I diagree that the givernment 'needs' the money, anyone who has worked in the public sector will know how wasteful they are, they have put more and more money into services for no real 'increase' in performance due to the way that targets are set, so those departments, like the NHS has to manage targets rather than services, so money isn't put into nurses, doctors and equipment, it goes on back management.
The Armed Forces have never been so poorly funded (I worked on enough of the stuff). The former Conservatives would ridiculed for selling off industry, but the Labour government has done more and worse.... and most of them are now in the ownership of foreign nationals.
The roads are the poorest I have seen in the long run.
The gorvernment is greedy in the end, it is billions in debt, yet it won't let a man like Richard Branson bail out Northern Rock... which, by the way, the money used could of paid for the Police's pay rise three fold....
The fuel levvy is a carry over from Margaret Thatchers fuel escalator..... which is a handy way of raising taxes.
The only way to get things turned around is to vote out the labour party and blockade fuel, so things do come to a head and HAS to be sorted..... I think Gordon Brown will have his own 'winter of discontent'
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