Farage on Friday: The age of ‘OsBrown’ economics has failed - it's time for a real change
THIS week Britain’s Chancellor, George Osborne, stood in front of the nation and delivered the last budget before the General Election.
Given the number of marginal constituencies that Mr Osborne went to the lengths of naming in his budget this week, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that this was a major, political budget with loads of giveaways for the British taxpayer, in a last-ditch Tory attempt to win votes.
But the Chancellor couldn’t do it, and he knew he couldn’t, because he is already treading the very thin line between his own, and Gordon Brown’s failed economic policies.
He simply couldn’t afford to remove all doubt that we are indeed in an age of ‘OsBrown’ economics. But we are.
Borrowing is up. In fact it took Labour 13 years to double the national debt. It took the Conservative Party in government just five.
And we’re repeatedly told that this Coalition Government came “together in the national interest” in order to eradicate Britain’s budget deficit. The problem is, just like their broken promises on immigration, the deficit is still running at £90bn per year.
And that takes us onto why this is not a “recovery” for the most vulnerable, or the less well off. It’s an asset-based recovery, which means that if you own your own house, or have shares, you’ll probably have done alright this year. But for so many people across this country, they simply haven’t felt any better over the last five years.
For a real change, in just 48 days time, anyone who has thought of voting for Ukip must do it to make a real change
Indeed the last five years has been a lost five years for many. Their real wages are being compressed by the influx of migrant labour into this country. While in 2010, the Tories promised that net migration would be in the “tens of thousands” by now – the official figures show that the number was closer to 300,000.
For those on low wages, or in unskilled labour – this is keeping their wages down. It’s simple economics. Too much supply for the demand. It means employers can slash wages.
But you won’t hear the Chancellor address any of these issues. Because he knows that both his government and the Labour alternative are both wedded to Britain’s membership of the European Union – it’s costliness, and indeed its open-door migration policy.
For a real change, in just 48 days time, anyone who has thought of voting for Ukip must do it to make a real change.
A change that will strip away the unnecessary functions of government – like the £70bn HS2, much of our £12bn a year foreign aid budget, and our £8bn a year EU membership fees – and replace it with public services that are really in the interests of the British people: £3bn more for our NHS frontline services, more for our defence budget, and taking the minimum waged out of tax altogether.
There begins a budget that millions in this country could get behind. And there’s only one way to get it.
