Mr Garvie's letter in the NWN today (20/12) is disingenuous Options

[GMR]

LETTER IN THE NWN TODAY (20^TH Dec) by Richard Garvie

"With you in tough times?

FAILING schools, rising fuel prices and help for the growing number of homeless in West Berkshire. All subjects featured in last week's letters in Newbury Weekly News.

Is this what people vote for at the last General Election when they voted Tory, or Lib Dem? Did they vote for longer waiting times at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, the withdrawal of support for those in full-time education, or the need to reply on food banks?

The economic policies of this Government have failed, and whilst our local MP 'praises' the work of local food banks, I feel he, and our local Liberal Democrat candidate, need to think about why these food banks exist in the first place.


Richard Garvie,
Newbury Labour Party"

I must take umbrage with Richard Garvie's letter in the Newbury Weekly News today. Either he is stupid or playing politics.

In his letter he says "The economic policies of this Government failed". Did anybody really expect that any government, any economic policies would solve our crisis – which I might add were caused by the Labour Government – within 2 years of being elected? The state of our debt was going to take many years into the future and properly beyond. I also must remind Mr Garvie that Alistair Darlings and Brown's economic policies weren't that far of from the Tories. All the failures that Mr Garvie pointed out would have happened whoever was in power.

Mr Garvie say the government's economic policies have failed? According to whom (apart from Labour politicians and Mr Balls)? If you listen to independent economic experts the governments polices have better chance than the current Labour parties policies of spend, spend, spend.



Mr Garvie said in today's paper "is that what people voted for at the last General Election? That is a stupid comment. We are in debt and whoever would have been in power would have created the same results. Even Balls said he wouldn't undo the coalition's government current economic policies. He is being totally disingenuous and insulting with his letter. To suggest that Labour would have solved the problems that Labour created themselves is laughable.



Just a matter of interest; we had soup kitchens and food parcels under the last failed Labour government. And didn't Brown and Darling praise those soup kitchens and food parcels when they were in government?

[Blake]

Labour policy is total hypocrisy and duplicity.

This was a party that promised to turn Britain into a "New Jerusalem" and who thinks after all this time that they actually got anywhere near it??

Harold Wilson promised to transform Britain with the "white heat of technology". And what do we have to show for that promise??? Even Concorde was conceived before he got into power.

It makes no sense for Socialists to encourage higher living standards and upward mobility as then voters will see Socialism for the utter sham and self-defeating C R A P it is and then back other parties that back enterprise and self-improvement.

Socialists seek the overthrow of capitalism and the rule of the proletariat. Blair and Brown have abolished functionaing capitalism and Jeremy Kyle now seeks to inflict the rule of the proletariat of our airwaves. How spirit crushing...

[Criddleback]

erusalem" and who thinks after all this time that they actually got anywhere near it??

Harold Wilson promised to transform Britain with the "white heat of technology". And what do we have to show for that promise??? Even Concorde was conceived before he got into power.

Blimey! Bringing up Wilson! He did establish the Open University and made less of a balls up of everything than Heath. He also left office at the time of his choosing, which even Maggie T didn't, and won four General Elections, which is one more than Maggie. A marvellous man, was Mr Wilson. I had the pleasure of meeting him and talking with him at some length during his later years.

[Andy Capp]

Blimey! Bringing up Wilson! He did establish the Open University and made less of a balls up of everything than Heath. He also left office at the time of his choosing, which even Maggie T didn't, and won four General Elections, which is one more than Maggie. A marvellous man, was Mr Wilson. I had the pleasure of meeting him and talking with him at some length during his later years.

Really?