We had 14 years of Labour that ruined the economy of the UK  but memories are so short that mostly the same Labour shadow cabinet that almost bankrupted the UK economy is now seen as capable of making everything OK again.

Why?? It doesn’t make any sense! The last Conservative government before Blair and the ruinous 14 years of Labour, worked wonders with the UK economy.

Blair came into power with the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the Conservatives and kept the same economic policies as the Conservatives had for nearly 5 years.

Why? Because they worked!! Then their socialist instincts took over and they started their ruinous spending spree and when they ran out of cash they started to borrow.

That is why the UK economy is in the appalling state that it is!

The Conservatives are getting attacked because they have the task of cleaning up Labour’s mess. People may not like some of the actions that they have taken but that is no reason to go back to having Labour in power. We know that they will fail. We know that they will sign us up into the Euro.

The UK has a fair chance of ending up in a serious recession just because of the appalling way in which Labour ran our economy for many years. To bring Labour back into power would, in my view, guarantee the UK going into recession.

We might not be well off as a country now but if we end up with an economy being controlled by the IMF then people really will suffer. Just look at what Greece and Ireland are going through!!!

It is a fallacy to believe that ‘soaking the rich’ would make any real difference at all. Again a consequence of 14 years of a Labour government, the rich are able to move money abroad, be paid abroad and manipulate their finances to legally minimize tax.

These financial dealings that benefit the rich have gone too far! People do object strongly to what is simply legal tax avoidance. It is not right that the rich can benefit in this way. There have always been ways for companies and the rich to minimize tax. But this ‘legal’ tax avoidance has gone too far. But, again, the huge increase in people avoiding tax legally, is a consequence of the 14 years of Labour in power!

It didn’t become a problem just because the Conservatives became the government!

I would like to see all the cabinet and the shadow cabinet come clean about any tax avoidance schemes that they are using to minimize their tax payments to the UK.

I would like to see the Trade Union bosses doing the same. After all they ‘own’ the Labour government and have given themselves massive pay rises recently and various benefits. They strongly influence UK politics and it would be interesting to see how much of their members donations are spent on perks and  politics.

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?

I believe that it will be the end of the Olympic movement if it is allowed to continue.

What value will the Olympics have if those wining the events have built up their bodies using various illegal drugs?

There is no point in decent and honest sportsmen and women going through the immense effort in training just to be somewhere down the finishing order in their events.

The cheats who have taken the drugs now have developed  bodies using these drugs and will win their events. They may not need to take any more drugs now they have enhanced their bodies for sports events.

The only people who will now bother to go through the effort of training will be those who are prepared to build up their bodies using illegal drugs.

This may be the last Olympics, unless a way is found to ban drug cheats from participating. Yes, athletes can make mistakes and take banned substances by accident. But the professional cheats take performance enhancing drugs deliberately and these people need to be banned from all amateur sporting events for life! Or at least as long as their bodies are enhanced by the drugs that they take!

In the future Professional sports will be the province of those who have taken performance enhancing drugs! There is no place for the Olympics in the world of professional sports!

Yet Milliband is unable to capitalize on it.

The real problem that Milliband has is that Labour actually caused the financial problems that the UK is suffering from!!

So everytime Milliband, or any Labour MP, stands up to loudly criticize Cameron and the Conservatives, they are actually criticizing themselves and the inept Labour government which was last in power and which had left the UK economy in such a total mess!

Nice of them to continually remind people that it was Labour who brought us the bad times!!!  

I don’t know how many of the Labour shadow cabinet will actually be with us in these ‘tough times’. I thought that most of them were millionaires or married to millionaires!!!!!!

And of course most of the Trade Union leaders (who own the Labour party) seem to be very, very well off themselves.

The facts are that these millionaires are using these ‘charitable’ donations to significantly reduce the amount of tax that they are paying.

The charities are gaining money that they would not otherwise have but the people of the UK are losing out because the amount of tax being collected is reduced.

It must be cheaper to collect the full tax due to these millionaires and pay a percentage out to the charities!

At the moment we, the public, are all paying those donations because we have to pay more tax!

I don’t think that it is right that charities are complaining about UK millionaires being forced to pay full taxation.

Mostly everyone else in the UK has to pay what is due without any fancy book keeping to reduce the amount due!

Yes the charities gain BUT we all lose – except these millionaires who gain more .

Germany  would have appear to have decided to close existing nuclear plants and not to build any more.

That would seem to limit their electricity generation from renewable energy resources and fossil fuels. Greenpeace have welcomed the withdrawal of EON and RWE  from the nuclear power station projects in Germany.

But can the UK rely on renewables to meet the demand for electricity at any one moment of time?  The answer would seem to be ‘no’. If the wind is not blowing strongly then the wind turbines are not producing electricity, or at least, only producing a limited amount.

If we cannot have a reliable, continuous supply of electricity that meets the public demand at all times from renewable resources then another supply of electricity must be able to maintain the total demand for power. Or we need to reduce our dependency on electricity!

Renewable energy sources and  fossil fuel power stations could meet this demand. But we should be reducing our dependency on burning fossil fuels! There are serious pollution issues with burning fossil fuels!

Personally I don’t thing that we should be burning fossil fuels in power stations  - they are required as a chemical resource for future generations apart from pollution considerations.

If we have to import larger amounts of coal, oil or gas supplies then we will become dependant on other countries and their political systems to meet our power requirements. This does not seem a sensible position for our government to get us into!

Nuclear power stations are, in my view,  an essential part of the UK energy plans.

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.

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!!

(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?