Promises, promises

[fretslider]

It must be election time!

Governments that have been in office for a long time have a problem in devising their election appeal. Labour’s solution is to depict this election as the first of the global age. That will probably warm a certain poster's heart

The range of measures that New Labour proposes make up a defensive request to be trusted because the party’s undertakings have the force of guarantees and obligations placed on public services. Er, right! But therein lies the problem; this is unlikely to be a potent appeal, because it plays to Labour’s weakness: why it promises to do things now that it has not got round to doing in the past 13 years.

And a lot of that precious time was wasted on items like Fox-Hunting. However it pans out, the Government has tacitly acknowledged that the greatest indictment against its economic management of the country is that Britain entered the recession with a wide structural budget deficit. Brown’s “guarantee” that taxpayers will be refunded the cost of the bank rescue is an indication of what this approach is worth: it is not within his power to predict the financial state of the banking system or its ability to repay what it has received. Yes. it's a gamble.



Obvious facts
Blair promised to halve the Tory Quangos and guess what? he doubled them and Brown has given them a wide berth.

Zanu-Labour promised not to introduce fees for Higher Education. Now answer........ the West-Lothian question

The average British voter has a very short memory and it is no wonder they are patronised.

[Ben Lomond]

The really sad thing is that the most venal, inefficient and crooked government the UK has ever had is STILL in with a chance at the election. And this despite the facts that they have ruined the economy, trashed the education system, taken us into TWO unnecessary and probably illegal wars,wasted billions on an unreconstructed health service, opened, as policy, the floodgates of unlimited immigration and in general ruined everything they have touched.

Labour has only one answer to every problem. Throw money at it, and then assume that a cure will follow. And if they haven't got the money, then simply borrow it, and then borrow again, and again, and again. Brown, a clueless muppet, pretends to have saved the world from meltdown. But then again, he also claimed that the UK was best placed to weather the depression, when in fact we were the last European state to emerge...and then only by 0.1%

Another 5 years of New Labour would put the final nails in the coffin of a once proud nation. Surely we cannot be collectively as stupid as to allow them back into power??? Can we?

[fretslider]

I sincerely hope not, yet........ anything is possible.

[mouse]

Mar 15, 2010 21:29:41 GMT Ben Lomond said:

The really sad thing is that the most venal, inefficient and crooked government the UK has ever had is STILL in with a chance at the election. And this despite the facts that they have ruined the economy, trashed the education system, taken us into TWO unnecessary and probably illegal wars,wasted billions on an unreconstructed health service, opened, as policy, the floodgates of unlimited immigration and in general ruined everything they have touched.

Labour has only one answer to every problem. Throw money at it, and then assume that a cure will follow. And if they haven't got the money, then simply borrow it, and then borrow again, and again, and again. Brown, a clueless muppet, pretends to have saved the world from meltdown. But then again, he also claimed that the UK was best placed to weather the depression, when in fact we were the last European state to emerge...and then only by 0.1%

Another 5 years of New Labour would put the final nails in the coffin of a once proud nation. Surely we cannot be collectively as stupid as to allow them back into power??? Can we?

well said.....another term for labour and we wont have either a country or an economy..
am thinking of doing my own posters and putting them in fields..quick reminders of this wretched gang of hyporcrites actions starting with blair and bernie eccelston..through to cheries award winning performance on tv complete with tears
straw and blunket..blears and so on and so forth
hanging is too good for them

[jade]

Well the alternative is Dave.

Lovely Dave.

Round shiny faced Dave.

Dave whose wife keeps telling us how manly he is.

Dave.

[Ben Lomond]

Mar 16, 2010 10:28:20 GMT jade said:

Well the alternative is Dave.

Lovely Dave.

Round shiny faced Dave.

Dave whose wife keeps telling us how manly he is.

Dave.

Probably not the best alternative, I agree, Jade; but ANYONE, and almost ANYTHING, would be an improvement on Brown. Hell, my old Granny could do a better job. She was a whizz at running a family budget.

[fretslider]

Mar 16, 2010 10:28:20 GMT jade said:

Well the alternative is Dave.

Lovely Dave.

Round shiny faced Dave.

Dave whose wife keeps telling us how manly he is.

Dave.

So what is or are the differences between Zanu-Labour and Zanu-Conservatives?

Answer: The colour of the tie.

[mouse]

Mar 16, 2010 10:28:20 GMT jade said:

Well the alternative is Dave.

Lovely Dave.

Round shiny faced Dave.

Dave whose wife keeps telling us how manly he is.

Dave.

but for how long...if dave doesnt come up to scratch..he could be replaced
anything even a monkey has to be better than the the stasdi lying hyporcrites now in office

[jade]

So where is the talent?

Which one can you point to and say

"there - there s/he is. I'd follow that one"

[fretslider]

Mar 16, 2010 12:38:30 GMT jade said:

So where is the talent?

Which one can you point to and say

"there - there s/he is. I'd follow that one"

There isn't a single entity, not a one. Now, that is depressing. Our best bet is to let the Germans run the country.

[iamjumbo]

Mar 16, 2010 15:06:56 GMT fretslider said:

Mar 16, 2010 12:38:30 GMT jade said:

So where is the talent?

Which one can you point to and say

"there - there s/he is. I'd follow that one"

There isn't a single entity, not a one. Now, that is depressing. Our best bet is to let the Germans run the country.

they wanted to do that seventy years ago. it's probably not a better idea now

[fretslider]

Mar 17, 2010 10:34:26 GMT iamjumbo said:

Mar 16, 2010 15:06:56 GMT fretslider said:

There isn't a single entity, not a one. Now, that is depressing. Our best bet is to let the Germans run the country.

they wanted to do that seventy years ago. it's probably not a better idea now

Sorry jumbo, you're out of your depth on this one.

Our best bet would be to let the Germans run this country. The economic performance even after having taken on the basket case DDR is still better than ours.

Times change, well they do in Europe anyway.

[clemiethedog]

I've always thought that a parliamentary form of government was the most efficient, provided the best opportunity for lesser parties to emerge, and more receptive to the voters, given the representative to population ratio.

Not so sure anymore.

[iamjumbo]

Mar 17, 2010 11:05:52 GMT fretslider said:

Mar 17, 2010 10:34:26 GMT iamjumbo said:

they wanted to do that seventy years ago. it's probably not a better idea now

Sorry jumbo, you're out of your depth on this one.

Our best bet would be to let the Germans run this country. The economic performance even after having taken on the basket case DDR is still better than ours.

Times change, well they do in Europe anyway.

probably, but, i thought i'd be funny.
nonetheless, you mentioned, but didn't put enough emphasis, on the major reason that the british, as well as the majority of europe, economy stinks. along with the obvious of not requiring corporations to pay their fair share, the fact is that your incessant attempt to feed the world by allowing the world into your country is the major cause of your problem. we have a huge immigration problem here also, but it does not create the problem that you have, because we do not give social benefits to aliens.
if you quit allowing every mumar, mohammed, and ahmad into the country, the problem would resolve itself

[iamjumbo]

also, the lunatical notion of allowing times to change certainly contributes much to the failures of the system

[mouse]

Mar 17, 2010 11:46:25 GMT iamjumbo said:

the fact is that your incessant attempt to feed the world by allowing the world into your country is the major cause of your problem. we have a huge immigration problem here also, but it does not create the problem that you have, because we do not give social benefits to aliens.
if you quit allowing every mumar, mohammed, and ahmad into the country, the problem would resolve itself

oh you cant say that....its our enrichment...or so we are constantly told

[fretslider]

Mar 17, 2010 11:48:23 GMT iamjumbo said:

also, the lunatical notion of allowing times to change certainly contributes much to the failures of the system

"lunatical"

Have you got a patent for this bit of newspeak?

Allowing times to change? Look out, here comes Abraham Lincoln

[mouse]

non the less times do change..which is just as well or we would still be living in caves.

[jade]

so how do you NOT allow change?

o right

conservatives

[mouse]

what would be excelent would be if we REALY had a choice of candidates and political thinking
they say cometh the hour cometh the man................well no one so far is showing up

it would be really great if some one apeared who really had the interests of the country and the people top of their agenda

[jade]

Maybe now David Beckham is out of football.....................

[mouse]

ah..the mumbler....dont think i honestly want to be represented by some one like him...and his stick insect wife would be worse than cherie bliar and thats saying some thing