Oh fook, here we go again
Sal Paradise wrote:
Not quite as simple as you are setting things out:
Firstly the increases in population has put added pressure on both education and the health service. This would have been the case regardless of who would have been in power. Just think how high the borrowing would have been if Labour had continued to fund both to the levels you would deem satisfactory? What do you expect to happen at A&E when you have huge increases in population and life expectancy?
I would expect a competent government to anticipate the increase in population and invest in health and education to match those increases. But as we have seen over previous administrations, tories would rather the proles be garaged in hospital corridors and their children educated in leaky "mobiles"
Sal Paradise wrote:
I would still like to understand how come Aids is treated with such high priority within the NHS whilst cancer appears to be very hit miss. Perhaps if the NHS was re-prioitised the service would improve?
AIDS is relatively simple and cheap to treat these days. Don't believe the Farage rhetoric
Sal Paradise wrote:
The tax cuts to the rich is a straw man and you know it - the increases in personal allowances has reduced taxation to ordinary people far more than the cut to the mega-rich.
Increasing personal allowances makes little difference to the poor, it tends to benefit middle to high income earners most. The personal allowance increases were at the behest of the LimpDems and the benefits have been eclipsed by the increase in VAT, despite the "we have no plans to increase VAT" pledge. Increasing VAT is a regressive tax, it hits the poorest the hardest
Sal Paradise wrote:
I am no defender of the two toffs Cameron or Osborne but I would prefer them to the two Ed's - Balls was a hopeless chancellor, he could even get the baby P decision correct he is man of very poor judgement. Personally I would prefer Theresa May at least she looks up for the job unlike Cameron.
Ed Balls has NEVER been a chancellor, Gordon Brown was succeeded by Alastair Darling, both of whom AND Ed Balls are far more qualified than a 2.1 history graduate who flunked maths A level
Sal Paradise wrote:
Taxation is not a bottomless pit - I agree extracting more tax from companies who earn their profits here should be a priority. You could dump the whole GDP into the NHS and education and it still wouldn't be sufficient to satisfy your idea of what these services should deliver.
Now you're talking soft
