Liberal Vision

Excuse me but WHO are the scaremongers?

Its been widely reported today that the Tories have set up a website –

www.stopthescaremongering.com

– which they are encouraging voters to visit. They want people to demand an apology for what they call a “sick” Labour leaflet warning that the Tories would damage provision for cancer sufferers.

Sorry – but wasn’t it the Tories who were trying to terrify the country witless a couple of weeks ago that anything other than a huge Tory majority at the General Election would have the £ tumbling and the city in meltdown. Now thats proper scaremongering if you ask me.

At the Tory website there is a predrafted lettter you can send to Mr Burnham. I’ve adjusted it somewhat……

Dear Mr Burnham Cameron

I’m appalled by the way the Labour Conservative Party has tried to exploit cancer sufferers everyones fear about the state of the economy.

It is completely unacceptable to scare them with false claims about what the Conservative party democracy would do.

This kind of scaremongering has no place in British politics, and I trust you will be apologising for it without delay.

I would be grateful if you could also confirm that you will stop these postcards being distributed to anybody else, and that you will be apologising to every person who received this scaremongering postcard  heard your scaremongering statements.

I look forward to hearing from you at the earliest opportunity.

Tags: Conservatives, scaremongering, Tories

Thatcher’s think tank slams Tory policies..

A week or two ago I thought the Tories had it….They were the ones who were talking about the need for spending cuts… And the need for them NOW…. That seemed credible to me and I thought they were on to something.

Ok Ok the liberals were talking about cuts … and we had been more specific about where the cuts would come from….and Vince is …well Vince…. but we seemed reluctant to commit to them anytime soon  – and that worried me. I could not (still dont) get why we weren’t the “totally honest party” that actually said it as it was…we’re f*cked.. the cuts need to be bigger than anyone has told you, and by the way we can’ actually carry on with more people working on the “spending wealth” side of the scales, than the “creating wealth” side…  

The Tories on the other hand seemed to be grasping that spending cuts nettle with a vengence. Whoa I thought…these cats have got it. Any day now, the Tory’s will deliver the coup de gras and “come clean” with the voters about the future we must all face up to. And the liberals at that point might as well pack up and go home….

But no such thing.  The Tories look to me like they are determined to screw this thing up. No sooner have they marched down the spending cuts route like a well-drilled army …then they swerve off down some blind alley to have a some silly punch up with the Government about National Insurance and then stagger around blurting out some ill-conceived bribe for the “poorly weds“. Confused? You betcha…. 

Tough on debt, tough on the causes of debt one week…err….its a freebie giveaway ..the next week…. oh please someone get some sanity back into the debate..

..Ah, the big daddy of all Think Tanks – the IEA – enters (stage right obviously) to bring us back to the real world…. It blasts, all over the front page of the Business section of the Sunday Telegraph today , both main parties….

“Labour and the Conservatives both stand guilty of presenting vastly under-ambitious economic plans which fail to address the dire state of the public finance“….

and…..”The National Insurance row, which has dominated the headlines this week, disguises the fact that none of the parties have offered the scale of spending cuts necessary to heal the economy“.

The Telegraph goes onto report that the IEA “will this week launch a campaign urging the winner of the election to reconsider the entire edifice of public spending“.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

And why not start by getting the IEA and Vince Cable together? The IEA sits within 20 yards of Lib Dem HQ. And surely Vince has the number of the DG over there – afterall one of them used to work for the other.Then perhaps we stand a chance of getting this election debate on track……

Tags: economy, IEA, Labour, NI, Tories, Vince Cable