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Posted by michael on August 1, 2011
Those people who are due to retire are beginning to realize that the pensions that they have paid for over the years are not going to be enough to live on!
I just hope that they remember why our pensions are going to be so poor for years to come.
Gordon Brown and Labour introduced a tax on pensions which has significantly reduced the values of our pensions.
Why did he do this? Was it just a deliberate political attack on the middle classes?
But he knew what he was doing and he knew the consequences for peoples pensions! People are beginning to realize now that they are going to have problems when they retire. Many will have to work for longer.
The damage that Labour did to our economy will have ramifications for all of us for years to come!
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Posted by michael on July 4, 2011
Ed Milliband is apparently wondering where Labour go from here!
It is clear from events over the last 40 years that Labour stands for one thing only. That is the desire/need to spend all the UK’s money and to tax us all significantly more simply because Labour needs to keep spending!
This urge to SPEND is at the heart of Labour. Just look at history!
Either the IMF come in to fix the economy following a Labour government OR the Conservatives have to sort out the UK economy which a subsequent Labour government simply bankrupts again!
People might not mind this inbuilt desire for Labour to bankrupt us every time they are in power IF we got some long term benefits from it. But we don’t!!
In fact we are nearly always left far worse off financially following a Labour government!
Note to Ed Milliband: The problem that you have is that Labour almost bankrupted the UK last time in power and it will be difficult to exceed this achievement when you next get into power.
But I am sure that the next Labour government will find a way!!!
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Posted by michael on June 22, 2011
The unions and the Labour party need to learn the financial lessons that Greece is now going through! Labour totally messed up the UK economy in their time in power!!
Yet the unions, who own labour, want to have their cake and eat it!!
The unions striking for more money and less cuts is so, so cynical. The Labour party caused the financial problems in the UK yet they don’t want any consequences of their own actions to affect themselves and their members.
The trade union members did not cause the problems BUT they voted for the people who did! The cuts have to be made or the UK will go the way of Greece. Doesn’t anyone in Labour remember the consequences of the IMF running the UK after a previous Labour government bankrupted the UK economy?
I hate this greedy, selfish attitude of the trade unions. As long as they are OK it doesn’t matter what happens to anyone else!!!
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Posted by michael on June 2, 2011
This is not a humiliation for England!!!
The English FA have stood up for what is right. FIFA has proved that it is little more than a secret, self-interest group with very little public accountability.
Rumours and accusations of corruption mar the credibility of FIFA. And the secrecy amongst the members is totally unacceptable for the international organisation managing the game of football throughout the world.
Blatter has conceded that some major changes need to be made, for example allowing all the members a vote on major decisions. But who knows whether this will actually happen!
In my view FIFA is not fit for purpose and needs root and branch reforms. It would be best to completely scrap FIFA and set up a new , democratic organisation to handle the game of football.
This gravy train must be derailed as soon as possible!
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Posted by michael on May 6, 2011
It is quite amusing to see all these people complaining about libdems breaking their promises. They know that these pledges were given as part of the Libdems election campaign.
These complainers know that these pledges cannot be implemented unless the Libdems are elected.
I would guess that most of these people are Labour supporters trying to break the coalition, or they really do not understand the political facts of life!
The UK owes the LibDems a favour for keeping Labour out of power. Just look at the immense damage that Labour did under Blair and Brown.
Most of the Labour ministers are the same ones who were in the last government. Could anyone actually trust Labour not to complete the job and actually bankrupt the UK if they got back into power?
I wouldn’t!
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Posted by michael on April 7, 2011
It is interesting to see all these anti-cameron/conservative posts on the various newspaper forums.
The comments tend not to be at all constructive, simply slagging off cameron or clegg or the conservatives in general.
These people all have short memories – it was the Labour government that so messed up our economy that the UK needs to cut costs which means some public services need to be reduced.
The coalition government is not cutting services for fun! It has to be done to avoid the same fate as Ireland suffered and Portugal has now fallen into.
Being taken over by the IMF has a dramatic affect on the public services on the country. The UK has avoided this disaster so far.
Remember the IMF taking over a failed UK economy before? That was a Labour government – they seem to make a habit of almost bankrupting UK economies!
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Posted by michael on March 26, 2011
Balls says that there is an alternative. He is right. The UK could go bust and then we would have the IMF running our economy.
Balls and Milliband say that we can keep spending money on services. But that means more and more borrowing!
That was how Labour got us into such a mess in the first place.
Labour are NOT in power. They can say what they want because their views will not be put to the test!
What they are saying is disingenuous because they could NOT keep borrowing money if they were in power.
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Posted by michael on March 26, 2011
It is very cynical of Milliband to take part in the public demonstrations against cuts which are only necessary because of the total mess made by the last Labour government of which he was a member!
The ‘too fast, too soon’ mantra he repeats actually shows a lack of understanding of how bad the UK economy was left in by Labour.
Labour, New or otherwise, has no answer to the charges that they have severely damaged our lives, our jobs, our NHS, our pensions and retirements, etc.
The current generation of teenagers will not have the same work prospects as previous generations.
The list of bad consequences of the Blair/Brown governments is long!
Yet Milliband is out on the streets campaigning about the necessary steps being taken by the coalition to get the UK economy back on track. Very cynical because he would be doing mostly the same steps as the coalition if he was in power!
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Posted by michael on March 25, 2011
Did the last Labour government actually understand anything about the value of money, savings and debt?
Brown was happy to put extra taxes on everyones pension payments even though it would have a detrimental affect on our pensions and lives when we retired.
Labour was very happy to borrow as much money as they could, without any apparent regard to the fact that these debts would have to be paid back at some stage in the future.
Did Brown understand that repaying this debt was to come out of our, the peoples, pockets and the whole process would mean increased taxes that would have serious consequences on peoples jobs and lives?
If Labour did not understand what they were doing then it is a plain case of incompetence.
If they did understand what they were doing then they were choosing to bring financial pain and suffering on us all when it became time to repay the debts.
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Posted by michael on February 10, 2011
The more we find out about the appalling (in my view) Labour government of the last 13 years, the more debt is revealed that we are now having to pay for.
Did anybody in the last government stand up against this lemming-like drive by Blair and Brown to just spend, spend and spend public money regardless of the debt being built up for future generations?
No wonder student loans have to be increase! No wonder we are having to cut public services!
These cuts are not the fault of the current government. They are having to be done because of the actions of the last Labour government.
I cannot imagine why anyone would ever trust a Labour government again! (especially when the current opposition consists mostly of the same people who made such a mess of our economy!)
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