This week the Conservatives revealed their 'Big Stick' - and with it, the truth about where they're going to cut all those needed billions from, among Government spending.
First sign I saw of it, was seemingly a Conservative PR Tweet (Twitter is just a PR machine, after all). At first I thought it was a spoof : surely the Cons were not being so crude ? But yes - they were - and are - and a few clicks over to their blue blog on the Conservative website, and there was their own press release for it - this is it verbatim:
"This new poster underlines our positive agenda for welfare reform - http://twitpic.com/1h3db6 10:54 AM Apr 20th via Echofon"
First sign I saw of it, was seemingly a Conservative PR Tweet (Twitter is just a PR machine, after all). At first I thought it was a spoof : surely the Cons were not being so crude ? But yes - they were - and are - and a few clicks over to their blue blog on the Conservative website, and there was their own press release for it - this is it verbatim:
"This new poster underlines our positive agenda for welfare reform - http://twitpic.com/1h3db6 10:54 AM Apr 20th via Echofon"
And there too was Theresa May banging on about all those terrible welfare dependents too :
http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2010/04/20/we-need-to-tackle-welfare-dependency/
Well blow me down. So the Tories are going to slash and burn in the welfare budget.. no big surprise really.
It was always clear that all the parties would have some serious cost-cutting up their sleeve : and we're not surprised that no political party wanted to show their cards in that area before the election. And with the Tories, you just knew they wouldn't funk it: they would have some serious cuts in mind.
http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2010/04/20/we-need-to-tackle-welfare-dependency/
Well blow me down. So the Tories are going to slash and burn in the welfare budget.. no big surprise really.
It was always clear that all the parties would have some serious cost-cutting up their sleeve : and we're not surprised that no political party wanted to show their cards in that area before the election. And with the Tories, you just knew they wouldn't funk it: they would have some serious cuts in mind.
Now no-one would dispute that we do have some perfectly fit, but yet work-shy people lolling around in this country.. just pop into the betting shop or a high street pub at ten to eleven on a Tuesday morning, and see who's propping up the bar. Not retired folk, that's for sure. And no-one would dispute that at a running cost - the UK welfare budget - of £170,000,000,000 a year at the moment - one-third of all government spending, or about £500 million per day (yes, per day) - that there is doubtless some fat to be cut off.
But these are going to be sorely painful cuts, and some of them will fall on people who thought the Tories were their natural political choice: all those Sun readers for example. So why did the Tories admit it so openly before the election ?
What makes me smile is that Boris Johnson made a joking reference at the start of the campaign to the Tories being misunderstood - saying in so many words that "... after all [we're] not a load of boss-eyed maniacs ... seeking to grind the face of the poor into the dirt....".
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