Wednesday 10 January 2018

Following Brexit here are 18 more referendums we need to have

Following the Brexit referendum and the perpetual calls for another referendum especially from people like Tony Blair here is a list of 18 we should have:
  1. Should Tony Blair be prosecuted for war crimes and, if found guilty, be executed? This one is quite simple as we know Tony Blair lied to to get the UK to go to war with Iraq. It is estimated that a million people have died. Shouldn't Tony Blair be held to account to ensure that no future UK Prime Minister does the same? We would actually have to prosecute David Cameron for Libya and both him and Theresa May for sponsoring terrorism in Syria and possibly Yemen.
  2. Should politicians have personal liability for their actions, votes and statements? Politicians are excellent at spending other people's money. Why should that be allowed? Why should taxpayers have to pay for political incompetence. Perfect examples would be £11bn on the NHS IT system that never worked or the millions spent on compensating Sharon Shoesmith because Ed Balls wanted publicity and breached all  employment laws. How many years has it been where the government didn't have a deficit? 20? More?
  3. Should public service be capped at a maximum of 10 years in aggregate? We have a class of professional politicians and layabouts who get elected to Parliament and stay as long as they like. If they get kicked it's off to the Lords or be appointed to quangos or an Ambassadorship. Time to put a limit on how long they can have their snouts in the trough.
  4. Should judges be held accountable for their decisions? Judges supposedly dispense justice however there seems to be a lot of decisions which are just plain bad. Think about the Albanians who lied to get into the UK and the judge said they could stay. There are countless cases where immigrants are allowed to stay at taxpayer's expense. Shouldn't that be at the judge's expense? What about where judge's give inadequate sentences and the offender re offends? Why shouldn't the judge be required to pay for all legal and compensation costs for the subsequent offences if their sentencing is inadequate? 
  5. Should the legal system be changed to ensure justice is done? The failure to prosecute John Worboys for most of his crimes and his early release is just the latest example. What about Ehsan Abdulaziz being cleared of rape? Gang rapists of hundreds of victims getting 20 years in prison so that works out as less than a month for each rape? What about the selective enforcement of laws? FGM and bigamy to name but two of hundreds.
  6. Should we have an Onerous Public Contracts Act? Think about the Private Finance Initiative. The Government's way to spend even more and hide the borrowing in private companies. Then the borrowing and other costs end up as many multiples of the cost that would have been incurred if the Government had purchased the hospital or other asset directly. How about LOBO loans where councils borrow long term and the lender has the option to increase the interest rate. If the council doesn't want to pay the higher interest rate the council can repay the loan in full together with a penalty making the total cost of the loan several multiples of the original loan. This Act would give members of the public the right to challenge any public contract. The challenge would be a council of lay people. If the challenge is proven the contract is restated for only the reasonable costs under the contract to be paid by the public authority. All other costs would be payable by the politicians and civil servants who executed the contract.
  7. Should we adopt the Swiss system of referendums? MP's have spent over 40 years giving away Parliamentary  and legal sovereignty to the EU. Over 500 MP's are currently fighting to stop Brexit to avoid the return of Parliamentary and legal sovereignty. Shouldn't we give the MP's what they want and remove their policy making powers from them?
  8. Should we have immigration? We have had mass immigration for decades and what do we have to show for it? A housing crisis, various NHS crisis, multiple education problems, perpetual deficits and ever larger public debt, increasing crime with a criminal justice that is a joke, Islamic terrorism and social disintegration. At what point does the electorate get to say that this isn't working. Enough. 
  9. Should immigrants be required to either integrate or be deported? As crime increases, parallel societies are created and the UK's social identity is destroyed is it time to finally lay to rest the myth of multiculturalism?
  10. Should immigrants be banned from claiming any benefits? Why should Britons provide free stuff to immigrants? Housing, education, healthcare, money. Don't we have enough homeless or impoverished of our own who actually deserve state help?
  11. Should all visitors and immigrants be required to have health insurance before admission to the UK? The National Health Service is in crisis as politicians have allowed it to become the International Health Service. Time to end this don't you think?
  12. Should government subsidies to large or foreign businesses be banned or be charged back to the business? Why does the government pay 'in work' benefits to employees of large and foreign companies? Tesco employees are reportedly receiving over £300m in benefits to top up employees pay as Tesco pay isn't enough to live on. That is a business subsidy that increases Tesco profits and goes to their owners. This applies to all large and foreign businesses. Why does the government give the tax money taken from Tesco employees to the Tesco shareholders?
  13. Should criminals be given a new identity when they are released from prsion? Let's start with the killers of 2 year old James Bulger stoned to death by Jon Venables and Robert Thompson. We also have Maxine Carr the girlfriend of the Soham murderer Ian Huntley. Mary Bell is another that we know of. How many more are they? At an estimated cost of £250,000 why do we give murderers a second chance as their victims won't get one.
  14. Should UK residential property ownership be limited to UK resident individuals or 'not for profit' trusts? Successive governments have told us we have a housing crisis. Why not remove the speculation from the residential property market and try and have affordable housing?
  15. Should Islam be banned? Surveys variously report 40% of Muslims want to live under Sharia law and over 50% want homosexuality to be made illegal. Muslims do not tolerate pigs, dogs and alcohol. Muslims demand halal products resulting in unnecessary animal cruelty. The majority of UK terrorism is Islamic which is strange as Islam being the Religion of Peace their extremists should be extremely peaceful. Islam does not treat either women or non-Muslims as equals. Muslims do practice FGM on their children. The above would suggest that Muslims are not and won't be happy in the UK. From the non-Muslim viewpoint it is difficult to accept that over 80% of gang rapes just happen to be carried out by Muslims. And the total failure to prosecute UK laws if the alleged perpetrator is Muslim is outrageous. How many of the more than 20,000 Muslim 'Polygamists' have been prosecuted? None. You will find reports of non-Muslims being prosecuted. Emily Thorne, Michael Hardy, Adam Moore were names found from a quick search. We know FGM is never prosecuted and the authorities would rather cover up than prosecute the grooming gangs. Ultimately, as history can demonstrate, a society can either have Islam or everything else but it can't have both. Ever.
  16. Should all benefit claimants who are able to be productive be made to work without exception? The government wasting more money requires no work for the benefits paid and jobs can be refused on religious grounds. Why?
  17. Should euthanasia be allowed as a criminal punishment? Liberals have removed the deterrence factor from the criminal justice system. Today there are reports that a shopkeeper was killed over cigarette papers. We stand with an epidemic of knife and acid attacks. Do you think if judges were not limited in the sentence they could give would that change behaviour? Why should someone that kills or maims their victim be allowed to live especially at your and my expense? If you kill someone whilst driving under the influence of drugs why you shouldn't you lose you life. You have demonstrated life has no meaning so isn't it time for the state to return the favour? The current system of sentencing isn't working so something seriously needs to change.
  18. Should Directors, Partners and Senior Managers of large businesses have their insurance and other liability protections removed? Do you think the 2007 banking industry meltdown would have happened if the Directors and Executives of the TBTF banks knew they would lose everything? How many corrupt business practices have the banks been fined for? Mis-selling PPI, terrorist financing, money laundering, manipulation of virtually all markets, asset stripping customers. If the Directors had to pay the billions of fines personally would corporate governance be better? What about the Tesco accounting scandal? We have made business corruption profitable and financially risk free (well for the perpetrators at least).    
Just a few of the serious issues that our politicians refuse to deal with. It's time to let the people decide.