Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Alistair Darling's Budget is One of the Worst Budgets Ever | |
Posted by: | David Giles | |
Date/Time: | 18/03/08 12:39:00 |
Peter Like you I didn't vote for the present Government either and I did not support the war in Iraq. I am sure that many Conservative and Labour MP's would not have voted for the war in Iraq but for the Dodgy Dossier and other misinformation from the US and UK Governments about Weapons of Mass Destructions, UN Security Council resolutions and mandates, imminent threats to the security of UK bases in Cyprus and the alleged links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The leadership of the Conservative Party was fed false information by the Labour Goverment and essentially tricked into supporting the war. Many Labour MP's and influential media figures and respectable newspapers were similarily tricked. The War in Iraq is major factor in the current financial crises in the USA and the UK because neither the US Government nor the UK Government can afford this war along with all the other calls on public expenditure - such as the current need for massive support for financial institutions. The present financial crisis is now the most serious for 50 years and last week's Fudgit Budget will make it best and not better. Compare and contrast has the US authorities dealt with the Bear Sterns crisis in just under a week with how the Brown Government dithered, chopped and changed for 6 months and then nationalised Northern Rock, spending and committing billions of taxpayers' hard-earned money and possibly breaching EU rules in the process. Let's face it - Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling are both incompetent and the sooner they go the better. |