Coalition policies in question
Published 21 Oct 2010 13:30
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ALOK Sharma, in his column, copied out the claims made by David Cameron at his party conference. But he could so easily have provided another list:
750 schools - not to be rebuilt. Police numbers - to be cut. Pledge not to do another top-down change in the NHS - broken. Housing benefit - cuts to make 750,000 homeless. London - 100,000 people to be driven out.
Pledge to protect child benefit - broken. Pledge to protect council tenancies - abandoned. Curbs on HMOs - scrapped.
University tuition fees - ratcheted up. Health and safety - abandoned. VAT - to be increased to 20%.
Perhaps we should start a website to which people, including Mr Sharma if he likes, could add more of these as the policies of the Coalition unfold?
Helen Hathaway
121 St Georges Rd
Reading
This letter appeared in Reading Chronicle 21 Oct 10
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Sterling
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Oct 27, 05:17
Report commentHathaway again lists Labour's pet projects that were falsely promised but not funded and unsustainable. "There is no more money left" was the quote from one of her former failed Government Ministers, Mr. Byrne. She harps on about failure and is utterly depressing evidently trying to give Reading a 'nervous breakdown'. Perhaps she should consider another hobby; politics certainly doesn't suit her, it depresses her.
Hathaway should remember her lot left the country with the biggest and most unsustainable debt in history, a debt the Coalition is doing its best to sort out. Doesn't she understand basic book keeping? Evidently not.
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