Gordie, remember him? He's just given a speech in Kampala, Uganda and I have 'lifted' some of it from the BBC report for your edification and enjoyment:
"Turning his attention to the developmental aid given to Africa, he said this needed to increasingly focus on private sector wealth creation, and not just providing services for the poor.
"The job of aid is to kick-start business-led growth and not to replace it," he said.
"And so I believe we need to focus not just on poverty, but on wealth."
So, pumping £billions into public services is NOT the way forward, in which case what the bloomin' 'eck was he doing it for, for 13 years?
The whole country will struggle with theese spending cuts , im sure the millionaires in the coalition goverment are crying into there champagne , as the Nhs , the police , the fire brigade try to save the money they have been told to. Surely the rich should be hit hardest ?
Why? It was a socialist govenrment that allowed/caused this to happen. In my view all Labour voters should pay while the rest of us get a tax holiday. Let those who casued this mess pay to clean it up.
Will the tory voters have paid for the early nineties mess lab were left to clear up ?
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Rick, Labour, or New Labour, just made more and more public debt, which the Tories and Libs are avoiding. The latter's policy is totally inadequate to solve the Country's economic problems, only reduces the increase in public debt; as for New labour's policy, things went terible economically, but didn't look quite as bas as they do now for the sole reason that they just added to the puplic debt. Apart from having wiped out a large part of the industrial production in Britain, Labour formed such a larger public debt that a large part of the budget goes just on paying off the interest on it, not to even mention the actual debt.
Greece was the first country to melt down because of this kind of economy, where a state just borrows and borrows money to fiannce the budget and then ends up having to base the budget on repaying the debt with the interest!
Unless we start finding employment for BRITISH unemployed people in Britain and start getting back lost sectors of economic productiviy, which New Labour literaly flung out of the window, then our Country will collapse within three years!
UKIP knows it and has it written in its agenda!
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Sid, our Country has paid dearly because of the mess, and neither New Labour nor Conservative can clean it up, it's beyond their capacity!
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Gary, I read your question, but let me tell you the answer, the question is based on a wrong prelude! The Tories want to slash not thousands, but hundeds of thousands of jobs! Possibly millions, on the long run. They do not have any plan to bring back employment, as they will not consider getting back the lost productivity which New Labour closed down and handd over to many eastern countries, and they will not consider offering our employment market to the British, as they believe in the e.u. and the right of anyone among many hundreds of millions of e.u. citizens to come and get any job going here! They will not manage to hold out for long, because the economic situation is in a phase of decat: the system is clynicaly dead! Greece only held out because hundreds of billions of euro-pounds are being put aside by some western e.u. countries (governments of these countries) to pump into Greece's fouled and decayed and defunct economic financial system.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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When Britain's treasury melts down, no country will be ale to pump money into our economy, and Germany and Italy and Spain and others are rapidly melting down along with us, and NO-ONE will be able to pump the money into all of these countries to save their defunct debt-ridden treasuries!
Erm, Alexander, the Treasury won't melt down cos Gordie sold off all our gold reserves. There is nothing left to melt.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Mark - Labour inherited a booming economy in 1997 from the Conservatives and turned it into a disaster zone.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Barry.It is not true what you are saying about 1997,the blues got it all wrong and thats why the UK voters booted them out,if they had done what you said they done that would not have happen.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Check you facts Victor....
Even Blair admitted that he inherited a 'golden economic legacy' all totally screwed up by Brown.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the real issue is what the blue/yellow coalition will do now.
do they continue to boost growth or stick to their current plans.
the reds are in the past now, for the moment anyway.
I think they will stick to their guns and hope the next quarter holds up for them. It's still very early days and they will make mistakes but, the recovery has to start somewhere.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Howard - you are falling into the old Labour trap of mixing up public sector growth with real growth. Its real growth that is needed. We need the public sector shrunk back to a level that is sustainable and affordable.
Osborne should rightly stick to his guns.
Brian Dixon
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try eating mars bars they stick as well.
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Brian, you seem to have centred it there! It's about all I could think of too, or may-be even milky-ways. Barry, 1997 was once upon a time, long long...ago!
The UKIP is looking ahead, also regards to a peaceful future, and has a pragmatic view. Production in many sectors has been stripped from our economy, and the Tories have no plans to get it back!