Happy days, David loves Nick and Nick loves David. Have a party, bring along your dog. There's going to be a brave new world of brave new politics and we're all going to be so so happy. Sure I'll sign. Oh whats this. The smallprint. £20 billion of NHS cuts. Thats Ok, I'm not ill. Sod you jack. We've all got ministerial limos now. We're big boys.
Tell me this. Did we get into this mess because nurses spunked the money? Nope. Did we get into this mess because dustmen spunked the money? Nope. Did we get into this mess because teachers spunked the money? Nope. So who got us into this mess? Bankers and hedge funds.
Oh, you say? And where is the super-tax on bankers and hedge funds? Oh we can't tax them, they're wealth creators, you say. Erm nope, they spunked the family silver for their own greed.
I'll reserve judgement on the love in until I see the full detailed proposals for caning these greedy bastards. I guess I'll have to reserve judgement for a long time, won't I? Actually maybe I won't. Maybe I'll say it makes me sick
Rog
ReplyDeleteIt’s far too easy to blame everything on the bankers. Sure, they played their part - thanks to the virtually non existent regulation. But our economic problems are mostly due to the inept economic policy of the previous government which, for 13 years, spent taxpayers money like water keeping Labour voters in socially unproductive non-jobs and paying benefits to the workshy instead of those truly in need.
Other countries cut back spending in the good times to build up their reserves. Gordon Brown just kept on spending. Now it has to stop - unless you are happy for your yet-to-be-born grandchildren and great grandchildren to be paying our bills.
As for the love-in between Cameron and Clegg, I am shocked and appalled at the proposal to bring in legislation that would require a 55% majority to bring down a government on a confidence vote. Given the number of seats the Conservatives have - and factor in that Sinn Fein MPs do not take up their seats - this virtually ensures that the Government can’t be brought down by the Commons. This is an affront to democracy.
Hmmm, well isn't it funny that tne only Tories and Libdems who seem to be happy at this marriage made in hell are the MPs who have been given jobs in the new government? How clever of Dave to give a third og all Libdem MPs nice little earners which they won't want to give up no matter how unpopular the coalition is with supporters ... as for the new intake of Tories of course they will do anything to cling to power for the same reasons. At least Labout had the dignity to walk away ... What are socially productive non jobs, btw? Better than being on the dole, surely? Or an investment banker gambling our economy down the drain? Our recent economic problems are as a result fo a number of complex developments in the world markets, especially the US and no government here could have done much better to deal with it. Some things are beyond control or prediction. As for the birth of the benefit culture, you might trace that back to the Thatcherite days when laissez faire economics left communities - especially in the North, which I realise hardly figures on the radar of many Tories - without hope of useful employment, and encouraged the emergence of a sub class dependent on the state.
ReplyDelete@Mrs Angry. The Labour Party are quite happy with all this. They hope they will get disgruntled LibDem voters who object to the coalition and hope the LibDem's get blamed for any cuts.
ReplyDeleteDavid,
ReplyDeleteTwo comments. First, I don't recall the Tories ever asking for more regulation. Second, we only need to look at Barnet to see how Tories husband reserves.
Rog
ReplyDeleteI don’t hold Barnet up as an example as to how to run a Council and I do not have much confidence that this new social democratic (ha, ha) Conservative LibDem government will solve our economic woes. Frankly, I’m not sure that any party has got the guts to do what needs to be done because they are all too fearful of the opinion polls.
I agree with Mrs Angry that the LibDems will find their new pay and perks too irresistible to give up, but what makes me angry is that the public did not vote for coalition government. Indeed, whenever any of the party leaders were specifically asked what they would do in the event of a hung parliament, they refused to say.
I don’t agree with Mrs A, however, when she says that Labour walked away with dignity. Far from it. Brown’s grubby attempt to cling to power was merely the last of a very long list of misjudgements by him.
Where is the North, BTW? ;-)
Rog: two good comments.
ReplyDeleteDaniel: yes, it's the best outcome for Labour, time to regroup and sit back while Dave and Nick waltz themselves over the cliff ...
DCMD: Brown had to stay as PM until the others sorted themselves out, yes he should have bowed out as leader a bit earlier but there has never been a political leader in Downing Street who has not had to be dragged out ... remember Maggie's tearful farewell, I certainly do, with great pleasure ... T'North? Starts somewhere beyond Chipping Barnet, ends around 1926 ...