[JoshBB]

What is your opinion on Austerity and budget cuts? Do they help the economy? Do they have a positive effect? Discuss.

[Lee.]

I oppose them! It's disgusting that the neediest in our society suffer whilst so much money is wasted in wars, nuclear weapons, new roads that'll benefit a minority of people, ridiculous expenses for mps and wage rises and tax cuts for the richest! I

It makes me sick

[hijaxers]

Myself and everyone i know feels not the slightest bit positive about the cuts and dread another 4 years of Cameron and his enormous ego in charge of this country.
The wealthy love it !

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Lee.

I oppose them! It's disgusting that the neediest in our society suffer whilst so much money is wasted in wars, nuclear weapons, new roads that'll benefit a minority of people, ridiculous expenses for mps and wage rises and tax cuts for the richest! I

It makes me sick

This x 1,000%

[DemolitionRed]

Are you asking about general budget cuts in the future or specific cuts that are presently going on?

Are they good for the economy? When a countries debt reaches unsustainable levels and the government can no longer service that debt, anything that reduces that debt will help our economy in the long run.

Cutting MP's salaries and their benefits would be a good start.
Reducing tax evasion from the filthy rich would be beneficial to us all.
Cutting education and the health service shouldn't even be an option.

[MTVN]

They are neither inherently good or inherently bad, sometimes they are necessary, sometimes they are needlessly employed partly from ideological motives. It was necessary to have some cuts in the wake of the recession though and all the main parties are agreed that some cuts will be needed again after the general election

[Lee.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

They are neither inherently good or inherently bad, sometimes they are necessary, sometimes they are needlessly employed partly from ideological motives. It was necessary to have some cuts in the wake of the recession though and all the main parties are agreed that some cuts will be needed again after the general election

Yes, but those cuts will be made in the wrong places, affecting the wrong people.

[arista]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

What is your opinion on Austerity and budget cuts? Do they help the economy? Do they have a positive effect? Discuss.

but the Only Party
that would stop that is the Greens


And Labour is stopping them get TV debates
Even if Ofcom spent a year
we all make mistakes



So Really this thread
Should say Only The Greens will stop it etc
as a title

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

They are neither inherently good or inherently bad, sometimes they are necessary, sometimes they are needlessly employed partly from ideological motives. It was necessary to have some cuts in the wake of the recession though and all the main parties are agreed that some cuts will be needed again after the general election

Yes All 3 main partys
will make big Cuts
thats normal

but the Greens will not

[joeysteele]

I support them but not the way this coalition govt. has implemented them.

They have been used to really penalise the weakest,poorest and most vulnerable for far too long now and if the Conservative party were to, (god forbid), get an overall majority this year,I despair for those who are at the lowest end of things as to the effects from further heartless, badly planned, discriminatory and scapegoating cuts.

If the cuts were applied with a safety net, that when proven to be too harsh and causing unnecessary and unjustified hardship to the most vulnerable,to alter the course of the cuts,fair enough.

However, the fact that whoever wins this election in May will have to make more cuts leaves the question as to why they have to.
It is simply because over the first 4 years of this govt, the cuts were ruthlessly imposed and with no plan b whatsover, have resulted in chaos in the lives of those whose lives and livelihoods should have been more protected.
The main reason that more cuts are needed by whatever govt. is in after May, is down to this govts, disastrous and dangerous failures to achieve any of the financial and economical targets they set themselves in 2010 as 'vital' to succeed in.

In times of great difficulty such as what the UK went through and the economical state of the UK in 2010,then austerity measures were required,I agreed with that.
How they have been done however, has been all wrong and they have crippled the wrong parts of society.

The austerity measures needed after May need to be done with sensitivity,understanding, compassion and fairness.
The ones done in these last 5 years have been none of those things and there are none and shouldn't be any prizes for failure.
This govt. has failed bigtime, even with all its massive austerity cuts.
Now daring to ask in May this year,for the same time again, to make even more severe cuts and to try to achieve the same things they set out in 2010,is unbelievable arrogance from this govt. and PM.

Yes, there needs to be more austerity cuts,not because there should be but will now have to be due to this govts. massive failures.

Any new cuts need to be done in a 'compassionate' and 'just' way,2 things that will not be the case at all from the current Conservative party under this absolute total disaster of a Prime Minister.