OBR confirm deficit £23 Billion less than expected.

The OBR confirmed that the deficit the coalition faces is £23 Billion less than expected, due to the policy measures put in place by Alistair Darling, making the justification for heavy cuts in public spending and higher taxes less credible. It also confirmed that household income was relatively strong through the recession as weaker salaries were supported by tax changes such as the temporary cut in VAT.


The current chancellor George Osborne appears to be still committed to finding £85 Billion in order to balance the books by the end of the current coalition term.[A commitment he made in January 2010] Of the £85 Billion approximately £68 Billion will be in cuts, and £17 Billion in tax rises. There is speculation that due to the structural deficit increasing this year by an estimated £12 Billion, he will increase tax rises an extra £2.4 Billion.

The Coalition has often referred to the Canadian model in the 90’s and the reductions they made to their deficit. Fortunately sufficient knowledgeable people have convinced them that this would not work. Possible they have been looking at what Japan did in the 90’s. This led to 10 years of stagnant growth.

The Times in a light hearted analogy between The World Cup and politics, suggesting ‘England team now would hardly have a slower centre-half pairing if Cameron and Clegg swapped with Terry and Carragher (would the Government suffer notably?)’.

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Hydrogen car :: Equivalent to 300 M.P.G.

The UK's first Hydrogen fuelled car from Riverspeed. They insist this is not a prototype, with Leicester agreeing to take the first 30 cars prior to it being available to the public.
The two seat vehicle was designed by a small team of British motorsport engineers and was built at Silverstone. It has a maximum cruising speed of 50 mph and a range on one tank
of hydrogen of at least 200 miles. With a body made of lightweight composites it weighs
only 350kg and thanks to novel design principles is able to do the equivalent of 300 miles
per gallon. Hydrogen produces nothing but a few drops of water from the exhaust,
although to achieve true “zero emission” credentials the fuel must be produced from
renewable energy sources.
Riversimple will generate revenue in a very different way to other car companies;

instead of selling a car as a product, we will sell mobility as a service. Customers will
pay a fixed monthly and per mile charge, getting the flexible mobility that owning a car
provides, without the burdens; tax, fuel costs, insurance and vehicle depreciation. This
sale of service model motivates Riversimple to build cars with a long operating life (up
to 20 years) that are highly economical to use, since we receive revenue throughout
the life of the car and also pay the costs throughout.
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Cameron blames Labour for the debt crises

Cameron blames Labour for the debt crises, and which he claims was even worse than he thought. Alistair Darling told the BBC this was nonsense, the only thing that had changed was that when Cameron took over, we were borrowing £11 billion less than was forecast in March. How can £11 billion reduction in one month be worse than he thought?

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Rule Changes to Stabilise Coalition?

David Cameron is planning to change the rules on how an election is called, in order to quote ‘to help the stability of his coalition government’. This is what the conservatives say is fair government.
The deal agreed between the conservatives and the lib-dems is for a fixed 5 year term for the present government, and it can’t be dissolved without the support of 55% of the MPs. Conveniently the coalition doesn’t have 55% of the MP’s needed, so they cannot dissolve parliament. And coincidentally the lib-dems along with all the other MPs doesn’t have 55% either. So the conservatives can get rid of the lib-dems anytime they want, and nobody can do anything about it.

That’s open, fair government, designed to rekindle trust in MPs, well at least David Cameron thinks absolute power is fair to him.
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Scammers Hit UK Again

The latest scam to hit the UK with a vengeance is being operated using mobile phones. It started about 3 weeks ago with a simple text message from a supposed legal company, asking if you have had an accident in the last two years. The text message invites you to reply ‘NO’ to stop future messages.
The mobile numbers are randomly generated by computer, and by texting ‘No’ it confirms to the scammers your number is live, enabling them to build a list for future scam campaigns. When they have extracted sufficient cash from the list, the list is then sold on to other scammers. Read More..   Vic Farron

UK Democracy is Dead

The UK has a new government voted in democratically by the citizens of the UK. What a laugh !
The Conservative voters, voted for the Conservative Policies: They didn’t get those policies they voted for.
The Lib.Dem. Voters, voted for the LIB. Dem. Policies: They didn’t get those policies they voted for.
The Labour Voters, voted for the Labour Policies: They didn’t get those policies they voted for.

The Conservatives and the Lib. Dems. ditched their manifestos in the selfish pursuit of power. The two leaders have dictated to the UK what they will get. At least Gordon Brown stuck to his election promises, and didn’t compromise his integrity.

That’s Dictatorship spelt Democracy

One of the first things the UK voters have to suffer is that the new Government will pass a bill giving them a 5 year fixed term. That is 5 years of policies that the majority of the country don’t want. There isn’t one voter in the country that elected their MP to pass this law. Is this being power crazy, or just the fact that they expect the country to rebel against not getting the policies they voted for.

That’s 5 years of Dictatorship spelt Democracy.

Every MP was voted in because of his party promoting fair change. What is fair about telling the electorate what they intend to do, then in the pursuit of absolute power, compromise themselves by ditching policies and agreeing to support each other to force changes beneficial to themselves.

Is 5 years of absolute power Fair?
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Is This Your family

I was reading the part of the budget again concerning the increase in fuel duty. You may remember I did predict that as the world came out of recession the price of fuel would start to rise again. Although the oil companies increase the price of fuel more than the government increase the tax, we all pay the price in increased delivery costs, and of course when the duty is increased, or the oil companies put the price up, the private motorist also has to pay the increased VAT as well.
As part of a promotional email campaign 8 Years ago, I wrote several articles ‘The Average UK Family’ which charted a hypothetical day in the life of an average family, and how RFT Express with the contracts and deliveries we were making at the time, contributed to their standard of living. Sadly a lot of the companies we were delivering for have fallen by the wayside during the recession.
What the article does show, is that everything you own, use, wear or eat has been transported by road, by several vehicles. The house you live in came by road, your place of work, every piece of equipment, every machine, was transported by road.
I have reproduced one of the articles, I know several important decision makers in government read the blog, this could be a gently reminder of how increased fuel duty impacts on everyone.
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