Comments on: Ignore Tory spin, Labour’s spending plans are the ‘most cautious’ according to the IFS https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/ Left Foot Forward is the home for UK progressives. We provide evidence-based analysis on British politics, news and policy. Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 By: AlanGiles https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-691264 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 12:08:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-691264 In reply to Guest.

If I post “pure nonesense” at least I don’t use the spineless expedient of posting under “guest”.

The sober truth is that Balls fully accepts the gravamen of Tory spending cuts and any adjustments will not be “judicious” but merely fiddling with minor detail.

Perhaps Labour lickspittles genuinely do believe Balls and Miliband will be “fairer” (their favourite word) but the great majority of the people will see no appreciable difference between the real Tories and Balls and the ToryLite

]]> By: Guest https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-691127 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 08:23:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-691127 In reply to AlanGiles.

That is pure nonsense, Labour will make judicious decisions about where to distribute the reductions. Just read up on Labours plans for the economy before you post.

]]> By: treborc1 https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-690857 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:56:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-690857 We have had this all before have we not after recessions, we would get arguments of which party would cut the most, normally labour would lose.

]]> By: Leon Wolfeson https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-690676 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:20:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-690676 The problem is they’re “cautious” – i.e. seeped in massive austerity and are hence designed not to allow a recovery.

]]> By: Penfold187 https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-690598 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:17:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-690598 The CONservatives, have a major flaw in their fiscal approach. There rhetoric harks backs to the failed theory of ‘trickle down’ economics. Tax is not a burden, but a social responsibility! You generate profits, more power to you. But you built that business using the skills government paid for in education, move your product using facilities and infrastructure government paid for, kept your place of business secure thanks to the police and security services, government paid for. Is too much to ask that you contribute towards this expenditure, if only because it benefits you?
Yet we currently have a perception of tax, as paying for the lives those who can’t bothered the scroungers and lazy. Benefits are a large proportion of expenditure certainly, but much of that expenditure is too the WORKING poor. Government is subsidising private industry!
Osbourne talks of the transformative effect of work and making work pay. He would be right if he actually made policy to ensure work paid, his policies ensure that those with the least pay the most proportionally. One of his first actions was to raise the level of the MOST regressive tax he could, VAT. Thus ensuring those with the least, paid proportionally more of their income than everyone else.

]]> By: AlanGiles https://leftfootforward.org/2015/01/ignore-tory-spin-labours-spending-plans-are-the-most-cautious-according-to-the-ifs/#comment-690570 Mon, 05 Jan 2015 12:49:00 +0000 https://leftfootforward.org/?p=92105#comment-690570 Both parties sound increasingly shrill and desperate. Far from engaging with voters, five months of this childish nonsense will turn more people off. The truth is you can barely get a sheet of Bronco between the big two’s policies.

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