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Article of the Month

Fareed Zakaria is the editor of Newsweek International. He recently wrote one of the most gripping articles I have read this year ‘The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed is good, up to a point’ and I thought it a ‘responsibility’ to share a passage from the article with you. According Zakaria:

“Most of what happened over the past decade across the world was legal. Bankers did what they were allowed to do under the law. Politicians did what they thought the system asked of them. Bureaucrats were not exchanging cash for favours. But very few people acted responsibly, honourably or nobly (the very word sounds odd today). This might sound like a small point, but it is not. No system- capitalism, socialism, whatever- can work without a sense of ethics and values at its core. No matter what reforms we put in place, without common sense, judgement and an ethical standard, they will prove inadequate. We will never know where the next bubble will form, what the next innovations will look like and where excesses will build up. But we can ask that people steer themselves and their institutions with a greater reliance on a moral compass.”

There is a great deal of meaning and understanding in what Zakaria writes. Essentially, the law and regulations, alone, cannot sufficiently ensure good legal, political, social or economic practice. Consequently, when David Cameron talks about individual responsibility, he is pointing to common sense, to virtue and to good practice- something that has been in short supply in our communities for much too long now; something that only a Conservative government can now restore.

You can read the full article here.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/201935

Special Thanks To: Keep Right Online.

Ladies and gentleman, fellow countrymen go forth today and do your democratic duty.

Today you have an opportunity to Vote for Change. To vote for the change we all so desperately need, in these times of economic and political instability.

The EU must hear the British public’s voice. Let us be loud and let us be firm.

We want a referendum.

Vote Conservative today.

Sound bizarre? Well, I thought I’d do them a favour since their own PR efforts are so criminally incompetent.

In actual fact, the Labour elite squad seems to consist of a pitiful five members (plus the ‘host’ organisation, thrown in there for good measure) who have had yet another of their clandestine meetings to discuss how threatened they feel by the BNP and to, “find out how YOU can make a difference!”

Me? I’d have loved to go, but the thought of spending an hour (at 6.30am no-less) with Brown’s Brummie Brigade caused me to wretch so violently I almost uttered the words, “Bring Blair Back!”

I submit for you, dear readers, the sumation of Young Labour’s efforts; modesty preserved for those intelligent enough to not attend/not respond altogether. May I suggest some better event organisation? Perhaps a better time? Or even a more credible political party?

Note: Check out my first post at BUCF President on the BUCF Blog here.

Good turn out, then?

So having finally agreed that the economy is in shambles, largely thanks to Labour’s ill-informed economic policy, one would hope that business and enterprise would finally begin to be encouraged, but no, instead, the Budget has enraged key business leaders across the West Midlands. Despite the fact that 8.4 per cent of the workforce in the West Midlands region is unemployed- this is the worst unemployment figure in the country- Mr Darling decided that Leeds and Manchester, both Labour-run Councils are more deserving of the City Region status. In his decision, Mr Darling agreed that plans to create 44,000 jobs in the region as an immediate impact of the City region status, were not as important as party politics. Ultimately, the West Midland’s population have been ‘Punished…for not voting Labour’.

Now let us have a look at the Labour governments explanation:

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Well, we’re still waiting on it!

Wednesday was Budget Day. The borrowing figures got the headlines - and rightly so. We’re in a new age of austerity yet this Government is trapped in the old age of irresponsibility. Sitting there in the House of Commons listening to the Chancellor tell us he was planning to borrow more in the next two years than all previous governments combined left me open-mouthed. I used to say this Government seems intent on saddling future generations with debt. I was wrong. After this week, they’re going to crush them.

But, as ever, the real story of Labour’s Budgets comes after the Chancellor sits down and you get to unpack truth from fiction. And this year, there was more fiction than normal. Within an hour the IMF had rubbished his growth forecasts, suggesting Labour’s Debt Crisis will be even worse. Then their claim that only the rich would carry the burden of their mistakes was dismissed - their tax rises will hit the many, not the few, with everyone earning over £20,000 worse off. And by Thursday it became clear that there’s an even bigger black hole in their figures - which will be plugged by guess who? Yes, all of us - in even higher taxes. This Budget can be summed up in one word: dishonest.

Nonetheless, on the brighter side, it’s St George’s Day today- a day to value and celebrate English culture formally. Have a good one!