Voters realise they have been conned by the Coalition

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Monday, July 26, 2010
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Latterly, we have heard of record financial figures from several leading multi-nationals and that employment prospects in East Midlands are improving and are potentially the best in the country.

This change in the economy is nothing to do with the new coalition; it started at the end of 2009. If it had been allowed to progress at its own pace all would have been well but the new Government is trying to force the rate and it will become unsustainable.

Millions of young people, not necessarily first-time voters, had never lived under a Tory administration. They, very mistakenly, believed that the many improvements in the lifestyles of ordinary people during the last 13 years were the kind of thing that happened under any Government. The realisation is beginning to sink in.

Older members of the electorate were not taken in. They knew the Tory philosophy of old followed dogmatically by Cameron and Osborne. The shock was Nick Clegg. His sheer hypocrisy was tantamount to treachery towards the electorate.

A political manifesto is a forecast of the proposals, policies and intentions of the proposer to the electorate who, after deliberation, make their choice. This is a contract! It is democracy.

When is a political manifesto going to be legally enforceable? The Tory/LibDems should be compelled to adhere to their promises.

JB Hill, Birstall.

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    by Peter, Wigston, Leicestershire

    Friday, July 30 2010, 12:11AM

    “We have a Con government that just 25% of the electorate voted for.”

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    by Michael, Market Harborough

    Tuesday, July 27 2010, 4:51PM

    “When will the socialists accept that they lost the election? We had an unelected Prime Minister fighting bitterly with the previous incumbent who spent years telling lies (the Iraq War/Dr.Kelly/Amassing an enormous personal fortune) and got away with it supported by the odious Third Man, all of them dragging us into unimaginable debt and ruin. We have got the change the vast majority wanted. Get over it you socialists, you lost and believe it or not you have no divine right to be in Government.”

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    by Peter, Wigston, Leicestershire

    Tuesday, July 27 2010, 4:01PM

    “Labour were not in power for 13 disastrous years. They were in power for 11 very good years - in fact we have never had it so good before - and two poor years when those Con schoolmates, the incredibly selfish bankers ruined almost the entire World.

    Those failed bankers are still receiving obscene amounts of money, much of it tax free, as do failed BP executives. So much for the private sector.”

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    by Peter West, Puntous, France

    Tuesday, July 27 2010, 11:10AM

    “How can the ridiculous Peter of Wigston blame the Tories for everything when it was LABOUR who were in power for thirteen disastrous years ?

    His comments are more stupid than those of Eric "the Failure" Goodyer.”

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    by Peter, Wigston, Leicestershire

    Monday, July 26 2010, 11:35PM

    “Why do some people continue with the tripe of blaming Labour?

    Before the bankers did their level best to ruin the World, this country was on a very sound financial footing. But the billions if not trillions that had to be spent propping up the banks, and the billions more to get this country moving again (the policy has worked very well) has cost us in the last two years.

    But the money lavished on the failing banks will be returned presumably with interest and, unless the stupidity of the Cons forces a double dip recession, the economy will pick up and create much more wealth.

    Just as there are many countries who did little wrong but are still facing financial ruin, so those in this country who did nothing to cause the chaos will lose their jobs and livelihoods whilst the dreadfully selfish bankers continue with their obscene tax free bonuses.

    Did I hear that the chief at BP will receive multi millions for presiding over very many costly failures? What would he have received if he had been at all successful?”

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    by Eric Goodyer, Colsterworth

    Monday, July 26 2010, 7:46PM

    “I still have not worked out Kulgan's politics, but if he voted Tory may I thank him for supporting Turkey's entry in to the EU -”

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    by Adrian, Leicester

    Monday, July 26 2010, 6:28PM

    “The Liberal Party is dead. It has made the biggest blunder in its history. The next election, hopefully within a year or so, will expose their blunder, it was a mistake to enter a coalition.

    The next election posters are already written: Vote Liberal get Tory.

    If you watch Clegg closely you can see the relisation of this mistake in his face ¿ the Coalition has no intention of helping the vulnerable ¿look at a few recent acts:

    They have paid Murdoch back for his support by ensuring that Test Cricket remains on Sky until 2013 at least ¿ payback, ensuring money goes to money;

    Reducing access to Bus passes

    Moving the retirement age to 66 with further plans to push it further, this flies in the face of a recent report that reveals the shocking inequalities in our system. The poorest people in Britain are twice as likely to die before the age of 65 than the richest - the highest inequality in mortality since the economic depression of the 1930s
    The gap between the two has not been greater for the last 80 years, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. Teams at the universities of Sheffield and Bristol calculated deaths before the age of 65 ¿ considered premature ¿ in areas of the top ten per cent down to the bottom ten per cent of wealth. They said: "For every 100 people under the age of 65 dying in the best-off areas, 199 were dying in the poorest tenth of areas. "This is the highest relative inequality recorded since at least 1921.

    David Cameron: Tories are the party of the NHS
    David Cameron has pledged to protect spending on the NHS as he set out 20 policies to boost Britain¿s health services if the Conservatives win the forthcoming general election¿

    Then the next week¿

    Axe falls on NHS services
    NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured.

    The coalition is the government we deserve having put our trust in the methodologies, the spin, and the polish of so many empty vassals. Those who vote Liberal must feel betrayed, and apparently thousands have left the party ¿ the liberal party have bitten off more they can chew. The Tory Party are the same old Tories, and the Labour party of victims of their own consuming desire to be wise in their own eyes ¿ Management, and glitz is not political action. All parties are disengaged from the trapped, the gap is wider now than any other time.

    They think they can claim ¿new politics¿ and the shame and scandal of the expenses disgrace will vanish ¿ they take the public for fools. The depth and pain of the cuts to come will wake up a few people with the heads in the sand.

    The Politicians have been disgraced and trust has been shattered, but they seek to hide the Trillion dollar wars, Expenses scandals, Bankers greed, and suddenly we are all in it together?

    They have betrayed us, and the coalition will seek to continue the lie, floating ideas like a ¿Big society¿ to hide the swinging cuts that are coming our way ¿ meanwhile the Bankers continue as normal, and the politicians seek to whitewash or gloss over the expenses scandal ¿ they have broken all trust, they have conned the people, and they seek to govern whilst being controlled by big money ¿ the NHS will be privatised and sold bit by bit to the Americans drug companies.

    Vote Liberal Get Tory
    Vote Labour Get Managers

    What happened to Passion for Justice?”

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    by Jim, loughborough

    Monday, July 26 2010, 5:52PM

    “Oh dear! Just back from a few days away and Peter, J B Hill and their ilk are still spouting the same old rubbish. As others have said (endlessly) and I repeat - put the blame squarely where it belongs - on a disasterous thirteen years of Labour government and their pfrofligate spending. Do these people seriously believe this country can carry on for ever spending £4 for every £3 it gets in revenues? And not one of them, Eric Goodyer included, has let us know where they would make cuts. Kind of says it all doesn't it?”

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    by Peter, Wigston, Leicestershire

    Monday, July 26 2010, 3:15PM

    “I too consider it treachery. I voted LibDem and anti Con as I have for 25 years - I remember just how selfishly bad Cons can be! And this current millionaire Con grouping seems to be the most ideologically right wing of any in my lifetime and quite disastrous for any but the most wealthy. It is unfairly and unnecessarily hammering children, the NHS, the elderly, small businesses and public servants.

    If the 'Alternative Vote' (which I support) is adopted, as the current system is most unfair, then no way will I vote LibDem again if there is any possiblility of them ever propping up a dreadful right wing government as they are now.

    It would be far better to vote Labour in the hope they can be moderated by any remaining sensible LibDems.”

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    by Jon, leics

    Monday, July 26 2010, 1:52PM

    “"Millions of young people believed that the many improvements in the lifestyles of ordinary people during the last 13 years were the kind of thing that happened under any Government."

    Which probably explains why they do not know how to budget properly and expect to have everthing now without any idea of how it will be paid for in the future, no wonder the number of personal insolvency applications is increasing.”

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