The Lib Dem patsys - useful idiots

The 2015 UK General Election has been a travesty result for Labour, a travesty result for Liberal Democrats another travesty result for UKIP and a wonderful landslide for SNP.  Unfortunately the Tories are still in government and now the country is going to be hit with the greatest number of welfare benefit cuts in living memory.  Child poverty will increase even more than it is at present and we shall see mass homelessness, increases in crime and destitution on the streets.  Not to mention how pensioners will feel when they are left suddenly realising their Tory vote has now put themselves in socially a vulnerable position.  So perhaps pensioners are the first set of patsys to take into account.  However, this is unlikely, for in my mind it is the Liberal Democrats who are the historical biggest losers ever. I had previously remarked how simple minded it was for the Liberal Democrats to be in a coalition, but Nick Clegg could not help it, perhaps it was a latent homosexual tendency which rose up when the though of political power and Cameron came to mind. They sealed their kiss in a rose garden at the back of 10 Downing Street for the world to see. It was a tragic civil ceremony and now the Lib Dems have got exactly what they deserve, their once historically high MP seat count has now plunged to the depths it used to be prior to 2010 and Nick Clegg made an exceedingly bad decision. He sold out from the start.

It is with a dose of happiness I can say and wave goodbye to the ignorant useful idiots of Vince Cable and Danny Alexander.  Vince because he should never of sold the Post Office at the monumental loss of between 5 and 8 billion GBPs.  He might of been doing this for the Tories but this was and incredibly bad decision to sell the country's jewels.  As for the sycophantic Danny Alexander it was only a few days ago he began to realise he may not have a job after the election. When he let lose inside knowledge of cabinet meeting discussions on welfare cuts.  Like he was not part of it, but he was because he now revealed it. I am so very happy Mr Alexander has lost his seat of Inverness because I cannot ever recall a politician who had succumbed to another party without actually being in that other party.  His ingratiation to the Tories was so servile and complete it can be recognised by the fact Georgie porgy Osborne said he would miss him.  Porgy as we know is an Eaton boy who has never really made friends with people, unless they happen to have a few million in their back pocket. Danny A will now be signing on the dole in a few days and probably he will learn something. But then again maybe not, his regret is now way too late. They couldn't help though following Clegg, who managed to keep his Sheffield Hallam constituency by a much smaller margin than he'd previously held.  I might of even said it was an honourable thing he did when he decided to resign as leader of the Lib Dems, but in fact it was not, because he should of simply retired and spent the rest of his time putting together jigsaw puzzles in a cosy room at home.

So it is the Lib Dems are winners of the useful idiot award for 2015. The electorate never wanted them to throw in their lot with the Tories, because it makes sense, if you want a Tory you might as well vote for one, why vote Lib Dem?  So the voters did.  What utter and complete saps.

Another royal baby - but it looks just like any other baby

It is with  disappointment UK news papers have one front page picture of a little baby, one which belongs to the royal family which is is said will be worth one billion pounds by the time it is ten years old. One which is born with a silver spoon in its mouth and will never in it's lifetime experience living in poverty.  Typically like a royal she may decide undertake a good cause, support some charity such as the anti landmine charity, she might speak to people who have lost family to land mines and be sympathetic, however she will not know what the life of the poor is like.  Royalty in this day and age should not exist it has no place in modern day living and no connection with the real people of the UK. It is a travesty which continues to focus the issue of privilege and social status above anything else. It shows in a public manner that inequality and prejudice will always exist in the country it will always live on.

So why is this baby such a big thing? What makes her so special? In my mind as with all royalty there is nothing special about rich people who did nothing to get where they are.  What is more pathetic is a country which kowtows to them as if they are special when they are not. They are nothing, they have added nothing to my life or done a thing to help me. They are stuffed so far up their own backsides they have never seen what is happening around them on the streets.  They are the privileged few who never have to aspire to being where they are, just lay back and procreate the planet, so why the hell do we pay them taxes and why the hell do they own land and properties which in reality should belong to the people of the country.

Yes, another royal baby, wonderful, sounds like another parasitic flea on the back of a dog.

Get screwed over have a chat with your Telecom provider

The most frustrating thing at this very minute is my blooming slow broadband. I want to kick the hub, scream at the ISP provider, throw the phone out with the rubbish. Then pull up the phone line as well wrap it up.  For you should not have to pay £16.99 to get  a phone line in order to get broadband.  The standing charge is exorbitant for something which is hardly used, ISP providers who generally are also telecom providers are milking the system.  They are monopolising access to broadband by making it a necessary condition households must have a phone line. Then in order to ramp up their profits they get a continuous stream of cash by ensuring the standing charges remain relatively high.  When the reality is, phone lines have been laid and upgraded and have paid for themselves many times over.

Probably the biggest culprit to this is British Telecom, the once nationally owned telecom provider is now so wealthy it is a constant revenues cash cow.  Speaking to BT has also been made an ordeal.  Call centres for repairs are based in third world countries where staffing costs are negligible andso is their understanding of English.  They just don't get what you say.  Especially when it is necessary to speak slowly and describe faults to them, this must be done repeatedly.  So phoning up because of a fault is a trial in itself. It gets to the point where you just cope with the fault, poor phone reception, poor broadband until it is critical and there is no choice in the matter.  Because you know this will take weeks to sort out and it will take hours of your own time.  Let alone money lost from taking time off work to be in the house for the phone engineers.  The strive for profits has made BT's quality of service actually non existent.  What BT does have is a great selling department where all the customer services staff are indigenous English speakers and based in the UK. Here they fully understand any request made are bend over backward to be helpful. It is important to have a good first point of call service for those who are in the switching process.  However, once they are hooked and have signed the contract it's all downhill.  The contract I signed up to with BT was set to last 18 months and it is now at the point of being completed and like an elector at the general election I have real power to kick them out and to shop around.

Another instance of crap service provision this week has been the screwed up account of a man trying to cancel his Sky package online.  Gavin Hackwood from Newport, spent 96 minutes in a Sky online chat trying to cancel his Sky bundle.  You might of thought it would of been easier, and in theory doing something like cancelling a subscription to any service should only be a matter of giving a short period of notice especially where the contract has already been broken. At one point Mr Hackwood stated to the customer service rep called Rachel:

“I have been on this chat session for an hour and we are no further forward. I have made you aware I wish to cancel which is all I am obliged to do under the terms and conditions of the contract with Sky… please cancel the account and stop wasting my time."

In reply she writes:

 “I am not doing this to annoy you. I made it very clear that I would need to go through this before I could make any changes to your account.” 

Sky and certainly this individual called Rachel who as far as we know is likely not to be Rachel but someone using this as a pseudonym for their real name. Unfortunately Mr Hackwood could not cancel his subscription until the story became a national news item.  What an utter and complete shame and embarrassment this should be for Sky who in reality should of offered a free service for a year and an unequivocal cancellation of the service with no hassle. This is certainly one provider I will not swap over to, as it would be going from the frying pan into the fire.

Before changing to BT my provider was ntl and before BT broadband it was TalkTalk who provided internet.  However, with TT the provider could only give a 2 meg line.  Time and again I asked them about upgrading, and repeatedly they said it was not available in my area.  However, it might be at some future date. The reality is TT were again stringing me along, I have never seen TT upgrading hardwiring. So it became a simple choice to convert to BT because in my mind it is BT who own the underground network of wires and fibres.  I had waited on TT to do something for about four or five years at the time.  Then moving over to BT was not as simple as I would of thought, even after getting a MAC code, which I had to do a second time.  It probably took about 4 months in all. Again this is unacceptable.  TT could not provide a service at the speed I wanted, I was also paying what I thought was an exorbitant rate for poor quality internet speed.  They must of been pretty sad when I left.  The thing was, their correspondence also stated when a customer leaves they should not cancel the direct debit. It will happen automatically and then I would get charged at the pro rata daily rate it was they provided internet.  However, TT took out the normal full month direct debit charge from my bank account.  They then sent me a credit bill and advised I contact customer services in order to get a refund.  However, this seems ridiculous because they already have my bank details and they should of automatically refunded any credit directly to the bank account.  I have vowed never to use TT again, but at the same time I now feel I don't want to ever use BT.

What I need to find is a small ISP provider which values every customer and can't do bend over backwards far enough for both loyalty and custom.  The question is are there any such companies?

Goodbye, bigoted, big, millionaire Tories who don't give a shit abou the tax payer

Over the next few weeks the media will be saturated with politics as all sides do their best to gain
votes.  Last night saw the one and only TV debate with Cameron, our now ex Prime Minster selling himself. Now some may question when I use the term "ex" well in fact Parliament has now dissolved.  All those  men and women (not representative) who sat in chambers and incessantly argued with each other officially have no power until the election is heard. However, and it is a big however, they still get full pay for the two months until the election has been re held.  I can't think of many jobs where the ex employee continues to get full pay when they are not doing any work.  In addition to this every part of the civil service, local and central are restricted in making statements which could be construed as political or sway the voting public this period is known as Purdah.


Regardless of the process in the run up to this next election, which is going to be a historic collection; it is during it and under pressure we see how the ex most powerful man in the UK reacts. We get to see his personality.   When under pressure applied in the form of cameras, audience and a looming election the stress of the situation may well show Cameron's cracks.  Patterns of Cameron's previous traits in his patronising attitude towards women, biting his lip, physical and facial tells of him holding in anger like a corked Vesuvius arise.  These are flaws in a individual who should not be allowed legally to have as much power as he had over the last five years.  He is like a child, if he didn't get his own way he would throw the rattle out of his pram.  However, something else which strikes is perhaps that Cameron is not the smartest man in the world for there seems to be an inability to put together the pieces.  Similarly Ian Duncan-Smith acts the same way when someone disagrees with him, when he is unable to tackle alternative view points or calmly rationally discuss them. The individual who keeps their head is the person we most look up to in any stressful situation. I don't view PM Questions as a particularly defining time because each leader has their gang behind them. A gang to heckle and grumble or cheer like good sycophants they are. Though saying this there have been odd occasions when Milliband did get under his collar, but not enough.

I've had angst over the devastating decision a love lorn Nick Clegg made to eat from the same table as the Tories.  When the two were put in office it was like two newly weds in the halo of happiness. 

It's true they were both happy to be there, but Nick sold his country and sold his party out when he jumped in bed with the Tories.  There were promises made in the Liberal Democrat's manifesto, pledges which amount to falsehoods. If a party doesn't stick to its manifesto which they are elected on then how can they be trusted? The people of Sheffield Hallam will make their view heard soon, if only the same students are about who accepted what Nick said on the last polling day, they will have a few memories and feel they have been betrayed. Clegg should never be allowed in the political arena again. Sheffield make  your vote be heard kick him in the bollocks.

Again when looking at Tory character failures, Osborne is yet another one who grinds incessantly on

the ordinary working class psyche. For there is not a time I have seen him on TV when I think here is a rich smug bastard who likes to boast and show off.  Here is someone who doesn't know what it is like to live in a world of poverty or who has ever experienced any aspect of it. There is also something of a rich kid nasty effeminate look about him.  You may have met or known the kind the bitchy man who comes across as bitchier than a woman could ever be.

In an interview which should of been with Osborne we saw Jeremy Paxman give a grilling to an unfortunate Chloe Smith.  After which

it was clear she would no longer have a political career.  She was very young, naive and ultimately took the fall for Osborne's U turn on fuel duty.  Yet it shows Osborne to be a weak coward for he should of been sat with Paxman not Smith.  Smith went on to get married and have a family, now well and truly forgotten except for her bumbling interview which has become the ultra political fail all can see on Youtube. She was like a little lamb who was put in a wolf's cage. Osborne would of cacked his breeks (as the Scots say) if her were there.

We can see how spoilt Osborne has aged with the weight of office.  Losing some of his porky appearance he even has a more gaunt face.  Perhaps (not) to do with his austerity plan, the plan which helps the rich become ever more wealthy and takes money away from the poor.  Well there are so few rich and so many poor. It's easy to see how Cameron and Osborne come from the same privileged backgrounds they might of shared the same shower at some time, Ossy would of been letting Camers flick a wet towel at his arse and probably liked it. Clearly these people have no empathy with anyone outside of their own class, therefore they should not be ruling anyone outside of their own class and certainly not the country.

It has been a constant drag since the Tories and Liberal Democrats got into office and the actual date of dissolution.  They managed to sell of one of the state's greatest remaining assets the Post Office. Typical of the nature of Tories when considering British Gas and British Telecom. As well as sell off the most successful profit making state ran business to date.  The East Coast Mainline railway service, which is now going to be ran by Richard Branson. Who as the West Coast travelling public will know likes to cram them in with restricted space and higher profits, not to mention hard uncomfortable seats and poor condition toilets.  Standing back as an observer the gradual decimation of the UK can be viewed. For it is the errors which are made that stand out most especially when at the time they are being made there is an outcry and good reason such initiatives should not happen.  Just as Tony Blair (Tory in red) brought in the Public Finance Initiative like a stone around the neck of a drowning victim. The PFI contracts for public organizations has meant they are continually overcharged by private contractors who they are tied to and can not break away from. Heard the story of the £10 toilet roll sold to a public nursing home? All because of a PFI contract.

If there ever was someone who would stab another in the back it has got to be Ian Duncan Smith.  His behaviour can be seen when he gets a grilling from the select committees. They have tried to make him accountable for the fiasco of Universal Credits.  Of which 400 million has been written off in ongoing IT costs. I saw Glenda Jackson ask IDS a question and it was disturbing to see how he talked over her and down at her.  It was outright bullying behaviour, poor Glenda was shaken.  Seems like he must of taken lessons in charm from the same school as Cameron.  Smith can often be seen lying, he debriefed his own department to push the blame of UC failures on Permanent Secretary  (to DWP) Robert Deveraux although a civil servant if there is one slippery character it certainly is Deveraux.  He is not allowed to make allegations or defend himself like a politician.  However after seeing his performance at a select committee his  unknown second name must be Mr Teflon, or to those in the know Teflon Man. However it is IDS who lies as the saying has now been changed to "lies, lies and damned IDS" the UK Statistics Authority will back this up. IDS is witnessed lying in nearly every interview, it may not be in what he directly says, although sometimes it is, it is in every nuance of his physical appearance. Body language, demeaning talk over, shifty expression. His claims of UC being a success are lies downright misleading lies. This is one welfare benefit if bought in the way the Tories want it to be brought in, will end up with masses of homelessness on the streets of the UK. Which will solve the problem for the rich who just want to buy up properties whenever they can. Especially the rich millionaires or corporations based overseas. It's such a shame the empty properties looking over the Thames Gateway are not lived in by real families.

The first past the post electoral system is unfair. We all know this, voting is not compulsory so those who do get voted in are a result of those who bother to turn up at the voting box and nothing else. There is a larger proportion of the population who do not vote than those who do, to an extent because of this politics in the UK fails. Each party now panders to the grey vote for they know this portion of voters do hit the voting boxes. They don't care much for advertising to the youth because the youth just can't be bothered. Politics is boring and politics is not on the  national curriculum yet another one of those very useful life things which should be compulsory.  If it were, then we might find the very irritating and unelectable didn't get elected as they did last time round.

Patsy is kicked out of CBB

Celebrity Big Brother is well on the way to finishing now. But I can definitely say it has been a pleasure to see Patsy Kensit leave, for I believe she has a mental illness. She thinks she is sound but her actual behaviour in the house was of someone who could not cope with conflict. She has got a anxiety disorder. No matter how much I think of her from thinking she was a hot chick in Lethal Weapon now I've actually got to see what she is like as a person her personality has a somewhat unctuousness to it. Yes, it may be a cruel thing to say, but I know for sure I would never be able to get on with her in real life. Thank god there is no chance of that happening. She is the kind of person who would be a pessimist and wouldn't even try to survive if her back was against the wall. She has come across in CBB as someone with no backbone, and dare I say it a victim like personality. Therefore she has been lucky in her career and her successes which must have primarily of been because of her looks in the first place. Put it another way, if she were ugly would she have been picked to be in Lethal Weapon? NO FECKING WAY JOSE.

Patsy always comes across as false, when she talks it is as if she always wants to be on people's side. As if she is pre-empting how someone else feels and does her best to agree. The producers of CBB have wasted a lot of money on this one.  Patsy did not have an opinion, but she did have an opinion except she never wanted to share it, or to give her view. She is the ostrich which sticks its head in the sand.  She was always afraid she couldn't handle it and CBB failed to give her psychological screening to find out if she was up to the job. For clearly she was not. I am so annoyed a person like this can be so big in the public eye, because if you take away the riches, the glamour and put her in a normal setting she would be the sad person you would never want to befriend.

Good riddance from CBB Patsy, and may I never get to see you on TV again because in all probability if I do I will change channel or turn the TV off.

Education should be free

The leveller of all humanity is without doubt education. Someone who has knowledge will have power over another individual especially when the knowledge is needed. However there is also a generalised advantage of being educated because knowledge can be adapted. An argument against this is we forget things anyway, so why waste money on education. What is important is not all knowledge is forgotten and the learning process stays with you. Another advantage is self confidence. For example, I have dabbled with spreadsheets, but I don't need to know a great deal about them, I've heard of a pivot table but don't know how to apply it. I am educated to a high level in statistics and forgotten a lot of it. However, I know in my self, if I apply myself I could pick up spreadsheets and how to use them to a higher level and even possibly apply statistical formula to large sets of data  competent spread sheet users would not understand. It's there, I know I got it hidden away in the recesses of my mind and will over time improve my spread sheet knowledge a little further, but I'm not particularly bothered.

Yet after secondary school in the UK knowledge comes at a cost. I believe Universities should be free and every educational subject under the sun taught for free in evening classes. Further none of it should be compulsory. Of course if there are failing students who are just there to stop getting on with their life they should be kicked out of classes.  The cost of free education would be the continued passing of exams. It is people who have the motivation to learn which matters.  School children should be given the choice to continue school from the age of 16 to 18 it should not be compulsory and in some circumstances I believe if they are 15 there could be special exception to allow them to leave. Unemployment benefits however, would not be free.  There would be a tailored regime for those who are unemployed.  Training in job application, training in interview techniques and if the failure of their getting a job is their own education then educational classes should become compulsory linked to their claims for benefits. There should be no free meal.  In any educational system though there would have to be exceptions allowed for the vulnerable, the disabled and those who need extra help.

Lastly the application of education needs to be thoroughly examined.  The serious question is, do teachers teach their subjects in a way which makes them understandable and can they be remembered?  There are both good and poor teachers, if the poor ones have students who continually fail then the poor teachers should be re trained or helped to find an alternative vocation.

The saddest thing about society is the number of individuals who don't recognise their own worth, the number of very intelligent people who sit and watch TVs, who play game consuls who have opinions on subjects but just don't have a little more knowledge to take their passions further.  Equally sad are those who just don't want to learn and want to condemn their selves to lives of boredom and have no interest in self improvement.  But education is not everything, some life occupations are highly important and just as respectful as the queen's.

Scotland isn't stupid you idiot

The Westminster idiots association got together today, to say how important it was for the UK union of Scotland and England to stay together. In a together forever notion which is like closing the gate after the horse has bolted. Cameron, Clegg (the-hanger-on) and to be Milliband hope by a last ditch effort of personal advertising the Scottish people will vote to keep the Union rather than vote yes to get out of the Union.  Their last ditch attempt and pulling back votes is by any standard a complete insult to the Scottish people and a humiliation to them as serious politicians.  The Tory party has completely lost the plot if they think they have any say in Scottish politics, because even a pre school child knows they don't.  Cameron visiting Scotland will do the opposite of what he intends to do.  Like a stick of rock from the sea side, every real Scot has the following words running through their soul "vote any party but Tory." After the many historical fiascos which have been tried out in Scotland first before being generalised to England there is a deep mistrust and even hatred towards English politicians.  Alex Salmond is probably rubbing his hands together and thanking this motley crew of Westminster idiots for playing their part. Oh yes there may well be a lot of English people living in Scotland, but if you are English and living in Scotland it wouldn't take too long to understand the Scottish mentality and the Scottish love of Scotland. In short, any true Scot hates England and what the English people have done to their country.  Unfortunately they do not differentiate between the politicians of Westminster and the English people. I have experienced it as an English man in Scotland, racism because I was English. If you are not known to them then you are judged on your accent and a tosser to say the least.

I also ask myself do the idiots think they will swing the undecided vote. For the undecided are so fickle they can be influenced by a politician who has not shown their head and commented in Scotland on a Scottish nationality issue since it became a reality. They would look on this dubiously, if you are undecided still and Cameron arrogantly says he will be heart broken, it really isn't going to hold any weight at all in the decision making process. It seems to me people like this didn't think it was important enough to help campaign in the last two years so what has got the wind up their skirts now? Oh yes, the fear of numbers being too close to call. The fear they will not hold as much power as they used to hold in  a couple of weeks time. For this sudden pang of conscientiousness is really nothing more than self preservation. Equally their appearance will be considered a swing to devolution so they should be very afraid, none of them has a right to stand anywhere in Scotland and think they have any power.

So it is with hand on heart I pledge allegiance to Scotland and if Scotland becomes independent I want to be the first nationalised Scottish person.  I don't want to bow down to the authority of Westminster or pledge my life to and forever life to the English Royal family. Who are in one view nothing more than upper class parasites free-loading on their historical heritage of once winning a few bloody battles. Their plinth of power is really nothing more than arbitrary rule, they are no more special than any other person and I will not genuflect for them or an imaginary super entity. This is also true of the Scots.

When looking back at the great British days of the so called Empire, when Britain ruled the world, what the world doesn't realise, it was not Britain which ruled it, rather it was the ruling upper classes which ruled the world. By subjugating their own citizens they were able to make them into anything they wanted and for a pittance of a pay. The ruling classes skimmed everything off the top. There they stand with creamy white upper lips and fat belly's smiling in contentment.  From this there is a lesson to be learned, it is simple.  Keep the down trodden workers, the lower classes as ignorant as possible, give them religion and a pat on the head like they were loyal dogs, but then kick the living shit out of them.  Every country in the world which has the stigma of colonial British power hanging around their necks doesn't understand this concept. They don't understand their bias and animosities towards the UK should be directed towards the ruling classes not the whole of the British society.  But alas when little Johnny ran off to join the army he was listening to a glorious song, he had no real understandings of what life was about, or how he could actually be a tool for someone else. He would then lose his life in a foreign land.  The queen certainly wouldn't weep for him but his family would.

It all comes down to knowledge and ignorance, and so the Westminster idiots today have shown their combined stupidity by heading up north. Personally if I were Scottish, which I hope to be one day, the taste of bile would be in my mouth. Long live the thistle!  Oh flower of Scotland...