Archive for March, 2010
Posted by michael on March 30, 2010
We have paid our taxes for all of our lives. This has included elements of care for the elderly in care homes!
How many people’s pensions would have been enough to keep them in their old age? That was before Brown decimated pension values by heavily taxing them!
So lets have the death tax to provide care for the elderly.
Another tax on individuals.
Labour don’t seem to have any solutions that do not involve taxing us more heavily!
This current debate is not a sign of planning for the future etc. but it is proof of the profligacy of New Labour in government.
Not only have they almost bankrupted the UK they would seem to have spent all the money paid by the UK workers for their care when they are elderly!
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Posted by michael on March 29, 2010
Taxing jobs does seem to be the totally wrong way for Brown to try to encourage the UK economy to grow.
I have difficulty in seeing Brown and Darling as capable ministers to get the UK out of recession. After all they ran the UK economy into near bankruptcy in 13 years!
If they were not able to provide a safe leadership team in thirteen years why should they claim to know how to fix the problems? They didn’t even know that we had problems until it was too late!
Taxing jobs does seem to be the totally wrong way for Brown to try to encourage the UK economy to grow.I have difficulty in seeing Brown and Darling as capable ministers to get the UK out of recession.
After all they ran the UK economy into near bankruptcy in 13 years!If they were not able to provide a safe leadership team in thirteen years why should they claim to know how to fix the problems?
They didn’t even know that we had problems until it was too late!
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Posted by michael on March 29, 2010
Labour have all the facts and figures of the UK economy. They know which departments of government can be cut and they know the cost savings!
Yet they won’t share that with the other parties!
They are benefiting themselves before the needs of the UK population. As far as I am concerned this is a treasonable act!
But it won’t benefit New Labour that much! They have had the economic facts and figures for over thirteen years now. But they still put us into a massively damaging recession!
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Posted by michael on March 24, 2010
Well, it didn’t take long for the budget figures to start to unravel!!!!! The Stamp Duty increase for £1m homes will not pay for first-time buyers’ tax holiday!
This was just a political speech even though the UK is desperate for some real, effective policies to sort out the mess following 14 years of brown, darling and blair!
Labour put their own interests before the needs of the UK. That is enough of a reason for them to be chucked out of office!
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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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