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Friday 24 April 2015

British General Election 2015

Who will win the general election?

 

The forces of progressive politics or the forces of capital.
 

9 comments:

  1. Labour need a swing of 2.6% from the Tories in the general election to gain an extra 68 seats and form a majority government. If the Tories form the government after the 7th of May, with or without the Liberals or UKIP we will see an American style health care system implemented by 2020.


    Right-wing Tories like John Redwood want to take Britain out of the EU, yet it's through the EU that British companies have access to markets in Europe and Scandinavia plus quicker better access to world markets. Britain’s influence in Europe is suffered under the Tory-Liberal coalition government.


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  2. The latest evidence shows the gap between richest and poorest has widened in the past ten years and the worst-off families are less financially secure than before the recession according to the Social Market Foundation.


    London has seen an 80% increase in poor households, 80% increase in wealthy households, with 36% of London households now classified as poor, up from 20% since 1980. Over the same period the number of middle income households has gone from 65% to 37% showing the middle classes are being squeezed as well as the lower classes.

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  3. The Tories have also announced spending cuts of £30billion in 2016/17 to 2017/18 if re-elected In the following two years 2018/19 to 2019/20) they intend to cut a further £37billion from government spending.


    Add to this the Tories have also announced unfunded tax cuts worth £10billion, taking the total to £77billion. Real wages when adjusted for inflation are 1.6% below what they were in 2013, adjusted for inflation earnings have continued to fall every year since 2008.

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  4. George Osborne wants to cut the state back to its size in the 1930's, Tory plans mean £70bn of cuts to public spending in the next parliament. This will mean closing Sure Start centres, total privatization of the NHS and charge for visiting a doctor, hospital care and operations.


    Back to a 1930's levels means the end of the post-war model of welfare-capitalism, don't be unemployed, don't be sick or disabled in the Britain that Osborne and Cameron want to recreate, don't be poor or working class in a Tory vision of Britain.

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  5. Britain is the world's sixth largest economy, yet 1 in 5 of the population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle.


    Breadline Britain: Scandal of hungry children relying on charity to fight off malnutrition. These youngsters are eating meals ¬supplied by a charity because their families don’t earn enough to keep them well fed and healthy.

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  6. Britain is the world's sixth largest economy, yet 1 in 5 of the population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle.

    The Tory-Liberal coalition government's economic strategy, centres on public spending cuts. This strategy has similarities with that adopted by the coalition National governments of the 1920's and 1930's.


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  7. The British economy has slowed down over the last three months according to the latest survey by the British Chambers of Commerce. Manufacturing orders are down 11%, the service sector is down 5% and the Bank of England’s quarterly credit conditions survey, shows a significant slowing in mortgage demand at the start of 2015, the third quarter of decline in a row.


    The Office for National Statistics shows a decline in infrastructure and house building, sterling fell to a five-year low against the dollar as analysts predicted a sharp slowdown in the British economy to 0.4% for the first three months as the deficit in goods widened to £10.34 billion from a shortfall of £9.17 billion in January this year.

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  8. Exports sank to £23.16 billion, their lowest level in any month since September 2010, oil exports pushed Britain's trade deficit with the European Union to £21.1 billion in the three months to February, the widest since 1988 and total trade deficit, including services, widened to £2.86 billion from £1.54 billion pounds.


    The Tories are planning severe cuts in public spending whilst the British economy is still very fragile and the global economy is highly unstable. The Tory strategy risk cuts reducing demand even further reducing investor confidence.

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  9. Under the Tory-Liberal coalition government debt as a percentage of GDP has risen from 67.1% to 90.6%. The British economy grew at 0.5% in the last quarter of 2014, below expectations and compared with a 0.7% in the previous quarter.


    This why the Unite union is campaigning for Labour vote to achieve a 2.6% swing from the Tory-Liberal coalition government. Without a broad left alliance similar to that seen in France, Greece or Germany and across the EU, the Labour Party represents the only viable alternative to a Tory government.

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