Austin Mitchell: Dave loves TINA, but there IS an alternative
DAVE Cameron has given TINA (There Is No Alternative) the kiss of life by proclaiming that there is no alternative to economic policies that aren’t working.
If this is confirmed by the Budget he’s sealed the fate of his government and sentenced Britain to two more years of misery and decline.
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HARD TIMES: Prime Minister David Cameron.
In fact, there are many alternatives to cuts, to high unemployment and to falling living standards.
This government won’t try them because a Cabinet of millionaires doesn’t feel the misery they’re inflicting on ordinary people with policies which will never work.
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Firing public servants means rising unemployment so tax revenues fall and spending increases. The deficit then rises and the debt with it. People have less to spend. Their incomes are falling. They’re struggling to pay off debt. So demand falls, shops close and people don’t buy houses because they’re not sure what the future holds. Businesses don’t invest because there’s no prospect of profit. The banks stash everything into their reserves and reduce lending. Everything winds down. It is now.
Read more from Austin Mitchell in today's Grimsby Telegraph.
3 Comments
by Gaston_J
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 7:25PM
“DerAngriff, unfortunately it isn't whether or not the coalition is doomed that worries me, it's the extent to which the population of the U.K. is doomed that causes me concern.
The Conservatives, Labour, Lib-Dems, and UKIP, are all committed to policies, or have past records, that promise that nothing good will come out of the next general election.
We know what to expect from the Conservatives. We are seeing a slightly watered down version of it now. The only good thing that can be said about the Lib-Dem minority in the Unholy Alliance is that they have managed to curb a few of the Tories worst excesses.
Labour seems doomed to repeat its past mistakes, certainly where spending beyond their means is concerned. Milliband and Balls were senior advisers to Gordon Brown, between 2000 and 2010, when he went on his mad spend because we can borrow the money spree. Now they are prospective P.M and Chancellor, and already advocating increasing spending above the levels before the Tories started cutting, Is there really any hope?
The Lib-Dems are determined to take us further and further into a federalised European state, relinquishing even more of the U.K. government's powers to Brussels/Strasbourg. So we will be subjected to more insane regulation, more of the U.K. doing everything by the book while other coutries choose which laws to obey and which to ignore, and the Commission will look the other way.
UKIP want to go in exactly the opposite direction and remove us from Europe completely. They have no thought for the number of jobs that this will cost the U.K.. Many foreign companies are here because they need facilities within a member state to avoid the mass of red tape and regulation that is imposed on imports from non-member states. Once we are out of Europe any savings made on our contributions will be soaked up in benefits payments to the hundreds of thousands newly unemployed, and in baling out the economy by shoring up our rapidly increasing balance of payments deficit.
So, which ever party wins there is one thing you can be sure of - the politicians will be quite comfortable with their generous salaries and expenses - while the populations suffers. Not that there's a lot that's new about that.
I am seriously considering voting for the Original Monster Raving Looney Party, if they field a candidate in the constituency in which I live. That's if I haven't managed to emigrate first.”
by gy82a
Tuesday, March 12 2013, 7:00PM
“typical of a public school educated Maggie thatcher wannabe, no flexibility due to his I know best superior attitude but not convinced by mr milliband ether and clegg is a lying con man...”
by DerAngriff
Monday, March 11 2013, 8:44AM
“To be fair, Austin Mitchell is talking sense.... for once. It's just a shame that nobody takes him seriously.
I don't think the coalition won't change their mind just because they are unaffected by the cuts, it's more that they have backed themselves into a idealogical corner and can't perform yet another u-turn.
It is time for a change of direction. If the government don't announce tax cuts or new public spending initiatives at the next budget they are doomed.”