Interesting article, thanks for that I love the way they keep trying to blame Labour for the coalitions inability to do anything... A couple of bits which I found particularly interesting for those un willing, unable to read the whole "It was all meant to be so different. Rewind to the emergency Budget of 2010, and the deficit should by now have been reduced to £89bn, with £60bn and £37bn pencilled in for the two years running up to the election. In fact, the deficit is still stuck at £121bn, with £120bn and £108bn extrapolated for the next two years.
Lack of growth has completely poleaxed the centre piece of the Government’s economic strategy — getting the deficit under control Yet it’s even worse than it seems. To pay for his own tax giveaways, the Chancellor has engaged in accounting trickery The more serious use of smoke and mirrors lies in the Government’s treatment of national insurance revenues from public sector employees. This is the big “gain” which has given the Chancellor the fiscal flexibility he needs to announce a series of tax and spend “giveaways” for the year after next.
It’s also complicated, so do keep up there at the back. As part of the government’s reform of the state pension, the government is in effect going to have to pay more national insurance on behalf of public sector workers than it has done. In its desperation, the Treasury has decided to bank this extra money as if it was extra tax revenue, even though this is actually just one part of the government paying more to another part.
The government is actually just paying the extra revenue to itself. It’s a big sum of money — a hefty £3.3bn a year. What a find" So, Gideon makes things worse for himself, then by lying he turns it into a positive which will mean more pain in the long run EDIT.. I know it is a waste of time trying to tell them the truth as opposed to the spin they are fed by the right, but, some of us have to at least try I feel.
Gordon Brown was, by and large a good Chancellor, probably the BEST since the War, less good as PM, but when the Banking crisis hit (The product of right wing reaganomic thinking) he saw with crystal clarity the solution, Balls has the potential to also be a great Chancellor in the same mould, he has been telling the Tories the answers, but they can't listen. I hope they get in next time round, the tories I mean, they are leaving a massive debt crisis to be dealt with and like Thatcher, nothing will be coming in to help solve it. The latest outpourings from the current darlings of the right, UKIP show them as the far right lunatics which they are...
All the griping about Labour or Tories is not going to solve anything that's happened in the past - I'm as guilty as any. In my humble opinion it was not only the bankers who landed us in this mess but also the following: How much did the Iraq war cost the UK? How much is Afghanistan costing the taxpayer?
How much is it going to cost if / when we get involved in Syria? How much is it going to cost when we get involved in Africa? How much is it costing for a continual presence of Military resources in the Falklands? How much is monitoring potential terrorists in the UK costing us?
How much is giving social security to undesirables costing us? How much is EU contributions costing us? How much is it going to cost when the Unions start their nonsense....they've been quiet up till now.
Those are just a fraction of cases that are soaking money away and the final total must be eye watering. It can not be allowed to continue.
He has a watch dog on his head for protection.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.