05/06/2009: "when is a policy, not a policy?"

.... when its a labour party policy!

over the last 12 years we have seen a complete mishmash of new policies from this government.
this is fine..... a new government want to change policies, i can understand that but what i dont like, is the constant statements due to policies failing, and then the government revert back (in part) to the old policy, whilst telling the public "its new"

the tragic case of baby p
ed balls has proposed that "we need more openess in the child protection system"
- labour are responsible for the service not being accountable on so many levels!
it was the labour party who introduced laws that stopped any social care evidence involving children, being used in an open court of law, used in the media, etc.
ed balls has proposed two members of the public can sit and scrutinise in cases.
the end of 12 years of mass failings, we get a token gesture, a claim of more openess, and thats it. no admittance that the current policies labour introduced are failing!

other instances of this are too numerous to mention here, grant maintained schools - now called academy schools, private companies building hospitals and schools and renting them back to the government - now called "public/private partnerships" and the PFI which will cost the taxpayer billions over many years.

when blair came to power in 1997, he told the country that he wanted britain to beat the centre of europe so we could "shape it to how we wanted"
in 2003 blair signed upto european competition policies, that over the longer term (we now know) would close thousands of post offices and cost thousands of jobs...
hidden under the spin of labour
they cannot stop the closure of post offices even if they wanted to, they signed us up to european laws which tell us we have to do this.
hardly "being at the centre of europe to shape it as we want it" is it!

there is a big change coming, the people of britain can no longer accept being misled over what europe controls and what they dont, the arguments against being under european control has been building for years, but its now so bad, people are starting to ask exactly what does parliament now control?

once they realise that it has very little power over us, so in effect the british public cannot change the mps to change policies in the uk, then revolt will follow, and god forbid, possibly a war!