Labour: a party no longer fit to govern

The Sunday Times does not pull its' punches today in describing the miserable failure of Labour's Pre-Budget Report to address the issues facing Britain.

Their main leader article, "A party no longer fit to govern" begins as follows:

"When Alistair Darling delivered his pre-budget report, the public had a right to expect three things. He needed to set out a credible plan to get public borrowing down. He had to be honest about the scale of spending cuts needed during the next parliament. And, if he chose to announce tax rises, they would be for reducing the debt, not spending even more on Britain’s public sector.

"The chancellor failed on all three counts."

You can read the full article here.

Comments

Jane said…
Labour's Pre-Budget (pre-election) Report is cynical and dishonest. It is purely political and is constructed without a thought for the long term economic benefit of th country.

I agree with Michael Heseltine's comment that it "wasn't all Darling; it was all Balls", with Gordon Brown's fingerprints on it. Brown personally overruled Treasury advice. When Governments are in disarray, coming to the end of their shelf-life it is common for personalities to vie for power. Ed's after your job Darling!

Cynically waging class war on everyone who earns more than £20,000. The sacrifices that struggling families and businesses will make are not even going to reduce the debt.

Whilst stating that the NHS is protected the National Insurance increase will cost the NHS almost £450 million. The increase in benefits to some of the most vulnerable people is a con. The chancellor failed to mention, in his Parliamentary address, that the same benefits would be cut a year after the election.

How on earth does taxing jobs get Britain out of recession? Whilst most of Europe, USA and the Japanese economies are seeing light at the end to the recession's tunnel, Britain shows no green shoots of recovery. The gigantic debts and steep decline of Britain's manufacturing base have prevented recovery.

There is danger that recession will become slump. This Government's irresponsible and selfish budget could well lead to slump and our credit rating being down-graded.

"If anyone needed one more reason to believe it's time to get rid of the Labour politicians running our country, this week's behaviour gave every reason that could possibly be needed." David Cameron.
3:58 pm
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria

Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
Read more

Quotes of the day 19th August 2020

Image
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise."  ( Cato the Elder , who lived 234 BC - 149 BC, quoted in "Lives" by Plutarch.) There is a similar saying by Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck: Benjamin Franklin is supposed to have put the same saying in a more humorous form: "Wise men profit by the mistakes of others, while fools will not learn even from their own blunders." See also this thread on the "Quote Investigator" website . Let us all be wise and learn from the events of the last few days.
Read more

Quote of the day 24th July 2020

I was moved to put the passage below forward as a quote today when I saw a horrible post on twitter from someone writing that it was "excellent" that someone who took a different view from her about Brexit had died. I won't write which way round it was so that all the Remain supporters can assume the post was from a Brexit fanatic welcoming the death of a remainer and all the Leavers can assume it was a Remainiac welcoming one less Brexiteer. There's been plenty of nasty stuff on both sides but if you catch anyone of your own viewpoint  posting something like that who might listen to you, please do call them out on it - and point out that they're giving everyone on your side of the argument a bad name. Anyway, here's the quote from John Donne.
Read more