Monday 9 June 2014

Government Thinks Work Provides Food Money - Wrong

WORK STILL MEANS HUNGER

The government maintains that welfare reform is to push people into work and so lift themselves out of poverty.

Yet half of poverty is within the working poor, with a legal minimum wage far below the living wage.

Half the benefits bill is the working poor, hit by the benefits cap and bedroom tax.

With only 3 per cent of the benefits bill on the unemployed.

The other half of the benefits bill are pensioners. and they too go hungry.

Inbetween, these are women reaching 60 since 2013 who lost state pension payout, who could have gained the food money and still remain in work.
Worse is to come from 2016 when many women will never get a state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Half of women between 60 to 66 are within the working poor.

The majority reason women between 60 to 66 not in work is due to being disabled / chronic sick and those benefits being lost.

People over 60 are not listed within unemployment statistics.


FOOD BANKS ARE NOT ENOUGH

Families who are sanctioned off benefits cannot get a voucher for a food bank.

You have to be on benefits to get a food bank meal.

There is a rule that a claimant can get only 3 vouchers in a year.


WHY ARE FOOD BANKS NEEDED AT ALL IN 7TH RICHEST NATION ON EARTH?

Waiting for benefits for many weeks or even over a month, then told not getting benefit, is also a reason for hunger.

Why are those not receiving benefit by receipt of letter from DWP, not using this in lieu of vouchers to get food?

Many times, the government has been told that families have only a few pounds a week to feed a whole family of a couple and two or three kids or more, in many documentaries.

Now we have Dispatches tonight at 7.30pm - Dispatches Breadline Kids (repeated Thursday 3.10am) showing a mother with only £1.20 a day per person food money.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od#3712963

However, this documentary finally shows that 2 out of 3 of the kids going hungry are in families with one adult in work on low wages, zero hour working contract or low income self employment.

Doctors sent a letter through the Lancet medical journal of 1 May 2014, to government to inform people in work were going hungry and malnutrition cases had doubled over last 5 years. It has to be recalled that it takes about a month or more to be so malnourished to need medical care to prevent death from starvation.
http://medimoon.com/2014/05/170-public-health-experts-call-on-pm-to-take-action-on-nutrition-and-hunger/


FOOD POVERTY IS FOR ALL AGES TODAY

Some kids are going to free breakfast clubs run by churches, because there is no food in the house at all.

Why are schools not giving free meals to all children of the working poor, to end any chance of Rickets in kids in England?

Oxfam said that a third of those struggling for food money, were because benefits were delayed by not just days but weeks and months.

Children, families, disabled / chronic sick all ages, women not in receipt of state pension at 60 and yet half are within the working poor - all going to food banks, when this is not a daily, 7 day a week free cafe canteen as in Europe and America.

Pre-payment meters electric / gas are the most expensive by £110 more a year than those paying with direct debits. So the poorest pay the most, as usual.

So the poorest get food from food banks that then need electric / gas to be cooked, which costs money that then reduces the money for food.

And we send food to landfill that is still edible - blog how government subsidies throwing food away, rather than subsidising the charity that supplies food banks:
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/government-uses-taxpayers-money-to-deny.html

My Blogs on how all could be fed every day:
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-pages-on-hunger-in-uk-index-to-blogs.html



Saturday 7 June 2014

Need Help to Promote State Pension Petition to Change Ed Miliband?

MY PETITION AND OTHERS CRAWL ALONG BECAUSE LACK OF EXPOSURE

Only by posting comments or writing blogs on these kind of communities on Google Plus do I get the few signatures on my petition.
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/my-story-of-my-38-degrees-petition.html

Unlike Anne Keen, I cannot post as much because I am disabled and chronic sick, in an unheated home.


WHY THE PETITION DOES NOT GET HUGE AMOUNT OF SIGNATURES?

The Pension Bill effected 530,000 til end this year by denying state pension payout, when it can be paid whether retire or stay in your job.

Far worse is to come to even more women, with nil pension money altogether from 2016, with the Flat Rate Pension that is less not more pension.

Age UK did their petition, failed and will not help any other.

The Pensioners Convention believe the ring fenced National Insurance Fund has been emptied to pay off the national debt, when this cannot legally be done as the NI Fund is not a tax and so cannot be used for general expenditure.

The National Insurance Fund - the source of the state pension - has been full for decades, not needing a top up from tax.

This despite all the nonsence about an ageing society, when humans have aged for the million years of life.

It was Europe who emptied the pension funds of indebted nations to pay off sovereign debt.

The UK has no debt to Europe.

So we should not be obeying the EU Directive that raised the retirement age in all EU member states, because the state pension payout and law of statutory age of retirement should not together.

The government ignored the Council of Europe recently informing them that the level of benefits and state pension was below the level required by the Social Contract, under international treaty law with Europe.

France brought the state pension back to 60 and Europe said nothing.


WHY DOES NOT A LABOUR MP OR A GROUP OF LABOUR MPs NOT CAMPAIGN TO CHANGE POLICY FOR THE ELECTION MANIFESTO FOR 2015 GENERAL ELECTION?

Look at the banned TUSC video that never got an airing on any TV channel before the May 22 council elections, on my personal website's home page:
www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

A Chairperson of TUSC is an ex-Labour MP.

TUSC has been the only party that said the truth of the state pension, by their slogan:

The state pension is not some generous gift from government to be withdrawn at whim, but deferred wages from our youth.

I voted Labour all my life, as did my ancestors right back to the beginning.

I have no reason to vote Labour ever again at the moment.

You are missing millions of women voters by not putting in your manifesto this:

- Pass law to guarantee pension payout, as Labour did in 1975, revoked by the Tories in 1993 and not brought back by Blair/Brown.

- Pay back state pension payout to women turning 60 from 2013, whether in work or retired, with a tax free lump sum.

- Pay monthly state pension to women at 60, turning 60 in 2015 and all those from 2013 and 2014, onwards into the future.

- This ends the discrimination against women by government, who permitted women MPs, including Labour ones, to keep the pension payout at 60 from 2012, with the words 'protected from reforms'.

- Work towards equalising state pension for men turning 60 from 2015

- Revoke the Welfare Reform Act, Pension Bill and the Flat Rate Pension April 2016

- Fund the state pension to the poor who only realise now that working less than 14 hours a week in any individual job / earning less than £109 per week in each job, has meant they have no NI credits. Whereas those on benefit got their full NI credits paid by government.

- The loss of state pension to people with less than 10 years NI credits, means nil food money in old age. This will most likely hit those suffering benefit sanctions, loss or never gained who are disabled / chronic sick, and the majority reason women over 50-66 not in work is being disabled/chronic sick.


UK PENSIONS NOTHING TO DO WITH AUSTERITY


The state pension never had anything to do with the national debt, which is an entirely different thing to a deficit.

The UK has had deficits for 300 years with no problem at all.

National Debt has been caused more by welfare reform admin, because of the admissions to hospitals of those becoming sicker under the stress of constant re-assessment, suffering heart attacks, becoming more mentally ill, and the rise of cases of malnutrition needing hospital care.

It takes well over a month to begin to starve sufficient to need medical help.

The over 60s are not listed in the unemployment statistics, despite the raised retirement age making them liable for the bedroom tax, Workfare even when disabled / chronic sic and still liable for the massive rise in benefit sanctions.

Food Bank vouchers cannot be accessed by those suffering benefit sanctions or long delays, when after weeks or even a month or more told not getting any money.

As Labour Leader Ed Miliband only reads about England through American websites and American aides, perhaps it is about time he listened to the old, hungry, working poor.

Half of women are within the working poor, especially over 50s.

A goodly amount of them will have voted Labour all their lives. No more.


WILL A LABOUR MP TAKE UP THESE PETITIONS TO INFORM WOMEN AND CHANGE LABOUR?

So I am asking Labour direct, please?

Women are a lost voter base for the Tories.
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/p/male-politicians.html

Will you fight to change Labour to bring about the pension justice as in this blog please?






Starvation England By Design

NO-ONE ADMITS THAT WELFARE REFORM IS LEAVING PEOPLE TO STARVE

In Australia today, a nation not in recession and with great wealth, all socialism is being cut altogether, all state pension gone, as the government there does not want to pay for the state altogether, to help anyone.

Social medicine is on the way to being just for the rich again.

The Australian government is copying the Coalition and going much further.

This is the fate of the UK if Scotland does not go Free in September.

And the rest of the nation if we do not manage to split Labour into merging with the new socialist parties to make one viable party, and let the New Labour section like the two Eds to run as Tory candidates in the 2015 general election.

Why?


THE OVER 60s ARE NOT NOT LISTED IN UNEMPLOYMENT STATISTICS BY DWP

The raised retirement age means people aged 60 are liable for the bedroom tax, come under forced labour that is the slavery of Workfare, are losing benefits by never gaining them or sanctioned off food money, and even on Workfare when disabled / chronic sick and those benefits being lost as well.

The loss to The Wife of the state pension payout at 60 from 2013, when benefit sanctions are massively increasing, and half of women are within the working poor, means low income people are losing food and fuel money.

For no reason. Why?

Because the ring fenced National Insurance Fund has been full for decades, not needing a top up from tax, despite all the hype about the supposed demographic timebomb (as if we have not aged for the million years of human life)  which has had not one effect on the viability of the state pension fund.

The NI Fund is not a tax and so cannot be emptied to pay off the national debt nor used by government for general expenditure.

So not one penny in tax has been saved in not paying out the state pension, especially to women who lost more years since its lost payout from 2013, when the pension can be paid whilst you are still in work.

Worse is to come by 2016. See if you lose most or all of your state pension:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

Women MPs, including Labour, kept pension payout at 60 from 2012 with the words 'protected from reforms'.

This when the half of women who work in the public sector are suffering two thirds of the job losses, with a significant amount being early retired in their 50s on small works pensions and even smaller savings, barely able to survive in the hope of getting state pension at 60. This threatens the over 60s with hunger.

GOVERNMENT DENY THEY ARE STARVING THE PEOPLE IN UK

Those sanctioned off benefits cannot access the mere 3 vouchers in a year to get food from food banks, because you need to be on benefits to get a voucher. Catch 22.

The cheap social supermarkets starting up are only for those on benefit and not those sanctioned off benefits or never gaining the benefit. They ignored me reminding them that those without benefit and no other source of income are even more likely to starve.

So if you are working poor, on zero hour contracts or unemployed at any age, losing benefit means no money to buy food.

WORKFARE'S ABSURDITIES

Because of the raised retirement age, those on benefit as deemed still of working age up to 66 are also within the Workfare system, even if disabled / chronic sick, despite not being listed in unemployment statistics beyond age 60.

Only 3 per cent of the benefits bill is the unemployed, so Workfare also includes the half of the benefits bill that is paid to the working poor. For example, a third of Londoners are within the working poor.

Those on benefit amongst the working poor (including half of women aged 60-66) are even forced onto Workfare, when working on too low an income part-time. 

So on benefit, lost the paying job, and having to fork out what money exactly to work 6 months for a charity? 

And losing disability benefit to stay in work at the same time.

By raised retirement age, a woman cannot get her bus pass to go on this jub without wages for half a year.

The firm cannot even give you a free lunch or a cup of tea as that is payment and therefore the firm must pay tax for your employment.

What is Labour saying to all this. Just that there will be a revised Workfare under Labour, forcing workers onto the minimum wage, so losing living wage jobs in the firm.

A minimum wage is not a living wage by law.

HOW STARVATION IS FORENSICALLY PROVED IN UK?


Doctors in England and Wales are telling government again and again that admissions to hospital for malnutrition are on the rise.

It takes at least a month to begin to starve to death, by lack of food. Dying of thirst takes much less time.

Relying on family members for food, even in work, means there is the scenario of the poor trying to feed the poor, with both liable to lose benefits that is food money, because of the high cost of living to those not even a quarter of the average wage down to nil.

As benefit can take not days but weeks to process, only to be told not eligible for benefits, after a lot of form filling, and with Jobcentres themselves referring claimants to food banks, then it is obvious that there is no food money for sanctioned claimants, of all ages.

This also means their children, who are more and more getting the hunger symptom of Rickets, whether parents out of work (only 3 per cent of benefits bill) or in work (half of benefits bill, with pensioners the other half, when those know they could have gained benefits, as not told what eligible for).

See my blogs on how UK could feed all every day, 7 days a week, with a free cooked meal and hot drink from council staffed canteens, leaving none to starve at all.

http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-pages-on-hunger-in-uk-index-to-blogs.html

Tuesday 3 June 2014

Government Uses Taxpayers Money To Deny Food to Starving


SO WHAT IS GOING ON?

The Coalition uses taxpayers' money to destroy 98 per cent of edible surplus food, with only 2 per cent of up to 400,000 tonnes of surplus food annually generated by the food industry, going to food banks.

This is a further waste of the green taxes that are half the energy bill we cannot afford and drive people down into fuel poverty, when there are so many other more affordable and self-funding means of self-generation of electricity and gas. 

So this effects, amongst many of all ages, women denied state pension payout at 60 from 2013, when half of women are within the working poor and the majority reason women over 50 not in work is due to being disabled / chronic sick and those benefits being lost or never gained, as well as benefit sanctions regime in Jobcentres.
Even worse is to come from 2016, when many women, and a lot of men, lose food money forever in old age.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension

Again today I met a lady born in 1963, who did not know that women's state pension had risen from 60 for over half a decade or more of life.

GOVERNMENT COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT FEEDING THE STARVING

Why is surplus edible food even within the green biogas electric generation power station system, called anaerobic digestor power generators?

Not one mention is made by the industry about feeding the hungry:

A nationalised energy from waste, would not even think of denying food to the starving.

Some nations in Europe have banned food waste from landfill altogether. 

Labour have said they would ban food waste from landfill, but makes no mention of saving the starving today from all the food not going to food banks. 

The hungry cannot wait til 2015. 

The government gives the current biogas 82 plants £29 million a year in subsidy (2013 figure), that consume 1.6million tonnes of food waste a year.

Another 213 plants have planning permission and are expected to consume around 3.3 million tonnes of food (Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association).



WHY ARE FOOD BANKS ONLY GETTING A TINY AMOUNT OF FOOD DONATIONS FOR THE STARVING?

The charity that supplies surplus food to food banks, Fareshare, informs us that government is spending millions of pounds subsidising the construction and operation of anaerobic digestion plants that convert up to 100,000 tonnes of edlible food a year into biogas, to generate electricity.

Fareshare supplies up to 1,300 charities and community projects, but gets only 5,000 tonnes of surplus food a year.

The government pays a subsidy to biogas industry worth up to £70 for each tonne of food received. 

Fareshare gets no government subsidy and so has to charge companies up to £80 for each tonne of food they donate to charities, so that the charity has the funding to store and distribute the food. 

Also the donor companies have to fork out up to £60 a tonne to deliver the food to Fareshare's depots.

THERE ARE MORE HUNGRY THAN JUST THOSE GOING TO FOOD BANKS

Actually the numbers are swelled by those on the borderlines of hunger, if the millions within the working poor, poor pensioners, and women denied state pension at 60 when so many were made early retired from half of women who work in public sector yet two thirds of jobs lost are to women, and those in work on zero hour contracts. 

Oxfam gave the figure of 13 million who struggle to make ends meet each day.

This is proved by more and more kids getting Rickets, that is a symptom of insufficient food. 

And I followed an elderly pensioner out of my local supermarket, who had but four of the cheapest basics food range that barely covered a couple of hand spans in the trolley. 

I am beginning to think of abandoning supermarkets and eating out in cheap cafes as a cheaper option - cooked food and no electric / gas heated water / washing up liquid used at home. 

WHY IS GOVERNMENT NOT PRIORITISING FEEDING THE STARVING POOR OF ALL AGES?

Source of this information is the newspaper you would least expect to care - The Times -whose readership are the richest in the land. 

And The Times Editorial is headed - 'Unsold Food Should Fuel People, Not Power Stations'. 

But the richest people remember human history. When the poor starve, it is never a good ending for the rich. Something politicians are immune from learning about. 

Roman Emperors gave free bread to all each morning, as he knew a hungry population is a dangerous one. 

In the Editorial, we are informed that in America, government gives tax breaks to supermarkets for giving food to charity. 

Fareshare had asked for government subsidy to them, to make a level playing field, but the government replied that 'it's not seen as a priority' and further said did not know how much of the food going to landfill could have been still edible and did 'not have any plans' to investigate the scale of the problem.

This, when up to seven million people are in food poverty. 

Europe, that creates so much starvation, actually feeds people every day, 7 days a week, with food banks that are actually kitchen canteens

WHERE ELSE COULD THE BIOGAS SOURCE FOOD WASTE TO ENERGY FUEL?



At the moment, rubbish collection is with private companies, if they were merged into all nationalised utilities, then the food waste from homes could be separately binned and collected directly by the digestor power stations. 

It is viable, as at the moment home food waste is about seven million tonnes a year. 

The digestors cannot do that now, because councils do not pick up organic household waste separately from other recycling, so now making waste collected unusable by the digestors industry when mixed all up with everything else. 

Examples in America (rubbish is called trash in USA) and Europe of compositing home food waste:

WHY ARE SUPERMARKETS PAYING THE SUBSIDISED PRICE AT ALL OF SENDING WASTE TO BIOGAS PLANTS?

Supermarkets were in a race with each other to send zero waste to landfill.

No-one - neither supermarkets nor government - gave any thought of surplus food going to the people, made hungry by government policies more and more each year. 

With all charitable food banks declaring about 2 million requests to food banks between 2013 and this year so far. 

Would fuel poverty even exist for any, if all this food was cooked each day, 7 days a week, as they are in council canteens, who provide the meals free not only to the homeless and unemployed, but also to the working poor and poor pensioners?

MORE INFORMATION

See my blogs on how to feed all every day:

See my blog on how nationalised utilities would give joined up thinking and leave none to starve at all:

Parties that offer nationalised utilities for joined up thinking are on my personal website homepage and other pages:

Monday 2 June 2014

Government and People Owned Nationalised Power and All Utilities


TODAY WE PAY CRIPPLING ENERGY BILLS MADE UP OF 50 PER CENT GREEN TAXES AND OVER-CHARGED BY EXCESS PROFIT 
We cannot afford the electric and gas bill.

Many people never turn on the central heating now, however cold the winter's day.


People become seriously ill or even die in frozen homes.

The fuel poverty suffered by so many as well as by half of women who are within the working poor in the UK, would be a thing of the past, bearing in mind these women include those turning 60 since 2013 who have lost food and fuel money with loss of state pension in the UK. And worse to come from 2016.
See if you lose most or all of your state pension:


Privatised power electric and gas companies, according to the regulator Ofgem, are making 10 per cent profit, which means profits have doubled in the past year.

Ofgem informs that energy companies' profits are rising because the price of wholesale gas has fallen 35 per cent and are at their lowest since 2010.

The wholesale gas price makes up half of an energy bill.

The increase in profit margins was a serious concern of the Chairman of the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group to government.

Some power companies never passed on the savings, when the government slashed the cost of green tax levies in December 2013.


HOW NATIONALISED UTILITIES COULD HAVE MADE FUEL POVERTY HISTORY?


Local councils in England are beginning to see the light in generating power for their buildings and nearby residents' homes.

In that article was this:
..."it is worth remembering that in the early-to mid-20th century the profit motive related to energy was anathema. 

Almost 370 municipal electricity schemes supplied relatively cheap power to the urban population, using surpluses for investment rather than dividends to shareholders." ...

And later the words:

..."But if you plan this properly you can create local jobs, ...and reduce the energy bills – so everybody wins."...

And in the penultimate paragraph... "she used to pay the equivalent of £500 annually for oil for central heating. Now she pays half that amount. " ...

Landfill can be used to collect methane gas for a power station on site, to provide electricity to local homes.

There is already such a power station in England that produces enough electricity for 36,000 local homes.



HERE IS THE MOST RECENT OFF THE PEG TECHNOLOGY IDEA IN SELF-SUFFICIENT POWER GENERATION

This video shows USA inventors claiming to be able to make all roads and pavements (sidewalks in American) a means to generate more than enough electricity from solar than the USA needs.

Further ideas to harness the sun's power on roadways to power the street lights, is being researched in American universities.
http://www.clickgreen.org.uk/research/trends/121623-pavements-to-start-powering-streetlights-with-stored-solar-energy.html

There are lots of off the peg technologies that could make roads, homes, schools, hospitals, commercial and government buildings and towns self-sufficient in electricity generation.

HOW BUILDINGS CAN BECOME SELF-GENERATING IN ELECTRICITY?


The building sector is said to need about 40 per cent of world's energy.

Refitting current buildings, not just new buildings, could make buildings generate more power than they use.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/12/us-buildings-idUSBRE91B0VC20130212

The sewerage that comes from buildings can be used to generate electricity to make sewerage treatment works not only self-sufficient in power, but also generate power onto the National Grid.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/sewage-plant-will-supply-electricity-1550410.html

An American university is researching using a natural bug to not only process sewerage but to bring back polluted rivers and lakes from farm pollution into life. And to generate electricity to power the treatment works and power the National Grid.
http://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-scientists-use-wired-microbes-generate-electricity-sewage



INSTEAD OF APD TAX - TAX BREAKS TO MAKE PLANES GREENER



Another use for nationalised landfill up in Scotland. Why not in England?

BRITISH AIRWAYS

"investing in the world's first facility to convert landfill waste into jet fuel

The innovative GreenSky London fuel facility will lay the foundations for us to reduce our carbon emissions significantly. The sustainable jet fuel produced each year will be enough to power our flights from London City Airport twice over"

NEW SOCIALIST PARTIES THAT OFFER NATIONALISED UTILITIES IN ENGLAND

Parties that offer nationalised water, electric, gas, landfill, energy from waste, sewerage, so that we can get non-profit making but self-funding and self powered, affordable power for all are on my personal website:



Friday 30 May 2014

Ed Miliband Sees England Through American Eyes

REAL CLEAR WORLD SITE HAS AMERICAN VIEWPOINT ABOUT THE WELFARE STATE

Labour Leader Ed Miliband's source of political news is through the American news site Real Clear World and not British newspapers or TV news. 


And in one Daily Telegraph article listed on the Real World site relied on for news by Labour Leader Ed Miliband, is the phrase:
..."There is also much fury at abuses of the welfare state" ...

The welfare state is believed by the right wing to include the state pension, when UK's state pension is funded directly by contributions to the full ring fenced National Insurance Fund, that has not needed a top up from tax for decades.

Despite all the hype about people living longer, this has had not one effect on the NI Fund, as the government cannot empty the state pension fund because it is not a tax, which is what is meant by ring fenced.

So there is no reason to raise the state pension payout age (nothing to do with law about mandatory retirement age) in the UK, as it has not saved one penny in tax and so has no place under Austerity.


There are no articles in the American news site Real Clear World, that Mr Miliband relies on for political news, that welfare reform is abolition of the welfare state in England and is causing starvation sufficient to be admitted to hospital or that the vulnerable are committing suicide or dying soon after being deemed fit for work. 

The bougeoisie view that the welfare state was being abused by 100 per cent of able bodied in and out of work and the disabled and chronic sick of whatever age, is throughout the political website that Ed Miliband relies on for news information.


LABOUR LEADER ED MILIBAND SAYS READS BRITISH NEWS ONLY THROUGH AMERICAN SOURCES


Through the original newsfeed of Buzzfeed, we learn that Labour Leader Ed Miliband does not read British newspapers or watch British news on television.

What Labour Leader Ed Miliband learns about England is through what his aides tell him, he informed us.

And Ed Miliband is also currently reading the left wing French economist Thomas Piketty, that is just about how much of a nation's wealth has been held by the rich, and not how many people starved in poverty by what a government policy does.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642733/I-dont-read-British-news-Miliband-rejects-touch-claims-admits-hes-interested-US-politics-baseball-happening-UK.html

The Daily Mail aimed at Mr Miliband's aides with the article:
Revolt over Ed Miliband’s £20k bill to take an ‘army of aides’ on trip to Middle East

And so did The Sun with their allegation:
Ed aide has no work permit
Labour's US poll guru faces probe call
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/5405904/Miliband-aide-paid-by-Labour-is-working-without-a-permit.html

And again within The Daily Mail article:
Ed is losing England, says top aide

... "Mr Miliband studied politics at Oxford and then became a special adviser. 'It's not about whether you know the price of a pint of milk or whether you can eat a sandwich properly,' ... 'But it is about having some understanding of people's lives.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2639097/Ed-losing-England-says-aide-Labour-leader-make-emotional-case-voters.html

With a final comment to the article that said... "Oh how I wish it were England that is losing Ed. I'm sure his brother can find him a place near him in America." ...

MR MILIBAND'S VIEW OF WORLD HAS VERY LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT ENGLAND

So a snapshot of the World page on Real World Politics news site, today, shows very few articles on England.

With few about Labour.

NOW WE KNOW WHERE LABOUR LEADER ED MILIBAND'S VIEW COMES FROM THAT COST OF LIVING ONLY EFFECTS THOSE IN WORK


So this is at odds to the rest of the buzzfeed article which informed:
..."Ed Miliband was in Nottingham last Tuesday when a man approached him to say that his part-time job at a petrol station wasn’t paying enough to take care of two children. This is an anecdote of the sort Miliband is always telling in his campaign to lower Britain’s cost of living, but what the man said next was “chilling.”

“He was really, really desperate because he felt couldn’t properly provide for his family,” Miliband recalls. “He was thinking of ending it all because he just couldn’t make ends meet."
And near the end of the article says:
... "In the course of a 45-minute interview, conducted in a packed standard class carriage, Miliband told BuzzFeed why he’s convinced that the cost of living crisis is still very real despite the economic recovery, why he eschews 24-hour TV news in favour of Thomas Piketty, and how he’s come to understand why decent people would vote UKIP." ...


What on earth do the 13 million in the UK who struggle to make ends meet each day, according to Oxfam, care about the so-called economic recovery.
As Gandhi observed, People's Politics Are Their Daily Bread.
Indeed, the banned TUSC party broadcast for the May 22 council elections would have been a revelation to all but Mr Miliband who does not watch the news here in England.
See the video on my pretend party (made to protect my petition from the coming gagging law) The Swans' home page

Monday 26 May 2014

How to Pay National Debt and Feed Everyone At Same Time?

AUSTERITY NEVER HAPPENED


With the constant massive waste of taxpayers' money by the billions on welfare reform aka end of the welfare state, Austerity has never happened.

Welfare reform has cost more by the billions, so there cannot be a national debt or else we would have gone the way of Greece long ago.

People over 60 are not listed in the unemployment statistics, yet are just as liable for the slavery of Workfare and benefit sanctions as all ages, even when equally disabled and/or chronic sick and losing those benefits as well.

Pensioner groups believe that the loss of payout of women's state pension at 60 and men at 65, is because the National Insurance Fund has been emptied to pay the national debt.

The full National Insurance Fund is ring fenced only for state pensions and has not needed a top up from tax for decades.

This despite all the hype of more people living to 100 than ever before. In fact, people living longer has had not one effect on the viability of the state pension at all.

The National Insurance Fund is not a tax, so government cannot empty the Fund, whjich is what is meant by the term 'ring fenced'.

If the Fund was empty, how come women MPs kept pension payout at 60 from 2012, when we, the public, lost the payout for 6 years from 2013.

Worse is to come from 2016, leaving many women, and a lot of men, with nil benefits and no state pension for food and fuel money forever.



NEW SOCIALIST PARTIES OFFER SOMETHING, BUT NEED TO OFFER MORE TO GET ELECTED

SY.RIZ.A won in Greece in the Euro Elections. 

Why the dots? 

Because SY.RIZ.A is a coalition of many socialist little parties into one big party, with an excellent speaker as their leader.

SY.RIZ.A is the official opposition in parliament in Greece.

The new socialist parties now would do better to begin a charm offensive to wean Labour and The Greens councillors to leave those parties and join the new socialist parties, as sitting councillors.

If a sitting Labour or Green MP can be turned to the real socialists even better.

The socialists might better call themselves the Anti Hunger Party and set up shop in empty shops on the high streets, many of which have been empty since the recession hit.

As Gandhi observed, People's Politics Are Their Daily Bread.



If all the new little socialist parties just merged all their manifestos and became just one party that by bulk sourcing fed those on benefit, sanctioned off benefit, poor pensioners and the working poor, then they might just turn current politicians to them?

HOW GET SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR THE POOR AND PAY OFF NATIONAL DEBT?

Might it be asked of the new socialist parties to all agree on offering when come to power in 2015, as a single merged party of you all:

1) Ending current welfare admin by benefits and sanctions. Saves tens of billions of pounds. For working poor, unemployed, pensioners, disabled or chronic sick. 

2) Shutting down that part of Department of Work and Pensions about benefits and shutting down all the Jobcentres. (Don't worry managers will easily find other work, and basic grade staff will be absorbed in other frontline services). 

3) Pay state pension at 60 to men and women, whether they stay in or retire from work. 

4) Back-date pension payout, as a tax free lump sum, to women who began their loss of state pension payout from 2013 (only 530,000 women til end 2014) at the current state pension rate. And to men from 65.

5) Pay the increased state pension back-linked to average wages from 2015 by monthly pension to new and current claimants, whether in work or retired, and whatever level of NI Fund contributions in life. 

6) Start as new claimants paying state pension to men at 60, from April 2015, whether retire or remain in work.

7) End all benefits sanctions regime, assessments, fit for work etc ad nauseum that cause starvation in adults and children. 

8) Pay a universal citizen wage to all adults from 18, in or out of work, not means tested so minimal admin, til 60.

9) End all green taxes on energy bills, so halving the bill and so ending fuel poverty.

10) End all subsidy on the private profit making nuclear power and all other forms of power generation. 

11) Nationalise all utilities and profit will then be called self-funding. 

12) Use off the peg technologies to make all big buildings, towns and even the roads self-generating in electricity, so massively cutting the cost of energy to people and business. 

13) Sewerage and water can also generate electricity. 

14) Nationalised landfill can generate electricity and make methane gas so no need for fracking. 

15) Energy from waste provides jobs and electricity to towns. 

16) Bring law on minimum wage to a living wage, requiring firms to cut management costs to make viable.

17) Make non-citizen migrant and citizen equal in living wage in law. 

18) End House of Lords, soon to grow to 2000 Peers on expenses, and sell the building for luxury serviced apartments (only if rented out, not left empty to fall derelict).

19) Bring all empty homes back into use with micro finance. Cap rents. Luxury homes bought and left to fall derelict in London, seized by the state for social housing. 

20) Rise 5 per cent the threshold before higher Income Tax rate to the squeezed middle.

21) Rise 5 per cent the Income Tax for those on highest Income Tax rate.

22) No zero corporation tax. 

23) No old peoples' homes charging as much as a 5 star hotel. The elderly looked after at home with rise in purple jobs - carers. 

24) End Council Tax and just share out tax to councils all become unitary councils, without all the multiple layers of councils. Cut councillor numbers to one per ward. 

Socialist parties with a lot of candidates in last council election 2014 were:

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (only exists during elections)
http://www.tusc.org.uk/
TUSC gained 50,000 votes this council elections. Candidates and TUSC members, included union members: PCS (civil servants unions), RMT (railway union), National Union of Teachers, Fire Brigade union, Prison Officers union, UNITE and UNISON.

Left Unity Party
http://www.mancunianmatters.co.uk/content/230569098-ken-loach-supported-left-unity-poll-better-tories-wigan-council-ward-just-six

Mebyon Kernow of Cornwall

Book: Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism: A Concise History








Friday 23 May 2014

Banned Video of Real Socialists - Might have brought real hope to millions


NO BENEFITS, NO STATE PENSION

Yet to get any interest at all from any party, in payout of state pension at 60 for women lost since 2013, and kept by women MPs (including Labour and The Greens who both express total lack of interest in the topic) since 2012.

See if you lose most or all of your state pension from any current political party and law bills passed or due in 2016:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now

To clarify, there is no point in me belonging to any political party as I am too brassic, old, disabled, too ill now (more like rip van winkle syndrome in tiredness from illness) and no party offers me and 530,000 women like me since 2013, our women's state pension at 60.

More council election results about socialist parties on me personal website THE SWANS on May 22 and the truths said by TUSC, including being the only party who have ever said:
State pension is not a generous gift from government 
to be withdrawn at whim,
but deferred wages from our youth.
From a ring fenced National Insurance Fund full for decades, not needing a top up from tax, after people paid 12 per cent of their wage all their working lives in NI contributions, along with their boss paying their share.
www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

Sunday 4 May 2014

Who Are The Swans?

THE SWANS NEW PARTY - THE PARTY THAT NEVER WAS

During last and this year, the gagging law that ends petitions and charitable campaigns 12 months before an election (there is always some local or national election going on) was a piece of legislation coming into force at an unknown date.

It is believed now the gagging law will come into force in September 2014 (oddly just in time for the Scotland Independence Referendum on 18 September 2014).

What the gagging law means, is that petitions are deemed to be political, even if not done by a political party and just by people.

So I wrote up, as a piece of creative writing, a whole new political party and called it The Swans new party, as a protective 'shell' for my petition: http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/my-story-of-my-38-degrees-petition.html

The Swans new party has no formal sign up with the Electoral Commission and no costs, as you do not need it if you are not going to field candidates for an election.

But The Swans new party also made it possible for me to have a Google Blog as well.


WHY A DIFFERENT PETITION TO PENSION BILL PETITIONS?

The website 38 Degrees (itself threatened by the gagging law from September) is a petition website, with 2.5 million members.

From blogs / forums came across and signed Anne Keen's petition to revoke the Pension Bill and give women their state pension at 60 and men at 65 now.

As the rise in retirement age effects me, taking my house bills money that now is being paid by fast disappearing little bit of savings, then reading up about pensions was of very great interest me.

I fast realised that revoking the Pension Bill was not enough, although it would have helped the 530,000 women who have lost payout of state pension at 60 from 2013 and to end 2014, like me.

Worse is to come to those women who are not 60 til after April 2016,

As well as women like me those not being paid their state pension from 2013 by the raised retirement age (and men not gaining their state pension at 65 now).

The Flat Rate Pension 2016 and other pension changes, directly effects men and women, meaning many will be left with no money in old age at all.

The Flat Rate Pension is not more pension, but less, even to the only 30 per cent who will get the flat rate of all retiring after April 2016.

The rise in retirement age means those who had been coming up to retirement were pushed past 2016 for state pension payout.

The Flat Rate Pension ends Pension Credit, SERPs and State Second Pension. This is a substantial cut, not a rise in state pension.

You can get your state pension payout without having to retire from work.

The retirement age rise put extra burden on your wages (12 per cent per year National Insurance as well as your 20 per cent tax band) as well as struggling firms in a recession, whilst losing women around £40,000 of state pension payout for 6 years, forever. So paying more, for less.

The raised retirement age saves no money to government at all, because it does not come from general taxation, but from the ring fenced National Insurance Fund that has been well funded for decades.

For many women and a lot of men, the Flat Rate Pension ends the state pension altogether.


WHAT ELSE IS IN MY PETITION TO SAVE PEOPLE FROM NO MONEY IN OLD AGE FOREVER?


Within my petition are many other things other than the Pension Bill and the Flat Rate Pension, important those bills are to ending state pension provision for many.

It includes the loss of women's state pension as housewives, widows or divorcees altogether meaning nil money, as also those with 10 years or less National Insurance credit history will get no state pension at all.

This means also means no Pension Credit or Winter Fuel Allowance either. Nor Cold Weather Payments as these women may not get benefit either.

Artist Beany Mac asked that this poster be shared as much as possible

AUSTERITY IS DONE BY LABOUR AND THE GREENS


This is what Austerity means.

England has 80 per cent of Austerity Cuts yet to come.

Even from Labour, as proved by Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor, saying again and again that Labour will just continue Tory spending plans and be even harder on welfare reform than even the Tories, as all mainstream parties have lumped the state pension in with welfare.

Labour sacks Labour councillors if they vote against cuts budgets in a council.

The Greens did Austerity in the one council they rule, Brighton, a town with poor students, working poor and poor pensioners in its centre and in its suburbs.

The Greens are the green taxes that are half your energy bills and 60 per cent of your petrol bill.

As neither Labour and The Greens offer the old anything other than continuing hunger and freezing in our own homes, then looked about me to see other parties that could help all ages.

Because it is the over 60s who shop in town centres, and so the payout of state pension would have contributed to keeping young peoples' jobs in the high street, now more and more just ghost towns.

LABOUR AND THE GREENS JUST OFFER MORE HUNGER AND PEOPLE FREEZING FROM UNAFFORDABLE HEATING BILLS FOR HOMES


Labour and The Greens will just continue the meteoric rise in use of UK food banks, themselves a cruel irony of just 3 vouchers in a year, because elsewhere in the world local councils / charities canteens together offer 7 days a week a free cooked meal and hot drink to mostly the working poor and poor pensioners, as well as the far fewer minority of unemployed / homeless of all ages.

And the people going to food banks are not just the mere 3 per cent of the benefits bill that is the unemployed, sanctioned off food money altogether.

The majority of people going to food banks are those in work and poor pensioners, who themselves are within the working poor.

Half women aged 60-66 are within the working poor, losing benefits to top up flat-lined wages back down to levels of 2002 as to cost of living.

The majority of women aged 60-66 who are not in work is due to being disabled / chronic sick and those benefits being lost, just as the state pension was also removed. So what happens to you if accident or illness takes you out of even minimum wage work? 



SO WHAT IS MY SWANS NEW PARTY WEBSITE USED FOR NOW?

My website seeks socialism to win in 2015 general election, so that hunger ends in England.

And my website promotes a Yes Campaign for a Free Scotland, to also save the Scots, but especially the disabled, chronic sick and the elderly from austerity obsessed London.

Many things we take for granted today and being lost more and more each day now, are down entirely to socialism alone.

As today is May Day in England, here is a reminder on the gratitude we owe socialism and the different real socialist parties available to vote for on May 22, in my blog on what is socialism:


Not least, only socialism gave women the right to be human to the state, instead of having no rights other by permission of men and being sub-human in law.

We can see this prejudice of women still, in a male dominated government, by all the losses in tax and benefit changes that have hit women the most.

See my blog about How Women are Taxed More and Get Less:



Sorry UKIP is on my website but that again is strategic voting, as UKIP is taking Labour voters, which shows how lacking in socialism the Labour party is now. As no real socialist would vote UKIP instead. 

Wednesday 30 April 2014

How Your Trade Union Could Save Lives Now from May 22 and from 2015?

TORIES AND UKIP HAVE MORE CAMPAIGNING FUNDS


The Tories are on course to become debt free as a party for the first time in the party's history.

The Electoral Commission might be able to declare the Tory party debt-free by August.

In 2010, the Tories spent around £17 million on campaigning for the general election.

UKIP has some of the richest people in England as donors.


LABOUR DEEP IN DEBT

Gordon Brown's New Labour suffered defeat because Labour voters just folded up their arms and did not vote for any party in 2010.

In 2010, New Labour had spent £8 million on general election campaigning.

Now Labour has debts of around £12 million, according to the Electoral Commission, by end 2013.

Labour is in the process of losing the automatic signing-up of millions of union members to the Labour party.

UNITE union (biggest contributor to Labour) will cut its donation to Labour to around £1.5 million by affiliating just 500,000 members of its 1 million members, and review the number annually.

Why does not UNITE take all of its members' affiliations now from Labour?

The GMB union has already cut funding by £1 million to Labour.

Why does GMB not take all affiliations now?

Labour's massive debts makes them dependent on union cash.


HOW TRADE UNIONS COULD SAVE LIVES FROM MAY 22, AS WELL AS FROM 2015?


Labour's ageing voters are conservative on welfare and immigration, and more likely to be within the squeezed middle, so that is why Labour is the party losing votes to UKIP, not the Tories.

Labour does not represent the working class today at all, who actually are made up of:




This working class is at least 13 million who struggle to make ends meet each day.

Why are trade unions not putting forward a billboard poster campaign to give brand awareness to a party with trade union in the party name and union members within it?

Trade Unionist and Socialist Against Cuts
(links on my personal website's home page: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk


And other parties with a socialist agenda for the working class, that offer such things as rising wages of council frontline staff by cutting management pay:


For 2015 general election there is also the Left Unity Party, who had their first national conference end March 2014. 

Links on my website on my Pension Swans page: www.theswansnewparty.org.uk

ASK YOUR TRADE UNION TODAY TO TAKE AWAY AFFILIATION FROM LABOUR


So why are you, as a union member, not asking your trade union to disaffiliate your membership from Labour?

Ask your trade union why they they are not paying for more billboard posters and newspaper advertising for such socialist parties as the above?

Below are some of the reasons why Labour is bad for you.

LABOUR IS NOT THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS


Labour began welfare reform, brought in Atos that pays no corporation tax, invented the Bedroom Tax, will continue Tory spending plans and be even harder on welfare reform than the Tories in 2015, and will continue Workfare.

Labour agreed with the welfare cap, driving people out of homes in London and so losing best opportunity for work.

New Labour brought in the sanctions regime and replaced unemployment benefits with the Jobseekers Allowance, where the Jobcentres refer sanctioned claimants now to food banks.

Labour has never once said about leaving people with no money for food by sanctioned benefits to young families / old / disabled/sick / young homeless.

In a nation where food banks only feed you 3 times in a year.

Whilst everywhere else in the developed world, the poor are fed every day in local government / charity canteens giving a free cooked meal and hot drink.

The economic recovery is mostly just happening down in London.

UK is a leader in low pay, with a legal minimum wage nowhere near a living wage and way down the league of the developed world as a percentage of the average UK wage of £31,000 per year.

Low pay has flat-lined down to the levels of 2002 and before.

The economic recovery is being driven by insecure money from low income self-employment, zero hour contracts, part time casual of the working class today (people below half of average wage around £31,000 per year) and so hitting hardest:

  • less-qualified, 
  • young people, 
  • women and 
  • ethnic minorities.


Half of people in poverty are those in work.

Labour has again and again sacked Labour party members, who as councillors have voted against council funding cuts to frontline services.

HOW LABOUR MPs COULD BECOME SOCIALIST TODAY?


If Labour MPs actually cared about the working class, then sitting Labour MPs would convert immediately to the socialist parties offering the wellbeing of millions of people today and running on those party tickets for 2015 general election.

And Labour MPs would support the socialist candidates running for councillor posts in May 22 elections of such as TUSC.

Will they?