William Hague

RE: Our very own Tebbit.

Lol.

 

Here's one for you. that "families" brown has recklessly dismissed

Married couples share their tax codes.

That way the bread winner can earn circa 12k without paying a penny in tax and 80k before paying 40%


Benefits.

All low paid married couples. (wealthy couples already maximise both tax allowances so the rich would effectively not benefit)

By...

Encouraging marriage. Statistically children from married families have higher school attendance and performance, lower crime involvement, better health and less obesilty.

Reduces crime
reduces long term health care problems.
Improves society in general

Encouraging one parent to become a "home maker". Frees up jobs into the market.
Reduces tax burden on the provision of childcare vouchers.
Removes the need and administrative burden for working family tax credits.

Reduces divorce as financial dependancy improves.

Divorce is a significant factor in social disruption.


Overall this policy would make the world a better place.

 

Alternatively

You could sit on your arse bleating and blaming everyone else for your own misfortune.

Instead of growing up and taking a bit of responsibility for yourself for a change.

Just my opinion.

 

Did anyone watch the secret millionaire the other night. The millionaire bloke was staying in the Anfield area of Liverpool.

The area was just rows upon rows of boarded up and burnt out houses - But folk were still living in among them.

I know a lot if it is to do with drugs, but people (even scousers) shouldn't have to live like this in our supposedly developed country.

 

Do you not accept that the market will exploit people?

As far as the market goes people or 'human resources' are merely a commodity. If your skills are in short supply or are particularly specialised, you'll be in a fortunate position and you'll earn a good wage. If, however, you are like the vast majority of people, an average joe on the street who just wants to work to live and bring up a good family, the market won't give a **** about you (or your kids) and will pay you the bare minimum while at the same time always pushing you to give more and more in return for it. You can get on your bike all you want and go from company to company looking for more favourable terms and conditions but the market will dictate that you'll not get much difference between here and there. That's what reliance on the market will do for you - it will always put the money first. Leaving the market to find it's own level and then blaming the average working man ore woman for the fact that he can't get by is dickensian in attitude, it is disgracefully outdated, it is akin to the mill workers who let kids lose their hands in spinning and weaving machines. What the tory 'free market' system never acknowledges, and never accepts, is that people don't start on an equal footing - it takes no account of the fact that people start off with more or less education, with more or less family assets behind them, with better or worse general health, with different belief systems and values installed into them by which ever parents they had the fortune or misfortune to arrive into the world to... you can't blame a person for being born into a single parent family with six siblings, and complete emotional turmoil, no bloody money, and expect them to come top of the class and become a captain of your free market industry. Little Lord Fontleroy, by the way, gets the head start of a butler, nanny, person tutor, place at Eaton and Cambridge laid on... free market sounds like a good idea to him no doubt.

 

The original Tory Boy !!!!!!

PFFFFF!!!!

 

If you think that the Conservative party give a toss about the welfare of the average family

...you must be having a laugh.

They'll say anything - absolutely anything - to regain power. Whatever you want to hear they will say that. If they thought that giving the electorate the promise of genetically modified purple donkies on Blackpool beach would get them power, they would put it into the manifesto. They really don't have any principles whatsoever.

Look at what we've had so far - back in 2006 we had Cameron talking about withdrawing from the ECHR to create our own, more convenient standard of Human Rights (no doubt less inalienable and more flexible, depending on who it is applied to) within the U.K. I was driving to work listening to this nonsense on radio 5 - how it would bring common sense back to britain, get red of euro-redtape, bring justice back to the justice system... by the time I was taking the drive home Cameron was being blasted by the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Solicitor General for being an idiot, and Cameron's team were climbing down at one hell of a rate. The whole thing was over and done with by the next day and no more said about it. Hair brained.

This is typical of the populist, blowing in the wind policies of the Tory party. Whatever they think you want to hear - whether it makes any bloody sense or not. Once they're in get ready for them to fill their own pockets. They'll look after their party members, the five percent of the richest people in the country (if that) and to hell with the NHS, the provision of local services, education, and any part of the criminal justice system that isn't merely as black and white as building bigger prisons and locking people up (i.e. anything that involved long term community engagement, long term prevention, and anything that involved long term support for getting people off drugs).

 

No union power means that bosses can pay workers peanuts

and pay themselves loads of money whether they do a good job or a bad one. Jobs for the boys. </p>

Did you not notice the collapse of the worlds financial system then? (seestars) </p>

 

All those bankers who got this country into trouble.

All of them are Tories.

That's the sort of people the Tories care about, the top few percent, because that's the social class they come from.

They are about feathering their nest and lining their pockets, they don't really care about you or me or anyone like us.

 

You've lost me? Riot?

You blame the government for setting a national minimum wage and EMPLOYERS using it to devalue wages, yet don't want to use the power of collective strength?

Baffling at best

 

Okay...

NHS

- introduce a refundable deposit for doctor's appointments. The number of no-shows costs the country millions, as well as reducing availability for genuine patients.
- take credit card details from all non-UK nationals BEFORE treatment. We get totally ripped off by health tourists, who have no right to free care.
- long-term, I think we may have to move to an NHS for emergency and life-threatening illness only. The rest will ultimately become an unaffordable burden on the taxpayer, so insurance may have to take over.

No need for it to be moved to insurance, the third most despicable trade in the world, after drugs and people trafficking.

IMMIGRATION

- Anything other than the current complete open door policy would be an improvement... Consider economic need, and cultural fit. Uneducated, low skilled, non-english speaking people from third-world countries with entirely different cultural and belief systems (often incompatible with ours) only damage our society.

This has already been done for non-EU nationals.

TAX

- Simplify and reduce

BENEFITS

- Simplify and reduce

It is very easy to blame the weakest in society. Why not attack the "strong"? Because they can afford a good defence?

 

Love him or hate him, he's the reason that Prime Ministers questions on Wednesdays were cut from one hour to 30 minutes, because he used to tie Blair in knots and constantly embarrass him. A genuine politician, which obviously doesn't make it a good thing, but very bright none the less. Regardless of popularity at school, I'd rather have a beer with him and listen to what his vision is then that slimey, lying lovely person, Mandelson.

 

I'd support that if it could be extended to all "couples"...

married or not.

 

Not really

We don't live in a purist environment.

What you are describing is labour as a commodity such as Fuel or gold. Something inert. None dynamic. Something that doesn't have choice.

We also live in an environment where education is free and affordable. If you really want it. We don't live in the times of the industrial revolution. The socialist viewpoint was valid then and unions did great work at that time. Now they are somewhat outdated especially in their traditional form of mass industrial action.

Additionally these so called specialised skills you describe are not that specialised or unavailable. You can chose to train and retrain. (If you have the gumption to do something for yourself rather than have everything done for you). People's level of education is their choice. Your contention that people start out with variable amounts of education doesn't wash with me. Everyone has the same opportunity for education.

Everyone has the choice to spend a bit of time paying attention at school or do a bit of training.

I know many decently well off plumbers, brickies plasterers etc.

Indeed in these trades it is not difficult to become a master rather than a servant.

Whilst I don't expect someone from a single parent family etc etc etc to become a captain of industry it's amazing how many of them are. Not all of them chose to live in sqaullor. It's brilliant how those with the will to fight hard to get out of the situation do. And how others from the same family simply give up. Thats the choice they make.

Whilst Little Lord Fontleroy or Richard Branson might have an unfair advantage Alan Sugar had fairly humble beginnings, although his father was a tailor. Not every billionaire had it handed to him!

 

When are you going to get it

If they are paying you peanuts and you are not a monkey

Then move on.

If you are a monkey however you deserve peanuts.

 

People should take personal responsibility...I agree with that...

but to claim what you claim is naive at best. The market will always try and exploit where it can to maximise profits as in the current system, profits are more important than people. I hold this to be wrong.

 

"You can chose to train and retrain"

Hardly. Who pays the gas bill whilst you go to university?

 

And the real tragedy is...

that in their clamour to appear "electable" to th eill informed masses, the Labour Party have lost sight of the fact that these are the real "enemy within".

 

RE: "You can chose to train and retrain"

Turn it down. sell the telly....

It's called sacrifice.

But in the world that labour have created with all the dolite hand outs where people are so used to having everything handed to them on a plate then I guess no- one would understand that.

 

Employers use it as a tool to increase profits at the cost to the lifestyle of their employees. Didn't you read the news a couple of weeks ago? The union cheif was saying they would have a tantrum if the toris took over.