David Cameron: cuts 'will change British life' | Politics | The Guardian.
As the Guardian notes:
David Cameron will warn tomorrow that Britain's "whole way of life" will be disrupted for years by the most drastic public spending cuts in a generation. The cuts, he will say, will have an impact on Britain's entire population.
There is a choice on this issue, of course.
Cameron can impose cuts on the ordinary people of the UK - those proverbial hard working families beloved of his party and the Daily Mail - but in this case pretty much representational of reality. Or he can do something quite different.
He can impose the cost on those best able to pay. How to do so is explained here.
And he can also recover the tax from the tax avoiders, evaders and deliberate non-payers of this country, as explained here.
Of course he can impose misery to protect this rich and the abusers of the world. Or he could protect ordinary people.
Never doubt that the choice exists. And he is making the wrong one.
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There is a choice – and the voters made it last month.
Alex
If your comment was meant to be ironic, you could have made that fact clear.
If it was not ironic, I suggest that you’re delusional to believe that a majority of the electorate understand the likely impact of cuts on the economy and, consequentially, their own well-being.
You may accuse me of condescension if you wish but I don’t believe that any of our political parties made any effort to explain adequately the likely effects of cutting too deeply and too quickly. Instead, they colluded in suggesting that national economics can be dealt with in the same way as household economics, despite the lessons of history that they cannot. And the media taken as a whole supported the ridiculous proposition of deep and early cuts that Richard has repeatedly debunked.
Cliche it may be but those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And part of that repetition will be that the most vulnerable will suffer most while the most prosperous go on prospering. That may be acceptable to you but it isn’t to me.
@nick james
Thanks Nick
@ Nick, I think you might find that even if the politial parties had attempted to explain things adequately it wouldn’t have made much difference. Sadly, the general population seems too thick to understand and much more interested in reality tv shows and trying to become a celebrity.
@Alex
“There is a choice – and the voters made it last month.”
What’s that? Despite the vast economic problems and the inbuilt shrieking-press advantage, the Tories could still only scrape 38pc of the vote thereby falling well short of a majority?
Yes, the voters made their choice, Mr Alex. 56pc voting for Parties saying “no cuts this year!”
I’m not as cynical as Greg. I think last month’s result showed that the British people won’t be browbeaten into vastly damaging Tory governance no matter how many verbal howitzers are delivered by the Tories’ chums in the press.
Labour had to be punished for their wrogheaded adherence to the failed neo-liberal economics that poor old Alex here is emotionally attached to despite its many historical and currently ongoing failures.
@BenM
” Labour had to be punished for their wrogheaded adherence to the failed neo-liberal economics that poor old Alex here is emotionally attached to despite its many historical and currently ongoing failures.”
Well said