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GDR here Nu Labour Come

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    GDR here Nu Labour Come

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...tax-inspectors

    "The last days of this dreadful government are being accompanied by an attack on rights and privacy that seems unprecedented during Labour's 13-year rule.

    The government is now drawing up plans to amend the Postal Services Act to allow tax inspectors to intercept and open people's mail before it is delivered. Given the state's ambitions to collect all communications data this is hardly surprising, but we must ask ourselves how many more rights are seized by government and its agencies before Britain becomes the GDR's most obvious European imitator.

    Currently postal workers have the right to intercept suspicious letters and packages and pass them to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and then at an agreed moment the item is opened in front of the addressee. The change in the law will mean that HMRC will be able to open whatever it likes without the addressee being present or being made aware of the interception.

    As usual, the government and HMRC public relations people underplay the wide-ranging and dangerous nature of this proposal by insisting that the new measure is simply designed to deal with the problem of tobacco smuggling. But the change, disclosed in a document published with the budget, means that HMRC will be able to trawl through private mail pretty much at will...........
    And this is from a paper that supposedly supports Nu Labour
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

    #2
    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...tax-inspectors



    And this is from a paper that supposedly supports Nu Labour
    Strangely although the government is a shower, the opposition is managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....

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      #3
      Originally posted by Green Mango View Post
      Strangely although the government is a shower, the opposition is managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....
      Agreed as Cameron should have chosen some one more experienced to be shadow Chancellor.

      He could have then reshuffled mid-term when he was elected and put his mate in the position.
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #4
        Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
        Agreed as Cameron should have chosen some one more experienced to be shadow Chancellor.

        He could have then reshuffled mid-term when he was elected and put his mate in the position.
        As long as it isn't Ken Clarke.

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          #5
          Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
          Agreed as Cameron should have chosen some one more experienced to be shadow Chancellor.

          He could have then reshuffled mid-term when he was elected and put his mate in the position.
          Also in the presentation came Nu Labour have the master of the business Mandelson, Cambell and Blair. The Conservatives look like they have come out of the playpen and the Lib Dems look like amateurs.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Green Mango View Post
            Also in the presentation came Nu Labour have the master of the business Mandelson, Cambell and Blair. The Conservatives look like they have come out of the playpen and the Lib Dems look like amateurs.
            The conservative policy unit does sound like it is being run by 18-year-olds. The word naive doesn't do them justice.

            BUT Osborne was the first person in either major party to stick his head over the parapet and say cuts are inevitable. One of the few conference speeches that dwelt on the truth.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

              BUT Osborne was the first person in either major party to stick his head over the parapet and say cuts are inevitable. One of the few conference speeches that dwelt on the truth.
              He wasn't it was the Lib Dem doom monger Vince Cable.

              Scarily the only one experience of applying economics in the commercial world, and the one who wants the MP gravy train without any hope of getting into power in the UK.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #8
                Conservatives were the first major party who announced without any fear that there had to be painful cuts to get the deficit in control. THey even had posters up which said they would cut the deficit but would protect frontline services in NHS, Army etc.

                All that time the Labour goons were still running the old tape of, there would be no cuts, any cuts would plunge the country into recession, we need more keynesian type government spending etc etc.

                Even Vince Cable is a coward who does not know which direction to look at. Vince always predicted the oncoming bust because of reckless borrowing but totally supported Labour socialist spending.

                Also, Labour ensured that Vince got a lot of unnecessary attention via BBC just so they could split the Conservative votes into Lib Dem. Labour even forced BBC into giving some attention to the BNP goons just to split some Conservative votes.
                Vote Corbyn ! Save this country !

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
                  He wasn't it was the Lib Dem doom monger Vince Cable.
                  I said Osborne was the first "from either major party". That means from parties aspiring to get enough votes to win an election.

                  Cable's party will never have to form a government so he can say what he likes.

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