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THE LABOUR LEGACY
1997 - 2010
Labour ruled for 13 years, this in spite of receiving less than 30% of the total votes that
could have been cast by the voting population in England. In 1999 Scotland gained its
own Parliament and the Scottish MPs in Westminster thereby became redundant, both as a
voting entity and a right to sit in the House of Commons, yet they continue to do so. Their
Scottish leaders, Blair and Brown, one a lawyer the other a former television producer,
managed to wreak havoc between them in their English fiefdom.
Blair, who brought about the biggest demographic upheaval in the history of England,
where 93.5% of immigrants have settled, has gone. Brown, blaming a global crisis for our
economic woes, but he himself the root cause of them, has just resigned. This overview
records some of the events and aftermath of their legacy.

Blair
Introduced a presidential-style of government. Lacking management skills and experience
in government, he surrounded himself with advisors, ‘experts’ and consultants. The Civil
Service became onlookers, their traditional role and advice frozen out.
As Prime Minister:
In 1999 he committed the UK to support a European Rapid Reaction Force, an unreported,
monumental blunder. The costs and waste were prodigious:
£14billion was overpaid in European contracts; an anti-tank missile failed to perform –
loss £109million; withdrawal from a ‘Boxer’ armoured car project – loss £57million;
withdrawal from a similar project with the US – loss £131million; the Eurofighter was
beset with endless problems and overcosts. The entire project was an unmitigated fiasco
and had a direct bearing on the funds left to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Led the country into these two wars; in the case of Iraq presented a flawed ‘weapons of
mass destruction’ reason for doing so.
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Reneged on holding a referendum on Europe.
Meekly surrendered the EU rebate, so ferociously fought for by Thatcher.
Treated Parliament as an irritant.
Undermined the moral standards of public life by countenancing/endorsing:
The Cash for Honours debacle.
Having banned cigarette smoking in public places, allowed Formula One
advertising in return for a £1million donation from Ecclestone.
Suppressed the enquiry into the Saudi Arabian military contract.
In 1997 disgracefully abolished the Assisted Places Scheme for poorer children.

When the EU expanded its membership he opened our borders to East Europeans who
eventually numbered 600,000. France and Germany did not allow this, using a clause
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allowed for in EU rules for a seven-year moratorium, avoiding the consequences that have
engulfed our local authorities, schools, NHS, utility supplies, housing and transport.
Deliberately and culpably engineered mass immigration on a monumental scale from
outside the EU, the greatest act of betrayal in our history. The consequences for future
generations are incalculable. Appendices I and II detail exactly how he achieved this, and
his motives.
As a direct consequence of his actions, he increased considerably the security threat to our
nation and stirred, in our midst, a religion whose customs and traditions are at variance
with Christian and other religions.
Completely disregarded the plight of the underclass and the traditional supporters of
Labour and gave no thought, help or consideration whatever to the trauma caused by the
tsunami of foreigners arriving in their midst.
Allowed the unions Unite and Unison to pervade and influence government policies and
actions. 59 Unite and 64 Unison nominees now stand in safe Labour seats. One member of
Unite actually worked in No.10 in the Policy Unit, her salary and pension funded by
Unite.
Labour receives £8million a year from unions, who have become increasingly militant.
However, since 1998 Labour gave more than £135million to the unions - taxpayers’
money, much of it presented under the guise of ‘education’, ‘skills training’ or
‘modernization’. The spectre of regenerated union militancy now faces the new
Parliament.
Failed to initiate and implement a long-term strategy for the economy and manufacturing,
especially for the provision of electricity, which should have had priority as early as 2002.
Failed to address and tackle the rapid decline in the manufacturing base of England. In this
respect grossly failed to set out and implement a policy and schemes to provide the
younger English generations with the skills and opportunities for life enhancement. Each
of these failures enforces the fact that England is the only major country in the world
not in control of its own destiny.

Brown
Became Chancellor in 1997 (Balls and Miliband were both intimately involved in the
operations of the Brown Treasury).
Stopped tax-relief on dividends paid to pension funds, leading to the collapse of a system
that had been the envy of Europe. The action has cost occupational pension schemes
£175billion and has led to the near-extinction of final salary schemes.
Freed the Bank of England to set interest rates, but stopped it from regulating the financial
sector, which ultimately contributed to the banking crisis.
Betrayed the Armed Services with lack of funding, particularly the withdrawal of
£1.4billion from the MoD budget to buy helicopters, and lied to the Chilcot enquiry about
it.
May 1999 – sold 395 tonnes of the Bank of England’s gold reserves at $275.6 an ounce,
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the lowest price in two decades. Price today - $1,211.2 an ounce. Total loss to the
economy - £11billion.
Omitted housing costs from the price index, contributing to the house-price bubble.
Poured money wastefully into the economy. From 2000 – 2008 spending rose 4% per
annum in real terms. 3.6% was in extra outlay on services and no less than 16.4% annually
in public investment. The non-productive public sector rising to 6.08 million employees
by 2010.
Encouraged a hands-off approach to the City and banks, leading to profligacy and risktaking and ultimately to the meltdown in the banking sector. When Brown became
Chancellor the national debt was £400 billion having taken a little over 300 years to reach
that amount. The Office of National Statistics forecast for the national debt in 2010 is £2.1
trillion.
Brown’s intention to raise living standards generally was diluted by Blair’s covert
operation to flood England with immigrants. Over a 7-year period the population exploded
by 3.6 million, eager to take advantage of Blair’s Trojan Horse treachery and Brown’s
largesse.
Between the immigrants, the public sector and his munificence, Brown had a big problem
with finance. One solution was to sell the ‘English family silver’. This included the energy
companies. Blair colluded: ‘Liberalised energy markets and more open markets are good
for business and for consumers, right across Europe’. The French and Germans strongly
disagreed and hung on to theirs, along with their industrial base, because they were
‘strategic assets’.
Assets sold to foreigners, disposed of, purloined, included household-name English
companies.
Not all of the utilities, authorities and firms listed here were publicly owned. However,
because a ‘public interest test’ clause was omitted from a shake-up of competition law,
introduced by Blair and Brown, it allowed national firms to pass into foreign ownership.
This was contrary to the policy of France and Germany, who realized the importance and
value of retaining such assets. One wonders if such an attitude would have prevailed had
there been a ‘Scotch’ distillery for sale.
The Water Industry; Cadbury – to Kraft; Camelot; British Steel (Corus) – India; Hanson;
ICI; Virgin Atlantic (partly); Maritime Rescue Service; Gatwick Airport – to an American
company; BAA – sold to the Spanish group Ferovial; The Car Industry (Jaguar, Rover,
Bentley, Rolls-Royce); Arriva to Deutsche Bhan; Tetley Tea; Stella; Boots to Italy; The
Ports Authorities – passed from P&O to Dubai World; 3 English building societies – to
Spanish company Santander; Electricity Suppliers – to EDF (of France) and E.on (of
Germany); The Atomic Energy Industry – EDF (French) will now build all our atomic
power stations; Westinghouse, our last world-class nuclear construction company, sold at
a knock-down price to Japan; Internal sales in England of barracks, airfields, playing
fields formed part of the rampage. (Since we won the Olympic bid in 2005, 50 stateschool sports’ fields have been sold off).
Darling, to fund his new Green Investment Bank, planned to sell off more English assets:
The Tote
The Dartford Crossing

Future sales were under consideration:
Aldershot Garrison – Home of the British Army
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Student Loans Company

Shrewsbury Garrison

Consumers have paid the price:
Water. Foreign companies regularly make 30 - 40% profits in the UK. In Europe 5 -10%.
Electricity – 2004/5 profits in the UK 29%, 2005/6 – 31%.
In addition to their profligacy, Labour errors cost the taxpayer a great deal:
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Abandonment of super casinos.
Failure of regulation of the financial sector.
Partial/total failure of IT projects across the board.
Bungled introduction of Home Information Packs.
Assets Recovery Agency fiasco – cost £2 billion
The Millenium Dome – £800 million to build; given away.
Botched SAT exam markings – an American company runs it.
Collapse of Metronet – £800 million was spent on accountants and consultants
to force through its creation – all lost.
GPs’ and dentists’ ill-drafted contracts – a 30% pay rise for less hours and
minimum callout requirements.

Had Brown kept public spending at the level of the previous administration, he
would have been £1.35 trillion better off in 2010, allowing for inflation.
David Craig, in his book ‘Squandered’ summarizes the Labour’s waste:
Health

£269,200,000,000

Education

£185,700,000,000

Police/Public Order

£ 80,200,000,000

Welfare

£343,300,000,000

Others

£350,700,000,000

Total:

£1 trillion, 229.1 billion

Lord Malloch-Brown, on stepping down from his ministerial post in July 2009: ‘Gordon
Brown’s government is more chaotic than many administrations in the developing world.
Brown as Chancellor helped to create a culture of cronyism at the Treasury with the
appointment of Labour trustees, which subsequently shattered morale and the traditional
Civil Service independence of mind.’
Ben Bernanke, regarded by many as the world’s most powerful banker: ‘The UK was illprepared to meet the banking crisis because Brown, when Chancellor, had stripped the
Bank of England of its power to regulate banks’ – 4th December 2009 New York.
Nicolas Sarkozy, French President – interview 6th February 2009: ‘France will not be
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repeating Gordon Brown’s mistakes. The British government is running up such debts that
it could ruin the country because borrowed money is not being invested in assets. The UK
manufacturing industry is effectively dead and the country is paying the price for relying
on financial services to boost the economy’.
The following sub-sections give an idea about the mess we’re in. The facts, drawn from a
wide range of sources, represent a fraction of the chronic social and economic malaise we
have been led into:

Agriculture
Since 1997 the UK self-sufficiency in food production has fallen from 75% to 60%:
35% less beef, 25% less lamb, 35% less pork. In 1985 we had 28,000 dairy farmers. In
2010 there are just 11,551. We now import 1.5 million litres of milk daily.
Prescott, when deputy prime minister – ‘The Green Belt is a Labour achievement and we
intend to build on it’.
To rub agricultural noses into their middens, 200 ‘community champions’ have been
appointed to escort ethnic minorities through rural areas because of a fear of racial abuse –
‘Islamophobia is discouraging Muslims from walking the moors’ – Zainab Abubaker,
community champion. The creation of these ‘champions’ and the reasons given for them
are an insult to country dwellers and an example of political correctness gone mad.

Banks/Building Societies
The fiascos of Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB were due to a
complete lack of regulatory control.

Benefits’ Culture
1997 – 100,000 receiving £20,000 per annum
2009 – 300,000 receiving £20,000 per annum
Number of benefits available in 2010 – 50 types
Tax Credits Payment Fiasco - £2billion overpaid
1997 - £93billion spent on Social Security benefits; in 2010 - £193billion forecast

Bonus Culture
Coucher, of Network Rail.
Total remuneration 2007- 8 £1,224,000 including annual bonus £306,000; long-term
incentive scheme £205,000; pension contributions £169,000; benefits £25,000, in spite of
a record £14million fine for three separate major engineering fiascos. The Commons
Transport Select Committee ‘widespread complacency, flawed management’.

Consultants
Government spending per annum on consultants was £7 billion, including IT consultants,
those used by local authorities and quangos.
McCarthy, consultant to the Financial Services Authority, paid £4,972 per day.
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Hoon, when Defence Minister, spent £195million on consultants for an aircraft-carrier that
was never built.
The Home Office, between 2005-2008, spent £383 million on consultants. The Treasury
spent £150 million on consultants during the banking crisis.
In 2006 The National Audit Office report stated that there was no proof of any benefits
from consultancies such as Logica – paid £431million over a 3-4 year period and
Accenture paid £350million.
The Immigration and National Directorate hired management consultants at a cost of
£21million to try and work out what the Directorate was supposed to be doing.
David Craig’s book ‘Plundering the Public Sector’ tells the full story.

Councils/Local Government/Housing Associations
Pay-rise awards for senior council officers between 2007 and 2008 averaged 15%.
Councils poach Chief Executives. Mammoth redundancy packages and bonuses are paid.
1,250 council chiefs earn £100,000 plus; 31 earn more than the Prime Minister.
Lincolnshire County Council have 480 staff paid more than £50,000 per annum – up from
369 the year before. 25% of council tax goes towards paying council pensions.
Housing Associations are self-accounting, self-regulating and pay themselves whatever
they think they can get away with.
Examples of Chief Executives’ Salaries:
Belcher, Anchor Trust
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Cowan, Place For People
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Bennett, Sanctuary HA
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Ekford, Affinity South
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Shackleton, Riverside
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Walls, Gentoo Groups
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Rogers, Circle Anglia
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Dow, The Guinness Partnership
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Montague, L & Q
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Vedi, Genesis HG
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£391,000
£321,052
£288,000
£260,263
£231,000
£214,625
£213,000
£207,000
£200,000
£194,000

Criminal Justice System
Annual cost – £18.2billion plus £1billion on ‘overheads’.
Legal Aid – £100million over budget.
2001/2 police overtime costs - £284million
2006/7 police overtime costs - £412million
2009 police overtime costs - £500million which includes £100million to police ‘binge’
drinking.

Economy
The national debt is scheduled to double to £1.4trillion by 2014/15 requiring interest
payments of £63billion per annum. In 2010 the government deficit, that is, what it has to
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borrow annually to remain afloat is £158billion.
Report by the Office for National Statistics – ‘The manufacturing share of the economy
under Blair/Brown declined almost three times faster than under Thatcher. In 1997 –
manufacturing accounted for 20% of the economy. In 2007 manufacturing accounted for
12.4% of the economy.’ (In Germany, manufacturing accounts for 24% of the economy).
The deficit balance of trade in 1997 was minus £12.3billion and in 2006 it had risen to
minus £83.6billion.

Education
‘Parents know their children are not achieving what they might, despite unimaginable
increases in the education budget, because teachers are disproportionately trying to make
sure that the new arrivals (immigrants) catch up with everyone else’.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Report 24 th January 2010
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Placings for UK 15-year-olds in the international education table:
Science – 14th
Reading – 17th
Maths – 24th
In 2008, 2,200 children were sent home every day in the UK for misdemeanours.
In 2008 200,000 were expelled or suspended from schools in the UK
Politeia – ‘Teachers in England are the least educated in the developed world. Up to 50%
of maths teachers have never studied A-levels’.
Boys from low income families – 63% are unable to read or write at age 15.
1 in 4 pupils leaves primary school unable to read or write properly and about 2/5 ths of 16year-olds fail to get 5 good GCSEs, including maths and English.

Energy
Miliband – ‘Estimated increase costs of green-produced electricity to household bills
-17%’. The government’s own Business and Enterprise Department estimated – 55%.
Anglesey Aluminium – closed. ‘No longer economical because of increasing electricity
charges’.
Green taxes now make up 9% of customer bills. By 2020 it will be 20%.
Source: OFGEM.
2010 – Gas imports. 50% of gas used in the UK.
2020 – Gas imports. 80% of gas used in the UK.
There has been a consummate failure in government planning to provide strategic storage
capacity for gas reserve supplies.
OFGEM figures for wind power:
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Blyth Harbour – 7.9% of maximum capacity
Chelker Reservoir – 8.7% maximum capacity
The majority of wind turbines give an output of 25% of electricity; the best 50% (at 56% a
safety lock operates to prevent structural damage).
Failure in strategic planning to anticipate electricity supplies is epitomized by the
requirement for nuclear energy, which should have been addressed as early as 2002.

The EU
One third of all legislation and 70% of economic and social law in England now originates
from Brussels. The cost of membership for 2010/11 - £6.5billion.
Waste and corruption are endemic – the auditors have refused to sign off the accounts for
the last 13 years.

Housing
Irresponsible lending has fuelled runaway house prices.
Santander (Spanish) now owns 3 English building societies, offers loans 5.5 x income.
Floor space rating – Europe:
1st – Greece. Average floor space: 126.4m2
15th (and last) is the UK – floor space 76 m2
1.7 million people are currently awaiting social housing. One in twelve council houses are
occupied by immigrants.

Human Rights
The Equality and Human Rights Commission was formed in 2007 to enforce compliance,
but has done more to diminish the sense of fair play and natural justice that had existed in
our country than any other piece of legislation. It has empowered judges to become
political activists and created undreamed wealth for the legal glitterati.
The list of abuses, exploitation, irresponsible rulings by judges are now so widespread that
they run into volumes, but three examples give an idea of the depth of their indulgence:
An illegal immigrant (a Bolivian) could not be deported as it would breach his human
rights as he and his girlfriend had a cat. Gleeson, the presiding judge joked, ‘the cat need
no longer fear to have to adapt to Bolivian mice’.
Hodge, a part-time judge, partner in a law firm rescinded the deportation order of
Mohammed Kendeh, a serial sex-attacker, on the grounds that it would breach his rights to
a family life.
Ahsan Sabri, an illegal immigrant, unlicensed and uninsured, roared through a red light
and ploughed into Oxford graduate Sophie Warne, killing her instantly. Moore-Bick, the
presiding judge, overturned an immigration tribunal decision to deport Sabri back to
Pakistan, ruling that deporting him would interfere with his private and family life.
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Immigration
The scale of the inflow of immigrants into England, engineered by Blair, has
overwhelmed our tiny country, which traditionally, socially and economically has been
able to cope with 1% of the population being immigrants in any given period. The
occurrence of a deluge of 3.6 million in just seven years has created vast problems for
social services, has denied the native population the quality and amount of support their
taxes have paid for, has contributed considerably to the budget deficit and to social
tensions, especially regarding the jobs’ market.
‘The high proportion of unaccompanied children reaching the UK means we have moved
away from providing a service for young people in care’.
Greenwich Council Report 1996 – ‘a murderous resentment is being fuelled among
marginalised white youths by both racist and anti-racist propaganda. Multicultural
education has left them with no identity to be proud of’.
If all immigration was stopped today the population of England will still change
dramatically in colour, ethnicity and numbers within this century due to:
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The rate at which the English are leaving their country.

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The high birth-rate of Asians and Muslims of all races already here.

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Arranged marriages of those of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladesh origin –
unstoppable because of ‘Human Rights’.

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The exploitation of extended families, facilitated by Straw – unstoppable because
of ‘Human Rights’.

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Student visa applicants from Asia – uncontrollable. Student visa applications are
now in the hands of foreigners themselves, dishing out the visas wholesale and once
here, many students intend to stay.

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Our porous borders. Latest: Brighton Marina – 21 illegal immigrants arrived on a
luxury yacht from France, bus waiting for them. Neither Customs nor UKBA within
a mile of what must be a prime target landing site.

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A points system supposed to be like the Australian system, ‘but it ain’t mate’. The
Australian system sets an annual limit on migrants and is based upon age and
qualification. Here, a ‘Shortage Occupation List’ is a gateway to allow employers to
bring in as many staff as they wish, to fill occupations where there is deemed to be a
skill’s shortage. The new arrivals don’t have to stay more than a day in a job. The
Highly-Skilled Migrants Programme of 2002 was almost exactly the same. In April
2008, 44,000 of them with the support of HSMP Forum Limited, appealed
successfully to remain in the UK in spite of not having performed the skills they
were allowed in to do. The Labour government’s smokescreen was heading in the
same direction. Davies, the then Trade Minister, on 22 nd February 2010 confirmed
this – ‘The scheme has teething problems’ – wait till the toothache starts.
The Points System was in fact a facade. It was a gesture by the Labour government
to ‘show willing’ to the population’s alarm, to demonstrate how concerned they
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were and how able to handle a situation entirely of their own making. Yet behind the
facade, the ingress of immigrants is relentless. Had the skills factor been of such
importance, how come it was so neglected in the past years of this government. Why
was there no strategic scheme put into place to mobilize the wealth of talent of the
English in prior years. It doesn’t add up – not with 940,000 neets (not in education,
employment or training).
The processing of visa applications, now managed by two foreign firms - one
Indian, one American; the abolishing of face-to-face interviews in embassies, high
commissions and consulates; the introduction of uncheckable online applications;
the transfer to Abu Dhabi of visa operations, pressuring staff with targets so that
rubber-stamping becomes the preferred option to scrutiny; the reported use of 3,000
agents overseas (recruiters?) – such acts point to an intention to hasten and ease the
inrush of immigrants.
The Conservative poster depicting Blair as a devil was closer to the truth than they
realized, because Labour’s haste to flood immigrants into the UK could be linked to
the creation of as large an immigrant-voting base as possible prior to the General
Election; the result of which could see the new government capping immigration,
thwarting Labour’s long-term aims. Even the discredited Jacqui Smith was
despatched to Pakistan in April 2008 to act as a recruiting sergeant, extolling the fact
that the Islamic population in England since 2001 had erupted by 400,000 – thanks
to Labour.

Jobs
Virtually every extra job created under Labour has gone to a foreign worker, 98.5% of
1.67 million new posts have been taken by immigrants since 1997.
The BBC Newsnight programme reported on 17th February 2010 that 320,000 were in
part-time employment, 1.4 million were in temporary work and 8.08 million were drawing
benefits.
Frank Field MP – ‘The government has already spent £60billion of our money on trying to
get people back to work with deeply disappointing results’.
Darling, in his last budget, extended the Young Person’s Guarantee Scheme for a year.
The response by Ben Robinson, Chairman Youth Fight for Jobs – ‘A slap in the face for
our generation’.
In 2010, 940,000 18-24-year-olds are neets.
The BBC Newsnight programme reported on 15th July 2009 that the government’s
Apprentice Plan had not been researched properly.
In spite of the recession, in the third quarter of 2009, the public section employed 14,000
extra workers. The private sector in the same period shrank by 128,000.
Temporary jobs, normally available for school holidays or for first-time school leavers are
snapped up by overseas students allowed to earn while at university here. There have been
huge social consequences of unemployment – ‘wasted, stunted, frustration-filled lives’.
One in four students are still jobless after three years. One in six of long-term jobless are
dead within ten years.
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The job market has been choked off for many by the huge inflow of immigrants and the
number of jobs now being taken by pensioners trying to supplement their incomes.

MoD
Number of staff: 89,000
Bonuses – 2009/2010 - £58.4million ‘for promoting diversity and improving health and
safety’. Since 2003 £287million in bonuses have been paid to MoD staff. There were 6
Ministers of Defence in 12 years.
In 2005, the Public Accounts Committee Report stated that the procurement of defence
equipment was ‘the worst they had ever seen’. In 2006 ‘the performance even worse’ and
in 2007 ‘we are concerned that the seemingly endless delays are putting our soldiers’ lives
at risk’.
Families’ accommodation - ‘Many dilapidated and unfit to live in’.

NHS
Hospitals are self-assessing with waste and poor management endemic. On 24 th March
2010 The Office for National Statistics reported that productivity in health care fell by
3.3% between 1995 and 2008.
Proportion of managers, administrators and bureaucrats in the NHS is 25.7%. In the
private sector it is just 7%. Management numbers doubled from 1997 – 2007 to 40,000. In
2010, the figure is now 44,660.
Of all heath services in the EU, the NHS is still 16th in the league table.
In 2008, 3,645 patients died as a result of botched operations and mistakes.
On average 120 patients die each year in EU hospitals from acquired infections. In the
NHS 6,000 die each year due to this.
Spending on agency staff - £1billion per annum.
The NHS spent £100million on a national chlamydia screening programme, but had no
evidence that it worked.
UK GPs are the most highly paid in the developed world, 60% higher than French GPs.
£3billion each year is misspent on unnecessary extra staff or excessive pay rises for
doctors.
Failed attempts to improve hospital food have cost taxpayers more than £50million in the
last ten years – ‘Have achieved next to nothing at vast cost to the taxpayers’. Source:
Sustain
The IT programme to link GPs to 300 hospitals has overrun by £7billion.
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Beds per 100,000 patients:
1st Germany – 829.1
25th is the UK with just 388.7
One of the lowest ratios dentist-to-patient in the developed world – 42 per 100,000.
Since 1997 there were six Secretaries of State for Health until May 2010.
Hospitals are overpaying £500million per annum for drugs.

Olympics
May 2003 Bid price - £2.375 billion.
November 2004 – £4.036 billion estimate.
March 2007 – £9.325billion, but London Development Agency said they had overvalued
the land by £1billion.
£1billion for the Olympic village had not been included.
The £2billion costs of holding the games had not been included.
The cost to adapt for public use after the games had not been included, therefore the total
cost is now £14.3billion, and just in case, a contingency fund has been allocated of
£2.747billion.

Parliament
Much of the former work of Parliament is now done within the EU; as a result Parliament
is partially redundant with too many members. India, with a population of over 1 billion,
has less MPs. Sleaze became endemic and typical examples are:
Vaz – claimed more than £69,000 in expenses for a Westminster flat between 2004 and
2007, although only living 12 miles away. Failed to declare financial links to the Hinduja
brothers in the ‘Cash for Passports’ affair when supporting their applications for UK
passports. Lied about how many properties he owns. Tried to nobble a Judge hearing a
case against a bent solicitor friend Mireskandary. Punishment – suspended a month from
the Commons then promoted to become chairman of the important House of Commons
Home Affairs Select Committee and now referred to as – the Right Hon.
Ashcroft – Tory Party Deputy Chairman, made a deal regarding Tory funding to obtain a
peerage.
Elizabeth Filkin, Parliamentary watchdog, exposed Reid fiddling his expenses – sacked.

Pensions
Average private pensions pot

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£25,100.
Produces pension - £1,700 pa

Average public pensions pot

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£427,275.
Produces pension - £17,091 pa

A quarter of all council tax goes towards paying for pensions of town hall staff.
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The pension liability for the public sector is now £880 billion, an increase of 140% since
1997. 34,000 public employees now have pension pots of £1million.
State spending today accounts for 53.4% of GDP compared with 40% when Labour came
to power in 1997. The cost of the public sector pensions in 2010 – £1.2 trillion.
Source: OECD

Private Finance Initiative
A scheme that allows the private sector to build schools, hospitals, prisons, major road
schemes, defence requirements, then to rent the facility back to the user.
Advantages

The items don’t appear on the government inventory.
The government doesn’t have to borrow money to pay for them.

Disadvantages

What the vast numbers of lawyers, consultants and accountants get
before any project begins.
The taxpayer ends up paying for all the extra expenses, profits and
increased borrowing costs because it costs private companies far
more to borrow than the government.

Since 1997 the government has signed up to over 600 PFI schemes at a cost of £63billion.
By the time the interest and management charges have been paid for the next 40 years, the
cost will have amounted to £240billion – to be paid for by our children and grandchildren.
16.3% per annum is charged for management fees and interest, according to Frank Field.
£2billion of our taxes had to be added to PFI costs because when the credit crunch
occurred the companies could not borrow from the banks, so the government had to step
in to pay for their projects.
Services tied into the scheme pay rent to the private sector for the use of their facility; a
PFI Hospital Trust will pay their rent to the funder of their hospital. Profits of 60% and
80% are not uncommon for providers. The NHS is already committed to paying £50billion
rising to £90billion by 2013 in rent. A National Audit Office report on PFI hospitals
revealed poor design, fewer beds, over-occupancy, and poor cleaning.
NHS Trusts with a PFI contract on average had a 4.4% overrun on costs, many times the
national average and consequently were forced to cut services and slash jobs. Of 12
bankrupted Hospital Trusts unable to borrow any further, 8 had PFI schemes.

Public Sector
Fat-cats’ paradise and jobs for the boys, grossly overpopulated and grossly inefficient.
Private sector shed jobs at 1,440 per day over the past 12 months; the public sector rose by
14,000.
Brown’s obsession with full employment spawned an empire of quangos, fat-cats,
quangocrats, a prolific public sector providing a virtual voting-potential dependency,
awarding themselves generous bonuses for just doing their jobs and finding early
retirement very attractive, especially on ‘health grounds’ with a pension pot to follow. To
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compound this situation, ex-postman Johnson, when Minister of Work and Pensions,
capitulated to the union demands for retirement at 60 for public sector workers – all 6.08
million of them. ‘He is responsible for one of the most shameful political surrenders of
modern times’ –
Max Hastings – Daily Mail 13th October 2007
The Civil Service have just been given a counselling manual to deal with stress-related
boredom and lack of work.
25,000 Civil Servants enjoy salaries of more than £100,000 per annum, 5,600 have
salaries of more than £150,000.
5 of the 10 biggest pensions in the entire public sector belong to BBC executives.
In 2007 the Pension Policy Institute reported the retirement rate percentages for public
sector workers retiring early on health grounds:
Fire Service
Police
Local Government
NHS Staff
Teachers
Civil Servants

-

68%
49%
30%
23%
25%
22%

Hayden, Chief of Hereford and Worcester Fire Service,
will leave on his 50th birthday in May. He will receive a
£380,000 tax-free lump sum and an index-linked pension
worth £60,000 per annum. To avoid paying tax of 40% on
his lump sum, he has changed his job title to ‘Brigade
Manager’, but is still serving as Chief Fire Officer. By
using this ploy, he has avoided paying the tax on his lump
sum. Ten other Fire Chiefs across the country are retiring
early using the same stratagem.

Quangos
David Craig, in his book ‘Squandered’ explains the futility of them. England managed
very well before quangos, so why do we have them.
Autonomous, unregulated, self-accounting, hugely wasteful and grossly over-staffed.
Between 1997 and 2004 Labour added 113 quangos. In Brown’s first seven weeks he
introduced 7 more quangos. Government spending on quangos in 2006 amounted to
£123.8 billion.
There are a total of 1,162 quangos – Source: The TaxPayers’ Alliance

Regulators
France and Germany prevented their utility companies being owned by foreigners on the
basis that they were strategic assets. £1billion has been spent regulating our utility
companies since privatisation.
2004 /5 – The utility companies made profits of 29% (£2.195billion on turnover of
£7.52billion).
2005 – 6 Profits rose to 31% (£2.577 billion profit on £8.225 billion turnover). Some
foreign companies make profits of 30% to 40% on their UK operation while only making
profits in their own countries of 5% - 10%. Between 1999 and 2004 Southern Water
overcharged customers resulting in a fine of £20.3million imposed by the regulator, but
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these are rare occasions.
OFGEM – Office of Gas and Electricity Markets.
Costs £39.5 million per annum to run. The boss – salary £200,000 pa, but superimposed
on top of OFGEM is Energywatch doing practically the same job.

Social Matters
In 2000 Transparency International ranked the UK one of the most honest countries. In
2010 is now ranked 17th.
Miliband – ‘Life on sink estates has got better under Labour’.
Philippa Stroud, director at Centre for Social Justice – ‘We have been in social recession
for the last decade, children are growing up in vulnerable families, failing schools, drugs
on the streets, communities without a strong work model. In the last 10 years there has
been a doubling of alcohol consumption, a 5-fold rise in youth drug-taking, male life in
Miliband’s South Shields constituency is 2 years less than the national average. Council
housing estates have become broken ghettos.’
Source: Daily Mail, 25th Jan 2010
Jenni Russell, Integrated Children’s System (ICS). A computer model tells social workers
when they must file reports, communicate with other agencies, and complete assessments.
Result: 20 years ago social workers spent 30% with families, now 11%.
Source: Sunday Times, 24th January 2010
National Equality Panel Report.
Gulf between rich and poor has grown wider under Blair and Brown than at any time since
the Second World War. Those born in the poorest areas will die 13 years before those in
the richest.
Source: Daily Mail 28th January 2010
Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Europe.
UK – the most obese adults in Europe.
10 – 15-year-olds have a higher per cent drunk rate than any in western Europe.
15 – 24-year-olds have a much higher incidence of syphilis, gonorrhoea and
chlamydia.
Since 1999 those waiting for social housing has doubled to 1.7 million.
Migrants inhabit 1 in 12 council homes.
Darcus Howe, TV presenter, Jamaican, commenting on television. ‘I saw in Oldham,
which is now really, really poor…. the white people are, what will be described in Jamaica
as “white trash”’ (he was commenting in a concerned and sympathetic manner).
Harry Fletcher, Assistant general Secretary of the National Association of Probation
Officers – ‘the system is in meltdown’. He was commenting on the fact that at least half of
trainee probation officers, due to qualify in the autumn of 2009, would not have a job to
go to due to government cutbacks. Each cost £100,000 to train. Total cost - £25 million
wasted.
Description of town and country life in England. Pervasive drug and gun culture. Town
centres vomit-stained, needle-strewn. Uncontrolled immigration jeopardising community
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stability and national identity. Traffic congestion. Closure of police stations and post
offices; the demise of English village life.
Source: Daily Mail 2nd June 2007

Strategic Damage
The denial to our children and grandchildren of a heritage created by the efforts and
sacrifice of our forefathers, over one million of whom gave their lives for the preservation
of our freedom and culture.
Problems of Overpopulation:
Hospital waiting lists, crowded trains, looming energy crisis, water and sewage systems
unable to cope, road congestion, air pollution increase, unaffordable housing and
accommodation crisis, unavailable dentistry, greater demands for university places,
decline in quality of life, many more schools, maternity wards and hospital beds needed
and a huge strain placed upon the NHS.

Universities
Overcrowding in university accommodation and tutorials has led to protest meetings.
100,000 starting university in September 2009 were left short of funds. In 2010, 570,000
applying for places have been swollen by applicants rejected in 2009, squeezed further by
a 40% increase in applicants from overseas. In 2010 there has been a 33.6% rise in EU
applications to UK universities. Currently there are 61,175 EU students at UK universities
being funded by our government. The cost so far to fund them has been £200million. 70%
of EU students fail to repay their loans.
The Department for Business – ‘The UK and universities benefit from overseas students in
terms of enrichment of academic life, without reducing opportunities for home students’.
Contrary to this, university leaders have predicted that more than 200,000 UK university
applicants will be denied university places this year. The government has imposed
£573million in cuts for universities in 2010.

Waste
David Craig in his book ‘Squandered’ identifies the vast extent of this government’s
profligacy. Other examples include:
£5billion wasted running the education courses for adults in factories and offices. The
Economic Research Council found that the ‘Skills for Life’ courses were effectively
pointless.
HM Revenue and Customs. Overpaid tax credits by £8.4 billion. Much was recovered,
but doing so caused confusion for tens of thousands of families.
TaxPayers’ Alliance – ‘£101billion per annum is wasted by the government’.
Tax credits – first year £2.2billion overpaid.
£4million paid to those in prison who didn’t declare their situation, which would have
precluded them from payment.
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In 2000, the Sheffield National Centre for Pop Music was built at a cost of £17million.
Closed within 1 year.
‘The Public’ in West Bromwich was built at a cost of £60million, originally costed at
£40million. Only the ground floor so far has opened.
Stalled road projects now well over budget:
A14 Cambridge – £500million original cost, now £950million.
M1 widening – original cost £300million, now £600million.
The Home Office squandered £29million on an asylum centre that was never used at RAF
station Bicester. Costs – Global Solutions £7.6million for the design, plus £8million
termination fees. Financial Advisor for this project paid £15,743 per month, Procurement
Advisor paid £15,559 per month. Together they were paid £1.1 million for less than 3
years work.
Source: Daily Mail 12th June 2008
Computer Fiascos:
Child Support Agency; Criminal Records Bureau; Passport Agency; Benefits Card;
Traffic Control; e-University; NHS project.
Source: Simon Jenkins Sunday Times 26th June 2005
Defence Information Infrastructure (DII). Cost £7.1billion; now running more than
£180million over budget and 18 months late.
National Identity Card Scheme cost £5billion, original budget £3billion. The card no
longer to be made compulsory.
Single Payment Scheme System (SPS) for farmers cost £350 million. In 2006 around
£1.28billion of the £1.5billion subsidies destined for British farmers still had not been
given out, despite the £350million spent on the technology. The Public Accounts
Committee warned that it was at risk of becoming obsolete.
GCHQ ‘box move’ of technology. Involved the movement of a complex computer system
into a new building. In 1997 the projected cost was £41million. In 2003 the National Audit
Office put the costs at more than £300million.
The National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis), designed to share
information between prisons and the probation service, was abandoned when the
estimated cost doubled to £600million.
Benefit Processing Replacement Programme approved in June 2006 three months later
scrapped. Total loss £106million.
Prism IT project for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for their 200 offices
around the globe. Original cost £54million. Final cost £88.5million and rising.
Shared Services Centre, Department for Transport (DfT) to integrate human resources and
financial services. Supposed to save the taxpayer £57million, will now cost £80 million.
NHS Electronic Records Service estimated final cost
government while elephant in history’.

£15billion. ‘The greatest
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HMRC tax credits estimated overspend £2billion.
Benefits Pathway estimated overspend £1billion.
Magistrates’ courts Libra estimated overspend £300million. ‘Has descended into a costly
mess’.
Aviation ATCS estimated overspend £300million.
Police Impact estimated overspend £200million.
Estimated future costs to fund Public Pensions 1997 – £360billion, but in 2010 –
£880billion
Bank bail-out £1.2 trillion.
Source: David Craig - Daily Mail 16th September 2009
Quangos – Since 1995 numbers employed have risen from 1 to 1.5 million.
Spending rose in 1995 from £49billion to £130billion in 2010.
The Department of Work and Pensions paid out £401million on redundancy payments
getting rid of 8,479 personnel. They then took on 16,554.
Top ten Quangocrats: each earn over £700,000 pa
British Potato Council levy farmers £4million pa. Chairman and Chief Executive is paid
£170.000 pa – ‘I think our work is quite important, it is about learning the difference
between a healthy chip and an unhealthy chip’.
Child Support Agency (CSA). Labour paid £1billion to McKinsey to modernise the IT
system. Blunkett – ‘It’s a shambles’.
Regional Development Agencies (Regional Assemblies)
There are 8 in England. Total staff – 2,500.
Cost to administer £200million. These are a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.
Any jobs created are taken principally by foreigners.
They spend money like water – unregulated, sending ‘delegations’ to Center Parcs,
Torquay, Cannes, New Zealand, Beijing; even maintaining overseas offices.

Comment
Details of Blair’s underhanded plan to flood England with immigrants, with the intention
to boost the Labour voting base, was finally exposed by Andrew Neather in October 2009.
Steven Moxom, a whistleblower, earlier in 2004, had also revealed that the government
had fast-tracked a backlog of 337,000 immigrant cases under the code name ‘Brace’. The
government tried in every way to prevent the publication of the facts until the intervention
of Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner in 2009.
Melanie Phillips, in the Daily Mail on October 21st 2009, commenting on Andrew
Neather’s revelations wrote:
‘A politically motivated attempt to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of our
nation. Done to destroy forever what it is to be English, to replace it with a multicultural
identity. East Europeans form less than one quarter of all immigrants. A free-for-all, paid
for largely by the English taxpayer, contributing to the destruction of their own society,
history, religion, law and traditions, to change its very character and identity’.
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What her article didn’t identify were the methods being used by the government to push
through Blair’s covert aim within England, which was to establish a Labour-voting
majority population in perpetuity.
The tactics employed involved the following principles:
•

Conceal Blair’s aims from public scrutiny by putting up a smokescreen of reasons
why mass immigration was a necessity:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

It was justified on the grounds of greater economic efficiency.
There was a shortage of workers, both skilled and unskilled.
Economic growth would stagnate.
There would be fewer people to fund the pension bill.
The NHS would collapse.

All these points were nonsense as was confirmed by a House of Lords Committee. The
fatuous reasons given had no substance whatsoever, with so many of the population
unemployed, yet having the undoubted talents required to satisfy any of the reasons given
by Labour for increasing immigration.
•

Keep the Opposition at bay. Using the word ‘racist’ was sufficient to send them
scurrying to their dugouts. Except for Gove – ‘I would not reduce the flow of
immigration’.

•

Ensure that the indigenous population of England, the vehicle for Blair’s treachery,
was warned off (‘racist’), demeaned, instilled with ‘multiculturalism’, politically
corrected, by a programme that metamorphosed into almost a pogrom, to consign the
English psyche, genius and character to history, which Melanie Phillips had so
acutely observed. To enhance their aim, or at least to set it in motion, a stratagem
evolved:
1. Political. Demean tradition. Trivialize Parliament and enhance the influence and
power of the EU in Westminster.
2. Verbal. Straw – ‘The English can’t be trusted because they are very aggressive,
very violent’. Hodge – Derogating the ‘Last Night of the Proms’.
3. Press. The Guardian. Hare, a playwright - ‘We associate Englishness with
everything that is most backward in this country’.
Further disparagement from The Guardian – ‘Only a minority of English people
follow football and only a tiny handful play’.
4. Dilution of the English population. Johnson, Home Secretary – ‘Personally I don’t
lose any sleep at night over the population heading for 70 million (90% Blacks
vote Labour, 75% Asians vote Labour).
Source: The Electoral Commission
5. Neglect of the indigenous population: Sink estates allowed to sink further;
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Education – OECD tables confirm the neglect of Labour. Jobs/skills - 8 million
not in meaningful employment - denied thirteen years of skills’ training and lifeenhancing opportunities because resources, effort and funding were diverted by
Labour to immigration. At the end of 2009, six months before the coalition came
to office, youth unemployment stood at a record high of 943,000, a direct result
and outcome of Blair’s manic drive from 2000 onward to bring about an
irreversible transformation in the demographics of England (where 96% of
immigrants have settled).
6. ‘Give them cake’. Licensing hours abolished so that youths were stupefied whilst
their country was being transformed about them, with the despair of poor
education, no skills’ training, no future prospects, leading to alcohol and drug
abuse for no-hopers. The death toll from drinking in England is higher than the
average in fifteen European countries – Source: Health Profile of England
7. Historic. Removal of English history and achievements from school textbooks,
anything that hints of or extols the English genius, characteristics and
achievements, leaving the English with a loss of identity and sense of belonging.
8. Implementation of visitors to tour schools on a propaganda exercise, extolling
multiculturalism, watering down and sidelining the English pupils’ own sense of
identity, sense of pride and ownership of their country, imparting the idea that they
are just passengers on a boat that doesn’t belong to them.
What the Labour faithful were unaware of, had been hoodwinked by, is the fact that Blair,
their professed leader, had betrayed them, following his own agenda, which will have farreaching, negative effects for their children, grandchildren and all after. This is the real
legacy of 13 years of Labour misrule and Blair’s disgraceful treachery, which in an earlier
age would have found his head on a spike on London Bridge.
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Appendix I
In the summer of 2000, Portes, Senior Economic Advisor to the Cabinet, working in the
Performance and Innovation Unit within Blair’s Strategy Unit, presented a report painting
a ‘rosy picture’ of mass immigration: ‘There is little evidence that native workers are
harmed by migration. The broader fiscal impact is likely to be positive because a greater
proportion of migrants are of working age and migrants have higher average wages than
natives. Most British regard immigration as having a positive effect on British culture’.
Within the Cabinet Office, Blair seized upon Portes’ flawed reasoning as a pretext to open
up the UK to mass immigration, revealed in October 2009 by Andrew Neather who had
been present at the initial meetings – ‘A driving political purpose to rub the Right’s noses
in diversity’. Ministers hoped it would paint the Conservatives as ‘xenophobic and out of
touch’, but Blair’s real purpose was to increase the Labour voting base, as the vast
majority of new immigrants vote Labour.
The Daily Telegraph on 10th February 2010 printed a copy of the document (Appendix II)
that revealed Labours’ intentions to open the floodgates to mass immigration. . . .The
document notes that migration pressures would intensify, ‘but this should not be viewed as
a negative’; trying to stem the flow would anyway ‘be very difficult (perhaps
impossible)’; the Government had ‘both economic and social objectives for immigration
policy’; the benefits included ‘a widening of consumer choice and significant cultural
contributions’; entry controls, on the other hand, ‘can contribute to social exclusion’, and
most devastating of all, the previous policy of curbing immigration had ‘no economic or
social justification’. The document had written across it ‘To be Withheld’.
Roche, the Home Office Immigration Minister, was charged with implementing Portes’
proposals. She made a speech in September 2000 calling for ‘the loosening of immigration
controls into the UK’.
Roche’s CV: Russian/Polish father - Spanish/Portuguese mother with no historical
connection to this country, yet setting in motion an immigrant tsunami unprecedented in
our history.
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Appendix II

Further details from this document were released on 22nd February 2010:
‘Public opinion favours relatively restricted policies on immigration. Recent research
shows that anti-immigrant sentiment is closely related with racism, rather than economic
motives’.
The document called for state efforts to change opinion. Public views were not ‘beyond
control’. ‘Past governments have had significant influence on public opinion’.

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THE LABOUR LEGACY

  • 1. THE LABOUR LEGACY 1997 - 2010 Labour ruled for 13 years, this in spite of receiving less than 30% of the total votes that could have been cast by the voting population in England. In 1999 Scotland gained its own Parliament and the Scottish MPs in Westminster thereby became redundant, both as a voting entity and a right to sit in the House of Commons, yet they continue to do so. Their Scottish leaders, Blair and Brown, one a lawyer the other a former television producer, managed to wreak havoc between them in their English fiefdom. Blair, who brought about the biggest demographic upheaval in the history of England, where 93.5% of immigrants have settled, has gone. Brown, blaming a global crisis for our economic woes, but he himself the root cause of them, has just resigned. This overview records some of the events and aftermath of their legacy. Blair Introduced a presidential-style of government. Lacking management skills and experience in government, he surrounded himself with advisors, ‘experts’ and consultants. The Civil Service became onlookers, their traditional role and advice frozen out. As Prime Minister: In 1999 he committed the UK to support a European Rapid Reaction Force, an unreported, monumental blunder. The costs and waste were prodigious: £14billion was overpaid in European contracts; an anti-tank missile failed to perform – loss £109million; withdrawal from a ‘Boxer’ armoured car project – loss £57million; withdrawal from a similar project with the US – loss £131million; the Eurofighter was beset with endless problems and overcosts. The entire project was an unmitigated fiasco and had a direct bearing on the funds left to fight the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Led the country into these two wars; in the case of Iraq presented a flawed ‘weapons of mass destruction’ reason for doing so. • • • • • • • • Reneged on holding a referendum on Europe. Meekly surrendered the EU rebate, so ferociously fought for by Thatcher. Treated Parliament as an irritant. Undermined the moral standards of public life by countenancing/endorsing: The Cash for Honours debacle. Having banned cigarette smoking in public places, allowed Formula One advertising in return for a £1million donation from Ecclestone. Suppressed the enquiry into the Saudi Arabian military contract. In 1997 disgracefully abolished the Assisted Places Scheme for poorer children. When the EU expanded its membership he opened our borders to East Europeans who eventually numbered 600,000. France and Germany did not allow this, using a clause
  • 2. 2 allowed for in EU rules for a seven-year moratorium, avoiding the consequences that have engulfed our local authorities, schools, NHS, utility supplies, housing and transport. Deliberately and culpably engineered mass immigration on a monumental scale from outside the EU, the greatest act of betrayal in our history. The consequences for future generations are incalculable. Appendices I and II detail exactly how he achieved this, and his motives. As a direct consequence of his actions, he increased considerably the security threat to our nation and stirred, in our midst, a religion whose customs and traditions are at variance with Christian and other religions. Completely disregarded the plight of the underclass and the traditional supporters of Labour and gave no thought, help or consideration whatever to the trauma caused by the tsunami of foreigners arriving in their midst. Allowed the unions Unite and Unison to pervade and influence government policies and actions. 59 Unite and 64 Unison nominees now stand in safe Labour seats. One member of Unite actually worked in No.10 in the Policy Unit, her salary and pension funded by Unite. Labour receives £8million a year from unions, who have become increasingly militant. However, since 1998 Labour gave more than £135million to the unions - taxpayers’ money, much of it presented under the guise of ‘education’, ‘skills training’ or ‘modernization’. The spectre of regenerated union militancy now faces the new Parliament. Failed to initiate and implement a long-term strategy for the economy and manufacturing, especially for the provision of electricity, which should have had priority as early as 2002. Failed to address and tackle the rapid decline in the manufacturing base of England. In this respect grossly failed to set out and implement a policy and schemes to provide the younger English generations with the skills and opportunities for life enhancement. Each of these failures enforces the fact that England is the only major country in the world not in control of its own destiny. Brown Became Chancellor in 1997 (Balls and Miliband were both intimately involved in the operations of the Brown Treasury). Stopped tax-relief on dividends paid to pension funds, leading to the collapse of a system that had been the envy of Europe. The action has cost occupational pension schemes £175billion and has led to the near-extinction of final salary schemes. Freed the Bank of England to set interest rates, but stopped it from regulating the financial sector, which ultimately contributed to the banking crisis. Betrayed the Armed Services with lack of funding, particularly the withdrawal of £1.4billion from the MoD budget to buy helicopters, and lied to the Chilcot enquiry about it. May 1999 – sold 395 tonnes of the Bank of England’s gold reserves at $275.6 an ounce,
  • 3. 3 the lowest price in two decades. Price today - $1,211.2 an ounce. Total loss to the economy - £11billion. Omitted housing costs from the price index, contributing to the house-price bubble. Poured money wastefully into the economy. From 2000 – 2008 spending rose 4% per annum in real terms. 3.6% was in extra outlay on services and no less than 16.4% annually in public investment. The non-productive public sector rising to 6.08 million employees by 2010. Encouraged a hands-off approach to the City and banks, leading to profligacy and risktaking and ultimately to the meltdown in the banking sector. When Brown became Chancellor the national debt was £400 billion having taken a little over 300 years to reach that amount. The Office of National Statistics forecast for the national debt in 2010 is £2.1 trillion. Brown’s intention to raise living standards generally was diluted by Blair’s covert operation to flood England with immigrants. Over a 7-year period the population exploded by 3.6 million, eager to take advantage of Blair’s Trojan Horse treachery and Brown’s largesse. Between the immigrants, the public sector and his munificence, Brown had a big problem with finance. One solution was to sell the ‘English family silver’. This included the energy companies. Blair colluded: ‘Liberalised energy markets and more open markets are good for business and for consumers, right across Europe’. The French and Germans strongly disagreed and hung on to theirs, along with their industrial base, because they were ‘strategic assets’. Assets sold to foreigners, disposed of, purloined, included household-name English companies. Not all of the utilities, authorities and firms listed here were publicly owned. However, because a ‘public interest test’ clause was omitted from a shake-up of competition law, introduced by Blair and Brown, it allowed national firms to pass into foreign ownership. This was contrary to the policy of France and Germany, who realized the importance and value of retaining such assets. One wonders if such an attitude would have prevailed had there been a ‘Scotch’ distillery for sale. The Water Industry; Cadbury – to Kraft; Camelot; British Steel (Corus) – India; Hanson; ICI; Virgin Atlantic (partly); Maritime Rescue Service; Gatwick Airport – to an American company; BAA – sold to the Spanish group Ferovial; The Car Industry (Jaguar, Rover, Bentley, Rolls-Royce); Arriva to Deutsche Bhan; Tetley Tea; Stella; Boots to Italy; The Ports Authorities – passed from P&O to Dubai World; 3 English building societies – to Spanish company Santander; Electricity Suppliers – to EDF (of France) and E.on (of Germany); The Atomic Energy Industry – EDF (French) will now build all our atomic power stations; Westinghouse, our last world-class nuclear construction company, sold at a knock-down price to Japan; Internal sales in England of barracks, airfields, playing fields formed part of the rampage. (Since we won the Olympic bid in 2005, 50 stateschool sports’ fields have been sold off). Darling, to fund his new Green Investment Bank, planned to sell off more English assets: The Tote The Dartford Crossing Future sales were under consideration: Aldershot Garrison – Home of the British Army
  • 4. 4 Student Loans Company Shrewsbury Garrison Consumers have paid the price: Water. Foreign companies regularly make 30 - 40% profits in the UK. In Europe 5 -10%. Electricity – 2004/5 profits in the UK 29%, 2005/6 – 31%. In addition to their profligacy, Labour errors cost the taxpayer a great deal: • • • • • • • • • Abandonment of super casinos. Failure of regulation of the financial sector. Partial/total failure of IT projects across the board. Bungled introduction of Home Information Packs. Assets Recovery Agency fiasco – cost £2 billion The Millenium Dome – £800 million to build; given away. Botched SAT exam markings – an American company runs it. Collapse of Metronet – £800 million was spent on accountants and consultants to force through its creation – all lost. GPs’ and dentists’ ill-drafted contracts – a 30% pay rise for less hours and minimum callout requirements. Had Brown kept public spending at the level of the previous administration, he would have been £1.35 trillion better off in 2010, allowing for inflation. David Craig, in his book ‘Squandered’ summarizes the Labour’s waste: Health £269,200,000,000 Education £185,700,000,000 Police/Public Order £ 80,200,000,000 Welfare £343,300,000,000 Others £350,700,000,000 Total: £1 trillion, 229.1 billion Lord Malloch-Brown, on stepping down from his ministerial post in July 2009: ‘Gordon Brown’s government is more chaotic than many administrations in the developing world. Brown as Chancellor helped to create a culture of cronyism at the Treasury with the appointment of Labour trustees, which subsequently shattered morale and the traditional Civil Service independence of mind.’ Ben Bernanke, regarded by many as the world’s most powerful banker: ‘The UK was illprepared to meet the banking crisis because Brown, when Chancellor, had stripped the Bank of England of its power to regulate banks’ – 4th December 2009 New York. Nicolas Sarkozy, French President – interview 6th February 2009: ‘France will not be
  • 5. 5 repeating Gordon Brown’s mistakes. The British government is running up such debts that it could ruin the country because borrowed money is not being invested in assets. The UK manufacturing industry is effectively dead and the country is paying the price for relying on financial services to boost the economy’. The following sub-sections give an idea about the mess we’re in. The facts, drawn from a wide range of sources, represent a fraction of the chronic social and economic malaise we have been led into: Agriculture Since 1997 the UK self-sufficiency in food production has fallen from 75% to 60%: 35% less beef, 25% less lamb, 35% less pork. In 1985 we had 28,000 dairy farmers. In 2010 there are just 11,551. We now import 1.5 million litres of milk daily. Prescott, when deputy prime minister – ‘The Green Belt is a Labour achievement and we intend to build on it’. To rub agricultural noses into their middens, 200 ‘community champions’ have been appointed to escort ethnic minorities through rural areas because of a fear of racial abuse – ‘Islamophobia is discouraging Muslims from walking the moors’ – Zainab Abubaker, community champion. The creation of these ‘champions’ and the reasons given for them are an insult to country dwellers and an example of political correctness gone mad. Banks/Building Societies The fiascos of Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB were due to a complete lack of regulatory control. Benefits’ Culture 1997 – 100,000 receiving £20,000 per annum 2009 – 300,000 receiving £20,000 per annum Number of benefits available in 2010 – 50 types Tax Credits Payment Fiasco - £2billion overpaid 1997 - £93billion spent on Social Security benefits; in 2010 - £193billion forecast Bonus Culture Coucher, of Network Rail. Total remuneration 2007- 8 £1,224,000 including annual bonus £306,000; long-term incentive scheme £205,000; pension contributions £169,000; benefits £25,000, in spite of a record £14million fine for three separate major engineering fiascos. The Commons Transport Select Committee ‘widespread complacency, flawed management’. Consultants Government spending per annum on consultants was £7 billion, including IT consultants, those used by local authorities and quangos. McCarthy, consultant to the Financial Services Authority, paid £4,972 per day.
  • 6. 6 Hoon, when Defence Minister, spent £195million on consultants for an aircraft-carrier that was never built. The Home Office, between 2005-2008, spent £383 million on consultants. The Treasury spent £150 million on consultants during the banking crisis. In 2006 The National Audit Office report stated that there was no proof of any benefits from consultancies such as Logica – paid £431million over a 3-4 year period and Accenture paid £350million. The Immigration and National Directorate hired management consultants at a cost of £21million to try and work out what the Directorate was supposed to be doing. David Craig’s book ‘Plundering the Public Sector’ tells the full story. Councils/Local Government/Housing Associations Pay-rise awards for senior council officers between 2007 and 2008 averaged 15%. Councils poach Chief Executives. Mammoth redundancy packages and bonuses are paid. 1,250 council chiefs earn £100,000 plus; 31 earn more than the Prime Minister. Lincolnshire County Council have 480 staff paid more than £50,000 per annum – up from 369 the year before. 25% of council tax goes towards paying council pensions. Housing Associations are self-accounting, self-regulating and pay themselves whatever they think they can get away with. Examples of Chief Executives’ Salaries: Belcher, Anchor Trust – Cowan, Place For People – Bennett, Sanctuary HA – Ekford, Affinity South – Shackleton, Riverside – Walls, Gentoo Groups – Rogers, Circle Anglia – Dow, The Guinness Partnership – Montague, L & Q – Vedi, Genesis HG – £391,000 £321,052 £288,000 £260,263 £231,000 £214,625 £213,000 £207,000 £200,000 £194,000 Criminal Justice System Annual cost – £18.2billion plus £1billion on ‘overheads’. Legal Aid – £100million over budget. 2001/2 police overtime costs - £284million 2006/7 police overtime costs - £412million 2009 police overtime costs - £500million which includes £100million to police ‘binge’ drinking. Economy The national debt is scheduled to double to £1.4trillion by 2014/15 requiring interest payments of £63billion per annum. In 2010 the government deficit, that is, what it has to
  • 7. 7 borrow annually to remain afloat is £158billion. Report by the Office for National Statistics – ‘The manufacturing share of the economy under Blair/Brown declined almost three times faster than under Thatcher. In 1997 – manufacturing accounted for 20% of the economy. In 2007 manufacturing accounted for 12.4% of the economy.’ (In Germany, manufacturing accounts for 24% of the economy). The deficit balance of trade in 1997 was minus £12.3billion and in 2006 it had risen to minus £83.6billion. Education ‘Parents know their children are not achieving what they might, despite unimaginable increases in the education budget, because teachers are disproportionately trying to make sure that the new arrivals (immigrants) catch up with everyone else’. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Report 24 th January 2010 – Placings for UK 15-year-olds in the international education table: Science – 14th Reading – 17th Maths – 24th In 2008, 2,200 children were sent home every day in the UK for misdemeanours. In 2008 200,000 were expelled or suspended from schools in the UK Politeia – ‘Teachers in England are the least educated in the developed world. Up to 50% of maths teachers have never studied A-levels’. Boys from low income families – 63% are unable to read or write at age 15. 1 in 4 pupils leaves primary school unable to read or write properly and about 2/5 ths of 16year-olds fail to get 5 good GCSEs, including maths and English. Energy Miliband – ‘Estimated increase costs of green-produced electricity to household bills -17%’. The government’s own Business and Enterprise Department estimated – 55%. Anglesey Aluminium – closed. ‘No longer economical because of increasing electricity charges’. Green taxes now make up 9% of customer bills. By 2020 it will be 20%. Source: OFGEM. 2010 – Gas imports. 50% of gas used in the UK. 2020 – Gas imports. 80% of gas used in the UK. There has been a consummate failure in government planning to provide strategic storage capacity for gas reserve supplies. OFGEM figures for wind power:
  • 8. 8 Blyth Harbour – 7.9% of maximum capacity Chelker Reservoir – 8.7% maximum capacity The majority of wind turbines give an output of 25% of electricity; the best 50% (at 56% a safety lock operates to prevent structural damage). Failure in strategic planning to anticipate electricity supplies is epitomized by the requirement for nuclear energy, which should have been addressed as early as 2002. The EU One third of all legislation and 70% of economic and social law in England now originates from Brussels. The cost of membership for 2010/11 - £6.5billion. Waste and corruption are endemic – the auditors have refused to sign off the accounts for the last 13 years. Housing Irresponsible lending has fuelled runaway house prices. Santander (Spanish) now owns 3 English building societies, offers loans 5.5 x income. Floor space rating – Europe: 1st – Greece. Average floor space: 126.4m2 15th (and last) is the UK – floor space 76 m2 1.7 million people are currently awaiting social housing. One in twelve council houses are occupied by immigrants. Human Rights The Equality and Human Rights Commission was formed in 2007 to enforce compliance, but has done more to diminish the sense of fair play and natural justice that had existed in our country than any other piece of legislation. It has empowered judges to become political activists and created undreamed wealth for the legal glitterati. The list of abuses, exploitation, irresponsible rulings by judges are now so widespread that they run into volumes, but three examples give an idea of the depth of their indulgence: An illegal immigrant (a Bolivian) could not be deported as it would breach his human rights as he and his girlfriend had a cat. Gleeson, the presiding judge joked, ‘the cat need no longer fear to have to adapt to Bolivian mice’. Hodge, a part-time judge, partner in a law firm rescinded the deportation order of Mohammed Kendeh, a serial sex-attacker, on the grounds that it would breach his rights to a family life. Ahsan Sabri, an illegal immigrant, unlicensed and uninsured, roared through a red light and ploughed into Oxford graduate Sophie Warne, killing her instantly. Moore-Bick, the presiding judge, overturned an immigration tribunal decision to deport Sabri back to Pakistan, ruling that deporting him would interfere with his private and family life.
  • 9. 9 Immigration The scale of the inflow of immigrants into England, engineered by Blair, has overwhelmed our tiny country, which traditionally, socially and economically has been able to cope with 1% of the population being immigrants in any given period. The occurrence of a deluge of 3.6 million in just seven years has created vast problems for social services, has denied the native population the quality and amount of support their taxes have paid for, has contributed considerably to the budget deficit and to social tensions, especially regarding the jobs’ market. ‘The high proportion of unaccompanied children reaching the UK means we have moved away from providing a service for young people in care’. Greenwich Council Report 1996 – ‘a murderous resentment is being fuelled among marginalised white youths by both racist and anti-racist propaganda. Multicultural education has left them with no identity to be proud of’. If all immigration was stopped today the population of England will still change dramatically in colour, ethnicity and numbers within this century due to: • The rate at which the English are leaving their country. • The high birth-rate of Asians and Muslims of all races already here. • Arranged marriages of those of Pakistani, Indian and Bangladesh origin – unstoppable because of ‘Human Rights’. • The exploitation of extended families, facilitated by Straw – unstoppable because of ‘Human Rights’. • Student visa applicants from Asia – uncontrollable. Student visa applications are now in the hands of foreigners themselves, dishing out the visas wholesale and once here, many students intend to stay. • Our porous borders. Latest: Brighton Marina – 21 illegal immigrants arrived on a luxury yacht from France, bus waiting for them. Neither Customs nor UKBA within a mile of what must be a prime target landing site. • A points system supposed to be like the Australian system, ‘but it ain’t mate’. The Australian system sets an annual limit on migrants and is based upon age and qualification. Here, a ‘Shortage Occupation List’ is a gateway to allow employers to bring in as many staff as they wish, to fill occupations where there is deemed to be a skill’s shortage. The new arrivals don’t have to stay more than a day in a job. The Highly-Skilled Migrants Programme of 2002 was almost exactly the same. In April 2008, 44,000 of them with the support of HSMP Forum Limited, appealed successfully to remain in the UK in spite of not having performed the skills they were allowed in to do. The Labour government’s smokescreen was heading in the same direction. Davies, the then Trade Minister, on 22 nd February 2010 confirmed this – ‘The scheme has teething problems’ – wait till the toothache starts. The Points System was in fact a facade. It was a gesture by the Labour government to ‘show willing’ to the population’s alarm, to demonstrate how concerned they
  • 10. 10 were and how able to handle a situation entirely of their own making. Yet behind the facade, the ingress of immigrants is relentless. Had the skills factor been of such importance, how come it was so neglected in the past years of this government. Why was there no strategic scheme put into place to mobilize the wealth of talent of the English in prior years. It doesn’t add up – not with 940,000 neets (not in education, employment or training). The processing of visa applications, now managed by two foreign firms - one Indian, one American; the abolishing of face-to-face interviews in embassies, high commissions and consulates; the introduction of uncheckable online applications; the transfer to Abu Dhabi of visa operations, pressuring staff with targets so that rubber-stamping becomes the preferred option to scrutiny; the reported use of 3,000 agents overseas (recruiters?) – such acts point to an intention to hasten and ease the inrush of immigrants. The Conservative poster depicting Blair as a devil was closer to the truth than they realized, because Labour’s haste to flood immigrants into the UK could be linked to the creation of as large an immigrant-voting base as possible prior to the General Election; the result of which could see the new government capping immigration, thwarting Labour’s long-term aims. Even the discredited Jacqui Smith was despatched to Pakistan in April 2008 to act as a recruiting sergeant, extolling the fact that the Islamic population in England since 2001 had erupted by 400,000 – thanks to Labour. Jobs Virtually every extra job created under Labour has gone to a foreign worker, 98.5% of 1.67 million new posts have been taken by immigrants since 1997. The BBC Newsnight programme reported on 17th February 2010 that 320,000 were in part-time employment, 1.4 million were in temporary work and 8.08 million were drawing benefits. Frank Field MP – ‘The government has already spent £60billion of our money on trying to get people back to work with deeply disappointing results’. Darling, in his last budget, extended the Young Person’s Guarantee Scheme for a year. The response by Ben Robinson, Chairman Youth Fight for Jobs – ‘A slap in the face for our generation’. In 2010, 940,000 18-24-year-olds are neets. The BBC Newsnight programme reported on 15th July 2009 that the government’s Apprentice Plan had not been researched properly. In spite of the recession, in the third quarter of 2009, the public section employed 14,000 extra workers. The private sector in the same period shrank by 128,000. Temporary jobs, normally available for school holidays or for first-time school leavers are snapped up by overseas students allowed to earn while at university here. There have been huge social consequences of unemployment – ‘wasted, stunted, frustration-filled lives’. One in four students are still jobless after three years. One in six of long-term jobless are dead within ten years.
  • 11. 11 The job market has been choked off for many by the huge inflow of immigrants and the number of jobs now being taken by pensioners trying to supplement their incomes. MoD Number of staff: 89,000 Bonuses – 2009/2010 - £58.4million ‘for promoting diversity and improving health and safety’. Since 2003 £287million in bonuses have been paid to MoD staff. There were 6 Ministers of Defence in 12 years. In 2005, the Public Accounts Committee Report stated that the procurement of defence equipment was ‘the worst they had ever seen’. In 2006 ‘the performance even worse’ and in 2007 ‘we are concerned that the seemingly endless delays are putting our soldiers’ lives at risk’. Families’ accommodation - ‘Many dilapidated and unfit to live in’. NHS Hospitals are self-assessing with waste and poor management endemic. On 24 th March 2010 The Office for National Statistics reported that productivity in health care fell by 3.3% between 1995 and 2008. Proportion of managers, administrators and bureaucrats in the NHS is 25.7%. In the private sector it is just 7%. Management numbers doubled from 1997 – 2007 to 40,000. In 2010, the figure is now 44,660. Of all heath services in the EU, the NHS is still 16th in the league table. In 2008, 3,645 patients died as a result of botched operations and mistakes. On average 120 patients die each year in EU hospitals from acquired infections. In the NHS 6,000 die each year due to this. Spending on agency staff - £1billion per annum. The NHS spent £100million on a national chlamydia screening programme, but had no evidence that it worked. UK GPs are the most highly paid in the developed world, 60% higher than French GPs. £3billion each year is misspent on unnecessary extra staff or excessive pay rises for doctors. Failed attempts to improve hospital food have cost taxpayers more than £50million in the last ten years – ‘Have achieved next to nothing at vast cost to the taxpayers’. Source: Sustain The IT programme to link GPs to 300 hospitals has overrun by £7billion.
  • 12. 12 Beds per 100,000 patients: 1st Germany – 829.1 25th is the UK with just 388.7 One of the lowest ratios dentist-to-patient in the developed world – 42 per 100,000. Since 1997 there were six Secretaries of State for Health until May 2010. Hospitals are overpaying £500million per annum for drugs. Olympics May 2003 Bid price - £2.375 billion. November 2004 – £4.036 billion estimate. March 2007 – £9.325billion, but London Development Agency said they had overvalued the land by £1billion. £1billion for the Olympic village had not been included. The £2billion costs of holding the games had not been included. The cost to adapt for public use after the games had not been included, therefore the total cost is now £14.3billion, and just in case, a contingency fund has been allocated of £2.747billion. Parliament Much of the former work of Parliament is now done within the EU; as a result Parliament is partially redundant with too many members. India, with a population of over 1 billion, has less MPs. Sleaze became endemic and typical examples are: Vaz – claimed more than £69,000 in expenses for a Westminster flat between 2004 and 2007, although only living 12 miles away. Failed to declare financial links to the Hinduja brothers in the ‘Cash for Passports’ affair when supporting their applications for UK passports. Lied about how many properties he owns. Tried to nobble a Judge hearing a case against a bent solicitor friend Mireskandary. Punishment – suspended a month from the Commons then promoted to become chairman of the important House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee and now referred to as – the Right Hon. Ashcroft – Tory Party Deputy Chairman, made a deal regarding Tory funding to obtain a peerage. Elizabeth Filkin, Parliamentary watchdog, exposed Reid fiddling his expenses – sacked. Pensions Average private pensions pot - £25,100. Produces pension - £1,700 pa Average public pensions pot - £427,275. Produces pension - £17,091 pa A quarter of all council tax goes towards paying for pensions of town hall staff.
  • 13. 13 The pension liability for the public sector is now £880 billion, an increase of 140% since 1997. 34,000 public employees now have pension pots of £1million. State spending today accounts for 53.4% of GDP compared with 40% when Labour came to power in 1997. The cost of the public sector pensions in 2010 – £1.2 trillion. Source: OECD Private Finance Initiative A scheme that allows the private sector to build schools, hospitals, prisons, major road schemes, defence requirements, then to rent the facility back to the user. Advantages The items don’t appear on the government inventory. The government doesn’t have to borrow money to pay for them. Disadvantages What the vast numbers of lawyers, consultants and accountants get before any project begins. The taxpayer ends up paying for all the extra expenses, profits and increased borrowing costs because it costs private companies far more to borrow than the government. Since 1997 the government has signed up to over 600 PFI schemes at a cost of £63billion. By the time the interest and management charges have been paid for the next 40 years, the cost will have amounted to £240billion – to be paid for by our children and grandchildren. 16.3% per annum is charged for management fees and interest, according to Frank Field. £2billion of our taxes had to be added to PFI costs because when the credit crunch occurred the companies could not borrow from the banks, so the government had to step in to pay for their projects. Services tied into the scheme pay rent to the private sector for the use of their facility; a PFI Hospital Trust will pay their rent to the funder of their hospital. Profits of 60% and 80% are not uncommon for providers. The NHS is already committed to paying £50billion rising to £90billion by 2013 in rent. A National Audit Office report on PFI hospitals revealed poor design, fewer beds, over-occupancy, and poor cleaning. NHS Trusts with a PFI contract on average had a 4.4% overrun on costs, many times the national average and consequently were forced to cut services and slash jobs. Of 12 bankrupted Hospital Trusts unable to borrow any further, 8 had PFI schemes. Public Sector Fat-cats’ paradise and jobs for the boys, grossly overpopulated and grossly inefficient. Private sector shed jobs at 1,440 per day over the past 12 months; the public sector rose by 14,000. Brown’s obsession with full employment spawned an empire of quangos, fat-cats, quangocrats, a prolific public sector providing a virtual voting-potential dependency, awarding themselves generous bonuses for just doing their jobs and finding early retirement very attractive, especially on ‘health grounds’ with a pension pot to follow. To
  • 14. 14 compound this situation, ex-postman Johnson, when Minister of Work and Pensions, capitulated to the union demands for retirement at 60 for public sector workers – all 6.08 million of them. ‘He is responsible for one of the most shameful political surrenders of modern times’ – Max Hastings – Daily Mail 13th October 2007 The Civil Service have just been given a counselling manual to deal with stress-related boredom and lack of work. 25,000 Civil Servants enjoy salaries of more than £100,000 per annum, 5,600 have salaries of more than £150,000. 5 of the 10 biggest pensions in the entire public sector belong to BBC executives. In 2007 the Pension Policy Institute reported the retirement rate percentages for public sector workers retiring early on health grounds: Fire Service Police Local Government NHS Staff Teachers Civil Servants - 68% 49% 30% 23% 25% 22% Hayden, Chief of Hereford and Worcester Fire Service, will leave on his 50th birthday in May. He will receive a £380,000 tax-free lump sum and an index-linked pension worth £60,000 per annum. To avoid paying tax of 40% on his lump sum, he has changed his job title to ‘Brigade Manager’, but is still serving as Chief Fire Officer. By using this ploy, he has avoided paying the tax on his lump sum. Ten other Fire Chiefs across the country are retiring early using the same stratagem. Quangos David Craig, in his book ‘Squandered’ explains the futility of them. England managed very well before quangos, so why do we have them. Autonomous, unregulated, self-accounting, hugely wasteful and grossly over-staffed. Between 1997 and 2004 Labour added 113 quangos. In Brown’s first seven weeks he introduced 7 more quangos. Government spending on quangos in 2006 amounted to £123.8 billion. There are a total of 1,162 quangos – Source: The TaxPayers’ Alliance Regulators France and Germany prevented their utility companies being owned by foreigners on the basis that they were strategic assets. £1billion has been spent regulating our utility companies since privatisation. 2004 /5 – The utility companies made profits of 29% (£2.195billion on turnover of £7.52billion). 2005 – 6 Profits rose to 31% (£2.577 billion profit on £8.225 billion turnover). Some foreign companies make profits of 30% to 40% on their UK operation while only making profits in their own countries of 5% - 10%. Between 1999 and 2004 Southern Water overcharged customers resulting in a fine of £20.3million imposed by the regulator, but
  • 15. 15 these are rare occasions. OFGEM – Office of Gas and Electricity Markets. Costs £39.5 million per annum to run. The boss – salary £200,000 pa, but superimposed on top of OFGEM is Energywatch doing practically the same job. Social Matters In 2000 Transparency International ranked the UK one of the most honest countries. In 2010 is now ranked 17th. Miliband – ‘Life on sink estates has got better under Labour’. Philippa Stroud, director at Centre for Social Justice – ‘We have been in social recession for the last decade, children are growing up in vulnerable families, failing schools, drugs on the streets, communities without a strong work model. In the last 10 years there has been a doubling of alcohol consumption, a 5-fold rise in youth drug-taking, male life in Miliband’s South Shields constituency is 2 years less than the national average. Council housing estates have become broken ghettos.’ Source: Daily Mail, 25th Jan 2010 Jenni Russell, Integrated Children’s System (ICS). A computer model tells social workers when they must file reports, communicate with other agencies, and complete assessments. Result: 20 years ago social workers spent 30% with families, now 11%. Source: Sunday Times, 24th January 2010 National Equality Panel Report. Gulf between rich and poor has grown wider under Blair and Brown than at any time since the Second World War. Those born in the poorest areas will die 13 years before those in the richest. Source: Daily Mail 28th January 2010 Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Europe. UK – the most obese adults in Europe. 10 – 15-year-olds have a higher per cent drunk rate than any in western Europe. 15 – 24-year-olds have a much higher incidence of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia. Since 1999 those waiting for social housing has doubled to 1.7 million. Migrants inhabit 1 in 12 council homes. Darcus Howe, TV presenter, Jamaican, commenting on television. ‘I saw in Oldham, which is now really, really poor…. the white people are, what will be described in Jamaica as “white trash”’ (he was commenting in a concerned and sympathetic manner). Harry Fletcher, Assistant general Secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers – ‘the system is in meltdown’. He was commenting on the fact that at least half of trainee probation officers, due to qualify in the autumn of 2009, would not have a job to go to due to government cutbacks. Each cost £100,000 to train. Total cost - £25 million wasted. Description of town and country life in England. Pervasive drug and gun culture. Town centres vomit-stained, needle-strewn. Uncontrolled immigration jeopardising community
  • 16. 16 stability and national identity. Traffic congestion. Closure of police stations and post offices; the demise of English village life. Source: Daily Mail 2nd June 2007 Strategic Damage The denial to our children and grandchildren of a heritage created by the efforts and sacrifice of our forefathers, over one million of whom gave their lives for the preservation of our freedom and culture. Problems of Overpopulation: Hospital waiting lists, crowded trains, looming energy crisis, water and sewage systems unable to cope, road congestion, air pollution increase, unaffordable housing and accommodation crisis, unavailable dentistry, greater demands for university places, decline in quality of life, many more schools, maternity wards and hospital beds needed and a huge strain placed upon the NHS. Universities Overcrowding in university accommodation and tutorials has led to protest meetings. 100,000 starting university in September 2009 were left short of funds. In 2010, 570,000 applying for places have been swollen by applicants rejected in 2009, squeezed further by a 40% increase in applicants from overseas. In 2010 there has been a 33.6% rise in EU applications to UK universities. Currently there are 61,175 EU students at UK universities being funded by our government. The cost so far to fund them has been £200million. 70% of EU students fail to repay their loans. The Department for Business – ‘The UK and universities benefit from overseas students in terms of enrichment of academic life, without reducing opportunities for home students’. Contrary to this, university leaders have predicted that more than 200,000 UK university applicants will be denied university places this year. The government has imposed £573million in cuts for universities in 2010. Waste David Craig in his book ‘Squandered’ identifies the vast extent of this government’s profligacy. Other examples include: £5billion wasted running the education courses for adults in factories and offices. The Economic Research Council found that the ‘Skills for Life’ courses were effectively pointless. HM Revenue and Customs. Overpaid tax credits by £8.4 billion. Much was recovered, but doing so caused confusion for tens of thousands of families. TaxPayers’ Alliance – ‘£101billion per annum is wasted by the government’. Tax credits – first year £2.2billion overpaid. £4million paid to those in prison who didn’t declare their situation, which would have precluded them from payment.
  • 17. 17 In 2000, the Sheffield National Centre for Pop Music was built at a cost of £17million. Closed within 1 year. ‘The Public’ in West Bromwich was built at a cost of £60million, originally costed at £40million. Only the ground floor so far has opened. Stalled road projects now well over budget: A14 Cambridge – £500million original cost, now £950million. M1 widening – original cost £300million, now £600million. The Home Office squandered £29million on an asylum centre that was never used at RAF station Bicester. Costs – Global Solutions £7.6million for the design, plus £8million termination fees. Financial Advisor for this project paid £15,743 per month, Procurement Advisor paid £15,559 per month. Together they were paid £1.1 million for less than 3 years work. Source: Daily Mail 12th June 2008 Computer Fiascos: Child Support Agency; Criminal Records Bureau; Passport Agency; Benefits Card; Traffic Control; e-University; NHS project. Source: Simon Jenkins Sunday Times 26th June 2005 Defence Information Infrastructure (DII). Cost £7.1billion; now running more than £180million over budget and 18 months late. National Identity Card Scheme cost £5billion, original budget £3billion. The card no longer to be made compulsory. Single Payment Scheme System (SPS) for farmers cost £350 million. In 2006 around £1.28billion of the £1.5billion subsidies destined for British farmers still had not been given out, despite the £350million spent on the technology. The Public Accounts Committee warned that it was at risk of becoming obsolete. GCHQ ‘box move’ of technology. Involved the movement of a complex computer system into a new building. In 1997 the projected cost was £41million. In 2003 the National Audit Office put the costs at more than £300million. The National Offender Management Information System (C-Nomis), designed to share information between prisons and the probation service, was abandoned when the estimated cost doubled to £600million. Benefit Processing Replacement Programme approved in June 2006 three months later scrapped. Total loss £106million. Prism IT project for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for their 200 offices around the globe. Original cost £54million. Final cost £88.5million and rising. Shared Services Centre, Department for Transport (DfT) to integrate human resources and financial services. Supposed to save the taxpayer £57million, will now cost £80 million. NHS Electronic Records Service estimated final cost government while elephant in history’. £15billion. ‘The greatest
  • 18. 18 HMRC tax credits estimated overspend £2billion. Benefits Pathway estimated overspend £1billion. Magistrates’ courts Libra estimated overspend £300million. ‘Has descended into a costly mess’. Aviation ATCS estimated overspend £300million. Police Impact estimated overspend £200million. Estimated future costs to fund Public Pensions 1997 – £360billion, but in 2010 – £880billion Bank bail-out £1.2 trillion. Source: David Craig - Daily Mail 16th September 2009 Quangos – Since 1995 numbers employed have risen from 1 to 1.5 million. Spending rose in 1995 from £49billion to £130billion in 2010. The Department of Work and Pensions paid out £401million on redundancy payments getting rid of 8,479 personnel. They then took on 16,554. Top ten Quangocrats: each earn over £700,000 pa British Potato Council levy farmers £4million pa. Chairman and Chief Executive is paid £170.000 pa – ‘I think our work is quite important, it is about learning the difference between a healthy chip and an unhealthy chip’. Child Support Agency (CSA). Labour paid £1billion to McKinsey to modernise the IT system. Blunkett – ‘It’s a shambles’. Regional Development Agencies (Regional Assemblies) There are 8 in England. Total staff – 2,500. Cost to administer £200million. These are a complete waste of taxpayers’ money. Any jobs created are taken principally by foreigners. They spend money like water – unregulated, sending ‘delegations’ to Center Parcs, Torquay, Cannes, New Zealand, Beijing; even maintaining overseas offices. Comment Details of Blair’s underhanded plan to flood England with immigrants, with the intention to boost the Labour voting base, was finally exposed by Andrew Neather in October 2009. Steven Moxom, a whistleblower, earlier in 2004, had also revealed that the government had fast-tracked a backlog of 337,000 immigrant cases under the code name ‘Brace’. The government tried in every way to prevent the publication of the facts until the intervention of Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner in 2009. Melanie Phillips, in the Daily Mail on October 21st 2009, commenting on Andrew Neather’s revelations wrote: ‘A politically motivated attempt to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of our nation. Done to destroy forever what it is to be English, to replace it with a multicultural identity. East Europeans form less than one quarter of all immigrants. A free-for-all, paid for largely by the English taxpayer, contributing to the destruction of their own society, history, religion, law and traditions, to change its very character and identity’.
  • 19. 19 What her article didn’t identify were the methods being used by the government to push through Blair’s covert aim within England, which was to establish a Labour-voting majority population in perpetuity. The tactics employed involved the following principles: • Conceal Blair’s aims from public scrutiny by putting up a smokescreen of reasons why mass immigration was a necessity: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. It was justified on the grounds of greater economic efficiency. There was a shortage of workers, both skilled and unskilled. Economic growth would stagnate. There would be fewer people to fund the pension bill. The NHS would collapse. All these points were nonsense as was confirmed by a House of Lords Committee. The fatuous reasons given had no substance whatsoever, with so many of the population unemployed, yet having the undoubted talents required to satisfy any of the reasons given by Labour for increasing immigration. • Keep the Opposition at bay. Using the word ‘racist’ was sufficient to send them scurrying to their dugouts. Except for Gove – ‘I would not reduce the flow of immigration’. • Ensure that the indigenous population of England, the vehicle for Blair’s treachery, was warned off (‘racist’), demeaned, instilled with ‘multiculturalism’, politically corrected, by a programme that metamorphosed into almost a pogrom, to consign the English psyche, genius and character to history, which Melanie Phillips had so acutely observed. To enhance their aim, or at least to set it in motion, a stratagem evolved: 1. Political. Demean tradition. Trivialize Parliament and enhance the influence and power of the EU in Westminster. 2. Verbal. Straw – ‘The English can’t be trusted because they are very aggressive, very violent’. Hodge – Derogating the ‘Last Night of the Proms’. 3. Press. The Guardian. Hare, a playwright - ‘We associate Englishness with everything that is most backward in this country’. Further disparagement from The Guardian – ‘Only a minority of English people follow football and only a tiny handful play’. 4. Dilution of the English population. Johnson, Home Secretary – ‘Personally I don’t lose any sleep at night over the population heading for 70 million (90% Blacks vote Labour, 75% Asians vote Labour). Source: The Electoral Commission 5. Neglect of the indigenous population: Sink estates allowed to sink further;
  • 20. 20 Education – OECD tables confirm the neglect of Labour. Jobs/skills - 8 million not in meaningful employment - denied thirteen years of skills’ training and lifeenhancing opportunities because resources, effort and funding were diverted by Labour to immigration. At the end of 2009, six months before the coalition came to office, youth unemployment stood at a record high of 943,000, a direct result and outcome of Blair’s manic drive from 2000 onward to bring about an irreversible transformation in the demographics of England (where 96% of immigrants have settled). 6. ‘Give them cake’. Licensing hours abolished so that youths were stupefied whilst their country was being transformed about them, with the despair of poor education, no skills’ training, no future prospects, leading to alcohol and drug abuse for no-hopers. The death toll from drinking in England is higher than the average in fifteen European countries – Source: Health Profile of England 7. Historic. Removal of English history and achievements from school textbooks, anything that hints of or extols the English genius, characteristics and achievements, leaving the English with a loss of identity and sense of belonging. 8. Implementation of visitors to tour schools on a propaganda exercise, extolling multiculturalism, watering down and sidelining the English pupils’ own sense of identity, sense of pride and ownership of their country, imparting the idea that they are just passengers on a boat that doesn’t belong to them. What the Labour faithful were unaware of, had been hoodwinked by, is the fact that Blair, their professed leader, had betrayed them, following his own agenda, which will have farreaching, negative effects for their children, grandchildren and all after. This is the real legacy of 13 years of Labour misrule and Blair’s disgraceful treachery, which in an earlier age would have found his head on a spike on London Bridge.
  • 21. 21 Appendix I In the summer of 2000, Portes, Senior Economic Advisor to the Cabinet, working in the Performance and Innovation Unit within Blair’s Strategy Unit, presented a report painting a ‘rosy picture’ of mass immigration: ‘There is little evidence that native workers are harmed by migration. The broader fiscal impact is likely to be positive because a greater proportion of migrants are of working age and migrants have higher average wages than natives. Most British regard immigration as having a positive effect on British culture’. Within the Cabinet Office, Blair seized upon Portes’ flawed reasoning as a pretext to open up the UK to mass immigration, revealed in October 2009 by Andrew Neather who had been present at the initial meetings – ‘A driving political purpose to rub the Right’s noses in diversity’. Ministers hoped it would paint the Conservatives as ‘xenophobic and out of touch’, but Blair’s real purpose was to increase the Labour voting base, as the vast majority of new immigrants vote Labour. The Daily Telegraph on 10th February 2010 printed a copy of the document (Appendix II) that revealed Labours’ intentions to open the floodgates to mass immigration. . . .The document notes that migration pressures would intensify, ‘but this should not be viewed as a negative’; trying to stem the flow would anyway ‘be very difficult (perhaps impossible)’; the Government had ‘both economic and social objectives for immigration policy’; the benefits included ‘a widening of consumer choice and significant cultural contributions’; entry controls, on the other hand, ‘can contribute to social exclusion’, and most devastating of all, the previous policy of curbing immigration had ‘no economic or social justification’. The document had written across it ‘To be Withheld’. Roche, the Home Office Immigration Minister, was charged with implementing Portes’ proposals. She made a speech in September 2000 calling for ‘the loosening of immigration controls into the UK’. Roche’s CV: Russian/Polish father - Spanish/Portuguese mother with no historical connection to this country, yet setting in motion an immigrant tsunami unprecedented in our history.
  • 22. 22 Appendix II Further details from this document were released on 22nd February 2010: ‘Public opinion favours relatively restricted policies on immigration. Recent research shows that anti-immigrant sentiment is closely related with racism, rather than economic motives’. The document called for state efforts to change opinion. Public views were not ‘beyond control’. ‘Past governments have had significant influence on public opinion’.