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I'm not sure there was any room for any more fuel to that particular fire, the general election result in Scotland pretty much guaranteed that this topic would not go on the back burner.  I am not that close to British politics anymore, don't really know Cameron and no nothing about the new Labour leader either, or any other leaders for that matter, but I do remember that part of the pledge Cameron made during the independence campaign was to give Scotland more devolved powers and give the English MPs the right to be the only ones voting on English only issues.  So he has followed through on part of that promise, now he has to follow through on the rest, and if he does that then a politician who delivers on the promises he made deserves some credit for doing so.

A lot of what Cameron has promised he's made massive U-turns on. He said before the election he wouldn't touch Tax credits and now he's scrapping them which will put 200,000 children in poverty. He's caused war on the trade unions where there has to be a 50% turnout and 40% voting in favour of a strike to make it legal which is ironic seeing as 24% of the British public voted for the Tories and they got a majority. He's brought in the right to buy scheme again but it means 113,000 council houses could be sold off housing associations. He's building starter homes which will be £450,000 in London but rest of UK £250,000 but you have to be earning over £50,000 a year outside London and £70,000 in London to afford one. He's scrapped the NMW and brought in the so called 'Living wage' which will be £9.15 or something in London and £7.85 for the rest of the UK but under 25s won't get the 'Living wage' as they've been deemed they don't work as productive as someone over 25. He's scrapped housing benefit for 18-21 year olds and scrapped the maintenance grant for poorer university students and replaced it with a loan.

He promised devolved powers to Scotland don't know if he's actually given them devolved powers because that's gone all quiet but Cameron is giving devolved powers to Manchester and Sheffield and there will be mayors for them cities and parts of surrounding towns. He promised a Northern powerhouse and then said after the election 'Oh sorry we don't have enough money now' so he's gone cap in hand to the Chinese to ask if they would invest in it and would they invest in a Nuclear Power Plant which will be built by the French and owned by the Chinese. Osborne and Cameron have given £3 million to fund grassroots football in China while funding for grassroots football in the UK was cut. They squandered £8.5 million on a TV advert about workplace pensions which aired yesterday.