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Originally Posted by joeysteele
It is really good when someone,as you have, outlines the real facts of the situation. Not just spouting prejudices from a particular party allegiance, but which, all have a right to do obviously though.
I can only agree fully with all you have said, you are right as to the Lib Dems just savouring power for themselves,the party at large though must be slowly realising the massive likely irrepairable damage that is being done to the party by Clegg and his MPs
I do have to grin watching Clegg nodding as Cameron is talking at PMQs,(which is a total farce anyway).
He looks ridiculous.
Things are not going to get better in 4 years, the next round of major cuts are coming up to 2013,the job losses will be severe,Inflation is expected to rise and be high until 2013.
From 2013, masses of people are really going to feel the restraints of much higher bills, higher costs for food,less benefits, less money coming in as most households are likely to lose at least 1 person in work over the next 3+ years.
Not a thing has come off the deficit yet despite the cuts,in fact the govt has got itself stuck on more expenditure, the involvement in Libya, costing near £1.000.00 for every missile fired, millions of aid each year to India and Pakistan, the bail outs for EU Nations in difficulty. Then the waste of money on this referendum just held.
I do not believe the UK is in the bad shape the govt says we are, if we really were as bad as they say,we would firstly not be able to do any or all of those things above or for that matter be allowed to, IF we are, as the govt says, being watched closely by the Worlds financial institutions.
As you have said bananarama, politicians are liars,all of them in all parties,what a choice the voters have.
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Indeed you might well question the truth or not about the state the incoming government found. Incoming governments will always claim things are worse true or false. It's an insurance policy that enables them to blame the previous government if their policies go pear shaped......
The libs claim to have back tracked on their promises because the state of the economy is worse than they new of before the election. This is a lib lie because all oposition parties always expect to find the previous government has concealed and watered down the truth. So when the libs made their promises to the student they new full well they would probably have to break promises and insult the intelligence of the students by making the excuses they now make.
May interest you to know a little more about the Tories during the 1980 and 90's. Here is a factual example. The Tories like now hate the civil service so went on a campaign to destroy as much of it as feasable.
First shot was to privatise privatise and privatise. Some of the first victims were low paid civil servant cleaning staff. The hourly rate for that job in 1980 was £1-90 per hour. 16 years later under a private complany and split into part time jobs the hourly rate went to £2-10 per hour......
A rise of 20p over 16 years and also loss of holiday entitlements exept those holidays written in law. Something like an average of one and a half pence per hour per year. Shamefull.. The tories then of course refused to bring in a minimum wage to protect employees from low wage exploitation. Indeed David Davidson the Tory claimed the minimum wage was "evil".
I know of cases where civil service in house duties were contracted out as a matter of Tory dogma and it cost twice as much from the private sector.
The greatest myth of modern times is that the private sector is some sort of majic bullet of cost saving and efficiency. New Labour when the took office took up the tory batton and went on with private sector involvments only to be accused by the tories of wasting money. Yep they wasted money because they followed tory policies and still did right up to when Brown was booted out.....
It's not the ownership of an organisation that matters it's the "management" that matters........With good management you get good results be it private or public.........However polititions live by the code of dogma and common sense goes right out of the window..........