samwire wrote:
your use of the word 'probably' carries about as much weight as 'a bloke in the pub told me player x is signing for team y'...
the level of privatisation of the nhs, police and education would be exactly the same as it is now.
as for unemployment, in labour's recession (that was nothing to do with them obviously) it jumped 25% ish, in the tories recession (which is most certainly their fault) it's stayed pretty static, perhaps up slightly, but now falling (although they're clearly fudging the figures, probably even shooting claimants).
the burden clearly doesn't fall fairly as according to a bbc article;
so, lets have some numbers, how much should the top 1% pay and the bottom 50% while we're at it.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting I should have stated definitively about a hypothetical, fictional scenario?
No. The level of privatisation would be lower. Since there would have been no free schools, no NHS commissioning groups and no outsourcing of core police activities to that flagship of the private sector that is G4S.
Labour's recession? Interesting. What did Labour do to bring down Lehmann Brothers?
As for unemployment, it jumped in 2008. You know, when the worlds banks collapsed. It was actually coming down slightly when the Tories took office. Then it went up by around 300,000. Not as a result of an economic collapse across the world, but as a result of Tory government policies which, as I said, affected the poorer areas the hardest.
How much of UK income do the top 1% receive? How much of UK wealth do the top 1% own? Have you factored in the regressive nature of other taxes such as VAT? Have you factored in the regressive nature of costs such as energy, food and water etc?
When you do those things I reckon the quarter of income tax they pay is a little generous.
But, like the other right-wing Tory apologists on this thread, nice attempt to deviate from your Tory Chancellor making a fool of himself on a train.
Maybe you should co-ordinate better with The Video Ref and Ajw. Then you all wouldn't look as idiotic as your Chancellor by quoting a Thatcher think-tank and tax figures that only back up how rich the top 1% are. I'm sure Ajw can find some polls you can use, only if they're on Wikipedia, mind.
Oh and a nice little poll just for Ajw - the latest polling average puts the Tories 10 points down.
But even that won't deviate the thread away from what an idiot Osborne made of himself on a train.
