who kept the pension payout at 60 from 2012, with the words ‘protected from reforms’.
Even Dame Anne Begg, Chairwoman of the Commons Select Committee on Works and Pensions, believed the state pension payout age (which should have nothing to do with law allowing people to retire when they want from work) for women had not yet risen, and that Labour in 13 years of rule before 2010 had more important things to fund than equalising state pension age at 60 for men and women.
There was nothing to fund from tax.
The NI Fund has been full for decades despite all the hype about people living longer. We are not an ageing society. We have always aged, with ancient stone age graves showing old people in them, with not a tooth in their head.
Politicians tell us about a world they know nothing about it and yet micro manage our lives, talking propaganda based on fantasy.
A fantasy that gives us Bedroom Tax that denies food to the hungry in or out of work or pensioners (because of raised retirement age), when MPs get £20,100 (2012 figure) second home income plus allt he expenses in living within it.
The £100 is the lost £100 taken from the oldest pensioners from Winter Fuel Allowance, inself threatened along with Pension Credit from 2015/2016.
The loss of state pension payout at 60 to women from 2013, and to men at 65, and the loss of the extra tax allowance to men and women turning 65 from 2013 when retired pensioners have higher costs of heating (needing to heat a room 24/7 to 70F to survive), when the richest 300,000 got a five per cent income tax cut, shows we live in dire times indeed.
Our political class are too much of an elite, not doing any noblisse oblige of their station in life throughout history.
As Gandhi observed, People’s Politics Are Their Daily Bread.
My personal website has alternative parties to support and to get your trade union to support now, so that their existence becomes widely known:
http://www.theswansnewparty.org.uk
TUSC
Left Unity Party
Mebyon Kernow of Cornwall
Peoples’ lives depend on social medicine, welfare state, state pension payout now and a living wage, decent affordable housing and an end to politicians who waste money just to leave the old, all ages and kids to starve.
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