Jonesy, simply a human

Note, the press do not seem to be reporting on inflation and the cost of living, however, my house phone and internet has gone up by over eight pound in a month with no discussion nor warning. (I don’t use house phone other than free calls to land lines). The cost of things that used to be pence have been rounded up to pounds, and Poundworld no longer is a pound shop.
It sounds like I am moaning for the sake of it, maybe I am, but in reality these little price hikes are what make a huge difference to those on low incomes. I pretty much never go out partying or drinking. I did take my kids to Hull yesterday but I wandered around and spent £2.35 in Costa and about £6 on my lunch in Subway. I got paid on Tuesday and now have £20 to last til next Thursday. If I am lucky enough to get paid then.
I do not do extravagant things. In fact most of this month I have been house bound. Not been spending anything. Watching TV and communicating on facebook. Often hardly getting out of bed due to pain, exhaustion and yes a growing apathy.
The basic cost of living has gone up massively but its little things, cheap bread no longer quite as cheap, pound items suddenly £1.99, amounts of products cut so you have to buy more.
The poor are getting poorer. People already on the breadline will not survive much longer.
Because of this hidden inflation last month my bills amounted to more than my income. Now if I do get paid I face £60 bank charges and gawd alone knows how much in ‘admin charges’ from companies where DD’s were returned.
I have asked all the utilities to let me use standing orders but all refused.
I am not a ‘stupid person’ I try to keep an eye on my budget but it just does not work for me anymore. If I struggle on my own I can only wonder how those of you with kids living at home cope, it truly is no wonder that we have a homeless population that grows each day.
I cannot cut my cloth much more, I will be selling everything I built up before I got sick, or trying to, but that is only a temporary fix. What next?
My bikes will have to go and my car. I am running out of options, so I have no idea how others manage.
Is this how they will kill off the weak and vulnerable, starve them of life, but silently?
My life seems to be just one of dreams of living for a couple of days on pay day if health allows then barely existing for the rest of the time. And I am so much better off than many others.
This is not a woe is me post but a woe is this country post.
And just one final thing, for those that see the sick and disabled as scroungers think on this, I had my dream job, I worked hard, very hard, long hours, but loved my job, my career, I had pride in myself and a damn good wage. No one especially me would ever have given that up to live like this. I now feel lost, without a future, without choices, living in a long boring vacuum day to day, hour to hour. I am being offered roles daily at £40 + per hour but cannot consider them because of health. Jobs abroad on more that ii dream of. No one chooses to be sick, no one wants this. If I could escape it I would. Would love to be back doing something productive rather than dreaming each night of not having to wake up any more. But us dad’s and mum’s don’t have those choices do we?
So life for sale, any takers?
So think on before you judge based on another episode of benefits Britain.
Sorry this is so disjointed. Started as an observation, but guess it slipped into a rant.
Jonesy

Is it not funny how far right hate groups, racists, fascists and nazi’s all use the symbolism and imagery of the Knights Templar. Now the thing they do not seem to get is that the Knights were initially an extremist branch of the Holy Catholic Church of Rome. Soon however they fell out of favour due to their extremely violent but effective behaviours and their power gains fighting the Moors.
Now the Moors were the founders of Islam, and were brave and aggressive warriors. They were effective in guerilla tactics as well as on the more regimented battlefield. The Knights Templar early on began to respect them as warriors and by the end of the crusades as friends. Many Knights Templar stayed on in Palestine and the Middle East, settling and even switching from Christianity in favour of Islam.
Those that returned home did so often with Moors as friends not slaves or servants. Some Moors were even awarded land and title in France and England.
The Knights Templar was a multinational organisation and soon fell foul of Rome, to the extent of it being outlawed by the church.
To use the emblem of this order as a Racist image is actually a display of how uneducated these fools truly are. The red cross on a white background, later adopted as the flag of England does not belong to Fascism but the basis of multicultural understanding. An ensign of peoples learning to respect the differences of others.
So when you see the Nazi flag wavers or groups calling themselves Knights Templar remember that these muppets truly have no knowledge or understanding of the past. They just ride the bandwagon of fools.
Jonesy

So is the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier as useless as Queen Elizabeth?

This £3 Billion (likely much more as a ‘Conservative Estimate’) aircraft carrier has one minor flaw. It has no aircraft of any use.
The carrier was designed to be a vessel that could be deployed anywhere in the world with a compliment of fighters and bombers. It was to replace the less adaptive carriers such as Ark Royal, with more space for fixed wing fighters. The carrier has a runway designed for catapult assisted take off for conventional aircraft. The problem is the Conservatives decided to buy in Vertical take off variants of the American design. It was based on a F35 fighter. They agreed this before the Vertical variant was ever tested.
Now lets just go back to the 60’s where Britain developed the Hawker Harrier. This truly was an aircraft that could take off and land anywhere. In the seventies a dedicated ‘Sea Harrier’ was born. Both RAF and RN variants excelled in the so called ‘Falklands War’ (the Thatcher devised election gamble). The USA were permitted to build their own version under licence, which was the AV8 used by their Marine Corps.
When the F55 lightning 2 was developed it was initially a conventional air superiority fighter. And has been exceptional in that role.
It was from this that they decided to produce the ‘Harrier’ version. Given that the US really hadn’t been too successful in vertical flight it was a big risk. One our corrupt Tory Government decided to invest heavily in. The risk did not pay off. Because of this plan to save a small percentage of the carriers costs (already thrice over budget) some bright spark in the MOD suggested not fitting the catapult. The stupid Minister (Fallon?) agreed.
The new American aircraft can take off vertically as could the Harrier, the only problem is not with any ordnance (bombs, rockets or even guns, it seems the pilot might even have to poo before flight to lighten the load). Even if it tried to use a conventional take off it still could not get airborne with any kind of payload.
The money spent – wasted upon this white elephant would have saved the NHS! Think about it.

This country continues its war of terror upon its own citizens. The ill and disabled being sanctioned for up to two years after vile lies made up by private and often unqualified assessors undertake harsh and physical assessments, where huge bonuses are earned for every claimant knocked back.
Where the unemployed are not supported but again sanctioned at the whim of staff in Job Centres (many of whom now face the terror of their own making, with the proposed closures – Karma), families often living in third world famine conditions due to no food and inadequate shelter, children at risk of harm not through the fault of parents but of the state.
The vulnerable, weak and sick reviled due to government propaganda that distracts the masses from their continuing breaches of international legislation on human rights.
Where the sexual abuse and even murder of children is covered up and now openly condoned by those in the highest positions of government and amid allegations against the Royals legislation (the law) changed to prevent any such allegations being investigated.
A country that arms not only terrorist groups but the worst of all the terrorist states – Saudi Arabia, provides them with weapons, training and defends them on the international stage.
A country where the heads of government are selling off our assets, to their friends, for personal profit.
A country that the head of government will not condemn racism or hate, but sides herself with it on a daily basis.
A country where the majority of the rights we were born with have been stripped away and stolen from us by the corrupt government.
A country that is now recognised as the most corrupt regime on the planet.
A country where unlike any other country we can be convicted without trial, and are monitored all day every day.
A country where our internet will soon be restricted and our press is already controlled by the state.
This is where you ‘British’ live. Where we isolate ourselves from the possibilities of multi culture because of fake fear imposed upon us by the corrupt state.
Where its no longer ‘love thy neighbour’ but ‘hate and fear thy neighbour, covet his materialism, cheat and lie about him’.
Christian values, spouts the vicars daughter of a Prime minister! I do not see any Christianity in this country any longer, no goodness, light or even humanity.
Do you?
Yes there are many of us recognising all of this but its still too few. Spread not gods word, but this truth. Share this far and wide, lets end this world of torment and bring in fairness and moral values. Its not hard.
Jonesy

Why do we accept people dying of starvation, of poverty. Children being emaciated and screaming until hunger kills them. People sleeping in the open and being killed by hypothermia, disease or infection.
I spent my life working with people and everyday the frustration rises. I am becoming an angry and embittered man. Yes I am self pitying at my own lot in life, fed up at feeling useless, but more than that I am tired of no longer being in a position to physically help others, to have lost the strength needed to fight for individuals and families each day.
A while back people were hounded out of their homes, estates and even cities for being child abusers. Now though we seemingly knowingly have them running our country with impunity due to law changes and a shift in official ‘morality’.
The wrongs in this world are becoming more and more accepted. As technology advances, our knowledge increases but so does our apparant apathy.
Each day we ignore the horrors of daily life. We moan (yes me more than many) of our personal lot in life but pass by without emotion or guilt those with far less than us. We switch over the TV or make a brew whenever pictures of dying and suffering human beings come on the screen. We see refugees and victims of war as herds of pack animals rather than admut they are people.
We accept that here the sick, vulnerable and disabled are seen as a drain and no longer an asset to our economy therefore ‘valueless’ or even criminally fraudulent.
We allow our ‘masters’ for that is who continue to govern us rape our country of its value, steal our lives and rob us of our rights to fulfil their own ambition and greed. These individuals, families and corporations hunting our heads as trophies, a nd we accept it. Destroying our communities and creating a bleak and dismal future for our children and their children.
This is no party political broadcast or sycophantic idealist post. This is just our reality. Our here and now. We are accepting this on a daily basis. Waking up in this world. Knowing this path leads to apocalypse but doing nothing to change it. We are just being driven to an end with no hope.
You wake up with your planned day, breakfast, maybe work, tea (dinner if a Southerner) then soaps or Xbox, facebook then bed. Occasionally a variation upon this or an organised holiday in the sun, fighting with Germans over whose towel inhabits which lounger.
These are our lives in many cases. We chose to be oblivious to any other possibility. Yes we watch the matrix and wave our scarves foe Neo, pretending we would fight his battles but in reality all we do is watch and imagine.
Sorry this rant is so long, that for some its uncomfortable. To me its the world we live in. Watching how valueless we are, even the shops that want our money are rude to us. Our custom as individuals not valued.
The police we employ to safeguard us in reality only are there to quell any behaviour outside their norm.
Free thought is now discouraged as is passion, play and development. Our kids victimised for playing out with friends, to the point that many stay alone indoors on their phones or PC’s. That when we see kids playing out in small groups we fear them. Imagine them as thieves, robbers and bullies rather than letting them use play to become adults.
I know this seems bleak but its how I see our world today. A world where we rather bomb families than welcome them. Kill folk for imagined threats thousands of miles from here.
It pains me. It hurts truly that few of us recognise this reality. That yes some are even now fighting to change this but the rest of us sit in our comfortable homes ignoring, discouraging, criticising and opposing their actions. By our inactivity and belief in the corruption of our system, our acceptance that money and status is more important than life, that those in power are supported by us doing nothing, by blaming others we ensure the fight can never be won. We allow this corruptive and immoral society to continue. We are almost all guilty of that.
I salute those that fight for change and despair at the rest of us.
These are my thoughts I awake to every day. The guilt and frustration. The knowledge that my wonderful kids have to live in such a malevolent and immoral world.
If this life is a test then I have to say we all are failing. The holding cells of limbo must be filled to the brim and even spilling over. We are not ‘good people’, we ignore therefore facilitate this.
Some may agree but many likely will feel uncomfortable, will ignore, will deflect, will blame others or me. Will claim this is just negativity or my mental state talking. They will read this possibly and think it imaginary or made up. They will say there is nothing we can do.
Well is there? I have not all the answers but someone out there has. Lets start thinking and listening. Use your voice. Lets see what we need to do to change this. Lets try.
Again sorry for the rant. Also I apologise for it being somewhat disjointed. But its how I write.
Share or not. The choice is yours but thank you for reading.
Jonesy.

Will revolution be the next step? Let us hope not. In our country we believe we have freedom of speech, of movement, we believe we can demonstrate our mood, that we have choice. We sadly do not.
I wish I had the funds and health to join those in London today but sadly cannot. But even if I was there, I guess it will not be accurately reported.
And lets thin about what we can now achieve?
The Establishment have thus far used every dirty trick in the book to ensure we do not become a socialist leaning country. Not communist – the so called extreme, but socialist – fairness.
We have had suspicious deaths when socialists became ‘too popular’. I think if they attacked JC it would be too suspicious, but do not rule anything out from the Establishment.
If we had any kind of physical revolution or revolt, the Army would be on the streets with clear orders to quell it. They would use whatever means they had. Including firing at civilians if ordered to do so. They have in the past, from the militia at Peterloo to the regulars on the streets of Ireland. It is what they do. Do not blame them, it is what ‘we’ pay them for.
If the army refused or were ineffective do not be under any illusion that we would win, that the ‘revolution’ would be a success, for that’s when things get worse. That’s when the Americans would invade under the auspice of ‘peace keeping’. In other words installing their own Establishment Junta.
Revolution in the classic understanding will not work in the UK. No western government will allow the ‘people’ to have choice. The Tories have proved this by buying democracy off.
What then? Is this the end? Nope its a challenge. Instead of doing what they want, playing into their hands then we need to out think them.
JC has been doing just that, but again they will not pass on power to him. We know this now.
The answer?
We that’s what we all need to ponder. There will be dose of you that simply respond with JC4PM, and I get that, and those that criticise me for ‘losing faith’ but this is politics not religion, faith does not increase our chances it stagnates our choices, hopefully some of you may see some element of truth in my words and truly think. That’s where our chances lie.
I am still very much behind JC and Labour – True Labour, but I will not have all hope for change quashed because the might of the Establishment and big business cheats us into submission. Nor will I willingly have my children grow in a war torn country. Not an option. So get your thinking heads on and lets really beat these vile creatures that dominate our lives. Lets take our future back. Let us be sheep no longer. But lets out think rather than attempt to out fight.
Jonesy

Now just remember folks I am not a god or celestial being. I am just a human like you. I hurt and bleed like you. I love and dislike akin to you. I even fart and poo like you. In most ways I am like you.
Of course we are different too. I might have less hair on my head than you, a different tint to my eyes than you. My girth maybe wider than yours, my breasts bigger than most, i may be taller, or heavier. My skin may be lighter or darker. I might have different beliefs or values.
But essentially I am a human being as I am guessing are you. I feel in the same way you do. My blood is the same colour as yours. I breath the same air and we all have to eat and drink.
So why do some truly believe they are better than others? That someone is less than them because of a difference.
In what reality does it make any sense to hate someone because although they are human they differ from you?
Hate is learnt, we are not born seeing those differences as bad.
Am I worthless because I have less money than you?
Are you valueless because you drive an older car?
Does the make or style of your trainers define your life?
Explain your hate to me?
Yes there are folk I dislike immensely but I actually in reality hate no one. I dislike due to the way they are with me or treat others. I may even be too alike to them and see my own failings mirrored in their behaviours.
I dont hate them because they were not born in the same house, street, town, or country as me.
I do not hate because they go to church, mosque or temple. I do not hate because they have to live on the streets or in a mansion.
I do not despise someone without knowing them as an individual.
I hate violence but have occasionally violent thoughts.
I hate confrontation but stand by my values
I hate aggression but am stubborn
I have failings as you do. We all would like to be perfect but we are not. We can never be. If we lived in a world of clones society would ever have the capacity to progress.
So explain to me why you hate those you do not know?
Is it hate? Or is it just fear?
Jonesy
#hate #nohate

I fear we are fighting for a country of fools. A future of frustration. A ban upon free thought. Deletion of intelligence from the gene pool.
I fear we are fighting a war with no end. An enemy of the greedy. Those intent on killing off the needy.
These are my fears tonight, we can only continue to fight. Losing our might. Our target out of sight. Living under this blight.
I want to find it was but a dream. But fear its not. Life so obscene. I truly do. I need to scream.
Wake up wake up I holla out loud. I try to speak to the crowd. Chanting at the mass. Oh woe and alas.
These are my fears tonight.
Jonesy
Triker Poet

Grey skies still loom over our pleasant and historical land. I lay here in my home upon ground once trampled by men in armour and carrying swords, staffs and bows. There is an argument that Robin hood once hunted his wealthy prey here, in Derbyshire rather than the fabled Nottingham.
Maybe one of the Arthurian legends originated from a feudal Lord of Chesterfield? Maybe some Pict or Celt tribe battled the Angles or even the Romans on the spot I lay.
History is filled with feuds, battles, and wars. We as a nation conquered a huge segment of our globe. More lands even than Caesar. We did this with the values our country held at the time. We cannot judge them, for we have the benefit of hindsight and almost unlimited access to knowledge and wisdom. We have the facility to learn from the past. Not just tactics on how to invade and suppress other nations, something we already excel at, but to challenge, fight and if need overthrow corruption. Our hero’s such as Robin Hood or King Arthur stood for the rights of the poor and vulnerable. Fighting the evil of the day to spread prosperity, food and shelter. To give rights to the down trodden.
History vilified king John despite his reluctant agreement to Magna Carta, the basis of all our rights in Britain, because ultimately he was seen as greedy and corrupt.
Henry the Eighth, not a great husband but again loved for his breaking away from the corrupt dealings of Catholisism that abounded England and its ‘satellites’.
I know there are all sorts of counter views and arguments. Lets not dwell on those. Where am I heading with this?
Well today we are being governed by what I see as the most corrupt, immoral and damn right greedy, even seedy government in our history. No one in a modern Britain, a wealthy and yes despite our austerity a country where the rich prosper, should be homeless nor need food banks.
We should never accept any MP that loses all the case files relating to the investigation of paedophiles and alleged child killers in the Royal House and Government. An MP who’s political actions and those of her various offices profit her and her husband in money and power. No we should not accept this corruption from any MP let alone the Prime Minister. We also should not accept the Conservatives attacks upon democracy. The acceptance by the CPS of Election Fraud, the removal of citizens off the electoral role, the changing of boundaries to suit the ruling party, and even having a company owned and run by the conservatives counting the votes.
We should not accept the take over of the publicly owned media – BBC by the ruling party installing their members in key roles, turning the organisation into a government run propaganda machine.
We should not accept a war on the vulnerable, sick and disabled by the ruling government, that so far has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of our friends and relatives.
We should not accept the theft of our assets, the things we as a nation owned but were sold off to profit the ruling party and their families.
We cannot accept the death toll that will result from the theft of our NHS.
We need to stand up, to be the modern day Robin Hoods, we dont need bows or any weapons yet, just a pen or even pencil. A simple cross may yet be enough. For we as a generation do not want to be remembered as traitors or even as sheep.
We can be our children’s heroes simply by ridding our nation of this most corrupt and wicked government. If we do not do it now then the fight will likely become very real. It likely will result in violence, battles and death. For we as a nation are awakening, as if the knights of Arthur awaking from their slumber beneath Alderly Edge or any of the other likely havens where they have been at rest. Rising now as one people to fight the evil that is Conservatism.
Britain has finally reached its hour of need. Will you stand for what is right, or remain subservient to the robber barons? The choice is yours. I have made mine. I shall #votelabour and if that fails I shall stand and fight for my children’s future. I shall be remembered as a Lion not a sheep. Will you?
Jonesy