Public Spenders

It had been a day of political stereotypes. Labour were irritable and refused to be quoted. The Lib' Dem's were like a sage uncle, lovely, helpful but a little predisposed to waffle. The Conservatives, after a busy day at the office, phoned me back with an articulate answer on why they weren't going to do something. 

Increasingly I'm having to abandon my socialist heartland. Labour are useless with money. That much seems obvious. Having said that the 'spend our way out of trouble' approach was initially developed by the Thatcher government. 

Whatever; The Conservatives have the balls to cut spending and therefore taxes, easing the burden on the every man.

But.

It means public spending plummets. It means the NHS comes back under direct and determined fire. It means a healthy, cheap, easy railway network falls further from view. Sure, there's been talk of a shiny new high speed rail network but do you have any idea how much that would cost? Did you know that you need a bill from Parliament to do any kind of work to the railways? One thing is for certain, by the time the Conservatives inherit the economy (which they will) there will be no money left in the coffers for anything like that...