Who DON’T you want to win the election?

Further thoughts. If you've had a mortgage for the last 13 years, you've been hundreds of pounds a month to the good, because interest rates have been kept at a moderate or low level. When I first bought a house in the 1990s, when the Conservatives were in power, interest rates were much higher (even touching 15%). If what concerns you most is the money you have to spend each month, bear this in mind.

And, of course, if you work at the lowest end of the income scale, you wouldn't have had a minimum wage in those days either, so employers could pay you a pittance without redress.

Then there's Gift Aid. How many millions has this raised for charities? All down to the much-maligned Mr Brown.

Finally, for the senior citizens, the winter fuel allowance is now taken for granted. Before 1997, a (much smaller) allowance was only paid if temperature dipped to a particular low for a given period of time, and even then it had to be claimed back retrospectively.

Seriously, folks: it's so easy to overlook the good things that have been done and to forget how bad things really were.

www. bankofengland.co.uk/education/inflation/timeline/chart .htm

GO on kiddies, check the inflation chart!!

Check the “shocking 70’s list, it makes me laugh that Thatcher is blamed for inflation when she brought it down for the heights of the 70’s, of course it was high but by and large it was a downward spiral brought by the miss handling of the economy by Labour.

It’s like blaming the police (Thatcher) for murder (Labour on the UK) when they (Thatcher) turn up after it happened to solve it, very logical.

We had a strong economy that was resilient to deal with the recession in the 80’s/90’s and we came out of it stronger and faster than most of our European competitors. Whilst there will always be recessions, the ERM was a huge mistake, however many European countries suffered recessions during the 80’s and 90’s and the UK came out stronger than its rivals, unlike today. People will suffer, my parents did but we moved on quicker than most within the EEC.
I am not rich, but it makes me laugh the envy and resentment against business and rich people. Of course there is “old money”, but stop punishing those who have “made it”. They make sacrifices to earn what they do. Many who start business do so at the risk to their private life, families and general health and the choice on how far they go should not be penalised to support waste, pure rubbish wasteful spending by taxing more, rather you and I waste it than this crazy government.
I am sure you can imagine a rich lord with a greedy face counting his monies and find ways to grow it.
I can also see a druggie given everything for free, dental care, money, rent etc counting his stash of drugs knowing he will always be let off the hook to commit crime and clog up the court system.
The benefit class living off the working class knowing there is no consequence in their lives and attitude of entitlement is prevalent.
The public sector workers who now represent 55% of the economy living off the 45% generated in the private sector???? Giving false hope of an everlasting money pit, whilst real wealth generating sectors are neglected.

When things change as they must because it’s unaffordable, who has mislead these overly reliant jobsworths and useless members of society and left them to stew without tackling the issues and creating real tangible opportunities? it has always existed but not by this much!

I always believe the Tories biggest failing is in various social aspects once any economy starts generating wealth, but this Labour government has nothing for anyone who wants work or help their country and preserve our values.

Sod it, the people get the government they deserve (+ useless bodies, comities, NGO’s, Health and safety do-gooders, EU laws on how you should live your life, social tension and friction etc etc etc), some here deserve a lot worse.