Lancaster Debate

I was astonished by the views expressed by Clive Grunshaw(the Labour candidate) at the above debate.First he admitted that Gordon Brown had made mistakes,(you can say that again)and then he went on to state he was against all Nuclear weapons.He was against the Trident programme,this beggars belief when you consider that it is a major part of the Labour Manifesto.I stated that if you were the official party candidate,you stood on its manifesto.Not Mr.Grunshaw who it would seem,says what he wants people to hear.

10% Tax Break

10% Tax Break
This was introduced to help Lower paid workers.
Let me explain how it worked.

After your tax allowance,say of £4000 you now pay 20% on the rest of your earnings.
With the 10% tax break the first £2000 after your allowance was taxed at 10%.
So say you earn £15000 per year which is common in Fleetwood and Lancaster.
Now you pay 20% Tax after your 4000 allownce,which is £2200 tax.
Under the 10% tax break system if you earned the same £15000.
After your £4000 tax allowance you only paid 10% on the next £2000.which is £200,and 20% on the rest you paid only £2000.
So you were £200 worse off.
Only when you earn £17000.do you become equal.

This affects all workers who earn under £17000 per year and this must include a lot of workers in Fleetwood and Lancaster It is another example of this Labour Government hitting low paid familieas

pensions

Pensions.

In the budget the chancellor announced details of a 2.5% increase in the Old age Pension.
What he didn’t say was the increase only applied to the Basic element of the pension.
Let me explain.

The pension is composed of 3 elements.
1) Basic
2) Additional
3) Graduated.
Whilst the basic part was increased by 2.5% the other parts were not.
The overall increase was actually 1.3%,

There was no increase in Tax allowance and build in 3% for inflation and Pensioners were actually much worse off.

Years ago, Lord Turner was asked to do a review of the state pension.
He concluded amongst other things, that the pension should be linked to earnings.

This has still not been implemented and now (it must be election year) Gordon Brown is saying that it will come in 2012.

Why should pensioners have to wait so long?

This link to earnings by the way was abolished by the Thatcher Government.

The chancellor also announced in the budget that the winter fuel allowance would continue for this year.

What happens after this?

Are they going to abolish WINTER?
Is it not time that we recognised the contribution that the elderly have given to this country by their dedication and hard work in bringing up families, fighting wars and generally improving the lives of others for the future.

Economy

Economy

Have you noticed everytime Gordon Brown talks about the economy or the recession he quotes the Global picture? It’s as if he had nothing to do with the UK recession.
Wrong.
It was he who did not control the banks properly and allowed them to take big risks for the sake of lining their own pockets.
R.B.S.recently announced 5+ billion profit, they also stated they were going to give bonuses of 1.3 Billion, and this was sanctioned by this the Chancellor!
Can we trust this lot to handle the economy in the future?
The 10% tax break debacle cost us 2.5 Billion to sort out for a year.
Selling Gold at its lowest price cost Billions.
The handling of the Bank crisis cost Billions.
We will have to pay all this money back, so

General election

Well we are off.My leaflets should be distributed in about 10 days if all goes well.Then you can have a good read and contact me.