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General election gets underway

Undesired Walrus

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Seen any?
 
"I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS" means "I'll raise taxes", doesn't it?
 
Anyone post election will have to raise taxes. Of course, saying that is electoral suicide. So they don't.
 
I especially like the 'Private property' sign in the foreground. Very fitting.

This is probably the earliest campaigning ever in UK history.
 
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Skeptic said:
"I'll cut the deficit, not the NHS" means "I'll raise taxes", doesn't it?
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Taxes are scheduled to rise anyway as per budgetary legislation implemented by the labour government. If the tories don't reverse this then taxes go up but they can claim not to be doing it themselves. They have already shelved earlier "aspirations" to cut (inheritance) tax though. The statement is more likely taken to mean cutting entitlements, public sector pay/benefits and other programs.

Having said that, merely stopping the signifcant year by year increases in the NHS budget (which have been the norm for about 10 years) will probably feel like a "cut"
 
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Francesca R said:
Taxes are scheduled to rise anyway as per budgetary legislation implemented by the labour government. If the tories don't reverse this then taxes go up but they can claim not to be doing it themselves.
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The US Congress once passed a law that their salaries would continue to go up unless they actively voted to disallow it for that year. That way everybody, when challenged like they always are near elections, could throw up their hands and say, "I didn't do it!"
 
British MPs have long set their own salaries too, within guidelines. Then for a few years they appeared to be deliberately taking "below market" pay rises or even freezes to "set an example". That all blew up last year when it became obvious that they used a freeloading expenses system to top up their income--which is now to be reformed too.

Of course, if you make being a representative politician too non-lucrative, then you tend to get moneyed-up power-lovers as the only ones able to apply for the job.
 
It seems every few months there's an attempt on Brown's political life. I suppose Hoon isn't a 'Who the hell is that?' like Purnell, but still.
 
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