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26416 posts #1 | 5 is hardly worth the bother | |||||
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I didn't vote for tbe party which mistreated Muslims. Did you? | |||||
2005 Labour got 355 seats from 35.2 % of the vote on a 62.4% turnout. 2015 Tories got 331 seats from 36.9% of the vote on a 661% turnout. Left wing fannies moan the second one is sooooo unfair and we need electoral reform. But didn't utter a peep,about the first one. | ||||||
26416 posts #3 | I didn't vote for the party that has overseen a shortage of teachers, doctors, nurses, hospital beds, primary care places, Sure Start centres, schools begging for basic items... | |||||
11465 posts #4 | I am so sad that you can’t see how we have gone from being the worlds most productive country in the industrial revolution to languishing as the lowest of the G20 and how that impacts our ability to fund such things. | |||||
Let it never be said that I was silent when they needed me - William Wilberforce | ||||||
26416 posts #5 | I just think we're not very good at things. We made a good start and used our huge empire as a captive pool of consumers. Being a conservative country we saw no need to push on and rested on our laurels until people overtook us. US then | |||||
11465 posts #6 | Why does no political party know and work on this? | |||||
Let it never be said that I was silent when they needed me - William Wilberforce | ||||||
6437 posts #7 |
Because the ruling class aren't interested. I've said it before and its worth repeating, why spend £20o million building a factory and making things when you can buy shares and end up richer for less risk. The history of modern British capitalism in a nutshell. The US is currently going through the same process. | |||||
8890 posts #8 | But the facts show the opposite, Obi old bean. | |||||
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Which factories has he or his companies actually built? | |||||
8890 posts #10 | JCB/Anthony Bamford investing £50 million in a new factory to be built in Staffordshire next year. | |||||
6437 posts #11 |
Jim Radcliffe doesn't own JCB. | |||||
8890 posts #12 | You're using unnecessary pedantry. | |||||
26416 posts #13 | It's the way that someone can have £20 000 000 000 in the first place that amazes me. If his diggers made that much it's because the people who built the diggers were grossly underpaid doing their work. Or people had to pay over the odds for the product because rivals didn't reduce prices to win a trade monopoly. Cartels. | |||||
8890 posts #14 | Radcliffe doesn't have £20 billion sat in a bank account. He owns a company of what his share is currently valued at that. If he took his money out, the economy would be far worse off. | |||||
26416 posts #15 | Radcliffe doesn't have £20 billion sat in a bank account. He owns a company of what his share is currently valued at that. If he took his money out, the economy would be far worse off. | |||||
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