The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Clint Planet]

So you're saying everyone needs to get on their bike? I can get on board with that

I ride to school every day, dude. Talking of which, I'm late.....

 

[Clint Planet]

So yeah, I think the whole peak oil thing is largely a busted flush these days.

Fingers crossed, eh?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I ride to school every day, dude. Talking of which, I'm late.....

Safe riding

 

[Clint Planet]

lol I had a bet with myself when Clint said that people of a leftish hue love 'bottom up' solutions that the next time I mention one that it wouldn't gain a single 'like' from the regular posters on this thread of that persuasion, but you've gone and out done me.

You calling me a liar, mate? I didn't "like" it because of its patronising tone. As for games-based learning - yep, been on courses, like it, think it defo should be used, have used it in my own practice.

Right, must be off!

 

[Seanjd]

500 free schools to be implemented if Cons are bored back in. Today, It is reported that Gideon will say in his speech that he is to make 'severely deep, unprecedented cuts in publics spending'.

Do people lap this up?

 

[hullefc]

500 free schools to be implemented if Cons are bored back in. Today, It is reported that Gideon will say in his speech that he is to make 'severely deep, unprecedented cuts in publics spending'.

Do people lap this up?

He has made no secret that public spending will return to pre-NHS 1948 levels. Welcome back to the 1920s and 1930s.

 

[Mrk]

He has made no secret that public spending will return to pre-NHS 1948 levels. Welcome back to the 1920s and 1930s.

Only as a % of GDP - worth remembering that the economy is many, many times the size that it was in the 1920's and 30's, so it's a bit of a nothing statistic.

 

[hullefc]

The proportion of national income spent by the government in the 1920s and 1930s was 25% now it is 43%. To get back to Osborne's pre-NHS 1948 levels of 25% that he wants, he will need to cut public spending by 18%.

 

[The Esk]

The proportion of national income spent by the government in the 1920s and 1930s was 25% now it is 43%. To get back to Osborne's pre-NHS 1948 levels of 25% that he wants, he will need to cut public spending by 18%.

To do so would require a 41% cut in current Government spending.

Madness if Osborne thinks he can get away with it.

 

[hullefc]

To do so would require a 41% cut in current Government spending.

Madness if Osborne thinks he can get away with it.

Or to put it another way central government expenditure is roughly £560 billion that means £225 billion of cuts.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Surely it's worth considering here that tax revenues in 2013 came to 34% of GDP, so surely right now, that's the level of spending the state can afford?

 

[hullefc]

Osborne wants to get back to pre-NHS 1948 levels of spending i.e 25% of national income.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Osborne wants to get back to pre-NHS 1948 levels of spending i.e 25% of national income.

Where have you got that from? Government spending in 2013 was around about £700bn, with £108bn borrowed to cover the gap between spending and receipts. So even if Balls is right and the government plan on cutting £70bn from spending (and I note he didn't say cut that in one year so it might be the accumulation of several years), it would still leave spending of just under £650bn.

The 2013 figure I quoted above of 32% of GDP in terms of tax receipts was based upon £612bn in state income for the year. Reducing it to 25% of GDP would require that to drop to around £450bn.

 

[Ashtonian]

question more is then where does the 75% that isnt public spent going to?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

question more is then where does the 75% that isnt public spent going to?

Boats and hoes.