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Labour Government Pushing Through Spending Against Civil Servants Advice
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kennyboy66 wrote: »The problem with this is that the real examples will likely to be contracts for new hospitals (although the planned one in Liverpool now on hold), schools, arms and roads. Hardly examples of wreckless spending.
Labour should put up Alistair Darling to rebut some of this nonsense and also make the case that tax receipts are running substantially higher than expected and the economy is at least growing as a result of decisions the Tories continually opposed.
tbh i think labour have got better things to do than rebut this spun cleggeron nonsense.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
tbh i think labour have got better things to do than rebut this spun cleggeron nonsense.
What is that then
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Maybe there should be a Law that says once the date of the election is annouced the government of the day should make NO spending decisions without the full support of the whole parliment.
I understand the date of the next election is 7th May 2015.
Actually that is pretty much the case already. As soon as an election is announced the CS goes into a "Purdah" period during which significant announcements or changes in policy cannot be made - that effectively means no spending decisions can be taken.0 -
it's a bit sad that they are so out of new ideas that all they can do is spin stories about the previous government.
today we have the amazing 'new' policy from cleggeron. no id cards. wow. i bet that took a while to come up with.
You really do manage to contort yourself into some weird positions, in your desparation to support Labour don't you? On the one hand you applaud the uber-liberal party line on just about every subject under the sun, then you criticise the removal of a gross infringement of civil liberties.
It's like watching someone play ping-pong. With herself.0 -
You really do manage to contort yourself into some weird positions, in your desparation to support Labour don't you? On the one hand you applaud the uber-liberal party line on just about every subject under the sun, then you criticise the removal of a gross infringement of civil liberties.
It's like watching someone play ping-pong. With herself.
I am not sure the ID card is that, just a waste of money,'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
You really do manage to contort yourself into some weird positions, in your desparation to support Labour don't you? On the one hand you applaud the uber-liberal party line on just about every subject under the sun, then you criticise the removal of a gross infringement of civil liberties.
It's like watching someone play ping-pong. With herself.
not really. i was merely pointing out that NOT having id cards that have not actually been brought in yet is hardly a policy.
the equivalent would be the labour party saying a major new policy is NOT have marriage tax breaks.
cleggeron have so far presented a very negative approach, slagging off the old party, saying things they are not going to spend money on and things they are not going to do.
where are the new ideas?Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
Some serious money has been spent on the ID cards project already.0
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Mary_Hartnell wrote: »Some serious money has been spent on the ID cards project already.
Maybe the cause of one of those 'letters of direction' to the civil service?0 -
Mary_Hartnell wrote: »Some serious money has been spent on the ID cards project already.
Precisely! Moreover it was yet another step on the rocky road to the surveillance state that Labour seemed bent on forging.
I find myself perpetually amazed by the spectacle of people on the Left, always willing to castigate Tory governments for their illiberal ways (often justifiably) giving the most authoritarian government we have had for decades, a free pass. It's as jarringly hypocritical as the spectacle of a generation of '60s sit-in radicals turning into miniature lifesize replicas of Eric Honecker, the moment they got the keys to Downing St.0
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