rollup wrote:rollup wrote:I'd guess anyone on under thirty grand a year is going to lose big time under another Tory government who are no longer even attempting to hide what they are aiming for.
Had a beer this afternoon and the local Tory councilor chappy was holding sway in a room full of farmers and saw mill workers and he was saying he's packing it all in.
He's disillusioned by his own party.
I was in the background just listening in.
He said what many of us have said on forums ... political parties used to promise good things to get your vote but the Tories are now so convinced tat the public believe the economic stories and the benefit scrounger dramas they are promising more misery for millions and expecting to win power that way.
He said something about the world having turned upside down.
From what some of the punters were saying after this guy had left it might be more correct to say anyone under forty or fifty grand might be about to suffer noticeably from what they have planned.
There was a time when politicians would tell little white lies, bend the truth or be evasive. We've moved on to out and out lies now. Brazen lies repeated in response to facts proving otherwise. No longer do they treat the electorate as fools, they treat them with utter contempt now. IDS for example point blank lies in interviews, to camera and to parliamentary committees. Cameron and Osborne are no different. Osborne was reprimanded by a committee just after his budget the other week for treating it, and parliament, with contempt in his refusal to answer or provide evidence.
Reports are buried, denials issued when brought up or rushed out if it undermines Labour. Figures are manufactured to show what they want, anything else is dismissed by them and they all keep including daft phrases they've been told to use. Even when it's nothing to do with what's being discussed or asked. The soundbites are crass but are more important to politicians than actual facts. As long as they get in 'hard working families', 'clearing up the mess left by labour' or 'work hard and do the right thing', they think it's job done. They lie in the face of the truth and keep repeating the lies hoping it will become the truth.
Just look at Liz Truss saying after the
debate interviews 'how Cameron had made them happen after the others were running away from them'. Totally opposite to what happened but said with a straight face and meaning it. That and the attacks on the opposition of such magnitude as eating a sarnie, the colour of a bus or how someone looks shows the sort of low level scum we have in government. Directed by others appointed by the few for the benefit of those at the top.
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