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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
ps plenty did not vote for them-- it is a coalition govt with clegg in thrall to cameron.
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If I remember the results correctly Labour and Conservative got equal ammounts of votes, near enough, with Conservatve just scraping the most. Liberal got the third ammount of votes - around 17% wasn't it? All other parties probably got 1% between them. So our coalition government
does represent the majority in one way or another, or at least we voted in a way that allowed them to come in, so it's only fair that we let them rule as they see fit (within reason).
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we now have so many losing their jobs
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Why are they losing their jobs? Due to cuts, due to bankrupcy, due to England having ended up in billions of pounds worth of debt . . . it wasn't the government who's only had half-a-year in power that did that, it was the previous government. So I think that criticism should be aimed at Blair and Brown, because if we have to lay people off it's their fault we can't afford to keep them.
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would you have been happy if you had not access to libraries?
our nhs is in dire danger-- that also gets abused by many. our schools are expected to cope with thousands of non english speaking immigrants
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The coalition government is actually
limiting immigration and enforcing stricter rules on it. If there was a problem with the old system, again it's not the current governments fault. Also
yes I would be happy to see libraries and services
temporalily cut if it means getting out of debt.
If you personally were broke and in debt, what would you do? You'd stop going out, you would shop less, you wouldn't buy so much, you would perhaps sell some old things . . . because if you carried on spending you'd go bankrupt and have nothing. The country is the same. We have to make sacrifices in order to work our way back up to the wealth we once had. If we want a future that's filled with libraries, services, help etc., then we need to sacrifice some things in the short term to achieve this.
Most of your other points - like Clegg reneging on promises can be pretty much explained with what I've said above. You can't give out free tuition to students if you can't
afford to.
To be honest politics is
worse than religion in my opinion, with religion you can stand to have some resemblance of a debate, in politics
everyone ends up in a schoolyard throwing mud . . . 'You labours are too short-sighted', 'you snobby conservatives are too out of touch with the people!' So I'll stop before it reaches that level. I think we've both made points and explained them reasonably, so forgive me if I don't respond after this. If there's one thing I hate it's politics! :P
