Post by cherenkov on Jan 23, 2012 23:30:00 GMT
The socialist idealist half-brains on Newsnight had a problem tonight. Their sanctimonious God-imagining allies in the C Of E had managed a politically irrelevant government defeat in the House of Lords over the long overdue capping of the amount of benefits paid to families who don't care to work, at the overgenerous imho level of twenty-six grand pa.
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9684000/9684222.stm
However, given that thousands of low income WORKING families can only dream of having that kind of income after tax they knew there was considerable public support for the move to cap benefits, and that the real story was that the C Of E were behaving, once again, like a bunch of stupid and naive teenagers.
But yet a way had to be found to show support for their anti-Tory allies. In a totally unrelated matter the Business Secretary had refused to name what he thought was a suitable level of remuneration for bankers! Aha, the morons at Newsnight cried- we can CONFLATE the two stories by criticising the government for specifying a figure of £26,000pa for the benefit life-choice non-workers while refusing to specify a figure that might represent an appropriate cap on bankers salaries.
Believing that everyone had swallowed their earlier crap about the bankers being to blame for everything, and everyone else, including their beloved Labour sweethearts, merely the hapless victims of their greed, they thought they were onto a winner.
Sadly, for many of the victims of the BBC's stilted coverage many viewers probably did fall for their cheap stunt. However conflating two separate and distinct issues in such a contrived way is just the kind of propagandist's trick that would have made those of the Soviet Union and the Nazi Party proud that their legacy had been passed on into new and capable hands!
Just a thought-
To cap the pay of anyone working in a democratic country is a violation of their human rights and those of their employers. To cap the benefits designed to keep people going while they're meant to be looking for work, when actually they never have worked, or looked for work, and have little inclination to do so, is not a violation of their human rights, as they are abusing the benefits system at the expense of their fellow citizens, many of whom are less well off than them.
Actually the huge wages of Premier League footballers have more impact on the benefit scroungers than the wages paid to bankers- that is because the huge sums of money paid by SKY to the clubs has acted to inflate the players' wages to ridiculous levels and of course, SKY's best customers are the UK's 'can't work, won't work' millions!
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9684000/9684222.stm
However, given that thousands of low income WORKING families can only dream of having that kind of income after tax they knew there was considerable public support for the move to cap benefits, and that the real story was that the C Of E were behaving, once again, like a bunch of stupid and naive teenagers.
But yet a way had to be found to show support for their anti-Tory allies. In a totally unrelated matter the Business Secretary had refused to name what he thought was a suitable level of remuneration for bankers! Aha, the morons at Newsnight cried- we can CONFLATE the two stories by criticising the government for specifying a figure of £26,000pa for the benefit life-choice non-workers while refusing to specify a figure that might represent an appropriate cap on bankers salaries.
Believing that everyone had swallowed their earlier crap about the bankers being to blame for everything, and everyone else, including their beloved Labour sweethearts, merely the hapless victims of their greed, they thought they were onto a winner.
Sadly, for many of the victims of the BBC's stilted coverage many viewers probably did fall for their cheap stunt. However conflating two separate and distinct issues in such a contrived way is just the kind of propagandist's trick that would have made those of the Soviet Union and the Nazi Party proud that their legacy had been passed on into new and capable hands!
Just a thought-
To cap the pay of anyone working in a democratic country is a violation of their human rights and those of their employers. To cap the benefits designed to keep people going while they're meant to be looking for work, when actually they never have worked, or looked for work, and have little inclination to do so, is not a violation of their human rights, as they are abusing the benefits system at the expense of their fellow citizens, many of whom are less well off than them.
Actually the huge wages of Premier League footballers have more impact on the benefit scroungers than the wages paid to bankers- that is because the huge sums of money paid by SKY to the clubs has acted to inflate the players' wages to ridiculous levels and of course, SKY's best customers are the UK's 'can't work, won't work' millions!
, and not for the first time,