uk - Blog - Global Risk Community2024-03-28T13:59:58Zhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/ukWhat’s Wrong with Britain? Poor Housing, Education and Health in Crisishttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/what-s-wrong-with-britain-poor-housing-education-and-health-in2015-10-05T16:39:42.000Z2015-10-05T16:39:42.000ZEnrique Raul Suarezhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/EnriqueRaulSuarez<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}8028237083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="400" class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8028237083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8028237083?profile=original" /></a></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"><span class="font-size-3"><strong>What’s Wrong with Britain? Poor Housing, Education and Health in Crisis</strong></span></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;">Source:</p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/lesley-docksey" target="_blank"><span><span>Lesley Docksey</span></span></a></strong></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"><strong>Global Research, October 05, 2015</strong></p><p></p><p><em>One glance on Sunday morning at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><span><span>The Guardian</span></span></a> website demonstrated quite clearly what is wrong with Britain – and, probably, the rest of the ‘developed’ world. Three major concerns of the average household were news. And all three are connected, not just to each other, but to the way this country is being run.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Housing and the ‘Right to Buy’</strong></p><p>This country has never recovered from the 1980s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Buy" target="_blank"><span><span>Great British Sell-off</span></span></a> of our social housing – council houses and flats. Having sold them off, councils weren’t then allowed to use the money to build much needed… council houses. There has been a social housing crisis ever since.</p><p>Tory plans to force housing associations (private, non-profit organisations) to go down the same path will lead to more desperate people that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/04/right-to-buy-extension-unworkable-council-group-lga" target="_blank"><span><span>local councils</span></span></a> will have to deal with. The Tories are fond of telling us we all ‘aspire’ to home ownership, but that aspiration comes second to people’s simple wish to have a secure, affordable roof over their heads. Whether it’s the rent or the mortgage that is affordable is not actually that relevant.</p><p></p><p><strong>Education and the loss of morale</strong></p><p>Why is it that each new government has to overhaul the education system, just when teachers have got to grips with the last ‘reforms’? A YouGov poll finds that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/04/half-of-teachers-consider-leaving-profession-shock-poll" target="_blank"><span><span>over 50 per cent</span></span></a> of teachers are thinking of leaving the profession. Yet people go into teaching because they sincerely want to teach. Schools Minister Nick Gibb says “Teaching remains a highly popular profession…” He continues, “While many teachers stay in their roles for more than five years…” Five years? Is that now a long time to be in a job that used to be for life</p><p>Governments have for years depended on teaching being a ‘vocation’. No matter the conditions, the extra hours, the lack of support they receive, teachers will go on teaching, won’t they? Not any more it seems.</p><p></p><p><strong>Health, the NHS and corrupt money</strong></p><p>Poor housing and poor education often result in poor health, but we all know the National Health Service is in trouble financially. Tories use that as a good reason to privatise parts of it, but that doesn’t stop them <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/03/ministers-hiding-details-nhs-cash-crisis" target="_blank"><span><span>hiding</span></span></a> how bad it has got under their watch. One of the main problems has been the Private Finance Initiatives, introduced by the Tories, which has led to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/money/loans-credit/crippling-pfi-deals-leave-britain-222bn-in-debt-10170214.html" target="_blank"><span><span>crippling debts</span></span></a>.</p><p>While the right to buy has ruined the supply of housing for poorer people, so PFIs have ruined many hospitals. Those built under PFIs still have to allocate large sums of their budget away from patient care, just to go on paying the interest on these deals. Governments should get bold and put an end to this. Financiers have earned more than enough from the poor taxpayers.</p><p>But they won’t. Another health story to emerge is connected to the Volkswagen scandal, where harmful emissions have been polluting the air when customers had been led to believe that VW was environmentally friendly. It turns out they are rather more friendly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/04/vw-scandal-emissions-test-body-conflict-of-interest-accusation" target="_blank"><span><span>to the body</span></span></a> that is supposed to measure and monitor the emissions produced by their cars.</p><p>But although Housing, Health and Education form major ‘life’ concerns for the average person, for people earning a less than generous salary all three areas are heavily impacted by the lack of financial security. It goes without saying that the Guardian and other newspapers had, in September, highlighted the news that ‘zero hours’ contracts rose by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/02/number-of-workers-on-zero-hours-contracts-up-by-19" target="_blank"><span><span>nearly a fifth</span></span></a> last year. And it should come as no surprise that they will increase because business groups are in favour of such contracts.</p><p>So there we have it: insecure jobs, insecure housing, and an insecure education system that lets down both teachers and pupils, all of which results in poor health that can’t be addressed by a failing health-care system.</p><p></p><p><strong>Insecurity is the problem.</strong></p><p>Life itself is never secure and dependable, but the current government and its devotion to business and profit are making life a whole lot less secure for many people. Are the Tories hoping we’ll all simply die of worry? Then they can close down government and go and enjoy themselves.</p><p>Oh no! Where have all the servants gone?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p></div>As a Future Labour Government Becomes Reality, Tories Panic as Bankers See Gravy-Train Crashinghttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/as-a-future-labour-government-becomes-reality-tories-panic-as2015-09-28T17:13:41.000Z2015-09-28T17:13:41.000ZEnrique Raul Suarezhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/EnriqueRaulSuarez<div><p style="text-align:center;"><img width="400" height="224" class="align-center" style="width:401px;height:193px;" src="{{#staticFileLink}}8028238879,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="8028238879?profile=original" /><span class="font-size-3"><strong>As a Future Labour Government Becomes Reality, Tories Panic as Bankers See Gravy-Train Crashing</strong></span></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;">Source:</p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/bellchambers" target="_blank"><span><span>Anthony Bellchambers</span></span></a></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;"></p><p class="center" style="text-align:center;">Global Research, September 28, 2015</p><p></p><p><em>Goldenballs bankers and hedge-fund, casino-operation directors are even now making enquiries to emigrate to Dubai or New York, in the future, as it becomes clear that a radical reforming, British Labour government is more than likely in 2020.</em></p><p>Multinational companies currently protected by the Conservative government will be forced in future to pay taxes in the country where they make their profits.</p><p>Those disadvantaged, disabled and unable to work will have benefits reinstated provided, of course, that they survive this administration.</p><p>Insider trading and £1million annual bonuses will be made illegal. Tax avoidance by the city will be prosecuted and those found guilty, subject to mandatory imprisonment.</p><p>Railways and mass transport systems will be nationalised and fares made affordable to all as an essential public service. Shareholders will have to find unearned profits in America or elsewhere.</p><p>Bonuses for company directors who fail will be abolished by law.</p><p>A replacement for the Trident nuclear deterrent will only be considered if it is can be proven capable of defending the United Kingdom in the future from the massive undeclared Middle Eastern, nuclear arsenal held by Israel that is outside the inspection of the IAEA. Given that is all but impossible, there would be little point in expending £100 billion of taxpayers’ money on a deterrent that would, in fact, be no deterrent at all - instead of building new hospitals and investing in cancer research so as to bring Britain up from the bottom of cancer-care tables in Europe.</p><p>Better, by far, to support a Nuclear Free Zone incorporating Israel and Iran, instead. That way, we in Britain could be reasonably assured of being safe from Middle East terrorism.</p><p></p></div>Employee Expenses Benchmark Report 2012https://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/expenses2012-05-09T10:53:12.000Z2012-05-09T10:53:12.000ZGlobalRiskCommunityhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/GlobalRiskCommunity<div><p>Download this full Benchmark Report 2012 analysis and learn best practices on how your business can ensure money is not leaking away undetected. </p>
<p>The report is based on analysis of 10.25 million individual expense claims from more than 200,000 UK based employees over the past three years. The analysis reveals areas where businesses continue losing money and how best practices can be implemented. According to the report for every £100 a UK business paid out in expenses last year, nearly £10 was spent outside their expense policy, costing UK businesses over £692 million.</p>
<p>In addition, businesses are not reclaiming all VAT they should on their expenses (on average, companies only obtain receipts for 90 percent of business travel claims where VAT is reclaimable, though HMRC requires 100 percent).</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;">Learn More ===></span> <a href="http://bit.ly/ExpensesReportBenchmark">http://bit.ly/ExpensesReportBenchmark</a></p></div>The UK is out on Basel IIIhttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-uk-is-out-of-basel-iii2012-05-07T02:30:00.000Z2012-05-07T02:30:00.000ZMartin Davieshttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/MartinDavies92<div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><span>The Chancellor George Osborne</span> has warned the European Union that Britain will refuse to sign up to "idiotic" proposals under Basel III.</span></p><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:#808080;" class="font-size-2">George Osborne has warned the European Union that Britain will refuse to sign up to "idiotic" proposals that would water down tough international rules on bank capital. </span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">This is a very concerning development and quite astounding actually. Let's ponder on the drop out of the UK from Basel III, just as a idea for a moment: [<span style="color:#3366ff;"><a href="http://quantogate.blogspot.com/2012/05/osborne-basel-divide.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#3366ff;">click here to continue reading</span></a></span>]</span></p></div>UK banks are hiding retail losseshttps://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/uk-banks-are-hiding-retail2011-06-04T10:00:00.000Z2011-06-04T10:00:00.000ZMartin Davieshttps://globalriskcommunity.com/members/MartinDavies92<div><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">Unbelievable but unfortunately it appears that UK banks are heading for another disaster and so soon after the recent credit crisis took grip of the country.</span></p><div class="separator" style="text-align:justify;clear:both;"><p style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">It was reported by the FSA that UK banks have been hiding distressed retail assets by forcing a restructure to the amount of 68% of their portfolio. This is serious, perhaps one of the most serious pieces of news I have read for the last six months and is right up there with the collapse of the US dollar. In this blog article we are going to look at the claim and its potential implementations for the British economy going out in the next ten years – <a href="http://causalcapital.blogspot.com/2011/06/uk-banks-heading-for-another-disaster.html" target="_blank">Continue reading</a></span></p></div></div>