Re: Listen and learn


"Brian Reay" <see@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:CcgTj.121240$4f4.81754@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


"Not Today" <Nottoday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1rgk8b.5qp.17.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That is what our Great Leader is going to do to "regain the confidence of the British people."

He is clueless. This Prime Minister had ten years to listen to the people before he was "gifted" the premiership. He should have been the most prepared Prime Minister ever. Yet 10 months on he says he needs to listen and learn.

For ten years we have had to listen to him crowing how his stewardship of the economy has been one great success story. Having spent all our money so we have the largest budget deficit in the developed world, which means we are broke, having taxed us and the seriously poor to the hilt, having led a charmed life on stoking a boom on cheap oil and Chinese imports, it is now all falling apart. For a man who is always going on about being prudent he put no money aside to soften the bad times that anyone with half a brain could forecast were coming. So, now he cannot cut taxes to regain popularity he looks like a rabbit in the headlights, bewildered, and no clue where to run. It is not his fault of course, he has persuaded himself it is a "subprime" problem. He is right there, we have a subPrime Minister and he should go.

I hope you recognise that the 10p tax "rebels" are just diverting attention from the real issues. The loss of the 10p band will cost Joe Public about £225, say £4 / week. This is dwarfed by the other tax increases- even if you don't have a car the tax on fuel will "hit you" far more, not to mention the increases in Council Tax etc.

I think Joe Public recognises that. I heard that little Benn with the girls name, Hilary, say at lunchtime that the public recognises the "achievements" of the Labour Government such as low inflation and low mortage rates but are worried about the price of food, council tax, fuel and heating. Who is he kidding? How can we have low inflation and the public worried about prices? The inflation figures are a sham and bear no reality to what people spend, and mortgages at present are damn near unavailable. No wonder the public is worried.


I expect Gordon will announce some "plan" to compensate the low paid for the loss of the 10p band and no one will notice the creeping cost of the "Green" policies and taxes.

Don't assume the Tories will be any better- they didn't "win" the recent round because they've a better approach. They won it because they aren't on Gordon's side.
I don't expect Boris, for example, to scrap the congestion charges.

I would not want him to. For without it London's streets would grind to a complete halt. There is a case for the congestion charge to be scrapped for people who live in London but not people who live outside.


The problem is, all the parties are afraid to do what needs doing- control the influx of economic migrants and ensure that the low paid jobs they do are done by those currently living on benefits. Stop funding the development of the new entrants to the EU and cut foreign aid. Ensure the residual aid is spent in a way that also helps the UK. Stop funding the Scottish and Welsh assemblies (and their polices) from English tax. Expect the Iraqis to fund UK the troops sorting out their problem by paying in oil.

(Oh, and I'm a life long Tory, by the way.)

You forgot our troops in Afghanistan, the 2012 Olympic Games debacle and the raid on pensions.

And I am a life long Libertarian.


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