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This image should be displayed to all supporters of Labour to get just an idea of what you  have lumbered our country with after 13 years of profligacy.

The trouble with this picture is that

• It underestimates our debt. It is nearer one trillion, that’s an extra ten percent or 17 times the cuts announced yesterday
• It ignores the fact that the mountain will continue growing, like an active volcano, for at least the next 7-10 years as we try to get the budget deficit left by Labour under control. The mountain could be 50% larger in 5 years.
• It ignores all Gordon’s creative accounting and “off-book” deals such as PFI. How much they add is anybody’s guess, mine is about 10-15% or 100-150 billion.
• It ignores the rather large Public Pensions black hole.

So whilst you regard the image,   just remember that this is just the current peak of the Volcano. It will grow, and depending upon how things go it will either gradually wear away as we get the debt and deficit under control  or it will explode and we will really suffer for Labour and Brown’s 13 years of Profligacy.

Better a wee bit of Austerity now, than complete collapse.

Labour Debt Mountain

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Oh what a surprise not only did Labour go on a Shopping Spree at the end of their reign , but they were also advised against it.

BBC has this:

Civil service chiefs lodged formal protests at spending decisions by Labour ministers in the dying months of their rule, the BBC has been told.

It culminated in the “nuclear option” of demanding written – and soon to be published – instructions from their political masters,

Civil service union leader Jonathan Baume said there was dismay at Labour’s “spending spree”.

He was speaking to 5 Live’s Chief Political Correspondent John Pienaar.

How many “Legacies ” are we going to discover and how much more of OUR money have they wasted over and above the Trillion pound debt they left us.

Let us hope that those who did this are publicly humiliated.

BBC News – Officials’ ‘fury at Labour spree’.

The BBC reports on the state of Inflation.

UK inflation accelerated again in April to hit its highest rate in 17 months, official figures show.

On the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure, inflation hit 3.7% – well above the target of 2% and the highest rate since November 2008.

On the Retail Price Index (RPI) measure, inflation was up to 5.3% from 4.4% recorded last month.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said food prices in particular had seen sharp rises.

Disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud last month helped push food prices up by 2.6%, the ONS said.

Higher duty on alcohol and cigarettes introduced in April’s Budget added to inflation, it added, and clothes prices also rose.

But the statistics agency said the impact of fuel price rises on inflation had been limited.

I’m sure there will be plenty more to come.

BBC News – UK inflation hits 17-month high.

Jeff Randall has a good article in the Telegraph on the work Labour has to do to become electable again.

A few quotes to give you a flavour of the article.

First on the failed Labour Gerrymandering:

Despite its record of fiscal incompetence, constitutional vandalism and disregard for Middle England, Gordon Brown‘s administration ought never to have collapsed. It had, after all, created for itself a client class of supplicant voters. As part of a grand plan for permanent office, more than one million immigrants were handed British passports (80 per cent of first-generation arrivals vote Labour) and 900,000 workers added to the public-sector payroll.

Second the arrival the duo Sqealer:

Together they became Mr Brown’s very own Squealer, the insidious porker in Animal Farm who manipulates language to justify his boss’s tyranny, while limiting debate and confusing the lower orders. In extremis, when awkward questions persist, Squealer fires off statistics to “prove” that life is improving, and warns darkly against the return of the farm’s previous owner.

Third more from Aninal Farm:

Never mind, shame has never been a burden to Mr Brown’s Squealers. On election night, as the exit polls indicated that the prime minister was no more popular or trusted than Michael Foot had been in 1983, his favourite emissaries rushed to the microphones to “interpret” the results. My jaw dropped as I heard Jack Dromey (aka Mr Harperson) claim: “The real losers tonight are the Conservatives.” This was life mimicking art: Orwell’s allegory had become the how-to-cope manual for New Labour’s response unit.

And lastly the bodily health:

How crushing for them to discover that power-hungry rivals see life differently. When the Liberals prefer to get in bed with Conservatives than sleep with New Labour, it’s time to admit that the deodorant is not working.

Having provided first-class travel for 13 years, New Labour’s gravy train has just pulled away, leaving the party’s leaders and apologists stuck on the platform without a ticket. For them, the free ride is over.

via It will take a long time for the new boys to unravel Gordon Brown’s mess – Telegraph.

Times reports on the scandal of Voting in GE2010:

Thousands of people were deprived of their right to vote last night as polling stations across the country were unable to cope with demand.

Election chiefs told The Times that the widespread failures to deal with high voter turnout may lead to by-elections in the next few weeks, which could be critical to the outcome of the election. The Electoral Commission, the election watchdog, last night announced an investigation into the problems.

An estimated 500 would-be voters were turned away in Nick Clegg’s constituency of Sheffield Hallam as students and local residents descended on the station at St John’s Church in the Ranmoor district of the city.

Another 200 people in Woodseats, a Sheffield suburb five miles away, were told their votes would not count. Police were called to deal with 100 angry people who refused to leave the library where they had hoped to cast their ballot.

Under Labour we have truly become Third World.

Thousands unable to vote as polling stations fail to cope – contains video.