Four days before the general election, on the Andrew Marr Show, David Cameron promised that there would be no cuts to frontline services. Conservative Home usefully recorded the event. The BBC helpfully provide a transcript. We shall know later today the full extent to which he lied. What I can tell you is any cabinet […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
The real failure of the baby boomers
Oct 10th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.We have heard much talk of something called the ‘Big Society’. This in essence is a set of ideas being promulgated by David Cameron and the less hard edged supporters of his Government. As such it is something of an improvement on an infamous intervention by Margaret Thatcher, who said “there is no such a […]
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Deficit fetishism
Jun 7th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.With his talk of disrupting the ‘whole way of life’ of Britain’s entire population by the most severe spending cuts for a generation, it’s perfectly clear that David Cameron is softening us up for what the Tories have always been striving for all along, namely the shrinking of the State and the further privatisation and […]
