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While the financial crisis did happen in 2008… cuts where only made to public services used by those in need and while funding a negative immigration media advertising campaign fuelling a “them & us” mindset.
And my boat dont have cov 19 so dont need a swab
Babe you know I only hide in bushes
Austerity years from 2007 onwards hmmmm….
I think austerity is the wrong term for this period in our recent history. Yes there was a financial crisis globally and government did bail out banks.
But in this same period the government spend money on:
2 new aircraft carriers and f35 jets which are just coming into service now.
A new airport in Saint Helena which is a military landing strip in all but name.
Contributions to the EU and UN increased.
Wars of choice in Afghanistan and Iraq along with funding various UN peace keeping programs.
No one in the “white hall bubble” lost there jobs and numbers increase.
Scottish & EU referendum’s.
The “austerity years” should be seen as the rise of nationalism within he UK at the expense of public services. Government taxation and borrowing still increased while local councils saw there budgets slashed. State pensions & benefits were frozen and capped. Police & prison staffing funding was cut back to the bone.
And I pay the same amount of tax as Amazon
Hi Ge baby
Being a real sailor I drink home made wine made from my own urine
After being invited by the Prison Reform Trust to tour a few local prisons in the past… there not fit to keep dogs, let alone people. Staffing numbers are way to low and self harm is common place. At the moment the only thing prisons producing is more damaged & dangerous people in socially The whole system needs updating and more investment or only the numbers of victims will increase while billions are wasted on maintaining crumbling run down buildings.
Right now there seems to be cycle lanes popping up all over the place. The government is spending millions on them. For me there a waste of money that could and should be better spent.
So where would I spend the money?
Lets start off with more ambulances and staff ? While most car and commercial vehicle operators are changing over to more “green” vehicles our current ambulance fleet polluting by still using desal. Is it that hard to produce an electric or hybrid ambulance?
Saturday on the horizon there was one of the tall ship used to train young people. It was a lovey sight to see in the channel with 3 masts. I think it was run by the tall ships youth trust. Programs like this take young people out of a toxic environment and place them in a positive one for a while. If we want to end the knife crime epidemic plaguing our cites we need to prove to young people there only value and skill. Drugs and crime isn’t the only way to get a head in life. Life maybe be hard for them now, but they don’t have to be once there older.
So Ge what’s your ideas hun?
Most brains on here are pickled in aldi vodka by 10am
But I’m going to try work pass it
After watching Last Week Tonight with John Oliver who talked on the issue of national debt. The UK has exceeded £2 trillion for the first time; at the end of July 2020, debt was £2,004.0 billion, £227.6 billion more than at the same point last year.
Mr Oliver who supports Manchester city football club
Argued increasing government borrowing was a good idea if that money was used to create more jobs and opportunity. The point Mr Oliver made was: all business started off borrowing from banks. So lets say you want to built a factory, you borrow 5 million and if the business goes bust you still have a factory.
Well a bad business idea will never work no mater how much money you throw at it.
And we have seen this time and time again with government funded programs. You only need to look at the cost over runs on HS2. A 2019 freedom of information request revealed that property costs are forecast to reach £5bn, compared to the original £1.1bn estimate alone.
The HS2 project wont cut pollution or removed the needs for road improvements over the next 20 years. All of our goods travel by road, not rail. Its really hard to see any benefit from this £106bn rail project.
This is a typical infrastructure project Mr Oliver was keen on and wants to see more of.
My own feeling is the government could have created the same number of jobs by updating our run down prisons. Keeping people in poor living conditions for years is a form of slow torcher.
Or maybe increasing social housing stock and encouraging older people to move out of unsuitable housing into those that meet there current needs. Freeing up thousands of 3 or4 bedroom homes across the UK and returning them to family use once again.
If governments going to borrow billions in our name, lets get value and spend that money on projects that will clearly benefit our society.
Not getting a few MP’s home a bit earlier on the weekend
I’m not that bloody old
Cheeky mare
I still think its her…but I’m not going to keep on about it
Now my little flabby hairy tattoo azz friend…..where you taking me on Apr 12
It better be some where nice this time !!!!!
First I’d like to thank FourmHost LD for taking me to the chippy on Thursday nite for her birthday sausage…… and chips
There a nasty feeling I was only invited so she’d look younger, thinner and less hairy
But onto budha post…….
Lets be honest, the regulars on this site don’t like new people. They always play a guessing game with new members accusing them of being all kinds of people mainly cos they cant think of much else to say. People are lazy like that
I think Linda said ” it took me 4 years to be accepted on this site”. That seems to be true for most people who use the site during the day. It takes time for people to see the real you.
So don’t push or force it, give it time and just carry on being the real you
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Yes the good ship SS Nigel did dock at my port. All hands too
Mingers in masks is real I tell yea !!!!
Well I think your both wrong !!
Cov 19 is a world wide plan to make ugly people wear masks and we all know it
This plan was finances by oil producing country’s like Norway to keep Greta Thunberg at home. And we all know the soap company’s were in on it too from the start. Johnson & Johnson who make baby soap even have there own brand of vaccination with the marking slogan “one shot, no more fears”
Coincidence
I dont think so
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