David Gauke. He knows a lot about tax avoidance, does David.
What appears to have happened is that enough undecided people on the way to the polling station appear to have bought the idea that they had to keep the government in power to ensure that the “recovery ” continued and probably thought ” I am just about OK” not to risk a change… Both Labour and the Tories said there would be more unspecified cuts.”
I suspect many people think these “cuts” won’t affect them – only welfare scroungers and immigrants. I think they will be in for a very big shock because there is no way the books can be balanced without much wider reductions if not removal of services. Local government, social care, benefits for disabled people, all are likely to be hit and there is no need now for a government in power for the next five years to bother with higher pay rises for public sector workers. There will also be a bonanza for private firms to take over the rest of the work of the state and fraught referendum on Europe and a resentful relationship between England and Scotland.
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