I have to say, i am really glad that Labour are finally out of number 10.

Now hopefully, someone can sort the whole bloody mess out, they have left.

Guess Who vs Girl Power Round 378 is just about to start...........

Nah Stealth wait a few month see themess they make the tide will turn red again, each to their own change for change sake not always best. I did my bit to educate folk now its time for folk to see the error of their ways

you're wrong jim.

There you go dodgy, I don't always agree with him

I can't believe that I actually agree with GP.



That's the second time this year

I stand corrected AJ and Fullback.

Lets form a coalition and agree on everything.

Fullback I would never form a coalition with others from the dark side



Unlke Clegg I will not sell my soul

Its going to be a hell of a job for the new government. Seeing as labour have left the country in such a mess.

Debt for years because they didn't keep a eye on the banks.
School boycotting sats, because they are a complete waste of time.
Nuisance crime just ignored.
Immigration a complete and utter mess. Labour have never had any idea how to deal with this problem.
Unions trying to run the country. Mind you labour wouldn't touch them because the unions were just about bank rolling them.

And then to make it worse, Brown shows what the so called political elite really think about people. Calling that woman a bigot, really was the final nail in the labour coffin. He was caught out there and i am glad he was. Typical politician all nice to your face then talking behind your back.
He didn't have the guts to say it to her face, instead he stood there smiling at her.

The ones i feel really sorry in this are the deluded fools, who knocked on doors to raise support. The ones who stuck posters in there windows. To think these people feel for the crap coming out of the labour party. Thinking they were going to win again.

Things can only get better.

Dont mention the Dark Side...................Dont go there.



GW is right,its time for a change,bring back MAGGIE

How has Clegg sold his soul?

He implicitly said he do a deal with the party with the most votes and seats, which is exactly what he did.

Sounds like someone with integrity to me.

Have you started taking the Daily Mail Jim?



Answers below, in r=#FF0000ed of course

Brown did much more than he was credited for but was a victim of his own personality and the media.

TV is a very powerful; it would be interesting to see the ratings had the debates been on radio. Most experts accept that the classic Kennedy V Nixon debate was won on TV by the slick Kennedy, but radio listeners said Nixon had the better arguments and substance.

It was time for a change but I suspect that the Tories will revert to robbing the poor to feed and house the ducks of the rich. Time will tell if they genuinely want to make life better for everyone, or if they expect the many to carry the burden (and mistakes) of the few.

I'm a bit disappointed that the Liberals tried to sell the future of the country to the highest bidder, but was pleased to see that some of those senior in the labour put an end to the nonsense and accepted to fight the cause from the opposition benches.

I'm not a staunch supporter of any party. We have seen recently what a bunch of cheats and liars they can all be, but for the next few years we need a government who will do the right thing for the [iwhole[/i country

Stelth re Clegg selling his soul, first of all the idea of politicians working together in theory is good.

However the fact he spouted along with Labour the fact by taking £6 billion out of the economy now would create the real risk of a double dip recession his words not mine and which I happen to agree with but all of a sudden he got sniff of power despite being 3rd in the election he ditched this idea shows to me he has no firm beliefs he will stick to.

The tories have promiseda referendum on an alternative vote system, again not what the Liberals had as core belief, he bottled this.

Then we hear he says he got tories to POSTPONE not DITCH the inheritance tax increase that would have benefitted the very few. t even that is a trick as he agreed to DITCH his plans for the so called mansion tax.

There is nothing in what he has done that will ultimately help folk generally as he got snared by the trappings of power their results and he clearly does not deserve.

Already and it will become clearer at the weekend how many Liberal party members and mps are defecting to Labour.

If you think about the way Gordon Brown conducted himself in the way the negotiations over the last week showed Clegg how someone with strong beliefs puts his party above himself, by this I mean when he realised it may help Lbour if he stood down he did, then when it became clear liberals had already made mnd up to jump in bed with the tories he did the right thing immediately by resigning as Prime Minister straight away so the coalition could form government straight away. That is sign of the man and conviction politician Clegg will never be.

Question for Jim inparticular regarding the minimum wage as prime example, most of your customers would I assume to be on the young side and most with not very well paid jobs assume, just think if thee was no minimum wage we would have kids on £2 per hour as in the days of thatcher that would impact of folk like your customers.

AJ you made succintly some really good points and which can not be improved on.

How can you blame the Tories, labour have been in power for 13 years. Labour were happy to go along with the way things were going.
The banks were in free fall, because the government did not keep a eye on them.
Thats the reason we are so far in the poo.



They are a waste of time. The stupid tick-box mentality of the labour party has put the wrong type of pressure on schools.
Schools focus to much on the stupid things. This then stops them doing other things.
Teaching should be all about education and allowing gifted teachers to do there job. Sats stop teachers doing that. Instead they have to teach for the tests.
Is the kids leaving school at the end of year 11 worse than you were/the same/better?



Glad you admit that they have got something wrong. Isn't a governments job to sort things out, instead of leaving me or you to come up with the answer?

If it was up to me i would put a lot more police on the beat. Instead of those silly community support officers. Let the police, police the area.



Labour have also adopted the european ruling on Immigration. So once again to try and blame the conservatives is silly.
Labour have had 13 years to try and do something.



I will agree that the unions have done a lot of good. But they have also done a lot of bad. I have worked with ex miners and you want to hear what they had to say.
The way they carried on made the job harder to do. Thats not the way it should be.
Seeing as the labour party are so reliant on the money from the unions they cannot try to hard to go against them. This in turn makes them weak.

You go on about Lord Ashcroft and how he carries on. If it was that bad, why in the 13 years labour have been in power, didn't they do something about it.



It makes them as bad as the ex labour leader. This is the trouble with most of the PMs. They have lost touch with the real world because they don't live in it.




Mortgage rates will go up as well as down. They have done in the past and will always continue to do so.
Public services will have to be cut, because of the mess the labour party have left us in.

Mervyn King came out today and said that cuts would have to happen. He then went on to praise, the new ways they are going to be cut by the new government.
He said it was better than what labour were proposing to do.

Go to a well known video sharing website and type in [iDavid Cameron Common People[/i - its the 2min 57 sec version

Whether you agree with it or not it is very, very funny - I actually chuckled out loud.

Whenever I see him now I just think of that







[i"and then gideon and I will go for a drinky poo"[/i he, he, he.

There have been media interpretations, especially "spitting images" that ruined people. If this goes viral it could do the same.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10112936.stm This will hit everyone the 1st of many tax rises despite them trying to pretend none will be needed. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8679441.stm

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10112936.stm This will hit everyone the 1st of many tax rises despite them trying to pretend none will be needed. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8679441.stm

Quote ="girl power"news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10112936.stm This will hit everyone the 1st of many tax rises despite them trying to pretend none will be needed. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8679441.stm'" It says in your first link [iVAT is set to rise under the new coalition government, according to a BBC survey of influential economists.[/i As yet it hasn't happened, but don't let that stop scaremongering. We all know it had to happen. It had to happen to clean the mess the Labour party had left it in. It says in your second link [iThe NHS may need to make more savings than has been planned for, health secretary Andrew Lansley has hinted.[/i And its about time this happened. The amount of wasted that is wasted by spending it were it doesn't need spending is shameful. All we can expect is the Labour party scaremongering from now on. If they had done a good job, they would still be in power. Do you really think if labour had still been in power, that no cuts backs and raising of tax wouldn't have happened?

Quote ="girl power"news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10112936.stm This will hit everyone the 1st of many tax rises despite them trying to pretend none will be needed. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8679441.stm'" It says in your first link [iVAT is set to rise under the new coalition government, according to a BBC survey of influential economists.[/i As yet it hasn't happened, but don't let that stop scaremongering. We all know it had to happen. It had to happen to clean the mess the Labour party had left it in. It says in your second link [iThe NHS may need to make more savings than has been planned for, health secretary Andrew Lansley has hinted.[/i And its about time this happened. The amount of wasted that is wasted by spending it were it doesn't need spending is shameful. All we can expect is the Labour party scaremongering from now on. If they had done a good job, they would still be in power. Do you really think if labour had still been in power, that no cuts backs and raising of tax wouldn't have happened?

Jim

It's Labour's job to oppose now, they are in opposition. What would you have them do? Let the Government do whatever they want? I don't recall the Tories being quite in opposition despite the fact that they 18 years in power to "sort it all out".

On the subject of VAT, of course revenue has to be raised, but do you consider VAT to be fair and equitable? i.e. will we all be affected in the same way?

Personally I couldn't wait for Labour to get the hell out of there. I wanted conservative to win due to their policies on the debt, immigration, special needs and a few others. Though I am glad that miserable old man has gone, I know it isnt a leaders popularity contest but my god he was so bloody boring and dull. Leave them out to grass for a couple of terms and hopefully see this government recover their mess.

Every incoming government complains about the "mess" left by someone else. As has been said, the Tories had 18 years to sort out the last "mess" and only helped create the type of institutionalised greed and "me first" attitude that ultimately led to the worldwide collapse. They also governed the inexorable decline in manufacturing (because its full of those nasty union type oiks) in favour of their buddies in the "city". They swapped real wealth generation for mumbers on a computer.

I didn't particularly like Brown either, but without him the collapse would have been much worse. That's not just me saying that, there are a lot of financial guru's that would agree.

I am not die cast red, blue, or yellow; I think if you do that you do the country a disservice. We need people who can make good, fair decisions. I really hope the new coalition get to grips with the economy quickly but I get the horrible feeling that the recovery (when it comes) will be off the back of our taxes and yet again a privileged few will get rich quick.

Good Post.

I have mixed feelings about what Blair, Brown and Labour did whist in power

As a 15 year old in 1997 my abiding memory of the election campaign was 3 words, "Education, education and education".

My first memory of them in power was scrapping student grants and charging to go to university. The people who were affected weren't old enough to vote yet, it was a blatant cheap shot that went against everything a labour party was meant to stand for.

Then the greatest stealth tax of them all, the minimum wage, brilliant idea, gave the lowest paid a living wage and had them all paying more income tax as a result.

Massive reductions in waiting times in NHS hospitals.

The Iraq war certainly divided opinion.

Brown selling our gold reserves when the price was a third of what it is now.

Using terrorism as an excuse to try to force I'd cards upon us.

Brown signing the Lisbon Treaty when Labour promised a referendum on it in their manifesto. An act of treason in my opinion.

I'll save my judgement on this new government until they've actually had time to do something. But the one thing I hope they do is get rid of the entitlement culture that Labour has created in the last 13 years. Make the choice (and in a hell of a lot of cases it is a choice) between working for a living and having kids/watching Jeremy Kyle/sitting in the Bus station (delete as appropriate) for a living a lot more favourable towards working.

Excellent post.

And another excellent post.

Labour's problem has been where to draw the red line between welfare/car and dependency/freeloading.

The minimum wage and the NHS being great things as you say.

The challenge is to get people out of benefits mentality. That's where Labour will need to readjust it's mentality and policies over the next parliament.

That and adopt an honest approach to immigration, which none of the parties have, even now.

VOTE Keighley Cougar's.