Independence is becoming a moral issue

The following is taken from a leading article in the Guardian this morning

"Benefit cheats will face increased jail terms of up to 10 years in a crackdown on those who "flout the system", Britain's most senior prosecutor has said. Keir Starmer QC warned it was time for a "tough stance" against the perpetrators of benefit and tax credit fraud as he set out new guidelines for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The director of public prosecutions said the £1.9bn annual cost of the crime to the taxpayer should be at the "forefront of lawyers' minds" when considering whether a prosecution was in the public interest."

Thus, according to the government's most senior prosecutor, benefit fraud is estimated at £1.9billion. What is interesting is that there is an annual shortfall of £36billion in the take up of benefits, whilst an estimated £95billion a year is lost due to tax avoidance and tax evasion. Over all the term of the financial crisis, not one banker or financier has been held to account for the staggering criminality that took place. The Libor scandal not only broke British law, it broke international law and no-one has been brought to account. The BBC has just been found to have paid incompetent managers who have been dismissed for their incompetence million pound payoffs.

10 years is a greater sentence than rape, crimes of violence, paedophilia and most murders. The largest sentence for tax fraud in the past ten years was 5 years, and that was for over half a million pounds, but if you defraud the social for £100 you face 10. So much for justice and the rule of law.

If you want any more evidence of the class nature and the visceral hatred of the disadvantaged in modern Britain I don't know what would convince you. Successive governments with the aid of the  right-wing elements in the media have successfully demonised the poor, the disabled and the disadvantaged in our society to the extent that they can have the gall to actually propose such measures without outrage. Rich criminality gets a million pound bonus, poor criminality gets 10 years. The media war against the poor produced the belief, which I highlighted before, that benefit fraud amounts to 27% of the benefit budget, whereas in reality it is 0.07% That perception arises from outright lies spread by the government and its allies in the media.

Westminster is irreparably corrupt and the Scots must effect a divorce from these malignant right-wing criminals as a matter of urgency. Independence is becoming a moral issue, you have been warned.

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