Wi cannae afford it
Posted by alangdundee on October 9, 2008
You’ve heard it all before
2000
Brown gives 75p rise to pensions at the time claiming we couldn’t afford more.
2001
MPs award themselves £2000 pay rise months later.
2003
War given blank cheque as Brown pledges as much money as it takes for the slaughter in Iraq.
Chancellor Gordon Brown says the UK will spend what it takes
to tackle Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
Money well spent then seeing as they didn’t exist. In 2001 the Ministry of Defence put the costs so far at £3.1 billion.
Estimated cost of Free School Meals rejected by Holyrood: £100million per year.
2008
Labour agitate for £20billion to pay for replacement for the Nuclear weapons at Faslane.
The poorest have their Income Tax bill increased to pay for a cut for the middle class.
2008 October 4
Labour councils claim there’s no money for free school meals
2008 October 8
Brown gives £500billion to bail out banks.
At every step money is found to pay for weapons and wars and pay rises for MPs. Low paid council workers are told there’s no money to even give them a pay freeze at inflation, never mind a rise, there’s no money for school meals for children but £16,000 from every person in the UK is found to bail out banks.
This after years of being told the bankers bonuses were justified because of the risks
they take with their capital. Of being told privatisation is the only game in town
and nationalisation is some bizarre old idea.
Recent events show these words to be as hollow as we have being saying they are for a decade. Money is there. Those in power lack the political will to help the poorest in society.
