Sharing: Winners and Losers

Sharing.

Telling other people you like a web page , blog or article, has been made a lot easier with the ‘Add This ‘ bar seen on many sites. It is a lot easier and quicker than posting a comment on a site or blog. The chief difference is that with a share you don’t get a link back to your site as you do with a comment.
There is no reason why you can’t do both.

Statistics from the ‘Add This’ site gathered from its’ ‘Add this widget’ like the one on every page on our site show a dramatic increase in sharing withFacebook coming out on top with 52.1% of the total ‘shares’. There is an ‘Add This’ bar at the bottom of this blog.

The ‘Add this bar’ is now on over 11 million different domains with 1.2 billion users having a choice of around 350 sharing sites from which to share articles, blogs, and web pages.

Twitter shares grew by nearly 577% during 2011, and is now responsible
for 13.5% of all shares. Tumblr was another high flyer with a 1300% increase, and still growing. Stumblupon created a 320% viral lift while Google +1 grew by 373% than levelled off.[ Google are starting to put +1s on their search engine results]. Email, print and favorites make up 14.4% of all shares.

Those losing ground were Digg which declined by 48%, and Myspace fell by 57%.

As expected mobile devices used for sharing grew 6 fold

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Austerity or Years to Come

Correct me if I am wrong.

We may not be in recession right now, but it certainly feels like it. We have all suffered since the coalition took power, and they will continue to inflict pain, because this the government of high taxation, and high unemployment, hasn't any idea how to get the economy going. The Coalition say they will not spend their way out of this mess, but in actual fact they are spending their way into it. Debt if the growth forecasts are to be believed will be higher in 2015 when this government has gone, than when it took over. The growth figures are so highly optimistic they are not even credible.

So what is the real problem?

The real problem is that the government are still spending more than they receive in tax revenue. Unemployment is at a 17 year high, meaning that the government will have to spend more on the benefits bill. The governments answer is more cuts which will put more people out of work, and increase government expenditure.
The proposed increase in fuel duty of 4p per litre, would have fuelled inflation,
and pushed prices higher, as well as pushing more businesses into liquidation.
More people out of work, means more benefits to be paid out, less tax revenue, higher prices, higher inflation, and further tax rises and government borrowing.

So the problem is clear

And the answer is also clear, get more people into work, get more tax revenue, the debt comes down and people in work can spend more than those on benefits.
The government keep telling us that they have spent £xxx billions on long term schemes to get the country on its feet in 5 to 10 years time. Government and Local Authorities can do something if they wanted to, instead of wallowing in self pity, blaming the last Government, The Banking Crises, the EU, the Financial Crisis, the Recession, Strikes, the Unions, Bad Weather, and anything else they can think of. This government is now saying the problems stem from the last government who allegedly brought us out of recession too quickly.

So how important is it for the government to keep people in work?

Without the working man, or woman a terrible thing happens: Nothing If there is such a thing as the average working person, the government will take a minimum of 40% of their earnings in tax. Starting with income tax and national insurance, both of which go up the more a person works. Then there is poll tax, tax on their utility bills, gas electricity and water. There is tax on virtually everything you buy, tax in the form of duty on your entertainment, and of coarse tax in the form of duty on petrol. That is after you have paid tax on the purchase of your car, and tax on the insurance. If you have money left over and put in the bank, you are taxed again. You pay tax when you buy a house in the form of stamp duty, tax on your house insurance, capital gains tax when you sell your home, and so it goes on, sometimes even tax on your pension. When you die they even tax you on that.

It is obvious that the government should be more interested in keeping people in work, instead of paying them to be off work. The government will tell you it is up to the private sector to create jobs, and pull the country up by its boot
straps. They will point to their promised investment into infrastructure sometime in the future; they will point to the money that have promised for the so called enterprise areas, all too little too late. Cameron and Osborne announced at the Conservative conference £3 trillion for infrastructure investment with details to be given in November. No mention of £3trillion in November, just more unemployment.

The Solution.
In the next post

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Wake Up GB

Yet another Depressing Headline, Unemployment up again: this time to a 17 year high of 2.6 m. with over 1 million young people out of work.

This Government inherited a debt of £156bn, they have reduced
this to just over £120bn, but will have to borrow a further £156bn, to pay the benefits bill as a direct result of their policies of putting people out of work.

The latest estimates are that with growth predicted at 0.9% the government
will leave a debt for the country to pay in 2015 of £1.3trillion.

The recession which is coming will last for up to 10 years, the continued
decline we have suffered over the last 12 months will further exasperate
the recession.

Will Cameron Resign?

Cameron went to the EU summit last week to try and protect the City
of London Financial Centre, partially because the UK economy depends
so much on the revenues earned. He failed to get the protection, and
used his veto over the closer amalgamation of the sovereign states in
the EU. He had every intention of saying “No” to the treaty, and although all the other countries agreed to sign up to the proposals,
some are now having second thoughts.

France was not all pleased about Cameron, and his request for protection
for the City of London. France will still receive agricultural monetary
support from the EU for their inefficient farming policy. France is
under notice that its credit rating could be reduced by 50%, they would
have expected th UK joining the new treaty, as they know Cameron would
be the first in line to pump cash into the failing states. He lent to
Ireland when they didn’t need it, and he gave money to the IMF
so they can help the failing states.

Sarkozy threatened that the UK would pay dearly over the veto being
applied, other French sources wanted the UK to carry on paying in to
the EU, but not receive a rebate back again.

Will Clegg be P.M.?

The Lib Dems and Nick Clegg are positioning themselves for Nick Clegg
to take over from David Cameron as Prime Minister. It is obvious to
everybody that Cameron’s attitude to the EU and his lack of diplomacy,
has caused irreparable damage, and Cameron is the wrong person to put
it right. A change of leader may help, a change of government would
be better, but the Lib Dems may feel that the electorate still feel
they were betrayed by them, and not re-elect them.

Treaty to be signed in March 2012

Since writing this article it has been announced that several EU countries
are uneasy about signing up to the treaty, before the small print has
been agreed. The treaty was supposed stop the EU countries going into
debt in the future, unfortunately the EU has not addressed the current
state of sovereign debt in member countries.

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