You know, it really is a pity that Labour leader Ed Miliband didn't give us a warning that he and his fellow crooks were spending all our reserves whilst they were in office. It's very easy to place blame when you're sitting on the opposition benches. Next election, it doesn't really matter who you vote for as long as it's not Labour...they have no solution to the mess they got us into.

I don't actually think the recession ever went away, and the reason it's really taking hold now is because it's starting to affect "Middle Income Families". Up until now the only real casualties have been the old, sick, disabled, and unemployed, but now it's starting to hit home in what used to be termed the middle classes.

Under a conservative government they were always pretty well insulated, after all that's the bedrock of their votes, but now the recession is getting out of control, and unless you're in the higher income bracket you are going to be in for a very rough time.

Perhaps it's time the Middle Income layer in society felt the squeeze, but you can guarantee the political classes never will.

Something I'd like to see is an average expenses claim survey done on the MP's. Done the same way they work out average earnings. Just add up how much they claim altogether in a year, divide it by how many MP's there are, and get a figure that way.

According to Government figures Average Earnings are around £26000 - 00 to £30000 -00 per year. Since having to give up work in 2007 after suffering four heart attacks, (after forty years of never being unemployed, paying my taxes and national insurance etc, my wife and I have to try to get by on a joint income (Thats her minimum wage job, and my sickness benefit of £14000-00 a year. And believe me it's not easy.

strange how miliband now thinks he is an expert ,we in the west have lived on borrowed money for far too many years and now it has come to a head , its not just governments the people have done the same , modern world has not worked , like the euro it never could , the masses have been led to believe they could borrow money , the truth is the only way to improve your position in life is to work hard to pay for what you want and pay cash

The country's skint. What do you expect? Unless of course you're on full benefits and a bit of window cleaning on the side.

He should warn about labour


Due to his Labour Party policies which have treated the British economy like a giant Ponzi scheme running up an a enormous debt there is no doubt generations to come will be worse off than their parents because the labour debt has to be paid back and this has put all our services and management of the entire economy at risk.


Britain has a government debt liability of aprox 2 to 4 trillion if you take account of the government pension liabilities. This debt is growing daily by aprox 300 / 450 million and is unsustainable.

The debt was run up by the labour party and is putting all our services at risk. We need to stop it growing and it needs to be paid down so the money lost servicing this enormous debt which is lost to the economy aprox 65 billion per year and growing can be used to support our services which we are danger of losing.

A start to put thing right is to pay off the deficit and debt and make it illegal for any government to run up debt or even sell debt on the bond markets, This will mean they will have to live within their means and have an incentive to make the economy grow so they can fund their spending plans, pet social engineering plans. and engineered re-election prospects.

whoa

Give it a rest Milly, your 13 years of "advise" to Blair & Brown landed us in the mucky stuff in the first place

I think for many people at the bottom of the economic ladder right now is like wartime. There may not be food rationing,restricted transport with power,heating and fuel shortages,but for all intents and purposes this is how it's beginning to feel like..

Quiet! Yes. Can you see everyone who does not agree with these policies in the streets rioting???? LOL! They are on the side lines waiting to vote!

Well, I truly believe Britain will see a very loud and clear "crisis" in the 4seeable future, to show them how bad politics are in the said country!

What is this Wallace and Grommit lookalike on about,? just another not on this planet, no idea how the "ordinary" man and woman in the street lives spouting a load of rubbish that will not work. Just like the rest of the clowns running the country completely out of touch . Take no notice of them and when the time comes get rid of the lot of them WILL HE BE HAVING A "QUIET CRISIS" I bet he bleedin wont

Quiet, what is quiet about it? Labour got us into one hell of a mess and no one now has the intelligence or the knowledge to get us out of it.

One of the biggest problems for the future will be who to vote for at the next election. None of the present parties are worth a consideration.

It's only quiet because he is too spineless to scream and shout.

This 'quiet' crisis is nothing compared to the crisis our children are going to face from the reckless spending of the last Labour government, unless we get to grips with it.

I dont like cuts either, I dont like politicians but I also dont like the bare faced cheek of Labour politicians attacking every cut and every single piece of bad news as if they had nothing to do with it in the first place.

I think the sooner Larry the Cat is promoted within number 10 to a position of real power the better.