Labour Conference.

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

'They've improved plenty of things, not least the NHS, education and the economy'.

If you consider flushing billions and billions of extra pounds per year down the school toilets then you are right they have imnproved things, mainly the spend profile. If however you right mindedly require an output for cash input , measured in real key performance indicators and not 'number of second homes now owned by doctors' then they have been an unmitigated disaster. Oh and the manufacturing argument remains. Sure the previous Lab and Tiry governments did little to stem our industrial decline but , unlike virtiually al other European economies , there is absolutely noi incentivisation in manufacturing in this country. Spain,Germany,Eire,Portugal (the list goes on by the way) have all introduced investment tax incentives in the last 10 years to lure investment in manufacturing. All we got was a dome, expensive football gorund in London, some sort of supposed on-time Olympic village and some select rebuild contracts in Iraq.
Marevllous performance Tony and troop.....

Don't hide yourself behind some pink rose idealism...

'Labour they haven't and don't work..'

TNBA

TTF

Why on earth would anyone want to base manufacturing here. We've got one of the highest wage rates in the world. Why base something here when you could base it in Portugal and pay the staff a third of the wages? That isn't where GB's competitives advantage is. We are great ideas people, we need to teach people how to properly exploit these ideas.

 

[looney]

It is Ramadan, a time for prayer, fasting, Glory and Matyrdom.

Lets hope a few delegates at Blackpool detonate near the podium.

 

[The Large One]

It is Ramadan, a time for prayer, fasting, Glory and Matyrdom.

Lets hope a few delegates at Blackpool detonate near the podium.

Not exactly Mr I'm Up With The News, are you? They're in Manchester, you peenarse.

Detonate anything in Blackpool and no-one would notice for six weeks.

 

[looney]

Not exactly Mr I'm Up With The News, are you? They're in Manchester, you peenarse.

Detonate anything in Blackpool and no-one would notice for six weeks.

Very sorry Efendi, forgive my mistake. All those Northern shitholes look the same to me.

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

Sorry Hatters



'Why on earth would anyone want to base manufacturing here. We've got one of the highest wage rates in the world. Why base something here when you could base it in Portugal and pay the staff a third of the wages? That isn't where GB's competitives advantage is. We are great ideas people, we need to teach people how to properly exploit these ideas.'


We are not ideas people.Wealth is based on a variety of elements, one of which is the creation of things...i.e. manufacturing. It is totally delusionary and wrong to say that we create ideas and let third world type countries build them on our behalf.. Especially when , in the not too distant future, energy prices will make a home based manufacting and distribution policy look very attractive. How about Eire then? Cost of living higher than here but greater investment and therefore greater welath generation from wiothin and less BoP negativity. Whitehall and general Civil Service penpushers generate no wealth for a country. Guys making pastic widgets do.. simple as that .

TNBA

TTF

 

[looney]

Are you trying to say that Ireland is richer than us?

anyway you fail to grasp the basics of economics, its all about Value Added and productivity growth to create wealth.