LIVIN IN A \'BANKSTERS\' PARADISE 06/16/2010
 The visit you have been dreading for months is taking place. Big Sam, from the farm across the water, is striding up the path towards your front door. He stops, and knocks roughly with his boot. With a heavy heart, you open the door to see what he wants. As if you didn't know. “Now see here, Brumville, I'm a-wanting to buy your ranch, and kick your family out, and I mean to have it. Trouble is, I ain't got no money. Know where I can borrow me some?”, he laughs. . “Why, yeah!” comes a reply from your barn – the voice of your ranch hand. “You know the bank in the town – the one Mayor McJudas saved from collapse last year with our money? They're rolling in the stuff now, and they ain't proud who they lend to, either!” Big Sam's face twists into a cheesy grin on hearing this news. He tips his hat to you, and says: “Well, it's been a pleasure talking to you suh, but I gotta go now, and talk to a man about money – be seein' ya! Hey, ranch hand! Let me buy you a beer when you get finished here!” The above is a work of fiction. However.............. If there were any lingering doubt that the lunatics are running the asylum that is England, there can be none now, with the news that the British government is allowing American multinational Kraft to buy out Cadbury – a profitable English company with 6,000 employees in this country – with money borrowed from RBS, the Scottish bank rescued by Gordon Brown's Labour government with our taxes. In effect, the neighbours we helped in their time of need, are now happily stabbing us in the back by lending money to our competitors, who will use it to buy our confectionery industry, sack the English workers and outsource those jobs abroad. Manchester United and Liverpool are also classic examples of global capitalism gone crazy – profitable English clubs with no debt to talk of, that were bought out by American businessmen with borrowed money, now in debt to the tune of hundreds of millions. These examples illustrate everything that is wrong with our weak government and the system of global capitalism, that we in England are told is such a great thing. Great for whom? The bankers and deal makers stand to gain financially. Cadbury shareholders will gain financially, as will T-Rex lookalike Todd Stitzer, the American (what a coincidence!) CEO of Cadbury, who it is estimated will be paid off to the tune of £7 million and a fat pension pot. The 6,000 English Cadbury workers almost certainly face redundancy, their families and communities financial hardship. Meanwhile, the English confectionery industry will join all the other English industries that have gone to the wall in recent years, because successive British governments have consistently refused to invoke protectionist measures – steel, coal, fishing, manufacturing – in the name of “Free Markets”. Business, like War, is an arena where playing fair and settling for second place will not get you a silver medal, it will get you destroyed - fighting dirty gets results. If you get cornered by a mugger who's waving a knife at you, are you going to shake his hand and wish him the best of luck, or are you going to pick up that broken bottle and even the odds? The Free Market is all very well in principle, but when your national interest is threatened and foreign competitors are trying to destroy you, why shouldn't a your government step in and ban the sale of a company - and why shouldn’t you slap extra tax on imported goods? Can you imagine the French government allowing this to happen? No? Then why are we? CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  AFGHANISTAN - WINNING THE MINDS OF THE PEOPLE Why, when there is a world shortage of morphine, do Western forces in Afghanistan say they are destroying opium poppy crops? Why would you destroy something so valuable? Would it not make more sense to win the hearts and minds of the local tribesmen by BUYING their poppies off them for a good price, and converting it into morphine (a humanitarian move on two fronts, helping poor farmers AND providing the world's sick with more pain relief), rather than let the Taliban step in and pay growers a pittance, to convert into heroin, to fund their guerrilla war against the West? Or, as some suspect, are the Western governments simply - er - confiscating, some of the poppy crop and telling the world they are destroying it? Are the Taliban the only ones who are funding their war effort with opium? CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU Add Comment DO NO HARM 06/16/2010
 Do No Harm' - the words that Dr Ubani did not adhere to when on his first out-of-hours GP cover in England. By his own admission Dr Ubani, who had only arrived in England the day before the death of David Gray, has admitted that fatigue led to Mr Grays death. In 2008 Dr Ubani had given 70-year-old David Gray 20 times the recommended amount of diamorphine to treat pain in his kidneys. Dr Ubani had been given an induction pack containing advice that it would almost never be appropriate to give doses of diamorphine higher than 30mg. An expert in out-of-hours services, Dr Mark Reynolds, told the inquest into David Grays death “I believe this tragedy was ultimately caused by the differences in training and experience of Dr Ubani to that of Doctors in England”. It seems Dr Ubani never bothered to consult his induction pack. A top-level report claims NHS trusts in England have been failing to carry out proper checks on GPs brought in to provide out-of-hours cover The top level report also stated that there are many challenges faced by foreign doctors who fly in to do night and weekend cover, such as seeing patients they are not familiar with or proper access to their medical records, and that doctors from within the EU are not having their clinical skills or their competence in English assessed because of EU laws. Meanwhile doctors from outside the EU have to sit an exam set by the General Medical Council There are unacceptable variations in the standard of out-of-hours care offered by Primary Care Trusts (PCT's) around England who are responsible for the services. PCT's buy in the services from private firms, GP co-operatives and in-house teams. Most of these providers do not assess the clinical skills of the staff they employ. The majority had a very lazy approach when assessing clinical staff. They did not use clinical scenarios when interviewing foreign doctors some didn’t even request references or if they did any that were not returned were not pursued for a reason why. Doctor Ellie Cannon works for a English inner-city out-of-hours co-operative personally welcomed the scrutiny that is now been given to the out-of-hours service in England since the tragic death of David Gray. Dr Cannon said that compassion and sense had been replaced with performance and targets and meeting those targets are one of the reasons why people in England have to put up with being treated by foreign doctors at night and weekends. The new GP contract brought in by the British government for GP's in England is a target driven contract. Shifts are paid by the hour, calls must be answered within a certain time frame and most worrying of all, doctors have a number of visits they have to undertake in a six hour shift. Each shift is not measured by quality but quantity and they have to prove they are performing well or the PCT contracts are taken away, so they have to fill all out-of-hour shifts. This means getting doctors from outside England, even if it means getting doctors who find English difficult to speak let alone understand, even if it means losing a patient along the way, not to worry it’s only the people in England who are suffering under this system and to a British government the people of England don’t matter at all. BACK TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  SAVING THE PLANET NEEDN'T BE SO TAXING How hypocritical are the world’s leaders that gathered in Copenhagen to discuss climate change? They fly to Copenhagen in practically half empty aircraft, use large gas guzzling limousines to travel around and no doubt consume vast amounts of food that has clocked up thousands of food miles. So much for really caring about the environment! The English Radical Alliance believes that in the technological age in which we now live, this, and many other international conferences, could be carried out by video conferencing. This would be more environmentally friendly and allow politicians to stay in their own country should an emergency occur there. However the world’s leaders would then have to do without the substantial perks attending international conferences bring! We are not going to enter the climate change slanging match which currently exists. The evidence states that global warming is a natural phenomenon and history shows the Vikings were on the move from Scandinavia in the 9th & 10th centuries because rising sea levels were flooding their agricultural heartlands. At the same time evidence also shows that that mankind has had some impact upon climate change. The English Radical Alliance distances itself from this argument. We want a cleaner and greener world and our own environmental policies and unequaled investment in research and development into green technology would deliver this and create an eco-friendly industrial revolution for England. We could then export this technology across the world, which would be good for the English economy and beneficial to the future of the planet. This is common sense. Compare this to the hypocrisy of the government and the other parties. How eco-friendly is it to allow the privatised train companies to price people out of carriages and back into cars? How eco-friendly is it to allow large supermarket chains such as Tesco and Asda to destroy local shops? How eco-friendly is it to talk about the environment and creating jobs in new technologies and then support globalisation and flooding the English market with imported products manufactured using severe environmentally damaging forms of production? How eco-friendly is it to look at our emissions and think the best way of lowering these is to ship endless tons of plastic across the world to China where it is burnt, thus keeping our emissions lower but still polluting the atmosphere? The words spoken and promises made at Copenhagen by our politicians are cheap, the taxes we will all have to pay as a result of it will not be so cheap! Many of those that generally do care about the environment often turn to the Green Party. Yet the Greens are also a party of eco-hypocrites with policies that seem to want us to do everything short of returning to the Stone Age in order to save the planet. However the Greens are reluctant to tackle many of the social problems that contribute to damaging the environment and believe in uncontrolled mass immigration! How green is it to want England to be swamped with more car driving immigrants with more of our green and pleasant land being buried beneath bricks and mortar to house them? The answer not very green at all! As mentioned earlier the English Radical Alliance has a practical, common sense approach to saving the planet. Regrettably all the other parties do not share our common sense approach. They look at climate change and just see it as another way of raising taxes from an already heavily burdened taxpayer. The English Radical Alliance are not hypocrites. We will not bury our heads and ignore climate change like others and we will not make impossible and unnecessary sacrifices as the Greens would like us to do. We oppose globalisation, as this is driving many English companies, particularly in small manufacturing industries, out of business and at the same time increasing pollutants into our atmosphere. We favour economic protectionism and support for local economies. This would give preference to home produced and often local goods. The English Radical Alliance does not favour taxation as a way to a greener and cleaner land. After all where have these green taxes been spent? Probably on bailing out a bank and paying bonuses to failed financial executives or lavish fittings for MP’s residences. We favour investment in green technology, making England the world leader in this new field. Under Labour we have merely dipped our toes in the water of this emerging industry and under the Tories it would be no different. With this toe dipping approach we shall forever be a follower and not a leader, and we shall continue to import goods and technology from abroad at the cost of English jobs. If England was to invest in the research, development and production of green technology, the technology of tomorrow, this would herald a new industrial revolution for our country. It would create jobs and business opportunities and at the same time contribute to the greener and cleaner world we all want without taxpayers having to pay the burden. The other parties only talk about the environment. Only the English Radical Alliance has the green policies and will to deliver. BACK TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  NEW LABOUR SURRENDERS TO BNP Amidst all of the headlines surrounding the appearance of BNP’s Nick Griffin on the BBC’s Question Time, the one subject that was overlooked was the way in which the Labour Party, under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has been complicit in creating the monster that is the BNP, firstly by abandoning the white, working class citizens of the urban estates and, secondly, by allowing uncontrolled, and often illegal, immigration into England over the past ten years. For decades the Labour Party took its grassroots working class electorate for granted; how many of us have heard the old saying that ‘you could stick a red rosette on a poodle and it would get elected around here’? (And how true, look at Tony Blair!). Think about how the chattering classes love to praise MPs such as Frank Field for his ‘radical mind’ but whose Birkenhead constituency remains one of the poorest in Europe. There is no coincidence in linking poverty with the presence of a Labour candidate in Parliament (and one who is probably ripping off the taxpayer while he, or she, is there), these people believe that they don’t have to perform to get elected, just wear a red rosette. Sadly for Labour that attitude has now got Labour in bother, they’ve been rumbled, and to such an extent that now a party that once met every April 20th to pay homage to their dead Fuhrer is actually ousting Gordon Brown’s shambles of a party from its heartlands. Yes, that’s how badly the Labour Party has let down its core voters, the people who once relied upon the party to take their part and stand up for their concerns. But then this is the Labour Party that denies cancer drugs to patients and forces the disabled to look for work, whilst pouring billions of pounds into propping-up the bankers. This is the Labour Party that takes the country to war, illegally, but then fails to provide the servicemen and women with modern protective vehicles and equipment, argues about the amount of compensation they get when they’re wounded, and condemns their families to live in squalid housing. And, above all, this is the Labour Party whose leading members employ illegal immigrants as servants and yet think this is nothing worse than a traffic fine, or hire porn films at the taxpayers expense. For twelve years the Labour Party has been on a quest to attract Tory voters, believing all of that time that it could take its working class vote for granted. It’s far easier to offer low taxes to people in return for quick votes than actually deal with the real problems of the NHS, unemployment, crime, and environmental concerns, all of which cost money. Yes, low taxes so that people have more money to pay for cheap goods that are made overseas by child-labour, whilst our NHS, police and public transport system is starved of investment. But, of course, only those at the poorer end of society use the NHS and public transport, and the same people are the ones who are abandoned to high-crime council estates, or lawless city centres, policed by CCTV and Crimewatch. Far worse than any previous Tory regime, Labour is guilty of creating an unbalanced society where the rich get richer, and the poor have no hope of bettering themselves, except by crime, winning the lottery, or appearing on X-Factor. And it is this culture of despair that has opened the way for the BNP. The English Radical Alliance believe that the Labour Party is dead, and that the advent of Cameron’s Tory regime will create the groundswell for social and political upheaval. The BNP has nothing but negative values to offer the people of England, and we expect their bubble to burst in the coming years. ERA offers a radical alternative and we will step forward in the near future to show that we are the Party of England. CLICK HERE TO RETURN TO HOME PAGE & WEBSITE MENU  | ArchivesNovember 2011 CategoriesAll |
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