Hang em and Flog em!

Whatever happened to the Tories? In Thatcher’s days and long before here the way to get the blue rinse brigade and red faced retired colonels, frothing at the mouth at Party Conference. Was to wheel on the Home Secretary or the wanna be Home Secretary  when in opposition. Inevitably it would start with  a tirade against pinko bleeding heart Liberals and the lefties and in rare cases the loony lefties.

As the speech progressed it would build to a crescendo and talk of bringing back the birch and if they could hanging but in the meantime they would bang people away in dungeons, no colour TVs or micro wave ovens in their jails. The last time I recall a speech of such promise was Michael Howard in his prison works speech.

Yesterday and today I witnessed a Home Secretary Teresa May abolish police standards and send veiled messages about the cuts in police numbers. Today Ken Clarke Prison Minister and other stuff, talks of jail does not work and that he will be releasing people. His message there is an alternative to short term jail sentences he did not say what in detail or explain what short is.

He also spoke of getting legal aid bills down from I think £38.00 per person here to £8.00 the New Zealand equivalent. There will be a lot of briefs, police officers and prison workers joining the public sector jobs shedding. If alarm bells are not ringing now in Tory heartlands they will soon sound like droning sirens! Tories in 1993 said Prison Works. Michael Howard, provided a self-evident answer. He said that, by removing an offender from society for a period, prison prevented that person committing crime – except, of course, against fellow inmates.

The man from the 2010 Condem coalition says No! When the reality of this Walter Mitty Alice in Wonderland Coalition kicks in how quickly will they swing back the opposite  way?  Trying to fool all the people for some of the time is just  possible I suppose?

A Semi House Trained Polecat?

Today I watched the parliament channel live whilst MPs discussed the Budget, IDS the clown clone of Chingford was justifying his capping of Housing Benefit and he was under the spot light of scrutinising questions from all sides of the house. He kept sitting down and rising and he reminded me of the comment made by the  Late Michael Foot, about Norman Tebbitt!

 ”The hon. Member has been a Member of the House for quite a long time now. It is really time for him to try to let the nicer side of his nature emerge. It is not necessary that every time he rises he should give his famous imitation of a semi-house-trained polecat.”

IDS may not be a semmi housetrained polecat, but the way he is ferreting about on behalf of his boss just shows how far he is in a hole. No more Mr Nice Guy from the quiet man of politics his weakness certainly aint his sweetness! IDS deals with issues in the style of  Thatcher the School Milk Snatcher.

It looks like IDS is certainly taking us back to the future, he is making it sound like the reason this country is bankrupt is all down to sick people and those that cannot work and putting a roof over their head is something that they should be grateful for. How long before us indetured people have to touch our forelocks master?

As expected the budget passed Ayes: 346  Noes: 270 Scandalous!

Is Europe up its own Egg Box?

Is the EU up its own arse again? More bloody stupid EU regulation?  Eggs no longer sold by the dozen each egg will have to be weighed and so will apples or oranges and even bread roles. When will Europe get its backside kicked along the road of sensibility? It makes my blood boil in Fahrenheit!

Article here http://twurl.cc/30b6

Chingford Skinhead II: Is it Rambo’s Rampage?

I read a Telegraph article and it made me shudder, was the article really about a new sequel to an old worn out genre? It harked back to the early 1980s and I had a flashback to Spitting Image and thought of the return of the Chingford Skinhead. I asked myself is there now to be a sequel to a previous Tory nightmare when a Rambo like character had the  “First Blood” of this country’s social fabric, or is it a simple remake?

What is it about Chingford that turns out political skinheads, hell bent on kicking  the less well off in society? The one thing that age has brought to me is that I think I can actually spot history repeating itself? I now realise It is beginning to dawn on me that history maybe about to repeat itself in that the  Tories have been are still fighting a  class war cold war left over from  the mid 1970s. It is against people not of their own ilk, and fought on behalf of market forces. I say this as the budget is a massive cut in the public sector spending  and hopes  assures  predicts that the private sector will rush forth and fill the gap.

Thatcher first used her denizions to bring about a brutal horror without mercy spawning a new generation; known by some as Thatcher’s Children, or referred to as Thather’s generation.  Norman Tebbit referred to in the article and  made famous by his get on yer bike speech, (actually his speech to the Tory faithful was nothing like it was portrayed in the press at the time), has passed into mythology.  Who knows maybe this one will too?

Lord Tebbit CH PH has that reassuring confidence even when he is giving you bad news you trust him. Delivered in that pilot like way of  ”this is your Captain speaking and on this bright sunny morning I need to bring to your attention  that the plane is about to crash, but don’t panic” and surprisingly you don’t…. as the crash music plays in the background (you know the reassuring  music played to calm you down. I know  I was in a plane once that avoided a collision as it was about to land.) Lord Tebbit has the ability to tell you the facts however awful they are; calmly and reassuringly!

The clone of Chingford Iain Duncan Smith is so removed from the reality of everyday people, it appears  he comes from the class of people that do not use names, they us their initials IDS. Is he a sort of JR Ewing of politics? This shorthand script belongs to the military and the US.  IDS is  viewed as a progressive military man, which I suppose is  not bad for a former Scots Guards Officer?

Unlike Rambo II when John Rambo returned to free his fellow soldiers held prisoner from a past War! IDS wants to liberate us all by moving us around the country. What I have realised again with age is that I was one of the last “indentured apprentices” being tied to my employer  like Pip was to Joe Gargery as a blacksmith in Dickens Great Expectations. Being indentured gave the employer all the rights for the privilege of learning a trade. Not much had changed from Dickens except Joe was not a typical employer.

What I did not realise then, but do now again thanks to age, is that Thatcher started the process of indenturing us all to the state and big business.  Water is an example along with other utilities etc We have to work to have the basic utility water. In Switzerland water is considered a basic human right and is free, look here to see how much the water companies change hands for and it demonstrates the point.

Being indentured to the state and loaned out to big business is what IDS is saying we will move people around to get work. That is fine when there is a choice or people are driven by ambition/aspiration to relocate I know having again thanks to age done a lot of that years ago.  As someone with a background in housing and public service there is always the law of unintended consequences. I have seen much of this as people have always relocated and being responsible for housing them. When the job does not work out or if they need a support network of a family and friends being miles away usually means that local services have to support that family. Mass dislocation not relocation is what IDS is speaking of.

People will always move because of work, my son works and lives abroad, my daughter in law is from another country, but what I believe IDS is talking of is not about social mobility, but enforced economic mobility of indentured people, so much for free citizens. I may have misjudged IDS time will tell? Maybe  I will have to age a bit more before I know. Lord Tebbit is not as bad as his reputation, and as they say sometimes  “around here a bad reputation is worth gold”. IDS may appear to some to be a cuddlier Political Skinhead from Chingford, but he for me just as frightening as anything from Rambo first blood. I want to know how IDS can fix broken Britain by disclocating economic relocation? Time will tell!

Here is the article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/7856349/Coalition-to-tell-unemployed-to-get-on-your-bike.html