Poll: Who will gain your vote?

[torledo]

While I agree with your analysis - there's always an alternate view - see this from yesterday's Guardian

 

The Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that the years between 2011 and 2015 "must" see the largest cuts in public spending since 1976-80 (Parties 'dishonest on cuts', 28 April). That's a line all the major parties are peddling in the runup to the general election, and it's a lie. There's no need for a single penny to be cut. Those who say there is should read the Sunday Times Rich List 2010 (Report, 26 April). It exposes the fact that the combined wealth of the richest 1,000 residents of the UK now stands at £335.5bn – an increase of 29.9% on last year's figure and 239% on 1997. So let's have no more talk from the politicians from all the mainstream parties about the "necessity" of "savage cuts" in public spending. The money for the things that the vast majority of the population need – housing, health, education and jobs – is in the grotesquely inflated pockets of the mega-rich. Time for them to cough up. And let's have no more witless talk about how "we're all in this together".

 

good find, spuffmonkey.

 

i too despise the witless talk about "we're all in this together". Basically some people are struggling and being penalised, others have had their futures sold down the river, and quite a few are doing very nicely ta very much clearly at the expense of policies which hinder the former.....i don't see any sense of "we're all in this together" rhetoric. IT's convenient for the politicians to use such phrases to justify the diabolical decisions they make that favour some more than others.