Anti Growth Agenda

 Think back a short while, to the latest UK Budget and the weeks leading up to it.

The one thing on which all seemed to agree was the need for the budget to promote growth so as to assist in reducing the levels of unemployment and getting the UK economy off of the sick-bed.  A by-product of growth, would be the ability to reduce the UK's very high borrowing needs.

Now take a look at this video, courtesy of The Commentator blog. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NL3KNFOJ3Y

It is scary that these people are funded by UK Taxpayers (that's you and me!) and to promote a policy that is, with its anti-growth slant, in direct contradiction to the stated aims of the UK Government.  This anti-growth stance seeks to shrink the UK economy and that of the rest of the world, particularly those less developed countries.

Very worryingly, we see Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the Coalition government spouting off and supporting the anti-growth agenda and the discredited climate change theocracy.

• What happened to 'joined-up' government?  
• Which is the Coalition's policy - Pro-Growth or Anti-Growth?  
• Climate realist or trying to put the wheels back on the broken down and dis-credited and dishonest  'man made climate change' bandwagon?

Postscript:
For those not familiar with Caroline Spelman, it was she who in 2009, during the expenses issue  it was reported that Spelman had received £40,000 for cleaning and bills for her constituency home; this was despite her husband claiming it was their main home. In 2008 she reportedly over-claimed hundreds of pounds towards her council tax.

On 6 June 2008, Spelman was the subject of controversy when it was suggested that for around twelve months from May 1997 she paid her child's nanny, Tina Haynes, from her parliamentary staffing allowance, contrary to the rule governing such allowances and fears of the misuse of them. Spelman claims that her nanny also acted as her constituency secretary and was paid from the public taxpayers' purse for this aspect of her further employment. Haynes confirms that occasionally she would answer phone calls and post documents but initially she denied such happenings when interviewed on BBC Two's  Newsnight via telephone. The accusations came at a time when Conservative Party leader David Cameron had tasked Spelman with reviewing the use of parliamentary allowances by Conservative MPs and MEPs in the wake of the Derek Conway affair.   The allegation against Spelman came shortly after two Conservative MEPs, Giles Chichester (Leader of the Conservatives in the EU Parliament) and Den Dover (Conservative Chief Whip in the EU Parliament), were forced to resign amid claims they misused their parliamentary allowances. However, Spelman was not urged to resign by party leader, David Cameron. She referred the matter pertaining to herself, her nanny and parliamentary funds toJohn Lyon the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.
New revelations were exposed on the BBC's Newsnight programme that nine years previously Mrs Spelman's secretary, Sally Hammond, complained to the Conservative Party leadership that she was using Parliamentary allowances to pay her nanny and that the arrangement with the nanny was over a two year period and not one.

In March 2009, the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee ruled Mrs Spelman had misused her allowances to pay for nannying work in 1997 and 1998.