No Party has come "anywhere close"

[olddutch]

No Party has come "anywhere close"

Robert Chote, the director of The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said today that whoever wins the General Election will have to bring in the biggest cuts in public services for a generation.

By 2014-15
the Conservatives would need to find cuts of nearly £64bn - a year,
Labour almost £51bn - a year
and the Liberal Democrats almost £47bn - a year

But -according to Mr Chote - no party had come "anywhere close" to identifying where these savings would be made.

The Liberal Democrats have identified about 25%,
the Conservatives about 19%
and Labour about 13%, .


The IFS also criticised the parties for making "misleading" claims that spending reductions could be met through efficiency savings.

He warned that it appeared the parties were being "overambitious" about,t how much could be cut from public expenditure, suggesting that the next government would have to rely much more on " Tax increases and Welfare Cuts" than anyone was currently admitting

So…….

Has democracy deteriorated to the extent where political parties are not able or not courageous enough to sell the truth as to the real state of UK plc, and the real extent of the crisis actions needed for fear of frightening the electorate into their opponents' camp, and where who wins is the party better able to sell a "free beer for the workers" programme or its updated equivalent?

Is our feuding party democracy letting us down the UK's present predicament or should we temporarily revert to a coalition of best talents until we get a firm grip on our wrecked public finance?

[bazwillrun]

All they want is power, and to expect any party to tell the truth is about as naive as can be.

they will say whatever they think "we" want to hear to get our vote.

if and when they get into power then they do what they want

[jake-the-peg]

And they're not wrong

When the Tories started talking about massive cuts they went down in the polls.

As an electorate if we wan't to know why were not being treated as grown ups we need to take a long hard look in the mirror

[Sqad]

Jake

//As an electorate if we wan't to know why were not being treated as grown ups we need to take a long hard look in the mirror//

Because the majority of the electorate are NOT grown ups.