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By  David Craig, on February 28th, 2013 Today the voters in Eastleigh have an historic opportunity to stick two fingers up at the liars, thieves and incompetents from the three main parties by voting for UKIP. Eastleigh voters can show they’re tired of politicians’ constant lies, tired of uncontrolled mass immigration, tired of pouring billions a year into the coffers of the corrupt wasteful, undemocratic EU and tired of the way the three main parties have wrecked our economy while making themselves and their cronies rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams.
But will the voters of Eastleigh seize this opportunity? Or will they flock to the polls like sheep and vote for the worthless LibDems, useless Tories or Labour liars?
It will be interesting to see if there is any intelligent life in Eastleigh. But I have a little warning for Eastleigh voters. I’ve thought up a little practical joke that will blight their crappy little town for years to come if they vote for the LibDems’, Tories’ and Labour’s policies of uncontrolled, mass immigration of criminals from Romania and Bulgaria. But more of that tomorrow after we get the Eastleigh by-election results.
By David Craig, on February 27th, 2013 As Coalition politicians bleat on about the need to “rebalance the British economy” and grow manufacturing exports, they forget one thing – we hardly have any manufacturing any more. Manufacturing only makes up about 10% of GDP. So even if there was an improbable 20% increase in manufacturing exports, this would increase GDP by just 2%. That’s not going to create many jobs or do anything to solve the Government’s spiralling level of debt.
The problem is that the British elites have always despised manufacturing and business in general. Rather than try to grow businesses, the British elites have just seen them as ways to get rich quickly. In the 60s and 70s, asset-stripping was widespread. Financial manipulators would buy up companies and then sell off the bits making themselves billionaires in the process while often destroying jobs and wrecking once healthy businesses.
Today we have a new form of asset-stripping – zombification. Financial manipulators take huge loans to buy up companies with good cash flows. They then pay themselves hundreds of millions in dividends while loading massive debts on the companies they have bought. This means all the money made by the companies goes to repaying debt leaving little to nothing for investment or growth. It also conveniently means these companies pay little to no corporation tax as interest payments on debt wipe out any profits. That’s why these companies are called “zombies”- they are neither alive nor dead, but stumble on lifelessly making their owners and bankers rich.
Most of our water companies are zombies. When they were privatised in 1989, water companies had 20% debts. Now it is over 80%. Yet their usually foreign owners have pulled out billions in dividends from overcharging their customers. Most of the companies owning nursing homes are zombies. Again, their owners have loaded them with debt while paying themselves hundreds of millions in dividends. Saga is a zombie. The AA is a zombie. Birds Eye, Thomas Cook, Fitness First, Punch Taverns, Travel Lodge, BAA (owners of zombie airport Heathrow) are all zombies. In fact a report by accountants PwC estimated that there were 150,000 zombie companies in Britain.
This zombification is destroying British companies and British jobs – but it is making these companies’ owners very very rich.
By David Craig, on February 26th, 2013 I saw a sight yesterday that would gladden the hearts of Britain’s multiculturalists – those who believe that Britain’s immigrant communities should keep their own traditions rather than conforming to a more British way of behaving.
Two young (mid 20s) Muslim men were walking along with their wives/partners/girlfriends. An argument broke out between one of the couples and after an angry exchange of words, the woman stalked off. Her man ran after her, grabbed her by the arm, swung her round to face him and then slapped her hard across the face. This seemed to remind her who was boss and she dutifully followed her man, walking a few paces behind him, the argument over.
How nice to see such old traditions still preserved.
About a week or two ago, a Saudi cleric was found guilty of raping and beating his 5-year old daughter to death. Naturally, the Islamic court found that the 5-year old girl was largely to blame for what happened to her and the cleric just had to pay a small fine before being allowed to continue his duties as a priest and father to his other children. I just love these quaint old traditions, don’t you?
It will be a wonderful day when the politically-correct multiculturalists get their way and Sharia Law is introduced in Britain. It will certainly add to our country’s diversity. And as the multiculturalists are forever telling us, diversity is a good thing for our society.
By David Craig, on February 24th, 2013 As uncontrolled immigration and higher birth rates put Muslims into the majority in ever more British cities and institutions, one Internet user has imagined what an Al-BBC TV schedule will look like in 30 years time. Muslim Television Guide (formerly known as the BBC, ITV, CH4) circa 2050.
I found this slightly amusing, I have no doubt normal people will consider it deeply offensive.
6.00: G-Had TV. Morning prayers.
8.30: Talitubbies. Talitubbies say “Eh-oh”. Dipsy and Tinky-Winky repair a Stinger missile launcher.
9.00: Shouts of Praise. More prayers.
10.00: The Apprentice. Ten young Muslims complete a variety of tasks each week – one of them will be recruited by prominent Islamist leader Muqtada al-Sadr into a top position in the Mahdi Army.
11.00: Jihad’s Army. The Kandahar-on-Sea battalion repulse another attack by evil, imperialist, Zionist backed infidels.
12.00: Ready, Steady, Jihad! Celebrities make lethal devices out of everyday objects.
12.30: Panoramadan. The programme reports on Great Satan America’s attempts to take over the world.
13.30: Xena. Modestly dressed housewife Xena stays at home and does some cooking.
14.00: Only Fools and Camels. Dhal-Boy offloads some Chinese rocket launchers to Hamas.
14.30: Green Peter. The total of Kalashnikovs bought by the milk bottle top appeal is revealed.
15.00: Madrasah Challenge. Two more Islamic colleges meet. Bambah Kaskhain asks the questions. ‘Starter for ten, no praying.’
15.30: Question Time. Members of the public face questions from political and religious leaders.
16.30: Countdown. Can the American prisoners defuse the bomb in their cell before the timer runs down?
17.00: Koranation Street. Deirdrie faces execution by stoning for adultery.
17.30: Middle-East Enders. The entire cast is jailed for unislamic behaviour.
18.00: Holiday. The team go on pilgrimage to Mecca. Again.
18.30: Top of the Prophets. Will the Koran be No.1 for the 63,728th week running?
19.00: Who wants to be a Muhajadin? Mahmoud Tarran asks the questions. Will contestants phone a mullah, go ‘inshallah’, or ask the Islamic Council?
20.00: FILM: Shariah’s Angels. The three burkha-clad sleuths go undercover to expose an evil scheme to educate women.
20.00 FILM (on the blood-red button) Seven brides for one of our brothers
21.30: Big Brother. Who will be taken out of the house and executed this week?
22.00: Imam Ted. Sitcom about three imams who live on a tiny island in the Persian Gulf. This week, Imam Dhuga’il accidentally burns down the mosque, while Imam Jakh is stoned to death for drinking alcohol.
22.30: Shahs in their Eyes. More hopefuls imitate famous destroyers of the infidel.
23.30: They think it’s Allah over. Quiz culminating in the ‘Don’t feel the Mullah’ round.
Midnight: When Imams Attack. Amusing footage shot secretly in mosques. The filmers were also secretly shot.
00:.30: The West Bank Show. Arts programme looking at anti-Israel graffiti art in the occupied territories.
01.30: Bhuffi the Infidel Slayer.
02.00: A book at bedtime. The Koran. Again
By David Craig, on February 23rd, 2013 Yesterday I pointed out the debt of gratitude we all owe Sir David Nicholson for his efforts to cut public spending by getting rid of useless old people in his filthy, faeces-festooned hospital wards. But there is another man who has also done much to cut public spending by culling the numbers of costly doddery old people. That man is Alistair Buchanan – Head of the useless, supine and (IMHO) utterly corrupt supposed energy redulator Ofgem.
Since 2007, the amount of our money Ofgem spends on itself has shot up from £38.8m to over £78.7m. Why such a huge increase? Nobody knows, though presumably much of the extra money found its way into the pockets of Mr Buchanan and his cronies, no doubt as generous bonuses.
Ofgem has done wonders helping power companies make 3 to 4 times as much profit in Britain as they do in their properly regulated home markets. For example on sales of £7.1bn, EDF – a company 83% owned by the French Government – made profits of £1.85bn (an astonishing 22%). And Scottish Power, owned by Spanish Iberdrola, could afford to make an £800m load to its US subsidiary when US regulators insisted it live up to its investment commitments and has recently increased its debt while paying Iberdrola a £890m dividend.
Ofgem’s efforts to let our mostly foreign-owned power companies fleece us has resulted in Britain having hugely inflated power prices. The charity Age UK have calculated that last winter about 22,000 elderly people died prematurely because they couldn’t afford to heat their homes properly. If we do the maths and assume each old person costs about £10,000 a year and each of those killed by Mr Buchanan’s high energy costs dies 3 years ahead of schedule, then these 22,000 deaths are saving us about £660m a year. That’s money we can take from people who have worked and paid taxes all their lives and we can give to benefits scroungers and scum from the Third World who come to live lives of luxury in Benefits Britain at taxpayers’ expense.
So well done Sir David Nicholson and well done Alistair Buchanan. While others witter on about cutting public spending, both of you have done something. Both of you are men of action – the kind of men we need if we are to save the £30bn we’re going to need to pay for the 1 to 2 million Bulgarian and Romanian families about to invade Benefits Britain.
By David Craig, on February 22nd, 2013 We all know its true – Britain’s population of elderly keeps on growing. I realise that most of these people have worked and paid taxes and NI all their lives and so expect a reasonable pension and some decent medical care in their twilight years. But the fact is, we can’t afford it. Our EU masters have decided that benefits scroungers, criminal scum and people who hate us have much more right to taxpayers’ support than those who have made a contribution to British society. And soon over one million Romanian and Bulgarian families will be heading to Benefits Britain. They will cost us over £30bn a year in housing, schooling, healthcare and benefits. So we need to save some money. This is where men like Sir David Nicholson can help. Sir David has the vision to see what needs to be done and the drive to carry it out.
Sir David has realised that old people are rather useless, often smell slightly of urine, dress badly, have unsightly hairs growing from the ears and nostrils, complain much of the time and that they are just a burden on our bright, new welcoming multicultural society. So to save us money, Sir David has used his filthy slaughterhouse hospitals to send at least 5,000 useless old people on their final journey years before they thought they would be leaving us. Let’s look at the maths of Sir David’s great achievement. Assuming each old person costs us about £10,000 a year in pension and care costs and assuming Sir David has despatched 5,000 of them on average 5 years before their time, then almost single-handedly Sir David has saved us about £250m.
Of course, this £250m is small change compared to the £30bn a year we’ll need for the Romanians and Bugarians. But if Sir David could up his rate of slaughtering useless old people to say 10,000 a year, that would save £500m a year and also free up some much-needed housing for our Romanian and Bulgarian friends.
While most people witter on about cutting public spending, Sir David is a man of action and actually does something. No wonder David Cameron has expressed full confidence in Sir David. Sir David is a man who gets things done. We should be glad that amongst all the incompetent, overpaid, overpensioned buffoons running our public services, there are also people like Sir David. Come on, Sir David, we have to get rid of more useless, costly, smelly old people. You know you can do it.
By David Craig, on February 21st, 2013 Today I’ll take a break from recession-wracked, immigration-swamped, bankrupt Britain and instead travel to a growing, successful country – Thailand. Thailand is part of an Asian free trade area – an Asian common market – but without the massive corrupt, kleptocratic, power-grabbing, self-serving bureaucracy we have in the EU. In fact, countries in the Asian common market do not let unelected bureaucrats from other countries decide who can come to their countries and how much benefits they are entitled to. In Thailand, if you don’t have a job or cannot prove sufficient income to live on, then you don’t get in.
“Herro sexy man – me like you” is something I hear at least 20 times a day. I have sufficient self-knowledge to realise what is being offered is a clear commercial transaction. But many farang (foreigners) – usually the older, fatter, more tattooed, balder, badly-smelling versions – appear to believe the beautiful (and not so beautiful) Thai women with their come-on sales approach. Some men will just take the women for “short time” – one session of boom boom. But others may go for “long time” – up to a few days. In this case, the Thai ladies will display acting worthy of an Oscar and will constantly show their love and adoration of their new farang manfriends using phrases like “you cock velly strong”: “you do boom boom like 3 man” and “you make me many time come”. All this goes down very well with men who are usually so repulsive that they’ve never had consensual sex in their home countries.
But what’s this got to do with anything? Here it’s clear what is being sold. In Britain, sellers have become much more sophisticated. But when financial advisers, bank staff, lawyers, accountants and even dentists show great interest in you, ask about your life and laugh at your (often not incandescentally funny) jokes all they’re doing is a more subtle version of “herro sexy man – me like you”. So don’t get taken in. See them for what they are – greedy, self-serving and after your money.
One company that was especially good at disguising its selling was a bunch of shysters from an investment management company called St James Place. I attended a few of their meetings when researching PILLAGED. St James Place assigned a client relationship manager to look after me. He was surprisingly laid back and not at all pushy. However, during the first meeting an elderly man sidled up to me to befriend me and tell that he had retired and his wife had fallen ill. But fortunately he had been saving with St James Place and the wonderful investment returns they had achieved meant he could provide proper care for his wife. At the next meeting, the old chap headed straight for me and showed intense interest in my boring life and laughed so much at my worthless jokes that I thought he might have a heart attack. Of course, he wasn’t a real customer – he was just a stooge helping St James Place part people from their money.
And, by the way, if you continue your conversation with a Thai lady, you might ask “how much”. To which she will reply “700 baht” (about 17 quid). You may then hesitate about buying and so might ask, “you have baby?” Usually she will reply, “hab one – but no ploblem – pussy me velly small”. At that point, you either buy or walk away otherwise she might feel you are wasting her time. Should you then decide not to buy, she might bid you farewell using that charmingly traditional Thai form of saying farewell “Go f**k you. Big ass-h**e. Waste time. F**k you”.
By David Craig, on February 20th, 2013 A couple of weeks ago, British journalists reported, probably with a slight frisson of schadenfreude, that the basket-case joke of a country Venezuela had devalued the bolivar by 32% to try to improve its collapsing economy. We probably all know what happened to Venezuela – a potentially rich, oil-exporting country voted in a bunch of economically incompetent, corrupt, socialist buffoons. These greedy, corrupt fools then proceded to wreck the country’s economy, wasting or stealing its huge oil revenues. Venezuela could have had new roads, schools, universities, hospitals, jobs. Instead it is a Third World toilet wracked by poverty and crime.
How different from Britain?. Well, actually not that different. Under the economic mismanagement of Brown, Balls and Miliband, Britain’s economy has been trashed in a similar way to Venezuela’s. But the British government didn’t have to devalue the pound, international markets did this for them. In recent weeks the pound has dropped by up to 10% against the euro and dollar. But the pound’s fall against real money – the Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, Thai baht – has been much more dramatic. It has fallen by about 40%. Since 2007, the pound has gone from over 3 Singapore dollars to under 2: from 75 Thai baht to 47: from 2.6 Aussie dollars to 1.51: from 15 Swedish kroner to 10: from 2.5 Swiss Francs to 1.5. And such has been the economic incompetence of work-experience, part-time chancellor Osborne, that the pound has much further to fall.
You don’t notice this so much if you spend most of your time in Britain. But for the many tens of thousands who had hoped to escape imploding Britain by retiring abroad it has been a disaster. They are now trapped in the UK where they won’t receive proper medical care because priority will be given to two million Romanians and Bulgarians, where the Government can’t afford to pay a proper pension as it will need an extra £30bn a year to pay for the housing and benefits of two million Romanians and Bulgarians; where they’ll be afraid to leave their homes for fear of being robbed by the two million mostly criminal Romanians and Bugarians: and where they won’t even be able to sleep soundly in their beds as a Romanian and Bulgarian specialty is breaking into homes and torturing homeowners to reveal their pin numbers and other banks details.
By David Craig, on February 19th, 2013 Last week (10 February) the Sunday Times was at its crusading best expressing outrage at the scandal of poor care in NHS hospitals and giving all sorts of suggestions, mostly ill-informed and fatuous, for improving our hospitals.
There was a full-page article by their health correspondent called, funnily enough, “Who Cares?” Columnist Jenni Russell wrote a piece “To cure the NHS, begin by listening to the patients”. Columnist Minette Marrin chipped in with her “In my litte red book, an idea for NHS cultural revolution”. And the leader column trumpeted “Time to clean up Britannia hospital”. All very laudible stuff, you may think. But the Sunday Times knew all about the thousands of unnecessary deaths in the NHS 7 years ago and did absolutely nothing.
In February 2007, I published a book “WHO CARES? One family’s shocking story of ‘care’ in today’s NHS” by Midlands housewife Amanda Steane. Her husband was admitted to hospital for a minor operation. But following a series of terrible blunders came out a helpless cripple. Unable to walk, talk or even breathe properly, he took his own life. When Amanda tried to complain to the hospital, they denied negligence. But a whistleblowing nurse sent Amanda copies of blood tests – blood tests which the hospital denied existed – proving the hospital had been negligent.
In the book, I quoted a little-known internal NHS report estimating that around 34,000 people die unnecessarily in NHS hospitals each year and another 25,000 are unnecessarily disabled. I also gave examples of patients dying of dehydration and starvation, patients lying for hours in their own filth and patients constantly being ignored by nurses too busy chatting about who they had shagged at the weekend.
At the time, I was in contact with two Sunday Times journalists – Minette Marrin and Jon Ungoed-Thomas. Both said they were interested in doing the story, but then went cold and did nothing. I suppose they and their editors decided there wasn’t really a story there. I think from what we now know, that wasn’t a great decision.
Perhaps Minette Marrin and Jon Ungoed-Thomas would like to apologise to the families of all those who have died due to poor care in our hospitals since February 2007 for their failure to do their jobs as journalists?
By David Craig, on February 18th, 2013 Most people will know that the ludicrously named Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has just spent £80,000 of our money doing a survey of MPs asking them how much they thought they should be paid. Unsurprisingly a huge majority suggested raising their salaries to somewhere around £87,000 to £90,000 a year. But while moaning about being underpaid, our MPs are actually drowning in our money.
There’s their salary of just over £65,000 a year. And their easily fiddleable expenses. Perhaps what’s not so well known is that MPs are claiming on average £40,000 a year more in expenses than when the expenses scandal broke. This partly because the money they get for paying staff (often family members) has been increased from £115,000 a year to £137,200 (£144,000 in London). Supposedly this was to help MPs with their “increasing workload”. But as many have lucrative second, third and fourth jobs in addition to being an MP it would seem they’re defrauding us by using staff we pay to do constituency and parliamentary business on their private money-making ventures.
Another scam MPs have to get more of our money is by becoming government ministers. We have over 90 MPs who are supposedly government ministers giving us twice as many ministers as France, Germany or Italy. Civil servants often complain that it’s difficult to find work for all these ministers.
One thing that may not be fully appreciated is our generosity to MPs’ pensions. If they get their salary increase to £90,000 a year, then you or I would have to save about £75,000 a year into our pension funds to get the same pension as our MP. The maths are very simple: for every year an MP works they get 1/40 of their final salary as pension. 1/40th of £90,000 is £2,250. With annuity rates for inflation-protected joint pensions at around 3%, we would need £75,000 a year in savings to get this £2,250. If an MP “serves” for 30 years, they can expect a pension of £67,500 a year. Given that three quarters of parlimentary seats are “safe seats”, for most MPs becoming an MP is a lucrative job for life.
Moreover, many will go to the Lords where they can claim generous expenses till the day they die. Others will be given six-figure salaries as heads of some pointless quango or other. And anyway, we don’t need 650 MPs any more. With the EU and regional assemblies making most of our laws, 200 would be quite enough.
So don’t believe the lies our lying MPs come out with while claiming they need more of our money.
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