Do the maths on it dipshit, the figures probably won’t fit on your calculator. And people wonder why there is no money to
Firstly I’m not going to say that they couldn’t have done more to protect the country from the effects of a world banking crisis caused by the toxic mortgage industry in America because they certainly could have. For instance under Blair they relaxed controls on bankers which made the UK banking more exposed than it would have been otherwise.
Was it or was it simply a belief that it couldn't go on, IE a loss of confidence in the market fuelled by commentators jitters?
But we'll have welcomed how many in the official numbers?
Interesting for you not to consider part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland not to be ‘home’ spending. Sure needs it in my view.Oh good more strikes, where do I sign up? Only a soundbite keep the unions onside as they won't strike under Labour now (yes I'm aware of 78!)
Fwiw I selfishly want things that nobody is really pledging.
More help with tax breaks for neglected middle earners, subsidised rail, scrapping HS rail, investment in British industry, cutting taxes, affordable housing, skilled immigration, tighter borders, scrap tv licence, more police, less admin waste on public services with budget moving to front line staff, less spent on defence overseas, give up the Falklands, Gibraltar and Northern Ireland, spend the money at home.
Will await the manifestos but assume I'm not really aligned to anything! No issues with renationalisation either, quite happy with a single rail network, electric, gas and water too, just not top of my agenda, but not precious on them remaining private.
Politically homeless but certainly not ready to nail my colours to Starmer although he'll get in with a landslide regardless so fairly pointless. Even he can't fail, Labour will win in spite of him and not because of him.
Don't panic, fully aware most won't agree, no mention of education or much substance on law or environmental policy, just my ramblings for Tony to pull apart
I chose my words carefully and said GB not UK as I'd already said about giving up on Falklands, Gibraltar and Northern Ireland, so couldnt advocate spending money there. We have no rights to any of them and they cost money. I get that some residents see themselves British so as we need immigration they can be the first in should they choose to.
When was the last time anyone went on strike for Fred who was wronged at B&Q or Tracey from McDonald's? In fact on a real scale for the mismanaged, sacked and in some cases jailed sub-postmasters? Let's not pretend the unions these days that are powerful and run the Labour leadership are for nothing more than to get more pay for public workers by holding a Tory government to ransom. Won't hear a peep out of them for the next 5 years.
We do by the consent of all 3 populations so until that changes then we should fulfil our obligations. Especially NI, it’s been very badly neglected.
Kick granny out and tax her ?
For what it’s worth I also agree that richer people can/should be taxed more but even so, I still think everyone will have to pay more for better public services in future unless someone can quickly solve the growth/productivity puzzle*
I think for parties to pretend that’s not the case is disingenuous
*AI might help but not sure how long it will take
Bring the numbers dipshit, we’ll have a Maths party
Another piece of maths…most of our immigration prior to Brexit came from outside the EU. So is it any great surprise that the government keeps failing to hit its own ambition to stop letting foreigners live here?
Is Labour going to restore local authority budgets to where they should be in real terms using 2010 as a benchmark?
Now that is a good question that needs answering and thus far there nothing more from Labour than a few sound bites about freeing up cash to councils to build new social housing. Undoubtedly needed but when you look at the statistics on average the cuts equate to about 25% in real terms since 2010 so the issue is far bigger than just building houses, it’s everything that a council does from maintaining roads to social care.
Why not we had sure start that was cropped by the next lot,promised by this lot under a new name recently!!
The same crap was said 20 years ago and it’s still recognisable as the UK.
of course it is.So the government has said if current trends continue the cost to the Uk taxpayer will be 11 billion a year at 2026, and people wonder why there is no money.
What part of the UK do you think has majorly changed that makes it look less like the UK? 20 years ago we were told we’d have Sharia Law by now and look how that turned out.
5 billion a year just to house illegal
Immigrants, the scary part is our leaders have no idea how to stop it or get rid of them. They are all to weak to even talk about is as they know the left wing morons will be calling them racist blah blah blah and they will be out of a job so they just plod on to keep them self employable.
5 billion a year just to house illegal
Immigrants, the scary part is our leaders have no idea how to stop it or get rid of them. They are all to weak to even talk about is as they know the left wing morons will be calling them racist blah blah blah and they will be out of a job so they just plod on to keep them self employable.
What should I use?
