ttosca…FYI I can guarantee you on children lives that I’m not hired by anyone (which frankly IS a current problem), but while posters try to manipulate others here by giving false information and indicating that from 2010 ALL our problems began, then Labour’s policies/record of economic and social incompetence (by policy design) will come up – especially to those using colourful language more suited to the fan-atical football terraces.
Firstly I’ll always dismiss any ‘qualified’ link from the half wit websites as ‘coalition policy scum’ gospel, unless there is a pre 2010 unspun 'New Labour could change what they wanted to' comparison – or from a scan of the usual literary bile, I see “Thatcher” name, as she left office nearly 25-years ago, and you should be comparing what economic incompetence built up with huge parliamentary majorities they left, versus the fastest growing economy in Europe they inherited in 1997.
Brown is responsible for this country’s mess, and he is still alive, for credibility sake you NEED to move on from the Thatcher ‘thing’, Labour showed us what they can do in 13-years of uninterrupted power, and it didn’t work out well for the people they pretend to represent, unless they were productive East Europeans that Blair’s ‘couch cabinet’ in the early 2000’s understood would vote for socialist parties, especially the one that gave THEM opportunities.
Next on Unemployment that Brown pre 2010 election policy decided that a few National Insurance Contribution increases (a ‘Jobs Tax’, in Labour parlance) after the election, was his magic fairy dust to get the unemployed back to work, you provided figures of several months ago, when employment has been gathering speed since, were you being ‘selective’?
The recent figures and partial breakdown I gave you tells the real story, including growth in Full Time Employment; the results of Osbourne reversing most of Labour’s ‘job tax’ and giving employers other incentives to hire people, that your flawed and failed ideology would call ‘sucking up to corporations’.
Brown’s ‘job tax’, a short term VAT cut, and a £2,000 cash for old cars-for-new was New Labour’s cunning ‘plan’ to reverse the huge fall in employment under their watch (especially those in manufacturing lost well BEFORE 2007), so with those ‘long term measures to rebalance the UK economy’, just think how bad Unemployment WOULD HAVE BEEN, under the current ‘tax every business to economic growth’ Old Labour, under Miliband???
Regarding Welfare & Benefits I’d suggest that you and a few other preaching on what the nasty Conservatives are doing, looks at the truth; how benefits like employment ROSE when Brown bragged about record numbers of EMPLOYED, how much has actually been ‘cut’ from what had become a welfare depend State, while Brown subbed out our jobs to Europe AND that the combined consequences of Labour’s policies and the greatest recession (they left) since the 1930’s - would continue to cause hardship and increase those numbers, UNTIL a government with a plan got us out of that great recession, called THE great recession due to the severity of it, especially on an unbalanced economy full of debt, that wasn’t the case in 1997.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10574376/Graphic-Britain-outstrips-Europe-on-welfare-spending.html
"Welfare spending in Britain has increased faster than almost any other country in Europe since 2000, new figures show"
The cost of unemployment benefits, housing support and pensions as share of the economy has increased by more than a quarter over the past thirteen years – growing at a faster rate than in most of the developed world
In the developed world, only the United States and the stricken eurozone states of Ireland, Portugal and Spain - which are blighted by high unemployment - have increased spending quicker than Britain.
And in Britain since 2010, when the Coalition came to power, spending on welfare as share of GDP has barely moved – falling by just a quarter of one per cent over three years, according to OECD data
By contrast, more than a third of developed nations have cut their welfare bills steeply in that period. Germany has cut social security spending as a share of GDP by 3.4 per cent, Canada by 3 per cent, Iceland by 4.2 per cent, Switzerland by 7 per cent and Estonia by 11 per cent.
Despite Mr Osborne’s promise to get welfare under control, the benefits bill is due to increase rapidly in cash terms, from £180bn this year to £203bn in 2018-19.”
There was a huge amount of abuse in the welfare system built up when spending taxpayers money on unreformed services was rife, as the international comparison figures above proves, and no one will ever know how many claims (or what it cost annually) was fraudulent.
Anyone who ideologically chooses to believe that there wasn’t widespread benefit/welfare abuse is giving themselves ‘mind wedgies’ and politicians of all parties should be glad that abuse it coming out of the system, as it gives them more money to give to those that NEED IT, and that should be a priority
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9963012/900000-choose-to-come-off-sickness-benefit-ahead-of-tests.html
Socialist fan-atics are similar to a mother giving birth, where afterwards nature makes them forget that all that pain, and their chosen journey that led to it, so they forget all about it
The difference being that a mother remembers all that pain, as soon as she goes into labour for the 2nd child, whereas a socialist fan-atic has the ability to transfer the pain (and their part in it) from Day One after a general election onto the Conservative Party
If my theory isn’t sound, why would Mr Miliband, as a senior member of the administration that left office in 2010, weekly stand up at PMQT and blame the coalition for all the (trending up for several years) problems he left e.g. youth unemployment?