Anyone hate the coalition as much as I do?

Hiya,

I was just wondering if anyone hates the coalition and their policies like me? I don't like how they're implementing harsh funding cuts across the public sector without an apparent care in the world that 1000's of people are losing their jobs.

Cuts have to be made somewhere

They don't care that their education policy is going to deter a lot of students from going to university because they will not want to be saddled with debt nor can they afford to pay back that ridiculous sum of money.

Complete bull go research the new system you clearly do not understand it

They don't care that EMA cuts will result in a poorer quality of life and will encourage people to drop out of college and sixth form to take up work at the age of 16.

Surely if you can afford to get to school you can afford to get to college? New targeted support is going to be brought in for the poorest of students, the government has also accepted that many people were not using EMA for the right reasons.

They have no grasp of how the working man lives. 18 members of the cabinet are millionaires. How do millionaires know how the majority working class group think and live. They've been brought up in relative luxuary.

Typical generalisation and thus meaningless

I just find it ironic that we working class people should be lectured on how government policy on how it will affect the working class when I can't think of a single working class person in the government!

Why would that make a difference?

Furthermore, isn't it the case that the Coalition government are doing what is best just for their respective social classes (middle and upper class)?

No most of the burden is going to fall on the middle class

This ultimately leads to the question: "Why do working class people vote for the Tories and liberal democrats?". I cannot believe people are dumb enough to vote for them after how badly we working class people were screwed over by Margaret Thatcher.


What do you guys think?
Also read this: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100523145633AAr7arQ - i agree with the best answer...Tories ruined our country, so they have no right dictating to the opposition how they ****ed up the country cos what the tories did was worse!

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This ultimately leads to the question: "Why do working class people vote for the Tories and liberal democrats?". I cannot believe people are dumb enough to vote for them after how badly we working class people were screwed over by Margaret Thatcher.

I was just wondering if anyone hates the coalition and their policies like me? I don't like how they're implementing harsh funding cuts across the public sector without an apparent care in the world that 1000's of people are losing their jobs.

Enlighten us then. Where would you make the cuts needed?

Have you seriously not seen the plethora of workable alternatives (with costing) before?

There's many, many of them on the website from credible sources. Don't ask such a predictable question...go have a look for yourself.

Actually no I haven't. I've had a look and there's nothing on TSR. Only alternatives I've seen were on the Guardian website, written by a man who has always been anti-Tory regardless of whether or not they were doing a good job, so I can't rely on him to be accurate.

So I'll have to come up with some alternatives of my own. I'll try and have a few possibilities by tomorrow.

We need a long-term deficit reduction plan...and here are some ideas of how to achieve it without targetting the less advantaged overly, as the coalition are intent on doing.

The way to do this is not by cutting jobs, benefits and services – but by tackling real waste and making tax fairer.

Making tax fair
Significant sums could be raised without affecting the incomes of the majority if we made sure the financial sector and the super-rich paid a fairer share. For example: £4.7bn could be raised every year by introducing a 50% tax rate on incomes over £100,000.
£5bn could be raised every year with an Empty Property Tax on vacant dwellings which exacerbate housing shortages and harm neighbourhoods
£10bn could be raised every year by reforming tax havens and residence rules to reduce tax avoidance by corporations and "non-domiciled? residents
£14.9bn could be raised every year by using minimum tax rates to stop reliefs being used to disproportionately subsidise incomes over £100,000.
£20-30bn could be raised every year by introducing a Major Financial Transactions Tax (or "Robin Hood Tax?) on UK financial institutions
Estimates of the long-term net cost of the bank bailouts have been estimated at £20-50bn (HM Treasury) to £120bn (IMF) (24). This money must be paid back in full.

Cutting real waste
Contrary to recent media attacks, public service productivity has improved every year since 2003. Trade unions play a key role in ensuring staff are treated fairly and involved in making improvements – research indicates that this already saves the taxpayer as much as £3.6bn a year in productivity gains.
There are other ways we make sure public money is used effectively. For example:
£500m could be saved every year by adopting measures to improve the health and well-being of NHS staff, thereby reducing sickness absence.
£1bn could be saved every year by halving the local government agency bill, as has been achieved by high performing councils.
£1bn could be saved every year by eradicating healthcare acquired infections
from the NHS – the extra cleaners would cost half this.
£2.8bn could be saved every year by ending the central government
use of private consultants who bring little discernable benefit
£3bn could be saved in user fees and interest charges every year if
PFI schemes were replaced with conventional public procurement
£76bn could be saved over 40 years by cancelling Trident

I agree - the cuts are driven by ideology rather than necessity.

Hiya,

I was just wondering if anyone hates the coalition and their policies like me? I don't like how they're implementing harsh funding cuts across the public sector without an apparent care in the world that 1000's of people are losing their jobs.

They don't care that their education policy is going to deter a lot of students from going to university because they will not want to be saddled with debt nor can they afford to pay back that ridiculous sum of money.

They don't care that EMA cuts will result in a poorer quality of life and will encourage people to drop out of college and sixth form to take up work at the age of 16.

They have no grasp of how the working man lives. 18 members of the cabinet are millionaires. How do millionaires know how the majority working class group think and live. They've been brought up in relative luxuary.

I just find it ironic that we working class people should be lectured on how government policy on how it will affect the working class when I can't think of a single working class person in the government!

Furthermore, isn't it the case that the Coalition government are doing what is best just for their respective social classes (middle and upper class)?

This ultimately leads to the question: "Why do working class people vote for the Tories and liberal democrats?". I cannot believe people are dumb enough to vote for them after how badly we working class people were screwed over by Margaret Thatcher.

What do you guys think?
Also read this: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100523145633AAr7arQ - i agree with the best answer...Tories ruined our country, so they have no right dictating to the opposition how they ****ed up the country cos what the tories did was worse!

They also cut child tax credits. I think that's the most shameful thing they did last year. I know trebling the tuition fees was particularly sick, but what was utterly vile was touching child tax credits. By saying if one partner in a married household earns over 40K then you're not entitled to child tax credits, then you're effectively introducing the preference for marriage in the sphere of tax breaks; I think that's deplorable. Not to mention governments should invest in babies from the earliest age right the way through their university education.

This coalition is sick.