TINA is back!
'There Is No Alternative' Lucy Powell - another English Labour shill for banksters
TINA - There is No Alternative - is back! The Right Honourable Lucy Powell, leader of the House of Commons, claimed “there was no alternative” to axing the Winter Fuel Allowance - otherwise the UK economy would have come crashing down. Does anyone seriously believe this?
Lucy Powell, like Maggie Thatcher before her, studied chemistry at Somerville College, Oxford. She’s never held a real job. She started her political career as a parliamentary assistant then worked her way up the greasy pole to her current position. (She’s also a member of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI).)
What she is good at is regurgitating the guff that she and the other English Labour high heids have been instructed to by their City of London bosses.
English Labour isn’t accountable to the 34% (!!) of voters who ticked the Labour box but to the vampiric banksters who are running the UK into the ground. It’s why ELINO (English Labour in Name Only) won’t dare interfere with their bonuses but has no qualms about cutting the £300 winter fuel allowance for 10 million pensioners who subsist on one of the lowest state pensions in western Europe. ELINO isn’t bothered that many will die as a result or that Scottish pensioners who live in the coldest UK nation that also happens to provide the cheapest and most renewable energy, will suffer the most.
Nor does it bother them that a quarter of all children live in poverty, otherwise they would have ended the cruel two-child benefit cap. A Children’s Society report revealed that this disunited kingdom has the highest proportion of unhappy 15-year-olds in Europe, 25%, vs 7% for The Netherlands and 16.6% for the EU overall. It’s not hard to figure out why teens are so miserable. Poverty, lack of opportunity, grotesque levels of inequality, crumbling public services, poor and unaffordable housing - the list is endless in the failing UK.
We’re lumbered for the next five years with an ELINO government that like a broken record says growth is the only way out of this collective misery and to achieve it, it must cut public spending and then the private sector will ride to the rescue. Well, it hasn’t worked since 2010 and never has - so why would it work now?
And the leading so-called independence party in Scotland just concluded its conference with the First Minister announcing that he has “no choice” but to make at least £250m in cuts this year. He does have a choice - to fight for Scotland. He needs to start by telling the truth for once about how being colony within the failing UK is what is really sinking Scotland. Then work together with all Scots to extricate their nation from this mess.
It's maddening that so many people still do not know who Labour is and who's interests they are there to represent. Folk are hanging on to 'give them more time'. Nothing they have said signals anything will change to benefit ordinary folk. That would require a complete reversal of their economic plan.
Yes indeed, the chemistry of politics, stirring the pot, added toxins so the sc*m comes to the top.
I don't understand why the SNP don't just tell it like it is, the truth about England thieving so much from Scotland by way of our massive resources and revenues (and land for various rich folks and various purposes), do they fear being called anti English? They need some clever slogans, maybe we can think some up for them? SNP need to make comparisons about Scotland vs England in terms of policy, and tell people in no uncertain terms that England's government once they retake power at Holyrood, will roll out English policy in Scotland, but in fact it will be much 'worse'! They need to be clever, use the language of the enemy against them! Use their words to describe what THEY are not doing to keep the lights on and keep people warm.
I watched some of the conference, much seemed to be SNP bashing fest to tell you the truth. Speakers complaining but making no reference to fact that Scotland is still mostly ruled by England from England.
The SNP need to start with making everyone in Scotalnd knows which powers are devolved and which are reserved to the EngGov in Westminster. Most people do not know who runs their council for heavens sake. Heard an old lady in a shop recently complaining about City of Edin buses, and the terrible SNP council, myself and another woman had to inform her that hte SNP do not run the council and therefore do not control what happens with the public owned, council controlled buses. sigh. Once upon a time the council would send a leaflet each year saying what peoples' money was being spent on, and poss even inform them who was their councillor and which party they represent. That info should be mandatory in whatever format people prefer. City of Edin LabConsLibdems council are quick enough to send nasty threatening letters if a person is a few days late paying their council tax, ( I missed apayment and received 'final warning' very threatening nasty letter in the post!, no leaway, no concern, no oh maybe you just forgot or have been unwell or in hospital so here's a wee reminder. No, they are chomping at the bit to get more money out of people by way of added on £'s 'fees' and even court fines! ) but not informing people who controls their council.
They say that a parent is as depressed as their most depressed child, no doubt the opposite is also true.
It's hard not to feel very down in this dysfunctional oligarch of a so called UK, the attacks on the poor and vulnerable are deliberate, in England their government are cutting back on funding for education, now that is very telling and criminal actually. They see the young as cannon fodder, not educated people with a future to look forward to. The mega rich have their massive underground bunkers already built, small towns with all the facilities, for when they do actually condemn earth and the 98% armageddon.
Ps, when I first moved to Scotland, thirty four years ago we'd drive to Glasgow and along the M8 see sprayed on a bridge, 'English go home', I used to think yikes that's us! Now I understand what they meant and why.