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The statitistics that follow were formulated prior to 2008:
As of November 2006, Gordon Brown, the "prudent" Chancellor, had overseen the creation of a British debt mountain totalling £1.34 TRILLION.
This according to the Centre for Policy Studies which insisted that the official Treasury figure of £487 billion had excluded the cost of public sector pensions liabilities, the costs of New Labour's Private Finance Initiative contracts and debts incurred by Network Rail.
As a proportion of the population, pensioners are the most heavily indebted. More than two million are currently in debt. The banks, credit card companies and global hucksters are currently owed almost £9 billion by this section of society.
In the British parliament that sat from 2001 to 2005, of the 20 Northern Irish seats in Parliament, non-Irish MPs occupied none of them.
Of the 72 Scottish seats in Parliament, non-Scottish MPs occupied no more than four.
Of the 40 Welsh seats in Parliament, non-Welsh MPs occupied no more than five.
Of the 530+ English seats in Parliament, about 140 were occupied by MPs who were not of wholly English origin.
As of July 2006, ethnic minorities made up more than 38 per cent of head office staff at the Home Office.
Thus, to run our country, New Labour has been recruiting ethnic minority staff at a rate almost 5 times more than their incidence in the general population. Along the way, exams have had to be made easier and more talented and intelligent staff from the indigenous population have been routinely passed over for employment and promotion
703 Immigration officials were accused of corruption in 2004/5.
The vast majority of these were of immigrant origin.
In 1996, 85 per cent of women in UK brothels were UK citizens.
In 2006, 85 per cent are foreigners.
According to a 2006, survey, one-in-three drivers on British roads are driving illegally.
Many of these are foreigners.
In 2005, 3,201 people were killed on Britain's roads.
The number of students from new EU accession states gaining places in British universities has risen 5-fold in less than 3 years.
As the same time as this is happening, tuition-fees are pricing the British lower and middle classes out of university.
A 2005 medical report estimated that up to 34,000 patients die every year as a result of a medical blunder in Britain.
First the good news: in 2005, less people came to stay in this country than did so in 2004.
Now for the bad news: 565,000 arrived who plan to stay permanently. This figure does not include people from existing EU countries or illegal immigrants. At the same time as the officially sanitised total of 565,000 unwanted foreigners was arriving, 380,000 people were leaving Britain. The majority of these were native Britons.
According to The Times in March 2007, Gordon Brown first Budget created a £75bn gap in pension funds.
The Times stated that Brown’s Treasury officials had warned him of the consequences of the consequences to the average pensioner of scrapping tax relief on pension funds in 1997. One document, from the Inland Revenue to the chancellor, concludes: "So, the general message is that the big employer pension schemes will be able to cope at some cost to employers. But members of money purchase schemes would all be potential losers… We agree that abolishing tax credits would make a big hole in pensions scheme finances."
Almost 50,000 people work in the British "Race-Relation" industry.
In the anti-immigrant wake of the murder of right-wing Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, 20,000 Somalis left the Netherlands and moved to Leicester and Birmingham.
Before he became Vice-President, Dick Cheney was the CEO of Haliburton.
After the invasion of Iraq, stock options in this company went up from $241,498 in 2004 to $8m in 2005. Cheney told "Meet the Press" in 2003 that he didn't have any financial ties to the firm. In fact, as of 2006. he still held 433,333 Halliburton stock options. Halliburton has already raked in more than $10 billion from its work in Iraq.
In Britain, more than 5,000 children were born to Polish parents in 2005.
One in five of those trying to buy a house in the UK in 2006 was Polish!
As of December, 2006, one in ten Britons was living abroad.
It's called ethnic cleansing. (But only of those who can afford to be cleansed)
In 2005, according to Home Ofice figures, there were more failed asylum seekers in the country than members of the armed services.
A Refugee Council study of 50 asylum seekers found that 82 per cent of them said they had mental health problems.
London is the most dangerous capital in EU.
According to Gallup and the UN, more than 30 percent of Londoners were victims of theft or assault in 2004.
In February 2007, a UN survey reported that 4 million refugees had been created by the Iraq War.
Many of them are now in Britain.
As of February 2007, Britain is in debt to the tune of £1.3 TRILLION.
Between 1993 and 2003, prescriptions of ADHD medications, such as Ritalin, almost tripled.
Global spending on ADHD drugs increased nine-fold, with 83% occurring in the US. In the UK, use of the drugs grew by 12.3% between 1999 and 2003 and expenditure grew by 30.8%.
In 2007, the Department for Work and Pensions stated that, in 2005-6, there had been a 200,000 rise in children living in poverty in the UK.
3.8m children were, thus, relatively poor. Work and Pensions minister John Hutton said:
"We have made considerable progress against our historic goal to end child poverty in the UK."
Barnado’s said that Tony B’s government was a long way from honouring a pledge to halve child poverty by 2010.
In March 2007, a Citizens Advice report said 2 million dental patients did not have access to an NHS dentist and were being forced to go private or on waiting lists.
More than 2 million British pensioners are in debt.
The banks, credit card companies and global hucksters are currently owed £8.4 billion by this section of society.
During the winter of 2004-2005, 31,600 people died of the cold in Britain.
In August, 2003, the heatwave caused 2,139 excess deaths in England and Wales.
In London, there was a 42 percent increase in the overall death rate at this time. In Europe as a whole. around 30,000 excess deaths were recorded.
About two million tonnes of edible fish are dicarded by UK fishermen every year because EU rules insist that they be tossed overboard.
In Britain, as of June, 2006, 5 MILLION ADULTS CANNOT READ and 15 MILLION ADULTS are no more numerate than the average 11-year-old.
A serious and wide ranging 2006 study discovered that 1 in 86 British schoolchildren has autistic symptoms, more than 25 TIMES the level determined in the mid-1990s.
In 2007, a BBC survey found that 38% of children with Asbos were autistic and/or had brain disorders such as ADHD.
Who created these children? Who sent their jobs abroad and replaced them with drugs? Who removed the disciplines that parents, schools and the police could impose upon them?
THEY are at war with us, folks, THEY really are.
According to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1 in 10 British children has measurable mental health problems. (BBC News - 18.9.2006)
1 in 12 British children self-harm.
In 1995 there were 35,000 dairy farmers.
By 2006, Tony Blair's love of the Big Businessman had seen this figure drop to 21,000. The supermarkets are forcing 3 British dairy farmers out of business every day.
According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2005 the number of alcohol-related deaths (liver disease etc.) was 8,386. It was 4,144 in 1991.
98 murders were committed by criminals out on licence in the 2004-05 period and 106 rapes were carried out by parolees.
Only 18 occurred in 1999. All told, 614 further convictions for serious offences were committed by criminals on licence during this two year period.
According to News 24 on 5.2.2007, more than one million people in Britain suffer from slimming diseases such as anorexia and bullimia.
Despite the New Labour spin saying that crime levels were falling, undetected crime rose from 3,613,000 in 1998 to 4,541,000 in 2005.
In February 2006, the Home Office admitted that violent incidents in British prisons had risen from 2,342 in 1996 to 13,771 in 2005.
Despite Tony Blair's promise to abolish Quangos before he became Prime Minister there were, as of 2006, 883 of them. 752 of these had been set up since he came to power. The annual cost to the taxpayer of these unelected Tonydoms was a massive £123 billion. This contrasts with the £96 billion spent on the NHS and £72 billion spent on Education.
By 2005, the number of teenagers applying for university places had fallen by 13% since Tony Blair came to power.
In February 2007, a report from the Civitas think tank, based on government statistics, told us that one-in-three households in Britain was now dependent on benefits.
The report opined that New Labour welfare policy had been designed to "create beholden voters rather than independent people".
As of February 2007, 1-in-10 15-to-24-year-olds in Britain has the sterility inducing sexual disease, chlamydia.
1-in-8 has the disease in Oldham.
More than 4,500 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C during the 1970s and 1980s after being given blood imported from America.
More than 1,700 Britons have since died and many more are terminally ill. Lord Robert Winston described the situation as "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS".
As of February, 2006, at least 5,000 people were dying every year in Britain, as a result of infections acquired in hospital.
Nine out of 10 nurses do not always have time to help ensure hospital patients eat properly. |