Our ministers need a lesson in finance (From Worcester News)
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Our ministers need a lesson in finance
8:10am Monday 8th February 2010 in Read
SIR – Our Government borrowed a staggering £142 billion last year. Forgive me for asking a stupid question: Why?
Was it to pay for the military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan of which the majority of the population was against? Or to subsidise banks’ efforts in paying bonuses to the people who got us in this financial mess?
Was it to fund our welfare system? Whose generous benefit payouts have obviously become world famous, judging by the huge number of people wishing to enter this country without hope of gaining employment?
Mr Brown recently announced he would donate £1.5 billon of taxpayers’ money to emerging countries to reduce their carbon emissions. How many generations of British taxpayers will it take to repay these avoidable, obscene amounts?
An education minister recently announced that schoolchildren will be taught money management. Will the slogan be “When you’re in a financial hole, stop digging”?
Robin Smith
Worcester
Comments(27)
Energetic
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5:11pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Cromwell of Worcester
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5:40pm Mon 8 Feb 10
helen donovan
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7:24pm Mon 8 Feb 10
http://www.dailymail
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1249194/Dover-symbol
-British-sovereignty
-sold-French-help-re
duce-debt.html
Cromwell of Worcester
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8:35pm Mon 8 Feb 10
helen donovan
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8:52pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Common Sense
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9:17pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Clear the road!
CS.
helen donovan
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9:19pm Mon 8 Feb 10
Cromwell of Worcester
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10:07pm Mon 8 Feb 10
helen donovan
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10:10pm Mon 8 Feb 10
!!!!!!!!!!!
topspin
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11:24pm Mon 8 Feb 10
I'm not in favour of privatising the port, although not so much for the jingoistic reasons as some have mentioned, but because such an important transport link should be publicly owned.
helen donovan
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7:47am Tue 9 Feb 10
I am sick to the back teeth of our manufacturing, services, gold, history and heritage being sold off to the highest foreign bidder!
Cromwell of Worcester
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11:04am Tue 9 Feb 10
helen donovan
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1:33pm Tue 9 Feb 10
It feels to me, that the immense effort that all the early industrial pioneers such as George Cadbury, Joseph Lucas etc, who all worked so hard to set up business etc for the people of this country and their own communities, and went through great personal hardship to do so, has all been wasted and carelessly frittered away. It makes me SOOOOO angry!
And then there's the millions of people who gave their lives fighting for for this country, for us all only now to see its hard worked for companies, resources and heritage etc all sectioned off and sold off to the highest foreign bidder!
We don't even own our own gas supplies any more for goodness sake!
What on earth would we do in the case of a national emergency?
helen donovan
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2:49pm Tue 9 Feb 10
http://www.dailymail
.co.uk/news/article-
1249194/Dover-symbol
-British-sovereignty
-sold-French-help-re
duce-debt.html
network
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4:33pm Tue 9 Feb 10
BarryB
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5:08pm Tue 9 Feb 10
When they start privatising these sort of functions, the end is well and truly, nigh.
How soon will Brown privatise The Royal Artillery, Royal Marines and our nuclear deterrent.
Hands up and say "aye" those who want Helen Dovovan as the MP for Worcester, ill'e start it off, "aye".
helen donovan
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5:17pm Tue 9 Feb 10
I think Gordon should be put in The Tower for Treason!!
Did you see the climbdown on the Hospital Charity Donations saga?
Common Sense
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10:54pm Tue 9 Feb 10
It has to be!
CS.
Cromwell of Worcester
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11:57am Wed 10 Feb 10
BarryB
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5:14pm Wed 10 Feb 10
There is no way I am going to waste my vote on a "no hoper" and give it Foster by default because that is what will happen.
He just needs a few to totally split the vote even further by people voting for the smaller parties and he is home and dry.
Give me 90% Scottish, call me Dave any day than 100% Labourite Foster and his mates.
If I knew UKIP had as much chance as Tory or Labour of forming a Government, they would get my vote, they cannot form a Government so they will not get my vote in this ultra critical election. We cannot risk another day of this shower.
Cromwell of Worcester
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8:42pm Wed 10 Feb 10
BarryB
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9:41pm Wed 10 Feb 10
I console myself with the strong belief that no party can possibly be worse than Labour. So, on that basis, theoretically it doesn't matter who one votes for as long as it is not Labour. But, we are not into the theoretical game, we are into a deadly factual game, the undecided's, the make your mind ups, the protest voters and the still to be swayed are all to the benefit of Foster. 3,000+ people in Worcester need to be changed from Foster with the rest voting as they did last time. That way he loses but I personally can't see it, his opposition is pitiful but he is not going to get my vote to his advantage to make things easier for him.
In the Council elections I will vote UKIP all things being equal but in this general one, the stakes are to high to start making protests.
Young Robin will get my vote and if he or his party mess up, then next time I really will have a problem because he won't get it again.
Cromwell of Worcester
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3:08pm Thu 11 Feb 10
BarryB
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9:07pm Thu 11 Feb 10
Cromwell of Worcester
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9:15pm Thu 11 Feb 10
Common Sense
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8:54am Fri 12 Feb 10
Rebuilding the nation is a separate issue entirely, but leaving the EU is the big one. I don't think they would let us leave without a big row! We finance the darned thing, in the main - but we get chuff-all out of it!
A lot of people are not as "well-informed" as us who comment here, and they think, because they are told it and they believe it, that "jobs will be lost, if we leave the EU"!
THIS IS NOT TRUE! Read my lips!
For starters, we can start trading again with the rest of the world, in our own way and with our own rules - not those Rules and Restrictions of the EU which prevent us at present.
However, the Grand Plan (of mainly the Fabians, but called the New World Order) have other ideas - and will break us, before they allow us to leave the EU and mess up their carefully laid plans. Plans which have been well over 60 years coming to fruition!
They would do everything in their considerable power, to stop us from "spoiling their nice new map" of the world! That I do know!
But, that said, do we want to leave the EU? We are a "broken nation" with a "broken society" - no manufacturing to speak of, our Armed Forces reduced to skeleton levels (and deployed, I notice, well away from these shores and unable to support us in a revolution! The new EU Gendarmerie will do that, with guns!) our government is a shambles, with our Laws now coming from another nation entirely!
"Can no one rid me of this turbulant Prime Minister?"
CS.
BarryB
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4:42pm Fri 12 Feb 10
I have harped on long enough about voting in the General Election and what has induced me to vote as I intend. Surprise, surprise, only in today's paper there was an article on a vote for UKIP and other small parties being a "wasted" vote and an almost certain way of allowing Labour to get back in again.
FACT, we are not going to have a government who will take us out of the EU, we can huff, puff, scream, shout, pull out our hair, kick the cat or head butt the wall but it is not going to happen.
If we vote purely on the single issue of the EU, let's look at what we have got.
(a) Labour, who gave them back all our rebates, took us in further, broke a solemn promise for a referendum and if Brown or any of them could do so they would give our Parliament over for the summer residence of the EU President which Labour tried for with Blair and failed. Nothing remotely doing there methinks. Mandelson would have us with the Euro tomorrow.
(b) Lib Dems, enough said, they would totally submerge what little is left of our sovereignty under a welter of Europeanism we would become as extinct as "Piltdown man".
(c) UKIP, as I said above, only when they get a massive, and I mean massive following in local elections to give them national credibility by controlling Local Councils, will they ever gain sufficient following to ever dream of getting into Parliament - they are light years away from that.
(d) BNP, they are opposed to everything Europe stands for, can you honestly see them ever forming a Government.
(e) Green's, I put them about one degree lower than the Lib Dems in their fervour for Europe. Listen to their Caroline Lucas talk on the subject of Europe, we would just be another province of little Luxembourg if she had her way.
(e) Tories, more against the EU than for it, albeit some would argue this. The party history with regard to the EU is one not of fawning subservience but of brittle, reluctance and spirited fighting our corner. (The first thing to go would be the EU law that stops us deporting criminals if they don't want to go, where Political Correctness is the order of the day, where minorities dictate their demands for cultural alteration of our laws to suit them etc etc etc. The Euro would be permanantly kicked into touch, we would once again make demands for our Labour lost rebates and once again, other EU members would know they had a fight on their hands if they wished to impose any more daftness on us.
Remember the Tory cry, a member of Europe, yes but ruled by Europe, never.
Take your pick of the above, I know who I am going for. You want another dose of Labour then vote UKIP, Green, BNP or similar. None of them have a snowball's chance in hell.
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