This is the Conservative right wing dream for the UK:
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are set to unveil a staunchly conservative fiscal package that would slash government spending by $4.6tn over a decade and balance the budget within 10 years, with spending and revenues each worth 19.1 per cent of the economy.
It's no surprise Liam Fox is trying to start the same trajectory of travel in the UK.
I don't oppose such a programme for any party political reason: people can say what they like in a democracy. I oppose it because there would be no NHS left, only limited state education, few pensions, almost no benefits and limited state capacity to regulate the market. I oppose it because it is only intended to make the rich richer at cost to us all. I oppose it because it will destroy economies and social stability. I oppose it because it will destroy hope. I oppose it because people will die as a result of a programme of cuts even of the Fox scale. I oppose it because it destroys any chance of a decent life for the majority in this country. I think that's enough reason to oppose cuts.
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Increasingly I suspect the right of suffering from a brain-addling disease which has yet to be diagnosed. It doesn’t seem to have occured to them to ask, if no-one has any money, who’s going to buy anything? With that in mind, here’s Linda Kaucher with news that Dave’s in India selling the working man of this country down the Ganges in order to get his City chums access to India’s financial networks http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/linda-kaucher/what-was-real-purpose-of-david-camerons-visit-to-india. It seems Dave’s arranging a swap; the City boys get access to India’s rupee mountains and in return the Indians get to plunder the UK. How it works is they send workers over here to be hired out at minimum wage, not just manual workers but skilled graduates in IT too, with no taxes to pay and no employers NI to worry about either. That’s the deal. The monies they earn will no doubt promptly be repatriated to India while the displaced British workers will find themselves desperately trying to claim from a dwindling range of benefits, dwindling all the more because the workers who’ve displaced them won’t be paying any taxes (see above). This is the future the Coalition (Labour too, Mandelson’s up to his delicate ears in this) have planned for us. Those of you who are begining to wonder where it was you left your pitchforks, well, maybe if you lit your torches you could find them. Just sayin’…
Looks like the anti-austerity row just got harder to hoe:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/11/generation-self-what-young-care-about
Not at all
We’ll now find people shift left as they get older
“A rising generation that finds college expensive, work hard to come by and buying a home an impossible dream is responding to its plight, not by imagining any collective fightback, but by plotting individual escape.”
But, how??? Leaving the country? Crime? Beggary? Suicide?