{"id":5832,"date":"2010-06-21T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2010-06-21T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T22:05:36","slug":"uk%e2%80%99s-conservative-party-gets-cheeky-with-budget-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5832\/uk%e2%80%99s-conservative-party-gets-cheeky-with-budget-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Conservative Party Gets Cheeky with Budget Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one beats the Brits for being able to find the funny in any circumstance; especially when it comes to politics.\u00a0 For a bit of gallows humor, David Cameron\u2019s Conservative Party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservatives.com\/News\/News_stories\/2010\/06\/Labours_legacy_to_Britain.aspx \" target=\"_blank\">released this three-page document<\/a> framing the recently deceased Labour government\u2019s legacy as a last will and testament.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the cover:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Last Will and Testament of Labour 1997 \u2013 2010<\/p>\n<p>To my successors, I leave no money, only waste,<\/p>\n<p>debt and the deepest cuts of modern times.<\/p>\n<p>To the young people of Britain, I leave one in five of you<\/p>\n<p>without work.<\/p>\n<p>To pensioners, I bequeath you lower pensions. I reduced the value of<\/p>\n<p>pension funds by billions. I leave you working longer for less.<\/p>\n<p>In 13 years, I have wasted the inheritance left to me.<\/p>\n<p>Of the gold bullion my predecessors bequeathed me,<\/p>\n<p>I sold over 350 tonnes at the worst possible price.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent and spent and spent again &#8211; and every man, woman and<\/p>\n<p>child will have \u00a322,400 to pay for my profligacy.<\/p>\n<p>I have taken your hard-earned money and wasted it. I lost \u00a33 billion<\/p>\n<p>in benefit overpayments and paid the dead \u00a310 million in tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>I leave Britain a bigger deficit than France, Germany and Japan,<\/p>\n<p>greater than Greece, Italy and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>I leave 2.47 million of you without a job.<\/p>\n<p>With more time I could have done more.<\/p>\n<p>I leave no apology, no regret, no comfort, and not an ounce of<\/p>\n<p>contrition.<\/p>\n<p>I leave you years of painful and difficult decisions.<\/p>\n<p>This is my legacy to you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one beats the Brits for being able to find the funny in any circumstance; especially when it comes to politics.\u00a0 For a bit of gallows humor, David Cameron\u2019s Conservative Party released this three-page document framing the recently deceased Labour government\u2019s legacy as a last will and testament.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the cover: The Last Will and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1458,1456,926,1457,1455],"class_list":["post-5832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-british-sense-of-humor","tag-conservative-party","tag-david-cameron","tag-labour-party","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}