What’s Up?
Two stories in this morning’s media give rise to the question: “where will it all end?” Before reading these two tales of woe we should remind readers of the Government’s tendency to underestimate – remember the “porky” about the 14,000 east Europeans who were going to arrive in Britain following EU enlargement?
Unemployment sharply up.
Net Unemployment rose 12,000 in the three months to May, taking the overall rate up to 1.62 million, according to official figures.
The number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance also rose markedly, up 15,500 to 840,100 in June - the biggest monthly rise since December 1992.
In contrast, average earnings increased by just 3.8 per cent in the year to May, 0.1 per cent down on the previous month.
Unemployment is a ‘lagging indicator’ which means the true effect of job losses in recent weeks as a result of the credit crunch has not yet been recorded.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics come a day after inflation rose to 3.8 per cent - an 11 year high.
They revealed that, in the three months to May, 118,000 people were made redundant, up 10,000 on the previous quarter.
The rise in the rate of people filing for unemployment benefit is the fifth consecutive increase. Claimants now make up 2.6 per cent of the workforce.
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Inflation sharply up.
Inflation rose to 3.8 per cent yesterday, its highest level for 16 years. And experts warned it could hit five per cent within months.
The prediction comes as economic confidence on both sides of the Atlantic takes a turn for the worse, with new fears for the stability of the global financial system.
The rise reported yesterday means inflation has more than doubled since Labour came to power in May 1997, when it was 1.6 per cent.
Meanwhile, economists predicted that the cost of living will keep on rising and interest rates will not come down.
To make matters worse, the average worker’s pay rise of 3.2 per cent amounts to a pay cut.
The Consumer Price Index, the Government’s preferred measure of inflation, shows that ‘essential’ items, are rising the fastest. Over the last year, the cost of eggs has risen 37.1 per cent, butter 31.5 per cent, beef 17.6 per cent and bread 16.8 per cent. In June, the average price of four pints of milk rose 10p.
The Office for National Statistics, which compiled the figures, said it has not witnessed such a dramatic increase in food and soft drink prices, up 9.5 per cent, since records began almost 20 years ago. A household which spent £100 a week on food last year now needs to find another £18 a week, or £936 a year.
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Of course, we could add “immigration sharply up” – but that’s another story.
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I have said this before that we will now see inflation spiral out of control.The Labour party absolutely need the unions to fund any future elections because they are broke.
The unions at the moment are in policy discussions with Labour officials about their next manifesto. The unions know the weakness of Brown’s position so they will now act.
They will push for above inflation wage rises which will force the private sector to demand parity which will in turn push up prices and hence inflation will creep up.
Labour dare not upset the unions so they have no room to manoeuvre.Darling and Brown will act tough for a week or two but will back down. Unfortunately for us,the taxpayer,the worst is yet to come. Watch out for the “Summer of discontent”.
Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring - Ed
It is said that History repeats itself, so here we go again, it’s the 60’s and 70’s all over again. The 80’s saw the Tories inflict pain on all of us, but after 18 years the inflationary tendencies were lower. At the moment all Nationalists know that it is uncontrolled immigration into this Country that is forcing overcrowding, higher pollution, higher congestion and higher taxation. The porkies told by this Government are really fantastic, and more people are seeing through the lies. Lets hope that the BNP will have a few MP’s elected in the next Parliament to stem all of this. So, let us get our message across.
Check this out on todays AOL news:
The UK offers among the lowest quality of life in Europe despite residents earning the highest incomes, according to research.
The price of fuel and other essential goods, below average spending on health and education, short holidays and late retirement place the UK just above Ireland at the bottom of the uSwitch.com European quality of life index.
Although British families earn more than £10,000 more than the European average, they pay the highest prices for diesel, 18% above the average, and the second highest price for unleaded petrol, 6% more than average. They also pay 49% more for gas and 5% more for electricity - the third highest prices in Europe.
UK spending on healthcare and education is below the European average while life expectancy is the third lowest at 78.9 years, compared to 80.9 in France or 80.7 in Sweden.
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Search Workers have the third highest retirement age and suffer the shortest holiday entitlement - a week below average, according to the study. The weather adds to to the grim tally, with Britain receiving 80% less sunshine than Spain and 17% less than the European average.
A total of 41,026 residents left the UK in 2006, the highest number in Europe, with total emigration increasing by 30% from the UK since 2001.
The study assessed 19 factors to rank the UK in relation to nine other major countries across Europe.
Spain offers the best quality of life in Europe, despite families earning an annual net income of just £16,789 - £8,500 below the average and less than half that of the UK.
The country enjoys low taxation, cheaper essential goods, higher than average life expectancy and a generous holiday allowance, uSwitch said.
France came second, boasting the second highest spend on healthcare and the highest holiday allowance at 40 days.
I have always known the government have lied about unemployment, they use all types of tactics to cover up the true number……..
If your are infact unemployed but are on a Training for Work programme - you are omitted from the figures.
If you are unemployed but do not qualify for any financial help - you are omitted from the figures.
If you are unemployed but are classed as Disabled, wether it be long term or short term - you are omitted from the figures.
They have lied to you from day one and will continue until they are removed, they have never been fit for office and this country fooled itself into thinking they were.
Blair was in the Middle East yesterday and had to get out due to terrorist threats ??
(Would those threats be from the same group the Arch Dhimmie of Cant doesn’t want to offend? -Ed )
I heard a good one yesterday, when a Labour supporter told me the unemployment figures under Thatcher… when I told him the true figures under Labour, ie. disability, asylum seekers, work shy scum bags, etc. he wondered why his national tabloid newspapers were telling lies ? I think he has cancelled his membership to the Labour party. GOOD LAD
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Direct him to this site for a reality check. -Ed
The hair on the back of my neck IS UP……… AND MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS UP AS WELL………. Dave
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Imagine how the public are going to feel when they eventually find out what’s been done to them - Ed
Yeah, a lot of people face getting their benefit stopped, they must work on a `new deal` scheme for their dole, or get nothing… my mate is on it now, so in theory he is working for less than the minimum wage, which i thought was against the law, the unions don`t care, they are only interested in `minority` workers!
I have been putting ideas in my mates head about acting dumb and just being a plain nuisance in his new `place of work`, but any nonsense he gets dismissed and loses his benefits, which in his case also includes the roof over his head, this nonsense lasts for 13 weeks, then he`s back on the dole with nothing to show for it, no certificates or qualifications…
I honestly can not see the point in it, it still costs the tax payer money - more in fact, the only person benefiting is the employer who gets free unconditional labour (in fact I think he gets paid by the DWP for taking people on), but of course he`s not classed as unemployed anymore and that makes good reading for Gordon Brown & co!
Whichever way you look at it, it`s a form of slavery!
We were all sold the pup that technology would increase leisure time. “Leisure time” More commonly refered to as “Redundancy” “The dole” or “Early retirement”
The last one meaning in most cases a reduced pension from your company. Add to those the genuine recipients of Incapacity Benefit. That is one hell of a lot on leisure time. I spend a lot of my leisure time in the winter trying to keep warm, and the rest of the year searching the high street for the best food deals. Unlike my MP who can do all his shopping at one stop John Lewis. So whats up? Whats up is my gander, Thats whats up. Still as my old gran always said. “Don’t get angry, get even”
Well said AgentIron………
They have been doing it since the mid 80’s in the guise of YOP (Youth Opportunity Programme) & YTS (Youth Training Scheme). Was given different names for older people and has also had name changes when people refuse to go on these abhorent schemes.
The councils have no right to refuse benefits, because under the ECHR and their own charter, they are not allowed people to live below the poverty line. So if I was your friend I would seek legal advice on it and see if tehre is a good way around it, because lest face it, you end up working for nothing.
Not that people should be allowed to continuosly claim benefits as I am totally against that but they are yet again not being fair and making any immigrnt work for their benefits, I think anyone who is allowed into this country should have to work to get any help at all, they should be made to work on cleaning canals, streets or parks and anythink else for tha tmatter.
“But we have always had Capitalism,” I hear you cry, “it has served us well. It beats the only alternative which is Communism.”
This is the line so embedded in the minds of the people and is reiterated almost as totem. Establishments across the world have worked incessantly and in collusion to create this mindset…and conceal a very plausible, fair and wholly workable third way that would once again put the modes of production back into the hands of the worker.
(The very probable fact that none of you have heard of the term ‘Distributism’ is a case in point.)
Under a Distributist economic system never again will you work for those who don’t want to; never again will profits come before people; never again will you be exploited by the machine and its use of international usury and internal purposeful wage reductions…because “Workers Will Own and Owners Will Work”.
What is Distributism? http://www.distributist.blogspot.com/2007/01/distributism-defined.html
The New Distributist League: http://distributistleague.blogspot.com
Why not purchase a copy of Hilaire Belloc’s Economics for Helen, to be found in Excalibar shop at an extremely reasonable sum of £5: http://products.bnp.org.uk/acatalog/Economics.html
Open your mind and read all about the things that Capitalist systems work tirelessly to keep from you. Enjoy.
Inflation does not creep up it rockets up. Whence comes inflation? Contrary to popular belief almost all inflation is caused by governments printing more worth-little promissory notes(money). Britain is crippled with incredible numbers of no-such jobs. We could dispense with 90% of Snivelling Servants and the supernumaries in local government without ill effect.
Until we start pruning these cast-iron, copper bottomed, gold plated pensioned parasites,we have no future. Every week every council is hiring more Cognitive, Outreach, Normalisation, Developement operation managers etc. All town planning should be ceased because it has knackered Britain.
Inflation (as has been mentioned already) hits the poor far worse than it hits the rich. The poor spend a greater part of their income on essentials, and as reported, essentials (foodstufs, fuel and energy), are rising more sharply than the luxuries the poor can never indulge in anyway.
Some time before the recent onset of fuel increases, I calculated that the real inflation rate then pertaining to me was a little above 7%; so much for the Government’s official inflation rate! This will be quite a lot higher now, as fuel prices have risen since I calculated this rate.
For many years I worked as an economics analyst:- I have only the most pessimistic outlooks for both the British and global economies. I foresee virtually no end in sight to price rises, not until the superheated system implodes, at which point huge suffering will ensue. Society will collapse into chaos and violence. Many people will . . . . die.
It will be the BNP’s unenviable task, nay, mission, to create order and hope from this horror. I believe that only the BNP can do so.
Slightly off subject, but I received the local council’s magazine; a 32 page waste of good pulp and ink, that our local council insists on ramming through our letterboxes every month.
Page 12 was their proud boast of having 5 outreach centres to cater for immigrant workers.
One of its aims is to assist these ‘workers’ in claiming benefits, housing, registering ‘hate’ crime and to deal with any ‘employment exploitation issues’.
Nice to know the council are rolling out the red carpet and bending over backwards to accomodate the very people who are taking our jobs, lowering our wages and standard of living; all whilst fiddling our tax system!
But on the plus side, there’s a recipe for a traditional Polish salad … which looks no different to any other salad and is probably the council’s way of saying:
“They`re good people, they eat the same food as us you know?”
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They conveniently forgot to mention: “…the only difference is, you have to pay for yours, they don’t…you do.” - Ed
I suspect that inflation has been fuelled to a large extent by all the toxic funny paper which institutions in the City and Wall Street have been selling to each other. An enormous amount of credit has been created without anything to back it, unlike the old days when we were on the gold standard and the pound note was backed by a gold sovereign. In a way, the derivative markets, etc, have had a similar effect on the economy as would have occured if the government had printed banknotes willy nilly.
I see today that JCB, the digger manufacturer (a great British producer) is also going to give five hundred and fifty (yes, that’s 550), or 10% of its workforce their marching orders. So it looks like it’s all coming apart at the seams then!
My work place has slowed down. My work mate and I were working out a load when a bigwig walked by and asked if we had nothing to do. Before we had even answered he said, “Maybe there’s too many people working here.” We should all watch our backs–its going to hurt soon.
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We understand that the scenario you describe is occuring throughout all the building trades.
Welcome aboard, V8ONLY - ED
If everything is going up, then hopefully “Time’s up for Nu-Labour”!
Although this is bad news for the general population in the short term, after all, it is they who will have to suffer the consequences of autocratic rule of an incompetent government, (notwithstanding the international problems).
However, this could be good news for the BNP as more people take a serious look at the policies and politicians of the gang of three and find them wanting.
If unemployment rises, making national workers redundant but immigrants keeping their jobs, this could be the best recruiting sergeant that the Party could have, as many nationals would naturally look to a party that they perceive would best suit their interests and aspirations.
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Please don’t mock the disabled or put them into the same catagory as the asylum seekers, the bone idle & the glass-backs who claim benefits as many of the disabled actually WANT to work & would love to go out & work but simply can’t or are unable to do so due to their circumstances, also there are many carers in this country who have had to give up full time work & jobs with good salaries to look after their disabled family members on nothing more than a pittance.
For decades the ruling party have fiddled with how best to measure unemployment. Not for our sake, not for sake of reducing it but purely to put a rather rosy glow on their ‘economic miracles’.
Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. They do it with unemployment, crime, waiting lists, government efficiency statistics, immigration figures, illegal immigrant repatriation figures, education pass rates, etc etc.
In short, they tell the most gigantic of porkies
Given the lack of any suggestion, from “official” or unofficial sources, that there is any likelihood in the immediate future of any let-up in spiralling prices, inflation, pay increases which amount to pay cuts, and ever more employment layoffs, at least of indigenous workers, it does appear that the Bilderberg Group bankers are engineering a MkII version of the Great Depression which they devised in 1929, also by withdrawing cash available for mortgages and other forms of credit, with the addition this time of artificially hiked oil prices.
The objective in 1929 was to preciptate the financial collapse of vast numbers of manufacturers and infrastructure companies such as railways, electricity suppliers and many others. These were then bought up for peanuts, quietly sat on for almost a decade and then reactivated to manufacture and distribute the armaments needed for the war started by the German dictator whose rise to power the
international bankers had funded.
The objective this time is quite different. It is, I strongly suspect, to reduce the North American and West European nations to a state of desperate penury in which they will lack the will to resist whatever draconian controls the gloablist, New World Order ruling elite may choose to inflict on them.
One would not expect the normally consummately wily Bilderberg/NWO conspirators to indulge in gambling but this strategy of deliberately impoverishing the formerly industrialised Western nations could go horribly wrong. Why? Because social condition are not what they were in 1929.
People today not only have higher expectations but many of them are now far more politically aware, have far fewer expectations that their governments will “do the right thing” and are much more knowledgeable about the extremes of corruption endemic among their politicians. In short, whereas the
people of 1929 were credulous and trusting, today’s populations are much more cynical and distrustful of politicians. Instead of getting what they thought they were going to get, the Bilderbergers could end up witnessing the sudden collapse of LibLabConspiracy and the EUSSR dictatorship and facing the wrath of many Western nations led by a crop of nationalist governments.
Britain and the BNP will lead the way out of the Bilderbergers’ dungeon and the gaolers had better run for their lives.