Exactly Who is making money from these Energy Price Hikes?
A question on everyone’s mind at the moment concerns exactly Who is making money from these Energy Price Hikes. I have watched reports and can’t seem to get to the bottom of it. There has been suggestions that Price Hikes are because of infrastructure costs such as pipes and wires but that simply doesn’t add up. Surely our taxation system provided money to develop things like nuclear power stations etc so why isn’t the public in control of these businesses?
Boris Johnson appears to be discombobulated about the interpretation of his own policies
It now appears that Boris Johnson is discombobulated about the interpretation of his own policies whilst in government. What after all is an ‘office gathering’ and how could that be exempt from the rules about gatherings that he and his government imposed during Lockdown. Now we have it confirmed that a party actually took place ( by his own admission) then surely the matter should be handed over to the police to investigate and prosecute those involved.
As a final thought it appears that this Government sit around drinking alcohol whilst they think up and design all these rules regulations and laws: so is it really any wonder that they have such difficulties understanding them themselves?
Levelling up is just a slogan to defuse the power of real Socialist Economic Principles
The idea of levelling up is just a slogan to diffuse the power of real Socialist Economic Principles. This is how the Tories are using it to divide tradional voting loyalties in an attempt to grab power away from Labour. There is no substance to their claims that they can level up Britain. The Tories are hinting or trying to convince voters that they are offering some form of socialism which simply isn’t true. Using the ‘levelling up’ slogan and banner is an attempt to steal ground from various political parties with a bona-fide claim to real socialist policies. The Tories are obviously pretty scarred of socialism and socialist policies which have become increasingly important to the British voters. It is a clever ploy with the intention of making you believe that The Tories are something which they definitely are not. The Tories are not socialists nor will they ever be but ‘levelling up ‘ is a ploy to make you believe they can be.
COP26 can now be considered to have been a dismal failure
COP26 has been a dismal failure demonstrating all the bad divisions in the world and the stupidity and shortsightedness of the majority of governments. Continue reading COP26 can now be considered to have been a dismal failure
Property developers exploiting house sellers abandoned by lenders refusing mortgages
This is an issue caused by mortgage lenders who have become twitchy following the Grenfell Enquiry. This situation has resulted in house sellers/ home owners who simply cannot sell their properties who are then being exploited by developers who are offering to buy the properties at lower than the market value. This situation has occurred because prospective buyers are being refused mortgages to buy these properties and home owners are being forced to sell to these property developers who will be a last resort for most people. Otherwise their properties are being made worthless because they simply cannot sell them on at all. I have contacted many councillors and politicians about the issue and none are interested in taking up the issue at all.
COP26 and government policies won’t necessarily stop environmental degradation
COP26 and government policies aren’t necessarily going to stop environmental degradation instead focus should equally be falling on individual responsibilities and the activities of businesses. The activities of these aren’t necessarily going to be directly influenced by either the decisions of COP26 or government policies resulting from this conference.
Continue reading COP26 and government policies won’t necessarily stop environmental degradation
Socialist economic theory is green not red: Socialism is certainly better for the Environment
Socialist economics are green not red which is an important point to make in the week when COP26 is taking place. Socialist economic theory can have a valid position in any economy striving to take care of both it’s citizens, it’s global citizens and the local and global environments. This is unlikely to be the case when referring to a free market economy based on inequality, exploitation and free for all of capitalist systems of economic theory. This point should not be overlooked by COP26.
There would be no need to increase taxation if privatisations were taken back into public ownership
There would be no need for Tory taxation rises if the public owned the utilities and railways. Privatisations need to be reversed and put back into public ownership. This is simple and straightforward economics.
The stench of BRITISH privatisation is becoming evident in the run up to COP26
The stench of British privatisation is becoming evident in the run up to COP26. Government ministers are running for cover and attempting to hide under stones after a Government motion was defeated which would have forced the private water companies to clean up their act. However what happened was actually very embarrassing for the government because the bill was defeated which actually looked liked a huge endorsement for the behaviour of the private water companies and a signal that it was OK to keep discharging untreated sewage in the rivers of Britain and into the seas around the UK. This is a huge embarrassment to the government in the run up to COP26. Again it is a stench resulting from the privatisations of the water companies pioneered by previous Conservative governments.
It appears that ministers voted on the matter in the way that they did mainly because of huge investments in the infrastructure that would be needed to update the antiquated system currently in place. Cost in this case was prohibitive to improving and maintaining the environment so the choice preferred was to continue to pollute and degrade the environment.
So why haven’t these private companies been investing in making these improvements themselves and why are they still reliant on funding from the government and the tax payers? What has gone wrong with privatisation? Surely the idea of privatisation was to become independent of the tax payer and yet these companies still manage to bother the tax payers to subsidise their profiteering enterprises.