Just a quickie before I go to sleep. It appears the illustrious Sir Richard Branson has implicitly backed the Conservative financial manifesto.
He said that he agreed that cuts in spending needed to be made immediately to stave off the threat of interest rate rises and immeasurable job losses.
I obviously agree, but not on party political grounds. It makes sense and I think whoever gets in needs to make immediate cuts. In fact, I think they should have started cutting ages ago.
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Whilst lower middle class families just above the benefits safety net are buying food with cash4gold, tory mps think a loaf of bread is £16 as the front benchers swim in there pools filled with cash.
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Well there’s a lot needs changing, not just cutting. Why is it being on the dole for life gives you a full state pension whereas working at low income levels means you haven’t contributed enough and can’t get a full pension? Why is it that you can work and lose money compared to state benefits (surely there should be a guaranteed minimum income so that there’s some financial reward for working). And yes – all parties have rich privileged toffs dominating their highest ranks who have never worked in real jobs or lived on real incomes. They are therefore clueless as to what most people think as they aren’t living with the same problems themselves.
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i agree!
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I’m not sure it’s as clear cut as that regarding the front bench toffs (both sides).
I think empathy is an important characteristic for an elected representative, but our lot seem to have left that back in their second homes. Just because someone’s a toff doesn’t mean they are therefore rummaging around in the trough of cash.
You have the likes of Ed Balls, plucked from obscurity and now sponging almost half a million in expenses every year in conjunction with his airheaded partner, Yvette Cooper. People like these two piss me off.
But then you have jester William Hague who whilst can be called “toff” based on his privileged upbringing I think does have an empathic link with people on the ground like us.
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I agree totally Phil but for the record William Hague is not from a privileged upbringing, he attended a state comprehensive and I do agree he seems like a good man of the people to me.
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Did he not go to a grammar school?
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A Grammar and a comprehensive, both state schools, but he is definitely not from a privileged background. While Ed Balls the frontman of Brown’s childish class war is a public school boy. Not that it matters anyway, I think people who vote based on class are idiots. I vote based on the person and their politics.
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I agree William Hague doesn’t act like an overpriviledged toff and that Ed Balls & Yvette Cooper are two of the most disgusting individuals in the country looking after themselves and brown-nosing the PM for their own self-interest. But generally they don’t have a clue. They don’t visit their constituencies much on the whole – and when they do “meet the people” it’s usually so stage-managed that it’s no use at all.
I also agree that spending cuts need making now – on those big useless projects that are being banded about. A new Town Hall for Fylde? Plus they’ve got a huge list of projects to be done for the Golf Open costing millions if they happen. Most of Fylde just needs a tidy up not a complete change. When will they stop throwing millions of taxpayer money down the drain only to not look after it in future years?
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In all honesty i don’t think being a “toff” is even an issue for me as such.
Sure being ‘well to do’ growing up is going to fuck with ya viewpoint where as growing up in a lower middleclass state of affairs will give you more of a link with the common man on the street.
The thing is if you have MILLIONS of pounds sitting in ya bank account with tons of cash rolling in every year no matter how and where you have grown up you still lose connection with the way ‘normal’ people live there lives unless you live and work with ‘normal’ people in a hands on way.
From personal experience, when i was growing up my parents had nothing and could barley afford to buy me new shoes for school. They lived in a tiny 2 bed flat in shithole moss side in Manchester. Its was not until there 40′s ( i was an adult by then) did they start having a tiny bit of extra cash. I went to a comprehensive school and a bloody crap one at that.
These days I have done pritty well for myself. I drive a sports car, own my own house outright and tho i don’t have millions i don’t have to work to pay the bills giving me time to do my degree pressure free from money.
Sometimes i find it hard to relate to my parents money situation. Just with things like decorating. They might want to put some new flooring down and I’m like “OH you could put some nice oak down here etc”, forgetting spending a £1000 on flooring for one room is TONS of cash to them.
The disconnection is even worse for lots of MP’s. TONS of cash. Always around people with tons of cash. Tons of things free or paid for automaticly with tax cash.
How many front benchers MP’s have to strike a balance between fuelling the car for work and buying food for the family? In fact i wonder when was the last time a front bencher MP went to the petrol station and thought fucking hell look at the price! The driver probably does it for them while they lunch with Sir’s and Lords. These poeple are ment to represent us but are totaly disconnected from the way we live.
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