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2.35 Nothing new so far, no mea culpa, lots about being serious, a sentence about not using his children as props, which by even mentioning them he just did.
2.40 The list of announcements starts with a commitment to an 80 per cent cut.
Wants to help families through difficult times. What about those not classed as 'families'.
2.43 Incredibly weak Harry Potter joke.
2.47 Describes the NHS as "Labour's NHS"!
2.52 Getting applause after every couple of sentences. Very reminiscent of IDS in 2003.
2.53 Wants to put children first. As opposed to putting them second.
2.55 Promises complete elimination of child poverty by 2020. He must know this is an impossible pledge to keep.
2.56 This is a speech which ticks boxes, but doesn't inspire.
2.59 Here he goes with the personal stuff.
3.00 From April free health check ups for over 40s.
3.02 Abolishing prescription charges for cancer patients.
3.06 Lots of announcements, but where the vision? Where's the plan?
3.08 This is a budget speech, not a conference speech.
3.09 Bear in mind I am listening to this sitting in a service station on the M6. It may come across differently on TV.
3.17 Not sure how much more of this bollocks I can listen to. Apparently all the nation's ills are the fault of the Conservative Party ... who haven't been in power for eleven years.
3.18 Whenever he talks about how much he loves this country he sounds so incredibly false.
3.20 Oh, 55 minutes in, he finally mentions the armed forces. In one throwaway sentence. Disgusting.
3.21 Sorry, I now understand why George Osborne says he hates Gordon Brown. I can't stand listening to him any longer. I am going to get back on the M6 and switch over to Steve Wright on Radio 2. He talks more sense.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 202 of 202Of course the speech worked.
The useless tories got better poll results only when nulab decided to commit suicide. Now you're all apoplectic because nulab has decided to stop committing suicide.
ha ha
You're all the same anyway.
Useless English-hating twats.
That Speech keeps going round in my head.
People say that he had to make his vision clear. Stangely I think that that is excatly what he did, unconsciously. he produced a list. A list of things he considers that he can make difference to. A list of things he can make a difference to by spending money on them. That money can only come from taxation. He will take money away from people and use it spend on them to make them do the things he listed. he will also take soem money away from you and spend it on other people whom he thinks deserve it.
His vision is simple. His vision is that he can spend your money better than you can. That's it. That's all it is. Period.
His vision takes no account of everyones ability, rich and poor alike, to spend their own money and manage their own resources best for them. It takes no account of the better well off, under the influence of nothing more than human compassion, of helping without question the less well off.
It is a very bleak vision if he condemns all mankind as incapable of controlling their own destinies unless he does it for them.
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