Britons should be "less squeamish" about drinking reprocessed Sewage Water

a reply to: LABTECH767

Let's face it the nation requires the better part of her basic infrastructure replaced and upgraded from one end of the island to the other.

We need to build new power sources and require 100,000s of new affordable accommodation for the masses.

But we are skint.

"They" privileged few are not short of a bob or two through, and it all sits in offshore accounts, whilst they plead poverty and somehow miraculously avoid paying any tax.

Canny make it up.

a reply to: andy06shake

Oh the money is there, owed by the same elite that are currently running the country after they and there friends squirrelled it away in tax haven's and abused loopholes in the tax system.

The country is definitely not skint though the Tory's like to claim that it is.

Examples of the harm they are doing include forcing people onto private pension schemes while destroying our state pension system not because there is anything wrong with the state pension system that can not be fixed but because the Tory's governments members and friends have very pressing financial interests in the hedge fund's and equity groups that own the private pension schemes, private pension schemes that are set to collapse as there is not enough young people to keep them going and with them being nothing more than pyramid schemes if more are not putting in than are taking out they fail and fold while the parent company that own them and the Tory's and there backers with shares in those company's will walk away richer and laughing at all the poor saps that put there life savings into them.

Even during this current crisis house prices are still rising.

It can't go on however and they are likely to either collapse rapidly and devastatingly OR the same government if they are still in power will bail out the mortgage company's and find some workaround to freeze the house prices to protect there own personal investments, that is the same government that has our people many in work having to go to food bank's just to survive and unable to heat there homes or even perhaps cook there food this winter.

The truth is we are far from broke BUT we have corrupt and malfeasant government that is funded by a small number of wealthy donors and is only out to serve there interests.

a reply to: Kurokage

There are two types of Conservative government, ones that are patriotic and not about selling stuff off but they went the way of the dodo when Thatcher took over and turned there party into what it then became a slide to the financial extreme right wing but we can divide them between the OLD Conservatives, still not my cup of tea but I could stomach them and the New Conservatives whom are best simply called the Tory party to distinguish them from the more moderate Conservative party.

Though he sold off British rail and that is now making money for various NATIONALISED foreign rail company's owned by other nations such as France and Germany while it is now the most expensive and one of the worst rail services in western Europe (utter humiliation as we invented the Railways) I would still class John Majors term as a CONSERVATIVE rather than a TORY government, part of that was his soft break from Thatcher's more extreme policy's and the fact he had himself grown up on a council estate and knew what it was to have empty cupboards and be hungry as a child, by contrast David Cameron and his successors are all wealthy and mostly not self made, they do not have any idea what it is like to be without or how a single mother with a gaggle of children suffers and works her hands to the bone just to try to feed them like my own mother did (and she was disabled but still worked just to feed her children struggling to make ends meat).

Honestly I think that if the next PM does not get a g0rip and stop with the ideological war upon the people that she is planning there will be riot's, societal collapse and no amount of new powers to the police is going to stop the spiralling crime and disorder this poverty which she is planning to do nothing about is going to unleash.

Her answer is to cut tax, not to re-distribute wealth and redress the growing disparity between incomes and the cost of living but to reduce tax for the rich turning our nation into a tax haven with a broken poverty stricken run down slave population ready to be there domestic servants and slaves, already Cameron took away the legal aid so that his attack upon the poor could not be challenged in court.

That said even the Barristers and Lawyers are striking so what does that tell us about the incompetence and corruption of the Tory government currently in power.

Never mind the Royal Mail, one of the oldest and nationally important organizations in the country for which roads were built and coaching houses constructed, there was a time your postman was a public servant and you could almost always trust him but now they hire low paid temporary workers whom rob from your letters, steal your mail to sell your identity and worse and all because the Tory's sold that off along with the Post Office.