General election quandary

[Uncle Albert]

It's a shame that they frown upon you selling your vote as I'd be tempted otherwise. My constituency has only ever returned a Tory, and always with a comfortable majority so my vote won't make the slightest bit of difference.

[fullyautomatix]

Anybody contemplating voting Labour should be labelled a Loony.

The socialist idiots dont know anything other than borrowing billions and bribing their core vote base. Already the expected sound bites have emerged accusing Tories of creating havoc by cutting public sector expenditure.

That has always been the game plan, borrow billions and provide over inflated salaries to public sector pen pushers. When Tories try to balance the books, accuse them of austerity.

[d000hg]

Yawn... we've had Labour in power about half the time for several decades, and overall things have gone uphill. Can you tell which party was in power by looking at a FTSE graph?

Quite possibly we need the two parties to keep each other in check, because either will eventually screw things up if they stay in power too long?

At this point though we're only 1/2 way through the Tory plan, as I see it. On the other hand we're starting to see increased dissatisfaction from those on the front line working with the poor/unemployed/vulnerable that those groups are being squeezed too hard. I know people who work or volunteer with such people and they're NOT all just work-shy spongers, but real people with families who want to work or genuinely cannot.

The issue as I see it here is that measures put in place to tackle spongers hurt the "good guys" too. The system is too rigid and not granular enough.

[eek]

Yawn... we've had Labour in power about half the time for several decades, and overall things have gone uphill. Can you tell which party was in power by looking at a FTSE graph?

Quite possibly we need the two parties to keep each other in check, because either will eventually screw things up if they stay in power too long?

At this point though we're only 1/2 way through the Tory plan, as I see it. On the other hand we're starting to see increased dissatisfaction from those on the front line working with the poor/unemployed/vulnerable that those groups are being squeezed too hard. I know people who work or volunteer with such people and they're NOT all just work-shy spongers, but real people with families who want to work or genuinely cannot.

The issue as I see it here is that measures put in place to tackle spongers hurt the "good guys" too. The system is too rigid and not granular enough.

granularity costs money and allows sob stories...

[d000hg]

Yes, treating people like people is rarely the cheapest or easiest solution!

[TheFaQQer]

How many crap secondary schools remain in the control of Durham County Council. The only good ones in Durham escaped to become academies as soon as it was possible to do so... At least in Darlington you can play the game to get into the best school in the area up in Durham money is the only thing that talks...

In Darlington, surely you pay your money and go to Yarm?

[TheFaQQer]

Firstly the two main parties will do nothing more than appear to be adopting UKIP like policies, look at all the Tory rhetoric about caping immigration when they knew they couldn't actually do anything.

Cameron pledged to get net immigration down to 100,000 "no ifs, no buts".

Last year it increased by 100,000.

[DodgyAgent]

Yawn... we've had Labour in power about half the time for several decades, and overall things have gone uphill. Can you tell which party was in power by looking at a FTSE graph?

Quite possibly we need the two parties to keep each other in check, because either will eventually screw things up if they stay in power too long?

At this point though we're only 1/2 way through the Tory plan, as I see it. On the other hand we're starting to see increased dissatisfaction from those on the front line working with the poor/unemployed/vulnerable that those groups are being squeezed too hard. I know people who work or volunteer with such people and they're NOT all just work-shy spongers, but real people with families who want to work or genuinely cannot.

The issue as I see it here is that measures put in place to tackle spongers hurt the "good guys" too. The system is too rigid and not granular enough.

When did the Tories "screw things up"?

[eek]

In Darlington, surely you pay your money and go to Yarm?

Durham High is better... However as Mrs Eek doesn't agree with private schools (and we are hard pushed to think of any of our privately educated uni friends who have done well for themselves) its a no no. Of course it helps that we got them into the best school in town....

Strangely if the twins were not as bright as they are, they would be privately educated. The people I know who have done well following private education are the ones who weren't academically gifted...

[vetran]

Cameron pledged to get net immigration down to 100,000 "no ifs, no buts".

Last year it increased by 100,000.

bloody stupid promise, but at least he tried New Lie wanted immigration up.