EXPRESS AND STAR = GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA.

The Express & Star is the biggest-selling regional evening newspaper in Great Britain. Founded in 1889, it is based in my hometown Wolverhampton, England, and it covers the West Midlands and Staffordshire, including the Black Country. The Express & Star is one of the few independent newspapers still operating in the UK, having been under the continuous ownership of the Graham family almost since its inception. It is owned by the Midland News Association (MNA), which also owns the Shropshire Star newspaper and many other newspapers in and around the West Midlands.

The Express and Star is a newspaper I can not stand to read, its full of propaganda like all mainstream media the Express and Star does a very good job in telling people what to think and a poor job of keeping people informed on local current events. In January 2012 the newspaper reported, Bailiffs recovered more than £30 million after councils sent them into homes and businesses in the West Midlands – visiting 100 people daily, it can be revealed, what the newspaper does not mention is the cruel intimidation tactics that these bailiffs use, where did they collect that money from? families, elderly people, and some of the poorest people in Great Britain.

Another example of the propaganda used by the Express and Star can be found on a Google search, if you search "benefit fraud Express and Star" Google shows 1,460,000 results, if you search "MPs expenses Express and Star" the Google search shows 124,000 results, over ten times as many reports on benefit fraud as on MPs expenses, despite the fact the cost of a case of benefit fraud could cost the tax payer hundreds a week and very rarely more than £10000 per year, where as the average cost of a single MP claiming tens of thousands per year for things like second homes, travelling costs, home maintenance, food, gardening and duck ponds on top of their £63000 per year salary is not reported as nowhere near as much .In 2007 - the last year for which figures are available - claims ranged from the lowest of £44,551 to the highest of £185,421. On average, each MP claimed £135,600.

Like all mainstream media the Express and Star also propagated the royal wedding, showing street celebrations and going on like the day and the royal family are important, I live in the West Midlands and most people I know did not and do not care one bit about the royal wedding, the royal baby or the royal family. I have not yet seen the Express and Star fight the NHS cuts and they report that Home Secretary Theresa May tells terrorists:You will not win, the wicked witch of Westminster wants our human rights, she uses terrorism as an excuse for this and the Express and Star propagate her agenda.

Surely the job of a local newspaper is to sometimes speak up for local people not to propagate government agendas and attack local people that are claiming benefits.

THE KING OF HYPOCRISY?

Britain is to challenge an EU agreement to slash bankers’ bonuses at a meeting of European finance ministers next week after Boris Johnson condemned the proposal as a “deluded measure”. George Osborne or the Treasury minister Greg Clark will represent Britain at the meeting next week to relay what No 10 described as real concerns about the proposal. David Cameron and the British government have cut incapacity benefit, the NHS, housing benefits and child benefits but they stand against a cap on banker bonuses, do they think the bankers deserve to get these ridiculous bonuses when they are cutting sickness benefits? Britain’s Deficit is not so important now the bankers (David Cameron’s puppet masters) might lose out as well.

David Cameron  is so full of hypocrisy its shocking here are just a few examples;

“Things got out of hand & we’d had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets.”
- David Cameron, 1986.

“The looting and arson last night were criminality, pure and simple. Justice will be done and the people will see the consequences for their crimes”
- David Cameron, August 2011

“History is sweeping through your neighbourhood” -David Cameron on the Egyptian riots, February 2011

DAVID Cameron was later accused of cynically using the Egyptian revolution as cover for an arms dealing tour of the Middle East.

He has a business delegation that includes eight firms involved in the arms trade.

BAE Systems, Thales UK, Atkins, Rolls-Royce, Cobham Group, Qinetiq, Babcock ­International Group and Ultra Electronics are all looking to make lucrative deals.

But Sarah Waldron, of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, said that it “beggared belief” that Mr Cameron was helping sell arms to the region despite bloodshed in Libya.

David Cameron goes on T.V and condemn’s Jimmy Carr for tax avoidance, he did not mention the massive tax avoidance of his friends at News corporation, Tesco, Vodafone.

David Cameron cuts housing benefits, sickness benefits and forces people on benefits to work for billionaire corporations  just to receive benefits, at the same time he claims £21000 per year for his second home! These greedy politicians always claim they must have a second home for work reasons but can’t they just move closer to where they are working? like the rest of us would have to, thanks to the new bedroom tax MPs are allowed spare houses, but we are not allowed spare bedrooms!

When the British government cut benefits from parents of the poorest families and force them from there homes, stop there benefits and even lock them up for not paying council tax, its the children of the affected families that suffer the most. Should children of the poorest families in Britain suffer to fund corporate tax avoidance and oil wars?

David Cameron praised the courts and encouraged tough sentences for the people involved in the rioting and looting but claims thousands on his expenses “which are paid for by the taxpayer” illegally he did not receive a tough punishment he simply paid it back!

David Cameron declares a ”all-out war” on gangs, despite being a member of Bullingdon club (a gang known for heavy drinking and causing criminal damage) as was Boris Johnson and George Osborne.

David Cameron cuts the NHS but does not want to cut banker bonuses! He wants a £26000 per year cap on benefits but refuses to put a cap on MPs expenses and tries to stop the EU fro enforcing a cap on banker bonuses! He uses the British media as a propaganda tool but still can not win an election without Nick “the traitor” Clegg.