An attitude of "things aren't great and they're unlikely to magically get better" (for which I'd agree) doesn't really tie in with your previous comment about small businesses shutting up shop because of the predictions of a Labour government. Certainly I read your previous post as a belief that Labour in power would lead to disaster.
There's an awful lot of money slopping around in dodgy offshore accounts, London properties with dubious ownership, and literally billions (https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ts-to-35bn-almost-half-say-campaigners-due-to) lost to tax avoidance. There's plenty of money out there; it's just kept well out of the hands of the state (often by people and organisations that benefit from the state; in running profit-making businesses here). So that'd be one solution to improving services.
They are supposed to have been making services more efficient since 1979 but have achieved exactly the opposite. Spending less and running services down does not make them more efficient.
They have some strange ideas with regards to employers like ending the qualifying periods for basic rights which I always thought was a probationary period in which you have to prove yourself and are not actually employed, they want to make flexible working a day one right which is no use to many busineses as they need someone to be there for a known time and not decide to have Mondays off and would make things much harder for the employer as well as expensive by giving them to much at the detrement of the business. I think it is the employee who needs to decide if the job is suitable and then earn the privaledges rather than be given them on a plate as a right. Some others are just a joke like if working from home Labour would quote " the Labour Party, if elected would introduce new rights to protect workers from remote surveillance " . So as an employer you not only become less productive if you have workers at home but also lose the right to ensure they are delivering and not just getting paid! Working from home needs to become the exception and only for certain jobs and working from home should have it's own tax bracket so they pay more, it is after all a perk where they save the cost of commuting and not spending in the local economy.
Fully agree, efficiency is increasing throughput at less cost and in less time which is a key deliverable in manufacturing. I do not think efficiency is a term that can be associated with politic's because a good example of being inefficient is the un elected house of lords that consumes resources and only generates hot air.
I'd think that more rights for workers would not be a bad thing (given some of the awful zero hours stuff in use now).
The problem is that any "great" idea is going to hugely excite a minority of voters, and horrify a percentage of others (and the negative voices will be loud). Plus anything that might actually make the country better for the majority would be firmly opposed by those with wealth and power; who would then use their influence (newspapers etc) to ward the plebs off from voting for it.
I agree. The "one" being the Green party.
Chaos is certainly the word for it but Labour don't seem to have any answers.
An irrelevant minor issue which appeals to a small and tedious sector of the electorate, whilst ignoring the bigger humanitarian issue of the global movement of people from various stressed regions. It could be your turn one day.
Yes why not, or higher?
Nonsense. Should be much lower and unearned income generally should be taxed higher than earned. Would help deflate the house price bubble.
Ridiculously stupid idea - there is no alternative to radical action on climate change though nothing much is happening yet. It's almost certainly too late anyway. https://www.theguardian.com/environ...hes-global-record-despite-clean-energy-growth
What on earth for?
Or much more
Private health and care services essentially inefficient and need to be brought into the state sector
Nonsense
Appalling suggestion - the bottom of the barrel. People voting against the protection of their own human rights? How gullible can they get? But stupid anyway - the general principles of the ECHR are already incorporated into UK law.
A very dull, limited, unimaginative and irrelevant program.
The only interest I could muster for looking at that at any length would be akin to a psychiatrist looking at the peculiarities of an interesting mental patient.
Interestingly Reform don't seem to be able to define what they mean by essential immigration, but then they know they just have to throw out attractive sound bytes to people who think the current Tory part are too warm and cuddly (which sadly does seem to be a fair percentage of the population).
so in response to starmer being to centrist you are voting reform? you are all over the place, im no fan of blair but they had a much better performing economy and health service up until the financial crash of 2008, tories exist to sell of the national assets and transfwer money to themselves and their rich friends, economists have looked at reforms laughable figures and concluded they dont add up, they are tories on steroids. the way you raise money is taxing wealth where all the money has gonme to over the last decade, starmer is far too timid in my opinion, while the greens are far too reckless, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. cutting services and privatising the NHS isnt the answer
reform are fantasists, their plan doesnt add up unless you gut the welfare state ,and you really think they can save 50 billion from "efficiencies?"
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Reform are definitely extremists led by an egotistical Farage intent on column inches, but sadly they very much cannot be dismissed. Current polls show they may get 5 seats (sadly).
Absolutely, but that's the problem with populists and con artists; they can present you catchy soundbites and claims that are easy to ingest. The substance behind the claims is irrelevant, as people who like the message won't ask questions.
I would say that it is not hard to make huge savings in our political system, our local MP's expenses were over £200,000 and you get something like £300 a day for turning up at the house of lords so our politicians need to start leading by example. Take a very simple view on the election, we have got Conservative and have had Labour but look at the state we are in, it is a game of tennis between the two parties with no real forward momentum so to get change you need to do something different otherwise you just continue down the same old path.
May I politely point out that the evidence shows Labour has managed the economy as well (or as badly) as the Conservatives.
