NO TAX HIKES under LABOUR - The future LABOUR Government - Sir Keir Starmer Era

BBC News: Reports " Labour's Rachel Reeves rules out increasing income tax or NI....Labour has said there will be no rises in income tax or National Insurance if it wins the general election - but some spending cuts have not been ruled out.  "

Lets Get Real:

I have heard the same music before form the LABOUR PARTY and they always leave OFFICE after the wreaking the economy, the 1970s and then in 2007 with the financial crisis, they always over promise and then FAIL.  Also this time its different, there could be WW3 around the corner with Russia, the people of the UK have to wake up, this is more like the 1930s not the 1970s, Putin is already putting out ceasefire noise about the Ukraine.  It will be interesting to see what Labour say will be their defence posture, will a new LABOUR GOVERNMENT really want to spend its money on the Ukraine, what happens if Trump wins in November, he will demands that the UK spend more on defence and rest of Europe.  This is not 1997 and New Labour and New Britain, recall the Emperor Nero was popular on his succession, he was styled the Prince of Youth and looked what happened, Blair has Iraq, always Iraq.

Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland has resigned - UK Union

BBC News - Live Blog: Reports in its 1.01pm post the following, "  Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that she is resigning as Scotland's first minister.....recent months have seen controversies over gender reforms, which have been blocked by the UK government  "

Lets Get Real:

Normally long term leaders, like Thatcher get thrown out by her Cabinet, this blog was shocked to hear that Nicola Sturgeon had resigned, of late all we have heard from Scotland is Nicola Sturgeon and the debate about trans rights.  The sole purpose of the SNP is break up the UK.  The recent polls have shown that the direction is going the other way, due to the political decisions made by Sturgeon and the Scottish Parliament when it comes to the TRANS issues, the support for the break up of the Union has faded, the UK Supreme Court stated that the Scottish Parliament can only have a referendum on a Independent Scotland if it is granted by the UK Parliament, and that is not going to happen at present.  Thus we must take the First Minister by her words, that it was the right time to go, people will be discussing this for years, it will be like when Harold Wilson resigned out of the blue in 1976, of late new information has come out, it seems that the late Queen saw that Wilson had declined and tried to suggest time for him go, in this she was supported by Wilson's wife back home.  One does think 8 years is enough for any leader, Blair made the mistake of staying on for 10 years, before being pushed out by Gordon Brown and his supporters.  One must respect Sturgeon, she did a tough job, not my cup of tea, and held to her view, before making her mind up, that enough was enough. 

Caretaker PM ? Theresa May ? - After Brexit

Sky News - Live Blog: Reports in its 1.23 post the following, " Former PM says new leader must 'heal division'....Former prime minister Theresa May was asked if she would be prepared to act as a caretaker prime minister after Boris Johnson confirmed he will step down.  "

Lets Get Real:

Thus far its only Sky that is going with this story, are they really allowing their hatred and REMAIN wing to dictate their reality, the PM cannot be forced out office in till there is a NEW LEADER, he remains the Queen's PM.   If the Conservative Party want a new leader will have to change the rules, that means the 1922 Committee will have elections for its officers on Monday, and then the structure of a new leadership contest, this is going to take time, and the Queen needs a PM on call. What if the Russians seeing this crisis in LONDON, pulls a stunt with a bombing of a NATO Country, thus we need a PM.  If PM Boris will not go, and he can fill his Cabinet and junior ranks then he stays, so far he has replaced those that have left. The UK has had three Education Secretaries in two days.  As for Sky News and BBC News a friend of this blog stated that they are nest of vipers, the Conservative MPs should not be on the TV, they should find a candidate that all MPs can decide on, like Churchill after Chamberlain or Major after Thatcher.   In 2007 Gordon Brown forced Tony Blair OUT after 10 years, he ran with no opposition as Labour leader.  The left/liberal elite will try to fan this story, the powers that be within the Conservative Party need to get their MPs back in line and not on the TV, BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News etc.  This blog is waiting to see who runs and who are the Brexit supporters in the pack. 

The UK withdrawal from Afghanistan - Biden Era

Guardian: Reports " Boris Johnson announces end to UK military mission in Afghanistan...Labour says ‘washing hands’ of conflict now could lead to bloodier war and wider Taliban control  "

Lets Get Real:

One has to ask did Tony Blair think after 9/11 that the UK and the US would still be in Afghanistan twenty years later, and if he had known that would have gone along with the invasion and then invaded Iraq.  Biden is making a BIG MISTAKE when it comes to Afghanistan, the terror groups can come back, and what happens if there is another 9/11 and it was planned in Afghanistan.   The Biden Oval cannot hide under his desk, this would be merely be adding to the mistakes of Joe Biden, a man who never been right about foreign policy in forty years, the Gipper was highly critical of Biden in his diaries, after Trump the US was looking for a normal President, and what it got was Joe Biden, I guess the US was never going to be as lucky as to get another Reagan, sad day for Afghanistan and the US. 

Immigration Rules - Brexit Update 3 - Transitional Phase

Guardian: Reports " UK's new fast-track immigration system to exclude care workers...Minimum salary thresholds to also remain in place, presenting additional barrier  "

Lets Get Real:

It is postulated that the those out of work due to COVID - 19 could reach between three and four million, that will make the early 1980s Thatcher look like happy hour.  Thus as a British PM once said, British jobs for British people will come in to effect.   Those working in the care sector have a difficult and stressful job, and it can take it out of you, your there at the end of someone's life, and with COVID - 19 it has been even more stressful.   Thus a solution is needed, the care workers must get more pay, above the living allowance, no matter their age, and their work should be treated as a profession.   Thus you can influence those out of work to take up these jobs, so you solve two problems at once, unemployment and the care sector.  Sometimes a crisis can give you a reason to do something you should have done before. 

Corbyn and Anti - Semitism - Update 3 - Post Brexit

Daily Mail: Reports " 'Isn't it a good thing?' Corbyn defends his decision to attend a Seder by a far-left group which called for Israel's destruction after he is accused of 'deliberately baiting' the Jewish community for attending the event  "

Lets Get Real:

There is an old saying, if you are in a hole stop digging!! Jeremy Corbyn has a major political problem on his hands, the Labour Party is already split, between those that support Corbyn and his left wing views and those small band of Blair supporters who have never liked the left wing views that Corbyn represent.  Corbyn needs to meet mainstream Jewish leaders, those support Israel, he has to be seen and do things that make it clear that the Labour is not a anti - semite Party.   It will be interesting to see some new polls, is Labour ahead or still behind the Conservatives. 

Corbyn and Anti - Semitism - Update 2 - Post Brexit

Sky News: Reports " Jeremy Corbyn criticised for meeting radical group Jewdas amid anti-Semitism row..The Labour leader's spokesman says he attended the event in a personal capacity but he is criticised by some of his own MPs  "

Lets Get Real:

Jeremy Corbyn is a fringe leader of the Labour Party, he comes from the extreme left of the Party, in the normal course of events if Corbyn was not leader who would care, but he is the Leader of the Opposition, he does not have a personal capacity, all his actions have the force of the Labour Party.   No wonder mainstream Jewish supporters are not that happy with Corbyn, they would never be, one suspects that Corbyn is an idealist, he does not live in the real World.   Think reader he could be the next PM, always vote Conservative. 

Corbyn and anti-Semitism - Post Brexit

BBC News: Reports " Jeremy Corbyn has defended his decision to attend a dinner organised by a left-wing Jewish group following criticism from mainstream Jewish leaders.  "

Lets Get Real:

Jeremy Corbyn is not an anti-semite, one has to be careful before one calls someone a racist.   The left wing as represented by Jeremy Corbyn has a negative view of the policies of the Israeli Government, while this blog supports on the whole Israel and its policies.   The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn has gained extreme followers on the left, they see the State of Israel taking up space that belongs to the Palestinian people, they live in idealism, not the real World.   Let's be honest, those anti Corbyn MPs will use this debate to undermine him, if they had any honour they would leave the Labour Party and form their own Party, a Centre left Party that is pro Israel, and pro EU.  The Labour Party under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is DEAD in the WATER, New Labour has gone the way of the dodos. 

Gordon Brown and Brexit - Post Brexit

BBC News: Reports " Former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned that the UK may hit a "crisis point next summer" as the UK edges closer to Brexit and held out the possibility that the UK may not leave the EU. "

Lets Get Real:

The faith in the EU is like a religion to the moaning remainers, the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown expects the EU to come up a way for the UK to stay in the in the EU.   The more the remainers ACT as if they are better than Democracy then the more this blog supports a HARD BREXIT, that might be the only way to make the remainers wake up, the decision has been taken by the British public, time for the Conservative Government to get on with the will of the British people.   Time for a HARD BREXIT. 

Trump on the Media - Trump Era

Guardian: Reports " Trump: 'No politician in history has been treated more unfairly' "

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Even in his own scandal Trump wants it to be the biggest, one can assume that Richard Nixon felt he has been treated unfairly, he had to resign, both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown must feel they have got and have gotten the short end of the stick, one due to Iraq the other to the economic collapse, while Bush 43 had to put up with a lot from the left after the failure to find WMD in Iraq.   The Trump White House needs a new Chief of Staff, someone who can put Trump in his place, can run WH as it should be run, Trump should ask former Secretary of State, James Baker to do the job he did for Reagan, that first term was seen as the best, also after Iran - Contra blew up the White House got a new staff that restored most of the Reagan Presidency, thus allowing Bush 41 to win 1988.   Also Trump can follow the example of Bill Clinton during Impeachment, he said every day that he was working for the American people, he got through his crisis by laying for a long time about the affair,  and giving the PR that his sole concern was the American people.   THE Trump Oval needs to control itself, otherwise it could forced out like Nixon. 

New Labour and Brexit - Update

Guardian: Reports " Alastair Campbell: New Labour helped sow seeds of Brexit vote..Former director of communications says party became complacent on immigration due to Tony Blair’s electoral success "

Lets Get Real:

The REAL problem for Labour under New Labour and Tony Blair was the fact that it started to lose its base voters.    The disaster in Scotland and the NO vote in the EU vote shows that Labour took for granted million of voters.  Then when you had the near banking collapse of 2008 people started to feel that the Government was no longer in control of either the economy or Immigration.   At least the LABOUR PARTY under Jeremy Corbyn has gone back to its roots, on the extreme left and of course it can not win elections, thus great if you are a Conservative, no to so if your small (d) Democrat.

Corbyn on the Falklands - Corbyn Mania

Mail on Sunday: Reports " Britain should do a deal with Argentina on who controls the Falklands, Jeremy Corbyn claims - despite a referendum showing 99.8 per cent of the Islanders want to stay British  "

Lets Get Real:

The UK lost 255 troops in taking back the Falklands, and for an extreme left wing idiot like Jeremy Corbyn to be a  Labour Leader shows that Tony Blair did not change Labour, it was a PR show at the end of the day, its not what a Party does when it winning that can matter, it how it acts if it loses, thus far from Gordon Brown through Ed Miliband to Corby the Party has gone back to its left wing roots. The same political party that was out of power for near 18 years under Thatcher and Major Governments is heading for that period of Opposition again.   Does any Labour MP have the guts to take on Corbyn before its to late. 

Corbyn vs. Labour MPs - Corbyn Mania

Guardian - Politics Live: Reports in its 5.48pm post the following, "  John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has dismissed the three Labour frontbenchers who resigned today in protest against the shadow cabinet reshuffle as part of a “narrow, rightwing clique”. In a separate interview with Channel 4 News, he said there was a “hard right” faction in the party associated with the group Progress. They were now on the fringes of the Labour party, he said. “They have never accepted Jeremy [Corbyn]’s leadership. They have never accepted the outcome of the leadership election.”  "

Lets Get Real:

If this is the level of talks between fellow Labour MPs the Party has a major problem, as noted by others, Corbyn does not have the power to force MPs to follow his line, while the Opposition is waiting its time, the Opposition should not fall in to the trap of waiting to long, that happened under the leadership of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, in that process the Labour Party lost two general elections.   As blog has stated the Blair and Brown supporters have to unite to get rid of Corbyn before he destroys the Labour before the 2020 election, time is not on the side of the Corbyn enemies. 

Gordon Brown on Jeremy Corbyn - Corbyn Mania

BBC News: Reports " Labour needs more than principles if it is to win power again, and must ensure its programme for government resonates with voters, Gordon Brown has said. "

Lets Get Real:

Thus the former PM speaks, the problem is that one of the main problems of Labour in power was the feud between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, one wanted the others job, while Blair wanted a New Labour Legacy.  As a Conservative blog even this blogger can see how much Brown/Blair could have achieved if they had worked together.   But what they did was to have the usual old Labour feuds updated.   The Labour Party can only be Government in waiting if it recovers some of its Scottish Seats, the question is does Scottish Labour want to be seen as a arm of the main Party, they have come out against Trident, while the majority of Labour MPs support the UK having nuclear missiles.   Thus there are internal breaches that have to be fixed before 2020.    

The Conservative Government and Tax Credits of Gordon Brown

Daily Mail: Reports " Osborne's tax credit revenge: Ministers refuse to rule out flooding the Lords with more than 100 new peers to force through benefit cuts blocked last night  "

Lets Get Real:

The Prime Minister David Cameron should inform the Queen that due to the actions of Labour and Liberal Democrats Peers the Conservative Government will place a hundred extra Conservatives in the Upper House as to get its Agenda through.  The Opposition having lost the General Election of 2015 are trying to block the Agenda of the elected Government.   The House of Lords of un - elected Peers should have followed convention and allowed the Bill go through, what next will they try to stop, this calls for tough action by David Cameron. 

Tax Credits - Conservative Party Conference

BBC News: Reports " David Cameron has rejected calls to rethink cuts to tax credits, as the Conservatives gather in Manchester for their annual conference. "

Lets Get Real:

The bill for tax credits is 30 BILLION, the New Labour Government under Tony Blair bought tax credits in to existence due to lie, as Tony Blair stated to Alastair Campbell the Treasury cooked the books as to the cost of tax credits, it went from millions to billions.   At its heart it allows mean employers to hire workers on the cheap and then for the government to fund them, the welfare state was not meant for such policies.   The UK Government has to keep to its reform, make work pay, even increase the living wage, so people are not out of pocket.   The general election of 2015 showed that people understand that the government can not print money forever, at some time it has to be paid back, thus the austerity reform of the present government.  

The LEFT Wing POLICY of " Jeremy Corbyn " - Foreign Policy

BBC News: Reports on the foreing policy of Jeremy Corbyn,  " On Russia, the Labour leader argues the eastward expansion of Nato is also to blame for the Ukraine crisis, as well as Russia's violation of Ukrainians' sovereignty by taking over Crimea. Argentina has welcomed his suggestion that the UK should think of sharing sovereignty of the Falklands. And at odds with previous Labour leaders, he supports the idea of a united Ireland, a stand described by Unionists as "unhelpful". "

Lets Get Real:

The divisons with Labour over Foreign Policy could force the Blair forces to move against " Red " Jeremy Corbyn early than expected, those on the right of the Party, support NATO, are willing to strike Syria, and are opposed to Russian moves in Eastern Ukraine.   Then there is the issue of the EU, it can be argued that Corby is hardly pro EU, that is his only good point.   If Corbyn through the Labour Party Conference moves the Labour Party to the left it would mean that the right of Labour would have to make a choice, do they wait as they waited to get rid of Gordon Brown and Ed Millband and thus lost two general elections or do they before the electionns next year, the Blair group if they want to give the Labour Party a chance in 2020 need to move early and with a ruthlness that you expect from the Conservatives. 

The END of LABOUR - Corbyn Mania

Telegraph: Reports " Labour is heading for 'civil war' and 2020 defeat under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership...Kim Howells, a former Labour Foreign Office minister, believes the Labour leader cannot win over the wider electorate and will not win the 2020 general election "

Lets Get Real:

The Labour Party HAS fallen of a cliff, its got caught up in its own bubble.   The extreme left has no understanding of the UK voter, it can be argued that the Labour Party has no understanding of its lost voters in Scotland.   The right wing of the Labour Party in the House of Commons, must get rid of Corbyn by the new year, otherwise they can kiss the 2020/25 elections goodbye.   The mistake that Tony Blair did was to allow for the succession of Gordon Brown, he had not built someone up to make it a fight.     The Labour Party under Brown moved to the left, thus the loss of two general elections.   At this rate the Conservatives will have a generation in power. 

The Truth about Tax Credits - Corbyn Mania

BBC News: Reports " MPs have backed government plans to cut spending on tax credits in the face of opposition from Labour and the SNP. "

Lets Get Real:

Here is the truth about tax credits from Alastair Campbell's Diaries, Power and Responsibility 1999 - 2001, Volume 3, on July 13th 2001, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair stated he was lied to about the cost of tax credits, the cost he was told was five hundred million, it was in fact 2 billion by then, and now in 2015 its 30 billion.   Read Page 666.   The Labour Party can not be trusted, they spend like drunkards and expect others to cover the cost.    Thus the formation of the national government in the 1930s and the Coalition Government in 2010.   NEVER trust Labour, they lie to each other, what hope for the people. 

Clinton unsafe with British Security - Email Scandal - Election 2016

Daily Mail: Reports " David Miliband dragged into Hillary Clinton email scandal after it emerges confidential British intelligence was sent to presidential hopeful's private account  "

Lets Get Real:

This story is like Chinese Water torture, drip by drip the Clinton PR on the email scandal is falling apart.   One has to assume, China, Russia, North Korea did try and might have been successful in any attempt to break the security on the secret Clinton server.  One would also has to assume that secrets on the server were read by the enemies of the US.   It can be argued that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to consider her position.  How can it be right for others to see their careers wrecked and even jail time for lesser offences.   There needs to be a scapegoat from the Clinton Camp, if you're were or are on the Clinton staff you have to be worried that you will be thrown under the bus.