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Posted by michael on April 30, 2010
The Bank of England Governor Mervyn King is absolutely right. The UK financial mess is huge.
Labour have cynically hidden the true state of the UK’s finances from us during the election campaign.
They are desperate to get back into power so that they can keep the pretence going that that Labour are capable of running the UK economy!
But the huge financial mess that we are in is the best reason of all to dump this lousy government and replace it with a Conservative government.
I would then like to see Cameron going public with the full state of the UK finances. Then we would all know how big the problem (challenge) is for Cameron to deal with.
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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 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
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has blamed the three parties for failing to ‘come clean’ over the massive scale of spending cuts required to get us out of the financial mess the UK is in.
But the IFS needs to allow for the fact that Brown is refusing to share the UK national statistics showing what a bad state the UK is in.
This means the that the opposition parties cannot make firm plans because Labour are hiding the true state of the UK economy from them!
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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 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 26, 2010
So Gordon Brown wants us to concentrate on policy does he?
Does Brown have any policies? All he does at the moment is to tell us to ignore the complete mess of the UK economy and to vote for him because he can fix it.
This is not a strong argument!
If Brown and New Labour could fix the financial problems then why are they not doing this now!
Brown and New Labour caused the credit crunch and all the resulting financial mess.
Brown and New Labour are good at making financial messes. I do not believe for a moment that they are capable of fixing the problems that they have caused!
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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 24, 2010
Of course Brown knew about this shameful manipulation of the elderly and the vulnerable by Labour campaigning.
When Cameron challenged him on TV, Brown simply did not deny it. His words were carefully chosen to give the impression of denial but he did not answer well enough.
Brown simply did not deny knowing about this smear campaign. He could have said many things such as ‘I did not know about this’, ‘I am not aware of this’ etc.
Instead Brown said ‘I did not authorise it‘. In anybodies language that was an admission that he knew what was going on.
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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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