Bruce on politics: February 2015

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Attlee, a disaster for Britain

Bruce 25 February 2015 0 Edit This

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I have already, in an earlier article, explained how Attlee continued wartime rationing for more than 6 years after WW2 ended, starving the British people. Not only that, he made rationing stricter, adding bread rationing in 1946 and potato rationing in 1947. He even went into the 1950 and 1951 general elections promising to ration and starve the British people indefinitely. Luckily Churchill won in 1951 and used the wonders of capitalism to remove rationing.

No Labour government would be complete without a thorough trashing of the economy. Their left wing dogma just fails every time it is applied. So Wilson had his devaluation, Callaghan his Winter of Discontent and Gordon Brown his huge 7% recession, which the left have falsely tried to blame the banks for. Attlee’s government also, obviously, trashed the economy, the highlight of which was a Sterling crisis. The pound was pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of £1 = $4.03 in 1940. This rate became part of the Bretton Woods system which governed post-war exchange rates. After months of denials that it would do so, on 19 September 1949 Attlee devalued the pound by 30.5% to $2.80. An immense disaster of sheer incompetence.

The USA threw money at Europe in the Marshall Plan to aid post war recovery. Germany received one and a half billion dollars (an immense amount then) and used it to rebuild their industry, from which they still benefit. UK received over twice as much and frittered it away on socialist dogma. Attlee created a massively generous welfare state where people received benefits if they didn’t feel like working and where the state thought it could spend people’s money better than they themselves could. Attlee borrowed immense amounts of money from USA and Canada, 6 billion in 1946 alone, which was wasted on fiscal incontinence and dogma and which took many decades to repay. Attlee vastly increased taxes, taking earned money out of the economy and greatly increased the number of people paying income tax with the introduction of PAYE.

Attlee nationalised all the major industries, under the delusion that his political clique in Westminster could manage businesses better than the market could. They nationalised steel, coal mining, the railways, ship building, the utility companies, car manufacture and much more. They were in a position, for instance, to tell the steel company exactly how much steel to make and what price to sell it for. Politics ruled decision making instead of commercial reality. No wonder that nationalisation ran all these industries into the ground. Something the British people experienced during the winter of 1947, when there was not enough electricity to go round, so Attlee was forced to cut it off from homes and industry. With utter incompetence they had gone into the winter with just 4 weeks’ coal reserves instead of the normal 12 weeks’.

Then there was Attlee’s treachery. On 16 August 1945, in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill said “it is not impossible that tragedy on a prodigious scale is unfolding itself behind the iron curtain which at the moment divides Europe in twain” as the extent of Stalin’s brutal oppression of a great swathe of Europe became apparent. Russia had become our enemy. But we had a huge technology advantage including jet engines, which allowed up to build vastly superior military aircraft. Amazingly Attlee then gave advanced Rolls Royce Nene jet engines to the Soviet Union in 1946 and 1947. The Soviets promptly reverse engineered the engine, put it into mass production and built the Mig 15 fighter around it (production of which reached about 12,000 aircraft). These were then used to shoot down and kill our pilots during the Korean war. They engaged us with Mig 15s in 1,683 daylight aerial battles and 107 at night, claiming to have shot down 1,097 UN aircraft over Korea, including 647 F-86s, 185 F-84s, 118 F-80s, 28 F-51s, 11 F-94s, 65 B-29s, 26 Gloster Meteors. Our servicemen’s blood on Attlee’s hands. To me this makes Attlee a traitor.

Socialists often campaign against nuclear weapons. But Attlee was a great enthusiast for them. He set up a cabinet sub-committee, the Gen 75 Committee, to examine the feasibility as early as 29 August 1945. Work on a British facilities began in February 1946 at Harwell in Berkshire, Risley in Cheshire and the Calder Hall reactors at Windscale. Attlee is the father of the British nuclear bomb.

Socialists like trade unions and strikes. They think that damaging the economy is a good thing. They will be very unhappy to discover that Attlee used the army to break strikes. As soon as Labour came to power, the Attlee government was faced with an ongoing 10 week old national dock strike over revised wages. Employers at the Surrey Docks in London had already suspended 1,500 workers for working to rule. This provoked further unofficial action. So, 5 days after the general election, the new Labour government ordered the troops to unload the cargoes at Surrey. Another unofficial dock strike took place in the autumn, involving 43,000 strikers at its height. This time 21,000 troops were used to break the strike.

Socialists hate toffs. Attlee’s father was a solicitor. Attlee was educated at Northaw School, a private boys’ preparatory school near Pluckley in Kent. He then attended Haileybury College, a public school (in the UK this means private), and University College, Oxford. He was a product of privilege.

People point to the NHS as Attlee’s greatest success. In reality it is one of his greatest failures. Universal healthcare is essential. But no other country has copied the NHS. If you were starting again with a blank sheet of paper there is no way that any sane person would re-create the mess we have now. Countries as diverse as Holland and New Zealand have proven that there are far better ways to do it. The NHS wastes many billions of pounds every year giving the British people poor treatment.

Obviously Attlee is in the running for the title of Worst Ever British Prime Minister. But there is strong competition, from Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Quite simply every time that socialist dogma is applied to a country it is a complete disaster. This has now been proved around the world countless times. Yet Ed Miliband is so indoctrinated with this stupidity and has so little real world experience that he wants to force it on the British people yet again.

Article by Bruce Everiss at Bruce on Politics: http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Some great Green Party policies

Bruce 20 February 2015 1 Edit This

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Here are some of the Green Party policies and, as you will see, a lot of them make great sense. (Click the highlighted text to go to my erudite article on each policy area).

1) Legalise membership of ISIS and Al Qaeda. As I have said many times the biggest terrorists in the world are the Israelis and Americans, yet British citizens are allowed to go and fight in the Israeli army. Hypocrisy and double standards abound. We need a level playing field. Also our government telling us what we can be a member of takes away our basic human rights.

2) Legalise prostitution and the sex industry. It is incredibly stupid, for a whole host of reasons, that this is criminalised. New Zealand have shown us how to do it. And once again the government are taking away a basic human right, who are they to tell a woman what she can do with her body?

3) All but remove the armed forces. Yes, I know. Sometimes the Green Party think like a toddler who has found and consumed the Sherry bottle. They obviously believe that that nice Mr Putin should be allowed to ravage Europe in the style of Adolf Hitler.

4) Tax cars and furniture given by parents to children. Another one of those sherry moments. The Greens obviously don’t believe in the accumulation of wealth in society and that the government is a better custodian of our hard earned money. They don’t seem to have realised the universal truth that the government is not your friend.

5) Every citizen given automatic benefits. This is where that sherry bamboozled toddler found their parent’s stash and smoked an ounce of skunk. They obviously believe in the magic money tree and that sitting at home watching Jeremy Kyle is better for the economy than working.

6) Only violent offenders go to jail. Another one I have written about. Certainly our penal system is incredibly stupid and incarceration is not the right answer for most occasions that it is used.

7) High achieving independent schools will pay corporation tax. Envious lefties can’t help it can they? They always seek to punish success. And their economic crass idiocy means that they don’t realise how bad corporation tax is. As also is our education system with 20% of school leavers illiterate. We need to make our education system better, not punish the bits of it that work well.

8) England sports teams banned from playing against countries with poor human rights. This means that they wouldn’t play at all, not even against themselves! And certainly not against the USA with Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary rendition and illegal drone strikes across the world. This is another toddler/sherry moment where the Greens prove that they are not living in the real world.

9) No more airports built. Once again a distinct gulf between the Greens and commercial reality. Where do they think that all the money they want to spend comes from? A vastly greener policy would be to convert Heathrow and Gatwick into housing and tobuild a 6 runway airport in the Thames Estuary. This would greatly reduce both noise and burned fuel pollution for a huge swathe of our population.

10) Discourage the use of the word terrorist. I really hate this whole thought crime business. The government really has no right telling us what we are allowed to think and say. We should be repealing our existing thought crime laws, not adding to them.

11) All illegal immigrants allowed to stay. This makes a lot of sense. There are about a million of them. We can’t get rid of them. So why not let them join society properly? Also it would be great entertainment to see the Daily Mail and its readers melt down with indignation. Obviously the whole population of Africa wants to come and live in Lambeth. But that is a different problem.

12) Benefits can be claimed by anyone, even tourists. The Greens certainly are doing wonders for the economy of Jerez de la Frontera. They want to spend money like there is no tomorrow with no idea whatsoever where it is all going to come from (was Gordon Brown a closet Green?). Their economic credibility is a long way less than zero.

13) Abolish the monarchy. Yet again The Greens strike gold. The monarchy serves no function whatsoever and is hugely expensive. Parasitic on hard earning British taxpayers. Also it is morally wrong for the Windsors to have so much privilege and entitlement purely as an accident of birth.

As is clearly evident when it comes to anything involving money, The Greens couldn’t organise an alcoholic beverage party in the establishment of a purveyor of such delights. However some of their social ideas carry much merit and are worthy of serious consideration.

Psephology of GE15

Bruce 23 February 2015 4 Edit This

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In an earlier article I explained how and why the Conservatives are set to win the upcoming General Election. Now their opinion poll lead is starting to open out, as I expected. So let’s take a further look at what is going on. (Highlighted text is links to further articles. Please click on these).

Yesterday’s Opinium poll: CONSERVATIVES 35%. LABOUR 33%. UKIP 15%. GREENS 7%. LIB DEMS 6%.

The General Election is really 650 separate, first past the post elections. In each of these the sitting MP should have a huge advantage . The overall national polls have to be deeply interpreted in order to see what they will produce on the ground.

In GE10 the Libdems received 23% of the vote, giving them 57 seats, they have lost nearly three quarters of their support by joining the coalition. As we approach the election the Libdems want to take credit for all the many coalition successes whilst disowning all the hard choices that had to be made. This is obviously a pack of lies and will lose them even more votes among those who are capable of independent thought. However GE15 will not see the Libdems wiped out. Most of the votes they lose will be in constituencies where they don’t have a standing MP. But they will still lose a chunk out of the 57. What is far more important for GE15 is where the 17% of voters who are disillusioned with them transfer their allegiance to.

UKIP are a disgrace, “A Bunch Of Fruitcakes, Loonies And Closet Racists” is very accurate indeed. They were the darlings of the BBC when it was thought that they were splitting the Conservative party. Now that the BBC have realised that Farage is taking far more Labour than Conservative votes they have turned against him. People try to buttonhole the various demographics that are attracted to UKIP, but the reality is that they share one unifying feature. UKIP supporters are uneducated. Let’s face it, they have to be. Closer to the election UKIP support will collapse as voters return to their roots and because their support is fairly evenly spread it won’t translate into as many seats as you would expect. In fact they will need to work hard to hold onto the two that they stole.

Labour are in a funny position. They are traditionally one of the two huge parties of Great Britain, with massive popular support among the working class and those sections of the middle class who have never worked in the real world. But now in Ed Miliband andEd Balls they have two utterly inept leaders who are very evidently totally unsuited for the jobs that they are after. Everyone with half a brain or more can see that they would do a lot of harm to all of us if they achieved power. So Labour are shedding a lot of voters. And they are moving over to UKIP, The Green Party and the SNP. In GE10 in Scotland Labour won 41 seats, Libdems 11, SNP 6 and Conservatives 1. Expect upheaval. Scotland has suddenly become very highly politicised and Labour are going to be the biggest losers.

Labour have tried to “weaponise” the NHS in the election. But the simple truth is that the NHS is far safer with the Conservatives. Also Labour have tried to politicise the removal of subsidies paid by taxpayers to finance bedroom squatters, but most people can see that this is fair. Likewise they are trying to make an issue out offoodbanks when any fool can see that free food is going to be popular. And finally, they are telling a lot of lies about austerity.

The problem the Conservatives have is that they took over the country immediately after Gordon Brown’s huge recession had shrunk the economy by 7% and have run the country whilst our largest trading partner, the EU, has been very badly depressed. Despite these impairments they have been a great economic success, growing the economy to be bigger than it was before Gordon Brown’s recession and reducing the government budget deficit by half in real terms. Whist doing this they have greatly increased personal tax allowances for the lower and middle paid,whilst hammering the rich really hard. Ever since 2010 George Osborne has been closing tax loopholes and making speeches that he would continue to do so. Recently Labour have cottoned on to this, but the truth is that they did nothing about it whilst in power.And many of the Labour front bench are major beneficiaries of these loopholes. The stink of their hypocrisy is overwhelming.

Which brings us to The Green Party. They portray an image of idyllic coexistence with nature where the land is verdant and we all live in cute Cotswold villages and hug trees. Nothing can be further from the truth. They are evil nutters who have not one, but two diseases. They are socialists to the left of Labour, fueled by their bitter envy, who believe in punishing success and rewarding failure. Their second disease is that they are Luddites who want to hammer our quality of life and take us back to the 17th century. No cogent, educated human being could possibly vote for them. Which explains why they are so popular with the young and uneducated. If they ever achieve any power in Britain it will be an unmitigated disaster.

But the reality of British politics that if the General Election was just in England then we would nearly always return a Conservative government. These elections are won and lost in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland where there is a whole alphabet soup of political parties. The very good news is that Labour have been in power in the Welsh Assembly since 2011 and have made an immense mess of everything, as you would expect. So Labour can look forwards to losing a lot of Welsh votes in GE15 to add to the Scottish votes they have already lost. Labour and their fellow travelers traditionally have a poor foothold in Northern Ireland and this should continue. So for once Labour might lose the election in places where they have previously won.

I really cannot see the Conservatives losing GE15, the alternatives are all so unpalatable and self evidently bad for Britain that surely our population are clever enough to reject them. Let’s also hope that there is no coalition this time, so the Conservatives can do a proper job, unhindered by lefties of any flavour.

What happens to the missing children?

Bruce 24 February 2015 0 Edit This

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How many children do you think go missing in the UK every year? Occasionally a case is reported on the TV, so it must be rare, right? Well brace yourself for the facts gathered by Missing People:

Around 140,000 people under the age of 18 go missing each year, over two-thirds are not reported as such to the police, by their parent or by their carer. The number of children and young people reported missing starts to rise sharply from the age of 13 and peaks at 15, 72 of 13-17 year olds reported to Missing People were female.

How many of these disappear permanently? You won’t believe this but the Establishment deliberately keep the information from us.PACT and CEOP say: “It is impossible to provide a single reliable estimate for the total number of children abducted over a given time period in the UK. Data on specific types of child abduction are held by different police, government, legal, and voluntary agencies. Not all of it is published or made routinely available. In nearly all cases, the available statistics provide only a partial account of the true number of child abductions occurring.”

Very convenient.

And here is something amazing. Many children disappear permanently, with no trace of them ever being seen again. As if they were abducted by aliens. Who has the power and the means to so totally dispose of these bodies, year after year, that they leave zero evidence?

Now we are beginning to see horrible truths appearing dimly through the mists of cover up. We now know that Establishment paedophiles were killing children. This was a totally organised thing, not some random one off event. And we know that most, if not all, of these Establishment paedophiles were freemasons.

So why would these freemason paedophiles be routinely killing children? Firstly it could be part of their perverted sexuality to kill someone whilst committing a sexual act. Secondly it could be part of their masonic ceremony. There are many branches of freemasonry and many ranks within each branch. So if one lot of freemasons were killing children as part of their craft it doesn’t mean that they all were, or even that most of them even knew about it. The third possibility is that the children were killed and disposed of to get rid of the evidence. There is a lot of rumour that two very, very important Establishment figures were involved in the child killings. And that part of Jimmy Savile’s popularity with the Establishment was his ability to procure victims.

The freemason paedophiles allegedly doing this killing are known as “Death Eaters” from the Harry Potter characters. The police call them The Untouchables because of their enormous power and position in the Establishment.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has a new leader in Justice Dame Lowell Goddard. But will it get to the truth? I think that it won’t and it can’t. Most people in positions of power in Britain (politicians, judges, police, MI5, royalty, senior civil servants) are freemasons and they have sworn many oaths and acted out dire ceremonies to look after each other before everything else. Every previous inquiry into child abuse has been sabotaged and obsfucated. The same will happen again.