Some promises made in Tory manifesto

How do you know it will not be retrospective, Ana?
Do you know something Iain Duncan Smith knows but will not tell the rest of us? Are you his wife?

dj - unless you vote for a one issue party[which you may have done], it is highly unlikely that anyone likes all the policies of a party they vote for.

Damn! I was hoping to keep that quiet...

Sorry, Ana. I won't tell anyone else.

Re one of your earlier posts, it's £12 billion, not million.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/08/tories-12bn-welfare-cuts-mythical-scroungers-conservatives

By the way, you'll be pleased to know that Tony Blair has got in on the act again,and has said that Labour needs to adopt his ideas again if they wish to get in to government.

There are no single issue parties, soon. It's impossible. There are parties which stress a particular issue more than others, but no single issue parties, although I am sure you will find one if you look hard enough.

Yes, indeed, I am very pleased to hear that TB's put his oar in - that should keep Labour out for the foreseeable future!

There are benefits I knew nothing about. I didn't know that on low income you can get a payment of £500 to buy baby items which you do not have to pay back, only for the first child. But how many people will claim this?

Your income has to be very very low. DD2 struggles but didn't qualify.

So you don't think the Tories are string enough to do that all by themselves Ana

Suggestion today that GO will back peddle on the 12bn cuts now that he doesn't have a coalition partner to blame. Must wait for the budget to find out what he intends to do.

Is there going to be an emergency budget?

Apparently. He has to say where the money is coming from for all the manifesto promises, and how he intends to cut the deficit within the next 2 years when we will "Oh how glorious enter the sunny uplands" of surplus whereupon he will give tax breaks to all - don't hold your breath if you are poor though this doesn't mean that he will let you off the hook. You are undeserving and don't work hard enough.