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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2010-05-12 05:22 pm

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Two of New Labour's crappier projects have just been cancelled.

There will be no further action on ID cards and all plans for a third runway at Heathrow have been abandoned.

Thank you, fellas.

[identity profile] veronica-milvus.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Good start! Shame it is almost all fellas though.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I've noticed that too.

Theresa May seems to be the only gal they've asked to the party.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's good news!

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
At the moment it seems like, whatever it does over the coming months, our new governemnt has just won my undying gratitude.

I don't expect this feeling to last.
sovay: (Morell: quizzical)

[personal profile] sovay 2010-05-12 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
There will be no further action on ID cards and all plans for a third runway at Heathrow have been abandoned.

That's a good start!

(Now you can try to avoid the suspicion that something else is about to undercut all that gratitude . . .)

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll take it one day at a time...
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[personal profile] sovay 2010-05-12 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
We'll take it one day at a time...

(That's fair.)

[identity profile] idahoswede.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hurray for those two. It's almost enough to make me conservative (but not quite).

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think anything could ever induce me to vote conservative, but I'm happy to applaud when they get things right.

Next step

(Anonymous) 2010-05-12 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The next step, of course, is to cut the deficit by cutting government spending. What is the government spending money on that it needn't? Two obvious things: Trident and the war in Afghanistan.

Re: Next step

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2010-05-12 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I couldn't agree more.

But I understand the Lib Dems have agreed to back down over Trident.