'But what if there is no ongoing demand for those things? We haven't built a new railway in a long time - large infrastructure projects can't go on indefinitely.'
Well isn't it about time we built some more railways if only to save Gordon Bennett's "planet" because according to him "we have only 50 days left to save the planet". As long as there are people, there will be a need for infrastructure and for renewing crumbling infrastructure and improving the lives of people.
'Why wouldn't we have railways? They were originally private enterprise back in the 19th century, they weren't originally built by the state.'
Because we are subsidising them with our taxpayer money as well as handing it out willy-nilly to Labour luvvies and what are laughingly called Labour "bigwigs in charidees.
'They were originally private enterprise back in the 19th century, they weren't originally built by the state.'
But in case you hadn't noticed, we have improved them since and improved safety standards and we transport millions more people and they need cheaper fares when we have some of the most expensive fares in Europe as per usual in rip-off Britain where an Oxbridge elite class work in unison with fat cats to rip ordinary people off.
'We don't really have a strong farming sector...and a lot of the subsidies go to filthy rich people like the Duke of Gloucester'
Well then we need to create one and cut subsidies to landed gentry to erect wind farms on their land with our taxpayer money thanks to the munifence of the Baronesses and Gordon Bennett and his friends.
'I don't understand this. Is this Gordon Bennett speak?
It means giving people money so they can live in dignity.'
Do you think money grows on trees? Are you in agreement with Gordon Bennett and his friends? What we need is jobs, industry, infrastructure, investment, development, production, manufacturing not "training schemes in further education colleges" for steel workers who have been made redundant because the EU bankers say it is illegal to support our own workers and our own industries.
'You have clearly said before that you thought the unions were too strong in the 80s.'
And they were. But I love Thatcher because for the first time ever we had a Prime Minister who stood up for us, the aspirational middle class, and shared our values as opposed to the out of touch values of the liberal intelligentsia, the metropolitan elite, the Nooting Hill set, the luvvies, the PPEs, the modernisers and Gordon Bennett and his friends.
'How many new airports are needed every year? How will we sustain these jobs without selling the stuff to other countries?'
Because as Corbyn rightly says we will create better living standards, employment and prospects for our people so that they can achieve more and actualise themselves and create more productive products that eleveate the living standards of all the people instead of being crushed by austerity while the elite attend Piers Gaveston parties and burn £50 notes in front of homeless people while dismiising everyone in poverty as being genetically too stupid to be like them. Instead of QE for the bankers and their bonuses and champagne and offshore accounts, we will do a people's QE that will improve the infrastructure and living standards of the country with our own taxpayer money instead of wasting it willy-nilly on charidees staffed by Labour luvvies who are temporarily out of work because the public turfed them out in an election.
'What??? How will high speed broadband help us to sell expensive steel to Germany?'
We will create a better website for our steel, for a start. Broadband is to unleash the inventive capacities of our people in the new digital age and economy so that we can create new services, new software and new solutions that we can sell to the world.
'but how are we going to sustain this infrastructure and jobs if we can't sell it to anybody but our own population? '
Because better living standards help our people to work more productively, just like supplying a roof over people's heads gives them the stability to do more than just survive by sleeping on the streets.
'That core industry would provide less employment than we currently have, given much of our jobs are predicated around providing services & products to those not in the UK.'
Yes, but just like the legendary Donald Trump says, we will bring jobs back home to create products for our own people instead of importing them and importing steel from abroad which longterm puts our own people out of work. It's not New Labour, it's Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, it's a new world. As I have said before "the people are back!" and Gordon Bennett is gone expcept to be rolled out in crises so that he strut up and down a stage lecturing the dwindling faithful Labour luvvies on how not to do it.
'How many people do you think the Premier league employs? '
I don't know but that is not what I am saying, I am saying we sell the TV rights to billions of people who watch it across the planet. Just like pop music or computer games or BBC programmes, it is one of our soft exports and something that we are good at.
'Most innovation is US based, as that is where the profit is'
Do the Chines make no profit, do the Germans make no profit? There is always profit if you make products that the world wants to buy. We have the skilled people to do it but we lack investment due to short-termism and waste of our public money to hand it over to unemployed Labour luvvies doing stints in charidees.
'Interesting that you implicitly accept that the UK selling steel to India is a rip off.'
No I don't. India can make it's own steel and we can make our own. If we can't make enough then we have to import it, but for Heaven's sake, let's make some.
'exactly where else is huge demand for steel & other heavy industry going to come from in the future, if not from countries where they can make it cheaper themselvses/ buy it cheaper from China?'
The purpose of our own industry is not to beat China in a price war, it is to support our own national needs for our own infrastructure and to keep our own workers employed. It is "sustainability", Gordon Bennett's favourite word but he only applies it to windmills and the "planet".
'Yes, because the last Labour govt. increased taxes to 50p in the pound'
Yes it increased it to 50p about 13 days before the election as an Oxbridge teenage stunt to try and put the Tories on the backfoot as the Labour luvvies saw power slipping from their greasy grasp. They are not serious and never were and now that they have someone serious - Corbyn - they are all trying to undermine him and stab him in the back.
'I hate Corbyn's foreign policy & love of foreign dictators. I also think he's a vote loser. New Labour understand that you get elected on the centre ground.'
OK. You keep voting for Liz Kendall then or even Cameron and Osborne against the Corbyn you dislike. See if they improve society for you.