Austerity-driven European politicians 'whip up' hostility towards minority groups — RT News http://t.co/J2HTvGPntK
— Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) June 30, 2014
I've met hundreds of perfectly genuine benefit claimants & they're nothing like those on #BenefitsBritain & none have had a dog called Giro!
Occupy Westminster Protest by DPAC activists Saturday 28th July, 2014.
It included people with various disabilities and themselves affected by
government onslaught of cuts against the disabled, on behalf of disabled
nation wide, suffering effects of cuts in UK. With Independent Living
Fund crucial to many in enabling having a more independent life and
increasing opportunities, but being slashed by the government. A protest
on the lawn of Westminster Abbey was met by 100s police presence and
being kettled. The following blog item goes into detail
about the planning and massive effort by those taking part to get this
to public attention, "We love you DPAC
#Occupywestminster #SaveILF":
It's 4 o clock here is the news>
Dean of Westminster shuts gate on disabled he said "theyre not wanted" called Police http://t.co/x9nVFY0RfK
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 29, 2014
Lunchtime news>>
Spoiled "3 kitchens" Kate+Prince Wills..Tory MP forcing out poor..disabled abandoned by Church+Govt http://t.co/uv6vxtWcMP
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 30, 2014
Disabled protest using motorised buggy parked, conveniently broken down in Job centre, playing loud the £8 million helicopter birthday present edition:
The way the G4S guards walk over on camera and vehicle parked with sound blaster timed for maximum effect, also how the guards particularity reacted when they heard Chunky talking about G4S
"You put a paper hat
on, were going to privatise everything, were going to bring in G4S and Serco…£8 million helicopter, this is what austerity looks like.. like in Ghost Busters..doesn't like the colour, you pay...£8 million sate of the art..leather seats..."
The £8 million helicopter birthday present edition featured in above undercover demo:
Artist Taxi Driver
Rides Again world cup shopping by undercover cameras:
"Carpetbaggers..bankers bonuses...Corporations...rise in suicides as direct result of policies...G4S
in partnership with NHS..scandal...we cant afford these services..hand
to corporations, take the public money put the profits offshore...George
Osborne the spokes clown for McDonald's...a country that decides to shoot its wounded... "
Speaking at this demo tomorrow with Russell Brand, Owen Jones & Caroline Lucas. Let's make it as big as possible! https://t.co/zPsG6Urlmh …
— Francesca Martinez (@chessmartinez) June 20, 2014
50,000 people at The People's Assembly march against austerity according to Romayne Phoenix, co-chair of national assembly
— People's Assembly (@PeoplesNotts) June 21, 2014
Wow this is massive first in parliament square and the back is still in regent st pic.twitter.com/qVtqCqXXmO
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 21, 2014
Metropolitan G4S unit low pay no pay soon to be zero hour workers protecting number 10 the government pic.twitter.com/N9uNNjy66V
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 21, 2014
I quite like this shot of Russell Brand chatting to people at People's Assembly anti-austerity festival today. pic.twitter.com/xoUngQxwBT
— david white (@davidwhite020) June 21, 2014
Artist
Taxi Driver artistic musings of what his speech would've been at The People's Assembly, a
Revolution dream of Artistic fantasy on stage, of what might
have been. Amidst artistic humour some thought provoking and hard hitting
facts:
"Chunky the king..Frankie Boyle, leader of the Republic"
the greatest curiosity about the @BBC news blackout is the fact that the 50,000 began their march on the BBC doorstep pic.twitter.com/LLFQGMnBro
— Jos Bell (@Jos21) June 21, 2014
Russell Brand comments to Russia Today journalist on lack of UK mainstream media coverage of the protest. He says: ""if people knew what was happening they wouldn't tolerate it... Ignorance is a necessity ingredient for oppression...we are unifying"
Artist Taxi Driver response to absence on UK mainstream media and no
report on BBC or in much of the most popular mainstream press, with very
minimal reporting by the mainstream broadcasters such as Sky instead
focusing on Russell Brand taking his top off, but not so much on the
clear statement, part of the main message of the day, when he put on a
fibre brigade t-shirt with fire brigade protest slogan on "We save people, not banks, stop the cuts":
>50,000 crammed into Parliament Sq..march against heinous ideological govt austerity..that never happened http://t.co/RG4K5vZZRV
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 22, 2014
Link to related blog item that investigates the Austerity mantra, the lies and what it really means:
"Austerity for the Poor, Record wealth for Kleptocrats, Governments, Corporate & Bankster Buddies":
Following on from People's Assembly 50,000 Austerity march, a comedy performance at the London Apollo is to to raise funds for People's Assembly, to continue towards the fight against the austerity onslaught of the poor in UK. Along with entertainment and humour of the event, it is meant to
highlight and raise questions about austerity:"Russell Brand says
"come to STAND UP AGAINST AUSTERITY" | 7 JULY" including lecturer and comic artist
activist Francesca Martinez
Austerity, the excuse of the rich and powerful to squash the poor, whilst blaming them for the losses of the rich gamblers and simultaneously making themselves even richer than ever.
Max
Keiser and Kerry-Anne Mendoza, otherwise informed blogger activist 'Scriptonite' covers a lot of related areas of UK 'zombie'
economy. Bond
market in first half and interview in second half from 12:30. In the style of tongue in cheek humour of the show, even water cannon for UK government to control the masses and crowd sourced 'People's water cannon for the peoples defence and water balloons, duel purpose to support fire stations closed down. Plus as always for the show,underneath an
in-depth understanding of real world economics. A lot of issues highlighted during the humorous banter.
In
Max Keiser and Scriptonite 'Peoples Water Cannon', in tongue in cheek humour
they debate whether to buy one of the many UK fire engines scraped sold off
cheap to convert to a people's water cannon on the cheap in Austerity Britain:
In today's #trews Max Keiser explains one way in which the government are keeping people poor. Watch it here http://t.co/cY9LeTrLYn
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) June 26, 2014
Max Keiser and Russell brand discuss the legalised extortion of the poor in UK and the apparent fraud immunity by "loan sharks" Wonga being a big Conservative party donor
Can we topple elites by sharing? What's the best use of technology? Who's making us think about immigrants? #trewshttp://t.co/uEVRgc1dIs
— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) June 18, 2014
Above article describes how he fought UK fascism before WWII, when elements of the establishment
including Mosley's 'Brown shirts' fascism was accepted by some of the
establishment at the time.
Austerity Protesters in London (June 2014) sing an Italian anti-fascist resistance movement song that has come to represent international solidarity in protest against oppression in many countries around the world, Bella
Ciao:
Russell Brand comments to Russia Today journalist on lack of UK mainstream media coverage of the protest. He says: ""if people knew what was happening they wouldn't tolerate it... Ignorance is a necessity ingredient for oppression...we are unifying"
For further pictures and Tweets of Austerity Protest in
London(June 21st 2014) link in this
blog:
Architect of austerity chancellor of exchequer Right Honourable Gorge Osborne Golden Chalice silver service free food pic.twitter.com/M9YgzNAH1Y
— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) June 25, 2014
A simplified account
by 'Ripped-off Britons" Guardian blog, of how austerity is used
economically to disadvantage the poor and eventually even middle incomes, with
rich getting richer and inequality increasing. Whilst it presents this
situation up to 2011, with much of the source data in 2010. If a more up to
date figures were included to recent statistics, the situation for mortgages
for instance would be much worse as house prices have no surpassed the 2007
housing bubble, unties and the cost of essential have rocketed and wages of low paid have fallen whilst higher paid have risen and many more in work are paid less than full time minimum wage, along with benefits falling due to cuts in benefits, such things as Bedroom Tax and charging council tax even when the only source of income is job seekers' allowance etc.. Also the highest inflation of essentials hitting the poorest hardest, offset in official figures by the cost of more luxury items falling or not changing as much proportionately, thus inaccurately skewing official inflation figures too with essentials being most important to anyone trying to just trying to survive on what is a meagre amount, near the very bottom level of benefits in the developed world, also amongst low paid amongst the lowest pay in the developed world. Inequality has vastly risen from 2010 to 2014:
Article illustrating
how different forms of taxation and expenditure as a proportion of income and
disposable income vary according to wealth for the poor," Welfare
Myth Three - The Poor Don't Pay Taxes":
Article recommended
in above provides a good illustration and explains clearly the underclass
poverty trap that exists and is in the course through benefit changes in and
out of work, of being intensified inmodern day UK, "BERNADETTE
HORTON examines just some of the effects of the coalition’s hated austerity
agenda":
As worker rights
diminish, wages of low to middle fall, whilst rising for higher paid
executives, along with a pool of mass unemployment and semi-employed flexible
workforce, combines to make UK falling living standards and fewer opportunities
for poor to mid incomes. The demise of the unions has also added to the fall
for those nearer the bottom, with knock-on effect for those nearer the middle
too, whilst those at the top have gained, hence a dividing society with
widening inequality, "UK
needs its unions to avoid joining US in stagnating real wages mire":
UK is winning the race to the bottom in the developed world, taking it close to competing with the Third World, however this is not good for low paid and no paid poor masses in UK.
High
paid politicians cannot be bothered turn up for poor and disabled in UK:
Spanish Senate today at 9am, nothing to resolve... isn't it?
6 million unemployed, evictions, public healthcare...
pic.twitter.com/9Y0H48NI6t
— 15MBcn_int (@15MBcn_int) July 10, 2014
The Socialist Way: The Peoples Assembly disappointing and insignificant http://t.co/Y0lob6Nc1I
— The Socialist Way (@lawrien57) June 25, 2014
Some points to
ponder in the blog item above, by 'The Socialist Way' regarding the 50,000 austerity protest in London
in June 2014. Credit is due to the hard work of organisers and people taking
part, to all those who made real effort and are doing it with the best
intentions, to try to help and save the poor suffering real oppression in UK
today. But there is much more to do, people are suffering, unless a big
movement with good people can really move people by peaceful means, if it can't
do that in time, the risk of a real breakdown of society is very high and with resultant chaos,
factions, a divided nation. Government/media hate propaganda fuelled,
could lead to uncontrollable dangerous results for victims of austerity as well as wider
society.
There is still hope of a
development of unity tofight austerity,
to support those in need, not to abandon or scapegoat, but to fight the false
ideology of austerity and the real villains at the top, breaking society up for
their own relentless greed. Trouble is it is still too little and rather late.
If Austerity for the poor carries on unabated and even worse if it is intensified, then the
type of protest of a peaceful party for unity for good type of atmosphere at the June 2014 event, may not be so positive in inevitable protests, but more confrontational.
The choice is either there can be a society that cares, a more equal one, or
the country and countries will suffer the consequences of societal breakdown.
Workfare has already
been used a rouse, a con to extract work from a lost younger generation, now
the government plan to step up enforcing unpaid work on older redundant, often
due to losses of real jobs being replaced by a transient casual Mcfry type limited
opportunity work, that often selects only the very youngest unemployed, so they
can be treated more casual. This may be acceptable for students trying to earn
some money whist at university, or temporary when starting out, but these same
people are often discarded when they graduate and besides pocket money income
does not support independence and the cost of living in UK, which is amongst
the most expensive places in the world to live.
As retirement age is
extended towards 70, so too is workfare, working full time for benefits that
are far less than minimum wage and inadequate to live on especially for people
who are managing independently and for older unemployed often no alternative as
no means to return to a family to support them, nowhere to turn to.
More people than
ever work on zero hour contracts that are totally inadequate and unreliable,
insecure, also often on minimum wage for less than full time, so income well
below minimum wage. This is added to and supported by a threat to the masses if
they don’t work for minimum wage and less to join further masses of unpaid
labour as part of forced labour schemes removing the need to even pay for lower
skilled work, hence maximising profits for corporations and bonuses for bosses,
men in suits who are not innovative or bringing anything useful , such a being
a cardboard cut-out manger in one of thousands of McFrys around the world, all
the same, all offering the same questionable quality products and using a
virtual slave labour workforce.
Matters are made
even worse where someone is disabled, repeated assessments, declaring unfit as
fit to work and what kind of work, as Artist Taxi Driver often remarks
"slave labour death camps", which for some even many have turned out
to be the case, along with added stresses, physically and mentally, weighing
heavily on what they already have to cope with and chillingly real suicides.
The disabled and
vulnerable are at the mercy ofsystem
designed to make them work until they drop and all for no remuneration, no real
quality of life, no disposable income after paying for bills, inadequate
benefits to even support basic needs.
Workfare Till You
Drop – Esther McVey To Target Older Claimants:
I wonder how many real new jobs would suddenly appear if #Workfare/#MWA and such were abolished. A fair few, I'd imagine.
— Kazzia (@KazzJenkins) June 19, 2014
Amongst any
inaccuracies and debatable uses and interpretations of statistics mentioned by
IDS in the interview, he repeatedly says that workfare lasts 2 months. It
appears workfare together with associated work programme supposed schemes
starts at 2 months and can accumulate into much longer periods of unpaid
employment, even to 12 months and with only short breaks can be repeated adding
up to regular longer periods. In many cases employers use people on workfare
and replace them with other people on workfare at the end of a block of
workfare for each job seeker and they are paid to use free labour thus can make
them much more attractive than even low paid staff on minimum wage or zero hour
contracts as it means increased profits based on being paid by the government
to use free labour instead of paying staff a wage, undercutting even the lowest
wages.
At the youngest end of the spectrum,even children as young as 14 to be
pre-conditioned for a life of servitude, if poor, to be sent on mini
workfare, just like ideas of pre-apprenticeships, word used to describe
low quality menial work programmes:
Government and media working dumbing down the masses, promoting non-jobs working in massive food corporations where everything is replicated. Junk Food that is well named as such, for good reasons, that can be compared to cardboard and synthetic,but contains masses of chemicals. Chefs working there produce identical synthetic food to a formula around the world. Staff are given minimum wage, low pay no pay zero hour contracts to work to sell food to customers that can damage their health, with a hard sell over mainstream media, TV, sports events even in schools to children, to get them addicted before they grow up into adults already addicted to the chemicals they contain and to the familiarisation of going to locations they have always been to out of habit.
On a diet of junk food, with numerous chemical additives and government/corporation sponsored advertising through media, like smoking cigarettes matched with popularity, McBurgers matched with sporting prowess, reality TV boosting shared brainwashed desires to be sports stars or to be on the latest reality TV fad, to win X factor. All this is intentionally, by corporations, advertisers making money, working for governments, mainstream media. All to play down any reports of poisoning, health damaging effects of eating McBurgers. All the while poisoning, becoming addicted. Well-placed mega boxes of booze strategically placed in supermarkets whenever there is a big and every year ever bigger sporting tournament aimed at men but also indirectly aimed at women to join in. All part of a controlled one big society. The next big public celebration promoted like a sitcom in supermarkets across the country, through the media, with politicians getting in on the act holding up newspapers based on propaganda and selling all this to the masses. Somehow the suggestion becomes auto-suggestion, that alcohol leads to being a famous sports person that they may become or that they imagine they are when they watch it, drugged up on crap burgers and alcohol and brainwashed by the TV.
