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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 May 4, 2010
Some of the Labour leadership are now telling people not to vote for Labour but to use ‘tactical’ voting instead.
This indicates that Labour’s internal polling and analysis of voting intentions is showing Labour that they cannot win the election.
It could even be showing that the Labour party is heading for a massive defeat, possibly placing them in third place.
The Labour leaders are panicking big time in telling their people not to vote for them. Peter Hain is quoted as saying ‘I think it’s important for people to act intelligently in this election‘.
I certainly agree with that and the intelligent option is to throw this lousy government out of office!
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Posted by michael on May 3, 2010
What an economic mess has been made by this Labour government!
It does not surprise me that white-collar ‘boom’ towns in the South have been turned to benefit blackspots under this lousy government.
These towns are truly representative of the way that Brown and Labour have managed the UK economy. They have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy!
It may even be too late to avoid the IMF taking over the running the UK economy.
It looks like Labour are going to be punished by the electorate for their appalling management of the UK. I don’t want people blaming all politicians in general for the mess that Brown, Blair and Labour have made of the UK! The fault is with Labour and it is Labour that should be punished!
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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 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 April 2, 2010
New Labour are making a real big deal about the opposition to increases in the NI. It should be obvious to them that we need as many jobs in the UK as possible and that increasing taxes on jobs is not the best thing to do!
And the jobs need to be in the private sector. Public sector jobs are paid for by our taxes. Every new public sector job increases the UK debt levels!
But Brown, New Labour and Mandelson seem to be unable to cope with any criticism of their plans. It comes over as a ‘matter of principle’ that Labour will not accept any criticism even if it is obvious to most that Labour is wrong!
This just reinforces the fact that New Labour, and Brown, have dealt with the UK economy so very well that the UK is in deep trouble. We now have huge debts. We are now facing huge tax increases in almost every aspect of our lives.
We now cannot afford to maintain most public services.
We couldn’t afford the salt in the winter and now the roads are falling apart and will cost billions to repair! What crazy logic from this government stopped them from buying enough salt, which really was the cheap option!, even though they knew road surfaces would be seriously damaged by the freezing temperatures. It might save a million or two now, but will cost hundreds of millions over the next few years.
When Brown promises to ring fence an NHS service, then that means the other NHS services will be cut! If they were not at risk of being cut then there would be no need to ring fence certain services!
I want to see a government in power which is prepared to govern for the benefit of the UK and NOT to spend all their efforts trying to maintain their own positions in government!
The fact that Brown refuses to release the financial data for the UK means several things:
- He is hiding the size of the financial mess that he has put the UK into.
- He is trying to stop the opposition from making their plans for government.
Brown is able to attack the opposition by claiming that they don’t have the finances right. We would not know if the opposition is right or wrong, since we do not know the figures either!
On the other hand we don’t know if Brown is right or wrong, since he does not reveal the figures that his policies are based on!
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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 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 26, 2010
The worst of the recession is not over. Apart from the less than expected growth figure, which will probably adjusted in the next few weeks, there is very little else going for the UK economy!
But in my view it is the way that this lame government has chosen to focus almost entirely on the banking system that is going to prove to be the most damaging of Brown and Darling’s policies!
Apart from a couple of relatively sensible policies that a number of governments around the world adopted, there has been very little from New Labour to help anyone through the recession.
The scrappage scheme was welcome but limited. What a shame the scheme was not restricted to green, environmentally friendly cars to begin the process of cleaning up the environment!
But the real issue is with the banks. This New Labour government forced the banks to increase their capital levels. The consequence of this was that many businesses had their existing loans withdrawn or were refused the new loans and overdraft facilities required to keep their businesses and cash flow going.
How many small businesses were forced out of business by Brown and Darling’s focus on keeping the banking system going at the expense of the smaller businesses? How many of their employees lost their jobs as a result?
When these smaller UK manufacturers and suppliers go bust then the employees and the management are forced to depend on the benefits system. This increases the UK debt. Families are often unable to pay their mortgages or rent. How many families were unable to pay their mortgage and ended up being housed at the expense of UK tax payers?
How is the UK economy now expected to grow when so many of the businesses that were present before the recession have now stopped trading simply because the UK banks would not support them?
The people of the UK have been allowed to suffer whilst the government put most of the money and most of their efforts into protecting the banks.
When will our government allow the banks to start lending money, at reasonable rates, to small businesses to encourage them to expand. The same question applies to new start up businesses being given the funding and credit facilities that they require.
For Brown and Darling to increase the banks capital and reserves at the cost of many businesses and jobs is inexcusable. Apart from anything else banks do not vote in general elections, people do!
Do we now have enough people who can afford to set up new businesses? Even if people want to get new businesses going, the banks will most probably refuse to support them.
This useless government has failed to support businesses who need finance and loans to stay in business . We cannot expect much help from our greedy bankers!
Brown and Darling have made a real mess of the UK economy. This is why they do not deserve to be in government again!
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