3:40pm Friday 12th March 2010
WHILE listening to the BBC Politics Show on Sunday, February 28 a Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, Charlotte Vere, made an unbelievable comment for someone who wants to legislate for the nation. On the show, Caroline Lucas, MEP for the Green Party, reminded viewers and Charlotte of the mess the last Conservative Government left in 1997. Charlotte replied by saying something like but that was “ages ago, I was only a little girl”. It appears to me that Charlotte thinks that the world began on the day she was born; not realizing that history, and all its baggage, began a moment ago and goes back forever, even before her birth. Sadly, we all have to deal with it as it is, not as we would like it to be; in 30 years another youngster will regard Charlotte Vere as history, that’s the way of the world.
Many young voters do disregard the effect history has had on their lives and look just on what has happened today. As an example, one important fact for Charlotte is votes for women; History also records WW2, the NHS, and in recent years workers rights, currently the International Banking Crisis. The cause and effect of this crisis will be recorded by history. History will also record who was in the forefront to fix this crisis, one Gordon Brown. And who voted against the agreed international action, David Cameron. Even now history records David Cameron’s last financial crisis, ‘Black Wednesday’. Charlotte was only a little girl then, but that’s history.
David Cameron says, if a Tory Government is elected this year you only need to look at a Tory Council to see what they will do in office. Here in Swindon we have a ’model’ Tory Council to show the Tory way; cuts to libraries, cuts to children’s bus fares, cuts to street cleaning, cuts to road repairs. On the other hand they have made some increases; increased rent for voluntary organisations and residential homes, increase in charges to remove bulk waste, increases in residential parking. At the same time they have increased the expenditure on their hospitality budget, increases in Consultancy Services. Yes, we can see just where a Tory Government will take us. Once again we will hear their clarion call from the 1980’s ‘If it isn’t hurting is isn’t working’. Who will it hurt, as always with the Tories, the old, the young the vulnerable. If elected, the Tories will follow the same ‘cut cut’ Tory policy recorded by history. Who will carry the burden, the UK’s working people the tax payers. All voters must look at the history of the UK and reflect it’s impact on their life today.
Mike Spry Mayfield Close Nythe Swindon
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