Yup, the cuts are coming and they’re gonna hurt, but it’s not like we didn’t know is it? Had Labour got back in there still would have been cuts, and who knows, eventually maybe even more severe, as they dithered over when to make them.
If your credit card is maxed out do you a) start making instant savings to get the debt down, or b) say “I’m not quite ready for the medicine yet” and end up having to pay even more back? I know what I’d do!
There are some good things to come from the ConDem coalition, namely the rolling back of excessive bureaucracy and general state interference in our daily lives. Whenever there is a Labour government one always sees a slow pernicious creep of rules and regulations designed to keep tabs on us in one way or another, and as we’ve just had the longest ever period of Labour rule, the situation in that respect is worse than it’s ever been.
The first to go is the totally unnecessary ineffective and costly white elephant that would have been National Identity Cards. Spend some of the savings on more effective immigration controls, and actually try to do something about the thousands of illegals over here, rather than just sweep the problem under the carpet. Get a debate going and de-stigmatise the word immigration. Under Labour as soon as anyone mentioned the word they were called racist when it simply isn’t the case with the vast majority.
Today comes news that the ridiculous and almost Stalinist plan to fine people for putting the wrong rubbish in the wrong bins is being scrapped. There is now a successful pilot scheme I believe running in Weymouth, whereby residents are being rewarded for recycling. This is surely a no-brainer as carrots always have a more positive effect than sticks.
I think there are also plans to curtail the spread of CCTV cameras watching our every move, again a good thing. Under the last regime the UK populace became the most spied on in the world.
With retrospect, Blair certainly knew what he was doing when he finally handed over to his so-called “friend”, realising that years of the good times were at least partly funded by excessive borrowing, and knowing the shit was about to hit the fan in the sub-prime market. Some friend eh? You can see the difference in their characters by the way they behave once retired – Blair follows his greedy wife to make the big buck on the lecture circuit, while Brown, who I believe was a basically decent bloke who got in over his head, has the intention of doing charity work. Says it all really. And I haven’t even mentioned the illegal war!
At least we’ve got the World Cup to look forward to….. :)
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