Archive for November, 2009
Posted by michael on November 28, 2009
The crisis affecting the UK is becoming too serious for Gordon Brown to keep trying to justify himself by trying to fix the problems he has caused.
The facts are clear. Brown and Blair inherited a fantastic economy. The term ‘golden inheritance’ has been used for years to refer to the sound economic economy that New Labour inherited from the Conservatives.
But the UK is now close to bankruptcy. Our economy is sinking fast. The fear is growing by the day that we will need to call in the IMF.
The UK is rapidly going the way of Iceland!!
Question: Who is to blame?
Answer: Gordon Brown and New Labour.
But the whole situation is being made worse by this failed government hanging on to power for the next six months.
If they had any care for the UK then they would resign now!
We need a government that is competent enough to get us out of recession and we need it in place now!
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Posted by michael on November 25, 2009
This court case was never addressing the main issue.
It is not the principle of having penalties for going overdrawn, it is the AMOUNT of penalty that these greedy and grasping banks are taking.
The very concept of a FIXED penalty is the problem. These penalties are set up to penalise the poorest and weakest in our society.
This incompetent Labour government did a huge amount of damage by closing post offices and forcing many people to have benefits, pensions etc paid into bank accounts. They did not understand the consequences of this action, all they could see were cost saving!
People on low incomes should NOT be forced to have a bank account. They are the least able to manage bank accounts and the ones who suffer the most when things go wrong.
Many elderly, sick and low paid workers only have £50 a week available to pay ALL their bills. The moment they get charged £30 plus, their accounts go out of control and they end up owing the banks hundreds of pounds.
Penalty charges MUST be PROPORTIONAL to income.
We cannot have a situation where the money paid to the poorest people in our society and which they need to live on is taken by the banks to increase their profits and add to the bonuses paid to the senior staff!!
Our prime minister did not bother listening to those who forecast exactly what would happen if the government persisted in forcing people to open bank accounts. Gordon Brown made the wrong decision, as usual, and the poorest people in the UK are the ones who are hit the hardest!
Posted in Blogroll, Conservatives, UK Economy, benefits, council tax, credit crunch, energy bills, financial, labour, recession | Tagged: bank, bankers, brown, government, greedy, labour, new labour, UK Economy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on November 22, 2009
I do not understand how Blair the warmonger could ever have expected to have been the EU president. He had too much baggage as a result of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair didn’t join in with the Americans to attack Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein and his thug sons!! If that was justifiable then think how many other countries we would need to invade for the same reason!
As far as I am concerned Blair set out to con the British public by scaring them over the weapons of mass destruction! The most cynical step was putting tanks on the streets and at the airports!
We did not have a terrorist problem until Blair and Bush went to war against Iraq. This was a significant point in the history of the world and there are many consequences, mostly bad, that have stemmed directly from the actions of Blair and Bush.
History will not see these two leaders in a positive light.
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Posted by michael on November 21, 2009
The Home Secretary Alan Johnson is apparently saying that the police should visit every crime victim.
This is an amazing statement and confirms what the people in the UK already know. This is simply that the police do not bother with investigating every crime that takes place. Because if they did, then the police would already be visiting every crime victim!
The police are not bothering to investigate a huge amount of the crime that takes place. We know from the media that the police refuse to turn up on many occasions, especially for ‘low level’ crime such as yobs smashing up property and fighting on the streets. Any crimes involving credit cards are now simply ignored.
Yes, Brown is employing more police but they seem to spend most of their time back in the police station filling in reports!
I am cynical enough about this government to wonder if so much of this ‘low level’ crime is deliberately being ignored in order to reduce the crime figures!
The same applies to the police issuing fixed penalty notices for a range of public order offences. I would guess that these offences are not included in the crime figures because no prosecution takes place!
Labour’s failure to build prisons in advance of when they would be required means that we do not have the prison places required. The answer that this government appears to have come up with is to ignore a lot of the crime going on in the streets.
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Posted by michael on November 13, 2009
It would seem obvious from the latest comments from Brown that he has finally understood that this war in the Middle East is wrong, was wrong from day one, that we cannot win and more and more of our soldiers will be killed or injured.
I was taken in by Blair (at first) when he claimed that we had to attack Iraq or they would attack us.
It wasn’t the quality of his argument, it was that it simply did not occur to me that the prime minister of this country would lie to us about the potential threat by another country!
Fortunately I realised quite quickly that everything blair was saying was rubbish and I have not believed a word he has said since!
But Brown has kept us in this war, even subsequently attacking Afghanistan. He has failed to justify the war, giving differing reasons why we need to be in Afghanistan.
Now Brown appears to have changed his mind and is working on exit strategies (which can be seen as meaning that the reasons we are at war were not that important after all!).
So what has changed to mean that Brown is now not firmly sticking to his stated position that this war is important to the UK?
I would suggest that nothing has changed. Except that we have an election coming up soon and Brown knows that he is not popular!
All that money wasted in these wars, let alone the lives lost and the lives blighted by injuries. We have an election coming up and Gordon Brown is changing his priorities!
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Posted by michael on November 11, 2009
I don’t think that this government really understands what it is doing! The following quote from Mervyn King:
“The UK is set to rack up one of the biggest budget deficits in the world next year, measured against the size of the economy. ”
Brown and Darling seem to think that this ‘biggest budget deficit‘ is an answer to the recession.
But it is a problem which is just as big as the recession itself.
New Labour haven’t sorted out the recession problems. They have simply switched the problem with the UK economy to one of massive debt!!
And guess who has to pay that back!!
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Posted by michael on November 8, 2009
Gordon Brown said:
“I am naturally concerned that the taxpayer gets a fair deal – especially that the taxpayer gets a fair deal from the institutions that in the last year have benefited massively from support across the world.”
So does Gordon Brown think that this is a fair deal for the taxpayers?
Borrowing billions of pounds in their name and expecting them to pay extra taxes for the next 25 years in order to pay the debts?
I just wonder how much would need to have been borrowed to prevent the closure of shops like Woolworths, which employed lots of people.
And I have also said many times that these banks should not be allowed to get rid of any staff on a non-voluntary basis. They have been given billions of taxpayers money, yet are allowed to fire staff! This not only adds to the unemployment levels, brings the miseries of families losing homes, and removes yet more spending power by people in employment.
There does not appear to be any joined up thinking in the way that Brown and Darling are managing the UK economy!
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Posted by michael on November 8, 2009
I do wonder how Gordon Brown works out what policies he wants to introduce!
Just recently he has introduced a purge on getting people off benefits and onto jobseekers allowance. Of course there are no jobs but it does cut down on benefits paid out.
But did he investigate the effects of this policy? Or was he just after headlines?
A table of which constituencies use the most benefits shows that the first 200 constituencies in the list (the higher the position the more benefits are paid), 189 constituencies are represented by Labour MPs!
The first Conservative in the list is in position 210.
So lets get that right. Brown introduces a policy to make him more electable and punishes the most the very people he wants to get votes from!
Good thinking. Keep up the good work Gordon!
Posted in Conservatives, UK Economy, benefits, credit crunch, labour, national health service | Tagged: benefits, credit crunch, david cameron, economy, gordon brown, government, UK Economy | 2 Comments »
Posted by michael on November 6, 2009
It seems to me that Brown is very, very confused about the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is going on.
He has said today:
‘we cannot, must not and will not walk away as long as Al-Qaeda continues to plot attacks on Britain from the region’
What region is this???
Does he mean Afghanistan? OR perhaps he means Iraq? or Pakistan? I am not aware of any group in Afghanistan plotting attacks on the UK.
Even if there were, there are Islamic extremists in many other countries of the world who may be plotting to attack the UK. ARE WE NOW GOING TO WAR AGAINST THEM!!
Pakistan should be a prime target for the UK IF Brown is concerned about Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on Britain!!
Brown has introduced other reasons for our involvement in the war in Afghanistan. This includes allowing women to be educated and other aspects of the way women are treated. So is the UK now going to attack all countries which treat women like this? Some sort of crusade throughout the world against Islam perhaps?
The whole political thinking and strategy of this government is a complete mess! Just like the way that they run the UK! So no surprise there!
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Posted by michael on November 3, 2009
It was public knowledge on the day that the banks were merged that this would not be accepted by European legislation!
Yet the government persisted with this move, even though they knew that they would have to spend more or our money undoing the merger.
This is not joined up government and will cost us, the taxpayers, billions more in the form of debt to be repaid over the years!
Another incompetent decision by this government?
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