What planet are these fuckers on ?

I was hoping to produce a sensible, well reasoned, logical, rational commentary about the forthcoming EU referendum.

I've just spent a couple of hours trying - and failing.

Why ? because the more I think about it, the angrier I get.

I'm happy to be up front, inasfaras, I'm in favour of the country remaining part of the EU.

Equally, I'm happy to apologise if this comes across as a bit of a rant, that's not how I want it to be but WTF, if that's how any possible reader feels that I've expressed myself in that way, well there's little I can do about that.

I'm generally of the view that I wouldn't piss on the tories if they were on fire. When I was first learning about life, politics and all that, I read the manifestos of all three of the main political parties for my first election. Don't know entirely why, just that it seemed to be the right and fair way to work out what I believed.

I concluded that it was "the Labour view" that most closely matched my own views and thoughts. They seem(ed) to offer the fairest deal to the largest number of people.

I haven't seen much to change that. I don't agree with the current Labour leader. It seems that many of his views and ideas are too far left for me, but I consider myself democratic, so will go with the majority......

As above, I'm no tory, but Camerons views and more so the former prime minister John Major have made sense. Coming from a political direction that I wouldn't normally trust or believe.

So far, of the various commentary, media articles etc that have been published or broadcast, only the Yes/Remain side of the argument makes any sense. Sure, much of it paints the "worst case scenario" of leaving, while the No/Leave campaign have just stood there pointing the finger and trying to say it's all scaremongering.

Well all you No/Leave campaigners, all the pieces that you've managed to present/say/broadcast have left me with far too much uncertainty and questions.

I'd happily say "lets go" if there was some safe guards. Like having a formal, written constitution and bill of rights so that whatever happens, I wouldn't be any worse off than I currently am. Maybe they should delay the referendum, so that all of the No/Leave campaigners can be recorded and listed, then if they are wrong and we are worse off, they can be stripped of their wealth and assets, so that those of us who think that leaving the EU is a bad idea could have any loses covered - while they wouldn't have a pot to piss in as this ill-considered idea is theirs in the first place.

None of us like to think that we might be wrong, I get that, but so far all the various stuff announced, released, published etc suggests that it's not that we won't be worse off by leaving, it seems we will, but they can't say by how much worse off we'll be. The numbers seem to be worst case as well.

Personally I already feel that I work hard enough for the little that life affords me, without having the possibility of even less, while those in positions of power and influence get more. It's unlikely to affect them in the way it's more likely to impact us "ordinary workers", so lets not give those who think they're superior to the rest of us any more power/influence/wealth etc and end up with the gap between the haves and have nots even wider........

Facebook can be a bit of a nuisance.......

I have many "friends" via face book who are American nationals. Friends via face book is a relative term. I haven't had the privilege of meeting many of them in person, but our paths have crossed through shared interests in many things.

All of the Americans I've met in person, have been nice, pleasant, decent people. I suspect that this would apply to many of those I know via face book as well, but as a european, I still find that once they get together as a nation, they can be rather strange.

This is showing itself of late, because of their ongoing political campaigns from the two main political parties for the selection of their candidates for the next presidential election.

I find myself being more in tune with the democratic views (though that's irrelevant as I don't have a vote), but last week on the BBC there was a programme on radio 4 about statistics and other numbers used in the news/media.

The claims of both the republicans and the democrats were "fact checked" and one of the main sources used was Politifact.

It seems that of the two parties, it's the republicans that are the biggest liars (by some distance, by all account). The higher profile the candidate, the bigger the liar.

Sure, the democrats also use "political bollocks" for some of the claims made in appearances, debates, speeches etc, but they also seem to make much more effort to try and be correct (honest ?) in their statements etc.......

Why is it that Trump is doing so well in the polls, when he's the one that seems to be the biggest liar and scaremongering fool. That's not to forget that he used to be in the democrat camp as well.

So IMO it's beyond belief that your average "Joe" likes him as a possible president, that they can't see him for what he is, or certainly what he appears to be - a blabber mouthed, scaremongering liar, who treats potential voters with cynical disrespect (tell the fools what they want to hear - they'll vote for me) etc etc.

Are people in the US, so shallow, that they can't be bothered to check out what they hear before making their mind up ?

Who knows eh ?

Another reason to........

"eat the rich".......

Or at least have a bit of an economic revolution.

Maybe a couple of firing squads wouldn't go amiss either

The Late Baroness Thatcher...........

So Thatcher is dead.......

Well, I know a lot of people thought her a wonderful person........

But IMO, good riddance to bad rubbish.

I wouldn't have pissed on her if she was on fire.

Yet my feelings have surprised me, well the depth of my dislike anyway.

After all, she did some good didn't she ?

Well, again, IMO, no.

Today, people moan about the high cost of utility services, like gas, electricity, water, telephones, etc etc.

Thatcher sold them off. She sold all of "the family silver" off. And if anyone were to tell me that one of the right leaning think tanks hadn't suspected such a scenario as the one we currently live in here, I'll happily call them a fucking liar.

People moan about the lack of social housing, as it's now known. Of course, it was the old cow who sold it off, telling the former owners i.e. the local authorities, that they couldn't build more with the monies made from the sale.

Of course they couldn't. That would have completely screwed up her efforts at social engineering wouldn't it.

If you look at the majority of her policies, they saved enough money to buy votes by way of tax reductions etc, but have gone on to cost us all much more.

The current arse hole is no different. If he can't privatise any of the last remnants of state owned goods and/or services, he's doing his best to meddle with them so some of his parasitic "mates" can get their snouts in the trough too.

To cap it all, the fucking PM is trying to trump up enough enthusiasm to provide the old cow with some sort of pseudo state funeral. Something along the lines of what Diana or the Queen Mum had.

Well if I can work out how to complain about that I will. If the Tories want to pay for such an event out of their own pockets, or even some sort of public subscription, then that's fine, but to use tax payers money in any way, shape or form, I consider the misuse of public money.

The old bitch will have bled us dry during her life, while she was busy fucking the country up by any way she could, so she could get her way, so why the hell should she be able to have one last visit to our pockets in death ?

She's proving as divisive in death as she was in life.

Welcome to the Jungle ?

So todays media are going on about how it's the first day of "Cameron's society" and that how it's a 21st century of Thatcherism.

Ha! they're probably right.....

So many of the current priministers policies seem to confirm that "they" (the conservatives/tories) are indeed, the nasty party.

They seem to want to do anything that benefits the whole of society, even if the main beneficiaries are the lowest and/or poorest members of society, on the cheap.

If it's something that's too politically sensitive to close down or reduce, like the NHS for example, they aim to make sure that their people/followers, can get a slice of the cake.

Or they do things like remove a whole area of levels where the ordinary "man in the street" can no longer get help via "legal aid". It seems that they don't like the way that lawyers have managed to manipulate the scheme to their own ends, but also how the legal fraternity have managed to get themselves into a position where they're one of the most, if not the most, powerful trade groups within society today. So while they can't change too much, they can change things enough, so that while the politicians seem to thing that the lawyers are getting to big for their boots, they can reduce things down so that the lawyers can only get most of their business from "paying customers".

Maybe my thinking is a bit muddled to get my point across clearly, but it still seems, that whether they have some input from their coalition partners, the Lib Dem's, that the tories are still the party of "fuck you, I'm all right". The libdems who have managed to get positions of control within government are just power hungry glove puppets. Traitors to their ordinary members.

As far as I can see, the only good tory, is a dead one ! Parasites one and all. Even though it's everyones right to be one. I just don't have to agree with them, even down to the choice of biscuits at the next "meeting".......

And "he" was a republican.......

Hum? Not far off the truth.....

“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces.”

Those words were written by Jean-Paul Marat in the latter part of the 18th century, but they are still so true that they could have been written today. Marat (1743-1793) was a physician, political scientist, journalist and one of the more radical leaders of the French Revolution.