To want to train as a surgeon in order to remove Nicks head from Daves arse?

[Hedgeblunder]

I'm so sick of seeing house of common discussions with Nick smugly nodding along with whatever Dave says no matter how draconian/ridiculous.

Today he was just sat there smirking along, whilst the government decided they're going to cap housing benefit, which will be pretty catastrophic for people in london, when milliband pointed out that the conservatives are already bookig up b&bs ( for the amount of people who will be made homeless) he just sat there. No argument.

this isn't a thread About benefits at alllll, it's been done to death now. I'm just fucked off that I voted for such a snivelling David cameron shagging yellow bellied Idiot.

Perhaps he wasn't smirking? Perhaps he was smiling like the many other Britons who are delighted that people will no longer be able to claim the vast sums of money in housing benefit that they've been able to do in previous years? Just a thought...

All in all, the Dave n Nick show is nowhere near as interesting as the Tony n Gordon show

Masie - maybe that should be not as interesting yet. Early days.

You think Gordon and Tony liked each other at the beginning?!

According to Blair's book yes. What I was trying to say though was that it is still the honeymoon.

Humphrey, no your were right the first time, I
am morally superior which is hardly difficult after all your a Tory :o

you haven't addressed my point though, eh?

what cuts WERE labour going to make? I am truly interested.

Humphrey. Any party would have had to make cuts but where and how about taxes as well, my solutions in part would have been as follows:

Lower to 50p band to 90k.
Introduce a 55p band at 110k
Introduce a 60p band at 130K

Raise the minimum wage to £7-50 so that less money is paid by government/taxpayers to subsidise starvation wages.

Nail tax avoidance and evasion down hard, it is estimated that £44 billion is avoided lets go for at least half of that

Nail the non-doms like Ashcroft.

Cut tax relief on pension contributions above 50K a year and limit it to the lower rate of tax.

Stop companies paying executives in ways that avoid tax (wine etc)

Limit bonuses to a percentage of salary and do not allow any raise at the top in a company to be a higher percentage then those at the bottom, if it happens then tax it a a punative rate.

Cut housing allowance BUT vary the top rate depending on the area.

After one year make the jobless do workfare BUT pay a proper wage for it.

Etc etc

Also spread the cuts over a longer period.

Hedge - it wouldn't be brain surgery you need for those two.

Cris, it would take a bloody powerful microscope to find their brains, then again their brains may quite well be up their arses

maybe their egos would be a much bigger target

I have deduced (after one day as a pretend doctor) that this operation is not going to work as I failed to realise the can both regenerate as they have the genes of gecko lizards. Thankyou for your support though nurses.

NC has really gone into a kind of 'zone' or 'haze', I hadn't heard him speaking much before but he doesn't sound quite in the here and now.

Cris, the Tories hand Cleggy reprogrammed by the Scientologists :o that might explain the lizard thing as well

I still reckon Clegg has more power than he cares to wield.

He could blow the entire fecking thing apart, but no.... staying 'up there' is more important.

Yes there are hints of lib dem-dom but tbh there should be a darned sight more being that Cameron et al couldn't be in govt without them.

Yes it was definitly Scientology that turned them into lizard men- the stuck them in a microwave with a packet of lizards and now they can never be gotten rid of....
Unless...
Anne widecombe bashes them with her enormous boobies

Wonder if head blows in time to 'Don't Stop Me Now' a la Shaun of the Dead would work?

Can I try it?

You dont get it do you Hedgeblunder.

Nick nods along like the churchhill dog because he and his party helped draw up the cuts. They agree with them.

Are you one of those Labour voters who couldnt bare to vote for inept Labour again, so switched to LD?

LOL if you are. What did you think was going to happen? Labour Libdem coalition?

I don't understand what peoples objections are to Clegg and the Lib Dems. This country was in dire need of a stable government and the coalition has achieved this. A substantial amount of Lid Dem poliys are being implemented by the coaltion but it is inevitable that more Tory policys will be implemented as they are the much larger partner in the coalition.

"I don't understand what peoples objections are"

Principles, promises, stuff like that.

And anyway, I thought this was about Hedge's medical training.

But when there is a coalition Government surely you must accept that not everything that has been promised is going to happen?

Quite, Byrel, which is why I think it was a terrible idea to have a coalition with a party that was so far removed from your own principles.

Are they so removed from their partys principles. The Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have a lot of common ground eg personal and civil liberty,localism etc and the cuts are being forced on by the economic circumstances that the country is in and would have happened no matter who was in Government.

YANBU. I think the Lib Dems have made a fatal mistake joining with the Conservatives.

newwave - congratulations on having a plan

Labour should employ you.

The government are going to look at tax, but the cost cutting came first.

I do believe that as it is costing us £140 million pounds A DAY to service our debt then it is neccessary to try and reduce this as soon as possible. Anything else will cost us a ridiculous amount of money that could be better spent elsewhere.

I should add that the cuts will be hitting me rather hard (without giving too much away) so I cannot be accused of self interest here.