I expect the Labour unions to make a big fuss about the state of the public service pensions. They will of course conveniently forget that the entire pension problem is the consequence of the last Labour government almost bankrupting the UK economy! And we must not forget that Brown specifically targetted pension payments for special taxation which in itself had a detrimental effect on the value of peoples pensions!
It is cynical for Labour for to forget these facts, but cynical seems to be what Labour want to be!
Please don’t forget that when the UK economy recovers and becomes strong again (as it did under the last Conservative government) then there is scope for the government to increase pension values and even to reduce student fees debt.
But at this time of financial difficulty (thanks Gordon!) then they must act responsibly for the good of the country.
Posts Tagged ‘economy’
It is cynical of Labour to complain about the UK economy
Posted by michael on March 10, 2011
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: cynical, economy, labour, pension, pensions | Leave a Comment »
Labour complaining about extra taxes
Posted by michael on January 4, 2011
I have just seen Labour’s Alan Johnson on tv going on about how the Conservatives shouldn’t be raising extra taxes. I find it so cynical that he can criticise the Conservatives when they are trying to fix the complete mess that Labour made of the economy in their 13 years of power!
If the Labour cabinet know so much about solving the UK’s economic problems then why did they allow such a mess to occur in the first place?
Labour inherited a sound economy from the Conservatives. It was referred to at the time as a ‘golden inheritance’. They even continued with the Conservative policies for a few years!
Then they started spending and incurring more and more debt for us all to pay off!
The best thing that the Labour shadow ministers can do for the country is to stay very quiet while they read and understand basic books on economics!!!
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: conservative, debt, economy, labour, tax, taxes, uk | Leave a Comment »
managing the economy
Posted by michael on October 20, 2010
Every time I hear Labour shadow ministers complaining about the extent of the cuts, I want to remind them loudly that there wouldn’t have been a problem if they hadn’t proved to be so useless when they were in power!
People don’t have to be clever to spend money, it is managing money properly that needs competent people.
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: competent, economy, manage, management, uk | Leave a Comment »
Labour ministers not competent to fix UK financial problems
Posted by michael on October 10, 2010
Real hypocrisy from the new labour ministers when they complain about student loans. Labour introduced them in the first place!!!
They had plans to to raise the level of the loans if they had won the last election!
But these are mostly the same shadow ministers who were ministers in the last incompetent labour government.
They put the UK into a really serious financial mess and now are complaining about the remedy needed to get us out of trouble.
Labour only know about making a mess of our economy – they are expert at that!
They don’t seem to know anything about fixing the mess that they caused!
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: economy, finance, labour, mess, milliband, uk | Leave a Comment »
Labour supporters are whinging too much!
Posted by michael on September 28, 2010
Getting the UK out of the mess that Labour put the UK into, was always going to be difficult for us all.
Remember that the darling Ed, who Labour seem to be treating as some form of deity, was in this Labour government that is going to cause the UK, and us all, financial pain.
The Labour conference is hyping Ed up as some form of super human being, whilst the Conservatives and Liberals get on with the job sorting out the UK economy.
Yet we still have blinkered Labour people complaining about what is being done to get the UK back on a sound financial footing! They should be too embarrassed to whinge and whine when competent people are sorting out the mess their party caused!
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: economy, ed, labour | Leave a Comment »
the Labour leadership contest is a sham!
Posted by michael on September 13, 2010
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 »
the labour leaders are behaving despicably
Posted by michael on September 10, 2010
What I find so despicable about the current Labour leaders is that they claim to have billions of pounds of cuts that COULD be made without harming our economy.
BUT they won’t tell us what they are!!
So they either DON’t have these cuts that could be safely made OR they do know what to do but won’t tell us.
They obviously have more important things to do than help get the UK out of the mess that they made of it!
Posted in UK Economy | Tagged: economy, labour, recession, uk | Leave a Comment »
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.
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.
Posted in Blogroll, ConLib, Conservatives, economy, recession, UK Economy, Uncategorized | Tagged: conservative, cost of living, credit crunch, david cameron, debt, economy, household, recession, tax increases, UK Economy | Leave a Comment »
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 »
