David Cameron: The loose cannon

Snow Dog wrote: Sean Trane wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Anything that disrupts the EEC Well if Britain doesn't want European Community, it should get out!! No-one will miss it.     But sabotaging it the way Farage and Cameron (or as Major/Thatcher) do is indecent I agree...Britain should get out. But we will be missed I assure you. You know it too.

Great post, Jim. 

Well, while the conservatives are cutting things left, right and centre nullo discrimine and considering new ways to charge students for earning more money later in life and therefore generally paying much more back in tax anyway...

(and a headline today read that Cameron was going to war on benefits cheats... um... am I mistaken in thinking that tax frauds cost us much, much more and are, frankly, unless you are yourself a tax fraud, more or less analogous to benefit fraud?)

It's nice to know that the government are publicly crushing one minor scheme being cut despite pretty reasonable recommendations because it'd get Cameron compared to Thatcher (though mammellon Cameron doesn't really have the same ring to it) and annoy mumsnet.

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The current coalition government seems entirely inconsistent to me... brutal cuts wherever they can be made but continued indulgence in conservative pet projects (free schools, for instance) and an outright avoidance of any cut that'd bring an immediate and severe public reaction or typify the conservative party as acting in the mould of Thatcher.

mystic fred wrote: ^ ...like they have done a U-turn on cancelling the kiddies milk - the public outcry achieved this, and they reckon they were only "considering" it...

(um, they were definitely only considering it - the thing went public as a leaked email from the consideration process. The woman in charge gave reasonable arguments about its value-for-money and said cutting it should be strongly considered...)

I don't think the outcry achieved much other than spotlighting something that would probably have been scrapped because it makes Cameron look like Thatcher. Personally, I think if the conservatives are going to brutally cut things touching on almost every aspect of life, they should have given this proper consideration (by which I mean, run it through regular process) along with everything else rather than bending before the outcry of mumsnet.

I think a government that is planning on rough cuts to things that actually are quite beneficial to the country (for instance, the police, education, higher education), it should have the balls to scrap a free milk scheme or at least to properly consider scrapping a free milk scheme rather than quashing it publically at the first hurdle.

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