The Deficit is being used as an excuse for the Tories to reduce the role of the State and cut jobs, and welfare.
Initially our three main political parties made a great deal about the deficit, before, including and after the TV debates, and Gordon Brown got the blame, how very convenient.
The truth is that the deficit was brought about by the former New Labour Government continuing the right wing low income tax agenda from the former Thatcher/Major years. But not one political party had the guts to admit this, before, on or after the three TV debates. The media never challenged this either, because Britain has been a low income tax nation since the 80s, while most of our wealth goes abroad.
All we heard in the debates was about how best to reduce our deficit, and now the Tories are using the deficit as a cover to reduce the role of the State and everything connected with it, to cut jobs and create even more welfare dependency than there has been since the 80s and the free market was introduced. The Tories are a low income tax, small state Government.
Now, the British Tory voter has put the Tories back in the perfect position to cut services to the bone over their five-year term of office, because the free market needs a vast number of unemployed people to make it work, while also controlling the economy, hence the Tory cuts straight away, creating mass unemployment, and the British Tory voter this time round, actually voted for these cuts.
From a personal view, I never imagined that the Tories would beat New Labour, albeit to form a minority government, following the 18 years of Thatcher and Major. I can now assume that the British do indeed have very short memories because factually Gordon Brown and Tony Blair did help out the pensioners and give help to low-paid workers via tax credits. The Tories would never do this, it is their sole aim to help their own. So I have to ask why did so many people vote for the establishment party, the Tory party, at this general election ?
I make no bones about it when I say that our politicians are now playing politics with people's lives and livelihoods, because who knows where the budget cuts will fall over this five-year term ?
Who knows how many people will lose their jobs and won't be able to pay their mortgages and will end up homeless while our politicians remain in their ivory towers, feeling not one millionth of the insecurity felt by the vast majority of the people in this country who struggle to keep body and soul together, to keep a roof over their heads. The politicians call what they do, 'hard choices' when in truth the cuts to come are nothing short of barbarism.
