Labour’s real pledge card
Further to my previous post, this is the genuine Labour Pledge Card…
Here is the reverse…
Okay, let’s get fisking…
Secure the recovery and halve the deficit through economic growth, fair taxes and cuts to lower priority spending.
Halve the deficit: just like that! From the people who have more than doubled it – how? Through economic growth. What economic growth? Jobs have been going overseas or disappearing altogether. Manufacturing jobs are also under threat due to the government’s obsession with climate change and carbon trading.
Fair taxes? They hope we have forgotten about the removal of the 10p tax rate for the poorest workers.
Cuts to lower priority spending? Wow, they used the c-word. But what do they consider lower priority? The hundreds of useless, often dangerous, quangos and fake charities? The diversity officers?
No doubt Labour’s cuts are all totally honourable, whereas, when the Tories talk about cuts, they mean cutting off the electricity supply to incubators in hospitals and making schoolboys buy their own condoms, which, considering tomorrow’s rise in cider prices would put a terrible strain on the average 12 year-old’s pocket money in this Utopia New Labour are creating for us.
Raise family living standards, keeping mortgage rates as low as possible; increasing tax credits for families with young children; providing new help for first-time buyers; and restore the link between the state pension and earnings from 2012.
Parents of one and two year olds will receive an extra £4 a week in Child Tax Credit for each child from 2012 and they will introduce a two-year Stamp Duty holiday for first-time buyers on homes up to £250,000. (Funded by a higher duty on the most expensive properties.)
The restoration of the link between the state pension and earnings sounds good. I wonder what the catch is.
Proper jobs are required for raising living standards, not a few more quid in handouts.
Build a high tech economy, supporting businesses and industry to create 1 million more skilled jobs and modernising our infrastructure with High-Speed Rail, a Green Investment Bank and broadband access for all.
They promise to build a high tech economy 30 years after high tech began. How pathetic is that? Consecutive governments have lost us millions of skilled jobs, but New Labour are promising a million new ones. They are even promising us a high-speed rail network decades after our neighbours in Europe got theirs. Isn’t Marxism great?
Protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS, with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week.
As usual, they are trying to frighten us into voting for them by mentioning cancer. And PFI can’t really be called “investment”.
Strengthen fairness in communities through an Australian style points-based system to control immigration; guaranteed education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people; and a crack down on anti-social behaviour.
The Party that allowed mass immigration to re-engineer society now expects us to believe it will implement a strict points-based system. And every young adult will have something to do in an age where New Labour has made one in ten a Neet? And if you believe they will crack down on anti-social behaviour, I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you.
New Labour does not know the meaning of fairness, no matter how many times they (mis)use the word. They are surely abhorrent to every thinking man and woman who has an ounce of humanity and a modicum of morality.
It is important to see through the clever (deliberately ambiguous) use of language in all the main Parties’ manifestoes.
The use of the word ‘deficit’, for example. Labour have pledged (that’s another one, it most certainly is not a promise) to attempt to halve the deficit in four years. Deficit and debt are two very different things. The National Debt is somewhere around 1.4 TRILLION quid. Seriously. A simply colossal amount that cannot possibly be paid back. The deficit, on the other hand, is the amount that the Labour Gov is overspending per year, currently around 167 BILLION quid. They are basically saying that would quite like to try to halve the overspend to a still vast 83 BILLION per year, whilst doing nothing about the simply vast levels of National Debt. They vainly imagine that this will be achieved by a growth in GDP, when after 13 years of marxist insanity they have in fact reduced GDP by 2%.
The UK is bankrupt. If it were a Limited Company, it’s Directors would be arrested for deliberately trading whilst insolvent and for false accounting.
The only way to pay off the debt, and stop increasing the deficit at the same, is to be absolutely brutal with public spending. No Party is prepared to do what is needed. The result will be a Rhodesia-style economic collapse and the replacement of Sterling with another currency.
Unfortunately, the electorate lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land and treats elections like the FA Cup Final. 90% will probably vote Red, Blue or Yellow without really thinking about what they have to gain – and lose – from doing so. They think that voting for someone different is a ‘wasted’ vote.
The plan looks to be to bankrupt the UK, and indeed the West, as part of ensuring a global government has complete control.
I notice that Leg-iron, in a reply to someone’s comment on his blog, is considering moving to Norway. Don’t know how serious he was.
Hey Stewart,
Maybe he knows something we don’t. Or do?
If you like mono-culturalism, Norway is the place to be, apart from Oslo, which resembles Brick Lane on a good day.
Hi English,
I see the comments are now showing the correct time here (BST started today). Are you an hour ahead of us now?
Yes, I’m not too big on diversity! I used to travel a bit in my early twenties and that’s great seeing other countries – nowhere too exotic, although I visited a small Bahamian island where the locals were very laid back. I could have stayed were it not for the searing heat. Why would they want to swap that lifestyle for a multi-cultural one where they have to change their ways and be afraid that anything they say may be taken out of context and used against them?
Hey Stewart,
We change our clocks at the same time you do, so we are always one hour ahead of you.
The problem with multiculturism is that it leads to a dissolution of one’s own culture, and eventually, all cultures. Everything becomes bastardised.
If you import literally millions of people, of a foreign culture and an alien religion, whilst at the same time prohibiting the promotion of one’s own culture and religion, you will end up with a mixture of races, culture, creed and religion which is so destructive to national identity and cultural distinctiveness that the NWO will find it a walk in the park to control, tax, and, if necessary, kill us.
The rights of aboriginal Australians seem to be carved in stone.
Not so those of the aboriginal Anglo-Saxons. Nor the Celts, nor the Picts.
I could go on, but what is the point? The war is lost, run to the hills.
I’m not big on diversity or equality Stewart, not the way politicians interpret it anyway.
Well, that’s right, SR. They make out like there’s something wrong with you if you don’t want to be subject to a thousand different groups trying to change your life.
You’re right too, English. That’s why they’re doing it. Their old pets, the Muslims and travellers, will start feeling the pinch soon I think and then the homosexuals will also be personnae non gratae. We will all be in one big global control grid because everyone was encouraged to be separate and ‘proud’ of it.
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