100 days

[oompah]

The coalition has reached 100 days in power,has anyone noticed a difference? the worlds still spinning, the suns still shining,the rains still persisting,Englands footballers can still win jack ****e,the war is still being waged in Afghanistan,the war of words is still raging over benefit fraud(in diynot land at least ) whats altered nowt,still the same old bluster and bull out of Downing Street,when somebody is at home that is.
But maybe there is hope of something in the wind.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11004127

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I put some garden furniture up, but the sun hasn't shone since

 

[diane1]

I put some garden furniture up, but the sun hasn't shone since

oh....its all your fault then!!....

 

[Blasphemous]

No most of us won't notice any difference...... YET! Most of the cuts won't hit us until later in the year/early next year. A LOT has altered and time will tell if the cozy couple have got it right.

As for the link:

Simon Hughes has said 'Liberal Democrat MPs should have a veto on policies put forward by the coalition government.'

They have a right of veto, it's called getting out of bed with the torries! And anything needing a vote that they don't agree with, just don't vote or vote against the policy being put to parliament. It's not effing rocket science! What a bunch of bleedin sheep!

Mr Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that voters appreciated politicians who "get together to overcome their differences in the national interest".

He added: "I really think that the distinguishing feature of this government is that it's a government for the long term, with five years to sort out things for the benefit of this country."

'The distinguishing feature of this government is that it's a government for the long term, with five years to sort out...'! 'Long Term'....FFS!!!! EVERY government has 5 years to 'sort things out'!!! Nick Clegg is such an crawling barsteward! He's loving being Cameron's Whipping Boy!

 

[oompah]

Most of the cuts won't hit us until later in the year/early next year.

But thats all we have heard is cut,cut,cut and the cut again,pure Tory idealogy when was the last time a Tory government came in and said right the country's on its knees and to get it back up an running again massive investment is what we are about.
Before any one jumps in and says you must be one of the ones borrowed up to the hilt I'm not every thing I have is my own,house mortgage free,car etc etc.Right thats out of the way, why do we need cuts can any one provide hard evidence of any prolific spending in their parish,there's certainly no evidence of it down this way or do we listen to some tory toff telling us the previous lot over spent by x amount.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

I put some garden furniture up, but the sun hasn't shone since

oh....its all your fault then!!....

I knew I'd get the blame and voted raving green bottle monster loony tune party!

 

[Norcon]

can one provide hard evidence of any prolific spending in their parish

Googled from the net wrote.

a report by Oxford Economics, over 31 percent of working people in Northern Ireland, around 220,000 people, depend on the public sector for their livelihood. This compares with figures for the UK as a whole that suggest that the 7.7 million public sector workers represent about 25.9 percent of the total workforce.

But comparisons of Gross Value Added (GVA)—a sum of the total goods and services in a region—with total public spending, show far greater dependence. Total government departmental spending in Northern Ireland combined with the sums spent on social security, pensions and other benefits provides a figure of £18 billion in Northern Ireland against GVA of around £28.7 billion. That is 67 percent of Northern Ireland’s GVA depends on public spending. By contrast the figure for the UK is 43 percent, with regional figures varying hugely between Wales at 65 percent and London at 29.5 percent.

The report, prepared for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action, suggests a shortfall in tax receipts in Northern Ireland compared with total spending of between £7 billion and £9 billion. This means that without subsidies from the British government “the region could afford to spend only half the amount it currently does on public services and benefits”.

We are living beyond our means over here in NI so cuts are necessary IMO. Why should the next generations suffer due to our greed?

The IRA are about to make a final push for unification, so an all Ireland under Sinn Fein (with separation from the EU) will make us a stronger nation than the weakened UK.

We would need a separate currency obviously. Not that euro shyte.
An Irish sterling would suffice with the IRA founding members images on the notes and coins instead of the Queen.

 

[lifesagasman]

Schizo insisted that we must vote tory to save the World.

Now that they are in and have formed a coalition he's gone very quiet.

 

[snico]

Schizo insisted that we must vote tory to RUIN the World.

Corrected it for you

 

[lifesagasman]

wear wood i bee withoot mi spillchick

 

[Donkmeister]

They have a right of veto, it's called getting out of bed with the torries! And anything needing a vote that they don't agree with, just don't vote or vote against the policy being put to parliament.

Yes, but you're viewing this with the eyes of someone who isn't trying to stay on the parliamentary gravy-train. It never ceases to amaze me that a country such as ours doesn't allow its politicians to vote with the interests of the country at heart in case it upsets the party you belong to.

The reason we're in such a mess is because the previous shower were ruthless when their members didn't tow the party line. Even when Brown the Pretender called shotgun on the big chair in the cabinet office without even an internal party vote, he was breaking the written rulebook of the Labour Party. But, when the murmuring started on the back benches, he sent the Whip round to lay down the law.

The previous Labour lot were easily as sleazy as the previous Tory lot, but in a far more dangerous way. Having a Barclay's with a tangerine in your mouth or having an affair with your secretary never harms anyone outside your family.

But the damage that Fuhrer Blair and Obergruppenfuhrer Broon have done spans continents and will span generations.

However, as one who tired of the Blair regime propaganda blaming Saint Margaret Thatcher for the world's woes right up until the moment the angry mob arrived at the end of Downing Street with pitch forks, I can appreciate that those who feathered their nests during the Thirteen-Year Reich will tire of the Government's next 10-20 years of saying "We'd all be in less s**t if Brown hadn't sold all our gold reserves and Blair hadn't let Bush enter his anus and Iraq."

 

[Mickymoody]

I think it's going to be amazing, when the cuts kick in; vat up to 20%, ok gonna sting a bit...

Cameron is a millionare, and don't know the common people; and is so blase about us;

So why not re-introde the Poll tax? Sell off whats left of British Industry (if there is anything left!), tax the middle classes even more (oops they are his supporters, so tax the lower classes), I see riots within 6 months.