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[Olympia5776]

Here's a nice restful read before bed............

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9107504/Benefits-families-could-pay-off-1m-mortgage.html

[Rods2]

The country Government lost the plot on benefits along time a go. Labour a disaster, the ConDems are not much better.

IMHO benefits should be the MINIMUM to stop people starving and being on the street, NOT a lifestyle choice.

George Osborne says the country is broke:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9107485/George-Osborne-UK-has-run-out-of-money.html

Well I can save him £17bn for tax cuts in 5 words. Scrap the overseas aid budget. Simples. 

I'm sure I could save another another £180bn, just by using the Taxpayers Alliance book "The Bumper Guide to Government Waste" to show where the axe needs to be applied as they estimated £200bn is being wasted by UK Governments every year. 

The country is broke because public spending and borrowing is much too high and needs to be cut drastically. If you think ConDems are cutting Government spending to reduce the budget deficit, they are not, it's a fallacy, they are just not increasing it as fast as it was under the fool Brown. 

If the country heads down the path I'm expecting of stagflation (stagnant economy, high inflation due to QE) for the next 5 to 10 years, then the wheels are going to fall off his budget deficit plan. Then it will be time to roll out plan B, which is B for Bankruptcy, Greek style. 

Then I'm sure the country will then turn to the fraud squad Labour party, so the two Ed's (Millipede and Ballsup) will finish what the fool Brown started. 

The Greek people, like many in Eastern Europe has a history of keeping their village houses and smallholdings, when they migrate to the big cities to get a job and much higher standard of living. This migration is now happening in reverse, where they have been made unemployed, so they will be very poor, but they won't starve as they will work the land. When the UK is in Greece's position, what is your's and your family's survival plan?  Where we import 50% of our food, the population of this country is much more poorly equipped to survive compared to the Greeks. 

[Varche]

I think you are right Rods 2. I have come to the conclusion that each government is populated with people who are there NOt to serve the peoples needs but to serve their own egos and maybe look after some hiden agendas (current lot are driven by hedge fund money for example so the "banks" are being looked after). They all need to make sure they get in for another term - witness Merkel, Sarkozy et all. Osborne is like you say presiding over a ballooning debt whilst telling everyone he is doing a great job. WHEN it turns out he hasn't he will be hoping he is in for another 4 years of gravy train and kudos before vanishing . Does anyone remember the last time Gordy was seen or heard?

Foreign aid. When countries like India say we don't want your peanuts and go off and buy French fighter planes and not ours then that is the time to pull the plug. Sadly (apart from technical advice) we have very little the Indians want from us.

Bumper guide to waste. Bring it on and lets see some pen pushers sacked. The MOD (or whoever is responsible for vast waste of taxpayers money for very little return ( armoured jeeps etc) want hanging out to dry.

One last thing. We have signed up for French expertise to help us build new nuclear plants on the understanding that British firms will get a big share of the work. Some chance of that happening. More empty words from the current mandarins. they are ALL self serving £$%^&

[Rods2]

I think you are right Rods 2. I have come to the conclusion that each government is populated with people who are there NOt to serve the peoples needs but to serve their own egos and maybe look after some hiden agendas (current lot are driven by hedge fund money for example so the "banks" are being looked after). They all need to make sure they get in for another term - witness Merkel, Sarkozy et all. Osborne is like you say presiding over a ballooning debt whilst telling everyone he is doing a great job. WHEN it turns out he hasn't he will be hoping he is in for another 4 years of gravy train and kudos before vanishing . Does anyone remember the last time Gordy was seen or heard?

Foreign aid. When countries like India say we don't want your peanuts and go off and buy French fighter planes and not ours then that is the time to pull the plug. Sadly (apart from technical advice) we have very little the Indians want from us.

Bumper guide to waste. Bring it on and lets see some pen pushers sacked. The MOD (or whoever is responsible for vast waste of taxpayers money for very little return ( armoured jeeps etc) want hanging out to dry.

One last thing. We have signed up for French expertise to help us build new nuclear plants on the understanding that British firms will get a big share of the work. Some chance of that happening. More empty words from the current mandarins. they are ALL self serving £$%^&

I think the French contractors plan on giving a UK employee the job of polishing the "Made in France" badges. 

[ted_one]

Depressingly I agree with what's been said,but what politician would ever take any sort of commonsense advice us.