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		<title>Shock: some people still have savings! Labour needs to tax them more.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change Fairy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bizarre headline on LabourList yesterday read, &#8220;Only around 30% of households have savings &#8211; Labour has to stand up for the majority.&#8221;
It sounded like it might now be a crime to have savings, so I investigated further. It seems that some people are still financially independent and that even some of the middle classes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A bizarre headline on <a href="http://www.labourlist.org/30-per-cent-households-savings-majority-duncan-weldon">LabourList</a> yesterday read, &#8220;Only around 30% of households have savings &#8211; Labour has to stand up for the majority.&#8221;</p>
<p>It sounded like it might now be a crime to have savings, so I investigated further. It seems that some people are still financially independent and that even some of the middle classes still exist. This has upset Harriet Harman because it&#8217;s just not equality. There are plans to make people in large houses pay even more Council Tax than they do already and suggestions that private education should be taxed, but this in itself will not bring the middle classes to their knees, begging for state assistance and pledging allegiance to New Labour and globalism, so more must be done to make everyone &#8216;equal&#8217;, i.e. dependent.</p>
<p>The problem, of course, is that there is &#8216;wealth inequality&#8217;, but this is not a helpful way of looking at the problem. When I was on benefits, I was genuinely poor, because 90% of my money went on alcohol. Other people spend half their money on cigarettes. Other people paying off debts. Some people manage to live reasonably well on benefits. I had to decide whether I was going to eat a proper meal or put money in the electricity meter to have some heat or buy enough booze to last till the giro arrived. The booze invariably won. Squeezing better off people for more money wouldn&#8217;t have lifted me out of the poverty trap, especially when governments are so frivolous with the money people generously give them under threat of imprisonment.</p>
<p>While the Government gives away billions to the EU and is poised to give billions to the Climate Change Fairy, even more tax must be raised.</p>
<p>Why not SPEND more carefully and morally instead?</p>
<p>How much has it cost to support George Bush&#8217;s wars for empire?<br />
How much does it cost to maintain New Labour&#8217;s underclass?<br />
How much do unnecessary and immoral procedures on the NHS cost?</p>
<p>There is so much scope for <em>reducing</em> the tax burden, but New Labour must continue to attack the middle classes because they remain the most independent and effective barriers against the enemies within who are taxing us till the pips squeak in order to then spend that money to destroy our customs and freedom.</p>
<p>I would once have said, yes, let&#8217;s keep taxing the middle classes (as I&#8217;m not one of them), until I realised that they do perform a vital function in society. They have the money, the brains and positions of influence in society, so tend to make sure that the government of the day does not get too much power.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the traitors have it in for them.</p>
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		<title>Censored by LabourList</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the whole point of having a blog was to post articles and invite people to comment on them.
Apparently not. Not with LabourList, anyway.
Alex wrote: &#8220;Stewart, I&#8217;ve removed your links and would appreciate it if you took your views elsewhere.&#8221;
No prizes for guessing what the subject was? The 3% who are above criticism. People [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought the whole point of having a blog was to post articles and invite people to comment on them.</p>
<p>Apparently not. Not with LabourList, anyway.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.labourlist.org/manchester-not-fooled-cameron-compassionate-conservatism" target="_blank">Alex wrote</a>: &#8220;Stewart, I&#8217;ve removed your links and would appreciate it if you took your views elsewhere.&#8221;</p>
<p>No prizes for guessing what the subject was? The 3% who are above criticism. People who engage in homosexual acts.</p>
<p>They are allowed not only to do that, but promote it and all the while I am supposed to keep my opinion to myself. Am I not clearly being discriminated against? Should I bring legal action?</p>
<p>Is Alex Smith or someone else at LL afraid? Fearful of being questioned as to why this Stewart Cowan was allowed to link to articles like this one which shows that the &#8216;gay&#8217; agenda is a mind-control experiment: <a href="http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf">THE OVERHAULING OF STRAIGHT AMERICA</a>?</p>
<p>Do people in the New Labour Party not even care that they have been so thoroughly manipulated?</p>
<p>They&#8217;d rather shoot the messenger and carry on pretending that their multi-cultural, multi-sexual Utopia is going to be wonderful &#8211; if only people who want free speech and decent values would just shut up.</p>
<p>I was described by Mike Homphry, who I believe is homosexual, as a &#8220;particularly virulent and extreme evangelical Christian&#8221;.</p>
<p>It is incredible, but people seem to have forgotten that my view on homosexuality was the normal one, even earlier in this very decade when Brian Souter conducted his referendum in Scotland on Section 28 and seven out of eight people out of the million who took part, voted to keep this protection in place.</p>
<p>Now, even the Tories have apologised for Section 28.</p>
<p>I got rid of the telly five years ago, so perhaps that&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t been reprogrammed to believe that wrong is right.</p>
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