I hope my bank's cash machine has a 'foxtrot oscar' option*

Apparently the latest Cameron wheeze to extract money from the public is the idea that cash machines belonging to some banks will ask if you wish to denote to charity and a consideration is being given to the idea that supermarkets ask whether their customers might like to 'round up' their bill to the nearest pound; all proceeds being given to charity.


That our faux prime minister is forced to go cap in hand to his masters in Brussels to ensure that his wheeze does not infringe EU rules on state aid speaks volumes as to where the power lies in this country. The idiot that poses as our prime minister seems not to understand that many thousands of people already do voluntary work in this country - where for example does he think all the cars come from that carry out patient transportation to and from hospitals? Where does he think the minibuses come from that transport disabled and infirm pensioners to supermarkets and other shops? Where does he think all the work done to produce village fetes comes from?


Why should people donate when they have no idea of the recipient of their donation? Why should people donate to charities that are fake charities; the latter as in charities that are no more than a lobbying arm of government for government policies and EU policies? Why should people in effect be blackmailed when withdrawing their hard earned money and if they refuse be made to feel a pariah? Why should people be forced into what is communitarianism against their will?


David Cameron enacted, on 11th May 2010, what amounted to a 'coup' albeit without the use of force in order to enter 10 Downing Street - and if he refers to his history books he will quickly discover what happens to those who enact coups; especially when the people have had enough of being dictated to by an unprincipled, dishonourable, venal, egomaniac.


Just saying..............................


* No need to spell out 'foxtrot oscar' - a button which when pressed provides the following diagram would suffice:

The logic of the public sector.......

......or in this case the educational sector, ones you would have thought of all public sectors would be in possession of a brain.


Dick Puddlecote posts on a family problem he recently encountered - and I leave you to walk over to his place, something a child is considered able to do - and amuse yourself, something which that same child is not considered able to do.


If a child, aged 10, is considered able to undertake a 20 minute walk, on his own from one place to another, surely that same child must be considered able to look after himself? Apparently he needed 'looking after' - why? Did they believe he might take the opportunity to indulge in pre-marital sex, or some lesser offence such as reading a book, while waiting to see his sister perform on stage?


Where, in this decision, can it be shown to be fostering 'family values' - something trumpeted by Dav il Cam? Of course, this attitude exhibited by his daughter's school is founded on the fear that they may be subject to a court case for 'compensation' should something untoward happen to his son. But as DP asks, in a school with over 100 staff they could not find someone to 'cover their arses'?


More importantly, parents pay for this level of 'service' by way of taxation?


Sheesh!

Big Society or Bull S**t?

"When a man is on his own, an individual responsible for himself, he must earn a character - a personal character that is perhaps his first necessity. Others may then learn and imitate his qualities and capabilities. In a planned society he has no need of a character, for no such thing is wanted."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
Sir Ernest Benn 

According to the website of the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) apparently the Big Society is the Government's vision of a society where individuals and communities have more power and responsibility, and use it to create better neighbourhoods and local services. It also states that David Cameron said that the people are the boss. The Big Society Network proclaims on its website that only 4 out of 10 of us believe we can influence local decisions; that only 1 in 33 of us attend public meetings; that anger and frustration is felt at the recent behaviour of both the City and Westminster and that we feel relatively powerless to change them. 

We are informed by the DCLG that dedicated teams of civil servants will be allocated to 'ease' the progress of any Big Society venture. An alternative - and realistic - take on this comes from Goodnight Vienna (Calling England) who states that it is:

".....about state-sponsored training of community volunteers and  "social entrepreneurs".  This isn't localism or power to the people, it's another layer of state-funded bureacracy and interference between the people and those whom they elect to govern.  It's a further distancing from the unelected and unreachable powers-that-be in Brussels.  It's Red Tories, the Third Way, Agenda 21 and communitarianism writ large."

In his speech today David Cameron stated that our society is broken and that we need to fix it; that he will not back down because the Big Society is here to stay. This begs the immediate question of who it was that broke our society in the first place with their premeditated ideas of social engineering - an ideology the Big Society seems determined to further?

If David Cameron really does believe the people are the boss, then will he - as a servant of the people - stop dictating to us how we are to live our lives? If he wishes to improve the ratio of people who believe they can influence local decisions then perhaps he will really devolve the responsibility for areas such as health, education and law & order to local communities - which would serve to concentrate local councillor's minds and make them 'earn their keep', whilst at the same time energising the people's interest in politics.

The Big Society is presented as 'bottom-up' government when it is, in reality, continuance of the present 'top-down' system of government. As Goodnight Vienna states, if Cameron has his way we will all be in this together and with a Common Purpose as the overriding factor!