Why did Labour Lose

This time it was the turn of the Labour party to lose, Gordon Brown didn’t have the ability to fight the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrats party, and the Labour party all at the same time. Why did they throw the election away? They were on the right track to pull the country round, they had brought the deficit down, the Coalition's Office of Budget Responsibility confirmed it. It would appear that they simply wanted to get rid of Gordon Brown, there was plenty of contenders for his post when he resigned, why didn't they stand against him when he was elected un-opposed?

Gordon Brown stood no chance of getting labour back in power, he just couldn't fight his own party, the conservatives and the Lib Dems all at once.

The American style electioneering which the UK switched to, worked against Gordon Brown as was expected. As with  America, if you throw enough money about you can buy the top post.

At RFT we had a competition with a prize of £100 for the first driver, or contractor to spot a hoarding with a Labour advert on it during the run up to the elections. Nobody won the £100.

Since then the Labour Government has been in opposition, the problem is , they have been in government for so long, they have forgotten what an opposition party is supposed to do.

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Student Wake up Call

The recent UK student protest with the attack on Conservative headquarters, did nothing to promote their cause.
The people in charge of the country, the cabinet, the ex Thatcher advisors, and the 35 companies who run this country, are nearly all multi-millionaires, and have no idea of the hardship they are causing.
When they see images such as was shown on TV with protestors throwing missiles from the roof of Millbank House, they don't see the cream of the county's brains protesting, they see a bunch of lawless upstarts bent on revenge.
This sort of protest doesn't work on multmillionaires, it just increases their desire to put all students  down. This sort of protest has never worked in this country, especially against Thatcherite  advisors and governments. You can remember what happened with the Poll tax revolt, and the miners revolt.
It is time the students woke up and acted in a coherent, co-ordinated fashion. The multi-millionaires just laughed at the student protest, it helped their cause, and there was probably discussion how to further anger students into undermining their cause.
Think like a millionaire,  and you can protest on their terms effectively. You should not be just protesting against your tuition fees, at the rate this government is going a University degree won't be worth the paper it is written on, why? because there will be no jobs for you!!!!
The Green Party in Ireland are going to resign enmasse to force a general election in January 2011. How many students have emailed their MP suggesting the same thing? How many students have emailed the opposition party, to ask what they are going to do about it, that is if there is an opposition party. How many prospective law students have bothered researched the law in the light of a court forcing a labour MP out of Parliament, allegedly for printing untruths about his opponent. Case: Nick Clegg and his written undertaking not to increase tuition fees, is that an untruth, or mis-representation

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ConDems latest ::.Forced Labour .::

The coalition are continuing with their 'Poor Bashing'. Their latest target are the unemployed, and those on incapacity benefit, by quote "Forcing them to Work, for their own good", very magnanimous of them! They are proposing using the 'carrot and the stick approach' without the carrot. A spokesman, on the politics show [[07-1-10]  denied that they were treating people like prisoners, and forcing them to work as “a chain gang” on the streets. They did say they were forcing these people to work, street cleaning etc. for their own good.[To get them used to work, and getting out of bed], and they would be paid about £1.60 an hour.

If the ConDems start off on a small scale and force 750,000 to do 'Forced Work', the local authorities will have to sack all their street cleaners, gardeners, office staff, office cleaners to take advantage of this forced free workers. Of course this means there will be another 75,000 people out of work! 

 You may remember that we announced the Coalition were axing job creation schemes when they first came to power. They proudly announced that over the last 3 months that figures were available, that they had created 178,000 jobs, but failed to announce that 143,000 were part time jobs, and only 35,000 were full time. At this rate it will take 35 years to find jobs for the 500,000 civil servants they are discarding, as long as none of the other unemployed get there first.

You may remember when they pulled the plug on the Sheffield Forgemaster £80 million loan.The giant factory secured a £80million loan from the Labour Government, to make Sheffield Forgemasters a world leader in forging high tech giant steel reactor cores, currently only available from Japan. With 80% of this production being exported, and an expanded workforce, Sheffield Forgemasters felt the deal was good value money. They received a phone call confirming the loan had been withdrawn, just minutes before Danny Alexander announced it in Parliament. The biggest customer for these was China, this week the G20 summit tried to encourage China to to buy our goods, to help us get out of the mess. China's reply was, when we are ready.

You may remember those famous quotes the Prime Minister and deputy Minister made at the time they cut funding Forge Masters.

David Cameron said "There was a suspicion that while some of these decisions might have been good decisions, not all of them were good decisions and not all of them were good value for money." while Nick Clegg said “The truth is that this loan was promised by the outgoing Labour Government as a calculated ploy to win support in Sheffield just ahead of the election, when they knew all along that there simply wasn't the money to keep to that pledge in first place.”

You might think that with the Lib dems taking a Labour candidate to court for making untrue statements, that Labour should go to court and have the Pm and his deputy removed from parliament!
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Google Street Car Harvesting Criticized

Google's Street Car Views, have been harversting emails, passwords and wi-fi addresses.  Peter Fleischer, Google's Global Privacy Counsel, said the firm was "profoundly sorry for mistakenly collecting payload data in the UK".

Google said it happened as the result of code written by one of its engineers being mistakenly incorporated in the Street View software.
"Since we announced our mistake in May we have co-operated closely with the  Information Commissioner's Office [ICO] and worked to improve our internal controls," said Mr Fleischer."We are in the process of confirming that there are no outstanding legal obligations upon us to retain the data, and will then ensure that it is quickly and safely deleted."
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) originally declared that “Google’s Street View” was ‘Not an Infringement of UK privacy Laws’. It was Canada’s condemnation of Google by Jennifer Stoddart the Privacy Commissioner, who said "This incident was a serious violation of Canadian's privacy rights", which provoked the UK Information Commissioner to make a “U” turn on the original ruling which said that no data breach had occurred.

The new ruling is that there was a "significant breach" of the Data Protection Act when Google collected personal data via its Street View cars, the UK's Information Commissioner has ruled.
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Google to challenge FaceBook

Google is set to go head to head with FaceBook when it launches Google Games later this year. Google  spent  $1.6bn on 40 acquisitions during the first 3 quarters of 2010.

“Acquisitions will also remain an important component of our strategy and use of capital,and we expect our current pace of acquisitions to continue," Google said, and with $33bn in the kitty, who can blame them? Google’s   net profits for the last quarter to the end of September were $2.17bn, up by 32%.

It is also reported that Google made a $100m investment in Zynga, who are responsible for the ‘Farmville’ and ‘Mafia Wars’ games on Facebook. These two games help FaceBook’s  ‘stickiness’ with it’s  500m plus visitors. Zynga is expected to be the centre piece of Google games.

Google also made the news when it announced it was suing the US government, for being unfairly excluded from a $58m deal to revamp e-mail systems at the Department of the Interior.

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