Unity of purpose and having fun!

The Conservatives supported by the ‘Tea Party’ and the pretentious Liberal Democrats are of course going to attack us all -the young, single persons, the older person and the disabled to name just a few. Just listen to the ‘ideolical’ Gove  today, who was very prepared to let roofs drop on children and the always hopeless ‘Economist’ Vince Cable. They of course want to weaken the Trade Union Movement. Surely we need a new party offering people real choices. We should all surely support the strikes and demos on the 30th June 2011. The current system is completely bankrupt and one of the factors keeping it in slight control is the very- very low interest rates. But Labour under their new leadership are offering no solutions.

I attended the ‘Parliament’ at Blackpool and the most inspirational speech according to many delegates, came from John Lister and I personally told him so. Now is surely the time to drop the personalty battles and join together in genuine unity. The 30th is important to us all and we must plan for future and urgent campaigns. It is not too late! We can win if we are genuinely united. And the 30th should be the beginning of a prolonged campaign.

This Thursday was reserved for a huge rally at Birmingham on 30th June 2011. I had the privilege to second a motion at our Regional Council to adjourn our meeting at 11-30 am to join the strikers and protesters. Our entire meeting agreed to march to join the rally.

And to conclude, believe it or not most organisations can and do make time for fun, with trips, meals, socials and days out.

Ivor Timson MSc (Econ)

Social responsibility and our bonkers system!

I recently came across the following advert on how to become a private financial adviser. In other words you can be part of the process that as been destroying our society and continues to do so. Have we not learnt that such traders, together with bankers and speculators are destroying our lifestyle and communities. And the Government still seems intent on privatising all our services, knowing full well that these companies are primarily only interested in profit. The recent issues around care homes surely illustrates this sheer madness. There is no logic to these proposals, apart from of course profit before people and social responsibility.

Hope no one applies, our friends from the other world again think we are bonkers and the TV presenters still indoctrinate us- that there has to be some cuts and some reforms. The market has completely failed!  The article is as follows:’Have you ever considered a career as a private financial trader?

Did you know many private financial traders take home £100k to £2m per annum, with some traders starting with less than £10k in their trading accounts?

Here are the 4 key reasons why you should do it too:

1. You only need a laptop, internet connection, some relatively inexpensive software and professional training to get started
2. You can trade from anywhere in the world at any time that suits you
3. You can limit the risk on any trade to less than 1% of your account balance and leverage the upside for fantastic profit potential
4. Under current tax laws in the UK, all profits are 100% exempt of tax, and there are no commissions or fees
Knowledge to Action are Europe’s largest trader coaching company (and Sunday Times FastTrack 100 Winner) and is running some completely free workshops to show you how you can get started, regardless as to whether you choose to trade full-time or part-time as a positive addition to your income.

These events are entirely free with no obligation and will show you how to ….

• Generate money in rising OR falling stock markets
• Identify exactly which high profit breakout stocks to trade now
• Master an easy way to manage your trades for maximum profit potential
• Understand the ‘Secret’ Risk Management Formula keeping risk to only 1%
• Automate powerful trading strategies which require only minutes per day
• Know precisely where, when and how to enter and also how to exit trades for maximum income.’

Initially I thought this advert was a joke, but I know no better. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. The continuing of these processes poses a serious threat to the very foundations of our society. There are alternatives and we must make our case for change. The worldwide system of capitalism is bankrupt and in disarray, just have a look at the trillions of USA debt and they still need more. Surely now is the time to have meaningful debate about real alternatives for our long term future.