Spending plans must stay in place

For all of our people who oppose Scottish independence and all who think that the Labour Party are going to solve our problems and bring back our prosperity I trust you have been following Labour's proposals for government if they win the next election. This also applies to people who may support independence on the assumption that Labour will provide good governance of an independent Scotland.

Yesterday Ed Balls the Shadow Chancellor committed Labour to accept the spending plans of the coalition government if they win the next election. As a result, Labour is accepting that there is no more money. What that means is that Labour accept that they will have no more income after the election than that planned by the present government. All government income comes from taxation. Therefore, Labour are telling us that they have no intention of raising taxation, of taxing bankers bonuses, of taxing the super-rich, of recouping the taxation that is being lost on an industrial scale through fraud by both companies and individuals, or of recouping any of the money they gave to bail out the banks. They are however, and this is coming from the party that claims to represent ordinary working people, going to install an immediate cap on benefits. Up to last April, Britain had spent £39billion in Afghanistan, that is on top of the cost of the war in Iraq. They are planning to spend £25billion on a new Trident weapons system. They spent £8.92billion, yes that was billion, on the Olympics. The cost of the Queens diamond jubilee is unknown at the moment, but the Thames pageant alone cost £25million, and the bank holiday was estimated to cost the economy £1.5billion. So, that's ok to spend billions on the queens jubilee, but if a union calls a day's strike they are branded traitors and communists. However, according to all Westminster parties there is no money so they will have to cap benefits and continue the Tories programme of cuts.

What this all means of course, is that, even if Labour wins the next election absolutely nothing is going to change. In Scotland the Labour Party under Ms Lamont declared war on the 'something for nothing' society. Thus, in Scotland we have been given ample warning that the unemployed and those on benefits are in Labour's sights for a good kicking. If you vote for more of the same in the coming referendum then don't say you haven't been warned. Britain's politicians of all parties love the rich and bear a hatred and contempt for the poor and unfortunate and are determined to grind them into the dust. If you support them, you would do well to remember the warnings of Pastor Neimoller

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat