WetAugust/Spinflight …. Again with the pro Ukip/anti establishment political misinformation, used so effectively in Scotland for years and now putting the economic future of ALL of us within the UK in jeopardy - due to a dodgy nationalist leader not facing the facts and consequences of his actions.
Firstly re the Referendum process, it proves you GET ONE with Cameron, and in past individual country EU in/out referendums given BEFORE the EU Lisbon Treaty (signed by Brown on our behalf obviously without one here) it was always TIGHT e.g. 51% to 49%.
In any election there is always more political activity as you get closer to polling day and Westminster facing a UK wide disaster due to that misinformation, has had to act in concert.
Secondly an independent Scotland (erroneously) thinks, thanks to Labour’s economic, tax, and spend misinformation for decades, that it can be some socialist economic power house; overflowing with oil wealth, with non oil businesses providing a balanced economy that has to take whatever taxes and ‘social reforms’ thrown at them, without a debt or care in the world.
But without the SNP addressing the fundamental country/economic FACTS of the Scottish currency, how much higher an independent Scottish interest rates will be, there has had to be a huge dose of reality brought to bear on the SNP for the sake of Scottish voters – as businesses, whether starting up, established, looking to relocate to Scotland, small, medium of large – HAVE TO PLAN AHEAD for years to come.
And how many companies can NOT know their base/domestic currency, small country interest rate premium (especially as a financial institution), before worrying about an independent Scotland, with less oil than they are counting on, with their share of the UK debt/liabilities - putting up other costs of a company doing business.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11087039/BP-opposes-Scottish-independence-and-backs-oil-decline-warnings.html
Labour’s Miliband the other day, telling Scottish voters for years that their policies (despite their 13-year record) are ‘in touch’ and the Conservatives aren’t, was chastising the Conservatives for LOWERING the cost of business via Corporate Tax rather than forcing all businesses to pay higher salaries - despite the fact tens of thousands of small/medium sized businesses are STILL struggling and productivity (sustainability) is still too low.
Left of centre politicians, here or in Scotland, do not understand that there is no god given right to private sector jobs or a theological ‘what come first, the chicken (company), or the egg (job)’ dilemma – without jobs, there are no chances of a pay rise at any time, never mind when just emerging from the worst recession in 100-years.
“EY: ”Cutting UK tax draws in more multinationals”
“The accountancy firm highlights that the UK's competitive tax regime has led to a rise in overseas companies interested in domiciling in the UK”
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10472446/EY-Cutting-UK-tax-draws-in-more-multinationals.html
Left of centre politicians, here or in Scotland, will ALWAYS think that high social spending is more important than the private sector/companies that provides all the tax revenues – so think nothing of putting BUSSINESS COSTS UP, even during the worst recession in 100-years and a million or so jobs were lost, but need to be replaced for an economic recovery.
This was the pre 2010 General Election Labour solution to a ‘cost of living crisis’ and unemployment crisis, make employees and employers pay MORE, with a ‘jobs tax’. This was mainly reversed in Osbourn’s first budget.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/7539343/Labours-planned-National-Insurance-increase-will-cost-jobs-Alistair-Darling-admits.html
“In his evidence, Mr Darling defended his plans to increase national insurance, saying it was necessary to raise extra money to reduce Government borrowing, which will be £167 billion this year.”
Left of centre politicians, here or in Scotland, will always overspend, raise taxes to business taxes first, which reduces employment, and then when an economy least needs a fall in consumption economic growth and taxes to the wealthy bring in diddly squat, raise taxes on the rest of us.
Left of centre politicians, here and no doubt in an independent Scotland, refuse to accept that their fat expensive State, overtaxed business/job creators, vision of overly tight labour laws where businesses are afraid to hire in advance of a certain recovery and whole vision of socialist Utopia, is economically unsustainable e.g. France.
Without of course, a parliamentary dose of ‘unpopular’ Conservatism every now and then, to get the country’s books in order and get back business confidence, create Private Sector jobs and lower everyone’s taxes – for the whole process to start again.
For some reason, as John Major mentions in a link further above, a Scotland with three left of centre political parties still winding the Scots up with political misinformation e.g. a 20-odd year old Conservative council poll tax (yet thought nothing of Labour raising Council Tax up 110% over 13-years) - prefers to demonise the “effing” Conservative Party and have convinced them they are better off without the Conservative’s influence on UK politics.
Whether SNP in Scotland or Ukip misinformation here, both for party political power, that in Ukip's case ENSURES the next UK administration in 2015 will be run by pro EU, pro higher taxes Labour – is a democratic problem and I reiterate, with consequences for all of us.