What is the correct level of public spending?

[Ashberto]

For some it seems to be zero plus a military to play with whenever we get the orders from Boulevard Leopold III.
For others it seems to be whatever the highest previous level was plus a bit more because there’s always some needy cause.

:shrug:

The suggestion that it should be somewhere between these two usually elicits shrill rebukes from both sides.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

mark. But I'm just an old-fashioned Fascist, naturally.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

it is all subjective.

Personally I would start with huge savings by sacking all the MPs and making me Dictator

[One Wilf Copping]

[Ashberto]

:xfilesmusic:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Lar d'Arse]

although 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may amount to the same thing.

[Ashberto]

and it does.

[The A*ntöniö]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Ashberto]

Do we still have quangos?

Anyway, these people that sit around making reports that suggest we need new legislation which in turn sets a precedent for the need to make more reports recommending further legislation and so the dreadful bureaucracy self-perpetuates.

Cnuts to a man.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Also teachers. All teachers.

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Ashberto]

I'm depending on dying of cancer - it's basically my plan for (avoiding) old age.

[Berni]

[Ashberto]

Shall we just shoot them instead?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A clean-living chap like yourself will live more or less forever, surely?

[Berni]

http://www.myscience.org/news/2014/fish_more_inclined_to_cra sh_than_bees-2014-LUND (http://www.myscience.org/news/2014/fish_more_inclined_to_crash_than_bees-2014-LUND)

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

Old age is scarier than death imo.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

And is also, incidentally, six foot one and tons of fun

[Ashberto]

I was always fascinated by the way things just outside the train window zoomed past in a blur while things further away took a more relaxed approach to the journey.

[Classic Jorge]

Then they realised that most of their decisions were based on ideology so had to set up some new quangos hiring most of the staff they'd laid off - mostly through your Accentures and KPMGs - at considerable expense on hugely elevated day rates.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Snin]

nicer than cancer and no pain plus a nice little up..going out on an up..cant see better than that imo then just leave a nite saying if people could just call it cancer..then everyones happy

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[redgunamo]