Tories face ridicule after complaining about cuts caused by their own pointless austerity policies
Hypocrite: Gavin Williamson.
The Conservative Party’s chickens are coming home to roost.
We’ve seen in the past that they are happy to cut services across the country – as long as the cuts don’t affect them personally.
A classic example was David Cameron’s hypocritical attempt to stop Oxfordshire Council from cutting services.
Now, Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson wants to stop cuts to bus services in South Staffordshire – and has also been branded a hypocrite.
And West Midlands Tory MPs have been mocked for trying to stop police station closures, after voting consistently to cut their police services over the last eight years.
The concern of West Midlands Tory MPs who called a debate on police station closures this week would have a lot more credibility if they hadn't consistently voted for eight years of real-terms cuts to West Mids' police budgets. pic.twitter.com/d3TcyyXrdJ
— Louise Haigh (@LouHaigh) March 8, 2018
It’s ludicrous, isn’t it?
Do these Conservative MPs really think the public will put up with this nonsense? They can’t expect to be taken seriously, after having voted to cut funding again and again over a prolonged period of time, if they suddenly start campaigning against the very same cuts.
What are they telling people? “Stop these heinous cuts caused by this uncaring government”? People will simply point right back at them.
And you notice that none of them are trying to reverse the cuts in Parliament, where they might actually do some good.
A Tory minister has been mocked for starting a petition against cuts to bus services caused by his own government’s austerity programme.
Defence secretary Gavin Williamson has said he is “concerned” by a number of service cuts and complained that some constituents have no access to a Sunday service.
The petition is titled ‘Restore vital bus services across South Staffordshire’ – but so far only 144 people have signed it.
But Labour MPs and local councillors have given his complaints short shrift accusing him of “rank hypocrisy”.
Shadow Cabinet Minister Jon Trickett laid into the MP – highlighting that the Government has cut local authority funding by almost 50% since 2010.
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Cause and Effect is not really taught any more is it.the consequences of action and inaction. No Brains at all. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.
Has anyone any understanding or comprehension how this country and Western Europe managed to be developed, prosperous settled and civilised for last 70 years?
Post War Social Democracy and a Social Infrastructure that served all country,economy, business, finance, industry, educating generations and serving and supporting people
It was not wishful thinking or fairy goblins that did it
In many respects, it’s no different from the Tory attempts to introduce a 7-Day-Week in the NHS while paring its proportional funding to the bone.
“…Defence secretary Gavin Williamson has said he is “concerned” by a number of service cuts and complained that some constituents have no access to a Sunday service…”
I wonder where these constituents were when disabled people started dying in numbers or when they were having their benefits hacked to pieces or being unjustly found fit for work? I wonder if the same constituents complained when unemployed people got their JSA sanctioned and subsequently were made destitute, starving and/or homeless? Or having their labour extracted for free?
They were either silent, in which case they can whine all they like (Harsh but fair, I think. Vote Tory, get Tory policies) or Mr Williamson has seen which way the wind is blowing and needs a favourable headline or two.
Shouldn’t that read, “Faces Total Contempt and Ridicule”? (rhetorical question).
Our local Council did this year’s ago. Basildon council members refused to make cuts, but the members from Billericay kept on and on. So Basildon Council introduced car parking charges to Billericay High street. Then, shortly after, Billericay took overall power, removed the charges from Billericay and put those charges onto Basildon town car parks, despite the fact they had already introduced the original high charges to Basildon in the first place!