What future this Country has.
When Labour came to power in 1997, they promised so much.
13 years later look at what this country has become.
Labour have all but ruined this country. You just have to look at some of my blogs, and others on the blogosphere, to see what has happened to this country over the last 13 years.
Education - UK slipped to 24th on English and math, pupils running riot in schools, pupils being taught by classroom assistants not qualified teachers, league tables,
Law and order - crime up, no (real) police on the beat, social breakdown, knife crime up, gun crime up, League tables,
Justice - criminals let out early to commit more crimes, ASBOs, prison sentences that don't fit the crime,
Hospital infections, not enough nurses to cover wards, care assistants on wards instead of proper nurses, league tables,
Economy ruined, 1.5 trillion in debt, our children and grandchildren will pay off this debt,
Millions on benefits,
MPs expenses,
A promise of a referendum on Europe broken, Immigration out of control,
Gordon Brown,
Tony Blair,
War in Iraq, War in Afghanistan, Soldiers not given proper equipment, soldiers dying because of underfunding, soldiers dying because they weren't given the right vehicles, soldiers dying due to the lack of helicopters.
But the worst thing Labour has done is the breaking of the MILITARY COVENANT.
How can anyone vote for Labour after what they have done to this country?
I realise there is party loyalty, but for crying out loud what does it take for labour supporters to realise what 5 more years of labour will do to this country.
This country was once called GREAT BRITAIN, what Labour has done is reduce us to little Britain.
Labour should be sent, politically, to the stone age.
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
13 years of Labour
Remember when Labour came to power, and all that they promised?
No, well watch this.
Thanks to Guido Fawkes for this find.
No, well watch this.
Thanks to Guido Fawkes for this find.
Monday, 3 May 2010
A Broken Promise Too Far
Mother of soldier killed in Afghanistan criticises Gordon Brown letter
A mother who received a promise from Gordon Brown that he would look into her son’s death in Afghanistan said she had been fobbed off with a standard letter and a copy of the Labour Party manifesto.
That is the headline to this article.
Gordon Brown promised so much when he became the dictator, sorry Prime Minister, but he has broken so many promises that we never believe what he says, but this broken promise can't ever be forgiven or forgotten.
An extract;
Ann Probyn asked Mr Brown to investigate the circumstances of the death of her son, Guardsman Daniel Probyn, when she appeared on BBC One’s Politics Show seven weeks ago.
She said her son had been killed by a Taliban bomb in 2007 after his patrol was sent out without electronic equipment designed to protect against such devices.
Appearing again on the programme yesterday, she tackled David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, over the lack of response from Mr Brown. “Your leader promised to look into the events of my son’s death,” she said. “I was given a card, I phoned this number, and for seven weeks I haven’t heard anything.
“They just sent me this through – the manifesto, and just a normal formality letter. Why should I vote Labour when they are not doing anything to help me?”
It is common knowledge that, as chancellor, Gordon Brown starved the military of funds and equipment. Just how many of our soldiers lives has that cost in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Now we have a situation where Gordon Brown promised to look into the death of Guardsman Daniel Probyn, and what does the mother receive, she is sent the Labour party manifesto. How insensitive is that?
Gordon Brown can say what he likes on the election campaign, because we don't believe what he says anyhow, but don't fob off a mother of one of our honoured dead and send her a manifesto.
She, and all of the families of our honoured dead deserves to know how and why their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers have been killed and injured.
I haven't got any family or friends out in Afghanistan, but I feel just as passionate about what is happening to our boys and girls out there.
Gordon Brown, as well as Tony Blair, should be taken before a court to answer why they sent our military into 2 wars without the proper equipment.
I want them to explain why there wasn't enough helicopters, better armoured vehicles, better equipment in general. The equipment the troops have seems to of been bought because it was the cheapest.
While the troops are getting sub standard equipment the civil servants at the MOD get bonuses. How screwed up is that?
The Military Covenant should of been an unbreakable promise, but it has been broken by Labour.
Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Labour should never be given the chance to have any control over our military ever again.
They have treated them and their families with utter disrespect, and that can never be forgiven ever.
A mother who received a promise from Gordon Brown that he would look into her son’s death in Afghanistan said she had been fobbed off with a standard letter and a copy of the Labour Party manifesto.
That is the headline to this article.
Gordon Brown promised so much when he became the dictator, sorry Prime Minister, but he has broken so many promises that we never believe what he says, but this broken promise can't ever be forgiven or forgotten.
An extract;
Ann Probyn asked Mr Brown to investigate the circumstances of the death of her son, Guardsman Daniel Probyn, when she appeared on BBC One’s Politics Show seven weeks ago.
She said her son had been killed by a Taliban bomb in 2007 after his patrol was sent out without electronic equipment designed to protect against such devices.
Appearing again on the programme yesterday, she tackled David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, over the lack of response from Mr Brown. “Your leader promised to look into the events of my son’s death,” she said. “I was given a card, I phoned this number, and for seven weeks I haven’t heard anything.
“They just sent me this through – the manifesto, and just a normal formality letter. Why should I vote Labour when they are not doing anything to help me?”
It is common knowledge that, as chancellor, Gordon Brown starved the military of funds and equipment. Just how many of our soldiers lives has that cost in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Now we have a situation where Gordon Brown promised to look into the death of Guardsman Daniel Probyn, and what does the mother receive, she is sent the Labour party manifesto. How insensitive is that?
Gordon Brown can say what he likes on the election campaign, because we don't believe what he says anyhow, but don't fob off a mother of one of our honoured dead and send her a manifesto.
She, and all of the families of our honoured dead deserves to know how and why their sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers have been killed and injured.
I haven't got any family or friends out in Afghanistan, but I feel just as passionate about what is happening to our boys and girls out there.
Gordon Brown, as well as Tony Blair, should be taken before a court to answer why they sent our military into 2 wars without the proper equipment.
I want them to explain why there wasn't enough helicopters, better armoured vehicles, better equipment in general. The equipment the troops have seems to of been bought because it was the cheapest.
While the troops are getting sub standard equipment the civil servants at the MOD get bonuses. How screwed up is that?
The Military Covenant should of been an unbreakable promise, but it has been broken by Labour.
Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Labour should never be given the chance to have any control over our military ever again.
They have treated them and their families with utter disrespect, and that can never be forgiven ever.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Something to think about when you vote.
I have just read this blog at http://coldsteelrain.blogspot.com/
It is called;
Remember The Fallen
Every November I stand silently in thought. It is always cold and often raining. My arms are locked into my sides, my chest is pushed out and I am ramrod straight.
As the Bugler sounds last post it takes every last ounce of my self-discipline not to cry. I don't cry because remembrance day is a Military occasion. It dictates a formality of dignified mourning.
There have been so many Military funerals these last few years. All too often we see coffins draped in the Union flag. The dead soldiers comrades carry their fallen friends with a professionalism I am so very proud of. For I know that inside, these young soldiers hearts are breaking.
The incumbent Government has asked so much of our fighting men and women these last 13 years - and all the while they have starved them of the equipment and funds they need to carry out this most difficult of tasks.
It is with thoughts of the economy we will vote, as well as immigration and health care. But if you will, please remember those fallen soldiers. At this very moment British troops are fighting and they are dying - let them know that although the Labour Party cares little about them, to us the Covenant means everything.
Next Thursday we have an opportunity to place a cross in a box. I would ask you not to put yours against the Party that has put so many crosses above so many boxes.
Posted by Cold Steel Rain at 13:00
Labour have Broken The Military Covenant and should be punished, if not legally then by voting them out of government and sending Labour, politically, back to the stone age.
It is called;
Remember The Fallen
Every November I stand silently in thought. It is always cold and often raining. My arms are locked into my sides, my chest is pushed out and I am ramrod straight.
As the Bugler sounds last post it takes every last ounce of my self-discipline not to cry. I don't cry because remembrance day is a Military occasion. It dictates a formality of dignified mourning.
There have been so many Military funerals these last few years. All too often we see coffins draped in the Union flag. The dead soldiers comrades carry their fallen friends with a professionalism I am so very proud of. For I know that inside, these young soldiers hearts are breaking.
The incumbent Government has asked so much of our fighting men and women these last 13 years - and all the while they have starved them of the equipment and funds they need to carry out this most difficult of tasks.
It is with thoughts of the economy we will vote, as well as immigration and health care. But if you will, please remember those fallen soldiers. At this very moment British troops are fighting and they are dying - let them know that although the Labour Party cares little about them, to us the Covenant means everything.
Next Thursday we have an opportunity to place a cross in a box. I would ask you not to put yours against the Party that has put so many crosses above so many boxes.
Posted by Cold Steel Rain at 13:00
Labour have Broken The Military Covenant and should be punished, if not legally then by voting them out of government and sending Labour, politically, back to the stone age.
Saturday, 24 April 2010
Is Tony Blair in Trouble?
Just been reading this article, found at http://uknewsnetwork.blogspot.com/.
Tony Blair Stands Accused
Malaysia must not allow this mass murderer to be immune from justice.
by Prof. Shad Saleem Faruqi
An extract;
It is distressing to note that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been invited to Malaysia as an honoured guest of an NGO when he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by many learned and independent scholars of international law.
The case against him looks rock solid, especially after his confession to the BBC and the Chilcot Inquiry that he would have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein regardless of the issue of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.
Indictments around the world:
> The international criminal court to which Britain is a signatory has received a record number of petitions against Blair.
> The World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul in 2005 heard evidence from 54 witnesses and published rigorous indictments against Blair, former US president George W Bush and others.
> The Brussels War Crimes Tribunal, the Blair War Crimes Foundation and the American international law jurist Richard Falk have amassed impressive evidence of Blair’s complicity in international war crimes.
Spain’s celebrated judge Baltasar Garzon (who indicted former Chilean dictator and president Augusto Pinochet) has called for Bush, Blair and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to be prosecuted for the illegal invasion of Iraq, which Garzon has condemned as “one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history”.
Many UK jurists have described the invasion as a devastating attack on the rule of law that left the United Nations in tatters.
I will admit I was taken in by Blair's statements about Iraq and I supported the invasion, but after what I have read over the years either Blair was at best naive, or at worst incompetent and completely lying about weapons of mass destruction.
There are still too many unanswered questions about the Iraq invasion. There are still questions over the death of Dr David Kelly. Was it suicide or not, and why has his post mortem report being kept secret for 70 years?
I wonder what holiday destinations Tony Blair has crossed off his list?
The above article is an arguement for the arrest of Tony Blair.
If there is an article against the arrest of Tony Blair, I will post a blog about the reasons why Tony Blair shouldn't be arrested.
Tony Blair Stands Accused
Malaysia must not allow this mass murderer to be immune from justice.
by Prof. Shad Saleem Faruqi
An extract;
It is distressing to note that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been invited to Malaysia as an honoured guest of an NGO when he stands accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by many learned and independent scholars of international law.
The case against him looks rock solid, especially after his confession to the BBC and the Chilcot Inquiry that he would have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein regardless of the issue of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction.
Indictments around the world:
> The international criminal court to which Britain is a signatory has received a record number of petitions against Blair.
> The World Tribunal on Iraq held in Istanbul in 2005 heard evidence from 54 witnesses and published rigorous indictments against Blair, former US president George W Bush and others.
> The Brussels War Crimes Tribunal, the Blair War Crimes Foundation and the American international law jurist Richard Falk have amassed impressive evidence of Blair’s complicity in international war crimes.
Spain’s celebrated judge Baltasar Garzon (who indicted former Chilean dictator and president Augusto Pinochet) has called for Bush, Blair and former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar to be prosecuted for the illegal invasion of Iraq, which Garzon has condemned as “one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history”.
Many UK jurists have described the invasion as a devastating attack on the rule of law that left the United Nations in tatters.
I will admit I was taken in by Blair's statements about Iraq and I supported the invasion, but after what I have read over the years either Blair was at best naive, or at worst incompetent and completely lying about weapons of mass destruction.
There are still too many unanswered questions about the Iraq invasion. There are still questions over the death of Dr David Kelly. Was it suicide or not, and why has his post mortem report being kept secret for 70 years?
I wonder what holiday destinations Tony Blair has crossed off his list?
The above article is an arguement for the arrest of Tony Blair.
If there is an article against the arrest of Tony Blair, I will post a blog about the reasons why Tony Blair shouldn't be arrested.
Monday, 19 April 2010
Every (Ash)Cloud has a silver lining
There is some good news for the population of the UK during the flight chaos.
Volcanic ash cloud: Tony Blair stranded in Israel
Tony Blair role in the election campaign looks likely to be affected by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud.
Well at least the UK public won't have to endure listening to Tony Bliar for a few days more.
Volcanic ash cloud: Tony Blair stranded in Israel
Tony Blair role in the election campaign looks likely to be affected by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud.
Well at least the UK public won't have to endure listening to Tony Bliar for a few days more.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Friday, 19 February 2010
Tories cannot be trusted with economy, says Gordon Brown
The comment was taken from this article.
So who do we trust, Labour?
Take a look at the you tube video i found on Tory Totty Online Blog, called A Message to the Voting Public
Labour has ruined this country's economy, police, health care, manufacturing and culture to name a few. There are so many.
Yes the Torys have faults, but this country cannot survive another 3 months, let alone another 5 years, of a Labour government.
Tony Bliar, Gordon Brown and the Labour party have done so much damage to this country I hope we can repair what has been done.
So who do we trust, Labour?
Take a look at the you tube video i found on Tory Totty Online Blog, called A Message to the Voting Public
Labour has ruined this country's economy, police, health care, manufacturing and culture to name a few. There are so many.
Yes the Torys have faults, but this country cannot survive another 3 months, let alone another 5 years, of a Labour government.
Tony Bliar, Gordon Brown and the Labour party have done so much damage to this country I hope we can repair what has been done.
Thursday, 11 February 2010
What has Gordon Brown done for Britain since his first Budget?
That is the headline to, in my opinion, a very honest article, by Jeff Randell, that looks at the state of the UK finances since Labour came to power.
The last paragraph says it all;
In short, sterling is in the toilet, our pensions have been slaughtered, cash savings yield almost nothing, the country is up to its neck in unprecedented debt, the banking system is awash with funny money, our gold reserves were sold off at rock-bottom prices, and Britain’s dole queue is considerably longer than before Crash Gordon began cooking the books.
Apart from that, it’s not too bad.
I knew we were in for a rough ride over the next few years, but i am starting to think it is going to be worse.
Thank you so much Tony, Gordon and the rest of your cronies in the Labour Party for ruining this Great Nation.
The last paragraph says it all;
In short, sterling is in the toilet, our pensions have been slaughtered, cash savings yield almost nothing, the country is up to its neck in unprecedented debt, the banking system is awash with funny money, our gold reserves were sold off at rock-bottom prices, and Britain’s dole queue is considerably longer than before Crash Gordon began cooking the books.
Apart from that, it’s not too bad.
I knew we were in for a rough ride over the next few years, but i am starting to think it is going to be worse.
Thank you so much Tony, Gordon and the rest of your cronies in the Labour Party for ruining this Great Nation.
Sunday, 7 February 2010
The thought of having this woman in the House of Lords
Read this headline from the Mail and wonder what she will do to the Hose of Lords
Make Cherie a Baroness! Extraordinary row over plan to elevate Mrs Blair to Lords
An extract;
A political row is brewing over a controversial move to give Cherie Blair a peerage – making her the first Prime Minister’s spouse to be elevated to the Lords since Clementine Churchill.
Allies of Mrs Blair say she is entitled to the honour on the basis of her decade in No10, her record as a leading lawyer and her charity work.
In my opinion, she has no right to be elevated to the Lords.
What has she done to be given this honour?
Being Tony Blair's wife.
Being a judge who lets off someone who breaks some one's jaw for being a religious man.
Getting a crook to buy 2 flats so she could get a discount on them, then saying 'she is just a normal mum' yeah right, when she got caught.
When told she could have a couple of free items, from a store, she took 68 items up to about £2000.
Having her bills for hairdressing paid for by the Labour party funds.
Getting people off criminal acts or getting them to stay in this country using the (in) Human rights act.
The only other PMs wife to be elevated to the Lords was Lady Churchill due to the loyal support of her husband Winston Churchill during WW2.
Another extract;
However, the idea, which is being actively discussed in senior Labour circles, is likely to run into criticism from those who may question whether she deserves the same recognition as Lady Churchill
How can this woman be given the same privilege as the wife of Winston Churchill.
Cherie Blair, like her husband, has no honour.
She has admitted to being republican who wants to get rid of the Queen, so how the hell would she be allowed to be given a Peerage?
The answer is just to keep Tony Bliar on side to help Gordon Brown in the election.
How much lower can this government get?
Make Cherie a Baroness! Extraordinary row over plan to elevate Mrs Blair to Lords
An extract;
A political row is brewing over a controversial move to give Cherie Blair a peerage – making her the first Prime Minister’s spouse to be elevated to the Lords since Clementine Churchill.
Allies of Mrs Blair say she is entitled to the honour on the basis of her decade in No10, her record as a leading lawyer and her charity work.
In my opinion, she has no right to be elevated to the Lords.
What has she done to be given this honour?
Being Tony Blair's wife.
Being a judge who lets off someone who breaks some one's jaw for being a religious man.
Getting a crook to buy 2 flats so she could get a discount on them, then saying 'she is just a normal mum' yeah right, when she got caught.
When told she could have a couple of free items, from a store, she took 68 items up to about £2000.
Having her bills for hairdressing paid for by the Labour party funds.
Getting people off criminal acts or getting them to stay in this country using the (in) Human rights act.
The only other PMs wife to be elevated to the Lords was Lady Churchill due to the loyal support of her husband Winston Churchill during WW2.
Another extract;
However, the idea, which is being actively discussed in senior Labour circles, is likely to run into criticism from those who may question whether she deserves the same recognition as Lady Churchill
How can this woman be given the same privilege as the wife of Winston Churchill.
Cherie Blair, like her husband, has no honour.
She has admitted to being republican who wants to get rid of the Queen, so how the hell would she be allowed to be given a Peerage?
The answer is just to keep Tony Bliar on side to help Gordon Brown in the election.
How much lower can this government get?
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Ever Wondered what New Labour has Done for this Country?
I have just read this blog by The Anger of a Quiet Man.
It's title is 'The Utter Failure of New Labour'
This is the blog;
The utter failure of New Labour
♫ Things can only get better ♪ That was the song that heralded in the reign of New Labour, the Blairite dream team, the leftist militant tendency consigned to the ashes of history, a brand new day dawning and freedom from the corruption and sleaze of the Major government.
What we actually got was this.
Record peacetime debt.
Record peacetime deficit.
The first fascist MEP elected to the European Parliament.
UK drops from 7th to 24th in international maths and literacy rankings.
100 new taxes on the middle class.
Council taxes double for the middle classes.
Council tax revaluation if Labour are voted back in.
4,300 petty new laws.
Authoritarian police state oppressing legitimate protest, photography and law abiding citizens.
Doubled the length of tax law and created a mass of new regulations.
Sold the UK's gold reserves at the bottom of the market.
Ripped up a system of financial regulation proven over 300 years; 10 years later the UK has 5 Failed banks.
Destroyed the best private pension provision in europe, taking £100bn from prudent pensioners.
Destroyed more of the UK's manufacturing sector than Thatcher.
Politicisation of the police, the civil service, education.
Falling productivity in public sector despite 48% real-terms increase in spending.
Overseen the rise of the unaccountable, unsackable, feather-bedded bureaucrat, taking control over every aspect of people's lives.
New GP contract increased average pay to £100,000.
Most GPs refuse to provide care during evenings and weekends.
Arrest of an opposition MP for doing his job.
House prices unaffordable for workers on average salaries.
Soaring knife and violent crime in our cities.
Debasement of politics, endless re-announcements of the same policy, cash for peerages, lies, spin and deceit.
200+ service personal killed.
First non-jury Crown court trials.
Abolished century old practises of Parliament; House of Lords, Life Peers, Lord Chancellor's department, Lord Chancellor diminished
3 million immigrants invited into the UK to take 81% of all new jobs created.
1 million young people unemployed.
Jacqui Smith.
Foot and mouth crisis (twice)
Farm payments
Tax credits
Afghanistan war
Iraq war
Under funded ill-equipped Forces
Privatised large parts of defence establishment for short term gain
PFI
Home Office failures
Uncontrolled immigration (am I a racist for mentioning immigration, dear me)
NHS in tatters
School standards at the lowest ever
Thousands of knee jerk badly written laws
Rampant EU fraud
EU ignoring its own people
EU referendum promise reneged
Treaty/Constitution
Northern Rock
RBS
HMRC
Lost data – child benefit and dvlc
Donorgate
Climategate
Cash for Honours
Single families
Economy in complete tatters
First time buyers taken out of market
Rich and poor divide becoming bigger
Plenty of tax rises – both direct and indirect
Uncontrolled private sector
Crime out of control
Young deaths
Guns on our streets
NO ELECTION
Quangos controlling parliament
Populist Catholicism
H/T 13th Spitfire
We also got this.
Thanks to Labour, it is now illegal to swim in the wreck of the Titanic or to sell game birds killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day – eventualities overlooked by previous governments.
Labour has made 4,289 activities illegal since the 1997 election, at a rate of about one a day – twice the speed with which the previous Conservative government created crimes.
Gordon Brown was the worst offender, with his government inventing 33 new crimes a month. Tony Blair's administration made 27 new offences each month.
Some of the more inventive crimes dreamt up by Labour include "disturbing a pack of eggs when directed not to by an authorised officer" and reporting the door of a merchant ship to be closed and locked when it isn't.
Labour also introduced laws against activities which would already have been covered by previous legislation – such as "causing a nuclear explosion."
Liberal Democrat home office spokesman Chris Huhne, who brought the figures to light, will criticise the government's administrative binge in a speech tonight.
He will say Labour has spent 12 years "suffering from the most acute and prolonged bout of legislative diarrhoea", calling the rate of 69 new Home Affairs Bills in 12 years "staggering".
And now we have this.
The gap between rich and poor in the UK is wider now than 40 years ago, a government-commissioned report says.
"Deep-seated and systemic differences" remain between men and women and minority groups in pay and employment, the National Equality Panel found.
It said in areas such as neighbourhood renewal, taxes and education, policy action was needed to limit inequality.
The issues raised would need "sustained and focused action", Equalities Minister Harriet Harman said.
"But for the sake of the right of every individual to reach their full potential, for the sake of a strong and meritocratic economy and to achieve a peaceful and cohesive society, that is the challenge that must be met," she added.
Not just a fail, this is an epic fail, social mobility has ground to a halt because of Labours attempts to stifle any form of individuality or excellence. It's the classic socialist trap of doing away with first class travel only for everyone to have to travel second class. Never in UK history has so much damage to society been done in such a short space of time by so few to so many.
It will take decades to repair the mess they've left assuming we can do it at all, our kids and their kids will be paying off the interest on the national debt, even assuming we are coming out of a recession (hah!) it wont be enough, they've taxed us into penury, ruined our international credit rating and printed money to keep on paying out for their profligacy despite being warned of the dangers of runaway inflation.
Well ♫ Things can only get better ♪ because they are (hopefully) on their way out, though to believe some Tory blogs the fact that people like me who (may) vote UKIP might just let them back in again. To which my answer is if Ding offered the majority of the people in the UK something they wanted, they'd vote for him, as it is he's not, they're not and so might lose, tough really but that's they way popularity competitions (aka democracy) work, as it is they both look the same from a distance so people might just stick with the devil they know, or vote for someone different and independent offering them what they want.
Who can argue with that?
New Labour have ruined this country.
They need to be sent a clear message when the election comes.
Send them to political oblivion.
It's title is 'The Utter Failure of New Labour'
This is the blog;
The utter failure of New Labour
♫ Things can only get better ♪ That was the song that heralded in the reign of New Labour, the Blairite dream team, the leftist militant tendency consigned to the ashes of history, a brand new day dawning and freedom from the corruption and sleaze of the Major government.
What we actually got was this.
Record peacetime debt.
Record peacetime deficit.
The first fascist MEP elected to the European Parliament.
UK drops from 7th to 24th in international maths and literacy rankings.
100 new taxes on the middle class.
Council taxes double for the middle classes.
Council tax revaluation if Labour are voted back in.
4,300 petty new laws.
Authoritarian police state oppressing legitimate protest, photography and law abiding citizens.
Doubled the length of tax law and created a mass of new regulations.
Sold the UK's gold reserves at the bottom of the market.
Ripped up a system of financial regulation proven over 300 years; 10 years later the UK has 5 Failed banks.
Destroyed the best private pension provision in europe, taking £100bn from prudent pensioners.
Destroyed more of the UK's manufacturing sector than Thatcher.
Politicisation of the police, the civil service, education.
Falling productivity in public sector despite 48% real-terms increase in spending.
Overseen the rise of the unaccountable, unsackable, feather-bedded bureaucrat, taking control over every aspect of people's lives.
New GP contract increased average pay to £100,000.
Most GPs refuse to provide care during evenings and weekends.
Arrest of an opposition MP for doing his job.
House prices unaffordable for workers on average salaries.
Soaring knife and violent crime in our cities.
Debasement of politics, endless re-announcements of the same policy, cash for peerages, lies, spin and deceit.
200+ service personal killed.
First non-jury Crown court trials.
Abolished century old practises of Parliament; House of Lords, Life Peers, Lord Chancellor's department, Lord Chancellor diminished
3 million immigrants invited into the UK to take 81% of all new jobs created.
1 million young people unemployed.
Jacqui Smith.
Foot and mouth crisis (twice)
Farm payments
Tax credits
Afghanistan war
Iraq war
Under funded ill-equipped Forces
Privatised large parts of defence establishment for short term gain
PFI
Home Office failures
Uncontrolled immigration (am I a racist for mentioning immigration, dear me)
NHS in tatters
School standards at the lowest ever
Thousands of knee jerk badly written laws
Rampant EU fraud
EU ignoring its own people
EU referendum promise reneged
Treaty/Constitution
Northern Rock
RBS
HMRC
Lost data – child benefit and dvlc
Donorgate
Climategate
Cash for Honours
Single families
Economy in complete tatters
First time buyers taken out of market
Rich and poor divide becoming bigger
Plenty of tax rises – both direct and indirect
Uncontrolled private sector
Crime out of control
Young deaths
Guns on our streets
NO ELECTION
Quangos controlling parliament
Populist Catholicism
H/T 13th Spitfire
We also got this.
Thanks to Labour, it is now illegal to swim in the wreck of the Titanic or to sell game birds killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day – eventualities overlooked by previous governments.
Labour has made 4,289 activities illegal since the 1997 election, at a rate of about one a day – twice the speed with which the previous Conservative government created crimes.
Gordon Brown was the worst offender, with his government inventing 33 new crimes a month. Tony Blair's administration made 27 new offences each month.
Some of the more inventive crimes dreamt up by Labour include "disturbing a pack of eggs when directed not to by an authorised officer" and reporting the door of a merchant ship to be closed and locked when it isn't.
Labour also introduced laws against activities which would already have been covered by previous legislation – such as "causing a nuclear explosion."
Liberal Democrat home office spokesman Chris Huhne, who brought the figures to light, will criticise the government's administrative binge in a speech tonight.
He will say Labour has spent 12 years "suffering from the most acute and prolonged bout of legislative diarrhoea", calling the rate of 69 new Home Affairs Bills in 12 years "staggering".
And now we have this.
The gap between rich and poor in the UK is wider now than 40 years ago, a government-commissioned report says.
"Deep-seated and systemic differences" remain between men and women and minority groups in pay and employment, the National Equality Panel found.
It said in areas such as neighbourhood renewal, taxes and education, policy action was needed to limit inequality.
The issues raised would need "sustained and focused action", Equalities Minister Harriet Harman said.
"But for the sake of the right of every individual to reach their full potential, for the sake of a strong and meritocratic economy and to achieve a peaceful and cohesive society, that is the challenge that must be met," she added.
Not just a fail, this is an epic fail, social mobility has ground to a halt because of Labours attempts to stifle any form of individuality or excellence. It's the classic socialist trap of doing away with first class travel only for everyone to have to travel second class. Never in UK history has so much damage to society been done in such a short space of time by so few to so many.
It will take decades to repair the mess they've left assuming we can do it at all, our kids and their kids will be paying off the interest on the national debt, even assuming we are coming out of a recession (hah!) it wont be enough, they've taxed us into penury, ruined our international credit rating and printed money to keep on paying out for their profligacy despite being warned of the dangers of runaway inflation.
Well ♫ Things can only get better ♪ because they are (hopefully) on their way out, though to believe some Tory blogs the fact that people like me who (may) vote UKIP might just let them back in again. To which my answer is if Ding offered the majority of the people in the UK something they wanted, they'd vote for him, as it is he's not, they're not and so might lose, tough really but that's they way popularity competitions (aka democracy) work, as it is they both look the same from a distance so people might just stick with the devil they know, or vote for someone different and independent offering them what they want.
Who can argue with that?
New Labour have ruined this country.
They need to be sent a clear message when the election comes.
Send them to political oblivion.
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Why so long?
Just read the headline to this article in the Mail.
David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Seventy years (70 years) for a 'suicide'.
What on earth could be in that post mortem report that in needs to be kept secret for 70 years?
David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information
Seventy years (70 years) for a 'suicide'.
What on earth could be in that post mortem report that in needs to be kept secret for 70 years?
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Quangos
What are quangos and why do we need so many?
In my opinion a quango is just a talking shop that the government uses to make their policy for the day.
Here is a quote, from this article in the Mail today.
Definitions of what a Quango is vary a bit. But using a rather tight definition the Economic Research Council estimates a total spending of £88.9 billion for 1997/98 and £174.7 billion for 2005/06, the latest figures available. The Taxpayers Alliance estimate that UK quangos now employ an army of almost 700,000 bureaucrats.
Now I am in total shock at the amount of money that has been spent on these quangos. How on earth can the government justify the amount of money being spent.
£86,000,000,000 (£86 BILLION) and that's only up until 2005/06.
How much more has been spent in the last 4 years?
£86 BILLION extra spent on quangos, that's about half of the UK debt.
What else could the £86 BILLION of tax payers money been spent on?
More hospitals, more nurses, more equipment for our troops, there are a million and one things that the money could of been better spent on.
700,000 employed by these quangos. Is this how the government has been keeping the jobless figures down all these years?
Are the quangos good value for money?
Do the quangos offer the country good value for money?
Who ever wins the next general election, must cut the amount of money spent on the quangos.
In my opinion a quango is just a talking shop that the government uses to make their policy for the day.
Here is a quote, from this article in the Mail today.
Definitions of what a Quango is vary a bit. But using a rather tight definition the Economic Research Council estimates a total spending of £88.9 billion for 1997/98 and £174.7 billion for 2005/06, the latest figures available. The Taxpayers Alliance estimate that UK quangos now employ an army of almost 700,000 bureaucrats.
Now I am in total shock at the amount of money that has been spent on these quangos. How on earth can the government justify the amount of money being spent.
£86,000,000,000 (£86 BILLION) and that's only up until 2005/06.
How much more has been spent in the last 4 years?
£86 BILLION extra spent on quangos, that's about half of the UK debt.
What else could the £86 BILLION of tax payers money been spent on?
More hospitals, more nurses, more equipment for our troops, there are a million and one things that the money could of been better spent on.
700,000 employed by these quangos. Is this how the government has been keeping the jobless figures down all these years?
Are the quangos good value for money?
Do the quangos offer the country good value for money?
Who ever wins the next general election, must cut the amount of money spent on the quangos.
Saturday, 16 January 2010
I know one thing that can be cut from the budget without to much trouble.
Have a read of this article and see if the government can cut this out of their spending and save a bit of our money.
Taxpayers' £600,000 a year bill to support Tony Blair's Middle East role
Taxpayers are spending more than £600,000 a year on civil servants and office support for Tony Blair’s role as a Middle East peace envoy.
I don't think many people would object to this being cut from the budget.
Taxpayers' £600,000 a year bill to support Tony Blair's Middle East role
Taxpayers are spending more than £600,000 a year on civil servants and office support for Tony Blair’s role as a Middle East peace envoy.
I don't think many people would object to this being cut from the budget.
Labour Promises
Did you listen to the speech Gordon Brown gave to the Fabian society today.
He was promising this and that, telling us what he plans for the UK in the future, and it made me think of all the promises Labour made in 1997 when they came to power.
The two everyone remembers is;
‘Education, Education, Education’
The other;
‘Tough on crime. Tough on the Causes of Crime’
We all know how well they came out.
It made me think what else they promised over the years, and what rights that have been given us and what rights that have been taken away.
Here are some quotes from Labour’s 1997 manifesto taken from the Labour party Website;
' This is our contract with the people'
I believe in Britain. It is a great country with a great history. The British people are a great people. But I believe Britain can and must be better: better schools, better hospitals, better ways of tackling crime, of building a modern welfare state, of equipping ourselves for a new world economy.
Yes Great Britain was a great country until Labour got hold of it. We are losing our identity, our patriotism, our community spirit. Was that what they wanted in the first place.
I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the few, strong and sure of itself at home and abroad.
One nation. Why then did you give devolution to Scotland and Wales then. Was it to break up the UNITED Kingdom.
'Run for the many not the few'. Is the many, the many MPs troughing the expenses system, or run for the many people on benefits who have no intention on ever finding a job.
'Shared Values'. Are these the values where young teenagers get themselves seriously drunk every week.
The shared values where people get beaten up and sometimes killed just by trying to protect their property and family.
The same shared values where people get more compensation for stubbing their toe than for our troops who come home hurt and maimed.
The same shared values where a criminal has more human rights than the law abiding citizens of this country.
In education
We reject both the idea of a return to the 11-plus and the monolithic comprehensive schools that take no account of children's differing abilities. Instead we favour all-in schooling which identifies the distinct abilities of individual pupils and organises them in classes to maximise their progress in individual subjects. In this way we modernise the comprehensive principle, learning from the experience of its 30 years of application.
He was promising this and that, telling us what he plans for the UK in the future, and it made me think of all the promises Labour made in 1997 when they came to power.
The two everyone remembers is;
‘Education, Education, Education’
The other;
‘Tough on crime. Tough on the Causes of Crime’
We all know how well they came out.
It made me think what else they promised over the years, and what rights that have been given us and what rights that have been taken away.
Here are some quotes from Labour’s 1997 manifesto taken from the Labour party Website;
' This is our contract with the people'
I believe in Britain. It is a great country with a great history. The British people are a great people. But I believe Britain can and must be better: better schools, better hospitals, better ways of tackling crime, of building a modern welfare state, of equipping ourselves for a new world economy.
Yes Great Britain was a great country until Labour got hold of it. We are losing our identity, our patriotism, our community spirit. Was that what they wanted in the first place.
I want a Britain that is one nation, with shared values and purpose, where merit comes before privilege, run for the many not the few, strong and sure of itself at home and abroad.
One nation. Why then did you give devolution to Scotland and Wales then. Was it to break up the UNITED Kingdom.
'Run for the many not the few'. Is the many, the many MPs troughing the expenses system, or run for the many people on benefits who have no intention on ever finding a job.
'Shared Values'. Are these the values where young teenagers get themselves seriously drunk every week.
The shared values where people get beaten up and sometimes killed just by trying to protect their property and family.
The same shared values where people get more compensation for stubbing their toe than for our troops who come home hurt and maimed.
The same shared values where a criminal has more human rights than the law abiding citizens of this country.
In education
We reject both the idea of a return to the 11-plus and the monolithic comprehensive schools that take no account of children's differing abilities. Instead we favour all-in schooling which identifies the distinct abilities of individual pupils and organises them in classes to maximise their progress in individual subjects. In this way we modernise the comprehensive principle, learning from the experience of its 30 years of application.
Education where a significant proportion of school leavers can't read, write or add up correctly, if they can at all.
Education, where the system has been changed so many times that the teachers don't know what to teach the pupils.
Education, where you teach young pupils, of 5 or 6 about what homosexuality is, and about domestic violence. What ever happened to letting children be children. Let their minds have their innocence for a couple of years at least.
On crime
We believe in personal responsibility and in punishing crime, but also tackling its underlying causes - so, tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime, different from the Labour approach of the past and the Tory policy of today.
On crime, where you let out of prison dangerous criminal, including murders and rapists, who go out and re offend with in days, if not hours of getting out.
On crime, where a house owner gets arrested for protecting his family and property from the criminal, but if the criminal breaking into the home attacks that same homeowner he gets a ridiculously soft sentence, usually a couple of months in prison but more likely a community order.
On Crime, where you beat, starve and torture a baby and you get sentenced to 5 years.
On Crime, where life in prison could mean the criminal gets sentenced to 15 years, but only serves half that sentence.
On crime, where free speech can be a criminal offence.
Over-centralisation of government and lack of accountability was a problem in governments of both left and right. Labour is committed to the democratic renewal of our country through decentralisation and the elimination of excessive government secrecy.
Secrecy, is this the secrecy that politicians tried to keep their expenses from the public eye.
De-centralisation, where everything we do is micro managed.
Democratic renewal, were you promised a referendum on the constitution, which later became the Lisbon treaty, But you signed it any way.
In addition, we will face up to the new issues that confront us. We will be the party of welfare reform. In consultation and partnership with the people, we will design a modern welfare state based on rights and duties going together, fit for the modern world.
A welfare state, where people are better off on welfare than in a job.
A welfare state, that a woman, or young teen, gets pregnant and gets given a house, and then gets more money the more children she has.
A welfare state, where people earn more money on welfare than the people who work for a living, where, certain people on welfare, have luxuries that some of the people who work can only dream of.
A welfare state, where extremists can live on welfare while praising terrorists who attack this country and our troops. Extremists who talk hate, but aren't arrested for it.
A welfare state, where immigrants can just enter this country illegally and get jobs with the government, the solicitor general for example. A welfare state where immigrants can get paid for children that aren't even living in this country.
We will stand up for Britain's interests in Europe after the shambles of the last six years, but, more than that, we will lead a campaign for reform in Europe. Europe isn't working in the way this country and Europe need. But to lead means to be involved, to be constructive, to be capable of getting our own way.
Where do i start with this one.
Labour have caved in at every turn when it comes to Europe.
Stand up for Britain's interests, that would be a laugh if it wasn't so serious.
A broken promise on a referendum.
Giving back a hard fought rebate, where the Eu 'promised' to reform the 'Common Agriculture policy' but didn't do a thing.
I could go on forever with Europe, but i would be here till next week writing it up
What about our Freedoms and liberties.
The Following examples come from;
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/2008/03/06/loss-of-liberty-and-rights-since-1997
Loss of Liberty and Rights since 1997
Protest and assembly
- Protests are banned within one kilometre of Parliament Square without police permission (penalty: 51 weeks in jail and/or a £2,500 fine).
- Groups may be dispersed under antisocial-behaviour laws.
- Groups may be dispersed within designated areas under the terror laws.
- The new offence under SOCPA of trespass within a designated site (no justification for designation is required).
Communications
- Under the Regulation of Investigative Powers Act, government agencies may intercept email, internet connections and standard mail without seeking a court's permission (the latest figure is 500,000 secret interceptions a year).
- Since summer 2007, the government and some 700 agencies have had access to all landline and mobile-phone records. There was no primary legislation and no debate in parliament.
Databases
- Without primary legislation, police introduced a national network of all ANPR cameras. The travel data may be stored for two years.
- The National Identity Register will store details of every verification made by an ID-card holder and give access to government agencies without the knowledge or consent of the private citizen.
- ID-card enrolment requires every citizen to offer up 49 piece of personal information to the national database, with heavy and repeated fines for non-compliance.
- All children details are to be stored on a central database, with access granted to a wide range of public bodies.
- The Children's Common Assessment Framework database stores all details of children with problems, indefinitely.
- The Home Office has announced that it wishes to take 19 pieces of information, including mobile-phone and credit-card numbers, from everyone travelling abroad.
Free Expression
- Public-order laws have been used to curtail free expression. A man wearing the slogan "Bollocks to Blair" on his T-shirt was told to remove it by police.
- The Race and Religious Hatred Act (2006) bans incitement of hatred on religious grounds.
- Justice Minister Jack Straw proposes new laws which would ban the incitement of hatred towards the disabled and on the grounds of a person's sexual orientation
- Terror laws are used to ban freedom of expression in designated areas. Walter Wolfgang was removed from the Labour party conference for heckling Jack Straw. People have been searched simply for wearing slogans on their T-shirts or for carrying banners. A man was detained while collecting signatures against the ID card
- The Protection from Harassment Act (1997) bans the repetition of an act. People prosecuted for repeated protest by email.
- Terror laws ban the glorification of terrorism, which has resulted in the prosecution of a young woman for writing poetry.
The Courts
- ASBO legislation introduces hearsay evidence, which may result in a person being sent to jail.
- The Criminal Justice Act (2003) allows the prosecution to make an application to be heard without a jury where there is a danger of jury tampering. This will include fraud trials.
- The admissibility of evidence concerning a person's bad character, previous convictions and acquittals.
- The Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) gives the state powers to confiscate assets in circumstances where it does not have enough evidence for prosecution.
-Special Immigration Appeals Court hearings are held in secret. Those terror suspects whose cases come before the court are not allowed to know the evidence against them or to be represented by a lawyer of their own choice.
- The Courts and Tribunals Enforcement Act abandons the tradition of an Englishman's home being his castle, which since 1604 has made breaking into a home by bailiffs illegal.
Terror Laws
- Terror laws have been used to stop and search ordinary citizens. The current rate is 50,000 per annum.
- A maximum of 28 days without charge is allowed under terror legislation. The government has announced plans to increase this to 42 days.
- Control orders, effectively indefinite house arrest, were introduced after the Belmarsh decision.
I'm sorry for this being so long, but Gordon Brown really got to me today with his speech, i just had to let go a bit.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
ASBO Youths to be Named and Shamed says PM
The Prime Minister says ASBO youths will be named and shamed by having their names published on the internet and by leaflet. (See Link)
Will it be a deterrent to those hardcore youths out there determined to cause havoc on our streets. In my opinion Not A Chance.
The only way to combat these youths is to have police patrolling our streets. The police also need to know that they won't be held back by any politically correct rubbish. There are times for the police to be tactful, and there are other times when they need to be forceful.
Having the police patrolling our streets is one thing, the other is the courts. When the police arrest someone, say for disturbing the peace or even assault, the police gather evidence and send it to the CPS, they go to court and they get a conviction. Then the magistrates sentence them to a ridiculously soft sentence, even though the same person has been in front of them before.
The whole system need to be changed.
The PM quotes;
''The consequences for committing anti-social behaviour should be clear.''
Mr Brown said he was renewing the Government's focus on crime in the weeks ahead as he promised to ''make life better for the mainstream majority''.
I have just one thing i have to say to the PM, remember what your party said twelve and a half years ago.
What you can't remember, here let me remind you;
'TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME'
You're a bit late, you should of stuck to what you said all those years ago.
Will it be a deterrent to those hardcore youths out there determined to cause havoc on our streets. In my opinion Not A Chance.
The only way to combat these youths is to have police patrolling our streets. The police also need to know that they won't be held back by any politically correct rubbish. There are times for the police to be tactful, and there are other times when they need to be forceful.
Having the police patrolling our streets is one thing, the other is the courts. When the police arrest someone, say for disturbing the peace or even assault, the police gather evidence and send it to the CPS, they go to court and they get a conviction. Then the magistrates sentence them to a ridiculously soft sentence, even though the same person has been in front of them before.
The whole system need to be changed.
The PM quotes;
''The consequences for committing anti-social behaviour should be clear.''
Mr Brown said he was renewing the Government's focus on crime in the weeks ahead as he promised to ''make life better for the mainstream majority''.
I have just one thing i have to say to the PM, remember what your party said twelve and a half years ago.
What you can't remember, here let me remind you;
'TOUGH ON CRIME, TOUGH ON THE CAUSES OF CRIME'
You're a bit late, you should of stuck to what you said all those years ago.
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Now the Police are Training Libyans
Does this government have no morals left.
After the news that SAS Troops have been training Libyan soldiers, now we hear that the British Police have been training Libyan police.
What about the murderer of PC Yvonne Fletcher, why did the government strike a deal where they would give up trying to bring the murderer of Yvonne Fletcher to justice?
Is it if you waft some money under their nose or promise of economic deals that this government would drop any idea of justice for the people of this Country?
I have this question for Brown and Blair, what if it was your son or daughter that was killed by a Libyan gunman in the embassy siege, or killed by an IRA bomb, funded by the Libyan government?
Would you still give up any idea of justice for them just so you could make a deal.
Yes the deal could create jobs, and would probably benefit this country, but at what cost to our sense of morals.
Here is a couple of articles i have read recently.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6073748/Mother-of-WPc-Yvonne-Fletcher-fears-Lockerbie-bomber-deal-means-she-will-never-get-justice.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6209636/Pc-Yvonne-Fletcher-colleagues-fury-at-decision-not-to-extradite-her-killer-from-Libya.html
I would love for either Blair or Brown to go to PC Yvonne Fletcher's mother, look her in the eye, and tell her exactly why they gave up getting justice for her daughter.
I would love to know what it took for the government to give up it's morals to make the deal that they made.
After the news that SAS Troops have been training Libyan soldiers, now we hear that the British Police have been training Libyan police.
What about the murderer of PC Yvonne Fletcher, why did the government strike a deal where they would give up trying to bring the murderer of Yvonne Fletcher to justice?
Is it if you waft some money under their nose or promise of economic deals that this government would drop any idea of justice for the people of this Country?
I have this question for Brown and Blair, what if it was your son or daughter that was killed by a Libyan gunman in the embassy siege, or killed by an IRA bomb, funded by the Libyan government?
Would you still give up any idea of justice for them just so you could make a deal.
Yes the deal could create jobs, and would probably benefit this country, but at what cost to our sense of morals.
Here is a couple of articles i have read recently.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6073748/Mother-of-WPc-Yvonne-Fletcher-fears-Lockerbie-bomber-deal-means-she-will-never-get-justice.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6209636/Pc-Yvonne-Fletcher-colleagues-fury-at-decision-not-to-extradite-her-killer-from-Libya.html
I would love for either Blair or Brown to go to PC Yvonne Fletcher's mother, look her in the eye, and tell her exactly why they gave up getting justice for her daughter.
I would love to know what it took for the government to give up it's morals to make the deal that they made.
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