We have had the election and Brown has now gone, but what else has changed? Britain remains confronted by a mountain of dangerous problems. Our economy is in recession and five million people are out of work, 2.8 million of these are on incapacity benefit. Our benefits system is out of control, costing £189 billion in 09/10 when the governments total income was only £496 billion. Our government is borrowing £14 billion a month, £163 billion in total in 09/10 – £33 billion more than the whole country payed in income tax.
Under Labour our country has been subjected to a tidal wave of immigrants, taking UK jobs and using our freely provided services, in 2007/08 733,000 people from overseas were given a valid national insurance number and legally allowed to enter the UK. More worrying still is the growth of these immigrant numbers within the country, the Pakistani birth rate is 4.7 children for every mother, the average UK birth rate is 1.7 children per mother. There were less than 100,000 Muslims in the the UK in 1970 today there are over 2,000,000, a 20 fold increase in just 40 years, how many will they number in 40 more years? UK population continues to rise, by 2020 the UK’s current population of 61 million will reach 70 million and will be 80 million by 2050. World population is also rising, it is 6.8 billion today and is predicted to be 9.1 billion in 2050. We are confronted by politicians prepared to promote global warming as fact despite many dissenting scientists, but who fail to address the planet and our countries real problem – too many people are living here today. There are also 750,000 illegal immigrants in Britain today according to a recent study carried out for London Mayor Boris Johnson.
Our government has far more employees than we can afford, 5.6 million in total, one for every eleven of us, an increase of at least 600,000 since Labour came to power in 1997, creating a huge drain on our taxes. Government spending has exploded under Labour – it was £314bn in 1997, in the 2008 budget it was £618bn. It grew by a staggering £150bn between the budgets of 2004 and 2008. NHS spending has increased from £34bn in 1997 to £111bn in 2008. Education from £29bn in 1997 to £82bn in 2008. Social protection from £109bn in 2001 to £169bn in 2008.
The NHS now employs 1.3 million workers, only 700,000 of these are front line staff, since Labour came to power the greatest increase in NHS staff has been among administrators and clerical workers. The Royal Mail is threatened with a sell off because its pension is in deficit by up to £10 billion, but no one in government seems to care that public sector workers pensions are in deficit by over £900 billion, thats more than the national debt. These public sector workers continue to be handed tax free lump sums on retirement equal to three times their annual pension, this means a worker retiring on an annual pension of £15,000 a year recieves £45,000 tax free. These pensions are also inflation proof, unlike the pathetic state pension.
The national debt will increase by £703 billion over the next five years growing to £1,400bn by 2013/14. That is £1.4 trillion. Saving £16, £32 or even £50 billion will not reduce our borrowing or our debt significantly, raising taxes isn’t an answer either, a 50% increase in income tax for all would only raise £70 billion – £103 billion less than we are borrowing this year and £100 billion less than we will borrow next year.
Britain needs a leader who will tell us the truth, confront us with some difficult choices. The days of liberal politicians whatever their shade, red, yellow or blue must end if we are not to pass our broken country onto our children and our grand children.
Britain is broke it needs fixing, spend some time on the site and you will see for yourself the scale of the problems facing our country and some solutions, we don’t claim to be right on everything – but grumbling at the television and continuing to do nothing is no longer an option! Some of these solutions may be unpalatable but without decisive action, on areas such as government spending our country will sink even further.
Don’t expect Cameron to deal with these problems, he is the wrong man, at the wrong time. He may have won the election but he still has little to say. Now wedded to the Liberals Cameron is unable to correctly tackle the economy because the spending cuts required will fracture his coalition. Britain needs a man with a plan, not a man lacking the courage to reveal his solutions.
If you too are concerned about your business, your job or finding a new one? Sick of the soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime policy of this government, its courts and the joke sentences they hand down? Are you on a state pension and sick of the state of it? Facing home repossession with no real support? Struggling to make ends meet because your taxes are too high? Wondering why your council tax bill is still rising, when your income is not? Then for Bitains sake add your voice to the comments section at the foot of each page and add your feedback, something must be done, people must be heard.
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