Re: @LucreLout - Pyhrric victory
The last thing that the Tories want is for people to have enough money to be able to pick and choose jobs, that's why their aim is to keep sufficient people unemployed (and, if possible, sanctioned), so they have a large supply of obedient serfs who are so desperate for any work that they'll take whatever jobs are on offer for a pittance.
Arf arf - Your tin foil hat is over there fella -->
Labour did more to destroy social mobility than any party in history. Forcing everyone into their local substandard comp by closing grammar schools is not the way to help bright working class people into a better job.
Jacking up taxes doesn't help the working man get ahead - it keeps him in debt. Overly generous welfare make it ever more difficult for him to teach his children about the benefits of hard work and the application of their abilities.
Labour depend on welfare wallers and their public sector client state such that they are really only ever interested in increasing the size of both of them, whatever adverse affect that has on the real economy.
Labour, as a party, just don't understand economics. They never did. The biggest single improvement that could be made to Britains fortunes for the next 100 years would be to educate the labour party on living within your means.
If Maggie had any sense, she would have *invested* the money from North Sea Oil, instead of using it
Maggie invested the revenue in paying off some of the debts of the preceding labour government. In basic economic terms, paying off debt == saving.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
