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Posted by michael on June 11, 2010
There can no longer be any doubt that the New Labour government of Brown and Blair has been the worst government that the UK has had in modern times.
Governments are supposed to serve the people, but New Labour do not seem to have considered the needs of the people at all!!
Almost everything they have done whilst in power is about them. Even though the UK had run out of money because of the ruinous policies of New Labour, government ministers still went on a spending spree after they knew that they were going to be thrown out of government!
How could any minister sanction spending sprees at the end of their term in government when they knew how bad the debt situation was.
I would like to see an investigation into what happened in the last few months of the New Labour government. One reason why this is necessary is that several of these Labour ministers are trying to elected as the new Labour leader. We should know now whether they are fit and competent people to potentially be in government again!
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Posted by michael on June 7, 2010
There are still Labour supporters saying that we must maintain the same level of spending on public services!!
These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.
All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK.
Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements. Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible!
How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering! It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)
Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!
There are even Labour supporters still saying that we must maintain the same level of spending on public services!!
These dinosaurs of economic thinking do not seem to understand that the UK simply does not have the money any more to spend on these high levels of public sector jobs and services.
All public sector jobs are paid for through the taxes of everyone in the UK. Both Darling and ‘call me prudent Brown’ simply borrowed the money to pay for their public sector improvements.
Anyone who thinks that this practice could go on and on is not being sensible! How Labour thought that they could get away with it is staggering!
It was always going to end in a financial crash and/or the IMF coming in to run the economy (as has happened before with Labour in power!)
Labour, new or otherwise, have shown themselves to be unfit for government, especially whilst they have ministers from the Brown government in the Labour party!
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Posted by michael on June 7, 2010
The Bhopal disaster in 1984 occurred when a chemical plant producing pesticides exploded. The plant was in a populated area and up to 15000 people died in the first few weeks as a result of being exposed to the pesticides.
Many more have died since. Even now, 25 years later, there are many children still being born with birth defects every year.
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Posted by michael on June 4, 2010
One thing that happens in this world is that hypocrisy is exposed for all to see!
The BP oil leak clearly fits into this category. It does look like BP may have finally got some control over the leak. It is not certain that the cap will seal the leak but it seems to have a good chance of working. It is of course a temporary measure and will allow time for the relief wells to by completed which is the permanent fix.
But the politics is interesting. Obama is getting a bad press on this issue. The American public is rightly very upset with the environmental disaster in their midst.
But I do accuse Obama and the American government and the American press of pure hypocrisy!! Remember the Union Carbide gas leak in Mumbai in India in 1984?
The release of this gas killed 5,000 people that night and 15,000 more in the following few weeks!
This site has still not been cleared up after 23 years, and there are many children still being born with birth defects every year.
It would be good if this environmental disaster in America reminded the American public and Government that they have not yet dealt with the plight of thousands in Mumbai.
The Americans don’t like what has happened to them! Yet they don’t seem to care what an American company did in Mumbai! It seems to be a case of ‘Hypocrisy Rules!‘.
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Posted by michael on May 17, 2010
We are beginning to get the true state of the UK economy revealed to us. What is being revealed in the public domain shows that the Labour government have been misleading us on the true state of the UK economy.
Can anybody really now doubt that Gordon Brown has been the worst Prime Minister that the UK has had in modern times? Yet Gordon Brown has a reputation for ‘economic prudence’ and competence as the chancellor and then the unelected Prime Minister.
How did he manage to fool so many people for so long? The awful financial state of the UK economy did not happen overnight or suddenly occur in the last few months!
During the election campaign New Labour and Brown campaigned on the basis of Brown’s prudence and reputation in managing the economy!!!
Nearly all of us are going to go through difficult times with our finances and with cuts in services because of the lousy New Labour government that we have had for the last 14 years!
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Posted by michael on May 17, 2010
I have banged on and on about the state of the UK economy and the financial problems ahead for all of the taxpayers (in particular) and those needing health services etc.
The new government have now had a chance to look at the UK accounts. We are getting hints as to what they are finding!
Cameron said on Sunday that that an audit of the government’s books had already found some “crazy” spending decisions!
Unfortunately these hints all point to a very bad time for the people of the UK.
A BBC report includes the following quotes:
Mr Osborne said Labour’s economic forecasts had mostly been wrong and “almost always in the wrong direction“.
Liberal Democrat David Laws, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the task ahead was “colossal” and that Labour had left the public finances in an “unacceptable” state.
Mr Laws said his predecessor, Liam Byrne, had left him a letter saying simply: “ Dear chief secretary, There’s no money left. “
So what can we make of this? Our level of borrowing is massive. Huge amounts of debt is not even counted as UK debt, because it has been included in the PFI debt levels. This includes the money borrowed to pay for the schools and hospitals. Other debts, also not included in the national debt, include the modernising of the UK trains.
Can the UK afford to repay all this debt when the UK is in such a financial mess? If not we could go the way of Greece!
Yet some of these same New Labour MPs are vying for the leadership of the Labour party!
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Posted by michael on May 16, 2010
It is my view that none of the ministers from the last failed Labour government are fit to be the leader of the Labour party!
They are all responsible for being part of what has probably been the worst Labour government of modern times.
Brown and Darling will take more of the blame and responsibility by virtue of their positions in the government.
But all the senior ministers have been part of a government which has almost bankrupted the UK, taken us to unnecessary wars and brought our economy to its knees.
What short memories they have!!
How can any of these people have any credibility with any financial policies that they may want to promote.
They are all already tainted with a message of financial failure and will carry this message of failure for the rest of their lives!
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Posted by michael on May 12, 2010
Labour won’t want to come back into power until the massive mess that they have made of our economy has been resolved.
Brown, Darling and New Labour have hidden exactly how bad the economic mess is that they have dumped on us!
But we will all know soon the state of our economy. We are going to have to pay increased taxes, have reduced services and the costs of everything is going to have to go up and up and up!
The term ‘New Labour’ will become a derisory phrase amongst our population as people remember every time they pay a bill, or buy something, or get a utility bill etc. that thanks to ‘New Labour’, they are having to pay more money out whilst receiving less income and/or less benefits. An age of austerity beckons thanks to New Labour!
I don’t think that New Labour will dare go for an election until the financial mess is all sorted out and the people are feeling comfortable with their lives.
So that could be as much as 10 years in the wilderness for New Labour!
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Posted by michael on May 12, 2010
We effectively have a coalition government now.
It means that the two parties need to make some compromises of their policies to avoid friction. But that happens anyway within a single government!!
The Conservatives have a left and a right wing which have to work together.
New Labour have Blairites and Brownites who have to work together!
So the idea of rifts and splits with the government is no more than happens in every government!
But I also see this as an equivalent to the war-time coalition government of 1945. We have serious financial problems with the UK close to bankruptcy and the risk of the IMF coming in to run the UK.
So, excluding Labour because they caused the problems by a lack of thrift and what I see as the worst government and the worst prime minister in modern times, the coalition of the Conservatives and the Libdems will be more than competent in resolving the financial mess inherited from Brown!
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Posted by michael on May 12, 2010
I have NO sympathy with Brown and how he is going to cope now he has given up politics. Brown has left an awful mess for us all to suffer and pay for over the years to come.
Brown is not going to struggle to pay his bills but the consequences of his term in power is that millions of people are going be in financial difficulties with extra taxes, extra charges, unemployment and a lower standard of living.
The population of the UK are going to change their views of Brown, Blair and New Labour once the consequences of this failed government start to effect them.
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