oh dear the left are eating themselves.

[Scoobos]

It's a lot easier (quicker!) to reduce taxes than make better public services.

Who is going to believe that public services would improve? There is not enough tax to do that even if they doubled it.

I'm not sure I buy that theory.

I think public services would be better right now, if we reverted the moves to farm everything out to the private sector and slash and burn the specialist facilities in the public sector.

Civil servants aren't without many faults, but they are committed to the service and not prioritised by profits.

The public services are awful now because of the fact that the private sector is in no position better than providing start ups when tenders go out.

Group 4 - Prisons and security , was effectively ran as a start up operation a decade ago when they won the contract.
Serco - Tagging - same deal
Serco and "NHS Test and Trace" - they are saying that PHE was failing, so they attempt a slash and burn, and outsource to someone who tries to start from scratch, with no in house expertise or corporate experience, at massive cost.

My 2 cents, but that's the way I see it.

I believe that the quality of public services has more to do with spending public funds effectively , than tax income.

BUPA are a pretty good example of where it can work, to balance this post. They came in, already having a service and the expertise.

[BlasterBates]

Not without 57 Scottish seats.

Even worse, a Labour/Liberal/SNP coalition on the condition of re-entry into the EU.

[DoctorStrangelove]

"Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia Dominic Cummings".

I'll drink to that.

[Lance]

Oh dear

Labour surges ahead in the polls

The government's popularity is sinking like a stone, It looks increasing like a landslide at the next election.

Not without 57 Scottish seats.

[ladymuck]

Oh dear

Labour surges ahead in the polls

The government's popularity is sinking like a stone, It looks increasing like a landslide at the next election.

Bit soon to be calling that - it's not due until 2024. Plenty of time for Labour to destroy themselves in the interim.

[BlasterBates]

Oh dear

Labour surges ahead in the polls

The government's popularity is sinking like a stone, It looks increasing like a landslide at the next election.

[AtW]

Historically they spend on public services when they are in power and don't balance the books.

This time it's different - can spend on public services AND cut taxes, as opposed to Tory Scum!

[SueEllen]

It's a lot easier (quicker!) to reduce taxes than make better public services.

Who is going to believe that public services would improve? There is not enough tax to do that even if they doubled it.

It's Labour.

Historically they spend on public services when they are in power and don't balance the books.

Though this Tory government is unique....

[AtW]

Taxes don't need to be lower public services just need to be better as people are finding universal credit is a shower of tulip.

It's a lot easier (quicker!) to reduce taxes than make better public services.

Who is going to believe that public services would improve? There is not enough tax to do that even if they doubled it.

[ladymuck]

Not a zombie thread?

[SueEllen]

Keir got a unique chance to purge fooking lunatics and be a sane centrist party.

Then go to General Election on the platform of sanity and lower taxes, landslide guaranteed.

Taxes don't need to be lower public services just need to be better as people are finding universal credit is a shower of tulip.

[AtW]

Keir got a unique chance to purge fooking lunatics and be a sane centrist party.

Then go to General Election on the platform of sanity and lower taxes, landslide guaranteed.

[vetran]

Cartoon of Keir Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn branded 'anti-Semitic' | Daily Mail Online

'Appalling' Guardian cartoon of Keir Starmer as Salome offering 'St John the Baptist' Jeremy Corbyn's head on a platter the day after Nice beheadings is branded bad taste and anti-Semitic in its own right

• The cartoon came day after terror attack in France and Corbyn being suspended
• Artist Steve Bell created the image, which was likened to one by Caravaggio
• It showed Sir Keir proudly holding aloft Corbyn's severed head on a gold plate