Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy The Times.
Public confidence in the Conservatives has plunged since the Budget.
Conservatives suffered a double digit loss of Public support.
Labour is seen as the most competent since the coalition started.
The I.M.F delivered a bleak outlook stretching into next year.
It is another blow to Osborne who is increasingly ctiticised in Tory cicles.Hague`s name
is mentioned as a replacement for Osborne but it is thought unlikely that Cameron can
afford to go that far..........yet.
Public confidence took another severe blow this week with the Security Fiasco of the
Olympic Games.
The worlds eyes are focused on Britain and the effect of this incompetence will
reverberate.......and in the Polls.
Brian Dixon
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#2
mmmmmm the plot thickens.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes I am afraid to say confidence in the government has waned dramatically in the two years. Not only with the public at large, who have endured one cock up after another, not only with the media pundits prognosticating on TV, but also most tellingly of all, with the backbenchers in The House.
Yes there is much talk of Osborne being shifted. They came to power very much as a duo, Cameron and Osborne, aiming to cure all ills and put things right. They seemed confident, Osborne looked like he knew what he was doing...initially anyway...but in recent times his reputation has shattered like a broken glass. An awful budget with even more dithering than I can manage, has finished off his credibility. A true Eton Mess!?
This must be a blow to Cameron, his number one crony slipping from grace, but it is inevitable now that he be shifted.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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hague is the most respected member of the front bench team, usually can talk his way out of most things without sounding desperate.
whether he would make a good chancellor is another thing, certainly a highly capable foreign secretary.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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#5
haig as chancellor,god forbid that,and his long borering speaches over a budjet,enough to put anybody to sleep or to commit suiside.doh.
Keith Sansum1
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#6
hague is a good speaker, but whether cameron will remove his chum ossy
is yet to be seen
whillst we wait some decisions we go on suffering
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#7
Why are you suffering, Keith? I thought you had a good job.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#8
PETER'
Unlike some posters i dont speak always from a pwersonal point of view, but see how others suffer
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
ever the socialist keith.
sorry if i have given the game away.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#10
my recent articles in mercury show many differences with the so called socialist party,
but that said it does appear daves losing his grip
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Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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What I find unfathomable is the Governments increasing blind faith in the private sector when all we see are its cock after cock up made during the frantic efforts purporting to be 'customer service', when all along the only pursuit is the often incompetent quest for profit over the same. Thank goodness the forces(or what is left of them) are still nationalised.
I often feel that this is epitomised by some of the railway operating companies whose vain attempts to achieve passenger satisfaction they try to bolster by calling them 'customers'-who are they trying to kid? What utter bilge. They probably brought in a team of consultants who charged an exhorbitant fee just to tell them that. No wonder the fares are so high. All part of the bullshine economy you see.
It's time that Mr Cameron's community proposals came to a marked fruition in the areas of public utilities,transport and major corporations.
Never give up...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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a shrewd assessment richard, the big society seemed a good idea at the time but is found wanting when push comes to shove.
as for rail fares even a government minister admitted that train travel was for the well off.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#13
this is richard/howard some of things many posters have been saying to barryw in his private is best arguments over the years.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Richard - you ignore the many public sector cock-ups and the grossly inefficient manner in which it spend money.
If it is the G4S issue to which you refer then this is a company that derives virtually all of its money from the public sector and is therefore a part of what has become known as the 'secondary public sector' as distinct from the private and public sectors. Perhaps the real root of their problem is in the Olympic organisers and/or the government dramatically under-estimating the number of staff needed for security when the contracts were originally awarded. That means the big mistake by G4S was last November when it agreed to get the extra staff needed in the time available.
Incidentally, it is a lot easier to penalise or sack a secondary public sector firm for messing up than it is your own directly employed staff.
Ultimately though it is only the true private sector that can win the business, create the wealth and grow the economy and government, with its high taxes, red tape and interference, only gets in the way of that.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#15
without doubt g4s whatever its make up cocked up big time
our teresa was informed some time ago of the shortfall
sat back and now we have the public humiliation
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 14.....G4S are the `secondary public sector`............nah..they are the unacceptable
inefficient greedy private sector`......big time....
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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with a chief executive pay of £830,000!!!!!
and thats for failing!!!!
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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"Incidentally, it is a lot easier to penalise or sack a secondary public sector firm for messing up than it is your own directly employed staff".
Not for long if you get your way
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#19
to true garyc
already the playing field is in favour of the employer
if tories get there way watch out conditions will go out of the window
and back to like the victorian days of lowering your cap and thanking for having a job
and lining upo to see if you have a job the following day
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#20
Absolutely right Gary.
It needs to be made easier to sack staff in order to de-risk employing people and cut unemployment. Small and medium sized firms should be the main target for easing this legislation though as they have the greatest potential for growth.