Jack

You were lucky to get on QT at all ot perhaps not, I and several others can confirm everything you say.

Ang

Brown left the UK with it's biggest deficit ever, was going to pursue the same cuts as the Tories, you seem to conveniently forget that!

Coming from Wales you wouldn't know a lot about Revie and Bremner, the fact that Brian Clough couldn't stand them says it all. Stick to Rugby!

So 45% of voters still back the Cons and Dens, which is more than back Labour...and your point is?

The concept that is spun to us as big society, is a backward step toward the days of lawful slavery. For the complex needs of many will fall upon the few, without the help and honesty to see the whole thing through. So what's the point in starting something else thats doomed to fail, like the end of free school bottled milk and the death of british rail. For the cost it will be measured and the savings must be made, but it's yet another government that's failed to make the grade. Or tackle real life issues like poverty and pain, it's just like being kicked hard when your down again and again and again. So now you know my opinion of big society for short i call it BS and a stain on democracy.

If I had a £ for every time I have heard a member of this vile coalition blame the last government for the reason they are devasting this country with their unfair cuts, I could have paid the deficit off myself. Brilliant response from the QT audience last night. We don't want to hear this Tory led garbage any more....

gerry,

Today's poll: "Labour has overtaken the combined LDs and Tories for the first time in any poll since the General Election.

"YouGov puts Labour on 45%, the Tories on 35% and the LDs on 9%.
This time 12 months ago we were on 30%, the Tories on 39% and the LDs on 18%."

http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/2011/02/labour-overtakes-combined-coali...

I am glad Francis Maude brings up the subject of Debt.

He is an MP, whose party saddled the country with £400 Billion of debt. Strange how he fails to mention that, as well as forgetting about the £300 billion of North Sea Oil Revenues Major and Thatcher blew.

Conservatives who lecture about debt just don't get it.

It's about time people woke up and realized what a vile lot this coalition is. Question Time was heartening and I don't for one minute think it's done to a reactionary activist audience - just people booing those they have had enough of.

It's U Turn time on so many of the policies this lot thought they'd get away with, it's an experiment which hasn't taken off.

How anyone can seriously imagine Cameron and Clegg standing side by side in a sunny rose garden in 2015 is beyond me. I rather suspect the image would be ruined by piles of stinking garbage behind them and a heckling audience pelting rotten tomatoes at two inherently rotten people.

The media are turning, that's the sign they are on the slippery slope.

Next GE in 2015, no way on earth.

It's about time people woke up and realized what a vile lot this coalition is. Question Time was heartening and I don't for one minute think it's down to a reactionary activist audience - just people booing those they have had enough of.

It's U Turn time on so many of the policies this lot thought they'd get away with, it's an experiment which hasn't taken off.

How anyone can seriously imagine Cameron and Clegg standing side by side in a sunny rose garden in 2015 is beyond me. I rather suspect the image would be ruined by piles of stinking garbage behind them and a heckling audience pelting rotten tomatoes at two inherently rotten people.

The media are turning, that's the sign they are on the slippery slope.

Next GE in 2015, no way on earth.

On the same figures (44, 35, 10), the BBC calculator gives the following result:

Labour: 392 seats

Con: 210 seats

Lib Dem: 21 seats

Labour majority of 134 seats

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm

Nick; How can the coalition be any more odious than Blair, all teeth and tan, with his multi millions, or Prescott with his philandering in office, his croquet parties and total incompetence. Billions wasted on hair brained regional assemblies, road schemes and anything else they tried to amuse him with so he wouldn't rock the boat. Labour were drunk on the trappings of office and many ensured they will enjoy well funded lifestyles, while they have left so many people jobless and in despair.
Labour always bring class into the equation. It was labour who introduced the hated student fees, denying students the very debt free education they themselves enjoyed. Hence Gordon Brown for instance, never had to get a real job to pay off his student loans, Disgraceful!

The problem they have in distance between their rhetoric and reality. They have tried to soften up the public to public sector cuts by making spurious claims that all the savings will be made by efficency savings without any frontline services being effected and that the public sector is full of huge bloated salaries. When people see low paid workers being laid off and libraries and swimming pools closing they stop believing this nonsense. People's patience also does not last for the blame labour approach. But is is unfair to say the there is no plan B on the economy. There is always blame the weather!

Of course, this is completely meaningless as there are going to be massive changes over the next four years.

The good thing is the socialists and social democrats who used to support Lib Dems have now left for Labour and the Greens so the Lib Dems can concentrate on becoming a proper liberal party. There is still a lot of opposition to liberalism from the left of the Lib Dems but hopefully Clegg, Laws and co will be bring through better policies that will make a difference to the country.

Finally, the people are realising what a bunch of incompetent toffs they are.
Francis Maude is repugnant and during questiontime @50.33, was visibly shocked, by the response he got from the audience, when he blames Labour for the cuts to local councils. People don't believe the spin anymore, so give it up, it's embarrassing.
Francis Maudes' response to Jaqui Smiths 'facts' @57.50, was just to insult her.
The facts being that the economy was growing when the Tories entered office in May and borrowing was falling. The opposite is now true. FACT!!!

It's clear from Questiontime and Ed Miliband's sheet of blank paper that'a week is a long time in politics!'

But, when voters see the deficit totally reduced and the country back on it's feet. The voters will start returning to the Conservative party!

Turning against the Tories ?
Not Moi... have never supported them since the 'heir to Bliar' became their leader !

You're living in a dream world, Reginald, as is the right in general. For the last 30 years the monetarists have controlled debate. Now, as a consequence of your own greed and climate changed (caused by those policies by the way), your ideology is looking increasingly flaky and the only answers you have are more of the same. It's like being diagnosed with lung cancer and the doctor prescribing you 200 fags. It won't work. Luckily the public are beginning to see through this lie.

Seeing Maude (who I think is in a competition for cliche of the year) being booed and jeered was a joy to behold. The Tories are going to have to come up with something other than blame Labour and cheap insults. Oh, wait, THAT'S ALL THEY HAVE.