Ask a Brit thread

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4. I have heard Clive Owen has been tipped. He was in the King Arthur movie I think and also the film Closer, that was a great film.

How can any self respecting actor accept the part of James Bond.

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In terms of major policy matters, where do the Conservatives differ from Labour of the Liberal Democrats?

How long have you got?

As far as this election goes, Labour are proposing increasing the size of the welfare state while bringing in somewhat authoritarian measures to deal with terrorism, the Tories are proposing some rather strange ideas as far as the welfare state and taxation goes (I'll go so far as to say their plans don't add up) while making a big thing of minor policies on Gypsies, Asylum Seekers etc. and the LibDems are proposing to slash and burn the welfare state (except services that are importent to key voters, like pensioners and students), abandoning economic planning and slightly raising taxes on high earners, while offering a fairly libertarian position on civil liberties (they seemed to have dropped that laughable bullsh*t about "tough liberalism").

If the lib dems want to "slash and burb" the welfare state, whats the point in raising taxes?

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If the lib dems want to "slash and burb" the welfare state, whats the point in raising taxes?

They want to do that to most of it (although the media hasn't spotted this yet)... but they're going to increase it's size in areas they think they can get votes out of (ie: pensions)

Still why not just divert the money from the cut programs into the ones they want to mantain?