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Originally Posted by Hiroki
So that was the first time I ever voted and my vote went for Labour.
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Given your forum avatar this does surprise.
Thanks for explaining your reasons for voting though. I do understand local concerns trumping national ones despite disagreeing with Labour's approach to the North East, Northern Ireland, Wales, etc.
Constantly feeding areas public money rather than encouraging entrepeneurship and helping areas to stand on their own has just made them reliant on it rather than regenerating them and hacked off other parts of the country that are supplying said money through national taxes and higher council tax.
This is, of course, not the problem of the subsidised areas if they are happy with the status quo. If they are net beneficiaries of wealth redistribution it's silly to look a gift horse in the mouth. It's my conviction though that the areas would be far more prosperous however if they were weaned off reliance on the public sector through business incentives - government spending might help with existing but only the private sector will give wealth and give similar quality of life to the more affluent areas in the country. Question is two fold - do you want it, and will the government help you get it? No idea about the first one but with Labour the answer to the second is most definitely no, their solution to everything is to put people on the public payroll and throw money at it.
Just thought I'd explain myself a bit in return for your explanation.