Have you noticed

[fallen-archie]

How under austerity everyone is expecting to get more money, for housing, health, research, schools, climate change, roads, public amenities, the list is seemingly endless, my question is where are all the funds coming from to provide for the needs of everyone, or to at least satisfy their expectations?

[cee-dee]

If Corbyn gets in he's gonna borrow a billion quid so there'll be plenty in the troughs for those "in the know" to get their snouts in!

[joe_bloggs*]

Didn't your great leader declare austerity is over ?

[fallen-archie]

How will we know when it’s over? Will borrowing go through the roof, or will suddenly everyone say we have more than enough funding thanks very much! When will we have no disadvantaged people and when will my pension be enough to live on?
When will the disabled become equal citizens along with the working class and our brothers and sisters from the former colonies? When will the bbc become a state broadcaster and when will we Brits actually compensate all countries that we managed to **bleep** during the colonial period? When will we accept That There is no state by right for Jewish people and when will we the white Gammon class be roundly dismissed from society and prevented from voting along with anyone who is not wholeheartedly in adoration of JC, I have never witnessed a more divided society than we have at present and with everything that we know and love under threat of dismantling, what does the future hold?

[cee-dee]

"what does the future hold? "

The future will be that the nation will be taken over and ruled by all the crackpots with their weird ideas and their interpretation of their "rights".

[al**bear]

Funny how during Austerity the |Tories found £Billions and £Billions to sub the Banks,

give big Tax cuts to the rich - and give Big Tax breaks to Multi-Nationals

While slashing money going to the Poorest, the Oldest & the sickest in Society

AUSTERITY was a Choice - the Nasty Scrooge Party -

always look after their own, off the backs of the rest of Society

[al**bear]

And that Champagne Socialist Corbyn is the perfect 'Commie Bogeyman' the Tories & their media pals, can use to scare their sheep voters 

[fallen-archie]

Business tax breaks? Have you looked at what’s happening in Ireland? Without wealth how are we supposed to live, the current situation regarding the poor, sick and disabled suffering through this governments hardening of approach is also to do with a raft of people who were perfectly able to work trying it on, yes I can remember not so long ago when it was better to be on the dole than the thought of having to get upon the morning! I can still take you down areas of Preston where the workshy congregate and yet somehow manage to get their fix of whatever substance they are addicted to! These are as much to blame for the suffering of the sick, and disabled, there are always two sides to a coin!
As for the media I don’t read what they say anymore neither do the vast majority of folks so that argument is wearing thin also.
As I’ve said in the past this government is woefully inept as is the opposition, but Jeremy Corbyn isn’t the messiah that his disciples suggest he is in fact he is as inept as Theresa May, So where does that leave us?

[cee-dee]

"So where does that leave us?"

In the cart?

They came in for loads of criticism (and mostly rightly so) but the old mental hospitals took a lot of the persistently disruptive drunks and ne'er-do-wells off the streets. Time they came back?

[theelench]

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@al**bear wrote:

Funny how during Austerity the |Tories found £Billions and £Billions to sub the Banks,

give big Tax cuts to the rich - and give Big Tax breaks to Multi-Nationals

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They didn't find £Billions, they bought bad debt by creating more govt. debt.  Austerity was the choice to then pay the interest on it and supposedly repay it.  

Austerity will never end, it might be relaxed, when an election looms or a "leftish"  govt. wants to prove itself.  But the debt will never be repaid, it will grow again with the next crisis and finances will be tightened again.

The real problem is the ever increasing debt and until that is solved most people / services will have to get poorer to service it.  It's just a part of the plan to move wealth away from the "poor" and back upwards towards the "rich".

[**bustysinclaire**]

What IS austerity?