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Originally Posted by Derek S
And how are these being paid for? By cold, hard cash or by some dodgy PFI scheme where the money is spread out over 20-30 years and off the books to try and make the national deficit even less scary than it is.
Yep the liberalisation of drinking laws has been a great success, you only need to go down the local high street each Friday or Saturday night to see how the British have taken to the continental drinking culture.
Hmmmm, more police but less than ever actually doing 'policework' thanks to reams and reams of paperwork foisted on them. Murder might be down but violent crime is up.
If Labour are such friends of the Police and law and order try checking out some of the Police blogs to see how much support they are giving them in their quest for re-election.
Murders may well be down thanks to improvements in medical care, wounds that would have been fatal 5-10 years ago are now mostly survivable, which leads me on to.
And a huge increase in the number of managers and the cost of them to the service. Plus as in schools most of these are being paid for by costly PFI schemes.
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Mere facts Derek, mere facts.....
We all know New Labour are very 'relaxed' when it comes to minor details such as facts, truth and honesty. They and their apologists aren't good at answering questions either (they've got 'better things to do' IIRC
) although they just love asking them.... For a party that's been in power for 13 years, has access to all the 'books' and, if we're to believe the rose tinted brigade, has served us all very well, they don't seem to have many answers and are being remarkably coy about where the axe is going to fall....
They've definitely spent, wasted and lost UK PLC loads of money, however, and if these were the sole criteria for judging a successful government, this lot would be the best by a country mile. Discrimination's obviously become so politically incorrect within government circles that, so far as the economy is concerned, New Labour have suspended theirs in favour of Ponzi style economics and Viv Nicholson's budget control....
Anyway, I wonder if any of the New Labour apologists who've defended Brown so blindly over the years and were in total denial about what the rest of us knew he did wrong, realise how stupid they look now he's finally admitted he made serious mistakes WRT the regulation and oversight of the financial sector..... No doubt they have better things to do than face up to reality....
