London: Subsidising  poverty or distributing population according to means?

An article published by The Guardian indicates that those do not own accommodation are given the option to relocate to other parts of the country where rental prices are lower or to become homeless.

The article refers to millions of Pound being paid to private companies to help relocate families away from  London, from Birmingham and from other local authorities  to regions where there is cheaper accommodation.

When the realities of the rental accommodation market bite, local authorities cannot afford to subsidise  housing and therefore recur to the nearest best thing which is to relocate families to areas where housing is affordable.

Local authorities have been spending much of their budgets to support households that are not making enough money to be able to afford the costs of housing and this is literally breaking the bank. Birmingham has been reportedly cutting down vital services and increasing taxation to maintain an unsustainable situation.

Personally, I do not own a flat in Central London and there might be a reason for that. Some areas of Central London have some of the most expensive rented accommodation in the country as a whole. I could unjustifiably claim that I am entitled to receive monies from taxes to pay for such rented accommodation. Or I could decide that since I cannot afford such rented accommodation I would try and find suitable accommodation elsewhere.

Whether you are white, black, Asian or whatever else, the fact remains that you cannot afford to stay in a certain area and you have to find an adequate residence somewhere else. Unfortunately, those who make the argument in favour of subsidies practically always use the race card as if being of a member of a certain ethnic group was some sort of green card  to have access or a certificate of entitlement. There is no such entitlement. 

Another argument is that when a certain area of the country is considered 'rundown', those people elect to represent them have a role to play to ensure that any 'rundown area' is not a 'rundown area' for long. Lack of economic activity is very much one of the root causes. Economic activity combined with proper infrastructure and services standards that change things for the better. Subsidising poverty is never the answer. Subsidising poverty makes poverty endemic because we are just dealing with the symptoms. We are not dealing with the causes.

Emergency accommodation is not meant to be permanent accommodation. Using the race card to justify the unjustifiable is step in the wrong direction. If I can create 100,000 housings units outside the big cities, then the idea would be to create functioning communities with acceptable standards in terms of services and infrastructure outside the big cities where prices will naturally be more affordable. 

Will a 40% tax on oil and gas companies reduce investment from about 13 billion down to 2.5 billion?

 Dear Rachel Reeves MP,

As Chancellor of the Exchequer, you will impose a windfall tax of almost 40% on oil and gas companies. 

Reports indicate that investment in the UK of the said oil and gas companies will fall from about 13 billion down to 2.5 billion and that therefore in coming years the tax revenues will be reduced accordingly.

When such tax revenues fall, how do you plan to replace oil and gas falling tax revenues?

I am also sending this message to my Member of Parliament, Helen Hayes MP, because I am very curious and very much interested in knowing about Plan B, if Plan A reduces tax revenues, what plans are in place to find tax revenues to replaced oil and gas tax revenues?

This is a very relevant question when you are about to implement a new state of austerity because we are talking both about tax revenues, investment and energy prices. If less oil and gas are produced, will this push prices up and therefore also push consumer prices up (inflation)?

Workers working in the oil and gas industries are highly especialized workers whose jobs are going to be in danger. We are talking about 35,000 highly trained individuals. If investment falls, it is also expected that unemployment will rise. Is this something that you have taken into consideration?

This could have a domino effect regarding industries that are closely linked to oil and gas industries. Is this something that you have taken into consideration?

Best regards,

Karl Hohenstauffen 

Sadiq Khan lost the Uxbridge election with ULEZ, but there is a lot more that should make people worry

 

Just when Labour thought that the Uxbridge by-election was in the bag, Sadiq Khan made his best to ruin Labour's chances of winning the seat of the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Sorry, Dad. I didn't know what I was doing. The expression on their faces tell the full story. Labour MPs had alerted that keeping ULEZ was a very bad idea and they pleaded with Sadiq Khan to postpone the implementation of ULEZ. Sadid Khan did not listen and Labour lost a key Parliamentary seat.

Labour voters turned against Labour because Labour voters in that area on the edges of Greater London need their cars and their small businesses depend on business transport and residents have very poor access to public transport so that using a car is often unavoidable. 

The Guardian itself published an article saying that the green revolution is not taking into account the needs of ordinary people that cannot afford to pay for it. Has Labour turned its back on the British people? Climate extremists, apart from making fools of themselves, are turning people off and Labour's association with Stop Oil is a losing card. Central London Labour has lost the plot. Outside London, stauch Labour supporters are t leaving the Labour Party. In one particular case, a Labour mayoral candidate resigned his party membership and is standing as an independent because London Labour did not want him to stand to represent his constituents.

Keir Starmer is making one mistake after another and keeping quiet when he should speaking loudly. One particular scenario is when politicians of both sides of the divide spoke against the cancellation of bank accounts for political reasons. He was very quick to talk about women with penises, but he is mute when he should be defending democratic rights. After all, Chris Bryant MP is reported to have been behind a hate campaign aiming at silencing people who do not agree with his views.

Strange political animal, Chris Bryant was originally a member of the Conservative Party, but he joined the Labour party in 1986. He even tried to work as Priest, was ordained Deacon in 1986 and Priest in 1987, but decided that being a priest and being gay were incompatible. Years later, he would have reconsidered his decision to abandon the priesthood as the Church of England is now promoting homosexuality and multiple genders and say that the Lords Prayer should be abandoned.

The British Broadcasting Corporation is in cahouts with individuals that are threatening political rights and human rights. Two prominent BBC went suddenly quiet when it was revealed that a Natwest CEO Dame Alison Rose was behind the closure of an undetermined number of bank accounts for political reasons and among those accounts were the accounts of Nigel Farage. The plotters were found out and exposed and public apologies had to be made. Keir Starmer has not spoken about it, Chris Bryant has not spoken about it and Jon Sopel and Simon Jack in spite of apologies should be fired for participating in a criminal plot as willing accomplices of Dame Alison Rose.  

An inconvenient truth: you can’t sell the green revolution to people who can’t afford it - Gaby Hinsliff

Even in the Labour Party some people are starting to realize the foolishness of Net Zero. As Gaby Hinsliff writes on The Guardian, 'an inconvenient truth: you can't sell the green revolution to people who can't afford it.'

The reality is that transport links in the United Kingdom are very poor. If you go out of the main urban areas, or even inside urban areas, the provision of public transpor is notoriously insufficient. Therefore, penalizing people for using cars or preventing people from using cars is madness.

Local authorities are using so called green policies to extract money that is in effect an increase in Council Tax. If you have to pay Congestion Charge and ULEZ, pay for parking and parking permits, you are in effect paying additional Council Tax because of the proceedings will end up in the hands of local authorities. 

Nobody has even calculated the impact of such taxes on the local economy in ways that will affect more those who have less. This wave of taxations has been promoted by the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and by all the do-gooders that want to make good with somebody else's money. And what would will be done when local economies collapse under the burden of taxation and people are forced out of work?

You can't sell the green revolutoin to people who can't afford it. This is something that Keir Starmer and all other proponents of Net Zero and the upper class weirdoes that go around making a nuisance of themselves should be thinking about.

Ukraine: I am starting to believe that USA wants Ukraine destroyed

 If anything we learn from the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two is that you should not send tanks into the battlefied without air cover, but this is exactly what the USA is making Ukrainians do and German Leopard tanks and American tanks are being hunted like fish in a barrel.

You also should know that rookies sent into the battlefield with the most advanced technology are still rookies and Ukrainian troops are being slaughered at the tune of 14,000 day, killed and injured and that cemeteries in Ukraine are bein 're-used', using old graves to bury dead combattants.

Is there a secret intention? We knew from various reports, that Bandera units were incorporated in the regular Ukrainian Armed Forces and Bandera units - declared anti-Semites and allies of Germany during World War Two. Is this a way of getting rid of Bandera units? Is the American government sending Bandera units to fight Russian forces knowing that they are going to be defeated by Russian forces.

And what about the turnout of the business? The more tanks are destroyed the more tanks are going to be needed, thus feeding American and German war industries. Never mind if in the process thousands upon thousands of Ukrainian lose their lives and livelihoods.

Hope Not Hate, British Security Services and misguided politicians and political operators created National Action

 

Hope Not Hate, British Security Services and misguided politicians and political operators created National Action

Some people in this coutry surely disagreed or hated the British National Party and its then Leader Nick Griffin, but the BNP was standing for elections, getting elected representatives, playing by the rules, and by then there was not talk of any real threats or national security issues. 

In fact, there was a time when the BNP has many Counsellors elected, had a Member of the London Assembly Elected and two Members of the European Parliament. Therefore there was no appetite for any unfortunate adventures nor illegal activities. Everybody was playing by the book, but contratry to their names organisations like Hope Not Hate were busy spreading hate and promoting violence by trying to deprive voters of legitimate choices. Finally, the demise of the BNP thanks to do-gooders led to an environment in which individuals like Jack Renshaw, Mark Jones and others went the wrong way and in 2013 National Action was founded not to pursue or engage in legal political activities. They saw the demise of the BNP as living proof that it was no use to take part in legal political activities and this is why the name National Action. This refers to direct actions against those they saw as political enemies.

Years have passed but the same wrong strategies are in place and this includes using anti-terror legislation and in particular Schedule 7 for political purposes, detaining and harassing political operators or even blocking their personal back accounts and blocking party political bank accounts to presumably depriving political movements from the necessary resources that they use to stand in elections. Forced by a party political organisation called Electoral Commission - the Electoral Commission in violation of its remit is preventing political organisations from being registered as political parties and forcing their members to stand as independent candidates in every election where and when they can stand. 

The recent by election in Wakefield - called because of sexual misconduct of the Member of Parliament that represented the said constituency - is a clear example. Police forces were used for political purposes to detain, harass, and prevent political operators from engaging in the lawful business of standing in elections. The latest report indicates that thanks to Police actions bank accounts were frozen or closed down and all done for purposes of political persecution in the United Kingdom.

Just a few days ago at Walworth Police Station near Elephant and Castle in London, I had the opportunity to talk with two members of SO15 - I am always open to talk with members of the British Security Services - to give them advice about the errors of their ways and about how the troglodite measures of Police forces in the United Kingdom are actually promoting terrorism. Quite a few examples of such measures tell me that Security Services in the United Kingdom and this goes down to Police Forces in the United Kingdom are out of their depth and have very little understanding of what is actually happening.

Precisely because of the fact that Nationalist organisations are not being allowed to operate lawfully -  many are not even allowed to registered as political parties and on top of that when they stand independent candidates they suffered politically motivated arrests, harassment, have property seized and bank accounts frozen or closed down - there is the certain danger that individuals deprived of the right to take part in lawful political activities might suddenly decide to engage in other kinds of political activities and seek the support of external organisations or even foreign governments to achieve their aims. 

External organisations and foreign goverments can hit a pot of gold. As anybody rational and knowledgeable enough would understand, people can become national security assets not for Britain but for foreign organisations and foreign goverments. Security Services and the Armed Forces in Britain know that they have been infiltrated by political operators many of whom have strong support within the Security Services and within the Armed Forces. An article published by The Guardian attests to that but timidly refers - sometimes directly and sometimes indirectly to 'far right extremism within the Security Services and the Armed Forces'.

God help Britain if there is ever a war in Europe. There is every sign that Britain will be attacked from within. When it comes to politics and geopolitics, there are no national borders anymore and British Security Services, politicians and mass media can naively believe that blocking financial resources in the United Kingdom they will prevent well trained operators from doing whatever they set themselves to achieve. For example, financial resources can be transfered without registered bank accounts. Although British troops are not formally deployed in a theatre of war in Europe, the war is already taking place in many different forms and this is being reflected by economic realities. Does anybody understand that present economic uncertainties and political instability are caused by geopolitical decisions adopted by the British government? When you try to destabilize another country because of what is happening in Ukraine then you are bound to suffer the consequences and this is exactly what is happening. Sanctions and other measures adopted against the Russian Federation are backfiring in a big way and both Western Europe and Eastern Europe are feeling the brunt. 

What role will British Nationalists play? They have no reason to be loyal to a system that seeks to destroy them and in the process destroy Britain. Something very similar is happening in other European countries. In Germany, both industrialists and trade unions fear economic instability leading to political instability. In the Netherlands, we see different interest groups including those involved in transport sectors and farming taking action i.e. farmers acquiring water canons to counter-attack if attacked by Police forces. None other than the Dutch Vice President of the European Commission alerted about the certain danger of social unrest. Ladies and gentlemen, misguided geopolitical decisions and equally misguided environmental policies will lead Europe towards the 1930s. If Europe moves towards the 1930s, who do you think will benefit? And going back to Germany, will the Grünen in Germany be willing to put aside their aspirators if it becomes patently clear that we do need to use more fossil fuels to cope with present challenges? How long will Herr Olaf Scholz coalition last?

SO15, British Police forces, politicians and mass media need to understand that although geographically Britain might be a group of islands we cannot be in isolation in terms of economic, social and political developments happening right now in Europe. They must also understand that blocking individuals and preventing them from participating in lawful political activities they are creating an even greater danger in the United Kingdom.

Owen Jones: If Labour does not stand up for people, Unions will

 

An article published on The Guardian today catches out attention. The title is pretty suggestive. Is The Guardian seems to indicating that the Labour Party and the trade unions will part company?

Sometime ago, a high ranking Liberal Democrat, Vince Cable, proposed the creation of a new political force that would unite Labour and Liberal Democrat politicians. The talk about cooperation in terms of voting strategies in recent by-elections also suggest that something is cooking.

Vince Cable, like many other Liberal Democrat politicians are closer to the City than they are to the Trade Union Movement, and Keir Starmer seem to have turned farther right than his predecessors. In fact, getting rid of Jeremy Corbyn was part of the strateg, but all might no be what it seems. The Labour Party is split from the very top and The Guardian's suggestion that 'Labour's hostile posture to a newly assertive trade union movement could prove a costly error'. It is not a secret that Trade Union that finance several Labour MPs and that certain guidelines have been adopted in term of withdrawing financial support for those who do not support the Trade Union Movement as much as the Trade Union Movement wants to be supported. Even David Lammy came out saying that 'he does not support strikes'. Labour's stances are a double edged sword that can hurt its aspirations.

The Leadership of the Labour Party knows fairly well that the present troubles are not really caused by economic policies implemented by the Conservative Party. They know that there are geopolitical issues that are accelerating inflation and leading to industrial unrest, unrest that would exist one way or another under a Conservative government or a Labour government, issues that would undermine any administratoion regardless of political orientation.

By-elections are by-elections, won one day and lost the next. Some Conservatives are not happy with a government that they think is 'not Conservative enough'. They might prefer to stick to the old ways, talking about lower taxes, a smaller state, and so forth. Do we favour the use of more fossil fuels or do we favour the environment with less use of fossil fuels? Energy costs are going up and will continue to go up, pushing prices up and leading to an effective devaluation of the Pound. If you can buy less with your Pound, then this is in fact devaluation of the Pound or you can call it also 'a salary reduction'. Nominally, you might have the same number of Pounds, but due to inflation you will only be able to buy less with your money. 

British? Yes. Far Right? I doubt it

 

Paul Golding in Moscow during a visit to the Russian Parliament British? Yes. Far Right? Not really. 

Whatever the BBC, Sky News, the British Political Establishment  and other political operators want you to believe, reality is quite different from what they try to make you believe.

Because he has been working with Russian Nationalists, something that bothered very much the Political Establishment, a little known piece of legislation called Schedule 7 of the 2000 Anti-Terror Legislation was used to entrap and convict Paul Golding accusing him of terrorism.

Of course the usual media made a fuss about misused terrorism charges, charges that were used for purely political reasons.

Most of those journalists that campaign against the Far Right or what they call Far Right don't seem to have a clue about what is going on. They keep writing articles to suit the official narrative and getting things wrong.

  

Labour Party: Lessons to be learned to prevent tragedies

 

On June 16th, 2016, Jo Cox MP (right) was killed in plain daylight being shot and stabbed several times when walking to conduct a surgery at her constituency.

Undoubtedly, the Labour Party has sought to capitalize on emotional elements when Kid Leadbeater - sister of Jo Cox - was chosen as Labour Party candidate in the by-election in Batley and Spen due to take place on July 1st 2021.

The assumption is that Labour voters will seek to elect Kim Leadbeater who, like Jo Cox, is the only local candidate of a slate of candidates. The selection of Kim Leadbeater hasn't come without criticism. Kim Leadbeater was not a Labour Party member. She joined the Labour Party and was selected by-passing Labour Party rules in terms of membership and selection of candidates due to stand for election.

The Labour MP who held the seat had to resign the seat because she was recently chosen to be the Mayor of West Yorkshire. Tracy Brabin was elected in May 2021 and resigned because she could not hold the two posts - Member of Parliament and Mayor of West Yorkshire - at the same time.

The by-election in Batley and Spen comes after a remarkable defeat for Labour in Hartlepool and the losss in Chesham and Amersham were the Labour Party barely got a few hundreds of votes being place behind the Green Party. This comes during very difficult times for the Labour Party. Events in the United Kingdom and outside the United Kingdom. 

Events in the United Kingdom led to the removal of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party Leader following a series of scandals involving accusations of anti-Semitism. Jeremy Corbyn did not only lose his position as Labour Party Leader, but he is also out of the Labour Party standing now as an Independent MP. Since then, Keir Starmer has been Labour Party Leader and from day one the briefing was to uproot any kind of behaviour in the Labour Party that could be identified as anti-Semitism. This has come at a cost. In recent days, Muslim supporters complained that Keir Starmer is literally ignoring them and there were public statements by Labour Party supporters in Batley and Spen who refuse to support the Labour Party in the Batley and Spen by-election because of Keir Starmer's stance regarding events in Palestine.

There was a turn for the worse when the issue was a debate about proposed sanctions against the Jewish State of Israel and this is reflect by attitudes inside the Labour Party at regional level.

This was reported by the mass media:

A regional official in the UK's Labour Party has prevented local party members from debating a motion on Thursday calling for sanctions on Israel over human rights violations against Palestinians saying it would trigger 'anti-Semitic behaviour'. 

Kim Bolton - chair of Hove and Portslade Constituency Labour Party in southern England - ordered that members are prohibited from discussing the motion calling for Israel to 'end its violations of the human rights of Palestinians'.

The motion had urged the UK to 'impose legal sanctions on Israel', such as a ban of arms sales and trade with illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Bolton reportedly acted on advice from Scott Horner, the south east regional officer for Labour. Horner is said to have cautioned her that the discussions 'would undermine the party's ability to provide a safe and welcoming place for all members, in particular Jewish members'.

Bolton said she supported that view and believed that a debate on sanctions against Israel, key demand of the non-violent BDS movement backed by large swathes of Labour Party members, could 'stir up internal conflict'.

I contacted Helen Hayes MP and wrote the following:

'I saw Kim Leadbeater alone on the streets being chased by angry individuals and the thought crossed my mind. What if.... The events on June 16th, 2016 came to me with a bang. Whatever is going on in the Labour Party, you need to take care of your own people. I copy this message to the Labour Party and to the Home Secretary. If certain individuals take an issue with Kim Leadbeater and go out to target her because of very public actions of the Labour Party regarding Palestine, Kim Leadbeater will be a sitting duck.

Kim Bolton, Scott Horner and other Labour Party officials should be made aware of the sensitivities in Batley and Spen. Muslim members/supporters of the Labour Party have already made their views regarding the attitudes within the Labour Party and in particular of the Leadership of the Labour Party. There is an important presence of people of Asian descent who are mostly Muslims in Batley and Spen.

I am afraid that whatever is going on in the Labour Party has made too many people in positions of authority absolutely blind to what is happening on the ground. You are dealing with very dangerous individuals. If on top of being targetted for LGBT issues she is also targetted because of what is happening in the Labour Party with regards to Palestine, she would be the ideal target to focus peoples' minds. Individuals who might be interested in targetting her know perfectly well that the entire country will be watching developments in Batley and Spen because of the implications of the outcome of the election for the Labour Party Leadership. They know that should anything happen, it will be reported nationally and internationally and therefore it will have enormous propaganda value.

George Galloway has made very clear that his participation in Batley and Spen has one fundamental aim and we know what the position of those bound to support George Galloway is on issues regarding Palestine.

I would't be surprised if a major incident takes place before or after the vote. We hope that nothing of the kind ever happens, but you need to be prepared to prevent it from happening. 

I beg you to take this situation extremely seriously. Do not leave her unprotected.

The message was sent to other political operators including Labour Party authorities in Brighton and in Batley and Spen.

This came after video images in which Kim Leadbeater was seen having to deal on her won with a hostile crowd being targetted about her views on LGBT.  She was seen completely vulnerable trying to get into a car parked on the side of the road. We do remember what happend to Jo Cox in June 2016. It would not have been impossible for something very similar to happen to Kim Leadbeater when she is campaigning for the Batley and Spen by-Election.

It is not difficult to understand what is happening within the Labour Party. The article that publishes the decision made by the Labour Party regarding a motion about sanctions on Israel indicates that such if the fear of the Leadership of the Labour Party about the issue of Anti-Semitism that the Labour Party is very much willing to ignore violations of human rights and the killing of men, women and children as long as there are no more accusations about Anti-Semitism. The article also indicates that a vast number of Labour Party supporters (the non-violent BDS (Boycot Divest and Sanctions) movement backed by large swathes of Labour members) do not agree with the stances of Keir Starmer on the issue of Palestine and violation of human rights.

https://bdsmovement.net/  The BDS movement works to end international support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with International Law.

Keir Starmer as Labour Party Leader has sought to salvage the Labour Party and after each electoral defeat he has produced yet another reshuffle. With each reshuffle his power base is shrinking. He is not only not listening to voters. He is not listening to members of his own party. Not only that. He is preventing members of his own political party from expressing valid points of view. It might come the time when his popularity ratings with voters in general will be at the same level of his popularity within the Labour Party.

Two questions arise about his own political survival: how long will he be Labour Party Leader? Will he be Labour Party Leader at the time of the next General Election? I do believe that the next General Election will take place in 2024. Speculation about an advanced General Election seem to have come to an end with events linked to the departure of Matt Hancock as Health Secretary.

What is certain is that the image of the Labour Party as defender of Human Rights has been wiped out by Keir Starmer. He, the man who used to be a star Director of Public Prosecutions, is now under scrutiny. 

Andrew Rawnsley writing on The Guardian says: Starmer's enthusiasm while DPP for using mundane news events to feed the press with rightwing talking points is a possible concern for Labour members. If such a leader was faced with news of an injustice in the future - the consequence of a change to immigration rules,say, or of a strike in public services - Starmer's approach to the press as DPP might raise worries that he would not give a principled defence of the victims but would tell the press whatever it wanted to hear.

The description made by Andrew Rawnsley clearly explains the fact that Keir Starmer instead of choosing the hard way of standing against violations of Human Rights has chosen the easy way of opting for what is convenient instead of opting for what is proper and difficult. Little consideration has been given to the predicament Kim Leadbeater could face in Batley and Spen.

 

 
 

Brexit Party and SNP: A picture that speaks volumes

Brexit Party and SNP: A picture that speaks volumes

The Guardian: Jewish Brexit Party Candidate and Swastika

The Guardian: Jewish Brexit Party Candidate and Swastika

How many times the UAF, Hope Not Hate, politicians and mass media have called those supporting Brexit Nazi, Fascist, Racist et cetera, et cetera?

But... and it is a big BUT, oh surprise, Jewish people are standing as candidates for the Brexit Party and therefore the UAF, Hope Not Hate, politicians and mass media are calling Jewish people Nazi, Facist, Racist et cetera et cetera.

Now, none other than The Guardian is publicly stating that those who are are campaigning for Brexit are not Nazi, are not Fascist, are not Racist and that all crap spread by UAF, Hope Not Hate, politicians and mass media against those who stand in favour of leaving the European Union is crap. 

The constant labelling of politicians because of their positions regarding the relationship with the European Union is precisely what led to a Jewish candidate being called Nazi. I say that not only those who painted the Swastika should be investigated. The UAF should be investigated. Hope Not Hate should be investigated. UNITE should be investigated. All those who call British politicians whose only crime is to stand for what they believe in a Democratic society should be investigated because every time somebody is called a Nazi is the equivalent of painting a Swastika on the face of the said individual.

Japan: How much is too much?

Japan: How much is too much?

Japanese culture has been for centuries about duty, tradition, responsibility and the combination of duty, tradition and responsibility often collided with modernity and the rising pressures of everyday life.

Japan suffers from very low birthrates and this is not surprising in a country in which working hours have become such a priority that everything else comes second or third. The stress of the struggle to be successful are crippling those who are usually seen as examples of success. One drink too many and people end up sleeping on the streets.

The British newspaper The Guardian publishes an article that depicts a tragic reality that affects one of the most industrious countries in the world. Japan is usually associated with technology, innovation, and creativity but the negative side of the coin is when people are pushed or push themselves to the limit, beyond the point when success turns to catastrophe.

In Germany, there is movement towards the implementation of a four-day-working week. Technological advances should improve living standards and allow people to have more balanced  personal lives and family lives but despite technological advances too many people are losing their humanity and being pushed over the limit.

After the sweatshops of times past, the 40-hour-week was a great achievement but the time has come to think again and look very carefully and ponder about how we could be doing better for ourselves and for the societies we are very much part of. Images like the one shown speak volumes. We are not talking about beggars. We are talking about people who are falling victims of what is usually described as success. Japan is not just facing a demographic catastrophe but also a social catastrophe.

Western Societies should take notice of what is happening in Japan and start moving in the right direction towards a better ratio in terms of working to live and not living to work. Capitalists care when markets crash and they should start caring when people crash.

Tommy Robinson is neither Far Right nor Racist

Tommy Robinson is neither Far Right nor Racist

Lizzie Dearden - as a well as whole array of politicians and mass media operators - have falsely accused Tommy Robinson of being Far Right and/or Racist. Why? What are the foundations for such labels? There are no foundations whatsoever. Why is this happening? Because politicians and mass media operators can get away with murder. It is about power without responsibility. 

If you challenge the BBC or private mass media you face a wall. For example, the BBC is judge, jury and prosecutor of its behaviour unless they are challenged by some people with power and financial muscle. Otherwise, the BBC can do whatever. It can destroy innocent people who don't have the power to defend themselves and BBC reporters get away with crime as it is criminal to demonise people who don't have the power to protect themselves.

If try to complain to the board that deals with excesses committed by private mass media, the said board will tell you that they can only deal with mass media that are signatories of a Code of Conduct and only as long as the said Code of Conduct refers to the kind of crime being committed.

To sum up, if you are not powerful both in terms of influence or of financial muscle you don't stand a chance to get a fair hearing. This is execution by power without responsibility.

When the killing of journalists begins, irresponsible journalists will have only themselves to blame. A Member of Parliament already lost their life and many more will follow if the present trend to defame, libel, distort and misrepresent other people goes on.

Britain has changed. Europe has changed. Public anger is growing rapidly and the time will come when no Police Force, no Armed Forces, will be able to prevent a social and political explosion.

Jo Cox MP was embarked in a witch-hunt and this is why she was killed. Many swore to follow the same path and might face the same fate. Demonising innocent people is a boomerang that will come and haunt you and your family. This is a crucial time in the history of Britain and in the history of Europe. Demonising must stop. Labelling must stop. Defaming must stop. Libelling must stop. Distortion must stop.

Tony Blair: Ban on prosecution goes back to court

A higher magistrate is going to study the existing ban on private prosecution cases brought against Tony Blair.

What transpires from an article published by The Guardian is that the British Justice System is hidden behind a veil of secrecy. Some things might never change.

This is one major characteristic of a weak Democracy that cannot face its demons head on because its citizens are denied access to information they should know for Democracy to be a real Democracy.

Secrecy leads to speculation that undermines Democracy because there is always the presumption that things are kept secret because they are dirty, illegal, fraudulent, criminal. This is the country that has Laws that prevent members of the public from knowing what their rulers are up to with archives that will never be made public or will be made public not less than a 100 years afterwards.

Angela Merkel: What a catastrophic German Chancellor

Angela Merkel: What a catastrophic German Chancellor!

The Guardian as many other media talk about the fury of Angela Merkel as Turkey accuses Germany of implementing 'Nazi-style practices' because Turkish politicians are not being allowed to carry out a campaign in favour of a Turkish constitutional reform in Germany.

The Netherlands and several others countries don't want their territories to be used by Turkish politicians as a political battlefield to extend the powers of President Erdogan.

One should expect then that all EU plans to incorporate Turkey as a member country of the EU would have stalled.

Another aspect of the confrontation is the fact that Turkey is also a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

And there is also yet another issue which is the issue of refugees/economic migrants given that Angela Merkel has been at the forefront of a campaign to persuade Turkey to act as a wall to prevent the passage of millions of migrants on their way to Continental Europe.

Angela Merkel has been an unmitigated disaster. Firstly, she made a very pompous statement saying "All refugees welcome". She didn't even bother to consult with other EU countries that were going to be affected as routes of passage towards Germany. She generated crisis after crisis as other countries were being overrun by a massive influx of migrants and things got ugly not just in the other countries affected but also in Germany.

Germany wasn't prepared to register the huge number of newcomers. Germany didn't have the means to determine who was a genuine refugee and who wasn't a genuine refugee. Germany didn't have the means to support millions of people coming in. No income, no places to stay, not enough services to support such a massive demographic influx.

She tried to force other countries to take refugees. She tried to put in place a deal with Turkey to contain the influx of migrants. She talked about paying people to go back to their countries of origin. She talked about deporting people without even knowing if they were real refugees or merely economic migrants.

Angela Merkel has made the situation of real refugees a lot worse and in the process is turning ordinary people against real refugees. Suddenly, the vocabulary changes and we talk more and more about migrants. In one of her latest interventions, she talks about 'safe countries'. She doesn't have a clue about what is talking about. She could be sending people back to be killed in her desperation to get rid of migrants when the campaign towards Federal Elections in Germany is in full swing already.

A demagogue, an incompetent politician and a very irresponsible German Chancellor who is now been categorised as a Nazi by the very same people she was trying to make a deal to keep migrants out of Germany.

Helen Goodman MP wants to ban people from work because of political beliefs

On an article published by The Guardian, Helen Goodman MP is reported as wanting to ban people from working because of their political beliefs.

Helen Catherine Goodman has been Member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland since 2005 representing the Labour Party.

When you engage in persecution, preventing people from having honest jobs that allow them to have a legal source of income, you are looking for trouble and I am starting to think that this is one of the reasons that got Jo Cox MP killed.

As long as they do not engage in criminal activities, regardless of political beliefs, people must be allowed to pursue any lawful interests. The fact that he could no longer work as a public school teacher, Adam Walker had to find an alternative source of income working as Karate Instructor, discipline that he perfected while living in Japan and being married to a Japanese citizen which, incidentally, puts into question statements made by the Labour Party MP about racism since the man accused of being a white supremacist is married to an Asian lady. This is not news. Many members of the so called Far Right have multiracial families so the title 'racist' doesn't apply but individuals like Helen Goodman MP that judging from her credentials has had an opulent background doesn't seem to pay attention to facts that are in the public domain.

From The Guardian:

The leader of the BNP is working as a children’s sports coach despite having been banned for life from teaching.

Adam Walker was given the ban three years ago by the former education secretary Michael Gove after he received a suspended jail sentence for verbally abusing three schoolboys, chasing them in his car and slashing the tyres on their bikes.

The incident happened following a BNP march in 2011. Walker, who replaced Nick Griffin as the leader of the far-right party in July 2014, subsequently lost a legal challenge against Gove after claiming that the decision to impose a lifetime ban was “prejudiced” because of his BNP membership.

It has now emerged that Walker, 48, continues to teach karate to about 30 children at Kyokushin Karate in Spennymoor, County Durham, where he is described as the “chief instructor”.

The local Labour MP, Helen Goodman, who has been campaigning for the club to be shut down for four years, says she has written numerous letters and has met a government minister in an effort to force the authorities to take action against Walker.

According to Sport England, when an individual is self-employed and his work is not governed by a national body, as is the case with Walker, the responsibility lies with parents to ask to see the coach’s Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

“I have been trying to get the government to take action on this for four years but they have failed to do anything,” Goodman said. “They have created a loophole in the law which allows people with criminal convictions to continue teaching, and my concern is that there are other people running sports clubs who are similarly unsuitable.”

Goodman believes that Walker, who posts anti-immigration videos on his Facebook page, may be using the club as a platform for his extreme views and to groom the children.

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The MP says she first wrote to the Department for Education about Walker in February 2013 and has followed up with letters to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the DBS and Sport England. “My worry, of course, is that these children are being exposed to extreme views and he is grooming them to become racists,” she added.

Walker has denied using the club to recruit BNP members and points out that he is not doing anything illegal.

“Does Helen Goodman not believe in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act? She has a personal hatred for me which supersedes anything,” he said. “She needs to wind her neck in and concentrate on the real problems in her constituency rather than trying to close down my club, which makes a real contribution to the local community.”