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Listed below are comments made by Bitter_Shandy between Friday, 18th April 2008 and Monday, 12th May 2008.

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Taking up the gauntlet 6:52pm on 12 May 2008 This will probably get cut but I couldn't resist :-

Hey Ed your up to your Balls in the brown stuff !

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Bad night for Labour 09:53am on 02 May 2008 The majority of respondents to this blog have nailed it. The Labour "experiment" was the same old Labour policy of tax and spend.

When labour first came to power in 1997 Gordon started off his theving ways by pillaging the pensions of HARD WORKING individals to the tune of £5bn a year and applying a "wind fall tax" on utility companies.

We were told that this would be spent on schools and health. Well now we know where it went. It went on employing idiots who decided the best strategy to improve statistics was to lower the standards. Now businesses have to contend with employing people who can barely read, spell or perform basic maths.

But we shouldn't be surprised an uneducated electorate won't be able to understand the issues and will aways vote labour. So the more thick people Labour produce the better for them .

The majority of thick people seem to exist within the Labour party. When the 10p tax band was abolished by GB himself hardly anyone from the labour backbenchers raised it as an issue. In fact the majority of them cheered and applauded the fat thieving fool and went on record to claim what a genius he was !

Lets also not forget one of the key drivers behind the house price explosion of the last 10 years. Very few commenatators have even mentioned it.
After pillaging the pensions pot for 3 years (1997 -2000) we had a stock market correction in 2000 when the dotcom bubble caused market returns to fall further. Then we had the sept 11 event which pushed market returns even lower.
The combination of these events on market sentiment and the Dick Turpin approach to raising tax revenues caused people to abandon stock market related investements. The negative economic sentiment that existed between 2000-2003 meant the Bank of England was in a cycle of reducing interest rates to bolster the economy.
Low interest rates and the abondonment of long term stock market investments due to the change in taxation policy meant people moved into housing as an alternative pension strategy. very quickly people started realising that the more they borrowed , the more they over-extended then potentally the more they could make.

Fatty Brown started to realise what a nice little cash cow this was becoming and so rather than tell the FSA to clamp down on lenders over extending credit he actively encouraged it. He realised that as prices go up the Govt gets more tax 1% of 100,000 is better than 1% of 50,000. So up went the stamp duty on house prices at various levels of purchase.

The inaction by Brown et al to reign in the abhorrant lending practices of banking institutions has been another dispicable example of mismanagement by this fool and his stupid supporters.

Economic prudence has been exposed as incompetence. (Telling the markets your selling the gold before you do it forced the gold price down even further and ensured as a coutry we got an even lower price.)

Genuine prosperity has been exposed as a debt lead spending spree.

Investment in education has been nothing more than statistical manipulation of the facts.

Investment in the health service has seen increases in MRSA, cDif ,QUANGOs like NICE and the worst Percentage increase of obesity lead diseases this century !

As for removing more children from poverty well they're about to fall straight back in to poverty. The 10p tax debacle , the rising costs of fuel and food which are largely fed by high oil prices is perhaps the greatest threat to the poor.

Green policies well a truly environmentally aware governement would have invested heavily through the tax system in a WIDE range of alternative energies. Solar , biofuels etc Doing so could have mitigated some of the increases in energy costs that as a nation we now face.

Finally as for the lie of encouraging businesses to grow and employ more people this idiots changes to the tax system are actually forcing LARGE companies out of the uk and overseas because of the changes to the tax system !!!

Well done Mr Brown (or should that be Mr Clown) keep up the good work. You'll be out of office soon.
Biofuels: bad for the environment? 09:37am on 29 Apr 2008 According to a recent study approximately 80% of the rise in food prices is attributable to the rise in oil prices. Lets not forget that OPEC that great democratic market led organisation has actually been reducing its output over recent months. The Oil producing countries know that their black gold is running out and will extract as high a price as possible from stupid western governments who are too short sighted to invest in alternative sources of energy be they biofules, solar wind etc. The fact that food prices are soaring in some countries is down to governements not investing in alternatives years ago. Only an idiot fails to prepare for difficult times. I guess we've been governed by idiots ?
The last thing we should do is stop the biofules program. If we think we have pain now in the form of high food prices this will be nothing in comparison to the pain we will see if we don't invest in a wide and varied energy mix.
RBS wants £10bn 11:46am on 18 Apr 2008 Robert preston is the worst presenter I've ever had the misfortune to listen too and watch. Full of hyperbole and exaggeration. The guy is a joke.

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