Comments on: Step by step guide to ‘cutting the deficit, not the NHS’ http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2010/01/05/step-by-step-guide-to-cutting-the-deficit-not-the-nhs/ "We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down" - Aneurin Bevan, 1953 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Simon http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2010/01/05/step-by-step-guide-to-cutting-the-deficit-not-the-nhs/#comment-4329 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:53:07 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1848#comment-4329 Excellent post. Oldest trick in the book.

]]> By: JonnyRed http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2010/01/05/step-by-step-guide-to-cutting-the-deficit-not-the-nhs/#comment-4328 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:59:44 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1848#comment-4328 I thought he reminded me of someone…

http://www.oregonlive.com/images/weblogs/oddblog/cartoonbeavis.jpg

]]> By: Dave Semple http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2010/01/05/step-by-step-guide-to-cutting-the-deficit-not-the-nhs/#comment-4326 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:56:08 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1848#comment-4326 Incidentally, isn’t that look from David Cameron just one that deserves some sort of amusing subtitle?

]]> By: Dave Semple http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/2010/01/05/step-by-step-guide-to-cutting-the-deficit-not-the-nhs/#comment-4325 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:55:11 +0000 http://thoughcowardsflinch.com/?p=1848#comment-4325 Labour’s tactic in this regard was much less subtle; simply reannounce money that’s already been announced. They did it for the NHS. They did it for the budget of the Northern Ireland devolved government. They’ve done it for tonnes of stuff. And so long as you leave the announcement just late enough that it makes press deadlines for the next day’s headlines, well all the better – everyone wins.

Journalists get something to write about; the government gets a favourable headline, politicians smile for the cameras and voters think there may be something to this politics malarkey after all. Unless they try to use the NHS, but pffft, this is the UK. No one ever gets sick here.

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