The Coalition

But because of the way they have driven up inflation, lost all the growth the previous government built up, and put more people out of work, we will be suffering the Austerity measures for the next 10 years.

A coalition is supposed to bring together two parties for the good of the country, but unfortunately we have two parties who are more interested in wrecking the country, and getting as much T.V. and press coverage as they can.

The conservatives have now started a whispering campaign against the Speaker of the House. He is the person who is supposed to control the behaviour of the M.Ps, usually it is the Conservatives who cause the most disruption, who are still disgruntled over their expense fiddles being curtailed.

One conservative MP swore at the Speaker, something that cannot be repeated in this blog, or in civilised company. Osborne made the speaker “displeased” when he deliberately leaked the Autumn Statement to the press, before parliament was made aware of the contents. Osborne has leaked information on other occasions most prominent when he showed 35 lading companies his first budget, and asked for their approval, before he presented it to parliament.

I can appreciate the contempt the Conservatives have for parliament, Cameron can never answer questions from the opposition during Prime Ministers Questions, unless he uses misquotes. I can also understand their brazen attempts to curry favour with the press, they have to feed their vanity somewhere.

Wasn’t there some scandal about politicians being too close to the press? Not to mention the lobbyist, oops I did mention them.

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Sarkozy Threat to UK

Nicolas Sarkozy said “Britain will pay for this, and pay dearly”:

Sarkozy issued this threat after David Cameron used the veto against the proposal of closer integration between the member states of the E.U.

26 countries in the E.U.[17 members and 9 others] tried to form an alliance to try and correct the massive deficits, which has been threatening the E.U, for some time. Britain was the only country which didn’t join the other

Which leaves Britain isolated from Europe, and although Cameron says Britain will still be at the head table, and have an influential voice, most people are of the opinion that yesterday was the first day of Britain starting to exit from the union. Cameron failed to get protection for the “City of London” financial centre, the proposed 49 regulations that Europe is imposing on the city, and if Sarkozy gets his way many more laws will be passed by Brussels on the UK.

The E.U. agreed stricter measures on member countries over their deficits, but failed to address the main problem of where the money is going to come from to bail out the bail out fund. China and other countries expected to help, have backed off due to the E.U. failing to attempt to put its house in order until yesterday. Greece is the country worse off, with interest on their Government Bonds at an unsustainable record high of almost 30%.

Back home and Cameron’s Tory led Coalition is now further split over Europe. Many are complaining that Cameron has spent too much repairing splits in his coalition, while he let the country slip back into recession.

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The EU Problems

The ECB [European Central Bank] has decided not to help individual governments, but rather help the banks to ‘ring fence’ their accounts. That is to keep depositors money separate from the riskier investment side of their business.

There was speculation that the ECB may be preparing to increase its purchases of Italian sovereign debt providing Eurozone governments agree to tough new limits on their borrowing and on economic reforms. But Mr Draghi appeared to rule this out when he announced: "We have a treaty that says no monetary financing to governments."

This set back comes hard on the heels of Standard and Poor's announcement that they had put almost all euro zone countries on "credit watch". Meaning that six countries with top AAA ratings, including Germany and France, have a 50% chance of seeing their credit ratings downgraded.

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UK standard of Living

The EU are struggling to find an answer to the EU crisis which is now affecting the world recovery, and in effect could put the world back into recession if they get it wrong. Greece is expecting to have 50% of the bail out money they have already received written off, and a much larger loan given for it to survive, with possibly more to follow.

The European banks are being asked to write down the Greece loan by 50%, while at the same time being asked to lend more money to Greece.The Euro banks are being strengthened by around one trillion Euros. Italy is expected to need more money than any other country, their parliament have been dragging their feet and have had difficulty agreeing austerity measures. Spain and Portugal are also expected to need bail out funds. France is worried about the possibility of loosing it’s triple ‘A’ credit rating.

The NHS

The NHS Bill is still with the House of Lords, the coalition have had to continually alter the bill due to public opinions and the upper house rejecting it.  What has been the main stumbling block, is the fact that the coalition won’t accept responsibility for their bill. An organisation as big as the NHS must have a head, steering this giant in the right direction. Traditionally this has been the Minister of Health, but Andrew Lansley the current Minister for Health, and the creator of the changes won’t stand behind his proposals as other Minister For Health have always done.

Does that tell you something?

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Millions of UK Children live in Absolute Poverty

With the shocking news that almost 1 in 4 UK children are living in poverty, an announcement   that unemployment has risen in the three months to August by a staggering 110,000, reaching 2.57 million, the highest figure for 17 years.  This figure includes almost 1million young people, the so called ignored generation.

The IFS   stated that in 2010, 2.5 million children and 2.1 million working-age parents were barely surviving in "absolute" poverty.

The news that approximately 1 in 4 children  live in poverty  in the UK is  horrific  , the IFS expect another 600,00 children  will be  pulled  into poverty by the governments inaction  during the next 2 years,  altogether  3.1 million children will be  living  in “absolute” poverty by 2013 ,  along with 2.5 million working-age parents and four million working-age adults without children. By 2020, the IFS is projecting there will be 4.7 million working-age adults without children in absolute poverty.

According to a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, falling incomes will mean the biggest 3 year drop for middle-income families since the 1974-77, following the oil crisis and included a sterling crisis, with the IMF bail-out and industrial unrest during John Major’s premiership with the Conservatives in power.

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Tory Conference

George Osborne and David Cameron have both said that spending the odd £1bn now won’t do any good if they are going to spend £3 trillion over the next 4 years to get the economy growing. [They both say they have a plan] George Osborne also said he would increase the science budget by £200m, in addition to the £802m give away to councils who don’t increase the poll tax. That’s just slightly over the odd £1bn both Cameron and Osborne say won’t do any good. It is supposed to benefit the poor, and the average extra amount people would have had to pay is £72. It’s a bit like saying, ‘we were going to increase income tax for everyone by £100 a week, but decided not to.  This will save everyone £100 a week, generating a massive boost to the economy’

Cameron at the Coalition Conference [he referred to the benefits the Lib Dems brought to the coalition several times] told the party faithful that part of his plan to grow the economy was to  bring in ‘credit easing’ because the banks won’t keep to their agreement to lend to small businesses. Credit easing the latest Tory invention nobody knows for sure what ‘credit easing is’

He didn’t outline the plan, only in very vague terms, you might ask yourself ‘If they have a plan to grow the economy, why haven’t they done this before?’ Or you could ask why they need to release the details in November? Why not now? Maybe it will take so long to invent the plan.

£3 trillion doesn’t sound a lot when you say it fast, but you may ask where it is coming from? The government made the largest borrowing in August since records began. Why? If they have all this money stashed away did they have to borrow so much? Why don’t they pay off their debts, instead of hitting the poor with benefit cuts, and job cuts? Will it come from the Bank of England in the form of ‘Quantative Easing’ The party faithful seemed to lap it all up, maybe they already know the plan, and know where the £3 trillion is stashed.

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Do the Cuts Hurt?

 During the first 4 months of this financial year, the coalition borrowed a total of £52bn, a reduction of only 7% for the same period last year. The August figure of £15.9bn is the highest August figure on record. It seems we are suffering a lot of pain for little gain.

Unemployment is rising. Cameron claimed that the private sector would take up the slack of the public sector workers. Unfortunately he was way wrong with his figures. He told the House , in response to the higher than predicted 80,000 increase in the unemployment, that he would not spend to create growth or jobs.

Cameron said these figures are disappointing but we shouldn’t ignore the fact that since the election there are 500,000 more jobs in the private sector and employment overall, [includes jobs created by the Labour Government when they were in office.] and there are 300,000 [actual figure 24,000] more people in work than there were a year ago.” Embarrassing the level our un-elected prime minister will go to mis-lead the house.

Ed Milliband has a long way to go to prove to the public that he can run the country, at present he is a liability and un-electable as the next P.M.

Nick Clegg is trying to establish his credibility and that of his party, but as his party only got 10% of the vote, they will continue to keep their big salaries, and do as they are told by Cameron.

It looks at the present time that we are going to be stuck with the Conservatives for another nine years.

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Cameron gets it wrong again

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UK riots -new phenomena!

New phenomena with London riots.

Cameron looks at all the causes, welfare dependence, family environment, social exclusion, spending cuts, weak policing, consumerism, racism, gangster rap, etc etc,  and calls in ex US Super cop Bill Bratton as the only person in the world who can understand the underlying causes of the British people who reacted so violently in the UK riots.

If you believe that, you are as daft as Cameron… nobody has yet started to analyse the few facts that are available, nobody has got to the root of the problem, and nobody can suggest a logical strategy to stop this happening again. All we know so far is what we saw on television.

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UK Riots

 London is looted and burned while cameron soaks up the sun.

Was David Cameron right to let the mobs get bigger and bolder as they rampaged round the London boroughs, terrorising inhabitants while looting and burning businesses?

Was the Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson there for the people who elected him, or did he also think his holiday was more important?

Were the police right in their approach to watch, but not to protect?

As the London boroughs were dessimated, and rioting spread to other cities, who was in charge of the country?

Did we elect a part time government?

Are we still living in England, or have we been tranported to another country?

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Yorkshire Courier relieves pressure on M1 Shuttle

The acquisition, and integration of Yorkshire Courier and Couriers in Yorkshire has been accomplished smoothly and business has increased for the Yorkshire Courier. The M1 Shuttle [75p a mile single pallet rate] was a phenomenal success from the day it was launched, and is currently well over subscribed.

Yorkshire Courier takes on some of the contracts of M1 Shuttle. Figures show that at the rate the M1 Shuttle is growing, by next year, the back office management cost would impact dramatically on the profitability of the M1 Shuttle. Change is being driven by client demand.

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What did Cameron Know?

 David Cameron told the House of Commons that he wanted an end to the Media having the ear of Prime Ministers in Secret Meetings

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IMF Report, Did You Know?

John Lipsky  of the I.M.F. said he backs the government's financial approach warning  there were still "significant risks" which may need temporary tax cuts. Due to the weak economic growth, and rising inflation, which the IMF thought "unexpected", but were "largely temporary" [how long is temporary, the length of this parliament?]. The IMF [International Monetry Fund] was, with all the information, and expert economist to hand, ‘surprised’ at UK inflation and low growth, who are they trying to con?

On  26/01/11 we quoted in our article Inflation Up-Unemployment Up-Government Spending Up , that the out going head of the CBI Sir Richard Lambert said: "We have to have growth in employment". He criticised the coalition of failing to come up with policies that support economic growth. "It's failed to articulate in big picture terms its vision of what the UK economy might become under its stewardship”.

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Confidence In Economy Falling

Frantic Friday

  Frantic Friday and Manic Monday.

Tuition Fees Blunder

  According to Ed Milliband, the average higher fees being charged will leave a funding deficit of £450m, with the possibility of a cut in Uni places of 36,000. The ConDems have already cut the number of foreign students who can come and study here, to help  increase the funding shortfall. A spokes woman in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills  said the fees would remain affordable [ to the tax payers funding them] she concluded by saying’ We believe the assumptions made when costing the policy remain valid, even if the average loan tuition loan goes above the £7,500 they budgeted for.’ The expected increase of 15% will be funded through even higher taxation. A 3 year course is now preicyed to cost between £48,000 and £52,000 if you include loans for living expenses.

Q1:-Turnover Quadrupled

  The first quarter of 2011 has been full of surprises. On the down side we have had more companies going into liquidation in the first quarter of this year, than we had during the whole of the recession. On the up side, after stripping out new contracts, RFT Express have quadrupled turnover, compared to the first quarter of last year, predominately in the hanging garment deliveries to and from the EEC.

During February I spent the first 3 weeks in Europe talking to new and existing clients, I would love to be able to say that the phenomenal increase was down to my efforts, but it was mostly due to our clients opening up new markets. However two good things came out of the trip, firstly I managed a few days holiday while I was there, and secondly I received a phone call confirming we had been successful in our tender for a large contract.

We now have a few months hard work to redress the imbalance between our European work and deliveries in the UK. The UK store deliveries are increasing, with the retail outlets stocking up on the new ranges. Print and engineering are also increasing, and show scope for expansion.

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RFT: The Definition

  RFT is the first part of our name RFT Express; we always live up to our name. Getting it Right First Time is a culture which starts off by putting the customer first: How can we benefit that customer; how can we turn that customer into a client?

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Financial Turmoil

  My colleague Ron Gold in his latest blog reported that George Osborne said on the Politics Show that “If on Monday, I went to Parliament and got up at the dispatch box in the House of Commons and said I was abandoning the Deficit Reduction plan, that I set out last year, what do you think the reaction would be? Within minutes Britain would be in a financial turmoil. I am not prepared to let that happen. With a remark like this you can understand why Mervyn King of the Bank of England, thought he was a little inexperienced.