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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Well their strategy seems fairly clear. Throw mud at the opposition and fire bovine excreta at us with no regard for fiscal responsibility.
The first paragraph is hysterical in the context of the second one.
Both of which will evidently cost nothing significant. Minimum wage increase and increase in paid paternity leave are both quite strongly anti-business measures. Brown appears to have sloughed off any pretence at being centrist now and is pushing a populist and potentially harmful left-wing socialist agenda with total ignorance to the costs of his bribes both to the public and private sector.
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Desperate times these clearly....
What people have to appreciate is that ever since Bliar came to power, New Labour have relied on lies, spin and an ineffectual opposition to keep them there and we're all going to pay the price for that. This tactic has never really changed but around election time they ratchet it all up and we get quite ridiculous stuff like this. I seem to recall Brown telling us his administration would be different but of course it's just more of the same without Bliar's polish and charisma. Cynically conceived, populist, soundbite promises, which would be unlikely ever to come to fruition in a period of boom let alone now when savage cutbacks are going to have to be made. Brown and his cohorts have had 13 years in power with a massive parliamentary majority and yet they've failed to deliver on so many of the major promises they've made and often regurgitated over that period. The only thing they've excelled at is recklessly spending our money as if it were going out of fashion and as a result it has! If anyone really thinks that's about to change now, think again. Brown will say almost anything to stay in number 10!