| Ken Moss |
24-10-2010 08:54 |
Re: reasons to hate the tories
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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
(Post 854167)
I have noticed, Neil, that quite a lot of your more subtle comments seem to go over various members' heads. Ken's usually fairly perceptive, though, so we'll put it down to being "far too busy with local affairs". ;)
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Busy old time in the village at the moment, plus I've been asked to chip in with Baxenden as much as I can. No time for national stuff right now....
To come back to your original question, there's always going to be the perception that politics only benefits the better off but the Tory model always seems to lead to vast swathes of the working class being laid off whilst the toffs at the top come out reasonably unscathed. If you have millions in the bank then a few extra thousand in tax will be irritating but easily absorbed (if not avoided altogether by clever accounting) but a few hundred for someone much lower down the social ladder is going to be a killer.
It's all a question of perspective and I'm not going to defend everything that Labour has done in the past 13 years either. For one thing, it had absolutely nothing to do with me but also I am allowed to have my own viewpoint within the party. Gordon Brown surprised us all with rather lax regulation of the financial sector, particularly after his mostly positive stint as Chancellor, but this new Conservative coalition is slicing the country to bits.
The Hyndburn Conservatives are no different really. They spout on about how 13 years of Labour rule have left us in an age of austerity and then spend money like no tomorrow so they can get vote-grabbing stories in The Observer. If Labour takes control next May then I am not looking forward to finding out just how much debt Peter Britcliffe has racked up since 2003. Labour had one year of control and balanced the books, I'm not anticipating any 'good news' from eight years of Tory accounting.
For the moment, Hyndburn has to take precedence over national politics because it is something I can actually influence but just brace yourself for a raft of news stories sourced from Hyndburn Tory HQ regurgitating the old tosh that 13 years of Labour rule, no support from Graham Jones......zzzzz....have left us in a terrible state.
It has nothing to do with Labour in Hyndburn, the local Conservatives will ultimately be responsible for our financial state. |
