BS: ConDemNation

Subject: BS: ConDemNation
From: Lox
Date: 11 May 10 - 04:21 PM

The election is over.

And Cameron is PM in a Conservative Lib Dem coalition.

So whats going to happen now?

Any ideas?

Subject: RE: BS: ConDemNation
From: mauvepink
Date: 11 May 10 - 04:45 PM

Personally I am feeling a nausea in my tummy that has come on as I have watched events unfold this evening. I am fearing the uncertainty and am trying to hold onto a common sense approach or watching and waiting for what is ACTUALLY going to happen instead of what I FEAR will happen.

The worry to me is about the tax credits system going and what they will put in its place. Are they going to victimise those who are genuinely out of work and cannot now get a meaningful job because of health, age, too old to retrain, etc. ? I myself have disabled tax credits, which meant I could work with my disability and still recieve a fare wage for my employ, which has helped me considerably to manage to keep that job. I also fear for many of my clients (I work in social/community care) who are already under severe stress from financial cutbacks in services. I fear they will 'target' the wrong ones and pick on the easy victims. Any reform to the system must be humane but I fear it may not be given what has been happening recently.

We will will have to wait and see. The press with be second guessing what is going to be done and, until it is actually set in stone, I am telling myself not to worry about imaginings. I am telling my clients not to worry about imaginings. Maybe it will get better? Experience tells me probably not but who knows?

I also feel sad for Gordon Brown. Despite his many mistakes I find no place in my heart to dislike him. I believe he has a quiet dignity and at heart is a good man. Maybe his mistake is that he does not have that 'killer instinct' so many top politicians have.

So I will try not to judge just now and not to worry. Let us see what this new two headed brush sweeps like and hope that it is a fair brush with humane intentions

mp

Subject: RE: BS: ConDemNation
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 May 10 - 06:57 PM

Mauvepink, there will be immediate and savage cuts. The LibDem promises that Labour could not see how to fund will simply not appear on the conservative radar. Clegg has his post and the rest will go to pot. "The Big Society" will be the new care in the community. Single mothers will go to homes for wayward girls (not immediately, but soon). The National Health will become private and profit-driven. So will many schools that will become fully selective.   Banks will be given free rein. Prisons will get ever more overcrowded. The last vestiges of legal aid will be replaced by commercial champerty and maintenance. There will be an enlarged nuclear programme (military and civil) and further supine support for US global domination. Don't forget national service. There will be further corrupt liaisons with the oil states. Oh, and as for reform of the House of Lords, forget it.

Set the Tardis for 1905.

Clegg has re-enacted the role of Chamberlain.

Subject: RE: BS: ConDemNation
From: Teribus
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:05 PM

Oh dear!! With that set of predictions I think I will enjoy watching what actually does come to pass.

We have got seven months left for a referendum on Scottish Independence haven't we? Or is that yet another promise our Political Masters will renege on?

Subject: RE: BS: ConDemNation
From: mauvepink
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:06 PM

:-(

Though legal aid will be retained long enough for those MP's who have been granted it to fight their cases against charges over expenses!

What a great shame if Mr Clegg does sell him and his party for power. Such Faustian relationships seldom herald anything that is good

I fear you are right Richard. I pray you are wrong !

mp

Subject: RE: BS: ConDemNation
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 May 10 - 07:19 PM

I suspect that New Labour would have followed very much the same policy of slash and burn that the new government will. They have bought into the same set of ideas about what is possible and what is necessary in response to the economic crisis.

There was no chance that a New Labour government, on their own or in coalition with LibDems, would broken out of the mindset that has put the bankers and their like in the driving seat.