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Comprehensive Spending Review and Autumn Statement

ColchesterFC said:
Does it actually matter what he says? He could reveal that he has single handedly eliminated IS, discovered a new free fuel to replace petrol and that each family in the UK will get a magic rainbow unicorn that farts out 10 pound notes and some on here would still complain. I can see the responses now....."IS didn't get a fair trial, what about the poor oil companies losing all their revenue and why can't the unicorns fart out 20 pound notes".
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Astraeus said:
Distressingly on-point. You're absolutely right. Never before have we had an opposition so disposed to pre-judging and dismissing every action of a government. It is pessimistic, ineffectual politics at its worst.
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Simple and accurate. Also depressing in its own way
 
Ethan said:
You have got to be kidding.

Osborne is on an ideological crusade to reduce the size of government, when all the world's sensible economists are telling him it is strangling the economy. And promising a 7 day NHS to prevent some probably unavoidable deaths when they can't even pay for the current version.

The future of the NHS, the welfare state and the economy under Osborne is cause for plenty of pessimism.
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..and if Hunt and Osborne think that the Junior Doctors are being a pain in the backside over the 7-day NHS - just wait until they try imposing it on the radiographers - they will create merry hell :) And then there are all the other professions and groups of NHS workings they will have to tackle - if they have any will to live after the radiographers.,
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
..and if Hunt and Osborne think that the Junior Doctors are being a pain in the backside over the 7-day NHS - just wait until they try imposing it on the radiographers - they will create merry hell :) And then there are all the other professions and groups of NHS workings they will have to tackle - if they have any will to live after the radiographers.,
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Needless to say, neither really want a 7 day NHS. That would cost tens of billions a year to be done properly.

The real agenda is described here: http://koshh.org/the-connection-bet...nd-the-american-corporate-takeover-of-the-nhs
 
George has bottled it on tax credits and scrapped scrapping them. That is a major u-turn. Whether you agree with it or not if you put forward a controversial policy then you have to have conviction in it and stick to your guns. To collapse completely is spineless and a major blow to his aspiration of replacing DC.
 
Old Skier said:
We have fresh figures today over the level of deaths in the NHS over the weekend period. This time infant mortality. How without a 7 day NHS can we rectify this?
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But that research indicated that staffing levels were not likely to be the cause of the additional death rates. Thursday actually had the highest mortality rates.
 
So the higher mortality figures fed to us by the media is all smoke and mirrors and patience admitted at weekends will see the same high quality staff in the same time frame as those admitted during the week. Good to know.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
George has bottled it on tax credits and scrapped scrapping them. That is a major u-turn. Whether you agree with it or not if you put forward a controversial policy then you have to have conviction in it and stick to your guns. To collapse completely is spineless and a major blow to his aspiration of replacing DC.
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Or maybe he listed to the people, had a review of the policy and decided the people were right? I would say only a fool would have conviction to stick to his guns when everyone is telling you not to.. but i know nowt about politics!
 
If you are going to put forward a policy that you know is controversial then you run through it behind the scenes over and over again, you refine it. You test the waters a little by actually speaking to people, interested bodies. Then when you are sure you announce it, and stick to it. What he is doing now should have been discussed and resolved behind the scenes before the policy was announced. Doing a complete U turn shows a lack of conviction, a lack of preparation and frankly weakness. He should not have got into this mess.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
If you are going to put forward a policy that you know is controversial then you run through it behind the scenes over and over again, you refine it. You test the waters a little by actually speaking to people, interested bodies. Then when you are sure you announce it, and stick to it. What he is doing now should have been discussed and resolved behind the scenes before the policy was announced. Doing a complete U turn shows a lack of conviction, a lack of preparation and frankly weakness. He should not have got into this mess.
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Agree - just makes it seem like he didn't care enough to bother.
 
The sad state of affairs means that George can do whatever he wants the next 5 years and will still walk into #10 come 2020!

Think today's uturn will have had 0 impact on his credibility.
 
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