tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post3421215802564610165..comments2024-03-18T16:33:31.633+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: France and UK future united?CityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-40548606663661266392014-10-02T12:45:26.175+01:002014-10-02T12:45:26.175+01:00"TAX CUTS, but only if we cut the deficit, wh...<i>"TAX CUTS, but only if we cut the deficit, which we can't...."</i><br /><br /><br />Yup. And the media of right and left have swallowed it whole. Telegraph show their readers how much better off they'll be, Guardian criticise tax cuts for the rich. Fantasy budgets rule. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-64697221928934964672014-10-01T15:10:02.257+01:002014-10-01T15:10:02.257+01:00UKIP's problem is the FPTP system. They are tr...UKIP's problem is the FPTP system. They are trying to out Tory the Tories. But when it comes down to it, they won't get to the finishing post. <br /><br />Think of them like Aldi/Lidl. They are game changers but not game winners. The UK shopper still goes to Tescos - even though like GO they have messed up the accounts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-16992102244519512902014-10-01T15:09:33.014+01:002014-10-01T15:09:33.014+01:00The pretend tax breaks in the speech today were gr...The pretend tax breaks in the speech today were great. TAX CUTS, but only if we cut the deficit, which we can't....CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-54987137518636686762014-10-01T14:16:42.425+01:002014-10-01T14:16:42.425+01:00CU said: "... sad Labour Government .... havi...CU said: "... sad Labour Government .... having delivered a dog's dinner of hollow promises for its 5 year term."<br /><br />Hmmm, a bit like Cameron's Conservatives, then?<br /><br />The biggest saving to make in government is to make it efficient at spending the money it has, certainly not to increase taxes (which takes money out of the rest of the economy).<br /><br />This is very very hard to do. But possible. It requires application, perseverance, knowledge and competence. It also requires the political will to resist fiddling with outcomes and instead focusing on the processes. The relevant existing legislation must be considered in tandem, to see whether imposed obligations can be adjusted or re-directed whilst still achieving the original intent.<br /><br />Cameron could have done this. He should have done it. Instead he has implemented essentially the 2010 Labour strategy, but without Brown.<br /><br />That is why we can vote UKIP (which is least worst, not wonderful), without being tricked into being fearful of the Miliband Tendency - because the LibLabCon are all essentially similar in practice. Cameron knows all this of course, which is why he is now promising all sorts of real Tory ideas at the conference. Too late - he shouldn't have ignored the Tory faithful over the last 6 years.<br /><br />Budgienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-1744963830692605762014-10-01T14:09:34.813+01:002014-10-01T14:09:34.813+01:00Five years is a long time in politics.Five years is a long time in politics.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-28853736053001855782014-10-01T13:18:12.283+01:002014-10-01T13:18:12.283+01:00Jer - that sounds good.
Boris is fun, Milliband w...Jer - that sounds good.<br /><br />Boris is fun, Milliband will be amazing fun in his own special way. Farage is fun. <br />Whilst the finances of the nation will be lacklustre, the gaiety of the nation will be most improved.CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-26059535162870638842014-10-01T12:54:36.893+01:002014-10-01T12:54:36.893+01:00False hope to UKIP surely.
If the Tories lose, Cam...False hope to UKIP surely.<br />If the Tories lose, Cameron will fall on his sword (being a decent, honourable pillock) and there will be a new leader.<br /><br />Not sure who the Tory John Smith is though. Theresa May wouldn't be a UKIP killer but is the most convincing.<br /><br />A lot of people would vote for Boris - even if only to see what happens...Jernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-82061458790616390992014-10-01T12:52:52.478+01:002014-10-01T12:52:52.478+01:00Its a ten year plan actually.Not a five year one. ...Its a ten year plan actually.Not a five year one. I said so in my speech, in one of the bits I remembered to talk about.<br /><br />Already I am making excuses for why Labour utterly failed to achieve anything in their 2015-2020 election. <br /><br />I met a bloke called Derek, at a chip shop. He said that UKIP were racists. <br />I like it when ordinary working class types agree with my own views. <br />And he wasn't a made up person. he was a real pensioner having the 6pm early-bird pensioner cod and chips.<br /><br />So there!Ed Milibandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3693687818775313292014-10-01T10:06:02.940+01:002014-10-01T10:06:02.940+01:00le Pen will do this in France; why not the UK when...le Pen will do this in France; why not the UK when our economic paths and political paths are so similar?<br /><br />I admit, I could have couched it a little more, but hey - its a blog post!CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-52208530323321165022014-10-01T09:58:13.294+01:002014-10-01T09:58:13.294+01:00"this surely gives hope to UKIP too in the UK..."this surely gives hope to UKIP too in the UK that given the above set of circumstances it can **replace the Tories as the party of opposition** in time for 2020"<br /><br />What were you drinking last night?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com