I dont care.
for the simple reason it would be simply labour coming back.
what has dissapointed me the most is not what the tories are doing but rather the lib dems.
1 - agreeing to AV as the alternative, which is still not a PR voting system.
2 - backtracking on so many of their core policies.
I guess I probably would prefer labour as I think these cuts are too brutal when I am seeing corp tax breaks etc. But I dont feel it enough in that I want the change now.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Bankers didn't help, but building up unsustainable spending and government debts is what brought it all to a head.
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its not anything like that simple.
if public spending was lower, then the boom likely would have at best been much smaller and at worse not a boom at all.
government spending is just the tip of the iceberg, what happened with the banks was the core thing at fault, if they didnt crash then we probably would still have labour in power now spending like before.
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Originally Posted by Osem
Coupled of course with the actions of a good proportion of irresponsible people who ran up vast amounts of personal debt in one way or another without giving a thought to how they'd pay it back. Of course while they were so busy spending they didn't have they weren't too bothered about what HMG of the time was up to and that suited Bliar and Brown just fine.
Our current government is still only months old and they've made what I believe are some mistakes, however, the thought that there are those who'd actually like to see Milliband, Balls and their ilk back in power in spite of what they've done to this country is frankly astonishing. |
Is interesting post.
I consider the dismantling of things like social services, welfare state, public services as more damaging than a bad credit rating and deficit. I think the average person on the street couldnt give a crap about the countries credit rating, thats just how it is. However people involved with finances and I think generally wealthier people consider things like the deficit and credit rating as extremely important issues.
Labour did bad things but they also did some good things which we would never has seen from a tory government such as the min wage and propping up poor areas with public sector work (I now consider this a good thing now as I learned my city will have over half of population unemployed without it).