DaveO wrote: ... Not repealing the previous government's legislation started with Thatcher believe it or not. She didn't repeal the closing of grammar schools for example. Her idea was if you spent all your time undoing what the last lot did you would never get any of your own policies through and I think all government's have adopted this approach ever since. Very little ever gets repealed...
The trouble is, though, it's not just a question of having the time ... it's cost as well, destroying or dismantling something is cheaper than rebuilding it.
The current lot are bent on the removal of as much public provision as they can get away with, in the knowledge that, once changed, there won't be the cash, confidence or time to re-provide it.
And the so-called Lib Dems in the cabinet are too cowardly to stand up and say no.
If this lot get a second term, we can say goodbye to the free or universal provision of anything ...from health and education right through to the safety nets of benefits for social casualties ... and hello to a society more divided than it has been since the heyday of Victorian hypocrisy, where being born poor means you stay poor and die young.
The cabinet re-shuffle demonstrates just who Cameron rates highly and they are all shifty in one way or another.
