New Politics?

[Tangled up in Blue]

Perhaps someone on SZ(not necessarily a right winger)would care to have a go at explaining just what exactly is "new" about the "new politics"?

 

[Reg Martin]

Perhaps someone on SZ(not necessarily a right winger)would care to have a go at explaining just what exactly is "new" about the "new politics"?

I voted LibDem so make you're own mind up as to whether or not I'm a right winger (personally I no longer know which class I'm supposed to call myself) but I do think that one of the changes we will see is that having several million unemployed will once again start to be seen as a national scandal rather than something to be blase about.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Perhaps someone on SZ(not necessarily a right winger)would care to have a go at explaining just what exactly is "new" about the "new politics"?

It's the same "New" as in "New" Labour. :unsure:

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Perhaps someone on SZ(not necessarily a right winger)would care to have a go at explaining just what exactly is "new" about the "new politics"?

A Lib Dem-Tory coalition is pretty new isn't it?

For the first time in British politics we're set to have liberal social policies combined with free-market economic policies.

About time too.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

It's the same "New" as in "New" Labour. :unsure:

So the "New Politics" will be the Tories without any balls then? :)

 

[GrumpyBlue]

It's the same "New" as in "New" Labour. :unsure:

Yes exactly

 

[Rob Noxious]

So the "New Politics" will be the Tories without any balls then? :)

Yes, the only Balls appearing in Parliament will be rolled out for Labour -ie Ed's. :'(

 

[Benfleet A1]

So the "New Politics" will be the Tories without any balls then? :)

But everytime they show their balls you Labour boys start screaming inequality and ruin of the nation. Trying to sort out 164 billion of debt shows more balls than closing your eyes and hoping it all goes away.

 

[Swiss Tony]

It's the same "New" as in "New" Labour. :unsure:

Or New as in New stadium,sorry wrong thread.

 

[canveyshrimper]

Or New as in New stadium,sorry wrong thread.

I knew there was a similarity somewhere.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

But everytime they show their balls you Labour boys start screaming inequality and ruin of the nation. Trying to sort out 164 billion of debt shows more balls than closing your eyes and hoping it all goes away.

But doing it in such a way that it doesn't impact on frontline services unduly nor harm a fragile economic recovery takes more than balls.It requires compassion and consumate political skill.

 

[Reg Martin]

But doing it in such a way that it doesn't impact on frontline services nor harm a fragile economic recovery takes more than balls.It requires compassion and consumate political skill.

To be honest, and I'm speaking as a public sector employee, I don't see how such a large deficit can be reduced without significant impact on front-line services. I know all 3 main parties waffle on about efficiency savings though getting rid of bureaucracy but I think they are deluding themselves as well as the public.

 

[Mad Cyril]

To be honest, and I'm speaking as a public sector employee, I don't see how such a large deficit can be reduced without significant impact on front-line services. I know all 3 main parties waffle on about efficiency savings though getting rid of bureaucracy but I think they are deluding themselves as well as the public.

I don't think 'bashing the bankers' will either.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

To be honest, and I'm speaking as a public sector employee, I don't see how such a large deficit can be reduced without significant impact on front-line services. I know all 3 main parties waffle on about efficiency savings though getting rid of bureaucracy but I think they are deluding themselves as well as the public.

I agree about the front line services issue but you haven't addressed the ancillary issue relating to the risk of provoking a double dip recession by reducing the deficit too aggressivekly in the short term.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I don't think 'bashing the bankers' will either.

You mean those institutions which the British tax payer now owns a large chunk of? :)

 

[Mad Cyril]

You mean those institutions which the British tax payer now owns a large chunk of? :)

The British tax payer owns a large chunk of a very small number of banks.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The British tax payer owns a large chunk of a very small number of banks.

True but they're all well known High Street names.Remember Labour's 1983 manifesto which promised to take over the "commanding heights" of the economy and nationalise the banks?
I bet Eric Heffer is turning over iin his grave.;)

 

[Reg Martin]

I agree about the front line services issue but you haven't addressed the ancillary issue relating to the risk of provoking a double dip recession by reducing the deficit too aggressivekly in the short term.

I knew there was something I was supposed to do before I went home today.

 

[Hotman]

I agree about the front line services issue but you haven't addressed the ancillary issue relating to the risk of provoking a double dip recession by reducing the deficit too aggressivekly in the short term.

I think a double dip now is preferable to a protracted, deeper double dip as would happen under Labour?

 

[Mad Cyril]

True but they're all well known High Street names.

So are Savo the clown and the Owl man.

What is your so called point?