These kind of cuts will cripple what little grow we have.The economy was slowly picking up and essentially we need small businesses at the helm of that growth to bridge the wealth gap but all this will do is put the majority of small businesses and franchises out of business and create a greater seperation of wealth.
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:48,
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Absolutely agreebut what I can't figure out is why the Tories would want to vandalise the country in this way, what's the end game?
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 9:55,
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It's the old theory of "Trickle-Down" that Thatcher usedthat big finance is the way to generate big capital and that will stimulate growth and eventually the wealth will trickle down to the poorest. Yeah well we had that situation and big finance fucked it up for everybody by getting greedy and nothing has been fixed to prevent that happening again. The Big Banks are now like a Poltical Cartel they tell the Government what to do not the other way around. We need to renationalise the banks and tell them to fuck off for good.
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:01,
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Thatis pure class
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:33,
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They want to invade Guernseyand take it back from those bastard French...
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:02,
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"to bridge the wealth gap"is a key phrase there, I think
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Prequal This is serious business. Very serious.,
Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:02,
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Making half a million public sector workers redundantand another half a million people working in the private sector who rely on government contracts lose their jobs is not going to help bridge the wealth gap.
How will raising council rents to 80% of market value help bridge that gap?
Reducing benefits for the sick and vunerable, raising tuition fees that will exclude kids from a university education simply because they are from a less well off background - I can't see how any of this will help :(
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:09,
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How will raising council rents to 80% of market value help bridge that gap?
Reducing benefits for the sick and vunerable, raising tuition fees that will exclude kids from a university education simply because they are from a less well off background - I can't see how any of this will help :(
You took the opposite meaning I had intended :)What they've done won't bridge the gap. It'll keep the wealth where it is.
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:14,
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I expect from a Tory point of view they are doing an inverted Robin HoodSteal from the Poor to give to the Rich in the vain hope that feeding the fatcats will stimulate some economic growth that will pay dividends for the whole of society in the long term. That's the theory but as we know it's bullshit Big Finance creates a false economic bubble that is based essentially on the art of gambling with futures and currencies. Real economic growth can only be sustained from the ground upwards. You have to have workers to create things and sell those things or services. Having fewer workers will mean goods and services will be more premium and expensive thereby a luxury rather than an essential need. We will have to endure years of hardship to gain a little reward from these measures and even when we have the recovery they wanted there is nothing to stop Big Finance fucking up again!
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:19,
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It's basically an attack on the public sectorhidden behind a fairly thin smokescreen. Note that what bits of the public sector remain - higher education is a case in point - are going to be under increasing pressure to service the needs of the private.
Which essentially means that tax revenues are being privatised.
(Which essentially means that tax revenues are being privatised.
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Fri 22 Oct 2010, 10:46,
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