Born under the Tories
The “Born under Labour” advertising campaign by the Tories gets a teasing on YouTube
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Born under the Tories
The “Born under Labour” advertising campaign by the Tories gets a teasing on YouTube
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But are people really listening? It amazes and saddens me that whilst there is a Sure Start centre down the road here in Longsight, a big new school is being built on the same road, there’s a new library coming this year and there’s a new health centre being built in Levenshulme – to add to the massive – pretty amazing 24 hour health centre in Ardwick – people take these things for granted.
With tory cuts – they wouldn’t exist. I teach at an F.E. college. EMA payments for poorer students wouldn’t exist (there are arguments for and against them, frankly, but…) the young people take them for granted like they do text messaging and the internet.
I end up feeling like the Yorkshiremen in the famous monty python sketch………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
but you try tellin em that nowadays and they don’t wanna listen…….
And yet I see id cards, emails being kept on some massive database (apparently secure), and football fans being victimised via Terrorist legislation.
Hey Mark Sullivan, how do you know that the your Sure Start centre, new school, library and health centre and existing 24 hr medical facility are being SPECIFICALLY targeted for either closure or non-completion by the Tories in order to achieve their funding cuts?
Is their any evidence to support this?
Or have you been hoodwinked by Labour’s lies which the vast majority of educated Britons see for what they are.
Hi Tom,
Stop worrying about the Tories – you’re in government, get on and govern. What’s the latest on the Power of Information task force?
Rob
I was born under the bed and will remain there until this lousy, authoitarian government has gone – which won’t be long now….please…..
Justin, I read the previous comment to mean, the Tories wouldn’t even have built them – well they didn’t in the 18 years they ruled before 1997, I am sure you can find evidence for that.
Rob – If you want PoI and digital stuff try my Twitter feed @tom_watson. This has always been a site that does party politics. I find I get a more insightful conversation about digital policy in my Twitter community.
Correct me if I am wrong, Tom – but isn’t the attack on civil liberties and the “Power of Information task force?” all part of party politics?
Tom,
Having devoted time before Christmas deriding the quite modest expenses paid to Sandwell Councillors, will you be voting next week for the MP’s opt out of FoI in order to keep your own expenses secret?
John Edwards
I’ll be voting for an accountable, transparent system that gives more information about my personal circumstances than you with all those directorships, secondary incomes and investment property.
No you won’t. You’ll vote for yourself and all other Members to be placed outside the Freedom of Information Act that you’ve demanded should apply to everyone else. And you’ll do it in order to hide from scrutiny and accountability, the prospect of which appears to make you most prickly.
If we have to buy homes for MP’s, furnish and refurbish them and pay the utility and grocery bills don’t you think we should at least know what it’s costing us?
It still remains open to you, of course, to put all this on the record now, just as the most humble of Councillors have to do down to the last penny.
That would be a little more seemly than ducking and diving and abusing those who suggest a little dose of democratic accounability.
And in your list of fantasy vitriol your forgot to mention that I have a BMW (which would have been the only true bit in your list).
But you probably didn’t mention that because you have one too.
That’s worth much more than mine.
And I paid for mine.
And you didn’t pay for yours.
Because we all do.
Forget the credit crunch, fear MPs refusing to be transparent about their outrageous and wholly unwarranted benefits. While many people suffer financially MPs freeload on the very people who are suffering. And of course, what about MPs using public funds to employ their children as “part time” this and that when all it is is the public funding MPs children’s’ pocket money.
This is funded not by profits but from our taxes. And you have more leave than the average worker in the UK.
Tom, do not compare yourself to directors and those in receipt of investment income. You (and fellow MPs) stuff your pockets with taxpayers money irrespective of the state of the economy. Remember who pays your wages and consider whether we have a right to know.
And now MPs have the cheek to deliberately hide these facts from the public. So much for FOI and the new age of transparency.
Where do you stand on the John Lewis list Tom?
PS. You show an appalling lack of knowledge of the law – all directorships must be registered at Companies House. This is open to inspection by members of the public.
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