Reply to: How will the election result affect the contract market?

[Pip in a Poke]

What does public sector means to you?? Schools? Hospitals? Roads? Rubbish collection? Security?? What exactly?? And how do you suggest these areas get financed if not out of tax?
btw that is not an aggressive question, just interested in your opinion

Yes, those and more like the many Quangos created under labour.

I'm all for financing essential services from the public purse but I've never seen any improvements in public services with Labour's tax grabs over the years. Quite the opposite, in fact. Just look at their obsession with targets and the inefficiencies resulting from all the bureaucracy surrounding that.

[sal]

And it was a load of rubbish yesterday, as well.

The only Nordic country with more natural resources is Norway, the others do fine with a socialist outlook and culture of working together for the common good - something that is (was?) lacking in the UK.

The Brexit vote should have woken the establishment up to the fact that there are a lot of people not happy at all that, despite promises to the contrary, nothing is trickling down and the gap between rich and poor keeps widening.

^This, the vast riches of the UK are concentrated in a very small majority, most of whom are storing it off-shore. The gap between rich and poor is getting wider. The problem is that Tories are catering to the top 1% that are hardly paying any taxes, Labor is catering to the bottom 10-15% that are not paying much taxes. And the average Joe in the middle is getting f***ed left right and center.

You know something is wrong with a country when a family with 2 working members pays taxes, but at the same time depends on benefits to survive.

[SandyD]

Oh my friend who is a Oil/Gas engineer has been unemployed for the last couple of years since the crisis happened, the government gives then good amount of money, my friend is actively looking for a role, not awaiting handouts, but its good to have the safety net the government gives them to support the family

[SandyD]

Norway has recently replaced Denmark as the happiest nation on earth.

Something must be working.

Been in Norway a few weeks ago, they have a lot of unemployment now due to the Oil/Gas crisis, but still so many Teslas on the road

[SandyD]

If, by socialist outlook, you mean hosing the public sector with tax payers' money, it simply doesn't work. That's Labour's answer to everything - you just end up creating more bloated layers of bureaucracy and fat cats with their snouts in the trough.

What does public sector means to you?? Schools? Hospitals? Roads? Rubbish collection? Security?? What exactly?? And how do you suggest these areas get financed if not out of tax?
btw that is not an aggressive question, just interested in your opinion

[VectraMan]

If, by socialist outlook, you mean hosing the public sector with tax payers' money, it simply doesn't work. That's Labour's answer to everything - you just end up creating more bloated layers of bureaucracy and fat cats with their snouts in the trough.

Norway has recently replaced Denmark as the happiest nation on earth.

Something must be working.

[Pip in a Poke]

And it was a load of rubbish yesterday, as well.

The only Nordic country with more natural resources is Norway, the others do fine with a socialist outlook and culture of working together for the common good - something that is (was?) lacking in the UK.

The Brexit vote should have woken the establishment up to the fact that there are a lot of people not happy at all that, despite promises to the contrary, nothing is trickling down and the gap between rich and poor keeps widening.

If, by socialist outlook, you mean hosing the public sector with tax payers' money, it simply doesn't work. That's Labour's answer to everything - you just end up creating more bloated layers of bureaucracy and fat cats with their snouts in the trough.

[SandyD]

And it was a load of rubbish yesterday, as well.

The only Nordic country with more natural resources is Norway, the others do fine with a socialist outlook and culture of working together for the common good - something that is (was?) lacking in the UK.

The Brexit vote should have woken the establishment up to the fact that there are a lot of people not happy at all that, despite promises to the contrary, nothing is trickling down and the gap between rich and poor keeps widening.

Agree
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[meridian]

As I posted yesterday:

And it was a load of rubbish yesterday, as well.

The only Nordic country with more natural resources is Norway, the others do fine with a socialist outlook and culture of working together for the common good - something that is (was?) lacking in the UK.

The Brexit vote should have woken the establishment up to the fact that there are a lot of people not happy at all that, despite promises to the contrary, nothing is trickling down and the gap between rich and poor keeps widening.

[scooterscot]

Well I'd forget gigs in the EU if I were you lot.

[sasguru]

Is there a "lifespan of a mayfly" joke to be made here?

No. Next.

[Pip in a Poke]

Is there a "lifespan of a mayfly" joke to be made here?

[sasguru]

I bet in your area they still elected a Tory MP?

Yup, it's been Tory since God was a boy. His majority got slashed from 20000 to 10000 though.
The fact that thousands voted Labour in this constituency is mind boggling and shows that poor old Pip lives in his own bubble.

[BrilloPad]

Inneresting.
So you missed the fact that many well-off Tory-voting older people who are against Brexit had a policy of "anything but the Tories".?
Inneresting.

I bet in your area they still elected a Tory MP?

[Pip in a Poke]

Inneresting.
So you missed the fact that many well-off Tory-voting older people who are against Brexit had a policy of "anything but the Tories".?
Inneresting.

Nonsense. They're never going to vote for the hard left in the English Shires.

Anyhow, looking at the results the whole of the SW is blue apart from Bath, Bristol and Plymouth so I'm not to blame for any of this chaos.