Mr Burns
New member
larus said:The problem with left wing people is that they want to penalise the people that are prepared to work hard, take chances and have an entrepreneurial dive.
They always support the social model, so long as it's other people paying for it. It doesn't matter how inefficient the state is at delivering those services, so long as they are run by the state and those nasty private companies aren't making a profit.
This is what holds this country back. Privatise the health service, make it profit driven, make the government push to improve the price it gets from the privatised health service, but keep it free at the point of devlivery.
This is why Maggie gets so many votes; most people realise that she did a great job (albeit with some mistakes), but she had balls and more integrity than Blair.
When she came to power, our industries were a laughing stock, and we had trade unions ruining the productivity of the country. She had the courage to stand up to them and put them in their place. Note how little of the reforms have been revoked by this 'Labour' government. The industries that couldn't compete were allowed to die, so that others would be started that could compete and add real value to the economy.
Blair is just a poor imitation of Maggie, and she was one of the first people who he invited to Downing Street after his '97 victory.