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I wrote a big long answer but my bleedin iPad ran out of juice just before I posted it. It’s hard to summarise (which is why it was long). but public spending isn’t just about throwing money around. It can (and often does) generate wealth because it puts money in th hands of many people.

It’s also not as Simple as Labour being tax and spend. If you look at this link, you will see the Labour government of 1945 spent heavily to rebuild Britain and invest in the public services and welfare state which led to our post-war growth. You will also see Thatcher’s public spending cuts, largely based on her belief in a small state and private provision.

The rest isn’t so clear-cut.

www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/past_spending

All I’d ask is that you contemplate what happens when you invest in roads, schools, hospitals and pensions? Doesn’t that money often go around and around, and stimulate more growth as it does? When people are better off, more healthy, more secure, better educated and able to travel more easily, don’t they spend more? Don’t they also earn and contribute more?

This is the engine of growth. Is it really more plausible that the ever greater concentration of wealth amongst the tiny few is likely to trickle down to stimulate growth? Especially when the “few” take the money out of the country? How will it circulate then? Just look at the massive energy company profits, or the private water companies failure to invest which will likely end up being landed on the taxpayer and increasing our debt.

Then look at the billions we paid to bale out the banks rather than ask the shareholders to cough up. Those same banks are now profiting massively due to higher interest rates. Will we see any of that wealth? Not a chance. The taxpayer retained most of the bad debts when Lloyds was returned to full private ownership and sold for a fraction of its worth.

Labour won’t be able to do a lot to strait with because of the high debts and no means of generating wealth, thanks to the Tories selling off our national assets for peanuts. This is why Labour is promoting things like GB energy and re-nationalising the railways. The former will cost almost nothing compared to re-nationalisation, but it will allow people to vote with their feet and create a publicly owned energy company. As for rail, we spend far more money subsidising private companies (who take a profit and pay dividends) to run the railways than it would to have them in public hands, so again this makes sense. It’s also why Labour is looking to strengthen workers rights. People need security to build their lives upon. Otherwise they don’t invest and never progress.

All I’d say is that the ideological shift away from the free market poison of Hayek, Friedman and their acolytes such as Thatcher is more important than the pace of change. Turning the ship round means it’s headed in the right direction. The speed will eventually follow.

What i was saying last week. The Tories cause situations yet moan when they want sorting out. I find it extremely hard to carry on my everyday life compared to when i was a bit younger. which is amazing i noticed the difference not being wired up right anyway

Looks like Eurovision has turned into a nightmare lol

They are off again moaning about record number of Sick & out of Work

Let me guess They are the ones that cause people to get sick. People have to work every hour god sends to make a living because the Taxes are so high, the wages are shit & the cost of living is too much leading to mental illness. Even the employers are taking the piss with Hours & Silly Rota's that causes the Employee to basically have no life..The ones that are smart think well its not worth going to work which it isnt unless you have a very well paid job

Regarding obesity why not ban Junk food, why allow manufacturers to manufacture  Processed food with High Calorie & salt content. Nah that would be a massive Tax sacrifice. lets skirt around the problem shall we? 

Now they are a max of 2 year trial for these weight loss injections to try & see if they are Financially valid to  cut down on death & NHS pressure, yeah they want it all way masking problems once again

The thing is the NHS has got to the stage where sick people are now exposing how the service cannot provide.

Still, at least they are focusing on the big issues that will put the country right. Everybody’s least favourite scouser, Esther McVey has decided to ban coloured lanyards across the civil service! Imagine devoting time and public money to ensuring all civil servants have their passes dangling from a lanyard in a single corporate colour. Mind you, she ran for Tory leadership alongside Hunt on a platform that placed bringing back fox hunting at the top of the list of priorities.

Why the sudden desire to have uniform-coloured lanyards? Well apparently some civil servants had rainbow coloured ones, and that could be construed as supporting LGBT+ causes. Imagine how outraged the Telegraph readers and blue-rinse octogenarian Tory members must’ve been?

Well done Esther. Even at a pound a pop, the lanyards themselves will cost half a million quid squeezed from taxpayers to buy. Money well spent, obviously.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/culture-war-rainbow-lanyard-ban-estger-mcvey-b2544061.html

They will have lost the economies of scale that came with the old uniform too. Old unarmed would’ve been made in huge quantities.

Well well well look at that. spooky, that will cost once again. ffk why don't they just go the old route with coloured belts they look like a bunch of basket Hockey players in the proposed uniforms 


www.supplychain.nhs.uk/news-article/nhs-national-healthcare-uniform-colourways-announced/