Office for Budget Responsibility

Read the Pre - Budget Forecast by the Office for Budge Responsibility. The OBR has downgraded the Labour economic growth forecast from 3.5% to 2.6%. Thus at its essence folks less money in to the tax man more debt for the Government, thus the the Labour Party under Gordon Brown has wrecked the economy, tough Budget ahead folks.

9/11 and the Oil Spill - The Obama Agenda

BBC News: Reports that President Obama has stated that the major oil spill that faces the US has echoes of 9/11. In other words folks the US President does not have a clue of how to deal with this major environmental problem, rather than cutting off the oil the Obama Administration is using the accident to push its extreme environmental agenda, the loser will be the US consumer, the major oil companies if they face tougher regulation will move their rigs to poorer countries but rich is oil positional, thus the US voter will lose with jobs going abroad the US will have to import more oil, thus Middle Eastern countries will have more power over the US, this will have a drastic effect on US security. In other words folks the Obama Administration will cause more long term damage than the oil spill.

Cameron on Afghanistan

The UK PM David Cameron stated to the House of Commons the reason for the UK being in Afghanistan, the Prime Minister stated it was due to the " national security " of the UK and the UK presence in Afghanistan prevented " Afghan territory from again being used by Al Qaeda as a base from which to plan attacks on the UK and our allies. ". One can argue that this was the same line that was used by ex PM Gordon Brown, but PM Cameron stated the success of the UK mission in Afghanistan, Cameron told the House the Commons the following, " Today I am advised that the threat from Al Qaeda from Afghanistan and Pakistan has reduced. ( Thus success for the UK presence but what of the cost in deaths )... But I am also advised that if it were not for the current presence of UK and international coalition forces, Al Qaeda would return to Afghanistan and the threat to the UK would rise. ". But due to this formula the UK will be in Afghanistan forever, the badlands of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is a perfect safe heaven for the Taliban/Al Qaeda, when can the UK leave. The PM stated that the UK would leave Afghanistan when UK security would not be affected by such a move, thus a contradiction between the two statements, the PM stated the following on any timetables for leaving Afghanistan, " based on the facts on the ground not pre-announced timetables. ". In many respects the statement to the House of Commons was a holding statement, the UK has bought in to the US surge under Obama, it can be argued that PM Cameron is making a grave political mistake, one can postulate that the US and the UK will be in Afghanistan for years, at the end of the day we will leave, Afghanistan will be the same, just the UK and the US will have lost hundreds of its heroic Armed Forces Personnel, lets hope this blog is wrong folks.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has announced the name of the British Soldier that was killed on Saturday in Afghanistan, the Soldier was “ Lance Corporal Andrew Breeze from B (Malta) Company, 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire,) ”. Our thoughts are with the family of Lance Corporal Breeze.