Posts Tagged ‘cost of living’
Posted by michael on April 26, 2010
So Gordon Brown wants us to concentrate on policy does he?
Does Brown have any policies? All he does at the moment is to tell us to ignore the complete mess of the UK economy and to vote for him because he can fix it.
This is not a strong argument!
If Brown and New Labour could fix the financial problems then why are they not doing this now!
Brown and New Labour caused the credit crunch and all the resulting financial mess.
Brown and New Labour are good at making financial messes. I do not believe for a moment that they are capable of fixing the problems that they have caused!
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Posted by michael on April 23, 2010
UK public borrowing is at record levels.
The UK government borrowed £163.4 billion in the financial year ending in March.
Tax receipts have fallen significantly. Too many people are out of work or earning minimum wages that do not attract tax. The Labour government is committed to paying huge public spending bills.
The nation’s borrowing almost doubled from the £96.5 billion cost last year.
Our borrowing is 11.5 per cent of national output (according to the Office for National Statistics).
This should give people an idea of the massive task ahead of us in clearing these debts. Each man, woman and child in the UK now has to find £15,000 each to clear this debt. (Obviously we are not each going to be asked to find £15000! – it is an average).
But, on average, we will pay this money through increased taxes, increased cost of living, new taxes, new and increased charges for everything, possibly 21% VAT, probably more parking regulations and higher fines across the board.
The government will have to get £15000 from each of us on average by hook or by crook.
This is what Brown and New Labour call success! It is what I call failure! How dare Brown adopt a financial policy which is going to hurt so many people over many years. Our government is meant to look after us , not milk us for everything we have got!
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Posted by michael on April 23, 2010
0.2% growth in last three months.
How disappointing! This is such a small increase that it effectively represents no growth. It could easily be revised into a loss or, if we are lucky, it could be revised upwards.
Until we see the revised figures then the growth figure for the first three months of 2010 is effectively zero.
Brown expected big things from these figures. Recovery is under way he has been saying. Clearly he has been WRONG!!!!
These growth figures do not represent an economy where recovery is under way.
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Posted by michael on April 2, 2010
New Labour are making a real big deal about the opposition to increases in the NI. It should be obvious to them that we need as many jobs in the UK as possible and that increasing taxes on jobs is not the best thing to do!
And the jobs need to be in the private sector. Public sector jobs are paid for by our taxes. Every new public sector job increases the UK debt levels!
But Brown, New Labour and Mandelson seem to be unable to cope with any criticism of their plans. It comes over as a ‘matter of principle’ that Labour will not accept any criticism even if it is obvious to most that Labour is wrong!
This just reinforces the fact that New Labour, and Brown, have dealt with the UK economy so very well that the UK is in deep trouble. We now have huge debts. We are now facing huge tax increases in almost every aspect of our lives.
We now cannot afford to maintain most public services.
We couldn’t afford the salt in the winter and now the roads are falling apart and will cost billions to repair! What crazy logic from this government stopped them from buying enough salt, which really was the cheap option!, even though they knew road surfaces would be seriously damaged by the freezing temperatures. It might save a million or two now, but will cost hundreds of millions over the next few years.
When Brown promises to ring fence an NHS service, then that means the other NHS services will be cut! If they were not at risk of being cut then there would be no need to ring fence certain services!
I want to see a government in power which is prepared to govern for the benefit of the UK and NOT to spend all their efforts trying to maintain their own positions in government!
The fact that Brown refuses to release the financial data for the UK means several things:
- He is hiding the size of the financial mess that he has put the UK into.
- He is trying to stop the opposition from making their plans for government.
Brown is able to attack the opposition by claiming that they don’t have the finances right. We would not know if the opposition is right or wrong, since we do not know the figures either!
On the other hand we don’t know if Brown is right or wrong, since he does not reveal the figures that his policies are based on!
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Posted by michael on March 30, 2010
We have paid our taxes for all of our lives. This has included elements of care for the elderly in care homes!
How many people’s pensions would have been enough to keep them in their old age? That was before Brown decimated pension values by heavily taxing them!
So lets have the death tax to provide care for the elderly.
Another tax on individuals.
Labour don’t seem to have any solutions that do not involve taxing us more heavily!
This current debate is not a sign of planning for the future etc. but it is proof of the profligacy of New Labour in government.
Not only have they almost bankrupted the UK they would seem to have spent all the money paid by the UK workers for their care when they are elderly!
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Posted by michael on March 9, 2010
The British Crime Survey is a survey of people’s views. It is not related to actual crime figures and is based on people’s perceptions of crime.
It is easy to manipulate. People may believe that violent crime is too high in our society but the survey asks if people feel that it has got worse or better. They may feel that it has not got worse recently even though they may believe the level of violent crime is far too high!!!
The British Crime Survey is a questionnaire of 40,000 households, and is unrelated to actual recorded crime figures.
How can this survey be recognised as the most accurate way of recording crime levels!! It is a joke! The best way is to count the actual violent crimes that take place. Nothing is more accurate that that!
The Conservatives are exposing the under reporting of violent crime by New Labour.
I suspect strongly that if the view of the survey was that violent crime had gone up or there was a decrease in actual violent crime then this government would go back to the official figures!
I don’t understand the point of the British Crime Survey anyway! It is not factual, simply people’s perceptions. On this basis crime will go down on nice sunny days or when England win a football game! Crime will go up when people are feeling down!
I suspect that it is a political attempt to mislead people by distracting them from the actual crime figures!
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Posted by michael on March 5, 2010
British people used to complain when such unreasonable price hikes were put onto essential products and services.
We seem to have stopped objecting to what our government does. Even the price increases on gas, electricity, water etc. are as a result of government policy even though they are applied by the service companies.
It would seem that almost everything in our society is designed, under this government, to take more and more money from us!
We were not well placed to withstand the recession.
We are not well placed to pay the huge increases in taxation needed to repay the UK debts that Brown has built up from the recession. We have many years of financial hardship ahead of us to clear the UK debts.
Thanks Gordon!
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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 17, 2009
Christmas will probably be good for the retail trade. But it is just a one off event!
Most people are not spending much money, instead they are repaying debt and saving as much as they can.
Of course parents are going to buy Christmas presents for the kids but not for each other!
Many people are saving because of the risks of unemployment. They are also saving because the government have said that huge tax rises have yet to come, especially council tax and energy bills amongst others. People know that they need savings to stop them going into debt .
This Christmas is a testimony to the last 12 years of the New Labour government!
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Posted by michael on December 7, 2009
The problem I have with Brown deciding that some public sector bosses are paid too much is that Brown is in charge of the public sector and has allowed these people to receive these high salaries.
It is completely hypocritical of Brown to decide after 12 years in power that these public sector bosses are paid too much!
I would put money on the fact that Brown would not say a word about these salaries if it was not for the fact that he is behind in the polls!
He is doing so many U turns that he must be continually dizzy!
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