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🗳 Why Labour will win the general election TEMPLATE ANALYSIS #UKGeneralElection 🇬🇧

17 Tuesday Mar 2015

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ANALYSIS – One thing is certain as  May 7 gets ever closer – that Labour will win the general election. The question is by how much – enough to govern or will they have form a coalition. This observation is not based on any obvious statistics – even though the polls give Ed Miliband’s Labour a lead or even on his approval ratings which if newspapers are to be believed aren’t great.  This is a simple statement based on what I am seeing on the street in a country where the ordinary person will not be able to get through another round of promised Tory austerity.  Put simply something’s going to have to give if Cameron and his ghastly Chancellor make it back into number 10.  George Osborne may be a darling in the business community and to the people he’s protected over the last five years – namely the rich and pensioners – but to the rest of the population his diet of cuts to public services, public sector jobs whilst giving tax breaks to the very rich has caused considerable pain without any obvious results. What’s more the aspiring classes the so-called Essex man and woman are finding that unless they started out in the eighties ala Alan Sugar there’s very little out there to mine unless you want to be a butler to the very rich.

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Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out about Britain’s food banks.

07 Sunday Dec 2014

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Justin Welby says he found the plight of one family in Britain more shocking than what he has seen in Africa because it was so unexpected.
What’s more shocking about how the poorest suffer in large cities, he said in The Mail on Sunday, is the large amounts of food being thrown away.

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Budget 2014: Coalition can’t hide that Britain is suffocating under a failed economic policy

20 Thursday Mar 2014

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George Osborne’s budget for the year 2014 was a clear attempt by the Conservative Party to shore up its core voters –  the old and the rich who have been largely shielded as the county has suffered under the weight of austerity.
But there was no real attempt to help those who have been hit by the 40 per cent rate of tax,  the very people that championed Thatcher and her reforms.
The Chancellor fears that they will move to UKIP during the next general election yet his budget did little to redress the central problem of the tax rates –  that middle England is paying the same rate as the very richest,  and all the while the level of debt this country owes has remained largely the same.
Even the news that the level of personal allowance is to be raised above £10 000 has a sting in its tail – it could mean a rise in temporary work.
That on top of of the few pence that were recently added on the minimum wage means that there was little to help the little man.
More than this Osborne’s demeanour and PR statements talking up how well he has handled the economy show that this is a party and coalition government that has lost touch.
All they need to do is take a walk down any street in any town. And they will see Britain isn’t breathing, it’s suffocating under a failed economic programme.

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👨 David Cameron Two Years On .. 🇬🇧

12 Saturday May 2012

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What a difference a day makes, or in this case a month or so.

As David Cameron and some one called Nick Clegg – where are you my friend? – celebrate two years since they appeared under the sun in the Downing St garden all smiles before the press,  the Conservatives are lurching from crisis to crisis.

Admitting that they got wrong when they scrapped the jets ordered by the last government for this country’s two aircraft carriers.

They did of course make a big issue of this at the time.

Gordon Brown’s government had mismanaged the economy and wasted public money and the spending £5bn on jets that this nation did not need proved their point.

Well, Britain hit double-dip recession territory within the time frame predicted by Brown  – that despite the radical cuts to the public sector announced by Chancellor George Osborne. This news opened the whole country’s eyes to the coalition’s claims to having a credible economic plan and they still want to have a go at welfare, education and health.

Don’t underestimate the magnitude of the defeat at the local elections – David Cameron did not win the general election outright and has just seen his party wiped out everywhere except in London, where the Mayor bucked the trend though he lost heavily in the London assembly.

So, as Jeremy Hunt faces calls to stand down against a backdrop of a Leveson inquiry that is appearing to be more damaging to Cameron and those former Murdoch employees around him, who include his Education Secretary Michael Gove, the question is what next on the rocky road to May 2015?