PSNI Spin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7416781.stm

Now we all know where our Tax pounds are going within the PSNI.

The words Police Service in the badge above is being removed and replaced with Public Relations Service of Northern Ireland.

The PSNI are a totally inept, so called police service. Not only are they inept but they spend more of our money trying to convince us they are a professional modern police service.

Latest Perverted Service of Northern Ireland News
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3797671.ece

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3797652.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7377389.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7205280.stm

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/opinion/article3328922.ece

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Drinkdrivingcomments-leadto-controversy.3663013.jp

Orwellian Big Brother State

In a free society it is the right and the freedom of the individual to vote or not as they see fit.

However, here in Northern Ireland the chief electoral officer has the legislative power to prosecute people who do not register to vote.

In a so called democracy the requirement to register to vote should not be made an offence but a freedom that you chose to take up or not!

The act of prosecuting an individual for not registering to vote is an abuse of the right of the individual to express their individual freedom. Freedoms that over hundreds of years have been hard fought for and much blood has been spilt for these rights and freedoms.

One of the last freedoms and acts we have left is the consensus decision to take part or not in the electoral process.

If by not registering to vote and therefore not take part in the voting process and this freedom and consensus decision is to be criminalised then the state and government is forgetting who they work for!!!

For me the most disturbing factor here is that the chief electoral officer can use all the mechanisms of the state to track you down and take you to court.

Now you tell me if this is not the Orwellian, Big Brother state that we were all warned about in 1984!!!

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/article3734161.ece

Perverse British Society

If you are in any doubt how perverse British society has become under a Nu-Labour government and against the British Armed Forces, then read the story from the links below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021653/Fury-injured-soldiers-families-sex-change-Para-captain-wins-250-000-Army.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/frontline/2026067/Sex-change-Paratrooper-wins-andpound250%2C000-for-%27hurt-feelings%27.html

I know it's an era of self fulfilment and discovery of your inner-self however, it is perverse in the extreme that the government and MOD can give a sex change ex-Para £250k to go and find themselves yet the most seriously injured soldier to come out of Afghanistan, was only originally given £125k. It took a campaign by his family and media to embarrass the government and MOD to ensure that brave Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, was given an increase in his compensation.

It speaks volumes of the government and the MOD that they think a sex change captain deserves more than a lowly Lance Bombardier who was one of the most seriously injured service personnel to come out of Afghanistan.

If anyone was in any doubt that the UK has sunk to new lows of depravity then here it is in all is gory detail.

United Kingdom Peoples Party

The United Kingdom Peoples Party

A manifesto for government.

MP expenses:

All MP's will be paid 2.5 times of the average working wage.
No family members to be employed by MP's
A maximum of £50k will be paid in expenses to run offices.
There will be full receipts for expenses.
After 2012 London Olympics accommodation will be provided for MP's in the Olympic village.

MP's and former MP's who have evaded capital gains tax or profited from the sale of houses that received a subsidy from the public purse, will pay back in full all the amounts due. All moneys spent on MP's or Former MP's on refurbishments to second homes will be paid back. This will be back dated 10 years with no exceptions.

A fully elected legislature upper house.

We will have a Referendum day. Held at the same time as the election or at mid point of a parliamentary term. If 250,000 people vote on a parliamentary petition the subject will be up for referendum.

TAX.

The current tax take is a restriction to investment and personal choice so to free up investment and personal choice:

Child Benefit:

We will remove child benefit from immigrants.
We will remove give child benefit to under 21 year old UK residents.
No child benefit will be given to any more than 3 children for basic rate tax payers
No child benefit will be given to any higher rate income tax payers

Immigrants will need to be resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months before being eligible for child benefit and that will only be for 3 dependent children living in the UK. No benefit will be paid to any non UK resident children eception will be made for children of the armed forces. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

No child benefit will be paid to any parent under the age of 21.

Basic and Higher Tax:

Basic Rate Tax payers will be restricted to child benefit for 3 dependent children only resident in the UK. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

Higher Tax income payers will not receive child benefit

Benefit claimants: child benefit will only be given for the first 3 dependent children only resident in the UK. All other subsequent children will not be given child benefit.

The new rate will be £25 per child per week.

Job Seekers Allowance:

Immigrants will need to be resident in the UK for a minimum of 3 years and have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months before being eligible for:
Job Seekers Allowance

Job seekers allowance will not be paid after 24 months continuous payments.

No benefits to any resident of the UK will be paid unless they have contributed into the Income tax system for a continuous 36 months.
This includes:
Job Seekers Allowance
Housing benefit
Disability allowance (exception children under 18) at 18 a new assessment and only the very deserving will receive this benefit.

Job seekers allowance and Housing benefit will not be paid to any resident of the UK after 24 months continuous payments.


No claimant on Job seekers allowance after 24 months will be moved to another benefit they will receive vouchers that can be exchanged for food after the 24 months.

Housing benefit will not be given to immigrants.
Housing benefit will not be given to UK residents after 24 months.


Basic Rate Tax payers will pay 10p on the first £5,000 and then 15p for the next £10,000 then 20p there after

Higher Rate Tax payers will pay 10p on the first £5,000 and then 20p for the next £35,000 then 40p there after.

Carers who leave work to care will get a 75% of their average wage over a 36 month period that will be indexed linked for the duration of their care time.

Pensions:
Your National Insurance contributions will be ring fenced for your State Pension. If you have not paid National Insurance contributions for more than 30 years you will receive vouchers that can be exchanged for food. They will be on a sliding scale depending on your years of National Insurance contributions.

Pensions will be linked with wages.

Pensioners with savings of under £100,000 will not pay tax.

Pensioners with savings over £100,000 If they are working their will pay tax at 10p the first £20,000 after the £100,000 threshold and then 15p on all other thereafter, their pension will not be taxed.

Corporation tax will be set commensurate with other countries within our region. It will be set at +or- 2% of the commensurate countries.

The tax take from highest earners will be as for High income earners all residents and non residents of the UK will pay no exceptions.

Stamp duty will start to be paid on homes priced at average house prices + 20%.

Inheritance Tax will be paid on estates on a combined house sale value plus savings of to a sum of £400k or on house sales of £400k and or savings over £400k.

We will remove stealth Taxes on green or eco issues until there is a world agreement on green or eco issues.

A full review of VAT will be undertaken.

VAT will be removed from domestic heating fuels.

Fuel duty at the pumps will be caped at 85p per litre at the pumps. If fuel prices increase the fuel duty will reduce. Thus insuring that the motorist is not priced off the road by rising fuel prices.

Road fund tax will be used solely for investment in the roads infrastructure.

Banks:

All banks will be required to invest in a insurance scheme. This will be held by government and used to bail out banks if they fail. The insurance scheme will be underwritten by the financial institutions.

Banks will be broken up into investment and savings arms. The investment arm will be
All savings form ordinary savers will be guaranteed 100% by the banks. Bank charges will be caped at .01%. These banks will be used as service banks and on excessive profiteering, will be permitted.

Mortgages:

No self certification mortgages. Mortgages will be caped at 4 times or 25% of monthly income.

Banks Bonus:

If a bank has paid out more than 1% in bonuses in the last 3 years, they will not be liable for a full pay out of the insurance scheme and the sort fall will be borne by the management and board and investors. The investment side will have no guarantees. Investors will invest at their own risk.

Hedge Funds:

Hedge Funds, will be forced to invest in a insurance scheme. This will be held by government and used to bail out banks if they fail. If a Hedge Fund has betted against a bank or financial institution and that institution fails within 24 months the Hedge Fund will pay a proportion of the failure to ordinary investors. No moneys will be paid to investment banks or other financial institutions.

EU:

We will remove the UK as a full membership of the EU and only remain as a trading partner.

Defence:

We will withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan within 6 months. We will only send troops to conflicts that are in our National interest.

We will invest a minimum of 5% proportion of our GDP on the armed services.

Police:

We will remove police bureaucracy.
We will put more police on the streets.
Police emphasise will be on crime not just speeding motorists and issuing fixed penalties.

Justice:

We will introduce categories for Murder:

Category 1: Full Life Term.
Category 2: 25-35years after 25years there will be a review and possible parole.
Category 3: 15-35 years after 15years there will be a review and possible parole.

Paedophiles, Rapists and Drug Dealers will be given a full term Category 2.

There will be a 3 strikes rule for recurrent criminals of low level crime. After the 3rd conviction you will automatically go to Category 2.

3 strikes rule example:
If you get a conviction strike 1 get another conviction strike 2 the next time you are convicted strike 3 and you get a minimum of Category 2: 25-35 years

Prisons

No prisoner will be permitted to be idle in prison. All food for the prison will be provided from the prisoners. There will be prison gardens and farms were the prisoners will be required to grow their own produce for the prison kitchen. If they don't grow it they don't eat.

All visits will be behind a floor to ceiling reinforced glass screen. There will be no physical contact between prisoners or visitors.

Any prisoner found with drugs or other contraband will be given an extra 5 years without parole. For each item of contraband and each time a new search is conducted. There will be a minimum of 12 searches in any 12 month period.

BBC:

Will promote Britishness.

The licence fee will not be used to pay performers. The BBC will fund performers out of profits form it commercial arm.

The BBC CE and board will be paid the same as an MP.

Nu-Labour Commissars

Nu-Labour in all its guises have lied and spun its way through 11 years of power, they are by far the most deceitful and inept government and group of politicos this nation has had the misfortune to be governed by.

When Nu-Labour’s Polit Bureau commissars were found to be wanting in office they did not have the decency to resign from office they had to be dragged from office by the media. Nu-Labour by their actions set the tone for the decline in public standards that is now so prevalent in the chav and chavette culture on our streets today.

The Nu-Labour Polit Bureau, commissars and apparatchiks have put their political correctness, dogma, social engineering and ideologies before the best interests of low and middle income earners and our nation’s best interests. They have put the people and the nation behind the EC’s Polit Bureau's unelected commissioners in Brussels. They are using the twin track of deceit and propaganda on immigration, health, education, the economy, the police, terrorism and stealth green or eco taxes, to remove more hard earned cash from the low and middle income earners, to proliferate the state dependency of the indigenous undeserving and the migrant undeserving.

We must not forget that Nu-Labours Polit Bureau used all their commissars and apparatchiks and went into deceit and propaganda overdrive to sex up the dodgy dossier to take us to war with Iraq which lead to the death of Dr Kelly. After a few whitewash inquiries Nu-Labour had thrown Dr Kelly to the wolves and as a result it was reported that Dr Kelly suicide was in very dubious circumstances. Nu-labour Polit Bureau, commissars and apparatchiks were unapologetic over the death of Dr Kelly.

The actions of Nu-labours Polit Bureau commissars and apparatchiks show the lengths that they will go to deceive the UK public.

Nu-labours Polit Bureau, commissars and apparatchiks are using the threat of terror in a cynical attempt to control the UK populous. The Nu-labour Polit Bureau is using the threat of terror to cynically create more draconian laws to centralise more power in the Nu-labour Polit Bureau.

Let's not forget that the terror laws that were brought in 2000 The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act have been used by:

• Derby City Council, Bolton, Gateshead, and Hartlepool used surveillance to investigate dog fouling.
• Bolton Council also used the act to investigate littering.
• The London borough of Kensington and Chelsea conducted surveillance on the misuse of a disabled parking pass.
• Liverpool City Council used Ripa to identify a false claim for damages.
• Conwy Council used the law to spy on a person who was working while off sick.

So don't forget to keep your bil lid closed as Nu-Labour might send round the bin police?
Don’t forget the micro chip in your bin informing the local Nu-labour commissars and apparatchiks what type and how much rubbish you are throwing out!

The controlling aspect of this authoritarian government can be seen with their rush to install CCTV systems in town and city centres, issue ID cards and the requirement to give your DNA, it is the stuff of nightmares.

This range of control would not be out of place in a third world authoritarian dictatorial fascist or communist state. However, this is Nu-Labours Orwellian big brother UK society today.

After years of being watched and bugged the police have stated that CCTV systems have not prevented crime in the UK. The UK has the largest DNA database in the world with 4.5million samples with 150,000 children under 16 and over a million innocent people. With 4.5million on the database you would consider that many numbers of crimes would be solved however, only 1 crime for every 800 DNA files held are solved. Then we have the ID cards! What a total irrelevance and waste of money. Nu-Labours Polit Bureau have stated that the ID cards will only hold finger print and iris recognition informatin, your national insurance number and date of and place of birth, the cards will cost the owner approximately £200 this in Nu-Labours Polit Bureau seem good value for money.

ID cards are anther step towards Nu-Labour’s Orwellian control of the UK populous.
The ultimate goal of ID cards is to hold all the relevant information, on you the individual. It will not be long after the issuing of the ID cards that there will be a compulsory mass DNA screening.
Then more of your personnel information will find its way on the ID card. Income Tax and National Insurance details, your smoking and drinking habits, your sexual orientation and any countries you have visited and any illnesses you have contracted. So when you find you need NHS treatment you will need to produce your ID card before you are treated, so your ID cards DNA information can be analyzed and then the treatment denied to you. Then banking and insurance companies will demand your ID card DNA information before taking you on as a risk or loading your premiums.

This country has been sold the mother of all lies with Nu-Labour, and their commissars The responsibility of this situation can be set no were other than in the hands of the Nu-Labour voters and the non voting conservative populous of the UK.

We most galvanize ourselves and march in every town, village and city in this United Kingdom to demand that the Tax burden be reduced and that immigration, health, education and the police be made to work of us the people and the offensive stealth green or eco taxes be remove form the hard working and hard pressed people of this land.


http://tpa.typepad.com/home/files/the_great_british_taxpayer_ripoff.pdf

Nu-Labour just don't get it!!!

The politicos in Nu-labour just don’t get it.

Labour is taxing every part of modern life they seem to be wedded to tax.

They are raking in extra billions in tax from fuel as the forecourt price goes up; this is before their duty price rise! They sneak in by the back door so called eco tax on vehicle excess duty on family cars. Council tax is going into orbit yet Nu-Labour plan to tax us even more for using your bin and cut other services?

They sneaked tax on insurance and flights, they have put up capital gains tax, national insurance, and did not keep stamp duty in line with the spiralling house prices.

If you are working or middle class and worked all your days and had the audacity to buy a house, save, get a personnel pension and retire, Nu-labour made sure that when you were refused treatment in the health service and you died they took a large amount of your estate for the tax man.

Nu-Labour brought in more and more bureaucracy in an attempt to micro-manage our lives. Pension, working and child Tax credits what is the point of all this bureaucracy? Why in this age of the government knowing all aspects of our lives do they not cut the bureaucracy and the tax burden?

http://www.abd.org.uk/fuel_tax_calculator.htm

If the conservatives want to get into power cut the eco tax shenanigans, stop taxing the motorist, the homeowner, the low paid. Then make the police courts and prisons, NHS, education, immigration and government work for us the people!!!

Here is a list of New Labour's first 90 Stealth Taxes with the date of introduction where known.Tax & Waste Rules, UK!


July 1997
1, Mortgage Interest Tax Relief At Source (MIRAS) reduced from 15% to 10%
2, Dividend Tax Credits for pension schemes abolished
3, Income tax relief on health insurance abolished
4, Insurance Premium Tax extended to some health insurance
5, Road Fuel Tax escalator increased to 6%
6, Vehicle Excise Duty increased
7, Tobacco duty escalator increased to 5%
8, Stamp Duty raised to 2%
9, Carry back of Corporation Tax losses limited to 1 year
10, Windfall tax on utilities

March 1998
11, Tax relief for the married couple's allowance (MCA) cut to 10%
12, Top rate of Insurance Premium Tax extended to travel insurance
13, Exceptional increase in tobacco and alcohol duties
14, Duties on casinos and gaming machines raised
15, Road Fuel Tax escalator increase brought forward
16, Tax on company cars increased
17,Tax relief on foreign earnings abolished
18, Tax concessions for certain professions abolished
19, Capital gains tax imposed on certain non-residents
20, Restriction of Capital Gains Tax relief on reinvestment
21, Corporation tax payments on account brought forward
22,Stamp duty increased again
23, Certain hydrocarbon duties increased
24, Additional diesel duties introduced
25, Landfill Tax increased
26, Double tax credits on certain dividends restricted

March 1999
27, National Insurance Contributions earning limit raised
28, NI Contributions for self-employed increased
29, Tax relief of Married Couple's Allowance abolished
30,MIRAS abolished
31, Self-employed contractors to pay NI and income tax as if employees
32, Company car business mileage discount limited
33,Double escalator on tobacco duties
34, Insurance Premium Tax increased to 5%
35, Vocational training relief abolished
36, Employer NI Contribution base broadened to include all benefits in kind
37, VAT on some banking services increased
38, Tax on reverse premiums paid to tenants by landlords introduced
39, Duty on domestic fuel oils up
40, Vehicle Excise Duty for lorries increased
41, Landfill tax escalator introduced
42, Stamp Duty rates raised again to 2.5/3.5%

March 2000
43, Tobacco duties increased above inflation
44, Stamp duty raised for 4th time, scope of duty extended
45, Extra taxation of life assurance companies
46, Rules on tax havens tightened up
47, Company car taxes raised

2001 The Chancellor gives the exhausted nation a year off – no new stealth taxes!

April 2002
48, Personal tax allowances frozen
49, National Insurance threshold frozen
50, NI Contributions for employers raised
51, NI Contributions for employees raised [Class 1 up 1%]
52, NI Contributions for self-employed raised
53, North Sea taxation increased
54, Duty on some alcoholic drinks raised
55, Stamp duty thresholds frozen
56, Tax relief on investment in film industy restricted
57, Rules on corporate debt tightened
58, Nil-rate threshold for inheritance tax raised by less than the rate of inflation

April 2003
59, VAT imposed on electronically supplied services
60, Domestic staff on £89/week to pay NI & income tax, employers to pay NI
61, Betting duty increases
62, Tax on red diesel and fuel oil increased
63, Anti-tax haven rules tightened to cover more UK firms with Irish subsidiaries
64, Vehicle excise duty raised
65, Personal tax allowances frozen again

July, 2003
66, £35 added to all fines and 66, £3 added to the cost of a home insurance policy

September, 2003
67, Price of petrol raised 7p per gallon (with the VAT)

October, 2003
68, Up to 8 times increase in the stamp duty on leases for retail premises
69, Airport Tax doubled

December, 2003
70, 40% extra Council Tax on second homes was sneaked in while the Westminster Wonders were breaking up for their hols a whole week before Xmas.Additional info : It has been pointed out that a number of councils gave an even bigger discount for second homes and the increase for some people can be 80%. Plus the usual 6-18% annual rise, depending on how bloated the council's operations have become.
Exemptions may be granted if the second home owner (1) has to live somewhere because of his/her employment, (2) the dwelling comes with the job, or (3) there are special threat/security reasons involved. All of which excuses apply to 10, Downing Street, the home of a certain Mr. Anthony B. Liar. (Thanks to M.K.)

January, 2004
71, £60 per day fine for late submission of self-assessment income tax forms
72, Traffic wardens to receive powers to impose fines for a whole bunch of offences to keep poor people off the roads. The offences will include parking more than 19 inches from the kerb (£100) and dithering by people who are lost over, and who don't know whether to make a turn or keep straight on
73, A 'Victims Fund' surcharge fine on everyone who passes through the courts. £5 for speeding up to £30 for murder.
74, Legal Aid for the middle classes abolished

February, 2004
75, £40 per week charge to middle-class parents for formerly free nursery places
76, £200 per year charge to middle-class parents for places on formerly free school buses
77, £250 per hour charge from the fire brigade for non-fire-related call-outs, e.g. clearing up after road accidents and rescuing pussy cats from trees

March, 2004
78, £550 tax rise (at standard rate) for people using a company van or people-carrier out of work time
79, Council Tax will rise at least 7.4% next year (according to the Budget)
80, The tax incentive for owner-operator small businesses to become companies abolished
81, Tax on cross-border payments for goods and services between multi-divisional companies extended to transactions within the UK
82, Tax on trusts up from 34% to 40%
83, Duty on red diesel up 1p/litre above inflation (57% rise)
84, Duty on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used as fuel up 1p/litre above inflation (45% rise)
85, Personal allowances for taxpayers under 65 frozen

April 2004
86, PEPs and ISAs containing shares lose their tax break on dividends and the annual ISA allowance cut by £2,000 to £5,000
87, The 100% tax allowance for small businesses & self-employed on new computer/advanced telephone equipment cut to 50% for 2004/5
88, tax yearPassports – in addition to costing twice as much as the present price of £42, the new 'biometric data' passports will be valid for half as long. They will have to be renewed every 5 years instead of every 10 years, which doubles the cost yet again.
89, £100 per year 'lighthouse tax' on small boats over 8 metres long. Commerial shipping lines think they should pay £2.6 million per year towards the annual £73 million cost of maintaining lig
hthouses and navigational equipment.

May 2004
90, Council Tax bills to rise a further £110 in the affected areas to pay for 'Two Jags' Prescott's regional assemblies

Morally Corrupt Nu-Labour, Lefty Media and civil service

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=560640&in_page_id=1770

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/19/narmy419.xml

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/19/narmy119.xml

Here are a few stories that show the dichotomy of how Gordon Brown says he wants us to celebrate our armed services, yet his government tried to deny them justice not satisfied with that they give a victim of the armed services £2 million, yet our service personnel returning injured from active service (and lets not forget it was his government that sent them there) are denied proper compensation for their injuries.

Do they not understand the vast majority do support our armed services,

It’s the bastards in Nu-Labour, the lefty media and the morally corrupt civil service that don’t respect our armed services.

The Judiciary and anal govenment

Just a short line to say in the age of the internet do the assholes in the judiciary and the government think they can stop information from other countries finding its way to here.

The junior royal involved in the gay blackmail shenanigans may not be named here however, from the reports in the news and from foreign web sites he can be identified!!!

Don’t you just detest the way the judiciary and the government treat the people of the UK with utter contempt!!!

Click below to see what they think on the other side of the world.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10473131

Their anal attempt to censer information is like a Robert Mugabe free and open election!!!

Human Rights

Isn’t it great to hear that the Armed Services can now get the Human Rights that they deserve and have been denied for years?

If this Nu-Labour government can give all the rights under the sun to murders, rapists, paedophiles, terrorists, illegal immigrants and any other undeserving group then it is only just that our soldiers get the protection that they require.

The government have only taken delivery of an Armoured Personnel Carrier that can deflect the effects of an Improvised Explosive Device and improve survivability of the occupants by 90%. The APC has been used by the Americans for years yet our soldiers in Afghanistan are using an ill-equipped semi armoured personnel carrier that if it drives over an IED is almost guaranteed to kill or maim 100% the occupants.

If the government can take soldiers to court for alleged breaches of the Human Rights of their prisoners of war then is it not right that the soldiers deserve the same rights as their prisoners.

The Armed Services have been underfunded and young soldiers under paid for years.

This goes back as far as the last Conservative government, however it has been exacerbated by Tony B,liar, deceiver tight Brown and his incompetent part time sidekick Browne.

These 3 Nu-Labour politicos have raped the Armed Services and shafted the Armed Services at every opportunity and their lefty friends in Nu-Labour endorsed every cut.

Brown with his 10p income tax hike has taken more tax from the youngest soldiers in the Armed Services how is that for inspiring morale in the soldier on the frontline by making them poorer.

The American soldier on the frontline gets over £500k spent on them in equipment and welfare, however this bunch of Nu-Labour swine spend less than £100k on our soldiers that is lower than the other NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.

Do not question the dedication of the soldier on the frontline they will do their duty with bravery and dedication. They are there for their mates and will do what it takes to protect their mates no matter what the consequences.

I just wish the Nu-Labour politicos had 1% of the bravery and dedication that our soldiers show. By the way how many of the Nu-Labour politico’s sons and daughters are out there serving their country, non I suspect!

Get rid of Brown and Nu-Labour and all the lefty swine that infect our lives with their lies and deception.

I look forward to the day when a soldier or a dependent sees the prime minister, the defence secretary or some faceless MOD self serving civil servant in the courts, being taken to pieces for denying the soldier the proper equipment or backup that could have saved their life or limbs.

If you don't think our soldiers deserve Human Rights then see how the system sees a civil servant and a Soldier!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/17/nsoldier117.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=542731&in_page_id=1770


Now you tell me what is right and just?


Never again shall the Lion of a British Soldier be lead by donkeys and governed by jackals!!!

Totalitarian Government

Below is a story from the Daily Mail on how Brown and his Totalitarian government treat our Brave young Men and Woman.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=542731&in_page_id=1770

A Royal Marine who lost both legs and his right arm after stepping on a Taliban landmine in Afghanistan has been told he is not entitled to a full compensation package.
Mark Ormrod, 24, was blown up on patrol in Helmand province on Christmas Eve. He has spent the last three months in intensive care and rehabilitation.
He was offered £214,000 in compensation by the Ministry of Defence rather than the maximum £285,000.


I hope all those greedy politico swine at Westminster from whatever party can sleep easy tonight and every night, knowing that this brave young man faces a life of hardship. This is thanks to the pittance of a compensation payout awarded to him from the Nu-labour controlled MOD and this disgusting Nu-Labour government.

This young man and all his injured colleagues should be getting 4 or 5 times the compensation they have been offered by this Nu-Labour government!

This disgusting Nu-Labour government sent these brave men and women there. However as long as it’s not this Nu-Labour governments sons or daughters, what do they care, and what do they care if these brave men and women come back dead or seriously disabled.

The greedy politico swine at Westminster can clam thousands a year in expenses without a receipt and the most dangerous thing they will do is chose what colour they want their shredder for shredding their John Lewis receipts.

I hope Nu-Labour Labour never gets into power again! Every time they have had power in this country they have contrived to make the poor poorer and destroy our Armed Services. Gordon Brown I will pay your one way ticket to Moscow, because you and your Nu-Labour politicos have done more to destroy our Armed Services than the Russians ever did!

The cry form the Armed Services is go Gordon go and take your numpty dippy Des with you.

We are watching you DUP & UUP

I have been reading the Belfast Telegraph today 16th February and there is another story on the blaring of the lines between Seymour Sweeney and Ian Paisley junior, over the ownership of a constituency office in Ballymena and the issue of rent being paid or not as the case maybe and to who?

Not only can MLA's clam thousands in expenses but they also get subsidised meals up at Stormont!

The Honourable Members at Stormont can enjoy meals in the Members Dining Room. Sumptuous three-course meals are available for under £20 per head to MLA’s according to the Telegraph. These meals are subsidized by the hard pressed Northern Ireland Tax payer to the tune of £850 per day or £211,241 form May to December 07.

I would expect the nose in the trough old Unionists et al to be happy about this subsidy. It's now time the DUP and UUP have a root and branch review of the perks and expenses of the assembly.

I don’t get a free or subsidized meal from the government and I work for them. I pay for my own Christmas lunch the government don’t pay a single penny or provide a single mince pie to my Christmas meal, so why should I subsidise meals and drinks for people who earn a lot more than I do!

I also use my own car to do my job. I receive motor mileage however, that figure was set 4 years ago by the Inland Revenue, this was to cover the cost of fuel, depreciation. Since then there has been a 25% increase in fuel, I also have to put business use on my insurance, I then have the buy new tyres and service my car more often. So all in all the government are getting a dam good deal out of my car, and I take all the risk. Here is another issue the government have a budget every year and as sure as night follows day they put the fuel duty up, then there is the barrel price going up at a horrendous rate and then in this years buget 2008 the swine in 11 Downing Street put the cost of road TAX up again however, the only thing that doesn’t go up are my expenses to run my car to do the work of government.

Some of these bottom feeders in Stormont who are members of parliament get more in expenses £40k, for a second home that they allegedly need in London. They use this house/flat to stay in when they are going to parliament. £40k, is more than I get in salary a year!!!

When it comes to selling these houses they can usurp the rules to avoid paying capital gains tax so another nice little earner. In Northern Ireland these same bottom feeders pay rent on a portacabin on their own land to their wives so in these days of equality I want the same perks that these berks get?

The politicos also pay rent to their wife for a constituency office that their wife allegedly owns, not only that the wife works there and gets paid form the Tax payer as a constituency office worker!

As every week goes by we are being more and more disillusioned by the perks, expenses and the goings on up with the folks on the hill.

From the age of eighteen when I was eligible to vote, I have voted Unionist at every election. I seen it as my duty as a Unionist, and when the DUP have been on the ticket I have voted for them. However the day is fast approaching when I will be abstaining form voting. I am starting to get very disillusioned with Unionism and with the DUP and the UUP, as are my family and friends. We feel we have been used by the Unionist parties as a meal ticket

To be a good Unionist I was taught that one must look after and maintain the Union. However it does not permit the elected Unionist representatives to forgo the working class Unionists, and to line their own pockets at the Unionist Tax payer’s expense.

In light of the By-election defeat at Banbridge, here are a few thoughts form family, friends and myself to the DUP.

We are increasingly unhappy with the way the DUP are holding the hand of Sinn Fein/IRA.

We are also increasingly disturbed with the machinations of both Paisley 's. Both Paisley ’s are now being seen as a major hurdle to the future success of the DUP by family, friends and me. I personally can’t stand that pompous off spring Ian junior. I have never met this man but his manor is both condescending and arrogant. What does this man know about what its like to be brought up in a poverty filled low education attaining housing estate, were the people live from hand to mouth; on a day to day basis were mental and physical sickness, despair and an early grave are your daily companions!

The Seymour Sweeney debacle and the way young Paisley is strutting around denying a close business relationship with Seymour his arrogance knows no bounds and is alienating us as voters.

We are not happy with the way Jeffrey Donaldson seems to be trotted out by the DUP like some sort of Chawawa Rottweiler type spin doctor.

Poots, and the National stadium or not as the case maybe, and the raft of other decisions that seem to be put on the long finger, however quick decisions on traffic/parking attendants are seen as indicative of an administration that can't take controversial decisions yet can bring in traffic/parking attendants who are seen as issuing another stealth tax on hard pressed motorists.

We see the money generated by double and triple hated MP's, MLA's and Councillors as avarice at its most vile. The sums of money in salaries and expenses are 5 or 6 times my government wage. This is feeding the impression of, typical old Unionist party. The view is that the MP's, MLA's and Councillors are not in it for the Unionist people but lining their own pockets.

Peter and Iris Robinson are not setting a great example with their 40k expenses for their London home, that’s more than I earn a year!

Nine of your team at Stormont are double hated earning huge sums of money and then there is the question of relatives and friends working for MP’s, MLA’s. The sums of money being bandied about most of your working class electorate can only dream about, or is only attainable through a lottery win; this is feeding the impression of avarice and nepotism.

The other factor is how can one person do two full time jobs and give of their best to the Unionist electorate?

We don’t care for the PSNI they don’t care about the Unionist population and they are not the ‘B’ Specials, we don’t care for the 11+ it is seen as a middle class attempt to keep working class Unionist people in their place, we don’t care for money for the UDA, they are drug dealers and killers of Unionists within the Unionist community.

What we do care about is proper policing, better education for working class Unionist areas, well paid jobs, no more stealth taxes, the NHS and proper housing for Unionist low income earners.

We read the news and blogger sites on the Internet, the quality London papers, local press and listen to the local phone-in radio shows.

Turning into the old Unionist party of the past will not be tolerated and trying to hide from the Unionist electorate will not be as easy as it used to be in the bad old days of the old Unionist party. In the bad old days the only time you seen a Unionist politician was when they were banging the big drum, looking to get elected and after being elected they did nothing for the poor and the working class Unionist population!

The DUP appear to be moving away from the working class Unionist population who put the party were it is today.

What is being discussed is not voting at all at the next election. This is not based on a few conversations but almost all of the people I have spoken too.

So be warned, if the DUP are not seen as whiter than white and don't get their act together you may find that the working class electorate will vote with their feet and stay at home!

Sinn Fein/IRA and the worst story ever told

Sinn Fein/IRA are turning into a pseudo religion.

You have God, Adams, himself.

Jesus is the wee star form the North West Wee Martin.

The virgin Mary is Ms Ruane, She who give birth to eco terrorists.

Joseph would be Pat Doherty. Because he always looks as if he is sleeping

Trouble now I need to find the 3 wise men? Sean O'Callaghan, Martin McGartland and Freddie Scappaticci, all 3 had the sense to leave the republican movement.

Herod the Great would be Gerry form the Old Bailey.

Mary Magdalene has to be our Bairbre de Brún, she always looks at Wee Martin like she would like to have his children.

John the Baptist is I will wash you of your non-crime away Mitchel McLaughlin

The Twelve Apostles

Judas Iscariot: has to be Denis Donaldson
Simon also known as Peter: Francis Molloy as he denounced a policy 3 times
Simon the Zealot: Alex Maskey
Doubting Thomas: Martin Ferris I doubt I was on the Army Council
James the Younger: Conner Murphy just as he is young
Thaddaeus
Andrew
James
John.
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew

I will let the rest of you fill in your favourite in the spaces.

Now we come to the last supper held at casement Park GAA ground
Only 10 turned up so there was plenty to go around and they all got plates with their faces on. The meal was a chicken supper supplied by 10 8 nothing
Telephone 80 808080



Some of their miracles:

Making people believe they had decommissioned

Fooling their electorate into thinking, they will get a united Ireland.

Hugging everything green and trying to cast out the Orange for Ireland.

Making people believe they are not in it for themselves.

Their greatest Miracle: Turning terrorist into peace loving para-politicians.

Questions for the Next Election?

I would like to tell the politicos that have power over us:

That we are not best pleased with so called Eco Taxes (Tax on Fuel, be that fuel for vehicles or the home and a possible Congestion Charge for Belfast).

I feel they are punitive taxes on the poor and middle income earners and will stifle inward investment. The government and Belfast City Council is cynically using the environment as an excuse to raise taxes.

We are being forced to endure these Eco Taxes before we have a global agreement on environmental issues, the UK alone will not save the planet. I as a UK car user knows that the car user in America, China and India are not paying Eco stealth taxes on their fuel. These Taxes confirm to us the voter that this is a cynical stealth tax. This applies to all Eco stealth taxes.

Do the peoples in the countries named above have to use by decree of government, Eco light bulbs?

The nanny state has arrived in your living room and is going in to overdrive in London. How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?

Politicians don’t need light bulbs as they can light up a room with the sun shine emanating from their backsides!
Or
We don’t know because we have never seen a politician do anything useful!

Other Stealth Taxes (Tax on Insurance and flights) again are a punitive tax on the poor and middle income earners and again stifle investment. The Irish Republic is a shinning example of a low Tax economy and look how the standard of living and investment has boomed in the Irish Republic in recent years with high paying quality jobs.

We need our politicos to reform the Tax take and make it more equitable. The burden of tax should not be on the middle income earners or the elderly who have saved all their working lives for their retirement. The tax burden needs to be more equitability spread over the full range of incomes.

On the Belfast Congestion Charge, we have a multi million-pound new shopping centre in Belfast nearing completion and several new multi million pound developments at the Holywood Exchange site and in the Titanic Quarter Shipyard site and another multi million pound proposed development at the old Sarrco Works site. What eejit in the City Hall suggested that we should have the congestion charge for Belfast City Centre? It will obviously affect the business of the new multi million pound shopping centres, if shoppers have to pay to get to the shopping centre and then pay again to park, people will vote with their shopping basket and go to Lisburn or the Abbey Centre. The mindset of City Hall takes some thinking through. This will be a classic example of how not to get investment into the centre of Belfast. Well done City Hall.

The average wage in Northern Ireland is below the national average and just like corporation Tax on business any Eco or Stealth tax will discourage inward investment. Let’s not forget we in Northern Ireland pay more for every day products and services so Eco and Stealth Taxes have an even greater and disproportionately larger impact on our pockets.

I would like to ask the political parties here, will they vote against any more or any increases in existing Eco or Stealth Taxes. This goes for the Water Charges and Rates.

I would like to bring up the taxing question of ID cards. What an unnecessary burden on the UK Tax payer.

The introduction of ID cards to the UK is another covert attempt by the Labour government to invade our lives at a level never experienced in the history of the UK.

Firstly my main concern is over the anticipated cost of this ID card debacle.

Can we trust the government with the amount of information that will be stored on these cards and the security of the information contained on the cards? I thank not!

The government say that no Medical, Tax, Ethnic or Religious details will be contained on the cards. Personally I don’t believe them, and the temptation to add this information and misuse this information will be too overwhelming for the government.

I can see the forward planning and future strategy of the National Health Service being dependent on the personnel information held on these cards.

Interestingly the government did not mention that the ID cards will not hold DNA information. In not mentioning DNA information, it can therfore be used as a backdoor for the government to abuse the system and ask for DNA information in the guise of National Security.

I would like to remind everyone that Police forces across the UK have DNA data bases and would like to expand this to cover everyone, add this to the governments desire to have a UK DNA data base and it only takes the stroke of a pen form a minister of state to make DNA part of the ID cards.

I also have a degree of discomfort that the government wish to have my fingerprint details and the fingerprint details of my children on any card. We are sleepwalking into a mix of an Orwellian society and Huxley’s A Brave New World!

The UK governments record on honesty to the UK people has always been questionable therefore the opportunity and the temptation for the government to sell the information contained on the ID cards to foreign governments and banking and insurance interests will be insatiable. The personnel information about our DNA and health details could result in a refusal of NHS treatment or insurance maybe not today but tomorrow.

The control of emigrants and terrorists is being used as an excuse for the introduction of ID cards by the government. This will necessitate a huge government bureaucracy to administrate.
Instead of government getting smaller and the Tax burden getting smaller Labour are getting government into areas that government has never been before, and that invades the pocket as well.

The UK has huge numbers of transient workers from inside and outside the EU some who stay for short periods and others who stay for longer periods, add to this the numbers of UK residents who change address, the potential for system meltdown is inevitable. Any well financed terrorist organisation that wish to bomb the UK will not take long to have better fake ID cards than the cards the government can issue.

One just has to look at the existing NHS, Tax Credit and Child Support Agency computer systems are evidence that the government’s record on computer systems is not premiere league and the ID card computer system will inevitability be the same. The system just won’t work effectively.

One must ask the question if all the information that the card is going to contain is name, address, DoB, place of birth, immigration status, finger print details, iris pattern and photo. What is the point of the ID card, the criminals won’t care a jot for ID cards, they will make a fortune making fake ID cards and selling them on the black market. So I suppose it’s good to see the government encourage the economy, even if it’s the black economy.
International Forgers will have better ID cards than the government will produce within days of the first card being produced.

The cost of this ID scheme would be better spent in Schools, the NHS on Pensioners or on care for the elderly.

Can any politician tell me how an ID card is going to stop a bomb?

If Nu-Labour spent the money on police officers on the beat and not on CCTV and ID cards it would be money well spent.

CCTVand ID cards if they do catch a terrorist then it will be after the act, not like an officer on the beat who can intervene during the act. More police on the streets and less government intrusions in our lives would be a better idea.

The whole issue around ID cards is like a bad comb over on a semi bald man, it’s a stupid idea and it doesn’t work!

The government are trying to socially manipulate us into bottle water drinking; five fruit and vegetable portions a day super fit ID card carrying clones. However, and this may come as a surprise to the government we are all unique.

The elderly who have the need for treatment should not be denied that treatment, just because they have worked all their adult lives and now they don’t fit into some government targeted age range.

Then there is the lady who is denied cancer drug treatment because the government say it’s too expensive. However the government can pay themselves huge expenses on second homes, pensions and pay rises without the electorate having a say.

Then there is the gentleman who is denied treatments because he comes from an era were smoking was socially acceptable and he has paid tax to the government for the pleasure to smoke and is denied treatment.

The government need to be reminded that this is not their money to make these decisions with it is our money.

Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony B,liar have spent billons of our pounds on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that will have no satisfactory conclusion. Gordon Brown is continuing to spend millions of our pounds a day on these failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I suggest these acts are the acts of a perversely corrupt government.

A government that will fund wars yet the same government won’t properly compensate or fund proper treatment for our returning service personnel or fund treatment for the rest of the populace that they say they represent, is a sick government.

A government that can send men and women to war but can’t treat them when they come home injured because of NHS cutbacks is a perverse and corrupt government!

Our Assembly need to focus on:

Education: The 11+, funding for third level education, and pay and conditions for education workers.

The Health Service: The provision of drugs and treatment for everyone. The cost and issue of Hospital Cleaning and Infections (MRSA).

Provision for the Elderly at home and in Hospital.

Planning, Social Housing, Water Charging and Rates (why are landlords exempt rates)

Crime and the causes of crime and the sentencing of the convicted (end 50% remission).

The mundane: Quangos, and Non Elected and Non Accountable Boards, The National Stadium, Tourism, Transport, Investment.

There is a dragging off collective political feet, with review after review on mundane issues delays in implementing important day to day decisions on issues in Northern Ireland that are stifling our economy.

Years of indecision must stop and a collective political finger must be pulled out. The politicos in the big house make positive decisions to move Northern Ireland into the 21st Century!

We need more action and less jaw jaw.

Inept PSNI

The general view is that the PSNI are so badly managed and the morale of the officer on the beat is so poor it seems as if the PSNI are making it up as they drive along. The PSNI are at best amateur or at worse totally inept.

Let’s not lose sight of the fact that the PSNI’s clear up rate for domestic burglaries
Is a pathetic 10%

I feel that the PSNI are a totally inept police service if it can be described as a service.

I would also like to ask why in this era of peace and a new police beginning, PSNI officers can drive around without seatbelts, drive around with driver or passenger doors ajar, park illegally, visit vehicle insurance companies to arrange their personal insurance, hide behind walls and street furniture, or hide in gardens or just into an area that has a reduced speed to conduct speed traps.

Why does it takes two officers to visit chip shops, sandwich bars, coffee shops and other types of take-a-way establishments when all we hear is that the PSNI are busy and need to prioritize their response to emergency calls?

Call for them to attend an incident and it takes hours if not days. I suppose it depends on the queue in the take-a-way as to the PSNI response?

Why when we have crimes taking place under the PSNI’s noses, crimes like drug dealing, burglary, car crime, crime against property, general anti social behavior, fighting on the streets, drinking in the streets, and the most insidious crime of violence against the elderly, resulting in the elderly being beaten in their homes or murdered protecting their property, this inevitability results in the elderly feel like prisoners in their own homes. Why do we have PSNI officers at midnight on a Friday, operating a speed trap on the Lisburn Road Belfast. It seems the PSNI are putting the gathering of a Tax before protecting the elderly the public, property and before proper road safety! Have these officers nothing better to do.

We all know of the need for speeders to be fined however, how relevant is it to catch a driver doing 4 or 5 miles over the speed limit at midnight on an all most deserted road, is there not a better time and place for this activity. It comes as no surprise that we see the PSNI conducting a speed trap at this time of the night. It can only be seen as an easy option and confirms our view that the PSNI would rather take the easy option rather than protect the vulnerable and terrified in the own homes.

Can I draw this comparison; we have areas of Belfast and Northern Ireland that are well known race tracks for the car thieves and we can all see the tyre marks on the road to prove it and we have well known roads that are race tracts. Yet we find the PSNI on one of Belfast’s most popular thoroughfares conducting a covert speed trap.

This speed trap would not help reduce the speed of the passing traffic. The speed trap was conducted covertly therefore this exposes the PSNI’s propaganda on reducing speeding as a lie. It seems the PSNI are more interested in a Tax Revenue gathering exercise than being actively visible and reducing speeding motorists.

This particular speed trap on the Lisburn Road was conducted by two officers sitting in their marked patrol car facing city bound out side a well known restaurant that sells finger lick-n-chicken. The officer in the driver’s seat was holding the speed camera out the window of the patrol car at traffic travelling city bound. So he was trying to take the speed of vehicles travelling toward him form behind. How can this officer gain prior opinion that a vehicle is exceeding the speed limit and get a proper fix on the vehicle with the camera to obtain a correct speed reading.

I quote form the Chief Police Officers Approved Codes of Practice for hand held speed cameras “Hand-held radar guns should only be operated by an officer on foot“.

I would like to refer you to the Chief Police Officers Approved Codes of Practice

http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/RPET%20Manual%20version%202-3.pdf

The PSNI should be catching speeding motorists however conducting speed traps at this time in this manor and at this time only leads to the perception that the PSNI are only interested on the easy option and that they are Tax Revenue collectors for the government and making irrelevant quotas.

It seems the correct interpretation of how the PSNI operate is crime is an inconvenience to the police officers duty however, motor crime a nice little earner.

The PSNI would be better concentrating on putting real criminals behind bars or setting up speed traps in country roads catching the speeders, rather racking up fines from drives doing 34 in a 30 zone at midnight!

Questions for the PSNI:
Who is on the Speed Camera Scheme-Partnership and when and where do they meet.
Was there any public consultation on the makeup or operation of this Scheme-partnership?
Can members of the public join this Scheme-partnership?
How much revenue do the speed cameras accumulate, and how much and were does the money go?
Does the money get reinvested in reengineering roads to make them safer?
Does the money get invested into programs for the young on educating them about the dangers of speeding?
Is the money divided between the members of the speed camera scheme-partnership and what are the amounts?
Does the money go directly too central government?
We have a police force that seem to have only one function, that of covertly catching speeding motorists doing a few miles over the speed limit.
Not only that, the PSNI and the Courts bring the whole weight of the police and the judicial system to bear on the motorist for doing 35 in a 30 zone at midnight.
The perception people have of the PSNI is that they don’t want to catch the scum that murder, rape, shoot, stab, rob, steal and destroy the lives of ordinary decent folk.
The PSNI’s double standards, selective sight and inaction is infecting all aspects of PSNI life!

The Crime Statistics in the Chief Constables report is a litany of failure.
The general view is that the PSNI are so badly managed and the morale of the officer on the beat is so poor it seems at times as if the PSNI are making it up as they drive along. The PSNI are at best amateur or at worst totally inept.
Why does it take two officers to visit chip shops, sandwich bars, coffee shops and other types of take-a-way establishments when all we hear is that the PSNI are busy. However make a call for them to attend an incident and it takes hours if not days. I suppose it depends on the queue in the take-a-way as to the PSNI response?
The PSNI need to get out of the Chippies and catch criminals rather than catching Battered Cods!

If they were serious about vehicle crime why don’t the have a purge against people who put everyone at danger in untaxed and uninsured cars and the locally named run-arounds.
However this type of operation would require effort and thought, both of which seem to be lacking in the PSNI.

The PSNI’s clear up rate for crime is akin to that of a third world country. This is not what we expect from an allegedly highly trained highly skilled police force. Its time the PSNI had a good hard look at themselves from the highest ranking officer to the officer on the beat and assess were the priorities are and why the public has no confidence on the PSNI.
At this point I would like to refer you to the PSNI’s Chief Constables Annual Report. It makes some shocking reading!
http://www.psni.police.uk/psni_cc_report_06-07.pdf

PSNI have significantly changed the way they detect speeding motorists. The PSNI have gone from Overt speed traps to Covert speed traps so the motorist can only draw the conclusion that the PSNI are acting as Tax Collectors and are acting in contravention of their own handbook?
The covert speed trap is in contravention of Health and Safety Guidelines and the PSNI’s own Safety Camera Scheme Handbook and the ACPO Code of practice for the operational Use of Road Policing Enforcement Technology.

http://www.acpo.police.uk/asp/policies/Data/RPET%20Manual%20version%202-3.pdf

http://www.psni.police.uk/index/safetycameras/pg_scheme_handbook.htm

Here are several quotes from the handbook the first is from the forward, the second is from section 4 and section 4rule 2 of the PSNI’s Safety Camera Scheme:
Northern Ireland Safety Camera Scheme.3/10/07
#As part of a programme to deliver The Northern Ireland Road Safety Strategy 2002 – 2012, a Safety Camera Scheme is being operated in Northern Ireland. Its underlying principles are that:
Safety cameras (which include speed and red light cameras) are used only on those roads where there is a history of road traffic collisions that result in death or serious injury. This means that safety camera resources are targeted where they are most likely to have an impact.
The cameras, both fixed and mobile, are clearly visible, and their locations are signed and put on the Police Service of Northern Ireland web site. The intention of the Scheme is to change driver behaviour at camera locations by reducing speed and thereby reducing the number and severity of collisions.
In order to finance the Scheme, monies collected by way of Conditional Offer Fixed Penalty Notice fines are credited back into the Scheme by Government funding. This provides coverage of running costs, thus making the Scheme self-funding.
Section 4:
Scheme Rules
In the 1998 Public Expenditure Survey, HM Treasury identified certain conditions that would allow fines and penalties to be ‘netted off’ Departmental Expenditure Limits, namely where:
Performance against policy objectives is likely to be improved
Arrangements are in place to ensure that the activity will not lead to the abuse of fines and penalty collection as a method of revenue raising, and that operational priorities remain undistorted
Revenues will always be sufficient to meet future costs, with any excess revenues over costs being surrendered
Costs of enforcement will be readily identified and apportioned without undue bureaucracy, and with interdepartmental and inter-agency agreement, where necessary
Savings can be achieved through change and there are adequate efficiency regimes in place to control costs, including regular efficiency reviews.
This chapter sets out seven rules that govern the operation of the Northern Ireland Safety Camera Scheme to ensure that the above HMT criteria are met (and thus to allow cost recovery). These rules and guidelines do not constitute a legal requirement. Therefore compliance with these rules and guidelines bears no significance on the detection and enforcement of offences so detected by safety camera operations. To this end, non-compliance does not provide for any mitigation in defence for an offence committed by a driver in breach of current legislation.

4.2 Rule 2: Visibility and conspicuity
The aim of the scheme is to reduce the number of people killed and seriously injured on the roads through:
Targeting speed enforcement at those locations where there is a proven injury collision history and evidence of speeding
Telling drivers where speed enforcement will take place, for example through the media, road signs and painting fixed cameras bright yellow.
This will give motorists the opportunity to slow down and observe the speed limits at these locations. If they do not, then they could be caught speeding and prosecuted. Thus the message to motorists is “we don’t want to catch you speeding, we want to stop you speeding”. Specific requirements on visibility of camera sites and camera conspicuity are as follows:

All fixed site camera housings must be backed by high visibility yellow paint or self-adhesive retro-reflective material
All fixed site camera housings should be visible to road users and not hidden behind bridges, signs, trees, bushes or any other type of obstacle that would reduce the site’s visibility. The minimum visibility distance should be 60 metres where the speed limit is 40 mph or less and 100 metres for all other limits
For mobile enforcement, camera operatives must abide by all Health and Safety requirements and wear fluorescent clothing except where the local security situation makes this inappropriate
For mobile enforcement, safety camera vehicles should be clearly marked, identifying them as safety camera enforcement vehicles, except where the local security situation makes this inappropriate. Vehicles should not be hidden behind obstructions. The minimum visibility distance should be 60 metres where the speed limit is 40 mph or less and 100 metres for all other limits
Camera warning signs must be placed in advance of fixed, mobile or digital speed enforcement taking place
For fixed sites, signs must be placed between 500m and 1km in advance of camera housings. Signs cannot be placed over 1km away from a fixed site camera
For mobile and digital enforcement sites, fixed signs must be placed at the beginning of a targeted route. As guidance, repeater signs are also encouraged along these routes, particularly close to stated enforcement sites
For red-light camera sites, signs should be placed between 500m and 1km away from the camera
Signs must only be placed in areas where camera housings are present or along routes where mobile enforcement will be targeted
Signs must comply with those specified in the relevant Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997. Further information on signing can be found in the Director Of Engineering Memorandum - 56/03, as listed in Appendix C.
Where, because of the local security situation, safety cameras are not conspicuous a record must be made of this. Further, each site should be reviewed on a six-monthly basis to ensure that conditions on conspicuity, visibility, marking and signing have not changed or do not require alteration or maintenance. It may be necessary to increase the number of site visits in conjunction with the time of year e.g. during spring and summer when foliage growth is prolific.

It can only be seen as an easy option and confirms our view that the PSNI would rather take the easy option rather than protect the vulnerable terrified in the own homes.

We need the PSNI to do more Kojak and less Kodak!

The perception rightly or wrongly (I think rightly) is that the PSNI are more interested in a Tax Revenue gathering exercise than being visibly and actively reducing the killer speeding motorists on the road.
I would like to refer you to the Chief Police Officers Approved Codes of Practice and the PSNI’s safety cameras scheme handbook.

I would like to know if the Chief Constable or the Head of the Traffic Branch could inform the Northern Ireland motorist if their officers conform to the Chief Police Officers Approved Codes of Practice and the PSNI’s safety cameras scheme handbook for conducting speed traps.
In addition, what measures are taken by the PSNI to ensure the Chief Police Officers Approved Codes of Practice and the PSNI’s safety cameras scheme handbook are followed!

So how about this as a novel idea, government and police of the people for the people by the people! There again too much to ask for I know.


Killer roads: Government campaign highlights hidden dangers of speeding on rural roads You are three times more likely to be killed on a rural road than an urban one while in a car warns a Government educational campaign launched today. The Department for Transport's THINK! Rural Speed Campaign, warning drivers not to go faster than the conditions allow, can be heard on radio stations around the country this month. Rural areas can tempt motorists into driving too fast for the conditions they are facing. Long straights and demanding bends, as well as less traffic and fewer pedestrians can make drivers believe it is 'safe' to go faster than they normally would. But the stark reality is actually the opposite - the risk of fatally injuring yourself or your passengers increases three-fold on a rural road. This is backed by the evidence that there is often only one car involved in rural accidents, making it likely that drivers have been tempted to push themselves or their car beyond their limits. Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick said: "Driving on rural roads can be deceiving. It is important that motorists drive with as much care on a rural road as they would in a more built-up area. The 'national' 60mph speed limit is a maximum, not an expectation, and drivers must match their speed to the road characteristics and weather conditions they are experiencing as well as factoring in unpredictable hazards - like sharp bends, limited visibility or even animals - which can require a quick reaction." Figures for 2006 show that nationally 325 car users were killed on rural roads when speeding or driving too fast for the conditions. All too often it is the Fire and Rescue Services who have to attend these incidents and deal with the consequences of speed related rural accidents. The campaign also has the backing of Fire and Rescue Services. Claire Tovey, head of prevention at Northamptonshire Fire and Rescue Service said: "As with fires, we would always rather help to prevent road traffic incidents than attend the aftermath. All too often we have to try and free people from horrific wreckages. Myself and colleagues at the community safety teams work closely with road safety experts to try and educate drivers that rural roads have to be driven at a speed appropriate to the road characteristics and weather conditions." ---- There's still a bit of "speeding" spin but the message seems to be much more sensible than what we've heard in the past...

Dear Shankill Voter

Dear Shankill People,

If like me you have been reading or listening to local media, you will have not been surprised to read or hear that the current defenders of the Union and the Unionist working class are doing what the old Unionist politicos used to do best?

That is to line their own pockets at the expense of the Unionist working class and the less fortunate Unionist electorate.

Now let’s be clear here, strictly speaking they have done nothing illegal or wrong! However, it is a bit on the questionable side and a tad immoral, and lets not forget most of these Unionist politicos are alleged God fearing men and women?

The bad smell of nepotism and avarice is rife at Stormont and the Commons.

Let me set out again what our Unionist colleagues have been up to.

1. Employ your wife, son, daughter or in-law.
2. Rent an office from your wife or in-law.
3. Get two full time jobs and if you’re lucky you could also pick up a third, a ministerial or junior ministerial job too.
4. If you have a second house in London you can claim tens of thousands of pounds in expenses.

Now let’s set out some of the sums we are talking about.

MP’s pay £60,000 plus
MLA’s pay £43,000 and if you’re a minister or junior minister add on up to another £30,000
MP’s office expenses no set sum however each MP can claim over £100,000 add to this travel and the generous rent expenses and you can claim another £50,000 or £60,000+.
MLA’s office expenses no set sum however each MLA can claim over £60,000 add to this travel and the generous rent expenses and you can claim another £50,000 or £60,000+.
Wages for wives, sons, daughters, girl friends or boy friends or in-laws up to £20,000+
And let’s not forget about that nice pension and special pension.
Then there is a resettlement grant on leaving office.

At this point if any of our elected Unionist politicians wish to dispute the sums mentioned above and they wish to do it in this forum. I’m sure we would all be grateful to be put straight on this matter!

However you look at these figures they are mouth watering sums, some of these amounts we can only dream about or get if the six numbers come up on a lottery ticket.

But these are the sums our elected representatives get and they make us feel grateful that they are representing us up there with the rest of the folks (berks) on the hill.

There is also the Members Dining Room where sumptuous three-course meals are available for under £20 per head to MLA’s. Again these are subsidized by the hard pressed Northern Ireland Tax payer to the tune of £850 per day or £211,241 form May to December 2007.

I hope they enjoy every mouthful of their subsidized smoked salmon and wheaten bread starters followed by a thick rump steak with potatoes and vegetables, followed by black forest gateau and tea or coffee.

I will remind them that while they tuck into their subsidized meals, some families and pensioners on the Shankill have little more than £20 a week to feed their families and themselves after they pay out everything that they owe from their pension, minimum wage pay packet or from their social security benefits.

By the way I work for the government and I don’t get a free or subsidized meal from the government. I have to pay for my own Christmas lunch the government don’t pay a single penny or provide a single mince pie to my Christmas meal or any meal for that matter, so why should I subsidise meals and drinks for people who earn more than I do!

These bottom feeders at Stormont and Parliament get more in expenses than I earn a year. Some claim £40,000 for a second home in a posh part of London.

In Northern Ireland some of these same bottom feeders claim for rent on a portacabin on their own land that allegedly belongs to their wife. Or pay rent for an office that their wife owns, as well as paying her a wage to work in the same office, another few nice little earners, nice if you can get it.

So in these days of equality I want the same perks that these berks on the hill get?

As every week goes by I am becoming more and more disillusioned by the perks, expenses and the goings on with the berks on the hill.

From the age of eighteen, when I was eligible to vote, I have voted Unionist at every election. I seen it as my duty as a Unionist, and when the DUP have been on the ticket I have voted for them. However the day is fast approaching when I will be abstaining form voting. I am starting to get very disillusioned with the DUP and the UUP as are my family and friends.

To be a good Unionist one must look after and maintain the Union. However it does not permit the elected Unionist representatives to forgo the working class Unionists, and to line their own pockets at the Unionist Tax payer’s expense.

I am also increasingly despondent with the way the DUP and UUP are holding the hand of Sinn Fein/IRA, and their phoney war in Stormont and in the committee rooms.

I would like to question what these Unionist politicos know about what its like to be brought up in a poverty filled low education attaining housing estate. Were the people live from hand to mouth on a day to day basis? Were mental and physical sickness, despair and an early grave are your daily companions!

We see the money generated by double and triple hated MP's and MLA's as avarice at its most contemptible. The sums of money in salaries and expenses are 5 or 6 times my government wage. This is feeding my impression of, typical old Unionist party. The view is that the MP's and MLA's are not in it for the Unionist working class people or the Union but lining their own pockets.

If Northern Ireland were to succumb and be absorbed into a United Ireland, then all this money our Unionist politicos are generating will make a nice nest egg for them to set up home across in the Home Counties. I can just see them scrambling to the air and sea ports just as the balloon goes up leaving the working class Unionist, up the road without an 11/1.

The DUP’s Peter and Iris Robinson are a classic example with their 40k expenses for their London home, that’s more than I earn a year! They supposedly need this London home to stay in when they go to parliament. And when it comes to selling this house they can usurp the rules to avoid paying capital gains tax. This is another nice little earner. By not paying capital gains tax they are getting the tax payer to subsidize payments on this second house and as it increases in value, then when they come to sell this second house they pocket all the profit from the sale all at the tax payer’s expense!

An extremely nice way to do business?

Let’s not forget 9 of the current DUP team at Stormont are double hated earning huge sums of money and then there are the 19 DUP MLA’s employing 27 relatives and in-laws and the UUP have 11 relatives and in-laws employed by MLA’s.

I can only draw the impression of nepotism and avarice from our MP’s and MLA’s.

How can one person do two or three full time jobs and give of their best to the Unionist electorate?

What the Unionist politicos need to remember is that, we listen and read the news and log on to blogger sites on the Internet and listen and participate on local phone-in radio shows.

So here is the warning to our Unionist politicos, turning into the old Unionist party of the past will not be tolerated. Trying to hide from the Unionist electorate is not as easy as it used to be in the bad old days of the old Unionist party. Remember in the bad old days when the only time you seen a Unionist politician was when they were banging the big drum looking to get elected. Then after getting elected they did nothing for the poor and the working class Unionist population. Well those days are long gone and we are watching you and if you appear to be moving away from the working class Unionist population the same Unionist population who put the Unionist parties were they are today we will not vote for you.

What is being discussed is not voting at all at any elections. This is not based on a few conversations but everyone I have spoken too.

So again be warned if you the Unionist politicians are not seen as whiter than white and don’t get you’re act together and fight the good fight for the working class Unionist population you may find that the working class electorate will vote with their feet and stay at home (I know this was a mixed metaphor but it suits the state of the Unionist parties)!

Yours
Ranger
Disgruntled Unionist Voter Shankill Road
Belfast.

More Action and Less Talk for The people of The Shankill

Now that we are going to have a new man at the helm of the good ship DUP, what will it take for the Unionist Politicians of the DUP and the UUP to rekindle support from the People of the Shankill Road?

What I think they need to focus on:

Jobs:
Not just any job! But well paying permanent jobs. Not short contract jobs in some other part of Belfast or Northern Ireland but well paying permanent jobs here in North and Unionist West Belfast so the people of the Shankill can easily make there way to work and not have to pay a fortune out in transport costs.

The Health Service:
The need for proper provision of health care and drugs treatment for everyone but greater emphases on the elderly health care at home and in hospital, also the issue of Hospital Cleaning and Infections (MRSA) Clostridium Difficile (C-Difficile) need to be addressed.

Education:
Funding of third level education for low income homes and the pay and conditions for education workers and there support staff.
On the question of the 11+, for me it’s surly not to get rid of the grammar schools, but to properly invest in and improve our secondary and primary schools.
We know that grammar schools have far better facilities than secondary schools.

We need to have this anomaly of lack of facilities in secondary schools address. What is needed is proper investment in secondary schools and primary schools and leave the grammar schools to get on with what they do best.

There also needs to be proper investment in vocational opportunities. Not all children want to go down the academic route, however McGuinness and Ruane have gone down the road of one size education fits all. We know that is not the best case for the children, all we need to do is look across the water to England and look at the comprehensive education system in melt down they have there.

Why not get children to continue with the 11+ and at the age of 14 any who are achieving at school and in an academic atmosphere let them continue to grow and flourish. Those who show little academic flair can then go into a vocational school, where from the age of 14 they can learn to become hairdressers, plumbers, beauticians, electricians, IT engineers, mechanical engineers and builders etc.

To get entry into these schools they must spend a minimum of 3 hours a day on the core subjects of English and math’s. The rest of the day can be spent learning their vocational skills. They don’t need to get involved with other subjects just the core of English and math’s and gain a recognized qualification in their vocation and in the 2 core subjects.My understanding is that this model of education has been used in Germany since WWII and their economy and society seems to be in a better state than ours.

We also need to break the cycle of no or little interest in their children’s education from poor income families. This change in attitude to education from low income homes; would go a long way to improve the education outlook of their children. This change should include an improvement in helping the parents of poor income homes to go back to education to improve their life chances and helping their children’s, and a destigmatization of the low education attainment of low income homes.

This improvement in children’s and their parent’s education could be incentivized through the tax credits and benefits system.
At the moment you get your tax credits and benefits as a matter of course. However, why not give more to those who improve their education and their children’s education?

This would have a secondary benefit as it would filter down into the hole of society by making the country better educated and therefore more likely to be wealthier, reduce benefit claimants, reduce crime and reduce the pressure on the Health system?
I know this sounds and smacks of that dreaded social engineering. However, if we do nothing we could be condemning millions of children form poorer families to a poorer adulthood with the likely outcome of going back to the bad old days of larger and larger families relying on the benefits system.

Planning, Social Housing, Water Charging and Rates:
We want suitable affordable housing in well planed out streets and proper housing infrastructure, we require a guarantee that low income homes do not subsidise the well off in Water Charging and Rates.

The Rape of the Shankill has been by and largely halted however, a new breed of leeches has descended on the Shankill and again the planers and developers are playing with peoples lives on the Shankill. And again the planers, developers and the politicos have not taken into account of the needs of the Shankill people? The healing will be slow from the wounds inflected by bulldozers, planers, (there is a contradiction in terms) politicos who fained interest and form government departments who treat the Shankill as some type of irrelevant back water.

The question again has to be asked why did the planers and the council permit the developers to build a block of flats (I refuse to call them the non entity of apartments) with shops. We need more flats like the MLS’s need more expenses.

We need proper 2, 3 and 4 bedroom well laid out social housing with properly planed and laid out streets.

Crime:
We want the causes of crime to be addressed (No Jobs and education under achievement) and the sentencing of the convicted to reflect the crime. An immediate end to 50% remission, and drug dealers need to be removed from circulation for a very long time.

The National Stadium debate! Tourism, Transport and Investment.
We have two events in 2012 that if the political will was there could give us a great National Stadium along side two excellent tourist attractions in museums to both the Titanic and Shipbuilding and our Great Sporting Personalities.

All this on the shores of Belfast Lough and located in North Belfast at the old Belfast land fill site at Dargan Road, the now named Giant’s Park Belfast. One complex along with Lough side bars and restaurants and a landscaped Eco park, incorporating old Shipyard Cobbled Roads with Tramlines, Gas Lighting (taken from the land fill site) and wind turbines, with the added advantage of Belfast city centre restaurants, bars and shops all within walking distance.

I would like you to imagine visitors to our city sailing up Belfast Lough or flying into George Best Belfast City Airport. One of the visitor’s first views of Belfast would be our new innovative and impressive sports stadium and landscaped Titanic and shipyard themed Eco Park with museums.The events we need to be setting our sites on are the centenary of the sinking of the Belfast made RMS Titanic, and the UK/London Olympics.

The Government has stated that all the regions of the UK will not miss out on the befits of the Olympic experience, and only Belfast can claim to be the birth place and original home for the largest man made moving object in the world at the time, RMS Titanic. Here is my out of the box thinking that may not be obvious to the politicians of this land.

With the suggestion of central Government money being made available for new regional Olympic venues, add to this Belfast City Councils money for a rival National Stadium, and the redevelopment of Giant’s Park by Belfast City Council and any national lottery money being made available for the Titanic commemorations put all this money together and make a facility that we all can be proud of and what will be a national and international tourist attraction.
A National Stadium with museums to the Titanic and shipbuilding and our Great Sports Personalities, all at the one location in an Eco Giant’s Park on the shores of Belfast Lough.

The advantages are a National Stadium and Museums near to Belfast City centre. With improved bus links and a possible new rail stop at Fort William, the tourist’s form the increasing number of cruse ships can easily see our new Stadium, as they sail up Belfast Lough and the visitor flying into George Best Airport can view the Stadium as they fly into Belfast, and all the visitors to our country can easily make their way to the Stadium and Museums, as there is a good road infrastructure already in place. We could incorporate the use of the last remaining link to the Titanic, the Nomadic as a visitor attraction. Samson and Goliath the two existing landmark cranes of the Shipyard can be used as a backdrop to the Stadium and Museums.

The Museum to the Titanic and Shipbuilding could feature all the great things from the shipyard that were involved in the building of the Titanic. We could inform the visitor that the Titanic was built in the largest shipyard in the world at that time. Belfast had the world’s largest rope works to service the world’s largest ships. We can incorporate the last of the steam derricks that helped build the Titanic and many of the other great ships from the yard, the dry-docks the tramlines the cobbled roads the gaslights and most importantly of all the thousands of statistics on the building of the Titanic and the stories and yarns form the men and women who help to build the Titanic and the other great ships. Everything Belfast needs to a museum of shipbuilding all in the right place.

We could also show the visitor the innovation of the people of Northern Ireland by using Wind Turbines and the Methane Gas from the landfill site to heat and light the Giant’s Park making it an Eco Friendly Facility.The museum to our Sporting greats could feature the late greats, of our one and only George Best, our Golf Open Champion Fred Daly, our Greatest Biker the one and only Joey Dunlop, our World Class Rally Driver Bertie Fisher, our Boxing greats and World Champions of Rinty Monaghan and Barry McGuigan, Rugby Heroes of Willy John McBride and Mike Gibson, Olympian Gold Medallist Mary Peters, and our golden booted footballer Northern Ireland’s David Healy and all the other sporting greats that we have past and present, too many to mention. The proposal I have made would mean that when the stadium was not in use by any of the sporting codes, the museums could pull in the revenue from home grown and foreign tourists to the museums.

In my view the issue of building a stadium at the Maze located 4 miles from the nearest city, Lisburn and 22 miles from Belfast. The transport and roads infrastructure costs associated with that stadium it would be better invested in a package that would be more sustainable over a longer period, and the facility would be more efficiently used as a combined Stadium and Museum than just a sport Stadium and with Belfast’s shop’s bars and restraints with in walking distance.

To me it makes the business case for the stadium in Belfast and not the Maze?

The Giant’s park site is owned by Belfast City Council so costs for the land are nil. We therefore need to only find the building costs, add to this the Eco aspect in an industrial area within walking distance of Belfast City Centre and you seem to cover all the bases? A Sports Stadium, Museum’s, Re-use of a Landfill Site with Eco potential and a national and International Tourist attraction promoting Northern Ireland and Northern Irelands sporting personalities and historic landmarks?

The Mundane:
Stop Quangos, and Non Elected and Non Accountable Boards.

There is a dragging off collective political feet, with review after review on the major issues and the mundane issues. Delays in implementing important day to day decisions on issues here in Northern Ireland that are stifling our economy and the growth of our children,
year’s of indecision must stop and a collective political finger must be pulled out. The politicos in the big house make positive decisions to move Northern Ireland into the 21st Century!

We need more involvement of the Shankill people and more action and less talk.