Communist Corbyn

[Jog On]

There are many issues to fix as referenced earlier
However make no mistakes you cant fix them with a policy of high taxation and shrinking the economy.

I asked if anyone had any better ideas. Everyone's very good at restating the problems - anyone can do that.

What's the better alternative?

[saptastic]

So do you say we should continue the policy of "do nothing and let it fail"?

No.

But what I say is that Corbyn is a far greater threat with his economic ideology and foreign policy.

[WTFH]

No.

But what I say is that Corbyn is a far greater threat with his economic ideology and foreign policy.

So if Corbyn is the devil incarnate, and the tories are incompetent, then who, in your opinion, is a party that could be elected to run the country?

[Antman]

Tories are less crap than Labour.

[malvolio]

This continuing assertion that the Tories are incompetent is beginning to irritate. They are not the greatest government we've ever had, but the economy is growing, if slowly, and most of the screams of anguish are about proper management* rather than "savage cuts", most of which are a myth or slanted interpretations of economic reality. We're not in a good place but it's not getting worse and, with a following wind, may even get better quicker than we hope.

If you want to throw money at a problem to resolve it, first you have to have a plan to earn it. At least the Tories have the glimmering of one. Labour's idea is to borrow against future earnings that they won't be able to generate. We can afford socialism only when we have a decent war chest - and last time that happened the socialists lost the lot in about six years despite a raft of stealth and not-so-stealth taxes. Let's not repeat the experiment.


* The NHS continues to get more money every year. It is the use of that money that's wrong, not the amount. Ditto local authorities; a lot of the ones dropping or limiting core services also seem to support cabinets of well-paid managers where overstaffed councils seem to be holding their own quite well.

[WTFH]

Tories are less crap than Labour.

So you're a supporter of "do nothing and let it fail"?

[jamesbrown]

So you're a supporter of "do nothing and let it fail"?

So you're a supporter of "if it's going to fail, nuke the entire site from orbit"?

[TwoWolves]

The most worrying thing about Corbyn is his car-crash naivety, we live in a globalized economy. The moment he does any of this the global markets will dish-out a monumental punishment beating and none of his dreams will be realised. He'd also need to leave the EU in order to be able to try.

He can thank New Labour for this. National governments are no longer autonomous.

[WTFH]

This continuing assertion that the Tories are incompetent is beginning to irritate. They are not the greatest government we've ever had, but the economy is growing, if slowly, and most of the screams of anguish are about proper management* rather than "savage cuts", most of which are a myth or slanted interpretations of economic reality. We're not in a good place but it's not getting worse and, with a following wind, may even get better quicker than we hope.

If you want to throw money at a problem to resolve it, first you have to have a plan to earn it. At least the Tories have the glimmering of one. Labour's idea is to borrow against future earnings that they won't be able to generate. We can afford socialism only when we have a decent war chest - and last time that happened the socialists lost the lot in about six years despite a raft of stealth and not-so-stealth taxes. Let's not repeat the experiment.


* The NHS continues to get more money every year. It is the use of that money that's wrong, not the amount. Ditto local authorities; a lot of the ones dropping or limiting core services also seem to support cabinets of well-paid managers where overstaffed councils seem to be holding their own quite well.

You may find the truth irritating, but the current unaccountable lot are doing a very good job of screwing the country over.
University fees were an idea to make unis more competitive. Instead they just keep going up.

That's not about securing a good future for the country, that's about discouraging British students from going to British universities.
The cap on fees was set to £3,000 in 2004. In 2009 it was £3,225.
In 2012 it increased to £9,000, with 3/4 of all universities charging that rate.
Student loan interest was BoE base + 1%. up until 2011
In 2012 they changed that to be RPI + 3%, so a student loan is currently 6.1% interest.

NHS crumbles, higher education is failing and you find that irritating, claiming it is some great plan for the future.
It is a great plan if your idea is to bankrupt the future workers of the country, having already bled the pension pots dry for those currently working, all in the hope of supporting the over 60s, the core tory voters, who purely by age are not the future of this country, and based on what they vote for, they have no interest int he future of it either, just sell it all off to see them into their private retirement homes.

[jamesbrown]

That's not about securing a good future for the country, that's about discouraging British students from going to British universities.

That statement isn't only content free, but evidence free. If that were the objective, they're doing a terrible job.

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-anal...nts/whos-in-he

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