Sunday, 15 February 2015

So what's so bad about this Coalition anyway?



Er... let's see, here's a quick list off the top of my head of some of their best "achievements"





Let's hope the government changes in May. Things I've found the worst off the top of my head. I will not forget all this about 2010-2015!





*Only providing one bedroom housing benefit for over 35's as opposed to 25's


* Bedroom Tax



*I hadn't actually heard of foodbanks before 2010!


*Massively increased use of sanctions on JSA, upping the maximum length that somebody could go without any benefit at all to 3 years


*A culture of Job Centres having targets to sanction as many people as possible. Leading to some ex employees with a conscience setting up their own website to advise claimants.


*Increasing the time that they will not give JSA to someone who has voluntarily left a job or been sacked for misconduct to 6 months.


*Constant attempts at workfare and community slave labour schemes that usually never get off the ground.


*All but abolishing the Educational Maintenance Allowance paid to young students in college (FE) in England.


*Allowing councils to make decisions about how much council tax claimants have to pay and making more people on benefit pay some council tax, effectively just a reduction in benefit!


*Attempting to axe all Housing Benefit for young people


*Attempting to scrap the Human Rights Act


*Replacing DLA with PIP and making the criteria stricter to get it.


*Selling off lots of parts of the NHS to be run by private companies


*Privatising the Post Office


*Massively increased student tuition fees to around £9000 a year in England, the only concession being you now don't have to start paying the student loan back until you somehow earn £21000 PA, rather than the £15000 PA it was previously. Previous tuition fees were typically around £3000 a year.


*Sharing just 20% of Coalition power it is for this reason the Lib Dems are particularly disgraced in coalition and have dropped to just 5th in popularity behind The Green Party and UKIP!


* Removed ESA assessment rate forcing claimants to claim JSA whilst waiting for an ATOS medical when first claiming ESA.



*Making life harder for the BBC and making them fund the World Service on existing money and encouraging them to make cuts leading to the loss of BBC THREE and put on a networked evening show on BBC Local Radio.



"Increasing the probation period for new employees from one year to 2 years during which time they have virtually no rights of course!



*Next to no new social housing built.





*The deficit didn't actually go down, it went up!



*They spent more on Housing Benefit AFTER the Bedroom Tax came in!



*Despite wanting more disabled people in work they closed the Remploy factories which put thousands of disabled people out of work.



*Imposing a benefit cap of £26000 a year, it might sound a lot, but it's essentially an eviction notice for those without money who dare to live in London, despite the fact that their family and closest friends and all their community and connections might be from the city too. The cap mostly applies to Housing Benefit in reality and of course London has the craziest private and even social rent levels in the whole country!




GOOD THINGS!


*Maybe I would have to count allowing low earners to not be taxed under £10'000 PA!



THINGS THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!


*They didn't cut off peoples internet connections off for torrenting, as was proposed to happen by 2011!


*They didn't change all benefits such as JSA & ESA over to Universal Credit by 2013!


*The National ID Card scheme was scrapped but that was a Labour policy!


*On the other hand, not that I could directly called a Labour supporter, some of the things they achieved seem quite a bit better from 1997 - http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/50-labour-party-achievements.html

*This isn't a political blog that tries to influence you in any way at all,


VOTE FOR COALITION DEMOLITION MAY 2015!

Friday, 13 February 2015

50 Shades Of Attempted Censorship!

Nowadays I get really irritated by people whose cause is "I don't like this content so it should be banned for everyone" The conservative morals who appeared on channels like "Fox News" and hopelessly tried to restrict the GTA games just adding more street cred to them as they did so, Islamists about drawings of their precious Mohammad (if he's so good why don't they welcome such attention!) and films like this which moralists don't approve of, but the fact that the movie version of 50 Shades was made indicates that we are still a relatively healthy democracy.
Could modify Voltaire slightly for 50 Shades "Whatever you have to make I might find a bit crap, but it would be more than a bit crap if I didn't defend your right to make crap"
Inevitable, but as we are a relatively free country, we have a thing called "freedom of expression" if you've ever heard of it, that means the creative freedom exists for people who would be into the likes of 50 Shades Of Grey to enjoy it and for people who don't to respect the right of those that do and move on to something else. I don't like the sentiments of The Darwin Awards of the violence in many movies and games that are just over the top but I don't seek to ban them! take note domestic violence campaigners, you are campaigning against domestic violence not someones right to make a film about bondage etc. Lots of women enjoyed the book and most likely will enjoy the movie which is why it will no doubt be commercially successful.

Universities are now being criticised for being overly censorial which is why I would disagree with a student union banning the playing of Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines, they might think of themselves of being all young and progressive but they are just Mary Whitehouses,

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a628628/50-shades-of-grey-london-premiere-gets-domestic-violence-protest-group.html#~p4bVPs8yJ8kRVY

Monday, 9 February 2015

Comment - Muslim protest group gathers to protest against the principle of freedom of thought/expression & speech.

Saw this article and it incensed me, people of a religious persuasion (how original, everybody conform baaah, baaah!) demonstrating AGAINST freedom of speech!

If I sat down on the sofa watching reruns of Friends with an almost going off cheese sandwich with my hands down my pants all Sunday Afternoon than I would be having a less sad weekend than this bunch of controlling fascists. In a free country magazines would be able to publish any images they want, but these people want everybody to conform to Islam whether they are Islamic or not and that of course is more than overstepping the mark, I'll never conform to what they want.

That they think that the cartoons are actually important is pretty disturbing and shows pretty low intelligence on their part.

"Crowd of thousands assmbles to issue ‘stark reminder’ freedom of speech is ‘regularly utilised to insult personalities other consider sacred’, yes them in other words, most others are not so perpetually offended.

Controlling mindsets from a religion that cannot take any dissent or critical thinking, Islam like many religions is about boring conformism, if this prophet Mohammed is so sacred and special then why would they not want people to draw him anyway.They don't condone the Charlie Hebdo attacks but they sure as heckfire believing in restricting freedom of thought when it comes to the borefest that is their islamic religion. You can't say what you want when it comes to Islam, so officially I haven't said any of this, but actually I have!

 - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/08/british-muslims-london-protest-against-muhammad-cartoon-charlie-hebdo

Sunday, 8 February 2015

QUESTIONING "QUESTION TIME" In WREXHAM - Thursday 29 January 2015

QUESTIONING "QUESTION TIME" In WREXHAM - Thursday 29 January 2015

Anti fracking campaigners gathered outside the Glyndwr University campus on a bitter cold wind chill packed Thursday evening as people queued up to watch and take part in a recording of the BBC's Question Time debate which was to go out later that evening.

In pictures.







There is a nearby "peace camp" set up outside a potential fracking site which is fairly close to the Wrexham suburb of Borras. A former "peace camp" had been set up directly on the proposed fracking site last year but it was forcibly removed, the new "peace camp" is now on nearby land so a watch can be kept on the potential fracking site.



Maybe Fracking isn't needed after all, the Shell petrol station opposite the Glyndwr campus offered the lowest price for petrol I'd seen yet since the recent slight relief on the price.

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral - We Need Sanctuary

WE NEED SANCTUARY - A PROTEST INSIDE LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL.. UPDATED.
Saturday 7 February 2015

Just as the Archbishop of Canterbury did

The Anglican Church & the church officials in Liverpool should do more to publicly condemn the cuts and austerity that the City of Liverpool and the country in general is having to go through, which include benefit sanctions for not searching for jobs on Christmas Day, a benefit cap of £26000 a year which sounds a lot but just means those without money cannot live in London at all whether they have heritage there or not, or the need for more and more foodbanks, most people hadn't even heard of the concept of a foodbank before 2010.


The pressure for the Church to condemn austerity and speak out following last weeks occupation of the cathedral might just be working http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bishop-liverpool-condemns-benefit-sanctions-8645667

The slightly surreal protest took place last weekend in Liverpool, whilst it would most typically be the streets of the city centre themselves or various shops and businesses who for one reason or another are seen as part of the problem when it comes to the bitter austerity that we all now increasingly face it was Liverpool's Cathedral's turn to see some activism.
Protesters descended on the vast Anglican Cathedral's interior and waited for Saturday Afternoon's Choral Evensong to conclude before unfurling a large banner from a position high in the rafters above the main cathedral floorspace, worshippers and anyone else present saw the words “we need sanctuary” draped from high above them and listened to a protest speech bellowed from the balcony that wasn't drowned out by security guards or police but rather the extreme acoustics of the cathedral that made it a pretty big challenge to decipher a single word that was said.


Officials from Liverpool Anglican Cathedral would go on to say that they didn't "condone" the protest in the article by the Liverpool Echo but the Dean listened to what the protesters had to say about the increasingly dire conditions for the poor in Liverpool, the diminishing right to protest at all and why the Cathedral could offer "sanctuary".




Ruby Sands holds the protest letter







The banner that had been draped from the high balcony was later placed across the floor near the large altar.




VIDEO COVERAGE - Coming Soon!
for more 107 News Clips see http://www.youtube.com/channel107radio/

AUDIO - Discussion between the protesters and the Dean - Coming Soon!

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

ELLESMERE PORT wants IGas to Frack Off!

OVER 100 PEOPLE DESCEND ON A SMALL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO TELL IGAS TO “FRACK OFF”.

What looked like more than 100 people descended on a small industrial site in Ellesmere Port on Sunday 14th December to protest against a controversial proposed fracking site which would burrow over a mile under the town. Perhaps they thought in such a heavily industrial area it wouldn't be noticed but already there has been a “peace camp” set up and protests held. Only less half a mile away from the site is the start of the town of Ellesmere Port itself and it is around a mile away from all the various heavy industrial illustrations that make up the visibly dramatic Stanlow complex.
This according to one environmental campaigner I interviewed for 107talk was to be considered particularly dangerous due to the shape of the fracking drill which is potentially to be used at Ellesmere Port.
Due to the shape of the nearby Merseyton Road which links the M53 motorway with what used to be called “The Boat Museum” they couldn't apparently physically get a straight drill which is most often used for fracking actually round the corner and they were forced to compromise. I was told that due to the fact that the fracking drill to be used is not straight it will apparently frack in a more unpredictable way underground and may disturb methane which could be a dangerous combination due to the oil refinery located relatively close by.

However actual fracking itself at the site has not started as it is currently a “test drill” to see if actual fracking for shale gas would actually be viable. Without going into too many technical details this would cost a bunch of money so it has to be considered very much worth it by the investing company (IGas) so there is every possibility that the company involved (Igas just in case you forgot the name already) won't actually go ahead.

Pictured here are all the colourful protest signs and of course Cheshire Police who have to become keen protest visitors. One photographer got very close to the drill itself.

PICTURES























AUDIO – 
What is fracking anyway and why would it be bad for Ellesmere Port? -


MORE _ http://www.mixcloud.com/107talk



VIDEO – 
107 News - Where the site is and the concluding speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x3Bfe8x8kU

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Your Driving Licence could be ripped up within the first 2 years.

The 2 year probation, is it really fair?

Hey I’ve come to the end of my 2 years driving probation. The authorities backed up by the arguments of those who wanted to put a spanner in the works of so called boy racers and anybody else that wants to drive in a way that’ll put them at odds with the law of the roads as they stand or are just plain inexperienced or anything else, decreed that from 1997 that anyone who passes their driving test doesn’t just get to think, “oh that’s it now I can drive, time to put that test nightmare behind me”, instead they have to live in fear of amassing what in most cases would be just TWO driving offences for fear of having their whole driving licence revoked and having to actually start again as a learner with all the L Plates and going out with somebody in the car, taking the theory test again and having to try and pass the driving test again as well.

Because if in 2 years, a “new driver” gets 6 points, their licence is actually ripped up. This for me meant that I never fully felt confident in the roads for 2 years, because if I misjudged my speed and got nicked for a speeding offence anywhere, I would only have to do that once more and it would be curtains for my licence, the same would apply if I misjudged some traffic lights somewhere and was unfortunate enough to get a red light camera offence. And points can also cover things such as bad tyres, or getting caught talking into a mobile phone, so you’ve really got to watch yourself for 2 years because the authorities are right onto you.  The more self-righteously minded law abiding motorist makes what they think is a perfectly valid point that it’s easier to avoid this unfortunate situation by just obeying the damn law, but I take some issue with that. How many times do you try to keep to the limit, but then have your mind go into other things as you think about all the things that we all carry in your head, you realise you’ve now crept up to 35 in a 30 zone, and was that someone in a hi-vis jacket back there, too bad I was lost in my own thoughts there huh.

Lights are on green, the self-righteous will tell you you shouldn’t be going fast enough not to be able to stop when they go amber, because that’s when you should stop, so you don’t get that so-called “amber gamble” situation where you’ve got to think about whether you can get through or not or slow down, sometimes with a bit of a slam on I have to say. Sounds quite easy in theory, but so often I’ve found on a fairly fast road quite particularly, that you are one of many cars doing 50mph+ and lights in front of you suddenly go amber, if this is an unfamiliar area and you don’t think you’ve got time to stop, if you misjudge that you might end up with a second or two of the light actually going red before you even get to the line, if that happens and there is a camera, that is a 3 pointer and you all know all too well that you’re only allowed to get 6 of the things! So next time it really is game over!

New Drivers are out there gaining experience every time they drive, and are more likely to make silly mistakes, so I do wonder if it’s worth punishing people so severely with an actual loss of licence, if it’s targeted at boy racer types the irony usually is they tend to know exactly where all the cameras are, they’ve got it all sussed, they’ll speed if they want to and usually never get done for it, the more innocent ordinary driver tends to fall foul of something they don’t intend to and then gets kicked off the road to boot. And when they say 6 points they actually mean 2, there’s only a couple of offences listed that give 2 points and nothing at all as far as I can see that only gives 1, so the idea of giving 3 for the most standard offences such as speeding has to be to make them seem more psychologically serious.

It’s all behind me now as I write this having made the fateful 2 year anniversary of the driving test marking the end of the dreaded probationary period, I have the licence that my parents have, that entitles you to drive until you amass 12 points, but hopefully I can avoid that just as easily as I avoided the dreaded 6.


AJ.
NO DSS – YOU’RE NOT GETTIN’ A FLAT INNIT MATE!

Too bad if you are in receipt of benefits for any reason at all and want to move into private rented accommodation, ie need a permanent weather shield against the elements, which is known as an “apartment” or a “flat” or maybe even a “house”.
Despite such blatant discrimination in the past such as signs declaring that “no blacks”, “no Irish” etc will be considered being now quite rightly illegal, you still see “No DSS” quite routinely in estate agent/letting agent windows and advertisements, it’s all now also quite conveniently aided and abetted by the current mainstream media and political climate against benefit claimants in general. 

No “DSS” itself as a term is not only blatantly discriminatory it is also blatantly ignorant, not least because the once named government deparment the  “Department for Social Security” which was the source for this infamous acronym has long since been rebranded and rebadged as several different names.  The most recent one as most benefit claimants are quite painfully aware is the rather austere sounding Department for Work & Pensions, so the signs should at least read “No DWP”.

If we are to believe that landlords and estate agents have not even heard of the DWP and still think that benefits come under the DSS then they really are showing themselves up somehow as being quite ignorant and apathetic about the world in which benefit claimants have to live, but why would they give a toss as they quite happily exclude them from their properties.

Benefit claimants are a whole section of society and as such it cannot be fair to generalise, even though that’s what the Daily Mail and Express do most days when they can’t think of a headline. Benefit claimants supposedly suffer “No DSS” because they might wreck the place, not bother to pay the rent on time or just generally be an anti-social neighbour, the only problem with these crude stereotypes is that it rather forces people “In work” to be seen in an angelic light as if they could never do these things, to use receipt of benefits alone as a judge of character when considering a prospective tenant is about as crude as reckoning that someone with a scouse accent is more likely to nick something.

This “benefit prejudice” breaks down very quickly because it is wholly ridiculous, benefits are everything from Jobseekers Allowance to Disability Living Allowance and they get paid to all sorts of people in all sorts of circumstances especially when you take the payment of Local Housing Allowance which forms Housing Benefit needed to afford rents into account, all sorts of people depend on that allowance from people who are self-employed who just can’t earn enough to pay ridiculous rents to people that are on DLA (Disability Living Allowance) and depend on Local Housing Allowance for their accommodation, to anyone that’s simply unemployed or who is a stay at home mum looking after children, you name it, a lot of people can’t afford stupid rent prices in this country, it doesn’t say much more about them as people than that. To say “No DSS” at a whole class of people really does make you look like a self-righteous prejudicial prick.

For my rent, you could buy a new Playstation 4 games console with a copy of a latest game along with it every month, how many people especially in abysmally low paid work, could afford that, it’s no wonder we need housing benefit as rather an essential thing, and why it particularly sucks that people who are for some reason in the position of being landlords in their life are quite legally allowed to judge on that criteria alone.


And I say this as someone who did manage to get a private rent, in my “DSS”ecial situation. As long as the landlord gets the money for the rent, they really shouldn’t have anything else to consider. Forget the fact that a housing benefit claimant might have their money stopped or develop a benefit problem, this is no different from a worker losing their job.

Written by Asterick Jones, who else?

Sunday, 11 November 2012

A British Heart Foundation chugger is in favour of workfare at his charity!





A BHF FUNDRAISER DEFENDS WORKFARE!

How a British Heart Foundation doorstop chugger came out in favour of workfare at his charity when he heard about it!


Campaigners woke to the thankful news on Saturday Morning that the British Heart Foundation were pulling out of Mandatory Work Activity placements, they were amongst the most prolific of UK charities in using the unemployed as forced labour, but the previous day I (AJ) remonstrated with a door to door fundraiser for the BHF about the charities controversial use of unwilling unemployed conscripts who are mandated into doing workfare as a condition of receiving Jobseekers Allowance , if they refuse could now face up to three years without benefit. I was met with the usual bigotry that is now so often directed at the unemployed which I captured in audio.http://audioboo.fm/boos/1051646-british-heart-foundation-chugger

When this was originally posted on the Stop This Country Facebook group it caught the attention of the well known political blogger Johnny Void who edited his blog on the subject to include a link to the audio. Void questioned whether the BHF were really distancing themselves from all mandatory "volunteering" labour but thought their move to distance themselves from the infamous MWA (Mandatory Work Activity) was a "success" for campaigners. Posted originally on Saturday Afternoon around 5pm, by Sunday Morning the original FB post with this audio had been strangely removed from the Stop The Country FB group along with Johnny Void's comment "good work" and another comment about how I might have actually been quite persuasive after all to this "articulate" fundraiser, or to put it more crudely, chugger!
Censorship on Facebook of political material does seem to be getting more rife, given that the DWP have expressed extreme reluctance for the public to have access to information that even reveals exactly which companies and charity organisations benefit from mandated workfare it is not exactly much of a stretch to jump to the conclusion that the posting touched a nerve somewhere, and if so good it is too.

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2012/11/10/british-heart-foundation-are-out-of-some-workfare-but-announcement-leaves-more-questions-than-answers/



A rough transcript of this conversation between us is below;
My reactions are in italics.

This BHF fundraiser came to the wrong door

I tell him about the protests against BHF and their policy of using people who have to do mandatory “voluntary” labour in their charity shops.

“I wasn’t aware of that”

But when questioned about just how "charitable" it is to expect to gain from people working to support a charity not of their choice, but that of the Job Centre's mandated work regime, the fundraiser was less than apologetic about the BHF's then stance.

“Well it is also a gateway into work for people as well, if they’re  working in a charity shop, shows the good work they’re doing, get into some better employment in the future (actually it most often does not work out like that at all!) , so I think that’s actually quite a good thing they’re doing”

Strangely I thought he seemed not to realise that he shouldn't take a political position that would further alienate a potential supporter.

“Maybe that is something we need to change yeah, a systemic kind of problem the fact that the Dole requires you to do this and people take advantage.”

Indeed they do, the BHF were one of the most prolific users of mandated labour in their charity shops. 

“Well at the same time if they’re on welfare and they can work and they choose not to, they should be made to work, you know what I mean (NO!) erm because I don’t feel comfortable that my taxes.. I know there are people out there that for one reason or another cannot work (good so long as you’re lucky enough to be in that category OK but stuff you you’re a scrounger if you’re not!) and that’s fair play but there’s people out there that rip the system (an absolutely scandalous thing to say on behalf of the BHF, even if this stereotype was actually fair which is very unlikely just who decides who is ripping the system, Job Centre employees acting as judge and jury, even if we could be convinced there are right people which is very unsound it most often affects wrong people!) and they’re taking my taxes that I pay, do you know what I mean? So they might as well be doing some work” (er.. NO they shouldn’t be exploited because of their vulnerable position!).

I said "I used to pay about £3 a month to BHF.. but once I found about THIS that was it.
So what you need to do is
take this feedback back to the bosses and tell them that some people are boycotting this charity, quite a lot of people, and being picketed in places like Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol & London because of this issue and
You need to stop doing that" (workfare)

OK, OK, Fair does pal, I’ll spread the word and have a good evening, if you could do the same for me that’d be amazing, cheers pal bab-bye.”

The fact that the BHF has now decided to distance itself from the direct mandatory work schemes can be taken as an encouraging sign even if they don't want to acknowledge any influence in this decision by campaigners, which according to their statements online they certainly don't.
Charity should be the choice of the individual, and certainly when it goes far beyond just being given a psychological guilt trip in the streets when it comes to trying to strongarm as many people as possible for donations, it seems many charities now are happy to take dole conscripts and morally dictate what is "good" for people and are able to use the DWP sanctions regime to enforce what is effectively a community labour sentence, which is not too dissimilar to that which might be dished out by a magistrates court, in the interests of the individual and a free life I feel this power that charities can be given absolutely has to be curbed and many people will continue to picket the charity shops which abuse peoples freedoms, Boycott Workfare recently announced a week of action.

Details for the week of action called by the organisation "Boycott Workfare " are here - http://www.boycottworkfare.org/?p=1741

AJ.

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Trump's wreaks "Golf Course" havoc in Scotland, BBC TWO airs film.



DONALD TRUMP is shown on a documentary (You've Been Trumped) aired nationally on BBC TWO to be an arrogant egotist whose self interest based golf course takeover of a natural sand dune system that should have remained a SSSI, has been disastrous for the local residents, one of whom he has described as "living in a pigsty", 

But Trump seems to know so little about Scottish culture that he fails to acknowledge rustic farmhouses and pieces of equipment when he sees them.


Stop This Country has compiled a brief list of the chief things the film revealed about why Capitalist Egotist Donald Trump is bad news for Scotland and its heritage.


LAWS ONLY FOR THE NON SUPER WEALTHY?

Donald Trump it is revealed committed many acts that should be considered criminal offences, intimidation, psychological, vindictive abuse of the areas inhabitants, vandalism, trespass, theft.

Some chief wrongs were;

Vindictively piled sand up so that it created a land barrier that would obstruct local inhabitants views (he arrogantly said that he didn't want the areas houses visible from the golf course)

He muscled in on land that wasn't even his and then issued an invoice to a resident for half the cost of putting up a new fence and it came to well over a thousand pounds. That is fucking ruthless and Trump (Trump Estates) has got serious money, what a bastard!

Called the local and somewhat rustic houses and farm buildings a "slum". But of course Capitalism in its ruthless expression as a bland golf course is actually far more spiritually ugly. His attitude to the local residents and his rant against a local man who has far more moral right to the land than he does about so called "unkempt" properties shows a complete lack of depth about what traditions the traditional Scottish farm buildings and equipment actually represent. He is a fucking American and just saying that he is "out of touch" with Scotland and its people doesn't begin to convey the limitations caused by his arrogant attitude.

His diggers disrupted the water and power supply to local inhabitants and then (Menie Estate) did nothing about it.

The development has destroyed a natural dune system which is one of the few left in the UK.

Opposes the building of a wind farm at sea nearby because it would affect the ocean view on the new golf course (who cares what Trump thinks, what's more important!)

The SNP leader Alex Salmond (the Scottish Government), Grampian Police & some councillors in Aberdeenshure Council seem complicit with Trump and are leaving the inhabitants affected by the development to rot.

An interview on US TV showed that Trump didn't even remember whether the development was on the east or west coast of Scotland.

Surprise, Surprise, he's anti-Obama, of course he is! (from this arrogant Twitter, which somebody said on the film fan page read like it was someone satirising him, no he's really that arrogant!)

The story resembles the plot of "Local Hero" (1983) in many ways but can't give you the same happy ending, watch here -http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nln7g/Youve_Been_Trumped/



if you can't catch that, a DVD is available in November.

Stills taken and mixed from "You've Been Trumped" on BBC IPlayer