Cameron causes split in party

David Cameron was “Grandstanding” when he announced that he had a letter signed by 12 EU countries recommending a 2.9% increase in the Budget, instead of the 6% they were asking for. He had previously said he wanted the Budget reduced, or at least a freeze. His grab for publicity was condemned by all parties. According to Paul Nuttall of UKIP, “He said that he would cut the budget, or at least freeze the budget, now he's talking about a 2.9% increase at best - it's crazy”

Labour - and Eurosceptics in Mr Cameron's own party - have questioned whether it was much of an achievement.

Shadow foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said: "David Cameron's grandstanding has been a complete failure. European governments decided on 2.9% in August so he has achieved absolutely nothing."He's tried to swing his handbag but simply ended up clobbering himself in the face." As Cameron said previously “There was a suspicion that while some of these decisions might have been good decisions, not all of them were good decisions”

Conservative MP Bill Cash, chair of the Commons European Scrutiny Committee, said prime ministers always claimed success when they returned from EU summits, but the 2.9% increase was what the Council of Ministers had originally agreed - and British MPs had already voted to reject a higher increase.

Conservative peer Lord Tebbit said: "He would do better to go down fighting than to surrender in some Vichy-style arrangement, pretending to hold on to sovereignty by agreeing to what Europe demands."

David Cameron said he had “succeeded spectacularly”.


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Coalition Out Of Touch

George Osborne is expecting the private sector to generate jobs, in order to reboot the economy. He points to the last quarter figures available, June to August saying that 178,000 jobs were created. What he doesn’t say is that 143,000 were only part time jobs. Of the 35,000 full time jobs created in a quarter, it will take, at that rate, 35 years to find full time jobs for the 500,000 the government is laying off from civil service. Never mind anybody else.

Ian Duncan Smith the former Tory Leader, now the Work and Pensions Secretary, suggested unemployed people in Merthyr Tydfil should “get on a bus" to find work.

The former Tory leader claimed people were unaware they could take a one-hour bus journey to Cardiff for work. Labour politicians and unions said it echoed 1980s Tory minister Lord Tebbit's "get on your bike" comments. "That generation of Conservatives thought unemployment was the fault of the unemployed and with every action and utterance from this Government, it is clear that they are the true inheritors of that tradition.


The Condms keep claiming the Budget, and the Spending Review are fair. But they won't say who to! They claim they inherited the highrst deficit in living memory, I reported on the 17^th June 2010 that the O.B.R. confirmed that the budget deficit was £23 bn lower that in the previous quarter, due to the measures put in place by the labour party.

IT WAS THE DISGUSTING SPECTACLE OF CONDEM MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT LAUGHING AND CHEERING WHEN CUTS WERE ANNOUNCED WHICH WOULD AFFECT THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY, WHICH OFFENDED THE BRITISH PUBLIC.

The spending review was interrupted with shouts from the labour opposition when they suggested that this is what the ConDems had become MP’s for.
It was a sickening sight to see the ConDems showing their contempt for the British Public on television to the whole world .
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UK Spending Review: Welfare

George Osborne went for the juggular, when he hammered the poorest and most vulnerable UK citizens.

He hacked £18bn from the welfare budget, and along with 28% cut to local councils, a lot of the services provided free for the incapacitated and the old will be axed.

He claimed his budget review was fair, but economist say diferrent. The Instiute of Fiscal Studies, an independent organisation, included all the cuts in their calculations, and came to the conclusion that it was the poorest who have been hit the hardest, and with cuts in local services, they will suffer even more.

The Condems massaged the figures for the schools budget, saying they had increased it by 0.1%. When you take into account the fact that the schools population is set to grow at 0.7%, the actual figure is a reduction of 0.6%.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron met the public in a televised meeting, to promote their idea of fairness. Both were uncomfortable with the hostile reception they got, and the fact that the audience continually complained they were hitting the poor, the ill and the old, as well as children the hardest. David cameron was furious, and several times went so red in the face with annoyance that he was being question by the public, that he looked as though he could burst a blood vessel.

He repeated several times the old lie about having to do this, the alternative of doing nothing would store debt up and be worse off. It has never been a case of slash and burn, or do nothing. They used the cuts labour had planned and costed, and added some more.

Nick Clegg repeated several times that it was fair, and that the general public should not believe the Labour Government,  the Instiute of Fiscal Studies and other economist who had been supplied with the figures from the treasury. They used all the figures and not been selective.
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UK Budget 2010

On Sunday George Osborn said on television, that 35 of the top companies in the UK [not necessarily UK owned], had seen, and approved the budget cuts, saying they will be good for creating jobs. The same companies who forced this government to back down on the announced rise on employers N.I. contributions. Of course it is only right that these companies know in advance of parliament, what the cabinet is planning. The budget didn’t propose anything about creating jobs, just about cutting them; about 1 million job cuts were announced this week.


The ConDems did leak a document to the newspapers, before announcing it in parliament concerning the closing of certain “quangos”. Hoping to get the better of Labour by doing this, the papers simply took the copy they had printed in March of this year when Labour announced the abolishment of the same quangos, and substituted the word Coalition for the word Labour in their copy.

We all saw Danny Alexander posing for photos, with the budget document opened to enable reporters to photograph it.
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Latest Coalition Cuts

The ConDems are planning massive cuts to the funding of UK Universities.

Planned cuts from the current £3.9 billion the government currently subsidise the Universities to a only £7 million will leave the students having to pay alot more for their education. the current ceiling that Universities can charge students is £3290 a year, this is to be scrapped and Universities can charge ht ever they wish.

 Lord Browne , former boss of BP feels that this give more power to the students. The Universities will be able to double, treble or even quadruple their fees, this will according to Lord Browne will take power away from the Universities, and give power to the studentys. The students will have the power to say, no I can't afford to go to university, I wasn't aware that at present, they didn't have this power.

Lord Browne, has calulated that a student will make 400% profit from paying the extra tuition fees. Only the important science, or medical courses will have a small piece of the £7million, the other courses wil get nothing.

Lord Browne as well as most of the government gained their university degrees funded for them by the tax payer. the LibDems won there seats, by pledging to abolish universitive fees. The conservatives have stooped the school building programmes in order to fund their own type of "Free Schools" while also stopping the refurbishment of derelict school our children are going to. Unfortunately the condition of some schools, with leaking roofs and no heating, are not the concern of this government. If these children were animals, they would have rights, as human beings they have none.

I don't know how much Lord Browne was paid to suggest the government investment in university funding should be cut from £3.9 billion to just £7million, it probably took less than 1 hour to think of it  and write it down.

I think that all MP's should work for free, that will save the country millions of pounds, my fee for this suggestion is a mere £2.5 million. read more

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