Any chance of knowing why we don’t want a Conservative government ? Not on your life can this man challenge Conservative policy on anything other than “Remember when” !!

Moving over to Brown on BBC 24, he says it’s because he’s been so clever in repaying debt, that he can now borrow more because “When the Conservatives were in, borrowing was around 43% of GDP and now it’s close to 37%”, yet a report on SKY from a guy from National Statistics said “It’s now 43% and heading toward 50% and when the Tories were in it was around 41%” – Quite the reverse of what was broadcast on BBC ! He also reflected that the Northern Rock bailout wasn’t even in the figures yet the BBC ( and Brown ) conveniently ommitted this.

People aren’t sucked in by this bias.
People won’t be sucked in by old washed up Tory bashers.
People need policies, direction and inspiration not this garbage !

Conservative policies stand proud to deal with many problems of society and our economy and Labour would do well to listen to the polls so the Conservative government can get on with the rescue plan without all the carping about bygone years or Aunt Sally’s in the Labour Party, because people are already well aware of the problems THEY have caused and need no convincing blames rests in the 90’s when clearly it doesn’t.

Labour are best ignored and it would be crass to entertain their lame argument. They’re obviously trying to provoke a response so they can show “how nasty we are in a bitter debate”, so David Cameron et al are right to keep their composure.
Never mind the past, let’s start to rebuild this country now, moving forward together and leaving the past ( and Labour ) behind.

Cuts ? – Yes, but not where it hurts too much.
A new tax regime ? – Yes.
A plan to repay borrowing and reduce the cost of government ? – Yes but in a manageable and socially responsible way.
More power to parliament to do this ? – Yes, that’s why we need to scrap Lisbon.
Tackling Immigration ? – Yes, but in a reasonable and fair way.

In fact a reversing of the claptrap foisted on my country by Labour could take another 5 years, but let’s start on the future of Britain and not look back to yesteryear as that’s Labour’s only tactic.

I want Labour beaten into 3rd place, even 4th would do me.
I want them wiped out for the ignorance they’ve shown toward the electorate and because they’ve broken Britain.

The representative system is in its death throes and will eventually be replaced by a corporate system of government, one which allows us to roll back the political state. I live for the day when we can eradicate political parties and build government on national consensus. A corporate system of government would end the politically motivated schisms between business and workers and allow the trades unions to objectively represent workers rights, without the poison of ideology.

As political parties, and more importantly voting patterns gravitate towards the centre ground, the ideological divides that feed the party political structure become meaningless and we move into a post political era. One in which the politician will represent his/her constituency, his/her nation and will no longer suffer political bondage, bringing the current ersatz democracy to a close, to confine it to history. Our institutions should be able to govern themselves and not be hostage the political dogma of career-politicans or messianic ideologues. The representative system can only realistically be supplanted by a corporate mode of government.

I think what worries me most is that this stuff needs fast and authoritative rebuttal, however it doesn’t seem to be forthcoming.

This is a mistake.

Reply: The Economic Competitiveness Report, available as download on this site.

Getting started by progressively reforming regulation of the mortgage & construction industries will help get those economic sectors going again . The Bank of England needs to regain its old powers as John Redwood suggests so that liquidity can be boosted thus ending the credit freeze . The inflation target needs to be the credible RPI-x measure thus restoring economic confidence while it should be a two year one at 2% so that a mindless credit binge and a price spiral can be prevented or at least made less likely .

Just growing public spending more slowly as David Davis suggests will stimulate the economy by not crowding out private investment while slashing the PSBR and thus helping economic stability . QUANGO’s , government invented welfare dependency , procurement costs & civil service numbers can be reviewed for savings .

As John Redwood has pointed out regulatory reform will boost the infrastructure using private funds and both cut dole queues now and give us an infrastructure that can sustain an economic recovery . Replacing JSA &IB with one sort of payment and cutting out pointless training schemes will tackle long term unemployment .

Selling off the BBC , Channel 4 ,Scottish Water & some government shares in private companies could fund an one off refund for basic rate taxpayers under the age of 65 of £480 just to stop the deflation that we face in 2009 getting out of hand . This would not add to the PSBR as asset sales would fund a one -off tax reduction while extra cash would get to those most likely to spend it . £480 means a lot more as a share of income to a person on say £15,000 a year than on £100,000 p/a so limiting this rebate to basic rate payers keeps costs down and will be fairer as those who most need the funds get the extra cash .
I am pleased to learn from what others are saying about getting the economy right by helping the High Street , Square Mile , Housing Market etc
How is that for a decent attempt at an economic recovery plan ?

BUT if the Conservatives come in with a huge majority (possible?) will they do a Tony Blair and just sit on their hands in case they do not get re elected?
They are full of excellent ideas.
But so was he.

In the old days, the church of England was thought to be the Tory party at prayer, sadly no longer.

Today however, the BBC is the Labour party engaged in propaganda. It goes on 24 hours a day. “It’s what they do.”

Scrap the BBC licence fee, make the BBC available by voluntary subscription only.

If Cameron has any policies other than mimicing Blair on the so ‘centre ground’ then to have any hope of success, the BBC must be neutralised as the ‘unofficial’ arm of the Labour party.

Only among those who know, which is bound to be a tiny number. As you point out the BBC can be guaranteed to misreport this> I think this is because they are pro-regulation, being part of the civiol service, rather than intrinsicly pro-Labour.

The only answer is that when there is an absolutely certain instance this be publicly aired in the Commons. This won’t make them correct the original misrepresentation but will make them nervous in future.

My problem is I have lost faith in our current political party based system. Yes, I know that there is not a democracy on the planet that does not use the party system to some extent; and, they don’t all end up like Zimbabwe. But, as Bonnie Tyler sang I am “holding out for a hero”; and I ain’t’t seeing one on the horizon.

But, had I the opportunity, there are a couple of guys I could vote for to be my Prime Minister. That is voting separately for my Prime Minister and for my local MP.

OK, yes, we would have our own “west wing” of sorts with a power of veto over the Commons, but I think it would put some sparkle back into the Commons as far as legislating is concerned. MPs may have to work out a few deals across the chamber to get them passed the Prime Minister’s executive. Hey, it could even get the voters interested in politics again!

What would it take John, to introduce such a system? [Does this mean you have moved Redwood up a notch from Chancellor ?]

Where are the reporters that report as it is not, what Labour would like. Anyone with any common sense can see the truth, but why do we not have it reported. ?

Why are you not writing in the mainstream media. The country needs you.

REPLY I offered a piece to the Telegraph last week but they did not reply. I did do 2 BBC TV pieces last week, and am turning the Credit Crunch pieces into a book, which I have just finished wriitng.