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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 5, 2010
It has been an interesting pre-election period.
I think that the Gordon Brown and New labour campaigning has been quite shameful and cynical.
The insistence of campaigning by scare tactics intended to worry the vulnerable and the elderly will be how history records the New Labour campaign.
There has been a lot of this negative campaigning from New Labour. Even Gordon Brown has been telling people what the Conservatives are going to do rather than being focused on what New Labour propose!
The Libdems have participated in the campaign much more than normal. There is still the risk that they will be squeezed out by the two main parties, except possibly in marginal seats where tactical voting would seem to be going to take place! It would be good if they replaced New Labour forever as the second party in the UK.
I believe that the UK is in a critical point in its history. The UK is so seriously in debt that we have to get this under control very fast. It is not just the published debt figures. Most of the new schools and hospitals have been built on debt that is accumulated in the Private Finance Initiate (PFI). The PFI debt includes a lot of debt from various sources and is not included in the UK official debt figures.
New Labour took the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government and turned it into a recession with the UK so saddled with debts that we will all be paying back the debts for many years to come.
We will all be taxed very heavily to screw more money out of us. We will all have to pay higher prices for everything we buy, including electricity and gas!
The UK is at risk of going the same way as Greece, with our debt getting junk status.
New Labour, that mostly means Gordon Brown, has caused the banking crisis (Brown took away controls on the banks which led to the credit crunch and recession) and has brought the UK to the brink of bankruptcy.
I haven’t even mentioned the wars in Iran and Afghanistan which we should not be involved in!
Labour have failed us, they do not deserve to be in power again.
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Posted by michael on April 30, 2010
It is being said that Blair has returned to help Gordon out.
The man who took us into several wars on very dubious, if not misleading, grounds, and we are still in Afghanistan taking causalities.
So how will Blair help Brown? He is just visiting, I wouldn’t have thought that Blair was going to give up all that money he was earning! He might give encouragement to a few wavering Labour supporters, but nothing has changed regarding the total mess that Brown, and Blair and Labour have made of the UK economy whilst in power.
Do we believe Tony Blair now when he tells us stuff? I don’t. Not since he told us that Iraq could bomb us in 40 minutes!
Blair and Brown – the team that removed the controls over the banks and allowed them to take the risks that led to the credit crunch and the bank failures.
All in all, the presence of Blair will remind us of so much negative stuff about Labour being in power and wars and debt and the near collapse of the UK economy, etc., that most people will not vote for Gordon!
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Posted by michael on March 24, 2010
Well, it didn’t take long for the budget figures to start to unravel!!!!! The Stamp Duty increase for £1m homes will not pay for first-time buyers’ tax holiday!
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!
Labour put their own interests before the needs of the UK. That is enough of a reason for them to be chucked out of office!
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Posted by michael on March 4, 2010
Not surprising that the financial markets cannot believe that the people who messed up the UK economy so badly would be the right people to fix the problems!!
Just changing the UK government (which means that this turgid bunch has gone) would go a long way to getting the UK back on a sound financial footing.
Gordon Brown and Blair started with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government over thirteen years ago. Their term in power has been a financial and social disaster for the UK. The actions of Blair taking us to an unnecessary war has cost the country billions and, more importantly, cost the lives of many of our military, plus up to a million Iraquis and Afghanis, many of them civilians.
It is a shameful chapter in the history of the world. The UK needs to get rid of every vestige of this ‘New’ Labour thinking. It has been a disaster.
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Posted by michael on March 1, 2010
I see all these comments like ‘If you want us to vote Tory then do …..’
Are these people seriously saying that they would rather vote for Brown and a failed Labour government that has almost brought the UK to it’s financial knees?
Would they really prefer to vote for the man who has given us such massive debts which they are going to be taxed on to repay over many years?
Or the PM who promised us a vote or the EU and FAILED to deliver, instead committing us to be run from Europe?
Or Brown as Chancellor who changed all the financial controls on the banks and consequently failed to see the recession coming!
Would they really want to vote for the PM who failed to make the decisive decisions about our energy policy and we will now face electricity cuts at peak periods for a couple of years?
And the government which deliberately ramped up immigration so that they could bring in people they would expect to vote for Labour?
Has all the money (or should I say debt) that has been spent on the NHS really improved more than a couple of high profile services?
What about the lack of money that means the police are asked not to arrest anybody near the end of their shift because it saves on overtime payments!
Then there is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Should we really be involved?? Were our troops really properly equipped?
You might not like Cameron but at least he is competent enough to do the job properly!!!
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Posted by michael on January 27, 2010
A lot of people accepted that the war was necessary because the Prime Minister of the UK said that it was necessary.
They were being misled by Blair, Brown and New Labour but that dues not mean that they were wrong to put the safety of the citizens of the UK as their first priority!
I have a problem with the Lib Dems voting against a war which we were told was necessary for the security and safety of the people of the UK.
If Blair was telling the truth about the need for war then the Lib Dems were not putting the security of the UK as their first priority!
The fact that Blair, Brown and New Labour were misleading us about the importance of war to defend our country, does not detract from the fact that the Liberal Democrats chose not to take steps to protect the UK from being targeted by Iraq.
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Posted by michael on January 25, 2010
The war in Iraq was a bad decision by blair and New Labour. It is quite clear that we should never have been involved in this war.
Blair talks about regime change. Yes, Iraq had an awful leader. But that was no justification for going to war against the people of Iraq!!
And why stop at Iraq?? There are plenty of other evil and unpleasant regimes around the world. Did blair intend to invade all of these countries as well? blair and new labour have messed up our country big time!
We now have to be on guard 24×7 against bombing and attacks on UK citizens around the world. This is the legacy of Blair, Brown and New Labour!
Brown has now been shown to have been fully involved in the decision to go to war.
Brown and New Labour do not deserve another term in government. They have done us all enough harm already!
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Posted by michael on December 15, 2009
I despair at some of the actions of this government!
They have announced new helicopters for Afghanistan, which of course is good. But they won’t be available until 2013!!!
I thought that by then our soldiers had pulled out leaving the ‘well trained’ Afghan soldiers to protect themselves from the Taliban!!
So the helicopters won’t be available until AFTER our soldiers come home – OR does brown know that they are going to be there for many years yet!
Has brown now admitted that when he repeatedly and consistently said that our soldiers had enough equipment and helicopters (remember the NATO troops were sharing helicopters) that he was WRONG!
Yet now brown and his ministers are claiming credit for spending money on ‘supporting’ our troops. It just seems so cynical. Perhaps there is an election due soon!
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Posted by michael on November 22, 2009
I do not understand how Blair the warmonger could ever have expected to have been the EU president. He had too much baggage as a result of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair didn’t join in with the Americans to attack Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein and his thug sons!! If that was justifiable then think how many other countries we would need to invade for the same reason!
As far as I am concerned Blair set out to con the British public by scaring them over the weapons of mass destruction! The most cynical step was putting tanks on the streets and at the airports!
We did not have a terrorist problem until Blair and Bush went to war against Iraq. This was a significant point in the history of the world and there are many consequences, mostly bad, that have stemmed directly from the actions of Blair and Bush.
History will not see these two leaders in a positive light.
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