David Bates Financial Adviser

Should politicians simply talk up the economy, when the truth is that it is still suffering and has a long way to go, before we can truthfully say it is growing?  A General Election is looming large on the horizon, and the points scoring process as started. Labour, via Lord Peter Mandelson, are accusing David Cameron, and the tories of putting down the British economy, when they should be talking it up. In the past this has happened, 1979, for example. A beleagured Prime Minister , James Callagahn claimed inflation was only at 8%, as Labour grappled with the winter of discontent, like a paratrooper trying to take the air out of his parachute on landing and put it back in its pack, or like King Canute trying to order the sea to obey him. However hard he tried the reality showed up. Britain was not prepared for how bad things REALLY were ,as interest rates soared after the election to tackle the parlous state of the economy.

We all know there are very difficult days’ ahead, more difficult than any of us can remember, so I say to all politicians ADMIT the truth, don’t pussy foot about dismissing opposition comments that are the stark ECONOMIC TRUTH. Britain is in a mess, Britain, as it has been proved , was “not best placed to come out of recession quickly”.  Gordon Brown is having to eat his words more and more, he is just not to be believed on anything, as he struggles to save HIS job, and not the country.

I like many others believe that climate change is not influenced by what we do. We as a species are temporary custodins until we become extinct like the dinosaurs, so why waste effort on trying to enforce things that will not work? King Canute proved centuries ago that mankind cannot control the elements

There has been a lot written in recent days, here in the UK, that Climate change taxes “green taxes” are being levied under false pretences. As I do not subscribe to the theory that we humans are causing the climate change by our own activities, on many grounds that I will not go into here, I tend to agree that many “green taxes” only serve to fill the treasury coffers and do not help the situation. Climate change has been around ever since this universe was created. The UK was once covered in ice and snow, but no-one (if they had been around at that time) would have ever imagined that one day there would be green fields, warm summers etc. Just as King Canute could not hold back the sea to prove how powerful he was, Gordon Brown and co. cannot do anything to stop the immense natural force that is nature. Perhaps in tens of thousands of years, humans will be extinct like many of the species, that have disappeared because the environment did not suit them. Does it really matter what we do for future generations, when our life span here is only 80 years on average??