Not only are the Labour press calling on labour voters to vote for other parties to keep the Conservatives out of government, but so are Labour Cabinet Ministers. I find this stance completely in keeping with the last 13 years of Labour government.

What are they actually asking for? Simple really. They are asking people who have political views, not to be true to themselves or those views, not to be honest and straightforward but to go against what they actually believe and feel and be totally negative.

What is positive about the Labour stance? Nothing that I can see. This is an attempt by a failed administration to hang on to power by any means. They are not now saying to the electorate, vote for us because we have the policies and the drive to drag the country out of the disastrous mire that we have left it in, or to put it simply be positive with your vote for the good of the country, they are saying that they know that the country doesn't believe in them any further but there is a way, underhand and dubious, that they may just be able to hang onto power and priviledge. That is to ask their supporters to be as underhand and dubious as they are. Do people really want to behave like that?

I would suggest that people should actually use their votes in a positive manner and vote for the party that they really believe will be best for the country, that has the back-bone to drag the country out of the economic woe that it is in and to provide leadership, strong leadership, when it is most needed. Now and in the next 10 years.

Lincolnshire is the second largest county in the country. Why is it then that the Lincolnshire Police has the lowest government funding in the country? As an example, Suffolk receives £150 per head of population and Norfolk £160 per head. I pick those as an example because they are fairly local to here and are very rural. In Lincolnshire we receive £135 per head. Compared to Norfolk that is a shortfall of £25 for each man, woman and child in the county. No wonder the local police is always struggling to cope financially.

This problem is well known to those standing as Conservative candidates in the election and something that they are looking to rectify. A Conservative government will be looking to rectify this situation.

Increased funding will not only mean that the police will have greater resources but will also mean there will be less pressure on the population of our lovely county to make up the unfair shortfall left to us by an unfair government . At the moment we, the tax-payers, have to make up 30% of the budget. That is not the fault of the local police force but of the completely unfair funding formula that has been in use by the Labour government. Vote Conservative on 6th May. Vote for change.

After his 90% cancer survival rate gaff of yesterday, Gordon does it again. As you are aware 3 Labour MPs have been charged with fraudulently ripping of the public purse with their expenses claims. They then compunded their behaviour by getting Legal Aid from the very public purse that they have alledgedly defrauded.

Well Gordon has now stated that they will have to pay the money back. Sounds good, but wait there is a problem. He does not have the power to do that. In shades of a previous statement that he would stop banks giving bonuses, another thing that he spouted because it sounded good and would hit a nerve with the electorate and which in reality he could do absolutely nothing about, he has jumped on the bandwagon.

Only the judge at the trial of the 3 Labour MPs charged, can decide whether Legal Aid needs to be repaid. So unless Gordon is going to interfere with the judiciary, he is out of his depth on this one.

Pure rhetoric and a completley misleading statement. No change there then. He is as trustworthy as Blair was!!

I feel it has to be said that after 13 years of being in power, the Labour Manifesto delivered today was exceptionally short of ideas. There really was nothing new in it. Some of the so-called ideas are completely contradictiory. Let's take the pledge relating to the economy. They say that they want to put the economy at the centre of all that they do, increasing employment being one of the main targets, and then in the next breath they are going to put up National Insurance which is a tax rise that is going to hit all businesses. Business should be at the heart of any economic plan as that is where the money comes from to pay for all of our public services. That is true whether you are looking at corporate taxes or providing employment which generates tax take from those working. Increasing National Insurance is going to hit employment negatively. This has been accepted by Labour Ministers!! I wonder what is going on there as Labour certainly don't seem to know.

There is an awful lot of other stuff in there that is nothing other than a regurgitation of previously floated ideas, most of which have either failed or have been shown to be poor ideas in practice.

Can anybody tell me why, if as they say Labour have found 11 billion pounds of savings, they are not getting on and saving the money. They say the money is being wasted but they are not going to do anything about it for a year. So they are happy, with a deficit of 176 billion pounds to carry on wasting 11 billion!! How can that be justified? In the meantime the tax-payer will have to pick up the bill for another year.

I am now waiting impatiently for an explanation about Brown stating that 90% of all people diagnosed with Breast or Bowel cancer now survive. This is certainly not in accordance with NHS or cancer charity figures. Indeed the Health Secretary Andy Burnham was completely taken aback when Brown's statement was relayed to him. He did not either back Brown's statement nor apologise because he had made a mistake. He just burbled away about other figures relating to cancer. What would have been the harm in him saying that Brown had made a mistake? Surely that would have been the honest thing to do? As we have got used to over the last 13 years, Labour and honesty are not really bed-fellows. Nothing new there then and nothing really new in the Labour Manifesto either!!!!!!

There is certainly nothing there to make the life of the people of Skegness any easier.

The Labour Party appear to be losing the battle of the posters for the General Election. The one at the top is a superb reaction to the one at the bottom which was originall put out by the Labour Party. I reckon Gene Hunt would have been pleased. Nice one designers.




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Labour's National Insurance increase has been roundly condemned by the best business brains in the country as being a tax on jobs and a tax on the economy recovering. It is as plain as the nose on your face that this is the case but unfortunately Brown and his washed-up gang cannot see it.

One thing though that has not been hit upon, as far as I can see, is that the increase is not just a tax on jobs it is also a tax on Public Services. Let me explain.

It is an accepted fact that Public Services are going to have to be cut, no matter who comes to power. So it is obvious that those that have to provide the services are going to have less money to do so. On top of that decline in public spending they are also going to have to find money, out of their reduced resources, to pay more in Employers National Insurance. This will have the effect of reducing further the amount of monies they will have to spend on the services themselves. A real double-whammy. Thankfully if the Conservatives win the next election that scenario will change. As the slogan says Vote fo change. Vote Conservative.

As I am sure you are all aware the local Labour Group on Skegness Town Council block-voted through a rise of 22.52% in the council tax . I still cannot work out why they did this. There is to be no increase in services provided by the council. I have just found the following on the Skegness Labour Party website. This is a Press Release sent out by them:
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East Lindsey Budget 2008

28th February 2008

Unfortunately for the residents of East Lindsey, the Conservative administration decided against an alternative to their budget, which would have saved residents 1% on the rise in their Council Tax Bill, along with a reduction in the proposed increases in car parking charges throughout the District.

Labour Councillors understand that residents have had enough of being over-charged for perceived ever-decreasing services. Concern is often expressed about deprivation in the District, yet seems to be a different matter when it comes to charging residents more. Acceptance of the amount of deprivation throughout our District must mean an acknowledgement of the ability to pay, and this was the reason for an alternative budget proposed by Labour Councillors who recognise the very real problems residents have when paying their Council Tax.

This comes at a time when East Lindsey is also restructuring itself to cope with the demands of modern day governance, resulting in the loss of a number of posts through redundancy. This will surely add more to the list of those with worries about making ends meet.

This is yet another example of how out of touch with the resident they claim to represent, the current administration really is. We suspect that those who chose to penalise our residents in such a manner will have no such difficulties in paying their own Council Tax bill.

This was a wonderful opportunity to show the residents of East Lindsey that their concerns are taken seriously and it was abandoned in favour of politics.
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So less than 2 years ago, before we were in the economic plight that we are now, they were complaining that ELDC would not consider a reduction in their proposed budget of just 1%.

Unless the Labour Group on Skegness Town Council can tell us why they wouldn't consider an alternative budget put forward by Conservative Councillors that would have reduced the proposed increase by over 20%, repeated 20%, I would suggest we have a real case of hypocrisy here. Anybody doubt that?

 

I always knew that Tony Blair and his ilk could not be trusted to tell the truth, that they were shallow and incompetent. The state of our nation at this time shows that up all too well. What I didn't know was how completely immoral and devoid of humanity Tony Blair actually is. He took us into a war in which a reported 100,000 died and when asked if he had any regrets he said "NO". He will now go back to one of his houses and bunker down and ignore the outside world, whilst living in luxury. Words fail me.