Cable Forum - View Single Post - browns not backing down so looks like more road blocks ahead

tweetiepooh · 02-06-2008, 12:52

My thoughts

1)We have in a sense been less hit here with fuel prices than else where BECAUSE tax is so high, the percentage increase is smaller (though the VAT element also increases).

2)Financially we are in the doodoos. Labour took over a growing economy and will pass over a sinking one. Whoever comes in will need to deal with that and have less room to manouver since Gordon sold of the family jewels.

3)The unelected nature of the upper house is brilliant. They don't have to follow party lines and instead can rule on what's good law etc. They don't have to be popular either. As unelected they quite rightly can't make law but they can and do reform it. Also as unelected they are not paid. True that may mean that they need to keep a day job but then surely that makes them more like the electorate in some senses.

02-06-2008, 12:52	#43
tweetiepooh Virgin Media Employee Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Winchester Services: Staff MyRates BB: VM 1Gb TV: VM XL Phone : VM XL Posts: 3,332	Re: browns not backing down so looks like more road blocks ahead My thoughts 1)We have in a sense been less hit here with fuel prices than else where BECAUSE tax is so high, the percentage increase is smaller (though the VAT element also increases). 2)Financially we are in the doodoos. Labour took over a growing economy and will pass over a sinking one. Whoever comes in will need to deal with that and have less room to manouver since Gordon sold of the family jewels. 3)The unelected nature of the upper house is brilliant. They don't have to follow party lines and instead can rule on what's good law etc. They don't have to be popular either. As unelected they quite rightly can't make law but they can and do reform it. Also as unelected they are not paid. True that may mean that they need to keep a day job but then surely that makes them more like the electorate in some senses. __________________ I work for VMO2 but reply here in my own right. Any help or advice is made on a best-effort basis. No comments construe any obligation on VMO2 or its employees.