I'm starting to lose the will to live here. The Tory 1997 manifesto talks largely about tax cuts and, euphemistically, benefit reform. It does not mention failing public services and a plan to increase investment therein. I suppose the manifesto is the best we have to go on as far as 'cold hard facts' go but there it is. The only investment it talks about is in transport. The Tories did not 'get in' - they were not elected to form a majority government.
From: mark.humphr...@blueyonder.co.uk To: ianjamesmur...@hotmail.com CC: rhe...@mis-munich.de; rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk; leedslist@gn.apc.org Subject: RE: [LU] [Non LU] Good omen? Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 17:55:47 +0100 The benefit of the retrospectoscope is that it’s based on cold hard facts, not mystical powers. Like the assumption Major wouldn’t have invested in public services with the economic boom just round the corner, no, he would have abolished the top rate tax band, or set up nurse/teacher/policeman shooting parties or something cos he was a cold hearted evil fucker was Major. Mind you the retrospectoscope does tell me he shagged Edwina Currie, so your crystal ball might be confusing that abomination with nurse/police/teacher culls I guess. But as a minority of people didn’t believe that, they voted for Blairs new world of centre politics, but unfortunately he also got carried away with himself and took us to war and let Brown get on with ending boom and bust (not realising Brown had only read the first chapter of Keynes). Bottom line, Blair/Brown made mahusive assumptions about our economy, hocked us to the hilt, sold all our gold and left us exposed to the unthinkable – the bust round the corner. The tories did get in, along with libdems, or are they no longer “tories” if they are in a coalition government now? From: Ian Murray [mailto:ianjamesmur...@hotmail.com] Sent: 04 May 2011 17:40 To: mark.humphr...@blueyonder.co.uk Cc: rhe...@mis-munich.de; rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk; leedslist@gn.apc.org Subject: RE: [LU] [Non LU] Good omen? Whereas obviously you're seeing all this through the retrospectoscope. Hindsight makes prophets of us all. The investment in all public services was needed after 18 years of Tory rule. Many mistakes were made but a vast improvement was seen, most obviously in the NHS. And, forgive me for adopting your pedantry, the Tories did not get in. They had to form a coalition to form a government. _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman-new.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org MARCHING ON TOGETHER (There's it)
