UK unemployment is growing 500% quicker than the Eurozone so don’t let Osborne blame Greece http://t.co/IiJJWp2X
The post he refers to, one of his own, is well worth a read in full.
It does, of course, beg the question: what on earth are Osborne and Cameron up to? In my mind, I think the only sensible reply is to say: “Exactly what they set out to do!”
Increase unemployment – in order to tip the balance of negotiating power in the direction of employers; destroy that part of our monopolistic “free market” which, even now, was giving the bigger companies grief – in order that the only businesspeople left on the killing-field are the big-money sponsors of the Tory Party; shake out all those feelgood policies New Labour had engineered to tie the disparate social elements of this country together – in order to better control the chaos that is left; and – finally – deactivate all chances of making socialism work for the oh so conservative British.
For that, if anything, was Tony Blair’s unalloyed triumph. Make even the Conservatives believe that helping the less well-off and more disadvantaged was an inevitable political evil which had to be tolerated in the name of fair play.
Not, incidentally, what Osborne and Cameron care to believe in at all.
And that, precisely, is why they have set out to unravel all Blair’s careful and clever tapestry of union.
You're bang on the money here.
The people who sponsor the Tories, big business, banks… want their money's worth from them.
We've just seen oil companies which gave money benefiting from the Libyan war, friends of Hague.
Bankers not losing bonuses, and gaining pay rises; average chief executive pay up by 49% in the last year… and as usual we sit back and take it.
And when Scotland tries to break away the chancellor talks down the Scottish economy (on a day that Amazon creates 3000 jobs in the country, he really is a bit of a pudding).
Of course we would do better were it not for the Euro crisis. But the French and the Germans are IN the Euro crisis and they are doing better than we are. How can that be?
Probably because most people hear the headlines; don't question them and think… ghastly foreigner; horrible ungrateful Scots….
You get what it says on the tin with the Tories, which is why Scotland elected only 1 out of 59 MPs.
I wish I wasn't – and sometimes I wonder if I'm seeing shadows where there aren't any. But the more the Tory policies uncover their true colours, the more I think theses like the ones I've described in the past few posts are true.
I just can't believe the extent of their cruel selfishness. It really worries me that so many bad people are in charge.
Terribly naive, aren't I