David Cameron fires the starting gun for unofficial election campaigning

sir_drinks_alot · 03-01-2010, 08:14

While it may not have been officially called i think we can all agree that David Cameron fired the Starting gun for the Election campaign.by giveing that speech the other day this is going to be One hell of a campaign.

Ignitionnet · 03-01-2010, 10:18

Hell is probably an appropriate word. I'm feeling bored of it already.

The only entertainment will come from seeing how low Labour stoop in a cynical attempt to preserve their power. Given the megalomaniac PM and the unelected and already disgraced hatchet man actually running things it's probably fair to say any sense of morals will go out of the window.

Already signs are there of one angle of attack.

Paul K · 03-01-2010, 10:43

So, soon we get to vote out one set of liars only in it to make themselves better off financially and vote in another set of liars only in it to make themselves better off financially? Sounds like a waste of time to me since they all make promises they don't keep and they are only interested in making huge cut backs at the moment that will impact lower level local government staff but still protect the up levels.

Ignitionnet · 03-01-2010, 11:40

We'll see. Always the slim chance that some actual public servants will slip through the net.

Dai · 03-01-2010, 12:46

If the cuts mean that we'll lose some of the prodnoses from local government that busy themselves with stuff that should be none of their business it can't come soon enough for me.

papa smurf · 03-01-2010, 12:53

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Originally Posted by DaiNasty

If the cuts mean that we'll lose some of the prodnoses from local government that busy themselves with stuff that should be none of their business it can't come soon enough for me.

Paul K · 03-01-2010, 18:32

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Originally Posted by DaiNasty

If the cuts mean that we'll lose some of the prodnoses from local government that busy themselves with stuff that should be none of their business it can't come soon enough for me.

Unfortunately we all know that it won't be these that go, they will offload the cuts onto departments and areas that cannot be cut any further without people losing their jobs.
Our local borough has already told it's departments to make massive cutbacks to the point that some departments are not even allowed to order envelopes or basic stationary without the head of department deciding whether it is worth financial outlay.
Daft cut backs like this will not make the same impact as say removing 1/3 of the figurehead managers that do nothing to actually validate their wages or dare I say it by removing some of the positions created just to keep up with the increased bureaucracy that isn't needed or to keep track of the targets that should never have been set in the first place.
There are many areas of the civil service which are massively over paid, over resourced and overly protected and these are the areas that should be culled.

**Chris** · 03-01-2010, 18:37

Thread title changed.

We won't be having any threads officially called 'Election 2010' until we actually know when the election is. And then those threads will be opened and closed by the team, with opinion polls, week by week, until election day itself when we will have a final thread with an exit poll.

Until then, by all means open topics to discuss specific issues, such as David Cameron's new year's speech, by all means. But do try to avoid the usual all-purpose party political ranting, this is supposed to be a topic based forum after all, so let's try to find topics and then stick to them.

As you were.

Sirius · 03-01-2010, 20:00

Well all i hope is that by the middle of this year i will be celebrating the removal of an unelected numpty and the labour party that put him in charge of us.

I will drink a few whiskeys when that happens

papa smurf · 03-01-2010, 20:23

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Originally Posted by Sirius

Well all i hope is that by the middle of this year i will be celebrating the removal of an unelected numpty and the labour party that put him in charge of us.

I will drink a few whiskeys when that happens

then the task of rebuilding what he and his cronies have destroyed will begin

again.

Arthurgray50@blu · 03-01-2010, 20:50

Well lets put it this way, If that idiot Cameron gets in to run this country, be prepared for this country to be ripped apart, you will have more pen pushers in government and local government than workers.

The Tories look after the rich people, and not the people that work for the country on lousy wages,

papa smurf · 03-01-2010, 20:54

[QUOTE=Arthurgray50@blu;34938220]Well lets put it this way, If that idiot Cameron gets in to run this country, be prepared for this country to be ripped apart, you will have more pen pushers in government and local government than workers.

unfortunately the idiot Brown has beaten him to it .

**Chris** · 03-01-2010, 20:59

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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu

Well lets put it this way, If that idiot Cameron gets in to run this country, be prepared for this country to be ripped apart, you will have more pen pushers in government and local government than workers.

Number of managers in NHS has more than doubled since 1997

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The Tories look after the rich people, and not the people that work for the country on lousy wages,

Ah. That'll be the tired old class war rhetoric we're expecting this election to be fought on.

Arthurgray50@blu · 03-01-2010, 21:04

No matter what party gets in, we the voter will suffer, we will get these promises, and NOT one will be kept.

Under the tories, everything will go up, they will vote for an increase in pay, whilst we get stuck on so much percent. They will ruin this country like before.

I will vote Lib Dem, in protest against our Labour Mp, who has been fiddling, and is still there.

dilli-theclaw · 03-01-2010, 21:06

MMMmmm when my vote drops on my mat in a few months time it's fair to say I am still not sure who to go for. Still, I have a while to think about it.