Lest we forget Tony Blair's promises

Tony Blair's 1996 speech to the Labour Party Conference was a classic Tony Blair speech, here's a rather pertinent excerpt (my emphasis):

"Today we compete in the era of global markets. There is no future for Britain as a low wage, low skills, low tech economy. We compete on quality or not at all. This means a stable economy long term investment and the enterprise of the people set free.

First get the fundamentals right.

Two recessions, one which wiped out a third of our manufacturing base.

Borrowed their way into the record books.

The pound devalued.

North Sea Oil money gone.

Assets all sold and squandered.

It's sometimes said the Tories are cruel but efficient. In fact, they are the most feckless, irresponsible and incompetent managers of the British economy in our history.

Labour will be the Party of sound finance and good housekeeping.

World interest rates and inflation rates are low. In Britain, under Labour we will keep them this way.

These will be defined targets set and kept to. Losing control of public finance isn't radical, It's just reckless.

Gordon Brown is the Iron Chancellor. They say it's easier to get past security at our Conference without a pass, than get a spending commitment past Gordon.

And that's how it will stay."

I'd almost forgotten Tony Blair's odd sentence structure but more striking is his admission that "Losing control of public finance isn't radical, It's just reckless" - So was Tony Blair reckless or did he just let Gordon Brown be reckless at home whilst he plotted the invasion of Iraq and bestrode the world like a colossus?

The Tony Blair/Gordon Brown Labour government, protected by their friends at the BBC, have nearly destroyed the UK economy (let alone the Country). The incompetence, the waste, the inefficiency are almost beyond belief; unfortunately they are real as is the culpability of the dire duo.


If you want to have an insight into the waste and mismanagement of the UK economy under Labour, watch the Channel 4's Dispatches programme from last night - "How they squandered our billions. You might also want to follow some of the links, including on the NHS IT balls-up, The Taxpayers Alliance and the Tax Credits Casualties organisation which I think might be worth following.

Is it odd that just as with the subject of Islamic extremism in UK Mosques the story has to be reported by Channel 4? Not that odd really, because the BBC are too busy pushing their own agenda including that of the absolute benefits of multiculturalism, and of course the need for perpetual Labour government, to even think of questioning their own orthodoxy.