Halibut Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Can I just say that I think anyone calling for more prisons to be built must be morally, intellectually and spiritually challenged? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Prisons not necessarily Conservative party policy but certainly right wing, although when Blunkett was Home Secretary he made sure there were plenty of places and plenty of privatization proving the right wing policy was right. It doesn't prove it was right at all. In most cases most public services have gone pants up post privatisation. In fact I'm struggling to think of any public ervice which has performed better since privatisation. That's why struggling service industries are renationalised when they begin to struggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 It doesn't prove it was right at all. In most cases most public services have gone pants up post privatisation. In fact I'm struggling to think of any public ervice which has performed better since privatisation. That's why struggling service industries are renationalised when they begin to struggle. What's been renationalised recently? Or in 13 years of a labour government? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 What's been renationalised recently? Or in 13 years of a labour government? Depends what you mean recently, but weren't a few bank and the ECML renationalised/nationalised recently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 Depends what you mean recently, but weren't a few bank and the ECML renationalised/nationalised recently? Well you said renationalised so I assumed they had been nationalised at some point. Can we call these banks nationalised in the truest sense though? Tax payers underwrite the debt but I don't see us getting a share of RBS profits or a government say on how it's run. Any public sector workers working for them or getting a pension? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick1 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Re my bold. They have had four years to effect any changes they wanted to make. How long does it take Alan? Why don't you answer my earlier questions? This government, particularly Cameron, has for the last for and a bit years talked a lot and done very little. If they had tried and even succeeded in correcting Labour's wrongs they may have got some support next ay but I can't see it happening. Lib Dems are going to disappear next May! :D:D ---------- Post added 04-08-2014 at 18:23 ---------- It doesn't prove it was right at all. In most cases most public services have gone pants up post privatisation. In fact I'm struggling to think of any public ervice which has performed better since privatisation. That's why struggling service industries are renationalised when they begin to struggle. Mecky - public services don't perform full stop! :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
999tigger Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 What a depressing thread. Having read the original article it appears that both sides are telling porkies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geared Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 This government, particularly Cameron, has for the last for and a bit years talked a lot and done very little. If they had tried and even succeeded in correcting Labour's wrongs We are no longer in a recession, nor was our recession anywhere near as bad as other countries in the EU. France are doing a fair bit worse than us IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 We are no longer in a recession, nor was our recession anywhere near as bad as other countries in the EU. France are doing a fair bit worse than us IIRC. Most of our 'growth' has been in imputed rent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinfoilhat Posted August 5, 2014 Author Share Posted August 5, 2014 Most of our 'growth' has been in imputed rent. I disagree. My barometer, albeit a personal one that isn't scientific, is traffic. There's lots of traffic and freight on our nations roads and that has dropped backed when times were hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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