Is it right that the Government are punishing the poor the most?

[mj.scuba]

Poor Gleggy. His boss is off on holiday and he is stuck having to defend a regressive budget, desperately trying to make out that the Institute of Fiscal Studies is some sort of quasi communist Labour backed think tank.

 

Really? What did he say to make you think that?

[taxman]

Cleaned the hospitals & kept superbugs at bay?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/sep/28/mrsa.superbugs.hospitals

 

Hmmm, I thought it was the Tories who introduced the internal market and competitive tendering in the NHS whereby cleaning contracts are given to the lowest bidder.

[Wildcat]

Cleaned the hospitals & kept superbugs at bay?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/sep/28/mrsa.superbugs.hospitals

 

That is nothing compared with the urine soaked beds common in 80s hospices, because of Thatchers cuts.

[Wildcat]

They might not have caused that, but running a defecit during the boom years is no way to run an economy.

 

Hmmm, that is how John Major ran the economy. In fact that is how every Govt runs the economy.

[Daven]

Poor Gleggy. His boss is off on holiday and he is stuck having to defend a regressive budget, desperately trying to make out that the Institute of Fiscal Studies is some sort of quasi communist Labour backed think tank.

 

And poor Cameron, spouse and latest Cameron offspring are slumming it in an NHS hospital - heart bleeds doesn't it?

[mj.scuba]

Hmmm, that is how John Major ran the economy. In fact that is how every Govt runs the economy.

 

Is committing to further spending when there is no money in the coffers a wise thing to do, as Labour did in their dying days, to the extent Treasury staff were so alarmed they had to ge written confirmation to cover their own backs?

[Wildcat]

Is committing to further spending when there is no money in the coffers a wise thing to do, as Labour did in their dying days, to the extent Treasury staff were so alarmed they had to ge written confirmation to cover their own backs?

 

It was the only sensible thing they could do to protect businesses and their employees from the inability of the banks to do their job and provide them with the credit they needed to keep afloat. Had the Govt not kept spending up the recession would have been much worse and more akin to the one Thatcher created in the early 80s with a healthy economy.

 

Incidentally I remind you of the nature of the level of debt the ConDems are using to justify their ideological attack on the poor and public sector:

 

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_national_debt_chart.html

 

Historically it doesn't look so reckless to me and certainly doesn't justify the level of pain and suffering they are about to inflict on us.

[iansheff]

And poor Cameron, spouse and latest Cameron offspring are slumming it in an NHS hospital - heart bleeds doesn't it?

 

But in a private room.

[hitch_1980]

We never elect Prime Ministers.

 

Who voted for the Cleggeron?

 

Im not a fan of his btw........but I dont like people / a mob who bereate him in front of kids....theres a time and a place to air your views in a civilised manor....

[hitch_1980]

And poor Cameron, spouse and latest Cameron offspring are slumming it in an NHS hospital - heart bleeds doesn't it?

 

Maybe he trust the NHS.....