Does supporting labour come with a peg for the nose?

I think its a case of US recognising the need rather than government. Public opinion is very import to politicians. 

But at this time any conversation on the subject seems impossible. 

No, they didn't.

Ken Clarke is the man who promised no return to boom and bust, Gordon Brown then squandered the legacy he'd inherited and brought it back.

From 1997 to 2001 Gordon followed the Ken Clarke plan. From 2001 onwards he didn't, and that's where his biggest economic blunder was.

His biggest political blunder was not holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

I disagree. Handing control of inflation over to the BofE  got rid of boom bust right up until the American banks crash the whole worlds economy. 

Its funny how before Blair took over and government controlled them it was necessary to raise interest rates to 15 or 16% to control inflation, but when the BofE had control it only took interest rates of 4 or 5% movements of 1/2% did the job. 

I wonder who gets all that money when interest rates rocket. 

You're missing something.

Bank regulation, was virtually none existent under Labour.

Payday loan companies with absurdly high interest rates above 1000%, like Wonga were founded in the third term of Labour.
Wonga being founded in 2006.
Those predatory companies were regulated out of existence by the Tories.

Gordon Brown's lax regulatory environment allowed them into existence.

Gordon Brown's killing of most savings options replacing decent TESSAs and PEPs with crappy ISAs as well as their mass immigration of seasonal worker policies caused a rental market inflated house price boom which would have gone bust even if the USA hadn't. It was unsustainable. You cannot get infinite growth from finite resources.

Gordon Brown's sell off of gold whilst prices were at rock bottom ruined our reserves and savings for a rainy day.

Gordon Brown's fiscal incompetence is without question.

Everyone except extremist loonies can see his mistakes for what they were.

If Labour want to regain the trust of the nation they're going to have to do something for savers.
Tax exempt savings accounts with interest rates of 8% to 10% and upper limits of £30k.
Normal savings accounts with interest rates of up to 12% but taxed, with no upper limit.
If banks can charge 25% on loans they can provide decent interest rates on savings and they should be made to.

And you know what happens in a recession when Joe Public isn't crippled with debt, and has decent savings?
The recession is nowhere near as bad!

And apply the same philosphy to the nation's coffers.
Pay down the national debt.

Stop spending on unnecessary things like fertility treatments on the NHS (promote adoption instead), stop providing free gender reassingment surgeries, provide counselling instead.
Stop promoting absurdities in schools.
Women do not have penises.

When Labour takes on board this sort of thing, Labour will be electable.

Oh, and put short barreled cartridge hand guns with a loading gate and push rod extractor back on to Section 1.


You can see from this video, how slow it is to reload the things.
Allowing someone to own ONE of those, is not going to cause another Dunblane.

Also bear in mind this is totally legal on a Section 1 permit:

It can be reloaded by speed loader:


Labour were purveyors of knee jerk reactionary policies, economic incompetence, social idiocy and legal absurdities.

That gun, with the coat hanger bit on the back, typifies everything mad about them.
Every day some poor sod in London is stabbed because the Mayor there stopped stop and search.

ULEZ is a joke.

They've got to grow up.

If they hadn't convinced themselves they had abolished the economic cycle they wouldnt have expanded borrowing at precisely the wrong point in the cycle.

Keynes was spinning in his grave..