I do recall a last minute spending spree by Labour, in all fairness, I think one of the points was to do with money spent on schools. Let me check.
Free swimming sessions, a eighty million pound loan to Sheffield steelworks, four hundred and fifty million pounds to North Tees and Hartlepool hospital and a five hundred and fifty million pound 'Jobseekers guarantee', all announced in March 2010, with the election in May.
It was a clever ploy to leave the next government, and let's face it I think Labour had a good idea that as long as Brown stayed at the helm that Labour wasn't getting in, Lib-Dem or otherwise. However, I still think that Tweedledum and Tweedledummer are going to cut a little too deep and cut in the wrong places, industries will be destroyed, not encouraged, unemployment will rise, not fall and public unrest will increase, fueled by the encouragement of the unions, the cuts in public services and attacks on the poor.
The coalition government will fall within, oh, two years, three at the most I'd say, and then we'll see what happens then...if Labour has got their act together, perhaps they'll come back in, or perhaps the Tories will get a firmer stronghold. The voting system may or may not have been reformed so that may or may not effect things.
Either which way, it's going to be a very interesting winter this year...very interesting indeed...
