The Labour Government

So every time she trots out the line "The last 14 years...", she really means 13 years of Conservative Governments and 1 year of Labour. Just wish she'd be honest with people - the economy is in a total mess and taxes are going up.
 
The difference is any business owner in the private sector who has a highly inefficient and wasteful operation with a lazy, intransigent and entitled workforce providing an abysmal level of service for thier paying customers is only wasting their own money... money which I suspect will soon run out.

It doesn't quite work like that in terms of the public sector does it, the public sector can be as inefficient, inept, intransigent, workshy and entitled as it likes... yet the money still rolls right in.
And the money "rolls" right back out because the public sector is not there to make a bloody profit.

I was unfortunate a few years ago to lose a kidney and it required a few years of follow up treatment. I was initially treated on BUPA as I had it as a work benefit. In the private sector, whenever I went for the 6 monthly cystoscopy, I would turn up to my private room, eat sandwiches and usually spend a couple of hours waiting for the procedure. I would then be escorted to the theatre where there were usually 4 nurses + the doctor doing the actual procedure which took about 5 minutes.

When I retired, BUPA upped the cover to £700 per month so obviously it had to go. In the NHS, the very same procedure involved turning up, being seen on time, walking into the theatre where there was 1 nurse and the person carrying out the procedure and I was on my way. The whole process less than 20 minutes and significantly more productive than the private hospital who then passed on their extortionate costs to the insurer and ultimately the patient.
 
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"Cheap labour facilitates labour intensive roles which absolutely reduces UK productivity". Not if it enables a firm to start up and produce something that wasn't being produced before.

Test question: are Just Eat and Deliveroo good for UK productivity?
No. They are contributing to an explosion in obesity and ill health which is badly impacting the UK workforce and finances :-)
 
I don't mind paying higher taxes as long as I can I see where it's going too.

At the moment it will go direct to Mitie/Serco/Vinci or another hedge fund awarded billion pounds contracts to run public services in various sectors and providing the workers in said areas a couple of million budget to do it whilst constantly demanding cuts to inflate their dividends.
 
I don't mind paying higher taxes as long as I can I see where it's going too.

At the moment it will go direct to Mitie/Serco/Vinci or another hedge fund awarded billion pounds contracts to run public services in various sectors and providing the workers in said areas a couple of million budget to do it whilst constantly demanding cuts to inflate their dividends.

It astonishes me that in a democratic country, the electorate don't have the means to go on a website to see exactly where their money is going and who it is going to in an easy to read system and graph.

It would eliminate a lot of the bickering between the parties on any of the money issues and would allow the public to decipher fully and question any parties ambitions of changing the spending.

Any money investigated or caught off the books should equal a permanent expulsion from that party ever getting back into power with it's leaders put in a courtroom for trials of corruption and treason.
 
It astonishes me that in a democratic country, the electorate don't have the means to go on a website to see exactly where their money is going and who it is going to in an easy to read system and graph.

It would eliminate a lot of the bickering between the parties on any of the money issues and would allow the public to decipher fully and question any parties ambitions of changing the spending.

Any money investigated or caught off the books should equal a permanent expulsion from that party ever getting back into power with it's leaders put in a courtroom for trials of corruption and treason.
I'd support this.

However as MPs on all sides take donations from these hedgefunds I'd be surprised if they'd ever vote for it to happen.
 
It astonishes me that in a democratic country, the electorate don't have the means to go on a website to see exactly where their money is going and who it is going to in an easy to read system and graph.

It would eliminate a lot of the bickering between the parties on any of the money issues and would allow the public to decipher fully and question any parties ambitions of changing the spending.

Any money investigated or caught off the books should equal a permanent expulsion from that party ever getting back into power with it's leaders put in a courtroom for trials of corruption and treason.
Well there kind of is, but it doesn't break it down to a low level its at best chunks of 0.5Bn. Trying to dig any further down is difficult. Some might say beyond that point its in the noise on a national scale but if we use the silly analogy, that politicians love of a countries spending and income being like that of a household, taking care of the pennies (tens of millions), might just help.
 

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