10 reasons why I am not voting for Labour:
1. Labour waste so much of taxpayers' money; funding so many stupid "schemes" that end up being abandoned, resulting in billions lost. One example: The NHS IT system (over £500m) *poof*, money gone, project abandoned. "Oh well", says Mr Brown.
Some schemes work, some schemes don't. I saw an interview with the owners of google and they were saying less than 10% of the 'Friday projects' ever make it to market. Less than 10%. One of the most successful companies on the planet. But you'd rather go for let's just not try in case it doesn't work 
Way to go for the future there fella! Let's try NOTHING in case it fails. In the 60s presumably you'd have been the most vehoment opponent of the space-program as they 'probably wouldn't' get to the moon. As for the super-collider .. cancel cancel cancel as it may not work. What a depressing way to proceed.
2. Labour's benefits system is a complete and utter joke. Did you know that in many boroughs, if you are earning less than £18k/year you can claim £1000/week for rent in housing benefits? Yes you read correctly. £1000/week.
Labour even have the cheek to say you can keep an extra £20/week if they give you too much for rent! Housing benefits alone cost the taxpayer nearly £20bn a year. You also qualify for this housing benefit if you are on the dole, and you won't have to pay any council tax. Have a couple of kids and you get child benefits on top. Why bother working when you can sit on your arse and live a £55k/year lifestyle courtesy of the taxpayer? It is absolutely disgusting (and I don't know why more people aren't outraged by this, though I suspect it's because not many people actually know about housing benefits, a.k.a. Local Housing Allowance). I agree with having some sort of help if you are genuinely struggling, but this is simply wrong.
Seriously, do you read the daily mail? You see your problem here is that you fail to see the problem. The issue is twofold. Firstly, the kids these scum have ARE COMPLETELY INNOCENT. They do not deserve to starve or go into child care (more expensive than benefits). Now If I have 9 kids I am afraid if I get less than £800 a week I will be unable to keep them in any condition and they will suffer. Your plan will have innocent children suffering dreadfully. Kids that have done PRECISELY, EXACTLY ZERO WRONG. But of course the mail doesn't base it's stories on the innocent kids, it's always on 'Mr and Mrs scum'. You have to rise above that - to see the ACTUAL IMPLICATIONS of taking money away from a large family that, for whatever reason (deprived area for example), is simply unable to find work.
So you're next super-super system is to have completely innocent kids suffering, as some kind of wierd vindictive lesson to their scum parents? Sounds like such an awesome idea
Or perhaps you're one of these 'they should be sterilised' brigade of daily mail readers. OK, so what are we going to do? hire big burly men to forcibly hold them down and force against their will operations on members of the public? Nice. Perhaps the big burly men could wear some kind of uniforms with 'Surgical Specialist', or 'SS' written on their hats?
If you just take away benefits people will THIEVE from you and me. Because they'll start starving. They won't gently watch their children starve, THEY'LL THIEVE. So would I. So would you.
If only the benefits system was as simple as 'We know a way of making scum suffer without any innocents suffering'. But this has NEVER been the case. It's just that the conservatives are prepared for 'collateral damage' because, frankly, they don't really care - as long as people that have money get slightly MORE money off the tax breaks ..
3. Labour goes out of their way to increase legislation and bureaucracy in the public sector to "create" more jobs. I have friends who work in this sector, and most of their coworkers are paid high salaries despite being complete morons with virtually no skills, and spend most of the day chatting to each other doing hardly any work. No work gets done, and the equally clueless (and highly paid) managers then think they need to hire more manpower. So then they recruit more mindless idiots, sapping away more taxpayer money.
Firstly I think you are generally confusing the local council with central government. Secondly central government has never created jobs that do not have a defined purpose. So let's see your plan: 1) The workers arn't working hard enough. OK, well the way private sector keeps workers working is by getting more managers, introducing work-flow tools, reporting to find out where the problem is etc. 2) There are far too many managers. Er .. complete logical problem. Sack the managers, the workers will run riot. Seems again like a bit of a daily mail rant without considering the implications of your 'sack the managers, can the beaurocracy and magically expect the workers to pick up their game' strategy. It'd be lovely though, if we weren't in the real world.
4. Gordon brown has been running the economy since the beginning of Labour in 1997, and is now the prime minister. The UK economy is a mess, with a ridiculously large deficit that has been ever increasing since 1997. The deficit affects the country's credit rating, which in turn affects the strength of the pound, which in turn affects the cost of importing oil, which in turn affects the price of petrol (and that's just one of many things). If you say "the national debt doesn't affect me", you are sadly mistaken. Do you know how much the UK has to import? (And don't get me started on why so many of our major manufacturing companies have moved overseas)
All countries economys are in a mess. Us more than some because we rely on the financial sector, mainly because we are pretty rubbish at doing much else (for example we were always pretty rubbish at steel). The strength of the pound comment made me smile when mentioned in the same paragraph as 'imports' as obviously the cheaper the pound is, the more we export! It's not 'The more expensive the pound is the better', and it never has been. Read carefully - so many of our manufacturing companies have moved overseas because the pound has been too expensive, making British products too expensive to foreigners to buy. The pound gets devalued, and somehow you now state thats also a problem. Jees. Just give us a clue, what value do YOU want the pound? Remember, the more expensive it is, the more expensive our exports are. What do you want? Or is it just 'er .. whatever Labour does is magically wrong'
5. Labour ministers have openly admitted not knowing what their real net immigration rate is (perhaps an example of point #3 above?). A huge number of schools in Britain are already full of kids whose English is their 2nd language, demonstrating that immigration is a big problem especially for education. To handle the situation, they want to introduce a "picking out of the hat" system for secondary school places. What a joke.
Well I have spent considerable time in central London and none of their schools are full of immigrants. Your insinuation that 'English is their second language = they are bad at English' is also a bit naive. This whole point seems a bit daily mail and has hyperbole and invented problems spilling out of all sides of it so not really worth addressing.
6. Who should be primarily blamed for the UK's economy anyway? Surely not the man who has been in charge since the beginning. Oh no, it's all the bankers' fault, the same bankers who've been actually keeping the economy alive and money flowing, (don't forget whilst also paying their "substantial" Income Tax, National Insurance, Employers National Insurance, Capital Gains tax, etc). No it couldn't possibly be anyone else's fault. Man, I bet Mr Brown cried with joy when he woke up that morning and realised he could blame his entire career's failings on the banks. Those greedy greedy bankers, how dare they earn us all this tax money, and have the cheek to award themselves bonuses, our MPs would never do anything remotely like that! *cough cough*
Of course MPs do never award themselves bonuses, and their salary is decided by a third party (and are MASSIVELY, MASSIVELY UNDERPAID compared to what they could get privately - my own personal bugbear). Also either the prime minister OR the chancellor is in charge of the economy. Your statement would suggest Brown was in charge when chancellor, and also magically when prime minister. Doesn't hold water. Which are you going to go with (hint - don't choose 'chancellor' as then I'll say 'Well the moment Brown left number #11 the economy went from its' longest even boom to bust. Pity the legend had to move on'.) (hint - don't say 'prime minister' as then I'll say 'He's only been prime minister for a few years, so all the other woes should be blamed on Blair who is long gone, and a person we're not voting for or against').
7. Inheritance tax. You have paid taxes all your life. You pay VAT on virtually everything you buy, you pay income tax on your wages, national insurance (+ another 11% employers national insurance if you are contracting), on petrol, for electricity, gas, water, road tax, car insurance, council tax, phone bills, stamp duty, booking flights, extra tax on alcohol... you name it. If you managed to make it to old age with money left, you pay for your own elderly care. If you are lucky enough to still have any assets/money left afterwards, Labour still want 40% of it once you die, minus the price of a small terraced house or studio flat. Your money has already been taxed. If you work hard all your life and want to let your 3 kids share your nice house you worked all those years for, tough luck, Mr Brown is taking 40% of it. Auction time!
This is actually to get rid of the class system. The daily mail would write the story like this: 'Bill, 32, has never worked a day in his life, he 'can't be bothered'. He has been in prison 8 times for offences on children. He says 'people that work are scum'. He spits on people in the street.
For no reason apart from who his dad was (which was of course pure fluke): He got given £50m by his dad tax free which he now spends on cocaine and hookers (apparently his dad did something dodgy during the war involving jewish gold to get the money). The tories think that system is fair and Bill is the kind of guy that deserves £50m. Labour would take that £50m, built a hospital to fix people up that have done NOTHING WRONG in their entire lives but weren't born into riches, and told 'Bill' to get his fat backside out there and get a job. Me personally, the Labour way forward sounds just kind of the way society should be.
People shouldn't be given so much wealth they never have to work just because their daddy did well. It's not fair. If it had never happened, you'd think the idea of 'never-worked in their lives scum' getting given £50m for no reason at all to be truly atrocious. The trouble is you're used to the idea, so are 'self-justifying' it. Quite an irony when you're against people claiming benefits, that you are FOR the same types of people claiming 'daddys fortune' . If only you coudl step back and see what you're actually saying .. how illogical it is ..
8. Remember Jacqui Smith? Sure you do. Guess who specially appointed her as Home secretary? Yep, Mr Brown himself. What a great judge of character!
hmm. Is she also 'a big snake'?
9. On a personal level, I think Gordon Brown is nothing but a snake. In my opinion he doesn't give a toss about the country's well being, he only cares about his own ambitions. He is a clueless leader and has no idea what he's doing. He even lost us £2bn selling more than half of the UK's gold reserves for goodness sake. What sort of chancellor/prime minister loses £2bn dealing with one of the most stable commodities on earth?
If he cared not about the countries well being he'd be working in the private sector earning £5m+ by now. And before you say it, of COURSE they would employ him and pay him that. No-one could stay in positions of responsibility like he has held without knowing what they are doing. No-one. The opposition would have ripped him apart, where as at the moment we have about equal polls. He precided over the BIGGEST, LONGEST BOOM IN HISTORY. If you weren't working through it take me word for it, it was AWESOME. Loads of money everywhere. Loads of jobs. The ability to rake it in. Fantastic, best time of my life for the wodja ..
10. After all this fiscal waste, throwing billions away on absolute tripe, blowing further billions on benefits encouraging people to sponge off the state, expense scandals, paying public sector bosses ridiculous salaries, paying millions for advisory boards and not actually making use of them (drugs committee anyone?). Labour then has the audacity to say: "well Britain, you're in trouble, can't imagine why, but I guess we just need more money. More taxes please." And do you know what gets me the most? What really gets me? The fact that the party lacks any balls to take a step back and say "you know what, we acknowledge we made some mistakes and bad decisions. We shall try to amend our ways." No. They just mosey on with not a single trace of humility, and deny anything bad ever happened. It cannot go on like this.
Er .. with your more taxes comment, it's actually the conservatives who are going to take money out of the economy altogether at this time of economic trouble (yup, away from the business YOU work for. great plan eh?). Unlike every single other government IN THE WORLD, the conservatives think the way to stimulate the economy is to TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM IT! And I'm not joking I'm deadly serious. Just after a recession, months after, they think 'let's reduce the money in the economy'. Just about everyone thinks this is mental, apart from thick joe Public. It's just depressing
On your post in general, it sounds like you have read A LOT of the daily mail. It sounds like you think Gordon Brown has never done any good. Now, consider this, would someone forming a rational argument ever suggest EVERYTHING Brown has done has been a disaster? Nope. Therefore what you've done is let emotion into the argument. You are also going to vote as 'revenge' for the past which is silly, you should be voting for the future. It sounds like WHATEVER the tories do when they get in, no matter how bad it makes things, you're just going to think 'That is the legacy left by evil old Brown'. Which is blinkered thinking. Open your eyes. Shut the daily mail. Do more reading around the subject. Basically learn the reality of all parties having benefits and disadvantages. Don't think of Brown as a 'snake' as it clouds reality with emotion, try and stick with the facts. If you think of him as a snake you'll spin everything he has done into a failure, which is easy to do, but loses you your capability to thinik through the whole gig rationally.
And stop reading the blimin' mail! It's poison I tells ya!
