Posted by michael on April 28, 2010
I still fail to understand how Brown can claim the credit for creating many thousands of new jobs and allowing nearly all of them to be taken by people from outside the UK.
Doesn’t Brown understand that UK citizens need those jobs. If non UK citizens take the jobs then most of the earnings go back to their home country to benefit their government!
This was effectively an investment in a foreign government, not a policy to help the UK.
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
The UK faces the deepest spending cuts since the late 1970s if the three main parties are to meet their budget commitments, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
The years between 2011 and 2015 must see the largest cuts since 1976-80.
The IFS study predicts that that the Conservatives would need to make the biggest cuts whilst Labour would make the biggest tax rises.
So we apparently have a big difference between the two main parties. I assume that where services are cut, both parties will do it in a sensible manner by making the services more efficient and by delaying expenditure on computer systems, better offices and increased pay rises!
If you want to pay increased taxes for everything you buy then simply vote Labour. The government will be able to continue spending money anywhere it wants. Effectively this means that people are giving more of their money to the government to spend! The management of the UK economy by Labour over the last 14 years has been lousy. Why should anyone expect their abilities to govern are going to be any better in the future! Would we be in this mess if Labour had governed the UK properly over the last 14 years?
If you want to keep more of your money to spend as you want, then vote Conservative. Their emphasis is on cutting waste . Spending cuts won’t necessarily be any better or worse than under Labour, despite the scare tactics from Labour!
Neither party had given details of their spending cuts.
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Posted by michael on April 24, 2010
Amazing how many people are prepared to state what Cameron and the Conservatives are going to do next. Some sort of gift of prophecy?
Yet they forget all that Brown and New Labour have actually done, stuff that is all documented, it is in fact history.
How can anyone expect Brown and the rest of New Labour to do anything different than they have already done.
We have a major financial meltdown in progress. We are going to be taxed to the hilt and beyond just to pay the huge debts we have incurred. The UK economy now is almost on the same level as Greece!
IF Brown and New Labour could have run the UK better than they have managed to do, then I would suggest that they would have done better.
What we have seen in the financial meltdown is the best that Brown and New Labour can manage to do!
Their best is nowhere near good enough. That is why they should be out of power ASAP.
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Posted by michael on April 22, 2010
People might guess that I am not a great fan of New Labour, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair!
But I do think that I have very good reasons for my contempt of this political party.
Labour’s economic credentials were dealt a blow yesterday after it emerged that the number of long-term unemployed has nearly doubled in just two years. The long-term jobless hits total has hit a 13-year high of 726,000.
The last Conservative government achieved more than this Labour government has done!
The overall unemployment broke through the 2.5 million total for the first time since Labour came to power!
New Labour has taken the Golden Inheritance of the last Conservative government and turned the UK into an economic and financial disaster!
Gordon Brown’s welfare-to-work schemes have successfully created a ‘lost generation’ that will struggle to find employment.
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Posted by michael on April 20, 2010
The Icelandic volcano is still spewing out it’s dust yet the UK can now allow all the air flights to resume.
So what has changed? It doesn’t seem to be the weather. The volcano hasn’t changed. Has all this chaos been Health and Safety gone mad?
Where has Brown and our government been for the last six days?? They have allowed the flights to stay grounded, our citizens to be stranded in foreign countries, holidays to be spoilt, etc.
It would all seem to have been worthwhile except for the fact the the government are now simply allowing flights to resume as though there had never been a problem with ash!!!
Judging from what is happening now, I suspect that we did not need to cancel all our flights, we did not need to have UK citizens stranded around the world, we did not need the chaos that we have experienced.
New Labour has shown a lack of leadership and a failure to make decisions. They do not seem bothered how many people have been disadvantaged! The country would do better with a more caring government!
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Posted by michael on April 2, 2010
The fact that Brown refuses to release the financial data for the UK means several things:
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 24, 2010
This was just a political speech even though the UK is desperate for some real, effective policies to sort out the mess following 14 years of brown, darling and blair!
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Posted by michael on March 11, 2010
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Posted by michael on March 9, 2010
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Posted by michael on January 10, 2010
I heard Brown yesterday say that he would stay as PM if he was re-elected. He seems to have forgotten that he was never elected as PM in the first place.
Brown is a very good example of the dangers and folly of allowing anyone positions of authority over a country without being elected by the people. If people get a chance to elect someone who turns out to be useless, then they have no one to blame but themselves. That is the way the system works.
But Brown was not elected.
That is the main reason, in my view, why people are so against New Labour now that Brown has taken the UK from an economy in a really good position (remember the Golden Inheritance of the last Conservative government?) and almost bankrupted the UK and leaving us with debts that will take twenty years of austerity to pay off!
Brown has messed up this country big-time! And he was not elected by the people, he was foisted on us by this Labour government. Both will take the blame for the mess that the economy and the country is in.
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