Tony’s Phoneys

The Westminister Parliament breaks up this week for its long summer recess. They have worked hard this year, haven’t they!
 
For a start there have been all those Inquires to wiggle out of. Four in total, where our Prime Minister has been shown up for what he is. Politicians are generally sleekit bastards, but this one takes the biscuit. He took our county to war on a ‘false prospectus’, using white, grey and black propaganda and is still unrepentant. And for what? Thousands dead, tens of thousands maimed and injured, and hundreds of thousands displaced and homeless. As a consequence it is only a matter of time before an unparalleled attack occurs somewhere in the UK. Reason being that millions in the world hate us.
 
To avert our eyes from these shenanigans Blair et al. are now concentrating on domestic policy. And what a policy that is! Gordon Brown recently announced 60 000 redundancies in the Civil Service. The Civil Service Unions tell us that the real figure will be nearer the 100 000 mark. He offers those to be put out of a job nothing. This is worse than Thatcher’s annihilation of the miners in the 1980’s. I stood with Brown supporting the miners during those terrible times. We both realised the devastating effects of such wholesale redundancies on the individuals concerned, their families and their communities. But like all the rest in his Cabinet he’s now a poacher turned gamekeeper, which sees behaviours of the worst kind visited on those you once called ‘comrade’. Pass me the sick bag.
 
Then there is the Ministry of Defence. What are they, or more accurately Geoff Hoon up to? You’ve guessed it, more redundancies! Hoon this week will announce the biggest cull of UK armed forces in a generation. Cutbacks of around 10,000 are expected from the Royal Air Force and the Navy, while the Army is set to lose as many as 12,000. This is appalling, notwithstanding that since 1997 Blair has launched operations in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq with 45,000 personnel was the biggest deployment since Korea of 50 years ago. Everyone from Private to Chief of the General Staff must be outraged at this reward for services rendered!
 
In all cases we are talking about peoples livelihoods, taken away from them by the mis-called Labour Government.
 
What’s going on here, and what are folk going to do about it?
 
Nothing probably as we are all watching Big Brother. The wrong one.