The ISA con

So here we have it. Finally a government organisation points out what many of us have known, that the banks are just using the tax break on ISA's for their own benefit, not ours.

Bait rates disappear, as soon - with 3% inflation almost double any interest rates your likely to end up with, will your money.

I can't help but wonder if other tax breaks, like those for pensions don't create the same distortions.

The tax breaks for savers have become tax funded subsidies for the finance industry.

There's something very wrong about that. I can't help thinking that lower general tax rates and less market distortion would be a good thing. If we want to use the tax system to change behaviour how about taxing debt instead ?

Remember its Red Vince

Vince Cable has to do a lot of pretending.

He's and ex-Labour politician and was at Glasgow University at the time Brown was there. His time at Shell is far less impressive than he makes out - and as we've seen Vince isn't above letting people come to the wrong conclusions.

His party is very left wing and anti-UK pro-EU, but Vince has to sit on that Lib Dem fence to win votes in Twickenham, but we know its not what he really believes.

No Vince is red in tooth and claw, as his amazing outburst of class hate at the end of the TV chancellors debate shows. He's one of those Labour guys who left for the SDP but wishes he hadn't and can't find his way back home.

And lets not forget that signature Lib Dem hypocrisy that Vince so ably represents.

See also Paul Goodman coming to the same conclusion over at Conservative home.

Update: David Cameron gets this spot on - "the great thing about being Vince Cable is that no one asks you tough questions" quite !

Blairs back...

To remind us of Labour sleaze, Brown's involvement in it from the beginning, and how Brown became the unelected prime minster through a nasty coup which broke yet another of Labour's election promises.

Labour are corrupt to the core - don't fall for the actor.

PS

Hey Blair where do all those companies you have pay taxes ?
How did you get rich sop quick after leaving as PM ( and making sure there would be no records of it by stopping being an MP ) ?

Also Guido A Future Blair For All

Rogue Gunner has the same idea I see ...

Vote now - Pay later

Labour's strategy has had two main string to its bow since new Labour was formed.
1) We're all well off now, surely its only right to spend more money on the state. ( Tony Blair's pitch to the guilt ridden middle classes - aka Mondeo Man ).
2) The state will steal from other people to give you money. If you vote for the other lot this will stop. ( Gordon Brown's pitch - which you can recognise over the whole 13 years, but really has been at the forefront since 2005. )
String 1 is now well and truly snapped by reality.

That leaves extortion as Labour's main pitch, so they are gearing up ( forgive the pun ) to play it for all its worth.

The disgusting use of cancer patients and worried parents by Labour is just the beginning. They will argue the Tories will cut earlier and maybe more ( in fact due to interest payments its Labour that will have to cut more or tax more ).

This works for them as they will argue other people will pay. Yes the state is very inefficient and wastes tons of money - but don't worry it wasn't your money they imply. They suggest that free money is on offer with no consequences to the people who use it.

Labour have become the ultimate loan sharks - using public services as the bait.

Look at what Labour are doing to the national debt ( yes they spin - helped by the BBC - that debt and deficit sound the same ) - its going to sky rocket ( and that without all the little deceits and off balance sheet ploys Brown has employed to hide much of that debt.

And even on the deficit the reduction is only at the end of 5 years ! Imagine what the interest rates are going to cost ? ( Remember Labour have only held it together this year because the Bank of England printed them money ).

Times out

Just heard the plans for the paywall around The Times web site.

Whilst I can understand the drive to run a profitable business and don't see why people can't be charged I would add this....

£1 per day is way way too expensive. You should be thinking of 10p per day tops, maybe much less based on a page view micro payment system. ( Even then I don't think I personally would pay ).

I think the current proposals will just destroy your advertising revenue as you lose eyeballs.

Sent from my HTC

Further: Iain Dale's running a poll on this here.

Labour will cost more than any other govt - FACT

Labour plan to borrow more money to keep the unfunded spending going longer.

This means that they will have to cut more and/or tax more than a Conservative government.

It is also possible that this fiscal drag will result in even lower growth and higher borrowing costs.

Remember we are skating on thin ice right now - at any point it may give way and the country may be overcome by a Greek style crisis. Its just a matter of time and chance.

The prudent thing to do is to stop the mad borrowing sooner rather than latter. It has the advantage stopping damaging the real economy ( as opposed to the Guardian/Independent/BBC/Blanchflower special privileged world of public taxpayer funded plenty ).

Vote Labour and your will regret it for twenty years.

The Cider sanction

When I heard Alistair Darling mentioned the 10p tax hike on Cider I was a little puzzled.

Its a very specific move, and one you can rely on appearing in the post budget headlines especially in the red tops.

And yet the budget has all been about doing nothing - except implementing a few popular Tory ideas, so they can't use them in their manifesto in a few weeks time.

All the pain has been denied or implied that it will fall on the hated rich ( it won't - but by the time people learn that it will be too late in Labour's plans ).

So what's all this about Cider ?

Well we know that it will hit hard in the South West.

We also know that the Lib Dems are likely to lose many seats in the South West.

Hence I concur that this is designed to help the Lib Dems !

How ?

Well you can see the Lib Dem leaflets already on this one. They do this sort of regional outrage combined with local campaigning very well. ( But so could their Tory opponents ).

But here's the trick - this will help drive Labour voters to prop up the Lib Dems, and that's precisely what they need.

You see nothing in that budget was done except for the political advantage of the Labour party.

Just because we can't see the reason straight away for a move doesn't mean its doesn't have a point.

My only question is has there been an collaboration with the Lib Dems on this ploy ?

Just politics

Today's performance should make Labour supporters hang their heads in shame.

Brown cling to power, not in the country's interest, but just in his own.

The country needs to move ahead to address its now chronic problems with debt, but all Labour will do is try to win the next election by delay and at any cost.

And the cost is very very high.

The consequences of Brown's betrayal of the nation will take a few years to fully be felt ( a fact he is cynically relying upon ), but they will be toxic and deeply deeply damaging.

One man's ego and selfish desires have laid a once great nation low and sold its soul into debt slavery by deliberately feeding a habit of inefficient and unsustainable spending - solely because it makes good dividing lines to use as a election strategy to buy at great cost a few more years of the disreputable political careers of Labour politicians.

David Cameron is right to get angry - so should the rest of the nation.

That wasn't a budget it was just more political propaganda bought at the highest price with other peoples money.

Update As the Press saw it (H/T TimMontgomerie )

Tax debt now !

There is an anomaly in our society. Savings are taxed, debt is not - and there are even tax relief available in certain circumstances ( though mortgage tax relief has gone ).

And now our society is drowning in debt - private and public.

House prices are a clear example of the destruction caused by debt which enslaves most of our population. We see rising house prices as good. The government makes money, the banks make money, the estate agents all make more money from rising process, but in the end the people are impoverished and enslaved.

Debt is a toxic drug which we have become addicted to and those who benefit from its manufacture and sale don't want to let us realise this - the Labour government is top of this list.

We need to recognise we have a problem and start doing something to reverse this trend.

Edmund Conway is right - taxing debt would be a start.

And I've mentioned this before in Jan 2009 My proposal for new taxes

and April 2008 Its really a Debt crisis

A Future Fair for All

H/T Tim Montgomerie & CCHQ

But what about the serving ministers ?

Labour damage control has swung into full action this morning. The ever helpful BBC has cooked up another scandal, which they probably had in their back pocket, which implicates MPs of all parties to help spread the heat.

Gordon Brown has taken the cowardly, yet for him completely predictable route, of ruling out an inquiry before he's even seen the evidence - or made any inquiries himself. ( This in itself is a massive scandal and shows all those Labour supporters who back Brown that they are linked with his amoral and disgusting sacrifice of the whole country for his narrow self interests and emotional needs. )

All this implies their is fire behind the smoke.

And the fire could be this;

Remember all these phone calls Byers and co made had people at the other end of them. Those people are serving Labour cabinet ministers.

The like of Mandelson are now developing selective amnesia - "I have no recollection of ..." - which is the classic way of denying the truth these days.

There are specific allegations here - times and place with defined outcomes.

This is the basis of an investigation - even the left wing BBC must see that.

But of course Labour and the BBC know they only have to last 24 ore hours before they bury the bodies under Gordon Browns last insult to the nation of his false a deceitful budget.

The scandal - Lab ministers influenced by ex Lab minister for sale, except on the BBC

The problem:
The Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches program have caught ex Labour ministers out offering to sell their influence over other Labour ministers. They cite examples of where policies have been changed thanks to such bought influence. One ex Labour minister even describes himself as a taxi for sale. The boasts rely on undue influence over serving ministers.

This story will soon move to investigations against Lord Mandelson and Lord Adonis - which will be bad for socialism and the funding of the BBC.
The Challenge
The BBC must report this story, it would be too blatant an example of their left wing bias not to. But equally with a hung parliament in prospect they no longer have to be impartial as they may be able to get Labour ( assisted by the Lib Dems ) back into power.
The Answer
Use the old BBC trick of reporting not the event or its implications in the headline, but Labour's reaction. So go with "Minister condemn...." - making it appear that Labour are acting positively, when in fact its "Ex Labour minister selling their influence over current Labour ministers" ( not not MPs ) that's the scandal.

This is yet another example of the BBC's institutional bias and why it must be abolished as soon as a future Conservative government comes to power. ( Just imagine how the BBC would have treated this if it involved Lord Ashcroft for example. )

Update:

I see the BBC headlines have changed - still the real story isn't being pursued - did Mandelson and Adonis change policy as a favour to ex-Ministers and friends ?

If so its not just the ex-Minister who should be in trouble.

What went wrong in 1997 ?

I'm returning to my theme of yesterdays post, but via Jeff Randall's opinion article in today's Telegraph where he accuses Labour of infantilising the electorate.

The long and short of Jeff's argument is that Labour lead people to think they could have their cake and eat it in 97. Ever since then they have pretended ( with all the dark arts they discovered to get themselves elected ) that no choices were necessary. Indeed even when Blair tried to make some choices, after he realised the evil Tories had been right on health care reform after all, the clunking fist was the roadblock to reform.

Its often argued that socialism itself infantilises people as it strips responsibility and replaces it with dependency and special pleading to the almighty state.

I reported figures from a recent poll yesterday that show just how far out the general population are from financial reality. Part of the reason they are there is that New Labour (which has included a very large amount of the MSM - especially the BBC, Guardian, Independent - but also significant parts of the Times, Daily Mail and yes the Daily Telegraph ) hasn't allowed this debate to take place.

In 1997 New Labour had a problem. Everyone knew that socialism was a a cruel failure. If you'd tried some of the lines about Labour being the better party to trust in a financial crisis people would have expired laughing at you. But as luck would have it the Conservative reforms and government had paid off. The most golden economic legacy ever to be passed onto another government had been created. No one wanted to hear about more tough choices - just how to spend it all ( and here New Labour armed with its narratives, focus groups, sound bites, and policy tricks could do business ).

The people no longer saw the need for discipline.

They had had enough of reforms and improvements and where ready to support anyone who promised easy times and lots of spending ( but cleverly disguised in a sort of low fat way that a diet coke comes with your BK double bacon cheeseburger meal ).

So in 97 the electorate stopped remembering what had got the country to the bright economic uplands, and started just listening to the Grimmer Worm Tongues of the Labour spin machine.

Ever since the media has been with the project. The old lessons have been forgotten. If we need more money we can just borrow it and pay it back with fantasy efficiency savings.

In 1997 the electorate just stopped paying attention, and now they can't wake up at the moment of danger.


Note: Of course other things went wrong in 97. The ERM ( which the Labour party & Lib Dems supported also ) had blown up in our face - though that was a tiddler compared to the disaster in banking Gordon Brown engineered. Small scandals were masterfully knitted together by Robin Cook into the Tory sleaze smear campaign ( but again far worse has happened under Labour, but the MSM doesn't want to pin the blame on them ).

Much of the country have the same problem as Unite's BA cabin crew - they are just in denial about it

Through twitter I've been very critical of the Unite's BA cabin crew members who are planning on striking.

It looks like suicide - the airline is barely solvent due to pension commitments ( though I note BA has made some significant progress this week here ) and BA crew have the best pay terms and conditions in the industry - or at least very close to it.

Don't they know they're born ?

Add to that the rage felt by the public as their once in a life time holiday, honeymoon etc is spent instead in the purgatory of an over crowded terminal queuing for days to go no where with only the thought of what they had been looking forward to distract them.

Its political dynamite.

No wonder CCHQ has chosen this moment to highlight that "Labour has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Unite Union" - a quote from the former Labour Party Chairman by the way !

But let me put a different angle on all this .....

The BA cabin crew are in the same sort of denial that most of the UK general population is in !

Reported in yesterdays Telegraph is an IPSO Mori poll that shows:

• 50% of the voters don't think that any public spending cuts are necessary.
• 75% think that "efficiency" savings will do the trick.
• 48% think government spending should increase.

Oh dear.

None of the main three political parties - not even the smear and lies driven Labour party - are proposing this. They are all proposing real cuts ( and of course "tough choices" which are never spelt out ).

As a country we are broke - we have a continual diet of more borrowing from other peoples to pay for today, saying our children will pay them back. But everyone knows soon they will stop lending to us. ( Though the ever Labour party supporting BBC doesn't believe our AAA rating is in danger - everyone else does ).

The British voters seem to have no idea of reality at all ! They haven't even internalised the falsehoods ( based on assumptions that most people would call straight lies ) Labour are peddling.

So the great British public should pause before condemning the cabin crew members who are planning on joining Unite suicide strike, because the speck in their own eye is greater.

How can a proper election debate be held when so much of the population won't face the facts ?

PS I think this shows one of the greatest failings of public broadcasters like the BBC. They should have noted that the clear and uncontested financial facts just haven't been internalised by the electorate and tried to help them understand - but I guess they are too busy putting across their left wing world view and promoting the Warmist religion to have time to do their job.

A bar chart you can believe in !

Its election time, which means the Lib Dems will be out playing their usual tricks and of course to ubicutous dogey bar chart.

Well this year the local Woking Conservatives have poked fun back at the hobbiests as you can see below.If you want Brown Out - vote Conservative. Any Lib Dems might keep Brown in power !

H/T to the Conservative leaflet that just dropped through my door.

Cash Gordon

H/T here.

Here's the thing. Everyone knows there must be public spending cuts - even the Lib Dems leader has called for "savage" cuts - and we all know the flannel about back office and efficiency savings is just that.

In the end Labour's army of diversity officers, and carbon leadership managers will have to be taken into a room and handed the P45s along with a number of more deserving people.

To say or pretend anything else is just dishonest ( which is why Labour are doing just that right now ).

But Labour can't even achieve the ridiculous plans they have mentioned already ( which are based on very irresponsible fanatsy growth rates - which is why the EU is condemning Labour today ). They are trying Enron type accountying to con the public until after the election.

But then what ?

What if by some terrible occurrence Gordon Brown was still in charge of the country after June ?

The truth is now appearing Labour won't be able to take the necessary actions, even the pathetic dishonest few they have hinted at - because the public sector Union and other Unions now own the Labour party.

Labour last Non-Dom donor will probably have to stop funding the Labour party - so it'll just be the Unions.

The Unions have already secured many of Labour's new candidates and members.

Labour will lead us to ruin, because they have sold themselves to the Unions and will be unable to make the public sector cuts that have to be made.

Vote Labour and within 5 years Britain will be a worse basket case than it was when socialism last tried to destroy our country in the 70s. ( And remember there are plenty on the left who want to achieve just that outcome, as it will allow them to impose the authoritarian type of socialism they used to so admire in Eastern Europe. )

PS And lets not forget Gordon's favourite spin doctor Charlie Whelan .....

What Labour's new Union owner's won't tell you

Bird blenders at work

H/T to EU Referendum.
Warning - the clue about the content of this video is in the title. If you think this might upset you then better not to watch.

Lib Dems reverse course on fiscal responsibility to use debt to buy votes

You knew it was unlikely to last. Nick Clegg has just performed a humiliating U turn as the Lib Dems back using debt on future generations to pay for votes for themselves and Labour.

Typical Lib Dems ! ( Perhaps the letter to the Guardian by his MPs to disassociate themselves from his policies won't be needed this time. )

Remember there is no substantial recovery - and the signs are that a second dip of the recession and a credit crisis in private industry are very likely. There is very unlikely to be a recovery strong enough to give a good time to stop mainlining on debt. All the while debt floods the compartments of the ship of state, which shortly may sink suddenly in a financial crisis.

Vote Lib Dem - get Gordon Brown's economic destruction of the country continued !

No Change at all with the Lib Dems then !

See also Do the LibDems want to cut spending or not? Daniel Hannan.
Vacuity That Works For You Burning Our Money
Vince wants it both ways Iain Dale

Trouble ahead ?

This article by Robert Peston made the running on Radio 4 this week, but were so tied up with the attempts to dominate the media by party spin merchants that reporting gets drowned out by the noise. I bet most people didn't internalise the implications.

Its worth reading what Mr Peston has to say - on this occasion about Bank Funding.

Gordon Brown will want to show the bailout of the Scottish Banks as going well for the tax payer - so expect no honesty there.

Again, as I've asked, the question is "what if things don't pick up" ?

All the scenarios getting aired in politics right now are sunny day scenarios where we argue with Labour over when to stop over-spending money we don't have and must borrow. ( With the Lib Dems doing their usual in-between act ).

But the case for immediate action becomes overwhelming when you consider what happens if the rain keeps falling.

This is a point Conservative politicians could do with making.

Seven and a half years for the slow murder and torture of a young child isn't justice

The lie about prison sentences continues to be pulled on the public. 15 years we are told - but it will mean 7.5 yrs.

Yes those responsible for the murder by starvation Khyra Ishaq may have had all sorts of issue and problems.

But justice demands between 20-30 years or the rope for their crime.

Mercy and understanding can be accommodated in the style of their incarceration, but justice demands consequences for evil.

A response too the Lib Dem blackmail list

The Lib Dems are getting very excited about deceiving people about which political party governs them in the future. Will they keep the insane Gordon Brown as PM or the kitten drowning David Cameron ? They of course are far too dishonest to tell you, but they will issue a set of demands. A copy below (H/T Conservative home )

• A shake-up of the tax system to lift four million people out of tax by raising tax thresholds to £10,000, with higher taxes for the rich;
• A boost to education spending targeted at children from poor families through a "pupil premium";
• A switch to a greener economy less dependent on financial services;
• Political reform, including a new voting system for Westminster elections.

Here are the problems with these demands:

1) A tax system where only the rich pay will encourage the less well of to vote for free money ( ie more spending as it costs them nothing), whilst the rich just leave. Everyone should vote, and everyone should pay according to their means. Spending power without responsibility will just return us to the 1970's road crash of an economy.

2) More money hasn't delivered better education. Yet more money won't either. When human rights and government social engineering has removed the right to a straight forward education in a school run and controlled by competent teachers - more money will just be more waste.

3) The Green heat of technology deceit has already been shown up to be a lie in many other places. Its the sort of myth well of professional classes like to tell themselves when they was their hands of the consequences ( see Guardian and Indie readers. )

4) Here's the real demand - a voting system to allow Lib Dems to black mail every future government for ever.

Not a great list - with narrow and deceitful self interest at its heart that seeks to mislead and let the people down.

(Slight reworking of the comment left on CH )

Brown is to arrogant to engage in debate

If Gordon Brown needs your opinion, then he'll give it to you.

Of all the modern politicians he is the one least likely to engage in intelligent debate where ideas are developed, justified and defended by facts and ideas.

Brown just makes assertions.

Like:

"It is right that"
"It is wrong that"
and today "It is incredibly unfair"

What none of these statements never have following them is an attempt to justify those assertions. ( See his assertions on his crimanl underfunding of our armed services here - notice all the dirty little tricks he uses - especially that New Labour classic the over defined rebuffed accusation - did you spot it ? Yes the "urgent operational requirements" is it. He's hoping the public think that's the same thing as the military requesting more helicopters or replacements for old and worn out kit. )

Just whilst we're here lets reflect on what this tells us about Brown and Labour. They prefer deceit to the truth. They prefer crushing debate to justifying their actions. Labour is instinctively anti-democratic, authoritarian and bullying in nature. No wonder Gordon Brown managed to bully his way into becoming their unelected leader and the UK's unelected PM.

There are two reasons for this:

1) Often Brown just can't justify himself - like when he tells one of his infamous lies.
2) He knows that for the majority of the population they aren't listening to the argument, just the tone. Due to the left wing compliant MSM in the UK he can get away with just making pompous assertions, and be sure he'll never be challenged.

Its the second reason where the real damage to our country is inflicted, and this can only happen because the same brave reporters who will hound a Conservative spokesperson on the same point for ten minutes - just swallow Brown's assertions whole.

They are failing the population, and they are making our politics dysfunctional.

Brown needs to be held to account - and the MSM just don't seem intrested.

What will Gordon's biggest lie be in the budget this time ?

So it looks like Gordon's going to go through the theatre of a pre-election budget.

This can mean only one thing - he's going to get Darling to lie big time.

He'll no doubt use his traditional tricks including:

1. Hiding in the small print - so the headlines won't pick up on the downside.
2. Lots are straight bold lies - eg "Best placed in Europe to weather the recession " "No more boom & Bust" etc etc.
3. Lies within lies eg "Because of the great economic performance we are able to borrow at this time of need without risk ". ( Its easy to pick up on the second one, but if your not careful you swallow the first. )
4. Stealth wealth confiscation - eg death taxes and continuing to steal from peoples private pensions whilst using the money to buy votes for himself.

What else do you think he'll try ( let be straight here Alistair Darling will be like a Thunderbirds puppet here - he'll do the master of lies bidding. )

Any ideas what the biggest Porkie Brownie will be ?

And also

Let not forget the smears and lies they will use the budget to tell about the opposition. What will the most outrageous of these be ? Will there be a bigger deceit and smear than Brown used to lie to the people about Conservative spending plans in 2005 ?

Austerity Brown

The latest dividing line from the man who keeps thinking of politics as his own personal playground battle is to say the Tories would enjoy austerity.

The polls warn us that a hung parliament, or thanks to the anti-English and anti-Tory bias in our electoral system a Labour minority govt ( the favourite of every Lib Dem except perhaps Nick Clegg - whose tried to work with Brown once a learnt the hard way ), is possible. The markets are scared at the thought.

And here's why.

Who do you think has the competence to cut back the state and reform it so that it performs better without sucking all the oxygen out of the economy as it does now ?

Gordon Brown - whom even the Labour party has called the road block to reform.
David Cameron - who has reformed the Conservative party and who has a order of magnitude more able team of MPs to chose from to head up a government.

It quite clear that Brown would fail at Austerity just as he has failed at everything else.

Can you afford it ? Can we afford Gordon's ego and incompetence for another 5 years ? Will anyone in the world be willing to lend us the money to indulge him ?

Gordon Brown betrays the country with his lies and misdirections

So another episode fit for the Thick of It has been enacted in yet another inquiry designed to defect the public from the truth.

We know, given the was equipment was used up on operations, that the defence budget shrunk under Labour. We know that Gordon Brown was very hostile to the military when he was chancellor. We know he cut the helicopter program. ( We also know that Labour fabricated the evidence for the war itself - and directly lead to the death of probably hundreds of thousands of people. )

Yet its seen as a technical exercise in the arts of spin, lies and misdirection to put a key point man up to get through the days obstacles ( which are never too bad - as after all the inquiry panel wasn't exactly uninfluenced by the government. ) Remember Cherie Blair and a Alistair Campbell signing copies of the Hutton inquiry ( remember in part about the death and maybe murder of Dr John Kelly ) to raise funds for the Labour party !


On Friday Brown used some of the classic plays in the New Labour spin book.

1. The over defined allegation: This was a ploy Blair loved to use. You over define what you are being accused of then summon all the righteous indignation your acting skills can muster to knock it down ( hoping that you have deceived and mislead people that a very similar but correct accusation is also not true ). Here's the most recent example.
   
2. Cowardly abuse of civil servants who can't answer for themselves: Blaming the generals is just typical of the gutless coward that Brown is.
   
3. The straight lie: always a New Labour favourite.
   
4. Acting the part: see Tony Blair's onion, Brown and Piers Morgan and Brown's insane grin.
   
5. Abusing people's lack of detailed knowledge: see the difference between the nation debt and deficit, spending and investment, past equipment supplies and those announced on opportunist trips to Afghanistan the day after dodgy testimony and to avoid the follow up questions.
   

Remember there was a time before Blair and Brown hijacked the Labour party when none of these things would ever have been considered, let alone done. ( People's fond recollections of Michael Foot make this point most clearly. )

But that was when the Labour party stood for something, rather than New Labour with its PR, spin, deceit and well paid and fed flawed fellow travellers - yes John Prescott you disgrace to the nation I mean you.

Labour have no morals and there is no longer a moral base to the party. They have a very few smart well educated people lying to the population about massive record debt being fine, and Gordon Brown. Remember until very recently they were even trying to claim they would increase spending deceiving the population that debt is really just deferred taxation.

There is a form of perversion and corruption that permeates everything the Labour party once was, and now drags down the nation.
Further: Cranmer comes to similar conclusions here.

The sheer bloody nerve of Ed Balls

I've just read an article reporting that Ed Balls is trying to warn of cuts in education and that headteachers need to trim their budgets, especially primary school heads.

If you're not involved in schools this might sound fine to you, but I can tell you the government has until very recently been giving schools a hard time about not spending enough money !

And why won't the schools spend this money ? As they don't want to employ staff they then have to sack - that why Mr Balls !

Schools, like many other small to medium enterprises, are closely knit societies - and redundancies hurt moral hard.

The rest of us have seen the writing on the wall that Labour have been lying about and ignoring till very recently and have tried to act accordingly.

So its a bloody cheek for Ed Balls to start mouthing off at primary school heads and the need to save money to avoid redundancies.

Maybe he thinks sounding all tough on spending will get him made Chancellor if Brown wins and Alistair gets the "Forces of Hell" let lose on him again.

German MPs suggest Greece sell the Acropolis

See this report in the Daily Mail. All I can say is told you the German's would be calling the shots....

Just remember with Labour - we're next.

No Cash for Peerages

So lets get this one right - Hattie has refused to answer any questions at PMQs so she can show why token women should be promoted to leadership by repeating the spin line on Lord Ashcroft ?

Labour's problem being that this time being No cash for Peerage, that it can then recycle into her husband's Union ( he of the no all women short lists needed when hubby is standing fame ).

You would think after all the criminal investigations into Labour's funding scandals they would know to leave alone ....

See also Harman Pulverised - Iain Dale,

CP: The first UK professional body to go sceptical

Climate Heresy: The first UK professional body to go sceptical

The political implications will probably have to wait until after the general election.

All the little favours

We are entering the last phase of the phony general election. The official monitoring and impartiality rules for the BBC haven't yet started so there's still time for the amassed legions of left wing biased journalists and producers to give their socialist views a better chance of prevailing.

A classic example was the revised GDP figures. When I heard the BBC broadcasting the glorious news of GDP being revised as 0.3%GDP, rather than 0.1%GDP ( the US growth is over 5%GDP by comparison ) I cursed the radio as the BBC failed to mention that expectations had been far higher at the time and 0.3%GDP was still a disastrous result.

But the BBC never misses the chance to allow a misconception to support Labour.

However the truth is far worse and the headline from the ONS far more misleading. ( I would assume the ONS mistake was either an individual or just a plain mistake as their record appears fairly good ). In fact the upgrade in growth was due to a downgrade in past economic performance ! ( So not good news for the country at all - see Andrew Lilico's post on Conservative Home. ).

Yesterday we have had the Lord Ashcroft non-Dom story. A valid story for the likes of the BBC to run with an investigate I might add, however they completely failed in the headlines to mention the greater sums Labour gets from non-Dom benefactors, and with only inoculation type mentions in reports ( the sort of few words left in the transcript to defend yourself at a latter date ) . They also failed to mention the cash for peerages scandal that had the police investigating the prime minister.

The news and media at the BBC is full of these little tricks these days. From the Now Show to Radio4's Today program - whose interviews ( with the honourable exception of Evan Davis ) could just be dictated by the Labour party. Articles and questions are all through the left wing BBC world view.

Oh you'll never catch them. And if you complain you'll be dismissed out of hand. But we all know the game being played by all Gordon's little helpers in the media.

The Conservative party would do well to remember all this, and not fall for the post election charm offensive from the BBC ( assuming the Conservatives win ) and break up the BBC to ensure this never happens again.

Update: Conservative home are making the same case today.