"Prime Minister David Cameron says he is committed to rolling back the "Big Government" years of Labour and giving back people responsibility for their own lives by pressing ahead with the Big Society initiative. "
In other words: "You are on your own!"
I hope that the people of the UK are not fooled by this so-called "Big Society" or this vacuous and vacant PR man and his cronies. The Tories are the same Nasty Party they have been before, nothing has changed.
ReplyDeleteThis so-called "Big Society" is just a con, nothing more than a cover for cutting services for the public, and privatising everything - yes, including the NHS. No wonder university tuition fees rose massively because of university funding cuts, then the protests. Even charities pay the price thanks to the cuts.
Indeed, why on earth are so many services that benefit the public being cut a lot (20%)? Why is the defence budget, which is ridiculously massive, only being cut by 8%? Why isn't trident being scrapped - it's a collosal waste of money. There are many more examples of waste, including PFI (created by the Tories, massively expanded by New Labour), and the banking bailout (which was done by the previous government).
And the people are now expected to pay 20% VAT? After all this waste and £850 billion from bailing out the banks by the previous government - why isn't this money being recovered from the banks? Taxpayers money has been given to the banks, and now more money is being taken from the public and services are being cut to pay for this (as well as debt repayments)?
Also, what happened to the earlier talk of rebalancing the economy? Back towards manufacturing and away from finance ("casino capitalism")? It was just that, talk.
Will this be enough for the coalition to collapse? I doubt it, but a coalition collapse can happen for many other reasons. Could this be a factor in the Tories losing many seats, and the Lib Dems losing loads of seats in the next general election or in by-elections? This is more likely, indeed the Lib Dems could pay a very heavy price for this.
I can't believe the Lib Dems actually went into coalition with this collection of mostly unreconstructed Thatcherites. Several of the Tories are also reactionaries opposed to all change, wish to restrict workers' rights and the right to strike, and are no doubt in league with the bankers and millionaires in particular, and big business in general. And of course many Tories are in favour of big defence spending.