Mountain of debt (From Oxford Mail)
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Mountain of debt
10:00am Wednesday 28th July 2010 in
Councillor Tanner (Oxford Mail, July 27) is clearly operating on the maxim of “the bigger the lie the more people it will fool” (based on a passage in Mein Kampf).
The Liberal-Conservative coalition in Westminster is grappling with the financial legacy left by Gordon Brown.
We have a debt mountain in this country of £900 billion that threatens our future prosperity. It was created over a nine-year period when Labour wasted the golden legacy they inherited and consistently overspent year-on-year, shoveling money into public services without any concept of reforming them and creating better value for money.
As a result, this country was ill-prepared for a worldwide recession and financial crisis. The children of South Oxford for whom Mr Tanner is shedding some crocodile tears need to understand it was Gordon Brown that mortgaged their future and robbed them of their playground, but it is them and their children and, perhaps, their grandchildren who will go on paying for Labour’s mistakes.
Keith R Mitchell, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council
Comments(4)
Bart Simpson1
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11:34am Wed 28 Jul 10
Why is he allowed to to spout drivell and lies in the OM week after week?
the wizard
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12:17pm Wed 28 Jul 10
Its seen by many as a right wing Tory paper, thats why. I do think that many of us view Councillors letters as a Mickey take when their views are normally reported in the first pages anyway. Most of us thought that "Letters" was where we put our views, not a soap box for those who enjoy privelidge of office.
Zaxharias Ziegla
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7:53pm Wed 28 Jul 10
In relation to Comrade Tanner and his PC New Labour pals, I think this one is more apposite:
By the skilful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even Heaven as Hell, or an extremely wretched life as Paradise.
ADOLF HITLER
The New Labour conspiracy didn't quite work out, but we've been ConDemned instead.
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the wizard says...
10:11am Wed 28 Jul 10
The Liberal-Conservative coalition in Westminster is grappling with the financial legacy left by Gordon Brown.
So that will be partly due to the deficit brought about by Labour having to borrow money to bail out the stock market/banking fiasco brought about by greedy Tory voting traders taking silly risks with our money then. Now sorry but I didn't hear any of the Tory bankers and traders holding up their hands offering to pay back all the bonus payments, or make good any of the trades that they made with OUR money, pension funds etc.
So yet again Mr Mitchell uses his position as council leader to hammer home party spin in the local press when his council were also guilty of overspending and not making economies along the way over the last decade, so in fact were knowingly running an ineffiecent council at county level, and now seeks to blame others.