Archive for the ‘afghanistan’ Category
Posted by michael on July 18, 2010
This is a poor decision by the Conservative/lib Dems.
What is effectively being said is that Islamic women can protect their identity in the UK, wherever they are. People who are not of the Islamic faith are not allowed to do the same.
Hoodies are not allowed in shops but burkas are!
This is a ridiculous decision! This is not just opposition to a religious concept, it is an essential action whilst we are under the threat of attack by islamic extremists.
We have already had a hunted male extremist escape from the UK by wearing a burka.
We are giving the enemy a means to break through our security to attack us!
Is the UK really going to put our basic security at risk by allowing men or women in burkas to go unchallenged through our towns and cities and security lines?
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Posted by michael on May 22, 2010
Here we have two hypocrites who supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan but now say that it was a mistake!!!
I never heard Milliband saying that the invasion was wrong once he had become an MP. I never head Balls say publicly that Blair was wrong to go to war.
As a member of the cabinet Balls agreed 100% with Blair to invade Iraq.
Did I hear either of these people say that the invasion of Afghanistan was wrong? How many other Blair and Brown policies that so many people in the UK objected to, will now be disowned by these two ex-ministers? And if Labour ever win another election, will all these failed policies be resurrected?
Balls and Milliband must have known that the UK debt was so high that the country could end up needing the IMF to rescue it?
They must have understood that the people of the UK were going to have huge tax rises and massive cuts in services because of the Labour governments policies. Did they stand up for the people then?
This seems to be a case of ‘hypocricy rules’!!
This Labour leadership election with failed ex-cabinet ministers trying to become the party leader is just a bad joke. No one in the UK will trust these people again. If Labour want success then dump these losers and get some real, genuine people as Labour MPs!
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Posted by michael on May 16, 2010
It is my view that none of the ministers from the last failed Labour government are fit to be the leader of the Labour party!
They are all responsible for being part of what has probably been the worst Labour government of modern times.
Brown and Darling will take more of the blame and responsibility by virtue of their positions in the government.
But all the senior ministers have been part of a government which has almost bankrupted the UK, taken us to unnecessary wars and brought our economy to its knees.
What short memories they have!!
How can any of these people have any credibility with any financial policies that they may want to promote.
They are all already tainted with a message of financial failure and will carry this message of failure for the rest of their lives!
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Posted by michael on May 5, 2010
It has been an interesting pre-election period.
I think that the Gordon Brown and New labour campaigning has been quite shameful and cynical.
The insistence of campaigning by scare tactics intended to worry the vulnerable and the elderly will be how history records the New Labour campaign.
There has been a lot of this negative campaigning from New Labour. Even Gordon Brown has been telling people what the Conservatives are going to do rather than being focused on what New Labour propose!
The Libdems have participated in the campaign much more than normal. There is still the risk that they will be squeezed out by the two main parties, except possibly in marginal seats where tactical voting would seem to be going to take place! It would be good if they replaced New Labour forever as the second party in the UK.
I believe that the UK is in a critical point in its history. The UK is so seriously in debt that we have to get this under control very fast. It is not just the published debt figures. Most of the new schools and hospitals have been built on debt that is accumulated in the Private Finance Initiate (PFI). The PFI debt includes a lot of debt from various sources and is not included in the UK official debt figures.
New Labour took the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government and turned it into a recession with the UK so saddled with debts that we will all be paying back the debts for many years to come.
We will all be taxed very heavily to screw more money out of us. We will all have to pay higher prices for everything we buy, including electricity and gas!
The UK is at risk of going the same way as Greece, with our debt getting junk status.
New Labour, that mostly means Gordon Brown, has caused the banking crisis (Brown took away controls on the banks which led to the credit crunch and recession) and has brought the UK to the brink of bankruptcy.
I haven’t even mentioned the wars in Iran and Afghanistan which we should not be involved in!
Labour have failed us, they do not deserve to be in power again.
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Posted by michael on April 30, 2010
It is being said that Blair has returned to help Gordon out.
The man who took us into several wars on very dubious, if not misleading, grounds, and we are still in Afghanistan taking causalities.
So how will Blair help Brown? He is just visiting, I wouldn’t have thought that Blair was going to give up all that money he was earning! He might give encouragement to a few wavering Labour supporters, but nothing has changed regarding the total mess that Brown, and Blair and Labour have made of the UK economy whilst in power.
Do we believe Tony Blair now when he tells us stuff? I don’t. Not since he told us that Iraq could bomb us in 40 minutes!
Blair and Brown – the team that removed the controls over the banks and allowed them to take the risks that led to the credit crunch and the bank failures.
All in all, the presence of Blair will remind us of so much negative stuff about Labour being in power and wars and debt and the near collapse of the UK economy, etc., that most people will not vote for Gordon!
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Posted by michael on April 7, 2010
Brown is the man in charge of MPs expenses. What a mess he has made of it!
Now he wants to change the way parliament works in order to fix the problems he has caused.
When will that man learn that he was not competent enough to run the MPs expenses (judging from the mess that resulted) and that he is not the man to fix the problems he has caused.
Brown has already removed most of our democratic processes by selling us out to the EU without a vote!
Changing what remains for us to influence within our democracy is not something I would trust Brown to manage properly.
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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 January 25, 2010
The war in Iraq was a bad decision by blair and New Labour. It is quite clear that we should never have been involved in this war.
Blair talks about regime change. Yes, Iraq had an awful leader. But that was no justification for going to war against the people of Iraq!!
And why stop at Iraq?? There are plenty of other evil and unpleasant regimes around the world. Did blair intend to invade all of these countries as well? blair and new labour have messed up our country big time!
We now have to be on guard 24×7 against bombing and attacks on UK citizens around the world. This is the legacy of Blair, Brown and New Labour!
Brown has now been shown to have been fully involved in the decision to go to war.
Brown and New Labour do not deserve another term in government. They have done us all enough harm already!
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Posted by michael on December 15, 2009
I despair at some of the actions of this government!
They have announced new helicopters for Afghanistan, which of course is good. But they won’t be available until 2013!!!
I thought that by then our soldiers had pulled out leaving the ‘well trained’ Afghan soldiers to protect themselves from the Taliban!!
So the helicopters won’t be available until AFTER our soldiers come home – OR does brown know that they are going to be there for many years yet!
Has brown now admitted that when he repeatedly and consistently said that our soldiers had enough equipment and helicopters (remember the NATO troops were sharing helicopters) that he was WRONG!
Yet now brown and his ministers are claiming credit for spending money on ‘supporting’ our troops. It just seems so cynical. Perhaps there is an election due soon!
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