In a desperate move to help pay off the bill generated by the bankster bailout, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the immigration swindle and our EU membership, the Government has started selling off almost everything the state owns in a last bid to avoid total bankruptcy.

The latest victim of this fire sale mentality is the Royal Air Force’s land and sea rescue service which is being sold off to a private French company, the Soteria Consortium.

Justifying the sale, Defence minister Quentin Davies said the contract, worth about £6 billion (less than the cost of one year’s war in Afghanistan) would see the distinctive yellow Sea King RAF helicopters replaced by newer Sikorsky S92 by 2012.
The number of rescue helicopters will drop from 40 to around 24 in terms of the new plan.

Currently, the Ministry of Defence and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) provide a 24-hour military and civil helicopter SAR (Search and Rescue) service from 12 bases around the country. They have saved thousands of lives and carried out vast numbers of humanitarian missions.

The British public will not derive any direct benefit from the sale (some critics have said the services might be cut, but that is currently just speculation.)

The real issue is that yet another national asset is being sold off to try and pay for the debts incurred by the political agenda supported by both Tory and Labour parties.

The horrendous deficit — equivalent in percentage terms to that of Greece’s, which is threatening to melt down the euro currency — has been caused by the billions spent propping up private banks, the billions spent on illegal foreign wars, the estimated £13 billion spent on immigration services, the £8 billion foreign aid budget and the billions spent on EU membership.

All of these political policy positions are endorsed and supported by the Tories and Labour, and would have been inflicted upon Britain no matter which of those Tweedledee Tweedledum parties were in power.
It is claimed that the rescue services need to be privatised to upgrade the helicopters. While it is certainly true that the Sea King craft should be replaced, the cost of outfitting a new fleet would be substantially less than the cost of any one of the political programmes outlined above.

Only the British National Party demands the restoration of our nation’s commonwealth to public ownership so that they can be run in the national interest, and not to dictates of private shareholders.

Britain’s budgetary priorities need a serious revision — and only the BNP is capable of ensuring that British tax money is spent first and foremost on British people.
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