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NATIONAL ISSUES The banking crisis was predicted by economists, including Vince Cable MP, two years and more before it happened. The government did nothing. After the banking crash, and the 850 billion pound bailout the Government was happy to lend the banks, The Labour government allowed Royal Bank of Scotland to lend money to Kraft to enable that company to takeover Cadbury. Within days 400 UK jobs were lost, using money the government had lent RBS, a government owned bank ... Christian has been campagining around York to raise awareness of the issues surrounding Gordon Brown's 10p tax fiasco. Penalising the lowest paid in our society whilst simultaneously allowing so-called 'no-doms' to avoid paying any tax at all is bad enough but the inability of government to understand the mood of the nation is even more worrying. Saving our declining fish stocks should be engaging all the brightest minds in government but all we see are ministers unable to rise above vested interests and short termism. Instead of paying fishermen to save and revitalise their industry, government has paid fishermen to sit at home for half the month. Far from protecting fish stocks government policy seems destined to destroy the fishing industryand threaten the entire ecosystem ... Police Pay - why is the government abandoning independent arbitration? Why exactly the government has decided to pick a fight with the police? There is in place an agreed arbitration process that has worked for 30 years. Why suddenly decide no longer to honour this process? ... You cannot avoid the suspicion that this whole mess was initiated to draw attention away from Labour's other problems - general elections that never were, Northern Rock, the dozens of missing CDs on Walkabout, bearing the personal details of millions of citizens... Labour in York and the need for more action on Climate Change If Labour want to play a more active role in tackling climate change in York the best thing they can do is to persuade their Labour government to ring-fence all revenue from carbon trading allowances and to invest that money in helping local authorities to create a low carbon economy because what we need in York are not talking shops but resources. The government's latest greenwashing wheeze, is to siphon up to £1bn a year from an agreed EU-wide pollution levy into general treasury funds instead of creating a clean technology fund ... Nuclear power & climate change - a Liberal Democrat challenge The Liberal Democrats have opposed nuclear power for many years, and with good reason. Nuclear power stations and, in particular, nuclear weapons have been seen as a threat to our safety and security. Nuclear waste has rightly been seen as a burden we should not be visiting on the generations that will follow us. But now we face a new and immediate challenge that requires us to look again at the issue of nuclear power. Tackling climate change requires us to make dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions. Can we afford to ignore the contribution that nuclear power, as one of the few viable and existing large scale near zero carbon technologies, has to make?
Published and promoted by Christian Vassie, 10 Blake Court, Wheldrake, York YO19 6BT
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