Does supporting labour come with a peg for the nose?

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.

Ken Clarke promised no return to boom and bust in his budget statement on the 26th of November 1996.

johnmajorarchive.org.uk/1996/11/26/text-of-the-1996-budget-26-november-1996/

Gordon nicked his slogan.

The capitalist economic cycle is boom and bust..

FFS - it's even taught to GCSE students..


Economies go through a regular pattern of ups and downs in the value of economic activity

Gordon stuck to Kenneth Clarke's budget plans for the first term.

Weren't you paying attention at the time?
I was...

How old are you?

And I just did provide evidence, minuted recorded evidence published on Sir John Major's website.
Click the link, see for yourself.

Ken Clarke said "no return to boom and bust" in his budget statement of 26th November 1996.
And for the first term of Labour, Gordon Brown copied Kenneth Clarke's budget plans.

That's why you need to explain your posts which are normally meant to denigrate rather than to educate.

So Brown never claimed to have abolished the economic cycle. And as I posted only lost it for a short period once, which he quickly addressed. 

The only Boom and Bust Brown abolished was Government Boom and Bust caused by Governments using inflation and deflation as a means of controlling the economy.  

Who gave the Bank of England control of inflation? It is your posts that are so often fucking useless.

I have been looking at politics since the late 1950s. One thing that hasn't changed is the nasty trait of Conservatives for insults and denigration.