Bolitics The New Condem Government

[drat01]

1. Tories have axed 576 Sure Start Centres (evidence) 
2. Bankers' Bonuses rise by 64% in just 1 year (evidence)
3. Food Bank usage has grown by 700%+ in 3 years (evidence)
4. 1 million are now employed on Zero-Hours Contracts (evidence)
5. The Disabled have suffered real term cuts of 1.7% this year in benefits (here)
6. 52,701 firms have been declared Insolvent (Q2 2010 to Q2 2013) (evidence) 
7. 379,968 persons have been declared Insolvent (Q2 2010 to Q2 2013)  (evidence) 
8. Unemployment is 20,000+ higher today than May 2010 (evidence & here) 
9. Private Rental Homes costs £9,084 to rent (£1,128 up from Apr 2010) (evidence & here)
10. Tories have axed 5,601 Nurses since May 2010  (evidence) 
11. Council Tax rises imposed on the poor & disabled have led to 450,000 being dragged to courts since April (evidence)
12. 1 million people have had to sell their family home to pay for Elderly Care in the last 5 years (in fairness that include 2 years of a Labour government). Cameron promised no one would have to sell their family home to pay for elderly care (evidence here)
13. More than 250,000 Disabled people have been forced to take place in the Work Programme unpaid (here)
14. Water Charges  are up 20% since 1 Apr 2010  (here, here, here)
15. 20% of Law Firms are facing bankruptcy and 500 shut in 6 months amid Legal Aid cuts (evidence) 
16. Stamp Prices are up 46-56% since May 2010 (evidence)
17. Suicide Rates have climbed 8% in just 1 year reaching their highest levels since 2004 (evidence)
18. Number of Children in Class Sizes of more than 30 has doubled in a year (here)
19. Free Schools are under-subscribed but they get more money per pupil & freeze out poor kids (here, here & here)
20. Tories axed 5,000 Firefighters and hundreds of Fire Stations. Evidence of the impact in London alone (here)
21. Waiting Lists for families seeking to rent social housing have soared to record highs (evidence here)
22. Housing Benefit Bill has climbed to more than £20 billion as Private Landloards cash in with record rents (evidence)
23. The number of Cancelled Operations in our NHS have doubled and are at their worst for 8 years (evidence)
24. OBR predict Household Debt will grow more than £500bn this parliament thus continuing Labour's awful record of encouraging personal debt (here)
25. The Tories sold the Royal Mail for 50% less than it's now valued (evidence)
26. Gas Prices are up 31% since May 2010 (evidence)
27. Homelessness is up 28-34% since May 2010  (evidence & here) 
28. Rough Sleeping in London has grown 85% since Boris Johnson became Mayor (evidence)
29. House Building, last year, fell to a 90 year peacetime low  (evidence) 
30. Electricity prices are up 22-39% in price since May 2010 (evidence)
31. The UK suffered a 97% drop in Affordable House starts in 6 months under Grant Shapps  (evidence) 
32. £12bn+ of NHS has been put up for sale under this government (evidence) 
33. 33% of NHS Walk In Centres have been axed  (evidence) 
34. Wage Growth is just 0.7% which is much lower than inflation  (evidence) 
35. Profit Tax is to be cut by 25% (from 28% to 21%)  (evidence) 
36. 3.5 million now live in Child Poverty as Tory welfare cuts & sluggish wage growth bite (evidence)
37. 800,000 more households are living in Fuel Poverty & this excludes the impact of recent price rises (evidence)
38. Numbers of Working Poor have doubled in 3 years & include homes with 2.2mill children (evidence)
39. Numbers living in temporary accommodation have grown 11.4% since Q2 2010 (here)
40. 'The 50p rate' High Earner Tax  was cut by 10% (from 50p to 45p)  (evidence) 
41. VAT Tax was hiked by 14% (from 17.5% to 20%)  (evidence) 
42. EMA was scrapped for 500,000 as drop out rates climb (evidence) 
43. Bedroom Tax clobbered 660,000 of which 2/3rs are disabled & 1/4 single parents  (evidence) 
44. The Tories and their Lib Dem pals trebled Tuition Fees  (evidence) 
45. Record number of PFI contracts signed in the first year of a Tory government  (evidence) 
46. Bus Fares are up 22% under the Tories (here, here, here)
47. £5bn spent on back to work schemes that are less than 2% successful  (evidence) 
48. 7,968 Hospital Beds Axed  (evidence) 
49. Rail Fares are up 27% since 2010 (here, here)
50. The Number of GCSE Students getting A/A* Grades has fallen by 6% since 2010 (From 22.6 to 21.3)
51. 35,000 Police personnel have lost their jobs under the Tories (evidence)
52. 42,000 Armed Forces personnel to lose their jobs even though £2bn went unspent (here & here)
53. Tories abolished Equality Impact Assessments to cover up the immorality of their policies (here)
54. Tories lost several court cases against NHS closures & the Risk Register (eg here)
55. The Tories halved a worker's right to 90 days Redundancy Notice (here)
56. £168m in donations raked in by Tories including £20m from Private Health  (evidence) 
57. Chair of UK Statistics Authority tells Gove to stop lying about Education  (here)
58. Chair of UK Statistics Authority tells Hunt to stop lying about NHS Spending (here)
59. Chair of UK Statistics Authority tells Cameron to stop lying about Debt Reduction (here)
60. National Debt has risen £447 billion  (evidence) 
61. NHS Spending did not rise as promised  (evidence) 
62. NHS 'Never Events' have more than trebled  (evidence) 
63. NHS Negligence complaints lodged have increased 49% since 2010  (evidence & here)
64. 35,000+ NHS Staff have been axed  (evidence) 
65. 5,000 Firefighters have been axed  (evidence) 
66. Minimum Wage rises have been below inflation every year of Tory rule (evidence)
67. University Applications fell by 6% in Jan 2013 (here)
68. 20 Treatments are no longer free on the NHS in parts of England  (evidence) 
69. 10 Prisons have been axed & 4 more are to close (evidence & here) 
70. 4 Profit Making Prisons have been opened  (evidence) 
71. The Tax Gap has grown by £3bn to £35bn in the last year alone [evasion/avoidance] (evidence) 
72. 6% of Prison Cells have been cut in 1 year  (evidence) 
73. £829m cut from the Children's & Families Budget  (evidence) 
74. The percentage of A-Level Students getting A/A* has fallen 3% since 2010 (here)
75. Food Prices are up 19% under the Tories  (evidence) 
76. 11,000 Fat Cat NHS Bosses given a 13% pay hike while nurses pay frozen (evidence)
77. At least a third of Ambulance Stations have been axed since 2010 (evidence) 
78. NHS GP Funding cut by £400 million (evidence)
79. NHS Funding For Cancer, Stroke & Heart Patients cut by 12-26% (evidence)
80. A&Es waiting times at their worst for 8+ years  (here)
81. Michael Gove overspent £1bn on Free Schools & Academies at State Schools expense (evidence) 
82. NHS Direct was axed and replaced by a botched and fragmented NHS111 (evidence) 
83. NHS Patient Satisfaction went from record high under Labour to record low under Tories (evidence) 
84. Government wasted £1.4 billion on NHS Staff Redundancy Payouts (evidence) 
85. Government axed a plan to rebuild 715 Crumbling Schools (evidence) 
86. Just 3% of CEOs in the FTSE 350 are Women & Cameron has fueled a more Sexist tone to our politics (evidence & here)
87. 31% of UK women have suffered Domestic Abuse and it has risen in 25% after the Tories came to power. Legal Aid cuts, police cuts & the Bedroom Tax make it harder for women to escape it (evidence & here)
88. Tories cut Child Benefit for middle-class families while giving tax cuts to millionaires (evidence)
89. Number of people Working Unpaid is at a 13 year high (evidence sheet 3) 
90. The Government used your taxes to fund Racist Vans that drove around London warning immigrants to "Go Home". The Advertising Standards Authority has now banned them (evidence)
91. 1.8 million workers now earn less than the National Minimum Wage (evidence)
92. More than 600,000 Public Sector workers have been axed (evidence sheet 4) 
93. Job creation: There were more workers born in the UK employed in Britain in Jul-Sept 2010 than 3 years later on 30 June 2013 (sheet 8 rows 64-76) 
94. On world disability day the Tories shut 36 Remploy Factories axed 1,000 disabled workers (here)
95. Job Creation: 70% of new jobs created in the UK under the Tories have gone to non-UK citizens which makes a lie of the Tory claim they've created a million new jobs (sheet 8 rows 64-76)
96. 95 Tory Fat Cat Academy Bosses rake in more than MPs with the top 10 giving themselves £2million between them (evidence, evidence)
97. The Tories have Privatised Educational Services, Auditing, Consultancy and Prison Services worth £5 billion (evidence & here)
98. Were it not for Ed Miliband & the pressure of the UK public Cameron would have taken us to war in Syria.
99. Tories have Privatised 1 major NHS Hospital, have put another major hospital up for sale and have handed 12 community hospitals to profiteers (here, here & here)
100. Sure Start Funding has been cut by 28% as Cameron breaks his SureStart promise (evidence)

 

Taken from http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2013/10/list-100-failures-by-david-camerons.html

[markavfc40]

Thanks for posting that list Ian. Nothing that we didn't know but when you see it listed like that it just hammers home what a useless, evil bunch of bastards this Tory led Government and Lib Dem lap dogs have been. Any supporters of this mob that aren't right wing nut jobs should hang their heads in shame. Those that are right wing nut jobs and revelling in all this should slip a noose round their own necks and do the rest of us a **** favour.

[chrisp65]

I refuse to believe No 1 and No 100 on that list.

I just refuse to believe that our Prime Minister would give an absolute face to camera read my lips style 'judge me on this' pledge that he would personally protect and ring fence Sure Start above all.

 

If we can't trust our own PM on such an absolute pledge, well, I don't know what to think.

 

My only doubt in my personal belief in the personal promise of our PM is that I do know people that worked in Sure Start, but don't anymore, due to cuts.

[tonyh29]

Any supporters of this mob that aren't right wing nut jobs should hang their heads in shame. Those that are right wing nut jobs and revelling in all this should slip a noose round their own necks and do the rest of us a **** favour.

That's the spirit ... We've gone from Bowie knifes to hanging

Shall we round up their children next and put them in reeducation camps

It's yet more evidence if needed that Richards statement the other day was true

[tonyh29]

I thought Dr Clarke would have learnt his lesson by now

I, Dr Eoin Clarke, apologise wholly and unreservedly to Virgin Care, its employees, subsidiaries and service users, as well as my readers, for writing over 46 blog entries that contained false, inaccurate and defamatory statements.

In several posts on my blog “The Green Benches” in 2012, I made a number of defamatory statements about Circle Health. I now acknowledge that there was no truth to those statements…

Or this:

I would like to make 5 sincere and unequivocal apologies and clarifications about earlier pieces I wrote in relation to Lord Ashcroft. My earlier writings used hyperbole in 2 cases, may have caused a false impression to be received in others 2 cases, and was incorrect on the facts in 1 case.

[snowychap]

It's yet more evidence if needed that Richards statement the other day was true

I believe that is what's called confirmation bias.

Edited October 20, 2013 by snowychap

[tonyh29]

It's yet more evidence if needed that Richards statement the other day was true

I believe that is what's called confirmation bias.

Well tbf the posters themselves have to take all the credit

[snowychap]

Well tbf the posters themselves have to take all the credit

Not unless you misunderstood what I meant by confirmation bias.

[Risso]

Some interesting usage of the word "evidence" there.  Good job Drat isn't a rozzer.

[chrisp65]

I'm willing to stand up for evidence on 1 and 100.

 

The man is a liar, but to be fair, it goes with the job, regardless of the colour of the jumper.

[markavfc40]

_{The NHS stats on that list won't be too far off the mark.}

 

_{Walk in centers shut, nursing staffing levels down, GP funding down, hospital beds axed added to a massive cut in local government funding meaning huge cuts in social care. Surprise surprise A and E is now on its knees and waiting times have gone up dramatically.}

 

_{This mob think we're all thick as shit though and try to deflect all the attention on the NHS onto the few bad apples with in it hoping then that we won't notice that at the same time they are destroying this countries finest achievement. Nothing short of a disgrace.}

Edited October 21, 2013 by markavfc40

[drat01]

Some interesting usage of the word "evidence" there.  Good job Drat isn't a rozzer.

Interesting how you concentrate on the person rather than the subject - confirming more so what drives the right wing supporters

 

Maybe a read of teh post would have shown you that I was not the author of that, but hey let's not let a little thing like that get in the way of personal snides eh?

[drat01]

 

Any supporters of this mob that aren't right wing nut jobs should hang their heads in shame. Those that are right wing nut jobs and revelling in all this should slip a noose round their own necks and do the rest of us a **** favour.

That's the spirit ... We've gone from Bowie knifes to hanging

Shall we round up their children next and put them in reeducation camps

It's yet more evidence if needed that Richards statement the other day was true

 

Interesting that you continue to deflect and not even discuss the points raised in that article, rather you would prefer to cause problems in the thread by trying to create a shit storm out something that has no relevance whatsoever to the topic.

[drat01]

I thought Dr Clarke would have learnt his lesson by now

 

I, Dr Eoin Clarke, apologise wholly and unreservedly to Virgin Care, its employees, subsidiaries and service users, as well as my readers, for writing over 46 blog entries that contained false, inaccurate and defamatory statements.

In several posts on my blog “The Green Benches” in 2012, I made a number of defamatory statements about Circle Health. I now acknowledge that there was no truth to those statements…

Or this:

I would like to make 5 sincere and unequivocal apologies and clarifications about earlier pieces I wrote in relation to Lord Ashcroft. My earlier writings used hyperbole in 2 cases, may have caused a false impression to be received in others 2 cases, and was incorrect on the facts in 1 case.

 

Again - maybe you would like to show (as per site rules) where those quotes have come from and maybe you can debate the issues raised?

[markavfc40]

Interesting that you continue to deflect and not even discuss the points raised in that article, rather you would prefer to cause problems in the thread by trying to create a shit storm out something that has no relevance whatsoever to the topic.

 

 

I wouldn't worry too much about it Ian. It seems to be a theme of this thread. Rather than address issues raised directly a game of deflection is played.

 

I stand by what I said. If any right wing nut job is warped enough to be revelling in how this evil mob are going about governing this country then they should do us all a favour and swing from their necks. I'd like to think we don't have any like that amongst us though  

Edited October 21, 2013 by markavfc40

[drat01]

Mark - there are a lot of points that have been raised in that article, a lot of which I would imagine people not supporting the Gvmt would raise for debate as part of any run up to an election. Surely if the points are flawed or completely wrong it would be an easy task to show where the author is wrong and what the reality was? Shame that rather than debate those there does seem to be more of a desire to "mischief" make and deflect.

 

Re the NHS I suspect that will become a very hot topic as normal and close scrutiny of claims, pledges etc need to be made. I suspect there will be a lot of "ahhh but Labour ....." type replies which again have little to no relevance as they are not the ones in power at the moment. What is the betting that the Mail etc will try to make things into personality led (which certainly does seem to be a trait of the "right wing") i the coming months rather than discuss the real issues that affect the people of the UK?

 

On a totally different subject I would like to hear and see what the supporters of the Gvmt, and Right wing in general, views are on the hypocrisy surrounding the Nuclear reactor scheme announced yesterday with French and Chinese backing and the costs / charges that will come from that.

[tonyh29]

Ahhh but.... Check

Deflection .... Check

Right wing .... Check

hypocrisy .... Double check

What do I win in Today's game of VT Bingo ?

[markavfc40]

Ahhh but.... Check

Deflection .... Check

Right wing .... Check

hypocrisy .... Double check

What do I win in Today's game of VT Bingo ?

 

You win a rope with instructons on how to make a noose. You know the rest

[colhint]

ahh but Tony that's just more right wing deflection hypocracy

[Awol]

On a totally different subject I would like to hear and see what the supporters of the Gvmt, and Right wing in general, views are on the hypocrisy surrounding the Nuclear reactor scheme announced yesterday with French and Chinese backing and the costs / charges that will come from that.

Finally, an actual subject to discuss.  Not sure where the hypocrisy comes in but new nuclear is a decidedly good thing providing clean, sustainable and long term energy.  If the problem is that the money to build and operate is coming from abroad I'm not sure why it's an issue? We don't have the money to build them ourselves at the moment and thanks to a two decade hiatus in serious energy policy planning, we urgently need the investment in energy infrastructure. Subsidising ever more wind farms won't keep the lights on so this seems like the only practical alternative that fits with de-carbonisation targets.