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JMLanders
So, what's the hitch?
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Lincsbodger
Looks good to me. The only thing i would change is to cut foreign aid entirely, and save another £5Bn
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Sounds good but the only thing thats going to happen is VAT up to 20% in about a weeks time! 
No one can get out of paying VAT so it is the obvious thing to hit.
No one can get out of paying VAT so it is the obvious thing to hit.
Nice plan, but how do you guarantee work to several million people? Are many of them employable? If you're talking about job creation schemes, ie. litter picking, clearing canals, then organising this and paying people to do it will cost more than we pay in benefits. We live in an increasingly technical and sophisticated world. There aren't millions of unskilled jobs out there waiting to be filled.
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Johnmelad502
And what work will you guarantee to give that soldier that lost both legs in Afghanistan?
While he is in hospital learning to walk do we pay him nothing which will mean his family starve to death?
You really are one of life's contenders for removal from the GP .
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Lincsbodger
Funny you should mention that.
If you threw out all the immigrants, that would immediately create 1.6 million vacancies.
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joinerjohn
Looks good on paper, but would be completely different in reality.
Double betting duty, Increased tobacco duty and raising alcohol duty, would see these activities drop as people tightened their belts. So the revenue raised by this means is , at the very least, questionable.
Cutting the size of the civil service is all well and good, but what are the people who lose their jobs going to do?
Cutting UB by 10% means hitting those with the least income of all. (and before anyone comments, not all people that are unemployed are wasters)
A better idea might be to increase all taxation including income tax.
Get rid of the road fund licence for cars and put petrol and diesel up.
Let's have a re-appraisal of MP's wages and expenses too. If the public sector have to endure a reduction in wages of say 15% then MP's should possibly be forced to have a wage reduction of 25%.
Most civil servants will be working a 39hr week and have 4 weeks holiday per year. Lets make our MP's do exactly the same.
Government should lead by example, but don't hold your breath that they actually might.
Double betting duty, Increased tobacco duty and raising alcohol duty, would see these activities drop as people tightened their belts. So the revenue raised by this means is , at the very least, questionable.
Cutting the size of the civil service is all well and good, but what are the people who lose their jobs going to do?
Cutting UB by 10% means hitting those with the least income of all. (and before anyone comments, not all people that are unemployed are wasters)
A better idea might be to increase all taxation including income tax.
Get rid of the road fund licence for cars and put petrol and diesel up.
Let's have a re-appraisal of MP's wages and expenses too. If the public sector have to endure a reduction in wages of say 15% then MP's should possibly be forced to have a wage reduction of 25%.
Most civil servants will be working a 39hr week and have 4 weeks holiday per year. Lets make our MP's do exactly the same.
Government should lead by example, but don't hold your breath that they actually might.
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Johnmelad502
Its all doom and gloom, with the Tories in now we are going to go into a double dip recession anyway
Sorry, wrong quote answered, old age don't you know.
Its all doom and gloom, with the Tories in now we are going to go into a double dip recession anyway
Answer the question.
erm.....what question
Its ok, saw your repost
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