"UK had a free health service long before tax rises reached the current 38% of GDP, the highest in the history of the nation, under current government.
For the first time in British history the average wage of state/public employees has overtaken average wage of private industry employees, the people who's tax pays the wages of the state/public employees.
The UK currently has highest ratio of state/public employees to private industry in country's history, highest area is over 60% state/public employees to private industry.
None of which seems neo-liberal behaviour to me.
Neither does putting onus on manufactures of shiny consumer goods to solve the ills of society, is this what Tony Blair meant when he said "Tough on the causes of crime"?"
Fair enough: I should not have used the word 'ignorant' you are clearly well informed. However, while New Labour are probably not as neo-liberal as Thatcher, nevertheless, the have not tried to re-nationalise any of the industries she privatised in the 80s.
Plus they have gone further than she did, for instance by instituting privately funded NHS trusts and licensing out the work of the public sector to private companies (hospital cleaners and so on) and lets not forget privately funded City Academies and their supposed back-door-selection, this is without noting the fact that a great deal of school canteens are now run by private companies.
I'm also willing to bet that if the average wage is a mean number (rather than the mode, in which case I may be incorrect here) that it is Civil Servants, Doctors (the BMA is a very powerful lobby group in Whitehall after all) and other high-ups whose wages are astronomically larger than other public sector workers (particularly nurses, I believe, and some if not a great many teachers) that accounts for the difference between public and private. That is an issue with both Labour's attitude and the system of bureaucracy we have in the UK.
Plus, I am a private sector worker (well, I have a part time job at Sainsbury's while I'm a student) and it pays S**t. There is very little unionisation in the private sector because of course it's seen as anti corporate, which of course it is, because unions exist to challenge the authority of those who own the means of production and promote worker rights. The government has a mandate to allow this (unless you're Thatcher, so in this respect, yes, New Labour are different, of course they are) because the government is a democratic organisation, corporations will never give their workers fair treatment the same way the government does because only rarely do they become accountable (i.e. they are dictatorships).
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"UK had a free health service long before tax rises reached the current 38% of GDP, the highest in the history of the nation, under current government.
For the first time in British history the average wage of state/public employees has overtaken average wage of private industry employees, the people who's tax pays the wages of the state/public employees.
The UK currently has highest ratio of state/public employees to private industry in country's history, highest area is over 60% state/public employees to private industry.
None of which seems neo-liberal behaviour to me.
Neither does putting onus on manufactures of shiny consumer goods to solve the ills of society, is this what Tony Blair meant when he said "Tough on the causes of crime"?"
Fair enough: I should not have used the word 'ignorant' you are clearly well informed. However, while New Labour are probably not as neo-liberal as Thatcher, nevertheless, the have not tried to re-nationalise any of the industries she privatised in the 80s.
Plus they have gone further than she did, for instance by instituting privately funded NHS trusts and licensing out the work of the public sector to private companies (hospital cleaners and so on) and lets not forget privately funded City Academies and their supposed back-door-selection, this is without noting the fact that a great deal of school canteens are now run by private companies.
I'm also willing to bet that if the average wage is a mean number (rather than the mode, in which case I may be incorrect here) that it is Civil Servants, Doctors (the BMA is a very powerful lobby group in Whitehall after all) and other high-ups whose wages are astronomically larger than other public sector workers (particularly nurses, I believe, and some if not a great many teachers) that accounts for the difference between public and private. That is an issue with both Labour's attitude and the system of bureaucracy we have in the UK.
Plus, I am a private sector worker (well, I have a part time job at Sainsbury's while I'm a student) and it pays S**t. There is very little unionisation in the private sector because of course it's seen as anti corporate, which of course it is, because unions exist to challenge the authority of those who own the means of production and promote worker rights. The government has a mandate to allow this (unless you're Thatcher, so in this respect, yes, New Labour are different, of course they are) because the government is a democratic organisation, corporations will never give their workers fair treatment the same way the government does because only rarely do they become accountable (i.e. they are dictatorships).
Here endeth the rant.