Posted by michael on March 18, 2010
Our government plans massive fines of a £1000 for people who simply make a mistake of having the wrong rubbish in the wrong bin!
This is an appalling move by this government whose job is too ensure a fair and equitable society with an emphasis on helping those who are not that well off!!!
How can any elected government propose to treat people so badly?
Most people simply do not have £1000 or anything like it in order to pay these fines. It would absolutely ruin them. They could easily end up losing everything once bailiffs and the courts got involved.
This government knows that the most likely people to make such mistakes are the lower paid, the pensioners and the more vulnerable members of our society.
How can a family who have perhaps only £80 a week for all their food bills, travel, clothes etc. even begin to pay off such a fine. In such families even a £50 fine is crippling.
Yet a banker can pay a £1000 from the petty cash!!! New Labour have lost touch with the concept of an equitable society. It would seem that the Labour Government members now see themselves as ‘upper class’ and have lost all desire for an equitable society provided they get massive salaries for themselves, loads of perks, and own a number of houses!
After 14 years of New Labour, the UK is close to bankruptcy and the average person in the UK is suffering financially through lost jobs, many have lost their mortgages, most have no savings, most are looking forward to a difficult few years due to the failure of the economy.
Only the worst dictatorships can get away with treating their people with such indifference!!!
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Posted by michael on March 11, 2010
Brown has announced a £30 billion railway construction!
Is this government just plain daft or are they deliberately announcing policies that it is impossible for the UK to afford for many years?
If Labour hadn’t almost bankrupted the UK over their term in office then this would be seen to be a good thing.
But we simply cannot afford it now Brown and Labour have lost control of the economy. We have many years of increased taxes and reduced services just to clear the debts!
There will be many people losing their jobs as a result of the cuts in services and the need to reduce government expenditure across the board.
We have difficult times ahead thanks to Gordon Brown. It will be a long time before the UK recovers fully! This railway would be a good thing for the UK if it could be afforded. But we cannot afford it and the UK debt level means that we cannot afford very much at all.
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Posted by michael on March 9, 2010
Anyone who is in debt or who has been in debt knows that the sooner the debt repayment starts, the less money is actually needed to clear the debt.
Gordon Brown doesn’t want to do this for short term benefit to himself!
To go into the election promising , as Brown has been doing, money all over the place is a very cynical attempt to gain political credence for himself at the expense of the tax payers of the UK.
Brown knows that the longer he leaves it before starting to repay debt , then the longer we will be paying increased taxes and the greater the amount of money that is needed to clear the debts of this Labour government!
Cameron wants to start debt repayment as soon as possible. In the long term this is the best approach.
Brown and New Labour’s time in power has been a disaster. How can anyone expect the people who have so completely failed to run the country properly to be the people who are competent enough to get us out of the mess they caused!
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Posted by michael on March 9, 2010
The British Crime Survey is a survey of people’s views. It is not related to actual crime figures and is based on people’s perceptions of crime.
It is easy to manipulate. People may believe that violent crime is too high in our society but the survey asks if people feel that it has got worse or better. They may feel that it has not got worse recently even though they may believe the level of violent crime is far too high!!!
The British Crime Survey is a questionnaire of 40,000 households, and is unrelated to actual recorded crime figures.
How can this survey be recognised as the most accurate way of recording crime levels!! It is a joke! The best way is to count the actual violent crimes that take place. Nothing is more accurate that that!
The Conservatives are exposing the under reporting of violent crime by New Labour.
I suspect strongly that if the view of the survey was that violent crime had gone up or there was a decrease in actual violent crime then this government would go back to the official figures!
I don’t understand the point of the British Crime Survey anyway! It is not factual, simply people’s perceptions. On this basis crime will go down on nice sunny days or when England win a football game! Crime will go up when people are feeling down!
I suspect that it is a political attempt to mislead people by distracting them from the actual crime figures!
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Posted by michael on March 5, 2010
British people used to complain when such unreasonable price hikes were put onto essential products and services.
We seem to have stopped objecting to what our government does. Even the price increases on gas, electricity, water etc. are as a result of government policy even though they are applied by the service companies.
It would seem that almost everything in our society is designed, under this government, to take more and more money from us!
We were not well placed to withstand the recession.
We are not well placed to pay the huge increases in taxation needed to repay the UK debts that Brown has built up from the recession. We have many years of financial hardship ahead of us to clear the UK debts.
Thanks Gordon!
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Posted by michael on March 5, 2010
Brown had kept himself in the background whilst Blair was taking the UK to war. The impression Brown gave was that he did not like was happening.
But we now know that he fully supported the Iraq invasion and then the military action in Afghanistan.
We have had all the stories from the front line that our troops have not had the proper equipment for the action in Afghanistan, with particular reference to snatch land rovers and helicopters. There is plenty of evidence that they were not equipped properly, if only that the government finally acknowledged the shortfalls and started improving the equipment the soldiers were using.
The UK will now know that Brown was fully in support of the military actions and can share fully in any credit or blame that results from these wars.
Brown had kept himself in the background whilst Blair was taking the UK to war. By doing this Brown gave the impression that he did not like was happening.
But we now know that he fully supported the Iraq invasion and then the military action in Afghanistan.
We have had all the stories from the front line that our troops have not had the proper equipment for the action in Afghanistan, with particular reference to snatch land rovers and helicopters.
It would seem to me that Blair is reviled by the majority of the UK population. Brown should now take his place next to Blair in the annals of history.
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Posted by michael on March 4, 2010
Not surprising that the financial markets cannot believe that the people who messed up the UK economy so badly would be the right people to fix the problems!!
Just changing the UK government (which means that this turgid bunch has gone) would go a long way to getting the UK back on a sound financial footing.
Gordon Brown and Blair started with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government over thirteen years ago. Their term in power has been a financial and social disaster for the UK. The actions of Blair taking us to an unnecessary war has cost the country billions and, more importantly, cost the lives of many of our military, plus up to a million Iraquis and Afghanis, many of them civilians.
It is a shameful chapter in the history of the world. The UK needs to get rid of every vestige of this ‘New’ Labour thinking. It has been a disaster.
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Posted by michael on March 1, 2010
I see all these comments like ‘If you want us to vote Tory then do …..’
Are these people seriously saying that they would rather vote for Brown and a failed Labour government that has almost brought the UK to it’s financial knees?
Would they really prefer to vote for the man who has given us such massive debts which they are going to be taxed on to repay over many years?
Or the PM who promised us a vote or the EU and FAILED to deliver, instead committing us to be run from Europe?
Or Brown as Chancellor who changed all the financial controls on the banks and consequently failed to see the recession coming!
Would they really want to vote for the PM who failed to make the decisive decisions about our energy policy and we will now face electricity cuts at peak periods for a couple of years?
And the government which deliberately ramped up immigration so that they could bring in people they would expect to vote for Labour?
Has all the money (or should I say debt) that has been spent on the NHS really improved more than a couple of high profile services?
What about the lack of money that means the police are asked not to arrest anybody near the end of their shift because it saves on overtime payments!
Then there is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Should we really be involved?? Were our troops really properly equipped?
You might not like Cameron but at least he is competent enough to do the job properly!!!
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Posted by michael on February 10, 2010
So new taxes are required to care for the elderly! Surprised that Brown let this out into the public domain! The UK cannot take care of it’s elderly, who have paid their taxes throughout their lives, without taxing the current generation.
Looks like Labour have simply spent the money whilst in power and done nothing to provide for the elderly and those who need help in their old age.
Is Gordon Brown incapable of planning ahead?
How can Labour have spent it all IF the UK economy has been as successful as Labour claim whilst in government!!! Remember the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the last Conservative government?
Labour took office with a strong economy. So where did the money go?
It appears to me that Brown, despite his friendship with Prudence, has simply bankrupted the UK whilst in power. (And don’t blame the recession, we were in trouble before the global recession hit!).
If Labour REALLY put the UK first then we would have an election as soon as possible to allow an elected PM to get on with the job of fixing the UK as soon as possible! Whilst they hang on hoping that the economy gets better, Brown is putting his own career BEFORE the needs of the UK.
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Posted by michael on January 27, 2010
A lot of people accepted that the war was necessary because the Prime Minister of the UK said that it was necessary.
They were being misled by Blair, Brown and New Labour but that dues not mean that they were wrong to put the safety of the citizens of the UK as their first priority!
I have a problem with the Lib Dems voting against a war which we were told was necessary for the security and safety of the people of the UK.
If Blair was telling the truth about the need for war then the Lib Dems were not putting the security of the UK as their first priority!
The fact that Blair, Brown and New Labour were misleading us about the importance of war to defend our country, does not detract from the fact that the Liberal Democrats chose not to take steps to protect the UK from being targeted by Iraq.
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