Cameron's As Bent As Blair And Brown

Cameron to give charities cash in drive to beat welfare ‘failure’ | News

David Cameron attacked the “moral failure” of state-run welfare today as he announced radical plans to use taxpayers' cash to fund charities helping the poorest in society.

The Tory leader pledged to match Labour's commitment to eradicating child poverty but said that a Conservative government would use community groups rather than the state to mend “broken Britain”.

Mr Cameron revealed that he would award welfare franchises across the country to charities which proved they could help the jobless into work or give other assistance to the n

Further proof (though none was actually needed) that Cameron and his 'progressive' Conservatives are exactly the same as Blair, Brown and the New Labour social fascists.

This policy is just a continuation of New Labour's suborning of what they call the 'Third Sector' to further their own policies and 'values'.

Fuck you, Cameron.

TrEUble Ahead For Dave?

Barking Spider: THINK AGAIN, DAVE!

We've been sold down the river by all our political leaders ever since the arch-traitor Edward Heath dropped us in the European Trap. There's no reason to suspect the next bunch will be any different.

It really will be a case of us having to do something ourselves.

Surely there must also be other like-minded people right across Europe?

Cameron's Necessary Purge

One of the things that Cameron will need to do once he becomes PM is purge the public system system of its Labour stooges infesting the multitude of quangos and other public bodies. HT Voice of the Resistance for pointing out this article in The Spectator, which makes the point very clearly.

The closer David Cameron gets to the election, the more he may come to realise how short-lived the elation following his victory may be. Defeating an exhausted Labour party will be the easy part. Winning real power will be a separate, longer battle — and one that requires him to outwit an enemy far more cunning and resilient than Gordon Brown. To transform Britain means seeing off the cronies, placemen and political stooges with whom the government has packed the boards of Britain’s quangos.

Over the Labour years these groups have swelled from an irritant into a state within a state. With 700,000 employees and boards that read like a who-was-who of the Blair/Brown era, the quangos will represent Labour’s stay-behind fifth column. Not only are the quangocrats implacably opposed to the Conservatives’ reform programme, but they are better placed than even the wiliest Sir Humphrey to thwart change and mount a guerrilla insurgency against public spending controls.

To Quango Or Not To Quango

Cameron says quangos to be more accountable under the Tories:

He said: "There is a lot of money to be saved, but more to the point, we want to make these more democratically accountable, so that people don't feel the rage and anger against the machine that they have no control over."

Mr Cameron's remarks were made as he announced that a Conservative government would cut the number of unelected quangos in "a massive shift in power from bureaucracy to democracy".

Shadow Cabinet ministers have been told to review every publicly-funded independent body within their briefs to determine which should be scrapped or slimmed down.

A list of quangos can be found at the Taxpayers' Alliance site.

On the other side of the divide (such as it is) Matthew Taylor comes up with a number of reasons to beware of 'quango bashing'. He ends

The big challenge for Government is to stop doing things or to do things massively more efficiently. Getting rid of quangos may or may not contribute. Still, neither major party is facing up to the scale of the public sector spending cuts and, as the Sunday Times correctly reported yesterday, despairing civil servants are taking matters in to their own hands. ‘Quango bashing’ is clever politics but, too often, lazy policy making.

He doesn't consider the possibility that many quangos may actually a total waste of time and money, for instance. If they are then they should be abolished, irrespective of how small the saving is.

Cameron To Cut ID Cards And Identity Register?

Cameron has just said on BBC that things like the ID card system AND the Identity Register need to be cut.

Then he was asked about Tory plans to let private private companies have access to our medical records. Cameron sidestepped by saying this was part of a review that they were still to look at. No doubt they will actually carry on with that, but the BBC presenter failed to mention that this is already happening under New Labour anyway.

It would be ironic if the overwhelming need to cut public spending caused the demise of New Labour's police state plans.

Will Cameron End Big Brother State?

Cameron has pledged to end Labour's Big Brother state.

Just how much this is playing for a few votes remains to be seen, but it's significant that a major politician is actually talking about it. Up till the last year there has been a total silence. The media, have, as usual, been criminally neglectful of the attacks on our freedom.

I look forward to seeing Dave dismantle this legislation. I shall volunteer my services as a Molotov Cocktail filler if he backtracks.

Database Cretins

The Database State. Deserves repeating till people understand. HT NHS.

Sad when our main hope is that Cameron delivers on his pledge of 'right to data'.

UK Climbs EU Hate and Police State Rankings

HT Old Holborn: Britain Comes 5th in International Police State Tables or something like that. Must do better.

PJC Journal has a go at Cameron's speech yesterday.

Ranting Stan does the same re: the EU, the expanding elephant in the room.

The Taxpayers' Alliance comes up with some entertaining results from a poll on the EU:

People are so annoyed by EU rules that 69% want the British Government to start breaking them and disobeying Brussels. Only 28% of people believe Britain should obey EU rules. A majority of Conservatives (78%), Labour supporters (65%), Liberal Democrats (59%) and Others (70%) support disobedience. The policy has overwhelming support across every social class and region of the UK.

And more. How soon before people start defacing EU emblems and flags, etc?

Cameron Broken BBC Politics Goes Post-Bureaucratic

Oh, to be in Blighty:

in Britain today a growing culture of rule-following, box-ticking and central prescription robs people of the chance to use their judgement or to take responsibility for making the right decisions.

And an increasingly Orwellian surveillance state - symbolised by the simultaneously ineffective and intrusive ID cards scheme - reminds people that the powers-that-be don't really trust them.

So this compounds the rage that we feel.

We rage that as we go about our business we are picked and poked and bossed around, annoyed and irritated and endlessly harassed by public and private sector officialdom...

...that treats us like children with rules and regulations and directives and laws that no-one voted for, no-one supports, but no-one ever seems to be able to do the slightest thing about.

No trust. No discretion. No judgment.

Astute words from David Cameron, who seems to have caught something essential in the public mood that is eluding Labour and the mainstream media. But...he's a politician salivating at the prospect of being Prime Minister and he'll promise anything he thinks will get him votes.

As Neue Arbeit Macht Frei points out, the central problem is not properly addressed, ie that to regain our national sovereignty and democracy we must leave the EU. Cameron is kite-flying when it comes to the EU - he's the only UK political leader daring to talk about it openly. If the anti-European powder trail catches fire he may end up with something he hadn't bargained on.

Just watched the BBC 6 o'clock news version of events. No mention of the EU, of course, and, in the interest of 'balance', a deft redirection to the line that all the major political parties are urging reform, then back on to the expenses saga.

Cue also the execrable Straw, defending the government's indefensible track record, inviting Cameron to cross-party talks on the issue. He deserves a punch in the face.

Lisbon Lickspittles and Labour Elitism

Hatfield Girl demands Cameron Commit Unequivocally to a Rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.

I think it would be a vote winner, especially in the light of the EU's vast waste of (our) money, including on phantom MEPs on full pay.

Peter Hitchens reckons we don't need a general election, because there's just another bunch of neo-liberal, Blairite EU lickspittles:

most Members of Parliament have been purchased by the European Union and the liberal elite.

They know that their absurdly padded lifestyles are their reward for selling their souls to power, for concealing that 80 per cent of what they do is rubber-stamping European law, and most of the rest is pursuing the relentless agendas of political correctness.

They dared not ask us for more pay, because they feared we would enquire too deeply into what they do and what they don’t do.

So they fiddled themselves more money in secret complicity with their true masters.

There should be no General Election until most of them - and I mean most of them - have retreated in shame into private life.

It's a horrible thing to contemplate, but we may end up with a bunch of tossers even worse than the ones we've got now.

And talking of the new intake lining themselves up for ascension, Boris Johnson has an interesting article on the (now failed) attempt of Georgia Gould (23, daughter of Labour privilege) to secure the nomination for a parliamentary seat.

Lisbon Treaty Constitution Cloud Stink Looms Over UK

'Lisbon Treaty shadow looms large over UK elections' - is the headline on Euractiv.com, in a suitably EU-friendly article about Britain's Euroscepticism, concentrating on David Cameron's promise to hold a referendum.

The only practical reason to vote in these elections is to show the EU how much we want out of it.