I can't believe I'm saying that tbh but I can't vote for this current lot. They deserve to loose the next GE and if my vote can help with that maybe happening that's fine with me.
Whats stopped you voting Labour
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Go for it, instead on whining all the time,
Is that just a bunch of wild accusations, or can you demonstrate evidence?
Start with no.1 please.
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Simply too many people vote for their party, regardless of what keeps happening to them.
Can't vote for the opposite lot because they keep getting told they are worse.
Yes, I googled it, just a wild accusation.
Labour do suffer from that problem come election time. Mrs T's mantra is alive and well for some. A big help for the Tory. The problem with that as I see it is that few study the actual end result of the changes and just accept that they must be great. Odd thing is that when it comes to things like privatization these people will wonder with areas like power but seem to be incapable of widening the scope. It's a solution that will not fit all. Interesting one on public transport. A company has a route that doesn't pay for itself. They want subsidies - they wont increase prices on ones that do make a profit to cover the deficit or even consider a solution of that nature. Loads of small companies spread around the country doesn't help either.
Mrs T did one thing that proved to be very unpopular. When we moved here we just paid the rates. Couple of hundred a year. Probably kept low for political problems with increasing it but the money to run services must have been coming from some where. She introduced poll tax. New ratable values on houses and all earners in a property paid. Fair enough really as all of those would be using the services provided but the total was a lot higher than the old rates for lots of people. LOL So they ditch that and went council tax - still costing a lot more than the earlier rates. We are just paying for the services a different way to how it had been done. A more recent change is councils can keep their business rates if they want. Levelling up???? Some councils get way more of those than others.
Then there is the taxation ---> support merry go round. There is a rumour that we can expect a taxation increase this year. LOL Probably means we need one but will the Tory do it? Personally I wonder what a large increase in the min wage would do. Zero if the increase was reflected across all earners.
NHS, a select committee interviewing an emergency treatment specialists with a study relating service times to excess deaths and suggesting other solutions than the gov forking out millions to shift people to the private sector that isn't working well already but it clears beds. Not that many really per hospital.
Another NHS one that I can't check. A large number of people who could be working if they could get routine work done. Instead they are off sick. Curiously this fits in with a BofE comment on the numbers of economically inactive people increase. Other reasons as well - pass.
A nurses perspective - not enough of them. All problems down to them so just cope. She's thinking about dropping a shift for a better life. She is a person that really does want to do the job. She wont strike. She works in a larger children's A&E. When other hospitals are having problem guess where they send the kids too just to make things worse. Like all A&E they get numbers of people who shouldn't have gone there. More understandable really with kids.
Sunak and the public sector. Lets just forget this years inflation. Seems the OBR can't cope with changes due to Ukraine and covid residues. Who's to say they will be correct next year? The pay settlements are always done this way - forecasts or dictated. Keep mentioning the increases asked for and don't negotiate in the hope that the strikes will just end. When companies do that sort of thing they do plan for it, Some can over produce for a while and await stocks to run down during the strike. A hidden feature of the 70's.
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