Quote Originally Posted by baggiematt View Post
They would spend more on public services because they were in power during an era when they could spend more on public services.

Have a look at public spending since Tories were in power. Miles more than Labour before them (excluding 2008/9). You won’t see the benefits of it because it’s not spent on public services or making the country a better place for citizens.

It’s keeping the economy from collapse. It’s spent on welfare, infrastructure, pension, debt repayments etc..

Public service spending does little for the economy…and if your economy is f*cked you have no money for public services. It’s painful but tell me an alternative?
There are a few points i’m trying to make here Matt. I question the scale of austerity imposed by the coalition back in the 2008 mess and how we were told we all need to make sacrifices. Yet this talk about growth being needed, but really it’s the big corporations that are really the ones benefitting. One of many things I believe is that some services should be public owned and those working for them should be incentivised where profits go back to staff (small percentage) and some re-invested rather than the current way where profits go to shareholders. Northern Rock back on its feet and returning profit.. great.. oh let’s sell it to shareholders.

The point I keep making about long term growth is that it’s only really possible if you’ve got a strong stable economy, we literally have no contingency for anything. In that I mean, we have no wealth for starters that we can fall back on when things go wrong.. it’s always burrow burrow. We’re a G7 nation but we punch above our weight and have nothing to show for. Weve created barriers with our biggest trading partner. We never seem to have anything for rainy days.
You only need to look at how our neighbors are doing. Take rail travel in Germany for instance or free bus pass for under 21s in France. We should all have a relative amount of wealth, a level playing field. But the greedy at the top will never allow this. This is a rushed response and I could go on but i’m sure you’ll get fed up.