Ken Clarke on becoming Shadow Business Secretary

[ukipwarrior]

Should have been chancellor part 2

[makedoandmend2]

Kenneth Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine and John Majors policy of playing cat and mouse with mortgage payers in the 1990s in a disastrous attempt to get us into the Euro brought Blair in with a landslide. While John Major buggered off to work for Barclays his terrible leadership gave Labour thirteen years to build up the bloated benefits system which is encouraging young woman to turn out huge families to get the handouts. When they all reach voting age Labour will be in again. See Black Wednesday

[makedoandmend2]

John Major should have realized the misery he was inflicting on mortgage payers having come from a poor family himself. Instead he sought the advice of the Euro misfits Kenneth Clarke , Hurd and Heseltine who recommended interest rates be put up and up and up. Forcing mortgage payers to pay over 20% of the value of their home just for one years interest and trapping them in negative equity when the banks pulled the plug. Kenneth Clarkes bad advice brought Blair in with a landslide .

[SirOneoneselfandone]

Likes jazz, likes beer, likes cigarettes, genius, experience in government, brilliant chap

TOP BLOKE

[blueparrot10]

ken is well liked by the public! iv always been a labour voter...though thinking of voting conservative now.....iv always liked ken + everyone iv spoken to on this-also likes him...voters of all-parties! ken is just a very decent + likeable bloke! this is very rare in politics,but true with ken-A GREAT BLOKE.

[markheim71]

A great politician and the best PM we never had. Have a pint and a bhaji on me Ken you big blustering tory bloke you.

[zodiacie]

What did you discuss at Bilderberg 2009?

Kenneth Clark is a regular attendee at these annual meetings.

There is a media blackout regarding Bilderberg, ask you self why this is.

[aeronuk1]

My guess is they want to keep their agenda of a one world 'community' a secret, for now at least.

[Posthuman7]

Damn right briggles.

[LittleOldLady1]

Ken Clarke was the best Chancellor this country has had in a very long time. He got Britain out of the last world-wide recession and bequeathed to New Labour a strong and vibrant economy. He deserves credit for this.

[Judep22]

I would like to express my sincere condolences to the family of David Cameron on the death of his

6 year old son Ivan earlier today.

Our thoughts are with him and his family.

[makedoandmend2]

Ken Clarke-the Big Beast.

The big beast struck terror into families with mortgages in the 1990s when he egged on the incompetent John Major to force crippling interest rates onto small businesses and mortgage payers costing hundreds of thousands of families the roof over their heads in the Black Wednesday mess.

[tugsandtost]

European splits. European splits. I can't help thinking about European splits.

Clarke used to be my fave Tory (best of a bad lot) but he's past his prime.  Shame Mandelson can't meet Clarke in the commons- he'd slaughter him!

[makedoandmend2]

Ken Clarke, the man whose advice helped to cause the last recession.

He encouraged Sir John Major in his ERM folly and must share the blame for the Black Wednesday fiasco when many thousands of homes and businesses were lost owing to crippling interest rates.

See John Major Black Wednesday.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi make

When gordon brown sold off our gold reserves to help hide the mess we were in he cost the country 8times the amount we lost on black wednesday.when john major left office he left one of the strongest ecconomys in the world a long with 40billion in the bank.WHERE HAS ALL OUR MONEY GONE LONG TIME PASSING WHERE HAS ALL OUR MONEY GONE LONG TIME AGO WHEN WILL LABOUR EVER LEARN WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN.

REGARDS DAVE.

[simonsigns]

WELCOME BACK!

[rogerswift1983]

I noticed how as soon as he was back on the front bench, Brown had to start taking stabs at him in PMQ's. Typical attacking the very man who left him with a golden egg and the best economy in the world (before he ruined it)

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi carlbro

Why do we need id cards,browns only got to switch on the cameras on every morning or read our emails to find out what we had for break fast that day.Browns far to bissey saving the world to bother about the british people,Buy the way are we allowed to use the words british people any more.or as labour out lawed that as well in case we offend the 2mill asylum seekers 1mill ileagals or the 1mill eastern europeans over here.

[Paranormal999]

Good to see you back in the front bench, I reasonable voice in a parliament of craziness, I look forward to watching you in action, The best leader the Party never had one day who knows?

[cctriggar]

Good show old man, good show.

[Ntone606]

Glad to see the man partly responsible for the economic boom of the 90s back in the shadow cabinet. If only the keynesian idiots in Labour had never squandered the wealth.

[tugsandtost]

The only reason Clarke was successful was because he broke from the woeful Tory tradition of macroeconomic incompetence and disobeyed Eddie George. No way he, or any other Tory chancellor could have kept the economy stable and growing for as long as Gordon. Vote Labour!

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

No way could a tory chancellor have managed to keep the true state of the british economy from its people for so many years,that takes a real sneaky bastard,mendelson fits that bill as well.11 YEARS OF LABOUR 30 YEARS OF PAIN AND RECOVERY.

[tugsandtost]

Dear DaveI See you have been briefed by Tory central office about what slogans to use. This is a major world wide downturn and if we do nothing like the Tories suggest our economies would bottom out, unemployment would go through the roof, we would have deflation and the costs of fixing things would be far greater. Besides Tory policies in the 80s encouraged increases in private debt. The Tories privatised demand management and now we face the consequences.

Take care and vote labour.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

I have never been briefed buy any one in my life every thing you read is from my own exspirence and thorts i find labour such an easy target the slogans just keep rolling off the tounge.This down turn started over 2years ago there were plenty of warnings,our ecconomy has not bottomed out yet we still have a long way to fall.the costs of fixing labours mismanagement are going to take many years.

regards dave.

[tugsandtost]

Hi Dave

Apologies for the dig but with an election due relatively soon I need to get in some practice of Tory baiting. The Tories are just too weak to fix this thing. Besides they are all from the same side as the bankers- go to the same schools, join the same clubs and go to the same parties- to reform the system in any way that will improve things. We can praise god (even though I'm an atheist) that the Tories were not in power when this global crisis began.

Take care,

T+T

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

no offence taken,your statement applys to all the poltical partys.did you watch the carefully crafted appoliges by the banksters there scripts were word perfect and the goverment gave them an very easy ride.I am also an atheist but i would rather put my trust in the tories any day rather than god.I am sure if the conseratives were in power at present we would be in a much stronger position to handle the crisis brown has created.

regards dave.

[Ntone606]

LOL tugsandtost. Thank you for your amusing comment. You clearly know zero about economics if you think that Labour have done a good job with the economy. Tell you what, I'll give you a loan of £1m and you come back in eleven years and let me know if you had fun. You have been fooled by Brown. Living on debt is fun whilst it lasts, but when the debt must be repaid the party ends.

[tugsandtost]

Labour's main failing has been its hesitation to break with Tory economic dogma. If you do nothing in this disastrous global environment government debt will have to increase unless you want spiralling unemployment and the collapse of major British companies, which would lead to higher government debts in the long term. Thank god we have Labour in who have the strength to govern. The right is too weak and DC and Osborne are too socially linked to bankers to do anything major to their pals.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

Labours failings started 11years ago,they kept it well hidden.goverment debt and unemployment has also been out of controll and well hidden for many years along with asylum,law and order,145 hidden taxs,freedom of speech,cctv whatching our every move,gold reserves,duming down exams,we have spirelling unemployment and major companys going under every week.tony blair jumped ship and walked straight into two banking jods neting him 4million.

redards dave.

[tugsandtost]

Hi Dave

I'm no fan of Tony Blair but my gripe has to do with war which, to be fair to him, Clarke opposed but Cameron strongly supported. I also agree with you about the gold reserves but unemployment has been much lower than Tories' 18 year wrecking of Britain and better than our European competitors. Lucky we didn't have Clarke as PM or else we'd be stuck with the Euro which Gordon has skillfully rejected. The last 12 years have been great for any Brit (or Pole) who wanted it to be.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

I agree with you about the war ,we were all coned by blair inclueding the conservatives.When the tories left office there were 4 million on the dole,labour took 3mill and put them on incapacity benefits a friend of mine working in the dole office said they were given targets to get them off the dole ASAP.labour are the only ones telling us were doing better than our european competitors. european surveys say we are in the worst position out of all the european countrys.

[tugsandtost]

Hi Dave

Just thinking about what you said about Blair earning 4million. I agree it's bad. But what about Ken's directorships? Foreign and Colonial is filled with old Etonian blimpish Tories.  I know Ken is grammar school but why does he like mixing with that type. Second, BAT. Supporting tobacco is a dirty job. Ciggies are, of course, legal but do we want an important politician tainted with that business. I really think Ken's become too corrupt lately and lost his edge.

Take care Tugs

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi tugs

I think if the truth is known all polititions mix with that type behind our backs.I am a none smoker but this goverment has gone to far with our freedoms and they are geting worse buy the day.I would like to set up a peoples party from all walks of life just a enough people with some commonsence,there job would be to over see all the partys and goverment run departments making sure they are doing there jobs properly not fiddling there exspences ect.ect,

[callmewilson]

I want to see a blue landslide at the next election! I DO NOW WANT to see that corrupt labour party get a fourth term.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi wilson

At present we are all suffocating under a landslide of asylum seekers ileagals,eastern europeans taking our jobs,labour lies,sleaze,spin,corruption,de­pt,PCbullshit,gone mad,i want to see an ocean of blue with blue skies and the sun beating down on our once great country.we need to get rid of this labour plague and the grim reaper.

regards dave.

[TomGreenUK]

Ken is fantastic. He should be next Chancellor!

[tartanfox000]

Your country needs you Ken, welcome back and what a task ahead of you. I'm sure you will welcome the challenge. Time to put Brown and Darling out of their misery and get a new Government elected as soon as possible. You did a great job last time, good to have real statesman back.

[raaaaaaaaaaagh]

welcome back ken, always wanted cameron's new conservatives to mix with the old guard

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi ken

Nice to see a true statesman back on board GIVE THEM HELL,in the nicest possable way.

[thedavewalkershow]

Hi ken

For get what i said about the nicest possable way,that was a moment of madness on my part.JUST GIVE THEM HELL.

REGARDS DAVE.

[neilam6]

welcome back ken

[stringalong4me]

It's good to see 'cuddly Ken'again,hopefully for keeps.Considering his track record and the fact that Brown & co inherited the best balance of payments ever via Ken Clarke,which Labour subsequently squandered and frittered away.Ken's appointment at last gives me hope that their IS light at the end of a very long left wing tunnel.

[KingswoodMrsToad]

Thank God Ken's back. Gravitas on the front bench is just what is needed. Thank you Ken

[ashleyfoot1]

Unfortunately like many hundredws or thousands or millions of people who do not hear well I am unable to follow what Ken Clarke is saying in his video can you pls remember us when you show Conservative videos on the net as we all have votes and wish you well.Thank you.Lovingengland

[ashleyfoot1]

Unfortunately like hundreds if not millions of British people I cannot follow the video because it has no subtitles on it....pls can you kindly rectify the matter I have just broached and many kind thanks,

[pantosio]

great news. his blokeish demeanour, colourful personality, proven ability and preference for straight-talk resonate with people all over the UK. he connects, naturally and easily.

yes, he's wrong about the EU and the Euro - but nobody's perfect and anyway, difference and debate is a healthy thing. not something you easily find in the dogmatic and cant-ridden ranks of Gordon Mugabe's ZaNu-Labour.

[buffboydan]

perhaps he should ave been elected leader a couple of years ago...

[sollibop]

They were in desperate need of a heavy hitter in the shadow cabinet now they've got it. Great contrast to our former and current chancellors. Ken got us out of a recession maybe he get us out of the one Brown helped get us into.

[SeanOGallagher]

Grand news; I have every confidence in David Camerons abilities to restore dis country back to it's rightful place among the worlds elite nations; and by appointing Mr Clarke to his shadow cabinet Mr Cameron has brought the day a step closer to when once again the Conservative party will lead the nation back to the halcyon years of Mrs Thatcher.

[wheelers04]

so glad to see ken back! great news for our country :)

[CGJ]

Welcome back. :)

[blondyorkie]

Go get them Ken, don't let them of the hook.

[simse01]

So now we have the new vision in the form of David and the Conservative reform and the great experience of Ken Clarke.

Can we lose now?

[mrichards55]

Move over darling. Move over Brown. Time to let in the people who can fix our economy.

[BillandEric]

Gotta' love Ken!

Welcome back Sir.

[PGillard]

I hope you will enjoy your time with David's new team Ken. Please give the 'nearly new' Labour party some table thumping home-truths and kick 'em out while you're at it!

[MattA96]

Good news. Labour's time is coming, fast. Hoping for a blue landslide, and hoping that Britain can be fixed.

[TheGraduand]

And he's 68! Go Ken!

[ProcyonAlpha]

Good stuff, just keep your euro obsession to yourself.

[ayrtonaiko]

Welcome back Ken.

[pthurst]

Good Luck! Where do you begin in fixing something which is so severely broken?