Its no shame to agree with me.
But it's still a bit of a worry
I agree with the general tone of your posts on this subject, but not so much of the detail.
They want minimal benefits to reduce their own taxation. It is that simple.
It's not quite that simple. Thatcher part privatised welfare, in particular housing. She got rid of the bulk of the council houses. Now while working people could invest in their own property, though only later to find themselves totally and utterly priced out of the market, not many could invest in property to rent. That was the preserve of the better off. So the Tories, albeit Tories further down the chain than our elite millionaire public schools boys in government, are one of the biggest recipients of benefits, and a lot of what passes for private DSS rental property is very much sub standard. There's a massive amount of wasted cash here, again all going into wealthy pockets.
What is blurred today is the growth of the welfare state and the 12 years of relative prosperity in the Uk till 2007 meant we didnt focus where the cash was going.
You are right there, Brown's miracle economy , one based on ever rising asset value and no more bust (Gordon Brown must go down in history as the UK's worst ever chancellor) meant that nobody was paying that much attention to the benefits bill. But even today that bill is utterly insignificant compared to the day light robbery and legal fraud being committed by big corporations and their rich friends. And that is what is strangling the economy, not benefits payments - of course as you know. Oh of course PPP has stuffed us as well, but with ever rising asset prices (not) that wasn't supposed to be a problem, but now it is, and a big foccing problem at that.
Personally every one of us here should feel threatened by this government
Indeed, it's a disaster. Look Blair's government was a disaster too, cos they wanted to be like the Tories, but now we have something even worse the bloody Tories themselves
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it is a minority government whose agenda is really only focused on a minority of the population.
No it's not a minority government, it should have been, but it's not. There was only ever one reason for the Lid Dems taking on a suicide mission and jumping into bed with the Tories, and that was to get voter reform for what is basically a dying democracy. They failed, and now they will be wiped out, and wiped out for nothing.
They should have either got a guarantee of voter reform or left the Tories to it. Despite the SNP forming a minority government in Scotland in 2007, and doing so because a party that had much in common with them - The Lid Dems - refused to enter into a coalition with them, the same party down south seemed to think that leaving the Tories to minority rule was not an option! Of course it was, it was obvious and would have been a political master stroke. As you say the Tories look after their own interests and only their own interests, such narrow minded selfish bastards would never survive a whole term of minority government and would end up being wiped out at an inevitable half term general election. And just think with the hapless Ed milliband now at the helm, who seems to have become suddenly confused as to what The Labour Party is supposed to be about now that he's in the driving seat, well the Lid Dems might have even taken a majority!
So yeah you are right about the next election, as it stands we are heading for a Tory landslide.
And as for us in Scotland. 17 years of Tory rule, we never voted, subsequently delivered devolution. Scotland again is looking at 10 - 20 years of Tory rule, I think we'll bail out of the UK before the next general election. Which sadly leaves England with a Tory government for quite some time.
The only positive out of this, is that I think this is the last Tory government that will rule over me in my lifetime.
