unfortunately i do understand what the swedish model is. your bleating, "oh, why don't you compare us with countries like sweden etc" shows you hadn't the first clue how they do things. then the reverse gear kicks in when someone points out that they sell anything off that isn't nailed down. so now you don't want us to compare ourselves with sweden? nice u-turn. you're a true tory.

my tax has reduced. why do you insist on making things up?







waah, waah, waah. grow up. 25 million people voted for the 3 main parties in 2010. all on a "cuts" ticket. and no doubt some of those are bleating about how unfair everything is. they had their chance at the polls, but they couldn't be d to think for themselves. gutless sheep.

passivity? 25million people voted for this in 2010. since 1979 a vote for the tories of labour has been a vote for the privatisation of the nhs. are you one of those gutless sheep?

Just as well I've never voted for either then, isn't it boy?

You don't know what bollox are.

I can tell from what you post that you haven't got a pair!

25 million voted for this bunch - are you sure ?

total vote for the 3 main parties on 2010. give a take a few thousand.

i wouldn't have a pair if i just believed the tripe spouted by the usual suspects round here. like a gutless sheep.

Where did you cast your [size=200X[/size sammy boy?

somewhere nice and independent. as voting for one of the big 3 then bleating like a stuck pig about nhs privatisation, spending cuts etc would make me nothing more than a hypocritical oaf.

And in an economy that is dependent on the service sector (including retail), hacking back wages (for all but the already well off) is economic illiteracy.



Mind, reading that the idea of pay keeping pace with inflation is "outdated old style leftie thinking" does make me realise we're in the realms of cheap soundbites and easy tribalism.

My "bleating" concerned a comparison with Scandinavian countries on their total welfare provision, not simply healthcare. Provision of things like pensions, sickness payments, maternity/paternity leave, childcare provision etc. But even Swedish healthcare is nothing like the free for all proposed by this bunch. To date, the total healthcare provided by private companies is around 12% and that is only the healthcare that is funded at municipal, not central level.

If you keep increasing wages you end up with an upward spiral of inflation we saw pre-Thatcher - is that the price you think we should pay for our economic illiteracy? Most serious economists - Minty and Mr Fish excluded - see inflation as a very negative economic position not sure why Minty is suggesting a return to the days of Jack Jones & Joe Gormley?