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Liberal Democrats – UK political party
Posted by michael on May 8, 2010
Of course the Liberals want electoral reform. They are a small political party without that much support in the UK.
They have a reasonable amount of support but not as much as the two main parties. So why do they want political power which exceeds the size of the party itself?
The political power is in the two larger parties and, strangely enough, there are many, many more citizens of the UK who are members and/or supporters of the two larger parties.
I am concerned that many people are now proclaiming the praises of the LibDems, just because they are comparing the TV performances of three individuals.
An idiot savant could stand up neatly dressed in front of a TV audience and say exactly the right things and come over as a pleasant human being and end up being elected to run the country. Is this what we want? To measure potential prime ministers by their abilities to perform on TV and to select them on that basis?
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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 April 28, 2010
Labour know the state of the UK economy. They have all the figures available BUT they are not releasing them to the public.
I can only think of one reason for them to do this and that is because the UK is in such a bad financial mess, obviously much worse than we can imagine!!
Otherwise there would be no need to conceal the details of the UK economy from us.
This is the first election I can remember when people do not seem to be bothered about the economic mess that the government of the day has left the UK in! They seem far more concerned about how well the candidates come over on TV!
I find this amazing. The next government could be in power for five years. What they do will effect people’s lives. Yet this election could be about nothing more than looking good on tv.
How dumbed down has the UK become in the last fourteen years?
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
So the LibDems want to change our Health service?
It looks like they want to break up the tax-funded Health Service and replace it with a social insurance system!!
I believe that means that those who can afford to pay get a better treatment.
So will there be different levels of service? Those with the least insurance have limited treatment, or at least not as good treatment, as those who can afford more.
The French healthcare system is funded by the working population.
Employees pay 20% of their gross salary, the self-employed pay more, all deducted at source.
Fancy being forced to pay 20% of your gross salary??
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Posted by michael on April 16, 2010
Clegg was allowed to talk non-stop during the discussion. I thought that there were rules on this. Be interesting to see the percentages of time that each leader was speaking.
So if he is seen by people as a viable leader then who will the libdems take the seats from?
It looks like Labour will lose more seats to Clegg than the Conservatives would because Libdems are strong in Labour’s inner city areas. Those Labour supporters laughing at Cameron should perhaps look at how the Libdems could put them in third place in the election results.
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Posted by michael on October 22, 2009
It seemed that Jack Straw came over worse than Mr. Griffin.
The overall view of the debate seemed to be that the immigration policy of this Labour government was responsible for many of the problems in society that have that led some people to support the BNP.
After 12 years of Labour almost one million people have voted in various elections for the BNP. If we carry on as we are that number will probably increase!
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Posted by michael on September 10, 2009
We should have a national debate on the scandal of local councils being able to use monetary fines to effectively enslave people to do as they are told.
There hasn’t even been a vote in Parliament for these rules which will have such an impact on our lives.
Perhaps we are seeing why we need our MPs to be focused on all these changes that are rapidly being foisted on us without our consent! They are worth five times their current salaries if they are able to stop some of the abuses that are being used to control us now.
New Labour sneak through too many law changes that seriously impact our lives without a national debate, and more importantly, without a vote.
Yes we need to bring in legislation to cover waste disposal, recycling, climate change etc.
But what is happening at the moment under this government is that our society is becoming like Iraq, North Korea and other countries where the government totally dominates the population through fear.
Please don’t tell me that £5000 fines under the fly tipping legislation is not using fear to control the people!!
It is an absolute disgrace that fly tipping laws are applied to the regular household bin collections. This is not what should happen in a free society. But Blair and Brown have shown over the years that we are not in a free, democratic society!
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Posted by michael on September 4, 2009
Some of the train companies have announced record increases in fares. The government took all the trouble to regulate peak fares to keep the cost of travelling by train down.
Peak fares which are linked to the inflation rate, and this has been coming down so peak fares have been falling as well.
What does not surprise me is that the government failed to link the off-peak fares to the inflation rate. Why didn’t they put this link in place? Did they even consider needing to regulate off-peak fares?
Or were they happy for off-peak fares to climb by as much as 143% !!!!
Incompetence? or planned? Either way most people are going to blame Brown and New Labour!
So, more cars on the roads now. More fuel burnt, more carbon and other poisonous fumes for us all to breathe in!!!
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Posted by michael on September 3, 2009
This is going to be a big subject over the next few years. The change in demographics, as a lot of people retire and become elderly, is going to have a big impact on social services and the NHS.
The NHS needs cuts, that is clear. It needs changes to the way it works as the demand for services for the elderly increases, let alone the financial problems of paying for the wide range of new drugs becoming available!
Gordon Brown is trying to pretend that the NHS will not have cuts in services. He is trying to get a political advantage over the Conservatives, who have a more realistic approach to the bankrupt, debt-ridden economy of the United Kingdom.
It would seem, in my view, that Brown thinks that the people who normally vote Labour are too stupid to know what is happening to the economy. I have even heard someone blaming Thatcher for the bankrupt state of the UK economy!!!
So Gordon Brown seem to expects that saying ‘the Conservatives will cut the NHS, we will not make cuts in the NHS’ is actually going to be believed by enough people to get him back into power!
So why has Gordon Brown invited consultants to come up with proposals for how savings could be made in the NHS? Or does he not equate the word ‘savings’ with the word ‘cuts’ (after all they are spelt differently!)
These consultants, and others it appears, were given terms of reference so they knew what they were supposed to do. This means that their proposals to cut 10% from the NHS workforce over the next 10 years would have met their terms of reference and that is what the Brown wanted them to do!
If Brown is that surprised by their report then they have not done their job properly and should be fired without receiving payment!
Gordon Brown is saying that the Conservatives are the ‘party of cuts’ and implies that New Labour are not. But the truth is that New Labour policies have brought the UK to it’s financial knees and even Brown cannot keep the NHS safe from significant cuts that will affect us all!
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Posted by michael on August 30, 2009
More staff cuts are being threatened by the banking system.
Yet these are the people whose actions were the root cause of the global financial recession! Of course their greed for profits was allowed by the Labour government who failed to regulate the financial industry properly. The fact that it was a global failure of regulation does not let Brown off the hook!
New Labour encouraged the banking system to absorb the failing banks. Why? I don’t really understand their reasons, they didn’t seem to be the right course of action at the time!
So the UK has ploughed billions into the banks to stop them from failing – we will all have to pay extra taxes for many years to come for this action.
But would the situation be better if the failing banks had been allowed to fail?
The assets of the failed banks could have been sold, this would have raised a lot of money.
Yes ,the staff would probably all have lost their jobs, but many of them are going to lose them anyway! All the banks are eventually going to dump staff, just to cut costs. The way that Brown has organised things we have paid billions to the banks to take over the failed banks. They have taken the money and are still going to get rid of lots of people in the interests of efficiencies.
The UK is going to pay twice for the staff of these failed banks.
http://itsmyview.me.uk/2009/02/26/failed-bank-costing-us-a-lot-of-money/
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