Brown's Apology

The Prime Minister should not be writing personally to families of brave servicemen and women who have been killed in Afghanistan. This would have been impossible in previous wars where casulties were in the tens of thousands.

The onerous task of informing relatives is the duty of regiment commanders and not the Prime Minister.

The reporting of every single death in the current conflicts is counter-productive and harms public morale. Fatalities are the inevitable price of war. If we cannot take the casualties, we should not be fighting.

The media coverage is grossly sensationalist and short sighted. Mr. Brown's attempt to appear caring is misguided and shows he has little understanding of his duties as a war time leader.

In the meantime we should be grateful that casualties are as low as they are.

New Labour Failure

This shower of a government does not think you have a brain or an iota of common sense. This government treats people with contempt. This government loves one size fits all solutions that do not fit anyone. This government will penalise everyone for the crimes and misdemeanors of the few. This government cannot accept that in society there are, have always been and will always be a small percentage of dearnged people and no legislation will eradicate that. This government has no common sense!

EU Presidency

The people of this country are walking apthetically, blindly and dumbly into the EU superstate trap set for them by the self appointed, unelected, self interested, empire building political elite. They are doing so without question or debate and without consideration of any other alternatives. The creation of a shadowy unaccountable EU superstate is another step towards the suppression of freedom, free trade and independent ground up control of regional affairs.

Who is your MEP? Has he ever communicated with you? What has he done for you and your region?

The new EU President, whomever he or she may be, is no more or less than an imposition by stealth of a European superstate on the people of Europe; whether we want it or not. We don't and that's why we have never been asked!

Beware you politicians! You are about to learn that you cannot rule the people without their consent.

Theft of Democracy

David Cameron is not the only one who will be haunted by Europe. Because the British people have been denied a promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, it will be a festering sore of increasing discontent that may yet have consequences far beyond Mr Cameron's or for that matter Mr. Brown's limited imagination. This unpardonable treachery will do more harm than good and may yet bring the EU superstate to it's knees.The people will not tolerate the theft of their democracy for long.

Car Rebate Scheme Madness

Can somebody tell me why the tax payer has to cough up for the government reabate scheme on new cars? It is the car industry that should have introduced this initative. In times of economic downturn businesses have to jettison any notion of profit out the window and alter their strategy to survival mode. This is not the job or the duty of tax payers. It is the job and duty of corporate management to understand and respond to economic conditions whatever they may be.

In recession, survival is the name of the game and customers are key. There is no profit in bankcruptcy. The only way for the automobile industry to survive is to sell cars. Only by selling cars can they keep production lines operating, cashflow turning and save jobs. In a severe economic downturn, the pursuance of profit is the route to bankcruptcy. The only thing that matters is cash-flow and that can only be maintained by enticing customers into showrooms. The only way to do that is to make customers an offer they cannot refuse, even if it means selling cars at cost price if necessary. At least they would be able to keep production lines going and people in work.

This idiotic government have instead elected to pay automobile corporations for something they should have taken on board themselves at huge cost to the already over-burdened treasury. It's unforgiveable to use taxpayers money with such thoughtless profligacy and demonstrates perfectly why New Labour are not fit to run anything, let alone a country.

Key to Hamas - Isreali Truce

Any truce that does not recognise that there is no alternative but to live together in peace is worthless. The alternative is constant and permanent war and an ever mounting body count of innocent people on both sides.

Hamas have failed to comprehend the enormous economic and social benefits that a permanent peace would bring the Palestinian people. The rewards for peace far exceed the rewards of war. Only when this is understood can there be an end to the slaughter.

President Bush's Legacy

Whatever else is said about George Bush's presidency and however it may be judged in the future, the one thing that can be said now, is that the world will never be the same again. The war in Iraq and Afghanistan will alter forever the face of that region, possibly for the better in the longer term. In the these endeavours he was at least unwavering.

However, his more immediate legacy is that under his watch and Brown's, the world econonomy was brought to the brink of financial disaster.

Prince Harry’s Video Remarks

Dear Mr. Cameron


I was extremely disappointed to hear your remarks with regard to the so called News of the World’s fatuous story about Harry calling one of his army colleagues a “Paki”!

Anyone who has seen the personal video clip can see that there was absolutely no malice intended. On the contrary it was almost a term of endearment and respect that demonstrated his kinship with his unit. Had you not been sucked into the pernicious all pervading dogma of political correctness under which we are all drowning, that is what you should have had the courage to say.

The fact that you fell into the trap so carefully laid by this rag of a newspaper whose motives for digging up a three year old deliberately manipulated, misconstrued, misrepresented and mischievous non-story for the sole purpose of selling more newspapers is, I regret to say, as shameful as the general media reaction.

Whoever dug up or leaked this video clip was quite clearly intent on besmirching the reputation of the Royal family and cared not a jot for the harm it would do to community relations, knowing as he/she or they must have, that it would be misconstrued and abused by every minority pressure group with a chip on it’s shoulder.

Ordinary people of sound mind and sense will feel nothing but yet more contempt for the news editors and politicians who stupidly and thoughtlessly jumped on to this particular band wagon and gave credence to a newspaper that anyone with any judgement at all would only use for one purpose and only then, if they were out of toilet paper and very desperate.

If you want to mend a broken Britain Mr. Cameron you need to start by showing the people that you have real integrity and are capable of speaking out for common sense when all around have lost theirs.

Darling's Pre-Budget Fiasco

The pre-budget report is the most ill-thought through, botched and misguided piece of economic mumbo jumbo, I have ever seen. It will fail on every count. It also ignores completely the natural corrective forces of free markets.

When demand crashes, cash-flow becomes king and profit is for another day. To survive stocks must be moved almost at any cost to keep the cash flowing. This leads to a natural reduction on prices to a level that re-ignites consumer interest and increases demand. That is the beginning of a revival.

The government should have concentrated on measures designed to reduce costs to business like a reduction in fuel costs that impact throughout the economy, making goods cheaper and therefore improving profit margins.

The only other thing it had to do was stabalise the banks and make them lend.

Tax cuts funded by higher debt make no sense at all. There is not an ounce of savoir faire or common sense in anything Mr. Darling announced today. All he has achieved is more pain tomorrow. Pathetic

Why Poverty Matters

On a sugar plantation in Brazil a worker gets approximately £5/day for cutting 4 tons of cane in hot, suffocating, humid, snake infested conditions. This is slave labour in all but name and there are millions working long hours for less all over the World.

Who amongst us could work in these conditions and who would want to for such meagre reward?

If one wants to increase global demand and boost economic growth, then the first thing one needs to do, is start paying a fair price for labour, thereby increasing the purchasing power of the poor.