Reply to: Economics and the Tories

[Bwana]

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[HairyArsedBloke]

The motorway network
Royal Mail
BBC Worldwide
Radio 1 (maybe)
Radio 2 (maybe)
Channel 4
Bits of the NHS
From about Year two or three of a Conservative government I should think.

BBC 1 and BBC 3

[worzelGummidge]

British Waterways
The Dartford tunnel
M25

[centurian]

[*]Mileage tax on cars

I.e. fuel duty...

[worzelGummidge]

of what?

The motorway network
Royal Mail
BBC Worldwide
Radio 1 (maybe)
Radio 2 (maybe)
Channel 4
Bits of the NHS
From about Year two or three of a Conservative government I should think.

[Jeebo72]

of what?

Fingers crossed, the NHS ...

[Tarquin Farquhar]

The Tory response would be/will be large scale privitisation

of what?

[TimberWolf]

It doesn't help the Tories case much when they are quickly exposed to have their fingers in the pie as much as Labour. Anyone see Question Time last night when Will whatshisname exposed Pauline-double-barreled-whatshername over the Quinetiq privatisation? All are a bunch of crooks, as I think he also said.

[TimberWolf]

Dust off our stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuke the UK from orbit. This would be a painless and merciful end to a future of suffering and no less than a dog would deserve. Wildlife would soon return and the country could be a paradise again. If we haven't got enough missiles to do the job properly, just fire a few at some larger countries. Trouble is, 'our' missiles are probably duds.

[Doggy Styles]

1/10. Your manifesto is full of rubbish ideas that will stifle growth and encourage those who can afford to, to move elsewhere. I'm out.

Where to? This is a worldwide problem. We have all got to share the burden and build for a better future.

I've thought of some more:

1. Every child must go to University. This will remove all costs of unemployed people between the ages of 16 and 21, a substantial saving. It will also ensure that the next generation is better educated than the current one, and thus better able to contribute to the economy. Win-win.
   
2. Build one wind-powered electricity generator (windmill) per 100 people. This will provide employment for many thousands of workers, and thenceforth provide all the electricity the country needs at nearly zero cost. Win-win.
   
3. Replace 8,000 miles of trunk roads with new electric railway lines. This will also provide employment for many thousands of workers, make railways more accessible to millions of people, and decimate the amount of oil we need to buy for the less efficient motor car. Win-win-win.

[DimPrawn]

100% tax on anyone who earns more than minimum wage.

Simples, Comrade.

[Jeebo72]

Raise tax on banks and rich people to 80%
And what do you think all those rich people will do, mass exodus anyone?

Yeah, what a cleaver idea! Remember when they done that before? Cos they did, and everyone just f*cked right out of here. Taking their money with them. Hiring nannies no more, paying school fees no more etc etc etc. What twits (sic) these socialists are.

[DimPrawn]

There's lots of ideas to be knocking on with:

1. Join the euro
2. Pump more money into public services
3. Raise tax on banks and rich people to 80%
4. Sign up to the Lisbon Treaty (true we've done that already but it will take time to reap the benefits)
5. Encourage millions more workers into the country from abroad
6. Withdraw from Afganistan and Iraq and Belize
7. Ban all money movements out of the country to tax havens
8. Increase surveillance on tax cheats
9. Mileage tax on cars

So more debt, more pointless public sector jobs and bonuses to civil servants, more surveillance and nanny state, more uncontrolled immigration, more EU control and less democracy....

So basically, carry on as you are Gordon.

[DiscoStu]

There's lots of ideas to be knocking on with:

1. Join the euro
   So we lose the chance to deflate our currency and boost our exports.
2. Pump more money into public services
   You're having a giraffe aren't you? That's partly the reason we're in such a mess right now
3. Raise tax on banks and rich people to 80%
   And what do you think all those rich people will do, mass exodus anyone?
4. Sign up to the Lisbon Treaty (true we've done that already but it will take time to reap the benefits)
5. Encourage millions more workers into the country from abroad
   Brill, create some more unemployment.
6. Withdraw from Afganistan and Iraq and Belize
   Probably the only idea I'm inclined to agree with
7. Ban all money movements out of the country to tax havens
   If money can't get out to tax havens it won't come to the UK in the first place.
8. Increase surveillance on tax cheats
   CCTV in my house?
9. Mileage tax on cars
   Big brother box in my car?

1/10. Your manifesto is full of rubbish ideas that will stifle growth and encourage those who can afford to, to move elsewhere. I'm out.

[Jeebo72]

Mrs Thatcher was an evil witch who liked nothing better than to wreck manufacturing industries and pull the rug from under poor people. I think she ate babies as well.

Yip it was all out of spite. Not because these freeloading, outdated, overinflated non profitable industries that were ruled by self serving unions had to go because they leached from the tax payers purse.

I worked for British Gas before and after it was privitised. A company full of (but not all) pointless people, in pointless positions, doing pointless "job for life" work because the tax payer was paying... then they got a much needed reality check.

No body derserves a living, you earn it. This country is just full of freeloading idiots, and positively encourages other freeloaders to come along and join the party. And we let them FFS!