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April 24, 2010

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Michael Dean

IF Brown could have run the UK better then he would have done!

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.

Keywords: credit crunch, debt, economy, election, national health service, recession, UK Economy

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April 02, 2010

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Michael Dean

New Labour are making a real big deal about the opposition to increases in the NI

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!

Keywords: Brown, election, mandelson, New Labour, NHS, NI, recession, tax, taxes, UK economy

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March 09, 2010

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Michael Dean

The forthcoming election is about debt and failure to govern!

Anyone who is in debt or who has been in debt knows that the sooner the debt repayment starts, the less money is actually needed to clear the debt.
Gordon Brown doesn't want to do this for short term benefit to himself!
To go into the election promising , as Brown has been doing, money all over the place is a very cynical attempt to gain political credence for himself at the expense of the tax payers of the UK.
Brown knows that the longer he leaves it before starting to repay debt , then the longer we will be paying increased taxes and the greater the amount of money that is needed to clear the debts of this Labour government!
Cameron wants to start debt repayment as soon as possible. In the long term this is the best approach.
Brown and New Labour's time in power has been a disaster.  How can anyone expect the people who have so completely failed to run the country properly to be the people who are competent enough to get us out of the mess they caused!

Keywords: brown, debt, election, new labour, recession, uk, uk debt

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February 22, 2010

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Michael Dean

As prime minister Gordon Brown is like a fish out of water

These accusations of bullying support my view that Brown is simply under too much pressure and is struggling too much for him to do his job properly!

As prime minister he is like a fish out of water. No wonder so many of his policies have failed to work as expected. No wonder the UK is in such deep financial doodoo!

It has been clear to me for a number of years that it is Number 10 that has caused the UK so many problems since Blair resigned. The leadership that the UK requires has not been available.
The focus of power in the UK is Number 10. This is where the UK is controlled from, in many ways it can be compared to the helm of a ship.

If the ship is in stormy waters and the captain is not in control then the ship can end up on the rocks! For the UK economy the 'rocks' is the recession that the UK is suffering so much from. Most other countries in the world avoided the rocks because the captain was in control!

Keywords: Brown, Gordon Brown, minister, pm, prime minister, uk

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February 10, 2010

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Michael Dean

Where has all the money gone?

So new taxes are required to care for the elderly! Surprised that Brown let this out into the public domain!  
The UK cannot take care of it’s elderly, who have paid their taxes throughout their lives, without taxing the current generation.
Looks like Labour have simply spent the money whilst in power and have done nothing to provide for the elderly and those who need help in their old age.
 
Is Gordon Brown incapable of planning ahead?

How can Labour have spent it all IF the UK economy has been as successful as Labour claims whilst in government!!! Remember they started with the ‘Golden Inheritance’ from the last Conservative government?
 
Labour took office with a strong economy. So where did the money go?

It appears to me that Brown, despite his friendship with Prudence, has simply bankrupted the UK whilst in power. (And don’t blame the recession, we were in trouble before the global recession hit!).
 
If  Labour REALLY put the UK first then we would have an election as soon as possible to allow an elected PM to get on with the job of fixing the UK as soon as possible! Whilst Labour hangs on hoping that the economy gets better, Brown is putting his own career BEFORE the needs of the UK.

Keywords: bankrupt, brown, economy, incompetent, labour, New Labour, recession, UK

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January 27, 2010

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Michael Dean

Prime Minister Blair said that war was necessary!

A lot of people accepted that the war was necessary because the Prime Minister of the UK said that it was necessary.

They were being misled by Blair, Brown and New Labour but that dues not mean that they were wrong to put the safety of the citizens of the UK as their first priority!

I have a problem with the Lib Dems voting against a war which we were told was necessary for the security and safety of the people of the UK.

If Blair was telling the truth about the need for war then the Lib Dems were not putting the security of the UK as their first priority!

The fact that Blair, Brown and New Labour were misleading us about the importance of war to defend our country, does not detract from the fact that the Liberal Democrats chose not to take steps to protect the UK from being targeted by Iraq.

Keywords: blair, brown, iraq, labour, lies, new labour, truth, war, wmd

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January 10, 2010

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Michael Dean

Governments MUST be elected

I heard Brown yesterday say that he would stay as PM if he was re-elected. He seems to have forgotten that he was never elected as PM in the first place.

Brown is a very good example of the dangers and folly of allowing anyone positions of authority over a country without being elected by the people. If people get a chance to elect someone who turns out to be useless, then they have no one to blame but themselves. That is the way the system works.

But Brown was not elected.

That is the main reason, in my view, why people are so against New Labour now that Brown has taken the UK from an economy in a really good position (remember the Golden Inheritance of the last Conservative government?) and almost bankrupted the UK and leaving us with debts that will take twenty years of austerity to pay off!

Brown has messed up this country big-time! And he was not elected by the people, he was foisted on us by this Labour government. Both will take the blame for the mess that the economy and the country is in. 

Keywords: economy, elected, election, leader, New Labour, pm

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December 12, 2009

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Michael Dean

Blair 'I would have gone to war if there had been no WMD'

Blair seems to be saying that he did not lie about the WMD but would have done so if necessary! The fact that he would take the UK to war against other nations without a very good reason, one which has to include the defence of the UK, shows what a bad choice was made at the last election by many people in the UK. It won't be a popular view, but I believe people voted for Blair because they were taken in by what was effectively an advertising campaign rather than selecting a PM who had substance! Many people blame Brown for the huge financial mess that the UK is in, but it must be remembered that Blair was the PM until June 2007 by which time the UK was set fast on the course towards near financial collapse.

Keywords: blair, economy, iraq, uk, war, war monger, wmd

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November 25, 2009

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Michael Dean

Banks win overdraft charges court case

This court case was never addressing the main issue.

It is not the principle of having penalties for going overdrawn, it is the AMOUNT of penalty that these greedy and grasping banks are taking.

The very concept of a FIXED penalty is the problem. These penalties are set up to penalise the poorest and weakest in our society.

This incompetent Labour government did a huge amount of damage by closing post offices and forcing many people to have benefits, pensions etc paid into bank accounts. They did not understand the consequences of this action, all they could see were cost saving!

People on low incomes should NOT be forced to have a bank account. They are the least able to manage bank accounts and the ones who suffer the most when things go wrong.

Many elderly, sick and low paid workers only have £50 a week available to pay ALL their bills. The moment they get charged £30 plus, their accounts go out of control and they end up owing the banks hundreds of pounds.

Penalty charges MUST be PROPORTIONAL to income.

We cannot have a situation where the money paid to the poorest people in our society and which they need to live on is taken by the banks to increase their profits and add to the bonuses paid to the senior staff!!

Our prime minister did not bother listening to those who forecast exactly what would happen if the government persisted in forcing people to open bank accounts. Gordon Brown made the wrong decision, as usual, and the poorest people in the UK are the ones who are hit the hardest!

Keywords: bank, benefits, Brown, Cameron, charges, Conservatives, council tax, credit crunch, energy bills, financial, greed, Labour, labour, overdraft, overdrawn, recession, UK Economy

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November 21, 2009

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Michael Dean

Police should INVESTIGATE crimes, not just visit victims!

The Home Secretary Alan Johnson is apparently saying that the police should visit every crime victim.

This is an amazing statement and confirms what the people in the UK already know. This is simply that the police do not bother with investigating every crime that takes place. Because if they did, then the police would already be visiting every crime victim!

The police are not bothering to investigate a huge amount of the crime that takes place. We know from the media that the police refuse to turn up on many occasions, especially for ‘low level’ crime such as yobs smashing up property and fighting on the streets. Any crimes involving credit cards are now simply ignored.

Yes, Brown is employing more police but they seem to spend most of their time back in the police station filling in reports! 

I am cynical enough about this government to wonder if so much of this ‘low level’ crime is deliberately being ignored in order to reduce the crime figures!

The same applies to the police issuing fixed penalty notices for a range of public order offences. I would guess that these offences are not included in the crime figures because no prosecution takes place!

Labour’s failure to build prisons in advance of when they would be required means that we do not have the prison places required. The answer that this government appears to have come up with is to ignore a lot of the crime going on in the streets.

Keywords: crime, criminals, david cameron, gordon brown, government, police, policing policy

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