Need arguments for an essay as to why labour is ruined already without Tony Blair's refusal added on top.
2006-09-25 06:43:33 · 8 answers · asked by Jenny 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
please go into detail! thats why i am asking!
2006-09-25 07:17:25 · update #1
The Gap between rich and poor has widened under Labour.
They have been fiddling the unemployment figures - Unemployed are put under different Budgets especially incapacity benefit instead and the 'jobs' created do not add any value to the country - they just add more mindless bureacratic regulations to interfere with people's lives. eg Scottish Enterprise which I understand does nothing productive with their time and does not contribute meaningfully to the Economy.
They have stolen money from people's pensions - £5bn /yr from the abolition of the Pensions Tax Credit. Then accused the country of not saving enough for their retirement.
They have levied 'windfall' taxes and sold 3G licenses for collosal sums that just increase people's bills.
They are trying to restrict and monitor people's movements with high fuel taxes, congestion charges and road tolling.
Constant knee jerk reactions and over-reactions to one off circumstances - too much legislation and regulation -one prohibition per DAY for their years in power (over 3000).
All this combining to strangle the British economy.
Covering all this up with spin, untruths and media manipulation.
Selling honours to fund their corrupt party.
Stealth Taxation - moving from taxes on income to taxes on consumption yes but also sneakily not increasing allowances in line with inflation.
Inheritance Taxes - at tripling the revenue from these - taxed on the SAME money over and over.
Compromising the 'independence' of the Bank of England's independence by shifting the goalposts - striping inflationary items out of the calculation -especially housing by introducing the HICCUP measure of inflation and disguising this as a measure that 'harmonises' us with Europe.
Selling us out to Europe in the loss of the rebate and introduction of precidence of European law over our domestic laws.
Unmanaged migration and Home office incompetence - unable to provide a fair system for entry into the country leading to unmanaged migration.
Also failing in the management of dangerous criminals by letting them out without proper supervision - to commit new crimes (American woman assaulted in Scotland recently)
Also failing to protect their own citizens eg The Natwest Three from extradition to a foreign jurisdiction under anti-terror laws which were not intended for the purpose and are not reciprocal, besides not requiring any proof.
Iraq war claims - WMDs and immediate threat claimed when there were none.
How's that for a start?
2006-09-25 09:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by LongJohns 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tony Blair become a foreign minister of USA since 2001 - 9/11.
2006-09-25 06:48:32 · answer #2 · answered by asru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about being £28 million in the red?Or the cash for honours row which has completely undermined the attampt to make it into a party of big business and the rich, or the collapse in membership,or the fact that their privatisation drive has undermined the rights of workers and weakened the unions and cut off that source of support too. The war in Iraq. The war in Afghanistan, the total exposure of their "whiter than white, end to sleaze" claims, John Prescott's affair, David Blunkett's affair, their joint abuse of public resources, Peter Mandelson sacked twice from Cabinet for dodgy dealings and then rewarded with a position as an EU Commissioner and on and on and on.
2006-09-26 00:06:37 · answer #3 · answered by scotsman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Mr Tony Fu###ng Blair is a hypocrite a Tory in disguise doesn't listen to anyone even his own party his people he has his head so far up George bushes a### he watches him clean his teeth every morning that is how the labour party is finished Dave
2006-09-25 07:06:07 · answer #4 · answered by Psycho Dave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have been voted in by long time Labour voters who now no longer see anything which resembles the original ideals of pre-1997 Labour. We now see a Right of centre party with a foreign policy being dictated from the USA. Even ex US Prez Carter recently wished Tony would be less of a poodle. ID cards, "green taxes" and a widening between rich & poor. I could go on, but there's my 2 pence worth!
2006-09-25 06:54:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the war on terror was apposed by the british ppl but labour still insisted that we go to war
2006-09-25 06:46:45 · answer #6 · answered by shagkitten21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too many to list..............Iraq, I.D.Cards, curbing individual freedoms, demonising Muslims/single mothers/young people............I can't go on!!!
2006-09-25 07:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
can i tax the good reasons
2006-09-25 08:24:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋