Reliant on the state.

[flip-flop]

Are we seeing Labour 'buying' votes by making so much of the voting public reliant on public sector jobs, jobs they fear might disappear should the Tories win at the next GE and curb the breathtaking amounts Comrade Brown is pouring into this balck hole?

[Lonnie]

Of course they are, given their track record, nothing is below them.

[jake-the-peg]

Not like those ethical Tories at Westminster council who sold the council houses out from under labour voters in marginal wards at massive discounts so that they could stay in power.

Then Shirley Porter fled the country for Israel and went around saying she had no money at all before finding �12 million she'd obviously forgotten about!

That wouldn't have been buying votes at all then?

[spinchimp]

twit

[spinchimp]

That was aimed at flip-flop, by the way.

[flip-flop]

Comments from brain dead simpletons aside, isn't that the point? I had Porter in mind when I posted the question: she was, quite rightly, villified for what she did, so why isn't there uproar in this instance??? OK, what GB is doing is legal, but surely it is morally questionable.

[jake-the-peg]

Because what Porter did was illeagal -Is she still a dame by the way?

Last time I checked investing in public services wasn't against the law.

PS - I think spinchimp must be having a bad day - maybe somebody pinched his peanuts

[PhilBy]

How does one go about trying to address added problems, ie. immigration, constant terrorist threat etc. etc. without taking on more resources?