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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Hugh compare our spending per head to other developed countries, you may be surprised. Thats a better comparison than comparing to 1990 another tory era of 'under' spending.
Yesterday cameron refused to answer a very simple question, is it fair to reduce housing benefit by 10% to those looking for work. Instead he went on about whats fair for those who work, he is treating the unemployed as lower class citizens and welfare as a budget that can be thrown away. Welfare of people in this country is more important than making super schools etc. the latter is a luxury.
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Originally Posted by Chris
All politicians frame their questions in a way that suits their agenda. Politicians that oppose them frequently refuse to answer questions framed in such a way as to trip them up regardless of their answer.
I find it unsurprising that Cameron should decline to answer a question in the terms posed by Milliband. I also find it unsurprising that you should seize on the performance, rather than the content of the debate, as support for your view.
I believe Cameron declined to answer in the way Milliband wanted him to in order to emphasize that the real issue of fairness is why taxpayers should subsidise people to live in houses at rent rates that they as working people could not afford. I think Cameron is correct. Anyone who says that a person is being treated unfairly when they're receiving £20,000 a year housing benefit even after these cuts is just having a laugh.
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BBC
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Ed Miliband should use memorable "cheer lines" at prime minister's questions to ensure coverage on TV news bulletins, leaked advice to Labour's leader says.
A memo to Mr Miliband on what to do at the weekly session, seen by The Times, urges him to ask simple questions to make PM David Cameron look "evasive".........
.......The big prize is usually to provoke the PM into appearing evasive by repeatedly failing to answer a simple question, often one that requires a simple yes or no."
Mr Miliband appeared to follow this advice on Wednesday, pressing the prime minister on whether he was going to drop any of the coalition's planned reforms to housing benefit, whether the plans were fair, and how many families in London would be affected.
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As Chris says, if someone says to you
"are you going to stop beating your wife? and I will only take a "yes" or "no" answer", you are damned if you answer "
yes" (because you are admitting to beating your wife) and you are damned if you answer
"no" (Aha, you beat your wife and you are not going to stop).....
Also, in real life, most things are not binary, they are fuzzy - anyone who states otherwise is trying to mislead us.