the2real4mafol said:
A.) A prime minister is supposed to represent EVERYONE or a majority in the country and so i can criticise him, it's a supposed democracy. I mean most of these people lead on about 1/3 of the countrie's support because the turnout is so bad. So democratic! And not only that but most western leaders including this one have only done policies in their own interests not that which is best for the country. Leaders in most countries rarely serve who their are meant to serve anymore. But i guess if i was PM i would do things differently to cameron, that's how i see it. But yeah, because we there is a coalition government. There have been many compromises, mostly for the liberals. Who promised free university, which didn't happen! Also, the coalition austerity measures hasn't helped the economy very well (stagnant for 5 years now). They want to do fracking against public approval. They did some tax cuts for the poorest and richest at the same time. They also keep on changing the education system without any idea in how it will affect things (eg introducing more academies, changing exam system). They also seem to want to privatise the NHS which no one wants here. Ok but not great government, although most people especially in the north despise tories. B.) Except public housing isn't free here. It's actually very expensive now because of the "housing boom" in the last 15 years which massively inflated land prices. Public housing is often subsidised here because housing is not affordable anymore. I mean how can an ordinary person afford £150 or $230 a week just on rent? C.) i've never heard of the NHS ever denying someone treatment. The only problems with the NHS is it's waiting lists and it's management. 1.) They are still less likely to join a neo-nazi group like the KKK since they aren't stupid. 3.) I guess the outsourcing of many good manufacturing and service jobs hasn't helped either. 4.) I though Finland with it's free university was doing alright in it's economy. And i suppose the difference between a library and university, is that at university it is applied towards something.
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A) Because he IS representing eveyrone... and helping everyone with HIS polcies, you can't claim he's sold out when he's keeping true to his policies. Sold out would imply he's doing something he didn't promise to do because he got paid not to.
B) I'm confused. By definition all public housing should be subsidized. I mean. Public Housing is housing owned by the government. Why would the government own homes if not to rent it to the poor for cheap to zero money.
C) Then you haven't been paying attention. It's pretty common. Labour made a big deal about it, though it was jut as bad under them
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9706918/50000-denied-treatment-to-save-NHS-cash-claims-Labour.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9127486/Obese-and-smokers-denied-treatment-to-save-money.html
Though you can find tons of invidual stories too if that's your thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2126379/Sentenced-death-old-The-NHS-denies-life-saving-treatment-elderly-mans-chilling-story-reveals.html
Part of why the US system is so expensive is because if an 85 year old has cancer and insurance, the insurance has to pay for the best cancer treatment just to make sure he makes it to 86. They have to do everything. While in the UK, that may be seen as wasteful,
1) Which is... you know. Bad. It's better to have racists and bigots in plan view, so you know where they stand. Rather then behind the shadows being able to work their agendas eaisly.
3) Which was allowed to happen due to the over focus on college. In the West we put too much emphasis on College. If you had kids you wanted them to go to college and get a collage job even though many of those jobs were worse then union jobs. As such, it was easy to manufacturer. Jobs got outsourced because we no longer valued those jobs... until they were gone... and still don't. Look at Germany and Japan... and it becomes a bit more clear.
4) Not really. They do good in Per Capita income... but that's before you take out all the taxes. I mean shit, their local municipal taxes are around ~20%, plus 29% VAT, + 6 up to like 50%! income tax...
If you look at the average finnish home it becomes sort of apparent. Really in general, that's something you don't really think about. The average finnish home is significntly smaller then the average UK Home... which is smaller then the average US home. (in actual square feet, rooms etc.)
