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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Would the EU support the UK economy if required?
Posted by michael on June 25, 2011
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the credibility of FIFA is destroyed
Posted by michael on June 2, 2011
This is not a humiliation for England!!!
The English FA have stood up for what is right. FIFA has proved that it is little more than a secret, self-interest group with very little public accountability.
Rumours and accusations of corruption mar the credibility of FIFA. And the secrecy amongst the members is totally unacceptable for the international organisation managing the game of football throughout the world.
Blatter has conceded that some major changes need to be made, for example allowing all the members a vote on major decisions. But who knows whether this will actually happen!
In my view FIFA is not fit for purpose and needs root and branch reforms. It would be best to completely scrap FIFA and set up a new , democratic organisation to handle the game of football.
This gravy train must be derailed as soon as possible!
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the student riots are politically motivated
Posted by michael on December 12, 2010
All those against the Conservative government are still pushing this line that Clegg is ‘dishonest’ and breaks his pledges.
But it is blatantly obvious to everyone, except those with a separate agenda, that Clegg could NOT expect the Conservatives to adopt all the LibDem policies.
The Libdems are lucky to get ANY of their policies adopted – they could not get into power on their own!
But note that the leaders of these protests were at first all carrying socialist and trade union banners.
These are the people who started the protest and they are simply trying to attack the Conservative government by damaging the coalition.
Many of those well-intended students are politically naive and have been taken advantage of by the socialists.
Put the blame for this chaos where it really belongs, that is on the trade unions and Labour.
Posted in Blogroll, ConLib, Conservatives, credit crunch, economy, education, labour, Lib Dems, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »
Labour have no political direction or identity
Posted by michael on November 24, 2010
Labour have not had any political direction or identity since blair became their leader.
Blair got the country to vote for him on personalities not politics.Labour did not seem to have any idea of what to do once they were in power!
The result was that Labour almost ruined the UK economy and put the UK into serious debt.
We almost went the way of the Irish economy. The election came just in time for the Conservatives to halt the inevitable economic crash that Labour overspending would have caused!
The new Labour leadership are mostly the same bunch that almost destroyed the UK economy.
How can anyone ever expect them to behave differently in the future?
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the Labour leadership contest is a sham!
Posted by michael on September 13, 2010
It doesn’t matter which Milliband or which person wins the Labour leadership contest!
Almost all the candidates were personally part of the appalling government of blair and brown.
How can these people campaign against the ConLib government when they were part of the government that made such a financial mess our economy.
Every time they try to speak about the economy they will be reminded that they caused the problems in the first place!
It show the bankruptcy of the Labour party that there are no better candidates than those who are standing for the Labour leadership!
The Union leaders are promising demonstrations on our streets to protest against cuts. What a shame they allowed blair and brown to do so much damage to our economy in the first place.
The union leaders should now keep silent whilst the government works to sort the UK economy out!
Posted in Blogroll, ConLib, Conservatives, economy, Lib Dems, recession, tax, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Tagged: conservative, debt, economy, government, new labour, recession, UK Economy | Leave a Comment »
blair and his memoirs
Posted by michael on September 1, 2010
However clever Blair thinks that he is, the reality is that he came into power with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government, and once he had spent that, New Labour carried on spending driving the UK into more and more debt .
We are now in the worst debt situation in modern times, and the candidates for the Labour leader are mostly those who helped to put us into severe debt!
Are there any potential Labour leaders who could run the UK in a sensible, moderate way? I think not!!!!
Posted in Blogroll, election, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Tagged: borrowing, debt, labour, recession, tax increases, war | Leave a Comment »
The burka is a threat to our security
Posted by michael on July 18, 2010
This is a poor decision by the Conservative/lib Dems.
What is effectively being said is that Islamic women can protect their identity in the UK, wherever they are. People who are not of the Islamic faith are not allowed to do the same.
Hoodies are not allowed in shops but burkas are!
This is a ridiculous decision! This is not just opposition to a religious concept, it is an essential action whilst we are under the threat of attack by islamic extremists.
We have already had a hunted male extremist escape from the UK by wearing a burka.
We are giving the enemy a means to break through our security to attack us!
Is the UK really going to put our basic security at risk by allowing men or women in burkas to go unchallenged through our towns and cities and security lines?
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Labour stayed in power at the expense of the UK population
Posted by michael on June 23, 2010
Listening to Alistair Darling one would not realise that he had been the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a Labour government that brought the UK economy to its knees, leaving us all with massive debts for a generation!
Instead he talks as though knows what the current government should be doing!
I know what his record as Chancellor was. Spending money that the UK did not have! Borrowing more and more money to keep going!
They blamed the ‘global’ recession and ignored the fact that the UK suffered badly from the recession because Labour changed the way that the financial industry was regulated. The controls that would have prevented so much damage to the UK economy were no longer in place!
But my main criticism of the Brown/Darling Labour government is that they just kept borrowing money to keep the economy going.
It was clearly more important to them that they stayed in power even if it meant that the people of the UK were saddled with debts for the next twenty years!
They kept themselves in power at the expense of us all.
Subsequently I am not interested in the opinions of Darling, Brown or any of the Labour ministers on what the Conservatives and Lib Dems are doing!
In fact it would concern me if Brown or Darling agreed with the way the ConLib coalition were working to fix the UK economy from the consequences of 13 years of New Labour government!
Posted in Blogroll, ConLib, Conservatives, credit crunch, debt, economy, financial, labour, Lib Dems, recession, tax, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Tagged: borrowing, cost of living, david cameron, economy, gordon brown, new labour, recession, tax increases, UK Economy | Leave a Comment »
the Budget
Posted by michael on June 22, 2010
How could the Labour reply to the coalition budget not include any acknowledgement that their term in government was the cause of the budget that they are attacking?
Labour cannot claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did.
Labour don’t have a right to complain about the new government fixing the economic mess that Labour made when they were in power.
How could the Labour reply not include any acknowledgement that their term in government was the cause of the budget that they are attacking?
Labour cannot even claim that the crisis was caused by the banks system failures. If Labour had proper controls in place the banks would not have got into the mess that they did. Labour don’t have a right to complain about the new government fixing the economic mess that Labour made when they were in power.
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We have been misled by Labour over the UK economy
Posted by michael on June 14, 2010
I would like to see an official investigation into what Brown, Darling and Labour were telling us about the UK economy.
The UK economy is in a very poor state yet if one had believed the last Labour government then everything was really OK. Brown emphasised his ‘prudence’ in dealing with the economy.
Yet we now find that the debts are more than anyone imaged, and the UK growth figures have been exaggerated.
Although Labour lost many seats, their share of the vote was higher than expected.
I do wonder how many people were misled by Labour emphasising that prudent Brown has the economy in control!! I know of some people who voted for Labour because Brown was seen as more competent to look after the economy.
Of course these people now know that Brown did not have the economy under control. They now know how much in debt Labour have plunged the UK into.
As far as I am concerned there should be very few people who will ever be able to trust a Labour government again!
Posted in benefits, Blogroll, credit crunch, election, financial, labour, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Tagged: credit crunch, economy, gordon brown, government, labour, new labour, UK Economy | Leave a Comment »
