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Labour or New Labour, UK political party
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 14, 2010
I would like to see an official investigation into what Brown, Darling and Labour were telling us about the UK economy.
The UK economy is in a very poor state yet if one had believed the last Labour government then everything was really OK. Brown emphasised his ‘prudence’ in dealing with the economy.
Yet we now find that the debts are more than anyone imaged, and the UK growth figures have been exaggerated.
Although Labour lost many seats, their share of the vote was higher than expected.
I do wonder how many people were misled by Labour emphasising that prudent Brown has the economy in control!! I know of some people who voted for Labour because Brown was seen as more competent to look after the economy.
Of course these people now know that Brown did not have the economy under control. They now know how much in debt Labour have plunged the UK into.
As far as I am concerned there should be very few people who will ever be able to trust a Labour government again!
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Posted by michael on June 11, 2010
There can no longer be any doubt that the New Labour government of Brown and Blair has been the worst government that the UK has had in modern times.
Governments are supposed to serve the people, but New Labour do not seem to have considered the needs of the people at all!!
Almost everything they have done whilst in power is about them. Even though the UK had run out of money because of the ruinous policies of New Labour, government ministers still went on a spending spree after they knew that they were going to be thrown out of government!
How could any minister sanction spending sprees at the end of their term in government when they knew how bad the debt situation was.
I would like to see an investigation into what happened in the last few months of the New Labour government. One reason why this is necessary is that several of these Labour ministers are trying to elected as the new Labour leader. We should know now whether they are fit and competent people to potentially be in government again!
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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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Posted by michael on May 17, 2010
We are beginning to get the true state of the UK economy revealed to us. What is being revealed in the public domain shows that the Labour government have been misleading us on the true state of the UK economy.
Can anybody really now doubt that Gordon Brown has been the worst Prime Minister that the UK has had in modern times? Yet Gordon Brown has a reputation for ‘economic prudence’ and competence as the chancellor and then the unelected Prime Minister.
How did he manage to fool so many people for so long? The awful financial state of the UK economy did not happen overnight or suddenly occur in the last few months!
During the election campaign New Labour and Brown campaigned on the basis of Brown’s prudence and reputation in managing the economy!!!
Nearly all of us are going to go through difficult times with our finances and with cuts in services because of the lousy New Labour government that we have had for the last 14 years!
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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 11, 2010
At last, I have waited a long time for this!
One thing for sure, I was not wrong about my not wanting a Labour government over the last 14 years! It was always going to be a disaster, the only difference this time is that it has taken longer than normal for New Labour to collapse!
I have always known that this government would end in a financial crisis with serious consequences for the people, because that is what Labour governments do!
Our debt levels are massive. People will be very shocked when they see the extent of our indebtedness and the consequences that it will have on them.
Brown kept us ignorant of the state of the economy during the election period. Why? If there was any good news about our economy don’t you think that it would be exploited during the election campaign?
This policy prevented the opposition to give us their detailed plans, but it also hid the state of the UK economy during the election!
I trust that the Conservatives will give us a full statement about the economy as soon as possible, because they won’t want to be blamed for the huge debts that Brown has incurred in our name! But it is a balancing act because it could unsettle the financial markets.
Cameron will find it difficult increasing taxes and raising extra money from us all unless people understand that this is needed to repay debts incurred by Brown and New Labour!
Yes we have more new schools and hospitals now. But the country needs to know if we have actually paid for them already or are we going to have to pay for them out of increased taxes for years to come in the future?
Blair and Brown took over running the country 14 years ago. They started with the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the last Conservative government. Until the Credit Crunch (Oh why did Brown change the banking regulations which resulted in us suffering so much from the Credit Crunch!!!) the UK was doing well.
Since the Credit Crunch all this government seem to have done is to increase our indebtedness, even to the extent of giving money away to other countries!
We now seem to have a Conservative government about to take over. They have to deal with a real mess. We will suffer financial pain as a result. But don’t blame the Conservatives who are sorting it out. Blame the Blair, Brown and Darling for their inept management of the economy which has dumped us with all this debt!
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Posted by michael on May 11, 2010
The LibDem leader Clegg and many of the MPs in the party are coming over as greedy and grasping men and women. Who could trust these people if they actually manipulated their way into power?
The people of the UK have recently rebelled about dishonest and manipulative MPs. People now expect honesty and integrity from the political parties. They are not getting this from the actions of Clegg and New Labour!
The Libdems are acting in the ‘old’ way of politics that the people of the UK have rejected. It seems to me that their greed will be their undoing.
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Posted by michael on May 10, 2010
It appears that Gordon Brown, our unelected leader, is going to impose a change of our voting system without a referendum. In other words Brown appears to be so desperate to remain in power that he is giving away our civil rights to enforce a change of the electoral system on the people of the UK.
I don’t believe Brown has any real intention to resign because he always qualified the statements about resigning. Brown, an unelected leader himself, is making our democracy look like it came from North Korea or Iran!
Even Labour supporters should be worried about the total disregard of our civil rights. Will the people of the UK be allowed to protest in the streets about the removal of our civil rights?
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Posted by michael on May 10, 2010
One thing I have learnt overt he last 14 years is to listen properly to what Gordon Brown and other Labour leaders say!
It sounded like Brown said that he was going to resign, but he qualified the statement every time he said it.
Brown said clearly two things:
1. Brown will stay to sort out the new government
2. He also said that he would stay to sort out the economic mess. Now this alone could take 10 years!!
The next Labour conference is in September I believe. There is no way that the financial mess that the UK is in could be sorted out by then so there is no way the Brown would resign at that time!
Labour don’t seem to like have elected leaders! Do they really believe that none of the potential leaders are good enough to be selected by the UK voters? It is beginning to look like they are either scared of elections or have a total contempt for them!
The UK economy is in a terrible mess. Is Brown desperate to prevent other people from seeing the UK Books? Are they possibly so bad that Brown will do anything he can to stay in power!
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