Reply to: Conservative Technology Manifesto

[vetran]

They aren't going to say to all the :

1. big business donors yes we are going to remove all those cheap outsourcing deals that allow you to freeze pay and cut costs.
2. lefties that all those filthy businessmen making handfuls of cash won't pay "the right amount of tax" whilst the poor unemployable don't know where their next plasma tv is coming from.
3. PAYE brigade that those entrenepeurs can share the rewards with their spouses as well as the risks.

Not exactly vote winners in these areas are they? We are an economic minority.

The real question is would it change under Labour?

I made more under the Tories than Labour as did many other lower / middle class workers. Under New Lie its been rich party donors and the feckless that have been better off, and the figure prove it.

[minestrone]

Quangos are necessary, it's the current spending of quangos that is unnecessary.

[TheFaQQer]

I am happy with a political party at least muttering the word "technology" in their manifesto.

What is Labour's manifesto ?

It might go like this ...lots more of Diversity officers, lots more quangoes, lots more benefits to single mums....etc etc...

Cameron has announced at least four quangos that I can think of since he announced he would cut the number.

[fullyautomatix]

I am happy with a political party at least muttering the word "technology" in their manifesto.

What is Labour's manifesto ?

It might go like this ...lots more of Diversity officers, lots more quangoes, lots more benefits to single mums....etc etc...

[minestrone]

This is the real problem, the Scots are so bl00dy gullible (and I'm a scot!). They just vote labour no matter what. Stupid socialist ideology!

Less people per head vote labour in Scotland than do in England.

[TheFaQQer]

Did you say Monorail?

It puts a town on the map, I'm told.

[TheFaQQer]

Sminki

It's keeps going on about 'creating new jobs'. No mention of IR35, BN66, or Bob Shawadiwadi.

Silly frackers are trying to be cool and use Twitter with #techmanifesto - It's going nowhere.

Why would IR35 and BN66 feature in a technology manifesto? A manifesto for small business, maybe - but I doubt that, since they don't really have much interest in it.

[Sausage Surprise]

What we need is a monorail.

Did you say Monorail?

[Jeebo72]

You say it's going nowhere, but the fact is many English people are pretty gullible ...

...

As a Scot, my vote will be for Lib Dem, in the hope they get in for 4 years, giving Labour a chance to sort themselves out and totally reform. If they don't, I'd rather not have Labour in power, and definitely never conservatives until the pro-business anti-poor man ethos disappears.

I?

This is the real problem, the Scots are so bl00dy gullible (and I'm a scot!). They just vote labour no matter what. Stupid socialist ideology!

[TheFaQQer]

What we need is a monorail.

I think North Haverbrook has a good one.

[TheFaQQer]

We will also create a small IT development team in government – a ‘government skunkworks’

It that what CMD meant when he called for a cut in quangos - that they would create more of them?

[DiscoStu]

What we need is a monorail.

[HairyArsedBloke]

What we need is a monorail.

[minestrone]

George seems to think technology is super fast broadband, or he seems to think we think technology is super fast broadband.

Anyway...

We will build a smart energy grid that enables
a huge increase in the use of renewable
energy technologies, and we will invest in the
next generation of wind, marine and carbon
capture technologies.

There was a start up wanting to speak to me about that last week, must be the new 'thing' that people are wanting to chuck money at. I'm going to form treehugtec today and apply for a grants.

[DimPrawn]

So you don't believe in personal responsibility then?

He's a Scot no doubt.

Where's me handouts?

Generations of neds expecting the state to support them.