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Poll: Public services not deficit reduction
A PoliticsHome poll has found the public believe that deep cuts in public spending from the next government would be a greater worry than failing to reduce the deficit quickly enough.
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Ann Widdecombe: Prayers before council meetings are 'quite proper'
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Speech by Ivan Lewis MP to the WWF/RGS seminar: “Navigating the perfect storm: the international challenge of food, water and energy security”
09/02/2012
Russell
So the electorate has failed to grasp the seriousness of the state of the British economy. Hence why the the Tories poll lead is slipping. So when the country is on its knees in 12 -18 months time these same peopl will ask why nothing was done.
Slim Jim
Now pay attention at the back! I'm going to ask you a couple of simple questions. If you want to reduce the deficit fairly as well as quickly, which of the following would you prefer? a) Sack thousands of front-line public sector workers, e.g. police officers, teachers, nurses, firefighters etc. or b) Have a bonfire of quangos, regional development agencies and their £70,000 a year 'Diversity Managers'? You can't have both, and you can't have none!
David Price
the Tories need to explain the implications of racking up a massive deficit in simple terms to voters. Basically, the bigger the deficit, the more expensive it is to maintain, and so the bigger the cuts in public services will have to be. Lots of Labour voters seem to think the deficit is irrelevant; it somehow doesn't touch them because they're in the public sector, so they must be in some magic immune. The reverse is true. The private sector has already felt the pain; the longer we pay massive amounts servicing a crazy debt, the less money there is for public services, so the greater the cuts, job losses, and public sector misery there will be. The Tories need to present their case in terms of, "in order to preserve jobs and services in the public sector over the long term, and minimise the need for cuts, we must start attacking the deficit. If not, the public sector will suffer in a way never before seen - and we don't want that", etc., etc. That's how they'll win the argument with the floating voters; making an abstract theoretical case, however correct, won't chime with the average voter. I do hope George Osborne uses this approach; it's the only way he'll make it stick in these public sector dominated times...