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Posted by michael on May 5, 2010
This is what Gordon Brown has refused to tell people. The perilous state of the UK economy has been ignored by Gordon Brown during this election. Yet it is probably the most important topic of the whole election.
Gordon Brown has hidden the true state of the UK economy from us.
New figures from the European Commission revealed today that the UK budget deficit will outstrip any country in the EU this year – including Greece.
European Commissioner Olli Rehn warned that the UK’s ‘very high’ public debt presents ‘by far the first and foremost challenge’ to the winner of tomorrow’s general election.
We are prime candidates to go the same way as Greece and need to be bailed out by the IMF.
This is why Labour do not deserve to get back into power!!
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Posted by michael on May 4, 2010
The end for Brown is nigh once his own supporters are saying things about Brown such as ‘he is the worst Prime Minister the UK has had’.
I can see where these people are coming from!
New Labour, that is Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, came into power taking or themselves what is called ‘the Golden Inheritance’ of the previous Conservative government.
Whatever Labour supporters say about their view on the Conservative party, the ‘Golden Inheritance’ is fact!!
So what has Gordon Brown , and one cannot exclude Tony Blair in this criticism, done with such an inheritance and such a strong economy over the last 14 years?
The answer is clear and very damning to the reputations of both Brown and Blair as well bringing the Labour party into disrepute.
The answer is that they turned a booming economy and a Golden Inheritance into the biggest debt that the UK has ever had (possibly even including the war years).
Our debt levels are so high that the UK risks the same financial treatment as Greece! Every person in the UK is now going to have to pay for years to come increased taxes and higher prices.
When one looks at the state of the economy when Brown came into power, and the complete mess that he has made of the UK economy, then it is a no brainer that he really is the worst prime minister the UK has ever had.
He hasn’t had to deal with any real crisis except the ones he caused, such as the banking crisis and the credit crunch. His answer to any problems is to simply spend more of our money.
Brown wanted to pay MPs more money without raising their salaries, so he changed the rules for MPs expenses allowing MPs to claim for so much more and, the critical point, having all these extra expenses approved by the officials running the system.
Claiming that our soldiers had ‘all the equipment’ they needed when the snatch land rover was clearly vulnerable to roadside bombs was either not understanding what was going on or the wrong attitude towards the safety of our soldiers!
Think back to all the failures of computer systems implemented by this government. They might have worked eventually but almost all of them failed when first introduced.
What was good economic management in taxing people’s pensions as Brown personally introduced? Reducing pensions reduces quality of life for retired people. It also means many people will have to work for longer. What was the point of doing this? We do not have enough jobs for everyone as it is!!
The NHS receives so much money that it really has no reason not to be an excellent service! But what about the care of the elderly and the long-term sick? Do these aspects of the NHS work well? I suggest not. Just read how the elderly and those with dementia etc are treated.
I suggest that Brown really does deserve the title of ‘worst prime minister’ in modern times.
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Posted by michael on May 2, 2010
Gordon Brown appears to be finding out on the doorstep that people do not like the financial mess that he and New Labour have landed us in.
And all of the Labour supporters who voted for Labour should be feeling very guilty about the economic mess that the people they voted for landed us in.
If you voted for Labour just don’t complain about the extra taxes you will have to pay over the years and the increased prices for everything you want to buy and the necessary cuts in public services that have to take place!
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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 28, 2010
Labour know the state of the UK economy. They have all the figures available BUT they are not releasing them to the public.
I can only think of one reason for them to do this and that is because the UK is in such a bad financial mess, obviously much worse than we can imagine!!
Otherwise there would be no need to conceal the details of the UK economy from us.
This is the first election I can remember when people do not seem to be bothered about the economic mess that the government of the day has left the UK in! They seem far more concerned about how well the candidates come over on TV!
I find this amazing. The next government could be in power for five years. What they do will effect people’s lives. Yet this election could be about nothing more than looking good on tv.
How dumbed down has the UK become in the last fourteen years?
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has blamed the three parties for failing to ‘come clean’ over the massive scale of spending cuts required to get us out of the financial mess the UK is in.
But the IFS needs to allow for the fact that Brown is refusing to share the UK national statistics showing what a bad state the UK is in.
This means the that the opposition parties cannot make firm plans because Labour are hiding the true state of the UK economy from them!
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
The UK faces the deepest spending cuts since the late 1970s if the three main parties are to meet their budget commitments, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
The years between 2011 and 2015 must see the largest cuts since 1976-80.
The IFS study predicts that that the Conservatives would need to make the biggest cuts whilst Labour would make the biggest tax rises.
So we apparently have a big difference between the two main parties. I assume that where services are cut, both parties will do it in a sensible manner by making the services more efficient and by delaying expenditure on computer systems, better offices and increased pay rises!
If you want to pay increased taxes for everything you buy then simply vote Labour. The government will be able to continue spending money anywhere it wants. Effectively this means that people are giving more of their money to the government to spend! The management of the UK economy by Labour over the last 14 years has been lousy. Why should anyone expect their abilities to govern are going to be any better in the future! Would we be in this mess if Labour had governed the UK properly over the last 14 years?
If you want to keep more of your money to spend as you want, then vote Conservative. Their emphasis is on cutting waste . Spending cuts won’t necessarily be any better or worse than under Labour, despite the scare tactics from Labour!
Neither party had given details of their spending cuts.
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
So the LibDems want to change our Health service?
It looks like they want to break up the tax-funded Health Service and replace it with a social insurance system!!
I believe that means that those who can afford to pay get a better treatment.
So will there be different levels of service? Those with the least insurance have limited treatment, or at least not as good treatment, as those who can afford more.
The French healthcare system is funded by the working population.
Employees pay 20% of their gross salary, the self-employed pay more, all deducted at source.
Fancy being forced to pay 20% of your gross salary??
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Posted by michael on April 23, 2010
UK public borrowing is at record levels.
The UK government borrowed £163.4 billion in the financial year ending in March.
Tax receipts have fallen significantly. Too many people are out of work or earning minimum wages that do not attract tax. The Labour government is committed to paying huge public spending bills.
The nation’s borrowing almost doubled from the £96.5 billion cost last year.
Our borrowing is 11.5 per cent of national output (according to the Office for National Statistics).
This should give people an idea of the massive task ahead of us in clearing these debts. Each man, woman and child in the UK now has to find £15,000 each to clear this debt. (Obviously we are not each going to be asked to find £15000! – it is an average).
But, on average, we will pay this money through increased taxes, increased cost of living, new taxes, new and increased charges for everything, possibly 21% VAT, probably more parking regulations and higher fines across the board.
The government will have to get £15000 from each of us on average by hook or by crook.
This is what Brown and New Labour call success! It is what I call failure! How dare Brown adopt a financial policy which is going to hurt so many people over many years. Our government is meant to look after us , not milk us for everything we have got!
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Posted by michael on April 12, 2010
More than three million older people will be forced to wait up to five years for their free bus pass after a ‘sneaky’ rule change.
Who does this sneaky, disgusting bit of politics, actually hurt the most? The answer is the elderly.
These people have paid their taxes over many years, most have worked for over 40 years in the UK.
Yet Brown and Darling target them in this nasty bit of legislation just to save some money at the expense of the elderly.
Everybody should be very wary of everything that Brown and Darling do! It does not seem to me that they are serving the UK, rather that they are protecting themselves.
It just show how deep in trouble the UK is after 13 years of Brown and Darling, and how far they will go to protect themselves at the expense of the UK population.
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