Blooming government….

Indeed Jen, I know many who do just that !

why is it foriegners know every scam in the book on benefits , im not gettin into a race war but a certain race in particular are scamming every fkin system going , and im not talkin a bit of fiddling ere n there like brits do , ie , workin on side , invalidity , and gettin a car n sky in .
these fkers are virtual millionaires

@quiet_man wrote:

@melody wrote:

So in the few short weeks that the two toff-boys have been in charge of the country they have or plan to:

scrapped new school builds

scrapped the building of a hospital and begun to ‘overhaul’ the nhs to cut costs

vowed to make schools into academies… aka privatise them meaning that OFSTED standards will no longer apply

Stopped funding for the rights project which helps ppl appeal against wromg benefits decisions

raised VAT

scrapped several benefits

frozen child benefits……

need I go on???

Oh and let us not forget the millions in foreign aid pledged to help other countries which would basically wipe out our own domestic debts…

SOOOOO still glad you voted?

So how would you fix the £4 trillion debt and spending 30% more than you get via taxation?
It’s always the same after a Labour government, higher unemployment and a wrecked economy, you’d think people would have sussed this by now.

Ah! QM – always the drama Queen!

Let’s get some perspective shall we?

We have a deficit. Far from being a Greek-style 12pc of gross domestic product or £163bn (as prophesied by the Budget), Britain’s deficit last year (2009/10) was actually £145bn – just over 10pc of GDP.

If HMRC eradicated the,‘tax gap’ that is the amount of tax uncollected or evaded which for 2010 is estimated at around £120billion that would make a deficit of approx £25b and would make all these cost cutting largely unnecessary.

We could then invest in schools, public services, the NHS etc etc.

But no, a further 5000 jobs are being cut in HMRC by 2011 when the govt should really be recruiting to help collect more of this revenue in.

So instead of collecting money due to the Treasury, this govt would rather make the situation much, much worse by throwing thousands more on the dole.

It’s always the same with a Tory govt. You may remember QM that under the last Labour Govt, unemployment was at it’s lowest for many, many years? The unemployment rate was last in double figures – at 10 per cent – under Blair, in February 1999. In February 1993, under Major, it was double that: 20.3 per cent.

Overall, under Blair, unemployment reduced dramatically.

http://www.robparker.org.uk/articles/uk-economy-labour/unemployment/

Yes it started to rise and increased quite dramatically under Brown but they may have been due to something called a world wide recession.

Under this current govt, unemployment will continue to rise as the cuts start hitting – public sector workers are losing their jobs and will continue to do so. This will be compounded when the NHS is “reformed.” The cancellation of the schools building project will mean a huge downturn in building trades again causing unemployment to rise.

Failing to spend money will result in the stagnation and demise of many associated business areas which will lead to more unemployment.

Yes we need to reduce the deficit but you need to speculate to accumulate – that is you need to invest in order to sustain and generate economic growth and stimulate consumer spending.

Making people unemployed to save money is false economy. Collecing the £120b tax gap makes more sense.

After the second world war, the UK was in significantly more debt (understandably) but the Labour govt didn’t cut, cut cut. It invested to encourage economic growth and employment.

In my life, unemployment has always been higher under a Tory govt and public services have always been dire due to under funding.

@slayer wrote:

@melody wrote:

@quiet_man wrote:

@melody wrote:

So in the few short weeks that the two toff-boys have been in charge of the country they have or plan to:

scrapped new school builds

scrapped the building of a hospital and begun to ‘overhaul’ the nhs to cut costs

vowed to make schools into academies… aka privatise them meaning that OFSTED standards will no longer apply

Stopped funding for the rights project which helps ppl appeal against wromg benefits decisions

raised VAT

scrapped several benefits

frozen child benefits……

need I go on???

Oh and let us not forget the millions in foreign aid pledged to help other countries which would basically wipe out our own domestic debts…

SOOOOO still glad you voted?

So how would you fix the £4 trillion debt and spending 30% more than you get via taxation?
It’s always the same after a Labour government, higher unemployment and a wrecked economy, you’d think people would have sussed this by now.

Ermmm i would start by hitting the rich harder and leaving the those already on the poverty line alone….
perhaps the overseas aid might wipe out a bit of it… charity starts at home…
I was a child of the 80s, I grew up with Maggie at the helm, I remember my Dad fighting for his rights on a picket line and Maggie cancelling my milk at school … I have seen mass industry in the north east closed… then labour came along, the NHS went from strength to strength, waiting times slashed, education for all, women back into work through child care subsidies,- women in work… vital for the economy of a country like ours with an aged and dependant population greater than the working ages… then Clegg and his other eton pal come along and pull the plug, which will leave many woman with no option but to stay at home to raise their kids because tax credits are going to be abolished, the very money that allows working women to get help with childcare costs…

Perhaps clegg and doofus might start by cutting their own salaries to that of someone with an equally important role in society say perhaps a paramedic? That would save a few grand!

I want my children to be educated to a standard with a national curriculum and where English is the primary language…. academies are just an excuse for the local enterprises to come in and set their own curriculum if they are forking out for it… does that mean in highly ethnic areas the children will be taught under Islamic laws for example? Another step to stamping out the English culture…. don’t get me started….

I apologise for any typing errors… the screen is jumping and I cannot see what I have typed without scrolling back

I wasnt going to split hairs but feck it

Maggie Thatcher ended free school milk in 1971- how, as a child of the 80’s, can yu remember this?

I was at infant school from 1979 onwards and we had free school milk.

I think it was ended in 1971 for over 7s so a child of the 80s would still have received it.