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Sid, be honest, you would have made your 'empty' critisism whatever DC said and in that you are merely following the absurd Labour spin line of 'do nothing'....
The other title of the Prime Minister is First Lord of the Treasury and as DC is very likely to be PM within 18 months it is right that he speak about financial matters when asked to address the London School of Economics.
There is no doubt at all that we have a broken society. We see it all the time with the high levels of drug use and an education system creaking under the strain placed upon it by ill disciplined and feral children. That is not to say that all children are feral, it is a minority, but they are having a disproportionate impact on the majority of well behaved and decent kids. The amount of resources school are having to devote to this is stunning, social workers, 'pastorial managers' and specialist teachers all employed in schools just to deal with the problem. In my generation schools had teachers, head teachers, school secretaries, caretakers, cleaners and that was it! Behave badly and you were strapped over the hand or in worse cases sent to the head to be caned and that was enough to deal with problems. It was a far healthier system back then.
Indeed there are also 'feral' adults, many of who have no job and have no intention of ever earning a honest wage, some are third generation scroungers in families with no-one gainfully employed. They breed children (often many by many different fathers) who have no idea of what it is to have asperationss and to know work forming future generations of useless layabouts and maybe criminals.
This is the broken society and this cycle of dependancy and scrounging must be finished with.
Keith once again you apply a double standard accusing DC of playing party politics, but you seem to think it OK for Gordon Brown to do this, after all the whole income tax fiasco earlier in the year was brought about simply because he was 'playing politics' and trying to wrong foot the opposition.
The fact is we have a serious economic situation in the UK. We are the first into recession and are likely to be the last out of it. Brown claims to be some kind of 'great saviour' but not all countries are being foolish enough to follow his lead. The Germans for instance, to them he is a joke.
It is entirely as a result of his economic mis-management that we are the worse hit of any G8 nation. The latest independent forcasts show just how excessively optimistic the Treasury forcasts are and what an increasingly desperate economic situation we are in.
Only a madman can believe that you can just keep borrowing to get you out of trouble. Sometime the debt has to be paid back and the tax rises aleady announced will be imposed on a fragile economy, at a time when it may be coming out of recession. I have said before that a 'double-dip' recession is increasingly likely.
That emergency budget (that is what it was) is falling apart already. Darling has already admitted that what he did is not likely to work. The VAT decrease was exactly the wrong way to try to stimulate spending and a temporary 13 month period is simply daft. His income tax rises on those earning over £100k will not generate a penny extra revenue for the Treasury. Independent modelling of the effect of this demonstrates that, indeed there is a risk that it will decrease tax revenues. Make no mistake more tax rises on middle earners will have to follow to repay this massive debt.
David Cameron has an uncomfortable message but it is the right one. We must live within our means. The Government must get a grip on spending and that is the essential core to his message.
