Interesting about defence cuts and jobs... leaving aside the moral arguments, much of defence is about US/UK/ Nato staying number 1 and also creating exports / supporting allies (like the middle east) ... so loads of high tech jobs with serious cash coming in ... but this must be for tanks and fighter jets ... not trident missile systems ... which either Europe or the US should pay for not us
The tories didn't talk much about cuts during the election as shades of 1979 not too popular and now they are mouthing off to keep the IMF happy - lets see what they really come up with in a couple of weeks and whether it has the potential to cut the deficit or go too far and kill too many jobs just as UK PLC gets back on it's feet?
Back to benefits and there really is a lot of room for a massive re think... £500 per week limit sounds fair but they need to sort out the admin and form filling to halve the cost of delivery and reduce fraud... more high tech / new thinking
And why are we paying to jail foreigners at £40k per year when they should just be deported?
We pay so much to jail foreigners because their country will not take them back and agree to them going to jail. Or because they might be shouted at and called names which would obviously infringe their human rights.
£500 a week sounds fair? To who? To the claimants it would. But why should they receive anything near that a week when they could never earn it? Why are there so many east europeans that have come into the country and have been willing to work yet our unemployed have been allowed to sit on their arses watching jeremy kyle hoping to get on there one day. The reason is that benefits were/are not available to a lot of new EU member state citizens, so they know they have to work and do.
well done the Welsh/Scottish and N Ireland assemblies for telling the UK Government not to chop the huge dosh going to said assemblies. England of course have no voice of their own just huge pockets of dosh which goes to fund everyone else.
Just a suggestion if Dave Tory boy is reading. As you dont stand a cat in hells chance of every geting MPs in N Ireland, Wales and Scotland why not cut the dosh going there by 99% ? Therefore England (where you will have MPs) is loverly jubberly and maybe the Scottish students will have to start paying fees again and maybe the people in scotland will have to pay when they go to the chemists. I mean if we dont give them a penny we could possibly wipe out the debt and im sure its some sort of justice for Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS role in the banking f++k up.
Wouldn't leave much of an army to get involved in various pointless conflicts either, so savings all round. Although to be fair the university and prescriptions are locally funded so that won't generate enough money for salt of the earth hard working Englanders to gold plate their saveloys I'm afraid.
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The tories didn't talk much about cuts during the election as shades of 1979 not too popular and now they are mouthing off to keep the IMF happy - lets see what they really come up with in a couple of weeks and whether it has the potential to cut the deficit or go too far and kill too many jobs just as UK PLC gets back on it's feet?
Back to benefits and there really is a lot of room for a massive re think... £500 per week limit sounds fair but they need to sort out the admin and form filling to halve the cost of delivery and reduce fraud... more high tech / new thinking
And why are we paying to jail foreigners at £40k per year when they should just be deported?
£500 a week sounds fair? To who? To the claimants it would. But why should they receive anything near that a week when they could never earn it? Why are there so many east europeans that have come into the country and have been willing to work yet our unemployed have been allowed to sit on their arses watching jeremy kyle hoping to get on there one day. The reason is that benefits were/are not available to a lot of new EU member state citizens, so they know they have to work and do.
Just a suggestion if Dave Tory boy is reading. As you dont stand a cat in hells chance of every geting MPs in N Ireland, Wales and Scotland why not cut the dosh going there by 99% ? Therefore England (where you will have MPs) is loverly jubberly and maybe the Scottish students will have to start paying fees again and maybe the people in scotland will have to pay when they go to the chemists. I mean if we dont give them a penny we could possibly wipe out the debt and im sure its some sort of justice for Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS role in the banking f++k up.