The Age of Austerity - Coalition ATTACKS Critics

BBC News: Reports that DPM Nick Clegg the leader of the Liberal Democrats has stated that critics of the Government spending cuts are not telling the truth as to whom gets hit harder. When you cut welfare you hit the poor, lets not hide the truth, when you cut child benefit for the rich, in the Government scale that is about forty four thousand, it does not have the same effect when you hit the poor, the rich cant have an extra holiday or a weekend break, the poor cant eat, there is a difference is effect and scale. But lets be very clear the Coalition Government under PM David Cameron is doing the right thing, cuts are always going to hurt, but lets be clear and honest, there are always going to be poor people, the idea that Government can change nature and history is very Star Trek but not the real world, under New Labour social mobility was worse than in the 1950s, you cant chance civic society, you can cushion the effects, but just cushion, yes poor people will hurt, no one wants that but we have to live in the real world, the UK is broke, BROKE, we can afford it, it can be argued that the UK should not give any money to poor countries, its better to spend on our own NHS, Education and those on welfare. These are cold days folks, Guardian types voted for Tony Blair and we got the Iraq War, thus their views don’t hold much water and they should not, we need to return to the mind frame of the era under Lady Thatcher, people should want to create wealth, make money, and thus create jobs, the State cant and does not create jobs, there is Society but that Society needs a healthy economy, Countries likes Wales and Scotland have to get off the handouts and develop a economic base based on business, not the mothers milk of the State, the money in the bank is gone folks, time to GROW UP.

King George VI and the Art of Speaking

Guardian: Has an excellent Review on the forthcoming film The King’s Speech, it looks at how the father of H.M The Queen, King George VI overcame his stammer after his succession the throne after the Abdication of King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor. Have seen old footages of the King when he was having a problem with his stammer, it painful to see even now folks, also as your humble correspondent also has stammer one can very much sympathise with the then Duke of York, he was never meant to be King, his urbane and charismatic brother David, Prince of Wales had the looks and the popularity, but love can make men do daft things, it can be very cold with the wrong woman. Thus it will be nice to see a film that shows how even Kings can overcome their problems, but lets be honest being symbol of the nation took it out of the King thus his early death in the 1950s, while the Duke of Windsor lived on in to the 1970s. Some things are never meant! And the cost when they tried is hard.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has announced the name of the UK Soldier that was killed on Tuesday, the Soldier was “ Acting Corporal David Barnsdale from 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), serving with the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force ”. Our thoughts are with the family of Acting Corporal Barnsdale.

How Safe are Safe Liberal Seats ?

Fox News: Reports that even in birth place of JFK the great State of Massachusetts once liberal seats are under threat from the Republican wave facing the Democrats in November. If Democratic safe seats in the House go Republican this will make 1994 look like a major victory for Bill Clinton. If the Republicans can gain between 75 to 100 seats they can block any Obama policy, they will have the electoral mandate, they can push through a Bill to revoke ObamaCare, this will force POTUS to veto the Bill, the question that Democrats in the House and the Senate will have to ask is will they sustain a Presidential veto, when they run again can they afford to be seen as close to POTUS. The Oval will have to work hard to prevent a wipe out of Democrats on November.

Conservatives vs. Labour

Iain Dale's Diary: The Conservative Political Blogger Iain Dale points out that the Coalition Cuts will be 19%, while Labour had promised 20% in Government, Dale writes the following, “ So their attacks on 19% cuts will ring rather hollow. ” In will be interesting to see how Labour really attack these cuts, one would expect a quite combative approach by Ed Balls the best Shadow Chancellor Labour never had, but Alan Johnson has no economic background at all, he is nice but didn’t have the guts to knife Gordon Brown and walk in to 10 Downing Street as a caretaker PM. Lets see the polls at the end of the week, if Labour is not ahead by between 4-6% they are in real political trouble, if they lose economic argument they will be out of power for a generation.

40,000 Teachers OUT - Coalition Government

Guardian: Reports on a internal Department of Education projection that forty thousand teachers in England face the axe due to public spending cuts. It is a tough world folks, teachers have transferable skills, if they don’t they are not much good as teachers, all sectors of Government are going to get a hit folks, the fault for this economic mess lies at the doorstep of one Mr Gordon Brown, have not noticed his face in the House of Commons of late, if the reader of this blog only turned up a few times for his job he would get the sack, from reports former PM Brown is finishing off his book, a massive book on economics from news reports, Go help us all!

Death in Afghanistan

MOD: Reports that a UK Soldier was killed on Tuesday in Afghanistan, the Soldier was from the “ 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), serving with the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Task Force ”. Thus since 2001 the UK has lost 341 of its Armed Forces Personnel in Afghanistan, of that total it has lost 301 in combat action and 40 due to illness, accidents or other incidents.