Basically so long as we, the electorate, vote in governments with massive majorities in parliament based on only around 20-25% of the total electorate actually going out and voting for them then we can expect to suffer from a sequence of elected dictatorships. That means that each government’s over riding priority will be to retain power. Hence we will be hit hard during the first year or two to build up a government war chest and then give-away budgets to make us think everything is hunky dory. There is really not much to choose between the Labour ad Conservative parties at the moment.
The Labour Government
- Thread starter SkyBlueFlux
- Start date
Chippy_boy
Well-Known Member
mexico1970
Well-Known Member
At least those public workers wont be the ones who will have to have "Broad shoulders" to take the weight of her policies.
Luckily there both had good pensions and savings so was costing roughly 5.5 k a month for both now it’s about 3k a month but with the savings it shouldn’t cost so much
I think in the future people will just spend it and give it to children a lot earlier
I get that but.... they've run Wales for the last 25 years and we have a total car crash of an economy, worst NHS Service, worst Ambulance Services bottom of the Education PISA league in the UK... but hey ho, don't moan when they've dragged the UK down to our level.
Correct, I did vote Reform because the choices were..... well Labour, Labour or wait a minute... Labour, and whay makes it worse the Labour candidate was Stephen Kinnock a privately educated London Boy with a Welsh father who pulled strings in high places to get him probably the safest seat in the UK... fucking stinks.
When you have such a decrepit first past the post voting system your vote does not count for birdshit... unless you vote for the winner.
Sorry, it was meant to sound like an exam question. And hands up, £9bn is more than I'd thought (partly as I'd assumed half of the cost would come back to the treasury in tax and NI so the net cost is less). And the big part of that is just settling what pay review bodies had recommended that the previous government hadn't budgeted for.
Last edited:
No NHS waiting lists.
Sure Start.
Councils with money for parks, libraries, road repairs, subsidies to rural bus routes, to the arts. But apart from the aqueducts and the sewers, what did municipal government ever do for us?
Last edited:
BerkshireBlue
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 19 Jan 2015
- Messages
- 4,022
You've done it again. It will either make 2% difference or fuck all difference. Which one is it?
jim tolmies perm
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 1 Aug 2007
- Messages
- 2,517
Sorry, no mate I was quoting other posts talking about average salary of 36.6 k