Ed Miliband Changes British History
Ed Miliband has stated that the Labour Party of which he is the new leader after Gordon Brown should not take the blame for the substantial debt mountain that Great Britain currently has.
I wonder who he thinks is to blame then?
It was his very own party who were in power from 1997 to 2010 some 13 years with their hands on the tiller. Surely they have to take most, if not all, of the blame?
I do not accept that all of Britain's economic problems are to be blamed on the United States or the Global Recession.
Is it simply that that he like Brown is in state of denial unable to acknowledge that when Brown was Chancellor he locked Britain into a housing boom which resulted in a crash due to a lack of proper financial supervision and a lack of touch on city regulation.
What is it that Brown said on regulation "The better and in my opinion the correct model of regulation - the risk based approach is no inspection without justification, no form filling with out justification and no information requirements with out justification not just a light touch but a limited touch".. Well there you have it, basically, he was clueless!
How can Ed Miliband argue that the British banking failure is not a direct result of his predecessor and therefore his very own policital party?
It does make you wonder where Gordon Brown was during the 1973/74 banking crisis (again caused by a property boom) when banks such as London & County and Cannon Street Investments were in difficulty. Surely he must have heard about this as Jeremy Thorpe the liberal politician was a director of London & County Securities?
In those equally difficult times with the UK stock market falling to levels seen some 25 years ago the Prime Minister did not panic as Brown and the Labour Party did they simply stood their ground, no banks were nationalised, the Bank of England merely provided sound and proper management and a life boat to those in need and after a few years every thing returned to normal.
For how many years of Brown's chancellorship did we hear those golden words "Mr Deputy speaker I have said before and I say again No Return to Boom and Bust".
Of course the Global recession is a contributory factor but not exclusively as the Labour Government with Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to when he became Prime Minister in 2007 have a lot to answer. Quite simply in the good years they failed to stock the Granary.
Ed Miliband has said that the Increase in VAT is the wrong tax at the right time I have to ask what seems a more obvious question is he actually the wrong man at the wrong time.
There is no doubt that Ed Miliband is an absolute political opportunist. He was, after all, a member of the Cabinet that according to Lord Mandelson's memoirs wanted to raise Value Added Tax. Not on one occasion but actually twice once in November 2009 and again in March 2010. This obviously goes a long way to make Ed Miliband's attack on the VAT increase look some what less than cautious. These proposed increases were vetoed by the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The question has to be asked were these at that point of time tax increases that were correct. I do not think that Ed Miliband would know his brother David however might.
I wonder who he thinks is to blame then?
It was his very own party who were in power from 1997 to 2010 some 13 years with their hands on the tiller. Surely they have to take most, if not all, of the blame?
I do not accept that all of Britain's economic problems are to be blamed on the United States or the Global Recession.
Is it simply that that he like Brown is in state of denial unable to acknowledge that when Brown was Chancellor he locked Britain into a housing boom which resulted in a crash due to a lack of proper financial supervision and a lack of touch on city regulation.
What is it that Brown said on regulation "The better and in my opinion the correct model of regulation - the risk based approach is no inspection without justification, no form filling with out justification and no information requirements with out justification not just a light touch but a limited touch".. Well there you have it, basically, he was clueless!
How can Ed Miliband argue that the British banking failure is not a direct result of his predecessor and therefore his very own policital party?
It does make you wonder where Gordon Brown was during the 1973/74 banking crisis (again caused by a property boom) when banks such as London & County and Cannon Street Investments were in difficulty. Surely he must have heard about this as Jeremy Thorpe the liberal politician was a director of London & County Securities?
In those equally difficult times with the UK stock market falling to levels seen some 25 years ago the Prime Minister did not panic as Brown and the Labour Party did they simply stood their ground, no banks were nationalised, the Bank of England merely provided sound and proper management and a life boat to those in need and after a few years every thing returned to normal.
For how many years of Brown's chancellorship did we hear those golden words "Mr Deputy speaker I have said before and I say again No Return to Boom and Bust".
Of course the Global recession is a contributory factor but not exclusively as the Labour Government with Gordon Brown as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to when he became Prime Minister in 2007 have a lot to answer. Quite simply in the good years they failed to stock the Granary.
Ed Miliband has said that the Increase in VAT is the wrong tax at the right time I have to ask what seems a more obvious question is he actually the wrong man at the wrong time.
There is no doubt that Ed Miliband is an absolute political opportunist. He was, after all, a member of the Cabinet that according to Lord Mandelson's memoirs wanted to raise Value Added Tax. Not on one occasion but actually twice once in November 2009 and again in March 2010. This obviously goes a long way to make Ed Miliband's attack on the VAT increase look some what less than cautious. These proposed increases were vetoed by the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The question has to be asked were these at that point of time tax increases that were correct. I do not think that Ed Miliband would know his brother David however might.
