WE WHITE NIGGERS

I have received the following communication from Nick Weaver, Head of Pensions Services, Hampshire Pension Fund, administered by the Hampshire County Council, concerning my pension from Portsmouth City Council, for whom I acted between 1975 and 1979 as City Arts Administrator and, latterly, also as Director of the Portsmouth Festival. The amount currently paid is £72.75 per calendar month.

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“In the June 2010 budget, the Government said future increases in public-sector pensions {to cover inflation PZ} would be linked to changes in the Consumer Prices Index. (CPI) Previously such pensions were linked to increases in the Retail Prices Index. (RPI)” Thus costs linked to housing, “mortgage interest, council tax, buildings insurance, ground rent etc.” will no longer be considered. Furthermore, figures will be “calculated differently even for the same basket of goods”, which sounds fishy to me.

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The Government has thus resorted to basing its figures on only a part of the facts, conveniently leaving out other, equally relevant, facts, to its own advantage and financial benefit, a thoroughly dishonest ploy.

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“Most commentators expect the CPI to be between 0.5% and 0.8% lower that PRI, over the long term.”

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So I’ll get that bit less. In the future I wont be getting the same increase in the piffling pension as I am getting now. You can imagine some civil servant, cant you, poring over a vast array of figures, the cost of little apples, computer-aided, to save the government a few more pennies, to try and balance its bankrupt books.

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How mean can you get...

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And it’s a good example to demonstrate how the poor will get poorer, and the great divide will get wider. Disraeli wrote a novel, SYBIL, which I have never read. But its subtitle is TWO NATIONS. The powerful, privileged, rich at the top of the spectrum and the impotent, undeserving poor at the bottom. Those all-round ‘cuts’ of Her Majesty’s Government will exacerbate the great divide. And the Government’s threats to the public to knuckle down, to cooperate, to find work (where?) or else! i e lose the state’s financial support, will leave more children poor, and more children growing up in disharmony. Even more bulging prisons will have to be built to house the ever-growing delinquent and rebellious population. That’s what comes of lovelessness and cliquiness at the top and filtering down, of festering ambition and of egotism, and of paranoia, with just a dash of sheer stupidity thrown in. The British public are treated by those in power, by those who make the decisions, like white niggers of empire. Disposable. As Julian Assange, yes, he of Wikileaks, said in an interview over Skype with TIME Magazine, December 13, 2010: “The dead hand of feudalism still rests on every British shoulder;”And he goes on: “we plan to remove it.” Oh, would he could!!!

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Yes, and how many of those ‘white niggers’ have been sent to die, have been made to kill, in unnecessary, illegal, and entirely unjustifiable, wars? How many young men and young women have not come home alive, or have come home maimed? No wonder there is apparent need for those huge war memorials on the island at London’s Hyde Park Corner, to commemorate all the myriad dead of yesterday. And of today. And of the future. But do these monstrous high jagged, and these wide-stretched curved, rusty steel and stone memorials express bereavement and regret? Do they not, rather, seem to celebrate, nay to glorify, the killing, and the being killed, thus uniting the nation in celebration of its noble uniqueness vis-a-vis an alien, threatening world?

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A plea. Isn’t it about time for this country to start spending its money on its own people, on their individual needs, on the infrastructure for their social existence, rather than spending it on maintaining the supposedly high military standing this country has been enjoying world-wide, and which its politicians are enjoying at the top of the top table, on this, alas, permanently warring earth? The slogans of the marchers alliterate: ”Welfare, not War!” “Medicines, not Munitions!” “Arts, not Arms!”

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I have received the following communication from Nick Weaver, Head of Pensions Services, Hampshire Pension Fund, administered by the Hampshire County Council, concerning my pension from Portsmouth City Council...