Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35345270)

Pog66, It was a centre fold in The Daily Mirror the other day.....
..... if l am wrong tell me.

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35345907)

Cut something.

if it's already been cut, then cut it some more.

Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35345907)

Cut something.

if it's already been cut, then cut it some more.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35345912)

Sounds good, time for the NHS to feel some pain.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35345818)

To reduce unemployment, the government could start a development bank, and spend more

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35345913)

And in what areas are you proposing for these cuts to happen in the NHS.

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35345867)

And how would they fund the Development Bank, please?

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35345915)

Or they could just hire a million extra public sector workers given how superbly it worked during the Labour government.

I'm sure our kids won't mind picking up the bill, failing that I'm sure people won't mind seeing their taxes shoot up even further punishing people yet more for being rude enough to be productive.

Halting all cuts and spending more should only require about a 25% increase on total tax burden.

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The areas that Labour threw money at which caused the value the NHS delivers for the money spent on it to actually drop.

Bringing in a nice 3rd party private sector management consultancy with the ability to hire and fire pretty much as they see fit rather than leaving self-serving middle-management cutting front line services to keep their own jobs should work.

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35345915)

Or they could just hire a million extra public sector workers given how superbly it worked during the Labour government.

I'm sure our kids won't mind picking up the bill, failing that I'm sure people won't mind seeing their taxes shoot up even further punishing people yet more for being rude enough to be productive.

Halting all cuts and spending more should only require about a 25% increase on total tax burden.

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The areas that Labour threw money at which caused the value the NHS delivers for the money spent on it to actually drop.

Bringing in a nice 3rd party private sector management consultancy with the ability to hire and fire pretty much as they see fit rather than leaving self-serving middle-management cutting front line services to keep their own jobs should work.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35345925)

l am all for cutting middle-management to protect front line services but there is only so much you can cut in the end.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35345922)

I was think about speding more of transport porjects, like more new trains, more high speed lines, better airports etc

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35345922)

with money gained after a massive crackdown on tax evation, which is worth tens of billions each year

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35345928)

Indeed, doesn't change that there is something to cut and ring fencing it for political reasons, to the detriment of other less politically sensitive services, is very wrong.

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It's happening?

I take it you missed where George Osborne mentioned £6bn of public money for just this such a thing, along with a purported £20bn from the National Association of Pension Funds and the Pension Protection Fund.

In addition to this there's some interest from China in investing in UK infrastructure.

I appreciate it may be a weird concept getting private investment in but it works pretty well elsewhere. Maybe they have a point?

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Keep dreaming. Companies don't pay tax their customers do. Yes that's us.

Originally Posted by Alan Fry (Post 35345961)

What the government spends on Transport is nowere near enough, we need far more new and extra trains for example

And we need to crack down on busineeses like Topshop from evading tax and claw back evaded taxes!

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35345912)

Sounds good, time for the NHS to feel some pain.

Originally Posted by richard1960 (Post 35346035)

It is the trust i work for is shedding quite a few jobs now and a neighbouring trust is doing the same with heavy job losses.:(

Would you like it to shed lots more?