The deficit should be the prime target

Is there a loss of nerve on getting the deficit sorted ?

David Cameron appears to be rowing backwards a little on the cuts on day one line.

He'd better not be. The only argument I'd accept for holding back on action once in office is taking the time to do the job properly. I.E. make the right cuts at the right level and the correct changes, which might take a few months to sort out. The sort of mad axeman stuff the socialists in Greece will soon have forced on them ( just as Labour have int he past by the IMF )will be both brutal, arbitrary and unnecessarily cruel due to the haste they will have to be applied in. There the sort of cuts we will get if the national disaster of Labour getting a fourth term happens.

But lets be clear - a reduced state has to come very soon, and it will be a good thing for most people.

Why salt cell will just make things worse - as socialism always does

When its been freezing for a few days and gritting makes the headlines the govt offers its excuse that its taken national command of the grit and salt supplies - to send it where its most needed.

But like so many other acts of socialism this one is ultimately counter productive.

Local councils have to decide how large salt stocks to carry, and this will relate to their budgets and council tax rates. If they gamble on a warm winter ( a BBQ winter to be cruel to the climate change propaganda office met office ) then they may win votes and thanks, If they lose then the govt helps them out.

But if they buy in diligent stocks then they definitely lose with the BBQ winter, and also lose if the winter is harsh as the salt will be taken from them by govt.

Hence the tactical decision taken for short term headlines is a strategic disaster.

We can see the same mechanism working where the govt punishes people who make provision for themselves in life.

The real 2010 question is about Iran not Iraq

Mr Blair had a carefully prepared set of words ready to change the terms of the debate to use at the Chilcot Inquiry today.

One of them was to ask the question of where we would be today if we hadn't have removed Saddam Hussain.

Here's part of the answer - we would have been ready and able, with the moral authority and military will and capability along with the US - to deal with Iran.

The problem with Tony Blair's calling wolf in 2003 is that no one will trust a British Prime Minister when he/she makes the same claim for a generation. As such we are vastly weakened and our enemies know it.

The country has been put in very real danger by a country that has major Nuclear ambitions.

That's the true "2010" answer Mr Blair.

What Blair says and what the BBC hears

On the same news programme this evening I heard it reported that Tony Blair said something on the lines of :

"I did not pressure Goldsmith to change his mind"

The BBC reports in its news headline that Blair said pressure was no bought to bear on Goldsmith to change his mind.

Of course the two aren't the same.

Blair uses his lawyers grasp of words to say something you think means one thing, but in fact is very precise and does not.

So for example Blair could have had someone else lean on Goldsmith or have known someone else was doing it - and still been truthful in the words he used.

This is the problem with Labour - they live in a world of illusions and deceit and they can't help themselves.

I believed in Blair ....

I believed in Blair over Iraq.

I was in the far east when he published his dossier for the general population. ( I was against its publication as I could remember how carefully Conservative and other Labour Prime Minister's had protected intelligence material. Its seemed a bit reckless, perhaps even with the safety of the country's own operatives, but since it went into the public domain I downloaded into my hotel room in South Korea. )

In almost every other aspect I had always been an opponent of Blair. I warned people in 1997 after may what Labour would do to politics, freedom of religion and the economy - at that time no one wanted to listen, but I have been shown right on every point.

But still a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom would not mislead parliament on the matter of going to war and the inevitable death of thousands - would he ?

Colin Powell believed British intelligence on Uranium exports and mobile WMD labs, so much that he destroyed his reputation in front of the UN with it.

After all it wasn't just Blair, or Labour, but the civil servants and intelligence services also.

You could be opposed to war in principle - and many were - but no one believed no WMD would be found ! ( Well except the Tunisian Engineers who had worked in Iraq I met a few weeks before the invasion who assured me there were no such things. )

I've just heard David Blunkett on radio 4 this morning suggesting that Blair was justified because he believed in the war, indeed he almost went as far as self-sanctification.

In many ways this is to be expected of Labour politicians who grew up as socialist flat earthers denying the changes Margret Thatcher had to bring about and saving the country from the sort of mystery Labour has just pushed us back into.

But it also shows this New Labour fault line that if you believe in your narrative really hard it becomes true.

Its doesn't and hundreds of thousands of people died.

Blair's conversion to Catholicism cynically after he left office, shows that he's not a straight forward or honest man. But he may be a troubled one. He looks haunted, and maybe that's why he was sneaking into Westminster Abbey when some of the bones of that young French girl were being paraded and the Catholic church had started handing out indulgences again.

The problem with Blair has not been faith - though he broke faith with the nation and the sacred duties of his office - but the lack of scepticism, doubt and humility. Perhaps if he'd been a real protestant he'd have been more aware of those failings and more humble.

I certainly should never have trusted Tony Blair, and nor should anyone else. I wasn't scpetical enough.

The gap between the cans and cannots has grown unacceptably big

This morning Man in a Shed would like to reveal the results of a survey he commissioned himself about 10 seconds ago into government which has revealed some shocking results:

The gap between those who can run a successful government and those who have demonstrated they cannot is now at unacceptably high levels.

It is now clear that Labour cannot do the following:

1. Tell the truth about taking the country to war and hold a proper inquiry right after it ( but the Conservatives could ).
2. Run the economy - the appalling 0.1% growth figures after staggering amounts of debt have been run up to support it show this. Labour's failure to identify the structural deficiet and bubble they were running will have desperate consequences for all in society for decades to come.
3. Run an education system. Instead they try to fix the results by even trying to tell employers who to employ. Perhaps they shouldn't have destroyed standards in education with their worse than useless initiatives.
4. Run a government - there are queues of civil servants now waiting to dump on the disorganised chaos that is caused by the shallow talent pool Labour fishes for minister and leaders in.

But I know a man who Cam ....

Oops - HMRC might be charging lots of extra tax

In one of those "computer mistakes" ( which are really human error - at best ) for which government is justly famed, could cost about £1000 /yr for those people who don't check in detail.

Just like HMRC's decision not to ask for Tax returns from those earning less than £100k /yr I'm going to guess HMRC does well out of this also.

Its a new tax - a tax on ignorance.

PS I'm guessing I'm not the only one to wonder if a link between Gordon Brown's insane debt fuelled destruction of the country, his need for ready cash to keep fooling the voters before the general election, and this mistake might be linked ....

So where did my tax money go ?

Another year, another set of tax returns submitted. ( I do it a week early to allow some time for winding up my brother who will be thumping keyboards as servers crash on the 31st Jan ).

But where does the money go ?

Part of the answer looks like being provided by this very easy to use web site Where does My Money Go ?

It appears to be in development - but for all you Barnett Formula fans out there it has plenty of ammunition on it. Have a play here. At present I know nothing about the source of the data etc, so proceed with caution, but the idea looks good and the site works well.

I often think politics could do with more quantitative explanations to the voters, and this is a great way of starting to do it.



H/T to Eddie @freedomscaresme

A word on stats

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1271

Needless to say it applies in the UK also. Jorge Cham writes one of the best niche cartoons out for University Graduate students - if you want to know what working in research is really like, go over and check out his work.

Why the Lib Dems are wrong on marriage and why it matters

There is a knee jerk reaction in the liberal political class, and its groupies, of attacking anything that comes out of the Conservative party on the structure of our society.

So naked political opportunism means they attempt to join the dots between "Back to basics" and recognising marriage in the tax system ( marriage is of course discriminated against in the benefits system ).

We use tax to encourage and change peoples behaviour all the time, and all parties agree with this approach.

Marriage has spectacular benefits for society ( and there is every reason to believe that civil partnerships will also ). The long term, until death do us part, commitment provides better health ( and lower NHS costs ), free care for the sick and elderly (savings to the NHS and benefits and local council services - for example my Grandfather looked after my dying Grandmother for years before he finally had to allow her to be put into a home ), and vastly better child rearing with better outcomes by an order of magnitude.

It is a Judo/Christian principle to let people share in the benefits their work and actions bring. And encouraging marriage also improves the strength and cohesion of our society.

Some of the strongest parts of our society are Muslim, Sikh and Hindu families - almost all I would hazard to guess married. Are the Lib Dems really wanting to discriminate against those pillars of our society ?

The arguments used against the proposal to recognise and share the benefits marriage brings to society through the tax system are the usual debating tricks of using wild examples which allow table thumping and self righteous claims of being unfair. ( See Nick Clegg doing his fake indignation routine on the cheating husband. )

That is of course good politics, and we know the Lib Dems excel at politics. However its bad for society, the country and especially the life chances of the children who it will damage.

Its time to honour marriage again in our society and to value it and share its benefits.

The NHS does best with Conservative style reforms

We live in a society which has a short memory.

When Labour came into power in 1997 it was on the back of the smear that you had 24hrs to save the NHS ( who can forget that sickening blackmailing PPB with the taxi driver and a father and ill daughter ? ).

Blair and Brown laid into market reforms in the NHS.

They got into power promising to dismantle evil Tory reforms.

And they did - but then Blair noticed something. All the tax payers funded cash being hossed into the NHS ( mostly on salary increases, and as we now know finaced by a debt bubble ) wasn't producing anything. So he started to set up the same structures he'd been denoucing earlier. The NHS went in a very tight, and very expensive circle. ( Much like when Labour destroyed Conservative School reforms only to do the same thing with a different name with Academies ).

However thanks to devolution, which dismantled the NHS into 4 NHS's ( A Scottish, Welsh, Irish and ... well Labour can never manage the word English .. ones ), the celts got off to their own devolved wonderlands before some of the reforms had been re-implemented.

So now we can compare the performance of bloody minded socialist provision against the few reforms Gordon Brown didn't block on his "anything to make me prime minister" sulk over the first ten years of New Labour.

And its not pretty. In short the English NHS wins hands down. There's a lot of socialist and celtic spluttering going on to try and hide this in the media today, but just like the fact that overall NHS productivity has decreased under Labour, the facts can't be hidden.

Just because the budget for the English NHS is ring fenced - doesn't mean that the Conservatives shouldn't get better results for tax payers money with more reform and save and improve many more lives into the bargain.

Thats why if your intrested in the health of the people of England and the English NHS you should vote Conservative. And if your in one of the devolved unreformed socialist luddite parts of the country you might like to think about it also.

Its the only moral choice.

Update: See Alan Cochrane on the performance of the Scottish NHS vs its English equivalents.

How did Labour screw up so badly on computer systems - the answers simple

Today there are articles asking how Labour managed to blow tens of billions of pounds on dysfunctional computer and IT projects.

The answers are simple, and all the more depressing for it:

1. The consultants saw New Labour coming. Some firms that had been banished from government by the Conservative administration saw New Labour as their way back.
2. Labour minister wanted to believe in their own narrative and mission to modernise. They were guilty of wishful thinking. As such a sales by the IT industry were easy.
3. The government lacked the skills to manage these contracts and kept interfering.
4. They lacked any actual knowledge or experience of these types of projects. Anyone who has studies software engineering knows that most public software projects fail - indeed the vast majority.
5. And last, but not least, someone else was paying ( the poor tax payer ).
   

Wallander and death of my father

I don't usually do reflective posts, but I'm going to indulge myself a little today. ( Usual service back tomorrow no doubt. )

Boris Johnson is wrong today in the Telegraph as to why the English adaptation of Wallander is so compelling, and its not a sort of sang froid about Scandinavians being as bad as the rest of us.

We can see Kurt Wallander drowning slowly through out both series. Friends dying, betrayal, fractious family relations all bringing the tide in in a way you assume will certainly drown Kurt.

This week saw the death of his father. He doesn't take the time, and with the exceptions of one or two work colleagues, no one else is going to give it to him ( certainly not what's left of his family ).

No one knows what the death of a father is really like, until they have experienced it. Yesterdays episode played that part brilliantly. ( I remember a Sunday school teacher of mine telling us that, and how annoyed he was by the superficial reassurances from people who had no such similar experience. He was spot on. )

Its Kenneth Branagh's portrayal of Wallander slowly bleeding humanity that's so appealing, and I suspect for those men over a certain age the empathy they feel for it. ( See girls your always asking us to open up and talk about our feelings, now you see why staying quiet was always a good idea.)

Just maybe its self indulgent, but when the reasons for stoicism are eroded by the years and events its quite understandable.

I haven't read the books, or seen the Swedish series, so I don't know where this is all going - but its a journey many hooked viewers will take with Kenneth Branagh.

PS I didn't say how this all relates to my own father, but that in part is the point.

Dad died almost 10 years ago.

Marriage benefits everyone - so why does Labour hate it so much ?

Marriage makes loads of sense from the point of view of the wider community.

Married partners ( and perhaps civil partners also - though time will need to pass to prove this ) look after each other, to a point way beyond what normal friendships would normally provide. This saves the state a fortune.

Children do well out of marriage, and if children do well then all the cost of failure to wider society never materialise.

Instead of promoting, supporting and ecouraging marriage why do Labour hate it so much ? After all supporting marriage is a no brainer for society.

Let me suggest three reasons:

1. Like a vampire Labour feasts off social breakdown and deprivation. Marriage is one of the key structures in society that stops the damage they need to create to justify a wider role for the state.
2. It fits into their desperate campaign to portray the Conservatives as being for the few not the many. If ten of thousands of children have to have their life chances ruined and destroyed then its a small price to pay for a few more Labour votes.
3. It fits with the aggressive secularist and humanist agenda of most of Labour's leading figures who hate Christianity, as its a rival religion to their statist socialism.

It also shows the true level of threat that Labour presents to our society - which is just as serious and dangerous as the spectacular damage they have done to our economy.

Military manoeuvres

Full marks to the Army today for getting its political strike in with Max Hasting's article in the Speccie this week.

They are deploying the - we need the stuff to fight Afghanistan / Iraq counter insurgency wars and therefore its the fast jet jockeys and highly expensive cold war Naval types who should be cut.

• The RAF and Army's cross hairs are firmly targeted on the two new carriers.
• The RAF wants to kill of the Fleet Air Arm.
• The Army wants to kill of the RAF. ( Too much time waiting for clapped out transport Tristars to be repaired and having no helicopters souring the mood a bit ).
• And no doubt the Army will make another bid for the Royal Marines, as it would be rude not to.
• The Lib Dems and Labour unilateralists want to surrender world influence to the US by giving up a functioning Nuclear deterrent, though of course they think they're aiming for something else.
• And everyone does a lot of wishful thinking about Trident.

Looks like chaos to me.

What we should remember is that each war over the past few decade has required a different aspect of the military.

• The Falklands - The Navy
• First Gulf War - The RAF and the pig iron dinosaurs of an Armoured brigade.
• The Iraq was - RAF, Navy (popping of cruise missiles ) and infantry.
• The current insurgencies - The infantry supported by air mobile elements, and with highly expensive delivery of high explosives on mud huts by the RAF .

We need to think long and hard about what our defence needs really are and make choices. Cuts across the board will just lead to us failing at everything.

We will always need the Army, but maybe not armoured brigades.
We need air defence - the Russians are flying super sonic nuclear capable aircraft to within spitting distance of our cost and being only detected when they fly away ( this is very very serious and hasn't got the attention it deserves ).
And thanks to Labour campaign to destroy our traditional culture by mass immigration we can't feed ourselves any more, so we rely on food from over seas and fuel as well - and to guarantee those we'll need a blue water Navy.

Its a mess, and one the Army must not be allowed to exploit for selfish reasons the public support for the troops under fire. In the end we are about the defence of the realm - not inter service rivalry.

There have to be cuts of course - so here are my ideas.

1. Set a near term withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yes deadlines are bad, but we can't carry on and need to recognise that fact.
2. The RAF is over manned - the Israeli airforce manages on far lower manning levels, and they are fighting wars all the time. P45's for many of the guys in light blue - sorry, but at least you all have transferable skills.
   
3. A larger reserve - allowing mobilization in short term, but not requiring the same standing resources. And a corresponding smaller size of regular forces.
   
4. Avoid selling of bases just to raise cash. We need to be ready for war - not running a few airshows, and in war assets will get damaged.
   
5. Cancel the carriers and either lease from the US ( who have their own budget problems and will probably play along ) or replace with smaller carriers again. ( Not ideal - but with drones etc coming in over the next decade this may be smarter than it looks).
6. Build new tactical Nukes. Labour abolished them ( but being New Labour kept quiet about it ). One way to deter people like the Argentines is to have them guessing if their airfields might get nuked if they push us too far. Deterrence pays very dividends in prevented conflict.
   
7. Missiles/Drones are a good idea. We need far more of them. In the Arab Israeli wars the success of missiles has been vastly under reported, and have fought one of the best militaries in the world to a stand still on more than one occasion. They aren't as flash as fighter jets or tanks - but they are deadly and effective. These come at the expense of the manned equivalents - that means less aircraft, pilots and tanks.
   

Political grit

Maybe Labour are insisting on holding back grit as its afraid of not being able to clear the roads during an election campaign.

Given the forecast for the next week looks better, you have to wonder why they didn't let local authorities decide their own priorities.

What do they know about what's coming ?

Just a thought.


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Update: the answer may be that I have this right. They Daily Mail reports that freezing weather may last till April. No wonder the government is nervous.

"Pupil Voice" is really aimed at political indoctrination

Like the workers and soldier political committee's that undermined the Soviet Union in war and peace Labour are insisting that schools become more politicised. ( They are of course already, as a discussion with some of the young people in our local Conservative association proves, thankfully we can rely on teenagers instinct to rebel to avoid extensive brain washing - though the fact they are often denied the ideas and arguments of the right of centre is a great worry. )

But the idea of authorities in school requiring to consult elected student bodies by law is worrying of itself. It is also the case that you are handing out authority without responsibility.

These groups are almost always going to think in a collectivist way, which is just what the left wants. They want everyone to have their view of the world before they learn anything about it from experience ( which tends to push people to the right ).

I'm not saying that no good can come of things like school councils - indeed it can and any organisation that doesn't have feedback mechanisms from its customers built in is asking for trouble - just there's another agenda at play.

The Conservative response should be to take away the legal compulsion - let schools and head teachers decide. And just to avoid the wedge tactics the left use how about making the National Union of Students only take membership fees for each individual renewable each year - with no impact on facilities available on campus for educational bodies.

Just think of our current generation of left of centre politicians who are little more that eternal student politicians. Time to kick the ladder away I think.

Banning political groups like Islam4UK

Just a short note to say I'm a bit worried about this new trend to ban groups by the home secretary. Just as I am for marches to be banned.

Groups like Islam4UK may be repulsive, but we aspire to live in a society which allows opinions to be expressed, debated and accepted or rejected as an individual wishes ( though Labour's existing and planned Equality legislation is steadily eroding this and setting up an oppressive state ).

Who will be next to be banned ?

The authorities will be desperate to even up the score by banning something outside the Islamic community.

These laws and precedents are far too arbitrary and will end up being used against all of us at some later date.

And of course finally banning Islam4UK will have no impact. Another organisation will spring up ( indeed given how predictable all this is the people concerned probably have a raft of them in their back pockets ).

This measure is purely about politics of the lowest sort.

Climate scepticism on the verge of crossing a threshold and going mainstream

Climate scepticism on the verge of crossing a threshold and going mainstream
the question is which political party will break ranks first in the UK ?

Balls annouces Laptop for core votes bribe with free internet P*rn thrown in

Of course commissar Balls puts this a different way.

He claims that the government needs to issue 270,000 laptops with free broadband to people in Labour constituencies to get them to vote for him poor parents.

So you'll be paying for your own computer and broadband, and for someone else's.

How many of these laptops will still be functioning 6 months after they have been given away ? How many will be used to access more p*rn than education ?

This is the insane way Labour behaves with other peoples money - during the greatest debt crisis that this country has ever seen which Labour directly brought on.

Remember the first internet enabled TV's are coming out. Mobile phones and games consoles can all access the internet. None of this is necessary - but it is a general election in a few weeks time, and Labour needs to bribe people to vote for them with other people's money.

Will there be school tomorrow ?

I ask as, like many working parents in the private sector, I have work to do tomorrow that is almost impossible to get done if the kids are about.

We have friends who are now eating into annual holiday ( again private sector employees ).

It really is time that a more stoic attitude was taken in schools.

Update: The good news (for parents) was they are open today ! Hurray ! However I couldn't see anything different at the school from when I was standing outside it with my kids on Weds with a load of teachers who were angry at the school get closed at short notice.

Greece shows us one potential future tragedy for the UK

The Greek Socialist party won their recent general election on a set of blind refusals to accept reality that look a lot like Gordon Brown's refusal to own up to the staggering debt crisis he's created.

Their chickens are now coming home to roost very quickly indeed.

There is an ongoing debate in the UK about spending plans not adding up. Labour tried to claim Conservative plans don't add up - by making them up from Labour figures and with highly questionable use of civil servants time. Its of course laughable to take a lecture on this from Labour, but they know that - they are just trying to create a sense of general despair out of fear uncertainty and doubt.

Until the snow coup this week Labour were again in denial about the need to cut the public sector budget to reduce the deficit ( they are not even targeting reducing debt due to an economists trick of expecting GDP to grow so that whilst debt may expand or stay stationary as a proportion of GDP ).

Now Alistair Darling seems to have won the concession, extracted from Gordon Brown over the barrel of this weeks events, but he's sticking into the carry on digging till the debt hole till after the election strategy.

My guess is that Labour are now going to have to go long for the general election, and the risk of a currency/gilts crisis is now very real - and Darling knows he has to signal to the markets that Labour are lying to the electorate just to win votes (at least that line's credible), but will pay back the creditors when returned to power.

So perhaps Labour, as they are now reconfigured , may make some vague future promises in the budget they still claim to want to stage. But a few weeks before a general election it will be a purely political affair that makes the PBR look like an exercise is selfless statesmanship.

But still the bills must either be paid, or no more money will be leant. The UK is now reduced to its ability to borrow more money to put of facing up to the structural deficit Labour has run for almost a decade.

I imagine their will be riots and violence in Greece, and wouldn't rule out the same thing here.

There's only one secret ballot on Gordon's leadership the people want

And its a general election !

Let all vote on Gordon ....











Update:

This just in from Conservative Home - marginally off topic, but its just brilliant and shows how bad things are.Man in a Shed recommends that its time to table that motion of no confidence that will save Gordon but finish Labour.

The Gordon event horizon must be soon ....

On my way down to my shed I was just thinking up a post on the subject of the last point in time that Brown could realistically be replaced as Labour leader. I thought it must be about now - the Gordon event horizon.

I, like I suspect many other Conservative supporters and probably politicians, have been pullling my punches on Brown. After all we don't want him replaced, just defeated.

I thought we must be now crossing the point on commitment for Labour when they have to go with Gordon - the Gordon event horizon.

But now rumours are going wild that one last coup plot is on the cards.

Surely its too late - or is it ?

Labour launch a FUD attack

In the software world there was an infamous tactic used by one of the dominant players to stop new competitors from winning market share. They didn't win by arguing their product was better, if that had been true the upstart would have got nowhere, or that they were better value for money, though that line was no doubt tried. The winning argument was the FUD attack.

FUD stands for Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.

And that looked like the tactics being deployed by Brown henchmen Alistair Darling and Liam Byrne yesterday.

Of course is absurd for Labour to go on about unfunded spending - given as government they refuse to look beyond the Bank of England printing presses halting but make loads of spending pledges each time Gordon Brown draws breath. They know that part will misfire. But they are trying to drag the Conservative party into the same hole. Its a classic FUD attack, as could be seen from the disgraceful performance of Liam Byrne on Newsnight last night. He just kept his linguistic programming type answers - never answering a question - just smearing with each slimy word that slipped from his mouth.

There will be a lot more of this.

Where is disappoints is that people like Liam Byrne and Alistair Darling are ministers of the Crown - and have a duty to the Crown and the people that their lies and betrayal is a direct conflict with. They are betraying the country with their failure to carry out the responsibilities of their offices and the smears and untruths they throw about just to hold onto power for a few more days. In the end the job of the Conservative party is to make people see this, because the FUD attack made the software company that used it very unpopular ( but it had the advantage of still selling something people want and need ) - Labour have nothing we want or need and the electorate should be persuaded to take their revenge on those unworthy ministers who have disgraced their offices and betrayed the country.

Burt Rutan on #AGW

The following is a copy of a presentation by the famous Burt Rutan taking a practising engineers stab at the global warming argument.

This is why so many Engineers and practical people are sceptical of the Warmist religion. And thats before #Climategate !



PS I know election fever has taken of in the UK blogsphere, but this government lie should not be left to rest. Its time the Conservatives took a more sceptical line.

How Labour will balance the books if it gets re-elected

We have the pantomime of Alistair Darling trying to outline a hole in the Conservative plans for spending. ( And it seems the journalists are getting pretty fed up with being treated as fools - except for those from Mirror group of course, who perhaps don't realise that's what's going on . )

But what if Labour won the general election ?

We all know that taxing the rich, without Marxist boarder controls to imprison your population, won't work ( except with your innumerate base vote perhaps ).

So how will Labour square the massive cuts it will be forced to impose with the daily lies coming out of the mouths of senior minsters ?

The answer is simple. They will blame the IMF.

Its the IMF and evil international fiance that made us do it gov.

We wanted to print money and increases spending for ever and ever but those unreformed capitalists at the IMF have insisted that the loan needed to employ Labour voters at Sure Start centres has to be paid for.

Nearer the election it will be time to make Labour answer questions on the IMF and if they will promise to resign and call a new general election if they have to call them in.

Labour's Equality agenda is about anything but ...

I don't know about you but I first started hearing the term the ***** (insert term) agenda from Sinn Fein, probably in the 80's. It was a Marxist way of putting some sort of objective in vague form that justified all sorts of unreasonable ideas to achieve it.

Well now we have Harriet Harman's Equality Agenda.

But she doesn't mean what you think she means. by equality Labour don't mean equality of each of her Majesty's subjects before the law, they mean the excuse to subvert that very thing.

Examples are starting to pile up and they include:

• Making motorists pay fines for crimes they haven't committed ( the new victims leavy on crimes without victims - ie a stealth tax ).
• Providing grants to some students but expecting the parents of other to pay for their own offspring and those of other - even though the whole point of tertiary education is supposed to be about the future benefits to the individual concerned.
• Putting Equality issues on a par with Education in schools ( making it quite clear that Labour doesn't see schools as being there for education but for indoctrination ).
• Turning the police from a force to fight crime, into a service that will knock at your door to accuse you of hate crimes, take your DNA and attack you for not being diverse enough.

There will be more, much more. Labour believe the state should be a thug bullying its cowered citizens into saying the right things and being afraid of denying its mantras.

Labour are the sworn enemy of aspiration, freedom and justice.

And they intend to pursue their plans to destroy these things under the banner of Equality.

New years resolution

To do whatever I can to save my country from Labour and the enslaving misery of socialism with all the damage it does to the poorest and weakest in our society whilst lying it does the opposite.

This year we must throw the left wing parasites and their creed of hate, lies, deceit, misery and destruction out of office.

For England then ....