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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 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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Posted by michael on February 4, 2011
Labour broke ALL of its election promises to the people of the UK with its inept and incompetent management of the UK economy under Brown.
The dreams and plans of so many people and families in our country went down the plughole with our economy!
Higher costs, lower incomes, damaged lives – all the legacy of the New Labour term in power.
Don’t blame those who are having to repair the damage that was done by the last government.
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Posted by michael on December 12, 2010
All those against the Conservative government are still pushing this line that Clegg is ‘dishonest’ and breaks his pledges.
But it is blatantly obvious to everyone, except those with a separate agenda, that Clegg could NOT expect the Conservatives to adopt all the LibDem policies.
The Libdems are lucky to get ANY of their policies adopted – they could not get into power on their own!
But note that the leaders of these protests were at first all carrying socialist and trade union banners.
These are the people who started the protest and they are simply trying to attack the Conservative government by damaging the coalition.
Many of those well-intended students are politically naive and have been taken advantage of by the socialists.
Put the blame for this chaos where it really belongs, that is on the trade unions and Labour.
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Posted by michael on December 9, 2010
Many of the students who publicly demonstrating against the student loan increases are naive and seem to be politically ignorant.
They have been drawn into an attack on the Tory government by the socialists. Many of those leading the demonstrations had Labour or socialist banners.
Labour doesn’t have the moral ground to attack the government on the issue of student finance. They introduced the concept of student loans in the first place and had planned similar changes to those proposed by the current government.
And the only reason we need to increase the cost of student loans in the first place is because Labour almost bankrupted the UK in its 13 years of power! Our government needs to implement financial cuts and increase revenues because of the awful Labour government that was voted out of power a short time ago.
Many of these students need to grow up a bit and take the trouble to understand how they are being used by the opponents to the Conservative government!
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Posted by michael on November 24, 2010
Labour have not had any political direction or identity since blair became their leader.
Blair got the country to vote for him on personalities not politics.Labour did not seem to have any idea of what to do once they were in power!
The result was that Labour almost ruined the UK economy and put the UK into serious debt.
We almost went the way of the Irish economy. The election came just in time for the Conservatives to halt the inevitable economic crash that Labour overspending would have caused!
The new Labour leadership are mostly the same bunch that almost destroyed the UK economy.
How can anyone ever expect them to behave differently in the future?
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Posted by michael on September 13, 2010
It doesn’t matter which Milliband or which person wins the Labour leadership contest!
Almost all the candidates were personally part of the appalling government of blair and brown.
How can these people campaign against the ConLib government when they were part of the government that made such a financial mess our economy.
Every time they try to speak about the economy they will be reminded that they caused the problems in the first place!
It show the bankruptcy of the Labour party that there are no better candidates than those who are standing for the Labour leadership!
The Union leaders are promising demonstrations on our streets to protest against cuts. What a shame they allowed blair and brown to do so much damage to our economy in the first place.
The union leaders should now keep silent whilst the government works to sort the UK economy out!
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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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