by pcwells » May 12th, '10, 14:12
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What do I remember most about a Conservative Government?
Four Million Unemployed
As good a starting point as any, I suppose.
Poll Tax
'Nuff said about that.
Section 28
Making homophobia acceptable... nay... MANDATORY!
The 1984 Video Recordings Act
And the wholly manufactured Video Nasties Scare that came before it. All of which served to give the UK the most draconian movie censorship of any Western country. It also made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one of the most heavily censored movies ever to get a UK certificate.
The Criminal Justice Bill
The final act was bad enough, but the initial bill made even the most distopian sci-fi creation look like Wonderland.
Let's see:
Abolition of the Right to Silence
Giving police the power of unsupervised stop and search
Banning parties that are characterised by 'Music with Repetitive Beats' (later clarified with a reference to beats per minute - that's okay then).
Curbing right to protest by restricting the number of people that can assemble in any one place at the same time (I believe it was restrcted to nine people), and the number of vehicles that can travel in convoy (again, single figures).
I could go on about the CJB, but just digging up that bit of history has me reaching for the Prozac!
The Privatisation of British Rail
Service is now schitt, and I've lost count of how many times the private companies have come cap-in-hand to the government to be bailed out
The Privatisation of practically everything else.
It started with BT, and continued on to pretty much everything else that has the word 'British' in the title. Most of them were single-source commodities, and so the only competition that could emerge from it came down to whose name was at the top of your gas bill. And, as a result, the needs of the customer have been largely forgotten in favour of the interests of the shareholder.
Okay, I'm done now... There's much more, but I've got to carve out some happy time for myself.
Needless to say, cameron's got his work cut out for him if he hopes to top all of the above!
Pete
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