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Thread #94499   Message #1829847
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
08-Sep-06 - 05:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Blair govt meltdown.
Subject: RE: BS: Blair govt meltdown.
Well no...

Sorry I don't agree.

The resurgence of the tories couldn't come at worse time for me.

When my wife first got ill, and it was obvious that before long my job and her job would have to go, and I was bound for a life taking care of her - it was 1976. I managed to hang onto my job for another couple of years with the support of my in laws - but it couldn't be sustained.

At that point at the end of the 1970's, her allowances came to just about the wage paid to a newly qualified teacher.

When Thatcher got in, the first thing she did was let inflation soar, and freeze my wife's allowances. It was effectively a 30 percent cut. It was a level of dastardliness that no Labour government would ever have done.

I became a musician - something I could fit in with taking care of a disabled wife.

Now just as my own health has gone into the toilet. And I can't work any more - the signs are in the seaweed - Chris martin is saying Vote Tory - in 1979 it was Paul Weller. Cameron has found his audience. Soon government by the assholes for the assholes will be the order of the day once again

People are talking about rolling back the nanny state. there is no nanny state - if you don't earn your own way in this country - you go straight to the wall.

Its in the air. We will be back to high unemployment rates, because that way you put a few extra quid into the pockets of the already stinking rich.