The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Coach]

Ah, the response of those who have no response.

No, it is the response of someone who CBA with you and your ilk. If you truly believe that single mums are starving their children in order to suffer the degradation of scamming a few tins of baked beans off a charity or that OAPs are making a pot noodle last three days just to rip you off then good luck with your Daily Mail. The report linked earlier simply backs up what is obvious - Tory cuts are making the poor and vulnerable in our society suffer.

Meanwhile, the Tory fight to protect bankers' bonuses goes on....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30125780

 

[Coach]

One in five Coalition MPs (including Cameron, Lansley and Hunt) have ties to private healthcare firms.

Coalition award £9bn worth of tenders (more than 50% of all contracts) to private healthcare firms.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sold-profit-tories-liberal-8127359

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ts-circle-healthcare-bupa-virgin-care-care-uk

If this was the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar people would be up in arms.

 

[roydo]

One in five Coalition MPs (including Cameron, Lansley and Hunt) have ties to private healthcare firms.

Coalition award £9bn worth of tenders (more than 50% of all contracts) to private healthcare firms.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sold-profit-tories-liberal-8127359

http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ts-circle-healthcare-bupa-virgin-care-care-uk

If this was the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar people would be up in arms.

The total amount spent by NHS England last year on Private tenders was 6% of its budget. Up from 5% in 2010.

Meanwhile, in that NHS utopia that is Scotland, (no nasty Tories privatising up there), the amount spent by them on Private stuff increased by 22% last year alone.

 

[Coach]

Tories and tax avoidance story 1:

HMRC unacceptably slow to take action against tax avoiders according to the National Audit Office. HMRC misled parliament by £1.9bn in stating how successful they have been in cracking down on this.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-billion-pound-error-lin-homer-margaret-hodge

 

[Coach]

Tories and tax avoidance story 2:

Boris Johnson refusing to pay capital gains tax in America

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/20/boris-johnson-us-tax-bill

 

[roydo]

Tories and tax avoidance story 1:

HMRC unacceptably slow to take action against tax avoiders according to the National Audit Office. HMRC misled parliament by £1.9bn in stating how successful they have been in cracking down on this.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...-billion-pound-error-lin-homer-margaret-hodge

Not sure that has anything to do with the Tories actually. Other than them giving HMRC the additional powers to challenge these schemes, most of which take advantage of the complexity that one G Brown bought to the tax system. They are the sort of schemes used by folk like Jimmy Carr.

 

[roydo]

Tories and tax avoidance story 2:

Boris Johnson refusing to pay capital gains tax in America

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/20/boris-johnson-us-tax-bill

Well hes an idiot then. If he owes the US IRS tax cos he wants to keep his US passport, he should pay it.

Be interesting to see Ken Livingstones tax affairs that actually affect the UK though. Something he steadfastly refused to do in the mayoral election I recall.

 

[Brennan]

The total amount spent by NHS England last year on Private tenders was 6% of its budget. Up from 5% in 2010.

Meanwhile, in that NHS utopia that is Scotland, (no nasty Tories privatising up there), the amount spent by them on Private stuff increased by 22% last year alone.

I like how he just ignores it when you post facts like this and carries on with his blinkered tosh.

 

[Coach]

I like how he just ignores it when you post facts like this and carries on with his blinkered tosh.

It doesn't address what I posted in the slightest so what is there to reply to?

To simply restate the obvious - that irregardless of what % of the total budget the £9bn comprised, it was still awarded to private companies to which 71 MPs have links to?

 

[toffee matt]

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...berry-labour-rochester-byelection-ukip-tories

And the Labour party struggle to understand why their core vote is disillusioned with them....

 

[Walken]

I like how he just ignores it when you post facts like this and carries on with his blinkered tosh.

roydo's not exactly a neutral

 

[Coach]

Not sure that has anything to do with the Tories actually. Other than them giving HMRC the additional powers to challenge these schemes, most of which take advantage of the complexity that one G Brown bought to the tax system. They are the sort of schemes used by folk like Jimmy Carr.

Really? So for almost the past 5 years the Tories have had no responsibility for cracking down on tax avoidance? None of this is their fault? Wow.

 

[Brennan]

It doesn't address what I posted in the slightest so what is there to reply to?

To simply restate the obvious - that irregardless of what % of the total budget the £9bn comprised, it was still awarded to private companies to which 71 MPs have links to?

Fairly sure it does. You're too blinkered to comprehend though which is fine.

 

[roydo]

It doesn't address what I posted in the slightest so what is there to reply to?

To simply restate the obvious - that irregardless of what % of the total budget the £9bn comprised, it was still awarded to private companies to which 71 MPs have links to?

So what? If you are suggesting that, I assume, Tory MPs in some way profit from NHS tenders, then how come it has only increased by 1% in 4 years in England, but by 22% in one year in Scotland?

 

[Brennan]

So what? If you are suggesting that, I assume, Tory MPs in some way profit from NHS tenders, then how come it has only increased by 1% in 4 years in England, but by 22% in one year in Scotland?

The SNP are secretly giving the Tory party money.