On 05/03/17 19:37, ARW wrote:
On 05/03/2017 19:30, Tim Watts wrote:

I really think the gov has absolutely no idea what they are doing.

I would not be surprised if you were correct.

Of course I blame the voters....



That and the fact that there are few politicians of calibre any more -
just careerists.

Labour has been taken over (again) by wet liberal types who would rather
solve non problems as long as they can add the label "diversity" to it -
fiddling whilst Rome burns. Corbyn is a joke - a caricature of Lenin
without the character.

What happened to the proper Labour party as started by Kier Hardy, when
the remit was to represent the working man?

I have some socialist ideals - the NHS is conceptually a good idea (but
poorly run and with unrealistic expectations now). Benefits are
necessary for many people - sometimes just briefly, sometimes longer.
But at the same time you have **** takers left right and centre. I
worked in a South London jobcentre on the front desk in the 90s - saw
both sides.

But I am mostly pro capitalism. Except that what we have is not
capitalism proper. We have Google et al getting away with fiddling its
taxes to bugger all whilst Hammond just announced that everyone gets to
do 4 returns to HMRC a year instead of one. Small businesses are stifled
by excessive onuses which are more appropriate to a corporation.


And RBS should have been allowed to die as well as Northern Rock. And
those in charged tried and gaoled like Nick Leeson.

Private savers would have been reimbursed to the standard protection
limit anyway.


Rant over...