We’re all used to this authoritarian BS from our esteemed NuLabour government. However, what I find astonishing is that the Conservative party have joined the “binge-drinking” bandwagon of taxing alcohol even more. Shame on you! This behaviour is cultural; it cannot be modified through the tax system.

Please do not allow the Tories to become a wholly owned subsidiary of the “something must be done” brigade. Besides, once again, our real government in Brussels calls the shots, and would prevent the imposition of discriminatory taxes on specific brands of alcoholic beverages (specifically, if those higher strength products come from abroad, as they often tend to), rendering your proposals illegal.

When are we going to hear some sensible policies on tax from the Conservatives? With 1 in 10 skilled professionals leaving the country, you’re fiddling while Rome burns.

What we need is a vast reduction in public spending, not more taxes. If we were to return to 2001 spending figures, we could abolish Income Tax altogether. If we left the sclerotic EU, we could also abolish the Death Tax and Capital Gains Tax. Then let us have a bonfire of the ‘quangos’ (a real one, not one that exists only at a party conference). If we were to transform the Welfare State (making it a safety net rather than a hammock) we could abolish Corporation Tax too. Then, instead of witnessing the exodus of companies and individuals to Switzerland, we could see them coming the other way.

If we must spend £50 billion of taxpayers’ money, I’d rather see it going towards something that will have tangible benefits. Rather than purchasing a bank with bad debts, we could instead have a Maglev link from London to the North-East, and to Scotland. By bringing the North of the country into the London commuter belt (remember the North; the bit that’s in the opposite direction from Brussels and Paris), it would do more to address the North-South divide than any amount of Government handouts.

Now, where’s that Australian immigration website?

I don’t think quangos are popular. While the concept of massive unspecified cuts is, rightly, a bit scary & would be seen as giving a blank cheque to an incoming government, the idea of a massive barbecue of specific sacred cows would be popular & put Labour on the defencive.

About the reduction of bureaucracy etc etc: these are the people who brought it in. It is often called “the client state.” So no hope there either, I am afraid.
Do you remember when Argentina crashed a few years ago? Exactly the same causes……
Me? I expect a lot of stealth taxes to pay for the broken machine and then a final brilliant fling – like 2p on every pensioner’s Easter bonus.

When you get into office you must take on the public services industry ASAP. It is clearly out of control in all respects. The only problem is that this will cause an even greater short to medium term ressesion then we are already going to have, but what the hell. Start looking just like a mean Labour government in blue and the party and the country are finished.

As churchill once indicated . If you tell the people the bad news, they will put up with almost anything. I fully understand why its best not to talk down the economy when in opositon. Because there really is no point, the BBC will only blame the Tory party for the ressesion. But as soon as you or that boy Osbourn get to see the figures, honesty is the best policy.

However when the election is won all bets are off. As we can now plainly see they were in 97.

As for the BBC. My advice is to strike while the iron is hot, and close the utter diabolical shower down on your first day. Conservative voters will not miss it, and everything will become almost instantly easier in all respects. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE. If there is rioting in the streets, which is unlikely, you can always give the BBC a reprise, a half Billion cental government budget and put your own people in place. Play the socialists at there own game, or you will not last a full term.

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There is little point ,pointing out how authoritarian this current government is. When you as a party say so little about which laws you intend to get shot of. If you consider its best to say not too much now, then thats just as well. But say so you must one day, my advice would be not untill the election campaign starts.

Remember LIBERTY is popular. Its what we British used to pride ourselves on. Please don’t bother trying to keep this countries assorted fascists happy, if they are not happy now they never will be. They are mostly all voting Labour or BNP these days anyway. This country needs a Libertarian counter revolution every bit as much as it needed one in 79. It will either get one of sorts, or deserve to sink without trace.

Reply: THE ECNOMIC POLICY REVIEW LISTS MANY MEASURES WE WOULD LIKE REPEALED IN THE DEREGULATION SECTION. REMEMBER IT IS ADOPTED POLICY TO SCRAP ID CARDS AND MUCH OF THE FORM FILLING.

Meanwhile the Toyota prius et all do rather well, shame the pollution during the production and disposal of the battery is not taken into account in these “tax to manipulate the market” measures

Decent drivers get hammered for minor offences, meanwhile we have “travellers” with gaffer tape over their number plates who the police are literally too scared to stop, and if they do they will routinely get let off cos they cannot be traced

And so many middle classes now driving on foreign licences from their pad in Spain/Belgium etc as its just too hard to drive on a UK licence in this country, and foreign licences are let off with just about everything

So fair isn’t it

Normal hardworking folk cannot afford anything more than a one bed flat, yet folk who have never worked are given large desirable homes because they have had multiple kids paid for by the state aka the hardworking folk

We have rubbish hospitals when even when there is a dead rat in the operating theatre the customer cannot take his business quickly and simply to another provider, and the idiots running the rubbish providers are allowed to get ever more public money

I cannot have kids, I wouldn’t be able to get them into a decent school like the one I had, and they wouldn’t be able to see a decent GP like the ones of my childhood, fear to have kids the worst fear of all

Forcing the builder to build too many flats and too few houses? And houses without car parking spaces cos “cars are bad for the environment” such a simplistic view

And folk living in flats above or near bars now open 24/7 unable to sell the flats and move

NHS which does not cope with a mobile workforce which moves address often, wait wait move and go to the beginning of another wait to see a nurse not a consultant to wait again to be sent back to the GP cos “the referral was for the wrong finger” or whatever, complete nonsense

How did Gordon get away with selling our gold while the price was low?

Why are we giving so much away to public sector workers in unsustainable pension rights? Why should anyone work their heart and soul off in the real economy to pay for these burdens?

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Politics is letting the people down in this country big time

Speaking as a taxpayer on just over £12,000 p/a why do I have to pay tax to fund all this waste ? Why should I vote Tory to pay the bills of Labour failure as pensioners got o jail for non payment of council tax ?

Everytime an error occurs, government states that an enquiry will take place. I thought government employed a hoard of advisers and civil servants who have expertise on a broad range of issues. It is time these enquiries were reduced and decisions made. Not many government ministers would survive if they were in the real world. The real world cannot afford to set up costly enquiries on every issue.

Everytime I read a newspaper, I read of some mad idea which is funded by me. Recently, paying individuals to leave the country. What a laugh, they will go home with the money and return again the next month as I do not believe that our control systems are robust enough to stop their re- entry. Partnerships with those on welfare benefits – paying them more to take part in schemes etc. Nonsense – you cannot import all systems operating in other countries. Paying young people to remain in education should not be necessary as the ethos of further education to improve ones life and earning capacity should be paramount.

The sooner that all public bodies are penalised for not being competitive the better. You mention sickness which can also lead to early retirement on pensions funded by the taxpayer. We perhaps need a better definition of stress and bullying. We all get unhappy, feel under pressure and often have to be pulled up by managers. It seems strange to me that these issues are more prevalent in the public sector. It must be related to the culture of the organisations. Perhaps if all knew that funding remained static, that pay scales were removed and one is paid by performance this may reduce sickness.

I do not really feel able to comment on your ideas relating to Northern Rock despite my reading much detail. I was aware that the bids made were way below the market value and that no government could permit a bank to go to the wall. I am also aware that the regulations were lacking and that the FSA lacked discipline. I honestly do not know what the best solution at the time was or will be in the future. Whilst world markets remain in turmoil there will be no buyer for a long time to come. However, I am sure you will use every opportunity to ensure that the taxpayer is kept abreast of events with pertinent questions to the Chancellor.

I don’t think a PS Staff freeze on non-frontline jobs would work. The quangocracies would simply redefine the words “front line”. I think the only solution is an axe.