A mixed economy Imps, that's the way to go imo. A free, but fairly regulated, market in goods and services, but with essential services like Health, Transport, and Utilities held in public ownership and run for the benefit of all.
Exactly what the current Labour manifesto proposes.
No the Labour manifesto just jumps on the premise that more and more money needs to go in to everything. There is no thought given to why so much more needs to go in each year and to eradicate all the siphons that have been attached to the barrel draining money away.
All this legal corruption needs wiping out. All these feeds that have lots of non state setups drawing state money out of the state all above board. Not just a Tory problem. It is the Centrist setup.
I have no problem with Health, Transport, Utilities being held in public ownership however it needs running properly and not have the bosses, owners or workers constantly asking for more. Publicly owned organisations are not for profit. They should cost less than private. The NHS SHOULD cost us a lot less for the same treatment as private.
And treasury income needs sorting out. Quite simply if you benefit from trading in the UK or being based in the UK then you pay the relevant taxes here. Doesn;t matter where your head office is. If you are selling stuff to the UK from the UK then you pay taxes for that privilege .
There needs to be a much simpler set of rules that are fully enforced. A real social contract that the contributors and recipients agree to and any attempts by the contributors to renege on the deal should be prosecuted as well as the recipients needing to accept their lot once it is agreed.
If all the people who earnt money from being in the UK paid their taxes here where they earn their money then we wouldn't be needing to argue and if on the flip those who represent the recipients would stop trying to make everybody a victim and actually dealt with the real needy we would have no problems there either.
Call it capitalism, socialism, mixed economy or anything else because that is a name. They all work the same, The rich put in to help the poor. The problem as always is both sides asking for too much (collectively not individual cases) which means of course that the really needy suffer because of those that aren't really needy and all business and rich getting a bad name because of those that don't follow the rules.
But the main point as I said is it isn;t just about putting more money in. All state organisations need to start being run properly like businesses without the profit aspect.
Education or Health would cost whatever it cost but without auditing and running it properly money starts leaking out again and then you need more and more to replace it.
It is really strange for me as a parent to hear on the BBC head teachers talking about how they are having to make teachers redundant when you go to parents evenings at schools (primary and secondary) where Apple have made their fortune selling tablets and policies like "give every child a hot meal."
They can't afford books but they have hundreds of ipads and children regardless of if their parents can afford to feed them and do so get a free hot meal every day.
Get rid of the NMW for youngsters and encourage businesses to start taking on youngsters and training them up, giving them day release, REAL apprenticeships on a lower wage increasing as they become worth more to the business. These people are worth far more to the economy than someone with a degree in human studies that works in a call centre for the rest of their life. Young people would have a choice then. Go to uni, got straight to work at lower money but with the incentive of gaining experience on the job they are training to do at the same time.
That would reduce Uni back down to a sensible level and then you can scrap the fees.
