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I am guessing from your posting style that you are 13-14, while I welcome the fact that someone so young is taking an interest in politics I do think that posting a thread with 3 day old news that has long since been dismissed is sloppy and careless in the sense that you did not check the news sites to see if that article was still fresh, likewise you made a glib statement about the election without having done any research. While your contributions are of course welcome you do need to do your research to avoid looking stupid in future

:lol: :lol: Got a client coming at 4 so should be able to discuss the matter further about 6

It is right that there should be reorganising within the NHS and the money diverted to frontline health care I read a while back that there are SEVEN layers of management in the NHS, surely 5 of those layers could be removed and the money saved go to frontline health care, I also read some years ago admittedly that for every nurse that was being employed there was something like 40 paper shufflers, there is plenty of room for rooting out waste and stripping out the layers of management within the NHS

They had 13 years to reverse things and bring in improvements and so on but they didn't at all

The NHS along with foreign aid are the 2 areas which are ringfenced against cuts

I would not send the military into any overseas conflict, UN or not, unless there was a serious risk to British interests or British subjects, I supported the Falklands because British citizens were in grave danger and that I felt a long time ago that the Falklands could be a future goldmine for oil which drilling tests seem to be confirming, oil in that region could transform us in decades to come, my prediction was right, while that makes me a bit of a hypocrite given that I was opposed to the Iraq war as that was about oil the fact is that Argentina had they kept the Falklands could have got all the oil rights, it was right to kick them out. I don't want the army patrolling the streets of Britain but I can see a role for them in riot control and for example dealing with G20/G8 protests etc

I use private healthcare because of waiting times to see consultants and waiting times to be operated on, when I had my knee reconstruction it took me 3 weeks to see a consultant and I was operated on 11 days later, had that been NHS I would have waited 6 months for the op most likely, plus private wards have much higher standards of cleanliness and hygiene whereas NHS there is risk of MRSA etc, stuff that.

I don't for a second believe that NI is going directly to the NHS, it is going into central government coffers to spend on things like illegal wars. With my proposal the money people will be paying out will be going directly towards healthcare

I am against the use of the UK army for anything other than defending this country domestically, we should not be the worlds policeman it is not our responsibility, I would not accept EU control over the army, American control, any control, I would purely have the army as a domestic force and maybe helping the police for example controlling riots and demonstrations etc but the army should be British controlled and deal only on British soil.

Dubai keeps its costs down by expoliting particularly Indians and paying them next to nothing and confiscating their passports so they can't leave the country, most Indians working on construction sites in Dubai are paid on average $1.30 an hour, in many cases even less, am I advocating that in this country ? course not. But I think people should make their own decisions on how to spend their money hence my tax proposals, VAT would go up to fund things like the police, the military etc but as someone who pays private health insurance already why should I pay national insurance on top of that ? far better would be to scrap NI and put the money in peoples pockets to take out private health insurance, under my proposal everyone in work would subscribe to a private health insurance scheme, everyone in work would insure themselves against redundancy and unemployment thus reducing the burden of the welfare state.

By cutting income tax for ALL down to 10% or even over time abolishing it altogether there would be 23m people desperate to come here mate, it would leave so much money in people's pockets, businesses would want to set up here, the worlds best surgeons, doctors, scientists, engineers would all want to be coming here due to the lack of taxation. There would be a flat rate sales tax on everything that is higher than it is now but people would still be incredibly better off and more importantly set free from the government spending their money for them and instead trusting them with their own money. Replacing national insurance with private health insurance and unemployment insurance would reduce the strain on the NHS and welfare too.

I am not anti Europe, I am pro Common Market, the basis in which we entered the EC in the first place, I want to see the EU as one big trading zone with little regulation and no centralised interference, I am pro common market as a free trade area, I am totally opposed to Brussels having anything to do with our military, policing, interest rates, working hours etc etc

I was referring to the EU time directive that was essentially telling employers how long their staff could work for, it was not the business of Brussels it is a matter between employee and employer

I didn't say it was a good thing I was giving the OP a reality check, it was the 2nd post he had made where he had not checked his facts (milk being the other)

We don't have to have a carbon copy to what America do, we do not have to copy them 100% but I want to see a 2 tier system, a free NHS for the poor and those who can't afford health insurance and a private health insurance scheme for every working person that they pay into be it BUPA or any of those, slashing taxes or even abolising income tax gives people money in their pockets, those in work would also pay private employment insurance which means that they pay premiums and insurance companies not the state give them the dole when they are out of work.

Unemployment in the short and medium term will rise yes, probably quite significantly for a period but the best way to help unemployment is a strong dynamic economy, low tax, less business regulation and elf n safety $h!t, less meddling from Brussels, low government borrowing, these sort of things will BOOST jobs, cutting business red tape will give directors more time to be doing deals as opposed to mountains of paperwork and regulations. Making it easier to do business in this country will mean more business done and more new businesses started and more jobs created.

Labour have always been the party of the working class and the Tories have always been the party of the rich, Labour totally betrayed their roots whereas the Tories have never pretended to be the champions of the working class

The minimum wage is staying though as are tax credits although I admit I haven't done any research as to the latter

Labour didn't care about the poor though, all they cared about was Notting Hill and Islington luvvies, giving Bush tongue based colonic irrigation and big business, New Labour didn't care about the poor

They have been in power not even 3 months, bit early to judge them Wipe out the debt they will be heroes, fukk it up they will be out of power till I am entitled to a free bus pass, only time will tell

Well the poor hardly did well under labour with the scrapping of the 10p tax rate for example

Like labour and the lib dems could afford another election :rofl: :rofl: both parties are SKINT, the Tories are bankrolled by Ashcroft. Clegg getting an election would be like a Bernard Matthews turkey voting for Xmas

Ireland has been badly hampered by being in the Euro as has Spain. Our weaker pound is helping exports ATM and the export market is absolutely booming, we have much more flexibility with what we can do as we are not in the Euro, I would personally like to see a long term where income tax is abolished, where vat taxation is increased and where state spending is at the bare bones and people are trusted to use their money as they see fit, I would like to see everyone have private health insurance, everyone take out insurance against losing their jobs so that their benefits come from insurance companies as opposed to the state etc, all that stuff will take decades if it was ever bought in though

Do you have any figures that show they were doing better than us ? From memory Germany was up $h!t creek thanks to the Euro and also the integration with E Germany cost billions.

Less banks there to bail out and Scandanavia is not a global economic powerhouse like we are. We are tied at the umbilical cord to America, what happens with them happens with us, Germany is much more aligned to the likes of France