Richard Carvath one of the candidates for hazels seat is on Salford Online, any views on the interviews and will all candidates be doing it?

Richard Carvath: Independent PPC – Part 2

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Reporter: Tom Rodgers
Camera: Momo Omari

In the second in a three-part look at the candidates for the Salford seat at the 2010 General Election, we interview Richard Carvath, who stands as an Independent.

In this section we go into Richard’s more controversial beliefs, such as those on homosexuality.

These interviews are intended as information for the people of Salford to show you what your political candidates actually stand for.

A man has been shot dead in Peel Green Eccles

 

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A murder investigation has been launched after a man was shot in a shop in Salford.

Ten people have been arrested following the murder of a 27-year-old shop worker in Salford.

Officers are appealing for witnesses to the incident at Brookhouse Wines in Winton last night, Saturday 4 July.

Shortly before 9pm police were called to Brookhouse Wines on Brookhouse Avenue, Winton, following reports a man had been seen with a gun.

The armed offender walked into the shop and shot the 27-year-old shop assistant several times before escaping in a blue Mazda, registered M239 NUK, which was later found burned out on Laburnum Avenue, Wigan.

On arrival at the shop officers treated the victim until paramedics arrived. He was taken to hospital for treatment but died as a result of his injuries.

Eight men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in police custody for questioning.

Detective Superintendent Rebekah Sutcliffe, from GMP’s major incident team, said: “This was a brutal attack on an innocent shop worker. This man was just going about his daily work when he was gunned down.

“I’m keen to speak to anyone who may have any information about the people responsible for this attack, particularly anyone who saw the blue Mazda driving away from the shop before it was dumped.

“We can treat any information we receive in strict confidence.”

Superintendent Rob Potts, from GMP’s Salford Division, said: “This will undoubtedly have shaken the community in Winton.

“I would like to reassure people that incidents of this nature are very rare and we are doing all we can to make sure that we solve this.

“If anyone has any information, please come forward.”

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 0161 856 5448 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.

BROWN’S £1,200 TAX BOMBSHELL god it’s going to be hard worrying what to spend the rest on?

Gordon Brown is planning masive tax hikes

Sunday July 5,2009

By Jason Groves

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FAMILIES face a £1,200-a-year tax bombshell after the next election if Labour win to meet Gordon Brown’s pledge to maintain lavish public spending levels.

The crippling increase, equivalent to more than the average family’s entire annual council tax bill, will be needed if Labour wants to honour the Prime Minister’s promise not to cut public spending.

The figures, produced by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, show Labour has already pencilled in tax rises after the election which will cost the average family more than £300 a year. If Labour rejects public spending cuts it will have to find an extra £26billion to balance the books, resulting in tax rises costing the average family about £850 a year.

Former Tory Cabinet Minister John Redwood said tax increases at this level would cause massive damage to the economy and bring misery to millions of families.

Mr Redwood, who advises David Cameron on economic competitiveness, said: “It would be a tax wipe-out. Millions of families would struggle to pay their mortgages and bills, let alone spend money in the shops. The result would be less business and fewer jobs.The public know there have to be changes and that the country cannot go on wasting and borrowing in the way it has under Labour.”

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said the figures showed it was time to slash public spending.

Mr Elliott said: “The Government must accept the urgent need for spending cuts.

“People are heavily overtaxed already, and there is no way that anyone could afford tax rises equivalent to a whole new council tax every year. It is absolutely clear that massive savings could be made by ditching misguided policies, trimming bloated quangos and bringing the efficiency of the public sector up to the standard of the private sector.

“The Government’s spending binge is totally unsustainable and must be killed off. The country cannot afford tax rises on this scale.”

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The new figures will fuel the growing political row over how to shore up the public finances which have been crippled by massive Government borrowing. Market fears about the public finances make further borrowing virtually impossible, leaving a stark choice between higher taxes and spending cuts.

Although Treasury documents suggest the Government is planning deep cuts in public services after the next election to fill the black hole in the Budget, Mr Brown has repeatedly claimed this is not true. The Prime Minister insists that public spending will continue to increase under Labour. He says that only the Tories are planning cuts.

The Tories have said deep spending cuts are needed to balance the books. NHS spending will be protected, but other departments could face 10 per cent cuts.

David Cameron came close to accusing Mr Brown of lying last week, and branded Labour’s spending plans “dishonest”.

Chancellor Alistair Darling is pressing the Prime Minister to be more frank with the public about the dire state of the public finances.

But a senior Labour source said Mr Brown believed that hammering home a message about “Tory cuts” could yet win Labour the election.

The spending row will intensify tomorrow when Mr Cameron unveils plans for a crackdown on the Government quangos created by Labour, including cutting the “astonishing” pay of their senior managers. The Quangos cost £35billion a year.

Who cuts first Labour or The Tories?

Gordon Brown under new pressure over public finances

Gordon Brown has come under fresh pressure over the public finances after John Hutton, the former defence secretary, said that voters expect “honesty” about the need for cuts in Government spending.

 

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Published: 11:38AM BST 05 Jul 2009

John Hutton: ‘The country expects honesty about this. They know that things are going to be tight in the next few years’ Photo: CHRISTOPHER PLEDGER

Mr Brown is trying to frame the next election as a choice between “Tory cuts” and “Labour investment”, despite predictions from independent economists that Labour’s huge Government borrowing will mean that whoever wins the next election will have no choice but to cut spending.

Privately, some ministers are uneasy over the Prime Minister’s refusal to admit spending will have to be cut by whoever wins the next election, believing it will hurt Labour’s standing.

 

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Mr Hutton, who quit the Cabinet last month, said that voters realise that the growing gap between what the Government spends and what it raises in tax means that the public sector will inevitably face a squeeze.

Mr Hutton said: “I think fundamentally people know their belts need to be tightened and I think the discipline and responsibility of politicians is to be clear about what they are going to prioritise – is it health, is it education, is it schools is it defence?”

He added: “There’s going to be a very important debate in the next few months about that. Politicians have got to lead that debate and be clear with people.”

“The country expects honesty about this. They know that things are going to be tight in the next few years.”

“People are much more grown up than we often assume. They understand a change is coming.”

The current spending round ends in March 2011. Labour has not yet set out any detailed spending plans after that, but independent economists have said that significant cuts are inevitable.

David Cameron, the Tory leader, has accused Mr Brown of “dishonesty” over public spending, saying the failure to publish detailed spending plans is an attempt to conceal the cuts Labour would be forced to make.

If the Government of the day chooses to protect health and education spending, the Institute for Fiscal Studies puts those cuts at around 10 per cent in other Whitehall departments.

The alternative to cutting spending would be to raise more money in taxes.

Sir John Major, the former Conservative prime minister, said that the country would face “very significant tax rises” if spending is not cut, perhaps as high as 5 pence added to income tax, or a 20 per cent rate of VAT.