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Posted by michael on May 8, 2010
Of course the Liberals want electoral reform. They are a small political party without that much support in the UK.
They have a reasonable amount of support but not as much as the two main parties. So why do they want political power which exceeds the size of the party itself?
The political power is in the two larger parties and, strangely enough, there are many, many more citizens of the UK who are members and/or supporters of the two larger parties.
I am concerned that many people are now proclaiming the praises of the LibDems, just because they are comparing the TV performances of three individuals.
An idiot savant could stand up neatly dressed in front of a TV audience and say exactly the right things and come over as a pleasant human being and end up being elected to run the country. Is this what we want? To measure potential prime ministers by their abilities to perform on TV and to select them on that basis?
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Posted by michael on May 8, 2010
Gordon Brown – power at any cost!! He has lost the election but is not man enough to resign.
He must be able to see the damage that New Labour have done to the UK over the last 14 years.
I have no doubt that Brown is the worst leader that the UK has had in modern times.
Brown has a reputation of being ‘strong on the economy’. Where did this come from? Why does anyone believe it?
Brown started power with the Golden Inheritance from the last Conservative government and has turned a strong UK economy into a basket case in 14 years!
The UK economy now has huge debts which are going to take years to pay off. We are all going to heavily taxed in everything we do or buy. We have years of austerity ahead of us. Our economy is being mentioned in the same sentences as Greece (and not as an example of what a good economy should be).’
Brown is ‘capable of managing our economy’ – no, Brown has proven that he is not able to manage the UK economy. The proof is all around you!!!
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Posted by michael on May 4, 2010
The end for Brown is nigh once his own supporters are saying things about Brown such as ‘he is the worst Prime Minister the UK has had’.
I can see where these people are coming from!
New Labour, that is Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, came into power taking or themselves what is called ‘the Golden Inheritance’ of the previous Conservative government.
Whatever Labour supporters say about their view on the Conservative party, the ‘Golden Inheritance’ is fact!!
So what has Gordon Brown , and one cannot exclude Tony Blair in this criticism, done with such an inheritance and such a strong economy over the last 14 years?
The answer is clear and very damning to the reputations of both Brown and Blair as well bringing the Labour party into disrepute.
The answer is that they turned a booming economy and a Golden Inheritance into the biggest debt that the UK has ever had (possibly even including the war years).
Our debt levels are so high that the UK risks the same financial treatment as Greece! Every person in the UK is now going to have to pay for years to come increased taxes and higher prices.
When one looks at the state of the economy when Brown came into power, and the complete mess that he has made of the UK economy, then it is a no brainer that he really is the worst prime minister the UK has ever had.
He hasn’t had to deal with any real crisis except the ones he caused, such as the banking crisis and the credit crunch. His answer to any problems is to simply spend more of our money.
Brown wanted to pay MPs more money without raising their salaries, so he changed the rules for MPs expenses allowing MPs to claim for so much more and, the critical point, having all these extra expenses approved by the officials running the system.
Claiming that our soldiers had ‘all the equipment’ they needed when the snatch land rover was clearly vulnerable to roadside bombs was either not understanding what was going on or the wrong attitude towards the safety of our soldiers!
Think back to all the failures of computer systems implemented by this government. They might have worked eventually but almost all of them failed when first introduced.
What was good economic management in taxing people’s pensions as Brown personally introduced? Reducing pensions reduces quality of life for retired people. It also means many people will have to work for longer. What was the point of doing this? We do not have enough jobs for everyone as it is!!
The NHS receives so much money that it really has no reason not to be an excellent service! But what about the care of the elderly and the long-term sick? Do these aspects of the NHS work well? I suggest not. Just read how the elderly and those with dementia etc are treated.
I suggest that Brown really does deserve the title of ‘worst prime minister’ in modern times.
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Posted by michael on May 3, 2010
What an economic mess has been made by this Labour government!
It does not surprise me that white-collar ‘boom’ towns in the South have been turned to benefit blackspots under this lousy government.
These towns are truly representative of the way that Brown and Labour have managed the UK economy. They have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy!
It may even be too late to avoid the IMF taking over the running the UK economy.
It looks like Labour are going to be punished by the electorate for their appalling management of the UK. I don’t want people blaming all politicians in general for the mess that Brown, Blair and Labour have made of the UK! The fault is with Labour and it is Labour that should be punished!
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Posted by michael on April 30, 2010
The Bank of England Governor Mervyn King is absolutely right. The UK financial mess is huge.
Labour have cynically hidden the true state of the UK’s finances from us during the election campaign.
They are desperate to get back into power so that they can keep the pretence going that that Labour are capable of running the UK economy!
But the huge financial mess that we are in is the best reason of all to dump this lousy government and replace it with a Conservative government.
I would then like to see Cameron going public with the full state of the UK finances. Then we would all know how big the problem (challenge) is for Cameron to deal with.
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Posted by michael on April 28, 2010
Labour know the state of the UK economy. They have all the figures available BUT they are not releasing them to the public.
I can only think of one reason for them to do this and that is because the UK is in such a bad financial mess, obviously much worse than we can imagine!!
Otherwise there would be no need to conceal the details of the UK economy from us.
This is the first election I can remember when people do not seem to be bothered about the economic mess that the government of the day has left the UK in! They seem far more concerned about how well the candidates come over on TV!
I find this amazing. The next government could be in power for five years. What they do will effect people’s lives. Yet this election could be about nothing more than looking good on tv.
How dumbed down has the UK become in the last fourteen years?
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has blamed the three parties for failing to ‘come clean’ over the massive scale of spending cuts required to get us out of the financial mess the UK is in.
But the IFS needs to allow for the fact that Brown is refusing to share the UK national statistics showing what a bad state the UK is in.
This means the that the opposition parties cannot make firm plans because Labour are hiding the true state of the UK economy from them!
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Posted by michael on April 27, 2010
The UK faces the deepest spending cuts since the late 1970s if the three main parties are to meet their budget commitments, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).
The years between 2011 and 2015 must see the largest cuts since 1976-80.
The IFS study predicts that that the Conservatives would need to make the biggest cuts whilst Labour would make the biggest tax rises.
So we apparently have a big difference between the two main parties. I assume that where services are cut, both parties will do it in a sensible manner by making the services more efficient and by delaying expenditure on computer systems, better offices and increased pay rises!
If you want to pay increased taxes for everything you buy then simply vote Labour. The government will be able to continue spending money anywhere it wants. Effectively this means that people are giving more of their money to the government to spend! The management of the UK economy by Labour over the last 14 years has been lousy. Why should anyone expect their abilities to govern are going to be any better in the future! Would we be in this mess if Labour had governed the UK properly over the last 14 years?
If you want to keep more of your money to spend as you want, then vote Conservative. Their emphasis is on cutting waste . Spending cuts won’t necessarily be any better or worse than under Labour, despite the scare tactics from Labour!
Neither party had given details of their spending cuts.
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Posted by michael on April 26, 2010
Front-line staff in the National Health service will have to pay the cost of the NHS budgets cuts. What else can the NHS do? Close hospitals? Sell the beds? They are already selling some of the drugs that patients need!
The NHS bosses will have to cut staff to match their budgets when the money Brown is currently pouring into the NHS dries up. They have no choice.
The problem is that this money pouring into the NHS from Brown and New Labour is borrowed money, it is simply more and more debt for us all to pay back in increased taxes.
Labour have almost bankrupted the UK. There is no money left! We are all going to have to pay extra taxes for years to come. Every child born in our hospitals carries a debt of £17,000 of extra tax that they will have to pay in their lifetime, in addition to all their other taxes!
Gordon Brown and New Labour decided to put us all in massive debt in order to try to buy victory in the election.
As far as I am concerned they have put themselves and their own interests before the interests of the people of the UK. They have saddled us with huge debts for a generation . Do we really want such a selfish and greedy bunch of people running the UK?
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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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