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Yes Labour, we do have a cheek and so do you.

Labour are once again spitting the dummy out over one of Nick Clegg’s speeches. Should we bothered? No. Once again it is the symptom of a desperate party clutching at straws with a weak leadership trying to make itself sound relevant in the world and failing.

You see, Labour are not at all impressed that Nick Clegg is calling for the LibDem manifesto pledge of raising the tax threshold on low income workers to £10k to be actioned faster. Labour claims that Nick has “a cheek preaching about fairness and tax” with Owen Smith adding “This is the man who campaigned against a rise in VAT and then introduced it just after he got elected…….For the last year Labour has been Continue reading →

Call in Dangermouse. He’d know what to do

Thats the best I can come up with right now frankly. Everywhere you turn there is yet another argument or movement in social media calling for the complete abandonment of either the Health Bill or the Welfare Reform Bill. It feels like we are in a war of ‘who can shout the loudest’ or who can show themselves to be the ‘most disaffected’ at the moment and it’s doing my head in.

The problem is we are in a tricky spot. The NHS and the Welfare system in this country both need a serious injection of common sense and reform into them so that they can provide the services this country needs these days. But some people won’t budge and are seemingly set in the past either for ideological reasons or purely Continue reading →