Showing posts with label scorched earth policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scorched earth policy. Show all posts

Sunday, November 15, 2009

In place of government ....desperation and selfishness

Brown and Darling have accepted defeat. What they are now about is vengeance.


Like the Nazi's as German faced the inevitable they are determined to destroy everyone and everything that has let them down, and that's the British people right now.

So the naked bone headed electioneering that is going to be in the new financial regulation bill will just do the country vast damage.

Why ?

    Because its an incomes policy ( head back to the last major Labour failure in the 70's for a review of that ). We know that once a power is on the books Labour will want to expand it and use it for other purposes ( and international companies will assume the same and locate else where ).

    Because we need the taxes that these people and their companies pay. A friend of mine works for a company of lawyers who help businesses relocate away from the UK ( mostly to Switzerland right now apparently due to recent changes in legislation ) - she's very very busy and this will make things far worse. This is very good news for the citizens of Switzerland but disastrous news for the vulnerable in the UK. ( Which shows you how nakedly selfish and spiteful Labour have now become ).

Its another example of gesture politics to grab headlines and hurt the country at the expense of actually doing something helpful.

Labour have now become all about the careers and benefits of its elected members and vengeance upon the country they now fear will reject them.

Update See a similar line taken in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday 17th Nov 09

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Just how desperate is Brown now getting ?

Gordon brown's last minute gate crashing of the G20 Finance Minister meeting (and you have to feel sorry for Alistair Darling at this point) has shown how badly he's really regarded in the world.

But I wonder what sort of advice he's getting. Surely you sound out an idea privately before standing up and inviting yourself to an international meeting then giving a speech to suggest an idea ? Did no civil servants check out the likely US or other major nations response ? Or was the advice ignored or perhaps more likely never sought as Brown no longer cares how about our country's reputation as long as he gets his few minutes in the news ?

I suspect the truth is Brown has given up on running the country for its own good ( and I'm not the only one ) and is now just desperate for any sort of publicity that associates himself with his G20 saving the world meme he tried to get going a few months ago before that embarrassing slip of the tongue in the commons.

There are rumours that Labour will now have to go to the country before the next budget as the actual figures and plans will be too awful to fight an election on - as they have to make the cuts they have been borrowing mind blowingly large sums of money to avoid making for a few months.

It looks to me like the government is now becoming unable to function. Things are getting very serious. The time may be coming when individual Labour MPs and even civil servants will need to put the country before their careers to stop the wrecking and chaos of the last days of the Gordon Brown regime.

Remember we all have to live in the country after June - except perhaps Blair and Miliband.