Rather than talking a load of sewage, David 'Vaseline' Cameron goes surfing in it instead....
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-been-surfing-sewage-6339147#comments-section
Unemployment in the UK 2008 onwards
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-been-surfing-sewage-6339147#comments-section
Have to ask why that is? How many more people have to die before it becomes newsworthy? https://kittysjones.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/suicides-reach-a-ten-year-high-and-are-linked-with-welfare-reforms/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2576607/JAMES-FORSYTH-Daves-answer-immigration-row-Find-new-planet.html
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/27/thousands-died-after-fit-for-work-assessment-dwp-figures
It has quite literally disappeared....
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/456359/mortality-statistics-esa-ib-sda.pdf
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/unemployment-on-the-up-40145/
http://www.rt.com/uk/221723-unemployed-no-help-government/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/412968/No-benefits-here-for-you-Poles-tell-jobless-Briton
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/27/known-number-of-deaths-while-claiming-incapacity-benefits-nears-100000/
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/more-2500-benefit-claimants-die-6328956
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/601122/Record-number-EU-citizens-UK-net-migration-all-time-high
Once again, recruitment agencies up to their old tricks of not reading the cv, just cherry picking words out of the cv using software to do so.. so the candidate never gets a job that matches!! And still they win stuff - incredible!! http://www.soprasteria.co.uk/newsroom/news-single/sopra-steria-recruitment-shortlisted-for-apsco-award-for-excellence-2015 To: "Tom MEREDITH"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31487792
http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/local/david-cameron-urged-to-reverse-tax-credits-cuts-by-crawley-council-leader-1-6920978
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bedroom-tax-disabled-liverpool-fc-9920761
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-braves-rain-surf-6312258
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/iain-duncan-smith-refuses-resign-6310450 The most annoying man imaginable is IDS - In Deep Shit!!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/picture/2015/aug/24/steve-bell-on-iain-duncan-smiths-welfare-policies-cartoon
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dwp-staff-given-suicide-guidance-ahead-of-iain-duncan-smiths-welfare-reforms-10470754.html
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2015-08-11/some-eu-unemployed-immigrants-paid-to-come-to-britian-by-eu
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/600799/asylum-seekers-migrant-crisis-judge-court-justice-Theresa-May-Home-Secretary-politics Teflon theresa can let anything happen and David PR Cameron keeps on letting her carry on...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/600739/Britain-migrants-eight-million
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3210834/Former-RBS-boss-Stephen-Hester-line-8-5m-bonanza.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3210210/Surf-s-Sam-David-Cameron-waves-body-boards-wetsuits-annual-Cornish-holiday.html
http://www.actionforme.org.uk/Resources/Action%20for%20ME/Documents/LFtoCM%20211111.pdf
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/218157/response/542564/attach/2/DWP%20HR%20Response%202777.pdf
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stitching-up-claimants-part-job-says-3537051
http://www.welfareweekly.com/tories-on-the-side-of-working-people-youre-taking-the-cameron/
http://www.welfareweekly.com/mind-extremely-concerned-over-benefit-sanctions-revelation/
http://www.welfareweekly.com/bogus-self-employment-costing-millions-in-lost-tax-revenue/
http://www.welfareweekly.com/iain-duncan-smith-urged-to-revisit-poverty-stricken-glasgow-community/
http://www.welfareweekly.com/dwp-seeks-2800-short-term-staff-weeks-after-axing-thousands-of-full-timers/
https://www.change.org/p/hm-courts-and-tribunal-service-publish-stats-showing-how-many-people-have-died-after-their-benefits-stopped/u/12338828?tk=4KH1cZxAOjJfOcEReBSyyQFU9iKL0l2er0hLteibTuQ&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-03/migrant-on-arriving-in-uk-from-calais-it-was-my-dream-come-true/ Whilst we sit here with no work, as we are undercut everywhere we go for work etc..
http://labourlist.org/2013/10/an-absolutely-heartbreaking-letter-from-an-8-year-old-to-her-mp/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/buy-to-let/11816720/Death-of-buy-to-let-landlords-wake-up-to-Osbornes-150pc-tax.html
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/600036/Kenneth-Stewart-dead-EU-Margaret-European-Commission-Labour-Liverpool
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/599024/BBC-UKIP-radio-presenter-Matthew-Price-Nigel-Farage-bias-referendum-EU
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/600126/Racist-Lord-Kitchener-poster-Wetherspoon-s-Muslims-get-the-f-out-of-Britain
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/599731/Britain-faces-new-border-threat-migrants-switch-new-routes-UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/indian-restaurants-to-lobby-david-cameron-for-shortterm-work-visas-to-plug-chef-shortage-10467463.html http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/latest-immigration-statistics Rather than keep on letting them in, how about training the residents to fill these roles? Nah, didn't think so - rather keep on letting them all in!!
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http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/jobseekers-allowance-sanction-figures-soar-9372959
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/02/welfare-reform-proof-you-can-get-away-failure-if-its-boring-and-it-doesnt-affect
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1404110/No10-accused-of-hacking-in-to-BBC-news-computer.html
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/21/lie-after-lie-over-sanctions-and-foi-duncan-smiths-head-should-roll/
http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/210874117-youre-disgrace-oldham-mp-calls-ids-resignation-over-fake-sanctions-leaflet
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/21/lie-after-lie-over-sanctions-and-foi-duncan-smiths-head-should-roll/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3205518/Once-ve-like-hareng-fume-s-French-kipper-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-low-expectations-French-bargain-new-Calais-agreement.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205450/Firms-face-tax-help-fund-apprentices-Ministers-warn-companies-doing-little-train-staff-prepare-introduce-levy-2017.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3095906/Hundreds-Bangladeshis-fly-Britain-ONE-DAY-claim-housing-benefit-massive-fraud-racket-smashed-police.html
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/09/unconnected-and-out-of-work-the-vicious-circle-of-having-no-internet
http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/08/17/home-office-drug-advisers-try-to-clear-up-theresa-may-s-mess And still getting away with it - is David Cameron shagging her??
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/he-doesn-t-understand-poor-working-class-teacher-who-tried-turn-iain-duncan-smith
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/prime_minister_david_cameron_visits_norfolk_today_in_apprenticeships_push_1_4203346
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/record-levels-of-immigration-to-britain-david-cameron-should-take-the-increase-as-a-compliment-10464574.html As one migration expert put it: “The easiest thing Cameron could do to get the numbers down would be to crash the economy.” Looks like he is on track for that...along with trashing all of the residents as well!!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calais-migrant-crisis-ports-red-6285995
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osborne-faces-tory-fury-872286
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-u-turn-eu-referendum-1105528
http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/city-news/george-osborne-faces-call-to-quit-1169558
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/kevin-maguire-opinion-david-cameron-1111067
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/599248/record-number-migrants-entered-EU-last-month
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/599033/migrant-camp-Grande-Synthe-Calais-France-Dunkirk-police-Britain-smugglers
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/theresa-send-uk-police-calais-6282954
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/15/david-cameron-tells-john-chilot-to-get-on-with-it-and-publish-iraq-war-report
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/599473/EU-Britain-five-years In decisive votes where regulations and decisions were being finally adopted between 2010 and this year, the UK voted No 23 times and abstained 18 times, the new research shows. In each case the measure went through anyway, often with potential to cost British taxpayers billions. It also suggests that although Britain seems to pick its fights by formally objecting in only a relatively few cases, its No has now not stopped a measure put to a vote from going through for at least 19 years. DAVID CAMERON - YOU ARE USELESS!!!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/david-cameron-spotted-on-easyjet-flight-eating-pringles-10460502.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3203497/Twitter-mocks-Iain-Duncan-Smith-s-fake-benefit-claimant-leaflets-hilarious-memes-fakeDWPstories-hashtag.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-corbyn-blasts-iain-duncan-smith-for-truly-shameful-fake-quotes-promoting-his-benefit-sanctions-regime-10461193.html
http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/08/19/date-set-for-tribunal-hearing-over-benefit-related-deaths/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/599027/David-Cameron-Europe-European-Union-reforms-referendum-Merkel-Hollande-Ukip
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/599252/Benefits-Department-for-Work-and-Pensions-welfare-reforms-leaflet
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-18/itv-news-investigation-exposes-employers-offering-illegal-migrants-work/
No mention of austerity here either...!! https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/manifesto2015/ConservativeManifesto2015.pdf How surreal is that??
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9118778/The-dark-side-of-Facebook.html
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr15187.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8808294/David-Cameron-rewrites-conference-speech-after-credit-card-gaffe.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8808294/David-Cameron-rewrites-conference-speech-after-credit-card-gaffe.html How did we end up with him again???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AQYfPhtWpy8
http://www.politicsresources.net/area/uk/ge10/man/parties/libdem_manifesto_2010.pdf
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/16/migration-david-cameron-refuses-deny-young-people-lose-tax-credits
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https://mattwilcox.net/musing/the-infuriating-ineptitude-of-politics-in-the-uk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678005/Obama-rated-WORST-president-World-War-II-embarrassing-new-poll.html
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/595771/asylum-seekers-Britain-migrant-crisis-Calais-Save-the-Children-immigration?_ga=1.170642720.1841880581.1439672394
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/598502/BBC-boss-claims-marauding-Calais-migrants-Joseph-Mary-JESUS?_ga=1.171109920.1841880581.1439672394
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/598540/Yvette-Cooper-Labour-migrant-crisis-Calais-immigration-Jungle-leadership-Corbyn
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/598651/Kos-migrant-crisis-fighting-brawls-tensions-Greek-islands
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/597444/Songs-of-Praise-Calais-BBC
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/598333/Police-raid-55-people-packed-three-terraced-London-houses
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/slave-labour-mps-accused-hypocrisy-6260279
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-image-shows-teenage-immigrant-6257258
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-backbenchers-revolt-over-george-6230459
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/aug/14/david-cameron-treated-swimmers-ear-holiday-portugal
https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?reset=#anchor
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/bbc-and-press-ignore-massive-demonstration-against-austerity-in-london/
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-3194318/Why-George-Osborne-help-miss-selling-scandal-victims-Richard-Rita-lovely-home.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osbornes-unnecessary-ideological-cuts-6237339
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3197205/Why-does-Dave-revere-brassy-women-PM-loves-making-glamorous-women-tsars-fix-trade-teaching-brash.html
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/594600/House-of-Lords-scandal-Peer-walk-to-work
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/598267/Natacha-Bouchart-Calais-Crisis-David-Cameron-France-Keith-Vaz-Francois-Hollande
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/351744/European-Union-deserves-a-prize-for-being-useless
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/351744/European-Union-deserves-a-prize-for-being-useless If this is NOT what you want, tell them here: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/T5_5133/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2900798/Just-busy-performing-Crisis-like-Outraged-E-consultant-blasts-David-Cameron-s-lies-state-NHS-challenges-debate-escalating-crisis.html
ITV, BBC, Channel 4 - just don't get from a to b with the issues we face... Conservatives have made the lives of the unemployed a living nightmare! http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/jobseekers-allowance-sanction-figures-soar-9372959 We go to the Labour Party, and the Liberal democrats and that makes no difference either. We complain to the conservatives, to the DWP, to jobcentreplus, to the Ombudsman, to the Press regulator - no change! Not good enough...the public is getting roasted!!
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/457411/calais-migrants-britain-eurotunnel-channel-tunnel-france-migrant
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/19/david-cameron-reiterates-commitment-to-cutting-net-migration but he's been very active on sanctions: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/jobseekers-allowance-sanction-figures-soar-9372959 92 out of every 100 have got a sanction - hardly fair in todays jobs market that is full to brimming with cheap labour!!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/dec/10/david-cameron-mps-expenses1
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/554595/Slovakian-burglar-Robert-Slepcik-jailed-five-years-19-homes-UK?_ga=1.176433125.1363567038.1439321731 Why isn't he sent back??
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/597446/Fury-Brussels-comic-strip-EU
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/557187/1-5million-EU-funds-wasted-on-mountain-lift-that-remains-closed
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/587981/EU-European-Union-Parliament-subsidy-canteen-grapes-UKIP-UK-Independence-Party-Farage
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/592143/European-Union-fury-2-million-silver-dinner-china-crockery
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/597557/MEP-Bernd-Posselt-works-unification-dream-voted-out-European-Parliament
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/597507/Cameron-split-Conservative-Party-clinging-to-power-beyond-2020-Tories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_is_no_alternative
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500251478/Four-more-senior-leaders-announce-departure-from-Government-Digital-Service
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3090535/Illegal-workers-pay-seized.html
------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Simon Ball" To: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Cc: Subject: Re: Why are resident workers in the IT industry ignored when it comes to intra company transfers? July 2015 - Theresa May. Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:43:16 +0100 Good afternoon, So once again, the home office is watching the horse ride away from the open gate... In 2014, 86,000 europeans came to the UK with no job offer - why on earth did the government let them in then?? We keep hearing there is a shortage of workers yet the ones that come in have no work either...!! It is STUPID to keep on letting in more and more diversity with no jobs for them to go to!! So why, oh why, does the government keep on and on and on doing it??? Simon Ball On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:45:10 +0100,
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osbornes-help-buy-scheme-6221454
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/calais-migrant-crisis-syrians-boast-6225229
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/calais-crisis-david-cameron-contradicts-6215112
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-warned-over-catastrophic-6222015
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/597115/Driver-arrested-M1-motorway-migrants-found-lorry
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/595543/government-english-language-public-police-social-workers-teachers
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/597034/David-Cameron-beer-Eurotunnel-sue-Calais-migrant-crisis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26101442
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596917/Police-email-burgled-officers
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596946/calais-migrants-open-gate-home-office-bruno-noel
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/macer-hall/595364/Inside-politics-EU-presidents-plotting-new-phase-of-integration
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/nick-ferrari/595461/Nick-Ferrari-David-Cameron-Kent-Crisis
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/521015/Daily-Express-on-speaking-Polish-tackling-Ebola-and-Prince-George?_ga=1.19222138.378654421.1439045456
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/597002/Polish-migrants-firest-ever-workers-strike-Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596717/BBC-Songs-of-Praise-Calais-migrant-Jungle-camp-Ehtiopian-church
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596717/BBC-Songs-of-Praise-Calais-migrant-Jungle-camp-Ehtiopian-church A waste of my licence fee...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1036611/Northern-Rock-drives-whistle-blower-brink-suicide-130-000-legal-action.html
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/aug/06/financial-crisis-25-people-heart-meltdown
harriet.harman.mp@parliament.uk You know like, lack of jobs, diversity undercutting the residents, shopping centres full of charity shops and huge chains with half of the shops empty, zero hour contracts, lack of even contract jobs, how the jobcentreplus has been closed down and the unemployed treated like scum - where is she on all of this???
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/call-for-evidence-review-tier-2-route
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-08-03/migrant-on-arriving-in-uk-from-calais-it-was-my-dream-come-true/
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-07-30/migrants-are-people-not-insects-harman-tells-pm/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-11658228
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/07/revealed-the-andy-coulson-joke-that-nick-clegg-cut-from-his-conference-speech/
http://www.cityam.com/221317/forget-politicians-salaries-its-afterwards-they-make-big-bucks
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/picture/2015/aug/06/martin-rowson-george-osborne-rbs-cartoon
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/national-trust-pays-375000-repair-6210837
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/currentaccounts/article-3015186/ALEX-BRUMMER-Fred-Goodwin-brilliantly-avoiding-public-scrutiny-RBS-dismissal-longer.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081357/Shotguns-dawn-Osborne-Rothschild-days-sights.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/eric-pickles-radio-4-interview-5490633
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/9-lies-david-cameron-told-6211553
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/call-for-evidence-review-tier-2-route
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/social-worker-guilty-misconduct-after-6199368
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/04/david-camerons-holidays-t_n_7931528.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/keith-vaz/calais-summer-crisis_b_7913228.html Calais is already too late Time and again, we have said that once these migrants and refugees reach Calais, it is already too late. Anecdotal evidence suggests that migrants are usually in the town for an average of only three months, with 70% of the camps empty by the end of that time. In many cases, this is because they have been successful in entering the UK. In March the Committee stated: "We find it bizarre that there are thousands of attempts to enter the UK illegally through Calais, at great cost and inconvenience to business and leisure travellers, transport companies, and hauliers, and yet the people who are caught are simply released back into the French countryside" By simple logic, this approach ensures that this problem cannot be resolved in any sense of the word. When caught, these individuals should either be granted asylum in France, or removed. The Mayor of Calais has been alerting us to this problem for the last year. Whilst she is wrong to point to the UK as the problem, she is correct to stand up for her long suffering citizens. Left unchecked, this issue will simply fuel the influence of the far right in France, to the detriment of President Hollande and Ms Bouchart.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/28/uk-unemployment-five-years-osborne_n_5047863.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786318/Disabled-woman-humiliated-wetting-JobCentre-staff-wouldn-t-let-use-toilet.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207715/Migrant-worker-numbers-slashed-10-stop-British-workers-undercut.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3119768/How-Cameron-practised-resignation-speech-patio-hours-stunning-election-win.html
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/05/06/13-terrible-tory-counterarguments/ We also have research from the IMF stating that this correlation exists and explaining what causes it–the multiplier effect. When the government eliminates a dollar of spending, the person who would have received that dollar must also reduce spending. For instance, if the government cuts a teacher’s salary, that teacher might not buy a new car, which means lower sales for the car dealership, the car manufacturer, and the other industries that serve the manufacturer. If the government cuts many people’s salaries (or worse, fires people), this can add up to a significant amount of money that is not moving through the economy, resulting in losses for many businesses. These businesses may try to remain solvent by cutting wages or laying off their own workers, thereby decreasing those workers’ purchasing power, and so on in a negative feedback loop. These businesses also have less income to pay tax on, so the government collects less revenue, worsening its fiscal position. The IMF talked about that, too. Fraud: In 2012-2013, fraud only accounted for 2.1% of the welfare budget. In other years the figure is as low as 0.7%. People who make the fraud argument are deeply misinformed about the basics of this debate. Research shows that on average, British voters think that 27% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud, which is wildly inaccurate. Iraq: The Tories supported the Iraq War too. Do we really believe that a Tory government wouldn’t have joined the Bush administration in Iraq? Do we really think that without British support, America would have stayed out of Iraq? I think the answer to both questions is clearly “no”. In any case, Iraq is a foreign policy issue, and it has nothing to do with the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the coalition government’s austerity policies. Britain is now acting like the United States sometimes does. It’s ignoring the international research on austerity, becoming too consumed with its own narrow domestic debate. The international research is clear, but too many British people are living in denial, presuming that Britain is the exception to the rule. When my country denies the efficacy of single payer or gun control, I hope that foreign writers step up and point out our error. When I see Britain making the same kind of mistake with austerity, I step up and point it out not to insult or deride Britain, but to help it be a better place for all of its people.
http://benjaminstudebaker.com/2015/05/02/britain-for-the-love-of-god-please-stop-david-cameron/ Let me be clear–austerity reduces growth so much that it undercuts government revenue and prevents governments from shrinking their deficits. I wrote about this at the time. It was and remains shockingly clear evidence that austerity was and is failing even to reduce debt and deficits. The UK is in a significantly worse fiscal position than it was in 5 years ago. The UK performed worse than France, a country that the Wall Street Journal accused of “descending into ridiculousness”. In the first two years, Cameron’s government put up numbers that were worse than Spain’s. Spain is a basket case–even today, Spain has an unemployment rate over 20%. Had it maintained the trajectory it was on from 2009-2010, Britain could have been doing as well as Germany in 2012. What the numbers really suggest is that Britain could be much further along now if it had avoided austerity to begin with. But voters have short memories, and because the British economy has been improving since the austerity slowed down, the conservatives remain electorally competitive: To be clear, Cameron’s Conservative Party is in blue. The Labour Party is red, hard-right UKIP is in purple, the centrist liberal democrats are orange, and the hard-left greens are, obviously, green. This is disturbing, because the Conservative Party promises to continue cutting government spending by a further 2% over the next two years if it is returned to power. This would not be as fast as the rate of cutting from 2010-2012, but it would be faster than the rate from 2012-2014. This will only serve to hinder British growth further. According to Oxfam, the government’s austerity policies have devastated Britain’s middle and working classes in a variety of ways: As a result of austerity, an addition 800,000 British children will live in poverty over the next decade. Over the same period, 1.5 million working age adults will fall into poverty. By 2018, 900,000 public sector workers will have lost their jobs. The bottom 10% of British earners will have seen their incomes fall 38% over this government’s five year term. Indeed, when we adjust for inflation, British workers have seen continual reductions in their wages over the course of this parliament: In sum, this austerity serves no economic purpose–its exists because the Conservative Party wants to cut the welfare state so it can reduce taxes on the rich and for no other reason. The Labour Party has done a bad job of attacking austerity–indeed, it promises to prioritize cuts as well. There are however two key differences: Instead of cutting the deficit 2% over 2 years, Labour promises to eliminate the deficit a little bit at a time each year, which implies a cut of about 0.4% per year for five years–this is not good for the economy by any means, but it is less bad than a quick 2% cut. The composition of the cuts will be different. The conservatives promise to avoid increasing most taxes, and some they even plan to cut (including inheritance tax, which targets the wealthy and affluent). This forces the conservatives to make deeper cuts to benefits and to the welfare state to achieve their budgetary goals. Labour promises to raise taxes on the rich, which will offset cuts in other areas and facilitate a decrease in tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000. This is not by any means an ideal alternative–Labour has done little to combat the Conservative Party’s narrative that the debt poses an existential economic threat to the UK. Austerity is not an effective way to fight debt, but Labour has not challenged this claim and as a result it has become part of what ordinary British voters consider common knowledge. As a result, it has become impossible to be taken seriously in British politics if one does not promise significant spending cuts. Even the Greens are promising to focus on the debt, though their manifesto calls almost exclusively for tax increases. This is remarkable, considering that UK borrowing costs are at historic lows, indicating a high level of confidence in the UK’s solvency (and a low level of confidence in its future economic trajectory):
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/16/david-cameron-workers-friend The research also shows that while average pay has fallen by £2,500 in real terms since 2010, the real-terms earnings of FTSE 100 CEOs have shot up by £700,000 on average – no doubt helped along by those vanilla tax arrangements which apparently “everyone” enjoys.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/596029/Migrant-crisis-won-t-be-solved-Calais-French-MP-urges-action-Africa?_ga=1.25931069.1841383045.1438789255
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596142/Calais-crisis-European-Union-France-Britain-money-migrants?_ga=1.89220635.1841383045.1438789255
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596191/Calais-migrant-crisis-posters-lie-gay-sexuality-Britain-Jungle-camp
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596258/Calais-migrant-crisis-revealed-shocking-statistics
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/596216/Calais-migrant-crisis-Ukip-demands-David-Cameron-visit-French-port
http://iaindale.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/does-eddie-george-have-smoking-gun.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFhm98H9pk0
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1126954/Transcript-Brown-denies-boom-bust.html
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/11/even-greenspan-admits-that-moral-hazard-and-fraud-are-the-main-problems.html
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/oct/19/gordonbrown-davidcameron-economic-policy
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/the-nine-labours-of-cameron-analysis-of.html
http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/unitedkingdom/index_en.htm#goto_0
http://www.un.org/en/contactus/
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_STATEMENT-15-5472_en.htm?locale=en
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11781637/EU-pays-jobless-migrants-to-come-to-Britain.html
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595858/European-Union-unemployed-Britain-jobs-migrants-immigration-referendum-Ukip
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595858/European-Union-unemployed-Britain-jobs-migrants-immigration-referendum-Ukip
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595881/Ladesfield-Care-Home-migrant-crisis-Kent-Council-immigrants-asylum-Dover-Calais
http://www.rt.com/uk/311475-tories-misled-benefit-sanctions/ Doesn't sound helpful to the unemployed - yet all we hear from the tories is how its working in getting people back into work - i rather suspect the opposite!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184061/Is-Philip-Hammond-running-country-Call-Cameron-cancel-holiday-Foreign-Secretary-left-chair-Cobra.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184227/Disabled-couple-daughter-four-stranded-motorway-service-station-hotel-council-home-them.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1258774/Why-DO-Tories-want-heirs-Tony-Blair.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefits-cuts-inhuman-admits-senior-5267402
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-01-21-sanctions-linked-drop-unemployment-benefit-few-return-work
http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/jobseekers-allowance-sanction-figures-soar-9372959
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595624/Migrants-Calais-900-a-month-seven-out-of-ten-crisis-immigration?_ga=1.56248680.2125038058.1438632140
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/595697/Calais-crisis-David-Cameron-Cobra-meeting-holiday
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/23/david-cameron-on-holiday-again
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184061/Is-Philip-Hammond-running-country-Call-Cameron-cancel-holiday-Foreign-Secretary-left-chair-Cobra.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3184227/Disabled-couple-daughter-four-stranded-motorway-service-station-hotel-council-home-them.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182519/Welcome-soft-touch-UK-Outrage-immigrants-illegally-entering-UK-free-hotel-rooms-cooked-meals-35-cash-week-days-arrival.html
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2015-01-21-sanctions-linked-drop-unemployment-benefit-few-return-work
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/31/jeremy-hunt-british-medical-association-myths_n_7915940.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/30/george-osborne-challenged-over-bbc-cuts-murdoch-meeting_n_7908196.html
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c089-DWP-covers-up-number-of-claimants-hit-by-sanctions#.Vb9Dpq1lwkQ
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d111-A-cruel-trick-Tripping-up-claimants#.Vb9DZa1lwkQ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1258774/Why-DO-Tories-want-heirs-Tony-Blair.html
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jul/15/comment.conservatives
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/thank-god-george-osborne-is-finally-making-young-people-pay-for-the-crash--they-caused-it-after-all-10379270.html
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/wintour-and-watt/2010/sep/06/tonyblair-davidcameron
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3183386/Cameron-fire-absurd-Tory-peerage-lingerie-tycoon-PM-ennobles-Michelle-Mone-supported-party-opposed-Scottish-independence.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-describe-david-cameron-as-inexperienced-and-boris-johnson-as-a-clown-10434193.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/benefit-cuts-deaths-time-iain-6177882
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/windows-10-man-updates-pc-6175142
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/conservatives-strike-law-unions-5689015
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/sep/12/Iraqandthemedia.politicsphilosophyandsociety
http://www.tom-watson.co.uk/2007/04/david-cameron-on-iraq/