Quote of the day 13th October 2013

"The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance."

(Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington)

Comments

Jim said…
What can be done is to put right what once went so wrong. History is nothing if we dont learn from it, nothing.
It is for this reason I am so disappointed with the current government, they have done nothing to reverse the taz on pensions, nothing to reduce the hike on fuel taxes, nothing to reduce road tax, nothing to deflate the bloated public sector, nothing to reduce the number of none working immigrants, nothing to end this farce of a fiat currency.

I mean look at it its just a joke isnt it, sure they keep saying Labour messed up, but none of them ever want to put right what is messed up. Hey, they have now had 3 years in office and have not even started.
Jim said…
its long been known no parliament can ever bind another one, thus your party could have corrected things 3 years ago, but never did, never even tried.

Dont even think of going down the line of cutting taxes wont help with labours debt, You and I both know if you reduce the tax rate you increase the tax take.

Now are the conservative party going to cut spending or are we as a nation going to go bust?
Chris Whiteside said…
Just not true that nothing has been done, Jim. Over the past three years we have seen

* Net immigration cut by a third

* Lots of the fuel duty increases planned by the previous government cancelled and duty currently frozen

* Councils given the opportunity and incentive to freeze council tax

* Benefits capped to greatly reduce the number of families for whom working and paying tax will leave them worse off than on benefits

* Tax thresholds greatly increased, resulting in a tax cut for 25 million people, several million of whom were taken out of income tax altogether

* Billions removed from spending in every area except the NHS and aid, with the result that the deficit is down by a quarter.

* The audit commission, the standards board, RDAs and many other quangos axed

You can certainly argue that the government should have gone further - and in all candour I would agree with you.

You are also right to call for further spending reductions and more tax cuts, both of which I believe Britain needs.

But to say that the coalition government have done nothing about the mess they inherited is simply not correct. On the terms you were suggesting earlier, this is a matter of fact and not one of opinion.

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