The proscription of Britain First

I rarely make changes to posts on this blog, aside from correcting errors of spelling or punctuation.  I can think of only one post which I deleted, and that was because it linked to photographs which were no longer available online.

Yesterday I read an item in a national newspaper to the effect that many of our obnoxious MPs had asked that the political party Britain First be proscribed as a terrorist organisation.  The rationale for this was apparently that it may have been linked to the supposed murder of Jo Cox, even though there is no evidence that Thomas Mair - the man convicted of her killing - was ever a member of Britain First, or that he had any connection with them, or that they ever condoned violent crime.

This morning I tried to find this press report, but could not.  Maybe it had been removed.  What I did find however was an item about the possible proscription of a group called National Action, and this too was linked to the supposed murder of Jo Cox.

I have already outlined in a previous post some of the reasons why the murder of Jo Cox was almost certainly a false flag.  I will add that Thomas Mair appears to be mentally unstable, barely spoke at all either when questioned by the police or while on trial, and that a press photograph of his book collection appears to show books in pristine condition - as if they had never been read.  He is also alleged to have visited anti-establishment websites on public access computers in libraries - even though local councils across Britain habitually deny access to such websites.

It does not surprise me that not one national newspaper has considered the possibility that the murder of Jo Cox was a hoax.  It also does not greatly surprise me that the only journalist for whom I have any admiration recently described Jo Cox as a shiningly good person. How does he know?  Has he ever met her?

One of the few things we know for certain about Jo Cox was that she nominated Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership of the Labour Party, and then later said that she regretted doing so.  For the record, I'm not aware that Jeremy Corbyn has ever voted for British involvement in an illegal war.

Every British Prime Minister in my adult lifetime has approved of Britain taking part in at least one illegal war, and yet I do not see any MPs calling for either the Labour Party or the Conservative Party or the Liberal Democrats to be proscribed as the terrorist organisations which they undoubtedly are.

Related previous posts include:

Who murdered Jo Cox?

Britain First and Niemoeller's Prayer

Britain First and the fiction of a free country

We can't trust chameleon Dave

Graduate debt and nurses' salaries

It was recently reported that the trade union Unison had claimed that many nurses in the United Kingdom are living in poverty, and that some of them are even using food banks.

While I don't doubt their findings, the fact remains that the starting salary for a nurse in this country is nearly forty percent higher than the minimum wage.  In other words, many people in Britain earn less money than a nurse, and yet many of those people enjoy a lifestyle which is far from impoverished.

The point is that the cost of living in this country varies considerably, and is affected by such factors as whereabouts you live, what type of housing you occupy, and whether or not you have to travel to work.

For example, a person who lives in private rented accommodation in Greater London and travels a long distance to work will almost certainly have a much higher cost of living than someone who lives in social housing in a provincial city and walks to work.

When people argue the case for student loans, they often assert that the repayment of graduate debt is related to the ability to pay.  This however is quite simply not true.

If the ability to pay means anything at all, then it must relate to your disposable income - the amount of money you are left with after deduction of taxes and your necessary cost of living. The repayment of graduate debt is based on how much you earn, and not on your disposable income, and so is not related to the ability to pay.

Related previous posts include:
Glamour model with student debt