Why dont the government.......

[Mike400]

Why dont the government start treating this recession as a national emergency and start cutting back?

i.e. cut back on benefits, on gaza, on iraq, on the olympics, and start using taxpayers money to help those who actually pay / paid tax?

I want my tax to be spent on building a better Britain, not to fund the social lives of a million others who cant be bothered working but want a big lifestyle!

[AndrewTait]

Here! Here! Also, while we're at it, cut back on the expenses MP's can claim. If we are having to cut back because of the way they have managed the economy, why not them!!!

Edited by AndrewTait on Monday 19th January 11:01

[Mars]

Do you think the govt reads PH?

Write to your MP. It's the only way you'll make your voice heard.

[paul26982]

and theres another bank bailout, 300 billion

fed up of this fking place

[Plotloss]

100% of the income tax collected, thats all of it, the lot, the whole kit and caboodle, nine yards, shebang and every last penny of income tax collected in the UK goes on one thing and one thing alone.

Benefits.

EVERYTHING else, education, defence, the entire civil service and all their ludicrous benefits and Brown's preposterous borrowing in order for him to try to achieve the impossible come out of indirect taxation.

In short, dont expect a tax cut soon, he's painted himself into a corner.

[Nobody You Know]

.......just fk off?

Oh right I thought we had to complete the sentence.

Anyway the reason they don't cut back is because Gordon Clown is saving the world remember.

[Fittster]

Mars said:

Write to your MP. It's the only way you'll make your voice heard.

Kill your MP, it's the most effective way of bringing about significant political changes.

[ratbane]

Public Sector pay cuts!!

[S3_Graham]

ratbane said:

Public Sector pay cuts!!

cutting police / ambulance / firemen pay.. yeah great idea!!!

although putting a stop to this health and safety brigade wasting money would be amazing...

they are making my company buy us 'bump hats', new ladders, harness's for anything over 3 steps and tabbards for inside a hanger... what a waste of money...

[Mc Lovin]

I'm glad that my council tax has just gone up, thats really helping me out alot at the moment. But the Scots dont get any raise in tax........

[Mars]

Fittster said:

Mars said:

Write to your MP. It's the only way you'll make your voice heard.

Kill your MP, it's the most effective way of bringing about significant political changes.

This is serious. Make yourself heard by them.

www.writetothem.com

It takes a minute to fire off an email to your local MP. Mine usually replies. I'll let you know if I get a reply from mine.

[Skipppy]

S3_Graham said:

ratbane said:

Public Sector pay cuts!!

cutting police / ambulance / firemen pay.. yeah great idea!!!

although putting a stop to this health and safety brigade wasting money would be amazing...

they are making my company buy us 'bump hats', new ladders, harness's for anything over 3 steps and tabbards for inside a hanger... what a waste of money...

The NHS is one of the worlds biggest employers. I would love to know the percentrage of those employed by the NHS who are actually patient-facing.

The private sector effectively supports the public sector as the public sector don't generate any revenue (so we're led to believe), yet the private sector is a shrinking entity at the moment. They are going to HAVE to make public sector redundancies soon.

[dibbers006]

Do you think Managing Government is like Football... easy for us to shout from the stands but not so easy when you are down at Grass Roots?

Or maybe they are actually terrible at it... kind of like <insert rival Team Manager>

[Plotloss]

Skipppy said:

S3_Graham said:

ratbane said:

Public Sector pay cuts!!

cutting police / ambulance / firemen pay.. yeah great idea!!!

although putting a stop to this health and safety brigade wasting money would be amazing...

they are making my company buy us 'bump hats', new ladders, harness's for anything over 3 steps and tabbards for inside a hanger... what a waste of money...

The NHS is one of the worlds biggest employers. I would love to know the percentrage of those employed by the NHS who are actually patient-facing.

The private sector effectively supports the public sector as the public sector don't generate any revenue (so we're led to believe), yet the private sector is a shrinking entity at the moment. They are going to HAVE to make public sector redundancies soon.

7000 already gone from the Revenue arent there?

Laugh? I nearly shat.

[ratbane]

Skipppy said:

S3_Graham said:

ratbane said:

Public Sector pay cuts!!

cutting police / ambulance / firemen pay.. yeah great idea!!!

although putting a stop to this health and safety brigade wasting money would be amazing...

they are making my company buy us 'bump hats', new ladders, harness's for anything over 3 steps and tabbards for inside a hanger... what a waste of money...

The NHS is one of the worlds biggest employers. I would love to know the percentrage of those employed by the NHS who are actually patient-facing.

The private sector effectively supports the public sector as the public sector don't generate any revenue (so we're led to believe), yet the private sector is a shrinking entity at the moment. They are going to HAVE to make public sector redundancies soon.

Look, the whole country is in the sh*t at the moment. If nobody works, the fiscal taxation system goes down the pan, and there's a deficit in the public spending purse.

Everyone needs to faceup to the fact that we all need to take hits here - including the public sector.

[JagLover]

S3_Graham said:

ratbane said:

Public Sector pay cuts!!

cutting police / ambulance / firemen pay.. yeah great idea!!!

In the depression public sector wages were cut and it was a mutiny as a result by the Royal Navy that forced us off the gold standard.

Things aren't that bad yet, but it remains possible we may have to call upon the IMF, who may impose stringent conditions for their help.

[Fittster]

Mars said:

Fittster said:

Mars said:

Write to your MP. It's the only way you'll make your voice heard.

Kill your MP, it's the most effective way of bringing about significant political changes.

This is serious. Make yourself heard by them.

www.writetothem.com

It takes a minute to fire off an email to your local MP. Mine usually replies. I'll let you know if I get a reply from mine.

And which government policies have been changed by peaceful protests (hunting ban, attack on Iraq)?

[Fittster]

Mars said:

Fittster said:

Mars said:

Write to your MP. It's the only way you'll make your voice heard.

Kill your MP, it's the most effective way of bringing about significant political changes.

This is serious. Make yourself heard by them.

www.writetothem.com

It takes a minute to fire off an email to your local MP. Mine usually replies. I'll let you know if I get a reply from mine.

And which government policies have been changed by peaceful protests (hunting ban, attack on Iraq)?

[andy-xr]

Mc Lovin said:

I'm glad that my council tax has just gone up, thats really helping me out alot at the moment. But the Scots dont get any raise in tax........

I looked through a few of the bigger raises and they appeared to be the most significant losers in Icelandic banks. I havent researched enough to make it stick, so I'm sure thats coincidental and that the money they invested was long term pension funds

[fatboy b]

Do you really think the Government give a toss?

I know it's the Sunday Mail, but I saw this yesterday, which in my mind proves they're so far out of touch..