Revelations today show that multi-millionaire, David Cameron claimed:
* £1,200 for oil for the stove at his Witney home in leafy Oxfordshire on TOP of monthly utility bills averaging £180 a month.
* £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments.
* Secured a 10% reduction in council tax on the property from his local council, though the value of the property meant he was still claiming back £196 a month.
All this at a time when he was calling for a radical reform of MPs' expenses and allowances.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009
Friday, 2 October 2009
Cameron's Tories: not liberal, not progressive, and not fit for government
Next week sees the Tory Party conference in Manchester, voters should not be fooled into thinking they have changed their spots since they were last in government.
They are not liberal, not progressive, and not fit for government.
They are not liberal, Cameron voted to retain Section 28, they would scrap the Human Rights Act, and ‘Liberal’ is still a term of abuse for the Tories, frontbencher Jeremy Hunt recently attacked the BBC for having a ‘liberal bias’.
They are not progressive, Cameron would cut taxes for millionaires, at a cost of £4.4bn, while doing nothing to help low earners. 40% of children in poverty live in one-parent households, yet the Tories’ tax credit reform proposals will only help couples while doing nothing for single parents.
They are not fit for government, economically illiterate, Cameron and Osborne would cut before, not after an economic recovery, risking plunging UK back into recession. They are fiscally incompetent, six unfunded pledges leave a black hole of £53bn in Tory plans according to Treasury estimates; by contrast, Cameron’s recent ‘salad’ speech on cutting costs set out just £120m of savings.
Cameron’s foreign policy would leave the UK isolated on the lunatic fringe of Europe, less safe from terrorism, and international crime.
Cameron’s claim that he would fix broken politics rings hollow in the light of his refusal to punish George Osborne for ‘flipping’ his second home, a move by which the Shadow Chancellor made himself £55,000.
We Liberal Democrats believe in social justice, we believe in a fairer, freer, kinder, gentler society. We do not believe that Britain is broken, and would not use that as an excuse to attack the weakest and those most in need in our society.
They are not liberal, not progressive, and not fit for government.
They are not liberal, Cameron voted to retain Section 28, they would scrap the Human Rights Act, and ‘Liberal’ is still a term of abuse for the Tories, frontbencher Jeremy Hunt recently attacked the BBC for having a ‘liberal bias’.
They are not progressive, Cameron would cut taxes for millionaires, at a cost of £4.4bn, while doing nothing to help low earners. 40% of children in poverty live in one-parent households, yet the Tories’ tax credit reform proposals will only help couples while doing nothing for single parents.
They are not fit for government, economically illiterate, Cameron and Osborne would cut before, not after an economic recovery, risking plunging UK back into recession. They are fiscally incompetent, six unfunded pledges leave a black hole of £53bn in Tory plans according to Treasury estimates; by contrast, Cameron’s recent ‘salad’ speech on cutting costs set out just £120m of savings.
Cameron’s foreign policy would leave the UK isolated on the lunatic fringe of Europe, less safe from terrorism, and international crime.
Cameron’s claim that he would fix broken politics rings hollow in the light of his refusal to punish George Osborne for ‘flipping’ his second home, a move by which the Shadow Chancellor made himself £55,000.
We Liberal Democrats believe in social justice, we believe in a fairer, freer, kinder, gentler society. We do not believe that Britain is broken, and would not use that as an excuse to attack the weakest and those most in need in our society.
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Tory Millionaires
Last night I posted about how smug George Osborne looked telling the country that public spending would have to be cut.
Whilst I appreciate that Vince Cable has said that we have got to look at the future cost of public pensions, public sector pay, the welfare system, these are the big detail items that politicians are going to have to debate, it’s going to be painful but we’re going to have to discuss them.
I cannot abide a Tory Party that, if I remember correctly, has 19 millionaires out of a frontbench team of 23, wringing their hands in glee at the prospect of slash and burn being wrought on our public services.
These public services, whatever their faults, and there are many, are ultimately responsible and responsive to the democratic voice of the people. Whereas private organisations are ultimately only responsible to their shareholders and the bottom line, namely the profits and dividends they can pay out.
Let us not forget that whenever these mega-businesses begin to stumble and falter they are only to willing to ask, nay demand that the state that is you and me the ordinary tax-payer, bail them out, as we did with the banks earlier this year.
However, whenever the weakest need our help, the Tories treat them like lepers, calling them scroungers and demonising them to the nth degree and wanting to cut them off at the knees.
If only for that reason, I can never bring myself to support the Tories, and I concur wholheartedly with Nye Bevan in averring that "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin".
Whilst I appreciate that Vince Cable has said that we have got to look at the future cost of public pensions, public sector pay, the welfare system, these are the big detail items that politicians are going to have to debate, it’s going to be painful but we’re going to have to discuss them.
I cannot abide a Tory Party that, if I remember correctly, has 19 millionaires out of a frontbench team of 23, wringing their hands in glee at the prospect of slash and burn being wrought on our public services.
These public services, whatever their faults, and there are many, are ultimately responsible and responsive to the democratic voice of the people. Whereas private organisations are ultimately only responsible to their shareholders and the bottom line, namely the profits and dividends they can pay out.
Let us not forget that whenever these mega-businesses begin to stumble and falter they are only to willing to ask, nay demand that the state that is you and me the ordinary tax-payer, bail them out, as we did with the banks earlier this year.
However, whenever the weakest need our help, the Tories treat them like lepers, calling them scroungers and demonising them to the nth degree and wanting to cut them off at the knees.
If only for that reason, I can never bring myself to support the Tories, and I concur wholheartedly with Nye Bevan in averring that "No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin".
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