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Sunday, 9 October 2011

Cameron Facing Utter Failure.

After nine months in power David Cameron's coalition government is facing complete failure. Since he became Prime Minister and appointed an economic ignoramus as Chancellor the economy has ground to a halt, inflation is steadily climbing, unemployment has grown and there are now 20,000 less businesses in the country than there was. Meanwhile his much vaunted NHS reform looks likely to be stalled in the House of Lords and therefore lost and his Minister of Defence, Liam Fox, is mired in a scandal that might well see him resign. David Cameron's plan was quite simple - flog as many national assets as he could get his hands on to insulate the wealthy from the effects of the recession while, at the same time, protecting them from paying higher taxes or even any tax at all. This was to be achieved by savagely cutting spending especially on benefits, hiking taxes for the less wealthy and, effectively, making the poor and disadvantaged foot the bill. This was his idea of "us all being in this together." At the Tory conference he tried to invoke the famous British "bulldog spirit" and he may well have succeeded. But he's no Winston Churchill - he's more like Neville Chamberlain. Let's see if he recognises this; "You have spent too much time in this place for all the good you have done. In the name of God go."

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