Amazing how many people are prepared to state what Cameron and the Conservatives are going to do next. Some sort of gift of prophecy?

Yet they forget all that Brown and New Labour have actually done, stuff that is all documented, it is in fact history.

How can anyone expect Brown and the rest of New Labour to do anything different than they have already done.

We have a major financial meltdown in progress. We are going to be taxed to the hilt and beyond just to pay the huge debts we have incurred. The UK economy now is almost on the same level as Greece!

IF Brown and New Labour could have run the UK better than they have managed to do, then I would suggest that they would have done better. 
What we have seen in the financial meltdown is the best that Brown and New Labour can manage to do! 

Their best is nowhere near good enough. That is why they should be out of power ASAP.

Gordon Brown said:

"I am naturally concerned that the taxpayer gets a fair deal - especially that the taxpayer gets a fair deal from the institutions that in the last year have benefited massively from support across the world."

So does Gordon Brown think that this is a fair deal for the taxpayers?

Borrowing billions of pounds in their name and expecting them to pay extra taxes for the next 25 years in order to pay the debts?

I just wonder how much would need to have been borrowed to prevent the closure of shops like Woolworths, which employed lots of people!!

And I have also said many times that these banks should not be allowed to get rid of any staff on a non-voluntary basis. They have been given billions of taxpayers money, yet are allowed to fire staff! This not only adds to the unemployment levels, brings the miseries of families losing homes, and removes yet more spending power by people in employment.

There does not appear to be any joined up thinking in the way that Brown and Darling are managing the UK economy!

What are New Labour proposing?

The Mail on Sunday has details of a new tax on anyone who lives in a house, unless there are no redeeming features at all of the house or the view from the house!

William III introduced a window tax in 1696 . Glass was the equivalent of a good view or local amenities, but the principle is the same.

Charles Stuart II introduced a Hearth or Fireplace Tax in 1662. The tax had to be paid for each fireplace in a property.

The significance of this new New Labour tax is that it is not based on absolutes, At least the Kings of old actually taxed something that was useful  to the householder!

You may not like the view from your house. You may be fed up with the bus stop outside your gate because of the noise at night and the mess left around your gate. But you will still have to pay this tax!

We already pay council tax on our poperties, the amount paid depends upon the value of the propety in question. But the factors that determine the value of a house include the size of the house, the area the house is in, the views from the house, the presence of patios and conservatories, garages and the availability of parking.

In fact the new envy tax from New Labour is based on many of the factors that establish the council tax band.

This is a second tax on top of the council. We are being taxed TWICE for the same property assets!

No wonder New Labour like this tax! Right down their street!

Brown is claiming that the Afghan battle going on at the moment is a key battle, but I don't think that it is! Trouble is that Brown is in a position where he cannot say anything else!

The simple fact is that our troops are fighting an enemy who are an integral part of the the society there. The taliban can put their weapons down and merge into the background.

I heard one soldier saying that the taliban can walk through the frontline at will, without weapons they are just civilians, and get behind them. They don't know who the enemy is unless they are pointing a gun at them!

We have already captured this area once before and cleared out all the taliban fighters. But it is too big an area to keep free of combatants.  And now we are fighting for the area again.

But we cannot keep this level of troops in the area for ever!!! Once the fighting is over the taliban will just walk back into the area and take it over again, and the cycle will repeat again, and again!

The Taliban don't actually have to fight our troops, a couple of bomb attacks a week causing deaths and injuries is all they have to do!

We might get some short term victories but the war will not be won without coordinated global action. The UK is a small country with an almost bankrupted economy. We cannot keep spending the money that is needed to support our troops properly. Something has to change!!

One question Brown needs to ask himself is  'where are the taliban getting their weapons and their bombs from?'.  Especially the sophisticated armour piercing explosives. Someone is selling these weapons to the taliban.

Why are we allowing the enemy soldiers to be supplied with the weapons they need to fight our soldiers?

The UK economy was already in a bad way when the recession started. It was caused by a worldwide recession caused by failures of many governments to regulate the financial industries properly.

Brown was in charge as chancellor and then prime minister and was responsible for ensuring that the financial regulation was done properly in the UK.  He doesn't seem to like accepting responsibility for his actions if it might cause him to look bad, but he was in charge. It was his responsibility and he failed!

Gordon Brown and New Labour have been in control of the UK for a long time. They cannot blame anyone else for the parlous state of the UK economy.

It is a bit rich for Brown to accuse Cameron of planning to cut services when so much of the  money spent on them was borrowed in the first place!

The next government has to pay back these debts. The cupboard is bare. We don't have the money to repay the debts let alone find the  money for  new services, schools and hospitals etc.

Whoever wins the next election will have to reign back on spending and increase taxes to pay back the debts that New Labour have accumulated during their time in power.

Brown has borrowed billions to get us out of the recession (that he is arguably responsible for!) . We now have to pay that money back from our taxes (don't forget that we have to pay back the interest as well!)

It is obvious that something has to change in the way that the economy is being run. The UK cannot keep borrowing money!

We are going to have to have increased taxes just to repay the existing debt. That is unavoidable and it will take many years of high taxes to clear these debts.

So where will the money come from to maintain the cost of the public services (including the NHS) ? No government, including New Labour, can carry on spending money that they don't have.

When I hear Brown attacking Cameron with accusations that the Conservatives will cut spending on public services, then I do wonder how desperate he is to cling onto power!

Can Brown really keep people from realising  that the UK is saddled with so much debt that  that it is too poor to keep spending money?
Can Brown really make enough people in the UK be more scared of what Cameron might do, than New Labour and Brown have already done to the UK economy?

How happy are people going to be with New Labour  if they have to pay extra taxes and suffer reduced services for many years just to clear the debts incurred by Gordon Brown and New Labour?

And it is not inconceivable that Labour will again end up having to seek help from the International Monetary Fund as it did in 1976.