ANIMAL FARM 1984 & ANIMAL FARM BRITAIN 2010 06/17/2010
 In the same week that the British government announced they are to raise the retirement age from 65 to 66 in 2024, and again in 2034 to 67, a newly released survey stated that a majority of over 50's interviewed want to carry on working past the present retirement age. All well and good, until you dig a little deeper and find out the survey of 1500 people was carried out by the Equality and Human Rights Commission – a government funded Quango, in the pockets of said government! What an amazing coincidence – the very week the government tells us we must work until we drop, up pops a government funded survey which says: “yes, the peasants think so, too!” What the headline does not tell you, is that many of those interviewed cannot afford to retire, due to economic circumstances. By all means, scrap the law which says you MUST retire at 65: but do not keep moving the state pension goalposts, forcing workers to slave into their twilight years when eight million adults in Britain - that’s one in five – are, for whatever reason, NOT in work – or “economically inactive”. The English Radicals believe that our forebears fought too long and hard for a reasonable retirement age, to let this herd of political imbeciles take it from us. We are having to work longer because they are squandering our pension fund on foreign wars, propping up the EU, and paying eight million people to sit at home, while my 69 year old father in law still gets up at four a.m. five days a week, to work in a supermarket bakery. Projected income tax revenue for 2010 (£140 billion) is now less than the amount required to fund benefit payments (£165 billion), according to figures taken from the Daily Telegraph, 26/06/09. If we still had a manufacturing industry, a coal mining industry, and the various other businesses lost that used to provide employment before slave wage economies swamped our markets with cheap goods, and put our people out of work, those revenue and spending figures would be reversed. It seems to us that New Labour have taken the books “Animal Farm” and “1984” as instruction manuals, instead of the warnings our radical forerunner George Orwell intended them to be. In Animal Farm, the Pigs are quite happy for the other animals to work themselves to death, as long as they and their supporters can keep their own pampered lifestyles. When elderly men and women are having to work past 65, and a million able bodied young NEETS (Not in Employment, Education or Training) are sat idle either through lack of work or incentive, then something is very wrong. As for 1984? The UK has more CCTV cameras per head of population than anywhere else in the world. You can be imprisoned for 42 days without even being charged. You face fines for your wheely bin lid not being closed. Motorists fined for blowing their nose while stationary in traffic jams. Council officials can enter your home without a warrant. Your children monitored at school for racist or homophobic remarks. You now cannot legally photograph a policeman or government building. British police forces are looking to buy the same robot spy planes as used by the CIA in Afghanistan to attack tribal wedding parties – sorry, the Taliban. England, a free country? Not until we chase these Piggies off the Farm, it ain't! click here to return to the home page & website menu CommentsI would like to consider the chance of saying thanks to you for your professional advice I have usually enjoyed visiting your site. I'm looking forward to the actual commencement of my school research and the entire prep would never have been complete without dropping by your web site. Leave a Reply | ArchivesApril 2012 CategoriesAll |
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