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UK Economy
Posted by michael on December 12, 2011
Cameron did the right for one reason and one reason only.
The Euro zone (not the EU itself) wanted to finance itself by taxing the UK financial industry!!! We are not in the Euro zone. It is inconceivable that this should be allowed to happen.
The UK needs to tax the UK financial industry for the benefit of the UK!!
The Euro zone is a major disaster waiting to happen. It is a stupid idea for so many diverse nations to have a single currency – it just cannot work anywhere except in the imaginations of politicians who want to benefit from the power (and money) that such an organisation would give them!
I find it sad that the Libdems have lost the plot so completely that they would give away the inevitable tax on the UK financial industry and not be bothered about the need for this money to help the UK economy!!!
The Lib Dems have a strange idea of what is in the best interests of the United Kingdom!
Posted in ConLib, Conservatives, Euopean Union, Europe, Lib Dems, UK Economy | Tagged: cameron, eu, euro, financial, libdem, tax, taxation, uk | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on December 10, 2011
So Cameron has not committed the UK to paying billions in order to keep the Euro zone from collapsing into obscurity! Much of the media in the UK has portrayed this as some sort of political disaster!
But the UK is not a member of the Euro zone.
Why on earth is it a problem that the UK is not giving £70 million (estimates vary) to the Eurozone to keep it going!!
It seems to me that the UK press simply reports the negative and potential problems of any story because this sort of news is more dramatic and sells mores papers!
Cameron has done the right thing. I think that Labour, judging from their actions whilst in power, would have given the Euro zone anything they asked for!
Posted in Conservatives, Euopean Union, Europe, socialism, UK Economy | Tagged: cameron, eu, media, news | 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 16, 2011
It doesn’t seem to me that it really matters if senior News International employees and owners actually knew the details of phone hacking.
They may or may not have demanded that no details were given to them, which would allow them to say that they did not know what was going on.
The real point, in my view, is that they are just as culpable if they knew and encouraged phone hacking as they would be if they allowed staff to keep them in the dark about phone hacking!
They must have read the stories in their own newspapers and, if they were doing their job properly, they must have wondered where these stories were coming from!
Surely they would at the very least want to know who the successful reporters who had obtained these news scoops were in order to congratulate them!
Perhaps they did not even bother to read their own newspapers!
In my view the fact that they appear to have kept a Chinese wall between themselves and their reporters seriously damages their claims to not know that something was wrong in the organisation!
Posted in Blogroll, newspapers, UK Economy | Tagged: hacking, news of the world, newspaper, phone | 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.
Posted in banks, Blogroll, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: abuse, bank, banker, bonus, cameron | Leave a Comment »
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 »
Posted by michael on October 14, 2011
It looks like the energy companies have caught the ‘bankers’ virus! I think that that these beasts should be ‘put down’ and a new structure should take its place.
Some of the energy companies practices are appalling.
The poorest and weakest in our society pay the highest prices for electricity and gas, despite the fact that this group includes many sick, elderly and vulnerable people.
In my view the only reason for electricity meters is to protect the energy companies from unpaid bills. But those people who need energy the most just to survive a cold winter, should not be paying the highest price.
The result is that they simply cannot afford to keep warm.
Check that your elderly relatives can afford to keep warm in a cold winter!!
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: electricity, gas, winter | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on October 5, 2011
People will have more money available by reducing the burden of debt. But I agree that it won’t be in the short term.
It all very well needing people to spend more to help the economy, but the banks will just keep increasing interest rates to benefit themselves!
There still won’t be much money for households to spend more!!
The best thing for the economy is for the banks to reduce interest rates! But there is no way that they will because they only care about their profits! Banks have become parasites on the consumers of our nation!
Posted in banks, credit crunch, debt, economy, UK Economy | Tagged: consumers, growth, uk | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on September 25, 2011
We really do need an inquiry into how much licence payers money is going into social engineering by the BBC.
They are in a position to influence many aspects of our society and they are making political and social changes that they believe in.
I don’t agree with many things that they have done recently with my, and others, licence fees. They should be forced to ask permission from the public before making changes. This could be done using polls.
I am not sure that I can actually trust their news broadcasts now!
How many items are being reported with a slant that suits the BBC or not broadcasted because they did not agree with what was to be broadcast?
Posted in Blogroll, labour, socialism, UK Economy | Tagged: bbc, social engineering | Leave a Comment »
Posted by michael on September 24, 2011
It would have been a lot better for us all if the last Labour government, which Milliband was a member of, had shown competence and ability in managing the UK economy!!!!
But they didn’t and we are all in a very difficult mess now, which can only become worse as time goes on!
Milliband has made the credibility of his leadership of the Labour party worse by bringing in many of the last failed government as shadow ministers.
Who can believe that they could succeed in the future when they have such a track record of failure already!
Posted in economy, Euopean Union, labour, Trade Unions, UK Economy | Tagged: competence, labour, milliband | Leave a Comment »
