Welfare Reform

Guardian: Reports on arguments between the UK Treasury and the Department of Work and Pensions, the argument is how to get people off welfare bill without it costing or cutting benefits to fund any welfare reform. The Coalition Government has to be tough, it has to cut benefits for those in the Middle Class, it’s a tax break in many respects, it needs tax money to help those get a job but also make sure that if you get a job you are not worse off, thus cut middle class benefits such as child benefits to any family with an income over forty thousand pounds, reduce benefits for those under forty thousand, in fact half such benefits. In the long term you get people back to work, the tax revenue goes up and you can afford to give back these tax benefits. This is the time for tough action folks, later down the line the political costs will be to high, strike while the voter understand and benefit at the polls later.

Afghan Exit 2014 - UK

Telegraph: Reports on remarks by the UK Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox that 2014 is the end date for the UK to start to withdraw combat troops out of Afghanistan. This will be a red flag to the Taliban / Al Qaeda they will see that the UK is looking for an EXIT route and they will be right. The problem of stating a date is that Taliban will start to hit UK troops more, they will see London as weak, if we are getting out lets get out NOW. Why should the UK lose one more of its Armed Forces Personnel in the hell hole that is Afghanistan, lets get out NOW and use SAS, SBS to help the Americans, but also lets make it clear if there is an attack in the UK that is planned from Afghanistan then the UK will use ALL means in retribution. Lets not play about with these people, let the new Afghan Government have it straight, its their job to keep order, or if attacked as in 7/7 the UK would reserve the right to use any means for its protection, any means!

Civil War in Labour Party - Lord Mandelson

BBC News: Reports Lord Mandelson is blaming ex Labour PM Gordon Brown for not allowing Tony Blair when he was Prime Minister from reforming the public sector. The Dark Prince has taken hostile fire from the candidates for the Labour Leadership over his memoirs, but in the Campbell Diaries and Mandelson Memoirs you see all the shine taken away from Labour, at the end of the day Gordon Brown when Chancellor was not going to allow PM Blair to have a major success in the domestic field, from 1994 to 2007 Gordon Brown resented that he has given way to Tony Blair and that Blair had become leader and PM. Thus failure of Blair/Brown to deal with welfare reform has been left in the lap of the new Coalition Government, also in the economic boom years the Labour Party did not save for a rainy day, thus the 25% - 40% cuts that the new government has to set in place. As in the 1970s the Labour Party ruined the economy now the new Coalition Government has to clean up the mess of New Labour, the blame is at the feet of Blair and Brown.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the names of three of the four Soldiers killed in Afghanistan since Friday, the Soldiers were, " Marine Jonathan David Thomas Crookes from 40 Commando Royal Marines,Senior, Aircraftman Gunner Kinikki "Griff" Griffiths, Sergeant David Thomas Monkhouse, from The Royal Dragoon Guards ". Our thoughts are with the families of Marine Crookes, Senior Aircraftman Griffiths and Sergeant Monkhouse.