UKpopdems – 2007 Budget response

Gordon Brown has clearly signalled his style as Prime Minister in this budget. He is determined to out spin the Blair spin master himself with this magnificent tribute to the art. Income tax down – no wait, income tax up. Corporation tax down – no wait, businesses taxes up. Green taxes up, yes, right on that one. The summary of this budget can be easily expressed; the rich like Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, all our Parliamentary ‘betters’, political party donors, spin doctors and senior bureaucrats, all much better off with reduced tax rates and promised increases in top rate thresholds – and their gas guzzling limo taxes paid for by the rest of us. The poor, low paid families, pensioners, dispossessed and disadvantaged; in fact, all those without a strong voice, worse off with the 10% tax rate gone and petrol taxes ever upwards.

It’s becoming clear now that decisions in Britain are increasingly made by a few hundred radical green activists who want to take this nation back to the Middle Ages. Brown’s Presbyterian roots are complimented by the Greens’ puritanical dogma that anything the working class strive after, any aspiration, must be taken out of their reach through swingeing taxes and be reserved only for the rich and famous and our political masters. To be fair, the Greens are liberal with their sermons. They also want to withhold cheap and practical energy sources from the Third World so that the children of Africa will never escape their poverty, ill-health and dirt shackles.

UKpopdems – Popular Democrats blow the lid off the King’s new clothes and say Brown is Britain’s worst ever Chancellor. Having destroyed safe pensions, he has stolen in taxes what’s left. Having presided over the biggest fall in the stock market in decades, it’s still not back where it was after seven years, and that knocks company values and expansion and our jobs. The biggest personal debts ever at well over an unimaginable Trillion pounds; Britain’s competitive position falling faster than a fireman down a pole; millions of miles of red tape tying up business; hundreds of thousands more bureaucrats, administrators and managers in the public sector than nurses, police, teachers, social services and other front-line jobs.

The ‘Stalinist’ Brown doesn’t care about green issues or even world poverty. He wants your money and any pretence at taking it will do. Between them, Brown and Blair are destroying Britain’s cherished social and capital structures and it seems there’s nothing anyone can do about it. The Tories have no answer and the LibDems are still digging that tunnel in an attempt to find sanity. If this disaster continues there’ll be trouble and every ordinary, commonsense Briton knows it. Will you, the ordinary people of Britain, allow this to continue? Are the only other choices really between racist xenophobes and straw brained green hippies?

UKpopdems – Popular Democrats are creating the political structures that allow ordinary British people to take back control of their own country. Ukpopdems is the party that puts Great Britain and the Great British people first. We will always make sure the people have more power and a stronger voice than politicians. UKpopdems is addressing the difficult issues the other parties avoid, like radical, commonsense solutions for crime, immigration, health, education, government waste, communities and many others. Look at the detail of what UKpopdems offers on www.ukpopdems.org.uk