The real 'parasites' in our society - million lives ruined !

Conservative & Liberal Democrat ministers - guilty as charged by the 'people' for leaving
lives "in tatters" - unemployment has soared to a staggering 2.52 million.

Britain's trade unions unleashed a chorus of condemnation as 15,000 more workers joined the dole queue in the first quarter of 2013.

The Office for National Statistics figures showed the jobless total had risen for the third quarter in a row, now standing at 7.8 per cent.

Unemployment is higher than when the coalition took power three years ago, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) pointed out, demanding new policies to stop the rot.

And those in work saw their total pay go up just 0.4 per cent in the last year, a rise quickly chomped up by CPI inflation of 2.8 per cent.

The regular pay rise of 0.8 per cent is the lowest since comparable records began in 2001.

TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said in a press release that fast-rising prices meant workers' pay packets were "taking a hammering." She said: "It's no wonder the economy is struggling when people in work are getting poorer every month."

Unite the Union said youth unemployment - at 20.7 per cent - was a "disgrace" and demanded a U-turn to create jobs. General secretary Len McCluskey said: "Today's jobless figures confirm that David Cameron and George Osborne have nothing to offer but more of the same - lashings of austerity in a low-wage economy.

"Their polices, that have benefited the rich and powerful so generously, are leaving the lives of ordinary people in tatters."

Public-sector union UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis called on the government to scrap its damaging austerity measures "before it's too late."

The real 'parasites' in our society  - this patronising & contemptuous coalition of fools tries to absolves itself of responsibility for the level of unemployment and transfers the onus onto the jobless themselves, feeding an image of feckless families refusing to work rather than portraying the reality of a capitalist system that cannot provide the number of jobs necessary.

Contrast that with the tens of billions of pounds not received every year from wealthy individuals and corporations by dint of government-approved tax avoidance schemes, including the use of tax havens. The government has promised to crack down on "aggressive" tax avoidance, which David Cameron & Downing Street calls "inappropriate," but it is difficult to square this with his government's constant staff reductions at HMRC.

Certainly there has been no top-level campaign to abolish offshore tax havens, over half of which are subject to the Crown. But barely a day passes without the right-wing mass media running flesh-crawling stories about claimants, often born overseas, ripping off the taxpayer.This one-sided approach underpins the symbiotic relationship between media and politicians, encouraging unscrupulous politicians to make it up as they go along to peddle the anti-working class agenda they share.

In CONCLUSION: The government should immediately increase social benefits instead of cutting them. This together with an increase in the minimum wage would do more to boost demand in the economy and create jobs. The building of a million more council houses would immediately create 100,000 jobs.

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A systemic culture of 'statistical deception' operates within the UK Government & the Bank of England

Iain Duncan Smith, Minister For Deception - has taken a leaf out of Hitler's book 'Mein Kampf' - "The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed" & twisted it around! 

The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has been caught lying 'yet again' about the government's vicious welfare policies this week - this time by the official statistics watchdog. Smith's department claimed in April that the number of people set to be hit by his cap on benefits had fallen from 56,000 to 40,000, with 8,000 of those people finding work through job centres.

But the UK Statistics Agency stated that the claim was "unsupported" by his own department's numbers - the Tory minister used the deceptive statistics to claim the cap was "clearly having the desired impact."

Meanwhile the Bank of England governor Mark Carney says 'UK rates will be held until unemployment falls'.

Mr Carney announced that interest rates will remain at a record low of 0.5 per cent until high unemployment figures are brought to below 7 per cent. Outlining his strategy of "forward guidance," the new chief of Britain's central bank predicted that won't happen until at least 2016 due to government inaction.

The problem is: there has been & continues in place a systemic culture of 'fiddling of the books' within government departments & 'big business'. Within the DWP the true statistical unemployment figure in Britain, has been altered so many times - it fundamentally lacks credibility.

The recent economic collapse was due to 'vulture capitalists' speculating, using statistical deception to deceive other investors - 'fiddling the books' !!

BoE's Mark Carney said: The Bank of England needs to ensure that Britain's banks change their culture:

He went on to say: "The cultural issue is fundamentally important. There has to be a change in the culture of these institutions. This is the weakest recovery on record. There are a million more people unemployed today than before this financial crisis and many who have jobs would like to work more than they currently can".

Our question to the governor is this: How can the general public trust politicians, bankers & government ministers when a systemic culture of deception continues to operate ?  Mark Carney your comments regarding unemployment is nothing more than 'hot air' !

Corporate business use clever accounting practices to avoid paying tax, the governor & government continues to use 'statistical deception' regarding the state of the economy.

When government ministers & bankers make up evidence to justify their policies, it's an indication of their desperation and their unsuitability for office.Whether being caught out three times by the UK Statistics Authority for the same offence makes Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith a serial offender is up for debate. But it also shows that no-one should invest trust in his analysis of data without seeking a second or third opinion.

He was criticised in January 2012 for misrepresenting the scale of benefits claimed by immigrants and in 2010 for "serious deficiencies" in his handling of housing statistics. It could be that Duncan Smith is just not very good at figures, although this would jar with his self-praise of having based ministerial practice on his experience in the private sector - otherwise known as being given a job by his father-in-law.

In any case, anyone lacking expertise in analysing statistics would normally seek assistance or even read a document fully to avoid falling into the trap of drawing conclusions against which there was an explicit health warning. The unavoidable inference is that Duncan Smith didn't read the Ad-hoc Statistics on JobCentre Plus Activity document fully, didn't understand it or understood it but decided to misrepresent it.

The temptation to draw false conclusions is strong because he had a vested interest in making people believe that bringing in a £26,000-a-year benefit cap had spurred 8,000 people to stop claiming and get a job. Duncan Smith's problem is that it wasn't true, but unemployed people claiming benefits have a bigger problem of his making. His assertion chimes with government propaganda that there are plenty of jobs available and that too many people opt to live on benefits as a "lifestyle choice."

This self-serving lie absolves the conservative coalition government of responsibility for the level of unemployment and transfers the onus onto the jobless themselves, feeding an image of feckless families refusing to work rather than portraying the reality of a capitalist system that cannot provide the number of jobs necessary.

Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants demands an apology from the Work and Pensions Secretary to both unemployed workers & Parliament for his deceptive slur against them.There's an obvious need for a welfare system that guards against abuse, but, in reality, fraudulent claims are a drop in the ocean as a proportion of the welfare bill - just 0.7 per cent of total benefit expenditure or £1.2 billion, which is slightly below the amount of underpayments paid to legitimate claimants.

We therefore call upon the 'Speaker of the House of Commons' to: Expel Iain Duncan Smith.

After being outed as a liar, and after more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling for him to be held to account, Iain Duncan Smith has been called before - Parliament's 'Work and Pensions Committee' to be held to account for 'statistical deception'.

We NOW learn that he will, after all, be appearing to give evidence before the committee on the production and release of the Department for Work and Pensions - DWP statistics in September, despite evading that committee & having been postponed in June & July.

If he won’t defend himself, then he must stand guilty of the offence. This brings us to the question of the penalty he should pay.

Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants refers to the following & makes this 'public statement': "Under British Parliamentary Convention: There is an offence, here in the UK, known as Contempt of Parliament. An MP is guilty of this if he or she deliberately misleads Parliament, and any MP accused of the offence may be suspended or expelled.

He must either admit that he lied to Parliament and to the people - in order to justify his despicable treatment of the most vulnerable people in this country… therefore he must be expelled from Parliament like the disgrace that he is.

Point of reference: If any MP is found to have lied & deceived the 'House of Commons' an MP can then be expelled from parliament: http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/misconduct_in_public_office/#a010

We hereby DEMAND the so-called honourable member Iain Duncan Smith a leading figure within the Conservatives be expelled from the House of Commons, Palace of Westminster"

Please SIGN & share our petition https://t.co/dfm3RSRlty

Who are the real scroungers ? Tens of billions of pounds are not received every year from wealthy individuals and corporations by dint of government-approved tax avoidance schemes, including the use of tax havens. The government has promised to crack down on "aggressive" tax avoidance, which David Cameron & Downing Street calls "inappropriate," but it is difficult to square this with his government's constant staff reductions at HMRC.

Certainly there has been no top-level campaign to abolish offshore tax havens, over half of which are subject to the Crown. But barely a day passes without the right-wing mass media running flesh-crawling stories about claimants, often born overseas, ripping off the taxpayer.This one-sided approach underpins the symbiotic relationship between media and politicians, encouraging unscrupulous politicians to make it up as they go along to peddle the anti-working class agenda they share.

Our advice to the Bank of England governor Mark Carney .....seek the truth, end the 'statistical deception' within all sectors of business. Bringing economic stability requires credible statistics regarding the true state of the economy - don't believe the 'statistical deception' regarding the 'unemployment' situation in Britain.         
Learn the lessons of history OR we risk repeating it - don't believe or accept the 'blame game of hatred' !!

Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf stated & blamed Jews using the phrase: "the principle & which is quite true in itself & that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily,"

The Jewish people in the 1930's were NOT to blame, the unemployed are NOT to blame, the disabled are NOT to blame - the blame is firmly at the door of CAPITALISM - the whole rotten system needs replacing !!
 
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Youth unemployment in Britain spiralled out of control !

Youth unemployment in Britain spiralled out of control since Conservatives took office !  

Analysis of official unemployment figures revealed the number of 18 to 24-year-olds without work for over a year surged from 25,800 in April 2010 to a shameful 73,500.

Youngsters in the north of England are being hit the hardest as Britain's manufacturing base continues to collapse as London's financial sector swells.

Over 9,700 young people have been condemned to the dole queue for 12 months or more in Yorkshire and Humber - the highest number across Britain.

An equally shocking 9,600 young people are affected in north-west England, along with just over 9,000 in the West Midlands and almost 7,000 in Scotland and London.

They are among a massive 979,000 jobless 18 to 24-year-olds in Britain - leaving overall youth unemployment at over 21 per cent.

Respect For the Unemployed & Benefit Claimants said: "David Cameron has failed a whole generation of youngsters, his ConDemNation government - guilty of economic incompetence !

We need a government of 'the millions' not one of 'millionaires' - to provide jobs, to provide hope & stability - we demand action not inaction to create economic stability".

The analysis was today backed-up the National Institute for Economic and Social Research which warned over 30 per cent of young people in jobs aren't working as many hours as they would like to.

National Union of Students president Liam Burns also explained young people are being "asked to jump through ever more internship, experience and low-wage hoops" while internships are being used as "an excuse to pay less than even the minimum wage."

However he warned the crisis "started long before the banking crisis" and won't necessarily be solved by the return of economic growth.

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