Comments on: The LDV Friday Five: 30 July 2010 http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sesenco http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html#comment-135419 Sesenco Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:41:54 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20517#comment-135419 "whole tiers of bureaucracy abolished and real power for GPs and patients." Whoa! Hold on a minute there, Mr Cameron. "Equity & Excellence" is only a white paper, with another to come at the end of the year, and 16 separate consultations, the first of which is completed in September. None of this is law yet, but you are talking as if it has already happened! What does this say about your attitude to Parliament, David? Isn't there just a possibility that the likes of Tim Farron and Tony Greaves might prevail, and Parliament doesn't agree to your proposals to semi-privatise the NHS? You're getting a bit ahead of yourself, methinks. Dismissing public servants as "bureaucrats" is is the typical behaviour of an arrogant public school bully. "and have a great summer." Is Dave going to go up into the sky and sweep the clouds away? Now, that might be worth a vote or two... “whole tiers of bureaucracy abolished and real power for GPs and patients.”

Whoa! Hold on a minute there, Mr Cameron. “Equity & Excellence” is only a white paper, with another to come at the end of the year, and 16 separate consultations, the first of which is completed in September. None of this is law yet, but you are talking as if it has already happened! What does this say about your attitude to Parliament, David? Isn’t there just a possibility that the likes of Tim Farron and Tony Greaves might prevail, and Parliament doesn’t agree to your proposals to semi-privatise the NHS? You’re getting a bit ahead of yourself, methinks.

Dismissing public servants as “bureaucrats” is is the typical behaviour of an arrogant public school bully.

“and have a great summer.”

Is Dave going to go up into the sky and sweep the clouds away? Now, that might be worth a vote or two…

]]> By: Roger R http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html#comment-135405 Roger R Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:00:49 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20517#comment-135405 DAVID CAMERON'S BLOG IGNORES LIB DEM CONTRIBUTION _ WORRYING We’ve hit the ground running David Cameron, Friday, July 30th, 2010 . Parliament has risen, summer is here and this coalition government is nearly at the three month mark. It’s a good time to take stock of what we’ve done so far and where we’re going. Eleven weeks in and I believe we’ve made a good start. We said we’d take the tough decisions needed to rescue our economy and we’ve been doing that. We’ve scrapped Labour’s jobs tax, completed an in-year spending review to save £6 billion of waste and presented an emergency Budget that will balance the books within five years. We promised radical reform of our public services and we’re delivering, with a big expansion of the academy programme in our schools and unprecedented reform of the NHS – £1 billion of bureaucracy cut, pointless targets scrapped, whole tiers of bureaucracy abolished and real power for GPs and patients. We campaigned relentlessly on pushing power out from the centre and we’re making it happen. Eric Pickles’ department has been busy dismantling the architecture of top-down control, scrapping Regional Assemblies, Regional Strategies and the bureaucracy of RDAs. We said we’d do the right thing by our troops and we’ve been doing that too. We have established a National Security Council, made sure we have a clear strategy on Afghanistan and doubled the Operational Allowance for our Forces. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it does show our intent to hit the ground running as a great reforming government. And just as we’ve started, so we’ll go on – taking the tough decisions on our economy, radically re-thinking our public services, pushing power out to people and doing all we can to restore Britain’s standing in the world. But however frenetic the coming months and years will be, however busy life in government is, I will never forget how we got here – through your hard work and your tireless campaigning. Thank you for your continuing support – and have a great summer. ( 1 DAVID CAMERON’S BLOG IGNORES LIB DEM CONTRIBUTION _ WORRYING

We’ve hit the ground running
David Cameron, Friday, July 30th, 2010 .

Parliament has risen, summer is here and this coalition government is nearly at the three month mark. It’s a good time to take stock of what we’ve done so far and where we’re going. Eleven weeks in and I believe we’ve made a good start.

We said we’d take the tough decisions needed to rescue our economy and we’ve been doing that. We’ve scrapped Labour’s jobs tax, completed an in-year spending review to save £6 billion of waste and presented an emergency Budget that will balance the books within five years.

We promised radical reform of our public services and we’re delivering, with a big expansion of the academy programme in our schools and unprecedented reform of the NHS – £1 billion of bureaucracy cut, pointless targets scrapped, whole tiers of bureaucracy abolished and real power for GPs and patients.

We campaigned relentlessly on pushing power out from the centre and we’re making it happen. Eric Pickles’ department has been busy dismantling the architecture of top-down control, scrapping Regional Assemblies, Regional Strategies and the bureaucracy of RDAs.

We said we’d do the right thing by our troops and we’ve been doing that too. We have established a National Security Council, made sure we have a clear strategy on Afghanistan and doubled the Operational Allowance for our Forces.

This isn’t an exhaustive list, but it does show our intent to hit the ground running as a great reforming government. And just as we’ve started, so we’ll go on – taking the tough decisions on our economy, radically re-thinking our public services, pushing power out to people and doing all we can to restore Britain’s standing in the world.

But however frenetic the coming months and years will be, however busy life in government is, I will never forget how we got here – through your hard work and your tireless campaigning.

Thank you for your continuing support – and have a great summer.

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]]> By: Anthony Aloysius St http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html#comment-135388 Anthony Aloysius St Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:19:24 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20517#comment-135388 Just to make it crystal clear that Clegg either is lying now, or was lying during the election campaign (or both), here's a Reuters report of what he said about the timing of cuts just <B><I>two days</I></B> before the election: <I>The LibDems agree that cuts should be delayed. But Clegg denied this indicated political support for Labour and made clear his disagreement with Conservative policy. "Us siding with Labour? It's siding with common sense," he said. "My eight-year-old (son) ought to be able to work this out -- you shouldn't start slamming on the brakes when the economy is barely growing. "If you do that you create more joblessness, you create heavier costs on the state, the deficit goes up even further and the pain with dealing with it is even greater. So it is completely irrational."</I> http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE64300V20100504 Just to make it crystal clear that Clegg either is lying now, or was lying during the election campaign (or both), here’s a Reuters report of what he said about the timing of cuts just two days before the election:
The LibDems agree that cuts should be delayed. But Clegg denied this indicated political support for Labour and made clear his disagreement with Conservative policy.
“Us siding with Labour? It’s siding with common sense,” he said. “My eight-year-old (son) ought to be able to work this out — you shouldn’t start slamming on the brakes when the economy is barely growing.
“If you do that you create more joblessness, you create heavier costs on the state, the deficit goes up even further and the pain with dealing with it is even greater. So it is completely irrational.”
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE64300V20100504

]]> By: Anthony Aloysius St http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html#comment-135385 Anthony Aloysius St Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:41:36 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20517#comment-135385 To say nothing of all the stuff in the same article about Clegg admitting to having changed his mind about the timing of public spending cuts before the election, but not having told the electorate until after the polls had closed because <B><I>"we were all ... reacting to very, very fast-moving economic events."</I></B> Nothing to do with fearing that he might lose votes if he was honest, of course. (That's assuming he's being honest with us now.) To say nothing of all the stuff in the same article about Clegg admitting to having changed his mind about the timing of public spending cuts before the election, but not having told the electorate until after the polls had closed because “we were all … reacting to very, very fast-moving economic events.”

Nothing to do with fearing that he might lose votes if he was honest, of course. (That’s assuming he’s being honest with us now.)

]]> By: Anthony Aloysius St http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-ldv-friday-five-29-july-2010-20517.html#comment-135370 Anthony Aloysius St Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:01:22 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=20517#comment-135370 Surprised not to see any comment about these allegations in a BBC documentary last night: <I>But tonight's programme suggests that Clegg may have bluffed Cameron into offering the Lib Dems a referendum on a change to the voting system as part of the coalition talks. Rumours have frequently circulated in Tory circles that Clegg, in highly pressurised coalition talks after the election, managed to outmanoeuvre the Tory party leader by intimating he had been offered more by Labour in parallel post-election talks than was actually the case.</I> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/29/nick-clegg-changed-mind-cuts Surprised not to see any comment about these allegations in a BBC documentary last night:
But tonight’s programme suggests that Clegg may have bluffed Cameron into offering the Lib Dems a referendum on a change to the voting system as part of the coalition talks.
Rumours have frequently circulated in Tory circles that Clegg, in highly pressurised coalition talks after the election, managed to outmanoeuvre the Tory party leader by intimating he had been offered more by Labour in parallel post-election talks than was actually the case.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/29/nick-clegg-changed-mind-cuts

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