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what is socialist ‘new’ labour?
Owned by the unions, not interested
in business or the poor. Thus ‘New’ Labour
undermines and destroys both economy and society.
I watch the SNP
and Plaid Cymru, and all they are interested in is
subsidies for Scotland or Wales. MPs in those regions
are elected on generally smaller constituencies, allowing
Scots MPs to vote for Scots PMs and Chancellors, who do
not have the interests of the whole country at heart.
Marxist dogmatism that engenders dependency
and class envy.
Brown the Clown goes around surrounded
by devotees and is protected from real questioners, while
Cameron welcomes open questioning.
The idea that the SNP and Plaid Cymru
really want independence is nonsense.
end
note
70% of the Welsh ‘economy’
is government, and much of that is waste.
55% of the Scottish ‘economy’ is government,
and 70% of the N. Ireland economy.
London is 35% government spending.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#new_labour_traits_300410
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conservatives
contract with the uk voters
We will change politics
Our political system needs to change. Politicians must
be made more accountable, and we must take power away
from Westminster and put it in the hands of people –
individuals, families and neighbourhoods.
If you elect a Conservative government on 6 May, we
will:
- Give you the right to sack your MP, so you don’t
have to wait for an election to get rid of politicians
who are guilty of misconduct.
- Cut the number of MPs by ten per cent, and cut
the subsidies and perks for politicians.
- Cut ministers’ pay by five per cent, and
freeze it for five years.
- Give local communities the power to take charge
of the local planning system and vote on excessive
council tax rises.
- Make government transparent, publishing every item
of government spending over £25,000, all government
contracts, and all local council spending over £500.
We will change the economy
Gordon Brown’s economic incompetence has doubled
the national debt, given us record youth unemployment,
and widened the gap between rich and poor.
Unemployment is still rising, and this year we will
spend more on debt interest than on schools. We need
to get our economy moving.
If you elect a Conservative government on 6 May, we
will:
- Cut wasteful government spending so we can stop
Labour’s jobs tax, which would kill the recovery.
- Act now on the national debt, so we can keep mortgage
rates lower for longer.
- Reduce emissions and build a greener economy, with
thousands of new jobs in green industries and advanced
manufacturing.
- Get Britain working by giving unemployed people
support to get work, creating 400,000 new apprenticeships
and training places over two years, and cutting benefits
for those who refuse work.
- Control immigration, reducing it to the levels
of the 1990s – meaning tens of thousands a year,
instead of the hundreds of thousands a year under
Labour.
We will change society
We face big social problems in this country: family
breakdown, educational failure, crime and deep poverty.
Labour's big government has failed; we will help build
a Big Society where everyone plays their part in mending
our broken society.
If you elect a Conservative government on 6 May, we
will:
- Increase spending on health every year, while cutting
waste in the NHS, so that more goes to nurses and
doctors on the frontline, and make sure you get access
to the cancer drugs you need.
- Support families, by giving married couples and
civil partners a tax break, giving more people the
right to request flexible working and helping young
families with extra Sure Start health visitors.
- Raise standards in schools, by giving teachers
the power to restore discipline and by giving parents,
charities and voluntary groups the power to start
new smaller schools.
- Increase the basic state pension, by relinking
it to earnings, and protect the winter fuel allowance,
free TV licences, free bus travel and other key benefits
for older people.
- Fight back against crime, cut paperwork to get
police officers on the street, and make sure criminals
serve the sentence given to them in court.
- Create National Citizen Service for every 16 year
old, to help bring the country together.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#conservative_contract_300410
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manifesto proposals - the essentials
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economy |
immigration |
euro |
| clegg: |
free ice cream for all |
amnesty |
drool, yes please |
| clown: |
destroy, exterminate |
more |
I ‘promise’ |
| cameron: |
repair, rebuild |
control |
nevvah nevahh |
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#manifesto_essentials_280410
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disposable
household incomes now falling even by government fiddled figures
“down nearly 1% in the most recent quarter.”
And that’s even after Gordon Brown has borrowed, on behalf of the UK population, £400 for each man, woman and child in the last one
month!
Previous rates of household disposable income growth were generally lower in the last
four decades under Labour.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#uk_household_incomes_down 250410
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moving
russia into nato
“Russia must play a central role in plans for
a missile defence system in Europe, Nato's top official
will tell a meeting of alliance foreign ministers this
week.
“Nato secretary general Anders Rasmussen believes
that bringing Russia into the plans will help to allay
its concerns about the project and contribute to further
arms control measures, alliance officials say.
“ "Russia should be included in a missile
defence system which covers Europe, the secretary general
believes, " Nato spokesman James Appathurai said
during a visit to London. He said plans for a "new
security architecture" should be "one roof
which includes the Russians [who should be] part of
the same security family". ”
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#russia_nato_230410
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brown
the clown: why do people still smile and shake his hand?
With the usual song and dance, ‘New’
Labour launched their dishonest election manifesto at the official opening of a new hospital.
“General Election 2010: Real story behind Labour's symbol of NHS excellence”
The full horror of it, and wrapped in lies as usual.
”But the taxpayer is paying nearly £2.6
billion for it, more than four times what it is actually
worth. The QEH is part of what may be Mr Brown's real
monument – the Private Finance Initiative [PFI],
merely the most catastrophic of the many ways the Government
has devised to waste money on the Health Service.
“£2.6 billion, as it happens, is almost
exactly the amount which the NHS in the West Midlands
must find in cuts within the next four years, according
to the strategic health authority. Under the PFI agreement,
we'll still be paying for QEH in 2045, long after New
Labour has gone the way of polio. But before it has
even opened, the party is already over.”
The actual cost to build and equip
this hospital is £627 million. In case you don’t
understand, the purpose in this game is to stop the £627
million appearing on government accounts as a current
expense, in order that the Clown’s Labour Party
can claim that they are spending/wasting less than is
the reality.
The government is running large numbers
of these Enron accounting schemes, for which you and your
children will be paying long into the future, and far
more than if the hospital were funded out of present taxation.
As you will probably realise, despite
these dishonest accounting manipulations, the country
is still accumulating incredible amounts of debt beyond
the liabilities of these PFI schemes, as Brown the Clown
tries to buy the current election.
Debt and interest are merely delayed
taxation, as are the PFI liabilities.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#labour_nhs_excellence_190410
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tory civil rights - looking at the conservative manifesto
civil rights
“Labour have subjected Britain’s historic
freedoms to unprecedented attack. They have trampled
on liberties and, in their place, compiled huge databases
to track the activities of millions of perfectly innocent
people, giving public bodies extraordinary powers to
intervene in the way we live our lives.
“We will scrap ID cards, the National Identity
Register and the Contactpoint database. To protect our
freedoms from state encroachment and encourage greater
social responsibility, we will replace the Human Rights Act with a UK Bill of Rights. We
will review and reform libel laws to protect freedom
of speech, reduce costs and discourage libel tourism.
“Wherever possible, we believe that personal
data should be controlled by individual citizens themselves.
We will strengthen the powers of the Information Commissioner
to penalise any public body found guilty of mismanaging
data. We will take further steps to protect people from
unwarranted intrusion by the state, including:
- cutting back intrusive powers of entry into homes,
which have been massively extended under Labour; curtailing
the surveillance powers that allow some councils to
use anti-terrorism laws to spy on people making trivial
mistakes or minor breaches of the rules;
- requiring Privacy Impact Assessments of any proposal
that involves data collection or sharing; and,
- ensuring proper Parliamentary scrutiny of any new
powers of data-sharing.
europe
“We will be positive members of the European
Union but we are clear that there should be no further
extension of the EU’s power over the UK without
the British people’s consent. We will ensure
that by law no future government can hand over areas
of power to the EU or join the Euro without a referendum
of the British people. We will work to bring back
key powers over legal rights, criminal justice and
social and employment legislation to the UK.
“Unlike other European countries, the UK does
not have a written constitution. We will introduce
a United Kingdom Sovereignty Bill to make it clear
that ultimate authority stays in this country, in
our Parliament.
“The Lisbon Treaty contains a number of so
called ‘ratchet clauses’, which allow
the powers of the EU to expand in the future without
a new Treaty. We do not believe that any of these
‘ratchet clauses’ should be used to hand
over more powers from Britain to the EU. So a Conservative
government will not agree to the UK’s participation
in the establishment of a European Public Prosecutor’s
Office or permit its jurisdiction over the UK. We
will change the 1972 Act so that an Act of Parliament
would be required before any ‘ratchet clause’
could be used. Additionally, the use of a major ‘ratchet
clause’ which amounted to the transfer of an
area of power to the EU would be subject to a referendum.
“The steady and unaccountable intrusion of
the European Union into almost every aspect of our
lives has gone too far. A Conservative government
will negotiate for three specific guarantees –
on the Charter of Fundamental Rights, on criminal
justice, and on social and employment legislation
– with our European partners to return powers
that we believe should reside with the UK, not the
EU. We seek a mandate to negotiate the return of these
powers from the EU to the UK.”
The section “Make
politics more accountable” is
not impressive - no fixed parliaments, no Alternative Vote.
“...allow electors to kick out MPs, a power
that will be triggered by proven serious wrongdoing.
And we will introduce a Parliamentary Privilege Act
to make clear that privilege cannot be abused by MPs
to evade justice.
Wouldn’t these be out anyway
if M.P.s were merely subject to the law?
“... for a mainly-elected second chamber to
replace the current House of Lords, recognising that
an efficient and effective second chamber should play
an important role in our democracy and requires both
legitimacy and public confidence.”
This is weak, the second chamber would be
all elected by full Proportional Representation.
the web address for the article above is
https://www.abelard.org/news/politics042010.php#conservative_civil_rights_140410
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