taxidave wrote:Oh dear the left wing looneys are uniting in their fight against the rest of the world, they will be telling us next that the IRA were really very nice people who were just misunderstood.
So the fact I think the IRA are deplorable murderers and terrorists trying to prolong a useless war against our sovereign land proves I'm not a left-wing looney?
Just to re-assure us you know what you are talking about, can you explain what part of my long rant you considered especially left-wing. The main topics I mentioned are listed below if you want to put a simple 'yes or no' next to each to indicate if you consider that view to be left-wing lunacy:
1. Have a working and efficient NHS (Note - I used the Nuffield in Cheltenham more than the general): Yes or No?
2. Big companies not paying tax which creates a lack of competition with local small businesses (i.e. not a free market - equal tax for all companies would be a better functioning free-market capitalist economy). Yes or No?
3. Divisive politics creating a 'scroungers vs skivers' rhetoric to split the electorate rather than successful growth policy that creates jobs. Yes or No?
4. Cutting welfare to everyone, even the most needy, whereas a better way to cap welfare is to pay the same per person and reduce the number of people on it. Think about it - if there are 50 people too disabled to work, and 50 people who can work but have no job, then cutting welfare to them all leaves 100 worse off. Whereas, if you move the 50 people into work and pay the disabled 50 the same welfare without cutting it, no one is worse off and the 50 people and the economy is better off. So, the most efficient economic policy would be to promote economic growth and job creation amongst more businesses. Yes or No?
5. As per above two comments - making people work in Poundland for free to reduce public spending allows us to continue have vast amounts of public money held by nationalised banks and feeding a house price bubble through help-to-buy. If those banks acted as actual capitalist drivers for economic growth they'd be lending more to small businesses rather than squandering money on self-interests and then there'd be more jobs for people. Yes or No?
6. Energy companies would be a lot more respected if they invested vast revenues in greater levels of research and innovation would increase their profits and benefit research centres here and customers. Currently they operate a large oligopoly which does nothing to encourage liberal economic growth, whilst chasing after subsidies to build power plants. Subsidies which come from...the tax payer! A freer-market would provide better competition and service. Yes or No?
7. The relationship between media, government, and elite. Having been educated alongside, have family links to, and still keep in contact with contemporaries who amongst others work for Bloomberg, editorials at The Times, Reuters, Magic Circle law firms, Investment banks, big 4 accounting firms, and having met MPs and ministers whilst working for a pro-growth liberal think-tank in the Westminster bubble, I'm speaking from direct experience and knowledge rather than just making up socialist conspiracy theories. If you know better please tell me what I am missing. Yes or No.
I'd imagine your views on things that effect you are much more left-wing than mine.