feel free to blame Labour if it's too taxing for your memories.
examples most welcomed.
2007-03-02 07:38:00 · 8 answers · asked by DAWN M 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
you sound like a labour politician trying to blame it on previous parties.it does not work like that.it is down to the party in power at the present time.they are the ones holding the reigns.we are not a stupid nation to be fooled by that one.
2007-03-05 01:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by earl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the benefits culture, it has ballooned enormously under this Government, and so has the public sector. But then, Labour always do this, it is called increasing your client base and buying votes. I presume you mean by 'current state', the enormous amount of tax payers money spent on welfare. But again, it depends what you include within the term 'welfare'. The NHS needs root and branch reform before it gets another penny. The encouragement of single parenthood should also stop immediately. There are 3.5million people on the benefits register that should be on the unemployment register, even the Labour Party admits this.
I have a strange feeling that you are going to try and pin it on the Tories, Thatcher, in particular. I apologise in advance, if you are not.
It was the Unions that destroyed much of British industry, not Maggie Thatcher. Britain was a basket case, and the unions were abusing their power.
'smarty' states that privatisation was a disaster. Well, no it wasn't. Privatisation, increased the efficiency of practically all the utilities, proving in the process, that they had been massively over-manned, and , therefore, grossly inefficient and very expensive for the customer. Moreover, they all needed to be subsidised by the tax payer. Prices today are much lower than they would otherwise have been. Even the Labour party have had to admit this, and have done a bit of their own. Where they had previously been loss making, they were actually able to make profits, and still reduce prices. This was particularly the case with 'British Telecom'. Don't forget they all had Government appointed watchdogs to control their price increases. There is no point having people employed in non-jobs. They might as well be doing something useful.
2007-03-03 08:51:22 · answer #2 · answered by Veritas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all very well blaming Margaret Thatcher, but there was nothing to stop Labour re-nationalising stuff, only it was New Labour not Old that got into power because Old Labour had been left out in the cold for 18 years and not enough people would vote for them. I am not a Tory voter by the way, I just get fed up with the country's woes being constantly blamed on Thatcher!
2007-03-02 08:11:21 · answer #3 · answered by Dr Watson (UK) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's just a gradual build up across several governments.
The state of the welfare system is also partly due to the number of people scrounging from it who should be doing something more useful like working, not to mention people who make themselves so overweight they get illnesses they would otherwise avoid, and those who smoke and drink themselves into bad health. Also the increasing number of older people in relation to working age people.
But at least we still have a welfare system, for the time being.
2007-03-02 07:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by finch 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can remember the tory mob in power,tax off port ,the poll tax, stone faced thatcher sending troops to the malvinas in the name of thatcherism,feel free to vote the tories in it is your right but do not blame us when you have no national health,schools rotting with age you deserve the tories good luck
2007-03-02 07:48:01 · answer #5 · answered by reginald r 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I blame Thatcher. Privatisation (for the most part) has been a disaster and it was her who wanted rid of all our industry and manufacturing. She wanted everyone behind a desk selling insurance and manning call centres. Well now all those office jobs have gone to India we haven't got much of anything else left!!
2007-03-02 07:43:27 · answer #6 · answered by Smarty 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its not the government, its the electorate - we've got the government we deserve. If you want things to change get involved in politics but be warned - its a dirty rotten and often disgusting business.
2007-03-02 08:57:28 · answer #7 · answered by cuddlyclaud 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it couldn't possibly be the conservatives, because apparently their going to sort it out, and they care so much about free health care, don't they?
2007-03-02 07:43:04 · answer #8 · answered by sirdunny 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋