Just commenting

[wellquickwoody]

Osborne promised to have slashed the deficit from £149bn to £60bn is another

Would have been worse under Labour, unless it was in Germany of course.......

 

[yxee]

The electorate approved neither Tory nor lib dem manifesto, so to judge a coalition on one or the other doesn't make too much sense. Blame the system, democracy isn't flawless

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Sorry, did you mean to post the labour immigration policy and got confused when you couldn't find one.

Personally even though I'll most probably vote conservative next year I don't particularly agree with this policy. At least though they are active in the space compared to labour who just seem to want to stick their heads in the sand about it, even though lots of their voters care about it.

No confusion. A simple reminder of what David Cameron promised after today's Tory backtracking.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Obviously just a comment but Labour commented that they would give us a vote on the Lisbon Treaty ..... whatever happened to that ?

 

[cunning fergus]

That was the most popular tax increase in a long time. It's reintroduction will be in their 2015 manifesto too.
Taxing the rich is a better idea than taxing the poor, which is what this current lot do. It's a funny thing about tax that people seem to focus so much on income tax, whereas the VAT rise is widely recognised as a regressive tax. Note that Labour reduced VAT temporarily to 15% in the last parliament.

You seem to have forgotten the abolishment of the 10p tax rate introduced by the old lot that affected 5.3m of the poorest workers in the UK...........the cost of compensation was in the billions, and all because someone couldn't do there sums properly.

I couldn't agree more with you about your point on VAT though, which is why the EU VAT Directive which levies 2.5% on UK rates is outrageous.

http://www.vatlive.com/eu-vat-rules/eu-vat-directive/

What was it the British colonialists used to say in America in the lead up to the second British civil war?

 

[Ernest]

Obviously just a comment but Labour commented that they would give us a vote on the Lisbon Treaty ..... whatever happened to that ?

So did Cameron, was that another comment ?

 

[Bozza]

So we've deduced that manifesto pledges get broken.

Truly groundbreaking stuff here.

You could Ed to mention this but he'd probably forget.

 

[beorhthelm]

Labour Party 2005 manifesto pledge: "We will not raise the basic or top rates of income tax in the next Parliament."
What happened: 50p tax rate introduced.

Just a comment presumably?

to be fair, they did leave this rise until their last budget, to came in just before the election. so they where only a month out.

Taxing the rich is a better idea than taxing the poor, which is what this current lot do.

yes, they do tax the rich and not the poor.

 

[Kevlar]

Would have been worse under Labour, unless it was in Germany of course.......

the one thing the coalition got right
was being pragmatic on the
private sector surplus
or the government sector deficit if you prefer