Osbornes medicine is working!

[TeaFan]

The only way to solve the problem is to cut taxes, cut the public sector, reduce the population and start making things that we can sell abroad.

 

Well they are struggling to cut taxes because they can't afford to, have already made big cuts the public sector, aren't able to cut the population and have done nothing to boost manufacturing. So it's all going brilliantly well.

[MrSmith]

Well they are struggling to cut taxes because they can't afford to, have already made big cuts the public sector, aren't able to cut the population and have done nothing to boost manufacturing. So it's all going brilliantly well.

 

That’s why the problem won't be solved because no political party will do what is necessary.

[TeaFan]

That’s why the problem won't be solved because no political party will do what is necessary.

 

Because they can't. Because if they slashed public spending more they'd find they weren't able to educate a workforce sufficiently (already struggling), wouldn't be able to keep a healthy workforce and wouldn't be able to transport them to work and back. Plus they'd have to slash the state pension, the biggest component of welfare spending - then they'd have a revolution on their hands. Capitalism is on its arse.

[MrSmith]

Because they can't. Because if they slashed public spending more they'd find they weren't able to educate a workforce sufficiently (already struggling), wouldn't be able to keep a healthy workforce and wouldn't be able to transport them to work and back. Plus they'd have to slash the state pension, the biggest component of welfare spending - then they'd have a revolution on their hands. Capitalism is on its arse.

 

We could cut 3 million people from the public sector without affecting front line services.

 

For every teacher, nurse, doctor, police man, there are four more people shuffling paper and pushing pens and getting paid a lot to do it.

 

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Things are not radical enough, we need to do the following

 

• Tax starting rate of £13,000 per annum
  
• Close the borders to outsiders
  
• Bring the troops back from around the world
  
• Pull out of the EU, or offer an in out referendum
  
• Slash benefits to 8k max
  
• first 2 kids paid for by the state, any after that you pay for yourself
  
• Massive funding towards manifacturing
  

 

That would be a start.

[TeaFan]

We could cut 3 million people from the public sector without affecting front line services.

 

For every teacher, nurse, doctor, police man, there are four more people shuffling paper and pushing pens and getting paid a lot to do it.

 

Ah, I see, you're just a cartoon.

[MrSmith]

Ah, I see, you're just a cartoon.

 

This is why we are going down the pan, you seriously believe that we need a public sector that represents 50% of GDP and you don't see that it is unsustainable. The private sector can't afford to fund the public sector so we have to borrow massive amounts of money to pay for it and it is this debt that is causing the problems we now have.

[TeaFan]

This is why we are going down the pan, you seriously believe that we need a public sector that represents 50% of GDP and you don't see that it is unsustainable. The private sector can't afford to fund the public sector so we have to borrow massive amounts of money to pay for it and it is this debt that is causing the problems we now have.

 

I don't seriously believe that. But neither do I seriously believe that 3 million people in the public sector merely shuffle paper and push pens. Only a div would really think that.

[MrSmith]

I don't seriously believe that. But neither do I seriously believe that 3 million people in the public sector merely shuffle paper and push pens. Only a div would really think that.

 

 

 

State spending now accounts for more than half of Britain's economy, for the first time since OECD records began. Money from Whitehall and town halls made up 52 per cent of Gross Domestic Product last year, and the proportion is certain to rise.

[I1L2T3]

State spending now accounts for more than half of Britain's economy, for the first time since OECD records began. Money from Whitehall and town halls made up 52 per cent of Gross Domestic Product last year, and the proportion is certain to rise.

 

That's from 2010. And the figures are at odds with data published in the Guardian that I suspect you've referred to yourself in the past

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/25/uk-public-spending-1963

 

It is too high though. IMO it should never stray above 40%.

[ricgem2002]

Things are not radical enough, we need to do the following

 

• Tax starting rate of £13,000 per annum
  
• Close the borders to outsiders
  
• Bring the troops back from around the world
  
• Pull out of the EU, or offer an in out referendum
  
• Slash benefits to 8k max
  
• first 2 kids paid for by the state, any after that you pay for yourself
  
• Massive funding towards manifacturing
  

we also need to tax companies that dont pay any. stop trading with countries that are not on an even footing with its uk counterparts(green taxes) get the workshy back into employment. stop mps fiddling expences. remove tax avoidance schemes from the well off. take winter fuel allowance from the people not in this country. feel free to add more things what the gov should be doing