Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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So we are where we are and heading to county council elections in May and a general election just around the corner, and its looking like the conservatives will be going into these elections unchanged and happy to be the nasty party.
Over the few years the mouse has tried to articulate that his party is for all, and he tried to shrug off the nasty image,
the party ripping itself apart has made the mouse move back towards being the nasty party
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and we live happerly ever after in the land of make beliuve.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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sure that means something brian
you keep jumping side to side
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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yes kieth.
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One of Cameron`s first of many,many Headline efforts was ``I will make it my priority to promote a ``Big Society``
In two and a half years................it`s in the very long grass...................
Mrs Thatcher said........``There is no such thing as Society``.......she was right for once.......
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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The mouse is struggling to hold it all together
this latest fiasco he will im sure lurch to the right
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Tories deny key adviser Andrew Cooper set to quit in bid to fend off 'nasty party' tag
Downing Streeet struggled to fend off speculation yesterday that David Cameron is
on the point of losing another of the advisers who helped him steer the Conservative
Party away from its "nasty party" image.
Andrew Cooper, Mr Cameron's pollster, who has spent more than 15 years trying to
impress on the Conservative Party the need to adapt and modernise, is said to be
leaving because of professional disagreements with the Tories' Australian-born
election strategist, Lynton Crosby.
Downing Street issued a formal denial of a story in the Mail on Sunday that Mr Cooper
was going back to Populus, the private polling company he co-founded, but without
any further comment or explanation. Mr Cooper is a controversial figure in Tory circles,
because of his role in persuading David Cameron to legalise gay marriage.
If Mr Cooper does leave, he won't be the first "modernising" Downing Street adviser
to quit No 10. Others include Steve Hilton, Cameron's director of strategy, in March 2012,
Sean Worth, Cameron's adviser on public service reform, in June 2012, James O'Shaughnessy
, head of policy, in October 2011, Tim Chatwin, head of strategic communications, in
September 2011, and technology adviser Rohan Silva in April 2013.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Its crumbling
the right of the party want to destroy cameron
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Remember their milk being snatched................
Free school meals may be scrapped by councils under 'tidal wave' of cuts
Think-tank warns of 'a tidal wave of cuts that makes the 1980s look like a day at the beach'
Free school meals could soon be scrapped and people paid to look after elderly neighbours
as councils take desperate measures to deliver a "tidal wave" of spending cuts, ministers will
be warned on Tuesday.
Closures of municipal theatres, leisure centres, libraries and play groups will accelerate
because of a 50 per cent reduction in local authorities' spending power, according to a
report from an independent think-tank.
The New Local Government Network said town halls will struggle to cope with a £16.5bn gulf
which could, under current Coalition plans, open between their income and the demands on them.
The disparity will leave them facing huge problems meeting their commitments to care for the
millions of "baby boomers" reaching old age and educate growing numbers of children.
The financial pressures could become so acute that ordinary householders could even be paid
to look after elderly and vulnerable neighbours as a cheaper alternative to employing skilled carers,
the organisation speculates.
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And who made these measures necessary ? No one wants to listen to (or accept) the reason why we ended up in this state, it just gets dismissed; the problem was/is so huge, massive cuts are necessary for us not to end up as a basket case like other Countries have.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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reg
looks like roger confirming the cuts you speak of
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IMF Inflicts 'Double Blow' On George Osborne
George Osborne's spending cuts are called into question by the International Monetary Fund as it downgrades UK growth forecasts.
The International Monetary Fund's chief economist has warned George Osborne that he is "playing with fire" with his fiscal policy.
In an interview with Sky News, Olivier Blanchard also said that the Chancellor should have changed his austerity strategy at the Budget last month.
The comments came as the IMF unveiled new forecasts which showed a dramatically weaker outlook for the British economy.
Asked about Britain's prospects, Mr Blanchard said: "I think conditions have deteriorated. There is no question that the fiscal plan - which was designed a few years back - was assuming that private demand would be stronger than it is.
"So the question is what do you do? Well the first line of defence is you let the so-called automatic stabilisers play.
"That has been done, that's good. But then at some stage you actually have to sit down and say: do we continue?
"The danger of having no growth, or very little growth, for a long time is very high; you get a number of vicious cycles which come into play... the result is that [people] don't spend, output is low.
"And I think you're playing with fire when you get to very low growth rates so... if you can decrease the speed of fiscal consolidation maintaining the credibility (so it's not a question of whether, it's a question of when), when growth is close to zero I think yes it's worth considering."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well he has to be worth listening to
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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they probably wont,seen as interferance from the eu.
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Unemployment up as stay-at-home mothers head back to the job centre
The major driving force behind the rise in the jobless rate was an increase in women who
had previously been looking after the family or home but are now actively seeking work,
making them officially unemployed.
The number of people without jobs between December and February rose 70,000 to 2.56 million
on the previous three months, taking the overall unemployment rate up to 7.9 per cent, according
to the Office for National Statistics.
The number of women who look after the family or home fell to 2.06 million in the latest three-month
period, the lowest estimate on record.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) think-tank attributed this trend to the gradual increase in the
state pension age for women, which has risen from 60 to 61 years and six months.
A greater number of older women are remaining in the workforce, or returning to seek paid work,
out of economic necessity, the IFS says.
Younger women are also entering the available work force in greater numbers.
The number of women aged 25 to 34 who are "economically active" increased by 101,000 on a year earlier
. Richard Clegg, an employment statistician at the ONS, suggested that this trend might be attributable
to the Government's welfare reforms, which have increased the incentive for women with children in that
age group to seek paid employment.
Ministers have cited the fact that job numbers have been rising and unemployment numbers falling since
the autumn of 2011 as evidence that, despite the threat of a triple-dip recession, their economic plans
have been bearing fruit.
But the latest figures showing a reversal of those trends last night intensified the pressure on the
****** Chancellor to follow the advice of the International Monetary Fund and to slow the pace of his spending cuts**************.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Hes clear he wont change reg
see you at crabble sat?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Is there anyone left to tell Ossie he is wrong ?
Another blow for George Osborne as Fitch downgrades UK's credit rating
Agency worried by 'weaker economic and fiscal outlook'
George Osborne's dreadful week was capped off tonight when a second credit rating
agency stripped the UK of its AAA rating. Fitch downgraded Britain one notch from
AAA to AA+, citing a "weaker economic and fiscal outlook". The news came as a body
blow to the Chancellor, who asked to be judged on his success in defending Britain's
*************** gold-plated credit rating when he took office in 2010.
Earlier this week the International Monetary Fund downgraded the UK's growth forecast
for 2013 and 2014 more than any other advanced economy. And in a political embarrassment
for Mr Osborne the Fund also advised the Chancellor to consider slowing the pace of his
spending cuts, a course that has long been urged by the Labour Party.
Explaining its decision to downgrade, Fitch said it had acted because it now expects Britain's
gross national debt to peak at above 100 per cent of GDP in 2015-16 and not to start declining
until 2017-18. In his Autumn Statement last year Mr Osborne abandoned the second part of his
self-imposed fiscal mandate, which was to put the national debt on a falling trajectory by the end
of the Parliament.
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Not all that BTW, and an interesting adjunct to my response to today's "Barry's Blog", and with the help of the Telegraph...
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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NUT to big to be smacked
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cabinet split four ways .................
Sir Jeremy Heywood chief civil servant told bankers that four cabinet ministers have four different
ways to solve the ever increasing economic growth mess we are in.
Osborne,Clegg and Cable all disagree with Flashman.
Oh dear............is this the way to run a Dance Hall ?