Popular Alliance = International Rescue

by Craig Chapman - 08:55 on 22 September 2008

I was quite taken aback this morning as a polite and (for her usual levels) informative Caroline Flint spoke to GMTV reporter John Stapleton. 

Is this part of some charm offensive or a new leaf ? Some of what she said was also true, in that her government as a whole, along with some global situations, is responsible for many of the problems we face and that they must do better. Under statement of the year perhaps, but true none the less. 

The bit she left out was that during the last 11 years, her government has been in charge of one of the world’s leading economies, with a big say in how the world trades and it is the decisions and policies of those nations that have left our financial markets open to such abuse. 

The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has long told us how prudent he is in running our country’s finances. He has been responsible for the relaxing of many rules of financial trading, sat asleep at the wheel as the financial world has fallen apart and now wants to tell us that he’s the man to steer us out of the mess he has played a major part in creating ??? 

Mr Brown has been very happy to grab the higher levels of tax as set percentages of the inflated prices and it seems he has spent them all too as we struggle to offset the volatile market fluctuations. He reminds of the greedy kid who eats all his chocolates first and then whinges when he sees someone else who saved some for later.

The most worrying part of all this is that the only alternative we have available, according to the UK media that more or less controls the direction of election, is David Cameron.  

David Cameron might well be the alternative, but for crying out loud, he is most certainly not the answer. 

Meanwhile over at LibDem Towers, we have the leader who doesn’t even know how much a single pension is (by two thirds), who wants to cut taxes without identifying where. 

Popular Alliance say that with the present set of government induced outgoings, this country cannot afford to cut taxation at all. Mr Darling proposes all manner of public-soothing tax breaks that he really cannot afford and that will leave an even bigger hole to climb out of further down the line. He's using this country's visa card to appease short term public outcry to try and save his own job.  Does he not realise that his credit limit ran out ages ago and that our livelihoods are the only collateral that he has ? How dare he play with our futures like this.

Our currency is falling in value, our number of unemployed is rising, we have millions totally dependent upon state handouts, our gold reserves are sold and our businesses are so tied-up by Labour-inspired red tape and taxation that they struggle to trade at all. Meanwhile we are still boosting the coffers of a rival currency – the Euro, through our endless truck loads of European Union surrenders.  

We are making our competition stronger !!! I am yet to hear any of our future leaders make this point in public. Do they not realise the results of their actions or are they being paid to keep quiet and take us for fools ?

It is impossible to lower the amount of incoming tax without addressing and lessening the ways in which it is so irresponsibly thrown away. Obvious areas in which we should look at fixing the leaky bucket are :- 

i) The European Union 

ii) Claim Culture 

iii) Downsizing of Government 

iv) Immigration and the support of those who come for a free ride

We cannot blame the entire financial crises of today on US mortgages alone. Our own government and the way in which many people try live above their means has contributed greatly to the wobbly position in which were sat and which made us such a soft hit when the proverbial hit the fan elsewhere. 

Prudence ? Perhaps we have different dictionaries My Brown. I read a superb quote this week from Welsh MP Paul Flynn - "Under New Labour, only the future is certain, its the past that keeps changing !!"

We then look at how reliant this nation has become on some very unstable regimes around the world. 

Energy – our present government has sat on its backsides and done nothing to ensure and safeguard our future energy needs. In their 11 years of fumbling, they could have introduced all manner of simple national and local energy producing schemes to vastly reduce our reliance upon countries like Russia, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc. Meanwhile much of the profits being raked in by our energy companies go to France and Russia as the Tories privatised them years ago and they were brought up from overseas. Talk about cutting your own throat. 

Today they annouce a £30 billion investment offer from Westinghouse to develop our Nuclear Industry. That is the one direction we really do not need to take. We should be talking to Iceland about their clean Hydrogen Energy with usable by-products, we should be removing VAT from energy savings devices and investing in wave and tidal power, magnetics, residential windmills etc. In fact we should have done that a long time ago. Our country is rich in natural energy sources but no-one in government will stand up to the oil barons, Putting Britain First - surely that is the first responsibility of a government ???

Food production – our own farmers are giving up in their thousands due to Government and EU red tape and taxes, meanwhile our population grows out of control and more houses are built on good farming land. Now, which part of that our Government can’t work out I really cannot understand, but it all boils down to some bloody awful planning and economics – and I only got 2 O-levels !! 

Banking – touched on above. This world’s leading nations have run their economies for the last 10 or more years in a manner similar to some High St airhead with a wallet full of visa cards. The banks have allowed this to happen and now scores of greedy speculators have swooped and gobbled up unmanageable levels of profit from of ailing stocks and shares. The banking world and Gordon Brown have both acted in very similar ways and we are seeing the results of their actions on the front of every newspaper, in the number of job losses going around and in the falling values of our homes, which in turn had become vastly inflated thanks to the very actions of these same people. 

Popular Alliance proposes a new way of looking at how we pay for how we want to live. We believe that we need to be more self-sufficient, rely upon our natural resources and capabilities a lot more and stop shooting ourselves in both feet. Our wide ranging list of very well respected policies, are in the process of being updated to face the problems that we see and hear every day. We say what we mean and will do what we say. It does not come any simpler or more straight-forward than that.  

Gordon Brown is directly responsible for the mess that we find ourselves in. As our financial leader for 10 years and unelected leader for 18 months, he has dragged this nation down on its knees and is choking us. David Cameron has no alternative policies, in fact he has displayed more hair partings in public than he has policies – helmet hair or not. A joke perhaps, but a very sad indictment of the rubbish many people in this country will blindly throw themselves at. 

Barak Obama might shout “Change” from the rooftops but like Mr Cameron, he does not tell us what that change will be - how desperate can people be to throw their faith behind something so vague ?

Popular Alliance openly and informatively propose vast changes, we also call it good common sense, and we have it in abundance.

Now write about that Mr Newspaper Man !!! Go on, we challenge you.

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