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Do we really need a royal family anymore?

No! In fact, the crimes against humanity commited by former Kings and Queens over the last 1,200 years should be brought to bear.Although the present Queen may not be responsible, her estate and riches should be held accountable, and forfeited to repay the debts owed to the British(and Irish) people. The land should go to the treasury and the properties opened as museums. The royal family should be stripped of any titles and allowed to live as private citizens. Traditionalists will disagree, but the main heritage left by absolute monarchs and their successors is long, bloody and shameful.We shame our ancestors by not avenging the pain and suffering inflicted upon them.

It is time that you proved that a god exists, not for me to prove god doesn't exist!

A colder, crueller country – for no gain

Source-Independent

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Margaret Thatcher is lying sick in a private hospital bed in Belgravia but her political children have just pushed her agenda further and harder and deeper than she ever dreamed of. When was the last time Britain's public spending was slashed by more than 20 per cent? Not in my mother's lifetime. Not even in my grandmother's lifetime. No, it was in 1918, when a Conservative-Liberal coalition said the best response to a global economic crisis was to rapidly pay off this country's debts. The result? Unemployment soared from 6 per cent to 19 per cent, and the country's economy collapsed so severely that they lost all ability to pay their bills and the debt actually rose from 114 per cent to 180 per cent. "History doesn't repeat itself," Mark Twain said, "but it does rhyme."

George Osborne has just gambled your future on an extreme economic theory that has failed whenever and wherever it has been tried. In the Great Depression, we learned some basic principles. When an economy falters, ordinary people – perfectly sensibly – cut back their spending and try to pay down their debts. This causes a further fall in demand,and makes the economy worse.............
....David Cameron and George Osborne have ignored all this. They have ignored the warnings of the Financial Times, the newspaper most critical of their strategy. They have dismissed the warnings of Nobel economics laureates like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, who have consistently been proved right in this crisis......
....PriceWaterhouseCooper – nobody's idea of a Trotskyite cell – says that a million people will now lose their jobs as a direct result.......
....Osborne has chosen the weakest people to take the worst cuts. The poorest 16-year-olds were given £30 a week to stay on in education, so they could afford to study – until Osborne's team dismissed it as a "bribe" and shut it down. The frailest old people depend on council services to wash them and feed them – yet Osborne just slashed their budget by 30 per cent, which service providers say will mean more pensioners being left to die in their own filth. Every family living on benefits is set to lose an average of £1,000 a year – which, as I've seen from living in the East End of London, will mean many poor kids across Britain never getting a birthday party, or a trip to the seaside, or a bed of their own, or a winter coat. This isn't just On Yer Bike, it's On Yer Own.....
......There is one stark symbol of how unjust the response to this economic disaster caused by bankers is. They have just paid themselves £7bn in bonuses – much of it our money – to reward themselves for failure. That's the same sum Osborne took from the benefits of the British poor yesterday, who did nothing to cause this crash. And he has the chutzpah to brag about "fairness.".....

......On the eve of the general election, Cameron told us: "There'll be no cuts to frontline services," "we're not talking about swingeing cuts," and "all cuts will be fair". Is it possible to call him anything but a liar and an ideologue today?....

It must be the 80s again!

Cuts didn't seem as bad as I thought they would be, expecting people to be begging on the streets, it may not be quite that bad. The part about taxing banks and financial institutions to the maximum cheered me. I still believe that income tax revenue needs to be increased for the highest earners though. The NHS and schools seem to have escaped the worst which is good. Local councils are screwed, but council tax is frozen, so less services for the same money. The benefits changes seem fair to me, no one should get more on benefits than working-seems logical really! Child benefit has gone for the rich, but whose going to cry for them? Universities and their funding wasn't covered, but fees will double, and that is simply unacceptable.The Liberals really need to push back on that point, in exchange for the rest. How is it fair to expect new students to pay double for the same end product, especially as the last generation didn't pay anything. Nobody wants to keep on working until 66, but that is a reality we will have to accept, real piss off if you are 54 today as it means instead of retiring in 10 years time, you have another 16 years to go! I don't know anyone who has been able to retire at 60 anyway, so, same same.
New council tenants will have to pay 80% of the market rent, which will be a bit difficult in London! Here in the North, it is impossible to get a new council house or flat anyway unless you are a one legged lesbian with 7 kids on the run from the Romanian gestapo, so that doesn't affect anyone!
Unemployment will soar, and quickly too.This is real 'Boys From The Black Stuff' unemployment. The government have said half a million will be laid off, but once those people have stopped buying crap from Top Shop and HMV, the knock-on effect will be huge.
The debt needs to be paid and this is a start, and after a few more tweaks to get more from the very rich it could work, but at what cost? 4million on the dole? Rubbish on the streets, council buildings falling into disrepair, civil unrest due to police cuts, undermanned military, all we need is for Argentina to invade the Falklands again(as we are retiring aircraft carriers for ten years! And Harrier jets, and throwing away the £3.5bn spent on Nimrod, even though they are already ready to be delivered and ready to fly), so record unemployment, impotent local councils, housing shortages,very unhappy students, and a weak military, but the rich are okay-it must be the 80s again or a Conservative government!
Chris Mercer.20.10.10

BLACK WEDNESDAY!!

Super typhoon Megi-T10?

My playlist-29 songs for that kind of day.

Plane crash windfall!

Yet another possible windfall! This one really does take the biscuit though.The plane crash mentioned is probably a real one, and in my mind it is pretty sick to use the names of the dead! Other parts just verge on the absolute ridiculous. due to poor internet connectivity in my country, you may receive this email in your SPAM folder this medium of communication (internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine transaction to correspond and exchange views without scepticism. abandoned sum of $15 Million dollars in B.S.I.C Bank Burkina Faso to be claimed legally by both of us kindly send me your Legal Names , telephone numbers and your residential address for immediate more details and mode of conduct to be sent to you The stupidity of this person is breathtaking, but not as much as the idiots out there who they fool-there are apparently people who get fooled by this crap! I may well respond providing the contact details of David Cameron or maybe Tom Hicks and George Gillette who could all do with a few quid.In the end there is only one thing worse than an idiot and that's a greedy idiot! An example of 3 idiots. HON. BARRISTER George Mukamba SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES, Rue 407 Yennenga, Ouaga - Burkina Faso. Email: georgemukamba1960@voila.fr Note; due to poor internet connectivity in my country, you may receive this email in your SPAM folder, kindly forward this proposal into your INBOX folder before responding back to me. I am indeed glad to be in contact with you even though this medium of communication (internet) has been grossly abused by criminal minded people making it difficult for people with genuine transaction to correspond and exchange views without scepticism. With due respect, I am Barrister George Mukamba, financial attorney to the Late Mr. Morris Thompson an America citizen who died in a plane crash with his entire family, you can read more news about the crash by visiting this website; http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/081301/foc_native_corps.shtml I respectfully insist you read this letter carefully as I am optimistic it will be open door for unimaginable financial rewards for both of us. Before the sudden death of Mr. Morris Thompson and his entire family, my late client has a Dormant Account with Bank Sahelo Saharienner for Investment and Commercial Burkina Faso (B.S.I.C.), His dormant account contains huge sum of $15 Million USD (Fifteen Million Dollars Only. I crave your indulgence as I contact you in such a surprising manner; I have desired to have his abandoned sum of $15 Million dollars in B.S.I.C Bank Burkina Faso to be claimed legally by both of us before the bank transfer the fund into Government treasury account as he left nobody alive to claim this fund. Be informed that while participating in this transaction, 50% of this total value will be for you as my co-operative partner while the remaining 50% will be for me as the principal initiator of the deal. If your are interested to run this deal with me by accepting to stand as the deceased next of kin, kindly send me your Legal Names , telephone numbers and your residential address for immediate more details and mode of conduct to be sent to you. Regards Yours Hon. George Mukamba.

Thatcher-let's not forget!

Thatcher is 85 this week.The Tories are once again about to decimate Britain.Miners are in the news, and so are angry Scousers. Time for a look back at the Thatcher years, each picture/cover could quite easily be changed to Cameron.