Election 2012: Gains for Labour in council polls (From Lancashire Telegraph)

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  midas wrote:
  

  mavrick wrote:
  A Darrener, did labour cause the icelandic bank collapse or the collapse of the housing market in America, or a dozen other finance problems? we all know brown sold his and the countries soul, but the same old clicheas are wearing thin. blame the last lot for all the countries ills. the tories have always tried to rule by fear, hence high unemployment. As for gloryfing Maggie Thatcher I think you need to remove the rose coloured glasses. she almost destroyed this country, ask any manufacturer, she destroyed steel making, and she had to get a yank in to do her dirty work with the miners. she was hell bent on destroying the unions because she knew they would stand up to her and the tories anti working people policies. I for one of many despised everything she stood for. selfish greed. and me first society. As for tories assumed finacial superiority , remember Black Wednesday, I do my pension fund that day and I won't get that back. wherever you look when the tories have been in power, they have had financialcrisis that affected the masses but not the super rich. I wonder why that is? Wake up A Darrener, open your eyes to reality.

  Tell us how, without illegal state subsadies, the steel making industry could have remained cost effective and survived in the form that it was?
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  Perhaps you could explain how "Black Wednesday" was the fault of the Tories?
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  If anyone needs to open thier eyes to reality its you! 30% turn out in mid term local elections, during a time whem the government is having to impose stringent cuts to public spending in a desperate attempt to reverse the mismanagement of the last years of the Labour government, and Labour think they are "re-engaging". If it wasn't so pathetically predictable it would be almost humourous!
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  To answer your question - what Labour didn't do was prepare for any sort of downturn or crisis - record tax receipts but how much was saved? They were happy to spend everything they got and more.

  midas - what worries me is the explosion of PFI projects under labour with new schools and hospitals.
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  fair enough it was all started as a drip feed under john major. but it exploded as the way of financing capital projects under brown as his tenure as chancellor....seems to have been railed back a bit now.
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  there is a common misconception that all these new schools/hospitals are paid for, but the repayments plus the crippling facilities contracts are going to be a massive headache for years for governments of any political colour.
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  a ticking time bomb"
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