"We have seen people cheering the deepest cuts to public spending in living memory... This is what they came into politics for. "
What a very nasty man Alan Johnson is. It took the whole country voting to get rid of the failed administration that had imposed itself, unbidden by the voters, upon us all. In the sense that we have now an administration for which we voted, we are all in this together. In politics. And we didn't come into politics to hurt other people. We came because we had to protect ourselves from being forced to live in a socialist country. We like capitalist society Mr Johnson. We don't have to shoot people in the back as they flee your version of the good society.
It would be bad enough - if the country had been brought to such a pass by a centre-right government - to have it believed that there being no money left pleases us because coping with the situation can be used as an excuse to curtail social provision that has taken more than a century to build. But for the spokesman for the socialist party that brought this mess upon us to accuse us, the majority of the electorate, of vandalism and schadenfreude is an abuse too far.
Much of the welfare state you lay claim to, Mr Johnson, was put in place by Liberal and Conservative administrations. The Labour party's claims to being the author of all social provision and compassion is historical pornography
What has been done yesterday was what we voted for. There will be more: tax cuts; a major reconsideration of the National Health Service's mode of financing and operation (why should we have a great lump of socialist planning in the middle of our economy emanating baleful effects on everything else?); schools that meet educational needs; the ending of government snooping into everyone's lives.
But you won't be told, will you? You and all the people represented by those who were seated behind you. People like you came into politics to deny that getting on with your life, making a living, enjoying whatever takes your interest, does not require imposing on other people, helping yourself to other people's hard-earned money, and abusing others when we protest by attributing the vilest of motives to our reasonable refusal to be pushed around any further.
Democracy, Mr Johnson, requires that you submit to all the people's judgment every four years, not just your own closed circle of self-righteousness. That is why your party worked so hard to extrude our democratic institutions from any decision-making process. The electorate got you in the end though. So you expose the meanest of your own motives for what you did, and attribute them to us all.
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"the ending of government snooping into everyone's lives"
I wish I could believe you on that one, but it doesn't stand up to examination: the government has just resurrected NuLab's plan for ISP's to spy on us whenever we use the internet, and to keep the results indefinitely for future fishing expeditions.
Another coalition promise reneged on; it is becoming a habit.
True, Yacht. Though I was referring to means testing. I'd rather claim nothing than be means tested;( and I'd rather pay an accountant than volunteer unnecessary tax payments.) We were often rather poor when the children were small because I wouldn't be snooped on. Labour was installing a state where we were snooped on whether we sought money from the taxpayer or not.
How many bye-elections might it take for the message to get through to Cameron and company that the bunnies are not quite as happy as they might have hoped to have been by now?
An increasing string of broken, modified or unfulfilled promises will eventually lead to repercussions - and teeth marks in the nether regions.
"People like you came into politics to deny that getting on with your life, making a living, enjoying whatever takes your interest, does not require imposing on other people, helping yourself to other people's hard-earned money, and abusing others when we protest by attributing the vilest of motives to our reasonable refusal to be pushed around any further."
Great stuff.
In Prime Minister's Questions Mr Cameron told Ed Miliband that the Lord Chancellor has bottom, Nomad. I did laugh.
Is that what you fear might be target for those who want things to go faster?
I was suddenly very tired of Labour claiming all virtue and refusing all blame, Blue.
"I did laugh". Yes, so did I, and to his credit so did the Lord Chancellor.
I fear the teeth marks will take the form of an X in the "none of the above" box on the ballot paper. Cameron and Clegg have a great opportunity to really turn Britain round after 13 years of catastrophic mismanagement, but to date are not making a very good job of it. Agreed, they have only been in office a few months, but already there are signs of the manifesto on which people gave them their vote being ignored or changed. It needs the real Conservatives in the House to keep a very close eye on him and for him to get a bit tougher. That is after all what the vast majority of voters wanted.
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