caledoniandream:
What is the best party for truckers, probably the party who stabilizes and growth the economy.
I personal think the Conservatives have done a good job, and another 5 year would give them chance to finish that job in succes.
The Green Party is for dreamers, yes in a perfect world they are absolute right to protect the environment, but i think a reality pill and waking up to the smell of coffee would do them good.
Nigel Farage and his UKIP makes me think of the guy in the pub who knows everything better, shouts a lot, is going to do this and going to do that, and when he is home its: Yes wife no wife, of course i will put the bins out.
He hasn’t said anything what even slightly impresses me.
Also is immigrant policy is very much: Do as i say, not as i do, his wife is a German immigrant, and Farage is really a British name■■? I don’t think so!
We see currently in Greece what happens to Parties who promise the world, no austerity measures, all public workers back in the job, 3 month later the bank is empty and they are begging Germany to help them.
Labour in any country where i lived has never made an impression, neither in the UK, they empty the bank and blame everybody else for it.
There is no such a thing as a free meal, you cannot improve the NHS and social security without increasing taxes and stealing it somewhere else.
and be under no illusion that only the rich are affected by tax increase, the volume of the poor makes it much easier to get a lot of money with a tax increase of the full width of the British working population.
Also countries running by the working man (what Labour pretend to be) never succeed, have a look at the former USSR, China and now Cuba, they all turn into capitalist countries to survive.
Lib-Dem never impressed me and turn as a leave on a tree, depending how the wind blows.
SNP only look after theirselves and would be very dangerous for England and Wales.
Germany, despite owning the EU and in particular the weaker countries within it - are not prepared to pay the fair and full “Maintenence overhead” which is giving pretty much ‘eternal cheap loans’ - or even “free money outright” to countries like Greece. If any mistake is currently being made by the Greek Government - it’s not playing their hand even harder than they are. They don’t have much in the way of bargaining power, so the only force they can give their declarations is to “secede if not granted” when it comes to foreign loans. They MUST be prepared to actually go through the “Grexit” - lest any further arguments carry no weight at all. Greece’s way out of crisis and debt, I feel, is re-introducing the Drachma and pushing the tourism industry out with it’s now very cheap devalued home currency. The best thing the Greek banks can do for the time being therefore is to build up their reserves so foreign speculators are unable to pull the rug from their newly-refloated currency so it goes into total collapse and causes hyperinflation. If Tsipras DARES to go back to his people and declare “Sorry, I lied about ending Austerity” then I think the consequences for him personally may well go quite a bit further than “losing the next election”. The whole country there really IS at stake - and the government know full well that this term of office is very much “Do or Die” for them. That result has no resemblence to what the ECB and Germany want for Greece, so the economic dance continues.
The biggest lie behind the entire Conservative machine right now is that they are somehow “five years into a plan that hasn’t even begun to work yet”.
This makes Cameron & Osbourne seem a lot worse than Tsipras and Varoufakis in terms of “what they have achieved so far” and any lies that need to be told to “let the charade continue”.
I can’t get past Osbourne borrowing more new money in the last five years than Gordon Brown did in double that time as Chancellor himself. Then Osbourne lies about all the current Tory failings (his own failings as he’s the incumbent chancellor) being “still due to Labour”…
Five years of deflation, no pressure on businesses that rip us off, no upward pressure on wages, nothing really done about the “expenses” and “News of the World” scandals to the public’s liking, and right now a “vague” at best definition at where the axe is going to fall in “futher cuts” promising ever more austerity when the supertanker should have at least started to turn by now.
I never voted Labour, and I’m not about to start now. I’m not going to waste my vote any more on some lying toffee nosed twit donking my taxpayer money away on everything except things beneficial to us folks at home here in the UK. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Blair during Labour’s years of power pretty much for the same reasons. The only time I voted Tory was in 2006.
