BEING SOLD INTO SLAVERY.

BEING SOLD INTO SLAVERY.

 

It is my opinion that the British working people are being sold into slavery by the policies of the very people that they have elected to look after their interests and protect them. The Government is obsessed with attracting foreign investment but this usually involves multinationals whose main interest is in ownership and control. It is just another company to them, more interested in how it affects their global status and bottom line than the people and communities that it supports. Current events have shown how ruthless these companies can be when it comes to paying taxes and closing businesses with large redundancies and devastating social effects. It is time that politicians put the British working people, who pay their wage, ahead of their personal ambitions.

 

Our normal understanding of investment is that people, companies, organisation or even governments make available funds for a business or a project and in return they receive a regular return or an enhanced amount at the end of an agreed period. In certain cases the Investor may, depending on the level risk, require securities, a percentage of the business or even direct involvement to monitor their interests but in the case of foreign based multinational companies their main interest is in ownership and control. There are many examples of all sorts of promises being made during the negotiation stages but ignoring them when they have control. Many British companies and brands have been purchased or taken over and then changed without any form of involvement of the workforce and workers rights, which have been fought for over many years, are just trampled on.

Due to the lack of forward vision by previous Governments, only being interested in the immediate affect, sticky plaster solutions, rather than the long term considerations, when things go wrong the workforce has no say and must accept the consequences.

 

James Hancock.

 

A Good Common Man

GOING TO HELL IN A HAND CART.

GOING TO HELL IN A HAND CART.

 

I have read that in 2010 the   Prime Minister David Cameron    “ inherited a country on the brink of financial ruin ” and that he and the Chancellor George Osborne have turned things around to make Britain “ one of the worlds fastest growing economies ”. But at what cost ?  Developing their own personal international reputations and securing their places on the gravy train along side Tony Blair, while giving away our independence.

When they came into office the National Debt stood at below £1 trillion  and now it stands at over £1.5 trillion. That is £1,500 billion, the equivalent of £24,500 for everybody in the UK and it costs us £48 billion a year just to service that debt, paying interest and administration costs, which is 8% of the Government’s budget. By the end of this parliament that cost will have risen to £60 billion for the year 2019/20, nearly 10% of that budget, more than we spend on Education and most our Armed Forces combined. While we have a budget deficit and a trade deficit I can not see how we can stop the national debt from increasing let alone start to reduce it. Instead of smoke and mirrors what happened to living within our means and a policy of transparency.

What ever they claim to do to reduce the National Debt it doesn’t appear to even miss a beat as it continues to increase at what I believe to be about £5,000 per second.. In November, in his statement, he told us how well things were going and how he had managed to find £27billion and how it would benefit everybody. Less than two months later he is giving a warning about the risks the country could face economically in the near future if we don’t follow his advice and stick to his policies.

 

James Hancock.

 

A Good Common Man

THE ARROGANCE OF ANGLER MERKEL

THE ARROGANCE OF ANGLER MERKEL.

 

Angler Merkel, the elected Chancellor of Germany, since 2005, is on record as criticising the UK for their response to the migrant and refugee situation in the EU. She has told the Prime Minister David Cameron on a number of occasions that the free movement of labour is not open to discussion, as it is main part of the EU, and has threatened him that if the UK doesn’t take more refugees then his hopes of discussing new terms of membership will be blocked. Her man, President Jean-Claude Junker, is now trying to force the UK to take several tens of thousands of refugees, under a plan to impose arbitrarily fixed allocations, by threatening to tear up the Dublin Agreement which allows us to deport any migrants elsewhere within the EU.  As we are already the most densely populated country in the EU with great pressure on all of our public services we have to resist this to prevent a population explosion and the consequences of social breakdown. Leaving the EU is looking more likely if this type of treatment of a major net contributor continues.

 

Angler Merkel has a need to have a free flow of migrant workers and refugees into her country while we don’t. The German population appeared to grow at a steady rate until about 2003 and has shown a steady decline since then, it fell by 166,591 in 2014 and it was estimated to fall by 166,244 during 2015, before current events. While the number of deaths exceeds the number births and there is an increase in the aging population, if Germany wants to maintain its position as the largest manufacturer and exporter in Europe they need a supply of working age people to replace and increase their workforce.

On the other hand, the population of the UK has had a steady increase over the last 10 years and is currently standing at 500,000 per. year. More worrying is that immigration last year was 630,000 (ONS) that we know of and an estimated 100,000 illegal immigrants that we don’t, certainly far more than the tens of thousands that we were promised.

 

James Hancock.

A Good Common Man

A PROBLEM – BUT PARTLY OF OUR OWN MAKING.

A PROBLEM – BUT PARTLY OF OUR OWN MAKING.   

 

We hear how migrants from the EU are flooding into the UK putting pressure on housing, local authorities, schools, social services, the benefit system and taking British jobs. In reality it would appear that over 60% of the migrants from the EU actually have a job offer before they leave their home. The majority of them are being invited to come here and in some cases provided the transport and accommodation.

 

It would appear that British companies, and foreign ones bases here, are advertising their vacancies and using agencies abroad to recruit their staff. They are using the “Free movement of workers” for their own benefit without considering the overall affect on our country. When the work finishes, the job doesn’t work out, the person is removed from the position or in the case of seasonal work the workforce is laid off, the first question that is asked is “where is the benefits office ? ” and they have now become the British taxpayer’s problem.

I was talking to a female Polish truck driver recently who was recruited and brought to the UK. She reckons that she earns three times as much money here, for doing the same job, as she would in Poland. After having been here for a few years she has now decided to make this her home and has recently bought a house and is try to encourage certain members of her family to make the move.

The Prime Minister David Cameron believes that by controlling access to the benefits system he can stem the flow of EU migrants into the UK and he is spending time, which I am sure could be far better spent, travelling around the EU trying to convince his counterparts of his views, to get the changes that he thinks that he needs, to convince the UK public before the referendum. He has lost sight of the only way that we are going to get control of our problems is by controlling FREE MOVEMENT.

James Hancock.

 

A Good Common Man

WE ARE ONLY ORDINARY PEOPLE.

WE ARE ONLY ORDINARY PEOPLE.

 

It is a sad state of affairs when the ordinary people feel that they have no say in what goes on in our country and how it will affect their lives and that of future generations. They are the people who are left to live with the consequences of decisions, that they are told have been made on their behalf, while the career politicians have moved on to the next phase of their ambitions. It is time that the ordinary people were given a voice and that it was listened to.

I was recently listening to a programme on BBC Radio 4 about the part played by lobbyists, who represent clients including corporations, trade groups, pressure groups and non profit organisations, in attempting to influence the Government to make decisions and legislation which will benefit their clients. During the course of the programme a lady, who represented a group who will be affected by the proposed route of the HS2 railway line, told how they had formed an opposition and organised events to raise awareness and money for a fighting fund. They had decided to use part of the money raised to pay for a lobbyist to put forward their case at the highest level possible and she justified this decision by saying that “We are only ordinary people and nobody will listen to us”.

 

I am sure that history can produce many examples of politicians making decisions and other people being left to deal with the consequences,  including Tony Blair’s open door policy in our relationship with the EU which has contributed to us now being the most densely populated country in the EU.

 

We need politicians who put the views of the ordinary people who elected them first and their own ambitions last.

 

James Hancock.

 

A Good Common Man