I don’t understand why you think increased public spending is a good

Comment on Why I’ll Never Vote Conservative at a General Election by Mark Lees.

I don’t understand why you think increased public spending is a good thing. Labour have indeed increased public spending in many key areas, but the majority of the money is wasted on admin, red tape or non-essential staff. I would be much happier spending less more efficiently.

The breaches in our civil liberties alone would prevent me from ever voting Labour. Once the state starts interfering with our every day lives then it will become an increasing problem, and with todays digital technologies no aspect of our lives will be safe.

The biggest single reason why nobody should vote Labour is Gordon Brown. He is a man who consistently stands by his financial record. He often forgets all the growth he is so proud of was started under the last Conservative government, the first 15 quarters in fact. He sold our gold of at the lowest ever price, just before a very sharp upturn in gold prices. He then encouraged people to borrow heavily because he promised their would be no recession, this borrowing helped to prop up an economy that was already struggling-the last period of growth was sustained by borrowing and spending not by people being able to afford it. That meant that come the recession, many people were already at the end of their credit and left with nowhere to go.

He appears to be saved by the low unemployment during this recession, but that is not due to any Labour policy, more that companies have learned from previous recessions so have cut wages and work hours rather than make people redundent, as this preserves the skill base for when the recession ends.

Tax credits is an unmitigated disaster that costs the country billions of pounds every year in overpayments, and also to immigrants who can abuse the system very easily due to incomplete record checks. This has also helped mask the downturn in work hours, many more people work part time now and are supported by benefits than previously, so while unemployment may be lower the total number of hours worked has not increased significantly.

Even with that recent figures have shown that nearly 25% of people of working age in the UK are not working, but only about 5% of these are classed as unemployed.

Schooling is failing in this country due to Labour interfering with teaching, setting ridiculous targets that schools work to rather than focus on the important matters. A similiar thing is happening in hospitals.

The civil service has grown massively, creating a further tax burden, but added to that Labour have politicised the civil service, effectively damaging our democracy.

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have both been shown to be liars in the Iraq enquiry, and the de facto leader of our country is the right honourable Peter Mandelson, an oxymoron if ever I saw one.

I’ll finsh there, although I could go on. Labour have, as alwyas, been an unmitigated disaster, and only their mastery of propaganda and spin leave them with any hope of re-election.