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| Topic Started: Nov 18 2015, 05:38 PM (526 Views) | |
| RJD | Nov 18 2015, 05:38 PM Post #1 |
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Prudence and Thrift
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The above is excluding Pensions and again anyone listening outside of the window of the Red Nag would believe it has been paired to the bone. LINK Beginning to wonder where all these heavy cuts and trashing the welfare state have taken place? Maybe someone can enlighten me or wake me up when austerity kicks in. |
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| Affa | Nov 20 2015, 05:38 PM Post #41 |
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It is prolonged because if it were not there would not be this excuse to usher in cuts and austerity. The recession is over, but the debts keep mounting, the imbalance stubbornly the same, the correction not forthcoming .... Campaigning on a ticket to end it sooner, they have instead extended the period to over a decade before any hope of it ending ........ and I personally doubt it will end then. |
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| Jonksy | Nov 21 2015, 04:45 AM Post #42 |
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The only nutters here are those that think there is no corporate welfare...Far from him being a nutter he has hit the nail on the head.. |
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| Lewis | Nov 21 2015, 07:54 AM Post #43 |
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Don't the right wing Usuals whinge on! Especially the cranky ones who write articles such as that.
Edited by Lewis, Nov 21 2015, 07:55 AM.
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| RJD | Nov 21 2015, 08:43 AM Post #44 |
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The Usuals have objected to each and every cut therefore one must conclude they are very content to borrow and spend on current consumption and pass the bill down to future generations. Why they obfuscate and do not just admit that that is their position I do not know, but honest truth is not in the genes. Truth is that dragging this out Osborne style will create greater accumulated discomfort overall and delay any rebalancing of the economy away from debt fuelled consumption towards greater exportable production. We are only half way and many other countries have already crossed the finish line. However strangely enough we still have many on the left in complete denial of the existence of a deficit problem and/or that their Party was culpable in creating it's magnitude. Corbyn clearly cannot see the difficulty. |
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| disgruntled porker | Nov 21 2015, 08:49 AM Post #45 |
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Older than most people think I am.
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OK. I've always said that the collapse of the financial system was more to blame than anything else for the recession and I stand by that statement. Saying that, it does not entirely exonerate Brown. He should have been better prepared. He was driving the bus when it crashed. If it had faulty brakes, he should have checked them before setting off. Alternatively, had he done as a Tory would have him do, or would have done, had they been in the driving seat, and use less regulation in the financial sector, we would be in an even bigger pickle. I would suggest many savings in the public sector could be made by not using agency staff to fill in where there is under manning and set your own, in house staff on, instead of doing the exact opposite. This is especially relevant within the NHS at the moment. It has to be more expensive to employ a middleman to supply your staff, or at least it should be. I am of course talking about providing the same level of service in these situations. We all know that private suppliers of such services tend to underquote and halfway through a contract back down and admit they cannot give the required service level at the price tendered. That would be a good start. Edited by disgruntled porker, Nov 21 2015, 08:54 AM.
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| Steve K | Nov 21 2015, 11:37 AM Post #46 |
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So you haven't read it then |
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| Lewis | Nov 21 2015, 11:51 AM Post #47 |
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Yes the NHS could save billions by not employing agency staff and recruiting their own. We know full well that won't happen with this shower in power. Many of the agency firms are big Tory donors and quite a number of Tory MPs are directors of them. |
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| Jonksy | Nov 22 2015, 07:56 PM Post #48 |
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Of course I have read it along with many other articles on the subject of corporate welfare. |
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| Rich | Nov 22 2015, 08:09 PM Post #49 |
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I have to ask....how do you know this? |
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| Lewis | Nov 22 2015, 08:34 PM Post #50 |
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First hand knowledge. Also link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/selling-nhs-profit-full-list-4646154 Edited by Lewis, Nov 22 2015, 08:36 PM.
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| Rich | Nov 22 2015, 08:46 PM Post #51 |
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Well, I have been through that list and nowhere can I find any reference to agencies that supply nurses or doctors to the NHS, I read plenty of private healthcare companies that have some sort of relation with MP's of all parties and as long as any donation is recorded in the members register then all is above board, so what point are you trying to make? |
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| Lewis | Nov 22 2015, 08:50 PM Post #52 |
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Well what point are you trying to make. You seem to be in denial of your Tory Parties underhand dealings? |
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| Tigger | Nov 22 2015, 08:52 PM Post #53 |
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Talk about naive.
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| Rich | Nov 22 2015, 08:53 PM Post #54 |
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I am not making any point, please back up your above implied statement, YOU are the poster making the implication, therefore you must be able to back it up. |
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| Steve K | Nov 22 2015, 09:42 PM Post #55 |
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So what did you think of this
So he's in effect saying we have to end state funded education and the NHS then. He later goes on to say similar about welfare, state pensions and public highways etc etc. Do you still say he's hit the nail on the head? That author is more nutter than messiah. |
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| HIGHWAY | Nov 22 2015, 09:47 PM Post #56 |
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Do you think hospitals employing agency staff is a thing that started since the last election |
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| Gaffa | Nov 22 2015, 09:48 PM Post #57 |
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Agreed having these things in place for the people of this country is way sets us apart from many of our neighbours and rivals around the world |
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| papasmurf | Nov 22 2015, 09:56 PM Post #58 |
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This is a start:- http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregmem.htm Plus:- http://www.theyworkforyou.com/ |
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| Lewis | Nov 22 2015, 10:01 PM Post #59 |
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I have backed it up. However if you want even more info: Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi is paid £2,917 a month for seven hours work as non-executive director of recruitment firm SThree - a firm staffing new Clinical Commissioning Groups. SThree has devoured £2.6million from the NHS in 10 months by filling vacancies caused by Tory health reforms. It’s “Real Staffing” agency, part of it international health business, has netted it at least £1.4 million across 8 London CCGs for just 40 staff. https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/jos-bell/tory-links-of-health-agencies-exposed-as-hunt-lines-up-next-nhs-selloff-in-england Edited by Lewis, Nov 22 2015, 10:18 PM.
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