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Posted by michael on May 7, 2012
Socialist governments are like lemmings – they are only capable of spending other peoples money and it always runs out leaving the people of the country in dire financial straits.
We had 14 years of Labour that ruined the economy of the UK but memories are so short that mostly the same Labour shadow cabinet that almost bankrupted the UK economy is now seen as capable of making everything OK again.
Why?? It doesn’t make any sense! The last Conservative government before Blair and the ruinous 14 years of Labour, worked wonders with the UK economy.
Blair came into power with the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the Conservatives and kept the same economic policies as the Conservatives had for nearly 5 years.
Why? Because they worked!! Then their socialist instincts took over and they started their ruinous spending spree and when they ran out of cash they started to borrow.
That is why the UK economy is in the appalling state that it is!
The Conservatives are getting attacked because they have the task of cleaning up Labour’s mess. People may not like some of the actions that they have taken but that is no reason to go back to having Labour in power. We know that they will fail. We know that they will sign us up into the Euro.
The UK has a fair chance of ending up in a serious recession just because of the appalling way in which Labour ran our economy for many years. To bring Labour back into power would, in my view, guarantee the UK going into recession.
We might not be well off as a country now but if we end up with an economy being controlled by the IMF then people really will suffer. Just look at what Greece and Ireland are going through!!!
It is a fallacy to believe that ‘soaking the rich’ would make any real difference at all. Again a consequence of 14 years of a Labour government, the rich are able to move money abroad, be paid abroad and manipulate their finances to legally minimize tax.
These financial dealings that benefit the rich have gone too far! People do object strongly to what is simply legal tax avoidance. It is not right that the rich can benefit in this way. There have always been ways for companies and the rich to minimize tax. But this ‘legal’ tax avoidance has gone too far. But, again, the huge increase in people avoiding tax legally, is a consequence of the 14 years of Labour in power!
It didn’t become a problem just because the Conservatives became the government!
I would like to see all the cabinet and the shadow cabinet come clean about any tax avoidance schemes that they are using to minimize their tax payments to the UK.
I would like to see the Trade Union bosses doing the same. After all they ‘own’ the Labour government and have given themselves massive pay rises recently and various benefits. They strongly influence UK politics and it would be interesting to see how much of their members donations are spent on perks and politics.
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Posted by michael on March 31, 2012
That comment about ‘toxifying the tories’ is just nonsense! The real problems are:
(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?
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Posted by michael on December 12, 2011
Cameron did the right for one reason and one reason only.
The Euro zone (not the EU itself) wanted to finance itself by taxing the UK financial industry!!! We are not in the Euro zone. It is inconceivable that this should be allowed to happen.
The UK needs to tax the UK financial industry for the benefit of the UK!!
The Euro zone is a major disaster waiting to happen. It is a stupid idea for so many diverse nations to have a single currency – it just cannot work anywhere except in the imaginations of politicians who want to benefit from the power (and money) that such an organisation would give them!
I find it sad that the Libdems have lost the plot so completely that they would give away the inevitable tax on the UK financial industry and not be bothered about the need for this money to help the UK economy!!!
The Lib Dems have a strange idea of what is in the best interests of the United Kingdom!
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Posted by michael on December 10, 2011
So Cameron has not committed the UK to paying billions in order to keep the Euro zone from collapsing into obscurity! Much of the media in the UK has portrayed this as some sort of political disaster!
But the UK is not a member of the Euro zone.
Why on earth is it a problem that the UK is not giving £70 million (estimates vary) to the Eurozone to keep it going!!
It seems to me that the UK press simply reports the negative and potential problems of any story because this sort of news is more dramatic and sells mores papers!
Cameron has done the right thing. I think that Labour, judging from their actions whilst in power, would have given the Euro zone anything they asked for!
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Posted by michael on September 25, 2009
So Gordon Brown is ‘Statesman of the Year’
It explains a lot. This award is going to embarrass him. It would seem to show where his priorities are!
We have been through a massive recession, which Brown, as prime minister should have foreseen and prepared us for.
He has obviously been more focused on global events than he has been on looking after the UK. No wonder he didn’t see the recession coming!
The UK is in recession, in deep financial trouble. It might show signs of coming out of recession now, but the UK now has such high debts that we all have to suffer tax increases and reduced services for years to come as a result.
Yet Gordon Brown was able to spend so much time on world events that he has got an award for it!
Brown cannot claim that he could do both jobs simply because of the deep financial mess that he has left us in.
His lack of time working for the UK has left us leadership through troubled financial times.
People are going to blame him, and New Labour, for abandoning the UK for his own personal ambitions.
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Posted by michael on June 8, 2009
I suspect that the result of the New Labour MPs meeting that is going on now is that the Labour MPs are going to support Brown!
They don’t really have a choice. Labour cannot have another unelected Leader. They would be crucified by the people of the UK if they tried that again!
So whatever they think of Brown, they are stuck with him!
They could leave Brown as PM and give some MPs the job of managing him, effectively a puppet leader with the real power behind the throne!
New Labour is a sham. The object was to pretend to the UK that New Labour was no longer a socialist party. The pretence was that New Labour embodied all the elements of the Conservative party policies whilst still retaining socialist values.
This sham, which could only work if it had a dynamic, charasmatic leader, was successful whilst Blair was personally holding the house of cards together. Managing the press and the news media was an important part of the pretence.
When Blair left (had he seen the inevitable collapse of ‘New’ Labour?) he passed control over to Brown without an election! This was the first mistake. The second mistake was that Brown is totally the wrong sort of person to replace Blair.
In my view Brown could never have replaced Blair. Now the country can see for themselves that New Labour is simply another manifestation of the Emperor’s New Clothes.
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Posted by michael on June 7, 2009
The New Labour vote has collapsed. Perhaps it is because Gordon Brown’s handling of the UK economy is so poor. The UK economy is in a terrible state, the consequences are going to have to be massive tax rises to pay for the incompetence of those running the country.
The recent elections have hit Labour hard. They blame the expenses row. But the Conservatives have done very well in both the local elections and the European election. So have the Libdems. So it cannot just be the expenses mess.
Perhaps people understand that New Labor and Gordon Brown are responsible for the expenses problems!
All the Labour people on TV and the radio seem to think that there is no competent person in the party who could do a better job than Brown who has actually got everything wrong. Perhaps they are right!
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Posted by michael on June 5, 2009
It is fascinating how quickly a government can fall apart.
Does it happen because of panic? Or betrayal by colleagues?
Suddenly many of the colleagues and friends(!) of Gordon Brown are coming into the public eye and telling us how bad he is and how he needs to go for the good of the country!
The background to all of this is Labour’s standing with the electorate. I don’t know why there are no poll forecasts this time, but the initial official poll results seem to show some sort of Labour meltdown.
Labour would of course have taken their own polls. These must have shown that the Labour vote was collapsing which is why people are panicking. The government ministers who have resigned over the last few days have done so presumably because these poll results have been so poor!
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Posted by michael on June 4, 2009
Well, well, well! The honourable members of the New Labour party are behaving very much like the Old Labour party. Perhaps that little word ‘New’ was only added to to make Labour acceptable to more voters – the same people, the same politics but a different image!
Looks like a plan, a well worked out plan, by the colleagues of the Prime Minister to turf him out.
So will that mean that another, un-elected leader of Labour is going to appear and run the country without a mandate!
I don’t think that the UK electorate would stand for that. They will want an election not a new leader.
Who says politics is boring? How can people not be interested in on-going collapse of New Labour?
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Posted by michael on June 3, 2009
One wonders whether Brown’s cheesy grins are in direct proportion to the desperation he feels!
I have never seen him try to smile so much!!
There is this continual clash between Brown and Cameron with the PM insisting that Cameron announces Conservative policies for the UK; as though the leader of the opposition is in a position to implement their policies!
Brown appears to believe that he can pursuade people that Cameron’s silence mean that he has no policies. But most people would acknowledge that the Conservative policies, of which I am sure they would have spent a lot of time on, are not relevant simply because the Conservatives are not in power yet.
Invoking a discussion about the Conservatives policies during PMQs would take the pressure off Brown and the disasterous state of the UK economy.
So Cameron is right to stay quiet and keep the focus on Brown and the collapse of the UK economy after 12 years of New Labour.
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