Let's sort the economy.

[joe-90]

We borrow £120 billion each year.

The NHS cost as about £110 billion each year.

So scrap the NHS.

However, we still owe a trillion pounds from previous borrowings which we need to pay back.

If you add Education and Defence together - it comes to about £120 billion.

Therefore if we scrap the NHS and suspend Defence and Education for ten years - we'll be out of debt.

See the size of the mess we are in?

 

[enyam]

The NHS cost as about £110 billion each year.

So scrap the NHS.

How much is collected each year from employee's and employers through NI contributions?

 

[EddieM]

The NHS cost as about £110 billion each year.

So scrap the NHS.

How much is collected each year from employee's and employers through NI contributions?

Not enough to repay our interest and increased borrowings unfortunately, some day the the credit card people will come knocking, and it wont be pleasant.

 

[JBR]

Keep the NHS, defence and education and scrap:

foreign aid;
EU contributions;
all but 100 MPs;
all of the House of Lords;
equality and diversity people.

I'm sure I could go on if I had time.

 

[Norcon]

Why is it our defence force is a lot smaller than France and we pay billions more to fund it?

Sack most of the top brass there for a start. Same with the nhs and education.
There is an army of people not needed and yet we pay them billions every year.

And also the legal system needs reforming. Most barristers are not that clever and don't deserve a fraction of the pay they receive.

I worked for a company once and back in 2000-2003 they went through a bad patch.
The MD didn't go borrowing to try and make it drag on but instead paid off a huge swathe of the office staff with one fell swoop.

That did the job nicely and was all that was needed.

 

[sooey]

There is an army of people not needed and yet we pay them billions every year.

You could include priests and vicars in there too, freeloading bstrds.

 

[Norcon]

There is an army of people not needed and yet we pay them billions every year.

You could include priests and vicars in there too, freeloading bstrds.

Who do they freeload off?

Google wrote

Diocesan Priests are paid a small salary or stipend from the parish collection for daily expenses like clothing, etc. They are also given many fringe benefits like room and board, insurance and retirement, and sometimes a car.

Most parishes are self-supporting and do not receive any money from the diocese. Very poor parishes will receive support from the diocese and some of that may go to the priest for expenses.

 

[sooey]

Who cares, you never see them doing any real work. Bloody parasites.

 

[enyam]

The NHS cost as about £110 billion each year.

So scrap the NHS.

How much is collected each year from employee's and employers through NI contributions?

Not enough to repay our interest and increased borrowings unfortunately, some day the the credit card people will come knocking, and it wont be pleasant.

Thats as maybe but Joe quoted figures or plucked them out the air regarding the cost,if the collected contributions far out weigh the expenditure then why should the NHS be scrapped.

 

[Norcon]

Who cares, you never see them doing any real work. Bloody parasites.

The catholic church is extremely wealthy. Parishioners don't just drop in a few pennies to the basket. Its tenners and twenty pound notes every week.

You're atheist faith can't make you do that. Yours would sooner go to the tabernacle of iniquity.

 

[JBR]

Why is it our defence force is a lot smaller than France and we pay billions more to fund it?

Perhaps it's to do with our having more admirals than ships!

 

[sooey]

You're atheist faith can't make you do that. Yours would sooner go to the tabernacle of iniquity.

Sounds good to me, bet you wish you had a ticket.

 

[jockscott]

Joe,, al the government needs to do is suspend yer benefits for a few years. (along wi all the other internet trolls, like yerself) That way, these billions (or trillions) will be re-payed within months.
WTF is yer girlfriend gaun to do if they scrap the NHS? She must be givin birth every 9 months tae keep ye on the internet (and in beer/drugs) Ye have tae be cause yer minds fuddled,,, fancy thinkin the weather's controlled by the oceans.

(soory fer that last statement folks, nae doubt,when Joe sees this, it will turn unto a thread aboot the weather. (and how without the oceans, we'd have none at all (weather , that is )

 

[big-all]

We borrow £120 billion each year.

The NHS cost as about £110 billion each year.

So scrap the NHS.

However, we still owe a trillion pounds from previous borrowings which we need to pay back.

If you add Education and Defence together - it comes to about £120 billion.

Therefore if we scrap the NHS and suspend Defence and Education for ten years - we'll be out of debt.

See the size of the mess we are in?

as you know its not that simplistic
120 billion is not lost some is recycled into the economy perhaps say 1/3 is recycled as vat and wages spent within the community another say 5% will disappear people sending money to home abroad
another say 30% will be profits from privitised services paying there taxes on profits to the caiman islands

another say 30% will be spent on local uk services

 

[EddieM]

We went bust in 1976 triggering an IMF bailout when we ran a budget deficit of 6%, we now run a budget deficit of double that. This is uncharted territory, historically no country has ever managed to come back from such a parlous state.