1p off your pints and you scum still moan? :103:
Great election to lose. Not a great one to not win (Tories) as if they couldn't get in properly last time, they aren't going to next after so many unpopular decisions.
Next Government will also be a coalition and it might prove to not be a bad thing.
Liberals certainly pushed for the. 10k threshold which helps.
We needed austerity (in personal households also, most went mad on the credit available, including governments and it was always going to end in tears... An end to boom and bust? Ha! You watch, in a few years the cycle will start again. Hopefully some will have learnt but most won't, certainly not those in power because spending gets votes)
However the Tories have entrenched themselves too much, some times they could ease off and help as well. Almost a stop start.
They needed to slash benefits, it became a lifestyle, and govs wanted that because it got them off the unemployment lists. However what they are doing to the disabled and most vulnerable is a disgrace. Where is the common sense?
But whilst slashing those, they needed to go after tax dodging big business, even if just for 'we are all in this together', as well.
Why they haven't done more to get the as good as nationalised banks working for us and lending is beyond me. They could also have reduced or even suspended stamp duty.
I'd need to see the full figures before fully thinking yes, but did think the call to reduce vat again, if only for a year or so, might have eased some spending issues as well.
But if they can't get the property market going, we won't come out of this any day soon.
I don't have much of a party political angle any more, purely because I feel they have all a) let us down. b) gone so far into the centre it is more a battle of personalities than convictions.
Great question, love politics, it is what I did my degree in and am still glued to the political programmes, but nowadays it is more the pleasure form getting wound up rather than learning much.
They could be working together to get us out of this, instead they have stayed in the, he said - she said crap.
You do have to be very careful taxing (or over taxing) the rich because as others have said in this thread, a fair few are industry leaders and entrepreneurs who create work and jobs. However society has to be seen to be fair.
Drive away all the bankers and big earners and we lose a massive (actually an impressively massive for the size of our country) market. However some of the idiocy of bonuses for those who did bring down the system certainly didn't help those having benefits slashed or jobs ended.
We should be somewhere in between in my humble. I've not got much faith in Osbourne as chancellor.