I am self employed, since this government came to power they have decimated the value of my pension, even that crook Robert Maxwell only robbed his companies pension funds of around £400 million, over the last eight years Gordon Brown has taken £40 billion out of private pension funds, someone retiring today would get a pension worth around a 1/4 of the amount that a person with identical savings would have received eight years ago.
, the tax take directly and indirectly has increased way above the rate of inflation and I feel as though I am staggering from one tax bill to the next. Although they have thrown many millions of ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£ÃƒÆ ’‚£'s at health/education/police etc, etc, they have, by their ingrained ability to create totally meaningless jobs, made little or no difference to the problems in those services.
Labour are not a 'Tax & Spend' party, they are and always have been a 'Tax & Waste' party. Anyone like me, who has lived through past Labour administrations will be well aware of this.
The relative financial calm of the last few years was mainly brought about as a result of policies put in place before Labour came to power, allied to outside influences.
I have always found the Liberals and whoever the have linked up with in the past in an attempt to gain power, Labour, Social Democrats, Democrats etc, as woolly and over idealistic. They made a complete mess of their short time in control of the local council, however I do think that local income tax as opposed to council tax is a good idea.
Sadly I do not think that Mr Howard is likely to inspire enough people to make a difference.