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Does anyone else think that Labour are almost guaranteed to win the next election?

David Cameron and his travelling circus almost seemed a viable alternative.   Right up until the moment they started revealing their policies.

The latest of which is a promise to cut, cut, cut within days of coming to power.  What they fail to realise is that every cut that gets made will have a knock-on effect to services being purchased from the private sector.  Unemployment will rise, interest rates will fall, and we’ll be back into decline along with our Italian, German, and Spanish friends.

Where-as Labours policy seems rather more sensible to me.  Let the Government take the strain, wait until the country has it’s own momentum in the direction of growth (lets say a year – well, actually the boffins said ‘a year’ as that’s when they’ve forecast the economy will be strong enough), THEN cut the deficit over a very reasonable 4 years to a tune of 50%.

We seem to have a party that will say what it thinks people want to hear, wihtout actually using relevant data to inform themselves.  I want my economic policy decided by a trained economist, who is being fed with all the latest data and opinions from across the globe, to then create a steady, conservative approach to deficit reduction, growth, and job creation.  What I don’t want is a party lurching around, changing it’s policies based on Daily Mail headlines regarding the state of our finances.

Economies go into recession when people stop spending, so the very last thing we need is the Government to lead the charge.  Four years is ample time to clear the deficit in my book.

The only thing that worries me about a Labour win is the effort their ministers and think-tanks put into social engineering policies.  Things like raising the minimum price of alcohol; what a crock!  Government should concentrate on the big things.  Over the past 13 years Labour have succeeded in a lot of ‘big’ areas;  things like Independence to the Bank Of England, Stopping genocide in Kosovo, The Northern Ireland Peace Treaty, repealing Section 28, creating Civil Partnerships and equal rights for same-sex couples, leading the charge to whip off African Debt, the smoking ban creating the amazing entertainment space which is the O2 Arena and surrounding area (which is already making more money than it cost), the successful Olympic bid which is creating Billion of Pounds worth of regeneration to hundreds of acres of land across the country, and we have led the world on climate change, 3rd world debt, resolving the financial ‘crisis’ amongst other things.  But all of these things have been mired by other things like ASBO’s, and those crazy children’s savings account things!

I may update this later,  but it’s Valentine’s day and I have preparations to make for my Valentine!

In response to Jan Moir’s ‘not an apology’ in The Mail Online article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1222246/The-truth-views-tragic-death-Stephen-Gately.html :

Jan,

1) Everyone who found out about your disgusting article through Twitter or Facebook was able to click a link directly to it. Of course we read it. The bounds of your ignorance is truly staggering.

2) If there is a ‘majority’ of support for your views, why are they so afraid to speak in public about it?

3) The ruling on Stephen Gately’s death WAS ‘natural causes’. This was revealed BEFORE your article. You disagreed outright with the corroner’s verdict with no basis to do so. You didn’t say that you thought the circumstances AROUND his death were unnatural, you said his death WAS unnatural. You’re a journalist Jan, it is your job to be able to express what you mean, if you got it THAT wrong then I submit that you are a bad journalist and shouldn’t be employed by one of the countries most popular tabloids.

4) You have just admitted that you based your article on ‘hear-say’ from other newspapers. Learn to find reputable sources. Do not copy other people’s work; you cannot verify it’s accuracy or validity. Yet another reason you should not have your job as of tomorrow morning.

5) The most ‘orchestrated’ that the ‘campaign’ to complain got, was people linking to your article via blogs, tweets and social networking statuses, and adding their personal opinion of that article. You have an embarrassing mis-comprehension of social media. In your article about Sarah Brown tweeting, you stated that ‘nothing good ever came from Tweeting’. Oh how wrong you are.

Jan, you are sitting in a little bubble with your fingers in your ears singing ‘LaLaLa La La’, imagining that 99% of the population are wrong, and that you are right. What YOU need to do now if offer an unreserved apology. State that although it is obvious you have caused great offense, you are unable to understand why, and as such will have to look deep within to find out, and as you have no idea how you could have hurt so many people, so badly, it is only fair that you step down from your position immediately to avoid this happening again. Then once you have discovered how you could have got it so very wrong, and can be sure that it won’t happen again, THEN you will return to work.

Deal?