Sandwell Council Tax frozen for the second year

 Council Tax

We will provide Sandwell funding to help them freeze council tax again next

The chancellor George Osborne has announced that the government will give councils £805m       

 to freeze council tax for a second consecutive year, using money saved by cutting waste.

Is “Ed” attacking business?

The one big story to come out of Labours very quiet Conference was their leaders speech to their conference on the 27th September on business and predators and producers.

They’ve been taxed the same. Regulated the same. Treated the same. Celebrated the same. They won’t be by me.’

So just who will decide who is a predator or producer? Labour perhaps? What is a predator or a producer ?

Labour do not seem to get it,  

“Market forces are bigger and stronger than individual countries”

Mess with the market and the market will move out of the UK.

and we’ll all be out of work

Alistair Darling said ‘If I build in a city centre am I good for investing or bad for speculating? Businesses are there to make money’

(Alistair Darling, FT Westminster Blog, 27 September 2011, link).

Shadow Treasury Minister Chris Leslie said that we can’t and mustn’t pick good and bad companies: ‘What you can’t do and what you mustn’t do is start to pick good winners and good losers’ (BBC News Channel, 28 September 2011).

Strangely enough only a day after his speech Ed seems to have a problem with his own speech??????

Speaking on the Today programme, Miliband admitted that: ‘Government can’t legislate for all of that or regulate all of that’ (BBC Radio 4, Today, 28 September 2011).

So what is going on? Are we moving back to the Tax them till it hurts?

Or does Labour want to stop the free market growth in the private sector that produced 500,000 new jobs last year?  In fact does Labour want a thriving business sector?

Based on the press statements released including a number from former Labour ministers the main theme seems to be Labour’s old friend Tax & Borrow.

Sandwell Tory said

Come on Labour give us a clue ?? is taxing companies a policy ??

Labour has 'made mistakes'

Let’s get this right

£ Devalued

Income tax up

Petrol escalator

Council tax up   (till we got in)

10 p tax gone

Private pensions taxed £Billions,  some to the point of closure  

Then the debt, yes that now said to be well over £1 trillion and some estimate over £2 trillion  

We are having to pay about £120 million per day in interest, that’s more than we spend on our schools each day.  

That basically means every home will pay £2,000 this year, just to cover the debt interest after we’ve paid that we still have to pay off the actual debt

And we get

Sorry!  Is that it ?????????????

Our back room boys say this new Labour plan would cost another £20 Billion

Sandwell Tory said

Boy, do these guys like spending your money

See for your self

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041790/Labour-Conference-2011-Ed-Balls-sets-5-point-plan-kickstart-economy.html

Ed says he will fight to help working families

Having a look at the Internet news items I found Labours latest press release

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/labour-fight-working-families-134459150.html

It states that Labour will help working families?

I can assure the readers of this blog, I will give him some ideas on how Labour can help me and other families.

They can start by repairing my company pension which almost disappeared after his Government put a stealth tax on it meaning I will have to work longer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531448/Browns-raid-on-pensions-costs-Britain-100-billion.html

Then he can pay me back all the extra income tax that I’ve paid since his government whipped away the 10p tax band

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/21/economy.labour

Then he can pay me back the £3 a day parking charges, I pay while at work

Then he can move on to education and help those who need good maths and science

To get a good job

http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/articles/a0074892/education-secretary-writes-for-the-times-educational-supplement

But most of all he can help the working families who are paying off the national debt as the 

 UK public sector net debt in July 2011 was £940.1 billion

(61.4 per cent of GDP)- (this excludes financial sector intervention.)

but perhaps he doesn’t need my advice, from the last posting about the You-Gov findings Six out of 10 said they thought his political party has still not "faced up to the damage they did to the British economy".

Sandwell Tory said “I can't believe its only 60%”

Red Ed

It taken long than I thought but the people seem to be waking up to what has happened to the UK over the last 15 years.

There are now a range of stories coming to light about what went on during the last government

The latest You-gov  poll tells a good story

Which of these would make the best Prime Minister?

                  David Cameron           Ed Miliband               Nick Clegg         Don't Know

2011                       %                              %                                 %                       %

September 13-14            36                              22                                 5                       37

But the report goes on to comment on the leaders ratings for 2011, August 29-30 

Ed Miliband

Sticks to what he believes in	Honest	Strong	In touch with ordinary People	Good in a Crisis	Decisive	A natural Leader	Charismatic	None of these	Don't Know
%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
16	16	7	22	6	8	6	5	46	17

But for  2011, August 29-30 

David Cameron

Sticks to what he believes in	Honest	Strong	In touch with ordinary People	Good in a Crisis	Decisive	A natural Leader	Charismatic	None of these	Don't Know
%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
25	18	20	12	18	21	19	25	39	8

As I’ve said before I hope Labour keeps their leader

To see more click on the You Gov box at the side