Lifestyle Choices Make People Poor, Not the 'System'  (10 December 2016)

"A record number of workers are living in poverty, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation announced last week, ... I wondered when we started referring to people as 'in poverty' rather than being poor? ... Poverty - whether officially defined as living below 60% of median income, or, as in JRF's inspired inclusive new definition, as 'living at a standard of living that fellow citizens think is not acceptable' - is framed as someone else's responsibility (or fault)..."

Socialism Tested in the Classroom  (07 February 2015)

"An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, 'OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism..."

Let's Get the Feckless to Buy Food - Not Fags and Booze  (05 April 2014)

"Although the Government has capped its welfare spending at £119.5billion a year, the amount of taxpayers' money directed to those who stubbornly refuse to work is still far too high. What's more, a shockingly large amount of that money is squandered by many recipients, rather than being used to provide essentials for their families..."

No, Benefits Street Does NOT Demonise the Poor  (18 January 2014)

"Almost 80 years ago, one of the greatest writers in British history set out to chronicle the lives of the most deprived people in society..."

A Self-Indulgent Mum and the Myth of 'Starving' Britain  (28 December 2013)

"This week, a charity called Church Action on Poverty launched a poster campaign that says 'Britain Isn't Eating', mocking the Tories' famous 1979 election campaign poster 'Britain Isn't Working' that helped Margaret Thatcher to victory. This time, the charity claims, the long queues are not for the dole office, but for food banks. 'Thousands are going hungry because of benefits changes' it protests. I thought of those posters when I read the story of Katie McGill, a 28-year-old unemployed single mum..."

Let Them Eat KFC  (23 December 2013)

"According to the advert commissioned by the charity Church Action on Poverty (CAP), 'Britain isn't eating' - specifically because 'of the benefit changes'..."

Maggie Lives!  (11 April 2013)

"Margaret Thatcher's judgment has been vindicated by the disgraceful celebrations of her death: the vile demonstrations in the streets by the spoilt and petulant underclass and the bile spoken in the mass media by people who ought to know better. ... So how has [her] judgement been vindicated?..."

We Dole Out £207bn in Benefits. Even Lemmings Aren't That Dumb  (13 January 2013)

"Britain cannot possibly afford its welfare state for too much longer. Most people do not realise that state handouts mop up every penny we pay in income tax (£155bn a year)..."

The Entitlements Mentality and National Suicide  (08 November 2012)

"If there is one thing which stands out perfectly clear in the just-held US election, it is this: Perhaps half of all Americans now expect that the government should look after them and give them free stuff. They believe they are entitled to things they do not deserve or have not worked for. It is the entitlements mentality, the same one which is destroying Europe and other parts of the West where the welfare state reigns supreme...

Expecting Responsibility from Welfare Claimants? Cue Hysteria!  (29 October 2012)

"On the Left, it is axiomatic that all welfare recipients are virtuous, honest and decent, while all who want to limit benefits are cruel, callous and heartless. Such insults are being hurled at the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith - a man whose patent decency, compassion and deep concern for the plight of the poor should make such brainless barbs stick in his assailants' throats. The cause of the uproar was a speech Mr Duncan Smith made last week..."

Over half of UK Households Are Net Beneficiaries of the State  (07 October 2012)

"53.4% of UK households now receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes, says a latest Centre for Policy Studies report..."

Latvian Mother Receives £34,000 in Benefits Demands Bigger Council House for Her Ten Children  (20 September 2012)

"Miss Kozlovska, a self-employed cleaner, pays only £100 in rent a week ... The property is maintained for her by Boston borough council. She claims working tax credits, child tax credits and child benefits. In total, she receives £34,000 a year from the state - far more than the average UK salary of just over £26,000 before tax..."

Being British Counts for Nothing in Social Housing  (02 May 2012)

"Whilst many British families struggle to find decent homes, or languish for years on housing waiting lists, local councils in their boundless generosity are using our money to house foreign nationals..."

The Real Reform to Child Benefit  (06 March 2012)

"[C]hild benefit rewards the wrong thing..."

The Truth About Polygamy: How Muslim Men Can Exploit the Benefits System  (24 September 2011)

"Baroness Flather ... warned the Lords ... about how our shambolic benefits system is being exploited by men hailing from Pakistan and other Muslim nations who indulge in multiple marriages - with taxpayers forced to foot the bill. [She] explained: 'The wives are regarded by the welfare system as single mothers, and are therefore entitled to a full range of lone parent payments. As a result, several "families" fathered by the same man can all claim benefits, as they are provided for by the welfare state, which treats them as if they were not related'..."

The Sun Never Sets on the British Welfare System  (10 August 2011)

"With a welfare system far more advanced than the United States, the British have achieved the remarkable result of turning entire communities of ancestral British people into tattooed, drunken brutes..."

The Welfare State and the Selfish Society  (26 April 2011)

"In the contemporary world, where left-wing attitudes are regarded as normative, it is a given that capitalism, with its free market and profit motive, emanates from and creates selfishness, while socialism, the welfare state and the 'social compact', as it is increasingly referred to, emanate from and produce selflessness..."

So Many On Welfare Are Better Off Than Hard Working Families  (30 October 2010)

"Even by understated official statistics, more than a third of today's Londoners were born in another country, so Britain's capital has become an international city or a foreign one, according to your point of view. Many of its lower-paid residents receive welfare payments including housing benefits..."

Charity vs the Welfare State  (27 December 2006)

"Religion and morality command every individual to do the right thing by helping people who have fallen upon hard times. But charity is not the same thing as decreeing that such people are entitled to an equal share of everyone's wealth. Liberal-socialist-progressive critics charge that questioning the welfare state amounts to a mean-spirited policy of dumping the needy into the streets to provide funds for tax-cuts that benefit only the wealthy. Such questioning, however, is mean-spirited only if one assumes that the Federal [National] government is the sole source of charity..."

The National Health Service

Lessons from Little Charlie Gard  (26 July 2017)

"You all  should know about the short life of little Charlie Gard. His parents - and millions of concerned people worldwide - did all they could to possibly extend his life while some doctors and judges did all they could to prevent that from happening..."

Little Charlie Gard: the Rise of Statism and the Abolition of Man  (30 June 2017)

"[The case of Charlie Gard] demonstrates how the rise of the all-powerful state, bereft of any Judeo-Christian foundations, is bringing about the end of man. It celebrates death while despising life. It takes away ordinary decision-making from the individual, and puts it in the hands of bureaucrats and state apparatchiks..."

NHS Problems, All Sorted  (17 November 2016)

"William F. Buckley ... once put down a Moscow tour guide proudly telling him that healthcare in the Soviet Union was free., 'Nothing is free, child,' said Buckley, ... The NHS was founded by socialists as purely an ideological construct, and it indeed survives 'simply because of ideology'..."

British Nursing Applicants Turned Away as Trusts Spend Billions on Foreign Staff  (22 June 2015)

"[T]he head of the Royal College of Nursing ... Dr Peter Carter has claimed that staffing levels in NHS hospitals have reached 'crisis' point, forcing hospital bosses to poach foreign staff from across the globe, a practice which he said was both 'hugely expensive' and ethically dubious..."

Italy's Health System Versus the NHS  (01 June 2015)

"Italy comes second (to France) in the WHO assessments of European healthcare. ... The structural differences between the Italian and British systems are marked. One of the most interesting is that health is not an object of endless political carping [in Italy]. ... their system is not ideological, just based on delivering good healthcare to sixty million people. ... the faults with the British system are symbolized by the phrase 'our NHS': a willingness to close our eyes to its failings and to kid ourselves it's the envy of the world. The embarrassing Olympic opening ceremony was watched by hundreds of millions of people with far better systems than ours, who would not have dreamed of bragging about it..."

Health Tourism Is A Real Issue for the Public  (01 June 2015)

"Though many in the Westminster bubble were outraged by my comments about the impact of Health Tourism, and appalled that I mentioned those with HIV as part of that problem, what was clear was that the general public did not share that outrage..."

Let's Add 'HIVism' to the Glossary of PC Tyranny  (17 May 2015)

"Allow me to remind you of the facts, on the assumption they've been buried under the avalanche of politicised verbal rubble..."

HIV System Overrun - A Patient's View  (28 April 2015)

"I am writing in support of your claims and comments regarding HIV services being abused by foreign immigrants..."

The NHS Must Be A Sacred Cow No Longer  (24 October 2014)

"Yesterday, the chief executive of NHS England said what a political class that all too often resorts to craven posturing dare not: the health service must fundamentally change or the 'consequences for patients will be severe'..."

Privatisation Has Been Good for the NHS. So Why Won't Even Conservatives Admit It?  (23 October 2014)

"BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning ... gave the impression that the threat of privatisation is the only thing that really worries people about the NHS and that everything else is just fine and dandy. But I'm not so sure that is actually true. Yes, there will indeed be one or two people out there who really would rather that a thousand NHS patients died in agony than that one private company made a profit from treating them better and more efficiently. But they are, I would suspect, vastly outnumbered by people who just want a workable, cost-effective system that they can rely on to treat them well when they are ill - and never mind the exact details of the contractual relations or otherwise the NHS may have with the private sector..."

Cash-Strapped NHS Wales Wastes a Fortune on Politically Correct Non-Jobs  (22 October 2014)

"The financial problems in the Welsh NHS do not seem to have dampened its labour leadership's appetite for wasting money on oddly titled politically correct jobs..." 

The NHS Claims Another Victim  (17 April 2014)

"Who says there's nothing we can teach Americans? Here's a valuable lesson our Trans-Atlantic pupils would ignore at their peril: Push Obamacare to its logical conclusion, nationalise medical care, then start counting casualties, those killed by negligence and incompetence. They'll multiply quickly..."

Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants - and You Pay For It  (27 November 2012)

"A recent government decision threatens to turn the NHS into the 'World Health Service' and should be rescinded as a matter of urgency, says a think tank in a report out today..."

NHS Risks Becoming 'World Health Service' As Lax Controls Are Admitted  (30 April 2012)

"The Government has admitted that access to the NHS for anyone outside the UK and EU is so lax that, say campaigners, it leaves it wide open to abuse..."

Adverse Effects of Child Protection on Public Health  (20 August 2007)

"Letter to Prof. Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer, DoH, from Jean Robinson, on behalf of AIMS: "Dear Liam, You may recall that we sent you our analysis of our first 50 or so child protection cases when you first started looking at problems with medical expert witnesses. ... We are now so concerned at the adverse effects of child protection procedures in the UK that we felt we had to write to you. ... The following list is not exhaustive, but gives examples of typical problems..."

The Public Sector

The Left's Anti-Austerity Message is Delusional  (10 May 2012)

"The presence of Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, on a protest march in London yesterday was emblematic of the wider denial that has gripped the Left across Europe..."

Nationalised Industries and the Unions

Marxists Behind Misery of London's Strikes  (11 July 2015)

"Endorsing revolutionary heroes, posing with guns in Soviet regalia and calling for the overthrow of the capitalist regime, their behaviour would not be out of place in a student bedroom. Yet the men in question are elite members of the union that brought London to a standstill last week. They are part of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Union..."

Thatcher's Achievements Will Long Outlive the Spite of Sheffield's Sons and Daughters  (07 August 2012)

"'When Thatcher dies they'll have to build a dance floor over her grave for all the people who want to dance on it.'  When I was told this in a pub some years ago it wasn't the sentiment that struck me but that [sic] fact that the unimaginative fellow speaking might have thought it was the first time anyone within earshot had heard that rib tickler..."

RMT Threatens to Disrupt EDL Demo  (01 September 2012)

"The RMT Union, headed by Communist Bob Crow, is threatening to disrupt rail services to Walthamstow today in an attempt to prevent EDL supporters attending a demo ... Information about the planned attempt to violate the democratic right of the EDL to protest is provided on the SWP website which states:..."

RMT Communists Oppose EDL  (31 August 2012)

"[L]eaders of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers [gave] 'public safety' as the pretext for their threatened disruption of Saturday's Walthamstow demo..."

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Exposed  (01 March 2012)

"Is the NUJ riddled with political correctness, left-wing bias and has this affected media reporting of sensitive and controversial issues?..."

Health and Safety

Modern Britain  (31 July 2012)

"This is the State we have become: 'Binmen have been banned from pulling wheelie bins due to fears they may suffer a back injury'..."

Charity Shop Worker Drowned in Lake Just 3ft Deep After Firemen Refused to Wade in Due to H&S Rules  (22 February 2012)

"Simon Burgess, 41, was left to float face down as emergency crews watched. ... 'The officers were trained to go into ankle deep water, which is level one, so we waited for level two officers, who can go into chest high. ... A paramedic told me he was level two trained, but when I asked him if he had protective equipment he said, 'No', so that was the end of that'..."

Health and Safety  (No Date)

"Human resources manager  /  Marketing manager  /  Logistics manager  /  Technology manager  /  IT manager  /  Project manager  /  PR manager  /  Business analyst  /  Product developer  /  Health and safety  /  Bloke from Poland"

Local Government and County Councils

Democracy? What Really Goes On in Your Town Hall  (27 April 2013)

"Official Vandalism  /  Embrace Diversity  /  The Elderly are 'Old Order'  /  Everything Has Changed  /  Called a Racist  /  Independence Gone, Greed Reigns  /  Shamocracy  /  Toe the Party Line  /  Wrecking the Countryside  /  Wasting Public Money"

The Frankfurt School

"The Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution.

Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the 'oppressive' order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus - 'continuing the work of Western Marxists by other means' as one of their members noted.

To further the advance of their 'quiet' cultural revolution ... the [Frankfurt] School recommended (among other things):

(1) the creation of racism offences,
(2) continual change to create confusion,
(3) the teaching of sex and homosexuality to children,
(4) the undermining of schools' and teachers' authority,
(5) huge immigration to destroy identity,
(6) the promotion of excessive drinking,
(7) emptying of churches,
(8) an unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime,
(9) dependency on the state or state benefits,
(10) control and dumbing down of media,
(11) encouraging the breakdown of the family.

One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud's idea of 'pansexualism' - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:

(a) attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children,
(b) abolish differences in the education of boys and girls,
(c) abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces,
(d) declare women to be an 'oppressed class' and men as 'oppressors'."

Programmes of Treason

"There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state:

• Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people;

• Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live;

• Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That wa6y you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty;

• Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state;

• Welfare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income);

• Education - Take control of that people read and listen to - take control of what children learn in school;

• Religion - Remove the belief in God from the Government and schools;

• Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take from (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor" [source].

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
(Isaiah 5:20-21)

© Elizabeth McDonald     http://www.bayith.org     bayith@blueyonder.co.uk