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Monday 31 December 2012

WALKING THE GREEN MILE - THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS : COURSE OBLIVION

The Liberal Democrat Party is dead. Finished. An unrecognizable corpse. After taking a beating in recent elections coming fourth after UKIP, a current opinion poll rating taking them down to eight percent. They haven’t quite reached rock bottom but that’s the way they’re heading.

In a recent speech their leader desperately tried to put on a brave face, claiming that in Coalition they were a check on the Tories. Holding them back from doing dastardly things and honouring their commitment to the poor and the needy by streamlining the welfare budget. Helping the unemployed get off benefits and back into work. Such a nice man Nick Clegg! Sounded like he really cared, that is till you remember what he’s been doing for the vampire-like George Osborne. Poor Nick! No-one believes you anymore. With the stuff you’ve got coming out of your mouth and what your Liberal Democrat Cabinet colleagues are getting up to for the gangsters of finance and the energy supply racketeers you’re walking the Green Mile to the next General Election where you’ll be zapped.

Let’s look at it a bit closer. All the good things they’d like Joe Public to think they’re doing. And by the way, the old pseudo-liberal-lefty image of dungarees, protest and earnest reformism has gone. If it was ever honestly there in the first place! Ditched down the tubes the minute these opportunist creeps got a smell of Government and the smart ministerial cars that went with it! Anyone heard of the millions of people freezing in fuel poverty this Winter? Please don’t worry! Ed Davey, Lib-Dem Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change is on the case! Around the time Clegg was making his speech he appeared on television to tell us that there was nothing he could do about energy price rises but that competition between suppliers would help lower prices!

That’s lying at best. There’s plenty he can do about energy price rises if he wanted to. And he knows only too well that there’s NO SUCH THING as competition between suppliers. It’s a myth that only goes down with the brain dead. The energy providers together with the commodity brokers at the banks have been fixing prices for years and it’s just been revealed in the Guardian that soon after Coalition Government got underway, these self-same banks and energy suppliers such as Barclays and Centrica, parent company of British Gas, began having very regular meetings with Ed Davey and his Department.

BUT THEN IT GETS EVEN BETTER! THESE ENERGY SUPPLIERS AND BANKS  HAVE GOT THEIR OWN PEOPLE WORKING DIRECTLY FOR THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT RUN DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY. That means Centrica and Barclays people working for Ed Davey and his Department who get a salary from the taxpayer!

To put it in a nutshell, the companies supplying you with gas and electricity and putting up your bills on a regular basis to make huge profits for their shareholders have their own people working for the Liberal Democrat in charge of Energy, a man who comes on television and tells us that there’s nothing he can do about the price rises. Indeed, with two dozen or more of these people working for you Ed and telling you what to do you already know that all your talk about competition is meaningless. Something you trot out for public consumption because you think people are daft enough to believe you!

But then isn’t Ed also the Green Energy Mister Big? Doing his Liberal Democrat bit to save the planet! You’d better believe it because every time he says Green you know your bills are going up year on year to pay for the smoke coming out of the factories of India. Those good old Liberal Democrats! Every time one of them uses the phrase carbon footprint you know they’ll taking a tenner out of your pay packet and pissing it up the Ganges.

Well that’s the Liberal Democrats and Energy. These people won’t do anything about your bills spiraling out of control because they’re working with the energy supply cartel to make it all happen. But then who’s actually running the country for God’s sake?

The Liberal Democrats claim they’re working for you. Doing their best!

Oh yes, they’re the Great Pretenders… Pretending that they’re doing well... They seem to be what they’re not, you see… Pretending they’re really doing something about British banking casino practices given all the assurances of that good old radical reformer Vince Cable before and after he came into Government. After all the mouth he gave promising to reform their worst dodgy-spiv activities over the last two and a half years what has he actually done? What concrete proposals has he presented that legally stop their activities? What cast iron ring fences have been put in place to separate absolutely the jack the lads in the City of London from the High Street? How many dirty practices has he caged so that the money of ordinary bank customers is protected? Well the fact of the matter is that despite all his blustery chit chat there’s actually nothing cast iron at all! But then he assures us… it will all take time!

It’s all so very Liberal Democrat… talking it up. Making out that it’s all looking good. Talking nothing up and trying to make it look something! So very Liberal Democrat. Talking up nothing! He’s done nothing at all to reform the banks has poor Vince, the nation’s favourite scarecrow. He’s gone all quiet now that Tory Chancellor George Osborne’s put him back in his box. So what did all the reforming Liberal Democrat talk amount to in the end? Nothing! It just made them look good.

But oh my word, the old reformer has been busy with other things. He’s been out and about for the Tories. Doing his bit for business by attacking worker’s rights at Industrial Tribunals, making it much easier for companies to sack workers who now have far less chance of redress against unfair dismissal. This is a direct attack on the rights of working people and on the Trade Union Movement on behalf of big business and how they love him for it. Liberal? Democratic? Please don’t come across with all that Liberal crap Vince. Nobody believes you anymore. You’re walking the Green Mile along with all the rest of your gang that signed up for Coalition with the boot boys.

And how about Ginger. Sorry I mean Danny Alexander, George Osborne’s favourite poodle. You see Danny is different! He really believes in it all! He’s bought the whole package and convinced himself that he’s saving everyone’s soul from the meanies. No harm in that really. I mean being so self-deluded. He rightly points out that the whole economic crisis was facilitated by Gordon Brown and the Parliamentary Labour Party in which Ed Miliband by the way was a main player, and everything he’s doing now will somehow remedy the disaster. Indeed, that he had no alternative but to chuck in his lot with the Tories. Oh really? Alas, there’s another side to it all. If Liberal Democrats ever actually had any values and principles, any foundation to their views grounded in a bedrock of ethics, it all got chucked out the window when Danny Boy went the whole Tory hog. Never mind who caused the crisis, all he can think of is who’s the easiest target to pay for the damage?

They weren’t so hard to find. Best to attack the welfare benefits of the sick and the poor than the bonuses and spoils of the financial traders. Attack the welfare state fallback for the most vulnerable in our society rather than the champagne and oyster tarts of the City. No problem there! Nobody to speak up for the poor, certainly not the Labour Party! Just say they’re lazy. Demean them by calling them work-shy. It’s something he rightly understands. Demean those who are the most vulnerable in our society and make them a target. Then they’re even more vulnerable! Fodder for the media vultures, the creeps who hack into the phones of the dead and the dying. And there we are. The real consequences of Liberal Democrat values. Talk that makes them look good. Action that hurts the most needy. How can anyone ever be fooled by these people again?

Ah yes, but let’s not forget the recent activities of Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat Minister of Employment Relations. Such a nice lady. Doing so much to help the economy along! Her recent caper has been to halve the redundancy consultation period… the time employers are required to consult with workers before laying them off. Now down from ninety to forty-five days. The employer organizations have welcomed it with delight. It leaves working people desperately vulnerable to job loss. Not only losing their livelihoods but it’s also the precious time they need for getting their lives back together that’s been taken away. Thanks to the oh so very liberal Jo, Britain now has some of the easiest hire-fire regulations in Europe. It’s what Britain needs to make employment more flexible these Liberal Democrats chant. But then of course they’re chanting it in the same choir as the Tories.

But then in Coalition Government, as Nick Clegg would point out, they’re all choirboys and girls together.

NO REAL SEPARATION OF VALUES BETWEEN THE TWO PARTNERS! So despite all the Liberal Democrat talk they’re not too worried about who they climb into bed with. They’re shacking up with a gang of dirty old rascals and can’t pretend to be innocent good hearted virgins anymore. They’ve sold themselves cheap and dirty and all their talk about doing it for the good of the country is a plain lie.

PEOPLE WILL REMEMBER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE. WE ARE THE COUNTRY AND YOU ARE NOT DOING IT FOR US SO AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION YOU’RE TOAST.

And now, one little postscript to bring it all home. A story from the City of Bath where the Council is controlled by our good friends the Liberal Democrats! And guess what they’re up to…

The City has a rugby club, Bath Rugby, owned by an offshore company. The club is based in the city center at The Recreation Ground, a large part of which is leased to them by the Council. Problem is, the whole Recreation Ground, a lovely green space right at the heart of the city was left to the people of Bath in perpetuity for their use and leisure by the generous descendant of the aristocratic family that once owned the land. Just as he left so many parks, green spaces and an outdoor swimming pool to the people of the City, so too did he give them a Recreation Ground.

Only the Council wanted part of this land for the Rugby Club and now they both want all the rest. Having appointed a few of their fellow councilors to act as ‘Trustees’ of The Recreation Ground, all of whom by the way are keen Rugby Club supporters, the Council through its ‘Trustees’ have now taken decisions about the use of the full Recreation Ground space, backed by the City Solicitors. And the decision of the ‘Trustees’ is to lease to the Rugby Club the remainder of the Recreation Ground for the development of a giant new stand and a large complex of bars, clubs, shops, housing and offices.

Until now the remainder of this green space was used by kids to play a wide variety of sports like football and hockey and for people in general to enjoy strolling in. The vast majority of those who live in the city center occupy flats without gardens. The Recreation Ground is very accessible for them. The Liberal Democrat controlled Council now propose taking this land away from them and handing it over to an offshore registered company entirely for the use of Bath Rugby Club, something directly against the express wish of the family who left it to the people of the City and the covenants under which they bestowed it for the recreation and enjoyment of ALL sport by them and their children!

But then I should also mention their Liberal Democrat kindness. Their compassion! To compensate the people of the City for depriving them of their precious green space they’re offering another piece of land as a swap. It’s miles outside the center and next to a river that floods. There’s not much access by public transport and very few facilities or amenities. Never mind that it looks forbidding and unpleasant. That’s okay. It’s the Liberal Democrat controlled Council’s generous offer to the people for taking away land left to them in the center of town for their leisure and enjoyment and handing it over for commercial development to an offshore based outfit.

SO PLEASE, DON’T FORGET THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WHEN THERE’S ANOTHER ELECTION!

Truth is on the march.

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