David Cameron’s Lies Exposed!
By Gracie Samuels, previously published here
On this page I am going to try and accumulate all Cameron’s lies (I know, I know it is a mammoth task and a dirty job – but someone’s got to do it!) I just hope I don’t run out of space! You can’t leave posts on this page like on the main blog page, however, if you wish me to include a particular lie, or think I may have missed one please email me on gracie.samuels@hushmail.com or just leave it in a post on the main page in the latest blog and I’ll transfer it over here.
David Cameron’s Tory led government is guilty of disinformation, he and his cronies are deliberately misleading the people of this country.
How can we trust and believe a single word that David Cameron utters any more?
Disinformation Defined – Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government in order to influence public opinion.
In his address to the Tory party conference Wednesday 10th October 2012, Cameron claimed that his government had created over one million jobs in the private sector, this is a complete lie and a complete fabrication and misrepresentation of the truth.
- Around 200,000 of that million are straight forward reclassification of people who work in further education and have simply been reclassified from public sector workers to private sector workers.
- Hundreds of thousands more are part time workers; temporary workers; self employed; under employed.
Cameron, Osborne and Clegg have destroyed more then 500,000 public sector workers (police, nurses, midwives, teachers, teaching assistants, lolly pop ladies, caretakers, elderly care wardens, educational welfare officers, family liaison officers, social workers etc etc) and there is another half a million to follow, and on top of that Osborne has announced another £16bn in cuts, which will greatly impinge not only on the weakest, poorest, disabled and unemployed etc, it will heavily impinge of the staff employed in our vital services, which means disruption of services in YOUR schools – YOUR hospitals – YOUR elderly care – YOUR local public services and YOUR local economy.
Don’t be taken in by Cameron and his lies and deliberate misleading and misrepresentation and do not be fooled, look at every thing he and this lying hideous government say and understand it for exactly what it is – Disinformation.
Disinformation Defined – Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government in order to influence public opinion.
David Cameron’s Lies Exposed!
Wednesday 26th January 2012.
Cameron guilty of telling FOUR LIES in the space of 30 minutes in Prime Minister Question Time in the House of Commons.
Lie 1)…..”there are more people in work now than at the last election”
TRUTH – at that time employment figures from the independent Office for National Statistics show that the number in work has fallen by 26,000 since May 2010.
Lie 2)…..”just plain Wrong”
Lie 3)……When asked by Ed Miliband why so many health care professionals were against the Health & Social Care [Bill] Cameron replied by quoting a doctor in Ed Miliband’s constituency of Doncaster, using “Doncaster” GP Dr Greg Conner to defend his NHS reforms.
Cameron moves on to answer to a “planted question by Conservative MP Paul Maynard, Cameron said;
Lie 4)……“the real shame… that there are so many millions of children who live in households where nobody works and indeed that number doubled under the previous government”.
TRUTH – In fact, according to the Office for National Statistics, the number of children living in workless households fell by 372,000 between April-June 1997 and April-June 2010.
April 2010 – When in oppositionand shortly before the 2010 general election Cameron promised:
“no more top down reorganisation of the NHS”
TRUTH- This was a straight and blatant lie! The Tories’ attempt to dismantle the NHS has been a long time in the planning.
Back in 2005 Andrew Lansley made a speech to the NHS Confederation spelling out Conservative priorities for the NHS. These included privatisation, a pro-competition regulator and the delegation of NHS budgets to GPs. The building blocks of the Health and Social Care Bill were there from the very first days of Cameron’s leadership of the Tory party. He knew this, both he and Andrew Lansley had been planning the biggest reforms in the NHS in its 63 year old history.
What we now have is a health service which is a shambolic and incomprehensible mess, with the confusion heightened by the plethora of amendments which were thrown into the Health & Social Care Bill (now an Act) in a desperate attempt by the Tories to keep the Lib Dems on board. In fact Cameron and Lansley need not have worried, the Liberal Democrats voted with the government for the destruction and privatisation of the NHS. Now in late 2012 and before the Health & Social Care Act is fully implemented the NHS is showing serious fault lines of collapse.
September 2010 Cameron said:
Royal Colleges of General Practitioners, Physicians and Nursing “all supported” his health reforms. September, 2010.
“We will not endanger universal coverage — we will make sure it remains a National Health Service.”
Reforms were needed as there were 5,000-10,000 needless cancer deaths a year compared to other EU countries.
“We are not reorganising the bureaucracy of the NHS, we are abolishing bureaucracy”.
Before 2010 general election David Cameron promised 3,000 more midwives
TRUTH – Since the general election, nurses and midwives have been downbanded, working harder for less, and midwives in training have been reduced by 3% a year.
Conservative Manifesto 2010 – Cameron said;
“We will increase health spending every year.”
Cameron also said that waiting times for operations, out patient appointments have fallen, this is another lie where Cameron is deliberately misleading the public by deliberately misrepresenting the facts, it is the Tories using disinformation – again.
TRUTH – The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has condemned NHS trusts in England for changing the criteria for operations, leading to some patients being taken off operation waiting lists.
This is how Cameron is able to claim waiting times are falling when they are not.
“We will save the maternity and A&E units at Chase Farm hospital, London.”
March 23 2010 – David Cameron in Leadership live TV broadcast said that he;
“would not cut Pensioners Winter Fuel Allowance”.
“You know you are getting letters from the Labour Party that say the Conservatives would cut the winter fuel allowance, would cut the free bus travel …These statements by Labour are quite simply lies. I don’t use the word ‘lie’ very often, but I am using it today because they are lies.”
TRUTH – In 2011 pensioners aged 60 – 79 had their winter fuel payments cut by £50 and pensioners aged 80 plus had their winter fuel allowance cut by £100.
2nd May 2010 on the Andrew Marr Show David Cameron said that:
“they [the Tories] were the first party to say that public spending would have to be reduced. We were the first to say that it was an unsustainable path”
TRUTH – No they were not in fact late into 2008 Cameron and Osborne were promising to match the then Labour Government’s spending plans “pound for pound”. It wasn’t until Alistair Darling the then Labour chancellor started talking about “sustainable cuts” to halve the deficit over 4 years to protect the economy that Cameron and Osborne suddenly changed their minds.
May 2nd 2010; Cameron said that;
they were the first to talk about a public sector pay freze :
TRUTH – Labour’s then chancellor Alistair Darling had already spoken about the necessity for a future public sector pay freeze in July 2008.
May 2010 – Three days before the election,Cameron said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show
“any cabinet minister … who comes to me and says; ‘Here are my plans’ and they involve frontline reductions, they’ll be sent straight back to their department to go away and think again”.
TRUTH – £81bn in cuts have now rained down on frontline services and now we can expect another £16bn worth of cuts on top of those.
2010 just a month prior to the general election Cameron was asked if VAT would rise. Cameron said;
“Our plans involve cutting wasteful spending … our plans don’t involve an increase in VAT.“
TRUTH – In Osborne’s first ’emergency’ budget he raised VAT by 2.5% to a massive 20%, which has helped crush demand for goods and helped push the country into the worse and deepest double dip recession since the war.
March 2010 – Two months before the election, Cameron said on universal child benefit:
“I wouldn’t change child benefit, I wouldn’t means test it, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
TRUTH – Child benefit is to be means tested and those earning £44,000 per year will have their benefit stopped, while those couples claiming benefit can earn £80,000 between them and get to keep all their benefit.
2010 – In reply to Ed Balls accusation that the Tories would scrap Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Cameron and Michael Gove said that they:
“will not scrap Educational Maintenance Allowance”
TRUTH – In Osborne’s 2010 spending review it was announced that EMA would be scrapped.
2010 – Tax credits. Cameron promised
” to cut them only for families on £50,000″
TRUTH – the Tories 2011 budget book shows families with an income of just £30,000 will lose all credits.
2010 – Cameron promised a
TRUTH – The army alone is now to lose at least 20,000 soldiers.
2010 – Prior to may general election David Cameron, vehement in his criticism of the then Labour government demanded more Chinook helicopters for operations in Afghanistan. Disgracefully Cameron and then shadow Defence Secretary Liam Fox would accuse the Labour government of being out of touch and imply that their actions were causing deaths of troops in Afghanisatan. They claimed that the lack of helicopters in Afghanistan was “scandalous” and accused the Labour government of a lack of “commitment and focus” on the issue.
TRUTH – From November 2006, the number of helicopter hours in Afghanistan rose by 137%, providing greater flexibility for commanders planning operations. In December 2009, as part of the new Future Rotary Wing Strategy, the Labour government announced the procurement of 22 new-build Chinook helicopters with the first 10 being delivered in 2012 and 2013, in time to add greater flexibility for operations in Afghanistan. Merlin helicopters were redeployed in Afghanistan and the fleet expanded by 25%. Improvements were made to Sea King helicopters to allow them to operate in Afghanistan, up-rated engines for the entire Lynx Mk8 fleet to enhance operations and greater availability of Chinooks for training to allow for more effective deployment.
“defence budget “black hole”
2010 Tory Manifesto When in opposition Cameron said;
“under my government anyone who is caught with a knife will face imprisonment”
TRUTH – In 2009, when Cameron promised that a Tory government would jail anyone found with a knife, 27% of those caught were sent to prison. After 2 years of Cameron’s Tory led government that figure has now fallen to just 25%.
‘here are my plans and they involve front line reductions’ will be sent back to their department to go away and think again.”
“we are over the worse”
Think Left 
You cannot spend what you don’t earn! I am a labour supporter, but I haven’t heard a great deal from Labour, about how they would reduce the deficit, without cutting back on spending. Maybe I am being a bit naive on this, but would welcome any constructive comments. Any suggestions need to be written down in black and white, with plus and minus signs, so that the majority of the taxpayers/voters can understand the arguments.
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https://think-left.org/2012/10/28/osborne-and-camerons-big-deficit-myth/
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Putting it very simply – the deficit is the difference between the tax receipts and government spending. It grew in 2007/8 recession because of the fall in tax receipts (and increased spending on unemployment benefits). The Coalition maintain that it widened because of government spending being too big .. so they are cutting benefits/investment. This makes no sense because it was the tax receipts that fell (ergo the coalition are using the recession to push through the ideological cuts that they always wanted to do). The answer has to be for government to invest, thereby creating employment. People spend their wages which creates more jobs, and so on .. and that produces an increase in the tax receipts which closes the deficit.
As Keynes said ‘Look after employment and the economy will look after itself’… which also indicates how the neoliberal focus on the deficit is a complete fraud.
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Forgot to say that the fraud is to suggest that the government is like a household when its not! All that stuff about the credit card is deliberate lying. As an individual, your only options are to get more work or cut your spending to pay off your debts/deficit but governments are not restrained in the same way. Not only can currency-issuing governments create jobs by spending but their expenditure increases when unemployment increases because of paying benefits. The UK can never become broke (unlike the eurozone countries) and the only limit on its spending is when it outstrips the productive capacity of the workforce (which causes inflation). Austerity is a political/ideological decision, there are plenty of other alternatives.
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Thanks. A1 service – putting together what we all suspected or knew but don’t have it all in one place. The biggest lie we have to expose is Labour’s culpability for the crash. Yes, the banks were not well enough regulated and scrutinised but that’s as far as it goes. The global crash was down to the behaviour of the banks (some if not many of them Tory paymasters). Can you imagine the furore there would have been if anyone had ever suggested stricter regulation? Was Labour responsible for the financial problems in Italy, Spain, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, even the USA, Dubya himself having to nationalise insurance companies and mortgage lenders? Of course not! Cameron, Osborne and their MPs (and the Lib Dems) just follow what they have been taught to say and refer to ‘Labour’s mess’. Of course they know what the real cause was, they are not that daft (are they?) which puts an altogether evil slant on their actions.
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Reblogged this on kickingthecat.
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I still think you are all waffling. We need to see concrete proposals to raise revenue, by some other means than increasing taxation, as we are taxed to the hilt. Might I suggest that when labour gets in it reduces the obscene salaries and bonuses of the elite , and use the money to pay for more of the lower paid employees, in just about every profession that you can name. Secondly, I would like to see new laws making tax aversion a criminal offence, and increases in the number of HMRC tax inspectors to follow this through. Corporations who use offshore tax havens should be included in this. Further, I would have some sort of control over profits. Reduction in prices would be a natural corollary to exhorbitant profits, backed by law.They are just for starters. the rich Elite need to be made to pay back some of their ill gotten gains. There must be hundreds of ways that this can be achieved. Need to get our thinking caps on!
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How the queen has not stepped in and got rid of this corrupt individual beggars belief not to mention his associates Jeremy Hunt and George Osborn all of whom lied through their teeth at the Levison enquiry.
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