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katie1997 Wrote:

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> 85% of scots voted against the tories - alex

> salmond now saying new government has no mandate

> in Scotland...


Best way to cut public spending is to give Alex Salmond his independence... but we must make sure we take away his passport otherwise by end of year we'll see him pitched up outside the Commons with a can of Tenants Extra and a begging bowl ;-)

"thrown" hahaha


Meanwhile, under the existing right wing Labour Government, the public sector has made it hell for people remember, we already had a right wing government. Friend of a friend of mine who is a social services leader finds three departments merging into one and she has to reapply for her own job. With ALL of her experience and usefulness to society her job is so badly paid she qualifies for key worker accommodation, and the mortgage is tied to that. So if she fails to get her own job, she loses her home.


And now we have Cameron!

Obviously huge congratulations are in order to both Harriet and Tessa for their fantastic achievements in the elections, clearly they have been rewarded for all their hard work by the supportive residents of ED with increased majorities, well done ED folk. As for the EDF poll I can only think it must be down to the fact that sometimes you need to get out amongst the public to experience the real world. I suppose its like those french dainty kings moments before the public led them to the gallows, that dawning realisation that their courtiers had miss represented the mood of the nation, a little unrepresentative clique drunk on delusional thoughts of power, massaging the ego's of a powder faced king. Basically as they say down Peckham way " there has been a lot of chattin shit".

jenny1840 Wrote:

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> Obviously huge congratulations are in order to

> both Harriet and Tessa for their fantastic

> achievements in the elections, clearly they have

> been rewarded for all their hard work by the

> supportive residents of ED with increased

> majorities, well done ED folk. As for the EDF poll

> I can only think it must be down to the fact that

> sometimes you need to get out amongst the public

> to experience the real world. I suppose its like

> those french dainty kings moments before the

> public led them to the gallows, that dawning

> realisation that their courtiers had miss

> represented the mood of the nation, a little

> unrepresentative clique drunk on delusional

> thoughts of power, massaging the ego's of a powder

> faced king. Basically as they say down Peckham way

> " there has been a lot of chattin shit".


Spot on on the last point anyway.

matthew123 Wrote:

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> Good to see the new cabinet agree to a 5% cut

> which is a good start



Next step is to reduce the actual numbers of MPs, in the Conservative manifesto I think - which coincidentally reduces numbers from Scotland and therefore probably no. of Lib Dems in parliament?

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Cuts cuts cuts. Here they come - "at least ?20

> billion from the NHS" for starters. That's the NHS

> fukced then. What did Cameron say "the NHS is safe

> in our hands." Yeah! Like hell it is.


That ?20bn of cuts was already factored into the NHS budget by the Labour gov't and its 5 year spending plan for the NHS. It represents the difference between a general budget increase over 5 years that is in line with UK inflation as measured by CPI and "real" NHS inflation of staff and consumables costs that rises by significantly more than CPI. That's the reality of gov't spending - all dep'ts seem to have a higher rate of inflation than the national measure.


So that's ?20bn of cuts not to be blamed on the Lib Con coalition - there'll be plenty of cuts to blame them for soon I'm sure, tho' the cuts are required to balance the books left behind by G Brown and co; they are not being implemented out of malice & spite.


One action taken has been to increase tax on certain Capital Gains - not a standard Tory move, but a necessary one unfortunately.

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