Archive for the ‘economy’ Category
Posted by michael on June 23, 2010
Listening to Alistair Darling one would not realise that he had been the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a Labour government that brought the UK economy to its knees, leaving us all with massive debts for a generation!
Instead he talks as though knows what the current government should be doing!
I know what his record as Chancellor was. Spending money that the UK did not have! Borrowing more and more money to keep going!
They blamed the ‘global’ recession and ignored the fact that the UK suffered badly from the recession because Labour changed the way that the financial industry was regulated. The controls that would have prevented so much damage to the UK economy were no longer in place!
But my main criticism of the Brown/Darling Labour government is that they just kept borrowing money to keep the economy going.
It was clearly more important to them that they stayed in power even if it meant that the people of the UK were saddled with debts for the next twenty years!
They kept themselves in power at the expense of us all.
Subsequently I am not interested in the opinions of Darling, Brown or any of the Labour ministers on what the Conservatives and Lib Dems are doing!
In fact it would concern me if Brown or Darling agreed with the way the ConLib coalition were working to fix the UK economy from the consequences of 13 years of New Labour government!
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Posted by michael on June 22, 2010
How could the Labour reply to the coalition budget not include any acknowledgement that their term in government was the cause of the budget that they are attacking?
Labour cannot claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did.
Labour don’t have a right to complain about the new government fixing the economic mess that Labour made when they were in power.
How could the Labour reply not include any acknowledgement that their term in government was the cause of the budget that they are attacking?
Labour cannot even claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did. Labour don’t have a right to complain about the new government fixing the economic mess that Labour made when they were in power.
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Posted by michael on June 7, 2010
There are still Labour supporters saying that we must maintain the same level of spending on public services!!
These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.
All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK.
Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements. Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible!
How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering! It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)
Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!
There are even Labour supporters still saying that we must maintain the same level of spending on public services!!
These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money any more to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.
All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK. Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements.
Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible! How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering!
It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)
Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!
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Posted by michael on May 17, 2010
We are beginning to get the true state of the UK economy revealed to us. What is being revealed in the public domain shows that the Labour government have been misleading us on the true state of the UK economy.
Can anybody really now doubt that Gordon Brown has been the worst Prime Minister that the UK has had in modern times? Yet Gordon Brown has a reputation for ‘economic prudence’ and competence as the chancellor and then the unelected Prime Minister.
How did he manage to fool so many people for so long? The awful financial state of the UK economy did not happen overnight or suddenly occur in the last few months!
During the election campaign New Labour and Brown campaigned on the basis of Brown’s prudence and reputation in managing the economy!!!
Nearly all of us are going to go through difficult times with our finances and with cuts in services because of the lousy New Labour government that we have had for the last 14 years!
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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 12, 2010
We effectively have a coalition government now.
It means that the two parties need to make some compromises of their policies to avoid friction. But that happens anyway within a single government!!
The Conservatives have a left and a right wing which have to work together.
New Labour have Blairites and Brownites who have to work together!
So the idea of rifts and splits with the government is no more than happens in every government!
But I also see this as an equivalent to the war-time coalition government of 1945. We have serious financial problems with the UK close to bankruptcy and the risk of the IMF coming in to run the UK.
So, excluding Labour because they caused the problems by a lack of thrift and what I see as the worst government and the worst prime minister in modern times, the coalition of the Conservatives and the Libdems will be more than competent in resolving the financial mess inherited from Brown!
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Posted by michael on May 10, 2010
It appears that Gordon Brown, our unelected leader, is going to impose a change of our voting system without a referendum. In other words Brown appears to be so desperate to remain in power that he is giving away our civil rights to enforce a change of the electoral system on the people of the UK.
I don’t believe Brown has any real intention to resign because he always qualified the statements about resigning. Brown, an unelected leader himself, is making our democracy look like it came from North Korea or Iran!
Even Labour supporters should be worried about the total disregard of our civil rights. Will the people of the UK be allowed to protest in the streets about the removal of our civil rights?
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Posted by michael on May 8, 2010
I would like to remind the LibDems that they did really badly during the election.
Where was all that enthusiasm displayed when Clegg did well in the first of the PM debates? It seemed to evaporate when it came to actually voting!
A LibDem association with the Conservatives could be exactly what they need to show that they are responsible and capable to be in government. They will be rewarded for a mature attitude in joining in a partnership with the Conservatives, but they cannot expect those rewards straight away.
The UK needs a stable, mature team to deal with the very serious economic problems dumped on us by an incapable New Labour government. As part of that team Clegg and the Libdems can become ready for government and become serious contenders in the future.
Remember, they did lose badly at the election. They cannot expect everything they want to happen straight away. It would be quite ridiculous, and quite childish, to demand all the rewards before they have proved themselves!
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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 1, 2010
No Mr. Brown, You have not paid a big price for your ‘bigot’ comment.
You have paid a big price for taking the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the last Conservative government and turning this pot of gold into the most massive debt that all of us in the UK will now have to suffer for years to pay back.
I do not understand how you even think that you have a chance of getting re-elected when you have caused such an economic meltdown of the UK finances.
You are almost the last person in the world who can claim to be capable of sorting out the mess which you caused in the first place!!
We have huge debt levels as a result of your financial policies. Our debt risks becoming junk which will cost us all even more of our money.
And your campaign for the election is based on increasing our debts even more because you don’t feel that you should start to reduce UK debts for the next year. Which will cost us all more money and increased debt.
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