Here’s an article that is doubly worthwhile – firstly because of the trashing of Tory ideology at the beginning, then because of the list of Tory lies at the end.
The coalition have a track record of lying and trying to mislead the public. David Cameron has now been rebuked several times for making false claims: on NHS spending, the rising national debt and the impact of his tax rises and deep spending cuts on economic growth. The Tories invented figures to claim people are now “better off”, but which totally ignored and excluded an account of the impact of significant factors like the rise in VAT, the cost of living, cuts to tax credits and other benefits.
The government is committing fraud on a grand scale. The reason for such deceit has nothing to do with public finances or the state of the economy, and everything to do with shrinking the public realm. There is an irreducibly ideological dimension to Tory economics, and by making it sound “scientific” when really, it’s more akin to philosophy or Tory buck passing…
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‘Deceit’ as Cameron ditches pledge to give voters power to sack MPs
The coalition agreement of 2010 included a promise of early legislation to introduce a “power of recall” allowing voters to force their MP to face a by-election by raising a petition of 10% of constituents, if the MP had been sentenced to prison or judged guilty of “serious wrongdoing” by the Commons Standards and Privileges Committee .
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/p/justice
We moan, we suffer, all we do is rant as we look poverty’s ugly face close up.
We can change our world.
http://theswansnewparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/how-socialists-could-prove-care-about.html
Mike, I was thinking that it would be a good idea if some ‘high quality’ blogger, such as yourself, developed an online ‘bank’ of a lot of the key data that gets quoted again and again. I would see it as a resource that people could access when they wanted information to support a point they were trying to make.
I’m sure you could get several of the key bloggers to send some of the stuff they use.
I had a similar thought myself, a few months ago. The sad fact is that daily life has prevented me from getting down to it.
Perhaps after next week’s tribunal.