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Saturday 24 March 2012

THE TORIES ARE PLOTTING TO KILL YOU FOR PERSONAL PROFIT.


George Osborne's 2012 Budget has shown everyone exactly where the Tory Party's priorities lie.


The Budget is callous and crass, robbing the majority of the country to allow the wealthy to pay less tax. Osborne openly lied when he told MPs that the 50 pence tax rate had not proved to be a successful. Nobody knows where it is or not; neither the HMRC nor the Treasury have any idea as it is too early to have any returns.


Unbelievably George Osborne managed to draw pensioners into the economic argument. He nearly managed to slip it through unnoticed. Other than the freezing of pensioners' tax thresholds and closing of the system to new pensioners from next year the bulk of the Budget had been leaked to the media beforehand. This could come to haunt the Tory Party at the next election.


Other than some taxes on properties registered in tax havens, to appease the Liberal-Democrats, no attempt has been made by Osborne to clamp down on tax evaders. On the contrary, the Government continues to sign valuable contracts with corporations that criminally evade billions in tax. If Osborne made an effort to claim evaded tax Britain would prosper with the deficit and overall borrowing quickly reduced.


But what have we found out? Due to a slip of his tongue we discovered that the Chancellor, himself, is a tax evader


One would have thought that the Tory Party is committing suicide with their programme of benefit and NHS reforms; far from it. Leading Tories and their advisers will have sat thinking about this long and hard.


I reckon they thought about the electoral risks for over a decade and it actually shows. We know Andrew Lansley has been dreaming up his Health and Social Care Reform bill for at least 8 years, whereas Iain Duncan Smith had worked on his Work and Benefit Reforms Act almost since he lost the leadership of the Conservative Party.


While these two plotted away they sought the advice and support of vested interests that funded them and the party handsomely. We will never know how much was really donated but indicators suggest probably well over £20 million.


It was a sure fire gamble for the donors. They would never lose money donating to the Tories; it was just a case how big the rewards would be.


Ali Parsi's Circle UK, effectively owned by a string of off-shore companies, which he likes to call a "social enterprise", and their vulturous backers like Wonga can expect a return of a minimum of £40 million for their investment of £500,000 if they manage to just tread water with their Hinchingbrooke hospital contract. It is the same £40 million that the government could have just given to the hospital to wipe out their debts. Unless Circle is awarded more contracts similar to Hinchingbrooke they will go bankrupt and just walk away, leaving taxpayers to pick up the bills. In reality Circle's business plan requires a constant pyramidal growth of hospital contracts to avoid bankruptcy. Circle will fail in the end. In the meantime the Tory Party, ministers and MPs will have been enriched by Circle's largesse.


Knowing that these plans were electorally unacceptable in 2010 David Cameron cynically laid out the exact opposite in the Conservative Party Manifesto. David Cameron and his colleagues deliberately and openly lied to the country. This was the plan all along. The death of the unfortunate Ivan Cameron only strengthened David Cameron's hand. No trick was too low in his search for power. Once the Queen gave the Royal Assent to the Welfare Reform Act Cameron's bitter hate of the less fortunate was openly displayed in Parliament.   


Cameron pressed ahead with the Health and Social Care Reform bill. It will destroy the NHS as we know it. Andrew Lansley unashamedly displayed his own deep anger at anyone who stood in the way of his own personal profiteering from the NHS. Huge swathes of the Health Service will fall into the control of private healthcare corporations, mostly from the United States and nearly all registered in tax havens. Many are here already and doing very nicely. For every pound spent with a private corporation only a maximum of 55 pence will be spent on treating patients compared to well over 80 pence in the public sector. In some cases it could be as low as 25 pence. 


In time only £85 billion of the NHS's £110 billion annual budget (at today's figures) will go on health and patients. £25 billion will go out the window in profits, dubious loan repayments to investors and taxable income channelled through tax havens. 


All this will be happening by 2015. The Tories will be looking forward to extreme wealth from their favoured friends that will have taken over large sectors of the NHS. Andrew Lansley, who is expected to be kicked out of the Cabinet for his inept handling of the bill, will already be receiving his rewards as he'll have been out of government for two years. Andrew Lansley plans to become an extremely wealthy man.


So why is there no electoral risk in these two disgusting and corrupt bills?


The best example is in Iain Duncan Smith's Work and Benefit Act. It is who it targets.


You must remember what I said at the beginning Duncan Smith has been working out his plans for social reforms since 2003, long before the banking crisis and Credit Crunch. It is therefore a lie that the state of Britain's finances is the reason behind the need for reforms. Duncan Smith probably couldn't believe his luck when the crash occurred. The sense of schadenfreude must have been enormous within the Tory Party. What they had repeatedly demanded, the increased freeing of banking regulations which were refused by Labour, would have made the economic situation ten times worse in Britain and the World.


The lowest 30% of the electorate have the worst record of voting. Up to 6 million are not even registered to vote as they move from one rented property to the next, falling through every social hole.


Mixed in amongst the disabled are many who are alcoholic, drug dependent or psychiatrically marginalised. Few of them will vote even if registered, but they will be some of the hardest hit by the reforms. So no electoral risk there.


Many physically disabled are unable to get out to vote, especially the housebound and those needing constant care. This doesn't take into account the many that are mentally handicapped either by trauma or by birth. How many with learning difficulties vote? So little electoral risk there either.


So far one third of the people that the Tory Party are targeting for welfare cuts probably don't vote. I would expect that the so called households that no one has ever worked, the generationally unemployed households, are very unlikely voters and if they do, probably vote Labour, UKIP or BNP. They are likely to be very badly affected by Duncan Smith's reforms and will be unable to fight back. Many within this group are likely to be left destitute and so even less able to vote anyway.


The Tories are good at rattling out emotive phrases like "Hard Working Families" and "Hard Working Taxpayers". What about the 600,000 people they cinically threw out of their jobs? Are we to suppose they had not been "Hard Working Taxpayers"? What did they get for their efforts? They got JSA, Housing Benefit and vilification for no longer working.


Everyone pays tax. Everyone causes tax to be paid. Well we know that is not really true. Many of the Tory Party's bestest buddies, major donors and recipients of lucrative taxpayer funded government contracts pay little or no tax at all in the UK and in most cases nowhere else either.


The various workfare schemes are a form of economic madness that only costs taxpayers more than it produces. It is designed to hand large corporations, many of whom don't even pay tax in the UK, free labour. It also creates unemployment as those same corporations will not employ anyone if they can get labour for free.


But the cynical aspect of the schemes is that it is designed for placements to fail and lose their benefits from anything from 2 weeks to three years. 


Government figures show that over a period of time over 50% people put onto workfare schemes come off benefits. This is exactly the same numbers as those who don't take part in workfare schemes, but "workfare" cost taxpayers a great deal of money, is open to abuse and have proved to  be beset with corruption.


So the Tories are not taking an electoral risk with their Welfare & Benefit Reform Act. 


The Tories are still not being honest about their plans. They said they want to cut DLA by 20% by cutting out fraud, yet fraud accounts for less than 1% of the bill. With the Personal Independence Payment scheme I believe the government actually hope to cut the cost of what was DLA by well over 50%. To state their true intentions outright would be unacceptable to almost everyone. It will be 2015 before the real effect is known. This could even become a humanitarian crisis with tens of thousands of sick, disabled and unemployable people dying of cold, hunger, homelessness and neglect. As a nation the UK has already sort of found it acceptable that between 30,000 and 50,000 pensioners die of hypothermia every winter. 


The welfare reforms are well thought out plans for social cleansing.



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