The Rally Against Debt

The small turn out would, on the surface, indicate that not many believe in the Government's policy of putting the Nation's finances in order. Opinion Polls though indicate that the silent majority does indeed believe in what the Government is doing is right and most probably would also support extending the cuts to reducing the debt Labour landed us with rather than just the deficit. Thus there will have been implicit support for today's Rally but I suspect the organisers may have been naive in thinking that such a dry subject is one about which many will feel passionate enough to join in a demonstration. Unwavering agreement with the aims of the Rally but not of the need to spend time shouting about what is a self evident truth. Perhaps to ensure greater attendance the Rally should have covered some other issues about which the Labour Government was guilty, like the lies about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, the extraordinary number of things that were made crimes, all the otiose equality legislation that was enacted, the blind acceptance of everything the EU proposed, the agreement to help with eurozone bail outs and the need to say no to any further requests to bail out Greece or any other eurozone country. There is no reason why we should have to ensure that the French and German banks escape the consequences of their bad investments i.e. their purchases of bonds issued by Greece, Portugal etc. Let the German and French taxpayers bail out their banks. After all the German and French economies are doing well enough just now out of the mess they helped create - much better than we are.