Red Rag - A view of what privatisation can do to healthcare and your NHS

Red Rag - The coalition, Tories of the blue and orange variety, repeatedly say that the NHS is not being privatised and healthcare is still free at the point of use. Someone tell that to the people of Tory run Barnet council. Tory Barnet as part of it's cuts outsourced £600 million of services to tender. The Barnet Group was set up and would be the parent company of Your Choice which was to provide learning disability and physical and sensory impairment disability services. In fact Barnet Tories were so confident in their new privatised services that they proudly predicted Your Choice would be turning a profit within four years.That was a year ago, things have not gone to plan, and they are now looking at being £1 million over budget in the first year. Your Choice has a sister company in The Barnet Group which runs the 15,000 council houses for the Tory council, which is now having to loan Your Choice the £1 million.

Your Choice has now decided that instead of being the fantastic profit making service that was promised by Tory Barnet, it needs to restructure.......(or cut services and sack staff to you and me). This has lead to uproar amongst services users (families who use the service with family members with leaning disabilities or physical and sensory impairments to you and me) and fear has reigned amongst the service users. None of the service users have been allowed to see what restructuring they are making due to it being a staffing restructure not a service restructure, though how one can be defined from another is ridiculous. If you cut staff, service will be effected.

The Your Choice board held a meeting in council offices on 30/05/13 where some of the families of the service users ( what a fucking name to call people with disabilities by the way, they are people for god sake) wanted to ask them questions about the restructure and the effect on the services. If you watch the video below you will actually see some of their service users there.


 And this is the point I am making about outsourcing healthcare. The chairman of Your Choice will say what every other private vulture in the NHS will say when asked to face the people they are using to coin it from the local authorities "This is a board meeting of a private company. It is not a local authority meeting and the right to be here does not extend to you. I advise the board to retire." Cue uproar amongst the families. One even asked if they could all meet again to discuss what the restructure would do, to which the obnoxious little shit replied "we will certainly take that on board and may come back to you". The entire board then walked out leaving the families and the service users very very angry.

Welcome to what will happen to the NHS when the Tories sell it to their financial backers.

They are a private company, they do not need to share anything with you......go and swing!

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Red Rag - The coalition are living up to Bevans description

Red Rag - Linda Wooton was declared "fit for work" by IDS's ATOS. Nine days later she died. Thirty years ago she had a heart and lung transplant and ever since she had suffered from blackouts. She was on ten separate medications. Despite all this ATOS declared her fit for work and the DWP stopped her £110 a week benefits. She appealed and lost with IDS department stating " “We have decided that you are not entitled to Employment and Support Allowance because you have been found to be capable of work following your recent Work Capability Assessment.”


Her husband described her last moments ""I sat there and listened to my wife drown in her own body fluids. It took half an hour for her to die – and that’s a woman who’s ‘fit for work’. The last months of her life were a misery because she worried about her benefits, feeling useless, like a scrounger."

Cecilia Burns from Northern Ireland had her benefits cut despite the fact she was still suffering from cancer. A few days after she heard the result of her appeal, she was dead.


I could go on and on, there are thousands of cases such as this.


Must make you feel proud to be in this coalition....eh.

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Red Rag - Why the concerted hatchet job on Red Ed?

Red Rag - I always wondered why the right wing press have been so incessant in their attacks on R Ed Miliband. Surely if he is so useless at his job they would leave him where he is. If he was such a political asset for them, go easy on him until the General Election run up and then go in for the kill. In the last few days the attack on Ed have been upped, it all doesn't seem to ring true. You do not bite the political hand that feeds you.

However, it has been revealed this morning there is a totally different  reason why they are going for Ed.

According to internal Tory focus group when their people see him in the focus groups for a few minutes they are at best see him as amiable...however....and this is is the reason why the overkill is happening......when they see him for longer, for instance when they see one of his speeches in full or when he does a question and answer session, it goes from amiable to very positive.

The focus groups are also showing greater positivity towards Ed Miliband the longer the public is getting to know him and the nearer we get to the election.

This is scaring the shit out of their election strategists. One of their main aims between now and election time is to kill off any chance of the leadership debates. Be it the Farage excuse, the SNP excuse in fact they will between now and the General Election put up as many walls as possible to stop the leadership debate to happen.

Expect the Get Red Ed campaign to keep going between now and the next election.

RUN DAVE RUN!!!!!!!

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Red Rag - So what would £10 million get you today

Red Rag - Just had a thought, if you had £10 million that you could magic out of thin air to spend on something what could you buy?

1 - You could pay over 450 newly qualified nurses for a year
2 - Build 3 new primary schools from scratch
3 - Buy 333 Baby incubators and all the equiptment to run one
4 - 460 newly qualified teachers could be paid for twelve months
5 - 430 new police constables could be paid for a whole year
6 - 655 regular army officers would be paid for a year
7 - 714 Ambulance drivers paid for a year
8 - Would pay for all costs of 2,057 children and their families for using Sure Start local programmes for four years
9 - Would pay to keep 46 libraries across the country open for a year
10 -Would emply 472 trainee firemen for a year
11- Would pay for 1813 apprentices for a year
12 - Pay the energy bills for 7380 pensioners for a year
13 - Would allow 1190 babies stay in a neonatal intensive care unit for a week


Ah well!

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Red Rag - So today is the day

Red Rag - I could write paragraph upon paragraph about her policies and the negative effects it had on the country. I could bore you senseless of the personal stories of what these policies did. We could be here forever debating what really is her lasting legacy. But in reality, I cannot be arsed. Why should I waste my time or effort.

I will watch tonight as one Murdoch employed puppet after another appears on the air waves to tell us how fantastic she was for the country. How she put the Great back into G.B. and how she saved the world.It will put me in the same frame of mind as how I have just learned that in the time of austerity the state will be spending close to £10 million on her ceremonial funeral which puts her on par with the Queen Mother and Lady Dianna.

I always thought how I would feel when I heard of her death and to be truthful, it is one of relief. For too long the country has been divided between pro and anti Thatcherites. Yes, the discussion will go on for the next few weeks and with the Tories milking it for all they can, I can see somebody trying to disrupt the funeral, which will again open the divisions. I can imagine even for some in the Tory Party, though they would never admit it, her passing in time will mean they will again be heard in parts of the country that they would never had a hope in hell whilst she was alive. But again, it is more of relief than pure elation. You should never speak ill of the dead, the saying goes, but it doesn't say you cannot be relieved they have gone.

The only sadness I have today is the fact she outlived both my parent who born the scars of her time in power.

I have stayed away from personal attack on a person on the day of their death, I am sure there are plenty of others to do that. Oh, and for  those that talk about evil lefties and faux signs of disgust. If Thatcher was so great why are there so many people not exactly sad to see her go. Even though I wasn't here when it happened there was none of this divided emotions for Winston Churchill's passing.

What I will say though, is it not just a bit strange that on the day a Conservative led government starts to financially penalise the disabled for being disabled, one seen by them as one of their "Greatest" takes her last breath.

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Red Rag - Happy Millionaires Day

Red Rag - Today, millionaires across the country will be raising their glasses to their other favourite millionaires, Dave and Gideon, for helping them to on average £100,000 a year tax cut. The extra money to the most vulnerable, sorry I mean the most affluent, starts flowing in to them from today.

All this at a time of cuts and austerity.


Happy Millionaires Day to all the winners.


And a "We are all in this together" to the rest of us.

Tally Ho!

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Red Rag - Osborne is a walking disaster - Guess which party Mick Philpott voted for?

Red Rag - Even when he does gutter politics, his results are similar to when he does economics....shite.

Guess which party Mick Philpott voted for....YES, HE VOTED CONSERVATIVE.

In the documentary he starred in with Anne Widdlecombe, on an out take that was never aired (wonder why?) he says to Widdlecombe "I don't know why you are giving me such a hard time, I vote for your party".

Using Gideons theory.......does that make all Tory voters child killers?

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Red Rag - Friday....another black day for Osbornomics

Red Rag - On Friday the 2012 Q4 figures will be released. Anyone seen Osborne lately. Even his muppet Danny Alexander has gone to ground. Maybe he is rehearsing his lines in front of his master.

Doesn't bode well for the figures though.

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Red Rag - Bollocks to coalitions

Red Rag - It's been a whilst since I have last posted, but in classic Labour style, once the party gets a long term steady lead in the polls it decides to naval gaze and try and open up wounds between factions in the party.

On one side there is the "we should look at forming an an Alliance with the Lib Dems/Greens/SNP " section and on the other there is the "fuck em we are the Labour Party section".

For many years I have been on the former, however for me 2010 changed everything, absolutely everything.

I would consider my self more  centre-left rather than hard left. In the dark days of the early eighties I looked on in horror as the party declared to the electorate that it had the right moral policies, whilst the electorate told it to go and shove them.

Then as Blair was elected basked in two humiliations of the Tory Party and everything it believed in. As the 2010 approached there was something about Nick Clegg, the smarmy new politics bullshit that he kept spouting that kept me posting on this blog that a vote for the Lin Dems was a vote for a Tory government (if you want to check back there are ten, yes ten separate posts that state a vote for Clegg would lead to a Tory government). Though not even I would anticipate how things would turn out.

The Lib Dems have been nothing but human shields for the Tory Party. Like lemmings voting through Tory policy after Tory policy and being satisfied with scraps, and small scraps at that. You have the undignified position of every time we have shit economy figures, then George Osborne orders Danny Alexander to go out and defend him. Beaker looks like a total cunt and gets totally ragged from pillar to post by Paxman and co, and he is so fucking useless that he does it time and again. He will be a permanent fixture, being mauled every few months for the next couple of years.

Which brings me back to the so called "progressive alliance" or the "go it alone".
Me, I am firmly, 100%, never been more certain in the "go it alone".

I would never trust a Lib Dem again ......ever.

How can anyone in the Labour Party even contemplate even looking in their direction when they happily vote through policies that bring about a situation where people are dying whilst ATOS are telling them they are "fit for work". Whilst they vote to have Remploy factories shut down. Whilst they vote to have the NHS attacked. Whilst they vote to attack the public services. Whilst they vote to have tuition fees trebled.Whilst they vote to disintegrate the DLA to fuck all. These scumbags have blood on their hands.

I could never ever see me agreeing with any coalition, seeing what has happened with this political abortion.

I would never ever want to see the Labour Party form any sort of coalition with any Lib Dem Party any time soon.

Why form a coalition of the bastardised sister of the Tory Party when we dislike the politics of the real thing?

Fuck em, we are in the lead in the polls. Take the fight to both sides of this scumbag coalition, defeat them with every argument and run the government on our own.

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Red Rag - For those who say the cuts are not really happening and are overblown

Red Rag - Tell it to their families.

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Red Rag - Second day of hacking on left wing blogs - A simple message for the hacker

Red Rag - Second time in a few hours this blog and quite a few others have been hacked. If you have seen a  warning from Google saying this website is suspicious and it contains malware who ever is hacking it and the other bogs is deliberately adding malicious codes to different blogs which would cause Google to put up the block.

Someone, somewhere is worried.

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Red Rag - Left wing blogs attacked at the same time as Tory Paedo revealed

                                                                               


Red Rag - Overnight a large number of left wing blogs in the UK (including this one) were hacked, and some are still hacked, so when anyone tried to log on to them they were warned off with a warning of "Site is infected by malware".

Maybe it is just a pure coincidence that many of these sites where running the Tory MP Paedo story.

I will let you decide.

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Red Rag - So who has got the balls to run with it?

Red Rag - The words "Tory Politician" and "paedophile" have been mentioned in the main stream media.....at last. Newsnight has broken rank. They all know who they are. Post Leveson, who has the bollocks to run a story that will shake politics to the core.

Revenge is best served cold.

Sunday may be interesting.

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Red Rag - The triple dip takes a step closer

Red Rag - Back in October 2010 Gideon Osborne, cheered on by his friends in the right wing press (remember the days when they called him a brilliant political and economic tactician), declared to parliament that "Today's figures show the economy is continuing to grow at double the rate the market expected and the fastest rate for a third quarter since 1999...thanks to the decisions taken by the Treasury the economy looks to be in a healthy state for the foreseeable future ".....yes I did say October 2010, it looks like Gideon hasn't learned his lesson.

Two months before Gideon declared victory over economic forces I posted a blog ( HERE ) stating despite the constant Tory claims of an economic miracle that a double dip recession was inevitable thanks to Gideon and his ideological, economical ineptitude. The rest as they say is history.

On the day Gideon was proudly boasting of his economical master class in parliament there were quite a few in his own party were hoping that the 0.8% reported would be scaled back in the revisions because the higher the GDP figure the harder to keep it in the positive next quarter along.

Today the same people are muttering again. They also point to the fact that compared to Q3 2011 there has been virtually no growth at all, despite this years Q3 included the Olympics tickets, sales of TV rights and was helped by the previous quarter containing the July bank holiday. Crops have failed across the globe pushing up prices.Rail fares are to rise in January by 6%.Most of the energy firms have started to raise their prices with the rest to follow. Most of the cuts are still to come. All of which will continue to bite into peoples disposable income.

Across the globe growth in other countries has either stopped, fallen or in some countries they are heading back into recession. Even in the BRICs their growth has started to fall.this will effect our ability to export our way into growth.

That is why it seems strange that yet again for Gideon and Dave to start boast about a "healing economy" and "we are on the right track".

I will again go against what many in the mainly right wing press have said today and say they will be wrong like they were in October 2010.

We will be back in recession by Q2 in 2014 and Gideon will be there first chancellor in history to have manged a triple dip recession...........if he is still residing in Number 11.

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Red Rag - Dave and Gideons Ultras make their stand against 100,000

Red Rag - Nice to see Dave and Gideons Ultras showing a sign of strength against 100,000 plebs marching against the coalition cuts as they gathered en mass......all five of them.

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Red Rag - George and the Great Train Snobbery

Red Rag - I see the party of privilege are demanding to be seated away from the plebs whilst using public transport.....but not wanting to pay the extra money to sit in First Class.....don't forget "We are all in this together!

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Red Rag - Playing politics with Paedos

Red Rag - The right wing press in an attempt to throw shit at the Labour Party tried to use the Saville scandal as a way of attacking it.

Wrong move.

Guess which British political party Jim fixed with thousands of pounds of funding?

Clue 1 : See above

Clue 2: Jimmy Saville was invited to Chequeres by a Past PM for eleven consecutive Christmas Eves.


Wonder if they will be considering giving the money to charity?

Guess which party should be staying as far away from this subject as possible....the words so many skeletons in so many cupboards spring to mind....BEWARE!!!!

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Red Rag - Camerons disabled legacy

Red Rag - The following is taken from another blog Click Here .I very really use other blogs, however this is direct and to the point, it is well worth a wider audience. Please read through the whole story, the person who has written it is actually disabled themselves. One more thought before you read it, there are on average 32 disabled people a week dying after being found fit for work by Atos.......that's some legacy Dave.



"It is a universal truth that if you tax people they don't like it.

Poor people get uppity and rich people threaten to just get up and go, which means that whoever's running the country - and some days I honestly couldn't tell you - worries about who to tax.

It's a bit like listening to schoolchildren planning who to pick on next. Cleggy wants to tax the rich. Gideon thinks the rich will run away. Either way, Dishface wants to blame last year's bullies. The way they're carrying on they'll never get round to taxing people at all.

Luckily there is a solution, which is to take money from those who aren't real people and can't threaten to get up and go.

They're sly little sods, the disabled. They use wheelchairs when they're capable of walking for ten or twenty yards. They selfishly force businesses to install ramps and widen doorways, and make buses wait for a few seconds longer so they can get on board.

Some of them don't make it obvious they're disabled but keep their medical conditions hidden away so you wouldn't know to look at them that they're not like you. They need special signs and their own bogs, and they wilfully sit on vast piles of taxpayer cash. If you counted it all up, why, it would pay to bail out the banks all over again.

Luckily you can say what you like about them. You can call them frauds, cheats, liars. You can use names like mong and spaz, and talk about how they could work if they made the effort. Look at all those paralympians - if one spaz can do the high jump, why can't the rest of 'em do a job?

Which is why we're spending £170million a year making the disabled jump through hoops. That's the cost of the contract and appeals process for the assessments given to disabled people to see if they can work.

Around 1,400 doctors and nurses use a points system to decide if you're fit. The system decided a man who can't stand on his own two feet was fine; it said a man with an incurable brain disease was healthy; and it decided someone in a coma could get a jobbecause he hadn't sent the form back. It's even accused 32 people who are terminally ill of malingering.

It's probably ferreting out people who aren't as disabled as they say they are. The Department for Work and Pensions' own estimates show that a whopping 0.5 per cent of disability living allowance is claimed fraudulently - worth £60m.

NOUGHT POINT FIVE PER CENT! Crivens, that's worth spending nearly three times as much to stop. We won't mention the fact official error accounts for another £90m of wasted money, because that's not as important.

Far better to spend £170m to save £60m, and while we're at it scoop in a few thousand disabled people who will have to give up millions more in order to make the government contract not look like a complete waste.


In fact if the 'savings' on the balance sheet don't pass £200m it will have been a failure, so we can rub our hands with glee at the likely prospect of disabled people losing at least £140m they've been hoarding, the lazy gits.

Money which for many is used to help them get to work so they can earn and pay taxes, and without which around 25,000 won't be able to do either. Money which pays for adapted cars, public transport, or to help the one third of disabled people who live in poverty because their conditions produce a higher cost of living.

It's far better that money is spent on paying for a massive government contract awarded to a French firm which is using some of the cash to sponsor the Paralympics. An optimist would say they're trying to give something back, a realist would say they're engaging in PR, and only a real cynic would suggest they're trying to prove everyone without legs can run just fine.

The games organisers say without sponsorship the Paralympics wouldn't happen; personally I'd rather they'd asked almost any other firm on Earth to do it. Presumably there are no banks with money or a need for good publicity.

But you can ignore me, because I'm a spaz. I was born with a brain wired differently to most people's, and while what is wrong with me isn't interfering with my life and probably won't get any worse, other people with the same thing are in wheelchairs and graves.

You wouldn't know it to look at me. I don't hide it because I'm not ashamed, but I don't make a point of mentioning it because people find it hard to grasp I'm fine while also having to occasionally compensate in silly little ways for something no-one else notices.

Disability is a spectrum - and I can get around my very minor one fairly easily. Because I can walk, and talk, and do a job people presume there's nothing different about me.

And because the Paralympians can run, and jump, and win gold medals, because they can overcome a severed spinal chord or a bomb blast or accident of birth and because they seem to be fine, people will think better of them than the hundreds of thousands who are confined to their homes and bedrooms and who cannot fight back when those playground bullies turn up and ask for money they can't afford.

I don't know how many of the athletes hold down a job, but I'll bet it's harder work to prove yourself to an employer than it is to an ATOS assessor.

They say the Paralympics are showing the best of British - and they are.

They're showing not only what disabled people are capable of with the right opportunities and funding, but also that if you want to call them scroungers, cheats, fraudsters, mongs, malingerers or spastics you'd best do it from a safe distance.

Just like all bullies do.

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Red Rag - The repeat drink driver still leading the right wing press a merry dance

Red Rag - The person who writes the most gutter shite vermin of all blogs has decided he needs another shot in the arm in respect of readers and has grasped the biggest load of bollocks he could think of out of the sewer. He is spreading a rumour that Andrew Strauss has jacked in the England cricketers job to run as the Tory candidate for the forthcoming Corby bye-election.....I kid you not.

If anyone needs to be shown how fucking numb the right wing press in this country is, just pop over to the website of The Daily Mail, yes, the paper who pandered to Hitler, to see them actually run this as a headline story.

They are quoting a website of a man that has been twice done for drink driving, has admitted to selling drugs and has been made bankrupt......now that is what the Daily Mail would call a sound source.

Don't you just love the right wing press in this country!!!

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FAO The E.D.L and the B.N.P.

Red Rag - I have four words for you bunch of knuckle dragging nazi bastards:


"Mo Farah" and "Jessica Ennis"


Now shove that up your facist arses and swivel on it!

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Red Rag - Jonah Watch Day 2

Red Rag - The man with the turds touch was away from most of the Olympics again today to be lectured by Vladimar Putin at Number 10 about Syria.

Yet again whilst the reverse midas touch was away the British Olympians did play.....and it has been raining golds. The British team took advantage of not having Camerons black spot on them and have raced up the medals table with golds in canoeing and shooting and now Team GB lie in 5th place in the table.....whilst the Jonah was watching it was struggling in 21st.

We are still checking if Cameron actually popped in to the velodrome for the women's team sprint.

Cameron did attend the Judo with Putin, only to watch Gemma Gibbons, who was on a winning roll and who had won every bout up to that point,  fall at the final hurdle and get the silver......another one to join Jonahs Olympic list.

Can anyone think of any other world leader that we can get to visit Jonah in the next few weeks to keep him occupied?

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Red Rag - Jonah Cameron strikes again

Red Rag - Jonah from Bullingdon has struck again. Tom Daley and his partner Peter Waterfield were actually in the lead before the man with the ability to turn everything he touches  into shit entered the Aquatic Centre. The pair join Mark Cavendish who had the black spot placed on him with Jonahs attempt of a PR exercise which seen his medal efforts go tits up. The useless plank has form. Even before he became PM he gave the England Rugby team the bums rush in 2007 and they were beaten the very next day. The day the Rugby team were getting beat he sent a "personal message to Lewis Hamilton" and told him "I have confidence in you".....he didn't win a race for the rest of that season.Then as PM it was the English football team in the World Cup who received their "special " message to then go out in the very next game. He attended the decision for where the 2018 football World Cup will be played....which we then missed out on.

This year, the day before Andy Murray competed against Roger Federer in Wimbledon he gave him his personal backing face to face and went the game.....he lost.

Luckily today the Jonah has been in Northern Ireland and will not have been present for any of the competitions........we won two golds.

Sport has joined the economy, the NHS, public services, the police force, the army, the unemployed, the fire service etc etc in falling foul to the man with the reverse midas touch.

Any chance of sending him to Outer Mongolia for the next month or so.....or preferably longer.

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Red Rag - For the sake of the country, go Gideon, and go now

Red Rag - We are now in the longest double dip recession since records began. Spin back two years and Gideon Osborne picked up the keys for Number 11 with the economy growing 0.7% . Since he has taken over he has managed three quarters of growth and five quarters of retraction. In pure statistics the economy is £3,057,000,000 worse off. I cannot think of any other chancellor who managed to oversee more quarters of retraction than growth. He is going down in history as the worst chancellor this country has ever had.

Away from the percentages and statistics real lives are being effected by Osbornes austerity drives.Young people will have never had a job whilst he has been chancellor, businesses will have gone bust, people will have lost houses, peoples wages in real terms are worth less now than they were when he moved into number 11, people with disabilities are being terrorised so the government can cut costs, people are being forced onto the streets, I could go on.Yet whilst all this was going on the chancellor remains in no doubt that what he is doing is correct, well he would wouldn't he, none of the austerity drives will effect him, although he gave himself a nice little financial bonus by cutting the top rate of tax.

His excuses are becoming tiresome. We have had snow,America, floods, warm weather, price of oil, rain, royal weddings, Labour, Japanese tsunami, Europe, poor exports, civil servants, bank holidays, unions, banks, employment tribunals, energy prices, price of the pound, world markets, the Jubilee....do I need to go on.....the are bloody pathetic.

Today he went for another tact of saying these figures showed the reason why we need to keep going on with the Plan A for austerity measures. It's like an alcoholic pointing to an x-ray of his diseased liver and saying that is why he needs to drink three bottle of vodkas a day.

It's not like we could rely on that spineless gobshite Cameron to do the country a favour and get rid of him. Most of his friends are either being arrested or being charged so he cannot afford another one of his pals to leave the scene.

It is quite obvious he has not one idea about economics, it is beyond him, he just does not understand the basics never mind the theory. If he had an ounce of moral fibre or wanted to save what little credibility he had left he would call the removal men in to Number 11 and retire to one of his mansions.

I wont hold my breathe.

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Red Rag - A Quandary for poor Dave

Red Rag - If Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and the rest of them go down, who is poor Dave going to invite to his next Chipping Norton dinner party?

There is always Old Rupert and his son.

In other news...... we should get it official that the economy is still thriving under the midas touch of Gideon tomorrow......who needs growth, when you have the master of economics guiding the good ship UK from one iceberg to another. Next stop for Gideon, Excrement Creek.....without the paddle.

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Red Rag - Gideons gone to ground, does this mean another disastrous effect of Osbornomics will be announced Wednesday?

Red Rag - Strangely there has not been sight nor sound of the future Baronet of Ballentaylor for a few days. In fact there is more chance of seeing a G4S security guard at the moment than the is of seeing the artist formerly known as Gideon. Now call me cynical, but has he had a whiff of the figures that will be released by the Office for National Statistics and they reek of failure.

On the bright side we will get to see his ginger haired lap dog he calls Alexander running around all the tv stations explaining away his masters faults.

He must be thinking of new more original excuses.

Wonder how long we are going to have to put up with this pathetic episode every three months?

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