Everyone can moan about the state the last government left the country in, personally I don't think it was so much the fault of the government but several compounding factors. The Banking crisis, remember this was a global recession and because of how internationalised our economy is we would have been in deep doo doo anyway even if we had regulated our banks properly.
Amazingly we went 15/16 years without a recession, in that time the US had suffered around 3. So we did well as a combination of previous Tory/Lab policies, but the economy was due for a check to bring it inline. Everything was steamrolling upwards, inflation (though its worse now), house prices, utility bills. The financial sector had unfettered growth, rightly or wrongly if it wasn't for this sector some of you wouldn't have had access to loans to buy your homes or get that nice car.
There's not much we as a nation can do about the mess we found ourselves in. We now have to move forward and start building a more robust system. 12 months ago I gave the Tory party consideration of my vote......(they didn't get it in the end). Now I can't even stand the sight of them or the liberals.
CUT CUT CUT is all its about, when they formed the coalition (or conservative-led government), they promised to make cuts in a fair and considered way. Bills such as the Free Schools, Tuition Fees, NHS Reform amongst others have been rushed through without much consideration. When you make fundamental changes to so many services there needs to be some deliberation, yet none has taken place IMHO and its been pushed on dogma, rhetoric and Tory ideology. We are moving to a marketised NHS with the GP being in control of the budgets. HE is now becoming a commercialised venture, with exorbitant fees in place. I am not saying labour would do any better, hell they can't even come up with a decent policy at the moment (and they threw away their chances of entering government again by electing the wrong Miliband).
Everything is rushed, some decisions such as the cuts needed to be sorted quickly, I get that. But major reform to education and NHS like that being proposed needs to be thought through and it hasn't.
We have still to see the results of the last lot of changes from Labour, so we can't even measure that now and won't be able to if the Tories get their way and rush through changes.
Is Cameron a liar? Like any politician he bends the truth to his benefit.
Notice how quickly policy changes in this government when there is vocal opposition from sectors of the public? Such as the ending of the sports grants......sharp got reversed didn't it? or protecting the "schools budget" which was in line for a cut?
Its all doom and bloody gloom at the moment, what annoys me is they keep complaining about the mess the last government left us instead of getting on with the job they are paid and were elected to do, which is to clean it up.
Notice how all the TOP jobs in government are held by Tories? Goes to show who the real power brokers are in this.
Ciao! xx
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