Archive for the ‘Trade Unions’ Category
Posted by michael on May 3, 2012
The Bank of England governor says that they should have done more to prevent the economic policies of the last Labour government from bring the UK economy to its knees!
Unfortunately we also had an economic illiterate government which appeared to have little understanding of how to run a country.
How any government could believed that simply spending money and incurring such massive debts was actually a credible economic policy is beyond me.
Labour must have had so many warnings from the civil servants and the government advisers and completely ignored them all.
In my view their actions bordered on criminal negligence!
Yet the majority of the labour ministers are now in the shadow cabinet and are actively campaigning against the economic measures required to sort out the mess the UK economy is in.
Does Labour like the idea that most people in the UK are suffering from the economic policies required to sort out their mess? Or are they so controlled by the unions, who after all own the Labour party, that they are not allowed to approve of financial policies that are designed to fix the UK economy abut but would reduce the standards of living for the union members?
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Posted by michael on April 1, 2012
Milliband claims that Labour will be back in power in 2015?
Last week they couldn’t even hold one of their strongest constituencies!
The polls might show that Labour is ahead but it is because the Coalition government has to make really difficult economic decisions as a result of the total mess that Labour made of the UK economy in their 14 years of power.
In 2015 we will still be paying back the debts dumped on us by Labour in power. No one will trust Labour and anything they say about economic policies.
The financial pain caused by Labour’s inept policies will still be hurting the voters.
Perhaps dumping every Labour minister who held power in the last government would be a prudent move to make now if Labour want to try to get back into power!
Of course we should by then have broken the links between the Labour party and the Trade Unions. That could give Labour a big funding problem as so much of their money came from the Trade Unions.
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Posted by michael on March 31, 2012
The word ‘pensioner’ does not define people as being poor or in need. There are rich pensioners out there just as there are rich people.
Most people seem happy to ‘soak the rich’ but don’t understand the concept of a ‘rich pensioner’.
If people are very well off then they should be taxed a little bit more to help those who are NOT well off.
The big issue (not the magazine!) is that most rich people have arranged their finances in a way that is (a) legal and (b) means that they pay little or no tax.
Reducing the tax rates for the rich should mean that they will find it cheaper to pay more tax than to pay for legal tax avoidance schemes.
The evidence does seem to be that the lower the taxes are on the rich then the more money is collected in tax for the benefit of those less well off in the UK.
But most of the attacks on the Conservatives seem to be politically motivated by people who are not really interested in the poor, just interested in getting back into power!!
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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 March 29, 2012
It is shameful that Milliband is not commenting on the potential fuel strike.
I think it is because he cannot dare oppose them because they own the Labour party!
It really does show the need for all political parties to be totally independent with regard to funding.
The trade Unions supply most of Labours funding and as a consequence Milliband cannot put the interests of the country before the interests of the Trade Unionists!
He can pay lip service towards his position as an independent political party but that is all!
Posted in economy, labour, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: labour, membership, trade union | 3 Comments »
Posted by michael on March 25, 2012
There is no big deal in this!!
All the parties fund raise for money for their party.
Milliband has just had a very large donation and a ride in a roller to watch a football game as a guest to a person who donated the money to Labour.
What about Blair and ‘cash for honours’??? Now that really was a scandal in my view!
The emphasis of this recorded meeting was that it was seeing Cameron as the party leader not as the Prime Minister.
In Labour’s case the Trade Unions own the Labour party – a link that really should be broken if we really want to clean up politics in this country!
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Posted by michael on March 10, 2012
I don’t really have a problem with the amount of payments and bonuses people receive for doing their job.
The shareholders are the ones who approve such salaries and bonuses.
If people want to object then buy shares and turn up and vote!
That is the right thing to do in a democracy. If people are NOT in a democracy and complain about the leaders salary they would probably get jailed or shot! – our system is better!
But what is really important and really fair, is that all salaries and bonus payments are subject to tax in the UK without any tax saving schemes (legal or otherwise) being used to minimise the tax being paid!
Ordinary workers cannot take advantage of these schemes and big company bosses should not be allowed to either!
And those who complain about these fat cat salaries and benefits, just remember that some of the trade union leaders are doing just the same as the bankers!
Posted in Blogroll, economy, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: banker, bonus, fat cat, fat cat salaries, salaries, salary | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on November 30, 2011
Trade Unionists are selfish and greedy people.
The trade unions own the Labour party! It was Labour that destroyed the UK economy and put us all in a mess.
Yet the trade unions members (those that are taking industrial action) are too selfish to suffer the consequences of Labour’s incompetence in government!
They want more money and bigger pensions when the country cannot afford to pay them.
Perhaps we should link people’s pensions and pay to the way that they vote at a general election!!
Posted in Blogroll, national health service, nhs, recession, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: government, greedy, selfish, trade, uk, union | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on November 12, 2011
Of course Cameron has to try to stop these abusive banks preying on their customers for the benefit of the bank bosses!!
But it isn’t easy to do.
I had to laugh at the idea of milliband painting himself as ‘the champion of the 99% who don’t get bonuses’!!! This whole greed of massive bonuses and massive salaries and pensions originated from the Blair/Brown governments.
Just look at the Trade Union officials and their pay and bonuses – hardly representing the working class! In fact the working class has been just that under Labour who have acted as most Socialist governments in the world have done – the rich (themselves) get richer and the poor get poorer!
Milliband can say whatever he wants – I see him as a caretaker Labour leader. When the next election is approaching then I expect him to be dumped and be replaced.
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Posted by michael on October 16, 2011
Some people are attacking the current government over the UK economy. They tend not to mention at all the huge mess that 14 years of Labour has caused the UK.
The trade unions are complaining about the UK economy. Strange that – they obviously expect people not to know the the Trade Unions own the Labour party and are therefore themselves responsible for the awful state of our economy!
Labour even took over with the ‘golden inheritance’ and Labour still spent all the money and left the UK population with massive debts to pay off!
Do people expect the current government to continue to spend money as the last lot did?
I am not well off! Should I keep borrowing and to hell with the consequences?
Should I cheat and steal from people who have got the things that I want? Should I try to con someone else out of their possessions?
Of course some people in the UK are well off. Best of luck to them. I hope they choose to spend their wealth to help others. But it would be wrong to make them do this!
Many people in the UK are suffering because of the actions of the last government. I just hope that we don’t go the way of Greece!!!
Posted in ConLib, Conservatives, debt, economy, labour, socialism, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: financial, government, money, recession | Leave a Comment »
