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5 October, 2009 at 5:33 pm #13761
- £22,500 of debt for every child born in Britain
– 111 tax rises from a government that promised no tax rises at all
– The longest national tax code in the world
– 100,000 million pounds drained from British pension funds
– Gun crime up by 57%
– Violent crime up 70%
– The highest proportion of children living in workless households anywhere in Europe
– The number of pensioners living in poverty up by 100,000
– The lowest level of social mobility in the developed world
– The only G7 country with no growth this year
– One in six young people neither earning nor learning
– 5 million people on out-of –work benefits
– Missing the target of halving child poverty
– Ending up with child poverty rising in each of the last three years instead
– Cancer survival rates among the worst in Europe
– Hospital-acquired infections killing nearly three times as many people as are killed on the roads
– Falling from 4th to 13th in the world competitiveness league
– Falling from 8th to 24th in the world education rankings in maths
– Falling from 7th to 17th in the rankings in literacy
– The police spending more time on paperwork than on the beat
– Fatal stabbings at an all-time high
– Prisoners released without serving their sentences
– Foreign prisoners released and never deported
– 7 million people without an NHS dentist
– Small business taxes going up
– Business taxes raised from among the lowest to among the highest in Europe
– Tax rises for working people set for after the election
– The 10p tax rate abolished
– And the ludicrous promise to have ended boom and bust
– Our gold reserves sold for a quarter of their worth
– Our armed forces overstretched and under-supplied
– Profitable post offices closed against their will
– One of the highest rates of family breakdown in Europe
– The ‘Golden Rule’ on borrowing abandoned when it didn’t fit
– Police inspectors in 10,Downing Street
– Dossiers that were dodgy
– Mandelson resigning the first time
– Mandelson resigning the second time
– Mandelson coming back for a third time
– Bad news buried
– Personal details lost
– An election bottled
– A referendum denied
-Ballot Boxes are interfered with
-Voting registers go missing
-The Police can kill innocent people and get away with it
-You can be put in prison for 42 days on pure suspicion
-You can be put in prison indefinitely without charge on the word of a politician
-The State can torture people
-Your children are monitored at School by Political Officers
-Their behaviour is logged on a State database for their entire lives
-Your innocent fingerprints, iris scans and biometrics are held by the State
-You do not have the right to remain silent
-You are watched on 4 million CCTV cameras
-You may not photograph the Police
-The media is controlled by the State
-You do not have the right to protest peacefully
-Curfews exist for entire communities
-Your travel movements are logged and monitored
-Who you vote for is logged and monitored
-Your shopping habits are studied and logged by the State
-Your emails and telephone conversations are recorded by the State
-Your passport can be withdrawn at the whim of the State
-Government agencies can use lie detector tests on you.And seriously I don’t think it will get any better under the Tories.
5 October, 2009 at 6:17 pm #418717i like the ending to ur post , government can use lie detectors on US !!!!!! we dnt need to use them on THEM !!!!!! coz their lies are so blatantly obvious , and thats all of them , not just labour
5 October, 2009 at 6:22 pm #418718WOW ! seriously think thats a clear cut case of betrayel there…….And some think the rothschilds are bad……Its like a 3 horse race…with a few non-starters thrown in for good measure, i thought that was arthur scargil in the pic…lol
6 October, 2009 at 6:06 pm #418719Can anyone remember when we had a good government? I can’t and I’m 54.
We are still living with the adverse effects of some of the policies of the Thatcher government and even the Wilson government. For instance, in Thatcher’s case, the abandonment of manufacturing industry in favour of service industry and the bad behaviour of some of the privatised utilities. In the case of the Wilson government, the long shadow of a culture of continuous public sector empire-building is still cast over us.
The thing is, government is to do with solving problems. They can never please everyone and as time goes by there more and more people become displeased with any particular government.
I call it Bassingbourne’s Theory of Inevitable Unpopularity.
6 October, 2009 at 8:19 pm #418720yup each government comes into power fks up and says its what they inherited ,
6 October, 2009 at 8:39 pm #418721Would any of us manage to run the country any differently… we all want to pay less tax but have a better health service better roads better everything. Which government has actually delivered on election promises once elected. Maybe it just goes with the job
6 October, 2009 at 9:15 pm #418722@pete wrote:
Would any of us manage to run the country any differently… we all want to pay less tax but have a better health service better roads better everything. Which government has actually delivered on election promises once elected. Maybe it just goes with the job
I agree totally Pete. No matter how any Prime Minister handles things they will always be blamed. Labour may not be the best but i believe that they are the best we have.
6 October, 2009 at 9:18 pm #418723That’s what I’ve tried to say.. I mean, people go on about the Government, but it must be hard, at the end of the day, put me in charge, and under pressure, and surely I’m going to make mistakes.. Wrong decisions. We can’t all go through life doing things smoothly, and pleasing everyone who crosses our paths! Some people even try and debate, find arguments, when they haven’t a clue what they are talking about. They believe in this and that, but can’t be bothered gathering the full facts!
6 October, 2009 at 9:28 pm #418724@pete wrote:
Would any of us manage to run the country any differently… we all want to pay less tax but have a better health service better roads better everything. Which government has actually delivered on election promises once elected. Maybe it just goes with the job
Hardest thing in government is to do nothing, leaving things alone to sort out themselves is often the wisest course, something no politician ever seems to learn.
“People don’t like to be meddled with. We tell them what to do, what to think, don’t run, don’t walk.”
“We’re in their homes and in their heads and we haven’t the right. We’re meddlesome.”Sums them up entirely
7 October, 2009 at 9:41 am #418725@pete wrote:
Would any of us manage to run the country any differently… we all want to pay less tax but have a better health service better roads better everything. Which government has actually delivered on election promises once elected. Maybe it just goes with the job
i recall previous topics , seam to remember u slating conservatives and thatcher , so was the pit closures inevitable anyway , even under labour , if so why blame thatcher , not that i support tories btw coz i dnt , just makin a point
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