Archive for the ‘war’ Category
Posted by michael on March 4, 2010
Not surprising that the financial markets cannot believe that the people who messed up the UK economy so badly would be the right people to fix the problems!!
Just changing the UK government (which means that this turgid bunch has gone) would go a long way to getting the UK back on a sound financial footing.
Gordon Brown and Blair started with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government over thirteen years ago. Their term in power has been a financial and social disaster for the UK. The actions of Blair taking us to an unnecessary war has cost the country billions and, more importantly, cost the lives of many of our military, plus up to a million Iraquis and Afghanis, many of them civilians.
It is a shameful chapter in the history of the world. The UK needs to get rid of every vestige of this ‘New’ Labour thinking. It has been a disaster.
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Posted by michael on March 1, 2010
I see all these comments like ‘If you want us to vote Tory then do …..’
Are these people seriously saying that they would rather vote for Brown and a failed Labour government that has almost brought the UK to it’s financial knees?
Would they really prefer to vote for the man who has given us such massive debts which they are going to be taxed on to repay over many years?
Or the PM who promised us a vote or the EU and FAILED to deliver, instead committing us to be run from Europe?
Or Brown as Chancellor who changed all the financial controls on the banks and consequently failed to see the recession coming!
Would they really want to vote for the PM who failed to make the decisive decisions about our energy policy and we will now face electricity cuts at peak periods for a couple of years?
And the government which deliberately ramped up immigration so that they could bring in people they would expect to vote for Labour?
Has all the money (or should I say debt) that has been spent on the NHS really improved more than a couple of high profile services?
What about the lack of money that means the police are asked not to arrest anybody near the end of their shift because it saves on overtime payments!
Then there is the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Should we really be involved?? Were our troops really properly equipped?
You might not like Cameron but at least he is competent enough to do the job properly!!!
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Posted by michael on January 27, 2010
A lot of people accepted that the war was necessary because the Prime Minister of the UK said that it was necessary.
They were being misled by Blair, Brown and New Labour but that dues not mean that they were wrong to put the safety of the citizens of the UK as their first priority!
I have a problem with the Lib Dems voting against a war which we were told was necessary for the security and safety of the people of the UK.
If Blair was telling the truth about the need for war then the Lib Dems were not putting the security of the UK as their first priority!
The fact that Blair, Brown and New Labour were misleading us about the importance of war to defend our country, does not detract from the fact that the Liberal Democrats chose not to take steps to protect the UK from being targeted by Iraq.
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Posted by michael on January 25, 2010
The war in Iraq was a bad decision by blair and New Labour. It is quite clear that we should never have been involved in this war.
Blair talks about regime change. Yes, Iraq had an awful leader. But that was no justification for going to war against the people of Iraq!!
And why stop at Iraq?? There are plenty of other evil and unpleasant regimes around the world. Did blair intend to invade all of these countries as well? blair and new labour have messed up our country big time!
We now have to be on guard 24×7 against bombing and attacks on UK citizens around the world. This is the legacy of Blair, Brown and New Labour!
Brown has now been shown to have been fully involved in the decision to go to war.
Brown and New Labour do not deserve another term in government. They have done us all enough harm already!
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Posted by michael on December 29, 2009
Naturally Labour are desperate to show a class war with the Conservatives helping their rich friends and New Labour helping their poor, lower paid supporters.
The poor, lower paid have of course been the focus of the the last 12 years of New Labour in government?
Actually NO! Labour have failed to look after the lower paid. They have failed to support their union friends.
Living standards for the poor are worse now than 12 years ago.
Child poverty, despite the money spent on it, is as bad as it ever was.
Education standards are lower in state schools!
New Labour like their millionaire friends, to have (several) expensive houses, to be photographed with important people, to jump when the USA tells them to!
New Labour have no right to claim that they care for the poor. The traditional left-wing Labour MPs appear to have been sidelined!
Blair and Brown and many of their ministers would appear to be only interested in living the high life! Now the chickens are steadily coming home to roost and New Labour are beginning to understand that they have isolated themselves from almost all areas of society.
An example of Brown and Labour putting themselves before the country is the refusal of this government to stand down now and have an election.
The UK is in desperate straits. The finances are shot. The debts are huge and will take years to pay back. Public Services are being cut. Decisions are being taken by a government whose focus is on surviving the next six months.
How can that be good for the UK? We need decisive action and long term decision making. Whilst New Labour hang on to power looking for ways to survive, they are putting the interests of the UK after the interests of the country!
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Posted by michael on December 15, 2009
I despair at some of the actions of this government!
They have announced new helicopters for Afghanistan, which of course is good. But they won’t be available until 2013!!!
I thought that by then our soldiers had pulled out leaving the ‘well trained’ Afghan soldiers to protect themselves from the Taliban!!
So the helicopters won’t be available until AFTER our soldiers come home – OR does brown know that they are going to be there for many years yet!
Has brown now admitted that when he repeatedly and consistently said that our soldiers had enough equipment and helicopters (remember the NATO troops were sharing helicopters) that he was WRONG!
Yet now brown and his ministers are claiming credit for spending money on ‘supporting’ our troops. It just seems so cynical. Perhaps there is an election due soon!
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Posted by michael on November 22, 2009
I do not understand how Blair the warmonger could ever have expected to have been the EU president. He had too much baggage as a result of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair didn’t join in with the Americans to attack Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein and his thug sons!! If that was justifiable then think how many other countries we would need to invade for the same reason!
As far as I am concerned Blair set out to con the British public by scaring them over the weapons of mass destruction! The most cynical step was putting tanks on the streets and at the airports!
We did not have a terrorist problem until Blair and Bush went to war against Iraq. This was a significant point in the history of the world and there are many consequences, mostly bad, that have stemmed directly from the actions of Blair and Bush.
History will not see these two leaders in a positive light.
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Posted by michael on November 13, 2009
It would seem obvious from the latest comments from Brown that he has finally understood that this war in the Middle East is wrong, was wrong from day one, that we cannot win and more and more of our soldiers will be killed or injured.
I was taken in by Blair (at first) when he claimed that we had to attack Iraq or they would attack us.
It wasn’t the quality of his argument, it was that it simply did not occur to me that the prime minister of this country would lie to us about the potential threat by another country!
Fortunately I realised quite quickly that everything blair was saying was rubbish and I have not believed a word he has said since!
But Brown has kept us in this war, even subsequently attacking Afghanistan. He has failed to justify the war, giving differing reasons why we need to be in Afghanistan.
Now Brown appears to have changed his mind and is working on exit strategies (which can be seen as meaning that the reasons we are at war were not that important after all!).
So what has changed to mean that Brown is now not firmly sticking to his stated position that this war is important to the UK?
I would suggest that nothing has changed. Except that we have an election coming up soon and Brown knows that he is not popular!
All that money wasted in these wars, let alone the lives lost and the lives blighted by injuries. We have an election coming up and Gordon Brown is changing his priorities!
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Posted by michael on November 6, 2009
It seems to me that Brown is very, very confused about the reasons why the war in Afghanistan is going on.
He has said today:
‘we cannot, must not and will not walk away as long as Al-Qaeda continues to plot attacks on Britain from the region’
What region is this???
Does he mean Afghanistan? OR perhaps he means Iraq? or Pakistan? I am not aware of any group in Afghanistan plotting attacks on the UK.
Even if there were, there are Islamic extremists in many other countries of the world who may be plotting to attack the UK. ARE WE NOW GOING TO WAR AGAINST THEM!!
Pakistan should be a prime target for the UK IF Brown is concerned about Al-Qaeda plotting attacks on Britain!!
Brown has introduced other reasons for our involvement in the war in Afghanistan. This includes allowing women to be educated and other aspects of the way women are treated. So is the UK now going to attack all countries which treat women like this? Some sort of crusade throughout the world against Islam perhaps?
The whole political thinking and strategy of this government is a complete mess! Just like the way that they run the UK! So no surprise there!
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Posted by michael on October 28, 2009
I fail to understand how Blair the Warmonger would even be considered as the EU president!!
All the damage throughout Europe with terrorist attacks and the continual 24×7 risk of further bombings are the result of the UK, headed by Blair and Brown, invading Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blair has caused so much trouble throughout Europe with his apparent natural instinct to invade other countries. People seem to forget that in a fairly short time the UK was involved in THREE wars under Blair as prime minister.
Having Blair as the EU president is not a signal to the rest of the world that the EU is a potential threat to them!
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