Labour buying more Votes ?

[youngmafbog]

[Sandy-Wroe]

How much are they paying? How do I apply to sell mine?

[youngmafbog]

It looks like Ministers are to blow 30 BILLION more. Treasury documents show Darling will splash out the fortune on Public services between now and the likely May Poll.

Is this not rediculous, are Labour trying to buy votes or simply trashing the Country as much as possible to make it impossible for the Tories ?

[youngmafbog]

Ah, once again this wierd way of asking question on this new site comes to the fore !

[Rollo]

How are they buying our votes when the money they are spending is ours anyway?

The sooner this awful lot are gone from office the better.

[Gromit]

I have no idea what you are on about. Do you have a link.

The latest news is that the Government plan to reduce public spending.

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The Prime Minister and Alistair Darling, the chancellor, have agreed a strategy to reduce government spending, and label it as a return to public service reform.

Education and fighting child poverty are likely to see the greatest protection from the spending cuts.
source said there was no logic to ring-fencing those budgets.

The new strategy is due to be announced by Mr Darling in a Callaghan lecture on Tuesday and reinforced by Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, in a speech to the centre-left group Progress next week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6147945/Labour-will-cut-NHS-and-overseas-aid-spending.html

[R1Geezer]

Doesn't matter what they do, joe public has had it with the Noo Labour "project", in best private fraser voice, they're doomed, doomed!

[jake-the-peg]

Ah yes because the Tory way of doing things is to hold back spending in a recession.

This ensures that marginal companies getting government contracts go under making their staff redundant putting greater stress on welfare. Not to mention the suppliers to those companies.

By increasing public spending governments provide confidence lacking in the market place.

It's been working in Japan, France and Germany and is starting to work in the US and here.

Of course YMG's Tory buddies will blame the last Government for anything anyway should they get in.

I look forward to hearing how another wet summer will be due to Gordon Brown's "spending spree"

[VHG]

>or simply trashing the Country as much as possible to make it impossible for the Tories ?

Well that is what they did last time they were in power.

[R1Geezer]

don't know what planet you were on in 1997 VHG, but Labour inherited the strongest economy in Europe mate, even the lefties acknowledged that.

[rov1200]

The problem with the Tory proposals is that they are easily overcome if you have enough money in the bank. They can fly abroad, take exotic overseas holidays, set up businesses abroad, stash their cash in offshore funds out of sight of the taxman and pop in for occasional visit to the UK.

The rest of us up to our ears in debt can help repay these extraordinary bank deficits.

Its not the rich that suffer but its the poor that get the blame.

Maybe its a reason for not going ahead with their plans at the next election.

[Sqad]

rov

"Its not the rich that suffer but its the poor that get the blame."

Spot on.......and in the last 10yrs, the gap between rich and poor has widened.