Yesterday in the UK, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne delivered his bi-annual budget speech. This was no ordinary speech. This was a speech designed to finally show us, and by us, I mean the vast majority of the population, what our standing in this country actually is. In a word, subservience. He mocked us by reducing the price of a pint of beer by one penny. That means that I would have to drink around 300 pints of beer before I got the benefit of the reduction. He also pandered to the "older" generation and in actual fact it was older women in particular by reducing the tax on playing bingo. If this wasn't so serious it would be quite funny. Our Conservative/Lib Dem government are now so convinced they have us where they want us that they are now out in the open about what they think of us. Cameron says that we deserve a referendum on whether we stay in the EU. The only thing about that promise is that if he can persuade the EU to abandon plans to further regulate the money markets in London he will abandon all plans for a referendum. We have a general election coming up in May of 2015 and there is one task that all Conservatives would love to see happen, and that is the complete sell off of the NHS. That would be absolutely disastrous for the people of England. The poorest in society would only have access to the very basic medical care. Fortunately, I live in Scotland and our devolved parliament runs the NHS in Scotland and it's functioning pretty good right now. In England however, the NHS is falling apart and it's falling apart by design. The government are deliberately destroying health care throughout England. The upshot and what this post was all about was to show the utter contempt that David Cameron and his Lib Dem lackeys have for the ordinary people of this country. They hate the very ground we walk on.
Till next time.
