How many people actually believe this twaddle ???????

[ivanhoe]

COPIED AND PASTED.

QUOTE. ""Cameron rolls Thatcher revolution on

The Thatcher Governments of the 1980s gave people more power and control over their own lives by selling council houses to tenants and shares in nationalised industries to voters.

However, the Conservative revolution only went so far: the delivery as well as the funding of most local hospitals, schools, and council services stayed in state hands.

Today, the Prime Minister will give notice that the revolution's to roll on: in a speech to civil servants, he'll pledge "to turn government on its head, taking power away from Whitehall and putting it into the hands of people and communities".

Elected Commissioners will set policing priorities; parents will run schools; charities, clubs, voluntary groups and local people will take over swimming pools, libraries, social services, youth provision, and services for vulnerable people, such as drug and alcohol addiction programmes.

Edmund Burke's Little Platoons will evolve naturally into Steve Hilton's Big Society.

David Cameron will say: "The real question is: how can we achieve these aims when there is so little money?...The answer is reform - radical reform. We need to completely change the way this country is run.""

Unquote.

Aside from anything else, Mr David Cameron is saying that we have "so little money".

I guess Mr Cameron hopes we will all sit back and forget the billions we send overseas. The £50 plus million a day we fund into the EU. Plus the ring fenced expenditures are almost a bottomless pit care of "GREAT BRITAIN'S CHARITABLE GENEROSITY" round the world.

A question. Would you rather the State care of your income tax funded Britain's vital services ?

Or would you rather local charietes funded schools ect, because the government care of "the state" washed it's hands of it's responsibility's ?

'The whole of Europe have enjoyed much better services for decades because they pay higher income tax rates than we do, and EU governments invest much more of their GNP into these vital services.' Nope, people pay into insurance schemes for health care; the level of taxation pays for the large bureaucracy that exists at every level in Belgium, and I can't see that the public services are better than ours. I would also add that Belgium is next in line after the PIIGS as it has no Government still, and no one in charge. Road tax is enormous here, but so are the pot holes.

The Belgians are impressed that we got a coalition after 5 days; they are still waiting after 7 months here.

"" Add message | Report | Message poster scaryteacher Tue 01-Feb-11 13:29:57
'The whole of Europe have enjoyed much better services for decades because they pay higher income tax rates than we do, and EU governments invest much more of their GNP into these vital services.' Nope, people pay into insurance schemes for health care; the level of taxation pays for the large bureaucracy that exists at every level in Belgium, and I can't see that the public services are better than ours. I would also add that Belgium is next in line after the PIIGS as it has no Government still, and no one in charge. Road tax is enormous here, but so are the pot holes.

The Belgians are impressed that we got a coalition after 5 days; they are still waiting after 7 months here.""

I repeat.

'"""The whole of Europe have enjoyed much better services "for decades" because they pay higher income tax rates than we do, and EU governments invest much more of their GNP into these vital services.'""unquote.

The Third world would be impressed with us.

Maybe the Belgians should all come over and visit and live for a while, and find out how poor a vast majority of British people are, comparedto how well off the rich are, and how expensive everfything is, for a supposedly civilised country ????

The Tories are the definitition of irresponsible - they are not taking responsibility for the banks, or the NHS, or schools, etc. In fact they are washing their hands of the lot of us, isnt it time we washed our hands of them?

Oh gawd, please dont encourage Ivanhoe again by dredging this up!

'and how expensive everfything is, for a supposedly civilised country ????'

Suggest you come to Belgium to look at that Ivanhoe. Dh back in UK at the moment with orders to go to Tesco as it is sooo much cheaper than here. Bet you don't pay between 1 euro 32 and 1 euro 75 for a litre of milk.

You also ignore (again) that Health services on the continent are paid for by a combination of govt investment and personal insurance, so there is no NHS here.

We don't pay higher taxes in Switzerland, and services are ok here, schools are excellent and people are wealthier.

They attract in high incomes take a smaller percentage of a larger income, and share it to give everyone a better standard of living.

And they don't interfere in any ones elses wars......and this is from the wife of an ex forces man of 22 years!