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?

Yet Milliband is unable to capitalize on it.

The real problem that Milliband has is that Labour actually caused the financial problems that the UK is suffering from!!

So everytime Milliband, or any Labour MP, stands up to loudly criticize Cameron and the Conservatives, they are actually criticizing themselves and the inept Labour government which was last in power and which had left the UK economy in such a total mess!

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.

(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?

He can pay lip service towards his position as an independent political party but that is all!

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 shareholders are the ones who approve such salaries and bonuses.

If people want to object then buy shares and turn up and vote!

That is the right thing to do in a democracy. If people are NOT in a democracy and complain about the leaders salary they would probably get jailed or shot! – our system is better!

But what is really important and really fair, is that all salaries and bonus payments are subject to tax in the UK without any tax saving schemes (legal or otherwise) being used to minimise the tax being paid!

Ordinary workers cannot take advantage of these schemes and big company bosses should not be allowed to either!

And those who complain about these fat cat salaries and benefits, just remember that some of the trade union leaders are doing just the same as the bankers!

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 trade unions are complaining about the UK economy. Strange that – they obviously expect people not to know the the Trade Unions own the Labour party and are therefore themselves responsible for the awful state of our economy!

Labour even took over with the ‘golden inheritance’ and Labour still spent all the money and left the UK population with massive debts to pay off!

Do people expect the current government to continue to spend money as the last lot did?

I am not well off! Should I keep borrowing and to hell with the consequences?

Should I cheat and steal from people who have got the things that I want? Should I try to con someone else out of their possessions?

Of course some people in the UK are well off. Best of luck to them. I hope they choose to spend their wealth to help others. But it would be wrong to make them do this!

Many people in the UK are suffering because of the actions of the last government. I just hope that we don’t go the way of Greece!!!