1. introduced student loans - £2.2 billion is owed to the student loans company, now how many students are still in this country let alone in a position repay it - if this is not irresponsible lending i dont know what is
The Tories would have done the same and agree on them, the money has to come from somewhere. It’s a low interest loan and you only need to make payments if you earn over £15000 a year.
2. Government has borrowed over £770 billion - god knows what the interest repayments are, who is going to pay it back
They are going to half it in 4 years, obviously the tax payer.
3. Introduced NI contributions as the new form of PAYE, it is disgusting how much NI has gone up the last 10 years, and this government want to raise it again to pay off their interest repayments on borrowing
No they want to raise it so they can protect the budget on Crime, Education & the NHS.
4. 75% of every litre of fuel is tax, where does this money go cos our roads are in bits
Do you think this will change under the Tories?
5. £1 billion has been raised by speed cameras since multiplying under this government - where has this money gone
Do you think this will change under the Tories?
6. Road tax & TV licenses have near enough doubled but the BBC TV is shocking, same as the roads
I personally think the BBC is great and should be protected; I pay my TV license every year and am happy to do so. On Road Tax, do you think this will change under the Tories?
7. immigration is out of control, if anyone argues this then why does everyone talk about it every day
The immigrants that most people complain about are from the EU and the Tories can’t do anything about them, we can live in their countries as well if we want. It’s called freedom of movement. I don’t understand the big deal most of them come here and work in factories doing work the locals just wouldn’t do for £5.80 an hour.
8. Why is Gordon brown wanting urgent changes in the lead up to this election when he has had years in sorting out apparent problems
He’s actually not had much time as PM to go in the direction in which he wanted as he has had one crisis after another, maybe he wants to make a real difference before he goes.
9. Why do i have to be told what to eat, how to drink, not to smoke, what speed to drive, I am an adult that pays tax why should i have to live my life how they want me to
That’s a bit selfish, maybe they are not talking to you in particular but the people who need help and advice, e.g., obesity is at record levels and I don’t see anything wrong trying to educate people who maybe don’t know the risks of eating the wrong food.
10. why does the NHS send nutritionists to Somalian families in Birmingham to show them how to eat properly cos they are clinically obese
Why not? We have a duty of care and we don’t live in Nazi Germany.
11. why is so many more people on anti depressants for stress, was this as common as 20 years ago
Are you seriously blaming labour for this? I think it is more to do with people not coping with what life throws at them.
12. why is gordon brown in charge of this country when he was not even elected, I did not vote for him to be in charge of this country
He actually was elected and we do not vote for a president in this country, we vote for a party. You must be thinking about USA.
13, why are MP's not prosecuted for expense fraud, why did our prime minister not show enough spine
Again MP’s are going to court over this issue although it is a relatively small amount you can’t blame Brown when every one of them were at it.
14. why does our prime minister accuse the tories of all the problems in this country when they have not been in power for 13 years
He doesn’t, he is basically warning people what would happen if they got into power.
15. make public sectors jobs redundant, why ?, does this simply show lack of management or direction
I don’t understand what you mean by this. If anything the Tories will be making a large majority in the public sector redundant.
16. why does this government waste billions of pounds on stupid incentives that dont work then create stealth taxes to pay it off,
Again not sure what you mean, it’s a bit vague.
17. The future jobs fund is nothing more than a 6 month work placement being paid minimum wage, what good is it for the unemployed when they have to sign on 6 months down the line, it benefits the governments stats more than the individual
It benefits unemployed as they can write it on their CV and it could help them get a permanent job. You are much more likely to be given work if you are doing something other than sitting in the house.
18. why create thousands of admin positions in the public sector to collate statistics on how well schools, hospitals, colleges are doing, the general public know how well a school or a hospital is performing, a stat is a meaningless number to help enforce government spending strategies
Without stats there are no way of measuring success, the public don’t know as each individual could have a completely different experience. How can that be measured?
19. what is economically inactive ?9. what is economically inactive ?
Economically inactive is someone who is not working and is not unemployed. It could be someone who is ill, a parent anyone not working and not claiming JSA.
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