Fitaloon at MicroShaft

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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Looks like Cameron will be resident in No 10 shortly.
Crowbars are at the ready in case of last minute nerves.

The BBC’s John Simpson is on a plane with Gordon Brown, waiting to take off from Edinburgh airport bound for London. He says there’s a strange and increasingly deflated mood among the Labour entourage. Mr Brown won’t give up until the game gives him up, but hope is definitely fading, our correspondent adds.

STill the Labour Leader but for how long?

The Daily Mail reports that Cherie Blair has managed to put down Gordon Brown rather effectively.

When she was the self-styled First Lady of Downing Street she constantly complained she was not allowed to speak for herself.

But now, Cherie Blair has let slip what we have always known — she’s no fan of Gordon Brown.

It was on the campaign trail in Swindon that she stuck the knife into her old nemesis, just before the real business of the day — when she started selling her memoirs about life at No 10 at the Swindon Festival of Literature.

An enthusiastic local Labour supporter (yes, there are some left) was overheard telling Cherie at the festival that the response to her leafleting on the doorstep in the marginal seat was not good.

‘I’m very worried that Gordon is a liability for us,’ the female supporter said as Mrs Blair signed copies of Speaking For Myself at Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre.

‘Me too,’ came the reply from the mouth which has been likened to a plankton-starved basking shark that has just come off a diet.

‘I fear he may lose us the election,’ replied the young woman supporter. ‘Me too,’ replied Mrs Blair.

So now we’ve heard what at last one member of the Blair household-really thinks. Yet publicly of course both Mr and Mrs Blair have had to deny repeatedly that they believe Brown couldn’t win a goldfish at a fairground, let alone a General Election.

It’s why there was a short, awkward silence after Cherie’s reply. Then realising the gaffe, she tried to clarify her remarks.

‘But of course it’s not just about personality, it’s about policies and that’s why we should all support Labour,’ she said.

Such touching loyalty to Labour from a woman who has traversed the globe making a fortune, often simply because she was married to the party’s last leader.

GENERAL ELECTION 2010: Now Cherie Blair puts a knife into Gordon Brown | Mail Online.