Um... the UK government is neo-con conservative.

Not Left, but rather ultra-Right. Much like the Abbott shambles, but worse.

And, horrendous as this matter to which you refer is, it only scratches the surface of the shocking
things happening in the UK today under the Cameron government. Things that you read about in
history books as having happened there 150-200 years ago, and that made you thankful that we'd
'moved on' and that such things could not happen again...

Well, they ARE happening again, at a rate not seen since the 19th century, and it's as a direct
result of the neo-con manifesto as practised in the UK.

Pensioners are freezing and starving to death on a fairly regular basis. There's no work but they're
blatantly persecuting their unemployed. Homelessness is sky-rocketing, but the homeless are being
blamed for it. Suicides by welfare recipients are at unprecedented levels, as is police persecution of
the poor. Anti-welfare propaganda is rife, and is resulting in increased attacks and assaults on the
poor and the homeless. Food-banks and charities are stretched beyond the point of being able to
cope. And jobs are disappearing faster than a pokie-addict's paypacket.

Meanwhile, the gravy-train which is No 10 Downing St rolls merrily on, financed almost entirely with
money stolen from the least well-off. Pork-barrelling and entitlement-rorting are endemic and blatant
and there is corruption wherever you care to look.

If you really want a preview of what Australia's headed for without a change in both government
and direction, just look at the UK. It has BECOME everything it fought AGAINST in WW2.

And we are rushing headlong in the same direction.


Be warned, this link is to an 'anti-Tory' FB page, but even given the inevitable exaggerations and (yes)
lies, it paints a pretty horrible picture of life in the UK today if you're unlucky enough to be poor, sick
old, unemployed, or homeless.

It also highlights the utter lack of morals, scruples or compassion displayed by the Cameron regime.

https://www.facebook.com/WeDemand.uk?fref=nf

And please, people, do me the courtesy of actually going and having a look, before doing the Pavlov's
dog routine and simply leaping to howl me down.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 27^th, 2014 at 11:12am:



Undoubtedly. As history will bear out. Abbott & Co are an abject failure in every
way, and on a scale which Rudd or Gillard could never have dreamed about. And
everyone but they and their extremist supporters can see it.
And they are dragging the country both downwards and backwards at a rate never
before seen.

Blair I don't know about (or particularly care).

But I disagree with both your assertion that the left are to blame for the current state
of things in the UK (or here) and that their (or our)current mob aren't ultra-Right.

Because it's simply not true.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 27^th, 2014 at 12:45pm:


australias government is centre left.

most countires, most of our trading neighbours, Indonesia, china , the phillipines, Thailand, Vietnam...

there is no social security in these countries, there is no universal health care, their is no equal opportunity to get a good education . there is only the market.

European failed welfare states have negative growth. many are turning their back on the welfare state.

if we look at the countires with the biggest economic growth, those with rising living standards, with low unemployment, with economic growth above 3 % , they are all the market driven, welfare avoiding Asian tigers.

this is the Asian century and we either embrace less welfare and more support for the pie creators or you will perish. Oz will become the white trash of asia.
the Asian is a ruthless businessman and a shrewd operator. he embraces the market and the law of the jungle.
Join him in this quest or perish.
the age of entitlement is over. anyone who thinks the abbott government is right leaning is a seriously demented fool who knows nothing of our sovereign neighbours

aquascoot wrote on Aug 27^th, 2014 at 7:34pm:



dont be silly aqua...

Kat wrote on Aug 27^th, 2014 at 9:59am:

They are in coalition with the soft-head left, the LibDems.
Anyway, the Conservatives in the UK are like the NSW Labor Right=centrists.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 27^th, 2014 at 12:45pm:


That’s right, Herbie. Your parallel universe is one where the UK is the "home front".

You know, the way Andrei Hicks claims he’s Australian and complains about the damage Australian taxpayers and voters do to his reputation - as an Australian.

Don’t worry, Herbie. It’s pretty doubtful we’ll ever take up your worldview. Still, we’re a rich tapestry. You’re free to have your say.

We do so value your feedback.