Overall - Do you approve of the government to date?
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Do you approve on balance or disapprove of the CON-DEM Government so far?
And do you think the Conservatives would have done better going solo?
Or heaven forbid even Liberals going solo?
Responses (3)
I can't find anything to approve of just yet Omendata.
I was determined to give them time until I finally made my mind up about them but I feel I'm in for a long wait.
The liberals going alone worried me because they were so indecisive during their campaign especially on immigration issues that I was relieved when they allied themselves with the Cons, but I am so disheartened by their too fast approach in certain quarters to nothing happening in most others.
As for the Cons going solo, would they have made any difference in the long run? I'm not sure but I doubt it.
What I do understand is, that there is this deficit to lessen but grand schemes at such cost to the people hasn't been well thought out properly before implementing certain 'solutions'so much so that we are suffering quite badly because of all this impulsiveness.
To abandon 90% of your promises and beliefs you have given to your supporters amounts to treason and Clegg and Co should be abandoned by there supporters just to show that self esteem and the greed for power does not pay dividends and can indeed cost you the respect and position they once held.
Indeed but every one of them whatever party it is is corrupt and have no common decency!
I personally despise all politicians!
What angers me most is that advert with that fat oaf from the labour party advertising some price comparison site. John Prescott thats it cashing in on his bashing a member of the public - thats disgraceful dont you think?
John Prescott is worse than pond-life imho. He said he wouldn't accept going to the House of Lords because of his 'socialist priciples' but as soon as his toxic wife wanted to be Lady Prescott he was there bowing to the Queen.
Not that I'm a great admirer of John Prescott but as the punch was thrown by the other person first, I see no reason why Mr. Prescott didn't have the right to defend himself.
He could have so easily allowed his personal security to deal with it but in that one moment he showed that he is a fighter and wasn't prepared to hide behind his position. That event actually made more people admire him!
The advert that he features in isn't paid for by tax payers and actually pokes fun at him and raises the personal hypocrisy further. However, I see that what he is doing is exploiting his history for personal gain. No different to any other public figure who brings out a diet video, an autobiography or who appears relentlessly on the front pages of newspapers and achieved celebrity status for no other reason than having been a coke head, a disgraceful bad mother, or known for her cosmetic surgery and dreadful 'sluttish' behaviour!!
However, I digress. This government has yet to prove they are dong anything of worth to improve our society and increase the aspirations of those who aspire to better their lives.
Lies, damn lies and the ConDems!!
Sorry, Parch, but I have very personal reasons to dislike Prescott. When 'New Labour' got in I was very sceptical but I thought Prescott would be a socialist influence on what was clearly never going to be a socialist party. Transport is one of my interests as I worked in the railway industry for many years and Mr F still works in it, and JP was my 'great white hope' for transport after the Thatcher years.
He cynically pulled the plug on the high speed rail link to the channel tunnel - and the b*****d laughed when he announced it. As a result of this my husband lost his job and we lost thousands of pounds. Mr F, who is disabled, now has to commute every day to the far side of London when he had a job conveniently situated.
Not all politicians are corrupt, but I get more cynical by the day.
There is no need to apologise!
This is truly a sad story and I can understand your loathing of a man who represented a transport portfolio especially given the years of under investment during the Thatcher years. I feel that all parties, who are seeking power offer a message of hope but the reality is often quite the opposite.
But you raise a very valid point, in terms of how a figurehead such as Prescott becomes the target of our collective anger for policies, which are sold to us as integral and in the public interest but the impact these have upon individual lives is never really shown.
I lived in the north-east during the miners strike and witnessed at first hand the devastation the then governments policies had upon individual lives and communities in general. All future hope was removed from whole generations and for what? The cynic in me saw Thatcher's government mission as an assault on the power of the militant unions, and the miners were targeted so as to destroy the power base and resolve of Scargill and his cronies.
Having removed that hope the government then failed to offer any other vision than years of welfare benefits and an over reliance on state.
Given the retained anger you feel towards Prescott, one can only imagine how this government will fare in terms of public perception regarding their idelogical cuts, which are not being made out of necessity (although this is the argument they are using) but are about dismantling public services so as to replace them with inferior private profit making alternatives.
I agree, I don't think that all politician's are corrupt but 'power' does tend to alter a person's ethics and towing the party line and the 'bribes' offered to ensure peole tow that party line are certainly the undoing of many a politician's beliefs.
You've done it again, Parchester, in summing things up perfectly!
I still don't know whether Thatcher was right to take on the militant unions, but I still feel for members of the mining communities.
Mt favourite film of all time is 'Brassed Off' - have you seen it?
Brassed off - Excellent film, and the late Pete Posslethwaite was superb in it.
Absolutely, wendiew - the late great...
Hmm I have added that to my must download list.
Thanks ladees - tv is so bad these days its nice to know there are some good movies still left that i havent seen!
No I don't. But it's not just this bunch of liars I don't approve of, it's the liars before them, and those before them too. It makes no difference which bunch are in, they all lie to get there and continue with the lies once they're in power ... and of course make up some new ones along the way.
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Yes I think the poor have been hit hard and middle income families - Its about time the rich were hit in their pockets - people like Cheryl Cole , The bankers and other greedy profit makers who use loopholes to getout of paying tax.
ITs a disgrace.
I hate to say it but I used to be support liberals - but having seen them backtrack on the students and other crazy policies i would never have voted them in - I think they are an extreme detriment to this alliance and if I were the Cons I would chop them off at the knees!
Yes you're right, it's always the less well off and middle income families that have had to take the brunt of any budget but the Gov are worried that the profiteers will take their money out of the country altogether so maybe some form of capping on what can be banked, invested abroad might be an idea or is that too easy and would possibly infringe on their Democratic rights!
Well South Africa did it.
Apparently to stop all the whites leaving they imposed a limit on the amount of money they could transfer out or take on the plane.
My next door neighbour tried to smuggle £20,000 out via the airport and got caught - the money went "missing" into the airport officials pockets to avoid any prosecutions.
From what he tells me Mandela is actually a terrorist and murdered folks before he was well know as a philanthropist - he tells me us UK folks know nothing about Africa and should keep our noses out. Apparently all the good jobs went to all his cronies who couldnt do the job and now look at the country its on its knees!
Apparently there are also communities of white people in Soweto like conditions living hadn to mouth as well.
You never really know the truth of things these days!
Britain keeps sticking its oar in - we did it with Saddam and now look at Iraq and what worries me now is we are doing the same to Gaddafi - whilst they may all have been bad people they understand their own people and know how to keep them under control - the west think they know Arab mentality and how to deal with them - how little we know indeed and how much is it going to cost us in lives and finances!
Yes they did, we also have an SA acquaintance who went through it all and says similiar things to your neighbour.
How capping here in the UK would work, how it would be implemented I don't know, I'm only very lay in these matters but something will have to be done soon as I don't think many more of us can bear to see these excessive bonuses being paid out or over inflated footballers fees or fuel surcharges going up and up, you know the rest Omendata...... ooh my head hurts thinking about it all.
I think about this one every day, but I'm still not sure. Obviously the Libs went into the coalition as it was their only chance ever to taste power and, yes, they have reneged on just about everything they promised.
IMHO nothing could have been worse than the corrupt and dishonest Blair/Brown regime. The Tories are nowhere near perfect but at least they told us times would be hard and that has come true.
Something has to be done, and it will hurt. I think we've just got to bite the bullet until we get out at the other side.