Jack Black
28-05-2008, 04:19 PM
All of the following statistics were gleaned from mainstream British media sources during the last week.
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Since New Labour came to power, the amount raised by income tax went up 80 per cent and council tax payments rose by 100 per cent...
There are at least 600,000 more people working for the state. Big Bro now employs six million people. 99 per cent of these have final salary pension schemes, compared to just 18 per cent in the private sector. The total public sector pensions liability (to be paid for by future generations of taxpayers) is now £877 billion, up from £360 billion in 1997...
Under the Private Finance Initiative, we are also committed to paying out £180 billion over the next five years. The NHS alone is committed to £50billion in PFI projects, set to rise to £90 billion by 2013...
MEPs can trouser £1.5 million in salary and expenses over five years...
More than 112 employees of Transport for London have salaries in excess of £100,000 a year...
The government now spends £269 billion more on health than was spent in 1997...
Despite this, cancer survival rates are 20 per cent higher in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Death rates from strokes are 30 per cent higher here than in other European countries. This means that at least 30,000 of the 200,000 people who die each year from these illnesses would survive elsewhere in Europe...
We now must also endure 300,000 cases of hospital acquired infection every year. This is 50 times more than some other European countries...
Since 1997, the number of hospital beds has fallen by 32,000. The NHS can now boast five beds per manager, whereas, in 1997, there were 12 per manager. Last year saw a record cut in beds, despite fears that this would lead to overcrowding in the remaining wards and a higher risk of superbug infection. We now have half the number of hospital beds per 100,000 people than France or Germany...
8,494 people under the age of 18 were admitted to hospital because of alcohol in 2007, a rise of 50% since 1996...
The number of drug users being admitted to hospital with cocaine overdoses is now four times higher than it was in 1999. The proportion of adults who admit to using cocaine rose from 1.2 per cent ten years ago to 2.6 per cent in 2007. At one London hospital, one in three young men attending A&E with suspected heart attacks were cocaine users...
Since 1997, despite Afghanistan and Iraq, spending on defence (£34 billion per annum) is the only major area of Government spend that has fallen as a percentage of our GDP...
The number of tanks has fallen from 415 to 280, the number of major ships from 38 to 22, and the number of combat aircraft from 264 to 156...
The Ministry of Defence has spent £2.3 billion on management consultants, sufficient to pay and equip 5,000 extra infantry soldiers. Meanwhile, the MoD has signed a £2.3billion contract, to build and run its new headquarters in Whitehall. At the same time, soldiers have been dying for lack of body armour and a Hercules transport plane that came down in Iraq with the loss of ten lives would not have done so had it been fitted with anti-explosive foam, standard in all American Hercules aircraft...
Since 1997, the Government has handed out an extra £343 billion in welfare...
The prison population has risen from 65,000 to 88,583, costing us £800 million more every year...
Between 1997 and 2006, there were 517,000 applications for asylum in Britain. Of these, 410,000 were rejected, but 306,000 of the rejected remained in Britain anyway. However, asylum applications have fallen off because more immigrants can arrive legally...
Immigrants are being handed British passports at a rate of one every three minutes. 164,635 foreign nationals were granted citizenship in 2007, more than four times the number in 1997. Since then, almost 1.2 million foreigners have been told they can settle permanently...
When they relaxed the EUrules in 2004, the Government estimated that 15,000 Eastern Europeans would come to Britain annually. As many as 1,400,000 may now be living here. 845,000 Eastern European migrants have applied for the Worker Registration Scheme. There have been 24,850 applications for income-related by the eastern European arrivals. 102,029 children from the families of these receive child benefit. A further 58,000 are receiving tax credits...
In all, 3.9 million foreigners are known to have come to stay during the same period, including more than 500,000 in 2006. During the same period, almost 1.97 million Britons are known to have left the country, more than 200,000 of these emigrating in 2006...
In Peterborough alone 100 different languages are spoken...
The Dept. for Work and Pensions has 130,000 staff and spends £7.73 billion a year on admin...
Another 8,000 staff work for the taxman calculating tax credits, at a cost of £500 million per annum. Even so, over the first two years of the tax credit system, £2 billion was overpaid...
On the other hand, in 2007, £9.4 billion of means-tested benefits were NOT being claimed by those entitled to them. There were also £4.5 billion in unclaimed tax credits. As for the Pensions Credit, only 27 per cent of those pensioners calculated to be living in poverty actually claim it...
In 2007, 13 per cent of the British population lived in households where no one worked. (11% work in France and 5% in the US) This group costs us £40 billion a year...
Despite spending on education almost doubling to £73 billion, at 16-years-of-age, 20% of all boys are no better at reading than the average child of seven. 63% of working-class boys cannot read or write properly. The exams that children do pass are, despite government denials, becoming much easier. Between 1988 and 2006 there was 'grade inflation' of two grades in every subject except for maths, where the same performance was worth THREE extra grades...
Since Labour came to power they have spent £20 billion more on policing than if they had kept funding at the level they inherited...
The number of administrators working for the police has risen 62% since 1996. Policemen comprise only 11% of the whole. There are 16,000 community support officers who are paid nearly as much as a regular cop but can't arrest anyone. In the past ten years, 700 police stations have closed...
Violent crimes have doubled over the past ten years and the chance of a criminal being convicted is now less than 3 per cent...
More than 2,500 people have been stabbed to death on New Labour's watch, yet, over the same period, only nine of those caught with knives have been given the maximum jail term...
In 2006, 1,226 under-18s were found guilty of carrying a blade yet only 72 were jailed. The average sentence was 3.4 months and a typical offender spent just eight weeks in jail. Only one of the 7,817 offenders received the maximum sentence...
Chief Executive of the Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, was paid more than £3million in 2007...
He is, thus, Britain's best-paid civil servant. In 2007, the man whom New Labour rewards so handsomely has presided over the closure of 2,500 post offices; the first national strike for more than a decade and the “one-price-goes-anywhere” universal stamp service which lost more than £100million...
Britain's top bosses scooped average pay rises of 33 per cent in 2007. A typical top executive enjoyed an average pay package of £4.6million. Thus, such a boss would receive more than 200 times the wage of your average private sector worker, who, on average, got a 3.7 per cent pay rise in 2007.
Go here for details:
I Am An Englishman (http://www.iamanenglishman.com/page.php?iCategoryId=802&iParentId=81)
And here for the links:
I Am An Englishman (http://www.iamanenglishman.com/news.php)
Since New Labour came to power, the amount raised by income tax went up 80 per cent and council tax payments rose by 100 per cent...
There are at least 600,000 more people working for the state. Big Bro now employs six million people. 99 per cent of these have final salary pension schemes, compared to just 18 per cent in the private sector. The total public sector pensions liability (to be paid for by future generations of taxpayers) is now £877 billion, up from £360 billion in 1997...
Under the Private Finance Initiative, we are also committed to paying out £180 billion over the next five years. The NHS alone is committed to £50billion in PFI projects, set to rise to £90 billion by 2013...
MEPs can trouser £1.5 million in salary and expenses over five years...
More than 112 employees of Transport for London have salaries in excess of £100,000 a year...
The government now spends £269 billion more on health than was spent in 1997...
Despite this, cancer survival rates are 20 per cent higher in France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Death rates from strokes are 30 per cent higher here than in other European countries. This means that at least 30,000 of the 200,000 people who die each year from these illnesses would survive elsewhere in Europe...
We now must also endure 300,000 cases of hospital acquired infection every year. This is 50 times more than some other European countries...
Since 1997, the number of hospital beds has fallen by 32,000. The NHS can now boast five beds per manager, whereas, in 1997, there were 12 per manager. Last year saw a record cut in beds, despite fears that this would lead to overcrowding in the remaining wards and a higher risk of superbug infection. We now have half the number of hospital beds per 100,000 people than France or Germany...
8,494 people under the age of 18 were admitted to hospital because of alcohol in 2007, a rise of 50% since 1996...
The number of drug users being admitted to hospital with cocaine overdoses is now four times higher than it was in 1999. The proportion of adults who admit to using cocaine rose from 1.2 per cent ten years ago to 2.6 per cent in 2007. At one London hospital, one in three young men attending A&E with suspected heart attacks were cocaine users...
Since 1997, despite Afghanistan and Iraq, spending on defence (£34 billion per annum) is the only major area of Government spend that has fallen as a percentage of our GDP...
The number of tanks has fallen from 415 to 280, the number of major ships from 38 to 22, and the number of combat aircraft from 264 to 156...
The Ministry of Defence has spent £2.3 billion on management consultants, sufficient to pay and equip 5,000 extra infantry soldiers. Meanwhile, the MoD has signed a £2.3billion contract, to build and run its new headquarters in Whitehall. At the same time, soldiers have been dying for lack of body armour and a Hercules transport plane that came down in Iraq with the loss of ten lives would not have done so had it been fitted with anti-explosive foam, standard in all American Hercules aircraft...
Since 1997, the Government has handed out an extra £343 billion in welfare...
The prison population has risen from 65,000 to 88,583, costing us £800 million more every year...
Between 1997 and 2006, there were 517,000 applications for asylum in Britain. Of these, 410,000 were rejected, but 306,000 of the rejected remained in Britain anyway. However, asylum applications have fallen off because more immigrants can arrive legally...
Immigrants are being handed British passports at a rate of one every three minutes. 164,635 foreign nationals were granted citizenship in 2007, more than four times the number in 1997. Since then, almost 1.2 million foreigners have been told they can settle permanently...
When they relaxed the EUrules in 2004, the Government estimated that 15,000 Eastern Europeans would come to Britain annually. As many as 1,400,000 may now be living here. 845,000 Eastern European migrants have applied for the Worker Registration Scheme. There have been 24,850 applications for income-related by the eastern European arrivals. 102,029 children from the families of these receive child benefit. A further 58,000 are receiving tax credits...
In all, 3.9 million foreigners are known to have come to stay during the same period, including more than 500,000 in 2006. During the same period, almost 1.97 million Britons are known to have left the country, more than 200,000 of these emigrating in 2006...
In Peterborough alone 100 different languages are spoken...
The Dept. for Work and Pensions has 130,000 staff and spends £7.73 billion a year on admin...
Another 8,000 staff work for the taxman calculating tax credits, at a cost of £500 million per annum. Even so, over the first two years of the tax credit system, £2 billion was overpaid...
On the other hand, in 2007, £9.4 billion of means-tested benefits were NOT being claimed by those entitled to them. There were also £4.5 billion in unclaimed tax credits. As for the Pensions Credit, only 27 per cent of those pensioners calculated to be living in poverty actually claim it...
In 2007, 13 per cent of the British population lived in households where no one worked. (11% work in France and 5% in the US) This group costs us £40 billion a year...
Despite spending on education almost doubling to £73 billion, at 16-years-of-age, 20% of all boys are no better at reading than the average child of seven. 63% of working-class boys cannot read or write properly. The exams that children do pass are, despite government denials, becoming much easier. Between 1988 and 2006 there was 'grade inflation' of two grades in every subject except for maths, where the same performance was worth THREE extra grades...
Since Labour came to power they have spent £20 billion more on policing than if they had kept funding at the level they inherited...
The number of administrators working for the police has risen 62% since 1996. Policemen comprise only 11% of the whole. There are 16,000 community support officers who are paid nearly as much as a regular cop but can't arrest anyone. In the past ten years, 700 police stations have closed...
Violent crimes have doubled over the past ten years and the chance of a criminal being convicted is now less than 3 per cent...
More than 2,500 people have been stabbed to death on New Labour's watch, yet, over the same period, only nine of those caught with knives have been given the maximum jail term...
In 2006, 1,226 under-18s were found guilty of carrying a blade yet only 72 were jailed. The average sentence was 3.4 months and a typical offender spent just eight weeks in jail. Only one of the 7,817 offenders received the maximum sentence...
Chief Executive of the Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, was paid more than £3million in 2007...
He is, thus, Britain's best-paid civil servant. In 2007, the man whom New Labour rewards so handsomely has presided over the closure of 2,500 post offices; the first national strike for more than a decade and the “one-price-goes-anywhere” universal stamp service which lost more than £100million...
Britain's top bosses scooped average pay rises of 33 per cent in 2007. A typical top executive enjoyed an average pay package of £4.6million. Thus, such a boss would receive more than 200 times the wage of your average private sector worker, who, on average, got a 3.7 per cent pay rise in 2007.