This is actually incredibly bad. The councils that will be experiencing the most debt are arguably those in the poorest areas with little to offer. A struggling council house family whose source of entertainment is embellishing the 'Us versus Them' mentality and popping unfortunate offspring out left, right, centre is ultimately going to suffer much more when such a stance is employed. These things need to be seriously considered before such execution is administered.
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Depends what your priorities are. Labour won't give a referendum on EU membership, for example. So if you want one of those, then you're out of luck.
They're also in favour of more decentralization to councils, which if your council is one of those in quite a lot of debt could lead to a council tax rise when they have to pay for more stuff.
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There is quite clearly a lot more to it than that, though.
I'm actually pretty out of the loop with all of this because of other things being taxing on my time allocation, so I've not delved in to the depths of the political wing. I just know that it's well worth reading in to this stuff extensively when given the chance, as there is far more to those policies than such a public manifestation of intent would allow.
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As for the downsides of a Labour government:
If you're rich you'll be paying more taxes.
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It's okay, Lashka, Miki is clearly only here to downvote good posts.
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Going by that argument, the Lib Dems are also the Labour party, because of the Social Democratic alliance which split from Labour and then eventually merged with the Liberals to form the Lib Dems back in the 80s.
The Lib Dems are most definitely not the Liberal Party of old, Kerry. The Liberal Party of the 1970s when it rebounded under Jeremy Thorpe had pretty much nothing in common with Asquith's Liberals before they got annihilated.
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The apprenticeship scheme is something that has been needed in the UK for many, many years.
Could you now post the negative implications that Labour would have on the nation?
I'm glad UKIP are taking Tory votes away from the Tories. And if 1 in 7 people vote UKIP and they only get 4 MP's (as seems likely) then that's a major boost for the STV argument.
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One of his policies was that he wanted more Valentine's Day threads overrun with talk of politics.
