On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:23:19AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
> Just because they can't deliver those promises for those costs doesn't
> mean no one else can. If they knew they couldn't deliver within those
> cost constraints why did they lie and say they could?
I recall the previous government being impressively dishonest about a great
many things.
> and if they
> didn't reallise they couldn't deliver at those prices, then it doesn;t
> say much for their grasp of economics.
The previous government didn't appear to have much grasp of economics
either.
> and what about the various promises that didn't cost money? .. like fox
> hunting, proportional representation etc ... ??
On fox hunting they promised to allow MPs a free vote on the issue. They
did. It then got torpedoed in the Lords, who also had a free vote.
IIRC they did *not* promise to introduce PR, but to look in to it. Which
they have. [google] Ah yes, there was an "Independent Commission on the
Voting System" chaired by Mr. Jenkins. They have introduced PR for (eg)
the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, and the London assembly, and I think
it's used for elections to the European Parliament.
Oh, and that silly Tory claim that there have been nnn 'stealth' taxes is
easily debunked when you notice that most of them were either announced
in previous *TORY* budgets or are the usual tax escalators which, again,
the previous government was happy to use. If you ignore all of those, I
wonder how many of those 'stealth' taxes would really exist.
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