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Gordon Booth · 02-04-2013, 16:43

Flogging through these posts it appears everyone agrees something needed to be done and I can't see how anyone can disagree with the bulk of Margaret's post 2773.
The argument is how it should be done and whether what is being done is fair.

I was brought up to believe 'God helps them who help themselves' and welfare was for those who couldn't. Things have gone way beyond that now.

That saying made me a Tory(wash your mouth out!) but the way this government are actioning and selling their attempts to reform make me despair.

And to cut the 50 pence tax at this time- talk about timing! Osbourne says it raised little income- does he think the millionares will bring all their money back from offshore because they'll only pay 45 pence tax? Of course he doesn't. Does he think we believe him-does he care?

IDS on £57/week- my joke about him lasting a week on a bottle of plonk a day and a park bench was wrong- he probably spends more than that on one bottle-he'd be off to Maundy Grange after a day.

We have a government of very rich people who are the children of very rich people- I don't think they have a clue how ordinary people live or think. The ideals of fairness, which they say they are trying for, should be vote winners- it's not working that way.

The alternative- a government which would be similarly out of touch and which would throw money we haven't got about like confetti to buy votes.

Perhaps being run by the EU is all that's left to us.

02-04-2013, 16:43	#2798
Gordon Booth Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,402 Liked: 715 times Rep Power: 46614	Re: The Tories Flogging through these posts it appears everyone agrees something needed to be done and I can't see how anyone can disagree with the bulk of Margaret's post 2773. The argument is how it should be done and whether what is being done is fair. I was brought up to believe 'God helps them who help themselves' and welfare was for those who couldn't. Things have gone way beyond that now. That saying made me a Tory(wash your mouth out!) but the way this government are actioning and selling their attempts to reform make me despair. And to cut the 50 pence tax at this time- talk about timing! Osbourne says it raised little income- does he think the millionares will bring all their money back from offshore because they'll only pay 45 pence tax? Of course he doesn't. Does he think we believe him-does he care? IDS on £57/week- my joke about him lasting a week on a bottle of plonk a day and a park bench was wrong- he probably spends more than that on one bottle-he'd be off to Maundy Grange after a day. We have a government of very rich people who are the children of very rich people- I don't think they have a clue how ordinary people live or think. The ideals of fairness, which they say they are trying for, should be vote winners- it's not working that way. The alternative- a government which would be similarly out of touch and which would throw money we haven't got about like confetti to buy votes. Perhaps being run by the EU is all that's left to us.