Who loses with a Tory victory?

StevieJ

The point of this thread is to point out that there are at least three sectors of society who are likely to be badly affected more under a Tory than a Labour administration, I was wondering what % of the electorate they represent and whether they could have a big effect in the coming election.

Graham_Devon

StevieJ wrote: »

So what you appear to be saying is we only discuss what Labour are doing or done and not what the opposition are likely/certain/proposing to do if elected, what is that about :eek:

No. That's not what I appear to be saying.

What I am saying is, you have created a thread, based on nothing, asking us who will lose out, IF the tory party wins.

You have then given options. None of which are based on any policy that the tories have suggested they may carry out, or, even suggested.

Hence why I talked about the scare mongering stuff.

If you could add tory proposals, and then say who will fall foul of these proposals, fair enough.

aelitaman

vaporate wrote: »

I hate Brown as the next person but I wouldn't trust the media either.

Just the media spinning anything they can. Anything for news these days.

Watch the video on the BBC news site and see if it is just the media spinning. The Lady is quiet clear. They have had 3 or 4 people who work directly for Gordon Brown telphone them for advice.

aelitaman

StevieJ wrote: »

The point of this thread is to point out that there are at least three sectors of society who are likely to be badly affected more under a Tory than a Labour administration, I was wondering what % of the electorate they represent and whether they could have a big effect in the coming election.

bad post from me.

vaporate

aelitaman wrote: »

Watch the video on the BBC news site and see if it is just the media spinning. The Lady is quiet clear. They have had 3 or 4 people who work directly for Gordon Brown telphone them for advice.

I'll have a look.

aelitaman

Pensioners - Why worse off The Tory proposal is to re-establish the link between pensions and wage infation so they should be better off. Also a lot of these pensioners own homes and more will be better off with higher inheritanace tax, certainly none will be worse off.

StevieJ

Graham_Devon wrote: »

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Hence why I talked about the scare mongering stuff.

If you could add tory proposals, and then say who will fall foul of these proposals, fair enough.

Nothing scaremongering about it, they will be out with the hatchet where do you think the cuts are going to be? BTW those Tory proposals would be quite handy but they are not that stupid.

lostinrates

StevieJ wrote: »

The point of this thread is to point out that there are at least three sectors of society who are likely to be badly affected more under a Tory than a Labour administration, I was wondering what % of the electorate they represent and whether they could have a big effect in the coming election.

OK, well, taking point 1, the public sector...some of the figures I've seen bandied around here include one that 50% of wealth generation is public sector (different to % earning, but I can't rememebr how this was recently defined here.)

My position on this point would be that if this is not brought into a more realistic proportion to money earned, generated from private sector, then 100% of public sector and private sector might well pay the price!

nearlynew

All politicians are lying f*cking thieves.

Regardless of who "wins" the election, the bank- with their magic money making machine- will still be in charge.

Things are going to get a lot tougher.

StevieJ

aelitaman wrote: »

Pensioners - Why worse off The Tory proposal is to re-establish the link between pensions and wage infation so they should be better off. Also a lot of these pensioners own homes and more will be better off with higher inheritanace tax, certainly none will be worse off.

Sometimes you have just gotta read between the lines and work out what some sections of society are being softened up for

Baby boomers hold so much of Britain’s wealth that a prosperity gap is opening between the generations, with people born after 1970 unlikely to acquire the wealth their parents enjoy, a Conservative shadow cabinet member has warned.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3cc07bc-1b3c-11df-953f-00144feab49a.html

BTW I don't consider being dead better off (re your IHT point).