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Tories would be better at delivering public services

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/polls/story/0,,1781624,00.html

The irony is... many say Cameron hasn't set up any policies on educaiton and health. Therefore the public must be basing this on their election manifesto in 2005?

Anyway... this is excellent news as Labour can't run a circus never mind a hospital or a school.

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The public will be basing on the fact that Cameron is all image and no policy. Unfortunatly image seems more important than policies in politics nowadays. The general election is a long way off though and remember the Tory break through they made at the local elections under Hague? That didnt result in a tory election win did it.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Renzo wrote:
    The public will be basing on the fact that Cameron is all image and no policy. Unfortunatly image seems more important than policies in politics nowadays. The general election is a long way off though and remember the Tory break through they made at the local elections under Hague? That didnt result in a tory election win did it.
    True but it wasn't as huge as this and no opinion polls for years have put the Conservatives ahead on educaiton and health.

    Plus the Conservatives are now well well ahead for issues such as asylum and crime.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's always been traditional in most democratic countries that governments lose elections, rather than oppositions winning them.

    The current boom for the Tories seems to be pretty much a reflection of how bad Labour are doing, and people shifting their support away - rather than a reflection of anything particularly obvious being done by the Conservatives
  • Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Jim V wrote:
    It's always been traditional in most democratic countries that governments lose elections, rather than oppositions winning them.

    The current boom for the Tories seems to be pretty much a reflection of how bad Labour are doing, and people shifting their support away - rather than a reflection of anything particularly obvious being done by the Conservatives
    :yes:

    And they are all the same at the end of the day.

    It's one big loop of this happening again and again until some radicals get in and cock it up once hte public is fed up the generic bullshit parties. That is Democracy. It happens for ages... then some nutters get in because they shout something defiant agrily.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    luke88 wrote:
    The irony is... many say Cameron hasn't set up any policies on educaiton and health. Therefore the public must be basing this on their election manifesto in 2005?
    The Tories could certainly be trusted to deliver on public services. What I mean by that is, they could certainly be trusted to deliver cataclysmic waste of money in the sector. They could be trusted to deliver yet more useless jobs like smoking cessation officers and five-a-day co-ordinators. They could be trusted to keep things in exactly the same messy state they are in now.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The way it used to be was: the tories could be completely trusted to deliver public services... straight into private hands.

    I remain skeptical about 'New Tories' and their alleged moderate ways. The memories of water and train services being savagely sold to their businessmen friends are still too fresh. I fear for what remains in public hands to be honest.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Several things;
    first that Cameron is all image and very very very vague on policy!
    2nd yes labour aren't doing well at the moment so therefore there is a rise in Tory popularity.
    3rdly the tories ideologically (and Cameron) will reduce spending in the public sector so how can cuts in cost affect the public service?
    well lack of money lack of staff, lack of morale. so in all the public sector will suffer under the tories
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