Don`t you just love election time? It`s when
politicians wake up; Miliband comes up with policies for which ordinary people
have been waiting months, if not years. Clegg, of course, has to pretend he and
his "lickspittle allies" of the Tories had nothing to do with tax reductions for
the rich, the bedroom tax, destruction of the welfare state, university fees`
hike, privatisation of anything that moves and such like; presumably, he was too
busy ensuring fairness was "hardwired" into government policies?
As for the Tories, there is news that a group of
them, backed by Eric Pickles, wants their conference to support a six-point
pledge which includes promises like raising the minimum wage and cutting fuel
duty! They suddenly want to position themselves "as the workers`party"! You
couldn`t, as is often said, make it up. After years of freezing wages, cutting
benefits and jobs, doing nothing about the lack of regulation of rents, energy
prices, the banking bonus culture, and tax avoidance by their City friends, and
introducing policies of privatisation which can only mean further job losses,
they wonder why they have "failed to appeal to working class voters, northern
urban voters, ethnic minority voters, and people outside Tory heartlands". They
cannot be serious. Now we are expected to believe that they care about ordinary
people`s welfare, and want to raise wages and cut prices. What on earth do they
take us for?
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