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Posted by michael on September 13, 2011
It looks like Milliband is finally acknowledging the tremendous done to the UK economy by the 14 years of the last Labour government!
Milliband is right. We cannot afford pay increases and new hospitals and schools etc.
I think that it is shameful that the trade unions are calling for strikes and militant activity in order to get more money for themselves! It was Labour, who are OWNED by the trade unions, who messed up our country.
If the trade unions want fairness then everyone who voted Labour in the last election should have a pay cut!!!
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Posted by michael on September 5, 2011
I never understood why the Labour government took 15,000 trained and qualified police off the work of policing our streets and giving them desk jobs!
They seemed to then employ more people to become police and spent loads of our money training them.
Surely it would seem to have been more sensible to have left the trained police doing their job, which is policing, and trained the newcomers to be admin staff.
It would certainly have been cheaper!!!
But I never understood why Labour did much of what they did. I thought that their policies were mostly rubbish then, and since Labour were chucked out of power it has become obvious that I was right!!
I would guess that this is why Cameron can claim to be able to reduce police staffing and still have more police on the streets (and hopefully fewer trained police in admin roles!).
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Posted by michael on August 1, 2011
Those people who are due to retire are beginning to realize that the pensions that they have paid for over the years are not going to be enough to live on!
I just hope that they remember why our pensions are going to be so poor for years to come.
Gordon Brown and Labour introduced a tax on pensions which has significantly reduced the values of our pensions.
Why did he do this? Was it just a deliberate political attack on the middle classes?
But he knew what he was doing and he knew the consequences for peoples pensions! People are beginning to realize now that they are going to have problems when they retire. Many will have to work for longer.
The damage that Labour did to our economy will have ramifications for all of us for years to come!
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Posted by michael on July 4, 2011
Ed Milliband is apparently wondering where Labour go from here!
It is clear from events over the last 40 years that Labour stands for one thing only. That is the desire/need to spend all the UK’s money and to tax us all significantly more simply because Labour needs to keep spending!
This urge to SPEND is at the heart of Labour. Just look at history!
Either the IMF come in to fix the economy following a Labour government OR the Conservatives have to sort out the UK economy which a subsequent Labour government simply bankrupts again!
People might not mind this inbuilt desire for Labour to bankrupt us every time they are in power IF we got some long term benefits from it. But we don’t!!
In fact we are nearly always left far worse off financially following a Labour government!
Note to Ed Milliband: The problem that you have is that Labour almost bankrupted the UK last time in power and it will be difficult to exceed this achievement when you next get into power.
But I am sure that the next Labour government will find a way!!!
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Posted by michael on June 25, 2011
I abhor the very idea of the European Union and that we should pay for another countries incompetence in running their own economy! The Greeks appear to have totally mismanaged their economy and deserve what they are going through! But I am also aware that the UK economy is also in a perilous state following 10 years of a Labour government. If our economy collapses as has happened in Greece, would the rest of the EU refuse to help us financially on the basis that it was self-inflicted damage by Brown, Darling and the last Labour government?
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Posted by michael on June 22, 2011
The unions and the Labour party need to learn the financial lessons that Greece is now going through! Labour totally messed up the UK economy in their time in power!!
Yet the unions, who own labour, want to have their cake and eat it!!
The unions striking for more money and less cuts is so, so cynical. The Labour party caused the financial problems in the UK yet they don’t want any consequences of their own actions to affect themselves and their members.
The trade union members did not cause the problems BUT they voted for the people who did! The cuts have to be made or the UK will go the way of Greece. Doesn’t anyone in Labour remember the consequences of the IMF running the UK after a previous Labour government bankrupted the UK economy?
I hate this greedy, selfish attitude of the trade unions. As long as they are OK it doesn’t matter what happens to anyone else!!!
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Posted by michael on May 8, 2011
I suspect that almost all of those people attacking Clegg and the Libdems are Socialists trying to break the coalition.
The fact that the coalition is trying to stop the UK going completely belly up because of the disastrous failed policies of Blair and Brown and the last Labour government is of no consequence to these people.
Most of the UK population (except perhaps Scotland) should support the coalition and hope that it succeeds in bringing prosperity back to the UK.
But these socialists won’t do that. They would rather see a bankrupt UK than the coalition succeeding.
Anyone who wants a prosperous UK should be ignoring these extremists and supporting any party that is working to bring the UK back to a sound financial footing!
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Posted by michael on May 6, 2011
It is quite amusing to see all these people complaining about libdems breaking their promises. They know that these pledges were given as part of the Libdems election campaign.
These complainers know that these pledges cannot be implemented unless the Libdems are elected.
I would guess that most of these people are Labour supporters trying to break the coalition, or they really do not understand the political facts of life!
The UK owes the LibDems a favour for keeping Labour out of power. Just look at the immense damage that Labour did under Blair and Brown.
Most of the Labour ministers are the same ones who were in the last government. Could anyone actually trust Labour not to complete the job and actually bankrupt the UK if they got back into power?
I wouldn’t!
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Posted by michael on May 6, 2011
It is a shame really. I have never been a libdem supporter but they are currently taking the blame for the awful government that we have had for the last 14 years.
Labour have done so much damage to the UK economy, the consequences will be with us for many years.
The Labour party, with the support of the media, are not being punished by the electorate for the almost bankrupted UK economy and the massive debt levels that they left us all with.
Instead, Labour have managed to deflect the anger that the UK people feel about the financial difficulties we are in against the Libdems.
Yes, they are a soft target and did not really stand up against the efforts of Labour to damage them.
But Labour are the party that should be taking the electorates wrath.
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Posted by michael on April 22, 2011
The Libdems will get their missing supporters back – as long as they stick to putting the UK economy FIRST before their own interests as a party.
They are taking most of the flak from the socialists and the press who see them as a soft target, and a possible way to break the coalition.
Most of the attacks are at a personal level, which means that the opposition to the coalition have no genuine arguments to make!
The socialists still don’t understand that they are the ones who almost bankrupted the UK economy through inept policies and a lemming-like compulsion to borrow, borrow and borrow money until the whole country was in deep doodoo!
We are all suffering from the consequences of the last Labour government, and this will impact our lives for quite a few years to come.
Thanks Gordon!
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