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Labour Lead At 7 Points
Thought Sqad may be interested !...Just to keep the pot boiling !
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Not much change to the LibDems or the ghastly UKIP, so this large lead seems to have all come from the Tories.
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Not much change to the LibDems or the ghastly UKIP, so this large lead seems to have all come from the Tories.
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I think it is a question of trust Mikey. To be told that we are all in it together, see families and disabled people made destitute by their Dickensian austerity measures and then have some upper class twits claiming expenses for dredging their moat and fixing a leak under their tennis courts does smack of lying, immoral gits with double standards, not to...
07:15 Sun 11th May 2014
Food banks get used because they are there, Mikey. When I was a youngster there were few people poorer than my family. And by poor I mean absolutely poor, not poor relative to some contrived average. My parents really did live hand to mouth for quite a long time. There were times when they really did have to decide which mouths to feed - and they did not have the option to cut down on their mobile phone usage or cancel their Sky subscription to see them through. Nobody used food banks then because there weren't any so it could be said that, by that simple observation anyway, people were much more affluent then. Yeah, right.
Also, you must not confuse departmental cuts with cuts to benefits. Most government departments are hugely over-staffed (much of that excess being a legacy of the growth of about 750,000 in government jobs under the last government). To lose some of these "non-jobs" will not effect services nor are those cuts necessarily related to the modest cuts to some benefits. And I still maintain the cuts are modest because the change to the overall benefits bill is insignificant. This is despite there being record numbers of people in work and reducing unemployment levels.
The reason that benefits are under pressure is because as well as supporting those who genuinely cannot work or who have not been able to contribute to a pension, the taxpayer is also supporting huge numbers of people who simply will not and never have worked. Unless that problem is addressed (and there is no indication that either of the main parties will do anything significant about it) the money available for those genuinely in need will be less. As I said earlier, I have no time for this government. It is a pathetic illustration of what weak (i.e. a Coalition) government is like. It is only the preposterous "Fixed Term Parliament Act" which was passed in its early days that has kept it in office. The country needs a strong government to take it in the direction that the majority of people want and I am filled with no confidence whatsoever that next year's election will provide that whoever is in the lead in this week's polls.
Also, you must not confuse departmental cuts with cuts to benefits. Most government departments are hugely over-staffed (much of that excess being a legacy of the growth of about 750,000 in government jobs under the last government). To lose some of these "non-jobs" will not effect services nor are those cuts necessarily related to the modest cuts to some benefits. And I still maintain the cuts are modest because the change to the overall benefits bill is insignificant. This is despite there being record numbers of people in work and reducing unemployment levels.
The reason that benefits are under pressure is because as well as supporting those who genuinely cannot work or who have not been able to contribute to a pension, the taxpayer is also supporting huge numbers of people who simply will not and never have worked. Unless that problem is addressed (and there is no indication that either of the main parties will do anything significant about it) the money available for those genuinely in need will be less. As I said earlier, I have no time for this government. It is a pathetic illustration of what weak (i.e. a Coalition) government is like. It is only the preposterous "Fixed Term Parliament Act" which was passed in its early days that has kept it in office. The country needs a strong government to take it in the direction that the majority of people want and I am filled with no confidence whatsoever that next year's election will provide that whoever is in the lead in this week's polls.
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