Waiting for you to answer my queries, my man.

Specifically, what do you mean by 'double talk'?
Exactly where, on the link, that I'll find it. Examples, please.

while you are evidently looking for a rise, i will not be baited.

Simply google the towns with the highest rates of unemployment. And now do try to tell me its all just bad luck. And nothing to do with the lifestyles & behaviours of ALL their occupants.

Getting back to the OP, Socialism's catalogue of failures.....across dozens of countries are always excused by lefties as...."ah yes, but that was not true socialism". As lame an excuse as there ever was.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

The issue is not necessarily the wisdom of tax (I am moving from a uber-libertarian position of all tax being theft to one that actually thinks a higher level of corporation tax might actually make sense because it leads to business investing more in research, equipment and so on by way of trying to keep profits down) but just the sheer and unrelenting incompetence of the people we have running things.

You could throw double the money at so so much and get neglible improvement in return (the NHS is a great example).

Putting money into big public infrastructure can have a benefit but only if that money is ring-fenced for British companies otherwise profits simply trickle abroad. But services and utilities.

We need a serious rethink of how we run the UK on any and every level of public service because something is clearly very wrong and just throwing money, or alternately cutting spending, is simply not going to work.

And framing things within the conventional Left/Right dichotomy helps nothing whatsoever.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

That's quite a leap of logic. Are you advocating no immigration?

Sorry I missed this, Mr Norman. What a curious response, though. 'Have the right'?

Of course I'm not trying to force you to watch anything except to write that if you are discussing my original link, it might help (and you may wish) to appreciate the presenter's viewpoint.

I mean, I started the post with a proposition. The link, all of it, is what the proposition is based on. Otherwise, how are we able to discuss it, for goodness sake?

** That looks like you're angry with me. ** I didn't mean to offend, Mr Norman.

I posted the video in order to discuss whether that age old saying about the left spending other's money was valid.

At least we are shown his opinion, supported by evidence, that the old saying appears not only to be false but, in fact, the opposite applies.

If you call that 'crap', it's up to you, of course but I should add that merely throwing insults at something/someone doesn't make them wrong.