Jan 12 2009
Greedy Gordon
Well done New Labour, another new policy, to pay employers for employing staff. Sounds good, especially as it is targeted at those who have been unemployed for over 6 months. Only one problem, it is the same policy announced two months ago by the Conservative Party. I thought it sounded familiar.
What is truly different this time is the speed at which the government stole an opposition party policy. It took six months for them to nationalize ‘Northern Rock’ after Vince Cable (Lib/Dems) proposed it. Since then three other policies have been stolen, and at increasing speed. This most recent one being snaffled in just two months. It really makes you grateful for the fact that we have opposition parties, or the government would have done nothing, remained clueless, and still in denial about the true state of the British economy.
If we are really lucky, Labour will announce a 2p reduction in the basic rate of income tax during the budget this Spring. Vince touted this, and it is probably the only real alternative that can genuinely inject cash flow into the economy.
And, whilst discussing New Labour, wasn’t it nice to see that lovely Tony Blair speaking about the Middle East. It is only the third week of conflict, with nearly a thousand dead, and thousands injured, and, at last, the Middle East Peace Envoy has found time out for touring America and collecting gongs from George W Bush, to actually look in on his day job! What a joke he is.
