Conferences

[IainBusby]

I can remember bugger from the LibDem conference, apart from they managed to screw themselves up their own

I slept through Labours same old same old.....

But the Tories have manged to come up with a few little surprises to keep one eye open

Yea and all of them bad.

[walesrob]

Yea and all of them bad.

So who is up to the job then:

1) The Devil (Labour)
2) The Deep Blue Sea (Tory)
3) Thin Air (Lib Dems)

Think I'll go and live in a real democracy where there is real choice, how about er, Zimbabwe

[IainBusby]

So who is up to the job then:

1) The Devil (Labour)
2) The Deep Blue Sea (Tory)
3) Thin Air (Lib Dems)

Think I'll go and live in a real democracy where there is real choice, how about er, Zimbabwe

As the saying goes, better the devil you know. All we really know about the tories is what they did in the 80s and 90s. In those days they positively encouraged greed and de-regulated everything. Unfortunately the labour government didn't have the balls to re-instate some of those financial constraints and look where it has got us now. The only thing the tories did do that was good for the UK was to control the might of the trade unions.

I firmly believe that under the Cameron mask that they're all hiding behind, they still believe as Maggie did that there is no such thing as society, only individuals....... and now they rant about broken Britain when it was their policies in the eighties that started the breakdown of society as we had known it in the past.

Our current unemployment was caused by a worldwide recession brought about by the credit crunch which was in turn brought about by greedy bankers selling worthless fluff to each other just to make huge bonuses for themselves. The mass unemployment of the eighties was caused by conservative strict monetarist policies and was accepted by them as a price worth paying......... as long as it wasn't their people (the rich) who were paying it.

Iain.

[whiteraven]

i have to agree with everything you just said iain cameron is only telling people what they want to hear. kicking the disabled , single parents and capping public workers pay. yes we will have to pay the national debt and it will hurt all of us but no mention of silly private wages and bonuses or chasing the rich who avoid paying tax altogether by hiding their money in overseas banks. middle and working class (even though i dont like using class terms) will be the ones to pay not the public school fat cats

[walesrob]

i have to agree with everything you just said iain cameron is only telling people what they want to hear. kicking the disabled , single parents and capping public workers pay. yes we will have to pay the national debt and it will hurt all of us but no mention of silly private wages and bonuses or chasing the rich who avoid paying tax altogether by hiding their money in overseas banks. middle and working class (even though i dont like using class terms) will be the ones to pay not the public school fat cats

Seems like Cameron can't win can he? If he proposes this, he gets shot down for being all PR and no substance, if he proposes that, he gets accused of being a toff whose only concern is lining his own pockets. Your not really giving him a chance are you? Hope you enjoy 5 more years of this lying, deceitful and spinning Labour government.

[whiteraven]

if he proposes hitting the bloated rich to then maybe i will sit up and take notice

[IainBusby]

if he proposes hitting the bloated rich to then maybe i will sit up and take notice

Even though they say we must cut public spending, they're still sticking to their promise to abolish inheritance tax. I do believe that inheritance tax, because of house price inflation is affecting many people that the original tax was not aimed at and in the south east especially mr or mrs average. But this throwing the baby out with the bathwater approach is not the answer and only means that mr or mrs average will have to pay more in other ways just so that the super rich (those who the tax was originally aimed at) can pass on all of their wealth to their probably already wealthy offspring..... and the rich get richer and the poor and the average get poorer....... same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, with a tory government.

Iain.

[KeithD]

.... kicking the disabled ...

All 2.6 million of them a 'Incapaticated'?

Some days I am bed ridden and still do my work.

Incapacity should be the sameas a War Pension, you get it in %'s.

[IainBusby]

All 2.6 million of them a 'Incapaticated'?

Some days I am bed ridden and still do my work.

Incapacity should be the sameas a War Pension, you get it in %'s.

Who was it that encouraged able bodied but somehwat feckless people to move on to incapacity benefit to make the unemployment figures look better, the tories of course.

[KeithD]

.... the tories of course.

I don't remember Labour doing anything about it apart from putting more on it like smackheads, people with a sore back, broken fingernails.... mind you, they've only had 23 years