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    Spend welfare budget on roads and rail?

    George Osborne: spend welfare budget on roads and rail - Telegraph

    How about switching QE to infrastructure spending thus creating jobs and moving out of welfare? Or going with UKIP proposals on immigration to get people into work?

    What a pillock.
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    I spend my budget on AndyW's mum
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    #2
    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    George Osborne: spend welfare budget on roads and rail - Telegraph

    How about switching QE to infrastructure spending thus creating jobs and moving out of welfare? Or going with UKIP proposals on immigration to get people into work?
    You were making sense up to that point.
    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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      #3
      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      You were making sense up to that point.
      So I still stand a chance of becoming a politician then?

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        #4
        about time, spread the wealth!
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          This would apply to Wales and Scotland too. When you see the numbers for spending on transport infrastructure per head of population London gets hundreds or times more. I don't doubt it's more expensive adding new tube lines etc but we all pay the same tax rates wherever we live so it does grate.

          He won't win friends with the welfare angle though. Sadly.

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            #6
            Originally posted by barrydidit View Post
            This would apply to Wales and Scotland too. When you see the numbers for spending on transport infrastructure per head of population London gets hundreds or times more. I don't doubt it's more expensive adding new tube lines etc but we all pay the same tax rates wherever we live so it does grate.

            He won't win friends with the welfare angle though. Sadly.
            Strange as the roads in Wales seem a lot better maintained than in England.

            But then increased spending often just gets wasted anyway
            Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

            No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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              #7
              Originally posted by MicrosoftBob View Post
              Strange as the roads in Wales seem a lot better maintained than in England.

              But then increased spending often just gets wasted anyway
              True for England - not for London.

              Maintained roads = speeding drivers = loads of income for Wales.

              I drove round NE Anglessey last week - 4 camera vans in 15 miles.

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                #8
                Whatever it is spent on, we can be sure much of it will be wasted/go to graft, anyway...

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                  #9
                  Spending on infrastructure would benefit everyone equally so they couldn't possibly do that. Welfare spending can be directed to preferred groups who will then hand over their postal votes as a sign of their appreciation.

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                    #10
                    I think this might be the report on spending I was thinking of. It was a couple of years ago but i don't imagine anything has radically changed.

                    A fellow passenger was reading this Grauniad article on the train today. Quite interesting. I can't help but think this is all pie in the sky pre-election chatter though.

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