QUALITY OF LIFE,  from our political correspondent

The quality of life in Britain has slumped dramatically during Tony Blair's premiership, according to those who are preparing to leave the country. A poll of 900 Brits who are planning to move abroad reveals that 83% are doing so because of that decline over the last decade.And an overwhelming 89% believe things will only get worse in the future.

Spiralling numbers of immigrants and rising crime rates are among the top reasons to leave, according to the survey by Foreign Currency Direct. Eighty-five per cent said they won't feel guilty for leaving Britain and 60% said they don't ever want to return. One respondent said: ''This country is such a mess - poor health care,rising crime, high tax.

''There will be no jobs for future generations due to the excessively high levels of immigrants. I am a foreigner in my own town where I have lived for over 50 years.'' Another said: ''I am fed up with this Government ruining the country and the way of life that we knew. ''

While one person commented: ''I feel like Spain is more English than England now.''And another said: ''The British traditions are fast disappearing.'' Peter Ellis, of Foreign Currency Direct, said: ''The omnipresent threat of terrorist attacks and political unrest in the UK has stimulated many new enquiries and subsequent interest in moving abroad.

''Our company statistics show a 34 per cent increase in volumes traded for the Euro, US Dollar and Cyprus Pounds year on year.''

Ninety-three per cent of those surveyed by Foreign Currency Direct, which specialises in currency exchange and transfer for overseas property purchases, believe they will be welcome in their new country.

The majority of those questioned are heading to either Spain, Italy or France. Other popular destinations mentioned in the survey include Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Turkey, Greece and America. And the majority of those questioned (33 per cent) say the decision to move abroad was made recently.

 Top 20 Reasons given for leaving Britain.
 1. The quality of life is better abroad
 2. Cost of living in the UK is too high
 3. Cost of property in the UK is too high
 4. There are too many immigrants in the UK
 5. Rising crime rates
 6. I went on holiday and loved it
 7. I want to spend my retirement abroad
 8. I don't feel safe in the UK
 9. I think that health care is poor in the UK
10. The food/wine is better in the UK
11. I have family who live there
12. I don't want my children to grow up in the UK
13. I want my children to learn another language
14. I think retired people and the elderly are treated poorly in the UK
15. I have friends who live there
16. I want to start my own business abroad
17. The bad weather in the UK
18. I saw a television programme about it
19. Concerns about pollution
20. I have a new job abroad

Deprived areas 'hardest hit' by crime September 2009


The Government has been accused by the Tories of failing the country's poorest communities after releasing evidence that the most deprived areas were the hardest hit by crime. Skip related content

The Conservatives released an analysis of the 32,000 council wards in England which, they said, showed that the 20 most deprived were all the top 10% for crime.

The most deprived ward, Speke in Liverpool, had the 68th highest level of crime and disorder, while the second most deprived, Harpurhey in Manchester, was the seventh highest for crime rate and also had the second highest level of child poverty.

The third most deprived, Golf Green in Tendring in Essex, was 1,303th for crime; the fourth, Park in Blackpool, was 2,075th for crime; and the fifth, Vauxhall in Liverpool, was 683rd for crime.

Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling said that the figures undermined Labour's claim to be "the party of progressive politics".

"Over the past ten years we have seen big increases in violence, in knife and gun crime in Britain, and now even burglary is on the increase again," he said.

"The people who are at the sharp end of this are the people who face the biggest challenges in their lives in some of our most deprived communities.

England will be lucky if they ever win another football World Cup by Robert Cook September 9th 2009

On the brink of qualification for South Africa 2010 England have won all their qualifiers so far and look like a reasonably solid team. Despite this fans should not get carried away as they have yet to beat any major football nation under Fabio Capello. England drew fortunately with Holland, lost to France and were comfortably beaten by European champions Spain. Victory against a top class side still eludes them.

It is hard to believe that this record will improve in the high-pressure environment of a World Cup. Come the knock out stages the first tactically and technically superior team they meet will send them home. Then pundits and commentators will pick over the failure but nothing will really be said that has not been said before. Ultimately the England team, and the style of football it represents, will again be revealed as inferior to the flair endorsed by technical teams. England are just not good enough to win.

Capello’s record in qualification games is impressive but rather misleading. The Euro group England was drawn in was very favourable to qualification: a group of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazahkstan, Croatia and Andorra is not the most demanding. With the sole exception of Croatia it should not, and has not, presented too many real problems. A repeat of the 4-1 victory in Zagreb will not prove anything. Croatia is a small nation of technical players without too much strength in depth. The loss of key players such as Modric and Corluka will hurt them badly. Another victory against them should be well within England’s capabilities at Wembley. At the World Cup, if England get out of the group stage, the knockout games will be far more demanding. I fully expect them to be eliminated from the competition early and easily.

The one triumph in 1966 looks a lot like a fluke when placed next to successive monotonous failures. As one of the bigger football nations there should have been more than just the one trophy. The reality is that English football is set up and played in a way that is unlikely to ever produce a competitive national team capable of challenging for major honours. The national team embodies all that is wrong with English football and its failures will continue unless the national game changes.

England has a one-dimensional style of play that, once its strengths have been identified, is easy to counter. A high tempo, highly physical, pressing game only works against inferior opposition. The strongest international teams will keep the ball, wear England out chasing shadows while patiently waiting for them to falter. England will then head home to another pointless inquest. The real reasons for their glaring inadequacy at major championships will either be ignored or glossed over completely.

Anyone who has ever watched their children playing junior football will have seen some of the key underlying weaknesses of the English game. Power and athleticism dominate at the expense of those boys inclined to play with the ball. The physical side dominates the large pitches and any talent or skill on display is often an afterthought to the boys playing. The emphasis on power over skill also prevails in the professional and non-professional lower leagues. Consequently English players rarely develop the close control or tactical astuteness international sides need to win major competitions.

This national tendency limits the development of English players with the technical abilities needed to control a game at the highest level. Talented ball players like Glenn Hoddle, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley and Paul Scholes are the exception and very uncommon in England and its teams. The English reliance on raw speed and power is clearly not enough on its own unless matched with some decent technical skills.

The FA has begun to address the glaring skill deficiency of English players by reducing pitches and numbers of boys playing but that is only the start of reforms needed to make the England team more competitive. When the Premier League was founded it was supposed to help England but has instead damaged it. The division of eighteen teams became one of twenty and television money stayed with the top flight rather than being shared out more evenly. Foreign players and managers proliferated rapidly. Those who talk of Champions League success ignore the foreign player’s role.

The whole structure of the national game needs to be updated to serve the England team rather than the commercial interests and ambitions of a small number of big clubs and their owners. The recent banning of Chelsea from signing players until 2011 has highlighted how the big teams operate. Scouts offer various lucrative inducements to sign young players who show any ability. Smaller teams are stripped of emerging talent they have developed at great expense for a nominal fee. Often the man or boy is never heard of again. Those with the potential to be stars of the future never emerge.

It does not matter to those big clubs where the child or young man comes from as long as they get his signature ahead of their rivals. This is even true of established players with great potential. Not many seasons ago Shaun Wright Philips moved from Manchester City to Chelsea for a large fee and then spent the next few years on the bench with starts infrequent. His move to Chelsea, to stop him moving to Arsenal, retarded his development. Now back at Manchester City he is older and looks like a player still short on big game confidence and experience. He had the potential to replace David Beckham in the England team but never developed enough to do so.  

The big clubs are killing competition and entrenching their domestic dominance. Lower league clubs lack the glamour and wealth of teams in the top flight so lose players at very young ages from their first team squads and academies. Smaller clubs in the top flight are also stripped in this way. A clear set of national, and international, rules on young players, which protects the club most responsible for developing them, would boost every national team. The level of financial competition should be so high that it deters the sort of poaching that all the big English teams engage in at home and abroad. It would perhaps encourage the bigger teams to develop young players locally – if not it would at least allow the smaller team to continue developing young players.

A boy who plays for his local or regional club before moving on is a player with more experience and therefore in a better position to break into a bigger clubs starting line up. He will have good competitive experience and a profile to draw the attention of any prospective new coaches. The boy with potential is unproven and unlikely to be given the opportunity to do so at one of the bigger teams given the focus on revenue and profits. A smaller team where the player is involved in every game will develop.

Foreign players dominate the starting line ups of most Premier League teams, and in some cases Championship sides, – most of them established internationals. The large size of first team squads, and the rotation favoured by managers, who follow the continental approach, does little to help younger less experienced players develop. If more young players and clubs developed their careers and young local talents rather than chased money and glamour the England team would have a much greater depth. If young English players do not get that experience of competitive first team action they will never make the step up to international football and its demands.

England may be good enough to qualify for major tournaments but it will be a long time before they get close to winning one. Until the domestic game and style is reformed in such a way that the needs of England come before those clubs whom dominate the domestic game and its organisation failure will remain the usual. If team quotas on domestic qualified players are not introduced the England team will get progressively worse. The financial influence of the bigger teams needs to be better restrained – squad sizes should be limited, deals on young players better regulated.

Those who see nothing wrong with the existing system should think again. Would Wayne Rooney have emerged at Everton if David Moyes had had a decent number of first team players? At Liverpool Gerard came in thanks to injuries. The young Manchester United players only got into the squad when Ferguson rebuilt his side during the mid-1990s. Players like Crouch and Heskey emerged and developed at smaller teams. Rio Ferdinand, Joe Cole, Frank Lampard, Michael Carrick all matured thanks to playing in the West Ham first team from an early age. They were lucky that in Harry Redknapp they had a manager prepared to blood untested talented young players. Other than Martin O’Neill at Villa most Premier sides go for experience. Arsene Wenger also bloods young players – but most, like his squads, are not English.

The squad Capello takes to South Africa will be very light on experience and depth. Many of the squad will come from clubs outside the big four and lack experience at the European level. Playing in the Europa League is not the same as playing in the Champions League against teams like Barcelona. The English players who have won the Champions League have done so as part of a diverse multi national team where the key players are predominantly foreign ones. Rarely has an Englishman been the star playmaker or entertainer. Arsenal is a predominantly French speaking team based in North London, Liverpool an assortment of nationalities, Chelsea field three English players and Manchester United’s English contingent is also shrinking.

At the World Cup the squads overall lack of experience and tactical naivety will be found out by decent opposition. Capello will look frustrated and angry and every England fan will have that same sinking feeling when they realise their team will soon be coming home empty handed. The outcome will be better than McClaren but will not be an improvement on another expensive foreign import – Sven.

British National Party Threat to Labour Victory October 23rd 2009

New Labour has chosen to follow convention and not challenge John Bercow in the next General Election.  At one stage there were rumours that little John would defect to them. Buckingham has seen that sort of behaviour before.

A career politician, who is said to have had eyes on the speaker’s chair for some years, one has to question the ethics of 21st century politics.  There was a furore about BNP leader Nick Griffin being allowed on BBC’s Question Time.

Government pressure was put on the BBC to block him.  Director General rebuffed a worried Gordon Brown by telling him that it was not the broadcaster’s job to effect political censorship.  Indeed it is not. The BBC have given New Labour more than their fair share of publicity, doing their bit to ensure they were elected three times

Look where new Labour’s victories have got us. We have had wars in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Iraq.  Tens of thousands of Muslims have died and many have been displaced.  Nick Griffin has outraged the smug British establishment and mesmerised masses.  He had the audacity to question the ethics of the British military.  He is wrong to blame the military. The ethics of New Labour and Tories who support them needs questioning. In fact mainstream political parties working ethics and private lives does not bare close scrutiny.  There have been too many sex and financial scandals involving too many of them.  More importantly the government, aided by a self interested and incompetent opposition, has brought this country to its knees.

New Labour should be alarmed by the BNP.  But it is they who alienated the million voters who elected two MEPs.  New Labour has sold working and middle class people down the river while profligate bankers have been fed taxpayers’ money to sustain their extravagant life styles.

BNP Leader Nick Griffin MEP

As it turned out Nick Griffin seemed quiete reasonable on Question Time, but he will always be a target because new Labour are wedded to mass immigration and cheap labour regardless of the consequences.  New Labour’s Jack Straw was on the platform alongside Griffin.  He responded to a question about the effects of mass immigration into Britain with waffle that diversity was good.  This bland generalisation does not deal with our overloaded infrastructure, money wasting inefficient public services, housing problems and mass unemployment.  The statement ‘diversity is good’ sounds like something out of George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ or ‘1984’.  Of course Straw did not thank Griffin for pointing out that Straw’s father went to prison rather than help fight the Nazis in World War Two.

What new Labour calls diversity is in fact a nation broken into pieces.  In terms of values, Britain is close to what sociologists call anomie- normlessness. No doubt they see this as a transitional stage on the way to their Utopia. In the interim, they have altered the nature of Britain’s police force, alienated good decent officers and brought the force into disrepute through situations like the death of Ian Tomlinson at G20. New Labour has no grounds or rights to moralise to any one.  They are a disgrace to our political history.  They have done more to bring this country to its knees than Adolph Hitler. They have achieved what Hitler could not. They have broken the country’s spirit. Superficial critics may wrongly infer that this is an accusation of Nazism.  There are certainly similarities between the totalitarian police state drift under New Labour.

Working people may be desperate to look to the BNP, but drowning men will clutch at straws.  The black man on last night’s ‘Question Time’ was angry because he was not recognised as British by the party.  So he should be.  If BNP are about to reclaiming a British Identity, then it is high time they recognised the massive contribution of ethnically diverse people from all over the British Empire- and later Commonwealth.  Only then will the party be worthy of a vote or any trust. 

Today the Daily Mail produced the headline ‘Bigot at Bay.’  It was all about Cambridge educated Griffin. Given that 60% of journalists come from upper or upper middle class homes, the paper comments from a point of material and social advantage.  Life is tough at the bottom for blacks or whites.  The Mail condemns Griffin for comparing Churchill to Nazis.  Close study of the run up to World War Two reveals that Britain had ample opportunity to save millions of Jews.  It chose not to and did not enter the war to save them. 

Churchill had a dubious record by the time he came to power.  This included sending jeaporadising a lot of life’s to save his own during the Boer War.  In the 1920s he suggested shooting striking coal miners. After World War Two, he mentioned dropping an H Bomb on the USSR.  He was effectively an alcoholic by this time.

The Mail also attacked Griffin for saying that the current Ku Klux Clan leader was the least violent so far. To the politically informed, that is a true statement- this is not a high hurdle to clear, but why the U.S.A still has a Ku Klux Clan is a matter for them. The real problem for the establishment is the BNP affects to speak up for ordinary BrItains, question gravy train Europe and aiming to resurrect a feeling of common British identity.  Worst of all, their leader wants to stop open door immigration of unskilled workers.  Mainstream parties and the BBC don’t want to debate this.  This is a serious matter because these are all serious and contentious issues.  Not accepting this is like a member of our ruling classes ignoring the fact that there is a fire in the west wing of their grand mansion.

Lets hope that the Equality Commission’s recent interference, forcing the BNP to admit members regardless of skin colour will make the party credible enough to frighten our smug hideously white upper and upper middle class political elite into facing up to the misery they have caused in this once great country.

Browned Off-a new column about the  state of the nation by Robert Cook

There are none as blind as those who do not want to see. Gordon Brown has used his claims to have abolished boom and bust to propel him from the Chancellorship to become Britain's Prime Minister. When Blair was finally forced aside he walked into No 10 following an undemocratic party coronation.

The man who commentators had ironically named the 'Iron Chancellor' has given Britain one of the biggest, if not the biggest (apart from Jordan), busts in history. It will take years for the economy to fully recover from over a decade of New Labour incompetence and misrule.

His political legacy of massive uncontrolled state spending has next to nothing to show for it apart from a massive debt mountain and sustained falls in the productivity of the bloated public sector.

Mass uncontrolled immigration is a prohibited subject under New Labour. In the aftermath of the Baroness Scotland case, we can see why.   It benefits the elite.  Crime has been imported at record levels,in all fields, especially drugs and sex crime  It also depresses wages whilst inflating the price of everything else. Immigrants also tend to send a lot of sterling wages home, flooding the market with pounds for exchange into more desireable currencies and further depressing its value.

Britain's manufacturing accounts for 17% of GNP, while banking and finance is bloated and corrupt. Comfortable middle class media folk shriek when the BNP leader comes on a BBC politicasl debate programme.  That very reaction demonstrated that Dimbleby's 'Question Time' is a smug consensus. As the son of one of teh BBC's big names, we have a further reminder of just how elitist Britain is. Nick Griffin was obviously put on air to be humilated, rather than listened to.  the broadcats was edited accordingly for that effect.  New Labour does not allow free speech.  Anti terror laws are a sinister replacement for the Russian bogeyman.

In the meantime, it is ordinary working people who feel the pressure.  The public sector has swollen to deal with a plethora of politically correct rules and new laws.  It also has the burden of dealing with record levels of real crime, anti social behaviour, physical and menatl illness and miles of other red tape.  New Labour policies have created record bankruptcy and homelessness.

To listen to upper crust Harriet Harman, one would think that giving the mythical 'wummin' more dvanatge and postive discrimination.  She still peddles teh 'all men are rapists' poison.  In plain English, that is like men saying 'all women are asking for it.'  Harman showed her true colours when following a serious traffic offence, she drove off telling people taht they knew who she was and where to find her- compounding the original offence.  This is exactly what New Labour are.  It is a new feudal system of laws, which they are above.  Sadly they are not short of deferential serfs.

If Britain is at record levels of deparvity, New Labour have a lot to do with it. Like all true socialists, they  out to destroy family life by marginalising and discriminating against men.

Along the way Britain has become so close to bankruptcy that when it goes to international money markets to borrow to cover debts and more ludicrous PC plans and benefits for its elite,

it has to pay extra because of the perceived risk.

Britain is vulnerable to a 'gilts strike' because foreign investors own 28% of the total. Gilts take their name from the gilt borders on the old security certificates. They were seen as sound investments, as safe as the Bank of England.  Now they are footloose funds and likely to sell large holdings if Britain loses its AAA rating. Britain's reputation is now so bad, investors feel safer parking their money in Turkey, Brazil, India or Chile.  New York Bank currency chief, Simon Derrick, said the markets just don't believe Brown's 3.5% growth forecast for 2011.  It is clearly meally mouthed propoganda to help these appalling social engineers back into power in the New year's General Election.

Simon Derrick pointed out that the Governement will have borrowed £1.5 trillion in the five years up to 2014.  The market response to Brown's borrowing is entirely rational, he said.

A Birmingham radio presenter has been sacked after he pulled the plug on Queen Elizabeth II's traditional Christmas Day speech, telling listeners it was "boring." 

 

Tom Binns has lost his job at radio station BRMB after a number of listeners complained over his interruption of the monarch's traditional December 25 broadcast to Britain and the Commonwealth.

"Two words: Bor-ring," he said on air as he stopped the broadcast, before quipping "from one Queen to another..." as he put on "Last Christmas" by pop duo Wham, featuring openly gay singer George Michael.

Binns explained that the incident occurred after the Queen's Speech -- a decades-old tradition still watched by millions of Britons and others every year -- came on at a point when he had expected a regular news bulletin.

"I was working on my own on Christmas Day; I'd even had to let myself into the studio. After the guy before me finished, we should have taken the news from Sky, and then my show would start," he told the Chortle comedy website.

"But instead of the news, we got the Queen's speech. I knew it shouldn't be there, but having never heard it before, I didn't know how long it was going to go on for.

"I'm not trained to make editorial decisions, but I decided to get rid of it and make a joke. I said, 'Two words: bor-ring'.

"I then went into an old riff about how people say the royal family are good for tourism, but the French beheaded theirs and people still visit France," before cueing up the Wham song, he said.

He added that one listener got really angry, "he sent me a message saying I should be sent to Basra and hoped I'd get killed by a roadside bomb... but other than that almost all the texts we received were in support of what I'd done."

The radio station's parent company, the Orion Media Group programme, said the DJ's comments were "inappropriate," adding: "We do not condone what he said in any way, whether said in jest or not.

"Tom will now not be featuring again on our radio stations," said its programme and marketing director, David Lloyd, quoted by the Birmingham Post.

ORF WITH HIS HEAD- DECEMBER 30TH 2009

Above, The British Houses of Corruption and Greed,and the idiot who did so much to make it all possible and who has a big influence,over the Queen's Speech. He is the real old Queen in all of this.

The Bell Hotel, Winslow, A413 1.15 am January 6th 2010- copyright Buckingham Echo

Snow Good in Bankrupt Britain by Charles Close January 6th 2010

British people seem unable to make connections. When public services fail, they moan but never wonder why.  Britain is a very high tax economy, but the majority of the tax burden falls on the bottom 40%.

They don’t seem to realise why they pay taxes.  We challenge anyone to argue with our comments and observations.  Mass immigration has raised unemployment among the British working classes.  It has also promoted a plethora of politically correct jobs, initiatives and police state structures. Demands on the housing and benefit systems have been enormous.

Politically correct priorities in a very badly educated country, lays the indigenous masses very vulnerable. New Labour’s toffee nosed Harriet Harman is the voice of gender war. New Labour’s other weapon is the race card. These sanctimonious mainly upper middle class elite has the effrontery to say that they speak for the people.

Enormous amounts of money are sent to the politically corrupt and increasingly Chinese dominated African sub continent.  Meanwhile we are told to stay home because they will not pay and do the necessary to clear a few inches of snow away.

The Echo’s prediction is for a hung parliament at the next General Election. The ineffectual Liberals will come out and prop up Labour to keep an equally ineffectual Tory Party out of power.  Interestingly the corrupt and scandalised police state New Labour Party have pushed the country to the edge of bankruptcy and now face bankruptcy themselves.

All in a Day’s Work by Robert Cook January 9th 2010.

To a trucker, a run from South Wales to Winslow is all in a day’s work.  Lorry driver Chris Hemmett, from Newport, certainly thought so when delivering metal to Winslow’s Station Road Industrial estate this Saturday morning.

Trouble started around 10a.m when he attempted to turn out of the estate back on to Station Road and back up the hill to Buckingham Road.  His wheels would just not stop spinning. 

Chris made several attempts but gave up when the treacherous surface took him skidding towards a house.  Then a new struggle began. The lorry was now completely blocking the road.  Bucks’ County Council Highways on Call were telephoned, but gave a non-committal answer.

This situation led to an amazing response from local people. Folk appeared with shovels, planks of wood and other things to put under the lorry’s wheels. Much shovelling and hot water was poured across the junction. But the lorry was stuck fast.

The good people struggled on long enough to enable Chris to reverse back on to the industrial estate. But with no sign of the Highways Department or the police, the people gave up. Chris thanked them all and they went home.

It was a long cold wait for help. Two Highways men arrived around 2pm, in a Transit pickup loaded with salt. I asked the older of the two what Bucks County Council’s responsibilities were in these situations. I was told that they were not allowed to talk to the press. His younger colleague then asked me when was the last time we had snow like this?’ I told him I could only remember 1963, when some local snowdrifts were body height. He told me it was actually in 1982, when he was five years old. He told me with an air of indifference that ‘When it is snowing, every driver should expect to be snowed in.’

He was in fact correct about 1982- except that the snow was much worse. It was also dealt with more effectively. This was because at least the Thatcherite Tories were demanding value for money. The plethora of politically correct and expensive fixations would wait for New Labour.  But cutting budgets for important services and out for profit hungry privatisation was on its way. 

A few years later, privatisation came to pass and Prismo got the contract. A Bucks Highway’s source told me at the time that they achieved this even though they quoted service prices 50% higher than Bucks County’s in house department.

The Thatcher years were ones of property speculation and massive housing growth. There were soon more roads to clear.But profit lines ruled and resources dwindled. The County’s Number One depot at Piccadilly, where this writer worked in the early 1970s, was closed down. Natalie Dominey, the depot’s last boss told me how her father Sam had his men clear all of the town’s side roads and pavements in 1982.  Salt supply had yet to become a problem. I worked for Sam's predecessor, whose values were much the same.

But time has passed.Council Toadies and the politicians they serve easily fool today’s Brits.  Today Bucks' two operatives told me more than they realised. One effectively told me that well paid servants in Bucks County Council do not question their dubious political paymasters. They do this to the extent that the only source of information about what they are doing is via their media/spin departments. They have contempt or indifference to the people who pay their wages.

The Council men also inadvertently informed me that we must accept that they do not feel obliged to keep roads safe. They rely on peoples ignorance so that they will think that the very best is being done. The reality is that they have no intention of making the roads safe in these circumstances, so they tell us only to go out if we really have to. New Labour goes even further to tell us that we should dig ourselves out. 

Britons only tend to travel to cliché resorts in good weather. If they crossed Europe or Scandinavia into Russia, in wintertime, then they would see that it is possible to live with the kind of snow paradoxically associated with global warming.

The ruling elite and ether media lackeys exhort us to struggle to work regardless. The predicted economic cost of this fiasco will be much more than it would have cost to prepare for the inevitable. But Bucks County Council thinks people are as incapable of joined up thinking. That’s why they expect us to have forgotten the spin and excuses they dished out last year. The majority of their employees are self-serving. They add up to something very worrying. They are part of the reason this country is heading for economic and social collapse. 

Had Chris Hemmett not delivered the steel, a small business would have not been able to serve customers. Counting the so called sick, this country has around nine million natives on the dole. Meanwhile we import cheap foreign labour. New Labour Stassi know how to rubbish critics. They are part of a cosseted upper and upper middle class elite of parasites who run a doomed system. Creating and managing social and economic chaos is, however, all in a day’s work for Brown’s New Labour Government

Chris Hemmett, in his truck, making a bid for freedom on Saturday afternoon, in Winslow's Station Road- copyright Buckingham Echo.

Tue Jan 12, 2010

A Load of (Foot) Balls by Robert Cook
 
European football is a piss take. In these hard times, the players are usually playboys. Football is not a sport - it is about ripping off punters. Britain is particularly bad in this respect, but it is a wider European phenomenon.

The reality of British football is a joke. Too many clubs in the Premier League and Championship (second division) had borrowed against projected income from season ticket sales and television money.

Many clubs have pre-sold their Premier League income, television money. We are light years away from when clubs were grateful for television interest. Clubs thought the boom could and would never end. Some have borrowed against one and two and three year's season-ticket money. They've borrowed against everything.

There are several Championship sides absolutely on the line at the moment. It's a question of whether they can sell players for sufficient money to stay alive. But there's not a lot of money out there to buy players at the moment. Even some of the clubs who you think have got money really haven't got much.

Portsmouth, who are bottom of the Premier League, are in deep financial trouble and have paid their players salaries late three times this season. The club also faces a winding-up order from the government and goes to the High Court Wednesday to argue the Value Added Tax portion of their tax debt is too high at 7.5 million pounds.

I have no sympathy for the plight of Portsmouth who now face bankruptcy. As a parent I saw some awful behaviour from parents watching their kids in Buckingham area Sunday league. Their attitude was far from sporting. It was aggressive and egocentric.

Football is yet another manifestation of the economic fantasy world that Britain is living in. It is now all about bleeding money out of hard pressed and down trodden British workers. Local teams are usually full of foreign players with no allegiance or concern for the fans who buy all the promotional junk that keeps arrogant night clubbing players in the life of luxury.

Be assured the pigeons are coming home to roost. This is the culture in which the national team is rooted. It has no chance of success in the next World Cup or any other international tournament.

Gordon Brown, an undemocratic coronation January 6th 2010

Prime Minister Gordon Brown to lie still after death- January 16th 2010

I suspect that the British voter is gullible enough, guided by the smooth talking media, to believe anything Gordon Brown and New Labour proclaim, After years of pandering to banks, international capitalism and United States Imperial ambitions, Brown has the cheek to say that he is going to bring benefits to the middle classes that he has been busy destroying since 1997.

Brown was never the ‘golden chancellor’ to common people. But he was such to international bankers- deregulating the City of London and creating the boom that has bust- leaving Britain much worse off than any other European country. When one says worse off, one is not talking about Britain’s super rich. Under New Labour more and more wealth has gone into ever fewer hands.

At a time when there is very little left of the British car industry, people have little credit and mortgage repossessions are at record levels.  Suicide rates for both sexes have risen considerably along with other stress related mental illnesses. Young male suicides and drug problems, usually related to broken homes, are off the scale.  Gender diversity is all very well, but one has to wonder why so many men end up committing suicide, drifting into crime or even changing sex- under man hating New Labour, the latter is not really surprising.

Serious comment is scarce in today’s media and popular music is bland. It is the land where Simon Cowell’s X Factor tops the charts and makes him a billionaire.  All of his musical products are bland and boring. They are a sedative for an already drugged up or drunk population.  New Labour is racist and sexist, far more so than any other group of the population. But high and mighty Harriet Harman showed us exactly how her and colleagues regards the thousands of new laws they have made for the British Police State. When she hit a parked car, while talking on her mobile, she brushed aside those who wanted her insurance details with: ‘You know whom I am and where to find me.’ You can rest assured we’ll hear no more of that episode. The reason for that particular law was to protect lives.  They are laws for us lesser beings.


Brown is a liar, like the rest of New Labour. His speech for a Lincoln conference today will include the following: ‘Social Mobility will be our theme for the coming election and the coming parliamentary term… a fair society is one where everyone who works hard and plays by the rules (New Labour rules, obviously!) has a chance to fulfil their dreams; whether that’s owning a bigger house, taking a holiday abroad, buying a new car or starting up a new business.  This is the next project for New Labour a, our next generation.’ 

We know what happened with their last project.  Brown knows any one with half a brain knows that. He just thinks he has the right to another chance, stating the following: ‘I believe that character is formed not on the mountaintops of life when things look easy but in the valleys when things are tough.’

Well there are plenty of people having tough times and if he doesn’t know that a lot of them will be dead before there is a glimmer of hope of anything better, then he is not just a fat bloated arrogant dictator, but he is an imbecile.  Now Brown is not half as bright as he is cracked up to be, but he knows he is taking the piss. He expects those rich Kircaldy tones and moving like the computer animated ‘Max Headroom’ from early 1980s TV, then he will mesmerise enough middle class fools into voting him back into power before he finishes them off.

If he is going to create more middle class jobs as he says he is, you can be sure it will be more police state public sector workers to help oversee New Labour’s New Generation Project.'  Don’t say you haven’t been warned.  No doubt many will be persuaded that a vote Tory will be a vote for the rich, as well it might be. That is a huge problem.  But it is hard to imagine a political party being more favourable to the seriously rich than New Labour has been. Small businesses have failed at record rates due to Brown’s ‘squeeze ‘em till the pips squeak’ policies.

The Echo has said before, with so little reason to trust the other main parties, it is no surprise that many are thinking of voting BNP,if they can be bothered to vote at all. A simple majority of seats, under our antiquated voting system, is not a mandate.  Governing parties do not need and will not get much more than 40% of all votes cast to form a majority. There will continue to be a lot of disaffected people in Britain if the Tories don't wise up to the serious situation, putting aside their own bias to ward money.  At present there is little reason to trust them. They elected a bland boring smoothie. Tory Blair Cameron is not inspirational. It is the philosopher's conundrum: 'Is there alesser of two evils?- three if you count the BNP.  The Lib Dems are just New Labour lackeys and doon't count at all.

New Labour Raises Terror Threat to Severe- January 21st 2010-01-23

To disguise the fact that they are utterly incompetent and hell bent on expensive and destructive social engineering, New Labour have told the nation that a terror threat could be imminent. Terror status is now severe.

Putting to one side that New Labour got Britain into all this terror stuff, making us even more vulnerable through open door immigration, the panic message is clearly to make the government look as if it is doing something. The message will also energise all the self-important members of ACPO who now take a key role in the’ war on terror.’  Truth is that an attack by al Qaida or linked extremist groups are highly unlikely. The clue to this is in Home Secretary Alan Johnson’s commenting that. Although the threat had increased there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was imminent. But he urged people to be vigilant. "This means that a terrorist attack is highly likely, but I should stress that there is no intelligence to suggest than an attack is imminent.



He added: "The highest security alert is critical and that means an attack is imminent, and we are not at that level."  The war on terror makes the government look busy and caring. It also justifies serious erosion of civil liberties. Ignoring the economy, life will get worse for most people if New Labour wins the next election.  Buckingham MP John Bercow is married to a prominent New Labour figure and has been criticised for leaning in that party’s direction. As speaker, there is a tradition not to challenge him. One hopes, given the appalling state of British democracy that the UKIP challenger is taken seriously. Sadly very few people understand their policies and the local paper did not cover their leader’s talk at Buckingham University.  Britain has turned into a nation of sheep since New Labour came to power.

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A Motorist has told Sky News of his disbelief at being fined for blowing his nose while his vehicle was at a standstill. 

Michael Mancini had stopped his van in traffic and wiped his nose with a handkerchief.

When he moved off, he was pulled over by police who told him he had not been in control of his vehicle.

Mr Mancini, from Ayrshire, was handed a £60 fixed penalty and given three points on his driving licence.

He told Sky News: "I thought they were joking and that it was a wind-up.

"I was stopped in traffic and had the handbrake on and thought to myself, 'Ive just got time to blow my nose.'

"Then police pulled me over and I was booked. I genuinely thought they were joking, that it was a wind-up."

The incident occurred in October, but Mr Mancini has refused to pay the penalty.

His solicitor wrote to prosecutors earlier this month explaining the offence could not have occurred because Mr Mancini's handbrake was on.

But prosecutors replied the next day warning that if the fine wasn't paid, the case would be taken to court.

Mr Mancini added: "I intend taking this all the way to court. I still don't believe it actually happened."