Always interesting the perceptions of the past, especially how much influence the media has had on those perceptions.
With regards to Thatcher, Hameroon and Osboune have been very successfully implementing her ideas, This is what bothers me most as we see the wholesale destruction of the NHS, state schools infavour of Grammer schools (how eliteist is that) , destruction of local government, and the dogma behind it all. Who does it benefit most, the elite who don't want to pay tax. Now what also bothers me is that these policies are short sighted, slashing local governmant spending has resulted in overloading of the NHS which is now collapsing. Failure to invest in nurse and doctor training now means we are short of these too.
Let me give you some numbers with regards to potholes:-
budget for fixing roads £10 billion, short by £1billion per year. Cost of accidents caused by pot-holes £3 biilion per year ( money fron NHS, Police, Fire brigade budgets), so if the government spent £1 billion oer year more on roads we could save £2billion, plus all the repair costs to tyres and suspension which come direct from all our pockets.
Some more numbers from the railways:- when whoever it was failed leaving the East Anglia region with no train operator it was taken over by the state, this generated around £1 billion in profits for the state over 5 years (those figures are from memory so may be out, so lets just say a significant amount of money). This profit will now be sent abroad, 80% of our railways are owned by foreign companies, so that's a shed load of money lost, plus all the money from other utility companies and eventually the NHS if the Tories privatise it as they plan to do.
Now I totally agree we should not spend more money than we earn, but is it any surprise we are not earning enough when so much money is syphoned off to foreign companies, and tax loopholes which cost billions more than benefits scroungers ( I have to say I agree with the Tory policies with regards to restructuring the benefits system, if not necessarily how they are being implemented) are not addressed. So going forward I can't see anything getting better under the Tory party. If voted in this time on the mandate of Brexit it will also give them the mandate to continue assest stripping the UK., our lives will get worse.
With regards to Thatcher, Hameroon and Osboune have been very successfully implementing her ideas, This is what bothers me most as we see the wholesale destruction of the NHS, state schools infavour of Grammer schools (how eliteist is that) , destruction of local government, and the dogma behind it all. Who does it benefit most, the elite who don't want to pay tax. Now what also bothers me is that these policies are short sighted, slashing local governmant spending has resulted in overloading of the NHS which is now collapsing. Failure to invest in nurse and doctor training now means we are short of these too.
Let me give you some numbers with regards to potholes:-
budget for fixing roads £10 billion, short by £1billion per year. Cost of accidents caused by pot-holes £3 biilion per year ( money fron NHS, Police, Fire brigade budgets), so if the government spent £1 billion oer year more on roads we could save £2billion, plus all the repair costs to tyres and suspension which come direct from all our pockets.
Some more numbers from the railways:- when whoever it was failed leaving the East Anglia region with no train operator it was taken over by the state, this generated around £1 billion in profits for the state over 5 years (those figures are from memory so may be out, so lets just say a significant amount of money). This profit will now be sent abroad, 80% of our railways are owned by foreign companies, so that's a shed load of money lost, plus all the money from other utility companies and eventually the NHS if the Tories privatise it as they plan to do.
Now I totally agree we should not spend more money than we earn, but is it any surprise we are not earning enough when so much money is syphoned off to foreign companies, and tax loopholes which cost billions more than benefits scroungers ( I have to say I agree with the Tory policies with regards to restructuring the benefits system, if not necessarily how they are being implemented) are not addressed. So going forward I can't see anything getting better under the Tory party. If voted in this time on the mandate of Brexit it will also give them the mandate to continue assest stripping the UK., our lives will get worse.
