Two months after being stripped of his ministerial limmo and palatial weekend retreat of Chevening House, David Milliband announces in an article in the New Statesman that he is going to ‘champion England’. Yes that is correct, the man has discovered England and Englishness. He doesn’t actually identify what Englishness is, but, he does spend a lot of time telling us that he would very much like the English voters to elect a Labour government again.

LabourList quotes Miliband here……

If Labour is going to gain support outside its metropolitan heartlands and aspire to government again, it needs to speak for England and identify with its traditions and values. In four years’ time, as the English football team lifts the World Cup in Brazil, Labour needs to be leading that national conversation.”

England certainly won’t be lifting the world cup in 4 years time, but we don’t mind Miliband leading the conversation, it’s a whole lot safer than him leading the government.

For 13 wasteful years David Miliband’s obscene Labour Party ignored the concerns of English people, he filled England to the brim with immigrants in some kind of Nazi multi-cultural experiment. He watched as Labour plundered England’s bank account to subsidise Scotland and Wales’ wacky spending spree, and now he’s pleading for us to let it happen all over again!

No thanks Mr Miliband, England is broke, bust, skint!! Your fellow traitor Liam Byrne left a note to that effect, or have you forgotten already?

In the run-up to the May 6th General Election, the outgoing Labour government left more IEDs (improvised explosive devices) than the Taliban. Uncosted projects, unaffordable promissory loans to marginal constituencies and most importantly a black hole in their 56 billion pound pre budget report savings estimates of approximately 10-12 billion pounds.

10-12 billion pounds is, by no coincidence, roughly the amount a 2.5% increase in VAT would bring in annually to the exchequer! George Osborne said in 2008…

“This is Labour’s secret tax bombshell. It explains why there is a black hole (of £10bn in 2011-12) in the PBR – because at the last minute Gordon Brown clearly decided to keep secret his plan to hit everyone with an extra tax rise to pay for his borrowing binge.”

Labour now in opposition know this of course, they set the trap assuming they were going to be kicked out of office. The problem is, there is plenty of evidence in the treasury in the form of unpublished proposals, to show Labour were certainly planning a VAT increase in the unlikely event they were returned to power.

An article in the Daily Telegraph pointing the finger at a Labour treasury minister at the same period stated….

In January 2010, the rate of Vat will revert to 17.5 per cent. However, a legal document laid before Parliament states that VAT will “subsequently increase to 18.5 per cent in 2011-12″. It is signed by Stephen Timms, a junior Treasury Minister.

This amounts to the equivalent of CCTV evidence, Labour’s smoking gun – they are exposed as having double standards –  as usual! As the budget debate goes on in parliament, Labour MPs, backbenchers and shadow ministers stand up one after the other, knowing they were always going to fill that black hole with a VAT increase, and attack the coalition for doing what they were planning all along.

Thank goodness these hypocritical lying louts are out of office.

David Chaplin chairman of the Young Fabians and occasional contributor to LabourList has managed to provide us with yet more evidence that, in opposition, Labour are failing miserably to defend their appalling record of economic disasters.

Chaplin believes there must be a way of duping the British public, industry and markets into thinking Labour know what’s best for the country! He says on LabourList…

“On the Andrew Marr show this week Alistair Darling was finding it difficult to answer the question, “what wouldn’t you cut?” Labour now needs to think clearly about what it proposes to do in order to calm the clear concerns amongst some sections of industry.”

What leads any socialist to the conclusion they know how to solve our economic problems, especially when it was a socialist government that presided over the biggest deficit in peacetime history? A government that went on a ’scorched earth policy’ months before the general election signing unaffordable contracts and writing huge cheques to industry to buy votes in marginal seats. The cuts in public services now being contemplated by George Osborne are a direct result of feckless gerrymandering through Labour adding one million unnecessary jobs in the Labour-voting public sector in the past 13 years.

Chaplin can try as hard as he likes, but how can they ever defend a record which has crashed the UK’s economy into a brick wall twice in the past 40 years and walked away with the keys still in the ignition?

As if a Labour politician might be able to somehow justify their history of  financial incompetence. Chaplin also attempts to smear the new government with accusations of  re-writing history….

But the new government will try and re-write history and create a lasting image of Labour as the party who lost control of public finances and put our economy at risk. We know from Labour’s past that this is an old trick of the right-wing press, and in some cases it was a valid argument. But not so in 2010. Labour shadow ministers need to defend the actions taken during the global economic crisis; recognise where any mistakes were made; and set out a credible and alternative plan to reduce the deficit which is clear to people who are worried about our national debt and their family’s futures.

Since judiciously ousted from government, ex-ministers have attacked the new coalition each time they have announced measures to deal with Labour’s debt-crisis, yet have offered nothing in return except more spending and more accrued debt. Alistair Darling, David Miliband and Ed Balls have all distanced themselves from Gordon Brown’s ruinous policies since 1997, yet they offer nothing new, just scorn and contempt for anyone with genuine intentions of putting right the UK economic train crash which Chaplin’s socialist comrades so obscenely created.

John Bird the outspoken social campaigner, who set up the ‘Big Issue Magazine’ sold by homeless people in 1991, has written to David Cameron urging him to reform Britain’s benefits system, which he believes traps the worst-off in poverty while fuelling addictions.

Bird astonishingly, reveals one of the biggest tragedies of the past 13 years of Labour rule. A period where spending on welfare and social projects spiraled out of control, where increases in budgets were more important than results. Gordon Brown at the dispatch box week after week would spew figures like cold war Soviet tractor stats. 3 billion here, 12 billion there, thousands more nurses, hundreds of new teachers, yet we heard little or nothing about the effects and results to our health and education services. Like all Labour governments before them, they truly believed that if you throw endless bundles of money in the direction of a problem, like fairy dust, they expect it to become magically solved.

In a Telegraph article, Bird says…..

Official figures show that the cost of keeping vulnerable children in care homes is £2,428 a week. Fees for boarders at Eton College, meanwhile, are £29,862 a year which averages out at £574 a week.

“To send a boy to Eton will cost around £250,000 in fees and that goes up to maybe £350,000 when you add in skiing holidays and university,” said Mr Bird.

“Around 80 per cent of people selling The Big Issue have been through local authority care at a cost of £2,000 a week. That’s £100,000 a year, £1million if they have spent 10 years in care. And the money that’s spent on them is yours and mine.”

He wrote in his letter to the Prime Minister, who himself was educated at Eton: “All the monies spent by the comfortable on their children pale into insignificance beside what we spend on our poorest child. Existing government structures and policies work to create crime and poverty.”

Bird is so right, at the end of an Eton education lies a life of success and ability. Many go on to be wealth creators and employers. But at the end of a childhood in local authority care lies a future of unemployment, drug abuse and further costs to society and most horrific of all, sometimes an early death!

David Cameron talks about a broken society, well now he has an opportunity to demonstrate just how broken it has become under feckless Labour. How can it come to this? The cost of going to the best, most excellent school in the country, and possibly the world, costs one quarter of the funds required to keep children locked in homes giving third world care and education?

We believe this is one of the most urgent problems facing our government today. How can they improve the prospects of these children whilst reducing the costs by at least 75% –  even then it will still cost the same to keep a child in council care as it would to send them to Eton, that is quite an incredible fact!

The Conservatives have published Labour’s Last Will and Testament, outlining thirteen years of economic failures.

The document, published ahead of next week’s Emergency Budget, sets out why we must act now to reduce the deficit the previous Government left behind.

Commenting on the release of the document, Conservative Party Co-Chairman Sayeeda Warsi said:

“Let no one be in any doubt about the mess that Labour have left behind. We are all in this together and must realise the consequences of their 13 years in charge.”

Click here to read the whole document.

In what the BBC describes as ‘a speech outlining his values’ – Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband demonstrated that his taste for hypocrisy is at least as insatiable as that of his rival Ed Balls.

Last week Balls distanced himself from Labour’s open-door immigration policy claiming it was someone else’s idea.! But for sheer audacity alone Miliband specimen (b) has to be the clear winner. Miliband demanded….

The government must do more to reduce the pay gap between rich and poor

This from the man who’s party presided over the biggest widening of the rich/poor divide for 13 years! As if this wasn’t enough to make us choke with disdain, he called for….

the coalition’s public sector High Pay Commission to widen its scope to look at the private sector, saying wage differences were “high”.

Again, the hypocrisy is beyond all reason, it was Miliband’s government that flung bundle’s of taxpayers cash at NHS managers in unearned bonuses and pay rises. They encouraged local authorities to recruit useless officers with titles such as ‘diversity’ and ‘outreach’, some on six figure salaries! So to hit out at well paid private business executives who’s salaries are scrutinised by their own discerning shareholders is quite the most class envious callous act we could possibly imagine.

Milliband called for a debate about private sector pay in the business world….

He said: “When a nurse earns less in a year than a banker earns in a week and it’s the banker that caused the credit crunch, and the gap grows wider every year, it is unjust, it is bad for society, it is bad for our economy and we should say so.

“And this leads us to conclusions we have shied away from. We need to talk about the top of society.

“The differentials of 80, 100 or more between those at the top of a company and those at the bottom are just too high and we should say it.

“Some people will say that the market justifies this. Personally, I don’t believe it because many of these rewards come from cosy remuneration committees where the chips are stacked on one side.

There is little doubt that Miliband jnr is lining himself up to be the champion of the disaffected and angry public sector workers who feel the coalition government and most of the public are expecting them to take the brunt of the imminent savage cuts. The simple fact is, for far too long Labour’s profligacy officers encouraged public sector recruitment and feckless spending increases year on year. It got out of control as brilliantly described here by Jeff Randall. Now it has to be reigned in and Miliband sees an opportunity to gain a large support base of public sector workers who were nothing but pawns in Labour’s gerrymandering recruitment policy.

The Business world can never trust Ed Miliband. At the Copenhagen climate change hoaxfest, he relished in the trillion’s of pounds in extra taxes he envisaged dumping on our private sector in order to pay for thousands of non- jobs and Labour votes guaranteed from government carbon emissions officers and quangocrats.

On a day when David Cameron spells out just how broke the UK economy is, thanks to the reckless spending habits of the last Labour government, Ed Milliband, Diane Abbott, Andy Burnham and others are pledging yet more crazy spending.

Over on LabourList – we found this……

John McDonnell answers the question “would you commit to universal free school meals if elected”, simply, “yes!” Andy Burnham says Labour should carry the policy through. Ed Miliband refuses to pledge to say absolutely that universal free school meals will be in the manifesto, but says “it’s absolutely right” as a principle. Diane Abbott says she would implement it, and that it’s a popular policy. Too many children, she says, are arriving at schools without a proper breakfast: “I will put it in the manifesto

Have these feckless fools learned nothing from the past 13 years of Labour scorched earth spending? Did they not see the note that Liam Byrne left for for new government ‘there is no money left!’?

Labour’s witless funding of nursery care for parents in every town and city is costing UK taxpayers a fortune and now they want to add free school meals for everyone’s child!! – Is there no end to the schemes these socialist crack-pots can dream up?

They really do need to be kept out of government for a very long time indeed.

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During her reply to the Queen’s speech, and in subsequent TV interviews, Harriet Harman has spent much time criticising certain aspects of George Osborne’s 6 billion pounds worth of cuts. In particular, the cut in funding of 10,000 extra university places.

Labour’s policy of educating all of Britain’s young men and women to university level is having an unforeseen and significant effect on our society. It isn’t really the costs of educating millions to university standards, but the end product – ‘immigration’. Put simply, Labour have created the opposite of a skills shortage, they have fashioned an over qualified workforce. Too many of our graduates are not prepared, and even ill prepared for manual or repetitive labour.

We now have a situation where more and more menial tasks are performed, not by British workers, but by Asians and in particular eastern European migrants. Britain’s youth considers itself exceedingly over qualified for such work. In the last government, minister after minister, backbencher after backbencher informed us that we needed immigration to fill the slack in our labour market. Yet in reality, and with 8 million not working, and many too well qualified, there were shortages of cleaners, fruit-pickers and building labourers to name a few.

There was a time, back in the 60s and 70s and even up until the early 90s when less than 15% of our children went to university, but there were very few skill shortages, in fact our job centre’s were full of unemployed graduates and degenerates from sink estates as Labour kept telling the Tory government. There has always been, since records began, a shortage of jobs at all skill levels, from Doctors to Dustmen. Education is just like any other market, it will increase as the demand grows and decrease as the need reduces. 

All Labour’s forced student-place increase will do is create graduates who cannot lower themselves to fill the menial tasks often offered prior to securing a better job. This in turn will leave thousands of young people out of work for several years, which as we all know results in permanent unemployment. Worse still is the reliance on foreign labour when industries such as construction and agriculture begin to grow again.

This new government is right to stop the propogation of over qualified labour, instead it needs to concentrate on producing literate and numerate young people who can replace foreign workers. We don’t need hundreds of thousands of graduates with useless degrees for which there are no jobs, our universities need to be filled with scientists, biologists and engineers of British nationality, there should be little or no room for foreign students in these subjects. We need quality graduates in the above subjects and less second rate practitioners of sports and media studies.

Since becoming Prime Minister of the Tory/Lib Dem coalition, David Cameron has taken many liberties with the Conservative party and indeed with the grassroots members.

His first was when he contemplated the idea of coalition with the Lib Dems, the party assumed he would attempt a minority government, however, events moved quickly, and without consultation, many manifesto, and long-term Tory policies went out of the window. Inheritance Tax, CGT, marriage tax relief and several others too. The party acquiesced for the sake of the coalition and the ‘national interest’.

But now Mr Cameron has over-stepped the mark, not just slightly, but blatantly and needlessly and this time the party goodwill is not with him. Whilst campaigning for our votes in the General Election Cameron claimed….

They won’t give us proper border controls but they long to give us ID cards. They trash important civil liberties like jury trial but they will keep the Human Rights Act that actually hinders our fight against terrorism.

But it wasn’t just that, it was the cynicism of it. He told us things that he knows he can’t do: ‘British jobs for British workers’ is illegal under EU law. ‘Deporting people for gun and knife crime’, you can’t do that because of the Human Rights Act. I have to say to our prime minister: ‘If you treat people like fools you don’t deserve to run the country let alone win an election’.

We will give Britain a proper Border Police Force, and we will scrap the pointless ID cards. We will defend important civil liberties like jury trial but we will replace the Human Rights act.

The first test of his highly popular claim to ‘replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights’ fell at the first hurdle, victim to Cameron’s Lib Dem partners. Douglas Murray of the Daily Telegraph explains….

Abid Naseer and ten others were arrested last year in a round-up of suspects accused of being involved in an Al-Qaeda Easter bomb plot in Manchester. Readers will remember that the raids against suspects had to go off early because the then counter-terror chief, Bob Quick, was filmed carrying a visible list of the suspects’ names into Downing Street.

Eight of the men returned voluntarily to Pakistan. But Naseer and one other appealed that they could be treated badly if they returned to Pakistan and have now won the right to stay in Britain

The Special Immigration and Appeals Commission acknowledged these men still posed a threat and could, at any moment attempt another bomb attack in the UK. This essentially means that the human rights of the British public  - who are still at risk of attack by these men, are less important than the human rights of the terrorists themselves! But more importantly, David Cameron has confirmed this by stating the government will ‘not challenge the Appeal Commission’s judgement’.

In fact, Cameron’s key pledge to do away with the impractical and foolish European Convention of Human Rights, and replace it with a more workable British Bill of Rights is now no longer on offer. It was simply a lie, a trick and an affront to both; party members and the British public who voted for it in the General Election. Conservative voters and activists across the country are furious and are showing it on blogs and forums as well as in meetings in local constituencies, Cameron must listen to their complaints, he needs to assure them they are more important than appeasing his short-term partners in coalition, or, he will face an embarrassing revolt that could bring down his government. The press and mainstream media are looking for a weak link in the coalition chain, they may be surprised to find that Cameron’s liberties are highly corrosive and the chain could give at any moment