We had 14 years of Labour that ruined the economy of the UK  but memories are so short that mostly the same Labour shadow cabinet that almost bankrupted the UK economy is now seen as capable of making everything OK again.

Why?? It doesn’t make any sense! The last Conservative government before Blair and the ruinous 14 years of Labour, worked wonders with the UK economy.

Blair came into power with the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the Conservatives and kept the same economic policies as the Conservatives had for nearly 5 years.

Why? Because they worked!! Then their socialist instincts took over and they started their ruinous spending spree and when they ran out of cash they started to borrow.

That is why the UK economy is in the appalling state that it is!

The Conservatives are getting attacked because they have the task of cleaning up Labour’s mess. People may not like some of the actions that they have taken but that is no reason to go back to having Labour in power. We know that they will fail. We know that they will sign us up into the Euro.

The UK has a fair chance of ending up in a serious recession just because of the appalling way in which Labour ran our economy for many years. To bring Labour back into power would, in my view, guarantee the UK going into recession.

We might not be well off as a country now but if we end up with an economy being controlled by the IMF then people really will suffer. Just look at what Greece and Ireland are going through!!!

It is a fallacy to believe that ‘soaking the rich’ would make any real difference at all. Again a consequence of 14 years of a Labour government, the rich are able to move money abroad, be paid abroad and manipulate their finances to legally minimize tax.

These financial dealings that benefit the rich have gone too far! People do object strongly to what is simply legal tax avoidance. It is not right that the rich can benefit in this way. There have always been ways for companies and the rich to minimize tax. But this ‘legal’ tax avoidance has gone too far. But, again, the huge increase in people avoiding tax legally, is a consequence of the 14 years of Labour in power!

It didn’t become a problem just because the Conservatives became the government!

I would like to see all the cabinet and the shadow cabinet come clean about any tax avoidance schemes that they are using to minimize their tax payments to the UK.

I would like to see the Trade Union bosses doing the same. After all they ‘own’ the Labour government and have given themselves massive pay rises recently and various benefits. They strongly influence UK politics and it would be interesting to see how much of their members donations are spent on perks and  politics.

Unfortunately we also had an economic illiterate  government which appeared to have little understanding of how to run a country.

How any government could believed that simply spending money and incurring such massive debts was actually a credible economic policy is beyond me.

Labour must have had so many warnings from the civil servants and the government advisers and completely ignored them all.

In my view their actions bordered on criminal negligence!

Yet the majority of the labour ministers are now in the shadow cabinet and are actively campaigning against the economic measures required to sort out the mess the UK economy is in.

Does Labour like the idea that most people in the UK are suffering from the economic policies required to sort out their mess? Or are they so controlled by the unions, who after all own the Labour party, that they are not allowed to approve of financial policies that are designed to fix the UK economy abut but would reduce the standards of living for the union members?

Last week they couldn’t even hold one of their strongest constituencies!

The polls might show that Labour is ahead but it is because the Coalition government has to make really difficult economic decisions as a result of the total mess that Labour made of the UK economy in their 14 years of power.

In 2015 we will still be paying back the debts dumped on us by Labour in power. No one will trust Labour and anything they say about economic policies.

The financial pain caused by Labour’s inept policies will still be hurting the voters.

Perhaps dumping every Labour minister who held power in the last government would be a prudent move to make now if Labour want to try to get back into power!

Of course we should by then have broken the links between the Labour party and the Trade Unions. That could give Labour a big funding problem as so much of their money came from the Trade Unions.

Most people seem happy to ‘soak the rich’ but don’t understand the concept of a ‘rich pensioner’.

If people are very well off then they should be taxed a little bit more to help those who are NOT well off.

The big issue (not the magazine!) is that most rich people have arranged their finances in a way that is (a) legal and (b) means that they pay little or no tax.

Reducing the tax rates for the rich should mean that they will find it cheaper to pay more tax than to pay for legal tax avoidance schemes.

The evidence does seem to be that the lower the taxes are on the rich then the more money is collected in tax for the benefit of those less well off in the UK.

But most of the attacks on the Conservatives seem to be politically motivated by people who are not really interested in the poor, just interested in getting back into power!!

(1) most of the Press seem to be working to destabilise the government just so that they can sell more papers, and

(2) the government has to stop the UK from becoming a basket case like Greece . Some of the other EU countries are close to collapse and the UK could easily follow if the correct measures are not taken.

So the press now support the Labour party (by definition that means the Trade Unions) whilst criticising the Labour party leadership as feeble and at the same time helping Labour to attack the Conservatives.

Are the press now paid by results? No matter how damaging what they publish is to the UK??

It does seem that the more dramatic the story then they sell more papers and the more money they get paid?

Of course the UK economy will also collapse and the IMF will have to come in (as they did before to a Labour government who couldn’t live within the countries finances).

If we do not manage our spending then the UK economy will resemble the Greece economy and the impact on everyone in the UK would be huge!

In that situation the NHS would be forced to operate on a significantly reduce budget!! We have to cut the costs of the NHS and make the necessary changes so that the UK can afford to pay for it.

It does not mean that we will have a worse NHS! We just have to make it more efficient and cost the taxpayers less. Of course this is a concept that Labour does not understand!!

We see Greece and all its woes and we were so,  so close to that because of the inept (in my view) management of the UK economy by New Labour, Blair and Brown.

The next four or five elections will all take place with the UK in serious debt and unable to spend money on many infrastructure  projects, benefits, pensions, housing etc that we should have because a huge amount of our money will still be going on clearing Labour’s debts.

The debt figures are massive. We still have to pay for many of the new hospitals, schools etc that Labour built on borrowed money. Other projects that Labour undertook need vast amounts of public money to clear the debts. Many of these debts were excluded from the UK debt figures so people would not realise how bad the UK economy actually was!!

It looked good at the time but these debts need to be paid back! And the debts and the interest on the debts are paid back by the taxes we pay!

The slogan ‘there is no money’ will haunt Labour at election times and, hopefully, keep them out of power for a long time. And if people don’t like this forecast just think of what Greece is going through. We were so, so close to going the same way!

The RBS debt alone is apparently twice the amount owed by Greece and, yes, a lot of the debt is owed by Greece so we won’t get that back!

If we pay peanuts we will get monkeys, and I know that monkeys may well have done a better job if they were running the bank at the time of the boom, but now we need people who can do the job properly and professionally for the sake of all of us!

If the people running RBS at the moment can fix it then we will all benefit and it will be worth the money we have to pay them to do the job properly.

Perhaps we would all feel better about this crisis if those Labour shadow ministers who created this awful mess in the first place had their own pensions and salaries cut to pay towards the financial crisis most of us are suffering from!

The Euro zone (not the EU itself) wanted to finance itself by taxing the UK financial industry!!! We are not in the Euro zone. It is inconceivable that this should be allowed to happen.

The UK needs to tax the UK financial industry for the benefit of the UK!!

The Euro zone is a major disaster waiting to happen. It is a stupid idea for so many diverse nations to have a single currency – it just cannot work anywhere except in the imaginations of politicians who want to benefit from the power (and money) that such an organisation would give them!

I find it sad that the Libdems have lost the plot so completely that they would give away the inevitable tax on the UK financial industry and not be bothered about the need for this money to help the UK economy!!!

The Lib Dems have a strange idea of what is in the best interests of the United Kingdom!