No party has all the answers to this, so it’s no surprise 46% want a hung parliament.  The 46% can vote Tory in The Wrekin to block another Labour Commons majority.  However, lower down the Tory target list in Telford Labour must be backed to prevent a Tory majority. The nearest worthwhile Lib Dem vote is in Ludlow. 

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Surely there are only two types of spending cuts as there are two types of taxes. Those that get noticed and those that don’t {more shavings than cuts}. Ignore the current smokescreen of media blather and forget political philosophy, it’s devisiveness was useful once but now it’s history, because now they ALL take their orders from the multinationals and the banks.
Meanwhile the cuts are coming however they’re dressed up and whoever has to accept the poisoned chalice to implement them. Just see the the next decade as ‘interesting’.

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Andrew,

If you worked in most jobs in the public sector, you probably wouldn’t be able to afford either credit cards or holidays.

Public sector job cuts will, of course, adversely affect far more people than the staff directly made unemployed. To take a few current populist examples, if you are concerned about people receiving benefits to which they aren’t entitled, then that will get worse, because the staff won’t be there to investigate. Similarly, staff involved in detecting tax evasion at the other end of the income scale will be reduced, and those detecting illegal immigration will be too.

All of the public servants whose livelihoods you so gleefully wish to see an end to, are also taxpayers, and consumers, so you can expect to see a reduction in both direct and indirect tax revenues.

Clearly, of the three main parties the one who favours a ‘slash and burn’ approach is the Tory party. I believe this approach would risk the recovery which has now started.

They’ve also indicated that they would return the banks to the private sector at the earliest opportunity (and don’t imagine for a moment that the banks would return to British ownership!), thus letting bankers off the hook. Previous experience of Tory cuts has shown that despite assurances to the contrary, we’ve seen deep cuts to both health and education services, and I believe we would see the same under Cameron.

But the thing that makes me most suspicious of Cameron is this; one the one hand he claims that the public finances are in such a state that he has no choice but to make deep cuts, on the other he plans cuts in taxes to benefit the wealthy – e.g. inheritance tax cuts, the removal of the 50p tax rate, and cuts in corporation tax.

If we must all endure savage cuts to public services, how can he afford a single penny to spend on the rich?

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